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Chapter 200 I just had a little bit of selfishness
With Xie Jin joining the Spring Festival Gala's preparatory group, Qiao Yicheng felt much more comfortable. After all, although he was the leader of the preparatory group, he was always considered to be inexperienced and incompetent, so the members of the preparatory group did not necessarily respect him as the leader.

Director Xie Jin is different. He is a famous Chinese director. His latest film "The Herdsman" has just been released, making him the pillar of the Spring Festival Gala preparation team.

Director Xie Jin is now in charge of setting up the stage and selecting the programs, so Qiao Yicheng can finally go and solicit sponsorship.

Almost all the famous companies in the country were gathered and invitations were sent to them, but most of these companies responded mediocrely, and they all thought that CCTV was trying to extort money from them.

Looking at the few companies that came to participate in the advertising bidding conference, Qiao Yicheng felt a little sad about the short-sightedness of some people.

After Qiao Yicheng's somewhat awkward opening remarks, the following companies also responded indifferently, and finally Qiao Yicheng started the advertising bidding.

Because of the special times, the advertisements were not refined to the specific time of later generations. CCTV arranged the specific advertising matters based on the bid price of each company.

The underground quotations were very cold, most of them were only a few thousand yuan, and there were four or five companies that quoted an ultra-low price of two thousand yuan as if they had discussed it in advance, which almost made Qiao Yicheng angry to death. It seemed that these people really regarded CCTV as a beggar.

Suppressing his anger, Qiao Yicheng looked at the business owners below and raised his voice again, "Anyone else have an offer?"

"I'll pay you two hundred thousand!"

"Wow!" Everyone in the venue looked at the person who spoke.

"Sir, are you sure you want to pay two hundred thousand?

You know, joking with CCTV is also troublesome!" Qiao Yicheng had to remind the other party.

"Team Leader Qiao, I'm Wei Donghe, the director of the Hebei Agricultural Machinery Factory.

Our agricultural machinery factory invested 200,000 yuan to bid for Spring Festival Gala advertising."

"Haha, great! Are there any other bids?"

After hearing Qiao Yicheng's words, the corporate representatives below were still whispering to each other. Then Qiao Yicheng did not continue. He left Wei Donghe and Director Wu, the director of Shanghai Garment Factory, and announced that the advertising bidding was over.

"Hey! Team Leader Qiao, this is not right!
Our bicycle factory also invested two thousand yuan!
Why are we not qualified to advertise? "

"Haha, Director Qu, your factory's two thousand yuan is too much.

We at CCTV can’t handle it! Sorry! "

"Haha." Hearing Qiao Yicheng's ridicule of Director Qu of the bicycle factory, the others also started laughing.

"Team Leader Qiao, you must be responsible for what you said today!

I will definitely complain to your superiors!"

"Please!"

"Director Wei, you will definitely be grateful for the 200,000 you made today!" After seeing everyone else leave, Qiao Yicheng assured Wei Donghe who was standing beside him.

"Haha, I have always had confidence in CCTV!"

"Haha, thank you so much for your trust, Director Wei!
I just hope that Director Wei can get the funds in place as soon as possible so that we can start producing the advertisement sooner."

"Of course! Of course! I'll transfer the money in a moment!"

"Director Wu, even though your Shanghai Garment Factory only paid 20,000 yuan, as long as your factory produces the performance costumes according to our requirements, we will waive the 20,000 yuan!"

"Ah? Are you serious, Team Leader Qiao?" Director Wu was a little surprised. After all, 20,000 yuan is a huge sum of money.

"Haha, Director Wu, there's no need for me to lie to you!

Come with me to the office to look at the clothing design draft first!"

Director Wu followed Qiao Yicheng to the office, and then took the clothing design draft handed to him by Qiao Yicheng. He was shocked at first, and then suddenly he realized something and his face looked a little ugly.

"Team Leader Qiao, this batch of costumes cost a lot of money!
Even a few cost around 100,000 yuan!"

"Director Wu, I always thought that people in Shanghai have seen the world!

You know, input and output are directly proportional!"

"This"

"Director Wu, you may not believe anything I say now!

You can think about it yourself, if the Spring Festival Gala is broadcast, how many Chinese families will watch it?
I don’t need to explain the advertising effect it has caused! "

"Team Leader Qiao, I know everything you said!

However, this investment is too huge. Can CCTV pay an additional 30,000 yuan?

When Qiao Yicheng heard what Director Wu said, he didn't respond at all. He simply took back the clothing design drawings he had made and said with a forced smile, "Director Wu, it looks like we can't cooperate this time!

I hope we will have opportunities to cooperate in the future!"

"This"

Director Wu was very surprised to see Qiao Yicheng was unmoved. Feeling empty-handed, he turned around and left Qiao Yicheng's office with a sense of loss.

To be honest, Qiao Yicheng was also quite disappointed. Why were these people so unwilling to act until they saw the rabbit? They lacked the courage they should have. The success of the 1983 Spring Festival Gala would definitely create a strong advertising effect. The advertising prices for the next 1984 Spring Festival Gala would be different.

"Team Leader Qiao, the director wants you to go to his office."

"Oh! Got it!"

Qiao Yicheng took the clothing design drafts and went directly to the director's office. Then, under the strange gazes of other colleagues, he walked into the director's office.

"Master, do you have something to talk to me about?"

"Well! Just now, several factory managers came to me to complain about you!

Yicheng, what on earth is going on?"

"Haha, they treated the Spring Festival Gala preparation team like beggars. I'm disqualifying them from bidding!"

"I heard they were willing to donate 2,000 yuan to sponsor the Spring Festival Gala, which I think is quite a lot!"

"Director, the Hebei Agricultural Machinery Factory is willing to sponsor 200,000 yuan!
By comparing them this way, you can see that some factory managers are unreasonable!"

"This factory in Hebei is so bold!"

"Director, our CCTV's brand is very bright!
The 1983 Spring Festival Gala will surely create a ratings miracle. With hundreds of millions of people watching nationwide, the advertising effect it will achieve will be terrifying!"

"I see! No wonder you disqualified them."

"Director, actually, a lot of foreign businesses have heard about CCTV hosting the Spring Festival Gala these past few days and have contacted us wanting to advertise.

But I rejected them all, as I still believe that we should serve our own factories and enterprises."

"Yeah! Yicheng, you did the right thing!"

"Master, this is what I think!

Since others are not optimistic about the advertising effect of CCTV, we might as well just run an advertisement for Hebei Agricultural Machinery during this year's Spring Festival Gala.

Once the billboards are up, they'll be begging CCTV for help next year!"

"Also, Director, please take a look at these clothing designs."

"Oh? Let me see your masterpiece, Yicheng!" The director showed a surprised expression. He had also heard that Qiao Yicheng was very accomplished in calligraphy and painting.

As the director flipped through the drawings, the expression on his face became more and more varied. Finally, after putting the drawings down, he looked at the unbelievably young Qiao Yicheng in front of him and felt a lot of emotion.

"Yicheng, I didn't expect you to be so talented!

Whatever plans you have, just go for it!

I support you! "

“Thank you for your support, Director!

Director Wu of the Shanghai Garment Factory just sponsored the Spring Festival Gala with 20,000 yuan. I had originally planned to have them produce the costumes and waive their 20,000 yuan advertising fee. However, Director Wu calculated that producing the costumes would cost at least 100,000 yuan, so he asked us to pay an additional 30,000 yuan. I refused!

"Hmm! Yicheng, what are your thoughts next?"

"Director, we now have 200,000 yuan in advertising fees, plus the funds approved by our superiors, I think it's almost enough!

Why not just order it directly from a Beijing garment factory? Even though CCTV will incur some expenses, it can’t have their garment factory’s logo on it.”

"Haha, Yicheng, you are still the type who won't suffer any loss!

That's fine! Just do as you wish!

Since they don't think highly of us, let's wait until they do, and then let them beg CCTV!"

"Haha, Master, that's exactly what I mean!"

The director was very satisfied with Qiao Yicheng. Although he was very young, he was very meticulous in his work. Not only did he make detailed plans in advance, he also personally invited Director Xie Jin to take charge.

This shocked the station director a little, because as a big shot in the media, the station director knew Director Xie Jin very well. Not only was he outstanding in his abilities, but he was also very difficult to get along with. He really didn't expect that the young Qiao Yicheng would actually invite this great god.

With the support of his superiors, things became particularly easy. Qiao Yicheng quickly contacted the Beijing Garment Factory and managed to negotiate the price down from 90,000 to 70,000.

"Team Leader Qiao, your ability to negotiate prices is amazing!

She’s almost as good as my wife!”

“Haha, if Director Liu has confidence in your wife.

Next time we work together, let your wife talk to me about it!"

"Haha, next time for sure!"

"Team Leader Qiao, can you put the logo of our Beijing Garment Factory on this batch of clothes?"

"Why?" Qiao Yicheng pretended to be confused and looked at the cunning old man in front of him.

"Haha, we also want to take this opportunity to advertise!"

"That won't do! Our leader has specifically given instructions!
These garments must not bear any markings.

If your clothing factory really wants to advertise, just pay 200,000 yuan like the Hebei Agricultural Machinery Factory.

We can shoot a special commercial for you and air it during prime time before the Spring Festival Gala."

"Ah? Two hundred thousand? Never mind!
Even if you smash my old bones, there's still not that much left!" Director Liu's eyes widened in horror.

After successfully teasing Director Liu of the Beijing Garment Factory, Qiao Yicheng's depression of the past few days was swept away and he devoted himself to work again.

Director Xie Jin has been screening programs recently, and Qiao Yicheng also took the time to look at the program list, most of which are programs from the original 1983 Spring Festival Gala.

Seeing that there was a riddle-guessing program on it, Qiao Yicheng took it away directly, then picked up the phone on the table and called the Nanjing Military Region Art Troupe directly without avoiding Director Xie Jin.

"Captain Zhou, I'm Qiao Yicheng!"

"Hello! Classmate Qiao Yicheng!"

"Hello! Captain Zhou, how's the Thousand-Armed Guanyin performance that I asked your art troupe to rehearse last time going?"

"We've already rehearsed it! We've already formed a tacit understanding with each other!"

"That's great! I'm currently preparing for the first Spring Festival Gala at CCTV in Beijing. Could you lead a delegation to support us?"

"Oh? Of course no problem! I will lead the delegation to the capital tomorrow."

"Haha, thank you, Captain Zhou!"

Director Xie Jin looked surprised when he saw Qiao Yicheng hang up the phone. "Yicheng, you're actually connected to the Nanjing Military Region Art Troupe?"

"Oh! I have two younger sisters learning to dance in the military art troupe!

So after a while, we became familiar with each other!"

Although Qiao Yicheng said it lightly, Director Xie Jin still felt that Qiao Yicheng must have a special relationship with the military art troupe, and he was impressed by the profound background of this young man in front of him.

The reason why Qiao Yicheng contacted the military region art troupe was that he wanted to take advantage of his position as the leader of the Spring Festival Gala preparation group to have his two younger sisters, Sanli and Simei, perform at the Spring Festival Gala for his own selfish reasons.

As expected, Director Zhou of the Nanjing Military Region Art Troupe was also a smart man. He didn't need Qiao Yicheng to give him any instructions in advance. When he led the troupe to the capital, he brought Qiao Yicheng's two sisters, Sanli and Simei.

Because Sanli and Simei have been learning dance since childhood, they have very beautiful figures and are obviously excellent dancers.

"Brother, we miss you so much!" Sanli and Simei rushed over excitedly when they saw Qiao Yicheng.

The members of the art troupe had already shown an expression of being accustomed to it, while the CCTV staff, including Director Xie Jin and the station director, all showed expressions of surprise.

In order to dispel the doubts of Director Xie Jin and other CCTV staff, Qiao Yicheng directly asked the Nanjing Military Region Art Troupe to perform a Thousand-Armed Guanyin, which completely shocked everyone present.

"Yicheng, you can do it, kid!

They actually rehearsed such an excellent group dance without making any noise!"

"Haha, Director, this is what I rehearsed when I was in Nanjing!"

“Yeah! This show is good!

Just add it to the Spring Festival Gala program!"

"Director Xie, I have a singing program here, it's perfect for everyone to watch it together!"

"Okay!" The director and Director Xie looked at each other with amusement, then nodded in agreement.

"Sanli, Simei, sing the song 'Devotion of Love' that I taught you!"

"yes, Sir!"

After years of training by Qiao Yicheng, Sanli and Simei no longer had the timidity they had in the original play, and they walked directly onto the stage and began to sing a cappella.

This is the call of the heart

This is a dedication of love

【This is the spring breeze of the world】

This is the source of life

There is no more desert of love

【Even the god of death is afraid】

Ah, as long as everyone gives a little love

The world will become a beautiful place.

The original song "Devotion of Love" was sung by Wei Wei in the 1989 Spring Festival Gala. Although Sanli and Simei did not have Wei Wei's distinctive voice, they still sang the soul of this song.

Everyone present was staring blankly at Sanli and Simei on the stage. Even Director Zhou of the Nanjing Military Region Art Troupe was hearing this song for the first time. It took a long time for everyone to come to their senses and then clap their hands vigorously.

The station director and Director Xie both looked at Qiao Yicheng and the three beauties on stage with complicated expressions. The station director announced loudly, "I now declare that the group dance 'Thousand-Armed Guanyin' and the song 'Devotion of Love' will be the fixed program for the first Spring Festival Gala."

After hearing the director's words, everyone present showed shocked expressions, and they could deeply understand the director's high regard for Qiao Yicheng.

No matter how good "Thousand-Armed Guanyin" and "Devotion of Love" are, if the outside world knows about the brother-sister relationship between Qiao Yicheng, Sanli and Simei, it will have a bad reputation.

In order to eliminate the criticism, the director directly announced that this was his decision, directly protecting the young Qiao Yicheng.

After figuring out the whole thing, everyone present looked at Qiao Yicheng with envy and jealousy.

(End of this chapter)