Chapter 703: The team is not easy to lead

In early January 1994, a lot of things happened, such as the establishment of Huayi Brothers Company and the launch of Zhijiang Satellite TV.

This month is not very auspicious.

In addition to these newly-born satellite TV stations and film and television companies, there is also a newly established company in Yanjing.

In October, Wang Shuo and Feng Xiaogang established "Haomeng Film and Television Company", with Wang Shuo as the legal representative and a registered capital of 300,000 yuan.

Business scope: planning and consulting of movies, TV series and variety shows, economic information consulting, retail of household appliances, household electronic products, clothing materials, arts and crafts (except fireworks and firecrackers), and building materials.

What stands out is "diversified operations".

"You are going to set up a group!" Lin Weimin joked.

Feng Xiaogang placed the teacup in front of Lin Weimin and said, "Please don't make fun of us. I just want to make a living with Master Shuo."

Lin Weimin put down the business license and took a sip of tea. "Pooh, pooh, pooh, the company is already established, can't you make some decent Gao Sui that smells like tobacco leaves?"

"Others don't even have tea when they come, and the chairman has to sweep the floor himself. You should be content." Wang Shuo said.

There are three people in Haomeng Company. Wang Shuo is the chairman, Feng Xiaogang is the general manager, and Peng Xiaolin is the financial director. They are all officials. There are no masses to lead. The chairman has to wipe the table and sweep the floor himself every day.

In addition, of the registered capital of 300,000 yuan, only 100,000 yuan was actually on the books, and it was pooled together by three people.

Although the company is small, Chairman Wang is very ambitious and he brainwashes General Managers Feng and Peng whenever he has the chance.

"In the future, if the company sells only 30% of its shares, it will be tens of millions."

So the performances of Li Chengru and Zhang Hanyu are derived from life.

The key point is that if Chairman Wang dares to make such a bold statement, General Managers Feng and Peng will really believe it.

The company was established just one month ago and had not yet produced a single product when it met a boss who was involved in the oil business and showed great interest in the Good Dream Company.

This made Director Wang, General Manager Feng and General Manager Peng very excited, and they specially sent a girl to go undercover with the boss to scout out the situation.

Unfortunately, after waiting for a long time, there was no movement from the undercover agent.

I went to look for that person, but he was gone.

Upon asking around, I found out that the girl had become a mistress.

"Oh! Not only did I lose the wife, but I also lost my soldiers." Feng Xiaogang slapped his thigh in regret.

While he was talking, Wang Shuo kept silent with an embarrassed look on his face. He was the pillar and backbone of Haomeng Company. The company had been established for two months but had not made any progress and even lost a girl. It was the first time that President Wang felt the dangers of the business world.

The company got off to a bad start. After two months in operation, it hadn't made any money, and was only spending money. This made Mr. Wang very anxious.

I called Lin Weimin two days ago and hesitated for a long time before I explained my purpose. It turned out that I wanted Lin Weimin to come over and give some advice. Lin Weimin is the most business-minded friend around Wang Shuo.

"Who else can you two find to do business with? Why do you have to find him? He is such a jerk!"

After listening to Feng Xiaogang's account of his experiences over the past two months, Lin Weimin felt no sympathy at all. Instead, he started to laugh at him. His main target was of course Wang Shuo, who was not born to be a businessman, but he just refused to believe in evil and kept fighting despite repeated failures.

"I asked you to come here today to help me come up with some ideas. Does it have anything to do with what I did before? The past was the past, and I didn't do my major. We are running a film and television company now, which is just right for me." Wang Shuo argued.

"Oh? Then why is there no business?" Lin Weimin hit the nail on the head.

"This...it just opened!" Wang Shuo said, hesitating his lips.

After joking for a while, Lin Weimin said seriously: "If you guys really want to hear my opinion, then I will give you a suggestion."

Wang Shuo perked up and said, "Tell me about it."

"Don't aim too high. Keep your feet on the ground and start with advertising."

Wang Shuo was puzzled and said, "Advertising is so boring. Isn't that a waste of talent? If you want to do it, do TV series or movies!"

Feng Xiaogang also said: "Teacher Lin, Master Shuo and I have made several TV series, which were well received by the audience. It should be no problem for us to make a TV series, right?"

After listening to what the two said, Lin Weimin shook his head and said, "You two are really bad at this level!"

"Hey!" Wang Shuo got anxious when he heard Lin Weimin's words, "Who are you looking down on? After all, I'm the author of Desire!"

"Don't rest on your laurels. Let me ask you, how long has it been since you wrote anything decent?"

After Lin Weimin asked this, Wang Shuo's face became uncertain.

Wang Shuo's creative peak was from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. After 1991, he produced almost no decent works.

Some things came out in 1992, but they were just "reheated meat" that were not presentable.

Lin Weimin's words touched Wang Shuo's lungs. He was silent for a long time. At this time, Feng Xiaogang said, "Teacher Lin, there is also me. After all, I have written a few scripts with Master Shuo."

"Writing a script and revising a script are two different things."

This one sentence dealt a heavy blow to Feng Xiaogang. The scripts Feng Xiaogang had written before were actually re-edited versions of the scripts by Wang Shuo, Haima Studio and others.

Wang Shuo finally regained some spirit and said angrily, "Are you here to cause trouble?"

"I just want you two to have a clearer understanding of yourselves." Lin Weimin leaned back on the sofa and said leisurely.

It's harsh, but it's the truth.

Chairman Wang was so worried that he sucked on his cigarette butt until sparks came out. "Tell me, is there really such a thing as the end of one's talent?"

"It depends on who you are talking to. For you, yes."

Being looked down upon, Wang Shuo became even more depressed, "Am I that bad?"

"It's not that I'm bad. It's that you're not focused on writing at all, and you get carried away when you have some achievements. Writing requires talent, but talent and hard work are both indispensable."

Lin Weimin pointed out Wang Shuo's problem incisively and sharply, causing him to fall into deep melancholy.

In later life, after 1992, Wang Shuo devoted all his energy to writing film and television scripts, but these were basically just some polishing and polishing of the works he had written in previous years.

A few original works, such as "My Thousand Years of Cold", "If You Are the One 2", and "Private Tailor", also made many old readers and viewers feel complicated after watching them.

Seeing that the PUA was almost done, Lin Weimin said again: "But don't be discouraged. Although you only have three tricks, as long as you can accurately diagnose the pulse of the common people, you will have no problem making a living for the next twenty years."

"Just shut up!"

Originally he came to seek advice from someone, but ended up being criticized harshly. Wang Shuo wished he had never called Lin Weimin.

However, despite the blow, Lin Weimin did give some advice. Feng Xiaogang poured Lin Weimin a cup of tea and whispered, "Teacher Lin, you are helping people to the end. Why don't you introduce some business to us? Advertising is also fine!"

Wang Shuo also looked at Lin Weimin with some anticipation. Although he looked disdainful when he talked about advertising just now, that was because he hadn't continued with the advertising yet.

When he really meets the advertiser, he hugs his thighs and calls him daddy. Mr. Wang is so thirsty now!

"Let me give you a call."

Lin Weimin wrote a phone number on a piece of paper and gave it to Feng Xiaogang.

Feng Xiaogang took the paper and asked curiously: "Teacher Lin, this is..."

"Yang Weiguang, he used to be the deputy director of CCTV, and now he's the director. CCTV's advertising department is doing well now, your company can take on some work, as for what kind of work you can take, it depends on your own ability."

Director of CCTV?

Feng Xiaogang has also been a screenwriter for the Spring Festival Gala, so he has some exposure to the show, but he is just a nobody in front of them.

CCTV is the national television station. In recent years, along with the country's economic development, its development speed has been astonishing.

As CCTV's cash cow, the Advertising Department has achieved record-breaking performance year after year since it was upgraded from the Advertising Section to the Advertising Department in 1987.

Lin Weimin met Yang Weiguang when he was working on the Spring Festival Gala a few years ago. They haven’t had much contact in recent years, but relationships are not about the frequency of contact, but are directly related to your social status.

In other local TV stations, the food chain is like this: manufacturer → advertising company → TV station.

But it is like this at CCTV: CCTV → advertising company → manufacturer.

Lin Weimin's casual call to Feng Xiaogang was just a stepping stone for Haomeng Company. As long as they did a good job and got some business from CCTV's advertising department, it would be enough for their small company to survive.

"Oh my! Otherwise, we have to ask you to take action. A single hair of yours is thicker than our waists. You can become the director of CCTV with just one move. How does the poem say it? Yes, there is no ignorant person in your dealings with others. Otherwise, the leader wants to make you the director of the Film Bureau..." Feng Xiaogang started to flatter him in a disgusting way.

Lin Weimin waved his hand and said, "Come on, come on, put away this stuff and save it for dealing with clients."

Now that they have a profitable business, Mr. Wang, Mr. Feng and Mr. Peng are all smiling from ear to ear.

Two days later, Wang Shuo walked out of the TV center.

In 1988, CCTV moved from its original broadcasting compound to the Color TV Center on the shore of Yuyuantan Lake. The newly built main building of the Color TV Center has 24 floors, is 110 meters high, and has a construction area of ​​more than 84,000 square meters. After its completion, it was rated as one of the top ten buildings in Yanjing.

"How was it? Did you meet the director?" Feng Xiaogang and Peng Xiaolin, who were waiting outside, asked impatiently.

Wang Shuo still felt it was a little unreal and said, "I saw it."

"What did the Master say? What's his attitude?"

"His attitude was okay, but he didn't say more than ten sentences in total."

Feng Xiaogang and Peng Xiaolin were a little disappointed. They didn't even get to say ten words? Did Teacher Lin's face no longer work?

"Then why did you stay in there for so long?" Feng Xiaogang asked.

"Nonsense, I want to see the head of the advertising department!"

"What's going on?"

Wang Shuo then recounted what had just happened on CCTV.

They had made a phone call before coming, and when they arrived at the color TV center, Wang Shuo entered the office building by himself and met the director Yang Weiguang.

Yang Weiguang was very polite but seemed very busy as he had to attend a meeting. He only asked Wang Shuo a few questions about Lin Weimin's situation and then asked someone to take him to the advertising department.

The procedures of CCTV's advertising department are not so formal nowadays, and advertising service providers can add fees at will.

The director of the advertising department was Tan Xisong. Wang Shuo was sent by the station director, so she naturally attached great importance to him and gave him two advertising cases on the spot, with an advertising fee of 500,000 yuan and an advertising agency fee of 10%, which was 50,000 yuan.

CCTV earns money from advertising fees, and advertising companies earn money from advertising agency fees.

"50,000 yuan?"

Feng Xiaogang and Peng Xiaolin were extremely surprised. "We made 50,000 yuan so easily?"

Wang Shuo said: "The commercial hasn't been filmed yet!"

"It's easy to shoot commercials," Feng Xiaogang said nonchalantly.

He has been following Wang Shuo for the past few years and has acted in both movies and TV series, so shouldn’t it be easy for him to shoot a commercial?

"I think we have to hold on to Teacher Lin's thigh tightly in the future," said Feng Xiaogang.

Peng Xiaolin kept nodding.

Wang Shuo said: "We have to pursue something, and our main business should still be movies and TV series..."

Seeing that Feng Xiaogang and Peng Xiaolin turned a deaf ear to his words, Wang Shuo suddenly became depressed.

It’s hard to lead a team if people’s morale is low!

(End of this chapter)