Chapter 221

There is nothing wrong with Producer Li's recommendation of Jiang Ning, mainly because Producer Li's mission in making this drama is to promote and publicize the local tourism economy. If the effect of his filming can achieve this goal, it can be regarded as a political achievement for Producer Li himself. For people like him who work in CCTV, if they want to move up, they need some practical things.

Therefore, in terms of shooting schedule and time, he is completely different from other crews who rush to shoot in order to save money or meet actors' schedules.

The same is true for the actors in his crew.

Jiang Ning said to producer Li, "My hometown just experienced a huge flood this year. After the flood, all the lotus roots were drowned. It will take about three to five years to restore them to their original state. But these can be cultivated artificially. If we plant lotus roots in the spring, we can see new lotus flowers growing in the summer. By then, it will not only promote the local tourism economy, but also the aquatic economy of the people who make their living on the Shahe River."

Producer Li was still very interested in these and asked Jiang Ning: "Tell me more about your ideas."

Jiang Ning said: "In fact, many places are now using this method to promote the local tourism economy. After a movie or a TV series is released, they hang photos of it in the local area, saying that the popular TV series was filmed there again, the lotus root powder drunk by so-and-so is produced locally, and the pearl powder used by so-and-so is the pearls from Shahe."

This is actually a way of embedding gg in TV dramas. This method was often used in TV movies ten years later, but it is still very rare in this era.

Jiang Ning's words suddenly opened up new ideas for Producer Li.

Producer Li, who had never tried this before, decided to give it a try by promoting Jiang Ning's hometown.

The adaptation of the TV series "Legend of White Snake" is somewhat similar to "Legend of Sword and Fairy". The little white snake goes down the mountain to gain experience and meets Xiaoqing and other friends. After arriving in Lin'an City and meeting Xu Xian, she also subdues various monsters around her. During this process, there are many different scenic spots to shoot. When they were shooting before, summer had passed and no scenes about lotus had been shot.

When talking about shooting the scene of lotus flowers on the river bank, Jiang Ning couldn't help but think of their hometown Wugong Mountain and the Wugong tea on Wugong Mountain. He discussed with producer Li and two screenwriters whether they could add some Wugong tea from their hometown to the plot.

The truth is that the story of "The Legend of White Snake" takes place in Hangzhou, so there are excellent conditions for promoting the beautiful scenery and specialties of their hometown. There is no need to deliberately modify the plot. It is enough to just buy and sell things on the street and drink a sip of "Wugong Tea".

She told Producer Li about her ideas one by one. Producer Li said that this drama is about promoting local tourism economy, but he did not specifically mention promoting the tourism economy of a certain place. Jiang Ning's proposal was specific to a certain place. The thought that a certain place would boost the local economy because of a drama she shot made Producer Li interested.

This is different from Hangzhou, which has already been promoted by "White Snake". "There is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below". Hangzhou itself is famous, and Producer Li's promotion of it is actually icing on the cake, but for Jiang Ning's hometown, it is really a timely help. If it can really succeed, it will concretize the achievements of Producer Li, and it can be used as an example in the annual work report.

Producer Li asked Jiang Ning to write a specific promotion plan for his hometown, including what to promote, the entry point, etc.

At present, only a little bit of "White Snake" has been filmed. When Jiang Bai was not around, only some scenes of Xiaobai and Xiaoqing fighting monsters were filmed. The filming of this drama will not be completed until at least next summer, and it is estimated that it will be released during next year's summer vacation.

The scripts were ready, so Jiang Ning took them and went back to add the part promoting his hometown.

For example, when Little White Snake and his companions settled in Lin'an, the prefect of Lin'an took out a can of tea and introduced it to the visitors as if he was presenting a treasure: "This is Wugong Tea from Wugong Mountain. Tea can be found everywhere, but the best is the one produced in the Wugong Mountain!" Note ①

Nanhu lotus root powder is famous all over the world; Shahe lotus root powder is ignored.

Jiang Ning saw that some of Sister Xu Xian's children were sick, and Xu Xian prescribed medicine for them, one of which was lotus root powder. She said, "Sister, my nephew's stomach has been weak these days. This red lotus root powder from Shahe is the best for replenishing blood and qi, clearing away heat and strengthening the spleen. It is especially suitable for the old, young, women, and the weak and sick!"

Xu Xian took out another pill and said, "This is Shuilu Erxian Pill and Suoyang Gujing Pill, which are made from Gorgon fruit from Shahe. The former can treat kidney-tonifying and sperm-solidifying, and kidney deficiency. It can be taken by both men and women." After a pause, he said, "The latter is used for kidney deficiency."

Afterwards, she embedded some Shahe pearl powder in it. At the banquet hosted by the wife of the prefect, the ladies were talking about how they used the Shahe pearl powder to apply on their faces, which made their skin white and translucent.

At the banquet at the prefect's house, five-head crabs from Shahe were served, and the ladies praised the crab roe and the plumpness of the crab meat.

Not only that, Jiang Ning also arranged city promotion for Wucheng.

Wucheng itself is an ancient city with a very long history, which can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period.

The ancient city still maintains its ancient style and appearance, including the moat and city wall.

Producer Li agreed to go to their hometown to shoot the scenes, so when some scenes were arranged and the shooting locations had not yet been determined, Jiang Ning arranged a scene to be shot in Wucheng.

No matter whether it was Fahai subduing demons in Wucheng, or White Snake and her companions passing by Wucheng during their travels, Wucheng is always a very nice and quaint ancient city.

Two days later, Jiang Ning showed the script to producer Li, the director, and two screenwriters. They were speechless for a moment when they saw the seamless gg embedded after Jiang Ning's revision. After being speechless, they clapped their hands in admiration. If it was shot like this, then in the future their self-made dramas could have their own gg investment. For example, in the previous "In Paris", they could insert a gg of wine in the scenes of eating and drinking.

This is a good thing that has created another source of income for CCTV. Although their CCTV GG is already extremely expensive in this era, they are not short of money at all. But who would complain about having too much money?

After confirming with producer Li, Jiang Ning immediately called Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai and told them about CCTV's self-produced drama, which would be based on our hometown's "Wugong Tea", "Wugong Lotus Root Powder", "Wugong Gorgon Cake", "Wugong Crab", etc., and that the filming would be scheduled in my hometown in May or June next year.

Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang were also stunned after receiving the call. Although Jiang Ning's original plan for them did include making their hometown's "Wugong Tea" famous step by step, they didn't expect her to be so powerful that she could put the blame on CCTV and even get CCTV to agree to come and film their hometown.

Jiang Ning said, "Fourth Uncle, you still have half a year to prepare from now until May or June. All the Wugong tea has been planted now. In order to promote our Wugong tea, pick more 'Wugong tea before Ming Dynasty' and give some to producer Li, director, screenwriter and everyone else. This year, all the wild lotus roots in our hometown were drowned. It is not realistic to let them grow on their own. We can only arrange for people to plant them. First ask if there is anyone willing to contract the lotus roots on the riverbed. If not, we will use them as the collective property of our brigade. At that time, we will focus on promoting our Linhe Brigade in Shuibu Town and Yaoba Town, which you are currently in charge of."

The main sources of tax revenue for Wucheng are Yaoba Town, Douba Town and Liuba Town, which are known as the "Three Hegemons of Wucheng". Among them, Yaoba Town not only has a superior geographical location, a long history and beautiful scenery, but is also the hometown of an ancient prime minister. No matter from which aspect, Yaoba Town has great tourism value.

Mayor Jiang listened to Jiang Ning's plan step by step, teaching him how to develop the tourism economy of his hometown first and then develop aquaculture.

There have always been people engaged in aquaculture in my hometown, but it was not on a large scale and had no system. What Mayor Jiang wants to do is to standardize and scale up the aquaculture in his hometown and make the pie bigger.

This is not something that Mayor Jiang can do alone. It also requires the joint participation and efforts of people like Jiang Guotai and Secretary Song, and the concerted efforts of several forces.

Jiang Ning said, "Uncle Si, you need to know the advantages of our hometown. We should not only rely on the mountains and rivers to make a living, but also start from Yaoba Town, from the 'Three Dams' with the best economy at present, to build a tourism-themed city with Wucheng characteristics, including tourism, leisure, food, entertainment, and high-quality services, and create a city business card."

Jiang Ning then started talking about urban construction, economic development, and various projects in detail.

"For example, water parks, fishing, lotus picking in the south of the Yangtze River, camping, rafting, and tea picking..."

Many of the things Jiang Ning talked about had never been heard of by Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai, except for drifting.

Shijian Township, next to Jiang Ning's brigade, has very good conditions for rafting. The mountain stream flows all year round. Although Mayor Jiang and his team do not know what rafting is, they can roughly imagine it after hearing the word. Because they were naughty when they were young, they often made their own bamboo rafts and went to the mountain stream in Shijian Township to play.

What surprised Jiang Guotai was: "What? Tea picking? People want to experience tea picking?"

Every year they have special tea pickers who help others pick tea leaves to make money during the spring tea picking period. They have never thought that they can get others to help them pick tea and get paid by others. This is simply unimaginable to them. How much money must people in the city have to spend to be willing to help others pick tea for money?

Is there such a good thing?

The cake Jiang Ning painted became bigger and more beautiful, but the problem was that the cake was already in front of their mouths.

Jiang Guotai, Mayor Jiang, and Song Peifeng couldn't help but want to hear Jiang Ning continue to paint the pie for them. Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang were anxious for Jiang Ning to finish the work and go home quickly so that they could talk in detail in person. Many things could not be explained over the phone.

Speaking of hometown construction, the unhappiness in Jiang Ning's heart was soon suppressed by the passionate work, and Jiang Ning returned to her usual energetic and vigorous state.

Song Peifeng has been with Jiang Ning these days, and participated in the entire process of how she persuaded producer Li and director Li to agree to shoot in her hometown, to promote her hometown's specialties, and to include the planning of the entire Wucheng and its surrounding areas.

If Jiang Ning's plan really goes according to plan, his father will be able to return in less than two or three years.

Jiang Ning has paved the way for them, which is like feeding them the cake. If they don't eat it, they are not Jiang Guotai or Secretary Song.

Song Peifeng didn't need Jiang Ning to say anything before telling her how she persuaded producer Li and director Li from CCTV to come to her hometown Shuibu Town, Yaoba Town, and even Wucheng for filming and promotion.

Secretary Song never expected that without his knowledge, Jiang Ning would quietly give him such a big surprise.

That's CCTV. After it was broadcast on CCTV, both Wu Cheng and the secretary would have direct access to the central government. Wu Cheng's name would be directly listed in the central government.

So after experiencing the severe crackdowns in 1996 and 1997, Wucheng once again faced a new round of severe crackdowns at the end of 1998.

Underground casinos, gang-related activities, petty theft, and trafficking of women, which had been relaxed because the severe crackdown had passed, once again suffered a devastating blow in Wucheng.

Especially at the end of the year, there are a lot of people gathering to gamble. Many people who work outside and earn a year's worth of money come back. They don't use the money to support their parents and children, but spend it all on the gambling table. In the words of many local people, either they lose all the money they earn in a year in one go, or they win enough money to earn for the next year. But in fact, no gambler can make money at the gambling table, because the money won from gambling is not money. Even if they really win thousands or tens of thousands this time, they will soon lose it all because of various flattery.

The gamblers have no money when they win, let alone when they lose. They are like stray dogs. After the New Year, they pack their luggage again and go to the construction site to work moving bricks, only to repeat the cycle the next year.

This is not an isolated phenomenon, but a common phenomenon that spreads from one village to another. Some gamblers will even travel across villages, towns, and townships, chasing others to gamble. They will go wherever there are gambling tables or underground casinos.

But as long as there are people who love gambling, there will be victims of gambling. Those who earn some money throughout the year but end up having it all gambled away by men at the gambling table hate gambling.

As soon as they heard that there was a crackdown on gambling in the city, they secretly called and wrote letters to report them.

For a while, not to mention those who gambled in the village, even those who gambled in the mountains knew to call the police and arrest them all.

It was Chinese New Year, and all these gamblers were spending the New Year in the detention center, which was full of people.

There is no such thing as treating prisoners kindly these days. The police officers are very brutal in enforcing the law, especially in the detention center, which is simply not a place for human beings to stay.

During this crackdown, a very vicious incident that happened some time ago was uncovered, in which a group of hooligans broke into the girls' dormitory of a vocational school.

Originally thought that the crackdown was over, a group of gangsters with a very arrogant attitude not only did not hide, but also threatened those girls. Unexpectedly, it was the end of the year, and everyone assumed that the government would let the people have a good year during this period of time, and nothing major would happen. However, this group of gangsters were all thrown into jail. Even if the parents of these gangsters used all their connections, these gangsters in vicious cases still received the most severe punishment for their actions that made them regret for the rest of their lives.

None of the grassroots officials in Wucheng dared to get involved in such a case, especially after hearing Secretary Song say that CCTV from Beijing would come to Wucheng to film next May or June. Now in Wucheng, Secretary Song has the final say. They all know that Secretary Song has a strong background and will leave Wucheng sooner or later, but they did not expect that Secretary Song's background is so strong that CCTV was invited down by him.

What is the most important thing for CCTV people to come to Wucheng to film? The first is the issue of public security.

Before the 21st century, the entire social atmosphere was relatively barbaric, and the chaos in many places was so chaotic that you could not imagine.

In many small places, it would be fine if the local tyrants, like Jiang Guotai, who have some bottom line, compete with the rich people in the city for food. But those who have no bottom line, they don't compete with the rich people for food, they directly eat the blood of the common people at the bottom.

After solving the public security problem, the next thing to consider is the urban environmental management issue.

Song Peifeng told Secretary Song that they came to Wucheng to shoot the film, which would be broadcast on CCTV, so it was after the vigorous crackdown campaign in Wucheng was over.

Wucheng has started another vigorous construction activity. Due to limited government funds, Wucheng's construction activities are mainly divided into two aspects: one is urban sanitation management, and the other is the construction of a tourist and leisure town integrating tourism, leisure and entertainment with Yaoba Town as a pilot.

Sanitary management mainly prohibits urinating and defecating anywhere and littering.

Because Wucheng is an ancient city, the old streets are all quaint, which means there are many alleys like those in ancient times. The alleys have high walls and black tiles, are deep, and not crowded. Many gay men, when they have physical needs, just take off their pants and do it without thinking twice, not to mention some who are even more unhygienic and do it directly in the alleys. As a result, the old alleys in Wucheng are always filled with a lingering fishy smell.

It was only during the Chinese New Year when there was a heavy snowstorm that the thick layer of snow covered the pickled food, making the taste slightly lighter.

Therefore, the Propaganda Department of the County Party Committee arranged propaganda officers and discipline directors. The propaganda officers were divided into two groups. One group painted neatly on the walls of the streets and alleys where people urinated and defecated in public, saying "No urination or defecation allowed. Violators will be fined 20 yuan." The other group of propaganda officers rode bicycles with loud speakers and traveled through the streets and alleys, shouting, "Wucheng is my home. Sanitation depends on everyone!"

"Civilization begins in the heart, environmental protection begins in action, it is uncivilized to urinate and defecate anywhere!"

"For everyone! For the family! Keeping hygiene good will be praised by everyone!" Note ②

Wearing red armbands, they catch people urinating and defecating in the streets. If caught, they will be fined twenty yuan, and it's okay if they don't pay. Aren't they cracking down on it these days? There are a lot of people in the detention center. You'll stay there for two days.

People of this era are still very afraid of going to detention centers, jails, or labor camps, especially since 1996 and 1997 were just the past. So many people ate peanuts, and they still remember them vividly, and were so scared that they paid the money immediately.

The money collected from the fines and the money seized from underground casinos were used to build public toilets and construct Wucheng.

At first everyone was very curious. Wucheng’s sanitation problems had been a mess for so many years, so why were they suddenly getting better?

Later, someone heard someone with good information say, "Someone from above came down to inspect. Is this just a face-saving project?"

It is said to be a face-saving project, but in fact public toilets have been built in every street to solve the city's sanitation problems.

As a result, there were "directors" everywhere in Wucheng, an old man or an old woman, who would sit on the edge of a public toilet and collect fees, five cents for those who didn't want paper and ten cents for those who did.

Soon, Wucheng's sanitation problems underwent fundamental changes.

In addition to urban sanitation, there are also changes to Wucheng’s moat.

The moat of Wucheng. With the construction of Wucheng in recent years, the outer city river has become the inner city river, and many people's garbage is dumped into the moat.

The moat is almost becoming a garbage river.

The management of the moat is mainly divided into several points. The first is the cleaning of garbage in the river, and it is prohibited to dump garbage into the moat. The second is that after the start of the school year, the government will initiate an initiative (notice) to the schools below, requiring all high school, junior high school, vocational high school, and elementary school students to participate in urban construction and beautification. Everyone must bring a sapling or flower seedling to school and plant it in the flower beds allocated to each school along the moat.

Honeysuckle is planted in special honeysuckle beds, canna has its own canna flower beds, hedge flowers have their own hedge flower beds, roses have their own rose flower beds, azaleas have their own azalea flower beds, and gardenias have their own gardenia flower beds.

In order to save money, even the leaders of the Wucheng government had flower beds for the floribunda.

The rest is to plant willow and peach trees on both sides of the moat.

Willow is a very easy to grow tree species. As long as there is water, even if you just plant a willow branch by the water, it will grow into a green sapling next year.

But this time the requirement is that it cannot be a small branch, it must at least be a sapling that can blow silk ribbons.

As for peach trees, the kind in their local area only blooms, and the peaches that grow there are sour and astringent and not tasty. There are wild peach trees everywhere in the wild, but no one raises them. They are everywhere, but they only bloom, don't they produce peaches? Then dig it up and beautify the city!

As for the entire large area of ​​wild natural wetlands near the moat, it will be built into a wetland park that is integrated with the moat.

This undeveloped wild wetland is home to many wild birds and reptiles, such as snakes, turtles, black fish, and lobsters. For safety reasons, Jiang Ning suggested building a free fishing area for wild fishing enthusiasts and people who bring their children out to catch fish and shrimp in the spring. Even many fish fry can be artificially released into the moat.

Especially this year because of the floods, every household has no shortage of fish to eat, and the price of fish and shrimp on the market is the lowest in recent years. The government can purchase fish fry and prohibit fishing before summer. But after summer, a collective fishing festival and fishing competition can be held. During the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat races can also be held in the moat to attract tourists from surrounding cities to travel to Wucheng.

The second is the beautification, further strengthening and transformation of locust trees in the main urban area of ​​Wucheng.

If you want to know the most beautiful section of road in Wucheng, it is definitely the section with locust trees in the main urban area.

All of them are old locust trees that are decades old. They stand in the flower beds beside the road. In April and May, the tall and dense locust trees are hung with bunches of snow-white locust flowers like grapes, emitting bursts of fragrance.

Didn’t CCTV’s filming team say they would come in May or June? No one knows exactly whether it is May or June. If they come in May, they can still see the most beautiful locust flower formation in Wucheng in April and May.

The Wucheng leadership team headed by Secretary Song wants to magnify the beauty of Wucheng. Not only the main road in the main urban area, but also many places can be planted with locust trees.

There isn't much else in their place except for a lot of wild locust trees, which are everywhere. You can just dig them up and transplant them, and it doesn't cost much.

There is also entertainment. After tourists come to Wucheng, where can they go for fun at night?

Aren’t karaoke dance halls popular these days? On the largest open space beside the moat, the most popular square dance culture of later generations is arranged for the people of this era. All tourists can come here to dance group disco!

Jiang Ning arranged every step for them.