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In fact, it is neither good nor bad to recommend Jiang Wu to producer Li. The main reason is that 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 an achievement for producer Li himself. For someone like him who works at CCTV, if he wants to move up, he needs something solid.

So in terms of filming schedule and time, he is not like other crews who rush to shoot in order to save money and catch up with the actors’ schedule.

The actors in his crew are the same.

Jiang Xi 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 recover to its original appearance. But these can be cultivated artificially. Planting lotus roots now in the spring, in the summer, you can see new lotus flowers growing. By then, it will not only promote the local tourism economy, but also the aquatic economy of the people who make a living from the Shahe River."

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

Jiang Xi said: "In fact, many places are now using this method to promote the local tourism economy. After a movie or a drama is released, photos are hung in the local area, saying that the popular TV series was filmed again. The lotus root powder that everyone drinks is the local lotus root powder, and the pearl powder that everyone uses is the pearls from Shahe. "

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

Jiang Xi's words suddenly opened up new ideas for producer Li.

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

The TV series "Legend of the White Snake" is somewhat similar to "Sword of Immortal". The little white snake goes down the mountain to gain experience, meets Xiaoqing and other friends, and after arriving in Lin'an City and meeting Xu Xian, he also subdues various monsters around. During this process, there are many different scenic spots to shoot. When they were shooting before, summer had already passed, and the scenes about lotus had not been shot.

Speaking of shooting the scene of lotus on the river beach, Jiang Xi couldn't help but think of Wugong Mountain and Wugong Tea on Wugong Mountain in their hometown, and discussed with producer Li and two screenwriters whether they could add some Wugong Tea from their hometown to the plot.

The story of "Legend of the White Snake" is actually set in Hangzhou, so there are great conditions to promote the beauty and specialties of their hometown. There is no need to modify the plot. Just buy things on the street and drink a cup of "Wugong Tea".

She told her ideas to producer Li one by one. Producer Li said that this drama is about promoting the local tourism economy, but there is no specific promotion of the tourism economy of a certain place. Jiang Qi's proposal is to go to a specific place. Thinking that a specific place will boost the local economy because of a drama she shot, it 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 Xi's hometown, it is really a timely help. If it can really succeed, it will be a concrete achievement of producer Li, and it can be pulled out as an example in the year-end work report.

Producer Li asked Jiang Xi to write a specific hometown promotion plan, what to promote, the point of entry, etc.

At present, "White Snake" has only been filmed a little. When Jiang Bai was not there, some scenes of Xiaobai and Xiaoqing fighting monsters were filmed. This drama will be filmed at least until next summer, and it is estimated that it will be released during the summer vacation next year.

The scripts were ready, and Jiang Xi took the scripts and went back to add the part that promoted his hometown.

For example, when Little White Snake and his friends settled in Lin'an, the prefect of Lin'an took out a can of tea and introduced it to the visitors like a treasure: "This is Wugong tea from Wugong Mountain. Tea is available everywhere, but the tea produced in Laotou, Wugong Mountain is the best!" Note ①

Nanhu lotus root powder is famous all over the world; Shahe lotus root powder is not popular.

Jiang Xi then found that some of Xu Xian's sister's children were sick, so Xu Xian prescribed medicine for her children, one of which was lotus root powder, and she said, "Sister, my nephew has had a weak stomach these days. This red lotus 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 children, as well as the weak and sickly!"

Xu Xian took out another pill and said, "This is the Water and Land Two Immortal Pill and the Suoyang Gujing Pill. They are made from the water chestnuts of Shahe. The former has the effect of treating kidney-tonifying and sperm-solidifying, and kidney deficiency and instability. It can be taken by both men and women." After a pause, he said, "The latter is used for yang and kidney deficiency."

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

During the banquet at the prefect's house, crabs from Shahe were served, and the ladies praised the crab roe and meat.

Not only that, Jiang Xi also arranged the city promotion of Wucheng.

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

It still maintains the image of an ancient city with ancient style and appearance, including the moat and the city wall.

Producer Li agreed to shoot in their hometown, so when some scenes were arranged and the shooting location was not yet determined, Jiang Xi arranged a scene to be shot in Wucheng.

Whether it was Fahai exorcising demons in Wucheng, or White Snake and her friends passing by Wucheng when they traveled, Wucheng is a very good ancient city with ancient flavor.

Two days later, Jiang Wu showed the script to producer Li, the director, and two screenwriters. After seeing the seamless gg embedded in the script after Jiang Wu's revision, they were speechless for a moment, and then they clapped their hands in admiration. If they were to shoot like this, then in the future, their self-made dramas would have their own gg to attract investment. For example, in the previous "In Paris", they could insert a gg about wine in the scene of eating and drinking.

This is a good thing to create another income for CCTV. Although their CCTV gg is already sky-high 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 Wu immediately called Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai and told them about CCTV's self-made drama, which would promote the "Wugong Tea", "Wugong Lotus Root Powder", "Wugong Euryale Cake", "Wugong Crab" and other products in our hometown, and that the filming would be in my hometown in May or June next year.

Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang were also shocked after receiving the call. Although Jiang Wu's original plan for them did include making the hometown's "Wugong Tea" famous step by step, they didn't expect her to be so powerful that she would promote CCTV all at once and even make CCTV agree to come and film their hometown.

Jiang Xi said, "Fourth Uncle, from now until May or June, you still have half a year to prepare. Now all the Wugong tea has been planted. In order to promote our Wugong tea, pick more 'Qingqian Wugong tea' 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 people to plant them. Let's ask if there is anyone willing to contract the lotus roots on the river beach. If there is none, it will be used as the collective property of our brigade. At that time, we will focus on promoting our Shuibu Town Linhe Brigade and Yaoba Town, which you are in charge of now. "

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, but also has a long history, beautiful scenery, and is the hometown of an ancient prime minister. No matter from which aspect, Yaoba Town has great tourism value.

Town Chief Jiang listened to Jiang Xi's plan for him step by step, teaching him how to develop the tourism economy of his hometown first, and then engage in aquaculture.

Aquaculture in my hometown has always been done by people, but it is not on a large scale and has no system.

What Mayor Jiang needs 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, but also requires the joint participation and joint efforts of people like Jiang Guotai and Secretary Song, and the concerted efforts of several forces.

Jiang Xi said, "Fourth Uncle, you need to know where the advantages of our hometown lie. It is not just about living off the mountains and the water, but also starting from Yaoba Town, starting from the current best economy, 'Sanba', to create a tourism-themed city with Wucheng characteristics, including tourism, leisure, food, entertainment, and high-quality services, and to create a city name card."

Then Jiang Xi started talking about city construction, economic development, and specific details of each project.

"For example, water parks, fishing, lotus picking activities in Jiangnan, camping, rafting, tea picking experience..."

Jiang Xi mentioned many things that Jiang Town Mayor and Jiang Guotai had never heard of, but rafting was.

Shijian Township, next to Jiang Wei's brigade, has very good conditions for rafting. The stream in the mountain stream flows all year round. Although Jiang Zhenzhang and his team did not know what rafting was, they could roughly imagine it after hearing the word. This was because they were naughty when they were young, so 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 come to experience tea picking?"

They have tea pickers every year. They pick tea leaves for people to make money during the spring tea picking season. They have never thought that they can get others to pick tea for them and get paid. This is simply unthinkable to them. How poor must people in the city be to be willing to pay others to pick tea?

Is there such a good thing?

Jiang Qi's cake is getting bigger and more beautiful as he paints it, but the problem is that the cake has already been delivered to their mouths.

Jiang Guotai, Mayor Jiang, and Song Peifeng couldn't help wanting to hear Jiang Xi continue to draw the cake for them. Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang were anxious for Jiang Xi to finish his work and go home as soon as possible. They would talk about it in detail when they met. Many things could not be explained on the phone.

When it came to the construction of her hometown, the unhappiness in Jiang Xi's heart was quickly suppressed by the passionate work, and Jiang Xi returned to her usual energetic and radiant state.

Song Peifeng stayed with Jiang Xi these days and participated in the whole process of how she persuaded producer Li and director Li to agree to go to her hometown to shoot, to promote her hometown's specialties, and then to plan the entire Wucheng and the surrounding areas.

If Jiang Xi's plan was really followed, his father would be able to return in less than two or three years.

Jiang Xi had paved the way for them, which was like feeding them the cake. If they didn't eat it, they wouldn't be Jiang Guotai or Secretary Song.

Song Peifeng didn't need Jiang Xi to say anything, and he told her how Jiang Xi had persuaded producer Li and director Song from CCTV to agree to film and promote the film in her hometown of Shuibu Town, Yaoba Town, and even Wucheng.

Secretary Song had never expected that Jiang Xi would quietly give him such a big surprise without him knowing.

That was CCTV. After the film was broadcast on CCTV, both Wu Cheng and the secretary would have direct access to the central government, and Wu Cheng would have a name in the central government.

After the crackdowns in 1996 and 1997, Wucheng was hit by a new round of crackdowns at the end of 1998.

Some of the activities that had been relaxed because of the crackdowns were over, such as opening underground casinos, gang-related activities, petty theft, and women trafficking, were once again hit by a devastating blow in Wucheng.

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

Gamblers have no money even if they win, and it goes without saying that they lose. Like a dog who has lost his home, he will carry his luggage again after the New Year and go to the construction site to move bricks and work, and repeat the new 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. Wherever there are gambling tables and underground casinos, they will go there.

But if someone loves to gamble, there will be gambling victims. Those who earn a little money at the end of the year, but end up losing it all to men at the gambling tables hate gambling.

When they heard that gambling was strictly cracked down on in the city, they secretly made phone calls and wrote letters to report them.

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

During the Chinese New Year, these gamblers were all in detention centers, and the detention centers were full of people.

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

During this severe crackdown, a very vicious incident that happened some time ago was brought up. A group of hooligans broke into a female dormitory of a vocational school.

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

None of the low-level 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. Secretary Song has the final say in Wucheng now. They all know that Secretary Song has a strong background and will leave Wucheng sooner or later, but they did not expect Secretary Song's background to be so strong that even CCTV was invited to come by him.

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

Before the advent of the 21st century, the entire social atmosphere was relatively barbaric, and the chaos in many places was beyond your imagination.

In many small places, if the local tyrants like Jiang Guotai have some bottom line and compete with the rich people in the city for food, it’s okay. Those who have no bottom line, they don’t compete with the rich people for food, they directly eat the blood of the lower-class people.

Solve the public security problem, and then the urban environmental management problem.

Song Peifeng and Secretary Song said that they came to Wucheng to shoot, and then CCTV would broadcast it, so after the fierce crackdown in Wucheng ended.

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

Sanitation management mainly prohibits urinating and defecating in public and littering.

Wucheng is an ancient city, and the old streets are full of antique flavor, which also means that there are many alleys like those in ancient times. The alleys have high walls and black tiles, and the alleys are deep and not crowded. Many gay men, when they have physiological needs, take off their pants without thinking twice, not to mention that some are even more unhygienic and relieve themselves directly in the alleys, resulting in the old alleys of Wucheng being filled with a lingering fishy smell.

Only during the Chinese New Year period, when there was a heavy snowstorm, the thick snow covered the pickled things under the thick snow surface, and the smell was slightly lighter.

So 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 hard-hit areas where people urinated and defecated in public, saying "No urination or defecation allowed. Violators will be fined 20 yuan." The other group rode bicycles with loudspeakers 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 behavior, urinating and defecating in public is uncivilized!"

"For everyone! For the family! Everyone will praise us for maintaining good sanitation!" Note ②

Wearing red armbands, they caught people urinating and defecating in public on the streets and alleys. If they were caught, they would be fined 20 yuan. It was ok if they didn't pay. Aren't they being severely punished these days? There are many people in the detention center. They will stay in for two days.

People of this era were still very afraid of being detained or imprisoned for labor reform, especially since 1996 and 1997 had just passed. How many people had eaten peanuts, and they still remembered it vividly. They were so scared that they immediately paid the money.

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

At first, everyone was very curious. Wucheng's sanitation problems had been in chaos for so many years, so why did they suddenly start to improve their sanitation?

Later, someone heard someone who was well-informed say, "Someone from above came down to check. Is this a face-saving project?"

It was said to be a face-saving project, but in fact, public toilets were built in each street to solve the city's sanitation problems.

Therefore, every place in Wucheng had a "director", an old man or an old woman, who sat by the side of a public toilet and collected fees, five cents for those who didn't want paper and ten cents for those who wanted paper.

Soon, the sanitation problem in Wucheng was fundamentally changed.

In addition to urban sanitation, the moat of Wucheng was

also changed. 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.

There are several main aspects to the management of the moat. First, the cleaning of river garbage is prohibited. Dumping of garbage into the moat is prohibited. Second, after the start of the school year, the government will initiate an initiative (notification) to all schools below, asking 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 flowerbeds allocated to each school by the moat.

Honeysuckle is planted in a special honeysuckle flowerbed, canna has a canna flowerbed, hedge flower has a fence flowerbed, rose has a rose flowerbed, azalea has an azalea flowerbed, and gardenia has a gardenia flowerbed.

Even the leaders of the Wucheng government have built flower beds for the daisy flowers in order to save money.

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

Willow is a very easy tree species to grow. 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 cannot be a small branch, at least it must be a sapling that can blow silk.

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

As for the entire large area of ​​wild natural wetlands near the moat, a wetland park was built as one 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 Qi suggested building a free fishing area directly for wild fishing enthusiasts and those who take their children out to fish and shrimp in spring. Even many fish fry can be artificially released in the moat.

Especially this year, due to the flood, every household has enough fish to eat. The fish and shrimp on the market are at their lowest prices in recent years. The government can purchase fish fry. Before the summer comes, fishing is prohibited, but after the summer comes, a collective fishing festival and fishing competition can be held. During the Dragon Boat Festival, a dragon boat race can 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 the locust trees in the main urban area of ​​Wucheng.

If you want to say where the most beautiful section of Wucheng is, it is definitely the locust and poplar trees in the main urban area.

All of them are several decades old locust trees, standing in the flower beds beside the road. In April and May, the tall and dense locust trees are covered with bunches of snow-white locust flowers like grapes, with a fragrant smell.

Didn't the CCTV crew say they would come in May or June? Whether it was May or June, no one knew for sure. If they came in May, they could still see the most beautiful locust flowers in Wucheng in April and May.

The Wucheng leadership team headed by Secretary Song wanted to magnify the beauty of Wucheng. Locust trees can be planted in many places, not just the main road in the main urban area.

There aren't many other things in this place, but there are many wild locust trees everywhere. You can dig them up and transplant them at will. It doesn't cost much. There

is also entertainment. Where do tourists go to play at night after coming to Wucheng?

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 people of this era. All tourists can come here to dance collective disco!

Jiang Xi arranged every step for them.