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Jiang Wu was a little surprised that the top executives of this well-known foreign film and television company could find her school to discuss the film rights of "Star Trek", but she still met them.

The leader was about 30 years old, with a very typical blond-haired and blue-eyed Oparo look, handsome, tall, and impressive.

They made an appointment in a coffee shop outside the Peking University. When they saw Jiang Wu and Song Peifeng appear, they were a little surprised at her youth, but it seemed not so surprising.

Before coming here, they had already investigated the author and knew that she was a student at Peking University, majoring in mathematics and finance. They were not very interested in her previous books, but they learned about the sales data of her works and judged what kind of person she was through various data.

Obviously, even in the still somewhat backward Flower Country, with so many high-selling works, this girl is definitely not short of money, so it is obviously impossible to just use money to buy the film and television copyright of this work. The previous person who came to negotiate the copyright, first of all, did not investigate this information, and wanted to buy the film and television copyright of this book at a price lower than their budget, which is obviously impossible.

Moreover, he also read the English version of the first two volumes of this work, which described the spaceships as grand and the technology as very advanced. More importantly, many of the detailed descriptions make people feel that it is not just pure fantasy, but based on a certain level of real technology.

It is hard for them to imagine that such an advanced science fiction work comes from a college student from Flower Country.

But that is the fact.

This is the time when science fiction movies are very popular, such as "Star Wars", "Gold Wing Killer", "The Ninth Element" and so on, which were released a few years ago, and the big production "The Matrix" series that has been planned for a long time and will be released soon this year.

When he saw the first two volumes of "Star Trek", he couldn't wait to ask someone to get all the content behind it. This work is so detailed and wonderful, so wonderful that it doesn't look like a science fiction work, but it is the real content that happened to the protagonists.

But the people below told him that this is a work from the Flower Country, which is still being serialized and has not yet been completed.

Since he read a book that was completely translated into the language of the United States, when he heard that this was a serialized work from the Flower Country? His first reaction was a face full of question marks? ? ?

You said a sci-fi novel with such a grand layout and such a high level of technology came from the Flower Country?

But later, facts told him that it was indeed from the Flower Country.

No matter which country it came from, the commercial sensitivity of the film industry still made him make a decision at the first time. He immediately contacted the author of the Flower Country and asked him to buy the film rights of her work and make it into a movie and put it on the big screen!

He had a hunch that this would be a classic sci-fi series, because when he read the novel, he already had the picture in his mind.

This is also the reason why Jiang Qi came in person after refusing their company to buy the film and television rights of her work.

After coming to the Flower Country, he learned more about her work and knew that a movie adapted from her work was shortlisted for this year's Venice Film Festival.

Most of her works are long and exquisite, not only suitable for being made into movies, but also suitable for being made into a series of movies, which also made him pay more attention to the film and television copyright of this movie.

Although the two are of different nationalities, they have no obstacles in talking to each other.

In the end, the film copyright of this book was sold to this well-known American film and television company at a price of 1.2 million US dollars, setting a record for the highest film and television price in the history of all Jiang Wu's works.

This is the purchase price. No matter how many billions of box office revenue a movie makes in the future, it has nothing to do with Jiang Wu.

This film copyright, which seemed to be extremely expensive at the time, was also considered one of the most sensible decisions in the subsequent game with other major film and television companies. It established the unshakable position of the person who came to buy the film copyright of Jiang Qi's book "Star Trek" in this film and television company.

This is a later story, so I won't go into it for now.

Both parties were very satisfied, the contract was signed quickly, and even the payment was very smooth.

However, Mr. Stankey, who came to the Flower Country in person to sign the film and television copyright of "Star Trek" with her, brought her another surprise not long after. A publishing house in the United States, introduced by Mr. Stankey, had the distribution rights of "Star Trek" in the United States.

The publishing rights of this book were eventually sold to the publishing house for 120,000 beautiful dollars, which was a pleasant surprise. Now, in addition to being serialized and published in physical form in China, the book "Star Mecha" is also being published in Southeast Asian countries and the United States.

After the summer vacation, when the new semester began, Jiang Xi was able to move out of her original dormitory and live in a rental house outside the school.

Her house in Beijing was also fully renovated and she could move in at any time. Although she invested all the publishing royalties, film and television copyright fees, and house mortgage fees in the stock market, and did not withdraw them after the 519 market explosion, her serial royalties were always there.

She had considered to learn from a variety show host who bought as many houses as possible after earning money, not just one a month. However, she invested all her money in the stock market, leaving only the money from the serials. Now that the money from the serials has accumulated to a certain level, Jiang Qi simply bought another house in the Third Ring Road.

Money will only depreciate in her own hands, but if she buys a house, she can be flexible in terms of cashing it out or using it as a fixed asset in the future.

She did not hide these things from Song Peifeng, so Song Peifeng watched his partner, who was learning to write, making a fortune in the stock market, selling copyrights at sky-high prices, and promoting his hometown economy. Yes

, after the "Legend of the White Snake" was broadcast on CCTV during the summer vacation this year, Jiang Guotai was inspired by Jiang Qi's posting on TV and also asked someone to shoot a short video of rafting, surfing, picking lotus and eating river food, which was posted on Wujiang City, neighboring cities, provincial capitals, and several city and local stations close to Linhe Brigade.

Except for the provincial station, the ticket fees of other local stations are very cheap. For many local people who can only search the local provincial, municipal and central stations, this ticket is undoubtedly very effective. Especially

in the first week before the start of summer vacation, all tourist items except meals, accommodation and travel expenses are free, and the subsequent fees are only 0.9 yuan per ticket. For a time, it attracted many groups of tourists from neighboring cities, neighboring cities, Wujiang City, and provincial capitals to come and play.

They first arrived in Wucheng, and then they were impressed by the cleanliness of Wucheng.

In the summer, there are no longer trees full of locust flowers in Wucheng, but the clear moat that has been managed, the summer moat fishing competition, and the dragon boat race still attract many tourists.

As for why the Dragon Boat Race was held during the summer vacation instead of the Dragon Boat Festival?

It was because the promotion was not in place during the Dragon Boat Festival. The dragon boats in many towns were not ready, let alone the dragon boat race.

Of course, we can't say that. Secretary Song said that this was to prepare for next year's Dragon Boat Race. All dragon boat teams should practice first. In next year's Dragon Boat Race, the first place will receive a prize of 5,000 yuan, the second place will receive a prize of 3,000 yuan, and the third place will receive a prize of 1,500 yuan!

5,000 yuan!

This is already a family's annual savings for many people!

When they heard that there was so much prize money, tourists from nearby counties and cities who came to Wucheng to travel asked if they could also participate. The answer was yes.

Wucheng welcomes all friends to come to Wucheng to participate in the dragon boat race next year!

When these tourists brought back this news, the dragon boat fever immediately set off!

They are good at water battles in the Jiangnan Shuize area, especially in the recent hit "Water Margin", there are several heroes who are very good at swimming, and they have nicknames one by one, such as "Zhang Shun, the white shark in the waves", "Li Jun, the dragon of the river", "Tong Wei, the dragon out of the cave, and Tong Meng, the mirage in the river". Who among the young people who grew up by the river doesn't know how to swim?

So they imitated the heroes in "Water Margin" and gave themselves nicknames that sounded very loud, preparing to become famous in the dragon boat race next year!

Some who didn't know how to give nicknames simply used "Langli Baitiao" and "Hunjiang Long". All of a sudden, there were many "Langli Baitiao" and "Hunjiang Long" in the Wujiang area. One by one, they dug up the dragon boats from their villages that had been buried in the river for who knows how many years, painted them with tung oil, refurbished them, and practiced rowing dragon boats, waiting to row the dragon boats to Wucheng next year and have a fierce dragon boat race on the river outside Wucheng and Wujiang City!

When the Wujiang Municipal Party Committee heard that Wucheng was going to hold a dragon boat race next year, they also allocated funds. Therefore, the prize money of 5,000 yuan for the first place was increased to 8,000 yuan, the prize money of 3,000 yuan for the second place was increased to 5,000 yuan, and the prize money of 3,000 yuan for the third place was increased to 3,000 yuan. There were also some participation prizes left. These participation prizes were not prizes, but rice, rapeseed oil, tea leaves, etc.

This news spread more and more as more and more tourists came to Wucheng and Linhe Brigade.

Most of the Mingqian tea produced by Jiangjia Village this year was given by Jiang Guotai to producer Li and his team, who took it back to Beijing. The remaining small half was given to various leaders in the county and city after "The Legend of the White Snake" was broadcast on CCTV and caused a response.

When the leaders heard this, they realized that the local government should pay more attention to the tea that CCTV was promoting and the tea that the central government was drinking.

Therefore, the entire Linhe Brigade and Wugong Mountain became the key support and development areas of the local government, and many preferential policies were given, and various supports were tilted towards this area.

Although there was little Mingqian tea left in Linhe Brigade, the tea after Qingming Festival was picked and grown one after another.

These picked tea leaves were uniformly purchased, roasted and packaged by Jiang Guotai's tea processing factory at the foot of the mountain according to different light and appearance, and the Wugong Tea logo and logo were stamped on them. Then they were sold uniformly in Shuibu Town, Wucheng, neighboring cities, Linhe Brigade and other places.

The price of tea leaves is also divided into several levels.

Local people love tea. Even Jiang Dad, who used to be in debt and poor, drinks more than ten kilograms of tea every year, not to mention people in the town who have good economic conditions.

These Wugong teas have been on CCTV, and the people on CCTV say they are good!

Those who can afford good tea can buy more expensive ones and buy a few more kilograms. Those who can't afford good tea can buy cheaper ones and buy less to try.

And only after I went to the local place to buy tea did I realize that Wugong tea not only tastes good and has a bright color, but also has a lot of nutrients. Because of the water and soil of Wugong Mountain, the nutritional content of Wugong tea is much higher than that of similar tea leaves. Long-term drinking can significantly increase the number of macrophages in the human body, and has a series of functions such as quenching thirst, promoting fluid production, diuresis, improving eyesight, detoxification and health care.

These functions are not just nonsense, but have a series of test certificates from authoritative institutions.

For a time, Wugong tea from Wugong Mountain was a big seller! Linhe Brigade was constantly crowded with tourists.

Yaoba Town, where Jiang Zhenzhang was located, did not have a gg, so naturally there were not many tourists.

But he was particularly ghost, he had no money to gg for Yaoba Town on TV, what should he do? They arranged people in advance to intercept people at Wucheng Bus Station, and took the people who came to Linhe Brigade of Shuibu Town to Yaoba Town first, and then sent them to Linhe Brigade of Shuibu Town after playing in Yaoba Town for a few days.

Jiang Guotai soon found out about this, and he was so angry that he wanted to go to Jiang Town Chief to ask for an explanation.

What can Mayor Jiang say? His brothers can only play tricks, saying: "Brother, there is nothing I can do. Look at my Yaoba Town. It has developed quite well now, but I have no money. I can only use your money. Look, I took them to play for a few days, and then they immediately said that rafting and water surfing are not here, and sent them to you!"

Now is the early stage of publicity. Whether it is the Linhe Brigade of Shuibu Town or Yaoba Town, they are in the period of losing money to make a profit.

Whether it is food or water transportation, the price is extremely cheap, and many scenic spots are free for people to visit, just to promote the reputation first and attract more tourists.

Jiang Guotai can't do anything about his big brother. What can he do? They just don't have money to play GG, but they want to promote Yaoba Town and develop it. Secretary Song is also promoting Liuba Town and Douba Town, the other two of the "Three Hegemons of Wucheng".

However, these two towns are closer to Wujiang City, have a superior geographical location, more factories, and a good economic foundation, but the factories have also destroyed some ecological environments. In terms of being a tourist leisure town, they are not as good as Yaoba Town, which has been preparing for more than half a year in advance.

Even though Yaoba Town has attracted so many people from the bus station, you can take a tricycle for free and enjoy free water tours. However, there are pearl shops everywhere in the town, pearl bracelets, pearl necklaces, pearl earrings, barbecue stalls, beer crayfish, spicy crabs, grilled fish, etc., which all cost money! They

also imitated the square dance culture of Wucheng at night, and danced karaoke disco in the square in the center of the town at night. Mayor Jiang specially gathered some young hooligans who liked to go to the dance hall to dance the most in the town and built a stage for them. Don’t they like to dance? They danced here to their heart’s content, got paid to dance, and danced and sang with tourists to their heart’s content.

Young people who want to sing and dance on stage and lead the dance can all take lessons on stage for free!

The main point is to make it lively!

So this "square dance karaoke disco" culture spread from Wucheng to Yaoba Town, from Yaoba Town to Linhe Brigade, and from Linhe Brigade to Shuibu Town.

So the town without collective square dance karaoke disco seemed to be backward and out of fashion. Every night, the young people around did not go to the dance halls that required money, but went to the free square.

The place with the most concentrated flow of people is Shuibu Town, a transportation fortress.

Shuibu Town is located in the most central position of various counties, cities, and towns, with developed water transportation, and all the young people in the surrounding areas gather in Shuibu Town.

Shuibu Town was originally a famous ancient town and a large town, and it was very prosperous. Once the flow of people was concentrated, a night market was set up, and it became more and more prosperous.

Jiang Guotai is also rich.

In other places, it is extremely difficult to have a square for square dancing, but Jiang Guotai is rich.

The three sand factories earned him more than tens of millions in the first half of the year.

Tens of millions in 1999, not to mention in Wucheng, even in the entire neighboring city, it is a place that can be ranked among the best.

It's not that no one is jealous of his three sand factories, but it's not easy to get the meat that has been eaten up. You have brains and can calculate, but Jiang Guotai is smarter than you, more daring to think, more daring to do, more courageous, and he also knows how to spend money.

The highway project in the neighboring city was finally completed and opened to traffic in 1999. The section of road contracted by Jiang Guotai was the best built, the most solid material, and the most beautiful section. Not to mention him, even the people behind him were all proud to see such a beautiful highway project. Other jealous people were even more speechless.

After Jiang Guotai made money, he did not hide it by himself, but immediately applied to the city leaders for road construction.

It was a cement road from the neighboring city to Linhe Brigade, and then from Linhe Brigade to "Wugong Mountain".

This is a big project, and it can't be built without two or three million.

But Jiang Guotai said without hesitation that he would take out 20 million to build the road. Such courage is rare in the surrounding areas, not to mention the neighboring cities.

Once this road is built, it will be a real achievement for the city leaders.

Who else would the leaders like if not Jiang Guotai?

Jiang Guotai's decision to build this road not only brought tangible achievements to the city leaders, but also directly benefited the villagers in the surrounding villages along the entire road section. In the future, when talking about the road in their hometown, everyone would have to thank Jiang Guotai. After that, after the road was opened, the two sand factories that originally made the most money were the two sand factories near the neighboring city and the Linhe Brigade. But once the road was built, the sand factory located in the middle section had a land road opened, and in the future, the transportation route for the river sand in the area surrounding the neighboring city but not across the river was also opened. At the same time, it also connected the neighboring city to Linhe Brigade to "Wugong Mountain", allowing tourists from the neighboring city to come to Linhe Brigade and "Wugong Mountain" more conveniently.

Once such a road is opened, it will be a great event for the economic development of the local people, and the locals will have to burn incense to thank him.

It can be said that it is a win-win situation.

Obviously, it is also a very good thing for him, but from Jiang Guotai's point of view, it is like he made money and gave it back to his hometown for free, building roads and bridges for his fellow villagers and delivering political achievements to the city leaders.

Look, he has become a good person and done all the good things.

Jiang Guotai is also a person who does what he says. After his own engineering team completed the highway project in the neighboring city, he started the construction of this road in his hometown.

For the municipal party committee of the neighboring city, his road leads to Linhe Brigade. From the county party committee and municipal party committee of Wucheng, his road passes through the Shanjian Bridge in Shijian Township and leads to Shijian Township, and then connects to the road to Wugong Mountain.

For the Wucheng County Party Committee, it is also a political achievement.

The money earned from the three sand factories was just like the money he picked up. Now that the expressway was completed, the remaining 40% of the final payment was in place, and he began to take on new projects in the neighboring city. Now the richest man in the neighboring city was Jiang Guotai, but he was not in a hurry to compete with others for projects or jobs. He first went to build his hometown. He let the small projects below go to others, and he directly took the big projects that others could not take.

How many people wanted to seize Jiang Guotai's three sand factories? As long as Jiang Guotai said it, before he even got in, the villagers inside would carry hoes and smash your car. You can catch one person with your connections, but can you catch all the villagers in the area?

Jiang Guotai has won the hearts of the people here, and his position here is already unbreakable.

His roads were built from the neighboring city to the inside, because first of all, the city leaders had to see the real investment.

Then the roads in the entire Jiangjia Village were all built from the original muddy roads to cement roads.

Jiang Guotai was responsible for the construction of the main roads. The roads leading to each village and the mud roads in each village still needed to be maintained by each village and each brigade. He couldn't repair the roads of each village along the way. That kind of investment would not be able to cover it no matter how much money he had. It would be a bottomless pit.

But Jiangjia Village is still okay, so Jiangjia Village has become the first village in the surrounding area to say goodbye to dirt roads and walk on cement roads. Not only is there a cement road at the beginning and end of the village, but the cement road even goes all the way to the mountain, which is convenient for tourists to climb Huolu Mountain to pick tea, and also convenient for Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang to go down the mountain occasionally.

The families who used to be jealous of Jiang Guotai's money are now benefiting from Jiang Guotai.

Grandpa Lao Zhonghua is now in the village, and he is so proud that he wants to call Grandpa Jiang back immediately to compare him with Grandpa Jiang. Who has a higher reputation in the village, who is more respected, and whose family is more powerful!

Grandpa Lao Zhonghua smiles every day.

The square in the center of the village was built very large.

This section was originally the parking lot and the elderly activity center of Jiangjia Village, right next to the cinema.

A few years later, several buildings were built nearby, occupying some space. Now it is all empty, so it was paved with cement. When tourists come, those who like to watch movies can spend 50 cents to go into the cinema to watch movies, and those who don’t like to watch movies can dance and sing in the square in the center of the village. There is also a huge bonfire in the middle, just like the bonfire party in later generations.

The TV series "Legend of the White Snake" can be said to have been used to the extreme by the people of Jiangjia Village. There are tall photos of "Legend of the White Snake" everywhere in the village. For example, when tourists go to the river beach to see the lotus, the villagers who row the boat will introduce it, saying: "You have all watched "Legend of the White Snake", right? All the scenes about lotus in this TV series were all taken on the river beach of Jiangjia Village in Linhe Brigade!"

Then he pointed to the photos of "White Snake" hanging on the bow of the boat to prove the truth of his words.

No tourists would doubt his words. After all, "Legend of the White Snake" clearly mentioned Wugong Mountain and Wugong Tea, as well as Wugong Gorgon Cake, etc.

So the boatman took them to see the lotus and then picked Gorgon.

He charged a very low fee for rowing, only 50 cents per person, but there were so many people, one boat after another with people every day. Although it was a bit tiring to row the boat, how could it be tiring to make money? He was already 50 years old, and he could still make money. If you tell others about this, they would be jealous!

No matter where you go, there are stills from the White Snake, allowing tourists to fully appreciate the beautiful scenery in the TV series.

Among them, the most popular hotel residence is now temporarily seconded to become a homestay, Jiang Dad's house.

It can be said that it is a "check-in holy place" that all tourists must go to and want to live in the most.

Not for anything else, just because this family has produced two people who are famous throughout the province-Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai!

Two celebrities from one family, one is in Peking University, and the other is now a star. What kind of Feng Shui is this!

So the room price of Jiang Dad's house has been rising again and again, but it is still in short supply.

Jiang Guotai often called Jiang Dad and said, "Your house is still a little small, you don't know how popular this room of yours is!"

Jiang Dad never thought that he could rent out the house to make money while working outside.

As for not renting it out, why not? Renting it out, having someone live in it, is actually helping to maintain the house. They all work in other places, and if no one takes care of the house, it will be abandoned in a few years.

Now someone is helping to maintain the house, and it can make money, so Jiang's father would be stupid not to make money.

As for Jiang's mother, as long as she can make money, let alone an empty room, even her own room and her son's room can be rented out!

During the day, those who wanted to go hiking on Huolu Mountain went hiking. Those who wanted to go rafting were taken on tricycles and went rafting five miles away. When they were tired of rafting, they slept for a night and went surfing on the river the next day. Jiang Guotai left several motorboats at his newly built dock, and went to eat river food, crayfish, and dance square dance disco at night.

Aunt Jiang was just an ordinary housewife and a small farmer all her life. She never thought that one day her family would open a hotel and clean up all the rooms upstairs to entertain tourists. She and her son and daughter-in-law lived downstairs. Fortunately, the house was built quite big, otherwise it would not be enough.

She is efficient and clean, and her house is clean. The ordinary meals she cooks have become the favorite restaurant for tourists.

She has several small tables on the high platform. The restaurant is always full during the summer vacation. She is lucky to have two daughters-in-law to help her, otherwise she would be too busy.

She herself did not expect that she, a village woman who worked hard in the fields, could earn more than 3,000 yuan in one summer vacation. Even if the two daughters-in-law each share 1,000 yuan, she still has more than 1,000 yuan.

This is only two months.

The teacher of the village primary school only gets 300 yuan a month. I heard that the girls and boys who go out to work in the village only get 500-600, 700-800 yuan a month. How come she made more than 3,000 yuan in two months?

All the ingredients she used were fruits and vegetables she grew herself in the fields, which were not worth much.

After she told Jiang Guotai about this with some fear, Jiang Guotai smiled and held the short and fat shoulders of Jiang Dabo Niang and said, "My dear sister, isn't it good to make money? I'm building bridges, paving roads, and spending money to plant lotus and repair docks. Isn't it to make money with the villagers in our village?"

He always said things for the good of others, making money with others, and tying everyone's interests to his own.

He said, "You should keep the money you earned through hard work. Now is the beginning. How can you start? There will be plenty of money to be made in the future. When you have nothing to do at home, you can tidy up the yard, plant more flowers and grass, and make the yard beautiful. If your house can be expanded, it would be better to expand it like Guoping's house, with more rooms. There will be more tourists in the future. You can build more bathrooms and toilets, and make the rooms more beautiful . "Better, cleaner, and you can just sit at home and make money in the future!"

He thought for a moment and said, "These wild roses are not good, they easily attract snakes. So, I'll ask Jiang Xin and Miaomiao to go to the provincial capital's Agricultural Science Academy and Agricultural University to see if they can get some rose seedlings to plant. Those flowers are beautiful!" Mainly because the male protagonist in the movie always gives roses to the female protagonist. Jiang Guotai thinks this flower is popular. He has always been a pragmatist and thinks this flower is Tourists will like it: "When the time comes, this whole high platform will be planted with roses. When people walk into our village and look up from the road below, they will see flowers all along the way. How can they not be attracted?"

The main reason is that Aunt Jiang has never made money in her life. All the money in the family is made by Uncle Jiang and his three sons. Suddenly, she can make money, and she makes as much as Uncle Jiang and his family. She feels a little uneasy and unreal.

Uncle Jiang originally wanted to buy a house in Xinjie in the town for his youngest son. Now that his hometown has developed so well, he doesn't want to buy a house in Xinjie anymore. He just wants to apply for a residential land and build another house as big as Father Jiang's house next to it. The extra house will be used as a hotel for tourists in the future.

After this summer vacation, the reputation of Linhe Brigade in Wucheng, Yaoba Town, and Shuibu Town has spread far and wide. Not only in the surrounding areas, but also in the nearby counties and cities, everyone knows that there is a very beautiful place suitable for tourism, delicious food, fun and cheap. It is called Wucheng, Wugong Mountain, and Linhe Brigade!

Yes, yes, it is the Linhe Brigade in Wucheng where Jiangliu and Jiangbai are produced!