Chapter 368 Incentive Plan

In the middle of winter, traveling from south to north and then north to south, Su Yun did not feel any difference in physical attacks or magical attacks. It was just cold everywhere, and as long as one wore enough clothes and had adequate heating methods, the actual feeling was not much different.

Of course, due to the different climate properties brought by different regions, there are still some differences: dry cold and wet cold, dry hot and wet hot, these feelings are similar but different. While making people feel uncomfortable, they can also truly feel that they have indeed moved from one place to another.

When Su Yun returned to Hong Kong, it was already the afternoon of the second day of the Chinese New Year, as if she was rushing back and forth between places.

In order to make it convenient for a busy person like Su Yun who travels all over the world, this year Grandma Su was sincerely and warmly invited by Grandma Huang Misheng to the Zhao family mansion to eat the Zhao family's reunion dinner which is usually postponed to the second day of the New Year. There is no other way. Just like Su Yun is busy preparing for the New Year's Eve gala, the Zhao family is usually busy on New Year's Eve and the first day of the New Year because of the TV station's New Year programs, so the reunion dinner is usually postponed to a later day.

The Zhao family has access to mainland China's Spring Festival Gala, and they were generally very supportive of Su Yun's performance, but at the end of their praise they did give a few words of advice: "The situation isn't that good right now, you can go, but try not to be too ostentatious."

Only the Zhao family, which has always been popular in the middle, dared to say this to Su Yun. If it were another TV station that had a contracted artist who went north from time to time, it would not be so easy to talk to.

Of course, Su Yun herself already dislikes the Taiwanese side, but she was brave enough to give up her future and work hard on their turf... So under this premise, Su Yun's current practice of just going on the show and supporting the program team is not really too out of line.

"I know what I am doing now. Besides, the treaty was signed last year. It's hard for any accidents to happen again." Su Yun said meaningfully, and then looked at Zhao Rifu who seemed to be thinking about something. "In view of this, should we change some of our practices?"

Zhao Liying understood Su Yun's idea as soon as he heard it. He glanced at Zhao Rifu, who was still silent, and then looked at the brothers Zhao Liming and Zhao Lizhong, who dared not speak. Then he took the initiative to respond to Su Yun's proposal: "It's not that we haven't considered your proposal, but this issue is really of great importance. A single move will affect the entire body..."

"I have been fighting openly and secretly with those 'old men' for so many years, but I have never been able to change the situation. Your foundation is not stable now, so you don't need to talk too much about loyalty and morality." Fang Mona couldn't help but speak.

Although it is a good thing that my daughter has a kind heart, doing business is different from being a human being. The kinder people are, the easier it is to be bullied. Not to mention that the people on the other side are a group of wolves chasing after profits. Even they themselves value profits more.

"There's a saying that goes, money is not saved, but earned." Su Yun tapped the table lightly, "Zhao's is now on the road to integration and transformation, and the economy is gradually changing. We can no longer use the old 'big studio' system to cope with the ever-changing new era."

It's not that the "big studio" system that emerged from Hollywood's golden age is bad. In some difficult years, a company that has all the functions from film project approval to full distribution is the best able to withstand the impact of failures in certain links due to various reasons, and will not be stuck halfway and unable to move forward.

However, because the company is solely responsible for production and senior management exercises total control from top to bottom, it is inevitable that if there are not enough enemies to stimulate progress, it will gradually turn into top-down oppression.

Just like everyone knows that Zhao and TBB pay low salaries, but they also understand that it is the only platform that recruits the most new people in each period. In order to achieve the goal of becoming famous the fastest and easiest, many people will voluntarily choose to give up some things and focus on making a name for themselves first - in this circle, many times, fame is everything.

Once they become successful and famous, the company's salary is no longer the main source of income. Performances in other places, invitations to various shopping shows and GG, etc., are the bulk of the income for star artists.

Unfortunately, many newcomers simply cannot make it to this stage, nor are they lucky enough to reach this stage.

Su Yun does not want to see the chaos of later generations where capital controls entertainment and all kinds of rotten fish and shrimp dare to be put in front of people; nor does she want to see that many workers who have real talents and work diligently nowadays can only get a salary that is barely enough to make a living or even not enough to make a living under such top-down oppression.

The problem is that it is impossible to ask capitalists to spit out the profits that have already been delivered to them - so the only way is to find another way, and use the law that a well-trained horse will run faster to "trick" them into doing small things or big things.

"Incentive plan?" Zhao Rifu raised his eyes slightly and looked at Su Yun's serious expression.

"That's right. It's useless to just cut costs from these people who have been squeezed to the limit. The most important thing for us now is to 'open up'." Su Yun mentioned the loan of Chen Boyang and Zhang Querong to make a movie. "The box office of 'Merry Christmas' ranked among the top few in the single-film box office list last year. The 'loan fee' we can receive by then will definitely not be less than this amount."

"Because of our 'big studio' system, unlike Jiahe and Zhen Yicheng, which are relatively independent and small, we will form a group of people to form a crew when filming starts, and disband after filming. When not filming, we don't need to support a large number of employees..."

Correspondingly, the elimination of these employees and venue expenses seems to save a lot of money, but if a powerful opponent suddenly appears and forcibly uses sanctions to block a certain link in the film production, this type of company will be stuck at a certain progress and stagnate for a long time.

Zhao Rifu suffered a similar loss in the past. When he was a nobody, a local big company blocked his production process and suppressed his development momentum. He almost failed in Hong Kong.

Therefore, after establishing Zhao Studios, he insisted on adopting the all-inclusive approach, and no matter what, he had to create a large all-inclusive studio so that his place could fully cover all the production of a movie from beginning to end.

Of course, if you have to support so many people, you have to "pick" them up.

According to the rules, Zhao's regular employees are not allowed to be loaned out. The reason is nothing more than the fear that outsiders will steal their own technology and resources, and that they will not be able to use people when they need them, etc. As a result, a group of highly skilled old employees are trapped in the company, and their daily salary is not as good as that of semi-free workers. Therefore, there are many apprentices and novices who can go elsewhere to work as temporary workers. There have been many complaints about this within the company.

"If this continues, the Zhao family will find it increasingly difficult to retain talented people..." Although going elsewhere might not necessarily earn them a higher salary, why wouldn't they give up this job and go to various construction sites and other places to do hard labor?

The income of laborers in Hong Kong is not low. Moreover, TBB often has to move and lift various heavy equipment when filming on location. There is a self-deprecating joke among the staff everywhere: "If I had known that I would have to do hard labor at the TV station, I might as well have moved bricks on the construction site."

However, the Zhao family has begun to transform now. After being loaned out, there are only a few companies where those people can work temporarily. Isn't this better than letting these people work outside in private under false pretenses and affecting their normal work?

And you can also take a cut of the intermediary fee!

"Instead of letting those regular workers who have no jobs draw salaries without working, it is better to set up a department specifically responsible for 'loaned' affairs and extract profits from it..." It is difficult to take money from those old guys, but it is still possible to set up a new department in the name of making more money to share some of the rights and interests.

After all, if those old guys don't agree to open the business, then the "intermediary fee" which should be quite a lot will definitely not be paid.

"You didn't bring this up at the beginning just to make a gesture of 'concession' now that the talks are at their most intense?" Zhao Rifu suddenly asked.

Su Yun lowered his head slightly, and smiled faintly as if his thoughts were seen through.

The boss is worthy of being a boss. He thought of it so quickly that she obviously had a more roundabout incentive plan with a higher chance of success. But why did he choose to go for it at the beginning with the salary increase application plan that many people had proposed and fought for but was rejected time and time again?

Asking for a sky-high price and paying back on the spot - this is the real meaning of why Su Yun first came up with a hopeless plan that was obviously unlikely to succeed, and then spent time, energy and emotion to "argue" with those money-minded old friends until they were red in the face and slammed the table, just to achieve the "purpose" of improving the company's employee benefits and salaries.

It's worth mentioning that this attitude of facing challenges despite knowing that they are impossible has won Su Yun and the two brothers Zhao Liying and Zhao Liming the favor and support of many employees within the company.

In this world, it is hard to find someone who does not exist for profit.

Then, when they encounter a situation where their interests and goals are consistent, these people will spontaneously stand on the same front, and develop corresponding "comradeship" and goodwill towards those who stand on the same front as them.

"Times have changed. Now is the world of the new era and new people. Some old rules should have changed a long time ago." Su Yun looked at Zhao Rifu very seriously, "Besides - isn't this the scene you have always wanted to see?"

The fathers worked hard to lay the foundation, and then the capable descendants did their best to make great strides forward on this foundation - and then worked hard to achieve Zhao Rifu's dream of "Oriental Hollywood" which was limited by the times and trapped by the years and thus could not be completed.