Chapter 135
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The two of them discussed forming a boy and girl group to perform in the restaurant. If the response to this boy and girl group is good, they can also be used on soap packaging in the future. They can even charge a certain fee if other brands want them to help advertise.
Cheng Yeran felt that so much work could not be left to Shen Yuntang alone, and he had to open a special agency.
Moreover, the previous magazine had not yet opened, and all these were handled by him and Shen Yuntang.
He was fine before. He had no tasks after get off work every day. Sometimes there was not so much work during working hours. Sometimes he finished work in the morning and started researching magazine matters in the afternoon.
Now the entire Hanlin Academy is taking the exam, so he cannot do any private work. After get off work every day, Lord Feng will call him over to give him lessons.
Yang Shiming doesn't need to go, because Lord Feng said he is confident in Yang Shiming's ability, but Cheng Yeran can't. His title of top scholar was partly due to luck, so he needs to study harder.
Cheng Yeran originally thought that since he was an official, he would not have to study anymore and he could finally be liberated. But now he has to continue studying. However, Master Feng’s lectures were so good that every time he finished a class, his mind became much clearer. He even felt that he was a fool before. He was in pain and happy at the same time.
It is relatively convenient to find an agent, but it is not so easy to find a magazine. He has never had any experience with this. Before, he just did what he wanted and printed whatever he wanted. If he wants to recruit an editor for a magazine, especially an editor for a fashion magazine, the aesthetic taste must be good. This time he plans to make two magazines, one will still be for advertisements and paintings, and the other will focus on story themes and can also accept submissions.
To accept submissions, we need the address of the editorial office, and the editors we recruit must be cultural people, and we need full-time cultural people.
Shen Yuntang said to him, "Soap and clothes could be advertised before, can we also advertise by hiring editors?"
Cheng Yeran was so busy that he forgot about this idea. "Okay, okay, we have the content for the next issue of the magazine. It will still have new soaps, new lipstick colors, a short story, and then the opening advertisement of our Jinyulou. We also need to promote the idol's performance."
The next day they started recruiting employees for the agency, who were required to have the vision for selecting artists, the ability to lead artists, and social skills.
It is easy to find such people in Beijing. Even if you can't find one that is completely satisfactory, you can still cultivate them. The most important thing is that they have good character, be loyal to them, and don't have any bad intentions.
Cheng Yeran was very afraid of encountering the kind of unspoken rules in the entertainment industry in the future. That was too dirty and would damage their family's brand. Moreover, Shen Yuntang would not accept such a thing. If such a dirty thing happened in his own restaurant, Shen Yuntang would definitely blame himself.
Just like when Liu Ya had the accident before, Shen Yuntang felt very guilty and blamed himself for bringing Liu Ya out, which led to Liu Ya encountering this situation.
If something similar happens to the idols in the restaurant in the future, Shen Yuntang will definitely regret it.
Therefore, the first thing to look at when recruiting is the person’s character. Those with bad character or those who look like they have bad intentions will not be recruited. Cheng Yeran will talk to the next people and get a brief understanding of their temperament and personality through the conversation, and then give them a three-month probation period.
Cheng Yeran and Shen Yuntang wrote an employee handbook for them, which specified their work content and what they could and could not do.
But it also wrote about the benefits they can get. For example, in addition to the fixed salary, each member of the group will receive an additional performance fee for each performance, and the agent will take a commission from it.
As for the commercials they shoot in the future, they will also be given a share of the profits, and the agent will also take a portion of the share.
A total of two people were hired as agents. One of them used to be a shopkeeper and the other managed an opera troupe. However, accidents happened to the restaurant and the troupe, which made them come to Shen Yuntang to apply for the job.
Although they had not been agents before, they interviewed dozens of people in the past few days, and these two were the most suitable.
Shen Yuntang gave them another task, each of them to choose a group. The men's group was actually a brothers' group, and the women's group consisted of only women.
Cheng Yeran said that we should form a group of eight people first, because there were too many people and the stage would not be able to accommodate them.
Moreover, it is still in the experimental stage, there are too many people and it is difficult to manage.
There are a total of 18 people in these two groups. Fortunately, Jinyulou used to have employee dormitories, which were used by the guys here and the people who performed singing and dancing.
But the conditions were not very good. It was a large dormitory bed, and it was very messy. There were not many barriers between where the waiters lived and where the dancers lived, which posed a great hidden danger.
Shen Yuntang looked at the place and found that the big bunk bed could accommodate eighteen people, but it was too crowded and there was no private space for them.
He asked his third brother to help him customize bunk beds and install curtains, and also make a few cabinets and tables for them to store their things.
We temporarily made this place into a dormitory for them, and arranged the servants to stay in the backyard, separated from them.
When they become famous in the future, we can arrange a better house for them outside.
But they are all boys and girls, and the laws of this dynasty do not allow boys and girls to live independently, let alone buy houses. Shen Yuntang cannot even let them earn money to buy their own houses.
The two agents quickly selected the people, and they even picked a few more, a total of thirty people, and asked Shen Yuntang to screen them again.
Shen Yuntang took a look at the people they chose. They were all bought from brothels, but they were not top celebrities. Not being able to afford them was one thing, but the other party would not sell the cash cow to them unless they could not afford it or they asked for an exorbitant price.
Shen Yuntang asked them to buy at the market price, so those who were bought were those who had just been sold to the brothel and had not received any training. The madam made a profit from the difference, or those who had poor performance or were older, the madam would bring them in to try their luck.
In order to form an idol group, Shen Yuntang also learned about future boy and girl groups. He knew that it didn't matter if they were beautiful or not, and it didn't matter if they didn't have good professional skills. Through packaging and marketing, ordinary people could be elevated to the altar.
He even bought a few books specifically to learn more about marketing.
When he saw the people, he couldn't help but frowned, because he saw several children who were only thirteen or fourteen years old. They were so young that they were not suitable for the work here, but if they were sent back, they might have to entertain customers.
They all need training anyway, maybe for two years, or they can be given other jobs, such as being sent to Lin Yu to be embroiderers, or to make clothes with a sewing machine.
In addition to the young ones, there are also older ones, about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. Although this age is young in the future world, in ancient times, people got married at the age of fourteen or fifteen, had children at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and their children might have been married when they were thirty years old.
Those two guys, who were in their twenties or twenties, were a bit old now, but they were still very charming.
The two of them noticed that Shen Yuntang was looking at them. They were afraid that Shen Yuntang would send them back, so they quickly knelt down in front of Shen Yuntang and cried that they didn't want to go back and be tortured. "We can do everything. We can play the piano, sing songs, and dance. Please don't drive us away."
The clothes they both wore were rather transparent, and Shen Yuntang was frightened when he saw bruises and hideous whip marks on their arms.
You don't need to ask to know what kind of life they lead in the brothel.
Shen Yuntang asked them to stand up, thinking that they were indeed too old to be idols, but they could stay and teach others to dance, play the piano and sing.
Shen Yuntang: "You two
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Get up first. Whether you can stay or not depends on your performance. You play the piano and you dance. I want to see how you perform. ”
The two of them quickly stood up and began to perform hard, which was really good.
Shen Yuntang, who usually doesn't listen to music or watch dancing, thought the two of them danced beautifully, so he kept them.
In the end, he kept everyone here and said, "Don't do sex trade here anymore. If anyone forces you, come to me. No matter who it is, tell me and I will protect you."
He said to the younger ones, "You don't have to perform on stage yet. Study for two years before you go on stage."
He looked at the girls who were about seventeen or eighteen years old. They were pretty, but not great beauties. They could create beauty through dressing and stage lighting effects, and the effect should be good. "I have your indentures in my hands, but I won't let you work for me forever. After five years, you can redeem yourself if you want. You can continue to work here as a free person, but you still have to sign a contract. You can only work for me under the contract. I will arrange accommodation for you. If you don't want to do this after five years and want to get married, I will let you go. But you are not allowed to leave within these five years."
He has to train them and make them famous. He can't let them get married right after they become famous and before he can see any benefits. Otherwise, he will lose money. After five years, they will be too old and he can train new people.
Some of them had just been sold to brothels by their families, some were already married and were sold to brothels by their husbands to pay off gambling debts, some were about to receive customers, and some had already received customers.
They knew how hard it was to do the sex trade in a brothel, and they thought that after being sold here, they would still have to compensate the customers, and it was just like moving from one hell of a pit to another.
Unexpectedly, Shen Yuntang said that not only did they not have to entertain customers, but he would also pay them wages and allow them to redeem themselves and marry in the future. In their eyes, Shen Yuntang was a living Bodhisattva.
But some people wonder how much money can one make just by performing dance? Seeing that they couldn't make much money, Shen Yuntang still let them receive customers.
Shen Yuntang paid a sum of money to buy them out, and temporarily arranged them into the dormitory to let them get familiar with the environment. He then asked the two older guys to lead a group each and teach them some basic skills, and would discuss the dance content later.
Cheng Yeran went online to find the music and choreography for the dance and song. He told people that he wanted to form an ancient style idol group and asked them to create in this direction.
Nowadays, everything can be sold online, even choreographers can be easily bought. After buying the choreography, he couldn't show the video directly to the people in the restaurant, so he found an artist to help him draw the decomposition diagram.
The previous artist was still helping him draw a lipstick advertisement and probably wouldn't be able to spare the time. He planned to wait until the two groups were packaged and then ask the artist to help draw promotional pictures, which could be placed at the entrance of the restaurant as posters or printed in magazines as promotional pictures.
Shen Yuntang told Cheng Yeran that those young men were too pitiful, and that even if their restaurant stopped doing prostitution in the future, it would still attract the attention of men, and they would make obscene assumptions about them, which was very sad.
Cheng Yeran thought for a moment, "How about we also form a boy band? Not guys, but men, handsome men, the kind that attract girls."
The atmosphere in the capital city was relatively open. There were women like princesses who kept male lovers, and there were also women like Shao Hui's sister who served as generals. On weekdays, other women could go out on the streets at will, work in shops, or go to restaurants alone.
In their previous small county, unmarried women and boys were not allowed to go out to work alone, let alone eat out in a restaurant by themselves. They were restricted everywhere. Now in the prosperous capital, there are fewer restrictions on women and boys.
"Okay, but where can we find so many men?" Shen Yuntang was in a dilemma because there were no men in the brothel.
Cheng Yeran: "There are also men who serve men, but they are all gay, so they can't attract women. How can we find them in the theater? But they are singing operas, so how can they come to our place to be a male group? Find a human trafficker and buy some."
Originally they wanted to publish the recruitment information in magazines, but how many men who can afford magazines can swallow their pride and do this kind of business?
They found a human trafficker and told him their requirements: a handsome man, not the kind that could be seen as male or female, but one that could be seen as a man at first glance.
Strong, handsome, cute, any kind of person is fine, just come over, as long as you have healthy limbs and can dance, and are not mute but can sing.
When human traffickers were selling people in the past, they had never heard of any owner making such a request. Generally, they wanted beautiful maids and boys. Lord Cheng actually had this fetish!
However, he was professional and did not show any surprise. He went back and immediately selected a group of boys to show to Cheng Yeran.
They were all sixteen or seventeen years old. Some were strong, some had big eyes, and some had fair skin.
Cheng Yeran felt that their posture was not good and their clothes were too rustic. They just needed to package themselves up and practice their posture.
He asked Shen Yuntang again, "I'm not good at picking. Take a look at these men. Are they attractive?"
Shen Yuntang: "..." Whatever I want to say, if I say yes, you will definitely be jealous.
Ren Yazi was also shocked. At first he thought that Lord Cheng had this kind of hobby. Was it actually that kind of hobby?
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