Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3168: Only by being upright can one understand the suffering of the people
Zhou Buqi's itinerary has been arranged.

I will go back for vacation tomorrow.

There is still work to be done today.

He first walked to the Jieyu Media Building and met Xu Baihui, who was becoming more capable and more charismatic.

Zhou Buqi joked, "Hello, President Xu. President Xu's beauty is truly awe-inspiring."

Xu Baihui rolled her eyes and said, "Women are meant to be loved, not revered."

"What have you been busy with recently?" Zhou Buqi changed the subject.

Xu Baihui said in a tender voice: "That cartoon of yours! For your reputation, I have to make sure it is foolproof."

"My cartoon?"

Zhou Buqi was a little strange.

Xu Baihui said, "You were the one who mentioned the cartoon called The Return of the Great Sage. You said it was a representative work of the rise of Jieyu Media's animation business."

"Oh, yes." Zhou Buqi remembered, "Has the animation been finished?"

Xu Baihui said, "It's done. We are doing the final post-production. It will probably be released next spring. We'll see how it performs in the market. There has never been a domestic animated film that has sold well in the domestic film market. We invested 8000 million in this film."

Zhou Buqi said casually, "It's not much money, there's nothing to worry about."

"It's not about money." Xu Baihui hesitated, "It's that many people in the company are against this project, thinking there's no market. If this cartoon fails, many people won't dare to contradict me, but will inevitably talk about you, saying that you don't understand the entertainment industry and you're giving orders blindly."

"I don't understand?" Zhou Buqi snorted, "Who built the world's largest film giant?"

Xu Baihui pursed her lips and smiled, "It's still different in China."

Zhou Buqi said: "We must use the best resources for The Return of the Great Sage. When the movie is released, we must also work harder and use all the connections we can. We should have all the big stars and small actors post on Weibo to recommend this animation. The domestic film market has become more and more mature, and we need a groundbreaking animation film to kick off a new era of domestic animation films. This honor must belong to Jieyu Media."

"Thank you for your words." Seeing how confident he was, Xu Baihui gained more confidence herself. "With your words, I feel relieved. I can focus all my energy on the comedy show."

Zhou Buqi asked casually: "What comedy show?"

"It's a collaboration with Dragon TV, 'Happy Comedians.'" Xu Baihui glanced at him, "I originally wanted to call it 'Happy Comedians', but then the people at Dragon TV said that the relationship with Happy Twist was too obvious, so I changed it to this name."

"Happy Twist" is a comedy troupe under Jieyu Media.

When Jieyu Media creates a comedy variety show, it will naturally focus on promoting its own comedians.

This was actually a plan that Zhou Buqi had already arranged. From offline comedies to comedy variety shows, he would eventually rely on these people to dominate the comedy film market.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "In the past few years, comedy movies in China have not developed much, and they are supported by a few big actors. But there must be many talented comedians in China. This "Happy Comedian" is the best platform for them to show their talents. Jieyu Media will create opportunities for these outstanding comedians to become famous, so as to lead the entire comedy industry. For a long time in the future, whether it is variety shows, TV dramas or movies, the most interesting thing in China will be the comedy effect."

Xu Baihui sighed, "Because of this, I am still not happy with the Capital TV."

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's wrong?"

Xu Baihui said: "Capital TV also wants to introduce this program. But Capital TV banned Deyun Club. How can we do this comedy program without Deyun Club? It is one of the three major comedy troupes in China."

"Which three comedy troupes?" Zhou Buqi thought for a moment, "Deyun Club, Benshan Media, and then..."

Xu Baihui pursed her lips and said, "Our Happy Twist! During offline performances, Happy Twist's ticket prices are not as high as Deyun Club's, but they are almost the same as Liu Laogen Grand Stage. Young people nowadays are really rich and dare to spend money. They buy scalper tickets worth thousands of yuan. After Happy Comedians is broadcast on Oriental TV next year, Happy Twist will become very popular... Just like you said, they can officially enter the film industry."

Zhou Buqi suddenly remembered what Boss Ma had said before about the reorganization of the Oriental TV station's organizational structure. "By the way, has the Oriental TV station changed its director?"

"It changed. It changed three years ago." Xu Baihui knew this too well.

Zhou Buqi asked: "I heard that the Oriental TV station handled the outsourced employee issue very well?"

Xu Baihui nodded gently, "Yes, very good, it is considered a benchmark in China. Or they are in Shanghai, an international metropolis, the scale is bigger than CCTV, and they have solved the issue of employee treatment and work contracts to the greatest extent."

"How is it done?"

"The station director at that time was named Li. He had been the station director for many years and had outstanding performance. In particular, he bought the copyright of "Got Talent" from the UK and launched "China's Got Talent", which even surpassed "The Voice" produced by us and became the variety show with the highest ratings in China. However, he also offended people because of "Got Talent".

"Offending people?" Zhou Buqi smiled, "Being too successful will easily make people jealous."

Xu Baihui smiled and said, "Yes, I was jealous. No one was optimistic about "Got Talent" at the beginning, so they chose two young hosts. Later, when it became popular, the superiors asked them to assign a very experienced host, Cao Kefan. But his hosting effect was not good, so Director Li fired him. The superiors were very angry and transferred him away."

Zhou Buqi was not interested in these power struggles and asked, "What I care about is how Dongfang Station handles its outsourced employees."

Xu Baihui said: "Director Li is going to be transferred, but he didn't make any mistakes, so he can't be dismissed immediately... In fact, he was promoted in name only but demoted in reality, and his position is even higher. So the procedures will take a long time. During this time, Director Li wants to make one last contribution to the employees of the station. Many old employees who have worked in the station for ten or twenty years are temporary workers, and they are not allowed to attend employee meetings. These outsourced temporary workers have made great contributions to the station, but they don't even have the most basic protection. So Director Li couldn't bear it, and he wanted to solve this matter before the job transfer."

Zhou Buqi nodded and said, "The more upright a person is, the more he can understand the suffering of the people."

Xu Baihui continued, "Then, Director Li split up the Oriental Media Group in the name of separation of production and broadcasting. One part is Oriental TV, which is a TV station responsible for broadcasting. All the employees here are regular employees. This is a public institution. The other part is Oriental Media, which is mainly responsible for producing programs. This is a corporate unit. All the outsourced employees are signed to work in this company. This solved the identity problem of all outsourced employees."

Zhou Buqi crossed his legs and squinted his eyes and said, "From this point of view, it is quite similar to the organizational structure reform of Ziweixing."

On the Ziweixing side, all employees with talent and potential who need stronger competitiveness are signed with the headquarters; the remaining relatively ordinary employees with little room for promotion, insufficient potential, and relatively low workload are signed with subsidiaries.

It's really a similar organizational structure design, with classified arrangements and segmented governance.