Reborn I want to surf

Chapter 1103 Give Laos and America some spiritual civilization construction

It is often said that there are three major financial centers, New York, London and Hong Kong.

Singapore has been ranked fourth all year round, and around 2022, it will finally surpass Hong Kong and join the top three - Shanghai ranks sixth. Singapore has also become a popular choice for domestic wealthy immigrants.

In the evening, Marina Bay Sands Hotel.

Costing 40 billion pounds to build, it is known as the world's most expensive hotel. It features an outdoor swimming pool on the 57th floor, which is three times the length of the Olympic swimming pool. You can swim while overlooking Singapore.

Yao Yuan just took a dip in this swimming pool for a while. Well, it was a dip. He returned to his suite, put on loose casual clothes, and sat down to wait.

Not long after, Jiang Chao led two guests in.

"Yao!"

"Leon!"

He first hugged Doug Leon of Sequoia Capital, Hugelive’s major shareholder and board member.

"Let me introduce you to Jeff Ass!"

"first meet!"

"Happy meeting!"

Yao Yuan shook hands with him. He was a white man with glasses and reddish hair. He was wearing jeans and a shirt, giving him a very casual look.

Jeff Yas, whose ancestors were engaged in finance for three generations, is well-known on Wall Street and has a net worth of US$289 billion.

But what he is best at is not finance, but his close relationship with the "Growth Club", a political group in the United States whose core demands are: reducing taxes and balancing national finances.

Then someone asked, you just want to appeal?

This has to mention a major feature of Lao America: political donations!

The role of the "Growth Club" is to receive political donations that favor the Republican Party in order to lobby members of Congress and thereby influence policy.

"Allow me to congratulate you. I heard that TikTok's monthly active users have exceeded 3 million. Your long videos have achieved great success. I didn't expect the short videos to be even more surprising."

Jeff Yas first complimented, and Yao Yuan corrected him: "To be precise, in the first quarter of this year, TikTok has grown by 1.8 million users. Our globalization strategy is very smooth. This year's goal is 5 million monthly active users."

"Then am I watching the rise of a giant with my own eyes?"

"Haha! To be honest, after all my years in the investment world, products like TikTok are rare!"

Doug Leon smiled and said that all the shareholders of Hugelive, including him, have been very happy recently. It was undoubtedly a wise decision to support Yao Yuan in making short videos.

At first, I thought 1 million users would be enough, and 2 million would be the best. Who knows, just like riding a rocket, short videos have quickly captured many users around the world with their powerful magic, and are still growing rapidly.

This is incredible. With the company looking to reach the level of Facebook and YouTube, shareholders have also increased their support.

"I like to make friends, especially good friends..."

After the business exchange ended, Jeff Yas got to the point and said: "Mr. Yao has created quite a business miracle in both China and the United States. I think we will develop a beautiful friendship, but before that, I have to ask the usual question One sentence."

He leaned forward, stared into Yao Yuan's eyes, and asked, "What do you need from me? What can you give me?"

Have you watched too much "The Godfather"?
So secondary?

Yao Yuan complained in his heart and said with a smile: "Although we are growing rapidly, we are still a young product. TikTok has three profit models: advertising, live broadcasting, and e-commerce.

Live streaming and e-commerce have not yet been vigorously promoted, but advertising has begun to take off. Revenue is expected to be US$2 million this year. This is far from Facebook’s tens of billions in revenue, but everyone can see that with the current development trend, TikTok will catch up sooner or later.

By then, we will face many enemies.

Whether it's business or politics.

There is a saying in China, which is to prepare for a rainy day. I need friends, especially friends in government, for any crisis that may arise.

In return..."

He paused, looked at Doug Leon, and smiled: "TikTok is a subsidiary of Hugelive and has not introduced any financing yet. Mr. Yas is well-known in the investment community and I believe it will be a great help to us."

"I understand what you mean, very good, we do have a wonderful friendship!"

Jevyas was satisfied.

To put it bluntly, Yao Yuan wants to make political donations to the congressmen through him, and accordingly, he will let Jeff Yas join the team to make money together.

Doug Leon is here to represent the opinions of other shareholders.

The two parties discussed the conditions and found that both were acceptable. Then they discussed in detail and after a heated exchange of words, TikTok would give 8% of the shares. Jeff Yas also told a lot of "secret stories" about political donations.

The U.S. Congress is divided into the Senate and the House of Representatives, corresponding to senators and representatives.

Senators have great power. For example, Jeff Yas has long supported a Republican senator named Rand Paul, and each political donation starts at a million dollars.

He also supports a congressman, which is less, tens of thousands of dollars can be spent.

Of course, it depends on the specific influence. Some congressmen have great influence, so they need to increase the money appropriately... And it is not given directly to individuals. The congressmen have their own political committees, which are dedicated to accepting bribes, ah, donations.

Damn!

Yao Yuan sighed repeatedly after hearing this, what a talented person!

Lao Mei: We are not corrupt!
Because we have legalized corruption...

……

Yao Yuan's task this year is to adjust, adjust, adjust!
There are industrial adjustments and ideological adjustments.

Domestically, in the next few years, China will see a large wave of films with the main theme and the Resistance to U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, many of them bad, but few of them good.

Trilogy films such as "Operation Red Sea" and "My Motherland and Me" are not too ideologically related, and the filming was okay. But movies like "Eight Hundred" and "King Kong River" are very awkward.

How to twist it differently?
To put it simply: Not only do they not believe it themselves, they also don’t believe that others will believe it.

Most of the works expose a flaw: they only promote the fearlessness of our soldiers, but do not explain why they are fearless.

These screenwriters and directors either don’t understand, don’t want to, or don’t dare!
In the past few years, only one movie, "Li Yannian, a Man of Literary and Martial Arts" explained the ideological work clearly: Why do we fight? For whom is the war fought? Only by beating away the American devils can we have a good life...

Externally, we will continue to use long and short videos to output content.

We have prepared many programs for long videos, as well as short videos. In addition to vigorous promotion of live broadcasts and product promotion, Yao Yuan also wants to bring richer spiritual civilization construction to the American people.

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Hengdian has Hengpiao, and Los Angeles has Luopiao.

Every year, countless young and beautiful men and women come here to pursue their dreams.

Lucy is one of them. She has studied acting seriously. She is in her early 20s, has a hot figure and fair skin. She has been living in Los Angeles for more than a year. She has only played a few supporting roles and usually works as a waiter in a restaurant.

Recently she was lucky enough to get a second female lead.

I was ecstatic at first, but after the audition I felt calm, because this is a mini-series, each episode is 2 minutes, 80 episodes, and it will be broadcast on TikTok.

But she still came, making money, not shabby.

Today, Hugelive’s studio.

In the dressing room, Lucy was putting on makeup while reading a script. It was called "The Double Life of My Billionaire Husband." She didn't understand why the name was so long, but she felt that it faintly exuded a mysterious oriental power.

It is said that the heroine's parents divorced when she was young, and her father found an evil stepmother. The evil stepmother also has an evil daughter - the character of Lucy. Her family had a marriage contract with another family. In order to borrow money from her stepmother to treat her mother's illness, the heroine agreed to replace her sister and marry the son of that family, the hero.

The male protagonist is uneducated and incompetent, he eats, drinks, whores and gambles, but he actually has a secret identity.

All the actors were minor players before, but their images are very good and their basic skills are passable. 99% of the crew are foreigners, but the director is Chinese.

"Look here! Look here!"

When everyone was in place, the director took a loudspeaker and shouted in English: "Today is our first day of work. We plan to shoot about 15 episodes. If we catch up a little earlier, it will be easier later on. We must complete 80 episodes of material in a week."

So everyone needs to work overtime..."

As soon as the word overtime was uttered, someone protested: "But our contract does not stipulate this. I can go to the union to complain to you!"

"Your contract also stipulates that we have the right to adjust the schedule on our own!"

The director was so confident that he pointed at the other person and scolded him: "If you want to act, stay, if you don't want to act, get out. If you don't do it, others will do it!"

"..."

These people are all at the bottom of Hollywood. Their poverty and desire for opportunities prevent them from having the courage to fight, so they have to endure.

Arrangements were made and shooting started immediately.

The heroine, a part-time model, has fair skin, long legs, and a good temperament. She put the medical bill on the table and said, "Dad, can you lend me $5? Mom needs treatment, and we really have no money."

The father wanted to borrow it, but what was the evil stepmother doing? She scolded her directly: "George, are you still thinking about your ex-wife? Don't forget that you have been eating from me and using mine for so many years, and you have used the strength of my family to climb up the ladder." High position, it’s me who has achieved everything for you!”

At this time, Lucy appears.

"Isn't this my poor and destitute sister?"

"Crack!"

As soon as he said this, the director stopped, walked up to the confused Lucy, and said, "Why didn't you?"

"Director, I think this modal word is too exaggerated, so you don't need to use it. Haha."

"No, no, you must add Aha, so that the character image will be fuller."

The director taught the heroine again, saying: "You didn't express enough just now. You have to act pitiful and stubborn. You have to act like Yiping is asking Lu Zhenhua for money... I don't understand. It doesn't matter. I'll give it to you when it's over. Go back and finish it off." Specialize in research.”

Continue shooting.

Lucy didn't dare to disobey the director, so she pinched her nose and let out a sarcastic cry: "Aha~ Isn't this my poor and destitute sister?"

When she finished saying this, her heart pounded, and her dream of performing was shattered.

Not to mention, the filming process was the most painful, with the mentally retarded character settings, illogical story development, bloody dramatic conflicts, especially the lines.

In English, there can be several words to describe the same meaning.

In layman's terms, there are low-level vocabulary, common vocabulary, and high-level vocabulary. And this script is full of low-level vocabulary at the elementary school level, and the sentences are also very straightforward.

The director said this was to target the broad masses of people with dyslexia (illiteracy).

Time passed quickly, seven days passed in the blink of an eye, and the project was completed on time.

Lucy's scalp felt itchy and she felt like her brain was growing. But when she saw that her reward was a total of 3600 US dollars, she firmly hoped to do this kind of work again.

There's no harm in doing it except losing your brain.

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The filming was completed in 7 days, followed by post-production for half a month, and then put online for streaming. This is the process of the short play.

Yao Yuan is testing the waters.

A company was registered in the United States to produce short plays, and a website was also established to translate domestic online texts.

The cultural export you think: Confucius Institute.

Actual cultural output: Internet articles, short plays, Pinduoduo, live streaming, Li Ziqi, Ming coins, birthday lotus lanterns, Yijian plum, subject three, my surname is Shi...

If you want the public to accept it, it must have entertainment attributes.

These things are popular among hundreds of millions of users in China, and they are also popular overseas. It is only because of certain long-term thoughts that they feel unable to use them.

Facebook headquarters.

Zuckerberg frowned and stared at the computer. The stiffness of his facial muscles seemed to make his face grow longer and shine like a layer of grease.

""The Double Life of My Billionaire Husband"?"

"Aha~ My poor stupid sister!"

"What the hell is this??"

He pinched his nose and finished watching one episode, only to feel physical discomfort. He glanced at the catalog again and saw that there were 80 episodes, with charges starting from episode 13.

“Who would pay to see something like this?”

Zuckerberg tried to click on episode 13 and read the comments. Most of them were "It's like shit, but I can't stop", "Hahaha, it made me happy all day" and "I just couldn't help but watch it." …

There were at least over a hundred people paying. Although it was a small number, this was obviously just a test of the waters.

Today, Facebook has just escaped from the vortex of collusion with Russia and data leakage, and has been fined US$50 billion, the largest fine in history.

After paying the money, the matter is over.

Zuckerberg is preparing to regroup and save the wildly falling stock price, but he judges that TikTok, which is growing rapidly, is his biggest enemy.

He called a meeting with senior executives to discuss the skit.

"It is obvious that TikTok is experimenting with a revenue project, and it is aimed at those low-culture groups. They know that what they film is garbage, but unfortunately, those guys like garbage."

“Won’t this affect the overall environment of TikTok?”

"You forget, they rely on algorithms. If you don't like it, they won't recommend it to you."

"This is what worries me the most!"

Zuckerberg brought the topic back and said: "Facebook's advertising revenue can reach more than 100 billion US dollars a year, and it relies on targeted advertising.

The accuracy of the TikTok algorithm is comparable to ours, but they are more convenient and more direct. I admit that I have despised short videos before, but if they are given enough development time, they will definitely be a powerful enemy! "

Zuckerberg slammed the table and said: "Gentlemen, this is a war, we are going to start..."

"mark!"

At this moment, a staff member suddenly interrupted him and said, "You should take a look at this, we may fall into the whirlpool again!"

"what are you saying?"

"Facebook is under attack!"

(no more...

Ending the day after tomorrow! )
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