Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 95 Qi Family Knife
After setting up the story line of Shen Lian and Zhou Miaotong.

Zhou Mo was not satisfied.

That's what he thought.

Since the Zhou Miaotong line has already introduced the setting of "Phoenix Guard", why not simply expand the scope of this organization?
Let it become a behemoth hidden under the Ming Dynasty.

As for the origin of this organization.

Zhou Mo also made a supplement.

"Phoenix Guard" is a mysterious organization that suddenly appeared during the Tianqi and Chongzhen years. Its main purpose is to collect information and recruit personnel.

No one knows who the members of the group are.

I don’t know what the purpose of this organization is.

The only news is that this organization is now controlled by a royal relative and its headquarters is in the Central Plains.

After finalizing the settings for the "Phoenix Guards", Zhou Mo suddenly realized that his previous settings were a bit conservative.

How could such a powerful organization have the only spy in the capital city be Zhou Miaotong?

So, Zhou Mo set his sights on another female character.

Zhang Yan.

Zhou Mo decided to make her a female spy as well.

Like Zhou Miaotong, she also belongs to the "Phoenix Guard" organization.

The person Zhang Yan was targeting was naturally Jin Yichuan.

Unlike Zhou Miaotong, the reason why Zhang Yan went to find Jin Yichuan was because she had found out the latter's true identity, so she wanted to contact the successor of the Qi family sword through Jin Yichuan.

Therefore, Zhang Yan relied on the power of healing to get in touch with Jin Yichuan and constantly narrowed the distance between them.

Unfortunately, just when Zhang Yan was about to succeed, Ding Xiu appeared.

When he was stationed in the medical clinic, he discovered that the girl who had been flirting with his junior fellow apprentice was actually a bad woman.

So he decisively took action against Zhang Yan.

Trying to plot against my junior fellow apprentice.

It's simply a way to seek death!
Fortunately, Zhang Yan’s fighting ability is not weak. While dodging the attack with difficulty, she told Ding Xiu that Jin Yichuan’s illness is quite serious and only she and the organization behind her can cure it.

Moreover, Zhang Yan had no intention of murdering Jin Yichuan, she just wanted to find out the news about the successor of Qi's sword.

The two sides can definitely reach a cooperation.

Zhang Yan said that she would help Ding Xiu persuade Jin Yichuan to leave Jin Yichuan and give him medicine to treat his lung disease.

And Ding Xiu needs to give her some contact information of the descendants of Qi's army.

Ding Xiu agreed.

He was a playboy, and there were only a few things in the world that concerned him.

One is his junior fellow apprentice, one of the few people in his sect.

The second is the master's order. The Qi family sword was passed down from the Qi family army. Anyone who joins this sect must keep in mind the purpose of fighting against foreign enemies.

Just as the two were communicating, Jin Yichuan arrived.

He saw that the clinic was in chaos and Zhang Yan was beaten to the ground miserably.

He thought that his senior brother had finally gone astray and attacked Zhang Yan.

Ding Xiu was also very angry when he saw Jin Yichuan so excited.

I'm obviously doing this for your own good.

So he started to speak venomously again.

"You are such a smooth girl!"

The two had a fight, and Jin Yichuan was defeated again, being no match for his senior brother at all.

Fortunately, Ding Xiu managed to clear up the misunderstanding.

When the two were reminiscing about the past, the assassin sent by Zhao Jingzhong approached. This time, the two brothers worked together to fight the enemy and eliminated the assassin.

This time, there were no casualties among the brothers.

At the same time, with the help of Zhou Miaotong, Shen Lian escaped Zhao Jingzhong's pursuit.

Brothers Shen Lian and Jin Yichuan reunited, and after exchanging information they learned that their eldest brother Lu Jianxing was willing to take the blame and die alone for their sake.

When they were about to discuss how to rescue her, Zhang Yan told them not to panic.

Someone has rescued Lu Jianxing.

The person who rescued him was Lu Zhao, an official from the civil service lineage who had recruited the three brothers many times before.

This character was fictionalized by Zhou Mo.

In the original plot of "The Blade of the Assassin", it was Han Kuang, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet of the current dynasty, who recruited Shen Lian and the other two.

The prototype of this character is Han Yu, the Prime Minister in the late Ming Dynasty.

This storyline is a bit exaggerated.

Even though the background of "The Blade of the Assassin" is set in the Chongzhen period, the court was frequently replaced by the emperor and the status of the chief minister was not that high. However, asking a chief minister of the current dynasty to recruit a centurion of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and to do so many times, is a bit of an underestimation of the chief minister's status.

Han Kuang was changed to Lu Zhao, who was in charge of investigating the Wei Zhongxian case and was a "mere" fifth-rank official. At this point, Lu Zhao's identity was revealed.

He is not a member of the "Phoenix Guard", but he has a close relationship with the "Phoenix Guard".

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, he was eager for quick success and instant benefits.

Many times, purges were launched because court officials failed to meet the requirements. After a few years, the court was in panic.

Although Lu Zhao was gradually given more important positions because of the Wei Zhongxian case, he was also frightened by Chongzhen's impatience for success and feared that one day he would also be purged.

By chance, Lu Zhao got in touch with the "Phoenix Guard" and started to cooperate with it, providing it with some help within its position on many occasions.

The purpose is to be able to get protection from the "Phoenix Guards" one day when you are unable to protect yourself.

With the help of Lu Zhao, Lu Jianxing was able to escape. The three brothers reunited and vowed to seek revenge on Zhao Jingzhong.

At the same time, Zhang Yan received news that Zhao Jingzhong's false imperial edict had been discovered by Lu Zhao and reported to the emperor.

Chongzhen sent people to capture him, but Zhao Jingzhong was well prepared. He colluded with the Jin people outside the Great Wall, hid his tracks and fled to the border, preparing to surrender to the Qing government.

The four of them went to the border together, where they met Zhao Jingzhong and a pair of Jin soldiers.

A melee broke out between the two sides.

Shen Lian and his two companions fought against Zhao Jingzhong.

Ding Xiu faced a pair of pigtail cavalrymen alone.

This is where the story ends.

Shen Lian and two other men beat Zhao Jingzhong to death.

As for Ding Xiu, he was so strong that he single-handedly killed an entire team of cavalry.

To summarize the new script, the whole play revolves around Ding Xiu, and has much less to do with the Jinyiwei. It is more like the story of "Qi Family Knife" than the story of "Embroidered Spring Knife".

In the room, Liu Shishi and Hu Ge refined the storyline.

The whole movie actually has two plot lines.

The main plot is Ding Xiu's search for his brother. While forcing his junior brother to leave Jinyiwei, when he saw that the plan failed, he secretly assisted his junior brother twice when he was in trouble.

The secondary plot is the hard working story of Shen Lian and his two-member team. Shen Lian is threatened by Zhou Miaotong, and Jin Yichuan is controlled by Zhang Yan. The two bad women set their sights on their respective targets at the same time.

There is also competition between the two women.

To this end, Zhou Mo specially arranged a plot in which the two women would fight each other while exchanging information.

The audience will definitely love to watch beautiful women fighting.

Liu Shishi felt a little regretful: "Zhou Mo, if you were allowed to shoot this movie script, it would probably make 500 million."

Since the filming of "New World", Liu Shishi has become more and more outspoken, and she always has a mysterious trust in Zhou Mo.

Zhou Mo shook his head, thinking that this girl was really bold.

A martial arts film.

Five hundred million.

He himself doesn't have this confidence.

Shaking his head, "Five hundred million is totally impossible. The market for martial arts movies is really small right now. Even if I were to personally appear in the film, plus the popularity of you and Lao Hu in the ancient puppet world, the movie box office would only be at the level of three hundred million at most. Any more is just a dream."

Zhou Mo's understanding is still very clear.

The box office of a movie is not determined by the quality of the script.

In terms of plot setting, "The Qi Family Blade" is undoubtedly more complex and excellent than "John Wick: Chapter 8".

Although there are many characters in the whole movie and they interact with each other, it is not chaotic. On the contrary, it is very organized.

But in terms of box office performance, it is estimated that "John Wick" is three blocks ahead of "The Qi Family Blade".

This has to do with the movie’s box office.

As for the gun-and-action movies, as long as they capture the excitement and keep going on with bang bang bang throughout without any boring moments, they can win countless championships.

As for historical and martial arts movies, not only do they have few viewers, they are also prone to touching on poisonous points, and if you are not careful you will lose a group of viewers.

In the previous life, the total box office of the first part of "The Blade of the Assassin" was less than 100 million.

Now, Zhou Mo dares to estimate a box office of 300 million for "The Swordsman of the Qi Family" because the optimized script has improved the excitement by more than one level.

Ding Xiu's actions were smooth and fluent throughout the whole process, and no one could be his opponent.

The refreshingness of this script cannot be compared to the original one.

Other than that, the whole thing had a happy ending and no one died.

Among the actors, the popularity of Liu Shishi and Lao Hu is still rising.

It will not be until next year, after the broadcast of "Bu Bu" and "Xuan Yuan Sword", that the two will truly reach the peak of their popularity.

By then, even if the two of them just hang around in the TV drama circle all year round, they will probably be able to bring a certain amount of popularity and traffic to the movie.

Not to mention that with these two people around, Cai Yinong will definitely do her best to promote the new movie.

This is why Zhou Mo specifically asked Hu Ge to play a role, just to make Tang Ren willingly bear the cost of publicity.

(End of this chapter)