Chapter 596 Chapter 108: Laughter and Tears

"Okay, okay, don't worry, Mr. Xu, the goods have been loaded, and the train will leave at nine o'clock in the evening!...Yes, I know, 350,000 pieces, don't worry, one is indispensable! The train is special, someone is following the car , Arrive at four o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow, remember to arrange the personnel and vehicles in advance! Hey... okay, okay! Haha, okay, we will meet and talk later..."

"Hey, Mr. Zhou, yes, yes, I know, I know, I know it's urgent, I'm at the freight station right now, don't worry, I can't go wrong, I just sent it to Sichuan, mainly to see the train number What about the departure time, your Jiangxi bus will leave at 8:40 am tomorrow, and our agreed loading time is at 4 am, don’t worry, I know it, anyone can reduce it, and I can’t miss you No? 250,000 copies, I guarantee one is not bad! Rest assured, sleep soundly..."

"Hey, hello, Mr. He..."

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Since the afternoon, the distribution department has received calls to urge the shipment, and it hasn't stopped. Distribution companies in many places were not at ease after getting the promise from the staff, and called Xu Bing, the manager of the distribution department, until seven o'clock in the evening, after get off work, and the number of calls gradually decreased.

Fortunately, Minghu Culture had preliminarily booked the carriages with the railway department in advance. Although it was a few days in advance at this time, with a little coordination, it was not impossible to make it happen.

The only trouble is that many of the staff who followed the car to deposit the goods in the previous batch had to stay in the local area for two to three days as usual to check the sales situation on the spot before rushing back to the company to deposit the second batch of goods. Therefore, the current manpower in the company is seriously insufficient.

On the one hand, some young male employees were urgently dispatched from various departments of the company to temporarily take over, and on the other hand, Xu Bing himself led the team to the freight station to supervise the delivery.

Li Qian didn't care about Qi Jie's absence. He was the first person responsible for this area, so naturally he didn't dare to make a mistake.

But fortunately, on the phone, Qi Jie personally assigned Zou Wenhuai to intervene in this matter, which sort of helped Xu Bing share some of the pressure.

Moreover, although Zou Wenhuai is still only the artist director, anyone with a discerning eye in the company can tell that if nothing unexpected happens, he and Xie Mingyuan will become the company's deputy general managers next. So, originally it was only half a level above and not under each other's control, but in fact, senior executives like Xu Bing have already subconsciously regarded him as the vice president--Xie Mingyuan became the vice president, and he must be focusing on technology. The master, the master, and Zou Wenhuai must be in charge of artists, performances, publicity and distribution, and he is his serious immediate boss.

After answering another call to urge the goods while speaking, Xu Bing picked up the list in his hand and read it again. Seeing that the carriage here was almost finished, he felt relieved. He turned his head and saw Zou Wenhuai coming.

At the end of June, the weather in Shuntian Mansion is already relatively hot. At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, the heat has not yet dissipated, and Zou Wenhuai is fat. Xu Bing was busy allocating the vehicles to deliver the goods, and when he arrived at the freight station, he stared at the loading again. After this breath, his whole body was almost washed with water.

He came over, gasping for breath, but refreshed, looked at it for a while, then turned to Xu Bing and said, "You go back first, I'll keep an eye on it in the middle of the night, remember to come and change shifts at two o'clock."

Xu Bing hurriedly declined, saying that it was enough for him to just stare, and asked Zou Wenhuai to go back and rest. Zou Wenhuai waved his hand impatiently, "Don't do this, everyone is in the same pit, and no one is putting on airs. I'm in the middle of the night. You are in the middle of the night, count how much I will spare you, hurry up, don't sleep much!"

What Zou Wenhuai said made it difficult for Xu Bing to refuse, but it is somewhat inappropriate for the leader to stare here and go back to sleep by himself. Besides, when it comes to shipping, loading, and coordinating with the railway, it is still his With more experience, Zou Wenhuai must be far behind.

So he didn't chase Zou Wenhuai away, but he didn't leave. He just smiled and shook the delivery list in his hand, and said with emotion: "Look at this posture, we can sell it with a guarantee in the first week!"

The so-called guarantee refers to the first batch of goods that are sold out.

Specifically, Zhou Mo's "Red Bean" is 4.3 million copies.

Generally speaking, the first few weeks of an album’s release are of course the hottest period of sales. Even for the vast majority of singers, sales in the first month of release can often account for about half of the final sales of the entire album. ! The albums produced by Minghu Culture have always had the characteristics of continuing to sell well and continue to be popular, but even so, the sales in the first month of listing can account for more than 30% of the final sales.

The sales guarantee for "Red Bean" from the distribution department is expected to be 8 million copies, and we will strive to reach 12 million copies. The first batch of stock is 10 million copies, but the first batch of shipments is more than 4 million copies. According to the expectation , the shipment that is currently being dispatched was supposed to be sent out three or four days later. The two shipments combined totaled less than eight million pieces—with this amount, it should have been about the same in the first two months up.

The first batch of 4.3 million copies should be the expected sales volume for the first month.

But now, only two days after it was released, Xu Bing, as a senior "specialist in selling albums", immediately adjusted his expectations for the sales performance of this album in the market.

However, Zou Wenhuai didn't feel surprised at all - he had to be surprised, he was already surprised by the phone ringing one after another this afternoon and the flood of replenishment orders.

The first four million copies...not impossible!

"The dealers and distributors in the local area are all smart, and they are making a lot of calculations. If they don't feel that they will definitely sell, they will not be so anxious to rush the goods. It seems that the sales below are really good. !” he said.

Xu Bing and Zou Wenhuai are now one of the minority shareholders of Minghu Culture. Zhou Mo's album is selling well, and the company's expected profit is higher. Naturally, they will get more dividends at the end of the year, which of course is full of joy.

While talking, he said with a smile: "It's just that there's not much publicity. If our proprietress goes out and wanders around, and runs around the radio station and TV station, the sales can still increase!"

Zou Wenhuai stared at him, "What good things are you thinking of! Those two, cut! Qian'er protects her like an old hen protects its own eggs. Can he agree to let her out for publicity?"

Xu Bing laughed when he heard this.

Only Zou Wenhuai dared to say this, and only Zou Wenhuai dared to complain about this metaphor.

After a pause, he had a smile on his face, and said with some fascination: "If this can sell four million copies in the first week, my God! Hey... Mr. Zou, tell me, Dongguan Bookstore The record, won't our Minghu culture be broken again?"

It is recognized by the industry that Minghu Culture is the master of breaking record sales records. From He Runqing to Liao Liao, they all regard those sales records that the entire music world looks up to as nothing, and break them as soon as they say they are broken. At present, the weekly sales ranking of Dongguan Bookstore is maintained, and it is "Once upon a time you" by the four beauties.

Relying on the huge success of the 10-minute Spring Festival Gala that year, that album became popular all over the country immediately after it was released. But even for "Once Upon a Time", the stock quantity given by the distribution department before it was released was only 8 million copies, and the first batch of shipments was close to 4 million copies, but there were no reminder calls at that time. So urgent!

Zou Wenhuai thought for a while and shook his head, "It's really hard to say, more than 140,000 copies, that record is too fierce, it's difficult! You're a professional at this, why don't you know? The better the album sells, the better it will be. The smaller the share of Dongguan Bookstore in the overall sales volume! Besides, how much did Dongguan Bookstore sell in the first batch?"

Xu Bing heard the words without hesitation, and opened his mouth to report the data, "Dongguan Bookstore is a vertical system, so we only contact their head office directly. The first batch of shipments was 180,000 copies... If you don't tell me, I forgot , let me see... that's right, sure enough, Dongguan Bookstore didn't ask for replenishment!"

Zou Wenhuai shrugged, "So..."

Xu Bing couldn't help sighing after thinking about it.

It's a pity that the size of Dongguan Bookstore itself limits the possibility of Minghu Culture breaking the record further!

In recent years, especially in the past few years, the box office of domestic movies has been rising all the way, and the record market has also been soaring all the way. It is said that the book industry is also doing well, so many people think it is profitable. After a few years, domestic movie theaters It is more and more built, and small investment stores such as bookstores and audio-visual stores are blooming everywhere.

In contrast, although Dongguan Bookstore has been continuously opening new stores, their development speed is far behind the driving energy of so much capital from the private sector. Come and go, after a few years, the market significance represented by the sales of Dongguan Bookstore has become smaller and smaller.

In 1994 and 1995, including until 1996, the sales volume of Dongguan Bookstore was multiplied by 20 times, which was still a formula used by most record companies to estimate the actual sales volume. According to the evaluation data on the side, the sales volume of Dongguan Bookstore can account for about 4% of the total sales volume of the country in the same period, which is already considered good. Spectrum.

However, it is really difficult to complete real-time statistics on the sales of those audio-visual stores and bookstores that are blooming everywhere among the people. The record companies themselves can only rely on their own shipments and the shipments of publishers around the world to roughly estimate. The data statistics from the Recording Industry Association are so slow that they can only be used for annual summaries.

So, in the final analysis, the current domestic record market has a reference sales ranking, still depends on Dongguan Bookstore - this is the most direct and intuitive sales performance. The Voice of China, or the on-demand list of other authoritative radio stations, is regarded as a forecast of the next sales trend.

In short, the two lists complement each other.

After a pause, Zou Wenhuai suddenly turned his head and asked Xu Bing, "By the way, have you placed a new order?"

Xu Bing replied in response: "It has already been placed. In the afternoon, we received calls from various places to urge the goods. Once we counted, we found that we must hurry up to place the order. Although the first batch is 10 million pieces, if the sales go crazy What about the two factories, one paid 3.5 million and the other 2.5 million. They are old-timers and the biggest customers. If they dare not delay things, they promise me that the first batch One million, there will be no problem within five days, and all orders will be completed within ten days!"

After a pause, he continued: "It's easy to talk about other places. It will be listed in Southeast Asia next week. I have to go and watch it. Mr. Qi said that she will also go there. You got it!"

Zou Wenhuai frowned upon hearing the words, but still nodded, "Don't worry, I'm here!"

Recently, Minghu Culture is recruiting aggressively. Liu Mei was ordered to set up a performance department, which needs to recruit many new musicians, performers and backup dancers. The talent pool of the Ministry of Culture and Music was half-emptied, and there was another one. In short, even though there were already so many people, there was still a shortage of people.

Here, Xie Mingyuan is there. He is an old Jianghu, and he has been the boss of Sony Records for many years. Old, don't need him to worry.

But the problem is, people are recruited, such things as salary and so on must not be discussed in the same way that the human resources department recruits ordinary employees. This job is the artist director Zou Wenhuai who has to personally watch over it. For individual high-end ones, Zou Wenhuai had to come forward to discuss them in person.

In addition, the buyout contract that "Ruoxuan is Coming" renewed with Huaxia TV Station last time is about to expire, how to negotiate, how long to renew, and what price, this matter is also Zou Wenhuai's, and he must discuss it .

Li Qian's first movie is under active preparation. This time Li Qian is of course doing everything by himself. Han Shunzhang and Huang Wenjuan are not there, so he doesn't need to intervene too much. The selection list or something, but as the artist director of Minghu Culture, seeing that Li Qian has found a group of new actors for the film, how can he sit back and watch these people run away after filming? It must be signed before the film is made. Once the film becomes popular, these are all resources!

It’s okay for others to say, like Zhou Zhiyu from the drama club, he signed the contract as soon as he greeted him here, and he didn’t even take a look at the content of the contract. Hug him and kiss him twice. But Lu Lingxi and He Yingyu are more troublesome!

Lu Lingxi was hesitant, looking at the contract was like looking at the deed of prostitution, He Yingyu went too far, that girl didn't even want to sign it! What did you say that I was just in my freshman year and still had to study, I was afraid of this and that of the company!

Please, when the movie comes out, if you are not popular, what can happen! If you become popular, if you don't sign a brokerage contract and you have to take care of everything yourself, wouldn't things be more complicated?

In the end, Zou Wenhuai talked all kinds of things, and reluctantly cited her senior brother Zhu Qiang as an example, and then persuaded the girl to sign the contract—the price was that he personally took her to scan the warehouse of Minghu Culture, and wiped out the past Minghu Culture. She asked her to pack three copies of all the records produced, and packed away a big cardboard box!

In short, that girl is cunning and cunning!

That's not all, he has a lot of notebooks in his hand, most of them are for Bai Yujing, a small half are for Zhu Qiang, and there is even a copy from the United States inviting Liao Liao to appear on the scene—— Fortunately, Zhu Qiang said that the young man was very low-key and down-to-earth, he had a play to act in, the script was good, and the treatment was decent, so he just said nothing, just pick it up! Bai Yujing is particularly difficult to serve, if she doesn't pick up this, that's not good, she's just an aunt!

Come on, your salary for one episode is 150,000, grandma, among the current TV stars in China, men and women are the only ones in the pack, and you are the only one! Even if they don't want to take on TV dramas, there are still people who pay one million for a movie! What else do you want?

But, no answer!

Some time ago, I finally fell in love with a script and said that I could try it if it felt good. Zou Wenhuai was so excited that he almost cried! Pi Dian Pi Dian went to discuss the salary with the producer, but the budget of the crew was not much, they were relatively poor, and they could only get 55,000 for one episode. No matter how much Zou Wenhuai tried to blackmail him, he couldn't squeeze out more money. up!

However, 50,000 episodes, compared with 150,001 episodes, this is too far behind, not even half, one-third! Isn't this self-deprecation? No matter how sincere the other party is, no matter how good the play is, if the play is accepted, it’s okay to say that if it becomes popular, it’s called an artist, and it’s not for the money. But if you hit the street, your worth will not go up in a short period of time!

The lawsuit finally went to Li Qian, but Li Qian still doted on her. After reading the script, he just said: Accept!

Then take it!

Then, singers, managers, etc. kept in touch and contacted frequently, expressing their hope that they could switch jobs and come to Minghu Culture once the original contract was over. Helping to find some good songwriters who have not yet emerged, this is a trivial matter... Seeing that "Super Girl" is going from 80 to 20 in full swing, as the artist director, he must consider preparing for the upcoming future. The first batch of draft girls have prepared at least five to eight singer contracts...

In short, there are thousands of threads, non-stop.

He was a little worried that the girl he fostered last year would cuckold him!

Although we have made an appointment for three years, and once the time passes, the money and the goods will be cleared. It has nothing to do with me who she likes to sleep with, but he. Damn, now that he is still spending money, he can't do such a shameful thing. !

However, Zhou Mo's album was a big hit, and finally it was a big hit, no matter how busy he was, even if everything was overwhelming, he couldn't say a word of excuse.

For so many years, I have worked so hard to get entangled with that aunt until now, isn't it for today?

Paralyzed, who would dare to say that I have poor eyesight? Who dares to say that Zhou Mo can't come out? Who would dare to say that he has worked so hard to praise Zhou Mo for ten years, but in the end he only got a silly girl who loves to sing and flashes when she doesn't?

This silly girl is not afraid of taking a three-year break or five-year break, as long as she is willing to sing, she will sing, and one album will be enough to sell even those broken albums that you have worked hard for three to five years!

In the past, the sales were not good, firstly because of the small crowd, the market has not been cultivated, and secondly because she has not met the right person! Now that I have encountered it, I will kill you guys!

Excited!

Although I have been busy for several hours now, I haven't even eaten dinner yet. On the one hand, I am so hungry that my chest sticks to my back. Cargo boxers to move records into the car, thinking that these records will be set off in a few hours, all the way across mountains and rivers, then turned into car boxes, and then maybe motorcycle scooters, and finally, they were sent to a family. In another video store, it was sold out before it even had time to put on the shelves...

Zou Wenhuai put his hands on his hips subconsciously, and a smile appeared on his face before he knew it. Looking at the meaning, he might laugh out loud at any time.

He is fat and has a big belly, and now he has his hands on his hips, not to mention, he is quite imposing. It's just that once he matched with the smile on his face, he lost all momentum immediately.

"Mr. Zou, Mr. Zou..." Xu Bing touched him.

"Ah?" Zou Wenhuai came back to his senses, "It's okay, I'll be watching at home, don't worry!"

Xu Bing curled his lips helplessly when he heard this: This was a topic a few minutes ago, okay?

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Xu Bing didn't know why Zou Wenhuai, who had always been known for his laziness, suddenly became so energetic. He had to watch the truck loading in the middle of the night himself. Tired and hungry, in the end, he still took the first step and made an appointment to come over to change shifts at two o'clock, leaving Zou Wenhuai and some Minghu Culture staff here to continue to direct the loading and delivery.

But he made two points, and he came before 1:30. This time, Zou Wenhuai was useless. He looked back reluctantly at the boxes of records on the platform, turned his head and left.

In the middle of the night, there were few people and few cars on the road, and Zou Wenhuai was subconsciously distracted while driving, and unconsciously drove the car to Yangquan Alley.

When the car turned into the alley, he could see the Great Wall off-road vehicle at the door from a distance, and then he suddenly woke up, slammed on the brakes, and froze in the car.

It took several minutes before he released the brake, let the car start slowly, and drove slowly towards the familiar gate.

It's two o'clock in the middle of the night, and everything around is completely silent.

The dogs of the three families in the depths of the alley heard the movement outside and kept barking.

If in the past, Zou Wenhuai especially hated those three dogs, Li Qian once wanted to get Zhou Mo a dog to keep, and he was the most resolute one who opposed it! Finally let him destroy it!

This is getting old, not as muddy as when I was a child, and when I was a teenager, how can I make them scream for so many years? I stole, killed, and ate meat for you a long time ago!

But at this moment, the dog is barking in the deep alley, and the moon is shining brightly, Zou Wenhuai's heart is unexpectedly the first time that he doesn't have the slightest disgust and greed for the barking of the dog.

"At this point, those two guys must have fallen asleep a long time ago. It's time! I told you to do it! Make so many things! Are you uncomfortable now? This one is pregnant here, you must be there more! But companionship is companionship, you can't do things with your arms around, there are plenty of ready-made ones over there, and you might toss and turn and can't fall asleep thinking about you! But you can't hug...you just rely on it for a while! You should!"

The car stopped slowly at the door.

He got out of the car, looked up at the two vermilion doors that he had entered and exited countless times over the years, and was so familiar that he couldn't be more familiar, even more familiar than at home, and sighed slowly.

Then, slowly, but silently, he laughed.

But with a smile, he raised his hand and wiped his face.

The moonlight was like silver, shining on his face.

The light reflected in the corner of the eye was tears.

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