Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 452 Breaking out the stronghold
After watching the beginning, many netizens thought that this expert was like the sun rising from the west, and when he finally started to speak well of Chen Mo, he unexpectedly changed the subject and emerged from the east.

“This investment concept used to have a scientific name, which is Xiajibatou!

You can imagine that the Internet is currently the hottest industry, with so many startup unicorns hungry for food. Bi'an also comes from the Internet. As long as one has a normal mind, it is reasonable for him to invest this money in the Internet, right?

Hey (raising his voice) ~ He just doesn’t want to do that. When the animation field was completely dead, he invested 10 billion yuan.

The same is true for investment in the film and television industry. People are dismissive of big productions by big directors and don't even look at them. Instead, they focus on investing in some unknown and unpopular niche films.

And what category is it? Martial arts. Didn’t it die a long time ago?

Some media previously said that Chen Mo is a gambler. I don't think that is very accurate. It would be more appropriate to say that he is a stock investor. His investment method is that he cannot understand the index K-line chart and just randomly picks a few stocks to buy the bottom. It is a random bottom buying method.

Just bet that there is a hot stock among them. As long as you win the bet, you will make back all your money.

But whether it is a monster stock or a dark horse, it is not easy to make a comeback.

The reason why a miracle is called a miracle is that it goes beyond people's expectations and conventional understanding, because no one can predict a miracle.

If there are too many miracles, then there will be no miracles.”

Perhaps the majority of netizens have become desensitized to experts, and are no longer surprised by them. This kind of firepower is nothing at all, but netizens just went off topic while chatting.

"It seems that Chen Mo has a special liking for martial arts fighting. His mobile games are based on Jin Yong's works, his animations are mostly fighting-themed, and the movie he invested in this time is also a martial arts film from ancient times to the present."

"If we follow what the experts say, why doesn't Bi'an invest in men's football? Isn't this the most unlikely and most promising stock?"

"Please, let the Chinese national football team go. It's been so many years and it's time to replace them with new cannon fodder."

"Hey, what do you think? If Bi'an exchanged this money for lottery tickets, would he win the jackpot?"

"What's the IQ of the person above? You know, lottery is the only designated anti-crossing mechanism. It's not about the number, but the person."

"Well, let's talk about something happy. I want Yu Yu."

Yu Yu and Lu Yang were also there. In fact, he was excited at the beginning. After all, "The Blade of the Assassin" finally attracted a big sponsor to join.

But when the filming was about to start, he was told that the investors required the female lead to use their people.

Changing generals at the last minute is a big taboo, and the same applies to filming a movie. This means that a series of previous coordination and communication work needs to start from scratch. Moreover, those who bring money into the crew are either rich kids who want to debut or mistresses who are secretly supported by bigwigs. It is a luxury to talk about acting skills, and you should be thankful to be considered a vase.

What the hell, this is how domestic movies are ruined by these guys.
You have to know that inviting Liu Shishi was the best he could afford with his limited funds.

Now, although funding is no longer a problem with the support of the financial sponsor Bi'an, he has always been disgusted and denounced by people bringing money into the group.

But when Lu Yang soon heard that the person he got in return was Liu Yifei, well, it was not impossible.

I didn’t expect that this other shore is quite reliable, and it also changed the ceiling of the vase world.

Okay, after all, I'm just a small director and I can't beat the powerful.

For a film crew, according to common sense, the person with the most power is the director.

But in China, the director is at best the third in command. The producers and producers in front of him have more power than the director. These two bigwigs are helpful to the film in both the early market research and later theater channels, so they have great say because the investors are behind them, and whoever has money is the boss.

If he were a big director, there would still be room for negotiation with the investors, but Lu Yang is obviously not one of them.

After the director and assistant director, the rest are the star actors who earn 208 yuan a day. As for the screenwriter? Whether it is the right to speak or the status, it can be said that they are treated like temporary workers. Compared with the stars who earn tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan, they are treated worse than dogs, and the right to speak is the same.

So the number of movies getting worse and worse is partly due to the actors' acting skills, but more to do with the lack of attention paid to the screenwriter.

In fact, Lu Yang was a little dissatisfied. You said to change the person, so change the person. There is no need for an audition. Everyone knows Liu Yifei. Isn't this just taking off your pants to fart?

But does Liu Yifei have acting skills?
It doesn’t matter, as long as the sponsor is happy.

As long as Zhang Zhen, Wang Qianyuan, Li Dongxue, Jin Shijie and Zhou Yiwei are not replaced, anyone else can be replaced.

Fortunately, his novel "Embroidered Spring Blade" mainly talks about the government and the underworld, which are basically men's affairs.

The heroine's role is to complete the hero's character arc and growth. There are not many shots of her, and if it really doesn't work out, we can just deal with it during post-production editing.

One day in late June, the auditions began.

Lu Yang handled the matter impartially. He found a place and invited co-producer Chen Tong, assistant director, executive director, screenwriter and other core members of the crew to serve as judges for this special audition.

A few minutes later, Liu Yifei appeared at the door, with slender limbs and waist, graceful figure, and a pair of charming eyes that seemed to be hooked, captivating people's hearts.

She was wearing a fiery long skirt with a red tube top with gold embroidery underneath. Her sleeves were made of translucent red gauze, which could hardly hide her snow-white wrists. Her long skirt was slightly lifted as she walked, like a dazzling fire cloud rolling in from the horizon.

When this bright red robe suddenly came into everyone's sight, everyone present was in a trance, as if God had pressed the pause button on time.

At this moment, Liu Yifei stood in the center of the field, overshadowing everyone else, like a most beautiful woman descended to earth.

Hiss. The whole audience gasped.

Lu Yang felt as if the other party didn’t need any acting skills, this look was too domineering.

And Chen Tong originally had no feelings for this girl, as long as the boss liked her. But now it seems that even his heartstrings, which he thought were calm and unperturbed, were shaken, and it turned out that the boss's aesthetic taste was on point.

After a moment, Lu Yang was the first to come back to his senses. Although he had already made a decision in his mind, he still had to complete the necessary procedures.

"Ms. Liu, let's start now. Please perform according to the scene."

"Okay, director!"

"At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen ascended the throne. The eunuch Wei Zhongxian was in power and persecuted loyal officials. Your name is Zhou Miaotong. You were originally a descendant of a loyal official, but you were persecuted and now you are living in the Jiaofangsi, becoming a prostitute. Today, you go to receive a customer. You clearly don't want to, but you have to force yourself to smile. Please do as you like."

"Yes, then when you accidentally learned that one of your patrons was a Jinyiwei and that he was also among those who raided your home several years ago, you should have been terrified, but you still managed to remain calm.
"Very good, but in fact, you already have someone in your heart. That person is a famous talent in Beijing. In the middle of the night, you are missing him and he redeems you."

Before Lu Yang finished speaking, he saw Liu Yifei's pretty face revealing a mixture of admiration, love, and longing, as well as a bit of unwillingness in the face of cruel reality, a hint of resentment, and infinite expectations for the future.

Especially the look in her eyes when she looked at him. The strong emotions contained in them made Lu Yang feel like he was about to be turned into a soft silk.

This is the Zhou Miaotong I’m looking for!
No one at the scene, regardless of gender, could resist the charm of this look. There was no acting skill involved, it was all emotion, it was unstoppable, absolutely unstoppable.

Lu Yang looked at the crowd who were as shocked as he was by this scene, and cursed in his heart, who the hell said Liu Yifei's acting was bad? It was all prejudice.

The next moment Lu Yang stood up and led the applause.
"Great! The audition is over. All the crew members of Embroidered Spring Blade warmly welcome Miss Liu to join us!"

The audience applauded enthusiastically
A few minutes later, after changing her clothes, she patted her chest with her little hands and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, she was just taking advantage of the situation. For some reason, her mind was full of him.

In terms of theatrical performances, they can generally be divided into expressionism and experience, which is what Wang Jing once said in a variety show: the star way of acting and the actor way of acting.

There is no distinction between high and low among these performance methods.

Expressionism, or star acting, focuses more on external performance and formulaic acting, presenting characters through fixed performance patterns, and attracting attention and strengthening the audience's impression by acting handsome or cool.

Representatives of this type include Chow Yun-fat, the Shanghai gambling god in his early years, who strengthened his impression through a black windbreaker, slicked-back hair and chocolate, Chen Daoming, the professional emperor, and Lin Qingxia, all of whom acted in this way.

The experiential and actor-based acting methods focus more on the in-depth analysis of the role and the expression of inner emotions. The actor fully integrates himself into the role by deeply understanding the role.

For example, Tony Leung Ka Fai, whether he plays the introverted and evil-hating Zhou Huaian in "Dragon Inn", or the funny Duan Wangzi in "A Chinese Odyssey", or the shrewd Zhou Chaoxian in "Black Gold", the movie is full of the famous line "Who is in favor? Who is against!"
He has played countless classic images with ease. It was not until the end of the movie "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" that fans realized that the role of Zuo Shandiao was actually played by Tony Leung. This is a typical case of his face changing from one drama to another, which is why he is known as the actor with a thousand faces.

There are also representative actors in the mainland, such as Wang Baoqiang. The director of "Hello, Mr. Tree" asked him to act out a smoking action, but he acted it out in the textbook of Beijing Film Academy. He is known as one of the three textbook-level acting skills of Beijing Film Academy, along with Stephen Chow's wry smile and You Benchang's eating meat.
Liu Yifei is one of those people who started to experience acting late. She had previously attended a master class with Jing Tian, ​​and under the guidance of veteran actors such as Kara Hui, Chen Baoguo, and Ni Dahong, she followed this path.

It’s just that she can’t fit into the role in a short period of time and needs an anchor to rely on.

Before she came, someone called her to cheer her up and told her to take his place if things really didn't work out.

She knew that this audition might be seen as just a formality by the other party, but she wanted to prove herself and didn't want rumors to spread and disturb him.

Now it seems that she had put herself into the situation a little too much. Thinking back on how everyone looked just now, Liu Yifei stuck out her tongue playfully, and then laughed happily.

Although her mother had some complaints about her taking on this film, thinking it was a small production and would damage her hard-earned status, she didn't care.

Even if you make it to the top in the entertainment industry, you are not as good as the stone lions at the gates of wealthy families.

She knew very well that not everyone could receive guidance from a national first-class actor, let alone a reinforced platoon one.

Mr. Chen, who is handsome, wealthy and talented, is the one she deserves to devote herself to. Even if she has to fly into a flame like a moth, she is willing to burn herself out completely!
Thinking of this, she immediately took out her phone and sent a WeChat message to someone to share her joy at the moment, "Mo Mo~, sister has lived up to her mission, isn't that great~"

A few minutes later, there was a reply.
"Sister Mo, I'm your father!"

"Dad~~~~"

"Get lost. I'm in a meeting. Call me tonight!" On the other side, Chen Mo replied to the message with a slight smile on his face. He continued to listen to Wang Weijian's report on the taxi travel situation so far.

"At present, most of the cities north of the Yellow River have fallen into our hands, from Bingcheng in the east to Lanzhou in the west, Hohhot in the north, and Zhengzhou and Jinan in the south. There are a total of 34 first- and second-tier cities. Currently, taxi travel is still penetrating from first- and second-tier cities downwards."

The simulated power map of China on the screen was divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower. After two months of expansion, most of the nodes north of the Yellow River in China were occupied by blue flags. This was the territory for taxis.

The icon of Kuaidi Taxi is a small green flag. It starts from Hangzhou and moves southwards, then develops along Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanning, Guiyang and Kunming.

In the middle is the orange Didi Chuxing, which starts in Shanghai, passes through Nanjing, Hefei, Nanchang, and expands horizontally to Wuhan, Changsha, Guiyang, Chongqing, Chengdu, and all the way west.
Among them, there is a node occupied by a lonely purple flag, which is very eye-catching. That is Yidao Taxi. There is no way, it was driven out of Shenzhen again by Kuaidi Taxi and now lives in a remote corner in Fuzhou in the southeast.

After the "tacit understanding" of the three parties, the first phase of expansion and development has come to an end near the end of June.

Since it is a system simulation sandbox, under the operation of Wang Weijian, the three forces take Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou as their respective starting points and dynamically demonstrate their expansion changes over time.

Overall, Didi Chuxing, Didi Taxi and Kuaidi Taxi are distributed in a ratio of 4:3:3.

Chen Mo stared at the screen, "Are you having any problems now?"

"In fact, although we are ahead of our competitors in terms of development speed and number of towns, we are at a disadvantage in terms of geographical location and economic index. So in the second stage of the hand-to-hand battle, I think we can start with service and cost-effectiveness."

"continue.."

"In terms of service, drivers can be trained accordingly, with fixed polite language, help with luggage placement, no smoking, a bottle of free water in the car, playing music that passengers want to listen to, etc.
Cost-effectiveness is simple, it is a subsidy, giving discounts to both passengers and drivers
This is still too idealistic. It’s easy to deal with private car drivers, but taxis are not easy to control in terms of configuration or driver quality.”

"Well, let's record this. This is what we need to solve and conquer next. Anything else?"

"If you want to kill the enemy and seize their flag, you must drag them into a chaotic fight while they are still unstable."

"If the other party thinks and does the same, how do you plan to deal with it?"

"Then it's like what I said just now, let's compare whose service is better and whose price-performance ratio is higher. In this regard, our taxi has inherited your original concept of 'let the drivers make money first, let the users save money, and finally make money for ourselves'.

I am still confident about this, and the two reconnaissance teams we sent out before reported that the treatment and software and hardware provided by Didi and Taxi to drivers are different from ours, so we are not afraid of surprise attacks from the other side at all."

"Okay, let's pick two places to start the war, such as Nanjing and Hefei."

"Boss, these two are too close to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which is equivalent to the other party's moat. This is not appropriate." Wang Weijian raised an objection.

"Listen to me. These two places are feints. Our main forces will be placed in Chengdu and Chongqing. Remember our C-shaped flanking strategy."

"understand!"

“What about the expenditure of funds?”

"We raised 3 million yuan in Series B funding some time ago, and combined with previous funding, we have spent nearly million yuan on expansion so far."

"Well, don't be reluctant to spend money, just eat him up bite by bite! Do you have any questions?"

Wang Weijian shook his head. Chen Mo looked around at the other members present. "Where are the others?"

At this time, a member of Tianji Pavilion raised his hand and said, "I have a situation to report. It has nothing to do with the opponent. Instead, judging from the data, the emergence of online ride-hailing services has had a huge impact on the traditional taxi industry.

Originally, we were cooperating with local taxi companies, and it was fine to talk about profit sharing and cooperation, but recently the three of us have successively launched private car services in the past two years, which has taken away an extra piece of the pie that originally belonged to the taxi industry.

The world is bustling with people all for profit. If this gets out of hand, will there be a fire in the backyard?"

Another member who is good at interpreting policies added, “Currently, the attitude of the higher authorities regarding online ride-hailing is still vague and they are in a wait-and-see stage. Not only us, but all online ride-hailing companies are now in a situation where they can do anything that is not prohibited by law.

If the taxi companies have objections and encourage the drivers to make trouble, and the higher-ups take drastic measures, we have to be prepared!"

"That's a good point, Leng Zhu, please mark this point. Tianji, please come up with a plan for the above issues first, and then we can discuss it.

But let me make my point clear first. We have never had a hostile or competitive relationship with the traditional taxi industry. Instead, emerging things have helped traditional industries upgrade and transform in line with the trend of the times. It is integration and mutual benefit.

Therefore, the emergence of taxis is to help the other party move forward together, and to unite all the forces that can be united!

"Yes, we must speak with one voice! Got it?"

"Yes!"

"Okay, there are less than 5 days left in this month. Time is running out. I want to see new actions from Taxi before the end of the month. Don't forget the real meaning behind our name besides telling users to take a taxi!"

"Yes!"

"The meeting is dismissed!"

At the end of June, taxis began to appear in Hefei and Nanjing.

Cheng Wei, who was the first to learn the news, sneered and said, "Is it finally coming?"
He knew that this day would come, so Didi has heavily guarded these two gateways to the north of the Shanghai Stock Exchange since the beginning of its expansion.

After two months of development, Didi has become a completely different company after he invested a huge amount of money. Both its offline scale and online software have been greatly improved.

Online, Didi first cooperated with Baidu Maps to solve the problem of LBS positioning accuracy that Didi has been criticized for for a long time.

The payment is then connected to Tencent’s Tenpay, completing the entire process from order receipt to payment.

But what made Cheng Wei unhappy was that after Didi did this, Kuaidi also followed suit and introduced Baidu Maps and Alipay.

But now the two companies are in an "alliance" relationship, so he can't say anything.

Baidu has also invested a considerable amount of money in online promotion. It can be said that Baidu has earned at least tens of millions from Didi in terms of map licensing fees and promotion fees alone.

I can only say that Baidu, an arms dealer, really knows how to do business. But these are all trivial matters, and it’s not his money that is being spent anyway.

Now that this day has finally come, Didi is no longer the Didi of the past, and I am no longer the me of the past.

If you want to fight, then fight!
Cheng Wei calmed down, picked up his phone and used WeChat to hold an online meeting with Didi's city managers in Nanjing and Hefei to make strategic deployments.

".No, no, no, don't move yet, open your pocket first and put the other person in."

".Oh, that's right, I like what you said, let's close the door and beat the dog!"

After this meeting, Cheng Wei even summarized 18 dog-beating techniques for catching turtles in a jar!

"The fight finally broke out? Haha, great!" CEO Chen Weixing, who was always eager to watch the fun, wanted to clap his feet.

"It is the boss who has foresight and has laid out plans in the south in advance, staying away from trouble and occupying an absolute geographical advantage. This way we can attack or defend, unlike Didi, which is like the filling in a sandwich."

"So, now Cheng Wei should be grateful to me for not killing him. Otherwise, if we were to attack from the south, he would be in trouble if he were attacked from both sides."

"Yeah, boss, why don't we take action? Isn't this a good time?"

"Don't I want to? I just can't. Even if I tell you, you won't understand."

"So what should we do here?"

"What else can I do but watch the show? Do I need to teach you the story of the snipe and the clam fighting and the mantis catching the cicada?

But the most urgent thing now is to do our own work well. Give the order and take Fuzhou for me within one month. How can we allow others to sleep soundly in such a crouching tiger's nest? It's time for Yidao to be eliminated."

"Yes!"

Perhaps the media had been waiting for too long and misjudged the situation. When the taxi service in Hefei and Nanjing was launched, it had just begun operations.

According to media reports, the two companies have begun to become hostile to each other, fighting each other fiercely, and even seem to be ready for a decisive battle.

The direction of the situation a few days later was beyond the media's expectations.

The media originally thought that the situation would be a tit-for-tat and a tense confrontation, but it did not turn out as they had hoped.

These netizens who were called over by the "wolf" found that there was much noise but little rain, and Didi did not react at all. Both sides were still respectful to each other. Although it was not a wave of media, there was another round of cursing.

Fortunately, the scolding didn’t last long, and by early July, this prosperous era had come as the media had wished.

Taxi travel is gaining momentum again. A large number of taxi travel advertisements have begun to appear on the streets of Hefei and Nanjing. Taxis and private cars with taxi travel logos can be seen on the streets from time to time.

Didi also started to take action and launched a corresponding counterattack.

There are loud gongs and drums in the east, and firecrackers in the west, the war is about to start again!

The situation suddenly changed from a slight ripple to a huge wave without any transition.

The long-planned mass attack on the city of Chengdu and Chongqing.
(End of this chapter)