Unboxing, Director!

Chapter 105 Earn the money while standing
After the groundbreaking ceremony of the Hope Primary School, during the first month of the lunar year, Lu Jiang mainly benefited from the popularity of "Gong Xi Fa Cai".

After the magazine debuted this song at the Spring Festival Gala, it became a hit the next day.

There's no way, it's too appropriate. Who doesn't want some good omens during the New Year?

Through the global spread of the Spring Festival Gala, it is said that all businesses in Hong Kong, Taiwan, overseas, and even in Chinatowns, supermarkets, shopping malls, streets and alleys everywhere will play songs, which makes customers happy and the bosses pleased.

This is no longer just a matter of songs, but is closely linked to metaphysics.
What followed was a surge in Lu Jiang's fame, and so did his performance fees.

Compared to before, "Fairy Tale" is recognized as the best wedding song.

The song "Gong Xi Fa Cai" is not only suitable for singing during the Chinese New Year, but also suitable for blessing the opening of a business, and is most suitable for opening a business during the Chinese New Year.

In order to bring good luck, many bosses spent a lot of money to invite Lu Jiang to perform at commercial events.

After "Beautiful Country", Lu Jiang's ordinary commercial performance, where he appeared for half an hour and sang two or three songs, has been quoted at over 100 million, which is on par with the appearance fees of the current Four Heavenly Kings.

After "Meteor Garden" became popular, Lu Jiang's commercial performance quotation started at 100 million, and the average price was about 150 million, which was the top in Asia.

It’s just that maintaining such a quotation is more to show the artist’s status. In the end, most of them will get a discount, including the Four Heavenly Kings.

But now, after "Gong Xi Fa Cai" came out, Li Chao, and even Lu Jiang himself, realized that their imagination was still limited by poverty.

Entering the 21st century, with the WTO about to be signed, the first wave of wealthy individuals had already become incredibly wealthy. Many bosses offered to pay Lu Jiang a deposit of 150 million yuan if he would sing "Gong Xi Fa Cai" during the Spring Festival. They would then pay him another 150 million yuan after the performance, provided he did not sing against them again.
Some even directly invested 500 million, on the condition that you stay for two days, and you cannot sing at other factories in the same industry as the sponsor during this Spring Festival.

This stunned Lu Jiang. He couldn't even earn that much from a single concert.

In the end, I can only sigh that the southern coastal cities are really rich and have strong traditional ideas. Then they make money like crazy.

Starting from the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Jiang began to run commercial performances non-stop, either on his own or with F4. He was busy until the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, and made a total of more than 1000 million yuan, 8% of which was from Lu Jiang's own performances, leaving him with the reputation of "King of Commercial Performances" in the mainland performance market.

After the 17th day of the first lunar month, the number of business opening orders decreased significantly, and Lu Jiang's own commercial performance quotes fell rapidly.

Lu Jiang took the opportunity to suspend the commercial performance of "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and continued his Asian tour as F4.

It is now the end of January. It seems that the Chinese New Year has passed and the popularity has been cut off by the Spring Festival Gala, but in fact, the popularity of F1 in the whole of East Asia is still high.

Especially the mainland version that was just aired, as well as South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong that were aired earlier.

Reaping while the heat is hot is a compulsory course for every artist. Lu Jiang is currently the best in the mainland in this compulsory course, but it is still a little lacking compared with entertainment industry-developed regions such as Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Lu Jiang didn't really want to achieve everything in one go, but since it was a journey, you must make sure you understand it clearly so that you can harvest more efficiently next time.

From the 2th day of the first lunar month to the 28th of February, F4 has been active in the mainland.

Take on regular projects such as advertising and concerts.

Starting from March 3st, F1 began to go abroad, but Fan Binbin did not go with them. She had many commercials to shoot and also took a role, which was said to be a play by a student of director Xie Jin. Taking the role was secondary, the main thing was to rekindle the relationship with Xie Jin, after all, he was her mentor.

Considering that Shancai is not the most important person in the tour, Lu Jiang will naturally let her go and manage her own network.

A new round of tour, the first stop is Hong Kong, the second stop is Bangkok for the third time, and the third stop is Seoul for the second time.
In this tour, F4 also added many special activities.

For example, the fan-pampering segment.

Fans are randomly selected locally.

You can sing, go shopping, etc. with F4.

It can be considered as in-depth operation and the effect is very good.

As the tour continues, his popularity is soaring, which is also making the Taiwanese fan club increasingly anxious.

"Meteor Garden" has already been aired in Taiwan, but the approval for Lao Lu and F4's tour on the island is still facing obstacles.

Warner's Zhou Jianhui communicated with Lu Jiang many times, but after all the discussions, they still agreed on the same plan: if Lu Jiang agreed to attend the Golden Melody Awards this year and promote the Golden Melody Awards as agreed before, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, then everything would be greenlit.

The Golden Melody Awards have been trying to persuade people in various ways, saying that there is a lot of pressure from the higher-ups, but everyone is contributing, and that being able to talk about this result now is already very good, blah blah blah.

Lu Jiang was very firm about this: "No!"

Last year he still felt that the Golden Melody Awards and a certain force were truly in opposition.

But now it seems that this is just the good cop and bad cop routine.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, Lu Jiang has no intention of arguing with these bastards.

Zhou Jianhui is naturally helpless and anxious about this. Although Taiwan has a small population base, it is still a very important market and a highland for pop music.

If this problem is not resolved properly, Lu Jiang will completely break with Taiwan.

Losing an important market is a small matter, but it will have a huge impact on Lujiang's future development.

But after thinking about it carefully, it is really hard to agree to this matter.

Lu Jiang’s previous album was “Beautiful Rivers and Mountains”, which has a sensitive theme.

Even if Lu Jiang goes, can this album win an award?

I guess even more disgusting tricks are waiting for Lu Jiang in the end.

So after thinking about it, Zhou Jianhui made up his mind.

If we can’t reach an agreement openly, let’s do it privately!

So in mid-February, the Taiwanese F2 fan club was organized in an orderly manner and began to petition. There were many responses, and the number of people exceeded 4 within a week. The authorities had already felt the pressure.

This move looks very dangerous.

But in reality, even if Zhou Jianhui didn't actively push for it, his fan club would still organize petitions to put pressure on him. There's no other way; Meteor Garden is just too popular.

In the past few months, various authoritative magazines such as the Asian edition of Time Magazine have been all about Meteor Garden.

Japanese media have announced that "Meteor Garden" will be introduced to Japan, and earlier said that this is an "Asian phenomenal idol drama."

In the arrogant South Korea, when F4 came, the goddesses were going crazy.

Not to mention Southeast Asia.

So this is the hottest trend in Asia right now. As a result, everywhere is enjoying the excitement, but you in Taiwan can’t see or touch it. How can Taiwanese fans sit still?
Taiwan China Television also played a big role in this.

At that time, the original plan for "Meteor Garden" was to cooperate with CTS and film in Taiwan.

After that incident, he had no choice but to end the project, and Lu Jiang turned to cooperate with Macau and Taiwan.

Then the TV series became a huge hit, and Macau TV jumped from being a small TV station to a well-known TV station in Asia. Seeing this, CTS cursed its superiors countless times.

Later, the drama became more and more popular, and CTS finally couldn't sit still. It ignored the pressure and introduced "Meteor Garden", which directly set a record in ratings and finally made a profit.

CTS also reached an agreement with Lu Jiang to participate in the investment of the next work and also take over the exclusive broadcasting rights on the island.

This is a great thing for CTS and Lu Jiang as well. After all, with CTS, there will be a channel for TV dramas to enter the island in the future, so that popular dramas will not be unable to enter the island, and a situation of suppressing Taiwanese idol dramas will not be formed.

In addition to investment and exclusive broadcasting, CTS also has participation in the planned Taiwan tour, which can be considered an in-depth cooperation.

As a result, we are now stuck on this problem again.

Of course, CTS would not sit idly by, so it began to broadcast various news about F4.

Wherever F4 goes, all the lively scenes, activities and fan-pampering behaviors are reported again and again by CTS and its affiliated print media.

In terms of pampering fans, there is also a "Follow-up Report" column.

Taiwanese fans were shocked to see that F4 would sing karaoke, go shopping, and swim with randomly selected fans, even for free. Some of them would even show up unexpectedly to send birthday wishes.
Looking at the surprised and happy expressions of these lucky people from mainland China, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Countless Taiwanese fans shouted "Why!"

Why can't it be me!
Why can’t F4 come to us!
Why.
So by early March, three weeks after the petition was launched, the number of people who signed up on the Taiwan network had reached over 3.

In reality, relevant organizations always have dozens to hundreds of fans gathering to petition, which gives the authorities a headache for a while.

Fan petitions alone won’t actually have much effect.

The key is that these fans have attracted many businesses.

We are not blind. Lu Jiang and his team are widely welcomed wherever they go. How can they not be tempted when they see which local stakeholders are making money?

So finally a big boss named Wu stood up and said that he welcomed Lu Jiang to Taiwan for a tour.

The fact that Boss Wu was able to speak in public, and he was referring to Lu Jiang instead of F4, shows that the relevant interest groups have already taken care of everything.

Sure enough, on March 3, Zhou Jianhui finally sent good news.

The trip to Taiwan is sorted out!

The plan is for 9 days, including three concerts, four autograph sessions, five variety shows, and n interviews and business collaborations.

If Lu Jiang agrees, he can make at least 30 million this time.

The key is to ignore the Golden Melody Awards.

Safety is also guaranteed.

"do you want to go?"

Zhou Jianhui asked.

"Go, you can earn money standing still, so why not go? Not only should you go, you should also sing 'The Prodigal Son' on the island!"

After Lu Jiang finished speaking, Zhou Jianhui laughed.

If it were a few days ago, he would definitely not agree to Lu Jiang playing like this, as the risk was too great.

But now it’s different. Unless everyone is willing to spit out the money that is already in their mouths, no one can touch Lu Jiang.

Of course, the scale must be well grasped. It can be yin and yang, but it cannot be too obvious. After all, we are on the island.

Just sing "The Prodigal Son" and that's enough. After all, the background story of this song is Lu Jiang's father. Any more would not be good.

After the matter was settled, both parties quickly began various negotiations.

As it involves the interests of many parties, the trip to Taiwan was carried out very smoothly.

By mid-March, the popularity of F3 on the island had reached the next level.

It is said that the three concerts will soon be sold out, and they are discussing whether to postpone them.

But Lu Jiang refused. If he really wanted to postpone it, he would do it next time. After all, his current market is not limited to Taiwan.

Activities in other countries also need to be considered, such as Singapore.

As the most popular singer in Singapore and a Mandarin pop king, Singapore has also reached many collaborations with Lu Jiang.

He will be participating in a talent show in Singapore at the end of March, and Andy will be serving as a judge.

It was agreed upon long ago. How big is Taiwan's face to make him breach the contract voluntarily?
(End of this chapter)