Entertainment: The Path to Best Actor for Talented Actors

"If our film crew comes to the village to shoot, and more people know about it, then your village could potentially become a tourist attraction."

"When the time comes, your village can take advantage of this event to develop tourism, which will bring a lot of income to the village."

"Now that the villagers have money, are they afraid they won't be able to find wives or husbands?"

Upon hearing Zhang Ze's words, Village Chief Cai felt as if he had suddenly understood something.

He used to just want to cover up this bad thing, after all, family scandals shouldn't be aired in public.

I've never really thought about developing tourism!

"Your village could also collaborate with the government to establish an anti-drug awareness center, so that tourists can receive anti-drug education while visiting and taking photos!"

"That's killing three birds with one stone!"

Village Chief Cai's eyes lit up, and his expression became warmer.

"I'll discuss this matter with the heads of the various households in the village again, but when you're conducting your investigation in the village later, please don't mention the name Cai Dongjia. These villagers are very superstitious about it!" The village chief's attitude softened considerably.

After leaving the village chief's house, Lao Yang said, "Don't take Lao Cai seriously. He was just a low-level employee at the health station before. The leaders only asked him to take over after the incident."

"Hehe, how could that be? He's just thinking of the village!" Zhang Ze replied with a smile.

A team spent more than ten days traveling in Guangdong. With the help of Yang Yayun and Han Yanyinan, Zhang Ze learned many true stories.

Today is the last day, and he invited the two of them to dinner.

He expressed his gratitude, saying, "These past few days have been so much thanks to both of you."

"It's all the duty. We are very touched that you would make a TV series about us anti-drug police officers."

"We'd be very gratified if the people knew how hard we've worked!"

Yang Yayun raised his glass with a touch of emotion, "You have no idea, who cared about us narcotics police before! Criminal investigators, economic crime investigators, and special police all lived more comfortably than us!"

"Old Yang, you've had too much to drink. Eat more vegetables!" Han Yan Yinan interrupted him.

Han Yan Yinan laughed and said, "Hehe, Zhang Ze, let's keep in touch! Give me a call when you're in Xishuangbanna, and I'll give you a proper welcome!"

"No problem, Xishuangbanna is a great place, I've been wanting to go there for a long time!"

"But you're in Guangzhou, how are you going to receive me?" he joked.

"I'm being transferred to Yunnan next month!" The other person smiled happily.

"Ah! That's a real shame. Does that mean we won't be able to see the beautiful Yi Nan when we come to film here again in a while?"

"But it's really great to be transferred back to your hometown, congratulations!" Zhang Ze clinked glasses with the other person.

Han Yan Yinan was in a good mood, clinked glasses with the others, and said with a smile

"It's not exactly my hometown; Kunming is quite far from Xishuangbanna, but it only takes me a few hours to drive home, so it's acceptable!"

Upon returning from Guangzhou, Zhang Ze immediately began intensive preparations.

"Producer Wang, tell the props team that we need to build a real set in Boshe Village, and tell them to hurry up."

"Director, are you talking about that unfinished building owned by the village chief of Boshe Village?"

"Yes, it's that villa that's still under construction. Have the props team make a 1:1 replica and build one next to it. That will be Uncle Dong's house!"

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"

With Zhang Ze's arrangements, things proceeded in a tense but orderly manner.

He pushed open a door, which led to screenwriter Chen Yuxin's room.

"Old Chen, how's the script adaptation going?"

Chen Yuxin took off his glasses with a hint of helplessness and wiped them. "Aze is here. The script is finished, but iQiyi wants to make it more appealing to online audiences and also wants to expand the number of episodes to 48."

"Is it that woman Dai Ying's doing again? Don't worry about her, just do what we agreed on!"

"I'll handle this!" Zhang Ze said, somewhat angrily.

He could tolerate the investors putting a small role in the script, but he absolutely could not accept them changing the script.

"Hey, Mr. Dai! I heard you assigned two screenwriters to assist Old Chen?"

"That's right, Director Zhang. Both screenwriters are quite talented and can be of great help to Lao Chen!" Dai Ying said with a laugh on the phone.

"Oh, what works have those two talented screenwriters you mentioned done? Tell me about them, I'd love to see their masterpieces!"

Zhang Ze's words left Dai Ying speechless.

The two screenwriters she hired were just the platform's own web series screenwriters; they didn't have any representative works!

However, she could already tell that Zhang Ze's tone was a bit unpleasant, and she knew that he was there to cause her trouble. He must have found out about the script revisions.

However, now that she knew, she didn't keep it a secret anymore and immediately confronted Zhang Ze.

Viewers on video websites prefer fast-paced content, the plot needs to be relevant to online audiences, and 30 episodes is too short; they hope the plot can be lengthened.

"How about you, Mr. Dai, have someone take over the production of this drama? I'll withdraw from it, and with your platform being so large and powerful, investing another seventy or eighty million is just a matter of a word!"

Upon hearing this, Dai Ying's face turned pale. She realized that Zhang Ze was truly angry and was actually trying to back out.

"Oh dear, little brother Ze, what are you doing! This drama needs your help, are you angry with your sister? I'll apologize, okay?!"

"I'm doing this for the good of the show. You don't watch many web dramas, so it's normal that you're not very sensitive to online trends!" She rattled off a whole bunch of things.

"I don't understand what 'internet savvy' means, but I know how to make a good TV series! If you want this series to be a masterpiece, then abandon the idea of ​​rewriting the script."

"Don't forget you only hold 40% of the share. If we disagree and things really come to a head, we can just part ways!"

Zhang Ze's words almost choked Dai Ying to death.

She never expected Zhang Ze to speak so bluntly this time.

Where has the virtue of speaking tactfully, passed down from our Chinese ancestors, gone?

She smiled awkwardly, and after several minutes of trying to get through to Zhang Ze, she finally hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, an angry expression appeared on her pretty face.

Since she became vice president, no one has dared to speak to her like that!

He immediately had the idea of ​​making things difficult for Zhang Ze and tripping him up.

But reason prevailed and she gave up!

This script is indeed quite excellent; police and gangster dramas are a major category on iQiyi.

If we lose this major category, we will definitely be at a disadvantage in competing with Tencent and Youku.

She's the vice president in charge, and making things difficult for "The Thunder" is making things difficult for her own performance!

But being proud and aloof, she wasn't willing to just swallow her anger, so she immediately called her assistant over.

"What are your instructions, Mr. Dai?"

"Should we tell the staff below that we, the platform, are no longer required to know about any TV dramas starring Zhang Ze?"

"Okay, Mr. Dai, but if we reject all the works starring Zhang Ze, it would be equivalent to abandoning the entire military-themed genre. Are you sure you want to do that?"

"Strategies that impact company operations like this require board authorization!"

"Okay, I understand. Let's talk about this later!"

Dai Ying's chest heaved with anger as she suppressed her rage and sent her assistant away.

"Ah...!" She sat in the chair, gesturing wildly to vent her dissatisfaction.

She, a vice president of one of the three giants iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video, couldn't do anything about a celebrity. It's infuriating!

Zhang Ze, however, was completely oblivious to the situation and was discussing weapons with the crew.

If he knew that Dai Ying was trying to make things difficult for him...

They'd definitely scoff and say, "You're just a vice president? You're still too green!"

Li Hongyan would be more like it.

But Brother Li wouldn't make things difficult for him over this!

"Oh, by the way, Old Li is going abroad next month, and he asked me to hire a few bodyguards for him, but I haven't arranged any yet!"