"Why are you back so soon? Are you so anxious to come back to watch Zhixiu's recording?"
Sulli opened her mouth in surprise when she saw Chen Chen, who had just gone out not long ago, immediately came up in the elevator.
"There is nothing to talk about with President Li. He is so smart. He can understand everything with just one tap." Chen Chen took out the drink from the bag in his hand, "You wanted to drink it a few days ago I brought you something, take it.”
“Oh, it’s the drinks from Shamao Company.” Shirley happily extended her hand. He took it and acted arrogantly, "Actually, I don't really want to drink it, but since you bought it, I'll try it."
"Okay, take it back and drink it." Chen Chen smiled fondly, "By the way, help me modify a file and change Red Velvet in the contract to EXO."
"Ah?" Shirley was surprised at first, but it only took a second to understand everything, "Oh."
"Go." Chen Chen turned around and walked to another room, "I'll go Let’s talk to Zhixiu.”
Knocking on the door to give Zhixiu some time to react, Chen Chen also tidied up his hair, which was slightly sweaty.
"Please come in." Zhixiu's voice came out, and at the same time she stretched her head to see who was coming in advance, "Ah, it's Oppa, has Oppa finished his work recently?"
"It's almost done. It's much easier than I thought." Chen Chen sat down next to her and then fully unfolded the bag. "I bought some food. Do you want to replenish your strength before starting recording?"< br>
"I won't eat unless I'm very hungry, and I'll have to eat on the show soon." Zhixiu sat obediently in her seat, raised her head and asked Chen Chen carefully, "Is Oppa looking for something to do with me?"
"I'd like to share some good news with you." Chen Chen cleared his throat and adopted a very formal tone, "After research and discussion by C Headquarters, your "I prepared a book today" "A la carte" program has been officially recognized as a mature YouTube program. In the future, the restrictions on the host will be greatly reduced. You can do whatever you want in the program. "
"... "
"Why didn't you respond?"
Chen Chen became confused when he saw Jin Zhixiu instead.
"Is this a good thing, Oppa?" Jin Jixiu asked confused.
“Isn’t it a good thing that I have a bigger say in the show?” Chen Chen scratched his head, “Are you someone who likes to wait for others to arrange things before doing it?”
< br>"Idols are like this, they only do things arranged by others." Jin Jixiu shrank her neck, "There is nothing good about having more say. The responsibilities are also greater, and you have to use more brains."
"It is true that the responsibility has increased, but the outside audience will originally attribute all the responsibility for the quality of the program to you, and this does not affect this." Chen Chen briefly analyzed it for her, " There is no need to use your brain to get more ideas. The production team will prepare things for you and you can operate them. You just have the right to refuse things you don’t want to do. If you have other things you want to do, you have the right to discuss them with the team. "< br>
“Oh, that’s pretty good.” Zhixiu suddenly became happy, “I have a lot of things I want to try.”
"For example?" Chen Chen asked curiously.
“Create your own dishes as you wish!” Kim Ji-soo’s eyes shone, “Just use your imagination to combine various ingredients, and finally turn them into something beautiful. This process must be great.”
< br>"The process is great, but the result may not be great. If you mix the ingredients randomly, you may get food poisoning, so you must have a dedicated person to take care of you when doing this." Chen Chen curled his lips, "This person Come and ask you to pay the salary, I won't do it."
"What if there is no such person?" Jin Zhixiu thought.
"Without that kind of person, the production team will never allow you to cook with ingredients at will." Chen Chen said seriously: "Once anyone follows your example and gets food poisoning, The program will be directly destroyed, the C department will be indirectly harmed, and the development of your artist career will also be severely affected, and it may be the end of it.”
"Hey~ It's so dangerous." Zhixiu patted her chest nervously, "I originally thought it was something I could just play with."
"Food is the most important thing for people, no matter how cautious you are about food. That's not an exaggeration." Chen Chen rolled his eyes and thought of other things, "But if you really make a good combination, C Department can work with you to promote this combination and eventually make it your food brand. Let’s make some money together.”
“Isn’t it the food I made?” Jin Zhixiu was stunned. “How come we can make some money together?”
“I will provide it for you. Platform, I will help you protect it, we will bear the risk together. Why can't I get a share of the pie?" Chen Chen widened his eyes, "You Jin Zhixiu, you can share the hardships but not the wealth, right?" br>
“Oh, it’s the same as sharing money with the company, right?” Zhixiu said, “But if we really succeed, my company will also come to share the money, right?”
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"Theoretically, this is true, but in fact, Waiji may have stopped us since we had this idea." Chen Chen spread his hands, "What you are currently consuming by starting your own business must be something Waiji has put in a lot of effort to build." BLACKPINK’s brand image, they definitely don’t want to.”
“So I can only play it as a game?” Jisoo was a little unwilling.
"At least that's the case for now." Chen Chen rubbed her head helplessly, "Just try hard. If you work hard enough, things may change in the future."
Under Chen Chen's understanding , this was the reason why Jessica had so much trouble with the fool back then.
One wants to develop his own brand, but one feels that he has spent too much on creating the name Girls' Generation, and cannot be used directly by you personally.
Of course, Foolish Company's perverted desire for control must have played an important role in this, and it would not be such a disgraceful result if it was willing to take even half a step back.
After all, I have been working hard for you for so many years. It shouldn’t be a problem to take a step back. Even if I can’t take a step back, I should at least do it decently.
But this is all Chen Chen's guess. No one knows what the facts are, and he doesn't intend to let Zhixiu test how Waiji will respond to such a thing.
"Oh, by the way, Oppa." Zhixiu suddenly thought of something else, "I have selected the advertisements I want. You can take a look when you have time."
"Sure, wait. I'm done for now." Chen Chen nodded and said, "Actually, you can just discuss this with the production team, it's not a big deal."
"The production team strongly urged you to check it out, saying it seems to be very relevant." Jisoo replied.
"Really?" Chen Chen didn't take it to heart at all, "I'll look back."
"It can't be like this." Zhixiu saw Chen Chen's indifference, so she held Chen Chen's hand Chen Chen's palm asked: "Don't look at it casually, look at it very seriously!"
"..."
Chen Chen was a little surprised that this little girl would do this. action, but he still shook it back.
"Okay, I will look at it very carefully."...
Returning to the president's office, Shirley looked up at Chen Chen and pointed to something on the table. .
“Have you finished chatting? I’ve also made the changes here. Do you want to send a copy to the idiot company?”
“Send it over. The sooner you finalize this, the sooner I’ll feel at ease. "Chen Chen sat in his seat and sighed, "After finishing the stupid company, there is still a crooked chicken to do. After the crooked chicken is over, I still have to run a round of second-tier companies. Why did I suddenly become a salesperson? "
"Because you were already doing business, weren't you a salesperson or something?" Shirley stood up and got him a drink, "But this time it's quite easy. At least you are in good spirits."
" As long as it's a profitable business, both covertly and overtly, talking to you, Mr. Li Xiuman, will go very smoothly." Chen Chen unscrewed the cap of the bottle and took a sip, exclaiming happily, "It's a big company after all, so it's a step forward. In the next step, it will take time to change the positions of more people who can speak in the company. "
Large companies are involved in many aspects with the publishers they have cooperated with for a long time, and it is impossible to give up because of Chen Chen. If you want to find a more profitable channel, you will immediately cut off all relations with the original publisher and switch to the C headquarters. That will cause big problems for the company.
And because the other party is a big company, Chen Chen can't force them to submit like he forced Hong Shengcheng.
So what Chen Chen wanted from Silly Hat Company was the production and distribution of Red Velvet-related products, and what Chen Chen wanted from Waiji was the production and distribution of BLACKPINK-related products, and they used a pilot implementation method to prove the reality to them.
As long as they find that they can make a lot more money using the C headquarters channel than the original channel, they will naturally transfer the products of other artists to Chen Chen, otherwise the shareholders will not agree.
You can’t force it, but you can take the initiative. It can be regarded as a story of "the sun and the north wind".
“The stupid company didn’t give Red Velvet to EXO, will the crooked chicken adopt the same approach and give you Bigbang instead of BLACKPINK?” Shirley came behind Chen Chen and pressed his shoulders, and asked curiously: "Will you accept this result?"
"What's not to accept?" Chen Chen leaned his head back until he felt the soft elasticity. "They used these two balls to test me. I Use these two groups as materials to prove your ability to them. Those two groups are essentially just guinea pigs.”
“And the foundation of these two boy groups in the Chinese market is very scary. The company also wants to know more about it. There is still a few taels of power left," Chen Chen added.
Again, in terms of South Korean groups that have truly benefited from the Chinese market, who can compare to these two boy bands? If this experiment with them achieves good results, the minds of these two entertainment companies that have benefited from the Chinese market will become more active again.
“Why are you so confident?” Shirley felt that Chen Chen was a little abnormal.
“No one knows the Chinese market better than me, and no one knows better than me how crazy my channel will be if I really want to launch a serious attack.” Chen Chen put forward a quite bold idea, “If If such a large company made false data in faraway China, would the entertainment company in South Korea find out? "
"It certainly won't be discovered, but it doesn't seem to be necessary." Shirley's hand gradually became stronger. Slowing down, obviously all the energy is spent on thinking, "The data you made are fake, but the money you give here is based on the data. The more fake it is, the more the entertainment company will make, and the more you will lose." "
"The more the entertainment company makes, the more resources it will invest in making more money, and then it will become more and more tightly tied to us." Chen Chen smiled slightly, "Wait half a body. Do they still have a chance to escape when they are all tilted? ”
"At that time, all the losses I've made before will be earned back, and I'll have a few more entertainment companies that I can handle, and I can use them to do more things in the future."
"Maybe it's better than spending it directly. It will be easier to acquire money.”
“Doing business with big companies is like seeking skin from a tiger.” Chen Chen sighed deeply, “I’m glad that it’s not me who will be brought to the table this time.”
“…”
“Are you harming others?”
Shirley was silent for two seconds and then suddenly asked.
"I'm not harming anyone, I'm just objectively stating the possible disadvantages." Chen Chen said to himself, "Where in the world can you only get benefits without paying the price? It's possible."
"Anyway, if they are willing to give a group a try, they want to take a bite of the cake, and their willingness to come closer is greater than their willingness to stay still."
" As for whether they come closer reluctantly or happily, it all depends on their own decision."
"..."
"Wait a minute. You don't think I deliberately want to trick them to death, do you?!" Chen Chen seemed to have noticed something was wrong. He stared with exaggerated grievance, "I just talked about the price and didn't have time to talk about the benefits. The benefits are... It’s much greater than the price!
“They must have figured out what I said, and whatever happens next is all of their own free will! And even if you are really manipulated, it is just a change from being manipulated by the other side to being manipulated by us. In fact, it is a better choice! Chen Chen raised his head and pretended to be in disbelief, "You actually miss me that much?" Your sweetheart is not such a bad guy! "
"Oh, I got it wrong! "Shirley's face turned red all of a sudden, "I don't quite understand how these things are operated, I just don't want to see my own country's companies being cheated by overseas companies. "
"Come and kiss me. " Shirley quickly smacked Chen Chen on the forehead, "Kiss it and it's over. Don't mention it again in the future! "
"Haha. ”
Chen Chen smiled and said nothing more.
It is normal to worry about the companies in your own country. It would be bad if Shirley ignored South Korea and went completely to Chen Chen's side.
“Speaking of which, have you read the various reports the company has received recently?” Shirley changed the subject, “Now that you are active again, let’s deal with the things you accumulated before.”
"You are serious too," Shirley complained somewhat, "Just hide and hide, the company's affairs can still be handled, right? Even if you don't care about that, you really have it!"
" Because I don’t think anything more important than what I’m doing now will come up, I just want to experience the feeling of disappearing completely.” Chen Chen cleared his throat and held up the President’s sheet music, “Assistant Cui, Give me the files you haven’t processed in the past few days.”
Shirley rolled her eyes at him, avoided his outstretched hand and directly covered the document on his head.
Blowing hard and letting the document slide down his nose and mouth into his arms, Chen Chen read it at a glance.
However, I regretted it after taking the first look at Chen Chen.
"I'm so stupid, really, why didn't I come back earlier to look at the documents?!"
......(End of this chapter)