Chapter 766 Chicken Bowl
Zhou Zhi didn't take it seriously. It was still his old habit. He took out his notebook and recorded it carefully. At first glance, he looked like Director Wang's little secretary.
After Xiao Zhang finished introducing the latest developments of the past few days, he stood up and said: "Director Wang, the appointment with Mr. Cai is at two o'clock, we have to go there quickly."
"Let's go." Director Wang said: "Hong Kong people are very stuck with appointment times."
"Then this kid..." Xiao Zhang said: "Why don't you go to the Maidan downstairs? Want something to eat?”
"Hahaha..." Wang Limei was amused: "Xiao Zhang, we can meet Mr. Cai because of Xiao Zhou's face!"
Xiao Zhang was immediately dumbfounded. It's so important. If the situation is not under control, I will be criticized now.
However, he still didn't believe it until he sent Wang Limei to the TVB building and found that Cai Nan was waiting downstairs with two assistants instead of waiting in the office.
When everyone got off the bus, Cai Nan strode over and stretched out his hand: "Hahaha, little friend Zhou Zhi, we have never met each other before, and we finally get to see each other today!"
Zhou Zhi was startled, and quickly stretched out his hands and said to Mr. Cai: "Mr. Cai, I can't afford what you said. I don't want to scare the younger generation like this!"
"Hahahaha..." Cai Nan said with a smile: "I got a lot of ideas from you about that matter last year, so I should."
Xiao Zhang was really stupid next to him, why did he listen? What did Cai Lao mean by his words, or was he owing this child a favor? !
This is really funny to say. Last year Mr. Cai also had a sudden idea to enter the business world, and the product is so good that it is a series of small pickles, including salted fish sauce, preserved vegetables and soy sauce. Zhu sauce, olive scallop sauce, etc.
Who is most familiar with this matter? Naturally, he single-handedly handled the product design, production line introduction, advertising planning and marketing planning of Saturday Niang Food Co., Ltd.
Zhou Zhi only gave Mr. Cai two suggestions. They were very simple.
The first one is to build factories in the mainland and operate the main business in the mainland.
Second, develop umami products, such as oyster sauce, abalone juice, and chicken essence.
In fact, Mr. Cai is only the supervisor, and the specific work is done by the partners. When Mr. Cai passed on the two suggestions, they were recognized by the other party.
The sales of several products have taken off in the south. Now the umami products that Zhou Zhi proposed to develop have sold much more than the original sauces with rice, and they have made a lot of money.
So from this point of view, Mr. Cai really owed Zhou Zhi a favor.
But in Zhou Zhi's opinion, he owed Mr. Cai a greater favor.
Had it not been for Cai Laohui's unique vision and his agreement to publish the traditional Chinese version of "Sichuan Taste of Fun", this series of books would never have had such a great influence and huge profits.
It can be said that Zhou Zhi’s first pot of gold and most of his reputation are due to the release of the traditional Chinese version of "Sichuan Fun Talk".
Chinese people today actually still have an inferiority complex. They shout to catch up, but in fact they have already identified the gap in their hearts.
If Mr. Cai had not written the foreword for this book, vigorously promoted it in the traditional Chinese area and brought about a wave of sales, it would have gained such a great reputation and then spread to the country, and even helped Zhou Zhi get a national book. Award nomination... Otherwise, we would just rely on the price of a few hundred sets of the simplified Chinese version that is displayed in Xinhua Bookstore in China, and I am afraid that few people will care about it.
Compared with the benefits that this set of books has brought to Zhou Zhi, any video game arcade or karaoke parlor taxi top will have to stand aside.
Now the sales bonus period of this set of books has passed, but the abundant foreign exchange earnings have become the source of Zhou Zhi's participation in the European currency crisis. The performance of this set of books in the Traditional Chinese area also aroused Fu Xia's concern, and the release of the English version was also put on the agenda.
All of this was brought to Zhou Zhi by Mr. Cai.
With these foundations in mind, now that the two of them meet, they are as affectionate as a grandfather and grandson who have not seen each other for a long time.
"Mr. Cai, this is Ms. Wang Limei, the director of the Foreign Affairs Department of our Cultural Relics Bureau, and this is Zhang from Xinhua News Agency..." Zhou Zhi now became the introducer, and then he got stuck. He didn't know what Wang Limei was talking about. position and name.
Xiao Zhang now regrets that he was too dismissive of Zhou Zhi before and skipped the introduction link to talk about work directly. Now he can only introduce himself: "Hello, Mr. Cai, I am Zhang Bin, the resident reporter of Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong. ”
“Then We're just colleagues." Mr. Cai was quite kind: "Let's go in and talk later."
TVB is now at its peak, with several major dramas such as "Big Time" and "Giant". It is a famous work of this period.
But arriving at the TVB headquarters was very disappointing. It was neither grand nor grand. In Zhou Zhi’s opinion, it was even worse than the renovated Shudu TV.
TVB has a famous rooster bowl. It was originally an ordinary prop, but due to its high frequency of use, it appeared in hundreds of TV series over the next fifty years and eventually became a proper prop. An old dramatist.
So much so that Cai Nan was shocked by Zhou Zhi. So many Hong Kong and Taiwan stars had no interest in you at all, but they actually asked to go to the props warehouse to pay homage to an old porcelain bowl?
Mr. Cai knew about the two revolving bottles, and also knew about this kid’s ability to appraise porcelain. He wondered if this bowl was a big leak that was left on the TV station, right?
In fact, the correct name of the rooster bowl should be reversed, called "Chi Gong Wan". It is an ordinary white porcelain bowl, with a big rooster with a red body and a black tail painted on it at night, and some flowers and plants. embellishment.
"The rooster bowl is a very common tableware in Guangdong and Hong Kong." Cai Nan took the big bowl and introduced it to Zhou Zhi and the others: "As the saying goes, work at sunrise and rest at sunset, the rooster is the alarm clock at that time. When the rooster crows, it’s time for the family to get up and work, so this bowl is also called the ‘starting bowl’.”
"Starting a family has two meanings. One is that everyone has to get up and work." Cai Nan said: "It means 'qijia', which means getting rich through hard work."
"With this Two layers of good luck, this one In the old days, almost every household in Guangdong and Hong Kong had bowls, so almost every one of our period dramas had this bowl.” "But this is a crime I made a mistake.”
“The prototype of the chicken bowl is actually the colorful chicken bowl cup of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty. The two paintings actually have one feature, which is the combination of childish and cute images that are extremely skillful. Techniques create a unique style and beauty.”
“However, this is something that only appeared after the development of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty, while sculpture shooting is a matter of the Southern Song Dynasty, which is far different in age. ”
Cai Nan was speechless. Are mainland audiences so picky?
If "The Condor" were to be based on the standard that the rooster bowl cannot appear in "The Condor", then the show would be completely unwatchable.
Even Mr. Jin Yong himself lacked research on prices in the Song Dynasty. This is true for the original work. How can he ask for TVB that can dig out a bowl and use it for decades?
But this incident makes Cai Nan very happy. He is currently co-producing a talk show with Ni Kuang and others. It covers all aspects of society and people's livelihood in the world. TVB Chicken Bowl is an easy topic to expand. What a great topic, it’s worth a show.
(End of this chapter)