Chapter 20 It's All You Forced Me
Those with barefoot are not afraid of those with shoes.
However, this time it was Gu Cheng's turn to wear shoes.
After more than two years of traveling, it was finally time to pay off your debts.
After the siblings figured out the status quo, Pan Jieying asked bluntly: "How do you plan to solve this time? You also held a press conference to clarify it? However, Zhou Hongyi was the person involved at the beginning, and he must have some evidence in his hands. If he is not afraid of both parties being bad, the effect of your denial will be greatly reduced."
Gu Cheng hesitated for only a little for two or three seconds, and then made a quick decision: "I won't deny it, just admit it directly. This is not illegal. I admit it with ease, and no one can threaten me again. Who is not bloody or dirty in the original accumulation?"
He was telling the truth: although he also used data fraud at the beginning, it was different from the management veterans of Dingdang.com and Category.com that have been fired. He deceived investors in the financial industry from beginning to end, while the latter deceived ordinary consumers.
This is called "Ao Shang Er can't bear it". It's not that I don't lie, but I only deceive professionals. Those Wall Street investors who were deceived should have admitted that their skills are not as good as others and are willing to accept the loss. However, Gu Cheng disdains Tu You's fraud.
To use Zhou Xingxing's line in Su Qier, it is called: "Want to be bullied by me? Are you qualified enough?"
Pan Jieying knew her brother’s mind best and immediately captured the key points of this strategy:
"This is a good idea. The ordinary public should also hate those Wall Street financial dogs. If you build yourself into an image of doing something and not doing something, maybe others will think that your real man can be true, and a true celebrity will be romantic. But I am afraid that your business will grow bigger in the future and people in the financial industry will be even more unwilling to deal with you."
Gu Cheng directly ignored this concern of his cousin: "You don't have to worry about this, only ordinary people care about reputation. Those Wall Street Jewish dogs don't know how to write the three words "sense of honor". As long as you have money to make money, what kind of face do you want."
After the plan was agreed, Gu Cheng just called and asked some friends from the media to prepare to beat the side drum.
He didn't know many friends in the media circle, so he asked Gao Dasong, who was more proficient in this area. As a result, as soon as the phone rang, Gao Dasong heard his plan, he pushed him back:
"Xiao Gu, this is not what I said about you. You want to express this situation. It is really inappropriate for the press conference. The content you said must be harmoniously edited is not your own business. If you admit to be faked, then others will definitely ask who you have made a fake for and who you have made a good contribution?
Besides, the entire Internet circle was fake back then. If you were ambiguous, no one would accept your affection, but instead offend the entire circle. Everyone should take the initiative to draw a clear line with you to clear themselves.”
Gu Cheng was stunned. He didn't expect this: "I just want to tell the truth, but my true nature can't do it at all?"
Gao Dasong quickly explained: "I didn't say you were wrong, I just said that the form of a press conference is inappropriate. You need a media method that faces the public directly without filtering."
When he heard this suggestion, Gu Cheng wanted to have Weibo these days and post it on his own. Those who are clear will be clear and turbid will be turbid.
Unfortunately, there is neither Weibo nor Du Niang Post, nor even a QQ group. So he always has some constraints in the public opinion war because those fans who like him cannot find the organization at all. The opponents are all professional gangsters and do not need to find the organization.
Seeing that Gu Cheng had no good ideas for the time being, Gao Dasong gave him an idea out of professional habits: "Generally speaking, we musicians are being criticized, and we want to say something dissonant to clarify. The best way is to hold a concert and say whatever you want to talk to fans about their comments.
There is a 70,000 or 80,000 audience in a concert, which is no more than a few dozen people. If the broadcaster wants to edit harmoniously, he cannot be harmonious. And there is another advantage in the concert. Without the 'reporter's question' session, you are not afraid of offending Boss Ding or Mr. Lei."
Unfortunately, Gu Cheng is not careful when he is a musician. He has such a good fan base and has sang 6 songs in his life, and 3 of them were written by others, so he can't even start a concert.
He could only smile bitterly: "Have you ever seen someone who only sings 6 songs hold a concert? Besides, the identity is not suitable. How can the boss compete with his artists for popularity? It won't be a good thing."
Gao Dasong thought about it and gave him another trick: "Don't you cooperate with the Dongyi people? The S-M family likes to organize groups, and also likes to play xx-ton concerts. If you are really interested, learn their model and call a few singers who signed Eslite Audio and Video to sing on the same stage."
Gu Cheng's eyes lit up, which was a good idea.
Now he signed directly with Yilin Tsai, who can be sung at any time. She now has two albums that can support the scene. Zhou Jielun’s contract is on Alpha Records, and Gu Cheng only gets the agency rights on the mainland, so he has no right to call him, so he can only invite a friendly guest appearance or two.
In the rest, we have to borrow someone from S-M to support the situation.
Anyway, Zhou Hongyi was not very anxious to clarify the matter immediately. He pretended not to see it for the time being, and it would not be too late for a month or two.
So Gu Cheng called Li Xiuman on a whim and asked him to borrow some people.
Li Xiuman was very happy and said that S-M company was preparing to win newcomers recently, hoping that Gu Cheng would borrow Quan Baoya from then on, and then "buy one get one free" for the newcomer group to leave an empty slot and play two guest songs to make a fortune, just to think it was a debut conference in China.
Gu Cheng was not surprised. After a brief inquiries, he knew that Li Xiuman was preparing to support the "Dongyi Shenqi" who had been training for more than two years.
This is a historical issue, and Gu Cheng has no intention of changing it.
Although he likes to support solo artists, many trainees absorbed by S-M in the early days were more talented. If he didn't combine, he would have to become waste.
Some of the people who "Dongyi Shenqi" only have tone, some only know how to dance, and some only have good faces. Therefore, the conditions for s-m to take down these artists are very cheap, and the cost of raising people is not high, so they just point to "turn decay into magic" to make money.
Because of Gu Cheng's appearance and history changed slightly, Li Xiuman also stuffed Han Geng into the "Dongyi God Rise" to make up for the number. Although Han Geng has insufficient talent in singing and dancing, and his positioning overlaps with Zheng Yunhao, the nationality is there, after all, it is conducive to opening up the Chinese market. At worst, it will take a year or two to transform into filming and participate in less team activities.
Gu Cheng easily gathered the team he needed for his own concert, and felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment in his heart.
Some things are novel and feel fulfilled when you do them for the first time. This has nothing to do with how much money you make, it just enriches your life experience.
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Such a large concert will take more than two months to prepare. After all, it takes time to arrange the venue rental, the singer team’s schedule coordination, and ticketing issuance.
The most time-consuming thing is publicity and ticket sales. Because venues, rehearsals, and arrangements can all be expedited, but the audience's popularity cannot be expedited.
According to industry practice, if the ticket sales time is less than two months in advance, you can only find medium-sized venues with less than 30,000 people. Otherwise, if you follow the Working Sports/Shang Sports Field in Beijing and Hujiang, the end of the tickets may not be fully sold.
After all, it will take a lot of time to post ticket advertisements and wait for fans to fully see them.
Gu Cheng originally wanted to prepare for two months, which would be easier. But Li Xiuman told him an industry practice: those who engage in performing arts activities must avoid World Cup month.
2002 is the year of the World Cup, and the World Cup started around June 10th, and it was a good death. This is the first time in history that the World Cup was held in Asian countries. Although it was in Fusang and Dongyi, there must be a large number of Chinese fans who rushed to watch the game.
If it collided with World Cup time, even Platinum Song God would have to fail.
And not only the music market, but also the TV series and movie markets. The reason why Gu Chengdao said that "The Golden Fenage Family" had locked in the hottest drama of 2002 just after May is that this summer will be killed as a dog by the World Cup.
So Gu Cheng had to temporarily suppress the schedule, compressing it to only one month of preparation time, and hold this concert around Children's Day.
After hanging up the phone, he wouldn't worry about the rest. Anyway, it was just a word from the leader and his subordinates ran away.
Unexpectedly, I just planned to say a few big truths and show my true nature, which would cost me so much.
Although I earn more.
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The expelled corrupt employees were sent out, Zhou Hongyi paid for the black materials, and the great cause of jointly hacking Gu Cheng was in full swing.
Within a week or two, Gu Cheng's reputation has also become a little plump, vivid and complicated from the one-sided praises when "The Golden Fen Family" just ended its hit.
From a flawless statue of a god on the altar, it turned into a living person with flesh and blood.
The people who blackened him continued to blacken him, but the people who pinked him were still unmoved. It seemed that these flaws made people feel that Gu Cheng was more real.
Just like Maradona's fans never dislike Maradona's poison, it seems that when it comes to Maradona, it can become a cute point of life.
After the May Day Golden Week, advertisements began to appear on some music radio stations to promote ticketing information for the "Eslite Music Annual Concert".
Anyone with experience in the circle knows that there is no need to call ticket advertisements for concerts on TV stations. TV advertisements are purely expensive and have no effect. Either they call radio or entertainment magazines, or rely on website promotion, or rely on variety shows and entertainment news to create soft and popular marketing.
But Gu Cheng was unwilling to personally participate in variety shows to do soft and television, not to mention that he was busy, so he really didn't have this time, which was equivalent to "cutting off one's own arm" in publicity.
There were very few fans who discovered ticket information at the first time.
However, some literary and artistic critics who were jealous of Gu Cheng or who felt that he was too "serious" to rise, quickly noticed the move of Eslite Audiovisual.
The sarcasm of some jealous people spread quickly:
"Haha... I don't do variety shows and don't go to soft broadcasts, and I dare to promote it only 20 days in advance? As for the domestic market atmosphere, Zhang Xueyou has to sell tickets at least two months in advance to sell it.
Just relying on a 'popular chicken' with only 6 songs, a few female singers, and then invite Zhou Jielun, a newcomer who has just been popular for a year and a half, as a guest. I hope he will sell it out so soon? Wait for a break!"
Chapter completed!