In the afternoon.
Ha Qiqi came downstairs to look for him.
Zhang Ye was currently teaching Yang Shu martial arts at Rao Aimin's house.
"Director Zhang, are you busy?"
"No, I'm done."
"Everyone's here and waiting for you in the conference room."
"Alright, I'll go up right away."
"I just received news that something has cropped up at Central TV."
"Something cropped up again? Come, let's go over and talk. "
His studio was just upstairs, so he didn't even need to take the elevator. It only took him a minute or two to walk up the stairs. The conference room was already filled with people. All of the studio's employees had arrived.
Zhang Ye sat down. "Let's start the meeting then."
Everyone began reporting on the work they had done over the past few days.
Fortress Besieged's sales, its reputation after winning the highest award, the growth in popularity over the past few days, and so on and so forth. Their work had gone smoothly and the results were gratifying. They had handed in a beautiful answer sheet that no one could find a single flaw in. The main credit here went to Zhang Ye. He had said that they were only responsible for drafting the proposal and that it was up to Zhang Ye to complete it. Sure enough, when everyone in the studio did not have much hope, Zhang Ye had really done it. With a novel, he had saved the "world" and pushed the "reach the summit" plan back on track. They could already see the legs of the seven chairs up there. Next up was the next stage of the "reach the summit" plan.
Zhang Zuo said, "We can start raising funds for the third step."
Ha Qiqi gave a wry smile and said, "Even though we're talking about raising funds, there's not much we can do."
Wu Yi said, "Yeah, whether we can complete the third step is up to fate. The chances aren't high, but there's still a chance."
Zhang Zuo analyzed, "The biggest problem now is that Director Zhang doesn't have a good relationship with a lot of people in the education world. The educators of Peking University and Media College will definitely support Director Zhang. Of course, we can ignore Media College since they don't have much influence on such matters. But Peking University is still a pretty strong force, while a lot of the others are his opponents. Over at Tsinghua University, Director Zhang has really offended them for snatching students, so the leaders from Tsinghua University will definitely not recommend Director Zhang's work. There were a lot of Redologists in the education world who are still scolding Director Zhang every day.
Everyone was having a headache.
Zhang Ye asked, "Soon?"
Zhang Zuo said solemnly, "Yes, soon."
Zhang Ye asked again, "When exactly?"
"I asked around, but I didn't get any information," said Zhang Zuo.
Zhang Ye acknowledged, "Alright, I'll ask my friend."
Ha Qiqi said, "When we were deciding on the third step of the plan, we also hesitated about it. Actually, it's fine even if we can't succeed. It's too difficult to begin with."
Zhang Ye smiled and said, "I'll give it a try."
Little Wang said loudly, "That's right, that's right. We definitely have to fight for it. This is a chance to leave our name in history. It's a huge amount of popularity that can continue to grow!"
Everyone was talking about the new teaching materials!
This was the third step of the 'Reach the Summit' plan!
The new textbook for the nine-year compulsory education was about to be formulated. The textbooks for primary school, junior high school, and senior high school involved all kinds of content. It was also linked to the education reform of the past two years. The importance, key, and political nature of this matter would affect everything. The relationship was too complicated. In fact, the recompilation of the new teaching materials had been spread everywhere since last year. This was because the recompilation of teaching materials was periodic. At this critical juncture, the recompilation of teaching materials was no longer a secret. Everyone was mentally prepared, but they did not expect it to drag on for so long. It was only in the middle of this year that the actual insider information was leaked.
A lot of people in the outside world did not know about it yet, but a lot of people in the industry had already heard about it.
Zhang Ye's Studio was naturally concerned about it. They wanted to snatch a chance to enter the textbooks!
It could even be said that the first and second steps of the 'Reach the Summit' plan were to increase the chances and opportunities for the third step. By publishing a bestseller and winning the highest award, regardless of whether others acknowledged it or not, Zhang Ye was already one of the top figures in the literary world. The studio's staff were hoping that Zhang Ye would be able to snatch a page in the new edition of the Chinese Literature Textbook with the blessing of this halo. Even if it was a page in the corner, even if it was only selected for one essay, it would be enough!
Was this matter very important?
Yes, it was very important!
Thinking back to the time when Beijing Television's Wang Shuixin wrote "Everything," he was the one who fought with Zhang Ye and caused "Father Wei" to die of exhaustion. Just because that poem titled "Everything" had been included in the appendix of the Chinese Literature Textbook and was not even in the main text, Wang Shuixin was so inflated that he felt like he was about to ascend to the heavens. What's more, it was an official chapter in the official textbooks. Anyone who could be included in that chapter was either an ancient person or a contemporary master!
The benefits were too great!
The literary world was probably in turmoil at this moment!
In fact, it was only in the Chinese Literature Textbook that this happened. Mathematics? Whoever came up with an example and submitted it, that was all. There would be no mention of who came up with the question, and no one would care. At most, the teacher who came up with the question would brag about it and tell his friends and relatives that it was him who came up with the question.
Physics?
Chemistry?
English?
History?
Geography?
All of them were the same, but it was different in the Chinese Literature Textbook. The essays or poems in the Chinese Literature Textbook would all be labeled with the author's name. There were even some topics that students had to memorize! What did this mean? To put it simply, as long as a child was born and educated in China, they would have seen or memorized your essay when they were young. They would know your name, and there was no choice at all. They would not be able to avoid seeing it or not knowing about you. From a young age, you would be labeled as awesome by your students!
If the power of winning the highest award in the literary world was equivalent to an intercontinental ballistic missile, then the power of being included in the Chinese Literature Textbook would be equivalent to an atomic bomb. The radiation would be long-lasting and could even affect you for a lifetime!
As a scholar, how big of a deal was this?
As a person from the entertainment industry, how important was this?
However, it was impossible for anyone else in the entertainment industry to fight for this. There was only one exception, and that was Zhang Ye. In the entertainment industry, only he had the qualifications to compete with those big shots of the literary world, to fight for those few opportunities!
Six primary school textbooks?
Six middle school and high school textbooks?
Yes, maybe even the first and second volumes!
It might sound like there were a lot of opportunities, but in fact, there weren't many. The new compilation of textbooks did not mean that all the existing textbooks would be deleted. A large portion of them would be retained. There were even many things from the ancient times that could not be changed. Hence, the changes to the new compilation of textbooks would definitely not be too big. If they were to disregard those left for the predecessors, or those that had nothing to do with poems, songs, or novels, the remaining cake would be too small!
Ten mouthfuls?
Eight mouthfuls?
That was all there was!
But what about the competing scholars? Tens of millions of them!
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