Beijing Fourth Ring Road, Delong Building.
Delong Building is very famous in this high-rise financial and business district, because it gathers a number of first-class entertainment media and music production companies in Beijing, such as Tianzhai Music Workshop, Golden Disc Culture, Sunshine Records and so on.
Therefore, people who work in this building can often see star idols coming in and out. In any corner outside the building, there may be entertainment reporters, commonly known as paparazzi, squatting there.
EMI Cultural Brokerage Company is also in Delong Building, but the strength and scale of this medium-sized brokerage company is incomparable with that of Golden Disc Culture. Its office is located on the 7th floor, which is a poor location.
There is a saying in the entertainment industry that if multiple companies are in the same building, the stronger and more famous they tend to live higher. Otherwise, they would rather find another place than be willing to live under others.
This may not be very reliable, but at least in Delong Building, the situation is really similar.
Nevertheless, those who can occupy a place in Delong Building are not ordinary small companies.
EMI Cultural Brokerage Company has dozens of artists and hundreds of trainees. Among the artists who have already made their debut, there are many second-and third-tier star idols, and their strength is not bad.
It is said that there are as many as 2,000 entertainment brokerage companies in Beijing, but only one-tenth of them are really qualified.
It's past 1 o 'clock in the afternoon, when the weather is the hottest.
Although the central air conditioning in Delong Building is running well and the air conditioning is sufficient, Wen Zhiyuan, who is sitting in the office, still feels bored. He drank two bottles of iced mineral water in a row, and there is still an inexplicable evil fire in his body, which makes his forehead constantly ooze fine sweat.
This 40-year-old middle-aged fat man is the director of the brokerage department of EMI Cultural Brokerage Company.
The brokerage department is the most important department of a brokerage company, and the director's position is in the middle and senior management of the company.
However, Wen Zhiyuan has never had the pleasure of holding power. Because the brokerage department has a large power and a high budget, there are many mother-in-law who reach out to manage it. There are the general manager, director, deputy general manager, deputy director, and department manager and deputy manager. There are three directors who are at the same level as him.
Apart from one of the trainee supervisors, the other two are not easy to deal with.
On the one hand, Wen Zhiyuan has to manage his artists and agents well. On the other hand, he has to guard against the open and covert attacks of competitors in the same department. His days are not going well.
Especially in the recent period, several of Wen Zhiyuan's contracted artists were very restless. One of them made a scandal and was exposed by the media. He desperately wiped his ass and was laughed at by the public relations department.
Wen Zhiyuan really wanted to quit, but when he thought of the mortgage that would take him 15 years to pay off …
He could only endure it.
Pa! Pa!
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.
Wen Zhiyuan couldn't help but straighten his back. He grabbed the tissue on the table and wiped the sweat off his face.
He quickly threw away the wet towel and said in a deep voice, "Please come in!"
In front of his subordinates, Wen Zhiyuan still paid great attention to his image. Otherwise, it would be difficult for them to revere him.
The door was forcefully pushed open, and two women walked in.
Seeing the middle-aged woman walking in front of him, Wen Zhiyuan felt that his already big head had grown even bigger!
His brain was hurting.
The middle-aged woman was dressed very well. Her long skirt, high-heeled shoes, leather bag and jewelry were all famous brands. However, her appearance was really unworthy of these expensive goods. She was not only ordinary but also slightly fierce.
But she obviously didn't have the consciousness of hiding her incompetence. Her nostrils were up and she was arrogant, as if she was the owner here.
The woman behind the middle-aged woman was undoubtedly much younger and more beautiful. She had phoenix eyes and willow leaf eyebrows. Her makeup was exquisite, and her expression was arrogant, which was somewhat similar to the former.
Walking in front of Wen Zhiyuan, the young woman smiled and said, "Director Wen …"
Wen Zhiyuan sighed in his heart and barely squeezed out a smile on his face: "Shuhui, you are here."
Zhang Shuhui, a contracted artist of EMI Cultural Agency, just made her debut two months ago.
The middle-aged woman who came with Zhang Shuhui was Zhang Shuhui's agent, Zhang Qiong, and also her aunt.
This is not an ordinary person. She has a shrewd personality, and has a relationship with the upper management of the company.
Although Zhang Qiong is Wen Zhiyuan's subordinate in name, in fact, Wen Zhiyuan can't command her at all.
These two are the so-called arrogant soldiers and valiant generals!
There was no need to guess. Wen Zhiyuan also knew that the other party came with bad intentions.
He was extremely tired in his heart, but he still had to smile: "Sit down, sit down."
Zhang Qiong was not polite at all. She pulled Zhang Shuhui to sit down on the sofa, and then asked straightforwardly, "Director Wen, I heard that you applied for a sum of money to buy songs for Shuhui, right?"
Wen Zhiyuan nodded and said, "Yes, it's two billion yuan in total. I have …"
According to the company's procedures, contracted artists like Zhang Shuhui need to apply for important expenses related to training, packaging, publicity and promotion, and they can only be allocated after approval.
This is also one of the greatest powers that Wen Zhiyuan has as the director of the brokerage department.
He applied for this fund for Zhang Shuhui in order to make this aunt calm down and let himself live a long life.
"I know!"
Zhang Qiong interrupted Wen Zhiyuan's words directly and asked, "I heard that you are going to invite songs from a newcomer, and that a song is 250,000 yuan. Is that right?"
Wen Zhiyuansuppressed his inner dissatisfaction and patiently explained, "It's like this …"
"This newcomer is very unusual. He is the champion of" Singing China ". His songs have been at the top of the Original Music Chart for four weeks in a row. He is a very talented singer-songwriter. I think …"
"Director Wen!"
Zhang Qiong interrupted again: "I don't think any newcomer's work can be worth 250,000 yuan. Even if his work is on the Original Music Chart, so what? His creative style is completely incompatible with my family's Shuhui. How can he write well? "
"Shuhui and I both contributed to the application for this fund, so I don't agree with you to buy songs from that newcomer named Lu Chen. The risk is too great. I think Xiyu will be a better choice."
Her lips curled up with a faint sneer: "250,000 yuan is enough to buy three songs!"
Wen Zhiyuan was stimulated by her "Did you eat a kickback" look, and the blue veins on his temples bulged.
He almost went berserk on the spot!
Heaven pity him! He bought songs from Lu Chen for Zhang Shuhui's sake.
Zhang Shuhui has been a new generation singer for some time. Although the company has spent a lot of effort to package and hype, it has never been promoted, because there are many newcomers of the same quality in the entertainment industry.
In terms of appearance, Zhang Shuhui is not the most beautiful. In terms of singing skills, she is just an ordinary qualified level. In terms of talent …
Cough! Not to mention talent, she has no distinctive characteristics and advantages. If she wants to become popular, she must find another way.
Buying an excellent work suitable for Zhang Shuhui was Wen Zhiyuancame up with the idea.
In the pop music world, there has always been a saying that "people become famous because of songs". If an ordinary singer sings a good song right, he may become popular. Even if packaging and hype are now paid attention to, the factor of the work is still important.
Many people desperately cover, imitate and even plagiarize works of Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea. What's the purpose of that?
As a newly rising singer-songwriter in the pop music world, Wen Zhiyuan has been eyeing Lu Chen for a long time. After learning that the latter has opened a studio, he specially sent someone to contact him.
It wasn't until the end of "Singing China" that Wen Zhiyuan finally made up his mind to buy songs from Lu Chen at a high price.
Because he believes that Lu Chen has enough creative strength.
He never thought that his painstaking efforts would be questioned by Zhang Qiong!
The "Xi Yu" mentioned by the other party is a songwriter who has become famous very early. He is good at love songs and saliva songs, and has always had business contacts with EMI Culture Brokerage Company.
250,000 yuan is indeed enough to invite three songs from Xi Yu, but Wen Zhiyuan believes that the talent of this person is almost exhausted.
If compared, Lu Chen is like the rising sun, full of vitality and vitality in creation.
Xi Yu, that is the setting sun that is about to set!
As for the problem of style, it's really not a big problem.
Wen Zhiyuan wanted to explain patiently, but Zhang Qiong's eyes made him disheartened.
His straight waist bent down again, and he said dejectedly, "What you said makes sense. Well, let's do it according to what you mean and invite songs from Xi Yu."
Seeing Wen Zhiyuan's dejected look, Zhang Shuhui, who had never spoken, couldn't bear it. She turned to Zhang Qiong and said, "Aunt …"
Zhang Qiong squeezed her hand and said, "It's right to listen to me. Since Director Wen agreed, there's no problem."
She got up and said, "Sorry to bother you. We'll go first."
Wen Zhiyuan waved his hand weakly and didn't bother to look at the other party's proud face.
He knew that Zhang Qiong's real intention was to fight for power.
After Zhang Qiong and Zhang Shuhui left, it took Wen Zhiyuan a long time to catch his breath and laugh.
What the f * ck was going on!
Ring ring ~
At this time, the phone on the table rang.
Wen Zhiyuan reached out and picked it up.
The sweet voice of the front desk lady came from the phone: "Director Wen, Mr. Lu Chen is here to see you."
Wen Zhiyuan suddenly remembered that he had an appointment with Lu Chen Studio in the afternoon.
The other party came to test the sound!
This was really troublesome. Wen Zhiyuan couldn't wait to slap himself in the face.
Of course, he could let Lu Chen leave directly, but in this way, he would completely offend him. If it was spread out, he would lose face. It was definitely not a wise choice.
But how could Wen Zhiyuan tell Lu Chen that his artists were disobedient and didn't want to buy his songs?
He would still offend people!
"Hello! Director Wen, are you there? "
Wen Zhiyuan came to his senses and said quickly, "Yes, please ask Mr. Lu to sit down in the reception room first. Be sure to entertain him warmly. I'll come over as soon as I finish my work!"
The front desk lady promised, "Okay."
Putting down the phone, Wen Zhiyuan was already sweating and almost burst into tears.
Da! Da!
The door of the office was knocked again.
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