Chapter 37 Martial Arts School
"Mr. Jin, I didn't expect your English to be so good."
"Actually, I know a little Spanish, but unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to learn French."
"French is one of the most beautiful languages in the world... and English is just the language of inferior people."
Zhou Zhen cannot argue about this. In this era, Europe and the United States are proud of speaking French. Even the British royal family, the daily language is French, not English.
"Of course, please sit." The arrogant guest from Gaomeng Film Company was invited to sit down. Zhou Zhen hooked his finger and the secretary brought the freshly brewed tea several times. "This is the last tea from the tea place where the tea is produced, it is completely original and does not participate in milk and essence. Please try it."
Gaomeng Company is the world's first film company, and they invented the movie machines.
The company was established before the invention of the film machine in 1895, and then they launched the film shooting and broadcasting machines.
In the first thirty years of the movie's release, they were the most beautiful film company in the world.
Because every film company has to buy machines from them, and there is patent protection.
However, after their founder died in 1925, the film company gave up content shooting and sold only machines.
But now it is 22 years. Although they are facing the impact of Hollywood and have lost many markets, they are still the boss.
Of course, their arrogance comes from the arrogance of the Gaul rooster, not against Zhou Zhen.
The victory of the First World War made them regard themselves as the most beautiful country on the planet. Not to mention the American group of country bumpkins, even Britain was just a Luther.
These guests are just businessmen, not bosses, and they can't be arrogant when facing Zhou Zhen, the Prime Minister.
Several people politely took the teacup, smelled the fragrance, and exclaimed the fragrance.
After just a few words of praise, another sound of footsteps came from outside, and several people looked at Zhou Zhen in confusion.
Zhou Zhen smiled and said, "In addition to you, there are also a few guests from Hollywood. Since your demands are not much different, I invited you at the same time."
The faces of several French guests were a little bad, but Zhou Zhen didn't care.
Soon, several guests from Paramount Film Company were brought in. They obviously knew each other, and after shook hands with Zhou Zhen, they greeted him a little awkwardly.
Paramount is the most beautiful film company in Hollywood now, no doubt about it. Universal, Fox, and Disney in later generations are just little brothers in front of them.
Zhou Zhen’s office was built with two horizontal rooms connected to the window, with bookshelf on one side and antique stands on the other.
The office with a desk is one floor higher than the one outside, and the other outside has three sofas.
They were already a little shorter, and they sat on the sofa, allowing Zhou Zhen to look at them with condescending light.
The window was facing the east, and the sun shone in. They could only look up at Zhou Zhen against the light, narrowing their eyes one by one.
This is Zhou Zhen's evil taste. In this relatively weak era, he relied on this arrangement to seek some psychological comfort in front of the other side.
Paramount came here to learn how to shoot movies. Zhou Zhen used not many new technologies for the first movie, but in this Kung Fu movie, he produced a specialized slider equipment for shooting, which had a great impact on other film companies.
In addition, they also want to know whether Dongfang’s kung fu is real.
Although Gaomeng Company is an excuse to investigate the purchasing market in China, it actually has intentions in this regard.
Since the beginning of this year, the Magic City has bought at least a few hundred equipment in their company. Zhou Zhen’s company alone has bought more than a dozen cameras, two burners, and more than a dozen projectors.
If no one watches the movies of those small film companies, they can only adopt the strategy of going to the countryside, and the number of broadcasters required is very large.
Moreover, Zhou Zhen bought a lot of film. Now his company has four crews. When filming, he consumes countless films every day.
After sitting down, Zhou Zhen said, "I am not a businessman, and I don't want to talk to you as a businessman. I know your intention to come and I can agree to your conditions, but I also have one."
Paramount could not hold Zhou Zhen's neck and was very sincere. "Mr. Jin, please tell me."
"If you want to see Chinese Kung Fu, I will arrange it. If you want to learn our new shooting techniques, we can teach you too. But I ask your Paramount cinema to increase the share of our Kung Fu movies."
Paramount is not only the largest film company in Hollywood, but also the largest theater chain in the United States.
Zhou Zhen arranged the movies to be screened in their cinemas through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the proportion was not high.
As for the new technology, it is actually some simple booms and slides that do not affect the stability of the camera.
Zhou Zhen just didn't teach them. They just needed to send people to stay for a while and they would learn it soon.
Kung Fu is originally the cultural output that Zhou Zhen wants to do. The more they know, the more they will be able to promote.
As for whether there are boxers hired by their Hi-Tech, this is not something Zhou Zhen cares about.
"I've got the authorization that if you're willing to bear the copying fee, we can adjust the share of your company's movies to forty percent," said Paramount's representative.
The distribution and theaters are both Paramount, and they are willing to increase it to 40%, which is very sincere.
Zhou Zhen just pretended to think about it and nodded.
Zhou Zhen looked at Gao Meng's people again and said, "I can promise to always buy your film and machines in the future, but I need your lowest price and theater support."
"Where is the application and kung fu of new technologies? Mr. Jin, you should know that France is the most friendly country to Chinese people. There are still more than 2,000 Chinese workers living in France, and many of them have married us French women."
They began to play the friendship card, and the battle made the ratio of men and women in France uneven. Many Chinese workers went to France to get married and have children locally. This is a fact.
Zhou Zhen smiled and said, "Of course, you will receive unreserved teachings. In order to reduce the jitter caused by camera vibration, we have also made some improvements to the camera to make the camera shoot more smoothly. I can also teach you all these.
I'm not a businessman, I don't want to be petty with you. I just need my company's movies to be treated fairly and just when they are released in your country."
The identity of the Prime Minister is very effective. Zhou Zhen does not play according to common sense, so they can only accept it.
They all agreed, Zhou Zhen asked someone to come in, take them to sign the contract, and promised to invite them to dinner tonight.
Afterwards, Zhou Zhen sent them away. Even though he was fine now, he had been talking to them for too long, and he would lose some points.
After they were taken out, Zhou Zhen asked his secretary. "Is there any news about Sun Cun Zhou and his meeting with representatives from various countries?"
"The big world is very lively. Three silver dollars per ticket, all 1,500 tickets were sold out, and three hundred station tickets were added. Moreover, the tickets for tomorrow will be sold out."
Zhou Zhen nodded. "Tell Master Wang, let him form a group of boxers, and in the future, they may be allowed to go abroad to promote. In addition, call Huang Jinfeng and ask him to come to see me."
With so many kung fu enthusiasts coming at once, Zhou Zhen also saw business opportunities.
There are many martial arts schools in the Demons, but they usually only recruit Chinese people, and the quality of boxers is uneven.
Zhou Zhen wanted to organize some boxers with real skills to open a huge martial arts school in the Magic City, specifically recruiting foreigners and making money from them.
If you don’t say too much, you can earn 200 US dollars a year and 1,000 people a year, and you can earn 200,000 yuan a year.
The two hundred dollars are just tuition fees, as well as accommodation and living expenses. The annual income is only $300,000, which is just a small matter.
Three hundred thousand US dollars is more than one million silver dollars, supporting dozens of high-level martial artists can still make a fortune.
As for the venue and school building, of course, it is the most suitable to find the local tyrant, Golden Velvet.
The golden velvet came over quickly. After listening to Zhou Zhen’s plan, he immediately felt that there was great potential.
However, he is a smart person and thinks that it is easy for people to imitate just the two of them to do it.
They cannot win over all boxers, so they have to win over more people.
After the last discussion, Zhou Zhen decided to bring in the police chief, the director of the Industry and Commerce chief, and the supervisor. The first two gave five percent of the dry shares and the supervisor gave ten percent of the dry shares.
If they are willing to pay, they can add 5% of their shares.
Even if they paid for money, they only accounted for 45% of the shares, and Zhou Zhen, who still accounted for 55% of the shares, had the final say.
Golden Velvet is not greedy, and only promises to ask for 15% of the shares. If those big guys are unwilling to spend money, he will increase his holdings of some shares, no more than 20%.
After Zhou Zhen agreed to him, he immediately went to do things happily.
However, he neglected Zhou Zhen’s current nickname, earning tens of millions in one movie, and even higher in the second movie. Zhou Zhen has already been awarded the title of “Stones to Make Gold” and “God of Wealth”.
Now, he said he wanted to run a martial arts school against foreigners, and several bigwigs immediately expressed their willingness to pay for it to participate.
Huang Chujiu didn't follow the news. He knew Zhou Zhen more well and knew that as long as Zhou Zhen did not involve principles, he was actually easy to talk to.
So he was so stubborn that he was pestering Zhou Zhen and was about to leave 10% of his shares.
Sun Cunzhou and his friends' martial arts performances are very popular. All of these people have real materials, but they are not those scammers.
At the end of the performance the next day, the promotional materials for these foreigners who came to the Magic City were ready.
After some consideration, Zhou Zhen did not charge for one year, but per month.
All students can study as they please. The monthly tuition fee is twenty dollars, and if you include accommodation, you will add five dollars.
Accommodation conditions are two people, one room, two beds, a desk and a toilet.
This is a little more expensive than renting a house, but it is much cheaper than staying in a hotel.
The teacher is divided into ten different groups. Any student can choose any major in his or her physical condition, and can also listen to and study other classes.
On that day, more than 300 people signed up...
Chapter completed!