"Mr. Morinaka? Mr. Morinaka?"

With a few soft calls from Mrs. Nakano, Cao Zhiqiang finally came to his senses and realized that he had just lost his composure.

Soon, Cao Zhiqiang smiled at Mrs. Nakano and said: "I see, it seems that Mrs. Nakano is worried about you, so you want to come over and try me alone first, right?"

Mrs. Nakano nodded naturally and admitted: "Yes, that's exactly it. Although I also know that my approach is a bit impolite, but please forgive me.

After all, my daughter has been clamoring to sign a contract as an artist since she came back. It is still a little-known agency, so of course I have to check it out first."

Cao Zhiqiang glanced at Yuri Nakano who looked like a good girl, and then said to Mrs. Nakano again: "Your concerns are right, and I don't think your approach is wrong.

In fact, I think that the fact that you are so cautious shows that you care deeply about your children, which is what I would like to see.

After all, frankly speaking, the agency is just a platform, and the essence of signing artists is also an investment.

Since you have invested in an artist, you naturally want the artist to achieve something. In this case, the firm can gain both fame and fortune.

But the problem is that after an artist joins an agency, he cannot hand over everything to the agency.

After all, the role of the firm is external factors, whether the artist succeeds or not, internal factors are more important.

In my opinion, in addition to one's own talent and hard work, the internal factors of an artist are also very important.

If family members can provide comprehensive support, then of course the artist can have a smoother journey.

This is like letting your child go to school to study. You can't think that after you leave your child to the school, you don't have to take care of anything and leave everything to the school.

On the contrary, parents should pay more attention to their children after sending them to school.

After all, children belong to their parents, not the school.

If a child does not make progress and does not perform well, the school will lose a good student at most, and it will continue to find other good students without delay.

But for the parents of this child, this is a huge grief, don’t you think so?”

"That's right!" Mrs. Nakano nodded with deep feeling, "I am just a daughter, and of course I hope she can achieve something.

In addition, I also respect her choice, so I have to check it for her within my ability. This is what we as parents should do.

Originally, I thought you would be very dissatisfied with my behavior, and I even thought of an apology.

But I really didn't expect that you could think so thoroughly.

Well, in short, after hearing what you said, I feel more confident about leaving the child to you.

I believe that with the guidance of a teacher like you, my Yuri will definitely become an outstanding person!"

Cao Zhiqiang nodded with a smile, and just as he was about to say a few more polite words, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Hearing the knock on the door, Cao Zhiqiang was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously turned to face the office door and said: "Come in!"

Soon, the door was pushed open, and then a young man in a suit walked in. It was Yoshiyuki Furukawa, the male secretary assigned to Cao Zhiqiang.

Well, in fact, the office has grown so far that there are already many employees below, and they are no longer just two or three kittens.

Among them, the biggest change is the addition of a general affairs department.

The General Affairs Department is similar to the Logistics Department, which means it can take care of everything.

Speaking of the emergence of the General Affairs Department, we have to mention the changes in Aiyin Office.

As for Aiyin Office, the original purpose of its creation was to better avoid taxes and find a few errands who could serve Cao Zhiqiang and Nakamori Akina well.

Anyway, Aiyin Agency currently only has two contracted artists, Cao Zhiqiang and Nakamori Akina, and the value of the agency's existence is to provide various logistical support to Cao Zhiqiang and Nakamori Akina.

Among them, Akina Nakamori has a relatively small workload and does not have many things to do. Generally, she only needs someone to go to the studio to film with Akina Nakamori.

What really requires all kinds of running around and all kinds of troubles is actually the work related to Cao Zhiqiang.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang has released many hit singles, related MTV, music television commercials, and a movie from the mainland that just ended its hit run, that is, "Love in the Rain".

This often involves cooperation with many other companies, such as copyright fees, labor fees, advertising fees, etc.

In addition, although the clothing brand launched by Cao Zhiqiang and Akina Nakamori, namely "Sensen Clothing", currently only has one store, it also involves a lot of trivial work.

Such as clothing design, celebrity endorsement, finding OEM manufacturers, etc.

Although later, Akina Nakamori hired a professional manager who had been deeply involved in the clothing industry for many years to be in charge of "Sensen Clothing", but because there were many brand cooperations with Aiyin Office, Aiyin Office still had many things to do.

Do.

Not to mention, there must be a driver on call.

In other words, with the development now, Aiyin Firm is no longer a small firm with only 4 staff members before, but a small and medium-sized firm with 11 staff members.

The reason for this is of course Cao Zhiqiang’s idea.

In fact, a company of the size of Aiyin Office originally did not need so many staff. Four or five would be enough. After all, the original purpose was just to serve Cao Zhiqiang and Nakamori Akina well.

The reason why so many more people need to be recruited is that Cao Zhiqiang wants to have more redundancy.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang knows that Aiyin Agency cannot be just a service company serving Cao Zhiqiang and Nakamori Akina. It will eventually go out and become an independent large-scale brokerage company in the future.

In other words, this company must not only have service personnel such as secretaries, drivers, and errand runners, but also educational talents such as choreographers and music arrangers.

In the future, Aiyin Agency will not only be able to recruit artists, but also train them themselves, just like Korean agencies train trainees.

Only a brokerage company that can cultivate a new generation and create its own blood can be called an authentic brokerage company.

It is out of this concept that Cao Zhiqiang spent a lot of money in advance to recruit several choreographers and arrangers.

Among them, especially the dance teacher, who is a professional dance teacher from Tokyo University of the Arts.

There is also an arranger teacher, who is also a professional music teacher from Tokyo University of the Arts.

Although these teachers work here part-time, their professionalism is still very high.

After hiring these professional teachers, Cao Zhiqiang suddenly discovered that the students at Tokyo University of the Arts were also very good, quite cheap, and their respective levels were also good, so he recruited a group of female students majoring in dance and a group of orchestral music students.

female student.

Yes, they are all college students, just seniors who are about to graduate.

Japanese universities do not guarantee allocation, and you can only find your own way after graduation.

And art universities are actually one of the schools with the fewest opportunities.

Now that Cao Zhiqiang can recruit a group of college students in advance and has signed employment agreements with them, everyone is naturally happy.

Cao Zhiqiang did this just to try to create a star-like dance troupe and an orchestra.

In Cao Zhiqiang's view, Japan's current dance troupes and orchestras are too conservative and are not following the idol route at all.

In other words, at this time, almost no one in Japan's dance troupes and orchestras used the same methods to build star artists.

Those art students from Tokyo University of the Arts either change careers after graduation, become ordinary music teachers, or become ordinary folk entertainment groups. Their influence is very low, and few of them can really shine.

Although there is a Takarazuka Song and Dance Troupe, the essence of this kind of song and dance troupe is the product of capital, and the business model is not like the later Korean SM company, which is not to create a group of talented people in the way of creating stars, and then create stars.

Then let them debut as a group.

Takarazuka Orchestra is more like a kind of self-entertainment with highbrow music.

It's just that the Takarazuka Orchestra's brand is there, and there is capital to support it, and the student sources and channels have been opened up, so that it can be played.

But ordinary artists can't get in at all.

And to be honest, a place like the Takarazuka Revue is really not a good place.

Because later generations have long disclosed the inside story, it is a place where girls are brainwashed. The rules are strict and the hierarchy is orderly. The purpose is to wash girls into playthings like Yamato Nadeshiko who are obedient to men. Once they are disobedient, they will be very

Will be fired soon.

Cao Zhiqiang doesn't want to do that kind of thing, and he has all kinds of good songs from his past life, and he also knows all kinds of Korean dance patterns from later generations. At the same time, he is not short of money, so he can naturally try to play the more trendy ones in advance.

thing.

Let the Japanese test the water first. It’s good if it works. If it doesn’t work, you can also learn from experience and do it in China later.

Later, boss Xu of a certain university could play in a song and dance troupe, so naturally I, Mr. Cao, could do it too, and I would definitely do it better than him.

However, he knows very well that in order to create an idol group, it is not enough to have outstanding talents, but also to be good-looking.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang learned the spirit of the Takarazuka Song and Dance Troupe and only looked for women.

In other words, whether it is a dance troupe or an orchestra, the first requirement for joining is that you must be a woman, not a man.

The reason for this rule is not Cao Zhiqiang's bad taste, or that he has any desire to give up and want to play in the harem or something.

The real reason is that this all-female approach is really eye-catching.

And women's performance styles on stage are indeed more varied.

If nothing else, a woman dressed as a man can be very handsome and pleasing to the eye, but if a man dresses as a woman, it will be very disgusting.

It is not unreasonable for the Takarazuka Revue to be successful. The charm of effeminate girls is irresistible, at least in Japan today.

So, if you want to do it, of course you have to make it good-looking and pleasing to the eye.

All women are of course a must-select.

Among female members, talent is not the first consideration, height, weight and appearance are the first consideration criteria.

Anyway, students who can be admitted to Tokyo University of the Arts will definitely pass the talent category. After all, they have already passed the examination once.
To be continued...