A few days later, in the early morning, on the D101 train bound for Qiyang City, the capital of the Eastern Region, Duan Xi was reading a copy of the "Danjiang Evening News" out of boredom.
Among them, in the social news section of the fourth page, I saw a message——
A male corpse was accidentally salvaged by fishermen at the entrance of the Blackwater River into the city. It was identified as possibly Feng Jingting, the former deputy general manager of Xingyao Entertainment. The main artery in the corpse's neck was severed with a sharp weapon. The case is under investigation...
"What are you looking at? You are so attentive." Mu Rou showed a silly and sweet smile on the opposite side.
Duan Xi closed the newspaper and shook his head: "What good content can Danjiang Evening News have? It's just too boring to pass the time. How are you preparing your speech? This meeting will be very grand."
"Oh, don't push me anymore. The more you push me, the more I will lose my confidence." Mu Rou said this, but she was actually very confident. After all, she has been a broadcaster and host for so long.
This time, they and their group represent the entire "Peace Hotel" crew and will conduct a promotional tour in major cities under the Eastern Region to boost the box office.
Originally, he was planning to let Mu Rou and others go directly to Kunlun Plain, but Duan Xi thought about it for a long time and felt that it was better not to leave Danjiang too far for now. He was not too worried about Chen Ange.
Besides, "Peace Hotel" is a drama with the male lead after all. Director Zhang Yunwei and actor Wu Dongpeng went to Kunlun Plain all the way, and the lineup is enough.
Moreover, when Duan Xi came to the capital of the East Region, he also hoped to discuss the cooperation issue with the local radio station in Qiyang. The Danjiang Bai family has begun to move and has made preliminary arrangements in Qiyang City. The Shen family asked them to leave, and they had to leave.
It happened that the big boss behind the Bai family, the Governor of the Eastern Region, was also in Qiyang.
And the person in charge of the preliminary business here is Bai Yuan, the eldest lady of the Bai family who was in charge of selling the radio station to Millennium.
So while on the promotional tour, Duan Xi also made an appointment with Bai Yuan. If the Bai family was interested, he wouldn't mind cooperating with the Bai family.
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After arriving in Qiyang, Mu Rou instantly felt the presence of a first-line star - there were already fans holding banners and holding flowers beside the train station. After seeing Mu Rou's figure, those fans were even more excited and screamed.
, with tears in my eyes...
Mu Rou, who was treated like this for the first time, was even a little at a loss at first. She took several bouquets of flowers and stuffed them into her arms, thanking her repeatedly. In the end, Duan Xi took the flowers and hurriedly pulled her to the waiting car. The fans behind her
Still waving reluctantly, chasing.
Duan Xi sighed: "You have to slowly adapt to your own pomp, my old little star. If you just accept the flowers when you see them, you won't exhaust me to death later."
Mu Rou covered her face in embarrassment.
The driver was also an employee sent here by Millennium in advance. They were all his own people. He said with a smile:
"Brother Xi is right, Sister Rou, you really need to get used to it. You may not know how famous you are now. There are many streets in Qiyang City with your photos. There are also many top brand stores that sell you
The large photo is placed in the most eye-catching position.”
Mu Rou: "You are also making fun of me."
"You must not believe it... look, over there!" The driver casually pointed to the tallest building in the bustling shopping street not far away. The poster of the Peace Hotel is bigger than the house. And maybe Mu Rou's cute image is too easy.
He is accepted by others, so his position is much more eye-catching than that of the male protagonist.
Mu Rou felt a little embarrassed.
Duan Xi: "So we have to strike while the iron is hot and use this enthusiasm to continue to push up the box office of "Peace Hotel"."
In the fifth and sixth weeks, the box office showed a slight decline, falling back to more than 13 million per week. This is normal, because most of the audiences who should watch have already entered the theater.
Even so, it is already a very good result. Because with the 65 million box office in the first month (first four weeks), the total box office has now exceeded an astonishing 90 million!
In fact, it has now set a league-wide box office record, but people will never give up. After all, it is only one step away from the terrifying goal of "100 million."
The box office at the back is like a sponge that continues to squeeze out water after being squeezed, and the chewed sugarcane bagasse is trying to squeeze out some sweet juice, which will be more difficult.
Even if we can win another 10 million in the seventh and eighth weeks, it would be very gratifying.
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The schedule was very tight. After arriving in Qiyang City at noon and being arranged to the most luxurious hotel, Mu Rou carefully prepared for the fan meeting in this hotel.
The venue was magnificently decorated, and the host, lighting, and music were all top-notch local teams. Duan Xi personally checked the copywriting of the on-site interactive interviews.
It was scheduled to start at three o'clock in the afternoon, but thousands of movie fans crowded at the entrance of the hotel after one o'clock, and people were arriving one after another - although the actual number of movie fans who could enter the venue was only 500, and the tickets had been reserved in advance.
It was sold out. But in order to see their idol in person and meet "Aman" in "Peace Hotel", everyone was still enthusiastic.
Even the affordable admission tickets, which originally cost 100 yuan each, have been sold to 700 or 800 yuan by scalpers outside. It is still hard to get a ticket.
Duan Xi is quite disgusted with the parasitic existence of scalpers, but in this era where real-name registration is not even possible, there is nothing that can be done.
At 2:30, all the staff of Mu Rou were ready, just waiting for movie fans to enter and take their seats.
But at this moment, a burst of noise and noise suddenly broke out outside, and there were even shouts and curses of conflicts.
Everyone was surprised. Duan Xi walked directly outside the hotel and found that a group of armed men in black uniforms had blocked the hotel door, isolating all movie fans.
This uniform is not a military uniform, nor a uniform of a peace officer, but a picket of the Governor's Palace.
How did you provoke these beings?
The Governor's Palace is a hierarchical setting between the Grand Alliance and each city.
The Grand Alliance divided the territory into nine parts. In addition to the core directly-administered area Kunlun Plain (sometimes also called the central area), it also divided the territory into east, west, south, north and northeast, southeast, and northwest according to the four directions.
, eight regions in southwest China.
The number of cities under the jurisdiction of each region varies, generally between a dozen and dozens, and the population also varies. For example, the population of the first-tier city Donghai is seven to eight times greater than that of the third-tier city Danjiang.
In the eight regions outside the Kunlun Plain, a governor's palace was set up and equipped with a picket team of 1,000 people.
In fact, every city in the Kunlun world seems to be independent and autonomous. Only the military is unified, so the top organizational structure is called the Grand Alliance - meaning an alliance of two hundred cities within the territory.
So setting up a governor is not a direct city management, but plays a role of supervision, checks and balances, and supervision. It is equivalent to the "imperial minister" stationed by the Grand Alliance in each region to supervise the military and political affairs of the cities under the jurisdiction of the region.
Senior officials - political attachés and garrison commanders.
For example, the Governor of the Eastern Region will not and cannot directly intervene in the affairs of Danjiang City. He cannot directly order the Department of Public Security and the Department of Culture and Education in Danjiang, but he directly supervises Danjiang Political Commissioner Han Lianjiang; the Governor cannot directly order the Danjiang Department of Public Security and Culture and Education.
In the naval camp, he could only directly supervise what Wan Muqiu should do.
If Han Lianjiang or Wan Muchiu refuses to obey the supervision, the Governor can send a picket team to "on-site supervision." If they still shirk responsibility and perfunctoryly do things, the Governor can give direct feedback to the highest level of the Grand Alliance and demand the impeachment of Han Lianjiang or Wan Muchiu.
Once the governor makes an impeachment, the intensity is much greater than that of the Danjiang Political Affairs Committee's impeachment of Wan Muqiu, and the success rate is extremely high, because the governor is the "imperial envoy" representing the grand alliance.
In turn, the local government office and the garrison do not have any counter-authority against the Governor-General's Palace. Even if the Governor-General makes a mistake, they can only appeal directly to the Grand Alliance and request the Grand Alliance to withdraw the inspection order from the Governor-General's Palace.
Therefore, if a region only has 20 cities, then the governor can "only" manage and supervise 40 people.
It's just that these 40 people are all civil and military princes of the same party, so it seems that the authority of the Governor's Mansion is higher.
But generally speaking, the Governor's Mansion does not have that much energy, so even if it is given great authority, it is difficult to apply it in practice.
Especially if you really go deep into a certain city to "on-site supervision" and send a picket team, what can be accomplished? Once several local wealthy families join forces to form an offensive and defensive alliance, they can implement a boycott.
Therefore, the Governor-General's Office generally only targets the big ones and lets go of the small ones. In the face of this "imperial envoy" sent from above, all cities and garrisons also maintain the most basic respect.
In a word: Within the scope of this region, the governor does not directly arrest people or handle specific cases, but he can endlessly disgust you through the government affairs department or the garrison, and you can't do anything about him.
But Duan Xi didn't expect that he was just holding a fan meeting, how could he provoke such a high-ranking thing from the Governor's Mansion picket team?
Once the Governor's Office directly intervenes in the matter, it is useless to report to the local Public Security Department, because the Public Security Department has no authority to restrain the Governor's Office. At most, you can appeal to the Grand Alliance Headquarters through the Government Affairs Department - but for this matter, the local government affairs
Is it worth it?
Duan Xi walked to the front and saw a man who looked like a young man in his twenties blocking the door. Although he was wearing fancy white casual clothes and had flowing long hair, the thirty or forty pickets
But they all followed his lead.
"What kind of meeting is there, and who is in charge?" This young man was holding an extremely expensive cigar in his mouth, wearing sunglasses and raising his chin, looking domineering.
Duan Xi: "Duan Xi, consultant of Millennium Company, I wonder if you are...?"
"Are you Duan Xi?!" The young master took off his sunglasses, revealing a pair of sinister eyes, and looked at Duan Xi carefully, "My surname is Lu, Governor Lu's name is Lu."
This introduction is domineering and euphemistic, and arrogant and subtle.
And Duan Xi suddenly realized the origin between herself and him.
Sure enough, Mr. Lu sneered: "It was you Qian Qian who, together with the Danjiang Shen family, forcibly bought the Danjiang Radio Station at a low price. I remember that the person in charge was called bastard Duan Xi, but I didn't expect that today I would bump into him directly.
ah."
Danjiang Radio Station originally belonged to the Bai family, and the backstage of the Bai family was the Governor's Mansion. Obviously, Governor Lu must have hidden interests in the Bai family's industry.
Therefore, the loss of the Bai family on the radio station also means the loss of the Lu family.
However, when Millennium bought the radio station, it was really not "collaborating with the Shen family." At that time, the relationship with the Shen family was very ordinary, and Duan Xi still begged to let the Shen family go, and then the deal was completed.
But now, this matter is unclear. Shen and Qian Qian have a good relationship. Shen Daoran attended the premiere of "Peace Hotel" in person and gave him the biggest congratulatory gift;
Under the operation of Millennium Duan Xi, Shen Lan was able to take office as the commander-in-chief of the Danjiang Rapid Response Column;
There are even rumors that Shen Daoran personally brought Duan Xi and Shen Lan together...
One by one, can you still pick them out clearly?
You said that Qian Qian and Shen were not part of a scheme to buy the Bai family's assets at a low price. Who would believe it?
Even if Duan Xi had a hundred mouths, it would be impossible for him to explain clearly.
"Master Lu, this is a misunderstanding."
"I misunderstood your grandma!" Mr. Lu waved his hand, "I received a report that there was illegal hallucinogen trading in this hotel. The Qiyang Public Security Department failed to investigate and deal with it, so we had to supervise it personally and seal the hotel!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the pickets blocked the hotel arbitrarily.
In fact, the Governor's Office cannot handle cases directly, but due to the difficulty in restraining its power, such incidents of overstepping of authority have become common over time. As long as it is not too excessive, the local government affairs office will just let it go.
Naturally, a large number of movie fans kept shouting, some protested, some demanded refunds, and some even clashed with the pickets, causing chaos at the scene.
Obviously, at least today's meeting was a mess.
Mr. Lu walked past Duan Xi disdainfully and took a strong sip of thick phlegm on the ground.