Chapter 83: Year-End Summary of Heaven and Earth

  Chen Xuehe is an expert in financial management, and after her sorting, the company's accounts became much clearer. He Mu was looking at the accounts while listening to Chen Xuehe's explanation. It's already November now, and since its establishment at the end of 2005, Tiandi Xuanyuan Culture Media Co., Ltd. has been in operation for almost a year. Chen Xuehe is essentially doing a year-end summary.

  With Li Wen's unique insight and relying on the Media University Press, the company successfully operated four books in three volumes: "Living with Flight Attendants" in January 2006, "Heart-pounding Steps - Part One" in April, "Heart-pounding Steps - Part Two" in June, and "Things of Ming Dynasty - Volume One" in September.

  Not to mention sales, the number of four books alone is not a level that ordinary new publishing companies can achieve. This requires courage and courage, and Li Culture has done very well in this regard. Without the arrogance of a rich young master, he has evolved into an excellent company manager.

  Four books, among which "The Days of Living with My Sister-in-law" relied on the popularity of online novels and later benefited from the TV series adaptation, sales have exceeded 200,000 copies, reaching 220,000 copies, and it is expected that there will be another small sales peak when the TV series is broadcast.

  The sales of the two volumes of "Step by Step Fear" have also reached expectations, although not as influential as "Flight Attendant", but with the support of ** Literature and effective publicity, as of today, the first volume has sold over 100,000 copies, and the second volume is close to 90,000. It's not difficult for both volumes to break through 100,000. Inspired by "Flight Attendant", Li Culture is considering whether "Step by Step Fear" can be adapted into a film or TV series. He thinks that in the future, the company can make efforts in this area and establish a copyright center or similar institution to seek derivative rights benefits for their published books.

  These books are the most surprising, especially "Ming Dynasty Those Things", which has been on sale for over two months and has already sold nearly 500,000 copies. The printing factory has repeatedly reprinted it, and its sales have far exceeded Li Wen's expectations. Li Wen believes that this series of Ming history will be a miracle in the history of Chinese publishing.

  Later, the then Mingyue, who had become a friend of Li Wen's culture, told him that soon after, a publisher would find him, Shen Haobo of Mo Tie, and if Li Wen hadn't taken the initiative to visit his home and move him with sincerity, this super bestseller might have fallen into Mo Tie's hands. Li Wen secretly congratulated himself, and also appreciated He Mu for discovering such a treasure for the company. The first part had only been written up to the Yongle Emperor, but Mingyue wanted to finish the entire Ming Dynasty, this book was too promising.

  Due to the sudden surge of "Ming Dynasty", the company's annual sales have exceeded 200 million yuan this year, which is also considered excellent in private book publishing companies, let alone Tian Di Xuan Huang is a newly established company.

  From the report made by Xuehe Jie, He Mu can see that the company's net profit for the year is close to 3 million. The cultural creation of wealth, He Mu's initial capital of 1 million earned so much in just one year, not including the current brand value of Tiandi Xuanhuang.

  Xuehe sister then briefly talked about the publication plan for next year.

  In 07, in addition to the confirmed release of "Air Stewardess" Part 2 and the "Ming Dynasty" series, Li Wen Hua signed a recently popular work. Bei Si Han, who had interned at Tian Di Xuan Huang during summer vacation, also discovered three promising romance novels for the company and all signed with the company. Overjoyed, Li Wen Hua directly awarded her 30,000 yuan in prize money. Even the real book scouts in the company didn't receive such good treatment, of course they couldn't discover such good books either. In addition, Bei Si Han was also awarded the title of "Number One Book Scout".

  Zuo Jun also received high praise from Li Wen Hua for his outstanding performance in the marketing and promotion of "Ming Dynasty", and was rewarded with a bonus of 30,000 yuan. Li Wen Hua even had the intention of letting Zuo Jun stay and work at the company afterwards.

  Although he was the number one book explorer of the Xuanzi, He Mu still didn't understand the division of the sky and earth's mysterious yellow. Xuehe sister answered his questions and dispelled his doubts for him.

  Due to the grassroots nature of online literature, planning such books is relatively low-cost and has less competition, making it a good deal for Tian Di Xuan Huang. However, the internet is vast, and there are many literary websites, so finding suitable books for physical publication from among these numerous sites is not an easy task.

  For this reason, Li Wen Hua, who has been immersed in online literature for many years, divides the vast online literary websites into four major categories.

  One type is a website targeting male readers, good at writing hot-blooded articles, with Qidian as its representative. This type of website is in charge of Tianzi Shu Tan, Li Wenxue self-proclaimed Tianzi No. 1 book explorer, the book he signed was discovered on Qidian website, that book will be the company's work focus next year, even as important as "Ming Dynasty".

  The second category targets female readers, typically written from a female perspective, focusing on romance and love. This type of website is mainly managed by Hongxiu Tianxia, with the assistance of Dianzi Shu Tan.

  The third category is led by He Mu and other Xuanzi book explorers, who are mainly responsible for finding texts with development value in some well-known forums, such as Tianya and Mop.

  The fourth category is the reading channel of portal websites, such as ** and **, which are naturally managed by Huangzi Shu Tan.

  Li Wen Hua divides the literary website into four spheres of influence, each managed by a group of book explorers, with a bit of a martial arts feel, and of course, figures like Li Wen Hua, He Mu, and Bei Si Han are not restricted by the website.

  This is Li Wen's attempt to explore the book scouting system, and the effect is not yet visible. After all, the company is still too small, with limited cash flow and limited publishing capacity, so it can't give book scouts much space to perform. Sometimes they see a very promising book, but due to the company's strength, they may have to give up on it.

  To solve this problem, Li Wen Hua is considering whether to acquire a printing factory for books and publications. With the printing factory, not only can it reduce publishing costs and increase company profits, but also speed up cash flow recovery, effectively expanding the company's publishing capacity, which has significant implications for the company's development. However, funding for the acquisition of the factory is still an issue, which is what Li Wen Hua and Xue He Jie need to consider.

  After leaving Tian Di Xuan Huang, He Mu felt that the sky was vast and he had a vigorous and unlimited potential company. He could advance or retreat, and in the entertainment industry, he could be bold and unrestrained.

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  He Mu didn't stay in the capital for too long and rushed to Hong Kong the next day, even though it wasn't his turn to act yet. While waiting for filming, He Mu not only watched how Xie Tongfeng and others filmed, but also brought him to meet some old friends by Da Tang, such as Zhang Weijian, Zhang Qian, Tian Niang, Fan Shaohuang and so on. They were all old acquaintances who had cooperated with him before, although they weren't any superstars, He Mu was happy to make more friends.

  After waiting for two days, He Mu finally waited for his second appearance.

  The play tells the story of a group of police officers led by Fang Wei (played by Yu Wenle) encountering Tian Yangsheng (played by Wu Jing) and his gang at night, leading to an intense fight scene, with He Mu also having several action scenes.

  Before filming, director Chen Muxing and action director Li Zhongzhi from the Cheng Jiaban had already explained to He Mu what he needed to do in terms of action moves. In fact, his action scenes were relatively few, just knocking down a few police officers would be enough, the main focus was still on Wu Jing's brutal fight with Yu Wenle.

  Because of He Mu's own martial arts foundation, he quickly mastered the actions he needed to do, and it wasn't difficult to complete them. The only difficulty was that he couldn't grasp the lightness or heaviness of his hands because he was afraid of accidentally hurting his opponent, so he didn't dare use force, making it look fake. However, when he really did use force, his opponents would cry out in pain and often suffer for half an hour after being hit by one of He Mu's punches.

  At this time, Wu Jing would come over to teach him how to shoot the fight scenes, how to bring out that sense of power without hurting his opponent. In this regard, Wu Jing had a wealth of experience, and his guidance made He Mu's eyes light up, avoiding many detours. In fact, it wasn't just He Mu, after filming was completed, Xie Yunpeng and others all expressed that Wu Jing's fighting skills were very high, and they had much to learn from him.

  After finishing the fight scenes with He Mu and two other mercenaries, two hours of filming time have passed. Next, the crew will focus on completing the duel between Wu Jing and Yu Wenle.

  Due to the huge gap in strength, Wu Jing dominated Yu Wenle, beating him miserably. Finally, he couldn't take it anymore and pulled out a gun. At this moment, Wu Jing swiftly kicked Yu Wenle and his gun away, then forcibly stuffed the bullets from the gun into Yu Wenle's mouth.

  Although the bullet didn't actually enter, the onlookers were also shocked and amazed. Wu Jing's doll-like face at this moment was like a demon possessed, although his face showed no ferocity, it still made people feel a chill to the bone.

  Action scenes are generally very large, some actions need to be repeated many times to meet the director's requirements. The audience feels great and smooth when watching, but the shooting is far from that. This scene was shot until after 2am before finishing work.

  Not having slept much, the sky brightened and work began again. It was He Mu's turn to appear on stage this time, but his opponent was Xie Tongfeng. However, today He Mu mainly played with guns, while the high-difficulty chase scenes were handed over to Xie Tongfeng.

  I knew that Nicholas Tse's car chase scene would be difficult to film, but I didn't expect it to be so dangerous. No wonder the investors had a hard time finding an insurance company in Hong Kong willing to cover him, and finally had to go all the way to the US to get him insured with a sky-high premium.

  He Mu finished filming his own scenes and followed the crew, on the one hand to see how the director coordinated and directed, and on the other hand to see how Xie Tongfeng filmed this scene which was almost risking his life.

  After a whole day of shooting, Xie Tongfeng had several new injuries on his body. After he finished all the dangerous stunts, the entire crew and even passersby applauded for him. His professionalism and bravery earned everyone's respect, including He Mu.

  PS: Thanks for shashazhuzhu's reward and update vote, 3000 is a small matter to me ~~ (ˇ?ˇ）

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