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Chapter 70 Poaching
The spring breeze of reform is blowing everywhere.

There were not many private enterprises at that time, and those that existed had to be affiliated with others, which then caused a lot of trouble after a few years.

But self-employed individuals have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

After Liu Guixian opened the first self-employed hotel, Yuebin, in Beijing in 1980, hotels became an industry with a large number of self-employed people.

In Shanghai, there are many restaurants run by individual businesses.

Since the service attitude is good enough, the customers will not be hit or scolded, or given the cold shoulder, which gives diners a brand new experience, and the restaurants are quite popular.

Huang Ze and Zhang Jianya found a restaurant nearby, ordered four dishes and a bottle of wine, and started drinking.

"Hey, tell me, what's going on? I feel like something happened!" Seeing Zhang Jianya's sad face, Huang Ze vaguely guessed something, but some words always have to be said by the other party.

"gone."

"I went to the United States."

"Do you think the United States is so good? Do we have to go there?"

"Um, this, this, how should I put it..." Huang Ze did not answer and went around in circles.

If someone had asked me this question before I traveled through time, I would definitely have said that they are all similar, each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

But this moment.

The per capita GDP gap is over 50 times. For the same job, what you earn in a year is not as much as what others earn in a week.

How do I say this?
"So what?" Zhang Jianya asked with red eyes.

"Let's not discuss this topic. Let's talk about you. You didn't stop her? After all, you just got married this year."

"I can't stop her!" Zhang Jianya smiled bitterly, "She said that her junior high school education is her eternal pain. Now she has a chance to study in the United States. She is smiling in her dreams. How can I stop her?"

"Being someone who hinders others' progress?"

"I don't want to do that."

"You are selfless, but you can only stay here alone." Huang Ze raised his eyebrows, "It takes four years to finish school. If you want to study for a master's degree, it will take another three years. Four years and three years, seven years, brother. By then, you will be over 40."

“Some of them have grandchildren now.”

"Stop talking, stop talking." Zhang Jianya took a big gulp of wine, and the wine made him even more sad.

"I feel so bored! Love, love, is separated by the Pacific Ocean."

"Career, without your talent, I don't know when I can direct my first film. I think if I wait until I'm 40 and become an experienced person, maybe I'll have a chance."

"Hey, didn't you tell me before that you were going to open a film company in Hong Kong Island? Have you opened one yet? How about taking me with you?"

"You don't work at the Shanghai Film Studio anymore?"

"It's not that interesting." Zhang Jianya smiled bitterly and shook his head. "I might as well work with you. At least you won't cheat me, and I can make more money."

"Then go apply for unpaid leave, or resign!"

He came back just to find Zhang Jianya to film a movie with him. Since the other party had this idea, Huang Ze just went along with it.

"Of course, don't let me speak for you!"

He ran away by himself, and dragged a Beijing Film Academy graduate class of 78 with him. Huang Ze felt that Director Xu would most likely get furious.

Zhang Jianya, go and embrace the storm.

"Just say it." Zhang Jianya slammed the table, "Can you give me 500 yuan a month?"

"No, I'm not that capitalist yet." Huang Ze shook his head, "Given our relationship, 5,000 Hong Kong dollars a month."

"I……"

Zhang Jianya's hand holding the wine glass stopped, his eyes suddenly reddened, "Damn it, drink it!"

"We are from Hujian Putian. Are we afraid to venture out?"

Facts have proved that Zhang Jianya alone is not enough, Huang Ze still has to take action.

Director Xu disagreed. Even though Zhang Jianya didn't say anything, the message he left was that Huang Ze should come and talk to me.
Huang Ze could only go and meet the old factory director.

"You poached people from home?" Xu Shangchu smiled and rolled his eyes at Huang Ze after seeing him. "Do you think there are many young people who graduated from the directing department of Beijing Film Academy in our studio?"

"Not many." Huang Ze nodded, "But there aren't many people who can direct a play in our factory either."

"You are the only one." Director Xu couldn't help but sigh, "Stop talking, stop talking."

“The bigger it is and the more history it has, the more you are in me and I am in you. There is nothing I can do to give young people more opportunities.”

"I can't go against the seniority of the entire factory! After all, they were also brilliant and influential when they were young. I can't just kick them out at the last minute, right?"

"You want to take Zhang Jianya to Hong Kong Island, then go ahead. I want to see if you can make a movie like this."

"Thank you Director Xu." Huang Ze nodded repeatedly. "By the way, Director Xu, do you know Director Wu of Xiying? I'd like to ask Gu Changwei to be my photographer, but I'm afraid they won't let him go. Can you talk to them for me?"

"You poached my people and you still want me to do you a favor!"

Director Xu laughed, he had no way to deal with this most outstanding young man who came out of his factory.

"Okay, I agree."

"Then do you want to express your opinion?"

"How about we do a co-production if we have the chance?" Huang Ze said, "We'll each split the cost in half, and all the domestic profits will go to the company. The overseas copyright fees will be split 40% and 60%, with 60% going to me."

"That makes sense." Director Xu thought for a moment, "The cost of the film won't be too high, right? If I pay half of it, it will still cost a million, so this project may not be successful."

"If each family contributes 500,000, that's about enough."

"That's okay!"

Five hundred thousand is almost the cost of a movie produced by Shanghai Film Studio.

Even if foreign copyrights cannot be sold for a penny, as long as China Film acquires them, the studio will make a profit.

Director Xu nodded slightly, "But if we want to cooperate, we have to negotiate with China Film Group first. Let me negotiate, and I will tell your father when there is a result."

"Okay, let's put it this way then."

The assistant director was confirmed, and after Huang Ze contacted Gu Changwei, he focused on the house.

After ten days of work, we finally got the house at No. 16 Dongping Road, which has a 500-square-meter garden and a construction area of ​​more than 700 square meters.

On the first day of purchasing it, Huang Ze took Gong Xing to see it.

There are two large black iron doors at the entrance.

When you go in, there is a small garden and you can see a fountain. Of course, no one has lived here for a long time, so there is no water.

Behind the small garden is a three-story red Western-style house.

"Isn't this the place where Chen lived during the Republic of China?" Gong Xing said.

"Legends are just legends. If it is really Chen's residence, would I dare to buy it? Let's go in and take a look." Huang Ze walked in and walked through all three floors.

"Yes, it is good. There are flush toilets and sewers."

"It was built in 36. Among the garden houses in Shanghai, it is relatively new."

"It's a pity that we won't be able to live in it unless we redecorate it for a year or so."

"It's just right. I can just live in Hong Kong Island during the filming period."

"Isn't it too eye-catching to live in a house like this?" Gong Xing said.

"If it really doesn't work, let me play the letters from fans here! Is that okay?" It might be eye-catching now, but in five or six years, it will be enough. It's not impossible to use it as a place to play letters for the time being.

After getting the house and fulfilling his wish, Huang Ze left some money to his parents to help them with the decoration, and then he took Gong Xue away from Shanghai and went to Hong Kong Island.

As for Zhang Jianya, he still has to go through some formalities, and it will take about ten days or half a month for him to arrive.

(End of this chapter)