Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 11 Chen Xiaoqi's Plan
"Rocking the Wupeng Boat"

"Good luck with the flow"

"On your eighteen-year-old face"

"Like a lotus flower in the sun, red like a lotus flower"

“Walking through the bluestone alley”

"Red Lanterns Are Lit"

……

In the planning department office of China Records, Zhou Ziheng's tape was playing on the tape recorder, and the tape had reached the end.

In the office, Chen Xiaoqi and Li Guangping sat on the sofa, listening to the songs on the tape recorder, and they were speechless.

After a while, Li Guangping hesitated and said, "How about Zhou Ziheng not recommend it to Pacific? Let's release this album ourselves!"

Originally, Li Guangping and Chen Xiaoqi both thought that Zhou Ziheng's tape would be the same as Li Chunbo's, with only one song, "Wandering Song", being able to make a difference in the market.

Therefore, when it came to a situation where he had to choose between Li Chunbo's "Xiao Fang" and the other, Li Guangping agreed to Chen Xiaoqi's suggestion to recommend Zhou Ziheng to Pacific.

However, after listening to the tape, Li Guangping regretted it.

If the song "Wandering Song" is indeed rustic, it is easy to sing.

Most of the other songs on this tape are music that Li Guangping believes is very popular in mainland China now.

For example, "Outside the Window". In Li Guangping's opinion, this song is not inferior to the popular songs in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Then there is "Jiujiu Daughter's Red Wine" and "September 9th Wine". These two songs not only have good lyrics, but also have a strong mainland flavor in their melody.

Coupled with the two highly infectious songs "New Migrant Worker's Ballad" and "Children Away from Home", after listening to them, Li Guangping was absolutely certain that this tape would be a hit.

He thought it was not worthwhile to push a tape that he thought would be a hit to other companies.

Opposite him, Chen Xiaoqi was listening carefully to the song on the recorder. Hearing this, he couldn't help but smiled bitterly and said:

"It's too late. I've already told Liu Zhiwen about this."

After a pause, his tone became somewhat unpredictable, "Besides, Zhou Ziheng's album is of such good quality, it might not be a bad idea to give it to Pacific Publishing."

Li Guangping was stunned. "What do you mean?"

"Do you know why I suggested that everyone sign Zhou Ziheng's Wandering Song at the meeting last time?"

Chen Xiaoqi stood up and said, "I clearly knew that "Wandering Song" would not be accepted by Lao Wang and his group, but I still proposed it.

Among them, I was not very willing to recommend Zhou Ziheng to Pacific.

Another reason is that I want "Wandering Song" to go through the review process of our planning department.

Tell me, if the song we both strongly recommended was rejected by others, but it was published by another company and achieved good results, what impact would it have on the planning department?"

"Of course the company has doubts about our planning department's song selection criteria!"

Without thinking, Li Guangping answered.

However, after answering, he immediately reacted and stared at Chen Xiaoqi, "Do you want to use the pressure from above to eliminate the different voices in the planning department?"

Originally, Li Guangping was wondering why Chen Xiaoqi suddenly took out the finished song "Wandering Song" by Zhou Ziheng half a month ago and proposed to sign Zhou Ziheng at the internal meeting of the Planning Department.

Now he finally understands.

It turns out that Chen Xiaoqi’s main purpose was not to get the song passed, but rather its failure to pass was his intention.

“The Planning Department has been established for two months. Although I am the director, as you can see, the higher-ups insisted on inserting a group of people who know nothing into the department.

It can be said that their existence has indirectly or directly affected the original intention of establishing this department.

What is our original intention?
It is based on the management models of advanced record companies in Hong Kong, Taiwan and abroad, in order to promote the rapid development of our music culture.

result……"

Zhou Xiaoqi lit up another cigarette. He loved smoking and was an old smoker who never put down his cigarette.

Taking a deep breath and exhaling, with smoke rolling in the air, he continued: “‘Wandering Song’ is an opportunity to eliminate them.

Even if it means giving up this tape that could have sold well.

Looking at the tape "Xiao Fang", you and I both think it has great potential and will be recognized by the market.

The result? A bunch of old-fashioned people refused to publish the tape because the songs were too old-fashioned.

Today we have Xiao Fang, and there will definitely be other songs tomorrow.

I don’t want to have to fight them over every tape we think has a market.”

After listening to Chen Xiaoqi's words, Li Guangping looked at the recorder with some regret.

He really liked this tape.

But compared to being the boss of the planning department, this tape is obviously not that important.

"I will personally accompany Zhou Ziheng to Pacific tomorrow. Not only will I ask Pacific to sign his tape, I will also ask Pacific to invest a lot of resources in it, making it a truly hit tape."

The song in the tape recorder finished playing, and there was a crackling sound of electricity. Chen Xiaoqi took out the tape and spoke very seriously.

……

"Ding ding ding ding..."

Early in the morning, Zhou Ziheng was awakened from his sleep by the pager beside his bed.

He recognized the pager number that called him; it was Chen Xiaoqi's pager number.

When he saw that it was Chen Xiaoqi calling him, he immediately realized that Chen Xiaoqi had already set out to pick him up.

Yesterday, Li Chunbo went to China Record Corporation, and when he came back he told Zhou Ziheng that Chen Xiaoqi would come to pick him up today and take him to Pacific Ocean in person.

Zhou Ziheng's eyes fell on the poster of the Four Heavenly Kings beside the bed, and they were full of anticipation.

If all goes well, he should be able to sign a publishing contract with Pacific today, and Pacific will be fully responsible for bringing his tape "Wandering Song" to the market.

If all goes well and this tape sells well, his singing career will officially begin.

"The Four Heavenly Kings! Maybe one day I'll be on the same stage with you!"

After muttering to himself, he quickly got up from the bed, washed, brushed his teeth, changed into a suit that he had bought at a sky-high price of one hundred dollars, and then walked downstairs with relaxed and expectant steps.

"Sweet, your smile is so sweet"

"Like flowers blooming in the spring breeze"

"Blooming in the Spring Breeze"

……

At the gate of the compound, the guard Lao Wang had already started playing the tape recorder as usual. When he saw Zhou Ziheng dressed differently than usual, he immediately asked with a surprised look on his face:

"Hengzi, you are dressed so handsomely, what are you going to do?"

"Brother Wang!" Zhou Ziheng called out, and replied, "I recorded a tape and plan to take it to Pacific to see if it can be published.

If it works, maybe you'll have a chance to buy my tape someday!"

"You're just bragging!" Hearing this, Lao Wang didn't quite believe it. "If you can really publish a tape, I'll introduce my daughter to you!"

"You are really good at climbing the social ladder. I call you brother, but you actually want to be my father-in-law. You should leave your daughter to someone else!"

When Zhou Ziheng heard Lao Wang mention his daughter, he couldn't help but shudder.

He had seen Lao Wang's daughter before. She was 5.3 pounds and her arms were thicker than his thighs. He really didn't dare to mess with her.

(End of this chapter)