dkrc Chapter 123 'Abundant Drama'
Chapter 123 'Abundant Drama'
Chang'an, Xingle Village.
"Second Uncle, what are you looking at?"
Li Fugui, wearing a thick down jacket and a cotton hat, walked in rubbing his hands together.
Although he was called the second uncle, Li Cheng and he were actually the same age. In this place, people were addressed according to their seniority.
The two had a good relationship since childhood, but their fates changed drastically as they grew older.
Li Fugui graduated from junior high school and stayed at home, farming and occasionally doing odd jobs. He got married and had children, but life was tough, and there were frequent arguments at home.
Li Cheng went to university, got a decent job, and was very knowledgeable.
"Short dramas! They're super popular now, especially this one." Li Cheng ate sunflower seeds while watching the short drama.
"Peerless?" Li Fugui immediately laughed.
"I love watching this too, I've finished it all. You know what, it's really enjoyable to watch, even though it costs a lot of money."
Li Cheng looked up, a smug expression on his face.
"You spend money watching dramas, I make money watching dramas."
"Making money?" Li Fugui immediately became interested.
He's been coming to visit every few days, just hoping Li Cheng can introduce him to some work.
The Lunar New Year is just around the corner, and this year's income is not good. My wife and I had another fight last night.
"You mean Douyin Lite? I downloaded it before, but I can't watch this in the Lite version."
"What are you talking about! You idiot! Who makes money off that stuff?!"
Li Cheng looked disgusted.
"Second Uncle, aren't we brothers? If you have this way of making money, you have to take me with you." Li Fugui immediately grabbed Li Cheng, his tone filled with longing.
"What brother? I'm your second uncle!"
Li Cheng chuckled, then looked around before lowering his voice: "You can't tell anyone about this."
"I have connections for this short drama."
"A way in?"
Li Fugui's eyes lit up.
"You must know how profitable these short dramas are, right? Take 'Peerless' for example. To watch the whole thing, it would cost seventy or eighty yuan per person. Even if you bought it all at once, it would still cost fifty yuan."
"Hmm!" Li Fugui felt a pang of heartache all year.
"I'm not afraid to tell you, I invested 80,000 yuan in this short drama, and now I've made a killing. The car I drove back was bought with this profit share."
"What?!"
Li Fugui immediately stood up.
My second uncle's words were truly shocking.
"You also have connections to direct dramas by such a famous director?"
"What era are we living in? How can you still hold such views? So what if he's a big director? So what if he's a hit show? Don't they get paid to make and promote their films?"
"Where did all that money come from?"
"You mean..." Li Fugui felt as if a door to a new world had been opened, filled with both fear and excitement.
"I'll show you something."
Immediately, Li Cheng opened an app called "Jufengying".
Clicking through reveals the huge cover of "Dynasty Warriors," but even more striking than the cover is the sentence on it:
"Dynasty Warriors" spent 8000 million RMB in 7 days!
Li Fugui's eyes were blurry from looking at those '0's that were easy to miscount if he wasn't careful.
"This is the financing platform set up by our Chang'an Short Drama Association. All the short dramas currently being shown need financing."
Li Fugui was overjoyed, staring at the treasure with mesmerized eyes.
"Hasn't this show already finished filming? Why do they still need to raise funds?"
Although short videos exist now, the fragmented nature of the information means that people like Li Fugui also receive fragmented information.
They seem to know everything, but they only see the leaf and not the forest.
"Distribute it!"
"Shooting a short drama only costs a few dollars. The real cost of a short drama is the investment. As long as the data is good after it goes online and the return on investment can reach more than 1.2, the drama can be invested in. The more you invest, the more you earn. It's basically a sure-fire way to make money."
"Take 'Dynasty Warriors' for example. They invested 80 million in 7 days. Do you know what its return on investment was?"
Li Fugui's mind was in a mess. He didn't even understand what the input-output ratio was; he only remembered four words:
Steady profit without losing!
"How many?"
"1.8".
Seeing the puzzled look on Li Fugui's face, Li Cheng sighed.
"It means if you put in one dollar, this show can earn you one dollar and eighty cents."
"What?!"
This time, Li Fugui was shocked.
"So profitable!"
"Otherwise, why do you think I came back? Let me tell you the truth! I came back this time to borrow money. I told my mom about it last night, and I even showed her the screenshots of my profits. Only then did she agree to lend me 50,000 yuan."
"This is it, look."
Li Cheng opened his backend data and was surprised to find that there were over 100,000 records.
"Second Uncle, please help me. I'll go raise the money right away."
He was tempted.
For so many years, I have been mediocre and unproductive.
This time, he finally saw a chance to turn things around.
"You can't do it!"
Why?
"What are you thinking! Why would anyone give you this obviously profitable business?"
"Didn't you just say you could get financing?"
Li Fugui was getting anxious. It was like a girl who had already taken off her clothes and was just one step away from the end, and then suddenly you were told to brake. You'd think that would be painful.
"It's possible to merge them, but forget about 'Dynasty Warriors'."
"Because I was among the first batch of members, I was able to get a share of 50,000 for 'Peerless' this time. When you first start out, you can only invest in other short dramas."
"Ah! What if we lose money?" Li Fugui hesitated.
"That's not right! You just said you borrowed 50,000 when you came back, but you have over 100,000 in your account, don't you?"
Li Cheng glanced at him disdainfully.
"I used my family's money to buy the 50,000 shares of 'Project Gutenberg'. The profit margin for this kind of hit drama isn't big, so I just considered it as giving my mom some interest."
"I mainly invest in new dramas that have already been released and are available online. As long as the return on investment is over 1.2, I'll invest in one. If I invest in the next hit drama, I'll make a fortune. If I don't invest in a hit drama, at least with a return on investment of 1.2, I won't lose money."
Li Fugui may not have been well-educated, but he is not stupid.
On the contrary, to survive in a county town, one not only needs to be intelligent, but also exceptionally shrewd.
He quickly grasped his second uncle's logic and became increasingly excited as he thought about it.
"Second Uncle, can you help me this time? I'll go raise the money right now, okay?"
Li Cheng was unusually serious this time, and his expression was much more solemn.
"Think it through carefully. This isn't a few hundred or a few thousand, it's tens of thousands. It will take you a year or two to save up enough to make it."
"With this opportunity, you could earn tens of thousands more than you could in a few years."
His tone was very firm.
Li Cheng finally nodded.
"Okay! There's an investor briefing tomorrow, you can come along!"
The next day.
Li Fugui followed Li Cheng to Anqing Building, which was the "Ju Fengying" building.
Upon entering the company, I was immediately struck by the bustling, crowded lobby that resembled a vegetable market.
There were over a thousand people in the hall.
There were only three or four hundred plastic stools available, so most people stood up, all craning their necks to look at the stage ahead.
On the giant LED screen, a series of popular short dramas were playing, followed by group photos with captions such as: "So-and-so's share of the profits is XXXXX yuan."
Some people received tens of thousands in commissions, some received several thousand, and there were even a dozen or so people who received six-figure commissions.
"Second Uncle, is that you?"
Li Fugui suddenly shouted.
On the screen was a photo of Li Cheng with a man in a suit, with the caption:
User Li Cheng received 97182 yuan in revenue sharing.
Li Cheng simply nodded and pulled him toward the area with the plastic benches.
"There are way too many people here!"
Li Fugui was astonished.
"Nonsense, these are all people who have met certain requirements. If there weren't, this building wouldn't be able to accommodate them all."
After waiting for more than forty minutes, the number of people in the hall did not decrease but increased, and the standing area at the back was even crowded with people.
Suddenly, music started playing, the lights dimmed, and the previously crowded people immediately quieted down.
"Brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, good afternoon everyone!"
A person walked out from the side of the stage.
The person in the photo with Li Cheng is the owner of Jufengying Company.
At the same time, he is also the boss of Zhuoyuan Media, Liu Yuan.
Li Fugui sat upright. With so many people standing, the fact that he could sit made his vanity rise, and he now believed his second uncle's words without a doubt.
On stage, Liu Yuan introduced his products.
It discusses the issue from multiple perspectives, including data, national policies, platform policies, and market reactions.
Although there was a lot of content, Li Fugui felt that it wasn't as well told as his second uncle's story.
At least, there were several parts that he didn't understand.
However, none of this matters.
He only remembered four words: "A sure thing, no losses."
As my second uncle said, the market share for a blockbuster like "Dynasty Warriors" is so tight it's outrageous.
Of the nearly one thousand people, fewer than ten received a share ranging from thirty to sixty thousand.
Including Li Cheng, they all have one thing in common:
On the "Jufengying" platform, they earned more than 80,000 yuan.
"Today, we will be releasing the third batch of short drama financing lists. These are all high-quality short dramas that have been market-tested and have a return on investment of over 1.3. This time, we will also select qualified users based on the final profitability to receive the distribution share of 'Peerless' next week."
In an instant, everyone was in an uproar.
"I'll buy number 31,000!"
"Number one, I'll buy 50,000."
"I like the style of number five, I'll buy it for 60,000."
"100,000, buy numbers three and four!"
The eleven series were snapped up by nearly a thousand people at the scene.
Of course, some of them hesitated, and some even wanted to withdraw.
These people were all given one-on-one consultations. In the end, most of them made some purchases, while only a very few left the hall with a firm attitude.
At the same time, popular culture.
Li Tao was having a meeting with about a dozen bosses from the alliance.
Ding ding ding ding...
The phone rang from time to time, like the roar of war drums before battle.
Li Tao felt mentally exhausted.
In just two or three days, he had already invested more than 30 million yuan, averaging 10 million yuan per day.
This money, of course, didn't belong to him; it was the investment he took over from the various bosses of the Short Drama Alliance.
As for where their money came from, everyone knows the answer.
In Chang'an today, the trend of investing in short dramas to make quick money has completely taken off.
Nowadays, as soon as a TV series starts filming, the production team has already completely recouped its costs and started making a profit.
This model is unethical, but it really makes money!
In other words, the last thing they lack right now is money.
Li Tao took a sip of water, looked at the many bosses behind him who were full of fighting spirit, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"This President Shen is no ordinary person!"
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