200: Infrastructure maniac
Besides the palace of Kings Landing, Lu Qingyu also preserved one-fifth of the residential houses in Kings Landing.
"Boss, are we building this too?"
Lu Qingyu: "Since we're already here, let's just build it all
together."
"But what will these buildings be used for after they're finished?"
Lu Qingyu looked at him as if he were looking at a fool.
Lu Qingyu: "After the theme park opens, won't people want to buy things as they wander around? And after buying things, won't they want to eat something?"
"These small castles are for harvesting leeks."
Just the sale of peripheral products and the local custom scenes would be enough to make a fortune.
Project Team: ... Lu Qingyu stood atop the castle, looking at the surrounding buildings, while all eight or nine people from the Project Team were looking at him.
They originally thought Lu Qingyu's ideas were unreliable and too imaginative, but now they felt like they were the clowns.
A castle was built just like that! While they admired Lu Qingyu, another thought lingered in their minds: rich people really are happy.
The castle was put into use immediately. The way everyone looked when they first saw the castle was about the same as the Project Team that day—ignorant.
And at this time, the Project Team: "See that? This was built in a week."
"Ah, that's slow enough already. Don't you know? The Dragon Country infrastructure team can build a bridge in 48 hours."
"How ignorant."
Lu Qingyu stayed for another two days and found that the post-production filming progress was too slow. The popularity of game of thrones online was still very high, but it was all negative. However, it didn't matter; 'black-red' is still red.
Lu Qingyu wanted to get it online before this heat died down, so he started two more teams. Originally, they could film at most one episode a week, but now they could film three episodes a week. A month later, the first season was finished.
This speed was so fast that even their own people were shocked.
And then, game of thrones was released without pause. Its broadcast schedule wasn't weekly updates, but daily updates.
When game of thrones officially announced daily updates, it was mocked by everyone.
[I'm really going to die laughing. An epic masterpiece was finished filming in a month?]
[Let me give you some science: currently, high-quality film and television works with a score of 9.5 or higher have 10 episodes a season, and those 10 episodes take about a year to film.]
[Is this company stupid? Don't they know that such behavior will invite ridicule?]
[I originally thought this company would be a rising star, but I didn't expect avatar to be their peak.]
[I'm especially curious now to see what kind of work this epic masterpiece will turn out to be. I'm ready to watch the first episode tomorrow.]
Investment attraction for game of thrones was not going well. They had already started seeking advertisers before the first season was even finished filming. The advertising price was set at $300,000 per second, following the record high market price at the time.
Advertisers thought they were crazy when they saw this price.
Peers were also speechless at this price. When several big shots in the entertainment industry gathered for a party, they talked about this matter as a joke.
["Is he crazy for money? $300,000 a second, he really dares to dream."]
["The kid from outside doesn't understand the market at all; he only knows how to ask for sky-high prices."]
["Why does he want $300,000 a second? Because he's good-looking?"]
["This kid is too arrogant."]
["Who would invest in him at such a high price? Does he think everyone is a fool?"]
["I heard their investment attraction is still at zero so far."]
Two days after the investment information was released, not a single advertisement order was received. Advertisers with a slight interest called to ask if the price could be lowered, but they were refused. Consequently, even fewer people were willing to place ads.
The Project Team gathered for an ad-hoc meeting:
"Boss, can we lower the advertising fees a bit, or perhaps release the ads for the first five episodes at a lower price?"
"Yeah, Boss. After all, our work hasn't been tested by the market yet, so everyone is uneasy. Plus, the price we're asking is indeed very high."
Lu Qingyu: "Is there still not a single advertisement order?"
Everyone nodded, unable to help but mutter in their hearts: 'Look at the price you're asking! What sucker would invest!'
Lu Qingyu: "In that case, let's raise it by another $100,000."
Project Team: ???
Did they hear something wrong?
"Boss, did you mean lower it by 100,000?"
Lu Qingyu: "Raise it, raise it, raise it."
Lu Qingyu said it three times in a row very seriously. Everyone was baffled.
Su Jixing nodded. That made sense. The opportunity had been given, but people hadn't seized it, so no one else could be blamed: "I agree."
The Project Team members' minds were in a mess:
"Boss, now is not the time to act on impulse."
Lu Qingyu: "I'm not. I'm very serious."
To be honest, he even felt that $400,000 was too little. He had spent so much money filming this series; the advertising here had to be at least triple the current record for him to feel satisfied.
Fortunately, the employees present didn't know what Lu Qingyu was thinking, otherwise, they would definitely want to quit on the spot.
Lu Qingyu: "Let's do as you said then. Release the investment attraction for the first five episodes first, at $400,000 per second."
Since Lu Qingyu had made the decision, the employees couldn't argue. However, they could imagine that once this news got out, the investors in the industry would definitely call them idiots.
Sure enough, when the investors saw the information, they thought the game of thrones Project Team finally had some sense—that $300,000 per second was too high and their work didn't deserve it, so they were going to lower the price. But when they saw $400,000 per second, they all cursed MMP.
["Heh, this is completely insane."]
["Whoever invests now is a fool."]
["And this is just the price for the first five episodes? Are they too confident?"]
["I'm just waiting for this show to flop."]
These investors waited in tacit agreement to watch the drama unfold.
The Investment Recruitment Team was miserable every day, thinking they would definitely not find any ads, but to their surprise, one actually came.
Moray's father, Kane Bailey, heard that Lu Qingyu's company's work was about to be broadcast. He naturally wanted to support a junior he admired.
A total of 30 seconds of advertising was released, and Kane Bailey bought 10 seconds by himself. The Investment Recruitment Team was stunned when 4 million easily entered the accounts.
They wanted to see which fool had bought it, only to see Kane Bailey.
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