4: Chapter 4: The Value of Cooperation – Assembling the Production Line!

"Alright, happy cooperation!"

Xu Hao signed his name on the contract, which meant that the cooperation with Director Guo Fan was officially reached.

"Happy cooperation!"

The contract was in duplicate, and Director Guo Fan also signed his name, taking back his copy.

Xu Hao looked at the beaming Director Guo Fan, and he himself was all smiles as well.

The cooperation was achieved; this crucial step had been taken.

Next, he had to start building the relevant products according to the contract requirements.

Xu Hao had also carefully read the contents of the contract.

According to the requirements in the contract, Xu's Heavy Industry Group needed to provide props and technical support for Guo Fan Film Industry.

The film props involved included, but were not limited to, Giant Transport Vehicles for ore transportation, thermal suits, small nuclear batteries, and super-powered engines, and so on.

There were over a hundred types of various film props, large and small.

And the funds provided by Guo Fan Film Industry were only ten million.

Honestly, when Xu Hao saw this number, he was indeed slightly surprised.

Ten million... it was indeed too little...

Let alone designing and building so many types of props, even the super-load Giant Transport Vehicle alone would cost a significant amount.

Because he didn't just need one of them...

But then he had a second thought.

The amount of funds given by Director Guo Fan was not the most important thing; the Xu's Heavy Industry logo on the products was the key.

When the movie was released and appeared on the screen, naturally, those domineering and powerful sci-fi products in the film would also appear in the public's line of sight.

The Xu's Heavy Industry logo would also leave a deep impression on the audience.

Wouldn't some large enterprises, foreign groups, and so on notice this company, Xu's Heavy Industry, when seeing these?

The advertisement would be out, and there would be fame.

Orders for Xu's Heavy Industry would also come one after another.

This was the greatest effect of cooperating with Director Guo Fan!

Xu Hao replaced the teapot with fresh hot water and then poured some for Director Guo Fan.

"Director Guo, there are many types of props, and some of them are large equipment. Therefore, the construction time might take a bit longer."

Even with construction blueprints, after all, they were large machines, so the construction time would still be quite long.

Xu Hao needed to explain this to Director Guo Fan in advance to avoid delaying the shooting schedule.

"No rush, our movie has just started its project initiation," Director Guo Fan replied.

The difficulties encountered in shooting this movie were not small.

Just trying to attract investors had taken up a lot of time.

After that, script adaptation, script review, finding actors, finding cooperative companies, etc., it was finally officially initiated.

The two chatted casually, from the content of the cooperation to their lifestyle habits, and Director Guo Fan gradually began to talk about his movie.

"Chairman Xu, you might think like other investors that sci-fi movies have no future, but..."

Director Guo Fan sat opposite Xu Hao, leaning forward, his tone suddenly becoming a bit more serious.

"Think about it, the sci-fi movie market is currently in a 'dry spell,' not many people dare to get involved, the risk is too great."

"But the sci-fi movie market is a big cake. If a masterpiece is filmed, many viewers are willing to pay for it."

"After all, domestically so far, there hasn't really been a sci-fi masterpiece that makes people's eyes shine."

Director Guo Fan analyzed the market conditions of sci-fi movies seriously, and Xu Hao nodded from time to time.

In the film industry, Director Guo Fan was indeed an expert and had more unknown information.

Seeing that Xu Hao was listening carefully, Director Guo Fan spoke even more enthusiastically.

"So, this sci-fi movie of mine is an opportunity, a huge opportunity!"

"And I have great confidence in this movie."

Director Guo Fan thumped his chest, full of confidence.

"My movie, whether in terms of plot, special effects, or visuals, will bring a shocking viewing experience to the audience."

"However, to achieve such an effect, it requires too much manpower, material resources, and most importantly, funds."

"Chairman Xu, you should have a deep understanding of this..."

Having said this, Director Guo Fan looked at Xu Hao meaningfully.

Xu Hao nodded in agreement.

Indeed, without capital flow, many things could not be done, just like Xu's Heavy Industry Group now.

It's just that...

Listening to these seemingly analytical words from Director Guo Fan, Xu Hao suddenly felt something was wrong.

Sci-fi movies are indeed difficult, and all aspects are new attempts.

And it does require a huge amount of capital.

But shouldn't the issue of funds be the concern of investors?

Why are you asking me, a prop partner, for my opinion?!

And Director Guo Fan, what does that look in your eyes mean?

Unaccountably, Xu Hao remembered what kind of person Director Guo Fan was in his previous life.

This Director Guo... seems to like to fleece people, and doesn't even let the audience off.

"Damn, he wouldn't want to fleece me, would he?" Xu Hao thought to himself.

"Haha... Director Guo is right, sci-fi movies do indeed require a very large capital flow."

Xu Hao took a sip of tea and laughed, "After this cooperation is completed, if Director Guo has any movie scripts, remember to call me..."

Injecting capital into this movie was impossible; Xu's Heavy Industry was currently so poor they couldn't even make ends meet, let alone have spare money to invest.

Moreover, if he were to get involved in investing in Director Guo Fan now, he feared other investors would have opinions if they found out.

As for the next step, he could consider it.

Seeing that Xu Hao said so, Director Guo Fan also laughed and chatted about other topics.

They chatted until the afternoon, and then Director Guo Fan and his party left.

Director Guo Fan had to start preparing for the movie shooting.

And after they left, Xu Hao also took immediate action.

He gathered the remaining old employees and reassembled a production line specifically for designing and building Giant Transport Vehicles.

"Demolish all of the East Factory Area and West Factory Area and merge them into one factory area. Build a roof, and move all equipment to this new factory area."

"Notify the warehouse management and logistics park to pull all scrapped and semi-scrapped large heavy-duty trucks to the new factory area."

"Form two technical teams, two shifts, and work at full capacity to build."

"In addition, all employee wages will return to normal levels, and performance appraisals will be conducted at the end of each month to distribute bonuses!"

With Xu Hao issuing one order after another, Xu's Heavy Industry, which had been silent for a long time, began to get busy again.

Personnel deployment, production and construction, and other procedures were proceeding quietly and orderly.

And all this, apart from the employees in the factory, no one cared.

...

Tangs Heavy Industry Group, production line.

"Engineer Li, I heard that Xu Hao really cooperated with that film company," an employee on the production line said to Engineer Li.

He had worked at Xu's Heavy Industry before, and this news was told to him by a colleague at Xu's Heavy Industry.

"And yesterday, Xu Hao reorganized the entire production line and demolished the factory area. It looks like he intends to fully cooperate with that film company."

When saying this, the employee's face was both shocked and slightly shaking his head.

Truly a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers.

Just by cooperating with a not-so-famous film company, he made such drastic moves.

It seems that Xu's Heavy Industry Group is really going to close down.

Hearing his words, Engineer Li did not stop his work on the production line.

After leaving Xu's Heavy Industry, people from Tangs Heavy Industry had sought him out.

After all, he was a veteran master, the talent most needed by major heavy industry groups.

The salary offered was also several times that of Xu's Heavy Industry Group.

Engineer Li no longer cared about how Xu's Heavy Industry Group was doing.

"Hmph..."