The Memoirs of Cultivating Immortals

Chapter 431 Capital
The god of lies and cunning, a descendant of the Jotunheim royal family, the second in line heir to Asgard, and the mastermind behind the Twilight of the Gods in Norse mythology, Luo Ji made her debut on Earth so simply.

And her debut method is quite simple, spend money, spend a lot of money, spend an unimaginable amount of money to create a superstar road.

Generally speaking, idol training models in the world can be divided into the following types.

Taking Japan and South Korea as an example, their assembly-line star-making factories are quite mature, and the entire modeling process can be roughly divided into three steps, audition, training, and debut.

For example, the famous SM company in South Korea, every year through a large-scale talent competition, selects enough outstanding teenagers from the folks, plus the recommendation of scouts, gathers a group of trainees, and gathers them for all-round training, including but not limited to vocal music, Dance, shape, hosting.

After 3-10 years of training for professional trainees, the survivors who have crossed the single-plank bridge among thousands of troops will be officially signed as artists and debut together with other artists. Under the company's planning, the team image is tailored, The character design and works are starting to get on the right track.

However, performing arts companies are for profit. The long time span of the star-making process and the huge investment in the modeling process are all considered risk costs. In the end, they must follow the principle of "the wool comes from the sheep" and search for them from the artists. come out.

Japanese and Korean performing arts companies will sign extremely strict long-term contracts with artists, squeeze each other as much as possible, and even formulate extremely cumbersome management regulations to limit the personal freedom of artists.

Treat artists as profit machines, as cash cows, and search for profits as much as possible. This is what Japanese and Korean performing arts companies have to do.

Even some performing arts companies regard artists as a kind of "resource". If large amounts of capital negotiations are involved, then the artists who are restricted by the sales contract may really be packaged and sent to the capital giant's bed, and sold for a while. turn around.

By the way, men and women are not limited.

If you have the heart to collect information, it is not difficult to find that many Japanese and Korean artists will find ways to break away from the original company after becoming famous, and even pay huge sums of money to redeem themselves and liberate themselves from oppressive contracts.

If you don't become a Buddha, you will become a madman. The brokerage industry of Japan and South Korea's star-making factories is so distorted, but it can be popular. In the final analysis, it is still a word "money".

For the sake of money, thousands of boys and girls will resolutely give up their studies, put all their eggs in one basket, and devote themselves to the dream of being a master;
For the sake of money, performing arts companies will try their best to set up the most perfect star-making link, and pursue perfection as much as possible in every step;
For the sake of money, the distorted and deformed Japanese and Korean brokerage industries can become popular, and even drive the entire East Asian countries to form a star-making model with East Asian characteristics.

However, the Wall Facing Project is not short of money or time.

Stacks of banknotes broke down the doors of Japanese and Korean brokerage firms, and a dozen professional teams were stuffed into the cabin of a helicopter and sent to the United States.

The recording department, the marketing department, and the publicity department. Each department is composed of the most professional elites. Driven by money, these professionals began to get busy around Rocky.

Fortunately, Luo Ji received royal education when she was in Asgard, and was no stranger to vocal music and dancing. Even in terms of body shape, the body of the Jotunheim Protoss was far superior to that of ordinary humans.

This is true, the purebred Protoss are basically the appointed handsome men and beautiful women from birth, and there are very few accidents (except for the poor Vulcan Hezhunstos, and those grotesque gods).

In terms of appearance alone, Luo Ji is better than 90.00% of ordinary people in the world, and her noble and divine temperament also endows her with a special sense of beauty.

This saves a lot of hassle.

Of course, among the brokerage companies that the meme company approached, there are also some idiots who don't understand the situation clearly,

Some brokerage companies think that they can still extract marrow from artists like before, while some brokerage companies think of meme companies as laymen who don’t understand anything because of their huge size and big stores. The Realm does not involve star-making.

The result is obvious. Any organization or individual who does not cooperate with the meme company will never see the sun the next day—they just disappear from the world, and the entire building of the brokerage company seems to be evacuated overnight, and the silence is like a ghost.

Professor Charles is a Wallfacer appointed by the United Nations Organization. He has extremely high authority in all matters of human civilization. No matter how excessive the removal operation is, it will not be investigated by Interpol or other organizations.

Not only Japanese and Korean brokerage companies, meme companies have also approached Hollywood's CAA Creative Management Cultural Economy Co., Ltd., WMA William Morris Brokerage Company, and ICM International Innovation Management Company.

Take CAA as an example. This company is the most legendary giant in the Hollywood artist management industry. In the 70s, relying on the keen business sense of the five founders in the artist management industry and a new management method,
In just a few years, it has grown into a global entertainment empire spanning film, television, music, stage play, sports, the Internet and other fields.

In the eyes of the world, the glamorous Hollywood stars are already out-and-out masters, but Hollywood stars can only kneel down and sing conquest when they encounter behind-the-scenes players like CAA.

The WMA and ICM behind CAA are also complete industry giants, and they belong to the real promises in Hollywood.

When the meme company approached them, Monk Zhanger couldn't figure out these Hollywood agencies. The fields of the two parties had no intersection at all, and Li Ang hadn't seen any intention of intervening in the entertainment industry over the years.

However, the reputation of the meme company is much louder in the United States, and the giants of Hollywood agency companies have a deeper understanding of the horror of the meme company.

When the meme company first made its fortune by relying on hydroponic meat and artificial organ transplantation, many competitors in the meat industry, medical industry, and insurance industry wanted to annex it directly.

It's a pity that Li Ang never had the idea of ​​listing the company or selling stocks. "Starting a business" is just a means of earning money. He doesn't see lobbyists sent by industry giants at all; he rejects all merger requests made by industry giants.

The United States is a country of capital, where the power of capital is the strongest. Seeing that meme companies are making profits, envious industry giants began to blow the whistle on the US Food and Drug Administration FDA, trying to block the expansion process of meme companies through FDA.

The U.S. government, which has seen hydroponic meat and artificial organs, actually doesn’t mind who owns these two technologies. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Li Ang or anyone else—as long as the U.S. can guarantee influence over the companies in charge of the technology just fine.

But Li Ang's attitude is quite firm. If the US government deliberately obstructs, then these two technologies will be directly disclosed on the world network to jointly promote the progress of human civilization, and the US government cannot guarantee the priority influence on technology.

In desperation, the American government kicked the ball back to the capitalists, "let the free market have the final say."

Of course, in order to prevent Li Ang from "killing the fish and breaking the net", the US government also warned the capital giants not to make "too excessive" moves.

You know, the integrity of American capitalists is probably as low as the underpants of the golden-haired hot girls on the streets of Shibuya, Japan.

There is nothing sacred in the empire, and the wealth of the American capitalist family is all forged by blood.

In 1870, it was the burgeoning period of large-scale industry in the United States. Rockefeller founded the Mobil Oil Company. By hiring gangsters to beat workers in competitors' factories, he successfully eliminated many competitors and eventually controlled 90% of the American oil refining industry.

In 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Mobil Oil was a monopoly and should be dismantled. However, many of the divisions that were dismantled were still sought after by investors, which made the Rockefeller family's wealth skyrocket.

Since then, the Rockefeller family has invested extensively in the states of the United States. Like the emperor of the United States, they set up factories around the resource-rich areas such as coal mines, iron mines, and oil mines in the United States, and kept miners in captivity like private slaves.

In order to exploit the interests to the greatest extent, the Rockefeller consortium hired mercenaries armed to the teeth to guard the miners, and at the same time bribed the high-level officials of the American states, together with the national guards of the states, to oppress the miners.

Then, the Colorado miners who were brutally exploited began to rebel. However, the Colorado National Guard had long been in collusion with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Ore Company owned by the Rockefeller family. Rebellion" miners chased and intercepted them.

Finally, in April 1914, labor conflicts broke out between miners and mining companies. The Rockefeller family controlled mercenaries equipped with armored vehicles and heavy machine guns to suppress the miners, and even burned some miners' families to death.

According to subsequent statistics, a total of 200 people were killed in the conflict.

The dark family history of the Rockefeller family is not an isolated case. The DuPont family who liked to send their competitors on earth planes, and the steel magnates who liked to suppress labor to ask for wages were everywhere in the United States at that time.

What is rather black and humorous is that with the passage of time and the changes in the world, those big industrial capitalists who grew up by sucking the blood of laborers have become "old money" families with historical heritage in contemporary times.

People in the world no longer delve into the dark history of these families, but instead praise them and admire them, thinking that this is the art of accumulating wealth.

As long as the capitalists use a little wealth from their fingers for charity, the world will even regard them as philanthropists, regardless of whether there is still a little bit of blood smelling from the foundations of the high-rise buildings.

When capital comes to the world, blood and filth are dripping from every pore from head to toe.

Even in modern times, capitalists still dream of a monopoly organization.

By monopolizing elite education, the upper class in Europe and the United States has successfully narrowed the upward channels for the lower class. The elite class who have mastered professional knowledge is equivalent to mastering the right to speak and the final interpretation.

The ignorant people at the bottom have no idea that the capitalists have successfully reproduced the monopoly organization form at the beginning of the last century with the cumbersome corporate structure, vast legal provisions, and dazzling professional knowledge.

The people who have suffered from cultural disadvantages have been cut leeks without knowing it, and worked hard all day long, in exchange for meager salaries and families that may go bankrupt at any time.

The monopoly of education is even more important than the monopoly of violence. This is the strategy implemented by modern capitalists under the table.

However, in front of Li Ang, who also possesses enough professional knowledge, who does not eat hot and cold at the same time, and is stubborn, the modern capitalists who are jealous of the profits of meme companies have to resort to violent monopoly methods again.

"Is it you, Li Ang, who is gone, or is it that I, a capitalist, can't afford a knife?"

The giants in the meat industry, the medical industry, and the insurance industry reached an agreement after a short meeting to hire a group of retired intelligence personnel from a professional security company to try to sneak into the meme company to steal secrets.

As a result, these people were like meat buns beating dogs, and none of them came back.

Although the U.S. government has seen the great potential of hydroponic meat and artificial organs, it has beaten many competitors of meme companies and strictly prohibited radical behaviors, but it has not stopped some under-the-table tricks of those whose interests have been harmed.

As a last resort, the capital giant transferred a group of professional gangsters from the United States to try to kidnap Li Ang and his men.
Then the direction of the plot is nothing more than a group of experimental products added to the cells of the underground prison.

The red-eyed capital tycoons ignored the warnings of the American government and directly summoned professional mercenaries from the black continent of Africa to destroy Li Ang's factory.

This time, not only did the mercenaries disappear, but even the personal safety of those capital tycoons could not be guaranteed.

That morning, when the wives of these capitalists woke up from their beds, they saw the head of the person next to the pillow held in their hands and placed on their belly
More than a dozen top capital tycoons died overnight, which was enough to cause an earthquake in the United States. However, when the capitalists were preparing to question Mr. Li Angxing, the latter had already established the Academy City, and it was no longer a conventional force. Existence to defeat.

With lessons learned from the past, when the meme company approached the Hollywood agency and asked the latter to package Luo Ji, the latter almost didn't dare to take the money from the meme company and patted his chest He promised to spend huge sums of money to help the meme company package Luo Ji.

There are specializations in the art industry, and the power of capital is powerful. The so-called hard work, hard work, and professionalism of artists are worthless in front of capital.

As long as capital favors, enough resources can be brought in. Even if it is a pile of shit, it can be sprayed with perfume, covered with gold leaf, and put into a transparent counter made of diamonds, which is admired by the world.

The shit mentioned here refers to some traffic stars who stand on the cusp and are popularized by capital.

They don't have the talent to match their status, they don't have enough professionalism to convince everyone, they don't even have a shred of professionalism, and they will only support empty and false personalities under the command of capital.

What's more, Luo Ji's conditions are much better than some shit-like traffic stars,
After all, Luo Ji is also the god of lies and cunning, proficient in transformation, singing, dancing, and drama performances. Even rap can use the extremely beautiful sonnet form to stage a battle, not only What a mess of "skr".

　I was only 30 seconds away from full attendance.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)