Game within game: chess player

"Wa Tsai is a leading artist in the Chinese-speaking world. I understand the idea of ​​starting a company. After all, the entertainment industry is about youth. When you reach a certain age, everyone wants to leave a way out for themselves or gain a future possibility. I support this. However, Andy's departure will definitely cause losses to the company. Andy wants to sign a contract with the company for ten concerts for free, and is willing to sell part of the new company's shares to make up for the company's losses. I don't know what Mr. Ye thinks. How is it?" Yang Mingzhen asked cautiously.

Ye Fang looked at his former childhood idol sitting in front of him so realistically, and his words might determine his future work trajectory, or even his life's destiny.

Yang Mingzhen's words brought Ye Fang back to reality. At Ye Fang's level, he was no longer willing to intervene in the specific management issues of the company. However, Yang Mingzhen was not familiar with Ye Fang's management model and believed that for a leading artist like Hua Tsai, Before leaving, you still need to ask Ye Fang for advice before making a decision.

"Since Mr. Yang has made a decision, let's do what you want. I have no objection here. I just want to remind you that you have to consider the ideas of other artists. If there is another person who wants to use this method, Do you agree or disagree with leaving the company? Andy is the first, but he will definitely not be the last. How will you manage the performance contracts of the company's artists in the future? I think you need to think carefully about how to balance the relationship between the artist and the company. The interest relationship is something you need to resolve." Ye Fang said slowly.

"Yes, Mr. Ye, I understand." There were beads of sweat on Yang Mingzhen's forehead. Although Ye Fang did not criticize her, the words were full of encouragement for Yang Mingzhen's future work.

"Thank you Mr. Ye." Andy stood up and bowed respectfully to Ye Fang. Ye Fang quickly stepped forward to help Andy up and said, "After all, you are from Warner. In the future, whether in terms of funding or actors, the company will need If you want to support it, you can raise it, and Warner Pictures will always be your home."

"Thank you, thank you!" Hua Zai did not expect that things would go surprisingly smoothly for Ye Fang, and Hua Zai was deeply impressed by Ye Fang's demeanor.

Yang Mingzhen brought Hua Zai to see Ye Fang this time for this matter. Ye Fang sent Hua Zai of Yang Mingzhen out of the back door of Xiyuan. Hua Zai got in the car first, but Yang Mingzhen was stopped by Ye Fang. Andy in the car saw Ye Fangchong saying a few words to Yang Mingzhen. Yang Mingzhen nodded in agreement with an unusually respectful expression, and then Yang Mingzhen returned to the car.

"Mr. Yang, does Ye Fang have anything else to say?" Hua Zai asked.

Yang Mingzhen shook his head and said, "Nothing, just telling me that I don't need to report to him for daily business decisions in the future. He only reads the reports." Yang Mingzhen then said to the driver, "Drive and go back to the hotel."

The next few days are the busiest for Yang Mingzhen and Miao Qianqian. Miao Qianqian represents Times Media and Chang'an Club and is busy with charity galas. Yang Mingzhen is busy welcoming and sending off Time Warner artists to work. This is the first time for Xiangjiang artists. This is the first time they came to the capital in wholesale form to participate in a performance evening. This kind of collective acupuncture is the first time since Xiangjiang's return, and it is undoubtedly the biggest one. After all the Warner artists arrived in the capital, they all learned about the exquisiteness of the big boss Ye Fang Xiyuan from Andy Lau, and they all begged Yang Mingzhen to take them to Xiyuan.

Yang Ming really couldn't resist public opinion, so he asked Ye Fang for instructions, and Ye Fang agreed. After the party, everyone can come to Xiyuan for dinner, and it will be treated as a team-building activity for Warner Films.

The whole party was very successful. Artists from both places competed with each other and performed hard. The audience who attended this charity concert said that it was a worthwhile trip and worth the ticket price. The bosses of the Chang'an Club were also very satisfied with the party. Although Ye Fang did not attend, Zhao And reported the party's progress to Ye Fang one by one. This party directly pushed Times Media to the position of a first-line performing arts company in the country. After the party, Yang Mingzhen refused the organizer's celebration banquet and took all the artists in Xiangjiang directly to Xiyuan.

Naturally, this kind of celebrity change could not be hidden from the domestic paparazzi team. The news spread extremely fast. The enthusiastic fans knew the news almost as soon as dozens of Xiangjiang artists arrived at Xiyuan. These fans after the workers' sports venue began to flow towards Xiyuan. Soon, several streets in the west of the Forbidden City, centered on the Xiyuan Garden, were surrounded by enthusiastic fans. It was roughly estimated that the number of fans exceeded [-], which was comparable to the National Day parade.

The guests in Xiyuan have already been cleared out, after all, it is close to twelve o'clock, but tens of thousands of people wandering in the west of the Forbidden City has seriously affected the rest of the surrounding residents, especially in the west of the city where there are too many noble families living in the capital. Someone called Haidong. After receiving the news, Haidong immediately rushed to the vicinity of Xiyuan. The reason why he came to the vicinity of Xiyuan was because the flow of people was so heavy that the police car could no longer get in. Helplessly, Haidong led the people and started walking towards Xiyuan.

Qingtian security who maintained order around Xiyuan also felt the pressure. There were too many fanatical fans shouting the idol's name outside. Ye Fang gradually realized that things seemed to be out of control in Xiyuan. Soon Ye Fang received the call Haidong's call told Ye Fang to immediately find a way to send these artists away from the area near Xiyuan, because minor stampedes had already occurred in some blocks, and some people even took the opportunity to steal pedestrians' belongings. In short, bad signs were growing.

Ye Fang quickly called Yang Mingzhen and Miao Qianqian, and asked them to immediately organize the artists to leave Xiyuan in an orderly manner to avoid a bigger stampede caused by the excitement of the crowd. Yang Ming really didn't expect to meet such enthusiastic fans when he arrived at Xiyuan at this time, so he immediately organized the artists to get in the car and leave the scene from the Xiyuan underground garage.

When several buses came out of the Xiyuan underground, the enthusiastic fans banged on the bus body frantically. The female artists on the bus turned pale with fright. Everyone hurriedly asked the driver to drive away as soon as possible. Fortunately, Haidong rushed to the scene with hundreds of police officers to maintain order and allowed these buses to quickly leave the Xiyuan area. As these artists left, these fans gradually dispersed. It took two hours for the Xiyuan area to return to normal. .

The area near Xiyuan was in a mess. Ye Fang quickly asked people from Qingtian Security to go out and clean up the streets near Xiyuan. As for the blocks that were too far away, Ye Fang could do nothing and could only wait for the cleaning staff to deal with them in the morning.

After everything was settled, Ye Fang went back to his room and lay down. At around nine o'clock in the morning, Ye Fang was woken up by a phone call. The caller was Miao Qianqian, saying that he had been interviewed by the leader of the city's cultural management department. Regarding what happened last night, He also gave an explanation of the crowd gathering incident and also issued a fine of 10 yuan, requiring Times Media to close its doors for three months for rectification and not be allowed to undertake domestic and foreign performing arts services within three months.

Ye Fang knew that the sequelae of last night's incident were coming. At this time, it was necessary to handle the matter in a low-key manner. Ye Fang asked Miao Qianqian to obey the management of the regulatory authorities and pay the fines that should be paid. He did not say anything about not receiving entertainment services for three months. All other work will be suspended, and other celebrity management business will continue to advance. If there is any concert business, we can discuss it first and arrange it in three months. It will not have a big impact on the company's operations.

After hearing Ye Fang's words, Miao Qianqian felt a little calmer. After all, she came from Xiangjiang and had relatively little experience in dealing with mainland officials. After Miao Qianqian hung up the phone, just as Ye Fang was about to lie down, the phone rang again. Ye Fang picked it up and heard that it was Liu Jianbai.

When Liu Jianbai heard Ye Fang's voice, he said directly, "You haven't gotten up yet?"

"It should be said that I just slept for a while." Ye Fang said helplessly.

"Then don't sleep, I'm going to Xiyuan." Liu Jianbai said.

"Oh, okay, I'll get up right away." Ye Fang quickly tidied up, washed his face and walked out of the bedroom.

As soon as he walked out of the bedroom, he saw Liu Jianbai sitting on the pavilion in the inner courtyard. Ye Fang asked Aunt Yun to make some breakfast. When he saw Liu Jianbai, he said, "Uncle Bai, you haven't had breakfast so early. Let's have some together."

Liu Jianbai nodded slightly and said, "Okay."

Aunt Yun quickly brought over breakfast. While eating, Ye Fang asked, "Uncle Bai, are you coming to see me like this?"

Liu Jianbai put down his chopsticks and said with a slightly dissatisfied tone, "You haven't shown up for so long. Do you think you are missing? If I hadn't found out through other channels that you were still doing something serious, I would have taken back your authority long ago."

"Uncle Bai, to tell you the truth, I have no chance to use the little authority you gave me. I don't know if it will work or not. If you want to take it back, take it back. I don't care." Ye Fang said casually. .

Hearing what Ye Fang said, Liu Jianbai slammed his chopsticks on the stone table and said angrily, "Do you think that you can have national public assets if you want it, and don't want it if you don't want to have it? Power is responsibility! No matter how much power the country gives you, What a responsibility to bear!”

Seeing that Liu Jianbai was really angry, Ye Fang hurriedly brought the topic back and said with a smile, "I just said casually, your Prime Minister is very interested in supporting the boat, so don't argue with me. You must have something to do when you came to see me today, you Despite your orders, I will do my best and die."

Liu Jianbai looked at the chopsticks handed over by Ye Fang, took them with a cold snort, and continued, "Death is not a problem, you can make the best use of everything by living well." Liu Jianbai took a deep breath and said, "I know you should be fine recently. There's a case, please go over there and I'll give you some practice. Here's the case information." Liu Jianbai pointed at a file bag on the stone table.

"Going on a business trip again?" Ye Fang asked.

"It's not like I'm going abroad. What's the fuss?" Liu Jianbai said angrily.

"Uncle Bai, I just came back a few days ago, and you asked me to go out again?" Ye Fang was speechless.

"This case is very easy for you. It is the most suitable for practicing and will not delay you for too long." Liu Jianbai said.

"Easy?! You let me go, why do I feel there is a trap in it?" Ye Fang opened the file bag and briefly glanced at the contents of the file. It turned out to be a corruption case involving provincial executives. The file bag contained detailed reports. Materials, including photos and some clues to the case. The person involved in the case is named Xu Yaozu. He worked his way up from a low-level official to a deputy provincial cadre last year.

The reporting materials are conclusive and record the corruption process of Xu Yaozu in detail, including some major corruption clues, which appear to be quite credible.

"This guy actually kept more than 100 mistresses?" Ye Fang laughed a few times and said, "The physical fitness is good enough."

"Not only that, it is roughly estimated that the amount of corruption exceeds 5000 million, which can be said to be a major official corruption case in the new millennium." Liu Jianbai said.

"Since there are such accurate clues, let's send a task force to investigate." Ye Fang said puzzled.

"The task force will definitely be dispatched, but not now. By the time the task force is dispatched, the case will have basically been investigated. The difficulty of this case does not lie in the investigation, but in how to deal with it after the investigation. The relationships involved are relatively sensitive. . Please look at the background information about Xu Yaozu later." Liu Jianbai said.

Ye Fang took a look at the introduction about Xu Yaozu on the last page of the information. After reading it, Ye Fang was slightly surprised. He looked up at Liu Jianbai and said, "Xu Yaozu is actually a descendant of a martyr?"

"Not only that, Xu's father once served as a guard for a retired senior cadre in the military, and you know this retired senior cadre," Liu Jianbai said.

"I know him?" Ye Fang said in surprise.

Liu Jianbai stepped forward and whispered a few words into Ye Fang's ear. Ye Fang suddenly said, "It's him!"

"So this case needs to be investigated. How to deal with it after the investigation is the most difficult. Whether to handle it strictly in accordance with party discipline and state laws, or whether to lift it high and put it down gently. The scale and intensity of this are very important." Liu Jianbai said solemnly. .

"I'm afraid this is the fundamental reason why you came to me to handle this case, right?" Ye Fang asked.

Liu Jianbai nodded undeniably, then gently put down his chopsticks and said, "It's getting late. There's still a meeting at the ministry. You can have breakfast by yourself." Liu Jianbai patted Ye Fang's shoulder lightly before leaving. , and then walked slowly outside Xiyuan.

Ye Fang looked at Liu Jianbai's back and murmured, "They are all a bunch of old foxes." Ye Fang knew that the most difficult part of this case was not the investigation, but whether to inform Xu's father's old chief before the investigation, or whether to investigate I would inform him later, but informing him after checking would inevitably lead to the suspicion of killing him first and telling him later. It was difficult for Ye Fang to decide on this standard.

After eating a few more bites of breakfast, Ye Fang felt it was boring as he was thinking about things in his mind, so he asked Aunt Yun to take it down.

Ye Fang was sitting alone in the pavilion, looking through the information in the portfolio. At this time, Aunt Ying walked towards Ye Fang with the support of Lan Lu.

"What are you looking at, so focused?" Zhang Xiuying asked.

"A case." Ye Fang said casually.

"A case?" Zhang Xiuying asked in surprise, and then asked, "What kind of case can come to you? You are not within the system."

"I don't even know how I got in." Ye Fang replied with a wry smile.

Ye Fang knew that there was nothing to hide from Zhang Xiuying. He waved his hand to Lan Lu and told Zhang Xiuying what had happened. Who knew that Zhang Xiuying slapped the stone table hard and said, "Is it over yet? Mr. Ye The third is like this. This Liu Jianbai is still like this. Is he trying to force people to die? I won’t accept this case! I’ll go talk to them. If it doesn’t work, I’ll take you to the bigger Yamen.”

After saying that, Zhang Xiuying really wanted to get up and look for her. Ye Fang was so frightened that he quickly stopped Zhang Xiuying and begged for mercy, "Aunt Ying, please spare me. Don't make trouble again because of this matter. I can't bear it."

"You can't bear it, but I can!" Zhang Xiuying snorted coldly.