Chapter 678 I Want to Attract Investment And Sell the Ad Spot
Hearing Xu Miaolin’s compliment, Fang Qiu laughed and said, “That’s what I should do.”
Xu Miaolin asked, “Well, I heard that this CG animation is different from the ordinary type. It seems to be quite expensive. Who is helping you to pay for this animation in Jianghang?”
Fang Qiu answered, “I paid for it myself.”
Xu Miaolin was shocked and hurriedly asked, “You? How much is it?”
The moment Xu Miaolin saw the news on the Internet, he immediately researched what CG animation was, only to find that it was a high-tech animation and came at a price that was ridiculously high!
At that time, he thought that after Fang Qiu returned to the country, there must be a big company or a rich man who took a fancy to Fang Qiu’s commercial value and had joined hands with him to make this animation.
However, to his surprise, it turned out that it was paid by Fang Qiu himself.
How much would that cost?
Could Fang Qiu afford it?
Fang Qiu replied, “Six million in total.”
On the other end of the phone, Xu Miaolin fell silent.
After a long while, “You’re awesome!”
Xu Miaolin took a deep breath and said in a very ambiguous tone, “There are only a few people in the world who would do this for Chinese Medicine, like you.
“However, as a teacher, I have to teach you something else.
“For so many years, I have been thinking about how to develop Chinese Medicine. But in the end, I found that we’re now in a business era. If we want to develop Chinese Medicine, it must be combined with commercial means. We have to make it commercial, but not too commercial. This is just like what the patients think nowadays. If someone offers him free medicine, he won’t take it. He would rather spend money to buy it. And the more money he spends, the more secure he will feel.
“So, in this era, it’s impossible for Chinese Medicine not to become commercial. To promote Chinese Medicine, we must use commercial means!
“In order to promote Chinese Medicine, we have to use means to make it commercial!”
Xu Miaolin stopped when he said that.
Hearing that, Fang Qiu was confused and thought to himself. “What on earth is Mr. Xu talking about? What is he trying to say?”
Seeing that Xu Miaolin did not continue speaking, Fang Qiu asked curiously, “Mr. Xu? What exactly do you want to say?”
Xu Miaolin scolded him, “How could you still not see it? Such a big event has attracted so many people’s attention. You should attract some advertisers and get some funding! Why did you pay for the CG animation yourself?”
Fang Qiu looked puzzled and said, “But I have money. Even if I don’t have any sponsors, I can still pay for it myself.”
Hearing Fang Qiu’s words, Xu Miaolin almost spat out a mouthful of water and said, “I… Kid, I know you have money. So what? Have you become stupid because of being rich?”
“Just read ‘Zigong’s Ransom’ of the ‘Lu’s Spring and Autumn Xianshi Lan Weicha Chapter’!” After that, Xu Miaolin hung up.
When he heard what Xu Miaolin said, Fang Qiu instantly thought of this article. He had read it before and now he still remembered it very clearly.
The article said, “In ancient times, there was a law in the Lu State. If people of the Lu State became slaves in another country, they could get the ransom reimbursed from the national treasury if someone could save them.”
Once, Confucius’s disciple, Zigong, paid the ransom for a man from the Lu State in another country and refused to accept the country’s compensation after returning to the state.
After learning about it, Confucius said to him, “Zigong, you’re wrong. If you receive compensation from the state, it won’t hurt your moral conduct. But if you don’t accept it, no one in the Lu State will redeem those who are in trouble in other countries.”
Later on, when Zilu rescued a drowning man, the man gave him a cow to express his gratitude. Zilu took it.
Confucius said happily, “The people of the Lu State will definitely save those who fall into the water from now on.”
The implication of this article was very clear.
As Fang Qiu thought about this article, he instantly understood what Xu Miaolin meant. “To promote Chinese Medicine, his own strength was not enough. They have to rely on everyone.”
He could spend money for Chinese Medicine unconditionally because he had money and was willing to do it in this way.
But what about others?
If he started to do it for free, would other people dare to charge when they tried to promote Chinese Medicine?
Once they started to charge, it would definitely be criticized by everyone. Chinese Medicine doctors were supposed to cure the disease and save the patient. You should not be making money out of it!
But if they did it for free, eventually, fewer and fewer people would be willing to do it if there was no benefit.
This was the same as “Zigong’s ransom”.
Although he did not care about the money, he had to take it. Only when he took it would he be able to let everyone see that there were benefits in doing so and then people would start to imitate him and promote Chinese Medicine.
Fang Qiu thought, “Alas! It’s not easy to do a good deed!”
Thinking of this, Fang Qiu hurriedly sent a text message to Xu Miaolin with his phone and said sincerely, “Thank you for your advice, Mr. Xu!”
Soon, Xu Miaolin replied with a text message.
“You’re worth teaching! Don’t forget to share some benefits with me when you make money!”
Fang Qiu replied with a smile, “Okay.”
After sending the message, Fang Qiu checked his Weibo with the phone. He first looked at the grand events on Weibo and was shocked by countless comments, which said “I’m sorry”.
After learning about what had happened, Fang Qiu shook his head and laughed.
He felt that the netizens now were so cute.
Then, Fang Qiu directly posted on Weibo. “There are ten advertising spots available to post your advertisements in the Meridians CG animation video. The highest bidder will get them!”
Fang Qiu logged out of Weibo as soon as he posted it.
Anyway, things like bidding would not get any results in a short time. He would let them fight it out for a while first.
Fang Qiu was relieved.
However, as soon as this post appeared, it caused a sensation on the Internet!
Everyone was dumbfounded when they saw the post!
It was the first time that they had seen Fang Qiu post this sort of request on Weibo. Such a thing had never happened before. Besides, Fang Qiu had never asked for money, so why was he changing his attitude now?
“Is this posted by Fang Qiu?”
“F*ck, did someone hack Fang Qiu’s account? That son of a b*tch dared to hack Fang Qiu’s account?”
“Is Fang Qiu short of money?”
“Is this an open auction?”
For a moment, everyone began to discuss this topic heatedly.
Even Jiang Miaoyu immediately called Fang Qiu as soon as she saw the post.
“Beep, beep, beep…”
Fang Qiu just wanted to take a rest, so he let his phone ring.
Seeing that it was Jiang Miaoyu, Fang Qiu quickly picked up the phone. “Hello?”
Jiang Miaoyu asked directly, “Did someone hack your Weibo account?”
Fang Qiu shook his head. “No.”
Jiang Miaoyu asked again and then said, “Are you short of money? I have some money here. How about I give it to you first?”
Fang Qiu was so moved that he smiled and said, “Silly girl. No need. Just stay at home and wait for my good news. Your boyfriend is going to make money.”
Jiang Miaoyu was speechless and said, “Normally, anyone who goes insane will act like you.”
Fang Qiu was speechless, “Do you have to treat your boyfriend like this?”
After chatting for a while, they hung up.
“It seems that everyone thinks that my account has been hacked. They don’t believe that I’m the one who posted that Weibo.”
Fang Qiu frowned and thought for a moment, then said, “No, I have to prove it.”
Thinking of this, Fang Qiu immediately sent a selfie in which he made a peace gesture, indicating that his account had not been hacked.
Undoubtedly, the netizens burst into an uproar again as soon as this photo was posted.
Fang Qiu’s fans were dumbfounded!
However, Fang Qiu’s anti-fans got worked up!
“Look! They said before that he was doing it for free. In fact, he just wants to make money. It’s all about money! Money! Money!”
“Everything is about business and it’s all about profit!”
“Chinese Medicine finally caves in to profits!”
“Just now, there were many people who said that Fang Qiu had not slept for three days in a row. He seemed so righteous and chivalrous, right? Now, the person who said this, please come out. Let me see if you’re ashamed.”
“Fang Qiu is done! Once a person starts to care about profits, he will no longer be pure. Although I admit that Fang Qiu is very powerful, he is destined to be unable to continue to improve the moment he gets involved with business. His Chinese Medicine skills will not be improved any further!”
This time, Fang Qiu’s fans were all furious.
“What’s wrong with making money?”
“That’s right. It’s Fang Qiu’s own possession. What’s wrong with making a little money? It is completely open and above board!”
“That’s right. Why didn’t you say that when you saw the product placement in movies? Or the advertisements on TV series? Didn’t you keep quiet when you saw the product placement on the CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala? Why are you accusing Fang Qiu as soon as you saw him doing this?”
“Fang Qiu did the right thing!”
“Is Fang Qiu earning your money?”
“That’s right. Fang Qiu is earning the manufacturers’ money. It has nothing to do with you. Do you want to learn Insight and see your own meridians without watching advertisements? Then don’t watch the video If you don’t like it. No one is asking you to watch it!”
“Don’t you have anything else to do? What a bunch of anti-fans. Anyway, in your eyes, whatever Fang Qiu does is wrong, isn’t it?”
For a moment, there were all kinds of curses on the Internet and all kinds of hot searches, which created a tense atmosphere.
The celebrities in the entertainment circle felt so helpless!
“Fang Qiu has been on the Hot Search List for almost half a month. Can’t he stop?”
“Can’t you give us a little chance to survive?”
After sending the second post, Fang Qiu instantly began to think about how to attract investments!
If he wanted to attract investments, he would definitely have to hold a business fair.
Then he needed to display the advertisement spots and let the people bid for it!
But he didn’t know what to do at all!
Moreover, he did not have any friend who knew how to do this.
Thinking of this, Fang Qiu immediately thought of a person.
This person must be capable of doing this.
When the advertisement companies saw this news, they also went crazy.
No matter what category it was, including home appliances, cars, or even the bathrooms, they were all waiting to place their advertisements in this video!
These major companies casually evaluated that with the current popularity of the CG animation of meridians, it was estimated that the number of people who clicked on the video would at least number three billion. And it could even reach five billion!
Even the number of viewers would reach at least 80 million, or even more than 100 million.
This was not the number of repeated viewers, but the actual number of people watching the video.
Most importantly, they only took the homeland viewers into account. There were also viewers abroad.
Foreign netizens were also very interested in meridians because of Fang Qiu!
They thought about it carefully.
It would mean that 80 million people would be watching their advertisements.
This was a large number of people, which was really incredible.
At least three billion times views would be enough to compete with the whole season of a variety show and those popular online TV series which had twelve episodes.
Of course, those popular online dramas or variety shows could not be compared with other shows, such as the Young Chinese Medicine Doctor. The number of people who had clicked on it on the Internet already exceeded 10 billion and was about to reach 20 billion!
