Chapter 468 "Story of Yanxi Palace" X "Story of Ming Palace"

Chapter 468 Story of Yanxi Palace X, Story of Ming Palace √

Admiring her figure is admiration, but Wei Yang has no interest in Zhang Yuqi.

This girl is not a pushover. Xiao Zhao's wolf-tooth iron rod is just a scare, but she really dares to use a knife, and she is also a boxing master. Wei Yang doesn't want to mess with her.

After staying in the crew for a while, Wei Yang went to the hotel to catch up on sleep. When he woke up at night, Li Jiahang, who was originally scheduled to arrive tomorrow, had already arrived.

"Your boss Wei is waiting, so I have to put down anything."

Li Jiahang laughed. He dared to let Wei Yang wait, but his agent and team didn't dare. After receiving the letter, they squeezed out time and hurriedly booked tickets to fly over.

"Okay, let's go eat."

Wei Yang didn't hesitate. He rubbed his hungry stomach and invited Li Jiahang to go out for dinner.

When filming Operation Mekong, he brought a nutritionist and chef with him, and the crew also cooperated with local Chinese restaurants for logistics. But perhaps it was a psychological factor, he always felt that the food in China was not as authentic as that in China, and it was even more difficult to eat some special snacks in China.

Maybe people are just cheap. Usually when Wei Yang was in China, he didn't take it seriously if he didn't eat snacks for a few months, but when he went abroad and couldn't eat them, he started to be hypocritical and greedy.

So every time he came back from filming abroad, Wei Yang loved to walk around the street for a few laps and eat some special local snacks.

"What special food is there in Shenzhen?"

Wei Yang and Li Jiahang went out together, only to find that they didn't know much about Shenzhen, and the latter was simply coming here for the first time.

"Check it online."

Wei Yang drove the car, and Li Jiahang took out his mobile phone to surf the Internet, and then revealed a few names that were hard to describe.

"Longjiang pig's trotter rice, Shaxian snacks, Hunan cuisine!"

Wei Yang: "..."

"Forget it, it's Guangdong Province anyway, let's find a place to eat snacks, preferably a place frequented by locals."

"Okay, I'll ask, I remember a friend of mine is from Shenzhen."

Li Jiahang made a phone call, and then the two found a time-honored teahouse according to the route. Wei Yang asked Li Jiahang to go upstairs to find a seat, and he couldn't help but run to a shop selling pig's trotter rice opposite to pack a few portions of braised meat.

Not to mention, the rosy, fragrant, trembling big pig's trotters are too tempting. Wei Yang glanced at the signboard pictures on the road just now and was tempted.

Although the morning tea in Guangdong Province is the most famous, there are actually many people in the evening.

Especially in Shenzhen, the whole city is fast-paced, and most people are busy to death. There are not many people who have the leisure to eat snacks slowly in the morning. Instead, they can enjoy it after get off work in the evening.

Wei Yang and his friends were lucky. They didn't catch up with the queue and could order directly.

Li Jiahang had eaten Cantonese-style snacks in Shanghai, but he had never eaten local snacks in Guangdong Province. He was very interested and ordered a lot of snacks.

Wei Yang questioned: "Can you finish it?"

"If you can't finish it, just pack it up. You can still eat it tomorrow. At most, I can share it with my assistants. Anyway, you pay for it."

"Damn, you just know how to rip me off. Take two more and bring them back to Xiao Wei and the others."

Wei Yang was used to the behavior of Li Jiahang, a big local tyrant. Who can make him famous for being rich? Generally, when they go out to eat, drink and have fun, close friends will assume that he pays for it. Even he thinks so now.

"By the way, let me tell you something."

Li Jiahang gnawed half of the chicken feet and suddenly spoke. Wei Yang concentrated on his shrimp dumplings without raising his head.

"Speak."

"Your sister-in-law wants to film a movie with me."

"Which sister-in-law?"

"Who else, Sister Ying."

Wei Yang looked up and looked at Li Jiahang with disdain: "She is a few months younger than you, how dare you call her sister."

"I am a few months older than you, but I still call her sister-in-law."

Li Jiahang complained, and then couldn't help muttering: "You haven't been in the company for a long time, you don't know, Sister Ying has become more and more powerful in the company since "The Journey of Flower" and became the deputy director. No joke, Lao Qiao told me privately that he is a little afraid of her."

Lao Qiao is Qiao Zhenyu, who has a special status in Blue Whale. He was originally the most popular actor under Wei Yang, and also a pillar of the stage.

Originally, Qiao Zhenyu also tolerated and respected Zhao Liying, but he was not afraid of her. Now that Zhao Liying has succeeded in getting promoted, her influence and strength inside and outside the company have increased significantly, and Qiao Zhenyu dare not be as arrogant as before.

Wei Yang glanced at him: "What about you?"

"Me?"

Li Jiahang was stunned, then said confidently: "I have been afraid of her for a long time, you know it."

Wei Yang was too lazy to pay attention to his shameless face: "Just shoot if I ask you to film, this is to promote you."

"Of course I know this, but don't you have to nod your head?"

Li Jiahang is now quite famous, but there is still a gap between him and Zhao Liying's top position. The former is definitely at an advantage when they work together.

"It's good, that drama is good."

Wei Yang naturally had no intention of objecting. After "The Journey of Flower", Zhao Liying's popularity reached its peak.

At this time, Zhao Liying violated the development law of most artists.

Normally, after an artist becomes popular, he should hurry up to film more dramas, because the bonus cycle of a drama is limited, and he can make money while the momentum is good.

Even if you are in the rising period, or focus on word of mouth, or mainly work with popular crews, you can still squeeze out time to film a few profitable ones.

For this kind of project, the artists and the team will not have too many requirements, as long as they are reasonable. The main thing is to get a good salary or good returns.

Da Mimi and Tang Yan have both filmed it, and Liu Shishi also has similar works, such as "Step by Step".

Even Wei Yang has filmed it. When "My Love from the Star" and "Eastern Palace" became popular, he went to film the idol drama "Shan Shan Comes" with the main purpose of making money and promoting people.

After "The Journey of Flower", Zhao Liying's popularity reached its peak, and it was too difficult to produce works of the same level in the future.

At this time, it is reasonable to film two projects to make money and prepare for new projects at the same time.

But Zhao Liying did not choose this way. After filming "The Journey of Flower" and "My Deskmate", she only took on one movie.

After the two works were screened and broadcast, Zhao Liying stood still in the face of countless script invitations, and put all her energy on personal artist development and internal affairs of Blue Whale, and was responsible for some behind-the-scenes work as a senior executive.

This is also the reason why Li Jiahang said that Zhao Liying's power in the company is getting stronger and stronger. The latter is really not just an artist in the company now.

However, Zhao Liying did not choose to give up filming, but just reduced the frequency and made more cautious choices.

She doesn't care about money now, and she doesn't care about the salary. The prospect of the project and the benefits it brings to her are the first priority.

After picking and choosing for several months, Zhao Liying finally had an intention and chose the Ming Dynasty palace drama "Ming Palace Raiders".

"Ming Palace Raiders" is actually a variant of "Story of Yanxi Palace" by Si Yatou.

Wei Yang saw the advantages and characteristics of this drama, but didn't want to shoot a Qing Dynasty drama, so he changed the background of the characters to the Ming Dynasty. The protagonist changed from Qianlong's Concubine Ling and Jiaqing's mother Wei Jia to Longqing's beloved concubine and Wanli's mother Empress Dowager Li.

The story of Empress Dowager Li is actually very similar to Concubine Ling or Wei Yingluo in "Story of Yanxi Palace".

Li was smart and studious since she was a child, and was good at calligraphy. When she was a child, her family was poor, so her father sent her to a local wealthy family, the Chen family, as a servant, and then she met the eldest daughter of the Chen family, and the two had a good relationship.

Later, the eldest daughter of the Chen family became the second concubine of Prince Yu, Longqing, and still liked Li very much, so she often invited her into the mansion, and later she was favored by Longqing.

After that, Li went from being a maid/palace maid to being Prince Yu's concubine, and gave birth to two sons who lived until Jiajing's death, which provided a crucial bargaining chip for Longqing's succession.

After Longqing ascended the throne, as the mother of the only two princes, Li became a royal concubine with a high status.

A few years later, Longqing died and his son Wanli ascended the throne. Li became the empress dowager directly, becoming the most noble woman in the world, which was legendary.

Moreover, the relationship between Li and Miss Chen was like Wei Yingluo and Empress Fucha in "Story of Yanxi Palace". They always had a very good relationship. Later, Miss Chen also became the queen and the empress dowager, and Li continued to respect her.

Therefore, the historical Empress Dowager Li was more in line with "Story of Yanxi Palace" than Concubine Ling, which was tailor-made.

"Story of the Ming Palace" was based on Empress Dowager Li, and filmed the story of the heroine Li Caifeng from a poor girl to an empress dowager.

Of course, the general direction of history remains unchanged, but some details must be added, and the heroine is also highlighted.

For example, in the early stage, she helped Miss Chen gain a foothold in the palace, in the middle stage, she helped Longqing win the throne, and in the later stage, she fought in the palace and the court, and helped her son to sit on the throne.

In fact, it is more interesting than the original "Story of Yanxi Palace". The two changes of the throne alone are two climaxes. In the later stage, she got involved in the court, and the pattern was even better than the palace fighting dramas in the Qing Dynasty that only robbed men.

There is no doubt that the heroine is Zhao Liying. Wei Yang even strongly suspected that he took a fancy to this script because the heroine started as a maid, which touched her feelings.

And Li Jiahang's role is Longqing, who is a relatively cowardly and funny pig's hoof in the play.

In the early stage, he was bullied by his father, brothers and Yan Party, and later he was caught between Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng. There were also a group of female characters at home who were not good at making trouble, especially the heroine, who was yelling at him.

This is not a male protagonist who falls in love with the heroine in the traditional sense.

The emotional line in the play is not strong. The female lead has a stronger CP feeling with her best friend and comrade-in-arms, Miss Chen. The male lead Li Jiahang is more like the female lead's boss and friend.

In fact, in the original script, there is another real emotional line, that is Zhang Juzheng.

The timeline is blurred, so that Zhang Juzheng served as the tutor of Prince Yu earlier than in history, and happened to meet and fall in love with the female lead who was still a maid at that time.

Later, Zhang Juzheng returned to his hometown for some reason. When he came back, the female lead also became the favorite concubine of Prince Yu. Both parties could only put their minds aside until the death of Emperor Longqing.

Zhang Juzheng remembered the old feelings and assisted Empress Dowager Li and Wanli, working hard and doing his best.

The logic is fine. Even in the wild history, it has been rumored that Zhang Juzheng and Empress Dowager Li had an affair, and it cannot be said that the screenwriter made it up.

However, Wei Yang still maintained his respect for a generation of famous prime ministers, deleted the emotional line, and changed it to the young Li and the middle-aged Zhang Juzheng who met because of various accidents, helped each other, and had a good relationship, so that Li was considered half a disciple of Zhang.

Later, after Li became the empress dowager, she always trusted Zhang Juzheng more and entrusted him with important tasks. The latter returned the favor and became the biggest support for Wanli to sit on the throne.

Wei Yang personally likes the script of "Ming Palace Raiders".

The plot is still Mary Sue, but it is not entangled in emotions. It is a relatively pure "workplace" or "historical" drama from a female perspective.

Xiao Zhao's vision for choosing dramas was praised in his previous life, and this time and space is still not bad.

However, Wei Yang did not expect that Zhao Liying would choose Li Jiahang to play Longqing.

But if you think about it carefully, it is right. No matter what he thinks, the outside world's impression of Li Jiahang is that he is good at comedy, and the role of Longqing is indeed suitable for him.

Now Li Jiahang's subsequent development may be very impressive.

"Love Apartment" and "Celebrating More Than Years" have accumulated a very high national popularity for him, and "The Temptation of Going Home" is the best work he has played so far.

If this drama is not more popular than the person, Li Jiahang is expected to rush to the first line in one go.

Even so, with "Soul Ferry", a representative online drama, and starring in the "Ex-Files" series, Li Jiahang's actual status is only one step away from first-line artists.

In the eyes of many people, he is a first-line artist. In terms of national popularity and popularity alone, ordinary first-line artists are really not Li Jiahang's opponents.

The leading actors of "Love Apartment", even Chen Chichi, whose popularity has soared after "Running Man", are actually half as good as Li Jiahang.

It's just that there are too many perverts in Blue Whale, and there is a good brother who is brilliant, so it doesn't feel outstanding.

Success is Wei Yang, and failure is also Wei Yang!

With such a good brother, Li Jiahang can rise to the top and have nothing to worry about, but even if he shines with the scorching sun, even if he is a star, it is still "dim".

However, fortunately, Li Jiahang is content with what he has and never compares himself with Wei Yang, a big hanger-on, so he is in a particularly good mood.

When "Strategy of the Ming Palace" is broadcast, coupled with the cooperation of other dramas and movies, Li Jiahang will be able to become a first-tier star with a solid foundation.

Although many first-tier top stars are very popular, they may be out of date in two years and then become ordinary people.

This so-called first-tier star, no matter how popular it is, is just a floating duckweed in the wind, and people who know the industry are very disdainful.

Only those artists who are steady and have enough representative works, good comprehensive performance in all aspects, and even some artists with particularly excellent conditions are the backbone of first-tier artists.

For artists like this, even if the new work is not smooth, they can still make a living for several years just by living off their old capital. The lower limit is very high. If they encounter a good project, they will directly become popular again.

Li Jiahang's path is typical of the latter, and he is the one with deep background among the latter.

Zhang Wei, the pioneer of law!

Hong Shixian, Ming Ming Bai!

Xia Dongqing, the reincarnation of Chi You!

Guo Baokun, the god of war in Nanqing!

Meng Yun, who has countless ex-girlfriends!

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Not to say that they are all classic roles, but any one of them has an extraordinary influence on the public. Except for a few people like Wei Yang, who among the younger generation dares to compete with him for masterpieces.

It's no wonder that some people joke that Zhao Liying and Liu Shishi's biggest enemy is Li Jiahang. In terms of resource allocation, he is indeed at the level of the heroine.

Wei Yang thought of this and suddenly shuddered.

Pah pah pah!

Damn, I have been in Thailand for too long. I can't relieve my anger by playing with iron guns every day. My thoughts have been polluted there. I will hurry up to shoot tomorrow and then return to Shanghai to pay my taxes...