art master

Chapter 340 The Wave of Counterattack

Mu Bai spent a lot of "appreciation points" in this text war, otherwise he played such a big role in the text war and gained so much attention, he wouldn't just receive the reward from the system once.

By publishing the works used at that time, it is estimated that some of the "appreciation value" can be "recovered".

At the same time, it will also bring him a lot of income. Before that, he planned to release "Listening" at the beginning of the year, which was also due to the consideration of the national style and the funding of the national rhyme.

The two companies have been developing at a high speed, and they still need to invest a lot of money. The proceeds from "Harry Potter" have been spent in May.

Due to funding problems, Guoyun can only do limited expansion now, which is a little slower than the expansion planned at the beginning of the year.

Now both national style and national rhyme need money.

Mu Bai's performance in this battle won him more fans. Once his works were published, they immediately attracted everyone's rush.

In just three days, the downloads of several good songs that Mu Bai announced in Wen Zhan exceeded [-] million respectively.

As for the poems published by Mu Bai in Wen Zhan, a special design team was set up to design the cover and illustrations and prepare a new collection of poems.

This collection of poems and the novel "Magic and Alchemy" that Mu Bai used in the literary war have both started pre-sales online. Before printing, the pre-sales of the two books have exceeded one million each.

After finishing the work, Mu Bai held a meeting with the top management of Guofeng and Guoyun respectively.

This civil war has been going on for nearly half a year, and Mu Bai has no idea how far his two companies have developed.

The first is the meeting of "Guofeng Art" and "Guofeng Painting". There is almost no expansion of the headquarters of the two companies.

It's just that Guofeng Painting has added a comic group, opened a new comic, and the mural group has also expanded slightly.

As for Guofeng Art, as Mu Bai expected, most of the people who made "Xiangwang Fengyunlu" graduated this summer, and many of them chose to try the Hongwen Museum.

Because of their experience in Guofeng over the past few years, they are better than other candidates. Many of them have been admitted to Hongwen Hall, and many have been admitted to good units.

Of course, most people did not get very good results in the Hongwenguan exam. They basically chose to return to Guofeng and sign a formal labor contract with Guofeng.

Even so, Guofeng is facing a large amount of brain drain this year. Fortunately, Mu Bai was well prepared and tried to recruit people from outside the school one or two years in advance.

Otherwise, once this year's graduation season is over, the national style will even affect the normal operation due to the brain drain.

For this brain drain, Yang Wenjun was well prepared, promoted a group of people, and increased the treatment of those old people who gave up taking the exam at Hongwenguan.

At the same time, a group of people were recruited. After a brief period of chaos, Guofeng Art returned to its former order.

The development of Guofeng Art is mainly the development of the branch.

Now Guofeng has opened its own branches in [-] countries, big and small, and two other countries have negotiated the opening of branches.

If there was no financial shortage, Guofeng would now have branches in all countries except Qi.

Many people don't understand why Guofeng develops so fast, even Yang Wenjun doesn't quite understand.

Such rapid development has put huge pressure on Guofeng in terms of manpower and capital.

First of all, in terms of funds, a branch has just been opened, and before it has time to start making money, it is necessary to open a new branch immediately, and the funds are simply unable to make ends meet.

In terms of manpower, the new branch needs a large number of backbones, and it takes time and accumulation to train a backbone.

However, opening branches too quickly has caused a shortage of manpower. Bi Zeyang's human resources department has been working continuously and is conducting training. However, in Yang Wenjun's opinion, most people still do not meet the standards of the backbone of the branch.

When Mu Bai learned about these things, he just plainly said that he knew it, but the pace of construction of the branch company cannot be stopped.

Yang Wenjun finally chose to implement Mu Bai's strategy, because she vaguely felt that the country and the whole world were quietly undergoing changes. Perhaps because of these changes, Mu Bai had his deep-seated purpose.

Guoyun has developed very well now, and all industries are already making profits. If it is not necessary for such rapid development, Guoyun's annual income will not be lower than that of Guofeng.

However, Ma Jingping still faithfully implemented Mu Bai's strategy. After the third batch of factory buildings were completed and put into production, he immediately bought a large piece of land and started the construction of the new factory building.

In addition, the development of branch companies has not stopped. The Guoyun Group in Qin State has begun to develop in the direction of the industrial park, and Zheng State and Jin State have also been developing other industries besides engines.

There are also branches in three countries under construction, and investment and construction of factories in five countries have been negotiated. As long as the funds arrive, construction can begin immediately.

After understanding the overall situation, Mu Bai knows that he still needs time, and it is not yet time to explode.

Before that, the identity of the Hongwen Museum can bring him a lot of convenience, and he can continue to manage it with heart.

In addition, Guofeng needs to produce new movies to raise enough funds for development.

Originally, Mu Bai wanted to exchange 200 million [Painting Appreciation Value] for a movie.

However, he thought that Guofeng had already produced three animated films, so he already had a lot of experience, so there was no need to waste his "appreciation value".

After Mu Bai's careful consideration, he planned to make "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", so the news that "Harry Potter" would have a sequel made many movie fans excited.

Because he didn't use up so many appreciation points, the songs and books released by Mu Bai greatly increased his "total appreciation points" and allowed him to receive the rewards from the system again.

For this round of rewards, Mu Bai chose to enrich his reserves of poetry. For him, painting is not worth the "appreciation value", and now he can barely make movies by himself.

The only two aspects that need to consume "appreciation value" are music and literature.

So since the system has corresponding rewards, you can store them first, so as not to waste "appreciation value" in the future.

In the blink of an eye, in August, when "Listen to the Ear" was about to be released, Huo Pingwan, who had been deliberately alienating Mu Bai for a year, suddenly declared that he and Mu Bai were lovers.

The crowd was in an uproar for a while, but then they congratulated them one after another. After all, the two are talented and beautiful, and they seem to be a good match.

Besides, Mu Bai is not a pure idol. In everyone's eyes, he is an artist and a businessman. Being in love will not affect his career.

But Mu Bai himself was quite confused, why didn't he know that he and Huo Pingwan were still lovers?

Same as last time, Mu Bai didn't clarify right away, because Huo Pingwan's sudden announcement of this kind of news was abnormal, he always had to check the situation first, and then it would not be too late to clarify the purpose.

Mu Bai still went to contact Miao Xiaole first, but when he came up, Miao Xiaole said: "Senior Sister Huo called me just now and asked me to apologize to you. She had no choice but to do this."

This kind of reply made Mu Bai secretly say that it was dangerous. If he clarified immediately, Huo Pingwan would probably act like he was abandoned, and then expose Mu Bai's relationship with the third princess.

Hehe, Mu Bai sneered in his heart, at that time he couldn't tell even if he was covered in mouths.

Since Huo Pingwan said that she was forced to do so, then someone must be manipulating this incident.

You can even think with your toes, it must be Ming Honglang's people who are playing tricks.

Ming Qing sighed, as expected, the relationship between men and women is the best way to smear him. Regardless of whether Mu Bai admits it or not, he will face a storm of scandals about him.

Mu Bai didn't say anything immediately, but Huo Pingwan continued to expose his love for Mu Bai, saying that Mu Bai was tired after the civil war, so he didn't admit it right away.

She also said that when she praised Mu Bai in front of the media, she planned to announce the relationship between the two, but for the sake of both parties' careers, she had to keep it from everyone for the time being.

Every time Huo Pingwan speaks out, he is forcing Mu Bai. Mu Bai now wears a mask and a hat every time he goes out, covering himself tightly for fear of being recognized by the surrounding media.

At the same time, even the big-hearted Ji Yuanjie couldn't help asking Mu Bai what was going on, not to mention Mu Bai's mother and sister.

Even the queen said through Ji Yuanhun that she has been following this incident.

Apparently the old lady was warning Mu Bai to let him deal with it properly so as not to affect her daughter's reputation in the future.

While comforting everyone, Mu Bai was arranging a lawsuit against Ming Honglang and waiting for the right time to fight back.

Just when everyone was focusing on the relationship between Mu Bai and Huo Pingwan, another explosive news suddenly appeared. Mu Bai actually accused the reigning scholar Ming Honglang of disrupting the market order of the music industry.

A businessman, a student sued a national scholar, from ancient times to the present is unique.

Mu Bai released a lot of evidence, and in the second half of the year before last, Ming Honglang's subordinates ordered to hear back, and released a large number of songs reserved by national scholars and students.

This behavior greatly disrupted the order of the music market at that time, and because the reserves of the students were consumed in advance, the music group has been in a very passive situation in the just-concluded literary war with Yan Guo.

The atmosphere in the entire Zhou Kingdom suddenly became weird. On the one hand, it was because Mu Bai's accusation was too bold, and on the other hand, no one understood why he did this?
Many people have begun to speculate that Mu Bai's actions should have a lot to do with the recently announced "love affair".

It was only then that someone noticed that Huo Pingwan had been singing a one-man show all along, and Mu Bai had never admitted his relationship with her lover.

But Huo Pingwan is an international star after all, and everyone thinks that she won't lie about this kind of thing.

If Mu Bai refuses to admit it, it will cause serious damage to her reputation, and this damage may even make her quit the entertainment industry.

Then Ming Honglang held a press conference to clarify Mu Bai's accusation, saying that the songs released at that time were all within the scope of the plan and would not affect the subsequent literary war.

Mu Bai didn't say anything, just the performance of the music group during the literary battle with Zhou Guo that was broadcast on Guofeng.com in turn.

More and more people realize that the music group has no advantage in the text war. Without Mu Bai's two shots to help, the music group would undoubtedly lose, and Zhou Guo would not be able to win a decisive victory in the text war.

More and more people began to express their distrust of the Ming scholars, and they all hoped that the Ming scholars would explain accordingly.

But Ming Honglang really went to explain, everyone thought he was just trying to quibble.

With the escalation of the dispute, even the crown prince had a conversation with Mu Bai in person, wanting Mu Bai to clarify the accusation against Ming Honglang.

It was only then that Mu Bai realized that Ming Honglang was still standing behind the Crown Prince. No wonder it meant that Honglang seized the opportunity of this change. He not only seized the opportunity, but also seized the future of Zhou Guo!
The crown prince has spoken, and it would be disrespectful to the royal family if he didn't follow through.

So while Mu Bai agreed, he sold himself miserably in front of the prince, saying that he was forced to do nothing, Ming Honglang wanted to use Huo Pingwan to frame him, and he could only protect himself by doing so.

If he withdraws his accusation, Ming Honglang will definitely take advantage of the victory and pursue it, so please ask Chu Jun to let Ming Honglang stop.

The prince, who was clearly biased, was not happy, thinking that Mu Bai did not follow his intention and was despising his own authority.

He warned Mu Bai many times, but Mu Bai pretended to be confused and fooled him.

The prince was very angry, but Mu Bai had no intention of giving in. He only exposed today's conversation for Ji Yuanjie's sake, otherwise the prince would also be involved in this incident.

And Mu Bai's arrangement all the time is to have enough escape routes when similar incidents happen.

If he can't stay in Zhou country, he can go far away. Anyway, there are branches of Guofeng and Guoyun in so many places.

Besides, he is a promising "senior student", a talent that all countries will compete for.

After this conversation, the opportunity Mu Bai had been waiting for finally came. On the day of the conversation, all products of Guoyun canceled the supply to Mingyang Group.

And announced among the cooperative enterprises with Guoyun that if anyone cooperates with Mingyang Group, then they should not cooperate with Guoyun.

At first, Mingyang Group knew that Guoyun was also Mu Bai's property, and it didn't take long for Ming Honglang to implement the next plan, asking Huo Pingwan to announce the relationship between Mu Bai and the third princess.

Let Huo Pingwan become a victim, let everyone treat Mu Bai as a scumbag.

But soon many enterprises of Mingyang Group have stopped production due to lack of spare parts.

The reason why Mu Bai has been waiting is to wait for this time difference. After the supply is suddenly cut off, it will be too late for Mingyang Group to find other companies to cooperate immediately.

Many companies that cooperate with Guoyun did not expect that they would still have to stand in line. Although Guoyun is strong, Mingyang has the protection of Guoshi after all, so most companies choose not to cooperate with Guoyun.

Just like before, Mu Bai wrote all these down in his little notebook, and waited for the opportunity to settle the score in the future.

Ming Honglang was temporarily overwhelmed by Mingyang Group, and had no time for Gu Mubai.

The more he understood, the more surprised he was that Mingyang Group had already started to rely heavily on Guoyun.

(End of this chapter)