Chapter 59: See Old Chen again

At noon, Fan Wubing specially ordered a batch of ducks in the old Quanjude store, and then rented a restaurant in the hotel where Lin Xiaotong stayed, specifically to entertain colleagues from the new company.

At about twelve o'clock, He Yun and his team appeared at the hotel door on time. Although they had changed their casual clothes, the soldiers' demeanor could not change for a while. Therefore, when people from forty or fifty appeared at the same time, the hotel security guard was frightened and they thought it was a gangster who came to cause trouble.

However, later I saw that although the other party was uniform in clothing, movements, and expressions, they did not show any hooligan temperament. The security guard understood a little. This was probably because a department had come to the hotel for a micro-dress.

When you are stumbled in Beijing, your eyesight is the first, your head is the second, and your actions are the third. If you don’t have any winks, you will sooner or later have bad things, and the security guards will come and see you off every day, so naturally Shi knows this.

After He Yun explained their purpose, the security guard realized that this was the people to be hosted today, so he quickly took them in and called Fan Wubing to inform him that the person he was waiting for had arrived.

Fan Wubing personally greeted him. When he saw the team in unison, he was shocked and asked He Yun with a scratching head, "Sister, why are these comrades so handsome? I thought those who are skilled should be a little casual."

He Yun also changed his clothes at this time, wearing a light-colored skirt, which looked like a professional woman, while his subordinates were light gray and a little shiny suit. What was even more ridiculous was that they all wore sunglasses.

"I just said that I would change my casual clothes in the future, but who knew they would do this-" He Yun didn't expect this to happen. Although she had already told everyone not to wear military uniforms anymore, she didn't expect that they would change suits and sunglasses in one go. From this perspective, it really looked like a gangster.

But if it falls into the eyes of a discerning person, you can immediately see the military temperament brought by everyone, which is also a trouble. After all, Fan Wubing has a lot of dealing with foreigners. If people know that he has a close relationship with the military to such a degree, it will always bring some trouble.

Therefore, Fan Wubing thought about it and felt that he had to find a way to change these soldiers. First of all, this temperament should be changed first, or it would be better to find a way to cover it up.

Well, there is it! Fan Wubing immediately thought of an example I had seen before. Someone started a company according to the militarized management method. The general manager's office is called the headquarters, the marketing department is called the MIIS department, and there are also logistics support departments, strategic research departments, operations department one, operations department two, etc.

If you use this gimmick to do it, when others meet their company employees, they will only feel that their imitation is very good, thinking that they are a die-hard military fan, and will not immediately think that the employees under them are actually brought from active-duty soldiers.

The communication with these newcomers is very simple. They are basically used to obeying orders. When Fan Wubing talked to everyone about his company's recent mission goals, he appointed Lin Xiaotong as the first CO and He Yun as the first CO, which is the so-called chief operating officer, and promoted one of the most influential figures among these people to the first CTO, that is, the chief technology officer. The most important thing is to announce the internal salary system to everyone.

The salary system implemented by all technicians within the company is an annual salary system, which is temporarily implemented according to the annual salary standard of 100,000 yuan. If the company's operation is in good condition in the future, this number can continue to be adjusted upwards.

After hearing this news, everyone was still quite excited. After all, after staying in the army for a long time, they felt a little alienated from the social environment. This time, everyone took off their military uniforms and entered a company that they had never heard of or appeared before. The feeling of uneasiness in their hearts was inevitable.

But now when Fan Wubing appears, he gives everyone a reassurance. The standard of annual salary of 100,000 yuan is very high at this time, so that everyone does not have to pay attention to the trivial matters in daily life and can still continue to carry out their own technical activities. Especially since I heard that Fan Wubing is still preparing to enter the communications product market, in this way, the technology of his people is still a place to play a role.

Some people also don’t understand the military’s decision, and don’t know why the military will give a group of homepage technical talents to private enterprises. However, as a qualified soldier, all they have to follow is to enforce orders. Moreover, the representative of his own group of people, He Yun is the representative of everyone’s interests, and it is impossible for the new boss to do things that are unfavorable to him.

Fan Wubing originally wanted to raise a glass to celebrate, but everyone basically didn't drink alcohol, so they had to make some drinks to make up the numbers. However, He Yun himself had a very good alcohol tolerance, which Fan Wubing had experienced.

"Comrades and friends, great time is waiting for us, and a market full of gold is waiting for us. What we are going to do is a major event that benefits the country and the people. The work we are engaged in is the basic guarantee for the development of mass entertainment! On this important day of significance to the times, we work together to build our own communication empire!" At the end of the banquet, Fan Wubing expressed his temporary declaration to everyone with passion.

However, before Fan Wubing finished speaking, someone stood up and expressed his disagreement, "Chief, we are against imperialism."

Uh, Fan Wubing looked at the man, and felt a little disturbed. After being interrupted by him, he forgot what he would say later, so he nodded and replied, "Then our goal is to break the communication empire monopolized by the imperialists. There is no problem like this, right?"

The man nodded with satisfaction and sat down very quickly. The people who were indifferent just now raised their hands and clapped their hands to express that they were satisfied with Fan Wubing's subsequent supplements.

"Well, if you want to take these people for your own use, you have to brainwash them first! This is a very difficult task!" Fan Wubing scratched his head, feeling that the burden on his shoulders was much heavier.

Fan Ting felt a little uncomfortable with the actions of these big-headed soldiers, so she quietly asked Fan Wubing, "Are you sure you can use these people well? I think they are all a little unruly! The talents trained in the army are placed directly on the ground, which is basically out of place."

Fan Wubing shrugged and said, "Often people say that time can change everything, but I want to say that the working environment can change everything! The transformation of them is the most effective only in subtle influence. I can be sure that in half a year, they will become a very lively and interesting group of people. At least they should understand the joy of life!"

"I think it's so bad." Fan Ting felt that she was not very optimistic.

"Then you wait and see!" Fan Wubing was full of confidence, as if he was not facing a group of strong-willed soldiers, but a group of sheep who were randomly kneading.

The only normal person among these people is He Yun, in addition to being able to fight, drive airplanes, and drive various models of cars, and fiddling with various weapons and guns, He Yun is also one of the people in the base who deals with outsiders the most, so she is the most normal person in Fan Ting's eyes.

Especially after Fan Ting talked with He Yun for a while, she thought the girl was good, so she asked Fan Wubing, "How about He Yun give me? One change to ten, how about I give you ten veterans in marketing operations?"

Fan Wubing refused without hesitation, "Don't think about it! Without her, do you think I can command these wooden men?!"

After lunch, Fan Wubing remembered a question, "How did you solve the problem of your accommodation in Beijing?"

"The Military District Guesthouse, stay there for the time being." He Yun replied.

Oh, Fan Wubing thought, he had to quickly solve the problems of office space and employee dormitories for the new company. Although Fan Wubing planned to eventually settle all the large-scale projects in Panshi, as far as the situation is concerned, it is better to stay in Beijing, because even if TV programs in various provinces and cities are on the air in the future, Beijing will become an important stronghold for major satellite TV stations, and many programs are recorded and broadcasted here.

But now there are forty or fifty people in the company. In addition, the company is discussing with Fan Ting about calling a group of newcomers from the PCFans Club, the total number is about 200. Now we have to have a place to settle in Beijing.

Thinking of this, Fan Wubing asked casually, "Are there any suitable office spaces to rent in Beijing recently?"

Fan Ting naturally never cared about these things. But Wang Xuyun understood it. After thinking about it, he replied, "This year, the real estate market has been relaxed. There are newly developed commercial properties, but if it is to be delivered and used, it will be in the middle of next year. If you rent it, let me think about it. There are probably many houses in Yinhai Building, which should be enough for you to use."

"Well, that's OK. Please help me contact my sister Xuyun. Anyway, it's a scale of 200 people. It's really not possible. It's okay to temporarily solve the accommodation of 100 people. As for the office location, I'll solve it nearby." Fan Wubing said to Wang Xuyun.

After hearing Fan Wubing's words, Wang Xuyun turned her head to see what Fan Ting meant. Fan Ting smiled and said, "Look at what I do. Will I mess with my own brother's situation? You can take the time to contact me tomorrow."

So Wang Xujun nodded and agreed.

In the afternoon, Fan Wubing came to CCTV headquarters accompanied by He Yun.

He Yun has been discussing the negotiations on satellite frequency band rental with CCTV before, and the military has also negotiated with relevant departments. However, due to some complicated internal information involved, both sides have not determined the matter. Although there have been a lot of discussions on the details, the bosses of both sides are still missing.

This time, Fan Wubing, the boss of the satellite communications service company, directly negotiated the conditions face to face with the senior executives of CCTV.

As soon as Fan Wubing's car arrived at the gate of CCTV headquarters, he immediately saw many people waiting.

After walking out of the car, Fan Wubing found several familiar figures among the people waiting for him. They met people when they were having the Spring Festival Gala. Some of them were just some supporting characters who ran errands back then, but at this time they became important figures on CCTV. What surprised him even more was that the person in the center was Lao Chen from the CCTV advertising department he had first come into contact with.

When Old Chen saw the surprised expression in Fan Wubing's eyes, he smiled and greeted him, holding his hand and said, "Mr. Xiao Fan, I haven't seen you for several years. If you weren't planning to do a big business this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't know you've returned to China."

"Haha, I'm not a big shot, so why is it worthy of your CCTV concern?" Fan Wubing also sighed a little, holding Old Chen's hand and said, "If I hadn't been back this time, if I hadn't bought a few satellites and needed to discuss cooperation with you, I would probably choose to be more low-key. Nowadays, it's easy to become famous, but it's a bit difficult to become famous after becoming famous."

"I have always thought that you will be an eye-catching person no matter where you go." Old Chen said with a smile.

The people who followed Old Chen were very surprised to see that Fan Wubing was so young and seemed not adult yet, but they didn't know that this character was the boss who was preparing to discuss satellite TV cooperation projects with CCTV, and the deputy director Chen of CCTV was personally waiting for him.

It was not until Old Chen accompanied Fan Wubing to the building that everyone woke up. It turned out that this young man was really the partner that Deputy Director Chen had been waiting for more than half an hour.

"This is the representative of the partner? No matter how I look at it, I look like a middle school student-" someone asked his colleague in a low voice.

"Or the other boss's young master may be, he is just a little younger, but these things are not uncommon. For example, Li Ka-shing's son is just doing satellite TV? What they have to do is sign a letter on the contract. Are they the ones who work in the end, and aren't we little people?" someone replied.

Fan Wubing has excellent ears and can clearly understand these comments from afar, and he can't help but laugh in his heart.

In fact, Fan Wubing also knows this, especially Li Zekai, a young superman who will compete with him. However, Fan Wubing has nothing to worry about today's Asian TV.

In terms of the number of satellites, Asia TV only has one satellite, and it is not the latest model. Even if Fan Wubing loses one satellite, he will still have three satellites in the future, and the program can cover most of the world. In terms of the quality of the program, Hong Kong TV programs are in a corner, with narrowness and one-sidedness, and cannot be compared with dozens of TV stations in the mainland, nor with CCTV, a behemoth of the mainland media.

The Asia One satellite owned by Li Zekai's Asia Satellite Company was predecessored by the Western Union 4 designed and manufactured by Hughes Aircraft Corporation for the United States Western Union Communications Corporation. In 1984, the US Challenger Space Shuttle carried the satellite into space with another Indonesian satellite. After the two satellites left the space shuttle, the perigee engines on the satellite did not ignite as planned, so they failed to enter the predetermined orbit, and the satellite launch failed.

Fortunately, the ground tracking station located in Fillmore, Florida, USA monitored and calculated the specific locations of the two satellites, and also found that the satellites were in good condition. Hughes Aircraft Corporation and NASA Nasa urgently discussed the feasibility of recycling satellites, and both sides agreed that recycling these two satellites was feasible.

After paying the insurance premium for the failed satellite launch, the insurer has owned the two satellites. After calculating the relevant fees, the insurer also believes that it is economical to recover the two satellites. Therefore, the insurance company entrusts Hughes Aircraft Corporation and NASA to jointly complete the satellite household collection mission.

In November of the same year, Space Shuttle Discovery entered space and flew within nine meters of the Western Union 4 satellite. Two astronauts walked out of the cabin and guided the robot on the space shuttle to capture the satellite back to the cargo hold. The recovered satellite was transported to Hughes for renovation and maintenance and re-launch debugging.

After Li Zekai's Asia Satellite Co., Ltd. was established in Hong Kong, and purchased the Western Union 4 from the insurer and renamed it the Asia 1 satellite. The relevant technical parameters of the satellite have also been readjusted and updated according to the requirements for covering the Asian region.

In 1990, the satellite was launched by the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Due to meteorological reasons, neither of the two launch windows that night could meet the launch conditions. Just after the third launch window, that is, the last launch window, appeared, the sky cleared, and the Long March 3 carrier rocket was successfully launched, sending the Asia-1 satellite into its predetermined orbit.

Overall, ATV's satellite cannot be compared with the new communication satellite purchased by Fan Wubing. If Li Zekai had not obtained the local TV license in Hong Kong and the later News Group boss Murdoch was eager to enter the media industry in Hong Kong, it would be hard to believe that he would make a profit.

In fact, Asia TV has been operating in a bleak manner for two years after its establishment. Finally, it finally waited for Murdoch, a big fat sheep. Li Zekai decisively took it off and sold it for HK$5.3 billion, and was hyped up as a Little Superman for a while. If the investment in satellites at that time, the investment in personnel over the past few years, and the public relations investment in the Hong Kong government and the four local media giants, Asia TV's profit in this matter is really limited, but this matter is a turning point for Li Zekai. The success is that Asia TV did not hit him.

Murdoch did not lose. Although he spent some money and lost some money, he finally entered the Hong Kong media market and thus entered the mainland media market, successfully achieving his strategic goal and becoming a real winner.

Fan Wubing was thinking at this moment, if he and CCTV divided the satellite TV market in the mainland, would there be a successful legend of Phoenix TV in the future? Will Murdoch regret taking the Asian TV plate from Li Zekai?

Of course, the deal between Murdoch and Li Zekai is still in the early stages and there is no consensus, or there may be variables in this matter in the future. Fan Wubing really hopes that after seeing Li Zekai's satellite hit his hand, what kind of expression would look on his face, which would probably be very ugly, right?

It was just a flash of thought in my mind. Fan Wubing quickly stopped thinking about this matter and followed Old Chen and walked into one of the most important offices on CCTV.

After he asked Fan Wubing to sit down, Old Chen began to ask someone to go and pick up fruits, snacks and tea to entertain Fan Wubing, and said, "This is the condition here, and there is nothing to show off. But Mr. Fan, don't be surprised. We can't compare to you. You are a rich man and we are office workers, which is incomparable."

"You are not sincere enough at first glance!" Fan Wubing and Lao Chen have been dealing with him for a long time, so there is no taboo when both parties talk. "They always prepare food in advance for guests. They are not like you. When I come, they will ask people to find food. You won't be asking someone to buy some rotten peach and smelly bananas from the street stall outside to fool me, right?"

Old Chen immediately stared at his eyes and shouted exaggeratedly, "It's unfair! I'm just asking someone to put the fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator. The weather is so hot now, isn't this going to relieve you of heat!"

At this time, two female staff members in beautiful dresses walked in, placed the fruit plates they were holding on the coffee table, and brewed tea for Lao Chen, Fan Wubing and others, and then retreated.

Fan Wubing was not polite, so he took a cantaloupe and handed it to He Yun, and then grabbed a cantaloupe and started to chew it. He didn't forget to tease Lao Chen, "I have heard that CCTV's beautiful girls have the most abundant resources. It's different to just take a look today. Do you often wander in the director's office and have the opportunity to be an anchor in the future?"

Old Chen was choked and coughed by Fan Wubing's words. It took him a long time to recover and said with some amusement, "Don't say these words randomly. I'm not that kind of casual person."

"Haha, you are not a casual person, but you are not a human being when you get up casually, right?" Fan Wubing said with a smile.

"I'm angry if you say that! I'm much older than you, right?" Old Chen said with a straight face.

Fan Wubing laughed, "Okay, okay, I won't joke with you anymore. We are all very busy, let's talk about things!"

"Well, okay. There are a few questions that you can make the decision." Old Chen nodded in agreement.

Satellite TV broadcast is a geosynchronous satellite set above the equator. It first receives the TV signal transmitted by the terrestrial TV station through the satellite ground station, and then forwards it to a designated area on the earth, and is received by the equipment on the ground for viewing of the TV.

Digital satellite TV is a form of broadcasting and television that uses geosynchronous satellites to transmit digitally encoded compressed TV signals to the user's end. There are two main ways. One is to transmit the digital TV signal to the front end of the cable TV, and then convert it from the cable TV station to analog TV to the user's home. This form has been popularized and used in countries around the world for many years. The other way is to directly transmit the digital TV signal to the user's home, that is, the direct to home (dth) method.

Compared with the first method, the Dth method has a large transmit power and can be received by a smaller antenna, which can be used by ordinary families. At the same time, it can directly provide user authorization and encryption management, and carry out advanced TV services such as digital TV, pay-per-view TV (ppv), high-definition TV, etc. without being restricted by intermediate links.

However, compared with the first method, the Dth method is more complicated, and the equipment problems required cannot be solved in a short time. The producers of the program source have also increased the cost. Therefore, what Fan Wubing can do at present is still the traditional satellite TV service.

In fact, CCTV has been trying to expand the program for a while, but it is limited to the problem of insufficient satellite resources and will not be solved in the short term.

Relying on CCTV's brand effect, monopoly position, and huge media resources, it is easy to broadcast several more programs. The increase in channels means that at the same time, advertising traffic can be increased several times, and the increase in advertising traffic is equivalent to a waste of money!

If CCTV wants to develop, it must start a few more programs. Only in this way can it enrich itself and resist the huge threat posed by the improvement of the quality of local TV stations. It should be noted that local TV stations like Shanghai and Guangdong have a great threat to CCTV. CCTV, which focuses on news-type, also wants to show its strength in film, TV series and variety shows. These things must be subtly influenced by daily life, rather than relying solely on the annual Spring Festival Gala and some other large-scale evening parties to achieve their goals.

Therefore, Old Chen pondered for a moment and said to Fan Wubing, "The upper level has reached a consensus on the issue of cooperation, and we have had a very detailed conversation with your company's Miss He Yun. What we need to discuss with you in person is mainly about some issues in the division of interests."

Fan Wubing nodded, "If you have anything to say, what are you doing?"

In fact, the foundation of cooperation between the two parties has long been laid. For government mouthpieces like CCTV, news control is very strong, so their arbitraryness is not high. Especially in news programs, entertainment programs with relatively relaxed control have not developed greatly due to lack of a stage for performance. If CCTV wants to enter the market and obtain greater benefits, it must follow the development laws of the media market and put a lot of effort into entertainment programs.

It is absolutely impossible for news programs to give way to entertainment programs in CCTV, at least it is impossible to do it now, so it is necessary to expand the program channel and require more TV and radio resources. Fan Wubing's satellite just provides a broad performance platform for CCTV's overall development plan.
To be continued...