Australian Storm 1876 - Chapter 1077

Chapter 1077 Letter

In the bustling street market in Brisbane, you can often see a poster of a heroic and handsome male star who endorses a product. This is the famous actress Lu Xiaotian, who has become famous for his movie “Bitter Journey to the South China Sea”. He is a popular student who signed a contract with Galaxy Films one.

The content of the film “Breakthrough in Nanyang” is very simple. The story tells the story of a poor boy from the mainland who has traveled thousands of miles and struggled after receiving funding from the Australian immigration agency.

This kind of script is easy to impress the audience and resonate. As long as the script is not too bad to read, it is still a matter of earning a fortune.

The film stars of this era do not have high requirements for acting skills, nor do they need a strong foundation in lines. The key is to have handsome men and beautiful women, and have good skills, so that they can go through it over and over when filming, and cannot waste expensive film.

Lu Xiaotian has all these conditions to be red.

After the movie became popular, Lu Xiaotian’s face was very recognizable. Some of his posters were posted in the glass window. This is Lu Xiaotian riding a national bicycle, wearing a light-colored top hat and a camel sweater around his waist. , The posters roaming between the beautiful mountains and rivers feel like they can make a snot bubble.

Some posters were posted on the wall of the outdoor store. It was a picture of Lu Xiaotian drinking herbal tea sweating profusely.

Some posters were clipped into newspapers bought at street newsstands, and the endorsement was iron locks. Lu Xiaotian looked like he had used all his strength, and it said:

“Permanent iron lock, that’s how safe it is.”

Experienced people in the industry will know when they look at product endorsements: Lu Xiaotian is at the level of a second-tier popular celebrity, and the endorsement of iron locks should be 60-80 gold dollars, while bicycle endorsements are expensive, at least 200 gold dollars to start.

Ocean Empire is a very commercialized feudal capital society. The promotion of movies and commodities is highly marketized. A brokerage company and a brokerage system have been initially formed, so that the emerging film industry can quickly integrate into the commercialized society and find its own way of making money.

Brisbane City

In a busy street in a city, a European-style apartment building

After getting up early in the morning, Lu Xiaotian went downstairs to a nearby stall to buy some breakfast, took back the newspapers and letters he ordered in the mailbox, and tucked them under his arms back to his home on the second floor.

After    became popular, he had already moved out of the courtyard. On this street close to the noble residential area, he rented a two-bedroom apartment with a bathroom and a kitchen. The quality of life was obviously different.

The rental price of such an apartment is not cheap. It costs 12 gold yang per month, water and electricity bills, canned gas bills and regular cleaning servant fees, plus an extra jin yang per month, which is almost half the salary of ordinary workers.

But Lu Xiaotian can fully afford the cost. He is now a contract artist of the Galaxy Film Company and can receive a salary of 46 Jinyang every month, and the start of the film is extra.

Starting from 120 jinyang for the male lead, 60 jinyang for the male supporting role, and at least 20 jinyang for running a trick, the worth is already very different from the original, and it counts as a role.

Commercial endorsement companies will arrange it. In half a year, there will be three or four hundred gold oceans in income. After all, the income is about seven or eight times that of ordinary people, which is a proper middle class.

Even so, buying a decent apartment in Brisbane is no easy task.

With the rapid development of the empire’s economy, cities are becoming more and more prosperous, especially the real estate prices in the metropolises are generally rocketing upwards. Compared with 10 years ago, it has more than tripled, and more than 5 times compared with the beginning of this century. .

For example, the two-bedroom apartment he lives in is a middle-class block, with a good public security environment and complete supporting facilities. The asking price is 3500-3700 Jinyang, and it is very popular.

Those small European-style single-family villas cost tens of thousands, but they are not as expensive as ordinary people, and ordinary people cannot afford them at all.

It is said that forty or fifty years ago, such a small villa cost only one or two hundred gold yang, and now I can’t even think about it.

Perhaps only in remote rural and pastoral areas, you can build a small villa for two or three hundred gold dollars. Then again, everyone is willing to live in a big city. Now, which young people are willing to run to the corners?

Brisbane’s Gold Coast is a place where people are intoxicated. A handsome and famous actor like Lu Xiaotian, if he is willing to fall, he will not have to worry about making money.

as far as he knows;

There are many rich and rich women who are willing to take popular young students to night banquets or go to nightclubs to play, and they can spend hundreds of gold dollars. The specific amount depends on the content.

This method of making quick money can quickly make people rich.

Lu Xiaotian still has some professionalism, and he doesn’t want to entertain people early. This kind of thing can’t be covered by paper, and once his reputation is exposed, it will stink.

Put the soy milk, fried dough sticks and beef fried buns on the table. Lu Xiaotian poured himself a glass of hot milk and sat at the table to prepare for breakfast.

After taking a sip of milk, he took out the newspapers and letters in the mailbox and flipped through them. He was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a military postal mail from Europe, which read, “Sincerely, Brother Xiaotian, Sincerely, Brother Ming.”

This is a letter from Zheng Ming. Zheng Ming and Lu Xiaotian are friends who met in the Dazayuan. The two were born in the same year. Lu Xiaotian will be a sophomore for more than a month, and they can talk very well on weekdays and quickly become good friends.

After graduating from the Army’s Junior Infantry School, Zheng Ming was officially awarded the rank of second lieutenant after a one-year internship period. He is a second lieutenant platoon leader of the Second Division of Brisbane. He arrived in Europe with the expeditionary force in the second half of last year and participated in the abnormal **** The tragic Battle of the Somme…

Opened the envelope and a photo fell out of it.

Lu Xiaotian picked up the photo and looked at it carefully, he couldn’t help laughing;

in the photo

is a photo taken by Zheng Ming and his three comrades holding a few French girls. Looking at the background, it should be a bungalow with a high ridge on the edge of a French village and town, with a distinct French color.

In the photo, Lieutenant Zheng Ming is holding a beautiful woman in one arm, grinning happily.

Lu Xiaotian knew by looking at the photos that this guy was showing off for himself!

He picked up the letter with a smile at the corner of his mouth and looked at it. Half of the densely packed three-page letter was talking about how happy he was in France.

The monthly salary of Lieutenant Zheng Ming is not high, it is 26.5 Jinyang per month, which is slightly higher than the income of ordinary workers in the empire.

However, the imperial army in Europe has high combat allowances and high combat subsidies. A second lieutenant officer like him basically earns various kinds of messy income during the pre-war preparations and during the battle. When the subsidies are added together, the monthly income exceeds hundreds of gold dollars. Expensive salary.

During the battle and rest period, officers and soldiers also have expedition dispatch allowances, excellent service allowances, etc., and they get more than 50 Jinyang each month. In addition, the military supplies enjoyed in the army are almost all at cost prices, and the happiness index is quite high.

Take the example of a second lieutenant officer;

Three cigarettes, 10 pieces of chocolate, 10 cans of beef, two catties of toffee and other things are allotted free of charge every month. The extra part needs to be purchased at the price of military supplies, but there is a limit.

These are several times of huge profits when they get their hands on the local black market. In France, they are short of everything, so they have a good life.

said in the letter;

It is estimated that the troops will be launched in mid-to-late April and enter Belgium to fight. Now the brothers in the army all want to enter the German mainland earlier, and then they can let go of their hands and feet.

What    can grab depends on luck.

In the army of the Ocean Empire, there are countless such wealth myths circulating, so the imperial soldiers are quite eager to enter the German mainland, and their enthusiasm for fighting is very high.

There is no need to mobilize at all, everyone is screaming.

This is because the empire implements a compulsory military system. Even if the soldiers have combat subsidies and ocean dispatch allowances, their income is still much less than that of officers, and they all count on entering Germany to make a fortune.

Lu Xiaotian looked at the letter while eating breakfast, and his mood became brighter.

He knew; Zheng Ming was reporting good news instead of bad news, and he did everything to say it nicely.

The Battle of the Somme is known as the “Hell Battlefield”. The newspapers and media in the Empire and the news agencies have read numerous reports, so that citizens understand that the **** and cruel degree is far beyond people’s imagination. In the face of the fierce Germans, throw away Life is a matter of minutes.

The emperor of the empire who is admired by thousands of people once said;

Where does it come from that so many years have been quiet, but there are people who are carrying the load.

Lu Xiaotian recognized this sentence from the bottom of his heart, and felt that it was very good. The prosperity and peace of the empire today cannot be separated from the life and death of the army and the expansion of territory.

This is also the reason why the imperial soldiers are widely respected and have a very high social status.

Many squires and celebrities in cities and towns, if they have no experience in military service, feel that they are born with dwarfs, and they do not speak hard.

Especially those politicians who are running for town councillors, give out their own policy speeches, only to be speechless when asked by others;

Listen to what you said, so where were you when the soldiers were sweating and dying for the empire?

Therefore, more than 90% of middle and high-level government officials and politicians have military service experience, and the remaining 10% must have experience in colonization and reclamation, and have made tangible contributions to the development of the empire.

Without the above two points, it is basically impossible to enter politics or hold middle and high-level positions.

After drinking the milk, he drank another bowl of soy milk, and ate 6 beef fried buns and 2 fried dough sticks. Lu Xiaotian burped contentedly and stood up with the letter, ready to write a reply to Zheng Ming.

At this moment, the phone rang “ding ding ding”.

“Hey, I’m Lu Xiaotian, ah… Master, it’s me, what’s your concern?”

“Anthracene… ok, ok, no problem.”

“Uh-huh…”

“I understand that this drama is a big production. Master, if you can think of me, Lu Xiaotian, that is a blessing that can’t be repaired in several lifetimes. I will definitely cherish it very much.”

“Well… find a teacher to learn the singing style of Daomadan, I understand, what else do you want?”

“Okay…Thank you, Master, for your concern.”

put down the phone

Lu Xiaotian jumped up excitedly, and just now was a call from Li Jiamao, the famous director of Galaxy Films.

The boss of this play, Li Jianhua, has appointed the famous director Li Jiamao to be in charge. Li Jiamao expects Lu Xiaotian to play Yang Liulang in the play… Yang Zongbao, this is a very important male lead!

in today’s Chinese film industry

There are three major genres of mainstream movies. The first is a martial arts feature film. For example, “Flaming Mountain” is such a movie. The hero Sun Wukong wants to fight with Red Boy, Princess Tie Fan, and Bull Demon King, all the way, and finally. The lively movie was over, and the market responded quite enthusiastically after it was broadcast.

The second type is a feature film, such as “The South Seas”.

The third type is opera films. When the movie is played, the recorded records that have been made a long time ago are played at the same time. There are sounds, images, and traditional operas full of charm, such as Peking Opera, Huangmei Opera, and Cantonese Opera. The relevant storylines are familiar to everyone. of the big hits.

Being able to play the leading role is very easy to become popular, and being able to be remembered by more audiences means more product endorsements, more money, and a more accessible way of acting. How can it be? Not happy?

(end of this chapter)