"Cough, cough, General Qin, you see, this is our Dragon Country's advertising price list."
"It starts from six in the morning and ends at half past one the next afternoon."
"Here are the base prices for advertisements in all time slots throughout the day."
Qin Xuan took the phone from He Minghui and enlarged the table, glancing over it generally.
All advertisements were divided into five types based on duration: 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, and 60 seconds.
Except for the 60-second ultra-long advertisements that only appeared at specific times, the other four types occupied most of the time.
Among them, from six in the evening to ten at night was the prime time for channel broadcasting, and accordingly, the advertising prices were one or even several notches higher than other times.
For example, the shortest 5-second advertisement, at its cheapest, cost only 20,000 Dragon Coins to play once.
However, during prime time, playing a short 5-second advertisement required an astonishing 120,000 Dragon Coins.
The latter was a full 6 times the former!
After a rough calculation, Yuan Mengqi arrived at a conclusion that shocked Qin Xuan.
If he wanted to book all the advertising slots on Dragon Country Satellite TV Channel One, it would cost 24.2 million Dragon Coins for just one day!
That was more than his mine earned in a day!
And this was a simple calculation, not including the amounts for those few 60-second advertisements.
Hearing this number, Qin Xuan finally understood how whimsical his previous idea was.
Helplessly, he could only settle for the next best option and contract all the prime-time advertising slots.
After all, even with his special status, he couldn't let the official units suffer too much.
After another series of calculations, Yuan Mengqi gave Qin Xuan a result.
The prime-time advertisements on Dragon Country Satellite TV Channel One, across the four durations, would cost 6.66 million Dragon Coins per day.
Although still not cheap, it was much more acceptable than 24.2 million.
The prime-time prices for other channels of Dragon Country Satellite TV were much lower than Channel One.
However, even so, the total amount required to contract all channels' prime-time slots for one day reached an astonishing 12 million Dragon Coins.
This was equivalent to a quarter of the income from Qin Xuan's jade mine.
"General Qin, what do you think?"
Seeing Qin Xuan's hesitant expression, He Minghui was secretly pleased.
He hoped that this General Qin would not be able to come up with so much money.
Otherwise, without the advertising funds from the bidding of various groups, their usual salaries and benefits would definitely drop a notch.
However, Qin Xuan disappointed him again.
After some deliberation, Qin Xuan directly stated his request.
He wanted to contract all prime-time advertising slots on all channels of Dragon Country Satellite TV until the end of the year.
During this period, he would participate in the bidding for each advertising slot himself.
In other words, regardless of the outcome next year, Qin Xuan would no longer use his special privilege to interfere with advertising placements.
Hearing Qin Xuan's request, He Minghui was slightly relieved.
It was already late October, and even if the other party's advertisements started airing from the first of next month, it would be at most two months.
This was completely acceptable.
Compared to advertising placements calculated by the year, these mere two months were negligible.
As for the liquidated damages and other funds that would need to be paid for these last two months, they were all included in the advertising department's usual basic budget.
He didn't have to worry about it at all.
"No problem, General Qin."
"Your request is not too difficult, I can make the decision directly."
"Tomorrow, as soon as work starts, I will immediately contact your company's President Cao."
Since there were no major issues, He Minghui did not waste any more time.
He knew that people like Qin Xuan would definitely not oversee the follow-up work themselves.
Therefore, at the time of their parting, he did not do anything superfluous like asking Qin Xuan for his contact information.
After thanking He Minghui, Qin Xuan, along with the Four Golden Flowers, left Dragon Country Television and arrived at a Siheyuan.
This place was none other than Vladimir's old residence in the capital.
As for Vladimir himself?
He had already returned to the old house and hidden himself away.
He was a vampire, and before reaching the rank of Count, he could not directly come into contact with sunlight.
So, after getting off the plane, he did not go to Dragon Country Television with Qin Xuan and the others.
Instead, he wrapped himself up like a zongzi and went straight home.
"Little Fu, open the door quickly, it's us."
Arriving at the door, Qin Xuan knocked loudly. After a few minutes, Vladimir, with an excited expression, came before him.
"Qin Xuan, look!"
"My strength has improved so much!"
With a pleased expression, Vladimir no longer had to hide in his room.
He swung his fist forward, and a whistling sound of breaking air suddenly erupted.
Although his strength was still no match for a Grandmaster like Qin Xuan, it was already much stronger than a Martial Grandmaster.
"What's going on?"
"Could it be because of Buffy's bloodline essence?"
Qin Xuan curiously walked through the main door, while Vladimir nodded frantically.
"We vampires only increase our strength when we are in hibernation."
"So, during my previous hibernation, my strength was enhanced."
"Then we didn't disturb you?"
Vladimir shook his head.
"All those bloodline essences have been absorbed into my body."
"As long as I want, I can absorb them during hibernation at any time."
"That's good then."
"Mi Wei, please prepare dinner with Meng Qi. Little Fu and I have other matters to attend to."
After instructing Fan Miwei, Qin Xuan eagerly walked into the Siheyuan.
With the experience from before, he first asked Vladimir to take him to the basement.
However, the basement of this Siheyuan was different from the one in Jiangcheng Villa. It was clearly not modernized.
So, while called a basement, it was actually a small cellar used for storing supplies.
Just by walking down a couple of steps, the entire cellar came into view.
"Did Buffy do anything here before?"
Cellar: No, no, ever since they moved in here, they've hardly ever opened my door!
After communicating with the cellar, Qin Xuan shook his head in disappointment.
"It seems Buffy started his actions when he was in Jiangcheng."
"What about before that?"
"Was he waiting for an opportunity, or deciphering a prophecy?"
With the questions in his heart, he headed straight for Buffy's old room, following the inner voices of the rooms.
Vladimir did not hesitate and followed closely behind Qin Xuan.
"Puff, puff!"
"Why is it so dirty here?"
Upon entering Buffy's room, the first thing that greeted them was thick dust.
Qin Xuan coughed out the dirt from his mouth while fanning away the floating dust with his hand.
"Uh, I don't know." Vladimir said somewhat awkwardly.
"The company's staff is responsible for cleaning all the rooms in the house."
Qin Xuan's eyes lit up.
"Judging by the amount of dust here, this place has been abandoned for at least several decades."
"This means that the cleaning staff were not allowed to enter Buffy's room."
"What does this indicate?"
"It means there must be a secret hidden here that he didn't want anyone to know!"