Chapter 23 Thursday, February 23rd

Meng Chang and the advertising and marketing department were working feverishly on the esports promotional video, which was about to officially begin filming.

Meng Chang once again marveled at how efficient his subordinates were.

Two or three of them came from Fei Huang Studio, and they were familiar with all aspects of the work, whether it was location scouting, casting, or filming. Meng Chang had originally thought that the preliminary preparations would take three to five days, but he found that with the high efficiency of these people, it could be shortened by half.

After all, for the employees of the advertising and marketing department, ensuring work efficiency was equivalent to ensuring their rest time, so how could their efficiency not be high?

Among the employees in the advertising and marketing department, Meng Chang especially liked a young man named Gao Ti. He was young, quick-witted, and efficient. Meng Chang especially liked his name, feeling that it had a good meaning (Gao Ti, meaning "high commission").

Gao Ti was also transferred from Fei Huang Studio, and he was responsible for most of the preliminary filming work for this promotional video.

It had to be said that President Pei had a wealth of talent. Meng Chang felt that it was very comfortable to lead such a team because he didn't have to worry about his orders not being carried out, and the possibility of getting a high commission naturally increased greatly.

Meng Chang was continuing to conceive the script details for the promotional video when he saw Gao Ti rushing back from outside and going straight to his desk.

"Brother Meng, the venues, actors, and props have all been arranged. After preparing some more details and perfecting the script, we should be able to officially start filming in the next two days and finish filming next week."

"However... I have something to report."

"Of course, this is just an immature suggestion from me. It's up to you to decide whether or not to adopt it."

Meng Chang was very happy, both because of Gao Ti's high efficiency and because he felt sufficiently respected.

He nodded, not hiding his appreciation for Gao Ti: "Okay, tell me."

Gao Ti said, "Brother Meng, there are gpL training bases in Jingzhou, located at Mingyun Villa, which is probably only a few tens of minutes away from here by car."

"Although it's a bit remote, if we're filming inside a club, we should be able to use the existing scenery there. Moreover, this task was personally arranged by President Pei, and the club will definitely cooperate unconditionally."

"If we film at their club, we can save some time."

Gao Ti had previously suggested that he could apply to President Pei for funds to film at clubs all over the country, but this suggestion was rejected by Meng Chang.

Because Meng Chang knew very well that the promotional video he was going to shoot was actually going to denigrate esports. He wanted to film the kind of bad living conditions in clubs. Clubs also cared about their reputation, so how could they let him film that?

Therefore, there was no need to make a fool of himself.

Now, Gao Ti had given a new suggestion: to film at the gpL training base.

The implication was that other clubs wouldn't let them film, but gpL clubs would definitely let them film because this was a task arranged by President Pei, and all industries under Tengda had to cooperate unconditionally!

Meng Chang fell into deep thought. After a moment, he still shook his head.

"I don't think there's any need for that. Let's just build our own set."

Gao Ti didn't ask any more questions, just nodded: "Okay, then I'll go arrange it."

The reason why Meng Chang didn't choose to film at the gpL training base wasn't because he thought it was troublesome or for other reasons. The main reason was that he was afraid that doing so would be too obvious and easily offend people.

His promotional video was already going to use game footage from *gog*. If even the training base could be linked to the gpL team, that would be terrible.

It would basically be an outright accusation.

Meng Chang didn't want to make it so obvious, as it would easily provoke the audience's rebellious psychology and have a counterproductive effect.

Therefore, it was best to build his own set and satirize it subtly. If he really tore his face, the scene might be very ugly. The gpL clubs were all backed by big companies, such as Shenhua, a large group that Meng Chang couldn't afford to offend.

So Meng Chang still didn't adopt this suggestion and decided to continue building his own set.

What's more, building his own set had many benefits, such as making the players' living environment more exaggerated. As long as it wasn't too outrageous and guaranteed a certain degree of authenticity, some deliberately arranged details could better highlight the hardship of the players' training.

This kind of small-scale fabrication generally wouldn't be investigated, after all, no specific club was named.

But if he used an existing club as the location, these problems would be difficult to solve. If the big money behind the club took it seriously, Meng Chang would be in trouble.

Gao Ti went to handle these matters, and Meng Chang was happy to be a hands-off manager, casually searching for recent related news online.

"Huh? The iCL league seems to have started its publicity preheating as well?"

Meng Chang noticed that the "ioi Championship League" jointly prepared by Long Yu Group and Finger Company seemed to be about to start, and Long Yu Group was spending a lot of effort on publicity.

There were already many rumors circulating, including the iCL participating teams, the rosters of each team, and the league's game version previews.

These contents were obviously authorized by Long Yu Group, and the purpose was very simple: to preheat in advance and create a sense of anticipation for the audience.

Before the official start of the competition, there would definitely be many waves of publicity.

And Meng Chang estimated that there would definitely be a promotional video for the iCL league.

"Isn't this a coincidence?"

"The iCL promotional video can just give me an assist!"

Meng Chang could easily guess what the nature of the iCL promotional video would be: nothing more than filming the spirit of the various teams, filming some handsome shots of the professional players, and simply filming a panoramic view of the competition venue.

In short, this kind of commercial promotional video was definitely focused on being cool.

That would be in stark contrast to Meng Chang's promotional video!

When everyone saw it, the *ioi* promotional video was so well shot, but Tengda's esports promotional video was so disappointing, they would definitely prefer the former!

Moreover, Long Yu Group would definitely put a lot of resources into publicity, which would make many viewers' attention focus on the esports field. After Meng Chang's promotional video came out, he wouldn't have to put in much effort to catch the audience's attention.

Meng Chang's purpose was to promote the esports industry in reverse. The higher the heat, the better the effect, and the higher his commission would naturally be.

Since that was the case, why not do it?

Of course, the effect of force is mutual. The promotional video that Meng Chang was filming was equivalent to pouring cold water on the entire esports industry, and it would definitely accidentally injure the iCL.

But Meng Chang didn't care.

Because his promotional video used the game footage of *gog*, it shouldn't affect *ioi*, right?

The game graphics of these two games were quite different, and the audience shouldn't be so blind as to see them wrong.

Moreover, even if the iCL was affected by the AOE, it wouldn't affect his commission at all.

For Meng Chang, as long as he didn't offend people too badly and make too many enemies, then all his goals were for high commissions, and he wouldn't care about anything else.

...

At the same time, in the office area of the "Useful App".

Chen Yufeng, who was in charge of Rabbit Tail Live, made a special trip to talk to Yu Pingan about cooperation.

Currently, the Useful App was still being continuously updated and maintained.

President Pei had already said that the Useful App was a long-term project like the Foolish Old Man Moving Mountains, so Yu Pingan didn't dare to slack off at all. He carefully developed more functions, maintained the App's version, enriched the professional content on it, and also devoted some energy to using technical and legal means to protect rights and combat the plagiarism of knowledge on the Useful App.

So far, with the joint efforts of all the developers and the professors, lecturers, young scholars, and graduate students of Handong University, the Useful App had completed the initial content architecture, but it didn't have much fame yet.

Most of the content on this App was related to ancient poetry and prose, and the biggest function was to help AEEIS create an automatic poetry matching function.

Yu Pingan also knew that the content of the Useful App was seriously insufficient at present, so he didn't ask President Pei for more publicity funds for publicity.

He still focused his main energy on finding big names and professionals in various fields to produce knowledge and improve entries and explanations on the Useful App.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Chen Yufeng explained his intention: he hoped to蹭(cèng, to sponge off) the resources of the Useful App and discuss with the young scholars and lecturers who were currently writing entries on the Useful App, so that they could open a live broadcast room on Rabbit Tail Live to give lectures.

Of course, Rabbit Tail Live would definitely not let them speak for free, and there would be a basic salary.

Chen Yufeng's words stunned Yu Pingan.

Other people's live broadcast platforms all spent money to sign game gods and beauty anchors, but Rabbit Tail Live actually wanted to spend money to sign experts and scholars?

But on second thought, wasn't this the same idea as the Useful App? Then it's okay.

Yu Pingan thought for a while, Rabbit Tail Live's request still had some conflicts with the Useful App.

After all, there weren't many excellent young lecturers and scholars. These were very valuable resources. They usually had to teach and do research, and their spare time was limited. Organizing materials for the Useful App or giving lectures on Rabbit Tail Live, this was probably only one or the other.

Unless it was a small number of gifted liver kings.

This involved a resource allocation problem. If Yu Pingan generously agreed to Chen Yufeng's request, and as a result, these young lecturers and scholars all went to Rabbit Tail Live to get money, and the work on the Useful App was affected, wouldn't that be cheating?

Tengda's departments did help each other unconditionally, but the premise was that it couldn't affect the work of the department.

After considering for a moment, Yu Pingan said: "How about this, I'll call President Pei and ask for instructions."

"Let President Pei make a decision on how to allocate it."