Chapter 1378 President Pei's Vision and Courage

Huang Sibao hadn't expected Meng Chang to trust President Pei so much.

But he himself felt that the risk was too high.

This was a national election, not child's play!

The country of Ukrania had a population of twenty or thirty million people. With so many people participating in the vote, how could President Pei be so sure that they would vote for a comedian as president? Even most of the media believed that the incumbent president had a high probability of being re-elected!

But now that he thought about it, President Pei must have already planned to tie the *Successor* series to this big show overseas when the series first started airing; otherwise, he wouldn't have limited the time so strictly.

What was the difference between this kind of binding and gambling?

If Big Vasili won, it would be a huge profit, and *Successor* would take off.

But what if Big Vasili didn't win? That wouldn't even be news. The best-case scenario would be that people would mock *Successor* for this. More likely, no one in the country would pay attention to this matter at all, and all of President Pei's preparations would be in vain.

In other words, President Pei had placed the fate of *Successor* entirely on a country thousands of kilometers away that had nothing to do with them.

Win the bet, become a god on the spot.

Lose the bet, and the huge investment in the early stage of *Successor* would all go down the drain, and even the Fei Huang Studio would have to be sacrificed.

But now, there was nothing he could do.

Huang Sibao came to Meng Chang to discuss this, hoping that Meng Chang could find a way to reverse the situation.

Meng Chang thought about it for a long time and realized that President Pei had already left a wonderful plan.

But the content of this wonderful plan was to continue waiting for the election results from Ukrania.

In the end, there was still nothing that could be done.

"Okay, now we can only choose to believe in President Pei."

Huang Sibao had no choice but to get up and leave, continue with his work, and wait patiently.

Walking to the door of the advertising and marketing department, Huang Sibao took out his phone and called Cui Geng.

"Have you been paying attention to the elections in Ukrania?" Huang Sibao asked.

Cui Geng's confused voice came from the phone: "Elections in Ukrania? Is it this year?"

Huang Sibao: "It's nothing."

It seemed that Meng Chang's guess was correct. Cui Geng knew nothing about this matter. When he wrote *Successor*, there was no sign of this at all. This was purely a coincidence.

It seemed that President Pei was still in control, keenly aware of the connection between these two things, and arranged the linkage between the two without everyone else knowing.

It's just that this kind of thing couldn't be guaranteed, so they could only wait patiently.

…

After Huang Sibao left, Meng Chang began to modify his publicity plan.

Since the situation had changed, he had to adapt to the situation and adjust immediately.

Just like the previous publicity plan, when he found out that Zhujia Group wanted to get in on the hype, he used the identity of Tian Gongzi to release the video in advance. Although this directly led to a sharp reduction in commission income, the Pei-style publicity method was still a great success. Meng Chang also obtained income far exceeding the commission by shorting Zhujia Group's stock through Fan Xiaodong.

This time was the same.

The original plan was no longer feasible. As soon as Qian Mou's evaluation came out, Meng Chang's path was completely blocked.

But it didn't matter, President Pei had already pointed out a clear path.

Meng Chang decided to adjust his plan and use Tian Gongzi to release a video at the end of this month to directly refute Qian Mou's claims!

Before Qian Mou's statement widely influenced the audience and formed a stereotype of *Successor*, he would preserve the last public opinion position of *Successor* through tit-for-tat arguments, and at the same time, he would wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

When the last episode of *Successor* was broadcast and the final results of the election in Ukrania came out, it would be time for Tian Gongzi to launch a full counterattack with *Successor*!

Of course, all of this was based on the premise that the comedian Big Vasili really won the election in Ukrania.

If he didn't win, then it was completely gg (game over).

At that time, *Successor* would be ruined, so much filming and publicity expenses would be wasted, Tian Gongzi's account would be useless, and Fei Huang Studio's reputation would not collapse, but it would definitely be affected. The most important thing was that within Tengda, President Pei's undefeated golden body would be broken.

It had to be said that this was a big gamble.

But Meng Chang didn't care at all, because the publicity expenses were all paid by President Pei. If President Pei was willing to go all-in and bet big, then he would bet!

Of course, this was definitely not encouraging people to gamble blindly. Gambling dogs die (dubo biss) was for sure. Under any circumstances, a gambler's mentality was undesirable. Foolish gambling only had one result: family ruin and a fate worse than death.

But President Pei's big gamble obviously stemmed from an analysis of social reality, an insight into human nature, and an estimate of what would happen in the future.

Just like venture capital and buying stocks, it was not to place hope on illusory probabilities and luck, but based on one's own logical judgment.

President Pei was very stable when he needed to be stable, planning strategies and not making any mistakes, but when he needed to take risks, he did not hesitate.

Meng Chang felt that even if Tian Gongzi's account was useless, it didn't matter. After all, he hadn't invested anything in this account. It was just a derivative of Pei-style publicity.

Next, Meng Chang would invest a lot of money in this publicity plan to carry out the second round of publicity offensive, so that the discussion and popularity of *Successor* would be higher and wider.

That was to say, he would invest more chips on the table.

Win, earn more; lose, lose more.

After finalizing the plan, Meng Chang was prepared for his commission to be cut in half this month.

Originally, the popularity of *Successor* was extremely low. Under the attack of Qian Mou's black manuscript, the rating also plummeted. Meng Chang could get a high commission by doing nothing.

And if he released a video in the identity of Tian Gongzi and confronted Qian Mou tit-for-tat, the popularity of *Successor* would definitely increase, and the reputation might also rise slightly.

Although the popularity would not completely explode until mid-next month, the commission this month would definitely not be very high.

Meng Chang felt very sorry, but for the success of Pei-style publicity, he had to give up these commissions like last time.

"Is there any way to earn some extra money to make up for the loss like last time?"

Since tasting the sweetness from Fan Xiaodong last time, Meng Chang had become addicted and his commission didn't smell as good anymore.

After all, the Pei-style publicity method, a skill to slay dragons, was actually only used to earn some commissions. It was really a waste of natural resources.

But this time, it had nothing to do with the company after all, so shorting stocks was unlikely.

After considering for a long time, Meng Chang suddenly had an idea and searched the odds for the Ukrania election on the foreign Internet. He found that Big Vasili's odds were actually over five!

Of course, this matter was definitely illegal in the country, so Meng Chang definitely wouldn't mess around.

But Fan Xiaodong was abroad, and it was legal under local laws.

Meng Chang immediately called Fan Xiaodong.

"Xiaodong, how much money do I have with you now?" Meng Chang asked.

Fan Xiaodong probably estimated it and said, "A little over two hundred thousand dollars."

Meng Chang paused slightly, as if he had made up his mind: "If you agree, I want to bet all this money on that Big Vasili in Ukrania."

Fan Xiaodong looked confused: "Why would I disagree? It's your money, you can do whatever you want with it."

"But…"

"Ukrania? Who is Big Vasili? I don't understand what you're saying at all?"

Meng Chang said: "The Ukrania election, go check it out yourself."

Fan Xiaodong was silent for a while, then shocked: "Election? You want to bet on this person to be elected as the president of Ukrania? Brother, are you crazy?"

"This person is an actor, he's just here to be funny. Although the odds of five point something look tempting, what's the point of having high odds for something that's impossible to happen? This is suicide!"

"That's two hundred thousand dollars!"

"Or did you get some inside information from Tengda again…"

"That's not right either… Tengda is just an ordinary company, how can it manipulate the Ukrania election…"

Fan Xiaodong was completely confused by Meng Chang's behavior.

He was really convinced by the Zhujia Group thing before.

But that was a commercial act, equivalent to President Pei setting a trap for Zhujia Group through Late Arrival Studio.

Fan Xiaodong believed that President Pei could control this kind of thing.

But what about the Ukrania election? Not to mention influencing it, it was impossible to even get inside information.

This thing depended on the final voting results, and everyone's judgment could only be said to be a prediction. It might be accurate or it might not be. There were too many uncontrollable factors, and there was no way to ensure that the prediction was accurate.

He was going to throw two hundred thousand dollars into it all at once. It was too crazy.

Meng Chang was very firm: "I can't explain too much, but since I want to do this, there must be a basis for it."

"If it really fails, it's just two hundred thousand dollars down the drain. Just pretend that the Zhujia Group thing never happened. It's just something external to the body, and it doesn't hurt to lose it."

"But if it succeeds, I can directly pay off all my debts, and there will even be some left over!"

"If I don't take a gamble at this time, I won't have such an opportunity in the future."

Meng Chang felt that President Pei dared to bet so many things, including the filming and publicity expenses of *Successor*, and even the reputation of Fei Huang Studio. If it failed, the loss would be much greater than his own?

What was two hundred thousand dollars compared to President Pei's investment?

What's more, Meng Chang himself was very keen on adventure and had a gambler's mentality. If he didn't know about this opportunity, it would be fine, but if he knew about it, he would definitely not let it go.

President Pei said that he wasn't very confident, but that must be some degree of modesty. In any case, it was worth a try.

Fan Xiaodong was silent, obviously completely shocked by Meng Chang.

He even began to doubt Tengda's background, wondering if Meng Chang was working for Tengda, or if he had joined some strange and mysterious organization…

After a long time, Fan Xiaodong said: "Okay, I'll do as you say. I'll also invest 50,000 symbolically. If it really succeeds, then we'll make a lot of money."