Chapter 779: Chapter 766: The Exorbitant Budget Plan
At nine o’clock in the morning, Liu Fengnian, Yue Feng, Niu Ben, Zhao Ran, Zhao Zheng, and the selection of over twenty anglers gathered outside at the club entrance.
As the scheduled time arrived, Liu Fengnian, holding a list, strode to the front of the crowd.
“Hello everyone, I am Liu Fengnian, the general manager of Yuefeng Fishing Tackle. On behalf of the company, I welcome everyone here! You all are here because you love competitive fishing and have earned your place here through tough competitions. I won’t say much else. I hope everyone can gain something from the month-long intensive training that follows! Next, please allow the club general manager, Manager Niu Ben, to speak!”
Whenever there is an event involving a larger number of people, it is essential to emphasize discipline and clarify rules, and evidently, Liu Fengnian and Niu Ben are veterans in this regard.
After a round of speeches, it was time for roll-call; upon completion, everyone gathered in the club’s activity room to be assigned dormitories and to receive various supplies and equipment provided by the club.
As someone who had gone through similar training, Yue Feng was very familiar with this routine and didn’t need to interfere with these trifles, using the time to observe the personnel.
After briefly reviewing the anglers’ information on the list, he gained a preliminary understanding of the personnel for this session.
Overall, the foundation of these candidates was passable; however, there were issues. The average age was over 25, and the oldest one was 35, barely qualifying under the age limit requirement for selection.
In Yue Feng’s view, a higher age would significantly affect physical fitness, which he didn’t view favorably.
During this period, Yue Feng was also busy, printing a large amount of material about fishing techniques, fundamentals, and advanced skills on the computer.
The Taiwan Fishing Skill, learned through systematic study, was easily summarized by Yue Feng. The printed material was detailed and reasonable. After a simple proofreading, it became the training manual for the new members, printed on thick stacks of A4 paper, effectively covering the shortfalls in theoretical knowledge regarding fishing techniques.
After experiencing the initial days of new trainees’ enrollment, their training schedule quickly commenced.
Initially, Yue Feng was quite worried about Zhao Zheng, who had a considerably solid foundation and had been educated at Hua School. He was afraid that Zhao Zheng would resort to his old ways of acting privileged.
However, since the training began, Zhao Zheng performed exceptionally well, even to a surprising extent.
When it came time to elect a class leader, Zhao Zheng was the first to stand up, which slightly surprised Zhao Ran, who had been the presumptive choice. Ultimately, the position, being a service to fellow students without salary or benefits, fell to Zhao Zheng.
After the initial days of theoretical learning, practical training began, and Zhao Zheng’s performance was impressive.
The new batch of small crucian carp used, with Zhao Zhen and Zhao Ran competing to catch them, reached a staggering rate of 350 fish per hour. As a newcomer without any ranking, Zhao Zheng pushed Zhao Ran to his limits, ultimately losing to Zhao Ran by only two fish.
Keep in mind that Zhao Ran is a Competitive Fishing Master with a National Second Level Technical Level!
The club’s intensive training progressed in an orderly fashion, as did several other planned activities.
Yue Feng’s trip to Russia, due to its lengthy duration and various highlights, was edited into three episodes. These were quickly broadcast on CCTV. With the help of trending searches, the viewership and feedback were extremely strong.
Simultaneously, Gu Qingtian and Xin Kai preliminarily reached an intended cooperative outcome.
After repeated evaluations by the leaders in Taiwan and professionals, CCTV finally selected one prospective cooperative proposal from many program proposals.
That day, Yue Feng was mixing with the club members in basic training when Gu Qingtian’s call came through.
Listening to the specially set ringtone, Yue Feng put down his rod, turned around, and walked indoors.
“Hello? Brother Gu, any instructions? Is there any progress on the project?” Yue Feng asked curiously.
Gu Qingtian laughed heartily, “Yes! I’ve had people draft three alternative plans, and one of them was selected by CCTV! I’ve just sent the winning proposal to your email. Take a look and see if you have any other ideas, help me refine it further!”
“Is there a result? Great, I’ll look right now!” Yue Feng hung up the phone and immediately checked his email.
Fisher and Hunter Life, sixty days alone in the wilderness.
According to the plan, the newly established program team will invite renowned wilderness survival experts and professional hunters from around the world to a completely uninhabited and untouched region for a two-month survival challenge.
In a completely unfamiliar environment, challengers are only allowed to select and carry ten basic initial supplies, and are then randomly dropped into a large area.
Here, challengers need to rely on their own strength to build shelters, and collect sufficient food to fill their stomachs through fishing, hunting, and gathering, accomplishing tasks set by the program team, until the challenge time ends, or only one challenger remains. The winner will take home a grand prize of five hundred thousand US dollars!
Sixty days of wilderness survival, starting with essential supplies, the prize money, according to the current exchange rate, is as high as over three million RMB. Yue Feng felt his blood stir as he read through the plan,
In his past life, Yue Feng had seen similar plans on foreign websites, widely spread on platforms like Bilibili and massively followed.
It was unimaginable that in this life, after Brother Gu Qingtian returned to the country, he started with such a grand scheme. No wonder CCTV chose it, not to mention the prize money alone was a substantial figure, and adding on the costs for camera crew, special equipment, and so on, the production budget was astronomical.
After reading through the entire proposal, Yue Feng pulled out his phone and redialed Gu Qingtian.
“Did you finish? How do you feel? Are there any glaring flaws or overlooked areas?” Gu Qingtian spoke slightly faster on the phone, seemingly eager to know Yue Feng’s thoughts.
Yue Feng collected his thoughts and said, “Looking at the planning and design, it isn’t just planned for domestic release, right?”
“Right, the plan is to invite international celebrities, and it’s currently in the preparatory stage before project implementation! If everything goes smoothly, it might follow the path of an international documentary!”
Yue Feng pursed his lips, his tone slightly cold, “The planning itself isn’t problematic, it’s intriguing! But I feel like the leaders on the other side are a bit too greedy! They’re taking virtually no risks, with all problems falling on our side! The entire project, the budget is quite exaggerated!”
Gu Qingtian said, “Indeed! The other two proposals required much less investment but were passed over! Those leaders really do have big appetites, wanting both ratings and achievements! This amount of money isn’t a problem for me, if it is feasible, I’m prepared to agree! After all, it’s our first collaboration, if everything goes well, we can negotiate more slowly afterward!”
Since the financial backer himself could accept it, Yue Feng naturally had nothing else to complain about and quickly nodded.
“I’ll think over the details and send them to you later, trying to perfect them and reduce risks as much as possible! By the way, another question, have the participants been decided yet?”
“Oh? Are you also interested in this?”