Chapter 1701 Lifting the ban
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Not long after, some of Kurt's information was found by Guo Yunpeng.
"Cote's daughter is Beyoncé?" Xu Taiping asked.
"Yes!" Guo Yunpeng nodded.
"No wonder Cote targeted me. It turned out that I offended his daughter yesterday." Xu Taiping said helplessly.
"Have you offended his daughter?" Guo Yunpeng asked in surprise, "What's the situation?"
"A little thing!" Xu Taiping shook his head and said, "Although our situation is not very good now, we can't wait to die. Yunpeng, you, go to find your friends, it's best to be from the Chinese circle, see if you can provide some help. Lawrence, you, go to find your friends, see if you can help lobby Cote. We can give appropriate benefits as long as Cote no longer targets us."
"I don't have many friends, but I can help you talk about it." Lawrence said.
"I'll try my best, too!" Guo Yunpeng said.
"Okay, let's retreat first!" Xu Taiping said.
"Then here?" Guo Yunpeng pointed to the villa. They spent millions of dollars tonight for this party, but they didn't expect that they didn't even start.
"Do you want to try those women? If you want to try, I won't have any objection." Xu Taiping said with a smile.
"Forget it, my brother-in-law is still in the United States! Let's go, just treat it as feeding the dog." Guo Yunpeng said, walking out.
Xu Taiping and Lawrence also left the villa together.
The party that cost millions of dollars was wasted.
"Master, take my car and I'll take you back to the hotel." Lawrence said to Xu Taiping.
Seeing Lawrence's appearance, Xu Taiping nodded, then said goodbye to Guo Yunpeng, and got on the old Mercedes-Benz of Lawrence.
The driver was Lawrence's assistant.
"Hello, Mr. Xu!" Lawrence's assistant saw Xu Taiping enter the car and quickly greeted Xu Taiping.
"Hello." Xu Taiping greeted the other party with a smile.
"My assistant is a new trick, so she didn't know what we were in relationship when you called last time." Lawrence said.
"It's okay." Xu Taiping shook his head and said with a smile, "Your assistant is better than the last time."
"It's also relatively straightforward to do things! Go to the Kelmos Hotel." Lawrence said.
"Yes!" the assistant nodded, then started the car and headed towards the Kelmos Hotel.
"Master...I actually have a suggestion for the things you are facing now," said Lawrence.
"What suggestions?" Xu Taiping asked.
"Just withdraw from the Haolaiwu market directly. There is no need to struggle anymore. I knew him a man a long time ago. No one can change what he decided. Since Cotter decided to ban your movies from Haolaiwu, your movies are destined to be unable to be released in Haolaiwu. If you withdraw now, you can save some costs." Lawrence said.
"What do you think a movie counts for me?" Xu Taiping asked.
"This... is definitely not a big deal to you. You are the richest man in China, worth tens of billions of dollars, just a movie. Even if you don't broadcast it, it will not have any impact, right?" Lawrence said.
"Indeed!" Xu Taiping nodded with a smile, "This movie is nothing to me. I just invested hundreds of millions of dollars. It doesn't matter if I waste it. However, this movie is much more important to the director and the actors. They worked hard for a year and made such a movie, in order to get good responses in the world and to get everyone's recognition. I can actually not want the market for Haolaiwu. However, Haolaiwu is the temple of the movie. If it is not released here, then how much box office I get in the world is not very meaningful. For those movie staff, if they don't get recognition from Haolaiwu, no matter how many other achievements they have achieved, it is not very meaningful. So... no matter what, I must let this movie be released in Haolaiwu. Even if I pay more than the box office for it, I am willing."
"It would be great if I could have a boss like you before." Lawrence sighed.
"It's not too late now, you have a master like me." Xu Taiping smiled and patted Lawrence and said, "Even if we really can't make it in the Haolai House in the end, then go back to China. If you want to develop in China, I will destroy all the resources I can for you. I cannot guarantee that you will be the most popular foreign artist in China, but I can guarantee that you are definitely the foreign artist who has obtained the most resources in China. I will not let you call your master in vain."
"Thank you, Master." Lawrence said with emotion. The ultimate goal of his firm standing on Xu Taiping's side tonight was actually to get Xu Taiping's support.
He has already reached the end of the Haolai House, and being marginalized is unchangeable. If Xu Taiping is willing to support him in China, he will definitely usher in a second spring.
Lawrence is different from Zhao Xiaohua and the others. He has been recognized by Haolaiwu, but Haolaiwu has been renewed too quickly and he has been eliminated. Therefore, even if he is not a good friend in Haolaiwu, he doesn't care. The market in China is also huge. If it can be prosperous in China, it will be much better than being a marginal figure in Haolaiwu.
Lawrence is different from other artists tonight. He put all his bets on Xu Taiping. In the end, after Xu Taiping's promise, Lawrence felt it was worth it.
The car sent Xu Taiping back to the hotel.
Xu Taiping got out of the car and waved to Lawrence. Then, Xu Taiping watched Lawrence leave.
For Lawrence, Xu Taiping actually felt like a mirror in his heart. There was never any love for no reason in this world, nor any hatred for no reason.
Although Lawrence was his apprentice, he was a disciple who was forced to worship. Xu Taiping did not think that Lawrence would devote himself to his good deeds because of his identity. To put it bluntly, it was all for the benefit. So Xu Taiping made that promise in the car, with the purpose of letting Lawrence continue to stand firmly on his side.
Although Lawrence was on the verge of being a stroll in the Haolai House for decades, he was not sure where he could be used!
Even if there is no place to use it in the end, Xu Taiping will fulfill his promise and make a big resource for Lawrence in China.
All of this is just a transaction and has nothing to do with feelings.
Xu Taiping turned around and walked back to the hotel.
I thought it would be a very easy trip to the house, but I didn't expect it to end up like this.
Xu Taiping was unwilling to cause more storms, but since they had already started to ban them, Xu Taiping felt that he had to do something.
The next day, Xu Taiping and Guo Yunpeng left the hotel and headed to the local Chinatown.
Luocheng has the largest Chinatown on the entire west coast of the United States, and on this Chinatown, there is a huge organization standing.
The name of this organization is called the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce is a chamber of commerce established by Chinese people overseas.
The earliest Chinese chambers of commerce mainly meant mutual assistance, after all, they were all overseas.
The nature of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Huayi Association is similar. However, the Huayi Association mainly uses martial arts and lakes to protect Chinese people, while the Chinese Chamber of Commerce mainly helps business.
Because of the rescue of Lu Damin before, Xu Taiping had already gained a lot of fame in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, so Xu Taiping soon met Jiang Yipan, the president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
After briefly expressing his purpose, Jiang Yi was silent for a long time and then said eight words.
“Racial discrimination, presidential election.”
At noon that day.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Xu Taiping's film publicity team held a press conference at the Kelmos Hotel.
At the press conference, Guo Yunpeng, as the producer of the film, accused the American film censorship agency of racial discrimination against Chinese people. Chinese films were discriminated against by the American government departments, and the American government departments did not allow Chinese films to enter the Haolaiwu market.
Jiang Yipan, president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, said at the press conference that in a free and democratic country like the United States, racial discrimination should not occur. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce will do its best to help Guo Yunpeng and others and strive to make the movie release in the United States!
This press conference was quickly transmitted to various parts of the United States through major media. Because it was named racial discrimination, the matter quickly fermented.
In the afternoon of the same day, many anti-racial discrimination organizations in the United States stood up and issued statements expressing their support for Xu Taiping and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. These organizations called on all people of color to stand up and help people of other races discriminated against by the American government.
With the issuance of these statements, a large number of Chinese, black and Latino people gathered outside the US Presidential Palace to protest and demonstrate, and the US government was immediately under tremendous pressure.
The Minister of the United States personally found the relevant review units of the movie to understand the situation. Then, in the afternoon of the same day, the President of the United States personally led the team to review the movie. After the review, the President of the United States claimed that there were no prohibited places in the movie "Sky Walk" from China, so this movie will be released throughout the United States on Christmas Day as planned!
From the movie being banned by Cote last night to the American president's personal announcement this afternoon that the movie will be released as scheduled, Xu Taiping successfully broke the deadlock in less than 24 hours. The speed of breaking the deadlock was really too fast.
In the evening, in Chinatown, in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
"President Jiang, thank you, thank you!" Xu Taiping held Jiang Yipan's hand tightly and thanked solemnly.
"You're welcome. Everyone is Chinese. Naturally, they have to help each other overseas!" Jiang Yipan, who is in his fifties, said to Xu Taiping with a smile.
Chapter completed!