Chapter 52: Zhao Dehan
In the week before the premiere.

Mango TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV began to promote "In the Name of People" crazily.

Whether it is self-media, Weibo, or traditional media, there is overwhelming publicity for this drama.

During this period, news came out that CCTV also wanted to broadcast this anti-corruption blockbuster, but because of the station's regulations, CCTV-1's prime time cannot broadcast TV series with more than 40 episodes.

In the end, the higher-ups gave up the competition, allowing the two local satellite TV stations to reap the benefits.

But it wasn't all good news this week.

Just two days ago, "War Tiger 2" was just released. This masterpiece of the Chinese film industry finally earned 56.8 billion yuan at the box office, setting countless film history records. It is also the first Chinese film to enter the top in the world box office.

The audience's enthusiasm was ignited from the beginning of the movie.

At its peak, all major trending search lists were filled with information related to this movie.

Even though the movie has been taken off the screen, there are still a lot of news about it in various statistical fields.

There is a pattern in how people follow hot news. Often after a super successful film or TV work, the films released immediately afterwards will almost always be beaten by the market.

Therefore, although the popularity of "The People" has gradually been hyped up by the crew and the TV station through various forms.

But film critics are still unanimously pessimistic about this drama.

"All the movies and TV series released after [War Tiger 2] are tragedies!"

"The audience... young people's enthusiasm for watching movies has been completely wiped out by Zhanhu. I'm afraid that In the Name of People will not be successful!"

"Lu Yi has been silent for many years, and his acting skills are worrying. I'm afraid he won't be able to stand up to the competition with the veteran actors in the play!"

……

Monday night at 8:30, prime time on Mango TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV.

"In the Name of People" was officially launched amid the wavering public opinion on the Internet.

At the beginning, although this film had some popularity among young people, few people paid attention to it.

Most of those who watch TV on time are middle-aged or elderly people.

At the beginning of the first episode, Hou Liangping, director of the Detective Department of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, received a real-name report that Zhao Dehan, director of the Project Department of the State Ministry, and Ding Yizhen, deputy mayor of Jingzhou City, Handong Province, were suspected of accepting huge bribes.

At the same time that Hou Liangping arrested Zhao Dehan.

The story is divided into two lines. In Jingzhou City, Handong Province, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau is also deploying to arrest Jingzhou Deputy Mayor Ding Yizhen.

In the old tube-shaped building, when Hou Liangping and Zhao Dehan's wife and children left the house, they entered the building and arrested Zhao Dehan.

The first time Zhao Dehan officially appeared in everyone's vision, he was very different from the image of a wall of money that has been popular on the Internet recently.

He was dressed simply and seemed a little unbelievable to see people from the procuratorate. Then, he calmly ate noodles, eating them with garlic, and even invited Hou Liangping and others to have a bowl.

A family is watching the drama "The People".

The male owner, who is over 60 years old, may not know Zhao Dehan's true appearance because he seldom uses the Internet.

When he saw this scene, he was still confused by Hou Yong’s teacher on TV.

"A man like me was a peasant when we were young. How could he possibly be corrupt? Hou Liangping, don't believe everything you hear. Did you arrest the wrong person?"

When the daughter, who was casually browsing her phone, saw Zhao Dehan, she felt like she had seen him somewhere before: "Dad, what movie is this?"

"It seems to be called something like 'The People's ......'"

The daughter immediately became interested when she heard it: "In the Name of People, this is a wall, Zhao Dehan, right?"

My father frowned and said, "This man is indeed called Zhao Dehan, but what does a wall mean?"

The daughter made a chest-expanding gesture: "So much, he embezzled a whole wall of money, the refrigerator, under the bed, any place where money can be placed, all of it is the embezzled money..." The father was dumbfounded when he heard this. At this time, Zhao Dehan on the screen stuffed noodles in his mouth and said indignantly: "What is there to search here? You can't bully an ordinary person like me!"

"This? Is this person a corrupt official?" My father still found it a little hard to believe.

But as the plot progressed step by step, when the old father saw the wall of banknotes with his own eyes, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.

"This, this... a mouthful of noodles and a mouthful of garlic, all without costing Zhao Dehan a cent! I was so badly cheated by Zhao Dehan!"

The daughter was standing by and watching her father utter some golden words in anger, and she almost laughed her belly off.

She quickly shared this sentence on her circle of friends.

In less than half an hour, there were countless comments under this message in her circle of friends.

My daughter clicked it with surprise.

[Oil-haired boss]: Hahaha, I have to say, Xiaoli, your father is really talented! At the next company annual meeting, bring your uncle to perform a crosstalk for us!

[Reply]: How about you give me a big show at the next annual meeting? (Hesitate, delete, change to...) Thank you, boss! Good night, boss!

[Classmate Lao Wang]: Lili, when did our dad become so humorous? I really want to watch "In the Name of People" with you!

[Reply]: Get lost!
[Best friend Tietiehan]: Lili, is your family watching this drama too? My god, the two old people in my family are watching and discussing it, and my ears are getting calluses!
[Reply]: I watched the whole episode with my dad, it was so good, I highly recommend it!
……

Such a scene happened in thousands of households that night.

The next day, a saying spread on the Internet: Zhao Dehan ate a mouthful of noodles and a mouthful of garlic without spending a penny.

You know everything.

Those who don’t understand can’t even enter the lunch break chat salon.

Just when everyone was enthusiastically discussing last night's episode, the crew made another big move.

Video footage: Still the shocking wall of banknotes from the first episode.

Video commentary: It turns out that in the first episode of "People", the wall of banknotes that Professor Hou Yong [greedied] was pulled directly from the printing factory!

In the picture, Zhao Dehan looked aggrieved, holding up a finger and saying, "I didn't spend a penny!"

Seeing this, everyone smiled knowingly.

The scene then turns to Teacher Hou Yong being interviewed: "This money is directly produced by the mint. A mark is stamped on each piece of money to prevent it from being circulated. However, the texture and printing authenticity of this money are actually the same as those of real money..."

Narrator: "My goodness, what does this 1.15 million RMB mean? A 2700-yuan note weighs about grams, so more than million RMB is kilograms. You can only look at this money from a distance and not touch it. The props team almost cried when they moved this money into the villa!"

Director Huang Lu: "It took more than 20 staff members to carry the 200 million yuan, and they moved it back and forth seven or eight times. Although it was counting banknotes, there were no special effects. It was still quite shocking to see it so intuitively in front of us."

Huang Lu: "We hired staff from ICBC. The various money counting techniques you see are actually performed by professional bank staff."

"When Mr. Hou joined the crew, he didn't know that the money was real notes. He thought it was all real money, so Zhao Dehan's expression in the play was actually Mr. Hou's real reaction..."

As soon as this video was released, the comment section below the video was completely overwhelmed!

[I usually even pant when I lift 50 kilograms, but if I were given 500 kilograms, I would explore my limits! ]

[If you ask me, toxic and harmful substances should be added to the ink used to print money, so that corrupt officials will not dare to keep it at home. I am willing to endure a little hardship and am not afraid of being poisoned. Give me 10 billion and hurt me! ]

[Wow, these bank staff are really fast at counting money! I am clumsy, and it took me half a day to count 100,000 yuan! ]

[Brother upstairs, please move the money to my house next time, so I don’t burden you! ]

[I am really looking forward to the next plot! What happened to Ding Yizhen in the end! ]

……

It became popular because of a wall and a line: "A mouthful of noodles and a mouthful of garlic, Zhao Dehan doesn't spend a penny." "In the Name of People" suddenly became popular!
(End of this chapter)