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In 2007, Tianyu filed a lawsuit with the court on the grounds of not cooperating with the company's activities, demanding that its artist Shang Wenjie compensate 8 million yuan in liquidated damages.
In the face of the old owner's "lion big mouth", Shang Wenjie, who did not have a full foothold in the entertainment industry at that time, struggled, and finally negotiated and coordinated through lawyers many times to reduce the liquidated damages to 7 million.
I believe that at that time, Shang Wenjie must have been full of disgust with capital, and also hated this shameless "pickpocketing" behavior.
But 14 years later, when Shang Wenjie completed her identity transformation and became the owner of an entertainment company, she directly incarnated into capital and offered 45 million yuan of "sky-high liquidated damages" to her artists.
How powerless she had been, how arrogant she was now, she had finally lived up to the way she hated it the most.
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Even if she has not stepped into the entertainment industry, Shang Wenjie's life should be very good now.
Because whether she is studying or participating in work, she can do it with ease. In more figurative terms, she is "someone else's child" in the eyes of the people around her.
In 1982, Shang Wenjie was born in an ordinary family in LaoLongtang, Shanghai.
She was talented from an early age and diligent and studious, so her academic performance has always been among the best in her grade.
Later, "in the first high", she was admitted to the key class of Shanghai Jincai Middle School with excellent results, and was trained by the school as a top student.
However, at that time, as a literary and artistic committee member in the class, she took the lead in organizing her classmates to expand many hobbies, such as various singing competitions and stage performances, and she also taught herself drum kits, which can be described as a good scenery.
But at the same time, her academic performance plummeted, even ranking at the bottom of her class.
Fortunately, in the summer before entering the third year of high school, she woke up in time, put all her energy into preparing for the college entrance examination, and finally entered the French major of Fudan University with excellent results in 2001.
During her college years, Shang Wenjie was busy with her studies while participating in various club activities.
It took her only one year to complete all the course requirements for her major in French, and she also achieved excellent results in German and journalism, and thus received the first class scholarship and the national scholarship set by the school.
In addition, in her spare time, she participated in the literary and artistic performances of the School of Foreign Languages many times, and with the talent skills honed in middle school, she once became a prominent figure in the school.
In 2005, Shang Wenjie graduated from Fudan University and joined a French-funded company that did oem luxury jewelry as an assistant.
In just 10 months, she became the boss's right-hand man and raised her salary 3 times in a row.
Originally, according to this established career plan, she may soon become a business elite, a strong woman in the workplace, and the future is also bright.
However, her ambition is not here.
02
In fact, just from Shang Wenjie's occasional "not doing business" during her student years, it can be seen that she enjoys the feeling of standing on the stage and being watched, and this feeling is different from the sense of accomplishment brought to her by work.
At first, she could still overcome it, but as time went on, her urge to run away became stronger.
Especially after the 05th Supergirl was on fire, it seems that the national audience has become a fan of Li Yuchun, and the feeling of being sought after by people is what Shang Wenjie longs for.
Just at this time, the 06th "Super Girl" national audition kicked off.
So Shang Wenjie had a heart, simply submitted a resignation letter to the company, and filled out the registration form for the Supergirl Audition, vowing to make a name for herself in the entertainment industry.
On June 17, 2006, the "Super Girl" Guangzhou Division began, where Shang Wenjie passed the customs all the way and finally advanced to the national competition with the result of runner-up.
As for why she is the runner-up, it is not because she did not play well, but the strength of the Guangzhou Division in that supergirl is the strongest, of which the third place is Han Zhenzhen, who ranks seventh in the national competition, and the champion is Liu Liyang, who is the third place in the national competition.
Their strength cannot be underestimated, so it is normal to win and lose.
Later, when it came to the national competition, several stronger players did not make any mistakes, and they all successfully broke through to the finals.
In the qualifying competition of the finals, Tan Weiwei, who won the first place in Changsha, was the big hit to win the championship at that time, and the popularity of Liu Liyang and Shang Wenjie was slightly inferior.
In particular, Shang Wenjie, she herself did not go through systematic music learning, and once lost to Liu Liyang in the city competition, so many people were not optimistic about her at that time.
But dramatically, in the end, Tan Weiwei PK liu Liyang in the "4 into 1" game, and Shang Wenjie beat Tan Weiwei in the finals and won the 06th SuperGirl Championship.
Three years later, the grumpy Tan Weiwei released a song "Tan Moumou", the lyrics of which read: "In the summer of 206, I was on the cover of the magazine, but unfortunately it was a group photo of three people. I stood to the left of the champion, accompanied by her hippie smile, she was not as good as me. ”
Later, in a media interview, Shang Wenjie responded frankly: "She looks prettier than me, her figure is better than mine, she sings well, and I think it is nothing if she is inferior to her." ”
It's just that there is a little sincerity and a little bit of falsehood in this sentence, and I am afraid that only she herself knows.
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"Super Girl" is a program created by Hunan Satellite TV and Tianyu Media, so in the end, Supergirl basically signed a contract with Tianyu, and Shang Wenjie is no exception.
However, if there are too many artists in a company, it will involve the problem of resource allocation.
Although Shang Wenjie is the 06th Supergirl Champion, her popularity is no better than that of Li Yuchun, Zhang Liangying, Zhou Bichang, He Jie of the 05th class, and An Youqi and Zhang Hanyun of the 04th class, and naturally she was snubbed by the company.
Just at this time, the people of Huayi Brothers Music Company contacted her, and the two sides hit it off, and the rest only waited for Tianyu to "release people".
However, Tianyu Company is not a "wronged boss".
They painstakingly held a group of supergirls, and in the end they had to break the contract one by one, which was not in vain.
Of course, if someone really has an iron heart to leave, it is not impossible, it is to see if they can come up with enough "sincerity", and the sincerity price they offered to Shang Wenjie is "8 million".
After many rounds of coordination between the two sides, the price of liquidated damages was finally reduced to 7 million, and Shang Wenjie successfully withdrew from Tianyu.
However, from Tianyu to Huayi Brothers Music, Shang Wenjie just jumped from one pit to another.
Because in those years, although the Huayi brothers were invincible in film, they did not have much achievement in the field of music.
So in the end, Shang Wenjie wanted to release an album, couldn't wait for the song, wanted to open a concert, and the company didn't want to do it for her.
Even if the album is released, it is not a little splashed because the marketing cannot keep up.
Seriously, Huayi will only use people, not people.
In terms of the ability to praise people, in addition to the mango stage, it is difficult to find a second "star-making factory".
You will even find that the group of super women and fast men in those years, who can break out of some famous halls later, have maintained a good relationship with Hunan Satellite TV.
For example, Zhang Jie, Li Yuchun, Wei Chen...
And those who have conflicts with Hunan Satellite TV are basically mixed up in the end, such as Chen Chusheng and Shang Wenjie.
Speaking of this, many people wonder, they are not signed under the umbrella of Tianyu, and what is the relationship with Hunan Satellite TV?
In fact, as early as 2008, Hunan Satellite TV completed the acquisition of Tianyu Media Company.
To offend Tianyu is to offend Hunan Satellite TV.
So in the few years when Shang Wenjie left from Tianyu, she almost never showed her face on Hunan Satellite TV.
Seeing that other supergirls and fast men are getting more and more popular, her 06 superwoman champion has not moved at all, do you think she can not be in a hurry?
In desperation, Shang Wenjie had to find another shortcut, she put on a fancy and fancy costume, doing a variety of strange shapes, only hoping that the eyes of the media could pay attention to it, and finally convert the traffic into her music.
Unfortunately, this method can only be used for a while, but it is by no means a long-term solution.
What is surprising is that it was not someone else who finally pulled Shang Wenjie out of the mud, but the "old owner" she offended.
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In 2013, Hunan Satellite TV introduced the Korean music competition program "I Am a Singer", in which Shang Wenjie served as the starting singer.
In terms of seniority, she is not as good as too many people.
But who let her be a "super female champion" and did not give her a card face, then Hunan Satellite TV is punching herself in the face.
Fortunately, in the whole season of the show, although Shang Wenjie did not perform better than others, she did not straddle and held out to the end in a decent manner.
Everyone knows how popular the first season of "Singer" is, and Huang Qishan, Sha Baoliang, Yang Zongwei, Lin Zhixuan, and Peng Jiahui have all re-become popular from this show.
Shang Wenjie is actually the same.
After participating in "Singer", Shang Wenjie's announcement fee immediately increased, and the number of programs that invited her also became more.
After so many years, her career has finally improved.
By this time, Shang Wenjie could see clearly that she had indeed "hugged the wrong thigh" that year.
Because no matter how strong Huayi Brothers' financial resources are, its media resources are always inferior to Mango Station.
After she understood, she officially ran away from Huayi, but she did not return to Tianyu Media, but set up a cultural media company called "Beijing Black Gold Fangyuan" and turned herself into the boss.
There are many celebrity entertainment companies, but some companies only support one person, and they only rely on one person to support themselves.
However, Shang Wenjie is a high-achieving student graduated from Fudan University, and her ambition is certainly not only that.
In successive years, she has signed zeng Shunxi, Jiang Jiaen, Hou Minghao, Li Angyang, Liu Hecheng and many other artists, and used her own resources to bring them up, and the company has developed soundly.
But the interests of the company do not represent personal interests, the boss makes money, but the artist may not be able to get it.
At this time, the artists under Shang Wenjie's company are faced with the same choice as her back then, whether to leave or stay.
If they want to go, they will have to face sky-high liquidated damages.
But if they want to stay, they have to be at the mercy of the company and squeeze out all their surplus use value.
It seems that no matter how you choose, the result is wrong.
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As mentioned earlier, regarding the artist's termination of the contract because the company did not give resources and squeezed, Shang Wenjie herself suffered losses.
But after becoming the boss, instead of understanding her artists, she intensified her efforts and used the contract to clamp down on the artist's departure.
Among them, when Hou Minghao terminated his contract with "Black Gold Fangyuan", he paid millions of liquidated damages.
When Zeng Shunxi left, the company not only did not give him the previous labor fees, but also directly asked for "a huge compensation of 45 million yuan".
Fortunately, through legal channels, Zeng Shunxi finally won the lawsuit, and Heijin Fangyuan needed to call Zeng Shunxi with a share of 15 million yuan on time.
If heijin fangyuan's means of dealing with these two people still barely belong to the normal business category, their meanness towards Jiang Jia'en is really a bit "inferior".
Jiang Jia'en is an actress who played the heroine "Fang Yi Spoon" in the web drama "Chef Fang of the Flower Kettle", which was very popular at the time, and also derived the popular meme of "Shen Yong's hatred for taking his wife and not sharing the sky".
But after performing this drama, Jiang Jiaen disappeared.
Later, "Chef Fang of the Flower Kettle" made a sequel, and the heroine has been replaced by another person.
At that time, it was rumored on the Internet that Jiang Jia'en had offended people, but few people knew what the specific situation was.
It was not until 2020, when Jiang Jiaen's lawsuit with Hei Jin Fangyuan came out, that someone on the Internet sorted out a rough outline.
It is understood that Jiang Jiaen signed a contract with Shang Wenjie's Black Gold Fangyuan Company in 2015.
During the period, the two sides agreed that all income and the company would be divided into 1:9 within three years, and would rise to 20% after 3 years and 30% after seven years.
Not to mention how "overbearing" this contract clause is, Jiang Jia'en worked in Heijin Fangyuan for three years, and she only filmed 4 plays (including "Flower Pot"), earning 60,000 yuan.
And she is a female lead actress, just occasionally inviting the crew to dinner, is a big expense.
So she had to borrow 6,000 yuan a month from the company to maintain her daily expenses.
When it came time to terminate the contract, the company not only wanted her to compensate more than 1.3 million yuan in liquidated damages, but also required her to pay 160,000 arrears borrowed from the company within three years.
So in the end, Jiang Jiaen not only did not earn a penny, but owed the company 1.5 million.
Later, Jiang Jia'en, who was unable to repay the arrears, was included in the list of untrustworthy people, and suffered from depression and completely withdrew from the circle.
Epilogue:
After the incident of Jiang Jiaen came out, Heijin Fangyuan was crowned with the title of "Black Heart Enterprise", and the manipulator behind it, Shang Wenjie, also became a veritable "black heart boss".
Become a "black-hearted boss" and make money, of course, there is a price.
Shang Wenjie's reputation has fallen, and now as long as she participates in the show, most netizens in the message area and the bullet screen have a negative evaluation of her. Ordinary artists do not dare to sign with such companies.
From depressed to uninhabited, indispensable, Shang Wenjie has paid a price after all, and may pay a greater price.
To be honest, no one knows better than Shang Wenjie the feeling of being coerced by the company.
Once in order to escape from Tianyu, she gambled all her wealth and future, borrowed all the friends around her, and finally scraped together 7 million yuan in liquidated damages.
Fortunately, she was lucky enough to finally get out of the mud after so many years of groping and rolling.
But unfortunately, when Shang Wenjie saw the light, she did not think about letting more people feel warm, but repeated the cruel heart of the "old lord" and sprinkled the darkness into the human world.
Is it worth it for Shang Wenjie to do this? Only she knew.