A press conference for "Flying Tigers" let the world know about the touching history that took place on the Chinese battlefield during World War II.
Based on logical necessity, if people know the history of the Flying Tigers, they will naturally understand more of the truth about Japan's invasion of China. This is Li Mu's most important purpose.
Li Mu hopes that more people around the world can understand the historical facts of Japan's invasion of China. The reason for this wish is that too many people in the world know nothing about Japan's invasion of China, or only have a partial understanding of it.
Moreover, because the German government has always reflected on and repented of its crimes, the atrocities committed by Germany in those years are known to everyone around the world. However, the crimes of Japan's invasion of China are not known around the world because of the Japanese government's efforts to conceal them. The level of knowledge is far less than that of Germany.
The World War II that many Europeans and Americans remember is the Allied resistance against Germany. Most Europeans do not know much about Japan during World War II, and Americans only remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. Among all people over ten years old in the world 80% of people know about the atrocities committed by the Germans during the Nazi occupation, the Auschwitz concentration camp, and Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jews. But outside of Asia, how many people know the historical facts of the Jinling Massacre, Unit 731, and comfort women
If you want them to understand that war, you must first let them find points of interest in that war, and then learn more divergent details about that war. The Flying Tigers, a special war involving Americans, is The best entry point for Westerners to understand the Chinese Anti-Japanese War.
Facts have proved that Li Mu's strategy is correct.
When the surviving Flying Tigers recounted that history, when Spielberg praised the American pilots who participated in that war, when Tom Hanks emotionally expressed that he was honored to play the role of Chennault, when Leonardo DiCaprio When many people expressed their supreme respect for that war, the history of the Flying Tigers was instantly accepted by all Westerners and even people around the world.
For a time, words such as Flying Tigers, War of Aggression against China, and Japanese Invaders of China became hot words for information search on the entire Internet. Many people who had watched the press conference or learned about the content of the press conference were searching for more relevant information on the Internet. , Japan’s atrocities of invading China are being spread around the world through the Internet at extremely fast speeds.
Chinese netizens are rejoicing because of this situation. For so many years, Chinese people have been trying to put this information out. However, due to Japanese interference and audio-visual influence, as well as ideological issues with Western countries, China is almost surrounded by an information black hole. Surrounded by social media, it is extremely difficult for relevant information to be released and accepted by others.
Now, China has a bridgehead like Li Mu in terms of information delivery. Li Mu is not only highly recognized around the world, but more importantly, he himself is the largest information delivery platform in the world's Internet field. In the Internet era, no matter how There is no black hole that can swallow up the message Li Mu wants to convey.
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When Kerry arrived in Los Angeles and was waiting to meet with Li Mu, President Bush's chief of staff had already obtained a lot of data about the "Flying Tigers" press conference.
For example, how many media attended the press conference, how many media reported on the press conference in headlines that day, and how many people on the Internet were affected by the press conference in real time, searching for related hot words and browsing related information.
Before the concept of big data was proposed by the Internet industry, the U.S. intelligence agencies had already mastered this theory.
The chief of staff knew that Li Mu and his YY had a strong influence, but before seeing this data, he did not know that Li Mu's influence had reached such a terrifying level.
After seeing these data, the chief of staff sighed in shock: "Li Mu used a movie conference to achieve the goal that a country with a population of more than one billion has wanted to achieve for so many years. What's even more significant is that he used a movie conference to achieve the goal. A movie conference subverted Japan's national image around the world. This kind of influence is really terrible... "
The staff next to him smiled and said: "Actually, if it was just this press conference, it would not have a very big impact on Japan's national image. After all, the war has passed for so many years, but the key is that "The Last Samurai" was just released a few days ago. That incident was really fatal. That time there was conclusive evidence that the Japanese chaebols consciously promoted the extreme Bushido spirit on a global scale and greatly tampered with the real history. This proactive behavior made many netizens I was already disgusted, and now Li Mu suddenly wants to film "Flying Tigers" again. This is simply a divine assist! These two things have been superimposed together, and the influence has been infinitely amplified."
The chief of staff suddenly asked him: "By the way, do you think "The Last Samurai" has something to do with Li Mu? I always feel that the matter is subtle. It seems that everything has a clear cause and effect relationship, but I always feel that this There is an invisible force behind all this.”
The staff member next to him shrugged his shoulders: "Li Mu is a man with great powers. He may be the one behind it. He is not very old, but his skills are very shrewd. Look at him filming "Flying Tigers", it's just incredible." He was just strategizing. He knew very well that if a movie about China's resistance to Japan was co-produced with Hollywood, no one would watch it in Europe and the United States, so he chose the historical event of Americans helping the Chinese people to resist Japan to make a movie. He knew that Americans I like this kind of story about righteous Americans fighting bloody battles for the people of other countries... "
"Yes!" The chief of staff sighed and said, "Japan will now bear a huge infamy in front of netizens all over the world, and this is all thanks to Li Mu."
Speaking of this, the chief of staff exclaimed: "So you see, the Japanese chaebols also tried their best to hide their investment in a movie to promote their country. They wanted to sneak into the country secretly, but they failed miserably and lost the face of the country. Er Jing; Li Mu's approach was to stand up directly and openly and announce to the world that he was going to make a movie about China's anti-Japanese theme. The result immediately aroused such a huge response, the same thing, people of different ranks It’s worth learning to play two completely different effects…”
At this time, a presidential campaign consultant said: "Chief of Staff, Li Mu's influence is so strong, can we get in touch? In next year's election, if there is a powerful Internet support like Li Mu to help, the president's chance of winning the re-election will be even better. Much bigger.”
The chief of staff thought for a while, nodded slightly, and said: "It can be considered. Li Mu's influence is naturally beyond doubt. I have also considered whether to absorb him into our system before, but then Thinking about it carefully, this person is too difficult to control, so I put it on hold for the time being after several considerations, but looking at it now, his influence is beyond my expectation, and it seems that I can no longer hesitate."
As he was speaking, his assistant quickly walked up to him with a serious expression and said, "Chief of Staff, the news from the CIA is that Kerry just appeared in a hotel in Los Angeles."
"Kerry?" The chief of staff frowned: "He can go wherever he likes. I don't have time to care about him, at least not before the campaign starts."
The assistant reminded: "The hotel where he appeared is the hotel where Li Mu is staying..."
"What?!" The chief of staff was stunned for a moment and blurted out: "I'm going to the president's office!"
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In fact, Kerry had arrived in Los Angeles early. In order to hide his identity from others, the party leader arranged for someone to open a room for him in the hotel and asked him to go into the room to rest as soon as he arrived at the hotel, waiting for the time to meet Li Mu.
Indeed, as arranged by the party leader, Kerry entered the room immediately upon arriving at the hotel. He kept a very low profile throughout the process, without meeting anyone or letting anyone recognize him.
But he never expected that the CIA, with its vast powers, would already know his whereabouts clearly.
Although the CIA is a national intelligence agency, in general, this agency serves the president. Even in the United States, which emphasizes that public power cannot be used for private purposes, the CIA is a direct descendant of the president, and President Bush is no exception.
When the CIA discovered that Kerry appeared in Los Angeles, the keen CIA realized the crux of the problem. It didn't matter where Kerry went, but the key was, why did he arrive at this place at this time today? The most likely possibility is that he is going to meet Li Mu here.
When the news came back to the White House, not only the chief of staff was shocked, but even the president himself was a little nervous about it.
"We can't let Kerry and Li Mu get on the line."
This is the first instruction given by the president.
"Establish contact with Li Mu as much as possible. Two goals. The first goal is to make him not cooperate with Kerry. The second goal is to make him cooperate with us. The second goal is not forced, but the first goal must be achieved. .”
This is the second sentence of instructions given by the president.
After the chief of staff received the order, he immediately returned to his office and organized a group of consultants and staff to actively discuss response strategies.
The biggest difference between the staff of the ruling party and the staff of the opposition party soon became apparent. The chief of staff of the White House obviously had more practical experience. He immediately analyzed several key points of the situation at hand.
The first thing he did was beyond many people's expectations. Instead of focusing on Kerry, he immediately asked people to review all the flight applications for the business jet rented by Li Mu.
The civil aviation system quickly gave feedback: Li Mu's plane was tentatively scheduled to take off from Los Angeles back to China at 8:30 tonight.
The chief of staff immediately made a judgment and said: "Kerry just arrived in Los Angeles today, and Li Mu is leaving in the evening. It can be seen that Li Mu is not very enthusiastic about meeting Kerry, and there is even some resistance. Otherwise, it would be impossible to schedule such a tight schedule." .”
After that, he asked someone to contact the CIA and asked them to immediately confirm the current real-time situation of Li Mu and Kerry. At this moment, where were Li Mu and Kerry, who were they with, and what were they doing.
The CIA quickly gave feedback: Li Mu is currently having closed-door discussions with the main creative staff including Spielberg, members of the Flying Tigers, and Chennault's daughter, while Kerry is still in the room and has not moved. This proves that the two Haven't met yet.
The CIA also received a piece of information: Although the conference room used by Li Mu and the creative staff for closed-door communication had been rented for a whole day, the waiter's shift schedule was to start cleaning at 5:30, which meant that this closed The end time of door communication should be between 5pm and 5:30pm.
The flight took off at 8:30 in the evening, and the closed-door meeting ended after 5 o'clock. There were only three hours left in between. Li Mu was left with about two hours to go to the airport and go through security check, boarding, etc. , then the time Li Mu leaves for Kerry is probably only one hour.
The tense nerves of the chief of staff immediately relaxed a lot. He said with a smile: "Kerry ran so far away, and Li Mu only left him an hour. It seems that Li Mu didn't want to meet with Kerry at all, or he didn't want to see him at all. He takes it seriously..."
The other staff and consultants around him are all talented people, and they are the best at analyzing people. Judging from Li Mu's time arrangement, it can indeed be seen that Li Mu is not interested in Kerry.
The chief of staff immediately said: "Since Li Mu is flying back to China tonight, we will temporarily give up contact with him this time, but we must also prevent Kerry from contacting him. In my opinion, let the civil aviation company contact the crew members of his special plane. Communicate and say that Los Angeles Airport will control the flow tonight and let their plane take off an hour and a half early!"
(End of chapter)