Chapter 58: Transformers and Comics
After having breakfast at the hotel, after waiting for about 15 minutes, I saw Xiao Jiade coming over. Xiao Jiade saw Bao Zixuan and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, there is a bit of a traffic jam on the road, so Bao Sheng has been waiting for a long time." Absolutely not next time. ”
Bao Zixuan: "It's okay, I just finished breakfast, let's go over now!
Xiao Jiade: "Yes, please rest assured, everything has been communicated." ”
In fact, it is no wonder that Xiao Jiade is nervous, since taking over the legal counsel of Heiyun Company, his biggest income is brought to him by Heiyun Company, and 70% of his current workload is from Heiyun Company's business. And he is ready to come out and work alone, and at this time, he can't afford to lose Heiyun, a big customer.
Took Peng Yifei and Jackson Jones to the car arranged by the hotel. As for Thomas Marr's wine with Michal last night, it is estimated that he would not have been able to get up without noon.
Bao Zixuan had already arranged for Xiao Jiade to buy the copyright of a cartoon, and he was determined to win the copyright of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future market. The place where Bao Zixuan is now going is RB Tomei Co., Ltd., and the purpose of his trip is to buy out the rights to Tomei's Autobot Wars launched in 1963. He wants to learn from Hasbro to bring the animation and the toy to the market, and even the toy is already being drawn.
In his previous life, as a single dog in science and engineering, Transformers was his favorite work, and he bought a limited edition of each toy. All the parts have been disassembled, and he didn't have contact with Tomei because he didn't have the production capacity, but now he has the most advanced small CNC machine in the world, so he can ask Tomei to buy it.
Now Tomei is just a small company, although it was established in 1924, it does not have much influence in RB, and may be quite famous in the industry, but it does not yet have the production capacity of toys. He had already asked Xiao Jiade to contact the president of the other party, and he was not averse to selling copyrights, after all, it was useless in his hands.
Tomei currently has fewer than 100 employees, most of whom are illustrators working in manga and animation, and looking at the company's small but orderly work, Bao Zixuan thinks that at least the corporate culture is good.
In the conference room, Xiao Jiade made introductions to the two of them. The president of Tomei Co., Ltd. is Aso Forty-eight, and when you hear the name, you know that his father gave birth to him when he was forty-eight years old, and he happens to be 48 years old this year.
Aso's forty-eight seeds are not very tall, but they are also about 170 centimeters. The hair on his head is a little bald, he is dressed meticulously, looking at this young man who is younger than his son, he is actually the boss of the parent company of the two best games on the market, and it seems that he will give his child more opportunities to exercise.
Aso Forty-Eight: "Welcome Bao Sang to Tomei Co., Ltd., your achievements now are a shame for those of us who have not developed the company!"
Bao Zixuan: "Mr. Aso is a senior in the business world, there are many places for juniors to learn, I also thought of a good idea, the purpose of my visit this time must be known to you, I don't know what kind of price Heiyun has to pay Duomei can sell me the copyright of the Autobot War." ”
Aso Forty-Eight didn't expect Bao Zixuan to be an acute person, and it seemed that he couldn't negotiate with him like some old foxes. "It's not impossible to buy the copyright, I hope that Heiyun can pay $2 million, and 10% of the profits from the Autobot Wars spin-off go to Tomei." ”
Bao Zixuan: "Mr. Aso thinks that the copyright to a cartoon made in 1963 is worth $2 million, and it also requires an additional income of 10%. It's $500,000, after all, I still have to make money. I've just set up a manga studio and I'm going to adapt a few old cartoons, after all, I don't have so many talents like Tomei, I'm just in a hurry to open up the market. I can still buy a robot cat without Autobots, and I estimate that $5 million is enough. I have money, but my money doesn't come from the wind. ”
In fact, why does Bao Zixuan start now? It is because this time is the best opportunity, if you miss the trajectory of history, it will have to wait until 1984, and now Tomei has several consecutive cartoons with poor ratings, and it is the time when you need cash the most.
Aso Forty-Eight looked at Bao Zixuan's performance and knew that this genius boy was not good at negotiation, and he might really prove himself as he said. said: "$3 million, I don't want any additional income, your $3 million Autobot war has nothing to do with Tomei." ”
This is a sky-high price, $3 million is almost the value of his entire company, but Bao Zixuan doesn't want to waste time with him. said: "Yes, lawyer Xiao prepares the contract. After saying that, he wrote a check for $3 million from the Bank of Kyoto.
Seeing Bao Zixuan so refreshing, it's really good to do business with young people, only decide according to your own preferences, it seems that you still have to cooperate with these young and rich bosses in the future, last time an old guy who came to buy his comic copyright was only willing to pay 1 million yen, and play by himself!
Xiao Jiade heard that Bao Zixuan agreed, and there was no choice but to prepare the contract according to the boss's requirements. In fact, according to Xiao Jiade's idea, he should cool the other party for a while, and now it seems that his role is not very big! In fact, Bao Zixuan was also shocked by the 100 billion scale products in his previous life, even if Duomei offered 100 million US dollars with dividends, he would not hesitate to take it, which may also be the bad side of the traverser.
After the two parties signed the contract, Aso Forty-Eight asked someone to take out all the manuscripts, comics, and animations about the Autobot War, and Bao Zixuan handed the check to the other party. Since then, the Transformers series has officially returned to the Black Cloud Company. At the time, Aso thought that he had made the most cost-effective deal in his life, but later it was written as a negative textbook by countless colleges and universities and entered the economics textbook.
After leaving Tomei Company, Xiao Jiade wanted to say that it was a bit expensive, but seeing Bao Zixuan's happy appearance did not ruin his mood. Instead, Bao Zixuan said to him: "You did a good job, Lawyer Xiao has worked hard, but you still have to go with me to meet someone in the afternoon." ”
At the café where I last met Miyamoto and Yokoi, there were two people sitting opposite each other chatting, mainly about their understanding of manga and how to make it. That's right, one of these two people is Bao Zixuan, the owner of Black Cloud Company, and the other is Hayao Miyazaki, a famous manga master of RB.
Hayao Miyazaki was born in 1941, 36 years old this year, is a progressive of RB, this son from a wealthy family, he is not used to seeing a lot of things that are not benevolent to the rich, but still resolutely give up the protection given to him by his family, and decide to open up himself in the field of manga. It starts by influencing children and then impacts the world.
Bao Zixuan, who knows what kind of person Miyazaki is like, is handy when chatting, making the two like friends for many years.
Hayao Miyazaki: "I didn't expect Bao Sang to be so consistent with many of my ideas, if I hadn't never talked to anyone, I would have thought you had arranged a spy by my side!"
Bao Zixuan: "This is just my personal opinion, nothing, we all think that children can enrich their knowledge and experience from an early age, and then cultivate their friendly and kind character." ”
Hayao Miyazaki: "I know what you're here for, but I want to know what kind of treatment and how much rights I have to the new manga company. ”
Bao Zixuan: "The treatment and rights are decided by you, not me." I fully believe in your strength, and treatment is the best way to show your strength. ”
Hayao Miyazaki: "I want to own 30% of Kukumo Manga, and I have the final say. You must not interfere with the Company's operations. I can put 10% of my cash into it, and invest the rest in technology. The salary is 1 yen per month. ”
Bao Zixuan: "No. Hearing this, Miyazaki was a little displeased, didn't this kid let himself make conditions? Why did he change his mind so quickly! I still took him as a confidant. But the next words made him a little embarrassed. Then he said, "You can't pay less than 10 million yen a month, otherwise we won't be able to set other people's salaries." In addition, I hope that you will complete the comics I arranged as required, which is the basis for the operation of the whole company, and it is impossible to get out of touch with you. After all, we have to develop a large number of derivative toys. ”
"But the comics are authorized to the Heiyun factory to produce, and all the products are 10% of the sales owned by the comic company, after all, I still have a large number of workers to support in Xiangjiang. In this way, there will be no contradiction between your comics and our existing copyrights competing on a fair basis. ”
In this way, the hands of the two were held together, and 20 years later, Hayao Miyazaki was already in the top 100 richest people on the Forbes list, and he still felt a little cheated at that time.