When he came home from school at noon, Xia Ming found that his comics were missing, and he immediately realized that his brother had taken them.

After seeing his brother Xia Yu coming back, he lowered his head and pursed his lips to admit his mistake: "Brother, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have read comics, and I took the money you gave me to buy comics, I know it's wrong." ”

"But I promise, I just watched it at home, I didn't take it to school, it didn't affect my studies. ”

Seeing that Xia Ming was afraid that he would be angry, Xia Yu smiled, patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, it doesn't matter if you read comics, people are not machines, study hard when you study, and you can play when you should play." ”

"But, your comic is a bit bloody and violent, and it's not suitable for you to read, so I took it for you. ”

Xia Ming nodded silently and did not refute.

"Do you like to read comics?" Xia Yu asked as he looked up at Xia Ming, his eyes fixed on him.

Seeing his brother Xia Yu's serious expression, Xia Ming hesitated for a while, nodded and said: "Yes, I don't have much fun when I come home from school every day, and I don't have anything to watch on TV, it's all TV series watched by adults, and it's a bit interesting to read comics." ”

Xia Yu saw that his younger brother was not lying, he showed a gentle smile and said, "Don't look at it during this time, you just went to a new school, you have to keep up with the progress and study hard." ”

"Oh, okay. Xia Ming's face was a little gloomy, and he was a little disappointed in his heart, he thought that his brother would return the comics to him, it seemed that he was thinking too much.

"Don't be sad, I didn't say I wouldn't let you read comics, I just said that it wasn't suitable for reading this kind of comics, and now I took you a copy, and I'll give you a copy that is suitable for you to read when the time comes. ”

Seeing his younger brother's lost appearance, Xia Yu couldn't cry or laugh a little, sure enough, it was a child's heart, and what he was thinking was completely revealed on his face. But he didn't want his brother to be too upset, so he comforted him with a smile.

"Really?"

Unexpectedly, Xia Ming, who turned around, raised his head suddenly, looked at Xia Yu with blinking eyes and asked longingly.

"Seriously!When did I lie to you?" Xia Yu immediately nodded and said.

"Yes, thank you, brother!" Xia Ming said with a happy gesture, his face full of smiles.

"Ah Ming, Ah Yu, why are you so happy?"

Chen Mei, her mother, who was cleaning up the table, heard the sound, turned her head to look at the two brothers, Xia Yu and Xia Ming, and asked curiously.

"Nothing, nothing. Xia Ming hurriedly replied first, for fear that his brother would tell his secret.

"Really?" asked Chen Mei suspiciously, looking at Xia Ming's face suspiciously.

"Mom, it's nothing. Seeing that his younger brother was a little nervous, Xia Yu smiled dumbly and said to his mother Chen Mei. There is no need to let her mother know about this kind of thing, so she can think more and complicate the things that have been solved.

Hearing Xia Yu say this, Chen Mei relieved herself and lowered her head again to wipe the table.

Seeing Xia Ming's relieved look, Xia Yu smiled and didn't speak again.

......

In the next few days, Xia Yu ran back and forth between securities companies and newspaper companies, grasping the specific context of the company in real time.

In Jiuding Securities Company, because Wang Qi is in charge of a single financial task, now he only needs to secretly buy Wharf's stocks, so it is relatively relaxed, and at other times he began to establish a securities research institute and began to contact relevant talents.

The teams of Jin Jiajun and Elewen have officially taken action and started to buy the shares of the company designated by Xia Yu, and there have been some results in a few days.

The company is on the right track, and there are capable subordinates to work, Xia Yu is much easier, as long as he is responsible for controlling the general direction and not making mistakes.

After that, Xia Yu went to Jiuding Newspaper Company.

After a few days, the people arranged by Yan Wenhan also made statistics about the situation of the Xiangjiang comic market, after all, Xiangjiang is relatively small, and the market is so big, so it is relatively better to count.

The other part of the personnel sent to the island countries has not made much progress, and it will take some time to submit the statistics.

However, Xia Yu is not in a hurry, after all, if he wants to invade the animation market of the island country, the premise is to rule the Xiangjiang comic industry first, so that he can have the confidence to rush into the island market.

Now with the survey statistics of the Xiangjiang comic market, it is enough for the time being!

Xia Yu sat in the office, took out the thick stack of statistical documents, and began to flip through them.

After reading it, Xia Yu had a general understanding of the Xiangjiang comic industry.

The current Xiangjiang comic industry can be said to be divided into two worlds, ruled by Shangguan Xiaobao and Huang Yulang, and there is almost no soil for others to survive.

The two of them are two iconic representatives of the Hong Kong comic industry.

Among them, Shangguan Xiaobao's original name was Kuang Dongyuan, and he first served as an apprentice painter in the Huaxia Publishing House, where his brother Shangguan Xiaolong was the chief writer, and then promoted to a real-life player.

In 1963, at the age of 17, he first worked as a chief writer for the newspaper "Mainichi Comics", writing four-panel comics.

In the early 70s, he co-founded the Holy Flame Publishing House with three friends, publishing two-milli (32-folio) comics, the first solo work was "Black and White Little Demon King", and later he used the pen name "Shangguan Siwei" to paint "Little Bar Girl" with the theme of "Little Bar Girl", which received a good response and became quite famous in erotic and soft SQ comics.

In the 70s, Li Xiaolong's kung fu was popular all over Southeast Asia, and Shangguan Xiaobao took the opportunity to promote a very functional and exciting martial arts masterpiece "Li Xiaolong", and then swept the entire Xiangjiang and Southeast Asia, so far, each issue of "Li Xiaolong" comics can sell 100,000 copies.

In addition to comics, Shangguan Xiaobao's Sacred Flame Publishing House also owns "Good News", a newspaper that serializes comics.

And Huang Yulang is even more powerful than Shangguan Xiaobao.

When Li Xiaolong's kung fu was popular, Huang Yulang also launched a martial arts comic masterpiece - "Little Rascal", but because it was too bloody and violent, it was renamed "Dragon and Tiger Gate" in 1975 due to the policy problems of the Hong Kong government, and the bloody and violent pictures were greatly reduced.

In 1974, the average sales of "Little Rascals" had exceeded the 100,000 copies mark, faster than Shangguan Xiaobao's "Li Xiaolong", that is, since then, Xiangjiang Comics has entered the era of selling 100,000 copies per issue.

And now, Huang Yulang's "Dragon and Tiger Gate" is still pressing Shangguan Xiaobao's "Li Xiaolong".

In addition to this comic, Huang Yulang also established his own Yulang Book Company and created the daily comic newspaper "Shengbao", which sold 50,000 copies a day, and he is also a figure in the newspaper industry.

As for what there is no statistics here but Xia Yu knows, that is, Huang Yulang later took Shangguan Xiaobao under his subordinates, established Yulang International Company, and completed the unification of the Xiangjiang comic industry, but unfortunately he was later imprisoned.

Therefore, if Xia Yu wants to enter the comic industry in Xiangjiang, he must first face these two characters, and he only needs to face these two.

Because under the dazzling aura of Shangguan Xiaobao and Huang Yulang, everyone else was overshadowed and couldn't get out at all.

This has to be said about the current problem of comic talent training in Xiangjiang, which is also a problem that Xia Yu has to face if he wants to enter this industry.

Any industry is inseparable from talents, but talent is a barrier, stumped Xia Yu!

Because at this time in Xiangjiang, the training of talents in the comics industry is still an apprenticeship, and there are no special training schools and institutions, and it has not entered the era of industrialization of the comics industry like the island countries.

Therefore, the talents of Xiangjiang comics are too scarce now!

And even among these rare and pitiful talents, most of the more famous comic talents in Xiangjiang are almost concentrated in Shangguan Xiaobao's Holy Flame Publishing House and Huang Yulang's Yulang Book Company, which are considered their apprentices, Xia Yu wants to dig it, it is too difficult!

And there are very few comic talents exposed!

If you don't have a comic talent, you want to enter the comic industry, how can you do that?

Even if Xia Yu has a lot of valuable wealth in his mind, someone must help him realize it!

But now......

"I have a dragon slaying technique, but I don't have a dragon slaying knife!"

"Oh, no, it's not that there is no dragon slaying knife, but even the iron and blacksmith who make the dragon slayer knife are hard to find......"

Looking down at the statistical table again, Xia Yu shook his head with a slight wry smile and muttered to himself.