"You want to cosplay?"

Zhou Fangyuan looked at Sister Mingjue with some surprise, but he really didn't understand her thoughts.

"Why did you think of this? Sister, you are students of the acting academy, why don't you want to look for filming, but think of cosplay?"

"We didn't think about it that much, just because we like anime, so we wanted to make a cosplay, but we inquired, and now there are too few domestic comic conventions, and it's too immature, so we want to ask you for help. ”

Sister Mingjue stroked the hair in her ears and said with a smile.

Zhou Fangyuan looked at each other speechlessly.

The comic con is a good thing, and it's not that it can't make money, he just didn't expect Sister Mingjue to want to do this.

"I don't think you'd waste your time doing this kind of thing. ”

"I like anime, I like the characters, and it's normal to want to play cos. ”

Sister Mingjue continued to argue.

But this time Zhou Fangyuan didn't even say anything, just looked at her with a smile.

After a while, Sister Ming Jue sighed helplessly, "Sure enough, I still can't fool you, tell me about you, why are you always so smart?

Sister Mingjue said, she couldn't help but reach out and grab Zhou Fangyuan's face and rub it, and at the same time, the person also leaned over and approached Zhou Fangyuan's face, wanting to observe up close why he could see through his thoughts.

At first, it was nothing, but gradually, the atmosphere of the room was a little wrong.

Sister Mingjue's hand gradually slowed down, and a pair of big watery eyes stared at Zhou Fangyuan. Zhou Fangyuan also looked at each other, and couldn't take his eyes off it, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little pink.

"Ahem......"

Zhou Fangyuan coughed lightly and twisted his face to the side.

Sister Mingjue also immediately put her hand back and sat back in her original place with a red face.

"What, Sister Mingjue, you want to be a director, the Comic Con is indeed an opportunity to train people. It just so happens that distant comics have actually had a comic exhibition plan in recent years, and we are now the largest comic animation company in China, and we should also have our own comic exhibition, but it is estimated that it is impossible for Sister Mingjue to be the chief director, but you can be an executive director and learn from your predecessors...... I still have something to do, I'll call you when the Comic Con plan is confirmed......"

Zhou Fangyuan was very embarrassed and left the courtyard as if he had fled.

This is his house, his home, but now he has escaped, he can't do it if he doesn't escape, he can't think about what will happen if he stays any longer. To be honest, Zhou Fangyuan was still not mentally prepared, after all, Sister Mingjue was different from others.

......

Regarding the comic exhibition, I actually raised it at the beginning of this year.

However, at that time, Zhou Fangyuan denied it because the timing was inappropriate.

The earliest comic exhibition in China should be in 1936, and the location was in the exhibition hall on the fourth floor of Daxin Company on Nanjing Road, Haishi, which should be the first comic exhibition in China. However, at that time, it was just a comic book exhibition, which was different from the comic book exhibition in later generations.

The well-known comic exhibition should be the kind of exhibition with a large number of coser, about the coser industry, if it is in a narrow sense, it probably originated in Fuso, this statement is currently the most recognized.

But if you talk about cosplay in a broad sense, the origin should be in the United States.

If you talk about the ideology of cosplay, it can be traced back to 1,000 years BC. After all, whether it was the ancient Greek rituals or the bards who were active around the eighth century BC, they were theoretically imitating others. It's like a performance in a stage play, isn't it a kind of imitation, imitating legendary characters and stories with one's own performance...... But that's too far away to mention.

If you want to say that it has something to do with China, the earliest cosplay in the Chinese circle should have appeared on Treasure Island. The first known csoplay was held on August 27, 1995, on the first floor of SAGAWORLD in Kaohsiung, but it is said that the scale was not large at the time, and the characters were mostly from video games.

It seems that Hong Kong Island has its own cosplay since 1993, but because of the lack of information, it is unclear whether there was a large-scale event at that time.

In contrast, the appearance of cosplay in China was relatively late.,It wasn't until 1998 that there were some spontaneous solo cospaly shows in China.,And before that, there was no doujinshi instant sale of a certain scale.。 Therefore, even if there is cosplay, the number is extremely rare. However, due to the maturity of cosplay in Fuso, Baodao, and Hong Kong Island, cosplay in mainland China has grown rapidly and steadily, and the first domestic cosplay contest was successfully held in August 2000.

However, having said that, due to the problems of national conditions and the rejection of animation by the mainstream consciousness of society, the development of the domestic animation industry is slow, and the development of related industries is also slow.

To this day, the scale of the comic book exhibition is still small, the crowd of cosplay is still small, and the distant comic wants to make a large-scale comic exhibition out of the idea of promoting comics. In this regard, Zhou Fangyuan is actually very satisfied. He hopes that these companies under his command will have some initiative, and they will know how to develop on their own, rather than relying on headquarters for everything. Zhou Fangyuan has also begun to gradually decentralize power in the past two years, and the following companies are responsible for their own profits and losses, and those who do well are promoted and made a fortune, and those who do not do well are directly eliminated, so the matter of the comic exhibition was proposed by Yuanfang Comics itself.

In fact, Zhou Fangyuan shouldn't have interfered, and people would have done it if they wanted to, but he considered that the playground built by Yuanfang Real Estate had already begun to be built, and it would be completed in more than a year at most.

Zhou Fangyuan thought about it, and still hoped that the comic exhibition would be held in his own playground, and when the time came, he could make the scale bigger, make a competition, and the prize money for the champion or the top few places would be higher, so he didn't have to worry about not attracting people.

Sister Mingjue wants to accumulate skills and knowledge as a director, which is good, when the time comes, she can be an assistant director or executive director, but it is impossible to be a chief director.

Because this position is too important, it is impossible to casually let Sister Mingjue, a newcomer, do it.

This is not responsible for all the participants, but also irresponsible to the company, of course, Sister Ming Jue can not have any objections, the chief director of such a large-scale event, its difficulty is no less than the director of a movie, it is not easy to do this well, she wants to make a difference on the road of directing, and she has to go far, far away.

......

In mid-July, the SARS epidemic, which had affected half the world, finally ended.

This time, the epidemic came suddenly and broke out violently, causing nearly 300 deaths in China alone.

This can be said to be the most serious case of infectious disease in the world since the beginning of modern times, and at the worst time, elementary schools were closed, traffic was controlled, and everyone was trembling, causing great losses to the safety of people's lives and property, as well as the national economy. Fortunately, the country coped with the epidemic properly, and as the epicenter of the epidemic, it was able to control the epidemic to a very small extent and minimize the damage caused by the epidemic, which alone the government did quite well.

As for some mistakes and misjudgments in the early days of the epidemic, to be honest, that is also normal, after all, the government wants to ensure the peace of the people, and in order to avoid the spread of panic, appropriate deception is due. And who would have thought that this seemingly ordinary little problem would become so serious? Because there was no foreknowledge, it led to a mistake in the work of the government for a certain period of time, and there was no way to do it.

In short, SARS has passed, and although it has left a lot of trauma, it has once again proved the greatness of mankind.

Of course, SARS wasn't all bad.

First of all, it is very important to note that SARS has made the whole people develop a good habit of washing their hands frequently and paying attention to hygiene. Ordinary education says a thousand ways and ten thousand, which may not be as direct as the death of a few people. It's not good, but it's true. In his previous life, after Zhou Fangyuan's family was demolished and moved, he lived in a new community, and his neighbor at that time was a very unkempt and very sloppy person. That person is a waste collector, not to say that he discriminates against waste collectors, and there can also be people who collect waste products properly, Zhou Fangyuan has seen a lot. Of course, there were sloppy people, and their neighbor at the time was.

The collected waste products were casually piled up in the corridor, and the cockroaches crawled all over the ground, and they got into Zhou Fangyuan's house at every turn, as we all know, the cockroach has a very strong reproductive ability, and for a while, there were many cockroaches in Zhou Fangyuan's house.

Their family is very angry, but you can't help it, after all, people didn't pile this thing up at your door, and you can't say that cockroaches come from that pile of garbage, and it is irrational for neighbors to quarrel and fight, so Zhou Fangyuan and his family can only endure it. Until the outbreak of SARS, Zhou Fangyuan came back once halfway, but was stunned to find that the garbage in the corridor was gone. He thought that his neighbor had moved, but later he learned from his mother that the neighbor had not moved, but had changed the garbage. Why? Aren't you scared by SARS?

Normal people, no matter how big their hearts are, once they are linked to life, everyone will become cautious. Their neighbors are not exaggerated, and even Zhou Fangyuan, who used to be, has become more hygienic because of this incident.

This is one of the benefits of SARS, and at least the help for health work is huge. Secondly, it is because of the outbreak of SARS that the rise of online shopping.

Yes, this is the biggest change for Zhou Fangyuan, before SARS, although the development of online shopping e-commerce was also good, but after all, it was still a little worse, and most people still did not recognize online shopping. Until the outbreak of SARS, people's travel was restricted - not all government restrictions, and many people themselves did not dare to go out, but if they didn't go out, they didn't go out, everyone always had to buy things, so many people set their sights on online shopping. As a result, in the year of the SARS outbreak, the e-commerce industry flourished, and the most powerful of them was Brother Ma. The sales volume of Digbao has increased more than ten times in this year, and it has become the largest e-commerce website in China in one fell swoop.

It is said that Brother Da Ma is about to carry out the next round of financing, and now Zhou Fangyuan's Ali shares are less than 15%, and a large amount of money has been invested, and his shares have been seriously diluted. However, even this 15% stake is worth hundreds of millions. What used to be a few million dollars of investment has now turned into hundreds of millions.

However, Zhou Fangyuan knows that Ali's future is far more than that, and in another ten years, when Ali goes public, this small company that only used 500,000 yuan in the early days of the grass will become a large company with a market value of 230 billion US dollars, and then it will become a giant with a market value of nearly 500 billion US dollars. Zhou Fangyuan will never have too many shares in his hands, of course, if he can, he still wants to increase his holdings of Alibaba. It's a pity that it seems that with the gradual strengthening of Alipay, Brother Da Ma is now drifting away from Zhou Fangyuan, and they rarely talk to each other. Of course, it's not that they turn against each other, everyone is out to do business, and I still understand this point of being a man, but Brother Ma has more ideas of his own, and it is inevitable that there will be some conflicts with Zhou Fangyuan in terms of concepts, so the two sides are not as close as they used to be...... But it's just not as good as before, in fact, the relationship between the two sides is still good.

This year, Yuanfang Group is going to hold its first large-scale annual meeting, and he is ready to invite Brother Ma to participate.

Compared with Alibaba, Yuanfang Group is now a real big guy.

As mentioned before, Zhou Fangyuan is ready to accept financing.

He also had a growing experience.

After all, Zhou Fangyuan in his previous life was not a business wizard, and he was not even a business person, so many times his ideas would inevitably have limitations. However, with the passage of events, he has also grown little by little, and the financing that was once never acceptable to Na Yi has now begun to accept.

Of course, the shares of Yuanfang Group are currently not going to be sold, but he has begun to gradually relax the threshold for the shares of the following companies.

As early as a few months ago, several subsidiaries began to contact investors to discuss the matter of buying shares.

Now, most of the year has passed, and the discussions of several companies have ended.

Yuanfang Music plans to sell a 15% stake to raise $20 million, Qiqi will sell a 10% stake to raise $10 million, and Yuanfang Comics will sell a 17% stake to raise $15 million...... Except for a few branches that Zhou Fangyuan really values and has not yet negotiated, most of the branches have begun to accept financing.

Receiving investment from all parties, the scale of these subsidiaries of Yuanfang Group has expanded rapidly. The comic exhibition activities that Yuanfang Comics wants to promote are thanks to the investment of 15 million US dollars, and when you have money in your hands, you want to develop further, and there is nothing wrong with doing so, Zhou Fangyuan also said that he can fully understand, and even feel happy.

It's just that he also knows that what is being released now is only a small dish, and the real big dish has not yet been served.

What are the dishes?Remote Game, Remote Video, Remote Media, Remote Network Manager...... These are the feasts of the internet. There is also Yuanfang Technology, Yuanfang Agricultural Company, Food Company, Jin Polo, etc., these are the real feasts, Zhou Fangyuan plans to open the financing threshold of Yuanfang video, media, network housekeepers and other companies at the end of this year, and wait until next year, it is the two big dishes of Yuanfang Games and Yuanfang Technology, as for agriculture and catering, he is still pondering, not sure whether he should start financing.

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