A little after one o'clock in the afternoon.

Luk Yu Tea Room, 24 Stanley Street, Hong Kong Island.

Before the people from Zhang Zhide's Yongxin Toy Factory arrived, Huo Yaowen called the waiter, ordered a pot of Biluochun, and ordered some refreshments, and the two sat by the window on the second floor of the tea room and began to taste tea.

Huo Yaowen took a small piece of mung bean cake and stuffed it into his mouth, and talked to Zhang Zhide while eating: "The taste of the pastries in Lu Yu's teahouse has always been very good. ”

"Well, it tastes good. ”

Zhang Zhide also ate a piece of mung bean cake, and when he ate it in his mouth, he felt delicate and tender, and the fragrance of mung beans came to his nose, and he gave a thumbs up and praised it.

The two chatted while eating.

Huo Yaowen asked, "Uncle, has the publishing company already done it?"

"It's almost all arranged, the staff has been recruited completely, but there are still a few editors missing, someone has called these days, and I have postponed the interview until tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. ”

"Has anyone applied for the editor-in-chief?"

Zhang Zhide shook his head: "No." ”

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen frowned, the editor-in-chief must be selected, but now there is no one who even applies for the job, and he can't choose it. He can't go directly to other publishing houses to poach people at a high price like Ma Rulong, so he can only wait for people to apply for the job slowly, but now there is still a period of time before the official opening of the publishing house, and the preliminary work has been formulated, so he is not particularly in a hurry.

Zhang Zhide suddenly asked: "When you signed the contract in the morning, you seemed to tell your principal that you wanted to run a school newspaper?"

Huo Yaowen nodded: "Well, although the old printing equipment before the school can't print books, there is no problem with printing newspapers at all, and at present, we don't have a few books that can be published except for "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" for the time being. ”

"Start a newspaper?!"

As soon as he heard the newspaper, Zhang Zhide subconsciously remembered the second day after he first came to Hong Kong, and thought of going out to buy a newspaper to learn about the current news in Hong Kong.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhide couldn't help but sigh: "There are more newspapers in Hong Kong than in San Francisco, and the variety is also very rich. ”

"yes, so it's competitive. ”

Then you still run a newspaper!!

Zhang Zhide thought about this sentence in his heart, but he didn't say it, he just looked out the window, suddenly glanced at the two people below, and couldn't help but say: "The people from Yongxin Toy Factory are here." ”

Huo Yaowen followed his gaze and saw two men in suits walking towards the tearoom.

"The one wearing a blue suit on the left is the production manager of Yongxin Toy Factory named Lin Liang, I heard the news from your father that Yongxin Toy Factory has a part of Lin Liang's shares, and he is also an inventor of a toy, speaking of which the toy he invented is still very popular in San Francisco's Chinatown, and many children like it. ”

Huo Yaowen was stunned, now Hong Kong has exported toys to the United States?

"Toys?

“LT Duck”

Zhang Zhide said: "The English name is LT Duck, and it is sold in convenience stores in Chinatown, but I don't know if it is made in Hong Kong." ”

"Little Yellow Duck?" Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows, the name of Little Yellow Duck is very loud in later generations, he bought a yellow plastic duck when he was a child, and he likes to take it very much when he takes a bath, but I don't know if it is genuine.

"Hmm. Wing Sun Toy Factory was the first company in Hong Kong to export toys to the United States, so when you told me to find someone from a toy factory to discuss the production of toys, I checked with your father, this company has been manufacturing plastic toys for more than 20 years, both in the production industry and other sales aspects. ”

Zhang Zhide wanted to say more, but after seeing Lin Liang and his colleagues walk in, he also hurriedly said: "Don't say it, the one in the black suit is Fang Zhongxu, the marketing manager of Yongxin Toy Factory." ”

Lin Liang and Fang Zhongxu went up to the second floor of the tea room, and after glancing at it, when they saw Zhang Zhide and a young man sitting by the window, they also walked over with a smile and said, "Mr. Zhang!"

"Manager Lin, Manager Fang. ”

Zhang Zhide stood up and shook hands with the two and said, "This is the general manager of our Yaowen Book Publishing Company, the president of the University of Hong Kong Press, and the author of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern". ”

Listening to Zhang Zhide's words, he glanced at the young Huo Yaowen again, Lin Liang and Fang Zhongxu glanced at each other, and they both saw a look of surprise in each other's eyes.

However, in a flash, Fang Zhongxu took the lead in stretching out his hand and said: "Hello Mr. Huo, Fang Zhongxu, manager of the marketing department of the contemptible Yongxin Toy Factory." ”

"Hello Manager Fang. Huo Yaowen replied politely.

It was Lin Liang's turn, but he said with a smile: "I didn't expect Mr. Huo to be so young, I have been reading your "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and I have always liked your books. ”

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, listening to Lin Liang say that he likes his book, Huo Yaowen also said with a smile on his face: "If you want to say signature, Mr. Lin, you must sign for me, I have been playing with the little yellow duck invented by Mr. Lin since I was a child, and I am not afraid of Mr. Lin making fun of it. ”

The little yellow duck was invented by Lin Liang in 1948, and Huo Yaowen was born in 1947.

After all, the little yellow duck is still very, very famous in Hong Kong, a little duck with a yellow body and a red mouth, with a simple and cute appearance, has always been a favorite toy for children. Although it looks ordinary and nothing special, it has been selling well in Hong Kong for 20 years and has been exported overseas, which has its own uniqueness.

is also like the two mice that made a fortune at Disney, but Yongxin Toy Factory does not have all kinds of marketing methods like Disney, does not know how to maximize profits, only knows how to make toys with boring heads, and has never thought that toys can also be caricatured and animeized.

Hearing this, Lin Liang laughed: "Mr. Huo's love for the little yellow duck is the honor of our Yongxin Toy Factory, and we have been committed to creating harmless toys for so many years, giving all children in Hong Kong a happy childhood." ”

"I think Mr. Lin and your toy factory have done it. Huo Yaowen grinned.

Lin Liang said in high spirits: "It's not good enough, our Yongxin Toy Factory has become the Disney and Hasbro of the East!"

This year can be said to be the most brilliant year for Yongxin Toy Factory, not only to promote the Little Yellow Duck to the United Kingdom, but also to sign a cooperation agreement with several toy factories in Southeast Asia to jointly promote the LT Duck brand to various countries in Southeast Asia.

"Then I wish your toy factory to do better and better, to become bigger and bigger, and to become the Disney of the East as soon as possible!"

"Thank you. Lin Liang said with a smile.

After the two of them praised each other for a few words, everyone sat down in unison.

After Huo Yaowen poured a cup of tea for each of them, he said straight to the point: "Mr. Lin, Manager Fang." Is there anything I need to add to the business that Editor-in-Chief Zhang talked to you about before?"

Lin Liang shook his head: "Editor-in-Chief Zhang said in detail, I have also read Mr. Huo's "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" from beginning to end, and I also have an understanding of some of the special props written in the book, so it is not very difficult to manufacture, and we can make it in Yongxin."

However, according to Editor-in-Chief Zhang, this is not a toy for children, but for adults, so the process must be as close as possible to what Mr. Huo described in your book, so that a new mold needs to be created.

Mr. Huo, you should know how complicated the special Tao you wrote is, take the "Bagua Five Elements Compass" as an example, in addition to the appearance is similar to the traditional compass, it must also be able to be disassembled, revealing the space inside, so that the production cost will be relatively high, and the price previously compiled by Zhang is too low. ”

Huo Yaowen frowned: "I don't need to make too many toys, and I can simplify it a little bit." ”

Lin Liang looked helpless: "It doesn't matter if you simplify or not, anyway, we need to make new molds, in fact, the price of the props written in the manufacturing book is not very expensive, the expensive is on the mold, specially build a set of molds, after manufacturing your order, it will be discarded, which is too expensive for us." ”

"And what do you mean?"

Without waiting for Lin Liang to open his mouth, Fang Zhongxu on the side interjected: "Mr. Huo can buy the mold, in this way, if Mr. Huo wants to continue to make more toys in the future, he can also hand it over to us again to be responsible for production." ”

Huo Yaowen thought about it, and this is not a solution: "How much is a mold?"

"We calculated that the mold for making the diamond umbrella costs 10,000, and the compass needs 15,000, and the compass production process is more accurate, so the mold production cost will be relatively high..."

After talking about the price of the mold, Fang Zhongxu said again: "At the same time, the production of a detachable diamond umbrella is eighteen Hong Kong dollars, and the compass needs eleven Hong Kong dollars. ”

"So expensive?" Huo Yaowen frowned, this price can be said to be very high, if it is used as a bonus, it will be a little more than worth the loss.

Lin Liang also said: "This is the lowest price, all made of copper, and it is the first time for our toy factory." ”

This price has exceeded the price in Huo Yaowen's heart, and he shook his head and said, "Since this is the case, let's use plastic." ”

As soon as he heard that it was made of plastic, Lin Liang said directly: "Plastic manufacturing is much cheaper......