The twenty-first year of the Heavenly Saints, December. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the Chinese New Year is approaching, more than 30 students living in the fortress, except for a few who are too far away from home, most of them have to go home for the New Year.

Before the students went home, Zhou Ming gathered them together and held a seminar.

Seminar on the "Zihua Book House" project.

The seminar was attended by the four brothers in the dormitory (Lu Wencai, Tang Junming, Sima Zhi, Yao Qingxiao), as well as the "comic master" Lu Zhao, the "guitar master" Yang Lin, the "novelist" Luo Qianqiu, the "pop singer" Zhang Lu and others who were excavated and cultivated...... Young talents, all together.

In fact, these classmates of Zhou Ming are only in their 20s, very young, and all of them are not small, or in other words, most of them are from big families and have noble status.

For example, roommate Lu Wencai, although his appearance is not pleasing, with sharp-beaked monkey cheeks and an obscene face, he is actually a descendant of the Lu family in Beihai (County), and among the children of the Lu family, the importance ranks among the top five, and the Beihai Lu family is one of the eight major families in Qingzhou, a giant family with a history of thousands of years, millions of acres of fertile land and tens of thousands of people, ten times more prosperous than Zhou Ming's Haipingtian family.

Tang Junming is from one of the eight great families of the "Donglai Tang Clan", but he is not a descendant of the Tang family, he belongs to a relatively close side branch, and the importance of the family ranks in the top 30 or so.

Sima Zhi is indeed the lowest born among all his roommates, although his father Sima Yuan is now a county guard, but this Sima family is just a small landlord family, with only a few hundred acres of fertile land, once his father retires to Zhishi, even if it is a small son of a county official, he can be crushed.

Yao Qingxiao, a young talent, was born in a merchant family, and it stands to reason that in this era of degrading businessmen, his status should be relatively low, and he should not even be as good as Sima Zhi, but the "scholarly Yao family," which is known as the "scholarly millennium," controls nearly half of Qingzhou's printing bookstores and a large number of bookstores.

In addition to these four roommates who are not small, and some noble classmates who are also from big families, landlord class, and children of official eunuchs, as well as a few children from poor families, Zhou Ming is quite emotional, there is a good saying: The fierce general must be sent to the army, the prime minister must be taken from the state and county, and the people are from the poor family!

The people who are really open-minded, talented and hardworking are really those who come from poor backgrounds.

For example, the "comic master" Lu Zhao's family is not well-off, his family only has 100 acres of fertile land, and the tuition fee of Wenyuan Academy is thousands of yuan a year, which overwhelms this rich peasant family, and after three years of study, his family will sell out the fertile land, and in the fourth year, if it is not for Zhou Ming's righteous funding, I am afraid that he will drop out of school.

Moreover, this benevolent brother has no outstanding talent in the imperial examination, but his painting skills are indeed superb, and the level of landscape and danqing has reached the realm of great success...... But no matter how high the painting skills are, they don't come to the money, famous teachers and famous paintings are this kind of thing, it is about qualifications, your paintings may be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars after a thousand years, but this painter is only a young man in his twenties, how many people will appreciate it, and who is willing to pay a high price to buy his paintings?

Therefore, this Brother Lu, after receiving Zhou Ming's funding, found that he was weak in the imperial examination, Danshan Qingshui was unknown, and after seeing that it was profitable to draw comics, Lu Zhao decisively chose to transform, with his outstanding talent, he has now become the chief painter of the comic "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms 108 Stars", with a monthly income of more than 100 times, and was named "comic master" by Zhou Ming.

"Guitar Master" Yang Lin and "Novelist" Luo Qianqiu, the situation is somewhat similar, they are both poor talents that Zhou Ming discovered in Wenyuan Academy, as long as they are cultivated a little, in the future, they will definitely become superstars in their respective fields.

It should be mentioned here that Zhang Lu, a "pop singer" and "little fresh meat", was not born in a poor family, but the son of a big family, with a low status, and was oppressed by the long family all the year round.

Seeing that there are so many powerful children with deep backgrounds and poor talents under his banner, for the "Zihua Book House Project", Zhou Ming will naturally take advantage of these advantages and vigorously promote this plan.

He said to Lu Wencai: "Brother Wencai, Brother Junming (shouted more than a dozen names in a row)...... After you go back, I hope to give full play to your respective abilities and channels, and strive to open a Chinese bookstore in more than 150 counties and counties in Qingzhou and in every city within two or three months, and decorate it according to the design drawings I have given, and complete it as quickly as possible! As for the various expenses, I have prepared 1,000 yuan for each of you to start up, and if it is not enough, you can write to me. ”

In this world, the purchasing power of copper coins has always been equivalent to 800-1000 yuan, and a thousand yuan is equivalent to 1 million.

With so much money, Zhou Ming asked these dozen classmates to be responsible for opening ten "Zihua Book Houses" each, with an average cost of 100,000 yuan per family, so there must not be much of a problem.

"Boss, I don't need the money, I'm still short of this little money? Besides, Zihua Bookstore and I have shares, how can we be embarrassed to accept your money? You just give me the decoration design drawings, and nothing else." Lu Wencai said.

"Yes, boss, we rent a shop there, on the most prosperous street next to the county government, and it's only ten times a year, a thousand times, it's too much. ”

"There's no need for Brother Zihua, it's just a few hundred yuan, and I think I still paid it out. ”

Everyone refused.

Zhou Ming coughed twice, and said in a tone that could not be refused: "Take it all, you follow me to do a career, naturally it is not good to find your parents and elders to take money, if you spend their money, it will be profitable at that time, and the equity will be entangled...... Zihua Bookstore must be complete and belong to our industry! Therefore, you should spend this thousand yuan of start-up capital carefully, and strive to do things well, if the money is not enough, come to me again. ”

"Okay......"

Everyone nodded their heads, quite moved, and at the same time, their hearts were stirred with a pride and ambition to do a great cause.

"Brother Qingxiao—"

Zhou Ming looked at the second man on the right: "Your task is the heaviest, except for Zihua Bookstore, in Qingzhou, the construction and recruitment of the largest engraving and printing factory in Qingzhou are all tired of you, I don't know if you can complete this task within three months?"

If this plan is completed by Zhou Ming himself, he will not know how many years it will take to invite those skilled engraving craftsmen (this kind of craftsmen have more than ten years of work experience, and they cannot be trained in a short time), and he does not know how many years it will take, and the energy of the craftsman is more than ten times that of pure text engraving, and this kind of craftsman, all Qingzhou, I don't know if I can find 100 people.

Therefore, the "scholarly Yao family", which owns half of the bookstore in Qingzhou, has become the most relied on by Zhou Ming.

Therefore, he gave Yao Qingxiao a huge amount of 500,000 yuan, signed an agreement with half of the shares, and prepared to build a large-scale printing factory covering an area of dozens of acres, with the most advanced engraving technology, and thousands of engraving craftsmen.

Name: Zihua Printing Factory.

In fact, for the engraving printing technology, Zhou Ming is not completely ignorant, in the last copy of "The Lord's Strife", he founded countless workshops, there are printing workshops, the technology used is extremely advanced, a large number of [industrial machine tools] and hydraulic drive devices, and later also used [steam engine], plus some unique technology, printing efficiency, I don't know how many times ahead of the world.

Yao Qingxiao got the design drawings and improvement suggestions he gave, and let the family try them according to these drawings and suggestions, and in less than two years, the printing efficiency of Yao's bookstore has been increased by three times, and the unit printing cost has been reduced by 50%! And the printing quality is excellent, which greatly increases the market share.

So...... All of these are interlocking and complementary, and the cooperation between Zhou Ming and Yaojia Bookstore is also an inevitability.

Yao Qingxiao nodded and said: "Brother Zihua, don't worry, I have already sent the letter home, the new factory has already broken ground, the equipment and craftsmen are all ready, within three months, Zihua Printing Factory will be put into use! ”

"Good. ”

Zhou Ming nodded, Yao Qingxiao deserves the name of a talented man, he knows people, he can always be one step ahead of others in doing things, and he will never procrastinate, Zhou Ming has a hunch that this roommate will definitely become his most powerful assistant in the process of building an entertainment empire.

Don't worry too much about hardware problems, so how much can the core software problem, Zihua Bookstore's content products, be produced in a relatively short period of time?

This problem, under Zhou Ming's personal control, is naturally not too much of a problem.

For example, "Story Meeting", now in Zhou Ming's hands, there are more than 300 novels of various kinds of strange things, hundreds of jokes, jokes, etc. (all of which he thought of when he searched his stomach), and if it is published in the form of a semi-monthly magazine, it can be published continuously for half a year.

There are thousands of poems and songs and excellent articles that have been selected into the "Zihua Anthology", most of which are created by Zhou Ming and his classmates during their studies at Wenyuan Academy.

The most important "Comics", Zhou Ming, who has no works to plagiarize, can only create by himself, while cultivating apprentices and assistants, as long as these apprentices and assistants are brought up, in the future, his task will be much easier, as long as an outline and setting are proposed, someone will create the comics he wants to see according to these outline settings.

As for the comic works he has completed, such as "The Legend of the 108 Stars of the Three Kingdoms", with the help of the "comic master" Lu Zhao, he has drawn the fifteenth volume, and Zhou Ming's "Journey to the West" has reached the forty-fifth chapter...... The two comic works, with a total of thousands of pages, can be published in the form of semi-monthly magazines, and the magazine "Comics" can be issued in twelve consecutive issues.

However, there are still too few comic works, and the length of "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms 108 Stars" is too short, which is not enough to insist on publishing six issues (when the content is half of the content and "Journey to the West"), that is, under the existing manuscript, "Comics" can be released for up to three months.

After thinking about it, Zhou Ming said to Lu Zhao and the other two comic apprentices: "Brother Lu, Brother Wan, Brother Jin, during this time, you work a little harder, and strive to draw 30 volumes of "The Legend of the 108 Stars of the Three Kingdoms" within three months, the task is quite heavy, but don't worry, I will assist you in completing part of the work...... Believe in yourself, when this comic is finished, I will have more good stories for you, and you will love these stories very much......"

Such as "Book from the Sky", "Baolian Lantern", "The Legend of Nezha", "Gourd Baby", ...... They can't finish painting in their lifetimes.

Lu Zhao and the others nodded, the speed at which they draw comics is indeed relatively slow now, many of the skills are not proficient, and it is very difficult to draw, but if there is Brother Zihua on the side to guide, their speed of getting started will be greatly accelerated, if they can do the same as Brother Zihua, they can draw up to 100 pages of comics a day, and they can draw fast and well, then they will all become comic masters, and they can draw countless stories in their hearts...... It's a very exciting thing to think about.