In the Yanjing Smart Comic Magazine, Tian Kangle, the president in charge of operations, looked at the few remaining staff members of the company with a tired face, and he said with a hoarse throat: "I called everyone here today to say the last thing, and thank you for your serious work in the past few years. I'm not a competent leader, and I'm ashamed to be helpful to everyone. The magazine will be closed next month, and the last month's salary will be paid. ”

"Now I don't ask you to contribute, just hurry up and find the next job, and if you need my help writing a letter of introduction, you can come to the office to find me. ”

A few years ago, Tian Kangle opened this smart comic magazine with 5 million yuan from selling his house, and there was a glorious time, but now there are no manuscripts and no advertisers to join, and dealers are unwilling to buy, so there is no way to meet readers.

The situation has reached such a serious point, Tian Kangle's whole person seems to be ten years old, and he is extremely tormented to see the magazine he created by himself go bankrupt!

At this time, there were only two editors, a treasurer, and an artist left in the conference room of the Smart Comic Magazine, and the rest had already left one after another, and now it was time for them to look for jobs.

"Sister Jing, have you found a new job?" Xiaohui, an artist who had just graduated, asked with a sad face, "I didn't expect my first job to be like this." ”

Xu Jing shook her head, she showed a hint of a smile, "My husband said to let me go home and be a full-time wife, just because my son is going to elementary school." ”

Xiaohui looked at Xu Jing in surprise, shook her head and dissuaded: "It's not me who hits you, being a full-time housewife will be out of touch with the world, and it will not end up being a yellow-faced woman when the time comes." Women, you still have to be a little more independent. There are too many negative teaching materials on Weibo and Tianya!"

Obviously, Xiaohui is younger, but she speaks with an old-fashioned appearance, and she hasn't experienced many things, but it's still useful to soak in various forums all year round.

Xu Jing is actually very hesitant, she is used to such a comfortable life, and she must adapt to a new unit, she doesn't want to make any changes.

If you really go back to be a full-time housewife, you are very unwilling, one is the shrinking of the social circle, and the other is also a family economic problem.

As an ordinary office worker, she and her husband Wang Wei's combined wages can barely support the family, after the child goes to primary school, the expenses are like a mountain, and now the stock market is sluggish, and it is difficult to expect her husband in the securities industry to make more money!

She looked at her phone and secretly made up her mind that maybe it would be a good choice to stay with the smart comics, provided it survived.

"Xiaohui, I'll go to the president and talk later. ”

"Sister Jing, are you looking for President Tian for a letter of recommendation, can you help me get one too?"

"No, I'll see if there's a way to save our magazine. Xu Jing stood up, held her phone in her hand, and then pushed open the door of the conference room and walked outside.

Xiaohui looked at Xu Jing with a confused look on her face, "the wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return", saving the magazine, I'm afraid it's not a daydream!

How could she do something that the president couldn't do?

Of course, Xu Jing also knew that this was not very likely, but she just wanted to give it a try, and in case, there was a 1% chance that she would have to try it.

Tian Kangle, who was sitting in the office, could barely stop smoking one cigarette after another, and the whole room was shrouded in smoke.

When Xu Jing pushed open the door and walked in, she coughed twice in a row because of the choking smell of smoke.

"Sister Xu, what are you looking for me?" Tian Kangle looked at this veteran financial officer who had been there since the founding of the magazine, and felt a little emotion in his heart.

The editor and the artist have changed again and again, but this finance has been doing for almost eight years.

"Mr. Tian, I wonder if our magazine really can't go on?"

"If I can keep going, I'm willing to keep going. But to be honest, I have mortgaged the house in my name to the bank and owe millions. ”

Xu Jing gritted her teeth and said, "If our magazine has a particularly popular comic series, do you think it can come back to life?"

Tian Kangle snorted and laughed bitterly, "Smart comics are all like this, how can there be a popular painter willing to put their works here." ”

"That year, those things about the rabbit were very popular on the Internet, and I had the author Zhang Chu's >, "What? Can you contact Zhang Chu?" Tian Kangle directly put out the cigarette in the ashtray, and the whole person stood up excitedly!

Now who in the comic circle doesn't know Zhang Chu, who can use the style of stick figures to make a comic work "Those Things About the Rabbit That Year" full of the city, and the content of the two chapters so far has been read by tens of millions, and it has also been recognized by many official accounts.

Xu Jing didn't plan to do this, but she really wanted to stay in the smart comics and was reluctant to disappear. Zhang Chu, who accidentally wandered around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York when she traveled to the United States with her husband and son, later met and added WeChat at the airport to know that the young man was the most famous best-selling author in China.

When she was at the airport, Xu Jing and Wang Wei had watched the content of "Those Things About the Rabbit That Year", and at that time she thought that Zhang Chu was a fledgling painter and wanted to help him produce this cartoon.

But after knowing her identity, of course she won't mention this topic again, and she hasn't talked about it since she added WeChat, she doesn't want to be the kind of person who tends to be inflammatory.

Now for the sake of smart comics, she directly told this secret that had been kept for a long time.

"Sister Jing, why didn't you tell me earlier if you have this resource? With this comic of his, those advertisers and distributors are probably turning their heads and begging us!" Tian Kangle was overjoyed, Zhang Chu's current popularity can be compared with the little fresh meat in the entertainment industry, but one relies on appearance and the other relies on works.

"Mr. Tian, I also added his WeChat by chance, in fact, I am not familiar with him at all. It is still unknown whether he will be able to get in touch at that time, and it is even more impossible to convince him to come to our magazine to serialize the content. ”

Xu Jing meant not to be too happy, she actually didn't have any hope at all.

"As long as you can get in touch, I'll think about it, and I'll have to be ready. ”

Tian Kangle's original decadence is gone, and now he is full of energy, and all brain cells are seriously thinking about how to put "Those Things About the Rabbit That Year" in their own place!

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"Ahh

Zhang Chu sat on the chair and sneezed twice in a row, he rubbed his nose and secretly thought: Who is saying bad things about me behind my back?

The recording of the first episode of "The Strongest Brain" is just over halfway, but a full 4 hours have passed, and both the staff and the players are a little tired.

It's just a little bit of a break now, and we'll have to continue later.

While Zhang Chu was thinking, Luo Hanqiu next to him hesitated for a moment and handed over a piece of toilet paper, but he still remained cold.

"Thanks, I didn't really bring any paper. Zhang Chu took it and plucked his snot, and he asked casually, "How did you get the answer to that question so quickly?"

The first level eliminated almost 20 people, and the second level also eliminated 20 people, and Luo Hanqiu was the one who took the shortest time in the second level, and it only took less than two minutes to find out the graphics and superimpose them.

Luo Hanqiu ignored the familiar Zhang Chu, she was adjusting her mood at this moment, she didn't want the enemy to be red-eyed when she met, black cats don't exist, black cats don't exist, black cats don't exist.

In fact, she didn't even understand why she was full of fighting spirit, as if she had opened her mind, and she held back her strength to win over its shovel officer in front of the black cat that was being held.

"Teacher Zhang, your phone has been ringing several times, it may be an important matter, do you need to check it?"

Xu Ying, a staff member holding a black cat, walked in front of Zhang Chu during the break, she still had Zhang Chu's bag hanging on her arm, and today she was Zhang Chu's exclusive assistant.

For the sake of the effect of program recording, all employees and guests are actually not allowed to carry mobile phones, one is to avoid cheating, and the other is to avoid interrupting the recording.

The mobile phones of the rest of the contestants were kept in the envelope, but Zhang Chu actually had a special assistant to do these things, so when Xu Ying appeared, everyone realized that Zhang Chu was really different from himself and others!

"Then I'll take a look. ”

Zhang Chu stood up and walked to the edge of the stage, and Matcha seized the opportunity to burrow on top of him and lie on his stomach, as if he was wearing a black scarf.

After taking out the mobile phone from the bag, Zhang Chu saw that it was a series of messages received by WeChat, except for the text messages sent by Xu Jing after his mother asked if he would come back for dinner.

With Zhang Chu's systematically improved memory, of course he knew Xu Jing's identity, and thought that the other party would never contact him.

When she was waiting for the flight at the airport, Xu Jing once asked her to add her WeChat account with kindness, wanting to help recommend "Those Things About the Rabbit That Year" to the magazine where she worked, but then there was no news.

Zhang Chu guessed that it might be that the couple discovered their identity, so there was no follow-up, and now it seems that this is the case!

A comic book company that has never heard of it and is about to close down wants to publish "Those Things About the Rabbit That Year", which is almost impossible on weekdays.

You must know that this comic is the most popular time now, and many comic clubs have offered sky-high prices to find Hanlin Culture Media, but they have all been rejected.

I'm afraid that even Liang Jingru can't give this courage!

"Choosing a better platform is the key, this platform is too bad, what if it goes out of business after two episodes of serialization?"

Zhang Chu is thinking about a very realistic problem in his head, if the smart comics really can't hold on, wouldn't it be a meat bun beating a dog, and there is no return?

Just when he was about to say no, an idea suddenly came to him, since it was going to go out of business, why not buy his own company?

Since Hanlin Culture Media wants to create full copyright, it is necessary to enter the second dimension, whether it is the comic of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" or "What Happened to the Rabbit That Year", it needs to expand its influence and increase the number of readers through serialization.

If you rely on merchandise, the sales volume may not be high, but when it becomes a popular manga and anime, the audience will grow exponentially!

You don't see that the income generated by various cartoons is actually the largest, just like the strange company of Audi Double Diamond, which used to be just an agent of four-wheel drive, but later found that it seems to be more profitable to be original than to be an agent.

So I simply made my own cartoons to sell toys and other peripherals, just like selling Super Wings toys, I made several "Super Wings" cartoons.

Disney can sell so many peripherals, but it also relies on all kinds of cartoons, movies, and TV series.

Instead of handing over your comics to other comic clubs to make money and gain popularity, it is better to build them in the palm of your own hand.

Now it seems that there is such an opportunity, the acquisition of the smart comics that are about to go bankrupt will not cost a few dollars at all, and use "Those Things About the Rabbit That Year" to ask for directions, if this road is confirmed to be feasible, then Zhang Chu can bring over the rest of the comics that do not exist in this world.

He may not be able to finish the painting on his own, but he will leave the creativity and plot to the rest of the artists to cooperate, and he can even develop from simple comic work to anime in the later stage.

What kind of painting rivers and lakes, what 100,000 bad jokes, what Kuiba, what Qin Shi Mingyue, what the return of the Great Sage, etc., these are all potential resources.

Whether it is a comic or an animation, it needs to be controlled by his own company, so after thinking about it, Zhang Chu took a screenshot of the words sent by Xu Jing and sent it to Zhou Kang.

"Uncle Zhou, this is a friend I met in the United States, and she wanted the rabbit to be serialized on the smart comics. You and Sister Ye discuss whether it is necessary for us to buy this comic company, publish my work, and also recruit some other permanent artists. ”

These things are handed over to the agent and the general manager of the company to have a headache, if they weigh it and decide that it is feasible, then Zhang Chu will also be a favor and put "That Year That Rabbit" on the smart comics, but at that time, the smart comics may have to change owners!

As for what Xu Jing thinks, Zhang Chu doesn't care much, he doesn't need to be a bad person, he can only do a favor within a limited scope, and if he changes the boss of Smart Comics, it may still be a good thing for these employees.

At that time, whether Tian Kangle is crying or laughing, noisy or noisy, it is not a problem, at least the smart comics are preserved, and there is still the possibility of development and growth!

After Zhou Kang received Zhang Chu's news, his head was as big as a fight, this kid couldn't stop recording the show, and he could still encounter these troublesome things, but there was no way, what the boss said must be implemented.

So he replied: "I'll go talk to Xiao Ye now, if you can record the show well, we will be very grateful." ”