Chapter 13 Phoenix Press

Two days later.

Today is Sunday, although it is already a holiday, Huo Jianning has not rested, but is still busy with the affairs of Zhang Luo Game Company. After helping Wu Ming apply for the copyright, he first went to Jardine Matheson Building to rent an office adjacent to the Dole Toys Company as the office space of the game company. Then a group of legal, financial, and sales employees from Dole Toys were brought together to set up the game company's shelves. Now it's time to look around for people in electronics and computer programming.

And Zhang Dexin has also completed the investigation of the comic publishing house, and is now discussing which publishing house to buy at Wu Ming's home.

Zhang Dexin handed Wu Ming the materials of several comic publishing houses that had been sorted out in his hand, and said, "Xiao Ming, these are the few publishing houses I specially selected." These publishing houses have relatively complete distribution channels, and their cartoonists are also good, and they are all high-quality publishing houses. ”

Wu Ming took the information and slowly opened it and read it carefully.

After a while, Wu Ming had already read all the information.

Zhang Dexin saw that Wu Ming had finished reading the information, and opened his mouth to analyze Wu Ming: "The level of cartoonists under this Feixiang Publishing House is the best among several publishing houses, and Dongxing Publishing House is the one with the most complete distribution channels, which is not worse than the Holy Fire Publishing House, and there are these ......."

After listening to this, Wu Ming made a decision: "Uncle Zhang, we will acquire Dongxing Publishing House, how much will it cost to acquire this publishing house." ”

Zhang Dexin replied: "Actually, I suggested that you acquire Feixiang Publishing House, and the distribution channel can be rebuilt, but it is a little difficult to find high-level cartoonists." ”

"No need," Wu Ming immediately retorted: "I have read some works of Feixiang Publishing House and Dongxing Publishing House, and there is a gap in level, but the difference is not very big. I wanted a publisher that could publish my "Hulu Brothers" as soon as possible, so I chose Dongxing Publishing House. ”

When Zhang Dexin heard Wu Ming say this, he also understood Wu Ming's thoughts, so he could only say helplessly: "Okay, then acquire Dongxing Publishing House, all the assets of this publishing house are worth about 510,000 Hong Kong dollars." ”

Wu Ming now has 2 million Hong Kong dollars, which is not bad money, so he said in high spirits: "Then I will give you 600,000 Hong Kong dollars, Uncle Zhang, you will go to contact everyone in the publishing house this afternoon, and the market value is nearly 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, I don't believe that the shareholders of Dongxing are not moved." ”

Zhang Dexin was immediately anxious when he heard this, and said: "Xiao Ming, how can you pay so much premium, Dongxing is not worth so much at all, you give me a period of time, as long as it is about 540,000 Hong Kong dollars, I can fully acquire Dongxing Publishing House." ”

"The sooner I bought the publisher, the sooner my comics could be launched. I'll give you 2 days to talk about as much as you can, as long as it doesn't exceed 600,000 Hong Kong dollars, you can accept it. Wu Ming said firmly.

Zhang Dexin saw that Wu Ming had already given the death order, although he felt that it was not cost-effective and a little too anxious, but he could not change Wu Ming's mind. I could only leave and negotiate with Dongxing Publishing House according to Wu Ming's idea.

Seeing that Zhang Dexin had left, Wu Ming also walked out of the living room and went back to the bedroom to continue to work on "Hulu Brothers". Wu Ming has not been like before in the past two days, although the teacher didn't care much about him in school, he couldn't go too far, and he had to take Zhu Yin's little girl to play with them, so the real painting time was not long. In addition, in the previous life, after all, there were only animations and comic strips of "Hulu Brothers", there was no comic version, so they could not be copied, and Xiangjiang's comics were all color, so the efficiency of painting was not very high.

These two days are Saturdays and Sundays, so I don't have to go to school, and a few children are also obsessed with computer games, so I have a lot of time to spare. He didn't even watch TV himself, and devoted himself to painting. After a few days of familiarity, Wu Ming's efficiency in drawing comics is getting higher and higher, and now he has drawn 23 original manuscripts, and he can finish nearly 40 today, which is almost two words.

Tuesday, September 18th.

Another two days have passed, and after fierce negotiations between Zhang Dexin and the shareholders of Dongxing Publishing House, Zhang Dexin and the shareholders of Dongxing Publishing House finally succeeded in acquiring Dongxing Publishing House at a price of 570,000 Hong Kong dollars, owning 100% of the shares, which is 30,000 less than the bottom line of 600,000 Hong Kong dollars mentioned by Wu Ming. The time is so short, Zhang Dexin can only do this, after all, the other party saw that Zhang Dexin was in such a hurry to acquire, so he was a little waiting to sell. If Zhang Dexin hadn't threatened not to buy Dongxing if he didn't agree, he would buy Feixiang Publishing House. The other party is a little weak-hearted, and he may not be able to buy it so quickly.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Dexin took Wu Ming to Dongxing Publishing House.

At this time, the editors, salesmen and other employees of the publishing house were also very curious when they saw Zhang Dexin bring in an eight or nine-year-old boy, and they already knew that Dongxing Publishing House was wholly owned by this unattractive man. When I saw Wu Ming, I thought it was the son of the new boss Zhang Dexin.

Zhang Dexin clapped his hands and applauded the staff of the publishing house: "Okay, everyone stop what they are doing." “

Seeing that the employees of the publishing house stopped their work and looked over, Zhang Dexin stretched out his palm and pointed at Wu Ming and said, "Today I brought the new boss Mr. Wu Ming to see the publishing house, everyone is welcome!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and it took a while for chickens and dogs to come back to their senses. Zhang Dexin actually said that he was not the new boss, and brought such a small child, saying that he was the new boss of the publishing house.

Zhang Dexin saw that everyone was "you are teasing us" expressions, and he understood what they were thinking, so he could only explain again: "You may not know Mr. Wu Ming, but you must know the Rubik's Cube, which is produced and sold by Mr. Wu Ming's family Duole Toy Company." Zhang Dexin can only rely on the prestige of Duole Toys.

Today, Dole Toys has become famous in Xiangjiang because of the Rubik's Cube, and everyone knows that this is a star enterprise with an unlimited future.

Now, everyone understood at once, it turned out to be a "rich second generation". I can only sigh that the rich man's family is different, and he actually spends money casually to buy a publishing house for his children to toss. It's such a loser that it doesn't take money as money.

From beginning to end, Wu Ming saw it clearly, and he had long thought that the employees of these publishing houses would definitely not be convinced of his child at the beginning. However, he is confident that he will impress them with his excellent performance in the future.

Then he said: "In the future, our publishing house will be renamed Phoenix Publishing House, which means that in the future, the publishing house will be reborn from the ashes and hit the apex of the Xiangjiang comics industry." In addition, in the future, the president of the publishing house will be Zhang Dexin, who is next to me, and the other staff positions of the publishing house will remain unchanged, and the salary will be increased by 10%. ”

A salary increase is really the only way to win people's hearts. The low-level employees of these publishing houses didn't care about the name of the publishing house and who was the boss of the publishing house, and immediately cheered and complimented Wu Ming, the new boss.

Other high-level officials, such as the editor-in-chief, were a little worried about whether the publishing house would be taken to the ditch by this naughty boy in the future, but they could only keep silent when they saw this situation, and wait and see first. It's really not good, it's a big deal to run away from Phoenix Press, and I believe that the cartoonists in charge of it will be on their side.

As for the original president, he made money by selling the shares in his hand and left a long time ago.

Wu Ming also knew that these high-level executives would not recognize themselves because of a small profit, and they didn't care, and said, "Next, let's introduce ourselves." ”

"Hello boss, I'm the editor-in-chief of the publishing house, Hu Junguo ......"

"Hello boss, I'm the editor-in-chief of the publishing house, Jin Tianxing......"

"Hello boss, I'm the minister of the publishing department, Li Lianzhou ......"

"Hello boss, I'm the minister of the finance department, Zhou Yun ......"

After a while of hard work, Wu Ming also had a general understanding of the personnel structure of Phoenix Publishing House. As for what they are capable of, we will always know later. If the ability is insufficient, it is not too late to replace it after the Phoenix Publishing House is stable in the future. Then let the executives into the room, and the rest of the people dispersed and got on with their work.

In the conference room, Wu Ming sat in the main seat, and saw that all the high-level officials had already come in and sat down and were waiting for him to speak. Squinted his eyes, smiled and said, "Look at it, this is the comic "Hulu Brothers" I drew, and now I have drawn a total of 5 words, a total of 90 pages, how about you take a look." ”

Yes, after another two days of hard work, "Hulu Brothers" has been half completed.

A quarter of an hour later, almost everyone had finished watching.

Editor-in-chief Hu Junguo spoke first, and said with a serious expression: "Boss, your cartoon is very good, it should be able to catch fire." ”

The others nodded in agreement. They are also amazed, but I didn't expect this loser to have some ability, and the comics are also good.

After all, these people don't understand the potential of "Hulu Brothers", you must know that there are very few comics like "Hulu Brothers" in Xiangjiang that are not violent, erotic, and suitable for children. As long as "Hulu Brothers" is on sale, it is certain that children will be attracted by the seven brave and upright gourd babies with different magical powers.

And adults will be relieved to show their children after reading it, and they will not worry about their children learning badly. Now many parents in Xiangjiang are worried that their children will learn badly after reading comics, but they can't prevent their children from peeking at them. If there is a comic suitable for children to read, they will definitely be willing to spend money, saving children from peeking at those bad comics every day.

Wu Ming saw that everyone thought so, and he didn't explain. They won't believe reality if they don't put it in front of them. So he began to give instructions: "Okay, you guys go and prepare for the release of "Hulu Brothers" now, I want to see that this comic is available on the market on Friday." ”

"Isn't this too urgent, it's only been three days!" Editor-in-Chief Hu Junguo hesitated. Others are also talking about it, which is too rushed.

Wu Ming said categorically: "I just want to let the entire Xiangjiang people know my comics as soon as possible, and there is no need to persuade them anymore, this matter is decided." ”

Seeing Wu Ming like this, the others had no choice but to go down one after another to prepare.