Chapter 268: Lack of money is an unspeakable pain
ps: Today as usual four watches, the first watch is coming, ask for motivation and support
Back to the office.
Like returning from the clouds to the ground, when Liu Zelai sat down with Xiao Fei to discuss in detail the company's relocation and the preparation of the printing house, the excitement quickly passed.
This is because, if you do a careful calculation, the above two things require a large amount of money.
When the company moves from the city to a remote development zone, it is estimated that the vast majority of employees will complain. Everyone's home is in the urban area, young people are better, if the company provides accommodation, you can also make do in the unit, what about those who are married and have a family? You can't let people give up their homes for work, right?
That's too inhuman, too impersonal.
Therefore, after the company moves to the development zone, it must buy two buses as shuttle buses to transport employees to and from work.
It takes a lot of money to set up a printing house.
Xiao Fei originally thought that he could buy a full set of printing equipment for several millions, but after learning more about relevant industry insiders, he realized that he was too naΓ―ve.
If you want to buy the most advanced printing presses, such as the four-color printing press in Heidelberg, the current import price is nearly one million dollars.
That's US dollars, converted into RMB, and a set of facilities is the currency of nearly 10 million people!
According to Xiao Fei's assumption, he plans to buy at least two sets of such equipment.
That's nearly 20 million yuan.
In addition to the printing press, it is necessary to purchase some other supporting equipment, and there are all kinds of them. It also needs at least 5 or 6 million looks.
Hanmo, who has just started a business, has a meager family background, where can he get so much money?
I just want to get a loan from a bank. There's nowhere to borrow now.
Now that the country's monetary policy is tightening, loans are tightening, and the interest rate on three-year bank deposits has almost reached 10%!
What is the current financial situation of Hanmo?
There are about 6.8 million yuan in cash on the books, and the arrears, mainly 1.135 million yuan for the printing house, and 3.23 million yuan in accounts receivable.
The funding gap is too great.
Of course, Hanmo is now in a period of rapid development. Of the more than 10 kinds of books launched, three sales were extremely hot. The sales of "Fish Walking on Land" and "Bright Sword" have both exceeded one million now.
The former reached 1.53 million copies.
The latter reached 1.32 million copies.
The momentum of "Bright Sword" is now a little stronger. This is because "Loyal to the Country", under the banner of the theme song of the "Bright Sword" TV series, has been too popular recently.
The song was played all over the streets.
In this way, the "Bright Sword" TV series has been indiscriminately popularized and promoted, by the way. The novel "Bright Sword" is also well-known by more people.
Not long ago, the novel "Bright Sword" has just been reprinted once, and the print run has increased to 500,000 copies, and the sales situation is very good.
Xiao Fei expects that in a year's time, the book "Bright Sword" will sell at least 2 million copies.
"Fish Walking on Land" can also reach this sales.
The eye-catching performance is also "First Close Encounter", which sold 600,000 copies in just one week after it was launched in early January.
Xiao Fei estimated. Before the Spring Festival, "First Close Contact" sold more than one million copies, and there should be no pressure. Because this book is written about online love, it is full of fashion factors. It is very popular with young readers, and this part of the population is most likely to have a cult psychology of celebrities and develop into loyal fans.
Xiao Fei estimated that a young writer like himself, who is still a member of the camp of serious writers, should be effortless to become an idol writer through the book "The First Close Contact".
The other books launched by Hanmo Culture are compared with the above three books. Naturally, sales are much less.
But the performance is also quite good.
The first printing of each book is also at least 50,000 or more, and the market response is not bad. It sells well.
Now, Hanmo Culture sells at least 7 or 8 million yards every month, and the profit is about one-third of that of yards.
It should be said that it is quite profitable.
However, if you really want to buy imported printing equipment and open a large printing factory according to Xiao Fei's plan, this speed of making money will not be able to catch up with the speed of spending money in the short term.
"Xiao Fei, is it really necessary to run your own printing house?" Liu Zelai questioned.
"I think it's very necessary, Brother Zelai, let's calculate an account, our books are printed in other printing houses, and a quarter of the cost is to be paid to the printing house, which is not a small number, according to this ratio, the money paid to the printing house every year will be at least twenty or thirty million."
"And if we have our own printing house, we can earn this money ourselves, and with our current development momentum, it is more than enough to raise a printing house by launching two or three hot books that sell millions of copies every year." Xiao Fei analyzed.
Liu Zelai scratched his head: "Then there is no need to import printing equipment, right?" The domestic ones are not bad now, but the price is much cheaper than the imported ones. β
Xiao Fei shook his head and smiled: "It's not that I'm arrogant, the current printing machinery, the gap between domestic and international is still quite large, with domestic equipment, can not print exquisite and pleasing books, we Hanmo want to start their own signboard, then we can't casually put out the books shoddy, even piracy is not as good!" β
It turned out that Xiao Fei was thinking so long-term.
Liu Zelai smiled bitterly and spread his hands: "Then what now?" Now, we don't have enough money to buy a set of Heidelberg's latest printing presses! It's just that we've scraped together enough, and if we buy a set of machines and come back, then our capital chain will probably be torn off, which is too dangerous. β
This is indeed a big problem.
Xiao Fei smiled: "The money is not enough, you can think of other ways." β
"What can you do?" Liu Zelai looked ignorant.
If you don't have money, can you still conjure up a set of imported Heidelberg's latest printing press?
Xiao Fei said: "Let's pay attention to where there are second-hand imported printing presses in China, and the condition is not bad, you can also buy them!" β
"Buying second-hand? This, what if you are deceived? Liu Zelai frowned.
"If you look carefully, there won't be a big problem."
"How do you find this kind of information?" Liu Zelai asked, and suddenly patted his head and said, "There is generally this kind of classified information in newspapers, and the sale of large machinery like this will definitely publish classified ads!" Alas! I'm such a pig's brain! I forgot about that. That's easy, I'll say hi to my classmates and let them keep an eye on it. β
In such a big country, I don't know how many printing houses there will be! It is normal for one to import the latest printing equipment and suddenly become unable to operate and go out of business.
Second-hand equipment, which is usually much more affordable than imported new equipment.
However, it is not realistic to want to pick up too much cheap, after all, imported printing equipment is still quite sought-after in this country, and many factories are rushing to get it.
"Xiao Fei, it's time for your royalties to settle again." After saying this, Liu Zelai talked about settling royalties for Xiao Fei again.
Yes, Xiao Fei publishes books in Hanmo, and there are still royalties.
The royalty is 10%, which is Xiao Fei's own money.
This was proposed by Liu Zelai, who believed that it was better to separate private money from the company's accounts, and not let Xiao Fei suffer.
"How much is the royalty this time?" Xiao Fei asked with a smile. He has already received a royalty once and has received more than 1.2 million yuan.
"The finance has carefully calculated, and you should be paid 1.16 million royalties this time." Liu Ze said.
"I won't receive this money for the time being, so I can lend it to the company, and in addition, I have more than 2 million myself, which I will also lend to the company." Xiao Fei said with a smile.
Part of the money he said was the royalties received in the early stage, and the other part was the profit from the sale of the album he cooperated with Ren Gangyi. That's right, the album he played on was already crazy about money.
"That's fine, the company can pay you interest." Liu Zelai said silently.
"It's fine."
Xiao Fei nodded, he was now thinking about whether to write a few more hot books to push the company's sales. However, there are really not many books that can be written in a short period of time!
He has a few books in his head, but it is unrealistic to write them in the shortest possible time, such as a month. He has too many things to do now, and in less than a month, it will be the Spring Festival.
He was thinking about it, but he heard an uproar outside.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Fei asked Liu Zelai.
"Come out and have a look." Liu Zelai got up and went out. Xiao Fei also followed, but saw that in the hall, a group of people were surrounding one person and exclaimed. (To be continued)