Although he was busy tinkering with the script of the animated movie, Meng Zhe did not forget the "Yanjing Cartoon" after Tang Gexuan became the owner - after successfully pulling Zheng Xusheng and others from Tianjiao Club, North Carolina almost wiped out several other popular serial comic book authors in domestic animation magazines!

Under the squeeze of Tianjiao Society, the other comic magazines have only gained about 20 percent of the market share in the national market, and some magazines have even been engaged for so long that they are almost unable to sustain themselves, but there are still some cartoonists in these comic magazines who are familiar or unfamiliar with Meng Zhe and are more popular with readers.

Meng Zhe is familiar with Hu Rong, who has drawn comics such as "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Bai Qiulian", Tang Weiqing, who has painted "The Female Boat King", Yang Yinghong, who has painted comics such as "I Met Dinosaurs on the Street" and "Iceman", and Zhao Jia, who has painted "Black Blood", etc.

As for Meng Zhe, there are more that he had no impression at all before his rebirth, for example, the pillar of "The King of Comics" is called "Di Qiu", and the long serial he painted is called "King Ju of the Great Song Dynasty"; For example, Yue Congrong, who published the long comic "Long Song Xing" on "Yanjing Cartoon" at the beginning.

Of course, now these cartoonists who Meng Zhe has an impression or no impression have all been taken over by the wealthy North Carolina and have become North Carolina's exclusive signed cartoonists.

And after these signed cartoonists, Tang Gexuan has proudly announced in the latest issue of "Yanjing Cartoon" that he will open twelve new serials at the same time next month, and also said that he will change "Yanjing Cartoon" to a semi-monthly magazine or something...... Meng Zhe didn't really care too much about this, he was more concerned about Tang Gexuan's unclear hint that in that declaration, he also said that there would be two popular cartoonists serialized in a semi-monthly comic magazine.

There is no doubt that the so-called semi-monthly comic magazine is Meng Zhe's "Anime Boy"!

But Tang Gexuan didn't make it clear who the two popular serialized cartoonists were, and Meng Zhe couldn't think of who they would be - since separating the short comics into "Anime Time" and implementing the quarterly serial meeting system to determine the new serials and cut them in half, the number of long-form serialized comics on "Anime Boys" has now reached 20.

At present, the results are still relatively satisfactory, "0p", "The World of Great Controversy", "Princess Huanzhu", "Infinite Terror" and "The Legend of the Republic of China", the new serials are difficult to get ahead in front of these powerful comics, and two of them have reached the verge of being cut in half - no, to be exact, there should be no doubt that they will be cut in half in the next issue.

So after thinking about it carefully, Meng Zhe felt that Tang Gexuan should be pulling the banner and pulling the tiger skin, and the one he pulled away might be the serial cartoonist whose two works were about to be cut in half.

As for Chen Xiang and Yao Feila, the 'old men' of the Tianjiao Society, Meng Zhe was not worried that they would be pulled away by Tang Gexuan, and he had enough confidence in this.

However, confidence is confidence, Meng Zhe must be in a bad mood for such a continuous digging of the wall, so he feels that if he doesn't squeak and fight back, he will be too sorry for the people and the party.

But what if it's better to fight back like this?

Meng Zhe pondered for a long time, and finally came up with an idea that he felt should be able to disgust Tang Gexuan's counterattack, and this counterattack strategy was to dig back into the wall.

Meow, since you dare to send someone to dig the corner of our Tianjiao Society, then don't blame me for sending someone to dig the corner of your North Carolina!

It's just that after Meng Zhe told Kong Lan about his idea, Kong Lan rejected it with a smile, she said: "Brother Xiao Zhe, this is a way to hurt people, they can use North Carolina but for us, there is not much need." ”

"We ...... Not much necessary? ”

Meng Zhe didn't understand it a little, but he felt that he had thought of a good idea.

"Yes, there's no need to use it too much—Xiao Zhe, have you forgotten? Now we Tianjiao Club,It's still the leader of the anime magazine publishing house that occupies 80% of the market share.,Plus the transparent and responsible editing system you set has lowered the threshold for newcomers to enter.,So most of the new cartoonists who want to start drawing comics,The first manuscript is voted for our anime time and anime boy.,Only after the manuscript is unsuccessful will other magazines be considered.。 ”

Kong Lan nodded before he said so.

And after Kong Lan said this, Meng Zhe finally understood a little, so he suddenly shouted: "Ah! Indeed! Sister Lan, we have no shortage of short stories and serialized cartoonists, if we spend money to poach people in North Carolina, in order to appease the people who dig back, they must let their comics be serialized in magazines, which will inevitably destroy the original fair serial meeting system, so that others may not reduce their sense of identity with our magazine because of this...... Hmm, Sister Lan, you didn't say anything, did you......"

Meng Zhe felt a little blushing, after all, it was not easy to think of such a way that he felt should be very good, but as soon as he said it, he was rejected and found out that something was wrong, how could he not feel ashamed at all?

Seeing that Meng Zhe had basically figured it out, Kong Lan smiled and affectionately pulled Meng Zhe in front of her, and then Meng Zhe reacted and kissed Meng Zhe lightly on the forehead: "Xiao Zhe, you are willing to help find a way, sister, I am very happy and I like it very much." ”

But then Kong Lan naturally let go of Meng Zhe and asked, "Xiao Zhe, how is the script of the animated movie?" I've been in contact with Shangmei Film, and I also hinted to them that we are going to make a commercial animated film for the Chinese New Year, and they seem to be very interested, so I should be using the script of the animated film soon. ”

This question successfully resolved the embarrassment that had just arisen in Meng Zhe's heart, and made Meng Zhe's attention shift to the animation script again - "The script is almost done!" At most, it will take another two or three days to complete it. ”

Meng Zhe nodded and replied, although it was said that under Guan Yingluo's proposal, the original two monster subordinates of the third master of the fox were finally integrated and adjusted into a pretending to be a ghost and ruthless Li Mochou-style human woman, but just like Meng Zhe said, the script has been almost done, not to mention, and even the sketch renderings of the sub-shots have been drawn by him.

After all, Meng Zhe, the main line of the story, has long known that things like adding subordinates to the third master of the fox can only be regarded as a branch plot that does not affect the main line, so it does not affect the 'fullness' speed of the script, otherwise Meng Zhe would not have time to think of a way to fight back against Tang Gexuan and North Carolina, right?

The so-called two or three days to complete it all, in fact, Meng Zhe instructed everyone involved in the creation of the script to turn around the completed script to check for errors and modify and improve the lines - according to Meng Zhe's requirements, the plot should be interesting, and the lines should be more funny and interesting to be qualified.

"Well, when the script is finished, ask someone to print a copy and send it to me. It's already the end of March, and if you don't work hard, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch up with the Chinese New Year schedule you said. ”

Kong Lan didn't rush at all when the script was written, but now that the script has been almost completed, it is naturally different.

Meng Zhe nodded, although the release time of the Lunar New Year movies in the later generations can be a long period of time from the end of November of the first year of the Western calendar to the beginning of March of the following year, but now this era of Chinese New Year movies has not appeared in the mainland...... The Lunar New Year in 1997 is in early February 1997 in the Gregorian calendar, so Meng Zhe thinks it is more appropriate to place the animated movie with the gimmick of the Chinese New Year in early or mid-January of the 7th year of the Gregorian calendar.

So calculated in this way, there are still ten months left for this "Sword of Immortals - Lights Like Day", and if you remove the pre-coordination and post-production, the time that is really used to make animation is actually only five or six months.

Considering that at this time, it was the first time that an animated film with a higher level of beauty than TV animation was produced, and it was almost determined that it would be a way to cooperate with Shangmei Film, it can only be said that this is not too tight but not too generous for the production time.

In this way, Meng Zhe and Kong Lan talked about the issue of film animation for about ten minutes, and the two learned about the progress of each other's work - Kong Lan, who fully accepted the investment business, went to contact not only Shangmeiying, but also successfully contacted two overseas venture capital companies. In recent years, China's economy is developing at a rapid pace, and countless foreign capital crocodiles, large and small, are flocking to the city in a thirst for profits.

The main business of a typical venture capital firm is to invest money in potential new companies, help these new companies increase their assets to the point of successful 'listing', and then sell their equity in these companies to investment companies or individuals, and then move on to the next potential new company...... However, 'potential stocks' suitable for venture capital are not so easy to find, so these venture capital firms occasionally invest capital in places such as making movies.

Although the superficial difference between 'venture capital firms' and 'investment firms' seems to be just two more risks, the actual difference is quite big - investment companies are really just a kind of financial intermediaries, they pool the funds of individual investors and invest in many securities or other assets, so most of them are not willing to take too much risk.

Venture capital is the pursuit of high returns, and high returns are naturally high-risk. And movies are obviously a kind of high-risk and high-return venture capital objects - in the world of movies, there are dark horses with millions of investments but tens of billions of box offices, but there is also no shortage of unlucky eggs and bad movies with tens of millions of big productions but only tens of millions of box office.

Well, in fact, the two venture capital companies that Kong Lan came into contact with are actually just 'investment angels' with the brand of venture capital companies, and all companies or individuals who have spare money and are willing to invest outside their main business can be called investment angels...... Of course, it's not wrong to say that they are angel investors.

One of the two angel investors is very interested in "Sword of Immortals - Lights Like Day", which is known as China's first Chinese New Year movie and the first commercial animated movie.

In this portfolio of investment angels branded as a venture capital firm is the director of the media lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) named Nicholas Negroponte.

So when Kong Lan inadvertently mentioned this information, Meng Zhe's expression became a little strange, because he knew this Negroponte. Let's not talk about the name of the chairman of the One Notebook Per Child (OLPC) project, just say Sohu - Zhang Chaoyang, a student at MIT Business School, founded Sohu in the early days from his teacher and another MIT professor.

It's just that Negroponte's investment in Zhang Chaoyang's Sohu is still a counterpart support, and he intends to invest in our commercial animated film "Sword of Immortals-Lights Like Day", which is full of strong Chinese elements, and it is strange that he can understand it.

"Negroponte, director of MIT's Media Lab? This world ...... Crazy? ”

Meng Zhe couldn't help but mutter, he would rather believe that the people who are interested in investing in this commercial film are Sequoia, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and even Masayoshi Son, who is engaged in software banking.

"Heh, I thought it was quite strange at first, and in the end, the other party took the initiative to explain to me the reason why I only found out, this Negroponte intends to invest in this commercial film, and it seems that he has the same purpose as we took the initiative to send money to Shangmeiying."

The corners of Kong Lan's mouth turned up slightly and said, obviously she was in a good mood at the moment.

"Huh?"

Meng Zhe didn't understand again.

"Xiao Zhe, I think what he really wants to invest in is your Shengteng Information that has just been registered for a long time."

Kong Lan didn't sell it, and casually said her guess.

"Shengteng information? No way? ”

Meng Zhe was slightly surprised, because so far the starting point Chinese network, hao123 and QQ, which have been merged under Shengteng Information, are still in the stage of losing money.

"Yes."

Kong Lan said firmly, although the products of Shengteng Information are still in the stage of losing money, Kong Lan has completely seen the broad prospects of these three gadgets that Meng Zhe made casually!

Chinese, the starting point of the online novel reading business, has now exceeded 100,000 registered members, and the number of reading power IPs online at the same time during the peak period is about 10,000 people, and there are about 1,000 people during the low peak period!

hao123 is now the homepage of about ninety percent of the country's Internet computers, and netizens have become accustomed to navigating the web through this website to link to the websites they want to visit.

And the latest localized instant messaging software QQ is even more powerful,Although it has just completed the sinicization and opened the client to download not long after,The number of registered accounts has exceeded the 10,000 mark!

Kong Lan knows very well what is called snowball and what is called the Matthew effect...... When she said this, Kong Lan suddenly remembered another thing, so she asked Meng Zhe what she thought of: "Xiao Zhe, Uncle Song said that recently there have been letters from readers saying that the domestic football league is so popular now, and there are also comics of "Football Player" on the side of the book, but there are no football comics on our "Anime Boy" and "Anime Time", and even sports comics are rare...... Xiao Zhe: Do you have any football or sports comics on hand? ”

Before North Carolina poached Di Qiu, who serialized "The King of the Great Song Dynasty" on "The King of Comics", "The King of Comics" relied on this comic to maintain the sales of comic periodicals accounting for about 9% of the country.

Therefore, Kong Lan thinks that he should also get a sports comic in "Anime Boy", and there is no need for an anime boy to do the method of digging up the wall and hurting people, but this kind of way of squeezing the living space of the other party with similar comics like a ring is very necessary.

"Sports comics?"

Meng Zhe blinked, although he wanted to complain that "Chess Soul" and "Go Boy" were sports, although they took the elegant route...... However, the sports comics that take the team confrontation route ...... Meng Zhe also has goods in his stomach.

There's no way, who made Meng Zhe a reborn person?

The only question is just the number of sports comics that I have memorized in my head, and which one is better to draw.

Of course, there is no way to draw "Football Player", which has super long legs according to the proportions of the characters, but can't outrun the half-time big empty wing and others in several episodes of the cartoon, because people have been serialized since 80.

In junior high school, 50 girls said that they were rejected, but a hot-blooded fool with amazing talent on the basketball court can't be drawn.,Because people also started serializing it in the 90s on the weekly boy jump.。

"Flywheel Boy" can't be drawn, because it will definitely be said to be discordant...... "Initial D" is the same, drag racing or something will definitely be criticized by others, especially now there are more opponents like "Yanjing Cartoon" controlled by Tang Gexuan.

Hmm, that's how it works...... The ones that can be drawn are "The Prince of Tennis", "Iron Horse Boy", and "Lightspeed Sports Car No. 21".

So which of these parts is better?

Meng Zhe frowned slightly, and his appearance fell in Kong Lan's eyes, which was understood by Kong Lan as a painstaking conception of the story, so Kong Lan couldn't help but feel a little heartache in his heart.

If it weren't for my sister's inability to draw comics, I wouldn't have been able to think of those talented comic story ......themes that Xiao Zhe had conceived at all. With that, let's draw a "Prince of Tennis" first! ”

Just when Kong Lan was secretly thinking, Meng Zhe suddenly slapped his hand and grinned and made the final choice, the reason is very simple - if you draw "The Prince of Tennis", the degree of popularity and popularity should be higher than that of several other comics.

"The Prince of Tennis? But Xiao Zhe, those readers seem to want to read football? ”

Kong Lan really didn't expect that Meng Zhe would draw tennis-themed cartoons.

"It's because they want to watch football that I draw tennis! Sister Lan, you don't understand, I'm saving them from the sea of suffering......"

Hey, those readers are really, why don't you watch Chinese football? Is there anything more disturbing than Chinese football?

So, I'd love to see me draw football-themed comics!

Meng Zhe replied with a solemn expression, although his answer was completely irrelevant to his question in Kong Lan's opinion.

(To be continued)