Sun Renchao is the founder of Clement Card Company, he came to the United States for four or six years, starting from a small workshop, which lasted decades to have the current situation, and now he wants to sell his life's work to Jester, and his heart is naturally extremely reluctant.

In the past two days, I took Jester to turn around the entire company, the factories attached to the company and other places, looking at the saplings planted at the beginning of the company, which have now grown into towering trees, but now they want to give up their own foundation, although it is a decision that has been made a long time ago, but Sun Renchao is still difficult to say.

Therefore, the contract was delayed until the last minute of the symposium with the mainland.

Jester, who has been a little annoyed with the other party in the past two days, also warned the other party with some dissatisfaction, either to sign a contract or to break up.

So, despite being extremely unbearable, Sun Renchao agreed to sign the contract.

"Xiaojie, I am also your elder, you sue me for a word, what are you going to buy this card factory for?" Sun Renchao stroked the trunk of a tree he planted with his own hands in the factory, and after being silent for a long time, he asked Jester a question.

Jester hesitated for a moment before he spoke: "It's also printed cards, I can't say specifically, but it's not playing cards, it's a card game I just conceived." ”

Hearing Jester's reply, a smile appeared on Sun Renchao's old face, he nodded, and said in a grateful tone: "It's good if you don't tear this down, I've done such a little thing in my life, if it weren't for my son, I wouldn't have sold my life's work anyway." ”

Jester didn't answer, Sun Renchao just said to himself, "After finishing these chores this time, I decided to go back to the mainland to settle down......"

Actually, Jester didn't finish his sentence, he planned to continue making cards, but he didn't say that he wouldn't tear down the card factory.

In the end, Jester reached an agreement with Sun Renchao in the name of Fengxing Game Publishing Company to complete the acquisition, and acquired all the shares of Clement Card Company for a total of $4 million.

The company's employees are still very sensitive to changing bosses, after all, this company was made big by Sun Renchao bit by bit.

Moreover, now the company's employees are also excited, after all, it has been suspended for half a month, and several best-selling playing cards in the factory have been sold before, and the vast majority of people are not optimistic about the new boss, and they all think that it is just the previous boss who has found a backpot.

So there are many signs that employees are planning to leave their jobs en masse.

This kind of situation is what Jester does not want to see, the biggest reason why he is willing to buy Clement Card Company is that they have sales channels covering the entire West and the United States, and even the East of the United States, but the sales channels of FMCG products such as card companies are precisely in the hands of salesmen, and if a large number of salesmen leave, even if this channel cannot be broken, it will be greatly damaged.

Fortunately, the majority of Chinese employees in Clement's company are Chinese, and the main sales channels are also run out of these Chinese employees with Sun Renchao, and the Chinese are also more nostalgic, after some white and black employees have submitted a request to resign, these people are just waiting to see what the new boss will do.

In fact, printing cards is a very unskilled industry, and how much can be sold depends on the skills of salesmen, so these people also feel that if the new boss plans to continue making cards, they must also be reused.

Besides, to be honest, it is really difficult for Chinese to find a job in the United States now, and most of them still go to work in Chinese companies through the Chinese Federation, and it is difficult to find a job that is commensurate with the current situation.

Jester didn't want to see these skilled salesmen leave, especially those who had achieved remarkable results before, so he immediately announced that Clement would continue to do card business in the future, but it was no longer the same kind of playing cards as before, but a new original card game that had never appeared on the market.

As for what type of card game it is, and the reason for the hesitation to design it to secrecy, Jester did not say explicitly.

Since the design of the card has not yet begun, it is not possible to start work immediately, but Jester also assures that within a month, it will definitely start work normally, and during the month of the shutdown, the salary will be paid.

In fact, Jester said this is also nonsense, a large part of the printing workers are white and black, these people do not have as many concerns as the Chinese, when Clement Company stopped production, a large part of them resigned, but because Sun Renchao at that time was really unable to settle the wages of these people, he gave up.

This time, as soon as these people saw that they had a substitute for the dead, they immediately continued to ask for resignation, and Jester did not care much about the resignation of these front-line workers, and those who wanted to resign, whether they were whites, blacks or Chinese, he approved them all, and compensated wages and unemployment benefits in full, and in his thoughts, he did not even plan to open the printing factory for a long time.

In his vision for the future, Clement America will only be responsible for the design and sales of cards, and move low-tech manufacturing to places with relatively low labor costs, such as the continent that is now being reopened.

Now the labor cost in the United States is too high, and a person's monthly salary can hire workers in a workshop when he gets to the mainland.

And the quality of the production will not be worse than that of the United States.

With such a comparison of labor costs, who wants to engage in manufacturing in the United States?

Qin Duanyu is the only remaining artist of Clement Solitaire, and the rest have also resigned earlier.

He is not Chinese, but an overseas Chinese.

He lived in a cowshed during the ten years of the catastrophe, traveled through the streets with an iron hat, was once a student of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and learned figure painting with a famous teacher when he was a child, and studied oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

After coming to the United States, he studied for two years at the New York University Dishi School of Fine Arts, and was very good at painting figures from both the East and the West, and did not want to return to the backward continent after seeing the prosperity of the United States, so he would rather be a black household in some squares to illustrate tourists, earn a little barely subsistence dollars, and live a life that is not as good as pigs and dogs, but even so he is not willing to return to China to be a respected professor in China that his school has promised him.

Originally, his life may have gone on like this, until he was deported by the immigration department for illegal detention when he could no longer continue, but it was time to operate.

Two years ago, Sun Renchao inadvertently met Qin Duanyu who was painting for people, in his early years, he was also born in a scholarly family, and also saw that Qin Duanyu's painting attainments were extraordinary, and it happened that his own company lacked a painter, after learning about Qin Duanyu's experience, he helped him solve the problem of identity and gave him a job.

Therefore, Qin Duanyu was extremely grateful to Sun Renchao, even when Clement Card Company was in the most crisis, he did not have the idea of leaving.

In the past few years, the sales of his illustrated playing cards have been good, and he has also gained a little reputation in the industry, so this time Clement planned to sell before several similar manufacturers came to him, hoping that he could pass, but Qin Duanyu refused.

Jester didn't believe his eyes when he saw Qin Duanyu, he knew from Sun Renchao's mouth that this very talented painter was only thirty-seven years old, but looking at his already white temples and deep-set eyes, if he didn't know his exact age, then Jester would definitely think that the other party was in his fifties.

"I love your character illustrations."

Jester holds a stack of drawing paper in his hand, on which are portraits of people, all of whom are celebrities during the American Civil War, and each of them has their own characteristics, different styles, and there is no trace of similarity.

Qin Duanyu just smiled and didn't say anything, but a trace of pride flashed in his eyes, this was indeed a work he was proud of, after all, his work had made a lot of money for Clement Company, and it was once one of the company's flagship products.

Jester didn't care either, he took out a manuscript paper that he had written a long time ago, which was full of names, all of them from ancient Europe, and handed this manuscript paper to Qin Duanyu, Jester said with a smile: "Take a look at these people, do you know them?" ”

Qin Duanyu took the manuscript paper with some curiosity, looked at the content on it, and after a while, his eyebrows furrowed, and he read the first name on this manuscript paper to the last name, and then he took a deep breath and put the manuscript paper back on the table.

Then he shook his head and said: "I can only say that I know most of them, I was very interested in European history when I was at New York University, I studied the history of Charlemagne's time, and I also got a degree, these seem to be celebrities at that time, and some only exist in legends and stories, but there are very few historical materials in Europe during that period, and there are even fewer names left, so I have never heard of it, I think it may be apocryphal." ”

Jester showed a satisfied smile after hearing his reply, and he no longer said too much nonsense, but said directly: "I want you to draw illustrations of these people's characters, for ordinary people who are familiar with them, to draw them in line with their image in the minds of ordinary people, for those who are apocryphal, only zài in the story, you can play as you like, but it must be designed with characteristics, not the same." ”

Seeing Qin Duanyu nodded, and after simply saying that there was no problem, Jester was relieved.

From the poker illustration with the theme of the Civil War, he saw that Qin Duanyu did have a very high talent in designing character images, so he wanted to give him this job on a whim, originally he wanted to hand over the task of character illustration to those artists of Mars Entertainment.

However, thinking of the heavy tasks of Mars Entertainment in the recent period, he casually asked Sun Renchao what the level of the original painters in Sun Renchao's company was.

Unexpectedly, Sun Renchao said to Jester with a little pride: "I am also a scholar, I also studied Danqing when I was a child, and a painter named Qin Duanyu from China in my company has a very high level, in my eyes, at least I am a character of my own." ”

Then he sighed and said, "If it were in the past, a painter of his level would definitely be a generation of famous artists." ”

It was with Sun Renchao's praise that this aroused Jester's curiosity, he first found out the original illustration manuscript drawn by Qin Duanyu before, and immediately felt that the other party was a rare talent at a glance, so he had the previous question.

However, Jester was very short of time, and he hoped that within a month, the first version of the card game he designed, which he named "World Storm", would be officially released, so he asked Qin Duanyu how long it would take to complete the drawing of the character image.

"Three months." Qin Duanyu was very sparse, and in the face of Jester's question, he still answered as simply as before.

Jester also knew that it would be time-consuming to complete these dozens of various characters, but he still continued to ask without giving up: "Can't it be faster?" For example, a month? ”

"Huh." When Qin Duanyu heard Jester's words, he glanced at him in surprise, then chuckled lightly, and replied simply, "Sir, do you think that painting is steamed steamed buns that can be steamed in one pot at a time?" ”

Seeing the disappointed look on Jester's face, Qin Duanyu also frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "If Mr. can match me with a few suitable assistants, it is not impossible to complete it within a month......

"What!" This time, Jester's face showed an extremely surprised look, and he asked a little incredulously, "Could it be that Mr. Qin said before that it will be completed by one person in three months?" ”

"Yes." Qin Duanyu still just nodded.

Within three months, one person completed dozens of characters with different styles, including men and women, and Jester was a little incredulous.

He himself has done the original painting setting of the game, especially the character image, a painter is always inevitably influenced by his previous works, especially the characters, so many painters draw character images, although the appearance is different, but in fact, you can still see many similarities from the details, which in the eyes of many people are placed under the sun, can not be hidden.

However, Jester thought of the illustration of the characters on the poker that he had just carefully seen, and each character had its own characteristics, even at the level of his half-baked painter, it seemed that each character was created separately, and there was no similarity between each character.

Just this ability, this painter named Qin Duanyu is worthy of Sun Renchao's evaluation of his generation of famous artists.

Therefore, Jester no longer doubted, but asked directly: "Is the assistant you want easy to find, Mr. Qin?" ”

"Easy to find."

Qin Duanyu nodded, but after he finished speaking, he couldn't help but show a wry smile on his face.

"Mr. Li, in fact, there are many painters like me who came to the United States from the mainland to study, and don't want to go back after studying, but these people's luck is not as good as mine, and they can get the help of noble people and get a job that they are satisfied with, and most of them, like me a few years ago, have to go to restaurants to work in the dark or go to some crowded places to paint people in exchange for some barely living pay, these people are all first-class painters in China, and their level is not worse than mine. I didn't expect to come here, but I could only do these unacceptable jobs. ”

Jester nodded, he had heard of these things even in his previous life.

America at this time is both heaven and hell.

But this is not in his charge, it is the willingness of these people to stay in the United States to live a life of pigs and dogs, he just said simply: "Then Mr. Qin just go and find it, their treatment will be according to the treatment of the previous Clement company painters, I only ask to see the illustration of this character within a month." ”

Qin Duanyu nodded, and just said four words simply.

"No problem."

PS: It was not easy to get on the writers' section......