At the beginning of 2008, Zhou Xiao's AZX once again made a commercial move of its own.

First, AZX acquired a publishing house.

Japan's publishing industry is very deep, and various publishing companies and even groups such as Shogakukan, Shueisha, Kodansha, and Kadokawa Shoten have built up a very large book publishing and distribution industry in Japan.

Because of the world's largest copyright system, the Japanese publishing industry is very profitable, and those authors make a lot of money.

But...... Zhou Xiao also knows very well that because of this, it is very difficult to enter this industry.

First of all, you must have capital, Zhou Xiao's AZX has some in this regard, but if you really want to devote yourself to competing with super publishing houses such as the Elementary School Museum, Zhou Xiao's hundreds of millions of dollars...... Probably a little worse.

In addition to capital, you must also have enough and good enough fiction resources.

If Zhou Xiao had been wearing it for a few years and knew all kinds of Japanese novels and books, and even comics, he might still have some chance to stand out in this aspect, and even support a publishing group on his own.

But...... It is really impossible for him to do this now, on the one hand, he has not much time to travel in, and on the other hand, he does not know much about various Japanese novels, and almost all of his knowledge of this aspect is limited to those works that have been "live-action".

So...... Why did Zhou Xiao do this?

First of all, the publishing house he acquired is not big, not to mention compared with those super publishing groups, even compared with those second-rate publishing houses in Japan, it is far inferior, the publishing house acquired by Zhou Xiao is a thoroughly third-rate company in the Japanese publishing industry, not only third-rate, but also has debts, so to speak. This company can hardly give AZX anything other than a relatively convenient distribution channel.

Like what...... Enough authors.

It was very difficult for this poorly run company to publish a book, and after a long time, almost all authors lost their expectations of this company and turned to other publishing companies, and when AZX accepted this company, the company only really signed two or three authors, and they were all the kind of authors who had published several works and hit the streets.

So, for AZX, the first thing to do when acquiring this company is to find what it really wants to publish.

In addition to Zhou Xiao and a few other decision-makers in the company. I almost can't think of what Zhou Xiao wants to publish, is it a photo album of signed photo actress Nana Ozaki? Or the various peripherals of the AKB48? Or is it Zhou Xiao's new novel and new work? I am looking forward to it for AZX.

Their expectations did not last long, and Zhou Xiao quickly gave an answer.

"AZX invested in Chinese mainland XX Chinese Network and bought the rights to publish and adapt the novel in Japan on its website!"

As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar within AZX, and most people's thoughts were...... What? Chinese Fiction ...... Sell it in Japan? Boss, this is in ...... Use money to make a fire and play......

This is the ...... How to say it.

Culture is actually very related to the economy, generally speaking, the culture of places with poor economies will always think more about places with good economies. This is also understandable. When the economy is good and the society is rich, people have time to develop culture.

Therefore, for decades, countries such as China and South Korea have always learned from Japan. Japan will never learn from these countries, and if it does, I am afraid it will only learn from the United States.

This is not to say that the culture of a place with a poor economy is poor, at least Chinese culture is compared to Japanese culture. Zhou Xiao doesn't think that Chinese culture is bad at all, and the benefits and advantages of China are actually just undiscovered yet.

Meddling in China's novel industry. Buying its rights in Japan is an idea of Zhou Xiao.

Chinese novels, especially those based on this Chinese network, are definitely a force to be reckoned with on the Internet, and interestingly, a question that many people are very fond of is, which is better than Japanese online novels?

This question...... It's hard to have an answer.

Light novels have the charm of light novels, and online novels also have the charm of online novels, and you can't say that online novels are not as good as light novels just because they are good-looking, and vice versa.

As for asking which is better and which is not good for Zhou Xiao, he can't say clearly, he is very familiar with online novels, but he doesn't know much about Japanese light novels, in his impression, there are only some stereotypes of "light novels are basically campus themes", it is precisely because of this that he is very cautious, in his opinion, anyone who likes light novels or online novels, light yì is not qualified to say who is better than whom in these two works, and only people who have read both and have a deep utilitarianism, Only then do they have the right to evaluate.

Although he doesn't have the right to say good or bad, Zhou Xiao is rich, so he used a more "simple" method for him, that is, to invest some money to translate some of the fine Chinese online novels to Japan, and let Japanese readers choose for themselves!

So, he did it, in the future, Chinese novels will be translated and published by Chinese who are familiar with Japanese and Japanese who are familiar with Chinese, for Chinese authors, this will bring them a lot of income, in Japan, writing and publishing is definitely super profitable, as for Zhou Xiao himself, he doesn't really care how much money he can make, he just wants to see what kind of results Chinese online novels can get in this land of Japan.

As for the final win or loss...... Because of the soil, Chinese novels are destined to be away battles in Japan, and in Zhou Xiao's view, as long as online novels can survive in Japan and accumulate even a small number of readers, it can be regarded as a great achievement.

Don't forget, when it comes to publishing and adaptation, the Japanese market is much more mature than China.

AZX's work is now only a part of the future layout, after doing it, it is expected to wait for several years before the initial results appear, and as Zhou Xiao, there is no need to take care of too many things in the commercial part of the company, anyway, these things are done by professional people in the company, he only needs to set the goals and general direction for the company's people.

On the outside, so to speak. Zhou Xiao has always been an artist, especially when the whole of Japan is eagerly awaiting the final Oscar ceremony.

At the beginning of February, Zhou Xiao took a special plane to the United States, and there were not many people on the special plane, except for him, there were only Ryoko Hirosue, Masahiro Kimoto, Yamazaki Nu and other three leading actors, as well as the camera of "The Undertaker" and other AZX staff.

Zhou Xiao's plane is a very large model among private jets, so even if it crosses the Pacific Ocean, there is no problem, and after a dozen hours of flight, he and the crew landed in Los Angeles, where Hollywood is located.

After arriving in Los Angeles and checking into the hotel. The group did not need to attend the Oscars right away, because there was plenty of time, and they came to the United States two days early.

As a great boss, Zhou Xiao pays attention to all kinds of benefits for the company's employees, and if he comes for a day or two early, there will be more opportunities for employees to play and shop.

As for Zhou Xiao, who had slept well on the plane, he first went shopping with Ryoko Hirosue in Los Angeles, which had already begun to usher in night, and then went to a high-end restaurant to have a good meal, and then, when they returned to the hotel, they rolled in bed for several hours. I finally fell asleep.

Ryoko Hirosue has just submitted a divorce application for her husband, and now, as a free person, she is trying to cater to Zhou Xiao after she has no psychological burden, so that she can have a good experience of the beauty of a woman of his age.

Zhou Xiao and Ryoko Hirosue, who woke up, were not idle, and after they went out, they went directly to a stadium called Staples to watch a Los Angeles Lakers game.

Zhou Xiao is a pseudo-fan. In fact, he has had many opportunities to go to the United States before, but he rarely shows up on the court to watch the game, but this time he came.

At the beginning of February 2008, Pau Gasol had just joined. The addition of this will bring the Lakers two championships and a division championship in the future, so to speak, on his own. It made the entire Lakers team have been reborn, and it is also for this reason that Zhou Xiao will come to watch the game, if it was the previous Lakers team, he would not be too lazy to watch the abuse.

And Zhou Xiao's appearance was also caught by the broadcaster in Los Angeles, in fact, the broadcaster in Los Angeles did not pay much attention to Zhou Xiao and Ryoko Hirosue beside him, after all, these two faces are not so particularly famous in the United States, but the point is that Zhou Xiao met another Chinese after arriving at the stadium, this Chinese is not a household name in the United States, it can also be said that he has this great fame, and the act of greeting this directly made the TV station notice him and specially overtook a look, Only then did it confirm who this young and handsome young man was.

And the Chinese who Zhou Xiao greeted was so famous in the United States, and naturally ...... Jackie Chan is a big brother.

Jackie Chan was also very popular in Japan back then, so even if Zhou Xiao showed some proper worship, there was no problem, in fact, Zhou Xiao did admire this big brother, and his desperate attitude towards filming was extremely admirable.

Of course, Jackie Chan would not fail to know Zhou Xiao, and when he heard that he was here to participate in the Oscars, he encouraged him very much.

And Zhou Xiao also took advantage of the situation to invite Jackie Chan: "In the future, my Japanese drama or movie, if you want to invite your eldest brother to make a cameo, is it okay?" ”

"A cameo? All right? But on the other hand, you also have to make a cameo appearance in my movie. Jackie Chan said.

Zhou Xiao's invitation to Jackie Chan seems to be purely because of his liking for Jackie Chan, because Zhou Xiao's Japanese dramas don't need to win over Chinese audiences, let alone Japanese dramas, even movies, Zhou Xiao doesn't need Chinese actors to make cameos.

But if Zhou Xiao participates in Jackie Chan's movie for a cameo, there will definitely be a big improvement in the box office of his movie in Japan, Jackie Chan has not paid attention to the Japanese market for a long time, even if he is such an old superstar, Zhou Xiao's appeal is still much higher than him, let alone Jackie Chan, even if Stephen Chow, who is far less famous in Japan than him, has made great progress at the box office in Japan after recruiting Zhou Xiao for a cameo.

After Zhou Xiao chatted with Jackie Chan for a few words, he also introduced Ryoko Hirosue to him by the way, and Ryoko Hirosue also knew Jackie Chan by the way.

"Cheng Sang, if you can, you must ask me to make a movie." Ryoko Hirosue said that someone as familiar as Zhou Xiao would directly call him "big brother", and Ryoko Hirosue is quite rare to be called this kind of name.

"Okay, no problem, if there is a suitable role, I will definitely ask you to play it." He said.

Jackie Chan agreed to Ryoko Hirosue's request, and there is a big difference between Zhou Xiao's mutual invitation, the former is more polite, and the latter is sincere. But this kind of thing, naturally no one will say much outside.

So the three of them sat separately on the sidelines of the court and began to watch the game.

Zhou Xiao took Ryoko Hirosue to the basketball court in Los Angeles to watch the game, which was also reported by the Japanese media, especially several well-informed TV stations have also distributed pictures of Zhou Xiao chatting with Jackie Chan and chatting and laughing with Ryoko Hirosue on the sidelines. Regarding the fact that Zhou Xiao took Ryoko Hirosue to watch the game...... The Japanese media's table xiàn doesn't particularly care, neither does it feel that Zhou Xiao is announcing something, nor does it feel that Zhou Xiao and Ryoko Hirosue really have anything to do, it's very simple, if you are a billionaire like Zhou Xiao and want to go to Los Angeles Stadium to watch the game, you have three choices in front of you. Ryoko Hirosue, Takeshi Yamazaki, and Masahiro Kimoto, who will you take to see?

I'm afraid that if it's a man, I'll choose Ryoko Hirosue, right?

After watching a ball game, nearly a day and a night passed, and Zhou Xiao took Ryoko Hirosue and a few others to the Kodak Theater, where the Oscars were held, to fight for another Oscar in his life.

This year's Oscars can be described as twists and turns, the screenwriters' strike that affected the Golden Globe Awards finally ended before the Oscars began, and the 10-day preparation period made the entire awards ceremony a lot less planning links, whether compared with the front or the back, this Oscars will be quite dull.

And for Zhou Xiao. In the previous "JURI", Zhou Xiao won a Best Original Screenplay, but this time, the Script Award could no longer satisfy him. His goal is to win the Best Exterior Chinese Film.

Competing with him for this honor is the "Pseudo. The Money Maker", which is an Austrian film.

I want to ask Zhou Xiao if he has confidence. He still has some confidence, and the fact that "The Undertaker" won an Oscar in his previous life is enough to prove that this movie is a very good movie, you must know that this is a Japanese movie. Japanese movies or something, such as Akira Kurosawa Kitano Takeshi and others are indeed very powerful, but they did not win the Oscar, after these two, Japanese films also began to sell more teams instead of striving for international recognition, so Zhou Xiao estimates that the original European and American film critics will not know much about modern Japanese films.

In this case, the fact that "The Undertaker" can still stand out from it is enough to prove its charm.

With this, coupled with the Japanese government's unsparing publicity and diplomacy, it can be said that the film still has a great chance of winning the final goal award.

But to say 100% confidence, even Zhou Xiao can't have it, winning the award also requires luck, Zhou Xiao and his AZX, before the award voting, only did ordinary work, and did not make too much effort in competing for votes, so he can't guarantee that he will definitely get the award this time, all he does is work hard to make a good show, and then resign himself to fate.

Pulling Ryoko Hirosue down the red carpet, because it was raining lightly, he even prepared an umbrella for the woman next to him, Zhou Xiao's appearance only caused a small number of Asian fans to scream, which is already quite good, the last time he came here, almost everyone who saw him had only one thought: "Who is this young man?" Where did the model or the staff come from? "Hardly anyone could have imagined that he would be able to take a little golden man back.

This time, the number of people who know him has improved dramatically, but it is impossible to compare with the huge cheers when European and American stars come out.

Even if it is more eye-catching, I am afraid that Zhou Xiao can't compare to Ryoko Hirosue beside him.

What this woman is wearing today is an evening dress specially designed for her by a European designer, the well-fitting evening dress is just right integrated into the kimono style, and then handed over to Ryoko Hirosue, a woman who is just the right age, can exude a mature temperament, and has a good face to wear out, Zhou Xiao heard a lot of gasps along the way, not to mention ordinary people, even when Zhou Xiao and the two of them just arrived at the scene in the car prepared by the organizer, Zhou Xiao noticed that the driver in front of the car glanced at Ryoko Hirosue a few times, No way, this woman, tonight is indeed too beautiful.

Walking across the red carpet to the Kodak Theater, before entering the venue, they were pulled by the emcee and the host on the outfield to ask a few questions, and after a few polite words, Zhou Xiao and the others finally walked into the theater.

"That's amazing!" Ryoko Hirosue said, looking at the furnishings in the theater.

"It's amazing, it's rare for Japan to have something like this that brings together all the cultures of the world." Zhou Xiao said.

"yes, but thank you for bringing me here." Ryoko Hirosue said.

"I just want to thank you, if it wasn't for your performance with everyone, I wouldn't be here." Zhou Xiao said while carrying Ryoko Hirosue and walking towards the award ceremony under the guidance of the staff.

After the two entered the venue, they quickly found their seats, and before them, the rest of the crew had already arrived, seeing Zhou Xiao and the others coming, everyone stood up and greeted the two, to be honest, when Zhou Xiao was not there, these people were still a little apprehensive in their hearts. (To be continued......)