Lei Weidong was joking half-meat and half-vegetarian with a few girls, which made Wen Bixuan and Zhong Chuyu laugh constantly, and suddenly found that Ma Rongcheng led two people over with wine glasses, and one of them raised his glass and smiled at Lei Weidong:

"Xiaomi had such a great success last year, and I am here to congratulate Lei Shao.

"You are!" Lei Weidong looked at the two people he didn't know and said hello to him, so he asked Ma Rongcheng.

Without waiting for Ma Rongcheng to speak, Shangguan Xiaobao and Shangguan Xiaowei handed over two pieces and said, "The contemptible person is Shangguan Xiaobao, this is my younger brother Shangguan Xiaowei." ”

Lei Weidong looked at the business card and found that it was indeed Shangguan Xiaobao and Shangguan Xiaowei, the authors of the comic Li Xiaolong, and hurriedly said politely: "Welcome to the two seniors in the comic industry, I didn't expect the two of them to come to participate in the celebration of Xiaomi!" ”

Shangguan Xiaobao smiled: "Don't say that, we're here to beg Lei Shao to give you a bowl of rice." ”

Shangguan Xiaowei is also one of the managers of the comic club, and he patted his mouth and said: "That is, now Lei Shao's Xiaomi Comics Company almost dominates the Hong Kong comics rivers and lakes, and our brothers are here to beg for food." ”

The four of them gradually came to a corner, found two sofas and sat down to talk.

As soon as he sat down, Shangguan Xiaobao said that he and his brothers wanted to join Xiaomi Comics.

Hearing that Shangguan Xiaobao was going to join Xiaomi Comics, Lei Weidong was very surprised.

Shangguan Xiaobao can be said to be a legend in the Hong Kong comic industry, and the comic "Bruce Lee" created by him is the longest-lived comic in Hong Kong, with a published issue of 1560 issues and serialized for nearly 40 years.

is different from the comic tycoon Huang Yulang, Shangguan Xiaobao is more capable of taking apprentices, Huang Weizhao, Huang Guoxing, Niu Lao and Zhao Rude are all from his disciples.

Among the apprentices, there are many young generals who will become popular in the future, such as Ma Rongcheng, Niu Lao, Xie Zhirong, Feng Zhiming, Zhao Rude, Li Zhiqing, etc., who are the mainstays of the Hong Kong comic industry in the 80s and 90s.

It's a pity that most of his apprentices are clutches, coming and going.

This also shows that Shangguan Xiaobao has no talent in comic business, it can be said that Shangguan Xiaobao is just a comic genius, not a wizard in the business world, and compared with Huang Yulang in this regard, it is really too different.

However, Lei Weidong now needs a cartoonist like Shangguan Xiaobao to join, if Shangguan Xiaobao joins, with Lei Weidong's own creativity and capital, it is not impossible to completely defeat Huang Yulang and dominate the Hong Kong comics market.

Of course, Lei Weidong should also be careful that Shangguan Xiaobao went it alone, in parallel time and space, Huang Yulang won over Shangguan Xiaobao on November 1, 1981 to merge and dominate the Hong Kong comics market.

In the days of "Yulang Group", Shangguan Xiaobao's strength was fully exerted, and "Bruce Lee" of that era was also very exciting.

It's just that Shangguan Xiaobao was unwilling to work for others, so he took the initiative to leave after the contract expired, and founded "82 Painting Society" with the support of the publisher "Tongde Book and Newspaper" and the printer "Yousheng Printing Company";

Later, he even recruited Niu Lao to join and revitalize the "82 Painting Society".

In the mid-80s, Hong Kong comics changed from being divided into three parts of the world.

Huang Yulang, Shangguan Xiaobao and Shangguan Xiaowei each occupied one side, but at the end of the eighties, capable people went their own way, and the three parts of the world also came to naught.

Moreover, in the 90s, the Hong Kong comics market was also dominated by Japanese comics.

The main reason why Hong Kong comics are losing is because Hong Kong comics are mainly old-fashioned kung fu comics, and the amount of money has not changed, and many comics are too long, such as Shangguan Xiaobao's "Bruce Lee" and Huang Yulang's "Dragon and Tiger Gate", which were sold to Malaysia and Singapore at their peak.

It's a pity that due to the creation time of more than ten years, the story of the two comics is stinky and long, and it has not changed much from the first issue to the last issue, which makes overseas readers become fewer and fewer, and finally overseas publishing houses no longer help to distribute and publish.

Of course, there are also cartoonists who have made certain innovations, such as in the 90s, Shangguan Xiaobao's son Kuang Shijie inherited his father's style and took advantage of the opportunity of "The King of Fighters" to launch the "King of Fighters 96" comics.

With the name of the game, after making a lot of money, "The King of Fighters 97" and "The King of Fighters 98" were launched one after another.

In 2000, Shangguan Xiaobao's "New Editor Bruce Lee" and Kwong Shijie's "Knife Killing God" still occupied a place in the comic market.

The tiger father has no dog son, and the Kuang father and son are indeed rare father-son soldiers in the comic industry

But I'll talk about it later.,Anyway, in reality, the manga industry is like this.,No publisher can dominate the world.,Even the manga kingdom of Japan.。

In the 70s and 80s, the Japanese manga industry was divided into Shogakukan, Shueisha, and Shiraizuma, although a few decades later the three manga companies merged together to form a Hitotsubashi Publishing Group.

But there are also competitors like Kadokawa Shoten, which have been competing with it.

"How does Mr. Kwong want to join Xiaomi Comics!" Lei Weidong decided to put the villain first and then the gentleman, and then find out Shangguan Xiaobao's hole cards.

"I want to merge our comic company into Xiaomi Comics and exchange our current comic rights for shares in Mi Comics!" Shangguan Xiaobao tried to say what he was going to do.

"Just kidding!" Lei Weidong refused without thinking about it.

Is there any mistake, Shangguan Xiaobao's proposal is not sincere at all, although the swap of shares is very common in corporate acquisition wars, but it also depends on what company acquires what company.

What is the current value of Shangguan Xiaobao's comic company, those broken machines are not worth a few dollars, the most valuable is the current famous "Bruce Lee" series of comics, and some other comics.

However, for Lei Weidong, who controls countless classic comics in his hands, these comics are simply chicken ribs. It doesn't make much of a difference.

And even Bruce Lee's comic is not well-known in later generations, which is far worse than the two comics of Chinese Heroes and Fengyun adapted into movies.

"Now the annual profit of Xiaomi Comics has long exceeded hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, if the profit calculation of Xiaomi Comics is at least worth more than one billion Hong Kong dollars, compared to Shangguan Xiaobao's comic company valuation of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

How can such a big gap be exchanged for shares, not to mention that Xiaomi Comics Company is not short of money now, and it is unwilling to sell shares to the outside world.

Ma Rongcheng explained next to him: In fact, Ma Rongcheng also wants to own the shares of Xiaomi Comics, after all, employees who don't want to be bosses are not good employees, but Ma Rongcheng knows that this is impossible, at least Lei Weidong will not consider diluting shares in the near future.

"So, what does Lei Shao mean?" For Lei Weidong's refusal, Shangguan Xiaobao was not surprised, with the current profitability of Xiaomi Comics, Lei Weidong does not need external financing at all, let alone sell his shares.

"It's very simple, I took out a sum of money to directly buy Mr. Kuang's company, and as for the two gentlemen, they can first go to Xiaomi Comics Company as the editor-in-chief in charge of a comic, and the treatment is all in accordance with the company's process!"

"Lei Shao, how much can you pay?" Shangguan Xiaobao asked.

"500,000, buy the comic copyright in Mr. Kuang's hand!"

A local tyrant is a local tyrant, Lei Weidong is not bad for money, which makes Shangguan Xiaobao speechless, and the price of 500,000 yuan can be said to have greatly exceeded Shangguan Xiaobao's bottom line.

You must know that in Hong Kong, except for famous novels, general comic copyrights are not worth anything at all, after all, the era of comics changing movies and television has not yet arrived.

"Lei Shao, you let Brother Shangguan be in charge of a comic, is there a new comic?" Because Shangguan Xiaobao had instructed Ma Rongcheng and was his master, Ma Rongcheng respected Shangguan Xiaobao very much.

"Of course, there are new manga, and although "Drawing King" is selling very well now, I have always felt that the content of "Painting King" is still too thin, and it is still far from the content of those manga magazines in Japan.

So I've been thinking about new comics, and now I've almost conceived a few comics, and since the two Mr. Kwong have joined our company, let's ask the two Mr. Kwong to be the editor-in-chief of a comic! ”

When he saw Shangguan Xiaobao, Lei Weidong remembered that a comic is very suitable for Shangguan Xiaobao's painting style, although it can't be as popular as the Beidou God Fist, but it is still popular in the Chinese region of Southeast Asia.

"Lei Shao is a famous talent in the comics industry, and the comics you conceived will definitely be very popular!" Shangguan Xiaobao quietly patted Lei Weidong's ass.

"It's over, Mr. Kwong should listen to the story outline first.