Text Twenty-fifth, beauty comics
Because it is a capitalist system, it does not require much registered capital to open a company in Hong Kong, as long as you write the information, have an address, hand over the certificate, and have a license. It's much easier than setting up a company in the Celestial Empire and asking for this certificate or that.
However, if Lei Weidong wants to make achievements in the comics industry as soon as possible, it is necessary to have his own comic publishing house, after all, Lei Weidong is to be the boss and count the money in the back, not to be a cartoonist who is busy all day long for the meager manuscript fee, and stays up late as a whole, so that his body collapses.
Of course, Lei Weidong doesn't have that ability even if he wants to be a manga artist, although Lei Weidong has classic comic stories in his mind, such as "Dragon Ball", "Saint Seiya", "Yuyou Hakusho", "Naruto" and so on.
But Lei Weidong's level of painting is not even average, and it is useless to think about it and draw it, and Lei Weidong can't paint all day long, after all, he has too many things to do.
So to recruit some people with a good style of painting as the main creators, according to Lei Weidong's outline, it is the best choice to create these classic comics, and the current Hong Kong comics are very sluggish, because of the sweep. Huang, there are a large number of people who used to rely on comics to make a living, who are unemployed at home or have changed careers to other industries.
Even if these people's painting style is a bit old-fashioned, it can't meet Lei Weidong's requirements.
But Lei Weidong can use Huang Yulang's assembly line to draw comics, divide the comics into assembly operations, each step is handled by different people, and finally reviewed by Lei Weidong, so that if someone does not do it, it will have a bad impact on the comic club.
As for the clues to find the comic publishing house, Lei Weidong can completely ask Chen Haiming for help, they have been a newspaper for more than ten years, and they should have a good understanding of the development status of the comic industry in the past two years.
For Lei Weidong's request for help, Chen Haiming was very willing to help him, after all, Lei Weidong was also his own little boss, and it was appropriate to serve the boss, so it only took a few days to help Lei Weidong find a comic club that had gone out of business.
Beauty Comics Club is also well-known in the Hong Kong comics industry, because it has its own printing plant, so both the scale and the personnel are comparable to those small comic clubs, and now the famous Shangguan Xiaobao and others also interned in this comic club for a period of time when they first debuted.
The owner of the comic book club is surnamed Sun, a middle-aged man in his fifties, obese, who made a cottage in the fifties, that is, a home for fakes, and later withdrew because of fierce competition, because he saw that Japanese comics were selling very well in Hong Kong, and Boss Sun, who was born in a copycat, naturally paid attention to piracy.
After the establishment of the Beauty Comics Society, it was mainly based on pirated Japanese comics, as well as painting yellow comics, and also opened a printing factory, not only printing the comics of the Beauty Comics Club but also undertaking the business of other comic clubs.
However, the gun shot the first bird, in the 75 years of the Hong Kong government's campaign to rectify comics, the beauty comic club was the key target, so that the comic club suffered heavy losses, not only the printing house was shut down, but also was fined a huge amount of money, Boss Sun also squatted in the police station for a few days. After coming out, Boss Sun immediately closed the comic club.
Because he has been disappointed in the comic industry, plus he has been in prison for a few days, so now Boss Sun is bent on selling the printing house in his hand and then immigrating to Canada, so the printing house offers a very cheap price.
The headquarters of the Beauty Comics Club was originally on Hong Kong Island, but it was a rented house at that time, and the comic book club retreated after it closed down, and now only the printing factory remains, and the factory is located in Jingtian Village, New Territories, near Tseung Kwan O, although it is very remote, but the area is very large. For the factory in front of him, Lei Weidong fell in love at a glance.
The printing factory is located in the plain area, the road traffic is very good, and the car can be driven in, so it can be seen that Boss Sun is quite a visionary person.
Although the whole factory covers an area of about 100,000 square meters, the production workshop is only about 5,000 square meters, as well as staff dormitories and warehouses, even so, the factory is still more than half empty. The factory is not very far from the nearby village, it takes more than ten minutes to walk, but it is a little far to the city, and there is no special bus, which is somewhat inconvenient.
The current factory building and land were bought by Boss Sun a long time ago, and many of the machines in it are new and not used for a long time. Some of them have not been opened for almost two years. It is said that Boss Sun originally wanted to expand the factory and take advantage of the market to do a big job.
Who knew that bad luck came across the government's crackdown on the comic industry. Not only are the newly bought machines useless, but the original ones are all sitting there.
There are still a lot of materials in the factory's warehouse, which are also piled up there because of the recession in the manga industry. In the words of the boss, the most valuable thing in the factory now is the land, and if someone buys it, the machine will be given away. It's just that this place in the New Territories is too remote, and no one can buy it for a while.
Lei Weidong began to bow his head and ponder, if he could buy this factory now, he would make a lot of money. There is so much open space in the factory, it can be expanded, and when the time comes, another toy factory will be built next to it to cooperate with the comic company to produce comic peripheral products.
And it is close to Tseung Kwan O, after the 80s, the Hong Kong government vigorously developed the Tseung Kwan O area, not to mention anything else, TVB and other TV stations have moved here.
In the 80s, the factory was moved to the mainland, and then the surrounding soil was bought, and a film and television city could be built here.
You must know that this place is still remote, the land is not valuable, and the boss wants to immigrate again, so you can check a big bargain.
Boss Sun looked at the young man in front of him, thinking about things while looking at it, he didn't know who Lei Weidong was, because when Chen Haiming introduced him, he only said that there was a noble man surnamed Lei who wanted to buy his factory.
Now that "Xingchen Daily" is very popular, it must be either rich or expensive to be introduced by Chen Haiming.
"Boss Lei, how are you thinking about it?"
Because of the special dress, as well as the improvement of Lei Weidong's own temperament, even the well-informed Boss Sun didn't know that the young man in front of him was only fourteen years old, and in his eyes, although Lei Weidong was young, he also looked like he was seventeen or eighteen years old, but he didn't know which wealthy second generation it was.
"Boss Sun's environment here is good, but this place is too big, and the location is too remote, I can't use such a big place at all," although the price of this factory is already very low, Lei Weidong still wants to try to lower it again.
Hearing Lei Weidong say this, Boss Sun suddenly collapsed, and said in frustration and with a little crying:
"Boss Lei, my price is already very low, I already spent 6 million to buy this land, if it weren't for the fact that the comic industry is too sluggish now, I would want to leave Hong Kong. I won't sell him at all. β
"I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the machines in the factory, and there were many equipment that I didn't dismantle. The rest of the equipment is also semi-new, and although it hasn't been used for two years, I have maintained it very well.
Now I only need 6 million, that is, land money, and I will give the rest. So this price could not be lower. β
Listening to Boss Sun's words, Lei Weidong didn't know whether it was true or false, but when he saw Uncle Wu nodded, he knew that Uncle Wu also agreed to the price.
However, in doing business, you must not close the deal at whatever price the other party quotes.
"A fixed price! 5.5 million, if Mr. Sun agrees, he will sign the contract! Because he knew that the price was already very low, Lei Weidong didn't dare to kill too hard, but he just killed 500,000 yuan, after all, Lei Weidong was talking about business for the purpose of making a deal.
"5.5 million is too little, so I will lose 500,000 yuan in the land price alone, and I will lose even more in addition!" Boss Sun kept shaking his head and said.
"5.5 million is a lot!" ι·ε¨δΈ says:
"Although the price of land in Hong Kong is rising, but it is too remote here, I don't know when it rose here, Mr. Sun, are you willing to take a check of 5.5 million yuan to Canada to enjoy happiness, or are you willing to watch the land worth 6 million not be sold in Hong Kong stupidly.
As for those machines, if they could handle it, Mr. Sun must have dealt with it a long time ago, and it is estimated that it is worth the price of scrap iron now! β
"Yes! Just 500,000! Thinking of his family waiting for his reunion in Canada, Boss Sun gritted his teeth and agreed to Lei Weidong's conditions. But I'm asking for cash, and like you said, I'm going to Canada with a check for 550. β
"Then give me some time, I can only give you two million cash now, and the rest of the money needs to wait for my loan to come down!" Lei Weidong said.
"One week, I'll give you a week to raise money!" Boss Sun said.
"One week is too short, I need a month!" Lei Weidong responded.
"No, two weeks at most, otherwise I'd rather not do business!" Boss Sun said.
"Yes! But I ask to sign the contract first! Lei Weidong said.
"Yes!" Boss Sun agreed.
"Adong, where are you going to find these 3.5 million!" Watching Boss Sun leave, although he knew that Lei Weidong had a way to raise money, Uncle Wu still asked with concern.
"It's not 3.5 million, it's 1.5 million! Uncle Wu, you forgot that I have 4 million cash in my hand! Lei Weidong said:
"1.5 million is not a small number! And you have to have cash flow in your hands to do business! You must know that the printing industry is originally an industry with large cash flow! Wu Bo said.
"Just get a loan from the bank!" Lei Weidong thought for a while and said: "Uncle Wu, this matter is left to you, mortgage my shares in "Xingchen Daily" to the bank, and the amount cannot be less than 5 million!" The repayment period cannot be less than half a year, and as for the interest, you can press as much as you can. β
"That's all there is to it! I'll do it tomorrow! Wu Bo said.
The procedure for applying for a loan in a private bank is very simple, as long as you have enough collateral, the bank can get things done in one or two days, unlike mainland banks that take several days to get a mortgage, and it doesn't take two weeks, so Lei Weidong, who got the money in just three days, pulled Boss Sun to sign the contract.
The contract must be signed formally, and in order to prevent any unnecessary trouble in the future, the two found a law firm together and completed all the documents with the help of the lawyer.
Because Lei Weidong has not yet opened a company, it is much easier for this printing factory to transfer the relevant documents, but the land, plant and machinery are directly hung in Lei Weidong's name, and the drafting of the documents is very simple, and it is completed in less than an hour.
Seeing that Boss Sun was still reluctant to sign the letter, Lei Weidong was a little sympathetic to him. What was originally a thriving business collapsed because of a government policy.
Seeing him like this, Lei Weidong also reminded himself in his heart that he would definitely work hard in the future, he must recognize the situation clearly, and he must not get carried away just because he knows history.
"Boss Sun, can you help me gather the people from your previous publishing house, you also know that I have just started this business, I want to see how those people are, if so, I will stay!"
Lei Weidong had already thought about it last night, and it was a bit troublesome to recruit people, and he didn't know many people in Hong Kong, and the former workers of the publishing machine in the factory were all familiar with it, and it would save a lot of time to have a few old workers.
Let me ask, Boss Lei, you also know that my publishing house has been out of production for almost 2 years, and the old workers in the past don't know if they still do this business, and whether they have a stable job. Boss Sun said:
"But Boss Lei, my workers have been with me for several years, and they are all good, very diligent and not lazy. If it weren't for the fact that I really couldn't help it, I wouldn't have fired them. If they can come back, I will definitely help Boss Lei get them back. β
Although Boss Sun was still a little reluctant to give up his factory after signing, he thought that he could get 5.5 million Hong Kong dollars in cash, which was enough for himself and his family to live in Canada, so he was also very satisfied.