If the ghost Paul hadn't said that discriminatory sentence, Su Jingxian would definitely hire him immediately, although the salary could not be a sky-high price of eighty dollars, but it would definitely not be low.

Because during the conversation, Su Jingxian was sure that Paul, who had been in Gentleman magazine for ten years, did have real material, otherwise he would not have the patience to discuss with him in the motel for a long time, and he also acted in a clumsy drama to deceive him of his opinions on the magazine.

Of course, if he hadn't been attracted by Su Jingxian's favorable conditions as soon as he came up, Paul, the ghost guy who was busy looking for a family for just five dollars, would not have been easily fooled.

For the entire day, Mr. Su locked himself in his room at the Hilton Hotel, working with Zhong Qiang, a copy editor at the China Hong Kong Daily, to study a few copies he had received from Mr. Paul.

And in the room next to them, Deng Zhipeng finally got his wish and was feasting his eyes on taking photos of sexy models in the United States.

It's a pity that at this time, Marilyn Monroe has already gained a certain amount of fame by relying on last year's famous photos and can make a living by taking on movies, so when Su Jingxian asked Thompson to contact her at Fox, Monroe, who had already had one shooting experience, directly refused to take revealing photos again.

In desperation, Su Jingxian could only retreat and contact a new model to take pictures, but fortunately, with Monroe, a senior who became famous by taking off, it was not difficult to contact other young and beautiful ghost girls.

"Brother Qiang, I don't think the name of the golden cat is inappropriate, this magazine is for Americans, the name of the golden cat is the name of the ghost sister by Asians, and there are differences between cultures."

Pointing his finger at the column planning plan given by Qiang, Su Jingxian gave his opinion on the name of the column.

"Makes sense." Zhong Qiang leaned in to take a look, nodded thoughtfully, "Boss, you know English, why don't you come and give this column a name." ”

Su Jingxian thought about it, crossed out the three words of golden silk cat with the pen in his hand, and wrote a few foreign words for Honey baby.

"It's better to call it Sweetheart Baby, the introduction is still the same as what you wrote, and I'll translate it into English." Su Jingxian knocked on the board to make a decision.

They are now in the first edition of a research journal.

As in Hong Kong, if you want to get the first edition number of a public publication in the United States, the first thing is to take the first sample of the journal and submit it for review, and the second is to have a factory in the United States, and it needs to be notarized by a lawyer to prove that the owner belongs to the magazine company.

The second point is not difficult for Su Jingxian, who has a $100,000 promissory note, which is nothing more than setting up a shell company in the United States, which will still return to Hong Kong to print and distribute to the United States by mail.

For him, the most difficult thing at the moment is the first point, which is to produce a first draft of the magazine that can pass the review.

Since the ghost Paul, Thompson went out to contact several American magazine editors, and everything went smoothly, but when the other party heard that the owner of the magazine company was Chinese, most of them shook their heads at the last moment and refused.

So far, the founding of the entire magazine has been done by Su Jingxian and Zhong Qiang alone.

On the quartz desktop in front of him, there are seven or eight best-selling magazines in the United States, in addition to "Gentleman", there are also "Gentleman", "****", "Sunbathing" and other publications.

"I was reckless this time, and I can't estimate that it is much harder to be a magazine than a newspaper." Putting down the pen in his hand, Su Jingxian leaned back on the sofa, rubbed his eyebrows and opened his mouth to reflect.

If he had known that the situation caused by McCarthyism in the United States was even more serious than he imagined, Su Jingxian would have considered all the aspects that should be considered in Hong Kong in advance, at least let Thompson contact a few more American editors, or simply bring a few more people himself.

It's a pity that I'm in the United States now, and I can only blame myself for being a little overbearing.

This incident is a big lesson for Su Jingxian, and it is also the consequence of thinking that he saw the situation clearly and did not consider the details.

Hearing the boss's self-reproachful opening, Zhong Qiang looked at the paper in his hand, compared the basic best-selling magazine columns translated by Su Jingxian, and said with relief: "The main thing is the content, the content of a magazine is richer than that of a newspaper, and it naturally takes more time." But don't worry, boss, even if we don't have a ghost helper, we can do it with a little more time. ”

Su Jingxian lit a cigar, leaned back on the sofa and swallowed the clouds, and said after lifting his spirits: "Finally, there is a sample reference, plus the advice of the dead fat guy two days ago, how hard you have worked these days, I will give you private food when I go back to Hong Kong." ”

Zhong Qiang glanced up at Su Jingxian, although his face was full of exhaustion, he still smiled: "Okay, thank you boss." ”

A week later, Su Jingxian, the owner of China Hong Kong Daily, and Zhong Qiang, the text editor, finally walked out of the Hilton Hotel and saw the light of day.

With bound sample documents in hand, they led by Thompson to a printing house in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

Also sitting in the car was Deng Zhipeng, who changed from a journalist to a photographer for art.

Compared with Su Jingxian and Zhong Qiang's suffering in the room this week, Deng Zhipeng is undoubtedly the most relaxed, spending most of his time in Hilton's soft bed except for taking pictures and printing every day.

However, in Deng Zhipeng's words, his life is not easy, when taking pictures, those ghost sister models are accompanied by the agent of the agency, he can only watch but not eat, every time he takes a photo of the ghost girl, he has to change his pants, and he suffers.

After a long two-hour wait in a printing house in the suburbs, a staff member of the printing house finally came out, holding a brand-new magazine in his hand.

Playboy's first sample issue came out after a difficult time.

It is worth mentioning that although no photos of Marilyn Monroe were taken, Thompson helped Su Jingxian contact the calendar company where Monroe sold photos last year.

Su Jingxian, who got the news, did not hesitate, and the entire volume of photos that the calendar company bought from Monroe himself at a price of fifty US dollars was bought by him at ten times the price.

So now from the printing house, the cover of the first Playboy sample with a warm color is a full-body photo of Monroe with a jade body and a pillow in her arms to cover her sensitive position.

Turning to the title page of the magazine, there are a few lines of concise English introduction.

"We wanted to make it clear at the outset that this wasn't a lifestyle magazine. If you're someone's wife, sister, or female friend and you accidentally pick up this Playboy, hand it to the man in your family and read your Women's Guide to Staying Home......"

Aside from the only full-color photo of the model in the middle of the magazine, the rest of the magazine's pages are a hodgepodge of content from a variety of best-selling magazines, with columns on art, film, food, and gender issues, aiming to position the magazine as a light-hearted and entertaining publication.

Because the sample magazine was to be sent for review, Su Jingxian still made a certain deal on the full-color model fragrance ** film in the sweetheart baby column.

The method is as simple as covering the sensitive parts of the model with two band-aids during the shoot, and in fact there is no lack of exposure at all.

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"Mr. Su, now that you have made a sample journal, do you still need to recruit an American editor?"

Let Zhong Qiang and Deng Zhipeng stay at Hilton to wait, and on the way to the audit publication, Thompson drove Su Jingxian in a car, and a white lawyer was sitting in the car.

"There are still no editors in the United States, and the culture is different, and Asians can't make content that meets the preferences of Americans." With tiredness in his eyes, Su Jingxian continued with the sample issue submitted for review, "But now that the first issue of the magazine has been made, there is still plenty of time. ”

In terms of time, not to mention that Playboy is a monthly magazine, just say that even if the sample magazine that Su Jingxian is holding in his arms now passes the review, it will take at least two months to be released, which involves many aspects of registering a company, returning to Hong Kong for printing, and mailing and distribution, so if the review is passed, Su Jingxian will not worry about the distribution problem in a short time.

And now this sample journal Su Jingxian just took it to the review, and when it was released, many of the contents in it needed to be retouched, in the final analysis, this sample magazine was just a defective product made by him and Zhong Qiang in the room for a week, and the quality was very rough, even if there were tempting photos as a gimmick, Su Jingxian was not optimistic about it.

"In short, everything has to wait for the review first." Su Jingxian turned his face to look at the white lawyer beside him and asked in a loud voice, "Mr. Smith, in your experience, are there any problems with the censorship of this magazine?" ”

Smith, a white lawyer who had already read the sample issue of the magazine in advance, touched his chin, looked at Su Jingxian and said: "Of course there will be no problem with the content of the magazine, if it is an American to submit it for review, it will be passed soon." But in Mr. Su's capacity, combined with the current situation in China, I think it is best for you to get the nationality of a non-Asian country first and change to a new identity......"

"Mr. Smith, the $300 legal fees I paid you are not for you to talk nonsense, if you can't do it, I will change to a second lawyer." Su Jingxian rubbed his eyebrows, and without waiting for the white lawyer to finish speaking, he directly interrupted.

Seeing that Su Jingxian did not hesitate to reject his proposal, Smith shrugged his shoulders and muttered, "The advice I gave is the most suitable for you, who knows how those people from the censorship department will make it difficult for an Asian." ”

Su Jingxian ignored Smith's whispering, looked at the scenery outside the car window, and let out a long breath.

This trip to the United States can no longer be described as bad, there are still 20 days until the Spring Festival, and the original plan to return to Hong Kong in half a month is obviously impossible, but at least the other dishes must be cleaned up before the Spring Festival.