Chapter 48: The Beginning of Cooperation

Li Zhongxin and Hong Bin, the eldest son of the Hong family, hit it off, and they were ready to do a big job in Jiangcheng and do a chain of grocery trading.

Zhongxin company is responsible for site selection and opening of stores, responsible for the handling of business licenses, responsible for the decoration of stores and the production of shelves of uniform colors and styles of stores, in short, in addition to the supply and staffing management by Hong Bin management, the rest are responsible for Zhongxin company.

After reaching a cooperation agreement with Hong Bin, Hong Bin began to recruit troops through his connections, and two days later, he took the train sleeper entrusted by Zhongxin Company to go directly to the field to discuss all matters related to the purchase.

On the other hand, Zhongxin Company bought ten small storefronts in batches around various factories in Jiangcheng.

It is said that it is a façade house, but in fact, it is a very ordinary civilian residence, but these civilian houses are next to the gates of major factories.

During this period, there were almost no façade houses, and there was no concept of store house value.

There are only a few streets in the whole Jiangcheng, except for the state-run restaurants, department stores, and a few state-run department stores, at this time in '82, people in other neighborhoods don't have any sense that the façade is very valuable.

In addition to buying 10 small storefront houses, Li Zhongxin also rented a 600-square-meter one- and two-story building near the later commercial city as the flagship store of the Zhongxin grocery chain.

Li Zhongxin's idea is that either you don't do it, or you have to do it to become bigger and stronger at one time, as long as you open this chain of grocery supermarkets, there will definitely be money rolling in behind.

At this time, if it weren't for the fact that Li Zhongxin didn't have a lot of spare money left in his hands, and he didn't have time to make loans and other ways to raise money for the time being, he really wanted to buy this building of more than 600 square meters directly.

Hong Bin and Dong Guozhong didn't know, but Li Zhongxin knew that in the nineties, this place was the largest wholesale market in Jiangcheng, and the house had broken through the 2,000 yuan per square meter mark in the early nineties, making it one of the most expensive real estate in Jiangcheng.

The grocery supermarkets of the 80s were very different from the supermarkets of later generations, which were in sufficient supply and not easy to sell when they were sold.

In the 80s, grocery stores were stocked and sold, as long as you had the goods, as long as they were relatively cheap items that everyone could use, everyone would buy them.

After choosing the address of the store, it is simply cleaned up, and at this time, unlike later generations, it is that it wants to be renovated, and there is no person or thing to carry out complex decoration.

When it is said to be decoration, it is not to open up the purchased façade room to form a large enough space, and smash part of the façade room against the outside wall to turn it into a spacious large window, which can let people who pass by outside see the situation inside.

As for the shelves of the Zhongxin grocery chain, Li Zhongxin drew the pattern according to the shape of the shelves of the small supermarkets in later generations, and asked Wang Bo to take the drawings to the Jiaqi No. 1 Factory to make them.

The addition of the business license of the Zhongxin chain store was handled by Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau.

Li Zhongxin wanted to open a chain supermarket for Zhongxin food, and the demand for goods increased greatly, and a simple small place or a small warehouse could no longer meet the placement of these goods of Zhongxin Company, so Li Zhongxin decided to let Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu take the lead and grant him another piece of land at the junction of Zhubantun and Fulong Village to build a warehouse.

At the same time as approving land to build warehouses, Li Zhongxin began to ask Wang Bo and acquaintances from various related units to propose to recruit some people who would manage the warehouse and be responsible for writing and affixing price tags.

Both of these jobs are easy jobs, and you can basically do them as long as you graduate from elementary school.

The reason why he proposed recruitment among acquaintances is because Li Zhongxin knows that the person who does this kind of work must be a person who knows the roots, otherwise, if there is a prison guard stealing, or some other things, it will lose a lot.

In line with the principle that whoever introduced it is responsible, if there is a problem, the loss will be minimized.

The job of hiring and managing the warehouse and putting price tags is a very good job, and there is no wind and sun, and every day is to put labels in the warehouse and tidy up the warehouse.

No matter from any aspect, they can be reasonable with the people in the related units, and it can be regarded as Li Zhongxin taking this opportunity to let Wang Bo befriend the leaders of these related units, and if they are used for anything in the future, they will also help Zhongxin Company with courtesy and reciprocity.

The things that need to be handled by the faithful company are being promoted in an orderly manner.

After Li Zhongxin set the general direction and style, he acted as a good treasure at home according to what Li Shangyong said, and even began to walk without leaving the door, and in addition to accompanying his grandmother and grandfather at home, he began to paint some things with things bought by Wang Bo.

In the early 80s, when the RB comics industry was at its most prosperous, Li Zhongxin remembered in a trance that Detective Conan was a comic that only appeared after the 90s.

As a former art teacher for trade with Japan, Li Zhongxin is definitely the best choice to publish comics at RB at this time.

Before Li Zhongxin was reborn, he had been accompanying his daughter to watch detective Conan's mystery cartoons and comic books because he loved the house and Wu, and his impression of this comic can be said to have reached a certain level.

After Detective Conan appeared in later generations, due to the influence of Sherlock Holmes, it soon became a rising comic book in the RB comic industry.

That manga was created by RB's famous cartoonist Aoyama Gosho, and the biggest reason why Li Zhongxin remembered the name Aoyama Gomasa was that Aoyama Gomasa was homophonic, which sounded like Aoyama Anorectal Hospital.

When Li Zhongxin thought of this place, he made up his mind to create this manga "Detective Conan" before Aoyama Gosho created it.

Influenced by Sherlock Holmes, people in the 80s were very fond of writing about the detective genre, and if "Detective Conan" were to be released at this time, it would definitely bring him a lot of money.

The momentum of RB's development in recent years has been quite rapid, and the speed of development has faintly become the world's first, and it is such a time when RB people make the best money.

Li Zhongxin began to calm down, Wang Bo and Dong Zhiguo, fishing and decorating supermarkets, he began to ignore these things, and concentrated on creating "Detective Conan".

When school started two days ago, Li Zhongxin completed most of the character designs in "Detective Conan", and even completed the first three episodes of the comic story.

In the process of creation, Li Zhongxin did not fully adopt all the original content of Aoyama Gosho, but idealized Conan again according to the characters he had in mind, and the characters of several supporting characters in it have undergone great changes, but on the whole, they still follow the creation of Aoyama Gosho.

After the first three episodes of "Detective Conan" were drawn, Li Zhongxin immediately went to the post office and made a transatlantic call to Masako Mitsui, who was far away in RB.

Li Tadanobu told Masako Mitsui that he had created three episodes of manga in the recent past, and asked Masako Mitsui to help contribute to the two manga magazines, "Weekly Shonen" and "Monthly Shonen".

Li Zhongxin made it very clear to Masako Mitsui on the phone that his comic work would only sign a copyright transaction contract with the publication, and all other authorizations such as adaptation rights, character image rights, and peripheral items belonged to him, and had nothing to do with the magazine.

If his comics sell well in RB and the magazine is ready to promote the series, it needs to negotiate with Li Zhongxin, and after the magazine is successfully promoted, the magazine will take a commission from the transaction amount.

The bank account for the manuscript fee was also opened by Masako Mitsui in his name at RB, and once the manuscript fee was formed, the money was automatically transferred to his bank account.

Li Zhong is very confident that Masako Mitsui is the representative of Mitsui & Co. in China, and her energy in RB is also quite large, and there is absolutely no problem in entrusting her to do this.