Rebirth: The Era of Hong Kong Tycoon

Chapter 170 [Seven Dragon Balls]

Modern Publishing House is currently publishing three manga magazines at the same time, among which "Modern Manke" is a weekly local manga magazine, "Dragon Tiger Gate" is a comic strip, and then released a weekly Japanese manga magazine "Zhiyin Manke" in July.

The main writers of "Miyin Manke" are all manga artists hired from Japan with high salaries. The main serialized manga is "Dragon Ball", and there are some Japanese manga stories in the rest.

At present, "Miyin Manke" has issued 10 issues, and the sales volume of each issue is only about 1.5 copies. It can be said that it is in a state of serious losses; however, Modern Publishing House is a wholly-owned company of Lin Rongheng. There is no problem.

Lin Rongheng was sitting in the office of Modern Publishing House, holding the tenth issue of "Miyin Manke" in his hand. After reading it, he said to Zhang Cheng, the president of Modern Publishing House: "No problem! "Dragon Ball" itself is for overseas distribution. Yes, you don't have to worry, even if I lose 1000 million Hong Kong dollars because of this comic, I won't be unhappy at all!"

The outline of "Dragon Ball" was provided by Lin Rongheng, and the characters of "Dragon Ball" were confirmed by Lin Rongheng, so Lin Rongheng had no doubts about the future of this comic.

The reason why Hong Kong's sales volume is only 1.5 copies is not because Hong Kong manga fans can't accept Japanese manga. After all, Japanese manga has surpassed local manga in recent years; the reason for the poor sales is because Dragon Ball itself started to explode from the second volume. Yes, the Martial Arts Tournament in Volume [-] was even more explosive.

Zhang Cheng thought in his heart that the boss was just a "willful" manga fan, and as a rich man worth billions of Hong Kong dollars, there was no problem in spending tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars for his dream.

The reason why the Japanese manga weekly "Miyin Manke" is losing money is because the entire creative team is poached from Hong Kong from Japan, and the salary is more than 1.5 times higher than that in Japan; and the entire team has a full 15 manga artists , 5 of which have at least the strength of the main writer.

Zhang Cheng knew the seriousness of the matter, so he said: "Boss, don't worry! I will never be short-sighted and underestimate this "Zhiyin Manke". Moreover, I told the Japanese team members that this magazine sells very well in Hong Kong. , the monthly sales volume can reach 6 copies, so as to boost their confidence."

Lin Rongheng smiled, this is a good idea. Although these team members are drawn according to Lin Rongheng's outline, it can't make them lose confidence and become pessimistic, which will affect their strength to some extent!

"You did a good job! By the way, how is the preparation of the Japanese branch?"

Zhang Cheng said: "Everything is ready! The leased office building can accommodate 100 people working at the same time, and the administrative staff has also begun to be recruited. I believe that the team of "Miyin Manke" will be relocated to Japan soon."

Lin Rongheng nodded!

In the beginning, the team of "Zhiyinmanke" worked in Hong Kong for the sake of copyright security; now it moves to Japan for future development considerations.

When "Zhiyinmanke" serialized "Dragon Ball" to the third volume of Budodai (12 issues in one volume, 52 issues in a year), it was looking for an opportunity to publish in Japan.

At that time, Lin Rongheng will first take a stake in a publishing house, and the shares can only be 49%. It is not a problem to spend money on this step, and Lin Rongheng is not a major shareholder, and there are no other problems.Next, Modern Publishing House cooperated with this publishing house through a fee-based authorization model. In this way, "Miyin Manke" can not only be published in Japan, but Lin Rongheng also earned more than [-]% of the profit.

At present, there is no problem with the self-sufficiency of Modern Publishing House. Basically, "Modern Manke" and "Dragon Tiger Gate" support "Zhiyin Manke"; and the reason why "Zhiyin Manke" is expensive is the salary of Japanese painters Higher foreign, more expenditures such as investing in the Japanese branch.

Lin Rongheng seemed to have thought of something, and said: "Our two local comics should not promote violence and associations too much, the influence will become bad! Especially in the drawing of fighting plots, we must pay attention to controlling the bottom line, don't always fight Bleeding out."

In fact, Lin Rongheng asked Zhang Cheng to pay attention to this at the beginning, and he didn't want to make that kind of money; therefore, "Dragon Tiger Gate" deliberately skipped the plot of Hong Kong, and directly set Japan, Thailand, South Korea and other overseas countries as the battlefield, maximizing the Avoid promoting local associations in Hong Kong.

Zhang Cheng nodded and said, "Don't worry about this, the boss! The quality of our two local comic magazines is much higher than that of "Little Hooligan"! Of course, because of this, the recent sales volume of "Little Hooligan" has surpassed that of "Little Hooligan". "Dragon Tiger Gate" is almost catching up with "Modern Manke."

Lin Rongheng waved his hand and said, "No problem! Local comics only make a few dollars a year, and 200 million Hong Kong dollars is a big deal. As long as we succeed in Japanese comics, there will be a market worth hundreds of millions!

Zhang Cheng asked cautiously: "Boss, you said that you want to train 50 Japanese manga artists. There may be a problem with the company's funds."

Lin Rongheng said with a smile: "If you need money, go for a loan! Tell me your name, and Modern Publishing House will take a loan of 200 million. If you don't get it later, I will inject funds to repay it. In short, don't worry about money."

Zhang Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, the funding problem has been solved, everything is easy to talk about!

In fact, Lin Rongheng also thought that because those classic Japanese comics were first released in Hong Kong and created by Hong Kong companies, they could not reach the heights of their previous lives; but Lin Rongheng felt that as long as they can attack Japan, even if they can’t make money, so what!
Of course, Lin Rongheng also believes that as long as the quality is similar to the previous life, even if the sales in Japan are not good, could it still affect other overseas countries and regions?
Finally, Lin Rongheng said confidently to Zhang Cheng: "The time is right, Modern Publishing House will also set up an animation production company, a toy company, and a comic peripheral experience store. In short, this is a huge industrial chain, and the prospects may not belong to me. The real estate company, now you should know about Modern Publishing House, why isn’t it a subsidiary of Modern Newspaper?”

It was the first time Zhang Cheng heard that Lin Rongheng attached so much importance to Modern Publishing House. He was stunned for a while, and then said for a while, "I haven't thought about it so much, but since the boss said so, then the company will definitely have this prospect in the future. I will strictly implement the boss order, don’t hold back the boss!”

Lin Rongheng nodded, what Zhang Cheng said was very to the point, it would be strange if he had that foresight.

"So, you should also pay attention to recruiting administrative talents recently, and you should also take time to learn management knowledge! In short, only by making progress with the company can you adapt to future challenges!"

Lin Rongheng is not a person who kills donkeys, Zhang Cheng himself is also a highly educated talent, so Lin Rongheng will mention him.

"Well, thank you boss for your guidance, I will work hard!" Zhang Cheng said excitedly.

At the beginning, Zhang Cheng’s job was only 3000 Hong Kong dollars, but now it has risen to 5000 Hong Kong dollars; the bigger the company, the higher the salary he receives, so he is naturally full of passion.

(End of this chapter)