Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1960 Xiangjiang Manga
Talking about Huang Yulang's experience is still very admirable

After coming to Xiangjiang at the age of 7, he began to contribute to newspaper comics and columns at the age of 9.

Afterwards, Huang Yulang, who was only 13 years old, dropped out of school and joined the "Times Comic Daily" as a small worker and an apprentice painter, with a monthly salary of 140 to 200 Hong Kong dollars, but unfortunately he lost his job due to the depression of the comics industry.

At the age of 16, he borrowed 5000 yuan from his father as capital to start a comic club and published his first comic book "Joke World" weekly.

But because it is the first time to start a business and he is too young, no one is optimistic about the future of this comic, and no publishing house is willing to publish it for him.

In desperation, Huang Yulang had no choice but to ride a bicycle with his brother to deliver "The World of Jokes" to the outlet.

However, "The World of Jokes" did not bring success to Huang Yulang, and it closed down after publishing 5 issues.

After that, he co-founded "Entertainment Comic Monthly" with others, but this monthly magazine stopped publishing after three months.

Huang Yulang, who was bankrupt after his second venture failed, could only work for others.

At this time, Cui Wei in the comics industry was eager to recruit people, so Huang Yulang applied to join the Cui Wei Group. This job brought Huang Yulang a stable manuscript fee and bonus, and his income was very good.

But Huang Yulang was unwilling to work for others for the rest of his life. After more than a year of stability, Huang Yulang cooperated with the painter He Ke again and started his third venture.

This time, Huang Yulang finally succeeded. The daily sales volume of "Fantastic Comics Daily" founded by him and He Ke reached more than 12000 copies shortly after its publication.

But the poor Huang Yulang's success did not last long this time, because of the May storm and the launch of TVB, everyone turned their attention to TV.

"Xinqi Comic Daily" and "Roxy Comic Daily", which had only been established for a year, closed down one after another. Afterwards, although Huang Yulang published "Seiko" comics, they were already struggling.

Under such circumstances, most people probably have given up and changed careers or went to work for others.

However, Huang Yulang was unwilling to fail like this. In 69, he co-founded a diamond publishing house with his friends. Two years later, he cooperated with others to establish Yulang Book Company.

Although he also encountered some difficulties afterwards, such as the "Undesirable Publications Law" passed by Hong Kong in 1975, which almost knocked Huang Yulang down again, he still tried his best to turn the crisis into safety.

But I don't know if Huang Yulang is a man of fate. When his career was soaring, he encountered the stock market crash in October. This time Huang Yulang really hurt his muscles and bones.

Lin Daoqiu couldn't help but admire Huang Yulang after reading Huang Yulang's experience. He really belongs to the type of getting braver with frustration.

But it's a pity that fate seems to have played a joke on him, making him have to suffer this kind of suffering all the time.

However, from this investigation report, Lin Daoqiu also saw a problem, that is, Huang Yulang was very ambitious and would not be willing to work for others.

Even if you temporarily succumb to others, you are preparing for the next turnaround.

Compared to recruiting Huang Yulang, Lin Daoqiu is more optimistic about Ma Rongcheng under his banner.

Lin Daoqiu remembered that "Fengyun" seemed to be painted by Ma Rongcheng, and he also left Yulang Group to start a publishing house by himself.

Although "Feng Yun" was remade into a movie and did not get much box office, but this comic and its adapted film and television drama are memories of many people in later generations, including Lin Daoqiu himself when he was a child.

"Go and contact Ma Rongcheng of Yulang Group, and tell him that I will treat him to tea."

Lin Daoqiu called Fang Jinsheng in and asked him to contact Ma Rongcheng.

Fang Jinsheng nodded yes, then immediately turned around and went out to make arrangements.

Ma Rongcheng didn't know Lin Daoqiu, but he had heard his name countless times.

When Lin Daoqiu invited him to drink tea, Ma Rongcheng's first reaction was to wonder, but he immediately agreed.

With doubts, Ma Rongcheng arrived at the tea restaurant 10 minutes earlier. He thought he came early enough, but he didn't expect that Lin Daoqiu had already sat in it ahead of time.

"Mr. Ma Rongcheng? Hello, I'm Lin Daoqiu."

As soon as Ma Rongcheng entered the tea restaurant, he saw Lin Daoqiu had got up, and he hurriedly shook hands with him.

"Hi Mr. Lin, I'm Ma Rongcheng, nice to meet you."

Although he had no contact with Lin Daoqiu before, Ma Rongcheng still knew Lin Daoqiu's appearance, but how could such a world-renowned big shot suddenly think of asking himself to drink tea.

"It looks like you're confused."

Immediately after Lin Daoqiu asked Ma Rongcheng to sit down, someone poured him a cup of tea.

Ma Rongcheng looked at Lin Daoqiu and nodded. He now had a lot of question marks in his heart, and wanted to know why Lin Daoqiu came to him right away.

"The situation of Yulang Group seems to be not good recently."

Yulang Group and Huang Yulang have already started to spread rumors, and it may be impossible for ordinary people to know the inside story, but Ma Rongcheng believes that if Lin Daoqiu wants to know, he will definitely know more details than himself.

"The company has indeed encountered some difficulties recently, but it has not affected the main business."

Although the Yulang Group now has a feeling of turmoil, the sales of comics have not been affected by this.

As for the rest of the matter, Huang Yulang made it up by himself, and he needed to solve it by himself. Ma Rongcheng had no control over this, and it was impossible for him to intervene in these matters.

"Have you heard of Marvel and DC?"

Lin Daoqiu suddenly asked Ma Rongcheng, Marvel and DC, two comic companies.

Ma Rongcheng nodded quickly.

"Of course I have heard of the comics published by these two companies and the superheroes created by them. I believe many people have heard of them."

Although DC and Marvel are not as rampant all over the world as later generations, many people still know their existence at this time.

Even if they don't know the names of these two companies, they must have heard of Batman and superheroes like Batman.

"I'm buying one of these companies."

Ma Rongcheng looked at Lin Daoqiu and didn't know what to say. He didn't expect Lin Daoqiu to become interested in comics.

"Neon mag company is my industry. In fact, I have already been in the animation industry, but you don't know it."

Regarding Lin Daoqiu's words, Ma Rongcheng didn't know what to say. He didn't understand why Lin Daoqiu told himself these secrets.

"I think the comics industry is a very important entertainment project in the future. I would like to invite you to join the publishing house under New Oriental Pictures as the president."

It wasn't until this time that Lin Daoqiu revealed that his purpose of inviting Ma Rongcheng here today was to poach him to New Oriental.

For this olive branch suddenly thrown by Lin Daoqiu, Ma Rongcheng was completely confused.

(End of this chapter)