Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

“100,000 copies were sold out on the first day!”

Shangguan Xiaobao came to tell Yang Ye the good news, his face turned red with excitement.

Zhou Huimin wrote the comic based on "Girls' Generation" herself, coupled with "Transformers" and the novel written by Yang Ye himself, this gimmick is really too powerful!
In addition, before the launch of "Blue Bird Pictorial", there was a wave of overwhelming publicity.

As a result, once it was launched, it was like a nuclear bomb that exploded in the Hong Kong newspaper industry.

What is the concept of one hundred thousand copies? Surpassing "Ming Pao" and "Sing Tao Daily", it ranks third in Hong Kong newspaper sales.

Second only to Oriental Daily and South China Morning Post.

This is so scary!
The content of "Oriental Daily" is relatively popular and it is currently the highest-selling newspaper in Hong Kong.

The South China Morning Post is an English-language newspaper. Its sales volume remains at about 100,000 copies. Its readership is very stable and no one can shake it.

The average sales volume of "Ming Pao" and "Sing Tao Daily" are about 90,000 copies.

Fortunately, "Blue Bird Pictorial" opens up the student market and has no competition with those traditional newspapers.

When Shangguan Xiaobao came to recruit people, Huang Yulang had no choice but to increase the labor force and recruit a group of new people studying art to barely stabilize the situation.

People, life is not all about pursuing a future, hoping that your life will be better.

So although these traditional newspapers were shocked, they were not under great pressure.

Now it can only be the second child, the kind that is tied up and beaten!

Not just salary, but also reflected in all aspects of benefits.

……

That is really treating employees as human beings, not just wage earners, consumables, and leeks!
This is an anomaly in Hong Kong's capital circle. Many people cannot understand his behavior and even laugh at him, calling him a fool.

Now that Jade Bird Animation Studio has been established, they are digging again and again, wielding a hoe and digging.

On the other hand, the coming of "Blue Bird Pictorial" is too fierce.

Every time the group company recruits externally, there is always a rush to get the head start. Hundreds of people apply for any position.

Huang Yulang was going crazy.

Any fool can tell which side has more promise.

Huang Yulang's balls ached.

When it came out of the sky, it instantly crushed Yulang International.

Nowadays, a large number of people are being recruited. Where can people with talents in this field find a seat?

On the one hand, Baiyang Company’s treatment of employees is well-known in Hong Kong.

The treatment Baiyang Company provides to its employees is second to none in Hong Kong.

The average sales volume of his "Birth Newspaper" is about 50,000 copies, making it the largest doll newspaper in Hong Kong.

Yang Ye has become the person he most envies, and he is still better than his predecessor, and there is nothing wrong with him!
Talking back to Huang Yulang, even though he has added labor to his employees, he still cannot keep the painter from leaving.

Yang Ye didn't hate those rich bosses sleeping with women everywhere, he envied them sleeping with women everywhere!
Which man doesn’t envy the Internet celebrity who sleeps with her every day? Don’t you envy Leo who sleeps with a supermodel every day?

Yang Ye's philosophy is: I hated the capitalists who exploited their employees in my previous life. Now that I have traveled through time, I will never live like the person I hate the most!
Some people may say that you are a scumbag who traveled through time and fucked women everywhere. Isn’t that annoying?
Pull it down!

Baiyang Company was banned by Taiwan, and many artists on the front desk left, but none of the people behind the scenes left.

They don't have to show their faces, so they don't care about Taiwan's blockade.

Huang Yulang was thinking about countermeasures when the phone on his desk rang.

Huang Yulang picked up the phone and heard that it was Ma Rongcheng.

"Boss, half of my painters are ready to leave. If I don't add more people, I'm afraid it will be difficult to produce "Heroes of China" next month."

"Don't worry, I'll replenish your manpower right away!"

"Thank you, boss. I'll hang up now."

Ma Wing-cheng's "Heroes of China" is currently the best-selling comic book in Hong Kong. It once created a miracle of 20 copies in one issue.

As a result, Ma Wing-cheng became the highest-paid cartoonist in Hong Kong, with an annual salary of one million. Huang Yulang is the boss, so he has other concerns.

However, "Heroes of China" was deliberately conceived by Huang Yulang based on Ma Rongcheng's creative conditions and personal style. Therefore, Ma Rongcheng does not have the copyright of "Heroes of China" and only worked for Huang Yulang.

Huang Yulang hung up the phone, feeling even more depressed.

At this time, the HR department called again: "Boss, five more painters have submitted their resignation letters."

"Is it just the painter? Where are the other employees?"

"Blue Bird is only recruiting painters."

"I know, put out the recruitment advertisement. In addition, you can take people to recruit at the University of Hong Kong, Polytechnic University, and HKUST. Those students who have not graduated yet can also be recruited as interns first, and they will be given priority after graduation."

"Boss, these students...can't meet the requirements?"

"It's enough to do basic tasks like hooking, tucking, and coloring."

"Ok!"

It is impossible to raise the salary again. Huang Yulang will not be able to accept any further increase. Those painters were leaving, and Huang Yulang couldn't keep them. He couldn't break those people's legs, right?

"Yang Ye, this street kid, what on earth is he doing?"

Huang Yulang believed that this was because he rejected Yang Ye's acquisition, and Yang Ye was taking revenge on him.

..."Even if we poach all the painters from Yulang International, it won't be enough!"

When Yang Ye proposed to produce a TV animation of "Sailor Moon" and broadcast one episode every week, Te Wei said that he didn't have enough manpower!

"If we want 'The Lion King' and 'Sailor Moon' to run at the same time, we will need at least 500 professional artists."

"Take "Sailor Moon" as an example, if you want to produce one episode a week, you need at least 20 original animators, 100 animators, 100 colorists, and 50 background painters.

In addition to director, storyboarding, pre-showing, screenwriting, art, photography, editing, music, dubbing... No matter how streamlined it is, it will still require a team of at least 300 people to barely maintain it. "

"Also, original painters and animators require relatively professional talents, and people poached from Yulang International may not necessarily be qualified."

The Hong Kong market is such a big one, and there are only two to three hundred comic-related artists working there. It would be a long way to go to recruit them all.

Yang Ye thought for a while and said: "If "Sailor Moon" cannot do one episode a week with the current manpower, then it can be one episode every two weeks and reduce the production team to two hundred people. Is this okay?"

Tewei nodded: "That's okay."

Yang Ye added: "We can still...outsource! Doesn't Meiying Studio accept a lot of work from Japan to earn foreign exchange? Hong Kong dollars are also foreign exchange!"

Tewei nodded. He had no objection to this. Meiying Studio had started doing this job a few years ago.

Since the re-opening, the American Film Studio has often worked for Disney and Japan to earn foreign exchange, acting as comic migrant workers, and they still enjoy it.

However, Tewei said: "Shanghai is still too far away and communication is inconvenient. I can only take on some basic coloring jobs, which is a waste of talent."

Yes, it’s not possible to communicate via video. It’s very troublesome to communicate, and you can’t use a computer to transfer files remotely. You can only send drawings back and forth, which is very delaying and not safe.

Yang Ye thought for a while and said, "We can also open a branch in Shenzhen, recruit art talents from the mainland, and transfer part of the work there."

Tewei's eyes lit up; "This is a good method. It saves costs and can also create more jobs for the mainland. Moreover, they are not far apart, so communication is more convenient."

Yang Ye smiled and said: "I will donate another amount to the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts to help them open an animation major to train animation talents."

"That's really a great merit!" Te Wei was very happy.

Even in mainland China, animation talents are very scarce.

The few people Yang Ye poached from the Meiying Factory were simply not enough, and the local Hong Kong painters could only be responsible for the mid-term painting work.

Storyboards, character designers, animation directors, performers and other early-stage tasks are all incompetent because they have no experience.

As a last resort, Yang Ye had no choice but to call Hayao Miyazaki and ask him to help introduce several professionals to Hong Kong. Yang Ye hired them with high salaries.

Yang Ye has not considered recruiting painters from Japan. Labor costs there are expensive, so bringing them to Hong Kong will cost extra, which is not cost-effective.

However, it is cost-effective to recruit high-level talents and pay them a higher salary, and people will be willing to come.

Then in the subsequent work, just slowly cultivate your own talents.

……

After the miracle of creating 100,000 copies of "Blue Bird Pictorial" on the first day, it did not print more copies the next day and still issued 100,000 copies.

Because there is an advertising effect on the first day, not real demand.

Moreover, the student population in Hong Kong is so large that 100,000 copies is almost the limit.

Sure enough, it dropped a little bit the next day.

But the problem was not a big one. A few days later, the plot of "Xiaoyaoyou" gradually improved and the price went back up again.

Since then, it has remained at around 100,000 copies, firmly ranking third in Hong Kong newspaper sales.

……

Zhao Yangming was sitting on the sofa, holding a copy of "Blue Bird Pictorial" and reading it!

Yang Ye's family of three and Zhao Yazhen walked into the living room chatting together.

"Dad, where are you reading the newspaper?"

"Grandpa!"

"Hey, my dear grandson!"

Zhao Yazhen glanced at the newspaper Zhao Yangming put on the table, laughed loudly and said, "No, Dad. Do you still read comics?"

Zhao Yangming was quietly reading "Sailor Moon". Hearing this, his face turned red and he said, "What comics are you reading? I'm reading A Ye's novel."

"Aye, why did you serialize your novel in the doll newspaper?"

Yang Ye secretly smiled in his heart, even the old man couldn't resist the beautiful girl in sailor uniform!

"This novel is originally positioned as children's literature, so it is very appropriate to serialize it in a doll newspaper!"

"No wonder. When I read this novel, I always felt it was strange. The words in it are very easy to understand. It's not at all the show off literary style you had when you wrote 'The Classic of Mountains and Seas'."

"Do you think this novel is good?"

"You can't tell much yet. You have set up some suspense and showed off the child's special abilities, but I can feel that there is a huge story behind it, so I will continue to read it."

"That's good, you can watch it. It should be more attractive to children."

"If you don't write good martial arts novels, how come you start writing children's literature?"

"This is actually a business plan. I want to write a long story that children will read when they are young. When they grow up, I will make this story into a movie. When they are older, I will make this story into a movie. game……"

Zhao Yangming was stunned when he heard this. This is going to reap a lifetime!

He said with some teasing: "You are really a business wizard!" (End of Chapter)