Siheyuan: Xu Damao corrects his evil ways

The good thing about cultural people is that they can have some connections with people in any industry.

Just like Xu Damao and Repulse Bay No. 1, in terms of wealth and status, Repulse Bay No. 1 can surpass Xu Damao eight blocks.

At this time, one day's income is equivalent to Xu Damao's year's income.

But Xu Damao asked the housekeeper to come to say hello, and he actually responded and told when the owner of the villa would be home, which was quite polite to Xu Damao.

There are many ways to do this, not only the status bonus of Xu Damao as a cultural person, but also the goodwill expressed by the owner of Repulse Bay No. 1 to us.

These days, all neighboring countries have two impressions of us. One is that we are not rich, and the other is that we are very tough.

To put it bluntly, in Asia at this time, we feel a bit lonely and seeking defeat.

It’s been a month since I took care of Ah San. At this time, I and Lao Maozi were arrayed on an island and refused to give in. The surrounding places felt a little trembling when they heard us.

So at this time, most of the wealthy families in Hong Kong Island have a problem of choice.

And Xu Damao was born to represent our side because of his choices from the beginning.
Of course, the external view is that Xu Damao is a cultural person, and cultural people are worthy of respect.

This is because we are afraid that foreigners will have any objections to them being close to us.

Xu Damao's identity as a cartoonist and magazine owner is the best barrier.

This thing made Xu Damao feel pain and happiness.

Happiness is because Repulse Bay No. 1 took the lead in recognizing that the Hui family has officially entered the upper class society on Hong Kong Island.

The reason for the pain was naturally the expense. Originally, Xu Damao was planning to spend more than ten thousand yuan on a banquet and just invite the neighbors around to come over and have a party.

But because No. 1 of Repulse Bay promised to be present at that time, Xu Damao was brought up. He couldn't make it too shabby, right?
So Xu Damao could only spend money. Before buying the house, Xu Damao had 700,000 yuan in hand. In order to save expenses, he mostly took out loans. Now he still has more than 300,000 yuan in hand.

Then at a moving party, Xu Damao spent a small sum of two hundred thousand dollars. This thing made Xu Damao want to cry.

There is not much expense for the ingredients, the key is the expenses for various drinks and various service staff.

That's it, it's just the cost of a big party for a second-rate family in Hong Kong.

Of course, this time cannot be compared with later generations. A bottle of better red wine in later generations will cost hundreds of thousands, which will definitely be different from now.

It turned out that Xu Damao's idea was to bring people from Tan's Restaurant over to take control of the kitchen, and then cook a meal of Tan's cuisine.

It’s also something with a foundation.

But as the number of people increased, various wealthy families took notice, and Xu Damao got scared. If all the guests came to cook Tan's food, he would be bankrupted in one meal.

So in the end, it became a buffet. This thing actually cost less than Tan's food. How can this be reasonable?

Looking at the wealthy people, or those who came to enjoy the heat, there were five or six people wearing them.

This made Xu Damao feel a little unreal.

So Xu Damao could only take off his big pants and flip-flops, put on a tuxedo and tie according to the girl Lou Xiao'e's design, and even trimmed his beard.

The rain can't help with this thing. She is just a silly girl from the 49th city and doesn't understand this.

Lou Xiao'e and Yu Yu didn't have any worries about their clothes. Originally they just wore fine embroidered cheongsam, which was all because of their good figures.

Lou Xiao'e is dressed elegantly and luxuriously, and she is full of matriarchy.

Lou Xiao'e originally prepared a cheongsam with slits to the waist and hips for Yu Yu.

Rainwater is not as plump as Lou Xiao'e, and cannot bring out the nobility of the cheongsam. She can only focus on temptation, but she is suppressed by Xu Damao.

The wife he married has such wide slits that can only be seen by him. How can she give outsiders an advantage in vain?
Xiaojiabiyu cannot match the elegance and elegance, so it just focuses on being pretty.

Of course, Xu Damao let Rain put on the wide-slit cheongsam after the dinner, and the cheongsam came to an end the next day.

Yu Yu also looked ruined, which made Lou Xiao'e laugh for several days.

Xu Damao barely managed to enter the upper class society of Hong Kong Island through a not-so-luxurious buffet banquet.

Some people laughed at the Xu family's shabby status. After all, there really wasn't anything good at the Xu family's banquet.

But some people saw the Xu family's background. For example, several nearby neighbors, including No. 1, were all smiling happily as they held a jar of Founding Fen wine given by the Xu family in return. .

The wine is not valuable, but the seal on it is the same batch number as the batch at the founding banquet.

This thing is played by wealthy families with a sense of nobility.

Of course, this is another place that makes Xu Damao feel painful. He also wants to collect the wine himself.

But there is no way. Those things that people sent over are either gold or jade, and all of them are well-established things. Without a suitable return gift, it will look really shabby.

Xu Damao has really never played these things. If Lou Tan hadn't introduced Butler Luo to the Xu family, he would have definitely made a fool of himself.

That would not be integrating into the upper class society, but directly becoming a joke of the upper class society.

Of course, in the end, despite all the flaws, the Xu family still used this banquet to allow various wealthy families to add the names of the Xu family to the guests they invited to the banquet.

This is different from the past. In the past, those second-rate families invited Xu Damao, just like inviting a certain singer or a certain star, for the temporary shine on him.

But I don’t know how much respect I have.

But since the Xu family held a banquet, the treatment was different.

Just like the magazine business, the copyright grant to America, which had been discussed for a long time, was not discussed for a long time. Within a few days after this banquet, a Chinese bookseller surnamed Huang who opened a publishing house in San Francisco took the initiative to contact the magazine.

Basically, the conditions proposed by the magazine were fully accepted by the other party.

This is normal. In order to open up the market and create an impact, Xu Damao’s licensing share is lower than that of his peers.

Xu Damao's focus is on the use of copyrights surrounding comics.

The only condition the other party put forward was that he only wanted a single volume of Transformers.

Xu Damao asked Xia M to collect American comics for him some time ago and is waiting for today.

To be honest, Xu Damao has systematically watched American and Japanese comics, and only then did he understand the greatness of this industry.

A comic character can last for hundreds of years. You can imagine how much commercial value there is.

Just like Captain America and Batman, they have been popular for decades. Even in the era before Xu Damao time traveled, they are still gods that have not declined on the screen.

Xu Damao thought for a long time and didn't know what plagiarism he should do.

Basically, the comic characters that Xu Damao is familiar with have already appeared this year.

Xu Damao thought about it, and all he could remember was Wolverine, so he had to copy this one.

But he could only copy a few short scripts, and Xu Damao couldn't copy the later collaborations with superheroes.

But Xu Damao cannot conquer the world with just one Autobot.

After thinking about it for several months, Xu Damao remembered that Magical Muggle, which was very popular back then, was waiting for the Chinese New Year. Of course, we can’t let cartoon characters from Shanghai draw these things.

This is the reason why Xu Damao wants to keep Xia M. He wants to become an independent comic book company, focusing on Western comics, without being tainted with the flavor of the Four-Nine City. This will be much more convenient for commercialization.

Furthermore, the last dividend incident also left Xu Damao with a knot in his heart.

Although the husband personally made the decision for Xu Damao, Xu Damao was quite moved.

But the other way around is the same, it is a normal business operation. But it had to alert such a big shot and endorse Xu Damao in order for this thing to succeed.

This is only 500,000, which is how much profit Xu Damao sacrificed to allow all walks of life in the mainland to share some profits in this industry chain.

So what if Xu Damao puts all the comic characters he can think of in one magazine?
Profit in the tens of millions a year, or hundreds of millions in the future?

Xu Damao cannot guarantee that those collaborators will still abide by business rules by then.

The certificate of surrender he should submit has been given to him.

Xu Damao is not a person without desires, so he naturally wants to develop his own career. He also wants to wait until the matter is over so that he can return home in a luxurious car and in fine clothes.

So not long ago, Xu Damao established a Western comics studio. The comic talents are all locals from Hong Kong Island who have received Western education.

Commercially, we made a break with the magazine.

But cutting is cutting, it cannot be said that way.

According to what Xu Damao told a certain news agency, those are mainly based on Western culture and are not in line with our values.

Then bloody violence or something.

A certain company is not ignorant. It knows that Xu Damao felt uneasy because of the dividend issue some time ago.

This is probably why a certain company tried to prepare Guofen Liquor for Xu Damao from Sijiucheng.

The death of Lou Bancheng and the delay in dividends have created some haze in the cooperation between the two parties.

Of course, Xu Damao never thought of stopping cooperation with a certain company.

Even if one day in the future, a certain boss of the other party kicks Xu Damao out, Xu Damao will not say a bad word here.

Xu Damao still knew which end was lighter and which was heavier.

Xu Damao just hopes that the honeymoon period between the two parties will be longer so that his wings can develop fuller.

In this way, when I fly solo in the future, I can fly higher and avoid the covetousness of those jackals, tigers and leopards.

At least Sijiucheng follows the rules and won't try to monopolize Xu Damao's share.

This seems to be a bit contradictory, but actually it is very simple to explain clearly.

Even if Sijiucheng wanted to take complete control of the magazine, it would acquire Xu Damao's shares at market prices. After all, a certain magazine would also have to worry about the social impact.

If Xu Damao cooperates, he might be able to compensate him elsewhere.

But if it is those private bosses or those wealthy families, if Xu Damao cooperates with those people without the ability to protect himself, he may be swallowed up by the other party and no bones will be left.

This is why different partners face different results.

Xu Damao has no one available now. These business matters cannot be trained by a novice.

Just like the Xu family's banquet, if Butler Luo hadn't had experience in this area, this banquet would have been a big mess.

Even if the Xu family becomes more prosperous in the future and uses its wealth to force its way into the upper class, it will be nothing more than a joke of the upper class.

The top wealthy families would despise the Xu family for having no background, and would not even consider the Xu family for things like marriage.

This is the trial and error cost of a housekeeper.

The same goes for business managers.

The cost of trial and error is too high, and your company will almost go bankrupt if you can’t wait until you develop talents.

Then the talents you train are equivalent to training for other companies.

These messy things gave Xu Damao a headache.

Give him some ideas and establish a relationship with a private person. Xu Damao can do it. Even if things don't work out, Lou Xiao'e and Lou Tan will be there to patch things up for him behind his back.

If it's a traditional enterprise, Lou Tan's side can also help.

But if he wanted to get a share of the Western comics market, without a professional at the helm, Xu Damao knew he wouldn't be able to break through.

Even Xia M couldn't satisfy Xu Damao in terms of professionalism, but Xu Damao's newcomer Xia M made up for other shortcomings in this aspect.

Xia M was very annoyed and annoyed by Xu Damao, so she agreed to try to help Xu Damao run the studio.

Of course, Xia M also has his own small thoughts. Since it is a Western comic, the future market will definitely be dominated by America.

As long as she does this well, even if she emigrates in the future, she won't have nothing to do.

So when Xu Damao invited businessman Huang to visit the studio, Xia M behaved very professionally.

Since Merchant Huang is a publisher in America, he naturally knows the preferences there.

He expressed a certain interest in Western magic, which is a worldly and logical one.

Xu Damao doesn't care too much about the licensing and publishing fees for comics.

But they refused to give in when it came to copyright.

To put it bluntly, Xu Damao can now afford a studio with his royalties and dividends.

He was willing to give out the master copy for free in the early stage and let the businessman Huang take it back to print and publish it without making a penny, but he was unwilling to release any of the copyright in his hand.

This thing will directly destroy the businessman named Huang.

According to Amalika's rules, it is normal for the businessman surnamed Huang to pay part of the commercial copyright if he pays the initial costs and royalties, printing, and distribution channels.

Therefore, in the Western comics industry, the copyright to use an image is basically controlled by many companies.

In the later period, when those superheroes were brought to the screen, the company behind the scenes also did a lot of work.

It's really money and money.

But in the end, Xu Damao, a weirdo, was willing to give up the upfront benefits but insisted on guarding this illusory copyright.

This made the businessman surnamed Huang feel strange. The businessman surnamed Huang asked: "Mr. Xu, I understand that you are guarding the copyright of the Autobots. After all, they have proven their market value.

But the magic school you mentioned, this Harpot, this is beyond my comprehension.

You know, if there is no market for this comic, then these so-called copyrights are worthless. Is Mr. Xu so confident in the characters he created? "(End of chapter)