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Chapter 341 Boss Lin's Ambition! (Seeking monthly votes!!!)
Lin Ning quickly set up the company.

"I've already finished preparing the venue and other things, and I'll also purchase the equipment later."

"Now all that's missing are the professionals you mentioned."

"Moreover, most of them are students from Ningda University. As for whether they can ultimately stay, we'll have to wait and see."

"Let's have a trial period first, and then sign a formal contract after you're officially hired."

Zhou Yue nodded.

Finding qualified professionals is very easy; you can just go and recruit them.

"Thank you so much, I've been so busy with all this lately."

"Small things."

Lin Ning didn't feel like she had done a lot; she just did some business and spent money.

"We've rented a huge space. Would you like to work there?"

"Forget it, our office is actually big enough, and you can come to me anytime if you have any questions about your papers. Otherwise, I'll just leave, and who will you ask for these things then?"

He spends most of his time in the office, practically all the time except when he goes out, handling college affairs and some difficult problems.

"Never mind, I have a meeting coming up, I can't go."

"Go and take Xu Xuan with you. The two of you set up the studio and then start recruiting," Zhou Yue said. "Go straight to the top art academies. I'll make the arrangements."

"Really? Brother Yue, you have connections like this?"

“What does this have to do with connections?” Zhou Yue shook his head slightly. “They would definitely welcome us if we went to recruit, no matter which art school it is.”

"We need to work on the comics first. Once the comics are ready, we can move on to other things," Zhou Yue said.

"That works, but for comics, should we sign a contract with a platform, or do we need to create our own platform?"

"Let's sign the contract first," Zhou Yue said.

In fact, he didn't have any concrete ideas about these things, but he knew that if these copyrights were actually made into comics, it would definitely be a considerable income.

Moreover, comics are a huge part of the entertainment empire.

Fortunately, the domestic cultural market had not yet experienced the rapid growth seen in later years, so it was entirely possible to intercept it and become a high-end upstream player.

And his team is indeed usable.

Xu Xuan has been completely trained by him.

It's absolutely top-notch in China; this one person alone is enough to create enormous value.

His works and his other works should complement each other.

He could absolutely build a comic book empire by leveraging his IP and personal influence.

"This is the initial stage. Anyway, I have some copyrights in my hands now, and these copyrights are sure to produce results. Later, I can purchase some other comic copyrights to draw."

"Putting everything else aside, we're going for the 'buy more, sell less' approach."

"That means drawing a lot of comics. Others can update once a week, but if we have a large number of people, we can update once every two or three days, or even once every five days."

"Surpass them."

"To completely dominate this market—saying completely might be an exaggeration, but dominating most of it is definitely not a problem."

This is equivalent to having plenty of food.

Some high-end items may not be produced in large quantities every day, but if you were to exchange them for noodles that you could eat a lot of and be full, you might very well trade them.

"Brother Yue, you're really ambitious. But are you sure there's a market for comics in China?" Lin Ning wasn't just a daydreamer; he had actually done some research on comics. Even though it was just a task Brother Yue had given him, he had genuinely done his best to understand these things.

This is the rigor of researchers.

In fact, the domestic comic market has not been developed much, and even the top illustrators don't earn much money. Most of the top illustrators in China provide illustration services for games.

As for comics, they are a bit of an outlier. They don't earn much money, are quite long, require a lot of time investment, and need a big IP to be produced.

Without a major IP, a cartoonist has to rely on their own imagination to write the plot and make sure all the panels are clear.

That actually takes a lot of time.

Many cartoonists live a precarious life.

It's even worse than online novels.

The online literature market can at least sustain itself in the middle and lower tiers, while comics seem to be struggling.

Therefore, very few people work full-time.

But after he conducted research...

I think Yue Ge's comic company should have a good market.

After all, Zhou Yue does have some really big IPs in his hands.

Moreover, they have achieved many successes, such as generating huge traffic after the free comics were released across the entire network. As for economic benefits, they are still far from significant.

It only increased some influence; no money was actually earned. It was released online for free, and although the traffic generated was enviable, no one really cared about the money actually received.

He even used his good friend's book to generate traffic.

Indeed, they've cultivated an account with a million followers.

But this account is useless.

Simply by creating comics, they attracted many people who wanted to read them for free.

Is it payable?
What about the next book?

These are things that readers probably won't consider.

Therefore, if you want to create paid comics, you will lose at least 70% of your traffic.

This is also why Lin Ning asked him to build the platform.

However, Zhou Yue felt there was no need for it at the moment.

It's true that he can get submissions and earn a little more money by running a platform, but that little bit of money isn't important to him.

"There should still be some market in China, right? So, let's start by making one book, 'Mystery,' and another, 'Covering the Sky.' Once we've finished these two books and gained enough influence, then we can work on a platform."

"Brother Yue, you're not short of money, and your book can definitely attract traffic. I've looked at domestic comic platforms, and they basically don't have much traffic."

“We can build the platform and then use your accounts to drive traffic, while we create comics and collect submissions. Alternatively, even if we don’t drive traffic in this way, we can simply spend money to buy traffic.”

Zhou Yue glanced at him in surprise.

"So you're quite ambitious."

“It’s not that I have big ambitions, but that Brother Yue has never considered this aspect. If you want to crush your competitors, you’re bound to attract jealousy. Besides, all of Brother Yue’s plans can actually be fully realized by creating a platform.”

"Moreover, this market is still very small, and the initial investment does not need to be too much. Even if you lose money, it's only tens of millions, which you can probably make back in the comics."

"Alright, let's get started!"

(End of this chapter)