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Chapter 23 Investing in New Dimension Space
Xinwei Space Culture Co., Ltd. is located in a room of more than 40 square meters on the third floor of a seven-story old house near the Beijing University of Science and Technology. There is no sign at the door except the house number. The entire company is only two… One, I recruited one yesterday, just three people.

Wen Yong, general manager and editor-in-chief of the company, is responsible for the daily affairs of the company, and handles business administration with one hand.Whether the company can achieve results depends on Wen Yong's vision and whether the books he chooses sell well.

Wu Bofan, the deputy general manager, is mainly responsible for publishing, sales and publicity.

That is to use his relationship to affiliate the company with a certain publishing house, and then use the relationship to borrow the sales channel of a certain publishing house.These two points are very important, because only the publishing house has an ISBN, and the book can only be legally published after obtaining the ISBN.The sales channel is related to the printed books, whether there are any, and how many bookstores will help sell them.

The other is Song Li, a young and handsome clerk and receptionist.

Two leaders and one soldier, this New Dimension Space Culture Company looks more leather than a leather bag company.

"Yongzi, is that novel you mentioned really that good?"

Wu Bofan, who has always prided himself on being a playboy, arrived at the office early in the morning wearing a suit and tie.

Wen Yong was also dressed in formal attire, looking very serious, obviously the two of them had important matters today.

Glancing at his college classmate, roommate and best friend, he said angrily, "Didn't you read that book?"

"I'm so busy, I don't have time to read novels, but those paintings are really good, with the level of a painter. If I want to have that level, why do I write novels, just draw pictures, hold art exhibitions, and then let Yishui's beauties act as models for me? , that’s life.”

The last sentence exposed Wu Bofan's poetic nature.After finishing speaking, she did not forget to wink at Song Li who was sitting at the door with her eyes that she believed to be the most powerful, making the little girl dare to lower her head tightly, and her whole body got goosebumps.

"I'm warning you, don't take Xiaoli's idea."

"Why don't you believe me so much? Rabbits don't even eat the grass beside their nests."

"..."

It took Xiao Jian a lot of time to find the location of the new dimension space.

Wearing the down jacket I bought yesterday, and just walking to the door with a backpack on my back, I saw two young men in suits and ties standing at the door. Dimensional Space Culture Company, right?"

Wen Yong saw Xiao Jian who was dressed casually, stepped forward and said, "Yes, Mr. Xiao Jian, right?"

"Listening to your voice, you must be the editor-in-chief Wen, you are so young."

"Mr. Xiao is also very young. Let me introduce, this is Wu Bofan, the deputy general manager of our company, and this is Song Li, a clerk."

Wu Bofan stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Xiao, hello, welcome to the new dimension space for investigation."

"Hi Mr. Wu, you are too polite, call me Xiao Jian, or A Jian, Jianzi is fine."

After Xiao Jian shook hands, he glanced inward, and saw the whole company in his eyes, but it was really chilling, not to mention the small place, with three desks and no partition in the middle.

Wu Bofan said embarrassingly: "The establishment of the company is at the initial stage, so don't mind if it's simple."

"It's better to be simple, it's done too well, and I'm too embarrassed to pay too high a price later." Xiao Jian thought, waved his hand to show that he didn't care.

"Let's stop talking nonsense, let's talk about cooperation."

Wu Bofan and Wen Yong's eyes lit up, it seemed that there was something going on.

Wen Yong said: "As long as you hand over "Longteng" to us for publication, we will give you the royalties of first-class writers, and you don't have to worry about the rest. We have the best sales channels. After the novel is printed and ordered, within three days It can be put on shelves in more than [-]% of the large and medium-sized cities across the country..."

"and many more."

Xiao Jian interrupted Wen Yong, who spoke brilliantly, "The cooperation I'm talking about is buying a share of my novel's physical copyright and joining your company."

Wu Bofan shouted loudly: "Investing in the company? Are you kidding me?"

"Don't rush to refuse, listen to me first. A small private company like yours affiliated with a certain publishing house has a very high bankruptcy rate, am I right?"

Wu Bofan and Wen Yong didn't want to admit that this was true, but they could only nod their heads helplessly.Although they can get book numbers, borrow sales channels, and put books published by their own companies on the market, they suffer from the lack of support from famous authors. As long as the sales performance of the first two books is not good enough, they may even lose money. A small company can go bankrupt within minutes.

Wen Yong said: "You don't need to worry about this. If I am not sure, I won't start this company. I dare not say that I will definitely make a lot of money. At least I won't let it fail."

Xiao Jian nodded. If the other party is a fool, he really has no interest in cooperating.

"I believe Mr. Wen has this ability, but the purpose of starting a company is to make money. If the company can't develop, then it's meaningless to run it, isn't it?" He smiled, and then said: "Mr. Wen thinks that the book "Longteng" How about it?"

Wen Yong said honestly: "Without those pictures, the chances of making a profit in China may be [-]-[-]. With those pictures, the chance of making a profit is at least [-]%. If the publicity is done properly, it is very likely to become a bestseller."

Xiao Jian gave Wen Yong a thumbs up, "Manager Wen really has a good eye, let me show you something."

He took out his laptop from his backpack and opened it, showing them the pictures he had drawn over the past few days.

The paintings are all weapons and equipment that appeared in the first volume of "Dragon Teng", as well as pictures of several main characters.

"Hey, it turned out to be a cartoon of "Dragon Teng"!"

Unable to hold back her curiosity, Song Li, a clerk who ran over to read, said in surprise after seeing the last few pictures.

"This is the first two chapters I drew, is it okay?"

"It's great, whether it's the painting style or the rhythm of the story, it makes me really want to read the next chapters."

After reading the manga, Wu Bofan said excitedly that although he doesn't like novels, he likes manga, but only the Japanese version.It's not that they are unpatriotic, but that there are not many good-looking domestic comics.

Xiao Jian smiled, "I'll show you one more thing."

Open another document in the notebook, there are more than a dozen pictures of space battleships in it, the battleships under the starry sky are beautiful and exquisite.

Wu Bofan was stunned: "Damn, are you sure you're not a painter? I'm sure these paintings can sell for a lot of money."

"I'm not interested in simply selling paintings. This is the picture in my next book. My next book is about space, stars, battleships, adventure, blood, heroes and eternal love."

"Just looking at these pictures, I'm looking forward to your next novel." Wu Bofan said, "However, I still don't think you need to work so hard. I think you can make money back just by selling paintings, and even more many."

"Just publishing novels, I won't go to such trouble to ask you to buy shares. Do novels, comics, animation, film and television, games and peripheral products together, earn ten cents for one thing, and build a cultural industry chain is my goal. "Xiao Jian imagined his blueprint for the cultural industry.

In the eyes of others, "Dragon Teng" is just a novel, but in Xiao Jian's heart, it is not only a novel, but also comics, animation, film and television, games, toys, etc., as long as there are conditions, he can definitely make it out.

In the West and RB, the cultural industry is very developed, with annual sales of hundreds of billions of dollars.In China, however, the cultural industry is simply a desert.

Xiao Jian saw such a survey on the Internet one day:
Question: "What is the deepest impression of domestic cartoons?"

Answer: "Journey to the West and Calabash Baby."

Question: "Which domestic TV drama impresses you the most?"

Answer: ""Journey to the West" and "Fengshen Bang"."

Question: "Which one impresses you the most about domestic cartoon toys?"

Answer: "Well... the golden cudgel, I really can't think of anything else."

Question: "What about domestic comics?"

Answer: "Journey to the West and Black Cat Sheriff."

"..."

After asking all the way, the domestic classics in the minds of the respondents are all ten or twenty years old, or even earlier.In recent years, no domestic cultural brand has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

If you want to talk about foreign ones, including comics, animation, film and television, games, and toys, you can name dozens of them without stopping.

Xiao Jian just wanted to build a big cultural industry empire as soon as possible while no one in the country could compete with him.

"Would you guys give me an answer about investing in New Dimension Space?"

"Let's discuss it, you can do whatever you want."

Wu Bofan dragged Wen Yong to a distance to discuss.

"Yongzi, what do you think of this?"

"What about you, I want to hear your opinion."

"As you said, his novels are good, but what I value more is his talent, he can write and draw.

Let me tell you, with my experience in reading comics for decades, his level of drawing comics is no worse than that of Little RB's first-class level. He only drew two chapters, and it made me want to read that novel. "

Wu Boyan paused and continued: "We need him, but he doesn't necessarily need us. There are many small companies like ours, aren't there?"

"You've already said that, so let's cooperate." Wen Yong knew the importance of talents, and seeing Wu Bofan agreed, he felt relieved.

When the two came back, Wen Yong said to Xiao Jian: "We agree with you to buy shares with copyright, but how many shares do you want?"

"Can you tell me about the company's shareholding structure?"

"Of course." Wen Yong said: "I invested 60 yuan, accounting for 40%, and Bofan contributed [-] yuan, plus sales channels and book numbers, accounting for [-]%. Yes, these are all related to Bofan, you understand."

"So, the company's tangible assets plus intangible assets are a total of 120 million. How about exchanging the copyrights of the physical novels and comics of "Dragon Teng" for 180% of the shares? I don't think you will think that the copyright of this book is only worth [-] yuan. Wan?"

The implication is that you have made a lot of money, as long as you only need [-]% of the shares, it will be cheaper for you.

"Impossible." Both of them shook their heads.

In the end, after a lot of bargaining, Xiao Jian bought half of the copyrights of novels and comics in exchange for [-]% of the company's shares and became the major shareholder.The condition is that Xiao Jian's future works must be given priority to the company.

Wen Yong and Wu Boyan each accounted for [-]%.

"You will be lucky in the future, I'm so lucky for today's choice." Xiao Jian said with a smile.

He was also happy for himself. He exchanged half of the limited copyright of a novel for [-]% of a company's shares and became a major shareholder without paying a penny.

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(End of this chapter)