Urban Sims

Twenty-one years, December.

As the Chinese New Year approached, most of the more than 30 classmates who lived in the fortress, except for a few who were too far away from their families, had to go home for the Chinese New Year.

Before these classmates came home, Zhou Ming gathered them together and opened a seminar.

Seminar on the “Zihua Book House” project.

The four brothers in the dormitory and the “cartoon master” Lu Zhao, the “guitar master” Yang Lin, the “novelist” Luo Qianqiu, the “pop singer” Zhang Lu, etc., young talents, All together.

In fact, Zhou Ming’s classmates are only in their 20s, very young, and all of them are not small. Or, most of them are from a family of clan and have a distinguished status.

Like roommate Lu Wencai, although he is not pleasing in appearance, he has a monkey with a cheek and a frivolous face, but he is actually a descendant of the Lu family of Beihai. Among the family of Lu family, the importance of the top five is ranked. One of the family is a giant family with a thousand years of history, a million acres of good land and tens of thousands of people, which is ten times more prosperous than Zhou Ming ’s Haipingtian family.

Tang Junming is a “Donglai Tang” from one of the eight major families, but he is not a descendant of the Tang family. He belongs to the near side branch, family importance, ranking in the top 30 or so.

Sima Zhi is indeed the lowest of all roommates. Although his father Sima Yuan is now a county guard, this Sima family is just a small landlord family with a few hundred acres of land, once his father retires Even the son of a small county magistrate can crush him.

Young genius Yao Qingxiao, a businessman from a family of people, according to the truth, in this era of depreciation of businessmen, the status should be relatively low, and it should not be as good as Sima Zhi. Fifty percent of the printing bookstores and a large number of bookstores, although they are merchants, are book aristocrats and cultural aristocrats! Far from being comparable to ordinary copper smelly merchants.

In addition to these four roommates who are not small, and some of the distinguished classmates who were also born in the family clan, landlord class, and official eunuchs, and several children who came from the cold, Zhou Ming was very emotional. There is a saying that is good: It must be sent to the soldiers, the prime minister must be taken from the prefecture, and many people are out of the cold!

Those who really have dry goods, talents, and hard work are really those who are poor and humble.

For example, Lu Zhao, the “cartoon master”, has a poor family background. The family has only 100 acres of land. Wenyuan Academy has thousands of tuition fees a year, which makes this rich peasant family breathless. After three years of school, his family To sell Liang Tian, ​​in the fourth year, if he had not received Zhou Mingzheng’s subsidy, I am afraid he would have to drop out of school.

Moreover, this man has no talent for the examination of the imperial examinations, but his painting skills are really superb, and the level of landscapes and blues has reached the level of success … But no matter how high the painting skills are, there is no money to come. Things pay attention to seniority. Your paintings may sell for hundreds of millions of dollars in thousands of years, but this painter is still a young man in his twenties, how many people will appreciate it, and who is willing Buy his painting at a high price?

Therefore, after receiving funding from Zhou Ming, this brother Lu found that his imperial examination was weak, Dan Qingshan was not famous, and after seeing the profitability of drawing comics, Lu Zhao decisively chose to transform. With his outstanding talent, he has now become the lead author of comics. The artist, whose monthly income is above Baiguan, was named “Master of Comics” by Zhou Ming.

“Guitar master” Yang Lin, and “novelist” Luo Qianqiu, the situation is somewhat similar, all of them are the unfavorable talents that Zhou Ming dug in Wenyuan Academy. With a little training, they will definitely become their respective fields in the future. Emperor superstar.

Here I would like to mention that Zhang Lu, a “pop singer” and “little fresh meat”, was not born in a humble beginning, but a maidservant of a large family, with a low status, who was oppressed by the long-term descendants throughout the year. Destiny, but through several concerts, countless people recognized, after finding the self-confidence that has never been realized, he actually got his head hot and decided to abandon the subject and follow the song, intending to become a “superstar” that everyone worships and become a “Mike Jack” “Inferior”.

Seeing that he owns so many rich and powerful children and **** talents, for the “Zihua Bookstore Project”, Zhou Ming will naturally use these advantages to vigorously promote this plan.

He said to Lu Wencai: “Brother Wencai, Brother Junming … After you go back, I hope you can use your respective abilities and channels to fight in more than 150 counties and counties in Qingzhou in various cities within two or three months. , All open a family of Huashu, and decorate according to the design drawings I gave, the sooner you finish, the better! As for the expenses, I have prepared a thousand start-up funds for each of you, if you are not enough, you can write a letter give me.”

In this world, the purchasing power of copper coins is roughly equivalent to 800-1000 yuan, and 1,000 yuan is equivalent to 1 million yuan.

With so much money, Zhou Ming asked the dozen students to open ten “Zihua Bookstores”, each costing an average of 100,000 yuan. Presumably, there is not much problem.

“Boss, I don’t need any money. I’m still waiting for this small amount of money. Besides, Zihua Bookstore and I have shares. How can I be so kind as to collect your money? You can just give me the decoration design, and you don’t need anything else.” Lu Wencai Road.

“Yes, boss, in our place, renting a shop on the most prosperous street on the edge of the county government office, the rent for one year is only ten consecutive rents, one thousand, too much.”

“There is no need for Brother Zihua, only a few hundred dollars of money, and I still believe that I paid it out.”

Everyone has to say goodbye.

Zhou Ming coughed twice and could not refuse to say: “Hold it all, you follow me to do some business, naturally it is not easy to find your parents and elders to take the money and spend their money, then look profitable, equity It will also be entangled … Zihua Bookstore must be completely complete and belong to our industry! Therefore, you should spend your thousand start-up funds carefully and strive to get things done. If you do n’t have enough money, find me again Want. “

“Ok……”

Nodded, everyone was quite touched, and at the same time, they all stirred up a sense of enthusiasm and ambition to do a big business.

“Brother Qing Xiao–“

Zhou Ming looked at the second person on the right and said: “Your task is the most burdensome. Except for the construction of the largest engraving printing factory and recruitment of laborers in Zihua Bookstore, Qingzhou, you are bothered. I do n’t know if this task will be done within three months. Can you finish it? “

The printing plant supporting the Zihua Bookstore plan is an important part in determining the success or failure of this plan. If Zhou Ming is to complete the plan himself, he will only ask those skilled engraving craftsmen to spend a few years. Moreover, the engraved one-page readings like comics, engraving a page, the craftsman spent more than ten times as much energy as the plain text engraving, and this kind of craftsman, all Qingzhou, could not find 100.

Therefore, the “Book Fragrance Yao Family”, which owns half of the bookstores in Qingzhou, has become Zhou Ming’s most important help.

Therefore, he gave Yao Qingxiao a huge amount of 500,000 yuan, signed an agreement with half of the shares, and prepared to build a large printing plant covering an area of ​​tens of acres with the most advanced engraving technology and thousands of engraving craftsmen. .

Name: Zihua Printing Factory.

In fact, Zhou Ming is not completely ignorant of engraving printing technology. In the last copy, there are printing workshops in the countless workshops he founded. The technology used is extremely advanced, and a lot of hydraulic drive devices are used. Also used, plus some unique technologies, printing efficiency, I do not know how many times ahead of this world.

These techniques were discussed in private with Yao Qingxiao during Wenyuan Academy’s enrollment. After Yao Qingxiao received the design drawings and suggestions for improvement, the family tried them based on these drawings and suggestions for two years. Less than that, the printing efficiency of Yaojia Bookshop has tripled, and the unit printing cost has been reduced by 50%! And the printing quality is excellent, which greatly improves the market share.

So … all of these are interlocking and mutually reinforcing. The cooperation between Zhou Ming and Yaojia Bookshop is also an inevitable.

Yao Qing nodded and said with a smile: “Brother Zihua, you can rest assured, I have passed the letters home, the new factory has already broken ground, the equipment and craftsmen are ready, and within three months, the Zihua Printing Factory , Will be able to put it into use! Opening dozens of Zihua Bookstores is also a matter of one sentence, just wait for you to create some more brilliant works in these three months. “

“it is good.”

Zhou Ming nodded, Yao Qing smiled deservingly as a gifted man, he only knew people, and he always took the lead in doing things without any delay. Become your most effective assistant.

Don’t worry too much about hardware issues. So, how much of the core software problem-the content product of Zihua Bookstore, can be produced in a short period of time?

This problem, under Zhou Ming’s personal control, is naturally not a big problem.

For example, Zhou Ming now has more than 300 various types of Zhiguai novels, hundreds of paragraphs, jokes, etc. If published in the form of a semi-monthly magazine, it can be published for half a year.

There are thousands of selected poems, songs and excellent articles, most of which were created by Zhou Ming and his classmates during his study at Wenyuan Academy. There are dross and essence, plus Zhou Ming ’s mind, Randomly publish some works and publish them in the form of a semi-monthly magazine. It will be no problem to distribute a hundred issues.

The most important thing is that Zhou Ming, who has no works to plagiarize, reads UU’s books at www.uukanshu.com. He can only create his own while cultivating apprentices and assistants. As long as these apprentices and assistants are brought up, his tasks will become easier By the way, as long as an outline and settings are proposed, someone will create a comic that he wants to read based on these outline settings.

As for the comics that he has completed in his hand, for example, with the help of “Master of Comics” Lu Zhao, he has drawn the fifteenth volume; Zhou Ming has personally written the forty-fifth chapter … Two A comic book, with a total of thousands of pages, if published in a semi-monthly format, the magazine can be issued for twelve consecutive issues.

But the comic works are still too few and the length is too short, it is not enough to insist on issuing six issues, that is to say, with the existing manuscripts, it can be released for up to three months.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Ming said to Lu Zhao and the other two cartoon apprentices: “Brother Lu, Brother Wan, Brother Jin, during this time, you have to work a little bit hard and try to draw 30 volumes in three months. It’s quite heavy, but don’t worry, I will assist you with some of the work … Believe in yourself, when the comic is finished, I have more good stories for you, you will like these stories very much … “

Ru, …, they can’t finish painting in their lifetime.

Lu Zhao and others nodded. The speed at which they draw comics is really slow now. Many techniques are unskilled and difficult to draw, but if Brother Zihua guides them, their speed of getting started will definitely increase. Speed ​​up, if you can do it like Brother Zihua, you can draw up to one hundred pages of comics a day, and they are quick and good. Then they will all become masters of comics and can draw countless stories they want to draw … Think about it, it is a particularly exciting thing.