Chapter 35 Jade Dynasty, Huang Yulang

"Money is not a problem. The problem is how to take the first step..." Kong Lan said so, and her eyebrows frowned slightly: "To enter this industry, the entry point must be the most basic comic industry."

Meng Zhe opened his mouth and stopped talking.

In fact, he has also considered this problem. Meng Zhe has not had the idea of starting his own business and working hard in the animation industry.

Meng Zhe admires Huang Yulang, the godfather of Hong Kong comics. Since the age of 9, Huang Yulang has tried to contribute to the comic version of newspapers and magazines. At the age of 11, his 'debut work' was finally published. At the age of 14, he borrowed 1,000 yuan from his father and published a comic book called Joke World.

However, Joke World was only released for five issues, and it was suspended due to poor sales.

But Huang Yulang did not have a foundation. A year later, he started a business for the second time and founded Entertainment Comics Daily, but three months later, the publication was also suspended.

More than a year later, Huang Yulang took the remuneration he earned by painting hard for more than a year, and founded the New Comic Newspaper. This time, Huang Yulang finally succeeded. Soon after the publication of this newspaper, the circulation of the newspaper exceeded 12,000 copies!

Hong Kong's population base is there, and it was a long time away in 1967. The circulation of 12,000 copies was very strong!

If it can be managed well, it is not impossible for the circulation of 12,000 copies to become 120,000 or more.

However, due to the shortage of cartoon talents in Hong Kong at that time, there was not enough comic manuscripts, Huang Yulang had no awareness of cultivating new people, and the chain reaction of the "May Storm" in France in 1967 led to the decline of Hong Kong's consumption power. Huang Yulang's third venture failed again.

(The May Storm is a shrimp. You go to Du Niang by yourself. I don't know if it will be harmonized... After all, the China has not exported the revolution for many years.)

Normally, after such three entrepreneurial failures, Huang Yulang should honestly be an ordinary cartoonist, and then honestly draw comics for the publishing house.

But in the following years, Huang Yulang has been defeated and defeated again and again, and has always tried to fight for his own world...

In 1979, Huang Yulang finally accumulated enough funds. He established 'Yulang International Co., Ltd.' to recruit ambitiously and watch the whole Hong Kong comic market.

In 1986, Yulang International Co., Ltd. was officially listed, and the market value immediately increased by 20 times after listing!

From then on, there is no one in Hong Kong, belittling the comic industry.

Under the oppression of Yulang International, which unified almost all the top Hong Kong cartoonists, at that time, the market share in Hong Kong was basically negligible, and only Hong Kong comics were dominant.

Unfortunately, in the Hong Kong stock disaster in 1987, Yulang International faced an acquisition crisis. In order to save his country, Huang Yulang made financial false accounts and was found to be imprisoned.

With Huang Yulang's imprisonment, Yulang International collapsed and scattered trees, while Yiman took the opportunity to make a comeback and successfully occupied the market...

If Meng Zhe remembers correctly, 93 Huang Yulang should have just been released from prison. In order to reorganize the old rivers and mountains, he probably established the "Jade Dynasty" - the Jade Emperor Culture Publishing Group Co., Ltd.

Only then, although there are still setbacks, Huang Yulang regains the supreme throne by adapting the series of comics of Jin Yong's martial arts novels, as well as comics such as "The Son of the Divine Soldier" and "The Mysterious of the Divine Soldier"!

Huang Yulang, a poor boy who was originally penniless, eventually became a pivotal cultural tycoon in Hong Kong.

In the mainstream Hong Kong comics led by Huang Yulang, we can see a strong sense of patriotism. In later generations, some Hong Kong people are far stronger and more extreme patriotism than the mainland, which has nothing to do with these Hong Kong comics.

Meng Zhe can responsibly say that Huang Yulang is a well-deserved national hero in the comic industry.

......

However, Meng Zhe is also very clear about himself: unlike Huang Yulang, Meng Zhe has no such a big intention. He just wants to draw a big-selling cartoon with private goods with Chinese culture, gain a well-known reputation all over the world, and then stay with his future wife.

It's just that Meng Zhe also understands that his sister Kong Lan is different from him. She has the ambition to annex the world...

But in the domestic comics industry, Meng Zhe feels that it is still a big quagmire at all. Whoever jumps in well, he will probably be covered with mud, and then he can climb out in confusion, right?

"Brother Xiao Zhe, do you know Huang Yulang?" Seeing that Meng Zhe did not speak, Kong Lan continued to say that she also mentioned Huang Yulang's name.

"Huang Yulang?" Meng Zhexin, Sister Daolan, you are amazing, aren't you? Have you guessed what you are thinking in your heart? Of course, Meng Zhe won't say that: "He is one of the top Hong Kong comic painters in Hong Kong."

Top Hong Kong cartoonists, as well as Shangguan Xiaobao, who painted Bruce Lee, Ma Rongcheng, who painted Chinese Heroes, and others.

"Sister, I took time to carefully study Huang Yulang's experience a few days ago, and then found that our current entrepreneurial environment seemed to be a little better than his at the beginning." Kong Lan said with a smile. After a pause, Kong Lan continued, "Originally, I planned to go to Japan first and spend three to five months studying the specific process of their comic industry. But after getting the report just now, I didn't have this time, so I could only ask my classmates in Japan to help me collect information, and I came back first to prepare for the creation of a comic magazine..."

Yes, it seems that it's useless to persuade her. Is this sister determined to get involved in the animation industry?

"Sister Lan, if you come back to start a business, what about your studies?" Meng Zhe did his best and listened to the last euphemistic advice of fate.

"I was suspended from school. I knew that Cambridge, like all British universities, had no credit system, and I had to take classes step by step to graduate. I would never choose it." Kong Lan casually replied that Meng Zhe's question was not a problem at all in his eyes.

Shrimp——

Cambridge?!

Sister Lan, you are fierce... Your brother and I, because of my obsession with drawing comics, I didn't even pass the undergraduate entrance examination in ordinary universities in China.

"Well, Sister Lan, have you thought about it? After you run the animation magazine, where did you get the manuscript? Without a large number of manuscripts, animation magazines can't do it!" Since he can't persuade him, Meng Zhe can only stand on Kong Lan's side and express his professional surname.

"The problem of the manuscript, I have reached an intention with Huang Yulang's Jade Dynasty and his younger brother who painted "Old Master". They are willing to provide some manuscripts, and the rest of the manuscripts... need you and other domestic cartoonists who don't know where they are now to make up for it"

Kong Lan also came to Meng Zhe's question. When she spoke, she reached out and touched her bag again, and then took out a magazine.

On the cover of the magazine, it suddenly says - New Comic Monthly, 1993, No. 16.

That's right, it's the issue of Meng Zhe's "Light Voice Girl" published.

---split line---

Thank you: Schrödinger's meow and a phantom's reward support O(∩_∩)O~

Well, the urging and update of the children's shoes... Well... I continue to pretend that I didn't see it.

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