Chapter 826: Every Request Will Be Granted
Lin Weimin had discussed with Li Xin earlier that once the two comic publications "Hua Wang" and "Hongdou Comics" had stabilized their market share, formed a certain influence in the comics industry, and had the ability to incubate works, they could launch an animation company to further promote the expansion of the influence of the intellectual property rights of the works.
Now everything was as successful as Lin Weimin had described, and Li Xin naturally thought of the animation company that Lin Weimin had mentioned.
Turning comics on paper into cartoons broadcast on TV is undoubtedly a leap forward for comics.
Lin Weimin had mentioned Disney abroad to him many times. Li Xin collected a lot of information about Disney in this year and was already familiar with Disney's development path.
Founded in 1923, the company started out as an animation company. After more than 70 years of development, it has not only become the world's largest animation company, but has also completed a series of industrial layouts such as theme parks, film and television production, distribution, and TV channels, becoming one of the largest groups in the US media industry, and its dominance has begun to emerge.
Li Xin summarized in detail the development of Disney over the past seventy years, which can be roughly summarized into three stages.
The first stage is content accumulation. From 1923 to 1954, Disney started by selling the copyright of cartoons, and then successively created classic cartoon characters such as the Mickey Mouse series and the Snow White series, and produced 14 series of classic animated feature films around these characters. After 32 years of accumulation in animation creation, the classic characters are widely known, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent development of these core IPs.
The second stage was the physical layout. From 1955 to 1983, Disney theme parks were established in many cities around the world, and the offline layout began to take shape in 17 years.
The third stage is the media layout. From 1984 to the present, Touchstone Pictures was established as its film distribution platform, Disney Hollywood Film Studio was established, and the film production and distribution industry chain was improved. Last year, Disney just acquired ABC, which owns ABC TV network and ESPN, the largest sports TV network in the United States, for US$19 billion.
Just last month on the 5th, "Toy Story", produced by Disney at a cost of 30 million US dollars, was released and distributed by Oriental Film and Television Distribution Company, which is affiliated to Shanghai Film and Television (Group) Corporation.
Touted as the world's first 3D computer-animated film, "Toy Story" has grossed 31.8 million yuan in China in nearly a month since its release.
Disney's success is certainly unparalleled, but this success has traces to follow. With such a successful example in front of him, Li Xin imagined the future that Lin Weimin had described to him, and countless ambitions had already arisen in his heart.
When Lin Weimin heard what Li Xin said, he smiled and asked, "What's the matter? I set up an animation company, do you want to manage it?"
Li Xin nodded honestly.
"What about Tongwen Society?"
Li Xin showed some hesitation, "Can't I take charge of it?"
"greedy!"
Lin Weimin said something to Li Xin, who showed a bit of trepidation on his face. After a moment, Lin Weimin said, "Okay. The scale of "Painter King" and "Red Bean Comics" has now grown, and the number of readers that can be mobilized has reached tens of millions. It is indeed time to set up an animation company. You will be in charge of the new animation company."
Hearing this, Li Xin was extremely excited, "Thank you, President!"
"Don't get excited yet. I'm going to give you your first task."
Li Xin stood straight, waiting for Lin Weimin's instructions.
"You should contact Zheng Yuanjie first."
Lin Weimin's words made sense, but they were also beyond Li Xin's expectations. With a little surprise on his face, he asked, "What do you want to do? Sell all his copyrights?"
Lin Weimin shook his head and said, "I want to buy this person."
Li Xin: …
You don't want to be a human trafficker, do you?
This was of course a joke in Li Xin's heart.
When talking about Chinese children's literature, Zheng Yuanjie is a name that cannot be avoided.
In the 1980s when the older generation of children's literature writers were gradually dying out, Zheng Yuanjie emerged as a rising star.
In 1978, his first fairy tale, "Gecko and Bat", was published in the magazine "Sunflower". Since then, Zheng Yuanjie has devoted himself to fairy tale creation, and has successively created a series of classic fairy tale characters such as Pippi Lu, Lu Xixi, Shuke, and Beta, which not only weaved a beautiful childhood for Chinese children, but also brought him rich rewards.
Zheng Yuanjie joined the army at the age of 15, and was assigned to work in a factory after retiring at the age of 21. His job was very leisurely. His main task was to watch the water pump. When he went to work, he pressed the green button to transport water to various workshops and canteens. When he got off work, he pressed the red button to shut off all water sources.
All the changes started in 1977, when Zheng Yuanjie's girlfriend, who was already engaged to him, was admitted to Yanshi University.
The girlfriend became a privileged child, while Zheng Yuanjie was still the plumber. The gap between them widened suddenly. Under the persuasion of their relatives, the girlfriend and Zheng Yuanjie broke up.
Zheng Yuanjie was in great pain after his breakup. At that time, a literary trend was gradually emerging in China, and many young people changed their destiny through writing. This made Zheng Yuanjie want to write.
But he soon found that compared with those real writers and poets, his level was too low and no matter how hard he tried, he could not compete with others. So he decided to change track and set his sights on his favorite fairy tales.
After several years of hard work, Zheng Yuanjie has become a well-known fairy tale writer in China.
But at that time, Zheng Yuanjie still relied on the royalties from serialized works, and his income was limited.
So he found the editor-in-chief of the magazine and asked for a raise in his royalties. The editor-in-chief asked him a question: "How do you prove that you boosted sales?"
This sentence made Zheng Yuanjie stand there speechless.
In fact, most people can tell that the editor's words are just an excuse for not wanting to increase Zheng Yuanjie's royalties.
But Zheng Yuanjie is not an ordinary person. In order to prove himself, he came up with an idea - to establish a journal that only publishes his own works.
In 1985, he quit his job and founded the magazine "Fairy Tale King" on his own. All the works in the magazine were written and serialized by him alone.
After the publication of "Fairy Tale King", Zheng Yuanjie wrote frantically at the rate of 6,000 words a day for more than 30 years until "Fairy Tale King" ceased publication in 2022.
Compared with Zheng Yuanjie, later online writers are all weak. In the era when there were no computers, it would have been impossible for him to write 6,000 words every day for more than 30 years without both talent and perseverance.
Now it is 1996. Zheng Yuanjie's "Fairy Tale King" and the classic fairy tales he created have become famous in China and have a wide influence among children.
As early as 1993, Zheng Yuanjie's annual income had exceeded one million yuan, but because fairy tales do not have a strong presence in the domestic literary field, his super high income is not well known to the public.
Li Xin has been working in the publishing industry for many years and has been active in the field of popular literature in recent years. He is clear about Zheng Yuanjie's situation.
"Boss, his income is not low."
"Everything can be discussed. Of course, buying people is an exaggeration. Cooperation is not restricted by form. Our Guowen Society is not a black-hearted workshop. As long as he is willing to cooperate, all conditions can be negotiated. You should emphasize our advantages in copyright development." Lin Weimin reminded.
Li Xin nodded, "I understand."
After Li Xin left, Lin Weimin thought for a moment and made a phone call.
"Hongdou Comics" has achieved huge success. This is one of the results of the "5155 Project" jointly undertaken by the Ministry of Rites and the Press and Publication Administration. We have to report the good news to our leaders.
The leader of the Ministry of Rites is at the vice-ministerial level. He is busy with work on weekdays and is concerned about national affairs. Lin Weimin bothered him with such a trivial matter, so how could the old comrade not understand what he meant?
"Can't you be a little patient when you ask for help?"
Lin Weimin was a notorious troublemaker in the field of culture and propaganda, but he also made many contributions, so the old comrades did not look down on him.
Lin Weimin smiled embarrassedly, "I'm sorry to trouble you, I'm just anxious to contribute to the urban construction of Yanjing!"
The old comrade chatted with him for a few words, and finally said: "Wait and see, there should be news in the next two days. The comrades in Yanjing also need to comprehensively consider the planning and construction of the city."
"Yes, yes, I understand. I'm sorry to trouble you!"
After a brief chat, Lin Weimin wanted to hang up the phone. The leader was very busy and he didn't want to take up too much of his time.
Unexpectedly, the old comrade asked out of the blue, "When are you going to write a new book?"
To Lin Weimin, these words were just like a book friend from Qidian asking the author: Why haven't you updated three more chapters yet?
"Almost there, almost there!" He said perfunctorily and insincerely.
After saying that, he hung up the phone in a hurry without waiting for the leader's response.
He had previously discussed with Ma Dudu and Li Guangfu the idea of building a new library and expanding the museum. After much deliberation, he finally found the leaders of the Ministry of Rites to contact.
This matter of his is a private matter, but if it is implemented in practice, it will be beneficial to the urban construction of Yanjing and will also play a certain role in the cultural publicity of the city, so the leader gave him face and said a word for him.
After waiting for another two days, Lin Weimin finally received a call. It turned out to be from the deputy mayor in charge of urban construction.
The two men made an appointment to go out for dinner, and Lin Weimin talked in detail about his museum and his ideas of expanding the museum and building a new library. Lin Weimin also accompanied the deputy mayor to inspect the surrounding area of the Jinghua Museum.
The deputy mayor stood opposite the museum, looking at the rows of residential houses. "With such a large area and so many people to be mobilized, the cost will probably not be a small amount!"
Lin Weimin didn't believe that this big brother hadn't seen the map of Yanjing before coming. He was in charge of this work, so maybe he already knew the map of Yanjing by heart.
Lin Weimin laughed and said, "It is I who caused trouble for the government. Don't worry, the compensation for demolition will be based on the highest standards. If the city has any other requirements, I will fully cooperate and will not embarrass the government."
With his words, the deputy mayor's face was filled with smiles.
It’s a pleasure to deal with smart people!
The land next to the Jinghua Museum is a commercial and residential area in the future planning of Yanjing City. There is no important deployment. As long as Lin Weimin follows the demolition and compensation standards, Yanjing City will not have any difficulties.
On the contrary, it will gain a museum and a library, which will not only be beneficial to the urban and cultural construction of Yanjing, but also to the spiritual civilization construction of Yanjing citizens. It can be said to be a political achievement of not small size.
This is a good thing for the Yanjing Municipal Government, killing two birds with one stone.
What the deputy mayor fears most is that Lin Weimin will rely on his position as the leader of the Ministry of Rites to ask their government to help with demolition compensation, and then give them a symbolic amount of compensation. If that happens, they will be in a difficult position.
Fortunately, Lin Weimin did not have such thoughts, and the two sides had a very pleasant conversation.
After an on-site investigation with the deputy mayor, the two reached a tacit understanding and determined the framework of cooperation. The rest is the responsibility of the subordinates.
A day later, Ma Dudu received calls from several government departments.
He is the head of Jinghua Museum. After Lin Weimin communicated with the deputy mayor yesterday, he informed him of the matter.
After receiving calls from government departments, Ma Dudu actively visited them one by one.
The leader's words made the soldiers run themselves to pieces. Ma Dudu once again deeply felt the meaning of these words.
But at the same time he had another strong feeling.
He had many opportunities to deal with the government over the years, but this was the first time that he was greeted with a smile, spoke politely, and responded to his requests like this time.
That evening, he invited a director to dinner. In the evening, the two of them came out of the restaurant arm in arm, exchanged some affectionate words like brothers, and then Ma Dudu had the leader sent away.
After the people left, the drunken look on his face disappeared and he exhaled a breath of alcohol.
It's really tiring to have dinner with these officials. It's far less comfortable and relaxing than having dinner with Teacher Lin and the others.
He stood at the door of the hotel for a while, and then saw a Santana stopped in front of him.
Li Guangfu got out of the car and asked with a smile: "Hey! Isn't this Director Ma?"
Facing Li Guangfu's teasing, Ma Dudu laughed and scolded, "Watch your attitude, I will be your client from now on!"
Li Guangfu bowed and said, "I'll follow your instructions!"
After some joking, Ma Dudu pulled Li Guangfu aside and whispered, "I'm telling you, Teacher Lin is in big trouble this time!"
(End of this chapter)
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