Parental Love: Jiang Weimin's Life of Lying Down

At Qingdao Publishing House, Song Wenqing sat in his office, listening carefully to Yun Zhou's report.

"President, Police Dog Attack: Chasing the Wind 50 has been distributed to Xinhua Bookstores and Supply and Marketing Cooperatives in major cities, totaling copies. The distribution rule is the one set at the last meeting, which is to give priority to cities where the answers are published in newspapers."

"Okay, so how much do we have left in stock?"

"Since the publication, 20 new copies have been printed and put into storage, and we still have 50 copies in stock. However, there are a lot of follow-up orders from major bookstores and supply and marketing cooperatives. According to my calculations, about 90 copies are needed, but there will definitely be more orders in the future."

"There are orders for sure. Not to mention that the first volume has printed more than 230 million copies, the wonderful plot design of the comic strip is unmatched by other comic strips."

"Indeed, most of the comic strips nowadays are straightforward and the stories progress layer by layer. But in the works of Da Jiang Dong Qu, each story is full of ups and downs, which makes people unable to stop reading. Even I was fascinated by it."

Yun Zhou continued, "I estimate that we can sell at least 250 million copies this time, and the first volume can also sell another 30 copies."

"Well, you should have seen it yesterday. Our publishing house's new printing equipment has arrived and is now being installed and debugged. It is expected that the monthly printing volume will increase by 20 copies."

"If we increase the printing volume by 20 copies a month and add the existing equipment, we can print a total of 50 copies a month."

"That's right." Song Wenqing nodded.

"President, at this rate, we will be able to print 160 million copies by the end of next month. This way, we will be able to get all the orders this time, and we won't need Shandong Publishing House to print for us anymore."

"So you need to plan your distribution appropriately before the new equipment is installed."

"President, I will send another 20 copies to major cities and supply and marketing cooperatives this month, and the shipment to small local cities will be postponed for two months. Starting from next month, we will be able to guarantee a monthly circulation of 2 copies."

"Okay, that's it. We can take all the orders in three months. Then we can print the next volume of The River Goes East."

"Boss, I just want to take a good rest for a few days after I hand in this work. In the past few months, all the major bookstores have really annoyed me. People call every day to urge orders."

In fact, although Yun Zhou has been a little troubled recently, he still feels very happy in his heart.

After all, although many people were urging him to place orders, they also said a lot of compliments at the same time. He hadn't felt the feeling of being complimented for a long time since he started working as a distributor.

In the past, he had to beg all the major bookstores and supply and marketing cooperatives to get the goods, but now the situation is reversed.

Song Wenqing smiled and replied, "It will be even busier in the future, but after this period, the salary of everyone in our publishing house will be increased by one level!"

Hearing this, Yun Zhou laughed happily. He quickly thanked the president: "Thank you, President!"

In the afternoon, Song Wenqing organized a meeting of all departments and listened to the reports of each department on the progress of new equipment installation, raw material procurement, personnel allocation, etc. He asked all departments to speed up the progress and make every effort to ensure the printing volume.

Time flies, and half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

On that day, Liu Kuo, a distributor of Shandong Publishing House, reported to Li Changfeng: "President, Qingdao Publishing House has only distributed 70 copies of the newly released book "Police Dog Attack - Wind Chase" in major Xinhua Bookstores and supply and marketing cooperatives."

After hearing the news, Li Changfeng nodded and thought it was useful, then signaled Liu Kuo to go out first.

He immediately called Song Wenqing and said, "Old Song, your publishing house has been in the limelight recently!"

Song Wenqing smiled and replied, "No, no, compared with your Shandong Publishing House, we still have a big gap. There are not many painters here, so we can't compare with you."

Li Changfeng said quickly, "Old Song, don't be so modest. I heard that your newly published comic book is not printed in sufficient quantities. Do you need help?"

Song Wenqing said gratefully: "Old Li, you are really well-informed! But we really don't need to bother you this time, our new equipment will be installed soon."

Li Changfeng still insisted on helping him and expressed his willingness to lower his profit requirement from 40% to 30%. However, Song Wenqing once again rejected his kindness, saying that he had sufficient production capacity to meet market demand.

In the end, Li Changfeng even lowered his profit requirement to 20%, but Song Wenqing still firmly stated that there was no problem with their output and no additional help was needed.

"It's really not necessary this time. Our printing volume can meet the needs of the order. Lao Li, I don't want to talk to you anymore. The editor wants me to go over for a meeting. I'll hang up first." After saying that, he quickly hung up the phone.

"You are such an old fox. If you were to print, you would take all my orders."

After hanging up the phone, Li Changfeng smiled and shook his head, muttering in his heart: This old Song will not be fooled! But he didn't care, he just wanted to give it a try, after all, it's better to try it first. Then, he called the secretary and ordered: "Go and call Editor Hao and Liu Kuo."

Not long after, editor Hao and distributor Liu Kuo from Shandong Publishing House walked into the office. Li Changfeng looked at Liu Kuo and asked, "Liu Kuo, have you found the painter named Da Jiang Dong Qu from Qingdao Publishing House that I asked you to inquire about last time?"

Liu Kuo replied: "President, there is no definite news yet, but according to my investigation, Liu Shuo, the editor of Qingdao Publishing House, bought a lot of gifts and went to Songshan Island a while ago."

"and then?"

"They sold so many copies of the first comic book, so they must have visited the painter's home to maintain their relationship. I suspect that Da Jiang Dong Qu might be in Songshan Island, but I have not been able to find the time. I originally planned to report to you after this busy period and go to Songshan Island in person to verify the situation."

Li Changfeng waved his hand and said, "Okay, got it, go ahead and get busy!"

"Editor Hao, do we have any painters who don't have any painting tasks?" Li Changfeng asked.

Editor Hao thought for a moment and said, "President, two painters have just finished their paintings and were planning to take a break for a while."

The president frowned and said, "Have a good talk with them. Don't rest. I have a mission here."

"Boss, what's the mission?"

"Have you read the comic strip 'Police Dogs Attack' published by Qingdao Publishing House?"

Editor Hao replied, "I have read it, President. The plot is very well designed, but the painter's painting skills are a little weak."

The president nodded and said, "That's right, but how come the artist has such a poor foundation and still sold so many copies? That's because the plot is well designed."

Editor Hao suddenly realized: "Yes, President."

The president then said, “You still haven’t grasped the point!”

Editor Hao asked in confusion: "President, what is the point you are talking about?"

The president pointed at editor Hao excitedly and said, "The point is, doesn't it say 'based on the real events of the Qingdao Criminal Investigation Team' on the comic strip? If they are looking for the Qingdao Criminal Investigation Team, can't we look for the Jinan Criminal Investigation Team?"

Editor Hao immediately understood and said excitedly: "The president is wise!"

The president smiled proudly and said, "I have already informed the leaders of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. Tomorrow you will take the two painters and the famous screenwriter to the Municipal Public Security Bureau to see Director Sun. Ask him to take you to learn about the major cases in recent years and turn these cases into comic strip stories. In this way, we can also publish one or several similar works."

Editor Hao said excitedly, "Okay, President. I'll arrange it right away."

"There is one more thing that needs to be dealt with. Find a mature and steady editor to go to Songshan Island and look for the painter named 'The Great River Flows East'. Once he is found, he must be brought into our Shandong Publishing House. For this painter, we can directly assess him as Grade Three."

If Jiang Weimin knew that all this was planned and operated by Li Changfeng, he would definitely admire President Li's business acumen.

President Li obviously has the mindset of a large Internet company, first acquiring resources through acquisitions, and then copying and imitating.

This method can not only quickly improve one's own strength, but also effectively attack competitors.