Chapter 51 Otaku in the 1980s
In the afternoon of that day, Lin Ping flew to the Port City with two anime videotapes.
When Lin Ping came to the company, Gu Qingshan, Qian Jin and Sun Ming were busy decorating office desks and chairs.
"Why are you three working and not hiring workers?" Lin Ping asked the first sentence as he looked at the three of them sweating profusely.
The three of them obviously didn't expect Lin Ping to return to Hong Kong so soon, and there was a hint of surprise in their surprise.
"The three of us will do this job. Why are we doing that kind of money in vain? By the way, look at your office, how are we arranged it?" Qian Jin said and pointed to the room next door.
Lin Ping followed Qian Jin's finger to the general manager's office.
When Lin Ping opened the door, he had only two words in his heart: "What a rustic!"
However, in order to express recognition of the work of the three brothers, Lin Ping still said against his will: "It's not bad, it's very clean and elegant."
These three goods have not learned anything else these days when they came to Hong Kong, and they actually placed a second official in the company.
Looking at Mr. Guan Er who had been burned with fragrance, Lin Ping was really speechless. If a customer came at this time, those who didn't know would think that this was a club.
Although Guan Erye is Wucai God, Lin Ping feels out of place in the company.
Could it be that when Mr. Guan Er himself came to earth to be the spokesperson for himself when he couldn't sell his game? It's better to begging for himself than asking for gods. Even if such strange things happened to Lin Ping, he still didn't believe that there were ghosts and gods in this world.
"When you came in just now, we thought we were looking at Feng Shui again. The people in this port city are also magical. Our company has just started to renovate. Why do those masters who look at Feng Shui know one by one? There have been seven or eight waves of people in the past two days." Gu Qingshan obviously doesn't understand why these people who look at Feng Shui know that there is business here. Obviously, he doesn't know that in later generations, this information leak is even more rampant. This must be the property in this building being sold, and whenever a new company moves in, someone will sell the information to those Feng Shui masters.
"Those people can calculate, maybe they can calculate that we are going to open a business! Originally, our brother and third brother were a little embarrassed, but they heard that all companies would set up a plan to make money and make some Feng Shui objects. Seeing these people coming to the door one after another, we planned to ask them to help us take a look. But their price is really bad. It costs 5,000 Hong Kong dollars to set up a plan to make a plan. Later, we simply put on this Guan Erye. Guan Erye is in a position where there is no Feng Shui that can't be evenly matched?" Sun Ming deliberately put on a Guan Erye when he spoke.
After hearing what they said, Lin Ping suddenly felt that these three goods were definitely not for Feng Shui. The reason why he was named Guan Erye was to let those who came to the door to get out of the trouble.
As a thorough northerner, Guan Erye does not seem to have many temples. These three people are obviously not the masters who pray to God and Buddha.
"How is it? Are you still used to staying here at night?" Lin Ping looked at the two upper and lower bunks in one of the rooms, and there was no quilt on the bunk at this time, so he looked at the three of them with concern and asked.
"It's quite comfortable to live, but it's really inconvenient to not be able to cook here! Although there are small restaurants everywhere outside, it's too expensive. We are thinking that there will be nothing to do these days, and the three of us plan to go out to find a job. We have to earn a little, so we can't let you subsidize the three of us all the time. It's really inappropriate to take your money with hands and feet. You said that you can't take us out and have a lot of money here all day, right?" When Gu Qingshan said this, he looked at Qian Jin and Sun Ming first, and then stared at Lin Ping very seriously and said.
Lin Ping thinks that the sincerity and loyalty of the three people should not be a big problem. At least now, if there is no large amount of money flow, the three people can trust 100%.
"I brought you out just to start a business. This company also requires manpower. Could it be that I will let you do coolies? I will recruit a few more outsiders? It is normal for no jobs for the time being. After all, the company has just started, but the work will only get busier and busier in the future. Now I will arrange some work for you, and you will buy 200 blank videos to bring them back, and when you come back, you will rent two video recorders and a color TV. In addition, you will run errands to find some magazines that specialize in publishing cartoons of villains. In the next few days, I will arrange for you to negotiate with the local TV station and magazines in Hong Kong, and also to publish new companies. You must be mentally prepared." Lin Ping arranged a job for the three people in one sentence.
When the three of them heard this, they immediately put down their work, went to the bathroom to wash their faces, and hurried out.
Regarding the communication between local magazines and TV stations and distribution companies, Lin Ping felt that although the three brothers were the Oriental Pearl, from the perspective of animation, Lin Ping was not afraid that the three of them would mess up. People always have to grow, and growth would inevitably cost them. Fortunately, they are in Hong Kong now, and they are not afraid that the three of them will cause any trouble.
After watching the three of them leave the company, Lin Ping also came to the Three Musketeers Law Firm.
However, when Lin Ping arrived, Lawyer Liu was not in the office if he had a case to appear in court today.
"Mr. Lin, what can I do to help you?" a fat little man with glasses came over and asked.
"I want to ask you to help me check some things. I want the contact information of all the animation magazines, TV stations and video tape distribution companies in the Neon Country market. I wonder if you have any relationship there, can you help me contact me? I also need Wanwan, Li Jiapo, and the contact information of the Casino. Our company plans to promote an animation work, so I want to contact the channels from various places to see if there are any partners who are willing to negotiate." Lin Ping said truthfully.
After hesitating for a while, the fat man put on his glasses and said, "We do have business partners in Neon Country. I can ask them to help you check the contact information of these companies. But we have no business dealings in Lijiapo, and I'm afraid... But my college classmate is in Lijiapo, so I can call him. As for the casino, there is no problem."
Hearing that the other party could completely help him solve the urgently needed contact information, Lin Ping stretched out his hand gratefully.
"Thank you very much, for those of us who have just started a business, you have indeed helped a lot."
The little fat man hurried forward and reached out to hold Lin Ping tightly.
"It's just a small thing, you don't have to be polite. But I'm very curious. Do you have any animation works that you actually want to enter the Neon Country market. Can you lend me a book to read? I really like animation. I have been reading it since I was a child. I have more than 2,000 comic books in my house! I have almost all the comics from all over the world. My mother even said that these books can be opened in an animation library." The fat man looked a little honest when he said this.
However, Lin Ping did not care how many comic books he had at home. After all, more than 2,000 books were not a huge number for later otakus.
It was just that this era surprised Lin Ping a little, and he couldn't help but look at the fat man in front of him for a while.
"In an era when the overall number of animation works was scarce, one person owned so many books? Does this guy have a mine at home? Obviously, many books need to be purchased from abroad. This cannot be done by one volume of 10 yuan." Lin Ping was full of doubts.
"You buy so many books, won't your parents get angry? Even if you buy more than 2,000 books every year, it will take 20 years. Depending on your age, you will probably only be in your early 20s. I believe that you have saved up 2,000 books in just 10 years. Just based on buying 200 books a year, your purchasing power is good!" When meeting a otakus in this era, Lin Ping had to take a closer look. After all, this kind of person is probably his potential customer, and he is also a fat customer with a mine at home.
When the little fat man heard Lin Ping analyze him like this, he was both proud and a little embarrassed.
"My parents won't be angry. I bought them with my pocket money! Actually, I have a secret. The books I originally bought were far more than 2,000. But my father agreed to me that my books could only be placed in my room, not in his study. If my books were placed randomly, he would throw them into the basement or garage. Later, I gave all the damaged and incomplete sequences to my classmates." The little fat man might think that Lin Ping was a cartoon, and he felt a little intimate and said everything to him.
But his words gave Lin Ping more information. In the Port City, there is an independent study, a basement and a garage, which is obviously a luxury house. Could it be that this kid really has a mine in his home?
"The anime we make in our company is not comics, but cartoons played on TV. If you are interested, you can come to our company to see it after get off work. But the premise is that you have to help me with the address books I want." Lin Ping didn't mind that the two works he copied were watched, after all, more people would soon see these.
The little fat man seemed a little excited when he heard this: "Don't worry, I'll help you with it within an hour!"
After saying that, the fat man was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he quickly ran back to his work station to call. In order to get it done within an hour, he not only used various channels of the law firm, but also used many of his own personal relationships. Fortunately, he did not break his promise and got more than 30 telephone messages within an hour.
Chapter completed!