Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

Speaking of Huang Yulang’s experience, people are very impressed.

After coming to Xiangjiang at the age of 7, I began to contribute cartoons and columns to newspapers and magazines at the age of 9.

Later, when he was only 13 years old, Huang Yulang dropped out of school and joined the "Times Comics Daily" as a part-time worker and apprentice painter, with a monthly salary of 140 to 200 Hong Kong dollars. However, unfortunately, he lost his job due to the recession in the comics industry.

When he was 16 years old, he borrowed 1,000 yuan from his father as capital to open a comic book club and published the first comic book in his life, "Joke World" weekly.

But because it was his first time starting a business and he was too young, no one was optimistic about the future of this comic, and no publisher was willing to help him publish it.

In desperation, Huang Yulang could only ride a bicycle with his brother to deliver "Joke World" to the newspaper sales point.

However, "Joke World" did not bring success to Huang Yulang, and it closed down after publishing 5 issues.

Later, he co-founded "Entertainment Comics Monthly" with others, but this magazine ceased publication in three months.

After his second entrepreneurial failure, Huang Yulang was completely bankrupt and had no choice but to work for others.

It happened that Cui Wei in the comics industry was eager to recruit people at this time, so Huang Yulang applied to join the Cui Wei Group. This job brought Huang Yulang stable royalties and bonuses, and his income was very good.

But Huang Yulang was not willing to work for others all his life. After settling down for more than a year, Huang Yulang cooperated with the painter He Ke again and started his third business.

This time Huang Yulang finally succeeded. The "Novelty Comics Daily" he founded with He Ke sold more than 12,000 copies a day not long after its publication.

But poor Huang Yulang's success did not last long because of the May storm and the launch of wireless television, which caused everyone to turn their attention to television.

"Xinqi Comics Daily" and "Roxy Comics Daily", which were founded just one year ago, closed down one after another. Afterwards, although Huang Yulang published "Seiko" comics, they were already struggling.

Under such circumstances, most people would probably give up and change careers or go work for someone else.

However, Huang Yulang was not willing to fail like this. In 1969, he jointly founded a Diamond Publishing House with his friends, and two years later he cooperated with others to establish Yulang Book Company.

Although he encountered some difficulties later, such as the "Undesirable Publications Law" passed by Xiangjiang in 1975, which almost knocked Huang Yulang down again, he still tried his best to turn the crisis around.

But I don’t know if Huang Yulang was born with bad luck. When his career was soaring, he encountered the stock market crash in October. This time, Huang Yulang was really hurt.

After reading Huang Yulang's experience, Lin Daoqiu had to admire this man. He really belongs to the type who becomes more courageous with every setback.

But it's a pity that fate seems to have played a joke on him, making him suffer all kinds of hardships all the time.

However, Lin Daoqiu also saw a problem from this investigation report, that is, Huang Yulang was very ambitious and would not be willing to work for others.

Even if you are temporarily inferior to others, you are still preparing for your next turnaround.

Rather than recruiting Huang Yulang, Lin Daoqiu was more optimistic about his subordinate Ma Rongcheng.

Lin Daoqiu remembered that "Wind and Cloud" seemed to have been painted by Ma Rongcheng, and he later left the Yulang Group and founded a publishing house of his own.

Although "The Wind and Cloud" was turned into a movie and did not receive much box office success, the comic and the film and television drama adapted from it have been recalled by many people in later generations, including Lin Daoqiu himself when he was a child.

"Go and contact Ma Rongcheng from Yulang Group and tell him I'll invite him to tea."

Lin Daoqiu called Fang Jinsheng in and asked him to contact Ma Rongcheng.

Fang Jinsheng nodded in agreement, then immediately turned around and went out to make arrangements.

Ma Rongcheng did not know Lin Daoqiu, but he had heard his name countless times.

When he received Lin Daoqiu's invitation to have tea, Ma Rongcheng's first reaction was confusion, but he immediately agreed.

With doubts, Ma Rongcheng arrived at the tea restaurant ten minutes early. He thought he had arrived early enough, but he did not expect that Lin Daoqiu had already sat inside in advance.

"Mr. Ma Rongchengma? Hello, I am Lin Daoqiu."

As soon as Ma Rongcheng entered the tea restaurant, he saw Lin Daoqiu had stood up, and he quickly shook hands with him.

"Hello Mr. Lin, my name is Ma Rongcheng. Nice to meet you."

Although he had never had contact with Lin Daoqiu before, Ma Rongcheng still knew Lin Daoqiu's appearance, but how could such a world-famous man suddenly think of inviting him to tea.

"You seem confused."

Lin Daoqiu asked Ma Rongcheng to sit down and someone poured him a cup of tea immediately.

Ma Rongcheng looked at Lin Daoqiu and nodded. He was now filled with questions and wanted to know immediately why Lin Daoqiu came to find him.

"The situation of Yulang Group seems not to be good recently."

Rumors about the Yulang Group and Huang Yulang have begun. It may not be possible for ordinary people to know the inside story, but Ma Rongcheng believes that if Lin Daoqiu wants to know, he will definitely know more details than himself.

"The company has indeed encountered some difficulties recently, but it has not affected the main business."

Although Yulang Group feels like it is in turmoil now, the sales of comics have not been affected by this.

As for the rest of the things that were caused by Huang Yulang himself, he needs to solve them by himself. Ma Rongcheng has no control over this, and it is impossible for him to interfere in these matters.

"Have you heard of Marvel and DC?"

Lin Daoqiu suddenly asked Ma Rongcheng, the two comic companies, Marvel and DC.

Ma Rongcheng nodded quickly.

"Of course I have. I believe many people have heard of the comics published by these two companies and the superheroes they create."

Although DC and Marvel are not as rampant around the world as they were in later generations, many people are still aware of their existence at this time.

Even if they don’t know the names of these two companies, they must have heard of superheroes such as Batman and Batman.

"I'm acquiring one of these companies."

Ma Rongcheng looked at Lin Daoqiu and didn't know what to say. He didn't expect that Lin Daoqiu would also become interested in comics.

"Neon Mag Company is my industry. In fact, I have already been laying out the animation industry, but you don't know it."

Ma Rongcheng didn't know what to say to Lin Daoqiu's words. He didn't understand why Lin Daoqiu told him these secrets.

"I think the comic industry is a very important entertainment project in the future. I would like to ask you to join the publishing house of New Oriental Pictures as the president."

It was only then that Lin Daoqiu revealed his purpose of inviting Ma Rongcheng here today, which was to poach him to New Oriental.

Ma Rongcheng was completely confused by Lin Daoqiu's sudden olive branch.