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After putting down the telephone receiver, Yang Chaoye smiled and said to Su Cheng, "You were right, it was Li Shuai calling."

"Why not just have him come up? The office on the third floor is crowded and small," Su Cheng suggested.

"Okay, I'll call him and ask him to come up," Yang Chaoye nodded.

Afterward, he made a call to Xia Yi Media Company.

About five minutes later, Li Shuai strode into the president's office.

"Boss, Director Yang."

"Yes, come over and sit on the sofa, let's chat there," Su Cheng said with a smile.

"Okay."

"Are those two in your hand the sample copies of the next issue of 'The Long Road of Life' Weekly?" Su Cheng noticed that Li Shuai was holding two weekly magazines with covers different from the first issue of "The Long Road of Life."

The protagonist on the cover had become Conan, sitting on a chair with his legs crossed, propping his chin with one hand, looking very shrewd.

"Yes, Boss, you guessed right. I specifically brought these up for you and Director Yang to take a look," Li Shuai said with a smile, handing one of them to Su Cheng.

"You've finished reading the first issue, and you're bored sitting here, right? Here's the second issue, take it and read it slowly," Su Cheng turned around and handed the comic weekly to Guan Jiahui with a smile.

"Brother, you're the best! After reading the first issue, I couldn't wait to continue reading the following story. I didn't expect to be able to read it so soon," Guan Jiahui happily took the comic weekly.

After speaking, she ignored Su Cheng and the others again, sitting on the chair next to the desk and slowly reading.

If there weren't other people present, she would have rushed up and given Su Cheng a passionate kiss.

Su Cheng and Yang Chaoye returned to the sofa again, and Li Shuai followed.

"It hasn't been long, and the comics have already been published. Your speed is quite fast!" Su Cheng said to Li Shuai.

"Boss, the main reason is that the detailed outline you provided was too detailed. You didn't even need to design the character avatars. Therefore, the artists don't have to think about anything. As long as they have drawing skills, their speed will naturally be very fast. The content of this issue was actually finished in one day. It's just that, in order to sell more of our magazines and extend the life cycle of the comics, we chose to make it a weekly magazine," Li Shuai explained.

"Let me take a look at the content. I've been talking to Director Yang about work matters and haven't had time to look at it yet," Su Cheng took the first issue of "The Long Road of Life" magazine and opened the first page.

"Xiao Ai, help me compare it with the original. What's the situation?" At the same time, he quickly flipped through the magazine, letting Xiao Ai scan the contents of the comic weekly.

"Master, after comparing with the original, the similarity between 'Dragon Ball' and the original is 98%, and the similarity between 'Detective Conan' and the original is 97%. The two comics basically only have some deviations in the details, and some are even better than the original. The evaluation level can reach S grade," Xiao Ai quickly gave the answer.

"In the early stage, after strict screening, we hired four talented and morally upright artists. Two people are responsible for one comic. Because a comic weekly only publishes one comic, this serialization speed is too fast. Therefore, after a decision, we initially put two comics together on the newly created 'The Long Road of Life' comic weekly. This can be regarded as our test run, and the result is naturally gratifying. We have achieved great success.

Currently, we are still continuing to recruit artists to serve as ghostwriters for other comics. It is expected that a total of 20 comic artists will be recruited. The success of the 'The Long Road of Life' test run has also filled us with confidence in the subsequent comic works. Therefore, our initial plan is to establish ten comic project teams in the later stage, specifically for these ten comics, to create ten comic magazines. If the content is not enough, advertisements will make up for it. At that time, we will appropriately increase some plot and add some youth advertisements.

After "The Long Road of Life" has been serialized for several issues and the readers are stable, we will split "Dragon Ball" and "Detective Conan" from "The Long Road of Life" into two magazines for serialization.

We first issued it this Friday. We only stocked 10,000 copies on the first day, and directly printed 20,000 additional copies on the second day. Today is the third day, and the stock quantity has reached 30,000 copies, but the logistics department told me that today's 30,000 copies are also about to be sold out. Many bookstores called to order at noon, and we can only satisfy a portion of the bookstores at present.

However, we estimate that today is already the peak of sales. Sales will decline next, and being able to sell 100,000 copies is already beyond imagination.

Currently, we are preparing to enter our traditional Chinese market in Bay Bay, Hao Jiang, and Xinjiapo with the comic weekly. At that time, sales of 200,000 to 300,000 will not be a problem. If ten comics are serialized at the same time, the ideal state is that we can sell millions of comic weeklies per issue. Coupled with advertising fees, Xia Yi Media Company's revenue will definitely become the leading enterprise among Su's Group's many subsidiaries.

In the future, when we develop more overseas markets, our income will be even greater. Like Dongying, there are 115 million people there, and there are many young people who like comics. If we can develop the market there, our income will be at least dozens of times that of Xiangjiang."

Li Shuai introduced the recent development of the comic department in great detail, and was extremely excited at the end.

He had never thought that a media company that was originally on the verge of bankruptcy could not only be brought back to life, but also become a company with monthly revenue of tens of millions, and this revenue is still continuously increasing.

This revenue capability is already more powerful than many listed companies in Xiangjiang.

"You have done very well. After these comics have been tested by the Xiangjiang market, we must promptly develop overseas markets. Comic works or literary works are different from other products. They are very vulnerable to piracy. Therefore, in addition to Bay Bay, Xinjiapo, and Hao Jiang, which are markets we can control, other markets should be expanded and sold through cooperation.

In this era, publications inevitably get pirated by pirates. In Xiangjiang, we can still suppress these pirates, but it won't work overseas.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake. It is impossible for us to monopolize all the benefits. We cannot compete with the locals at all. It is better to open up cooperation and cooperate with the strongest publishers in the local overseas market, giving up a part of the profits and letting the local partners manage these pirates. In this way, we can not only quickly open up the overseas market, but also occupy more market share."

Yang Chaoye is indeed an experienced professional executive, imparting some experience to Li Shuai.

"I very much agree with Director Yang's words. Li Zong, your company's next development strategy should follow this plan," Su Cheng nodded.