The Bourne Counterattack

Chapter 86 The money has arrived

"I'm sorry, there is money coming into my account. Has it arrived?" Cheng Mo disguised himself, went to Citibank, and asked the teller in English.

"Wait a moment, let me check it for you."

After a while, the teller checked and said, "Mr. William, you remitted the money from Hong Kong. The total amount is US$4,100."

Cheng Mo calculated in his mind that one dollar was equivalent to 2.4 oceans. After deducting the handling fee, ten thousand oceans would be almost the same amount.

According to the current exchange ratio between legal currency and silver dollars, the Dayang reward obtained can be exchanged for at least about 40,000 legal currency.

This is really a huge sum of money.

In this way, there is money for printing novels, and even start-up funds for Dachun's driving business. This is really the "golden belt of murder and arson".

"Can you help me exchange it for 10,000 legal currency?"

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll do the calculation for you..." The teller immediately nodded and agreed. In addition to exchanging the legal currency, he also directly took out one thousand US dollars in cash. He left the rest inside untouched for the time being.

After withdrawing the money.

Cheng Mo directly sent 10,000 legal currency to the 'Zhengdong Library' and personally handed the money to General Manager Wang Hai.

"I have raised the money, hurry up and buy paper and prepare for printing."

"Okay!" Wang Hai trembled. As a businessman, he had seen a lot of money, but this time he was a little shocked by Cheng Mo's generosity.

You have done a good job as an inspector in the patrol room of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau. Why do you have to wade into the muddy waters of "literature"? For love or for fame?

However, he has read the novel "Ghost Husband". In the current concession, it still has the potential to explode, otherwise, he would not go crazy with it.

"Mr. Xiao Cheng, I have found this painter. His surname is Xu. His price-performance ratio is good in the industry. I have packaged the cover and the flower arrangements inside for him. I have drawn up a contract. Take a look. If you can , just sign the contract.”

"What about the painting? I have to see how his painting skills are?"

"These are some of his past covers and illustrations, and this one, this is an advertising painting for cigarettes..."

Cheng Mo took it and took a look. The painter named Xu was quite capable, and the illustrations he drew were quite spirited.

"I just chose him. If the cooperation is good, we can cooperate for a long time in the future and let him draw pictures for the novels we publish." Cheng Mo said.

"Okay, he wants a thousand yuan, what do you think of this price?"

"Yes, but we have stated in the contract that the novel "Ghost Husband" he gave me needs to provide two covers and no less than sixteen illustrations?"

"Mr. Xiao Cheng, didn't you see that the contract between me and him stipulated that there should be no less than forty paintings?"

"The high-quality products I want are not necessarily in quantity. Of course, we will buy the copyright for the rest and we can print New Year's cards and sell them together. President Wang, what do you think of this idea?"

"Okay, this is another point to make money. Mr. Cheng, I found that you are really good at doing business. I feel that your novel will definitely become a hit after it is released!"

Cheng Mo chuckled: "So, you should prepare the printing paper now. Don't worry, the market will be sold out by then. Even if you want to print, you won't be able to sell the paper. By then, others will just pirate it." , this money is earned by others!”

"How much paper should we prepare?"

"Fifty thousand volumes!"

"So many?" Wang Hai was startled.

"How much paper do we have, enough to print how many copies?"

"If we use all the inventory in our warehouse, we can barely print about 20,000 copies. If we want to print 50,000 copies, there will not be enough paper. Moreover, the price of Dowling paper on the market is not cheap now, and no one dares to hoard it. too much……"

"Store, stock up in large quantities, stock up as much as you can, there is not enough money, I will find a way." Cheng Mo's eyes lit up, the war between China and Japan will continue for several years in the future, and the prices of various resources and materials will skyrocket, especially Some strategic materials.

For example, medicines, tung oil, bristles, etc., as long as you have the funds and can hoard them, you can make money in the future.

Some businesses cannot be run without a certain amount of energy, but hoarding Dowling paper is a business that most people will not pay attention to and look down on. In the future, whether it is for personal use or sold to others, there will be no loss.

"Okay, then I'll do as you say." Wang Hai gritted his teeth and nodded. The price of Daolin paper is indeed rising, and it will definitely rise in the future.

"I think we can still get a mortgage..." Cheng Mo thought about the future depreciation of the French currency. The French currency is still strong at the moment. In a year or two, the exchange rate of the French currency to the silver dollar will further expand, and part of the loaned French currency will be converted into silver dollars. , and part of it was used to buy Dowling paper. After the legal currency depreciated, the silver dollars were converted into legal currency and returned to the bank.

Isn't this what the Americans did to empty out the former Soviet Union?

This is a bit cheating the country and harming the public and enriching private interests.

However, if you don't do it, others will still do it. There is no shortage of smart people in this world, and besides, the maximum amount you can do is hundreds of thousands at most.

If there are too many, will the bank become a fool?

There were only so many legal tenders circulating in the concession, so it was not that mysterious. After all, the large-scale devaluation of legal tenders only occurred after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

Wang Hai felt that Cheng Mo was not only a good businessman, but also a profiteer!

He can think of such tricks. This guy can be famous and make a lot of money even if he doesn't write novels. In fact, what he doesn't know is that Cheng Mo only talks on paper and has no practical experience.

This is a journey back in time, focusing on information asymmetry. After the matters at Huajianshe are settled, we wait for the sample book to be sent to the police station for review. Generally, the review of novels is very fast.

As long as it doesn't involve politics or pornography, it can basically be passed in two or three days.

In addition to the public concessions that need to be reviewed, the French concessions also need to be reviewed. The two major concession review agencies are in the political section.

The public concession is easy to deal with, but the French Concession is more difficult to deal with. Generally, you can spend a little money and solve minor problems.

Whether it is pornographic or erotic is not a word in the censor's pen.

But if it involves political or religious issues, it won't be possible even if you spend money. Once found out, no one will dare to take responsibility.

Some newspapers in the concession also began to disclose some information about the massacre committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing, including foreign-language newspapers such as the Chinese-language newspaper "Damei Evening News" and "Zilinxi News" owned by American business capital.

The Japanese were naturally quite annoyed with newspapers that exposed the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing, but the newspapers were located in the concession and were capitalized by Westerners.

They are still afraid of Westerners and do not dare to mess around.

But they are not so polite to the Chinese newspapers in the concession. Anyone who publishes any unfavorable remarks against them, warns, poisons, or even sends bullets and fingers to the editor and the author of the article. Such cases are in the concession. Inside is endless.

The Police Department of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau was naturally very angry. They knew that the Japanese were behind the incident, but they had no good solution.

As long as this type of case does not harm human life, it is just a public security punishment. If you catch the person, you will be detained in the prison cell for a few days, and then you will be released.

These people also have special lawyers to cooperate with them to patrol the houses and fish for people. If there is no talent behind this, there is something wrong.

Cheng Mo's Laozha Police Department has also encountered cases like this, and the number of cases is on the rise. The editor-in-chief and editor of this newspaper are all influential cultural figures. As long as these people have some trivial matters, then There will be a commotion all over the city.

Amid this chaos and noise, Japanese Prime Minister Fumima Konoe issued his first statement to China in the new year.

The statement directly pointed out that "the Japanese government will no longer regard the National Government as its opponent in the future."

It is obvious that the Japanese government has an extremely tough attitude and has no idea of ​​peace talks at all. This completely disillusioned the old man about Germany, Britain and the United States and other countries intervening in the Sino-Japanese war.

Konoe's statement clearly explained to the world Japan's wolf ambition, which is to completely annex China.

As soon as this statement came out, those Japanese fanatics in the Japanese military headquarters who wanted to conquer China by force cheered.

The expansion of the war is inevitable.

This prompted the Wuhan Provisional authorities to abandon all illusions and make up their minds to fight the Japanese army to the end.

Amid the denunciation of Japan across the country, including the isolated island, Cheng Mo's first novel "Ghost Husband" was quietly released on the market. The first batch, 5,000 copies were printed, and 4,000 were printed vertically. Books, a thousand books arranged horizontally.

In fact, Wang Hai also wants to print a thousand copies to test the waters first. If they sell well, he will print more immediately. Anyway, there is still time.

However, Cheng Mo did not agree and demanded that all five thousand copies be printed. In addition, additional printing work was also being prepared, and workers had been recruited in advance.

This time, the goods will be distributed in the Public Concession, the French Concession, and Nanshi. The situation in Zhabei is a little more complicated, and there will be no goods distributed for the time being.

In addition, Cheng Mo also sent some sample books to booksellers in Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other places through the post office.

Because of the exquisite printing, Cheng Mo overcame all objections and priced the book at two yuan and fifty cents per book. The wholesale price is 20% off, and discounts are available for large quantities.

However, when distributing goods, we sell them first and then check out, using a rebate sales model. The more sales we make, the more rebates we get.

This method is not the first, but it is very novel.

Who would spend two and a half cents to buy a casual novel? Most people’s monthly salary is only about twenty yuan, so it was released on the first day.

Only a dozen copies were sold.

And for three consecutive days, sales were bleak, with the highest number of sales being 23 copies in one day.

If you can't sell five thousand books, then you'll lose them in your own hands. Wang Hai looked at so many books and felt worried. Although it wasn't his money that was lost, he had actually invested time and energy.

If this fails, it will be a big blow.

Cheng Mo also understood this situation. In fact, he was very nervous when the novel was launched. If it failed, he would not have much time left for himself.

"President Wang, if you know the address of a famous female movie star in Shanghai, you can send each of them a book, and tell them at the same time that someone will invest in adapting this novel and make it into a movie. You are very optimistic about her becoming a movie star. Heroine, then you spend money to publish a message in the newspaper, saying that the novel "Ghost Husband" is to be adapted into a movie, and the heroine will be auditioned through readers' letters and votes..."

Operation, who doesn’t know how to do it?

It’s just that he didn’t use it at first and thought about using content to win. In the end, he still had to use this method.

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