nucmednet Chapter 116 Jiang Weimin's Comic Exhibition
Chapter 116 Jiang Weimin's Comic Exhibition
After Jiang Weimin finished drawing the poster, he also drew a design and handed it to Jinan Second Printing and Dyeing Factory.
Soon after, Jinan Second Printing and Dyeing Factory exhibited the posters, which immediately attracted many foreign businessmen to visit.
However, because the clothes have not yet been completed, although many foreign businessmen are interested in these clothes and ask about the prices, everyone is just watching or waiting.
At this moment, Director Hao and Director Zhang of Qingdao No. 1 Printing and Dyeing Factory and Director Zhang of Qingdao No. 2 Printing and Dyeing Factory were called aside by the leader of the trading delegation.
"Old Hao, I have already communicated with Xiao Jiang from Qingdao Publishing House, and they have agreed to help you design clothes."
Upon hearing this news, Director Hao could not help but complain: "The leaders are still the ones who have the final say! Companies like them who only want to collect design fees should be properly rectified."
The leader glared at him and said, "Okay, stop talking nonsense. The publishing house has conditions."
Director Hao quickly asked: "What are the conditions? If you want design fees, then there is no way!"
The leader shook his head and explained, “It’s not about the design fee. Qingdao Publishing House wants to display their comic book at your booth and help promote it.”
Upon hearing this, Director Hao quickly retorted: "Boss, this won't do! We sell high-end fabrics, how can we put them together with comic strips? This is outrageous!"
The leader frowned and said firmly, "I have agreed. If you want Qingdao Publishing House to design clothes, you have to do this."
Director Hao wanted to continue arguing, but was stopped by Director Zhang who advised him, "Director Hao, forget it. Qingdao Publishing House has already made a big concession."
Director Hao was still a little unwilling, but Director Zhang advised: "Director Hao, just do as the leader wants! The leader has already spent a lot of effort to get them to cancel the design fee, so let's not argue about it anymore."
Seeing that Director Hao was still unmoved, Director Zhang continued, "We can put their comic strips in a corner, and the leaders probably won't say anything."
In the end, the two reached an agreement and found Feng Nan from Qingdao Publishing House.
"President Feng, the leadership has made arrangements for you! Let Comrade Jiang Weimin quickly design clothes for us!"
Seeing the arrogant attitude of the two, Feng Nan was not angry. "I'm sorry, directors, we are out of paint and paper. Xiao Jiang went outside the venue to buy paint and paper."
"President Feng, if Comrade Jiang Weimin comes back, please ask him to design for us."
"Don't worry! I'll ask Xiao Jiang to help you design as soon as he gets back."
During this period, Director Zhang from the Second Printing and Dyeing Factory came over several times, but Jiang Weimin had not returned every time.
The next day, Jinan No. 2 Printing and Dyeing Factory expedited the production of the clothes and began to display them.
They still adopted the previous strategy: giving away design drawings for orders over 50.
The exhibition attracted a lot of attention from foreign businessmen at the beginning, and then someone placed an order of 100 million, not only buying the relevant fabrics, but also placing an additional order of 30 clothes.
As the orders were placed, the entire exhibition area of the printing and dyeing factory went completely crazy.
Many people gathered in front of the Qingdao Publishing House booth, hoping to get more opportunities.
"President Feng, please give me two sets of comic books and I will recommend some to you." A man said eagerly to the president of Qingdao Publishing House.
"Isn't this Lao Li? Didn't you say that only a fool would help others to get orders for 2 when you heard that they wanted to get orders for ? Why are you thinking about being a fool again now?" another man teased.
"Then is Qingdao Publishing House someone else? We are all family members, so what's wrong with me helping to recommend it? Let foreigners feel our Chinese culture."
"I don't want to tell you what your purpose is now."
"Aren't you the same?"
Afterwards, almost all printing and dyeing factories placed the comic strips at their booths.
The patterns on these comic strips were all drawn by Jiang Weimin himself. The pictures are vivid and colorful, which are eye-catching.
Many foreign businessmen were very surprised to see the comic strips on the booth. They originally thought that they were just some ordinary decorations.
But when they looked closely, they found that these comic strips contained exquisite patterns and stories, so they stopped to appreciate them.
At the same time, employees from various printing and dyeing factories are actively recommending these comic strips to visitors and introducing in detail the stories and cultural connotations behind them.
They expect these comic strips to attract the attention of foreign businessmen and create the miracle of the next million orders.
On the other side, Director Hao and Director Zhang were rushing to the booth of Qingdao Publishing House in a panic.
The two asked anxiously, "President Feng, where is Comrade Jiang Weimin? When will he start designing clothes for us?"
"Oh, Xiao Jiang has gone to the Oriental Hotel to discuss the contract."
"What? Wasn't he here just now?" Director Hao widened his eyes and said in disbelief.
"Yes, but he had an appointment with the people from the Oriental Hotel, so he left right after helping the Jinan Printing and Dyeing Factory display its clothes."
"How could this happen! Couldn't he finish the design for us before leaving?" Director Hao said with some annoyance.
"I can't help it. His schedule is very tight. If I design for you first, half a day might be gone. And I don't earn any foreign exchange by designing clothes for you, so I have to complete my own task first."
"Humph, you are affecting Qingdao's foreign exchange earning mission." Director Hao said seriously.
“But we have helped the Third Printing and Dyeing Factory achieve Qingdao’s foreign exchange earnings target this year!
Please wait a little longer. I promise to let Xiao Jiang help you draw when he comes back.
However, Director Liu was unyielding: "This was arranged by the leader of the trading group. How dare you go against the leader's instructions?"
"The leader arranged for us to design for you, but we also told the leader that we should give priority to signing the contract ourselves.
And the leader also arranged for you to exhibit our comic strips, why didn’t I see them at your booth?”
Director Liu was speechless, and the two of them turned away angrily. On the way, Director Liu said angrily: "I think Jiang Weimin is deliberately avoiding us!"
Director Hao was also anxious when he saw others win big orders: "Now, I think the leaders don't want to take care of it, what can you do!"
"We went to the hotel to meet him at night and asked him to draw for us in the hotel."
Jiang Weimin did go to the Oriental Hotel to do some business, but he also deliberately wanted to leave the No. 1 and No. 2 Printing and Dyeing Factories alone for two days.
Because the comic book boxes designed by Jiang Weimin are very exquisite and the stories are quite interesting, they attracted many foreign customers to buy them.
But Jiang Weimin only gave away 100 units of the Oriental Hotel for free, and forty or fifty of them were sold in just two days.
Therefore, the staff of the Oriental Hotel contacted Jiang Weimin and expressed their hope to purchase a batch.
When Jiang Weimin arrived at the hotel, Manager Liu had been waiting there for a long time.
"Comrade Jiang, your comic strips are really popular, especially among foreign friends. Our Oriental Hotel would like to purchase some."
"Manager Liu, how much do you plan to purchase?"
"How about one thousand sets?" Manager Liu calculated.
"I'm really sorry, Manager Liu, our publishing house has only printed 2,000 copies of this comic book. How about this, I'll sell you 500 copies, is that okay?"
In the end, Jiang Weimin successfully sold 500 sets of comic books to the Oriental Hotel at a price of one yuan per set and made a huge profit of 500 yuan.