Chapter 369

"Hello, Mr. Smith. I'm Chen Ze." Chen Ze said. He looked at the man in front of him. He had white hair and a pair of glasses. At a glance, he looked like a scholar.

Chen Ze remembers the background of Mr. Smith. He was a professor at Washington University in the United States before he went into business and joined the Lando Bookstore Group.

His present image is very consistent with his background.

Thinking of this, Chen Ze smiles again. Just before he came in, he thought that the beautiful woman was Mr. Smith, but it turned out that she was his secretary.

But his secretary is so beautiful, and both of them work in the same room for a long time. Won't anything happen?

Although no matter what happens or not, it has nothing to do with Chen Ze, but he always has some "malicious" thoughts in his heart. After all, it seems that the American people often have problems.

"Hello, Mr. Chen Ze and Miss Lin Lan. Please have a seat." Smith's words, let Chen Ze from the "malicious" guess back to reality.

He looked at Smith's smiling face, nodded with the same smile, and sat down. Although Chen Ze doesn't know English very well, he can understand this simple sentence, please sit down.

But then, Chen Ze was completely caught in the fog.

"Mr. Chen Ze, Miss Lin Lan, on behalf of Lando group, I would like to welcome you to our country. I hope you can enjoy the rich culture and beautiful scenery of our country during your stay here."

Smith has a pure New York accent. Although his speaking speed is not fast, Chen Ze still doesn't understand him at all. He could only smile and nod at Smith's words.

Fortunately, with Lin Lan by her side, as a student in the United States for many years, she heard Smith's words, but there was no obstacle.

"Thank you Mr. Smith and Lando group for your invitation. New York is a good place. I believe Chen Ze and I will have a good time these days." Lin Lan said that the pronunciation is equally standard.

"Hello, Lin Lan, what are you talking about?" Chen Ze pulled Lin Lan's sleeve and asked in a low voice.

"Mr. Smith said that we are welcome to accept the invitation of Lando group to visit the United States." Lin Lan translated Smith's words to Chen Ze.

"Lando group has been committed to the cultural exchange between the East and the west, and has translated and published a large number of cultural books and periodicals. In recent years, the cartoon industry of Huaxia has been developing rapidly. This time, we are cooperating with you new cartoon magazine and Mr. Chen Ze and Ms. Lin Lan. We hope to promote Huaxia cartoon in the United States and become another important way of cultural exchange between the East and the West. "

Smith knew that Chen Ze didn't seem to understand English. After Lin Lan finished translating for Chen Ze, he said with a smile.

After hearing this, Lin Lan immediately translated it to Chen Ze.

"Mr. Smith, we are also looking forward to this cooperation. As you said, if our Chinese cartoons can be popularized in the United States, it will really make an important contribution to the cultural exchange between the East and the West." Chen Ze also said with a smile.

After he said this, Lin Lan translated it to Smith.

Smith nodded after hearing this: "yes, I really like this cooperation. I also think it may be one of the main businesses of Lando group in the next few decades."

After decades of development, Lando group has reached the limit of its traditional publishing business. Nowadays, with the development of the Internet, the traditional publishing industry has been seriously impacted, and many traditional publishing houses even fall into the crisis of bankruptcy.

And Landu group with deep foundation, under this impact, tenacious survived. But in fact, vitality has also been quite hurt, whether it is the turnover or the market crowd, are constantly shrinking.

In order to maintain the development of the whole Lando group, it is bound to expand new business and new business methods. At this time, as a senior executive of Lando group, Smith's eyes are projected on the Oriental cartoon industry.

In the past, Oriental comics were not popular in the United States, so most people thought that Oriental comics were meaningless to their own market. But Smith does not think so. Unpopularity does not necessarily mean that there is no market.

For the whole western publishing house, it is a treasure that has not yet been excavated. Who can master him, who may grasp the foundation of a foothold in the new era.

So Smith contacted Lin Lan and invited them to the United States.

"Our magazine is also quite interested in this cooperation. If we can really reach cooperation this time, I think it will be a win-win situation for both of us." Chen Ze said with a smile.Chinese and Oriental comics, for the west, is an undeveloped treasure. In the western market, this is not the case for Chinese comics.

If you can really promote your own comics in the whole west and the world. Let's not say how much influence it will bring to us. Just in making money, I'm afraid it will bring a terrible improvement.

Chen Ze and Lin Lan also attach great importance to this cooperation.

"It's good that we can reach a consensus on this." Smith listened to Lin Lan's words, slightly nodded, "but for our cooperation, there are still some obstacles."

"Hindrance, what hindrance?" After hearing this, Lin Lan translated it to Chen Zehou and immediately asked. Chen Ze also looks at Smith with a puzzled face.

"Some people in our group think that it is meaningless to cooperate with you. They don't agree that our group will tilt too much resources for this cooperation." Smith shrugged helplessly and made a standard western expression.

Chen Ze and Lin Lan nodded after listening. They knew before they came that this cooperation was definitely not so simple. After all, the repercussions of Chinese comics in the West and the United States were not very good.

Therefore, the cooperation between myself and Lando group will not be smooth sailing this time. It is normal for some people to have doubts or even oppose their cooperation.

Just as Chen Ze thinks, not all the senior executives of Lando group support the cooperation with Chen Zelin LAN to introduce and promote Huaxia comics. Even Smith's opinion only accounts for a small part of the whole senior management group, and most of them are against it.

They don't think Huaxia's comics can be popularized in the United States. Chen Ze, a cartoonist in his twenties, is even more distrusted by the executives of rando group.

It was Smith who insisted on his opinion and even threatened to resign to invite Chen Ze and Lin Lan this time.

"But it doesn't matter. I have reached an agreement with them. As long as Mr. Chen Ze can complete one thing, our group will agree to this cooperation, and will devote a lot of resources to the promotion of your comics." Said Smith.

"What happened? What's the matter? " Chen Ze Leng Leng, after listening to Lin Lan's translation, he did not expect that Smith would say this.

The cooperation between themselves and them actually needs to accomplish one thing. But in order to achieve cooperation with Lando group, no matter what it is, I will try my best to complete it.

"Our group will give you a small bookstore to do experiments. In one day, no matter what means you use, if that bookstore can sell 500 copies of your comics, then our group will agree to cooperate with you this time, otherwise..." Smith said.

"Five hundred!" Chen Ze thought about it in his heart. This is actually quite difficult. If it's in China, with its popularity, a bookstore sells 500 copies a day. It's a very easy thing. You don't have to do anything at all. Just play your own brand.

But now it's in the U.S., a country with almost no reputation of its own. Here, it's really difficult to sell 500 comic books in one day.

However, no matter what difficulties he faces, Chen Ze will never escape: "OK, Mr. Smith, I will promise this time!"