Chapter 86.

“Excuse me, I have a sum of money coming in on this account, has it arrived yet?” Cheng Mo disguised himself and came to Citibank, asking the teller a question in English.

“Just a moment, I’ll check it for you.”

A few moments later, the teller checked and said, “Mr. William, this money of yours was remitted from Hong Kong, a total of four thousand one hundred dollars.”

Cheng Mo silently calculated in his heart, one US dollar is equivalent to 2.4 yankees, ten thousand yankees minus the handling fee, arriving at almost this figure.

According to the current exchange ratio between French currency and silver dollars, the ocean reward in hand could at least be exchanged for almost forty thousand French dollars or so.

This was still a huge amount of money.

In this way, the money for printing the novels would be available, and even the start-up capital for Dachun’s car dealership would be available, which was really a “gold belt for killing and setting fire”.

“Can you exchange ten thousand French dollars for me?”

“Can, you wait a moment, I’ll give you a calculation …… “The teller immediately nodded yes, in addition to exchanging out the French currency, he also directly take out one thousand U.S. dollars in cash, the rest of it, he put it inside for the time being did not move.

After taking out the money.

Cheng Mo directly sent ten thousand French dollars to the ‘Zhengdong Library’ and personally handed the money over to General Manager Wang Hai.

“I’ve raised the money, grab the paper and prepare for printing.”

“Good!” Wang Hai shivered, as a businessman, he had seen even more money, but this time he was a bit stunned by Cheng Mo’s big spending.

Why do you have to get involved in the muddy waters of “literature” when you’re doing a good job as an inspector of the Ministry of Public Works, for the love of it, or for the sake of fame?

However, he has read the novel “Ghost Husband”, in the current rental world, still has the potential to burst into flames, otherwise, he will not accompany the crazy.

“General Cheng, this painter I found a good, surnamed Xu, he this person in the industry’s cost-effective is good, I packaged the cover and inside the flower arrangement to him, the contract are drawn up, you look at it, if you can, sign the contract.”

“What about the paintings, I’ll have to see how well he paints?”

“This is some of his past cover and illustration works, and, this one, this is an advertising painting for cigarettes ……”

Cheng Mo took it and looked at it, this artist surnamed Xu was still very capable, and the illustrations he drew were all more spiritual.

“Just pick him, if the cooperation is good, we can cooperate for a long time in the future, let him specialize in painting the novels we publish.” Cheng Mo said.

“OK, he asked for a thousand dollars, how do you feel about this price?”

“Yes, but let’s write on the contract that he needs to provide two covers as well as no less than sixteen illustrations for this Ghost Husband novel of mine?”

“Mr. Cheng, didn’t you see that the contract agreement between me and him is no less than forty pictures?”

“I want fine art, not necessarily quantity, of course, for the rest, we’ll buy the copyrights and can print out New Year’s cards, just to match the sales, President Wang, what do you think of this idea?”

“Good, this is another point of earning money, Mr. Cheng, I found out, you are really good at doing business, I feel that this novel of yours will definitely explode when it hits the market!”

Cheng Mo heatedly smiled, “So, you now hurry to prepare the printing paper, don’t by then, is the market sold out of goods, even if you want to print this side, can’t sell the paper, by then, other people as long as a pirate, this money to others to earn!”

“Then how much paper do we prepare?”

“A quantity of 50,000 copies!”

“That much?” Wang Hai was startled.

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

“If we use all the stock in our warehouse, we can barely print about 20,000 books, if we want to print 50,000 books, there is not enough paper, and the price of Daolin paper on the market is not cheap now, everyone dares not hoard too much ……”

“Hoard, hoard in large quantities, hoard as much as you can, not enough money, I’ll figure it out.” Cheng Mo’s eyes lit up, the war between China and Japan will be fought for several years in the future, the price of all resources and materials will soar, especially some strategic materials.

For example, medicine, tung oil, pig bristles and so on, as long as there are funds, can be hoarded, the future are able to earn money.

There are some businesses that can’t be done without a certain amount of energy, but hoarding dowry paper, this business is not something that the average person would pay attention to or look at, and in the future, no matter if it’s for their own use or to sell it to someone else, it won’t be a loss.

“Okay, then do as you say.” Wang Hai clenched his teeth and nodded, the price of Dowling paper was indeed rising, and it was definitely going to rise in the future.

“I think, we can also mortgage ……” Cheng Mo thought about the future depreciation of the French currency, right now the French currency is still quite strong, wait for a year or two, the French currency to silver dollar exchange rate will further expand, the loaned French currency, part of it will be exchanged for silver dollars, and part of it will be taken to buy the Dowling paper, and when the French currency is devalued, then the silver dollars will be exchanged for French dollars and returned to the bank.

Isn’t this the same thing the Americans did when they emptied the former Soviet Union?

It’s a bit of a pitfall for the country, at the expense of the public and the private sector.

However, you do not do, others will do, the world does not lack of smart people, and how much they can get, at most a few hundred thousand to the top.

More, when the bank is not a fool? The French currency circulating in the rented area is so much, so, it is not so mysterious, after all, the large-scale depreciation of the French currency is still after the victory of the war.

Wang Hai feels that Cheng Mo is not only a good businessman, but also a treacherous businessman! Such tricks can come up with, this guy even if not rely on writing novels, can also be famous to earn a lot of money, in fact, he does not know is that Cheng Mo is also on paper, there is no practical experience.

This is crossing back, the main one information asymmetry. After dealing with things on the side of the Flower Room Society, we are waiting for the sample book to be sent to the Police Department for review, and the review within the general novel is very fast.

As long as it does not involve politics and pornography, basically two or three days will be able to pass.

In addition to the public sector need to review, the French Concession also need to review, the two major Concession review organization are in the political unit.

The public concession side is good, the French Concession side is difficult to say, usually spend a little money, a little rubbing small problems can pass.

Whether it’s pornography or erotica is not yet a word from the censor’s pen.

But if it involves politics or religion, then even if you spend money, you can’t pass, once found out, after all, no one dares to take the responsibility.

Some newspapers in the Concession also began to disclose some information about the Japanese massacres in Nanking, including the Chinese-language newspapers such as the American-American capital’s Great American Evening News and foreign-language newspapers such as the Zilinxi Newspaper.

The Japanese were naturally quite annoyed by this type of newspapers that disclosed the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Nanking, but the newspapers were located in the Concession and were capitalized by Westerners.

They were still fearful of the Westerners and did not dare to mess around.

But they were not so polite to the Chinese newspapers in the Concession. But whenever they published any unfavorable remarks against them, warnings, poisoning, or even sending bullets and fingers to the chief editors and the authors who wrote the articles, these kinds of cases were endless in the Concession.

The Police Department of the Works Bureau was naturally quite annoyed, knowing full well that the Japanese were behind it, but there was nothing much that could be done about it.

But this kind of cases, do not hurt people’s lives, is a public security punishment, caught people, locked up for a few days in the classroom, and then have to release the people.

These people also have specialized lawyers to cooperate with the police to fish for people, if there is no talent behind this ghost it.

Cheng Mo where the old gate arrest room also encountered such cases, and the number of cases is on the rise, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, editors, that are influential cultural people, these people as long as there is a little bit of a small thing, that will make a big mess in the city.

In this chaotic noise, the Japanese Prime Minister Kono Fumitsu issued his first statement to China in the new year.

The statement directly pointed out that “the Japanese government will no longer take the national government as a rival”.

Obviously, the Japanese government attitude is extremely tough, there is no idea of any peace talks, which makes the old man of Germany, Britain and the United States to mediate the Sino-Japanese war of illusions completely shattered.

Konoe’s statement this time, clearly explains to the world Japan’s wolf ambition, is completely annexed China.

As soon as this statement came out, those maniacal Japanese who conquered China by force in the main camp of the Japanese military headquarters were cheering.

The enlargement of the war was inevitable.

This prompted the provisional side in Wuhan to throw away all illusions and to resolve to confront the Japanese to the end.

In the midst of all the denunciations of the Japanese throughout the country, including the isolated island, Cheng Mo’s first novel, “The Ghost Husband”, was quietly marketed, with the first batch of 5,000 copies printed, 4,000 vertically and 1,000 horizontally.

In fact, Wang Hai wanted to print a thousand copies to test the water, and if it sold well, he would immediately add more copies, anyway, it was not too late.

But Cheng Mo did not agree, and demanded that all 5,000 copies be printed. In addition, additional printing was being prepared, and workers had been recruited in advance.

This time, the public concession and the French Concession, as well as the South City, Zhabei is a little more complicated, and temporarily did not store.

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

Because of the fine printing, Cheng Mo force to give the book pricing is a book of two dollars and fifty cents, the wholesale price is 20% off, large quantities can be discounted.

But the goods are sold first after the checkout, take the mode of sales rebate, the more sales, the more rebates.

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

Who would spend two dollars and fifty cents on a casual novel, most people’s monthly salary is only about twenty dollars, so the first day on the market.

Only a dozen books were sold.

And for three days in a row, sales were dismal, the most one day only sold twenty-three books.

Five thousand ah, can not sell, that will smash their hands, Wang Hai looked at so many books, is also worried, although the loss is not his money, but he is also a real investment of time and energy.

If this fails, the blow is not small.

Cheng Mo also understood the situation, in fact, the novel is listed, he is also very nervous, in case of failure, leaving himself not much time.

“President Wang, Shanghai Bund famous movie actresses, know the address, you send them each a book, at the same time with them that this novel, will be someone to invest in the adaptation, made into a movie, is very optimistic about her to become the heroine of the movie, and then you spend money to publish a message in the newspaper, it said that the novel “Ghost Husband” wants to be adapted into a movie, the heroine to use the readers’ letter voting The heroine will be chosen by readers’ letters. ……”

Who wouldn’t know how to do that? Just he did not want to use in the beginning, just think of using the content to win, as a result, or to use this set.

The first thing I’d like to do is to ask for a subscription and a collection!