My Animation Era

  Chapter 354 Electronic Pokémon (for subscription)

   Wanbao really ran out of money?

  In order to prove this statement, Gu Miao didn't care about celebrating Ke Ke's birthday, so she hurriedly called Lao Zhang and Ma Kui to find out the situation.

   "There is indeed such a thing..."

  As the new vice president, Lao Zhang has taken Jiang Keke's position. He is mainly responsible for the group's personnel and administrative management, and has certain jurisdiction over finance.

  Under his description, Gu Miao finally knew what happened.

   It turned out that it was in September this year.

   At the beginning of Gu Miao's business, several loans from the bank have been due one after another.

   It's not a big head.

  The big head is still the final payment that Gu Miao bought the [Wanbao·Pleasant Goat Paradise] piece of land from Mr. Xiong and needs to pay as soon as possible.

"no…"

  Gu Miao hesitated: "I just checked the accounts two days ago, don't we still have hundreds of millions of liquid funds in our books?"

   "It's almost spent!"

   "Some time ago, you allocated a sum of money to Puppet Studio, another sum to Wolf Castle Studio, and then a sum of money to Dimension Studio."

   "Just now, you allocated another sum of money to Huang Kun and Xiao Guo..."

  Ma Kui snapped his fingers and settled the score for Gu Miao: "Our family is very rich, but no matter how rich our family is, we can't bear such extravagance!"

I see.

  Gu Miao suddenly realized that there were too many new works/projects launched during this period, which took up most of the company's cash flow.

  In addition to the maturity of the bank loan, the payment of the final payment of Mr. Xiong's land, and the maintenance of the normal operation of the company, etc., Ma Kui asked Xiao Guo and Huang Kun to ask for a little less money.

   "But it's not right!"

  Gu Miao muttered to herself: "Didn't we release several popular animations in the first half of this year?"

   “Didn’t things like Pokémon, Sailor Moon 2, and Happy Year of the Goat make money?”

   "Earned!"

  Ma Kui spread his hands and said: "But the money has not been recovered yet! Have you forgotten that it takes time to get the money back, and usually it is quarterly or even half a year."

   That's broken!

  After he said this, Gu Miao immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

  As Ma Kui said, it will take time to get the money back. It doesn't mean that if you make money, the money will appear in your account immediately, and it takes a long time to receive the money.

  But now that the loan is due, the company has launched multiple animation projects, and there is no money on the books.

   "Is it really out of money?"

"Gone!"

  Lao Zhang shook his head and said: "The current solution is to negotiate with the bank and give us a few days' delay, or to urge our partners to return our payment earlier."

   "A reminder!"

   "Whoever delays our money, quickly ask them to give it to us. As for the bank, I will go to communicate with them and negotiate. There is no such rush."

  Gu Miao pondered: "But the water far away can't quench the near thirst. At this time, what we need more is cash, sufficient cash."

   "Exactly!"

   Ma Kui and Lao Zhang Qiqi nodded.

  As long as you have cash, all problems can be solved. But the question now is, where to get "hundreds of millions" of cash in the short term?

  Gu Miao thought about finding someone to "borrow".

   It shouldn’t be a big problem to ask him to borrow some money for an emergency with a close friend like Mr.

  But Gu Miao doesn't want to borrow money for the time being.

   This mouth once, that is a favor! Even if you calculate interest for others, that is still human favor! As we all know, the debt of favor is the hardest to repay.

   Unless it is absolutely necessary, Gu Miao does not want to owe others a favor for no reason.

   Most importantly…

  He has already thought of an idea on how to get a cash flow in the short term to alleviate the company's financial crisis.

  …

  Jiangchuan, Wanbao Toy Factory.

  The toy factory formerly known as "Wanzhibao" is located in an industrial park in the suburbs. Since it was acquired and changed its name to "Wanbao Toys", it has become one of Wanbao's most stable sources of cash flow.

  The reason why it is "one of" is that in addition to peripheral derivatives business, Wanbao is also very profitable in "IP licensing".

certainly!

  No matter how profitable IP licensing is, its influence must be incomparable with the "peripheral derivatives business".

   After all, how many people are there in IP operations?

   On the other hand, Wanbao Toys has thousands of employees in just one factory. In terms of social influence, they are simply not at the same level.

   But having said that...

  As the president of Wanbao, Gu Miao actually rarely comes to the toy company. Usually, Lao He goes to the headquarters in the city center and reports to him.

  Then why is he here today?

   And don’t come early or late, why come when the employees are off work and everyone is going home for dinner?

   This surprised Old He.

  He just came out of the workshop and was about to drive home, but the secretary came to tell him as soon as he entered the parking lot: Mr. Gu is on his way here, and he has something important to discuss with him!

   Okay!

  Although he didn't know what important matter Mr. Gu wanted to discuss with him, Lao He still called his wife and told her that he might not be able to go back tonight.

   "President Gu, welcome!"

  The moment he hung up the phone, Lao He saw Mr. Gu and hurried forward to shake hands and greet him.

   "Okay, don't be polite."

  Gu Miao glanced at the factory area, and found that the workers had all left work one after another, so she hurriedly asked, "Have all the masters in the factory left work?"

   "There are a few more in..."

   "Then invite them here, I have something here, let them see if they can make it." Gu Miao took out a blueprint prepared in advance, and handed it to Lao He and said.

  Old He glanced, black lines all over his head.

   Judging by his professional eyesight, this blueprint was probably drawn by Mr. Gu himself. After all, only a layman can draw such a rough and irregular design blueprint.

   But that's not the point.

  When he invited all the master craftsmen in the factory who had not had time to get off work to the meeting room, they started a heated discussion around the blueprint of Mr. Gu.

   "Cyber ​​Pokémon?"

   "Exactly!"

  Gu Miao pointed to the drawing and said, "I hope this machine can raise electronic version of Pokémon pets, and have functions such as training, feeding, and interaction."

   "This is easy."

  Old He nodded. This kind of "electronic pet" program can be easily created, and the difficulty is not very high.

  But Gu Miao's subsequent words made everyone frown.

   "I hope this machine can interact with other machines through modules such as infrared, Bluetooth or WIFI, which is the PVP mode!"

   Ah this? !

   Compared with the previous electronic pets, this "linkage PVP" module is more difficult to get.

  However, no matter how difficult it is, there is a limit. As long as you work hard, you can achieve this function. Thinking of the current popularity of the animation "Pokémon", everyone's eyes brightened.

  A digital version of Pokémon?

  A small machine, raising a "Pokémon" exclusive to you, training it, playing with it to increase intimacy, and then start a PVP duel with other players?

  It seems... quite interesting!

   Tamagoko, have you all seen it?

  (end of this chapter)