Later, when Cheng Ran went to No. 10 Middle School for class, he saw Jiang Hongshao. Although the usually calm and steady Jiang Hongshao looked as if nothing had happened, sometimes, she would obviously avoid him deliberately. For example, when their eyes met during physical education class, they would smile at each other in the past, but this time, she quickly looked away.
For example, during lunch, she chatted more with Su Hongdou and the others, and Cheng Ran could hardly join in the conversation.
Then even if they met in the corridor, Cheng Ran was about to say hello when she quickly slipped into the classroom through the back door.
Seeing her sometimes avoiding him, Cheng Ran's heart was actually rippled. Was she shy or angry? But it was all right. After all, with her temper, if it was something like that day, she would have probably gone crazy and killed someone.
This situation lasted for a few days, and then it seemed to return to normal. When the two chatted on the phone at night, they also returned to their normal bickering. But you can feel that Lao Jiang will deliberately avoid the topic from going off track and not give Cheng Ran a chance to flirt. Sometimes he deliberately changed the topic, which made him look panicked...
Cheng Ran smiled in his heart. Brother Jiang, who had always been unmoved, seemed to be a little unstable on his side.
The daily review with Jiang Hongshao at noon actually stopped after December. He had already caught up with the latest progress, so Jiang Hongshao felt there was no need to give him special lessons anymore.
Cheng Ran still felt very comfortable when he thought about the time after dinner every day when they returned to the classroom to do some exercises. In this way, he even felt that in this provincial key national school, it didn't matter if the score was not high.
But thinking about the high position of Lao Jiang at the top of the pyramid, I felt it was necessary to give her a sense of threat...
At Tianxing Dojo, in December, the pirated version of Three Kingdoms Killing that had been in conflict with the original version finally showed its true colors. My cousin Cheng Qi received a call asking him to talk, so Cheng Qi agreed and agreed to negotiate at Tianxing Dojo.
In fact, for Cheng Ran and Cheng Qi, no matter how well the pirated version of Three Kingdoms is made, it will not have much impact on the market. It's just that Cheng Ran is quite curious about this person who wants to make a pirated version of this standard even if he doesn't want to make any money.
When Cheng Qi met the other party at Tianxingdao Hall, he found out that the other party actually graduated from the same school as them, three years older than Cheng Qi. A young man named Wang Fule, very famous, often appeared in the Normal College. It is said that he loved to start businesses in school. After graduation, he often came to the school, but he was involved with the school's Adult Education College, helping to attract some social students to study, and each person gave him a tuition fee. This person has a lively mind and does everything. Sometimes he often drags a group of people from the school to bars and entertainment venues, and he treats them all, so he has earned a lot of fame.
However, Cheng Qi was relatively more famous in the Normal College, and naturally attracted people's attention, especially Wang Fule, who was a smart man with a quick mind. He immediately imitated his Three Kingdoms Kill and put it on the market to make it look real, and the price was lower than the original one, which really had an impact on Cheng Qi's Three Kingdoms Kill in the Chengdu market. However, at that time, Three Kingdoms Kill had distributors all over the country, and the market in Chengdu was just a drizzle. Cheng Qi wanted to see who was behind this.
Wang Fule was also straightforward and said that he wanted to invest in technology and participate in the business. He asked for a huge amount, forty percent of the shares.
Of course, Wang Fule is not clear about the current scale of expansion of Three Kingdoms Killing across the country. This is also limited by the fact that information is not well developed in this era. The collection of big data is not something he can accomplish at present.
He only knew that in Chengdu and many other places, Three Kingdoms was very popular, and relying on this factor, Tianxing Daoguan was also popular. There were also many board game theme stores that were exactly the same as Tianxing Daoguan. He felt that his pirated production technology could pose a threat to the genuine products, thereby snatching a piece of the pie from Cheng Qi.
The reason why Wang Fule dared to find Cheng Qi and threaten him so openly was actually because he saw that Cheng Qi was just a sophomore student. With his ability, it would be easy for him to subdue Cheng Qi.
In the end, Wang Fule was sure that Cheng Qi would win, leaving a few words like "think about it" and walked away with a swagger, leaving a phone number.
What he didn't expect was that his personal situation and the location of the printing factory behind him were found out by Jiang Zhou a few days later. Jiang Erwa himself was a local tyrant who was well-informed about all kinds of information in Chengdu. The hundreds of young men in the Huatong Company compound all obeyed Jiang Erwa. The network radiating from this core was full of people who were connected with Chengdu's old enterprises and institutions. They were all the most deeply rooted group of people in Chengdu in those years, and there were spies everywhere.
When Wang Fule left Tianxing Daoguan, Jiang Zhou had someone follow him. He only found out his activity area. After a few days, he determined the location of Wang Fule's printing factory. It turned out that it was not him who was doing this kind of illegal printing, but Wang Fule's father, a man named Wang Chang. It can be said that like son, like father. One of the father and son pirated books and even pirated labels for cigarettes and alcohol packaging and sold them to counties and cities around Chengdu. The other pirated board games because they saw the popularity of board games. He made the pirated version of Three Kingdoms perfect. Even if he didn't make money, he would hurt Cheng Qi and force him to be a partner.
The money lost from pirated copies of Three Kingdoms Killing, or even the money lost from pirated printed books, is really just a drop in the bucket compared to the huge profits from pirated copies of famous cigarettes and alcoholic beverages. No wonder Wang Fule is so arrogant.
For this kind of thing, Cheng Ran's principle is to give a warning first and use courtesy before force.
So when Cheng Qi met Wang Fule for the second time, he tried to persuade him earnestly.
At first, Wang Fule thought he had hit Cheng Qi's sore spot, so when Cheng Qi took the initiative to find him, he was quite arrogant.
But Cheng Qi said that his principle is to cooperate legitimately and never compromise under coercion. And if they want to cooperate, Wang Fule must first remove the pirated products currently on the market and destroy them to reverse the negative impact, and then stop doing piracy and regularize the factory, then he can consider cooperating with them.
Wang Fule originally had the mentality of a winner, but the more he listened, the gloomier his face became. Finally, he slammed the table and angrily asked Cheng Qi if he was playing a trick on him. Then he openly declared that he knew the gray area of the law very well, and made it clear that if he sued for pirated copies of Three Kingdoms Kill, which had no copyright for the board game but only for the painting, no one would care.
During this period, he even conducted an in-depth investigation into the recruitment of distributors for Three Kingdoms Kill in major cities. He smiled and said, "I didn't expect that you have achieved such a large scale. Sorry, our previous negotiation is canceled. I now have a new idea. Guess what, I will go back and imitate you, my junior brother, and reduce the profit of a deck of cards by half from the current level. I will sell it cheaper than you and contact your distributors... Can I replace you?"
"I gave you a shameless face before, and you played tricks on me... Then don't blame me."
After Cheng Qi turned around and told Cheng Ran about the bad negotiation situation, Cheng Ran nodded.
Since he had already given the necessary warnings and the other party was still blinded by greed, Cheng Ran felt that he had no reason to take action.
Cheng Ran sent the information about Wang Fule and his son's printing factory counterfeiting tobacco and alcohol labels to several major tobacco and alcohol factories in the province.
Then, after a meeting overnight, the top executives of the tobacco and alcohol factories asked someone to calculate the possible profit losses caused to them over the years by the underground printing factory of Wang Fule and his sons, who produced fake cigarette and alcohol labels and packaging, so they could no longer sit still.
The public security authorities opened a case and raided the printing factory of Wang Fule and his son overnight. Although Wang Chang may have received some intelligence and taken some action, two of the five warehouses were not moved in time, and the criminals were caught red-handed.
Wang Fule was indeed very shrewd in his calculations. It is true that pirated books and pirated board games are difficult to fight and investigate. In this era, the awareness of copyright protection is not that strong, and many effective policies and documents have not been introduced. The public in general is not active in this matter.
But if the interests of the province's major taxpayers, such as tobacco factories and wine factories, are affected, the situation will immediately change. On the one hand, the pressure will come down layer by layer, and the case handlers will definitely take it seriously. Secondly, these tobacco and wine factories will also find newspaper writers to write reports to clarify their reputations, which will attract attention from all parties, and the police will have to be proactive.
After the news came that the police followed the clues, smashed the den, and arrested 11 suspects who were suspected of manufacturing, transporting and selling counterfeit cigarettes and fake alcohol.
Wang Fule and his son became an inconspicuous news report in Chengdu.