On August 18, 1992, a cute little girl suddenly became the focus of attention in all of Fusang.
Because this little girl became the first child in Fusang to collect a set of 20 cards from the first issue of Legend of the Three Kingdoms. At the same time, she is also the only one who has seen Lu Bu's real face. She is also the only one who has obtained a figurine of Guan Yu.
After being reported by Tokyo TV, the girl quickly became popular in all of Fusang and became the envy of countless Fusang children.
All the news media launched a siege on this lucky child. It was said that more than a dozen TV stations wanted to interview her, mainly because they wanted to see what the mysterious Lu Bu looked like.
Nowadays, children could only see Lu Bu's face in animations on TV, but no one knew what Lu Bu looked like in real life.
Unfortunately, this family was very cautious and didn't accept any interviews. They only took a picture of Lu Bu's face for the media. Then, the girl said a few words to everyone and disappeared forever.
But this news was very popular in all of Fusang. The TV stations kept following this family and all kinds of reports continued for about a week before the popularity gradually died down.
Although the girl's face was covered by a large mask during the interview, her unique and adorable voice left a deep impression in the minds of the Japanese players.
And one day in the future, when she appeared in front of everyone with a new identity, people would immediately recognize her voice and her identity would be completely exposed.
However, it was said that after this family got the Guan Yu Kung Fu figurine, they contacted many buyers and finally sold the Guan Yu Kung Fu figurine numbered 001 for 5 million Yen. This is also an important reason why the news can be so popular.
But this kind of behavior was despised by many people. They thought that since they got hold of a precious Guan Yu figurine, they should worship it at home and pray day and night. How could they sell it for money? This was simply an insult to the great God of War Guan Yu!
Anyway, the more popular the whole thing was, the better the sales of the Fairy Crispy Noodle Snacks. There was still a long line in front of the 7-Eleven convenience store every day.
Jia Yapeng was about to die of laughter.
According to statistics, from July 23 to August 22, a total of 1.28 billion packets of Fairy Crispy Noodle Snacks were sold. This number was equivalent to double the number of packets of instant noodles sold in Fusang in a year.
That's right, in one month, Jia Yapeng had sold the equivalent of two years of instant noodles in Fusang.
According to the price of 15 yuan per packet, that was a total of 19.2 billion yen.
But Jia Yapeng was hard-earned money. Although the cost of making Fairy Crispy Noodle Snacks in Hua Xia was about 3 yuan, with all kinds of taxes, the actual cost was about 5 yuan.
By the way, because the total sales exceeded 10 billion yen in one month, the 7-Eleven only charged a channel fee of 0.75 yen per packet. Adding in the transportation costs, the actual cost was about 6 yuan per packet. Jia Yapeng only made 9 yuan per packet, so in one month, he only made 11.5 billion yen.
If converted into yuan, that was about 460 million yuan. If converted into US dollars, that was only 92 million US dollars. It was simply too pitiful. He didn't even make 100 million US dollars.
And this was just one month's income. Although after this craze, the income in the next few months would definitely continue to decline, according to Honda Ichiro's experience, there would be at least 30 billion yen in the whole of 1992. Jia Yapeng was really going to make a fortune.
Okay, these were the words that Jia Yapeng said in front of Zhu Qiushui. Zhu Qiushui was so angry that she asked Jia Yapeng for money three times that night. Jia Yapeng's face turned white, and he didn't dare to continue acting like a pretentious prick.
But the 92 million US dollars wasn't pure profit. After all, Jia Yapeng's "Legend of the Three Kingdoms" animated series had once again set a record for the production cost of an animation in Hua Xia. There were a total of 36 episodes, and the production cost was a total of 20 million yuan. More than 1,600 collaborators were hired to complete it.
There were actually two versions of "Legend of the Three Kingdoms." One was Fusang's version, and the other was Hua Xia's version. The content was actually pretty much the same, but the main character's name and the story's background were changed. Hua Xia's main character was still Yue Games, and the story's background was also set in Shanghai, not Tokyo.
The cost of these changes was another 1 million yuan. Jia Yapeng was still very cautious. He was afraid that people would accuse him of flattering the Japanese, so he changed the background of the two versions.
Well, Jia Yapeng actually made three versions. There was also a version with a main character called "Jack Games" and the story's background was set in New York. He had already begun to modify it.
These were all included in the cost of production.
Not only Mr. Jia, but the Ito family was also very happy.
Although the 7-11 convenience store had worked hard for a month and only earned 1 billion yen, after deducting the 300 million or so in overtime, the remaining 700 million was a pure profit.
But the Ito family earned more than that. Since people came to 7-11 to shop, they definitely wouldn't just buy crispy noodle snacks. They would also buy some other products, which directly stimulated the sales figures of 7-11's other products.
And the Ito family was also very smart to cooperate with the elf crispy noodle snacks to do a lot of promotional activities. For example, they would give away the opportunity to buy some crispy noodle snacks.
You could only buy 10 packets of crispy noodle snacks at a time, but if you were willing to buy other products worth 200 yen in the convenience store, you could get an additional 10 packets of crispy noodle snacks. This could be accumulated indefinitely. If you bought products worth 2,000 yen, you could get an additional 100 packets of crispy noodle snacks.
This directly led to the sales of other products at 7-11, which also increased at an unimaginable speed. It was said that the final statistics showed that even excluding the crispy noodle snacks, 7-11's sales performance for the whole of July had increased by 10 billion yen compared to the same period last year. The net profit was about 3 billion yen, which added up to an increase of nearly 4 billion yen.
As soon as the news came out, the stock price of Ito Yokado began to soar. Since the stock market crash in 1990, Ito Yokado's stock price had been falling, and the total share price had fallen to 30% of the original share price.
But after this surge, Ito Yokado's stock price soared by 50%, causing the assets of the Ito family to soar by 70 billion yen.
Even better, because Elfin Crispy Noodle Snacks was only sold exclusively at 7-Eleven, in the past month, 7-Eleven had received nearly 2,000 franchise applications from all over the country. This meant that there were more than 2,000 people, each with a franchise fee of one million yen, crying and yelling that they wanted to join 7-Eleven. If they could earn all of this franchise fee, it would be a net profit of two billion yen.
But this wasn't the most wonderful thing. The most wonderful thing was when Ito Dōdō heard that the Fusang district president of Rosen Convenience Store had smashed more than a dozen vases in anger, and at the same time, sales dropped by more than 30%. This was the most wonderful moment for Ito Dōdō!
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