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Chapter 304 Wife, just wait until your hands cramp from counting money (Please subscribe)
Cheng Xuemin and his wife were flirting quietly in the room, which made Feng Jiaxiao too excited.

Especially when she heard that her man had written a foreign song and could sell it for hundreds of thousands of foreign currency, she was stunned.

Is it true that a new foreign song can be sold for hundreds of thousands of MiGold foreign exchange in copyright fees?

Anyway, Feng Jiayou thought it was a fantasy. It was something that we couldn't even think about in our own country and it was unprecedented.

After all, Feng Jiayou and the others feel the same way, thinking that writing songs and composing music is just a hobby to cultivate one's sentiments.

Look at all the singers, songwriters and composers around them. Is there anyone who would charge for writing new songs or composing new music?
If the song became popular, the most that could be awarded was a certificate from the company, or other meat and grain coupons as rewards.

Therefore, Feng Jiayou never thought that she could get any royalties for the new song that her man Cheng Xuemin wrote for the art troupe!
Besides, the lyrics of a new song only have a few sentences. How many words can they have and how much royalties can they get?

Therefore, Feng Jiayou didn't take the trivial matters of writing new songs and composing new music seriously at all.

But what can I do?

Today her husband suddenly told her that he had written a foreign song and expected to earn hundreds of thousands of foreign currency. Is this more profitable than writing a long foreign article?
How could Feng Jiayou not be shocked and horrified, and unable to believe it?

But it was right for the woman not to believe it, so Cheng Xuemin didn't explain too much to her and just let her prepare and wait.

When the time comes and women get a lot of foreign exchange coupons, they will definitely count the money until their hands cramp.

During dinner, Cheng Xuemin mentioned to his father-in-law, Mr. Feng, that the contract had already been signed with the foreign girl Emily.

At the same time, he handed the agreement contract in his hand to Feng's father and asked him to take it to the Foreign Language Bureau for filing and registration.

In fact, Cheng Xuemin privately found someone from outside and signed a broker agency agreement contract, which may be a bit of a violation of the current system.

But in the field of foreign pop songs, Cheng Xuemin's is the first case since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Although we have exported songs in the past, they were all performed in the name of the country, and the copyrights are actually in the hands of our own country.

Moreover, they are basically our own domestic songs, which are translated, covered and performed, and do not involve any copyright interests.

Even when someone abroad sang a cover of the song, we did not pursue the responsibility. Instead, we applauded and welcomed it.

After all, in this era, the general consciousness is that being able to sing our songs means that they respect us.

We are proud of this and never thought that most of the time they cover our domestic songs just to make money.

So, before, we had no awareness of copyright regarding songs.

Now, Cheng Xuemin's foreign song is the first foreign song whose copyright has been registered by their Foreign Language Bureau.

I also have no idea how to operate these popular songs from outside.

This led to Cheng Xuemin taking the initiative to sign an agreement with outsiders in private and asking them to help with the operation.

So, the violation is indeed a bit of a violation.

However, now that the wave of earning foreign exchange has begun, the Foreign Language Bureau does not know much about the operation of pop songs, so let Cheng Xuemin do it himself. There is definitely no other opinion for the time being.

"Xuemin, do you think these few pieces of paper can really restrain the other party?"

"Or in other words, can we really make tens or even hundreds of thousands of foreign exchange dollars for them?"

Father Feng took the agreement handed over by Cheng Xuemin, read it carefully, and expressed his doubts.

The terms of the agreement are written very clearly.

But after all, we are not a country. Can we rely on this agreement and contract to force them to hand over more than 80% of the profits to us?

"dad!"

"Yes! It is indeed difficult to constrain the other party with just this piece of paper, so it all depends on the other party's sincerity in cooperating!"

"That's why I signed a management contract with her for this song!"

"Anyway, I'm just testing the waters first. At worst, I can just write this new song for nothing!"

Cheng Xuemin could not absolutely guarantee whether the foreign girl Emily would really act in accordance with the contract in the end.

But if he wants to open up the global entertainment market, Cheng Xuemin must give this step a try.

"Of course, it can't really be considered written in vain!"

"We have already obtained the copyright registration for this song, and now I have signed the contract agreement back!"

"Dad, take the contract back to your bureau for filing!"

"If the promise is not fulfilled, we can take this agreement and copyright registration certificate and sue the other party!"

Mr. Feng’s worries were actually the worst, and Cheng Xuemin had also prepared for the worst.

However, if it really comes to that, you can file a lawsuit. As for whether you can win, it all depends on whether the Americans' self-proclaimed copyright law is still valid.

"A lawsuit?!"

Father Feng was stunned again after hearing this, then shook his head and said, "If it really comes to that, we will most likely just swallow our anger and not fight."

I definitely won’t fight!

After all, if there is any international dispute over a foreign song created by an individual author, it will definitely be left unresolved.

"Dad, that's not necessarily true!"

"If it really comes to that, it's really not worth it to file a lawsuit for 10,000 or 20,000 yuan of foreign exchange!"

“But what if it’s hundreds of thousands, or even millions?”

Cheng Xuemin made a joke.

As he said, the country's foreign exchange reserves are indeed stretched, but 10,000 or 20,000 foreign exchange reserves are just a drop in the bucket.

There is certainly no need to go to such great lengths, and it may even provoke international disputes.

But what if it is hundreds of thousands or even millions of foreign exchange dollars?

Needless to say!
We will definitely fight with red eyes. No matter whether it is an international dispute or not, we are not afraid of anything.

"Then we'll talk about it later!"

Father Feng shook his head, thinking that his son-in-law was joking. He didn't think that a foreign song could generate hundreds of thousands of foreign exchange dollars for the country.

Just wait and see. I believe there will be feedback from the ocean horse Emily soon.

Next few days!
In addition to visiting the PLA Literature and Art Center, Cheng Xuemin also met with the editor-in-charge Dong Ling there to discuss the revision of "The Wreath under the Mountain".

Although the old director of the art troupe did not give any instructions to Cheng Xuemin in person regarding the manuscript.

But after meeting with Dong Ling, I found that some of the manuscript still needed some changes.

However, it was just a minor adjustment, so the task of revising the manuscript was not very big. Cheng Xuemin was not really arrogant and did not want to change a single word.

Instead, he brought the manuscript back and promised to revise it and hand it over within a week.

After that, I kept going back and forth between Yanying Studio and home.

Director Xie's film had already entered the dubbing stage, and Cheng Xuemin was drafted again to dub the male protagonist Xu Lingjun. On the contrary, Zhu Lin was not asked to dub the female protagonist Li Xiuzhi.

What Xie Jin meant was that although Zhu Lin's voice was nice, his Beijing accent lacked a Northwest accent, which was a bit inconsistent with the role of Li Xiuzhi.

After trying it out again, we all felt that Liu Xiaoli's voice-over with Sichuan accent was very suitable for the role of Li Xiuzhi.

Moreover, Li Xiuzhi in the play is from Sichuan, and her dubbing has a Sichuan accent, which is much more beautiful than Zhu Lin's original voice.

Therefore, in terms of dubbing, the final cast was Cheng Xuemin and Liu Tianxian's mother Liu Xiaoli.

"One thousand five hundred dollars?"

In mid-August, Cheng Xuemin, Feng Jiayou and their family were all at the Overseas Chinese Apartment. Everyone was eager to use the newly installed telephone at home.

But when Feng Jiayou paid the 1,500 yuan installation fee, she was heartbroken.

"Wife, this is all thanks to the community. Every household here has a telephone installed. We just need to go to the post office to apply for it, and we don't need to run additional lines."

"Otherwise, I have inquired and found that installing a new telephone costs 2,500 yuan!"

Cheng Xuemin smiled and explained to his wife that the woman had actually found out everything a long time ago, but she just had never been willing to pretend.

In fact, the telephone in their home existed before they bought it.

Not only their family!
In fact, every household in the Overseas Chinese Apartment has such a telephone, but it is an internal line that can only connect to the door guard and the property management, and cannot make calls to the outside.

This is why after Cheng Xuemin moved in, he was annoyed by the fact that the phone couldn't make calls. He felt that the house should really have a telephone and he had the conditions to do so.

After all, the phone will still be useful in the future.

There was no need to pass on any news from the outside to Cheng Xuemin. It would either be conveyed through his mother-in-law, Feng's mother, or through his father-in-law, Feng's father, every time he came home from get off work.

After using this phone number, I can call People's Literature or Yanhe Literature in my hometown if I have any questions.

of course!

It also makes things convenient for the teachers of those publications. In the future, when they want to request articles, they no longer need to ask Teacher Gu in the circle to convey the message. They can just contact Cheng Xuemin himself with a phone call, and then they can secretly request articles or pry open manuscripts.

With this idea in mind, I discussed it with my wife Feng Jiayou and decided to install one.

What a coincidence!

As the pace of reform and opening up accelerated, the policy that originally prohibited private individuals from installing telephones was gradually relaxed in the first half of the year.

In addition, Cheng Xuemin's address was the Overseas Chinese Apartment, which seemed to be a high priority, and the installation procedures were completed quickly.
Moreover, privately installed landline phones can only make calls within the city and cannot make calls across provinces or cities.

Fortunately, due to the special characteristics of the Overseas Chinese Apartment, the post office registered and distributed a telephone address, and opened up inter-provincial long-distance telephone service.

As for the security installation fee, since the Overseas Chinese Apartment had existing telephone lines and telephones, there was no need to pull in additional wires, so the original installation and network access fee of 2,500 yuan was finally only 1,500 yuan.

"You have so many reasons!"

Feng Jiayou rolled her eyes at Cheng Xuemin. She felt sorry for the money spent, but she also thought that having a telephone at home would indeed be a lot more convenient.

"Come here, come here, let me come here!"

"Let me give my dad a call and try!"

The telephone was installed. Feng Jiamo, Qin Xiaolian and others gathered around the phone, feeling very surprised.

Everyone was eager to make a phone call, but after thinking about it, they didn't seem to know who to call.

No other family is as wealthy as her sister and brother-in-law, who can afford to install a private phone.

But my cousin Qin Xiaolian suddenly had an idea. She could call their commune. Her father happened to be a cadre in the commune, so she would definitely be able to get through and talk to her father.

"Xiao Lian, that's a long distance call, it's very expensive!"

When she heard Xiaolian was going to call home, her elder sister Cheng Wenxiu, who was holding a little squirrel next to her, reminded her with a smile.

"It's okay! Xiaolian, call your uncle and try out the voice transmission effect of this phone."

Upon hearing this, Feng Jiayou, as the hostess, was very generous and asked her cousin Qin Xiaolian to play the game right away, so that her mother-in-law could ask about the situation at home.

Feng Jiayou is a thoughtful girl. When her cousin mentioned calling home just now, she saw that her mother-in-law was very interested.

After all, my mother-in-law has been here for more than a week, so she must be missing home.

"Then listen to your sister-in-law and give you a call!"

After hearing what her daughter-in-law said, Cheng's mother's face suddenly turned into a smile. She also asked her cousin to call and said, "Remember to tell you the phone number of home later!"

"Aunt, I know!"

Qin Xiaolian nodded quickly when she heard that, her face flushed with excitement, but when she picked up the phone she didn't know what to do next.
"First, call the fixed number of the Yanjing Post Office and ask them to transfer the call. Xiaolian, just tell us the address of our hometown!"

"There is also a landline number. I have marked it on the landline phone. Just try to dial it!"

Seeing that his cousin was embarrassed, Cheng Xuemin quickly reminded and taught her how to make a phone call.

There are very few fixed numbers now. Only post offices and telecommunications offices and a few central units have them. Ordinary small units certainly don't have fixed numbers, let alone private individuals.

Cheng Xuemin has a private phone installed at home. If he wants to make a call outside, he must first call the landline of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. After the call is connected, he can tell the operator which phone number to dial.

"Let me do it, Xiaolian, you are so stupid, let me teach you again!"

The cousin was still a little embarrassed. After all, this was her first time making a phone call and she had no idea where to start. Feng Jiamo, who was standing next to her, was so anxious that he grabbed the phone and dialed the number on the label next to it while speaking.

“Well, it’s connected just like that!”

After dialing the phone number, Feng Jiamo had just finished speaking when the call was connected.

"Hello comrade, where do you want to go?"

"Where?!" Feng Jiamo was still a little naive. When he heard the question coming from the phone, his originally smug smile suddenly turned into panic and asked in a hurry.

"Tell them that they need the SX provincial switchboard first!"

"After the connection is made, we can ask for our region, our Yulin County, and then our Guanzhuang Commune, one level at a time!"

In fact, the process is quite simple. As long as you know the phone number and address, you can just go through the levels one by one.

But during this period, you need to wait!

Feng Jiamo followed the instructions and went through the process one level at a time. After almost five minutes, he finally got through the inter-provincial long-distance call.

A local dialect was heard from the other end of the phone. It was unknown which commune cadre answered the call. Feng Jiamo quickly handed the phone to Xiaolian next to him.

"Old Qin's daughter!"

"Yes, yes, yes, you are at the commune. Go and call him to answer the phone right away!"

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(End of this chapter)