Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 275 Wang Jing's Work Results

Cao Sheng made up a reason for Zhu William.

"This website was formed by the merger of several small websites. I heard that they couldn't sustain themselves financially, so they merged to keep each other warm and increase their financing chips. If they can raise funds in the near future, it will be fine. If not, they will definitely find ways to make a profit.

Selling advertising space is one solution, but advertising space cannot be sold for much money, and it cannot be sold too much. If there are too many advertisements on the web page, many authors and readers will get fed up and want to leave.

Besides, this website is formed by the merger of several websites, just like an alliance, but I have never seen any alliance that can last long in history books. "

After listening to this, Zhu William was silent for a moment before speaking: "What you said makes sense, so let's wait and see! Let's see how long this website can last."

Cao Sheng: "Well, wait and see!"

……

The establishment of Longkong.

This is a revelation to many small websites in the industry that are about to give up.

In the following days, some owners of small websites began to contact and communicate with each other, and some even proposed merging with each other.

Because after the Nasdaq index broke through 5400 points this year, the Internet bubble that had been booming in recent years quickly burst.

The bursting of the Internet bubble has not had much impact on traditional industries.

But the impact on most websites on the Internet is huge.

The biggest impact is that the Internet way of playing, which involves continuous investment in the early stages, increasing website traffic, improving valuations, and then raising funds to make a fortune, can no longer be played.

It's hard to find a buyer.

Just like 20 years later, when real estate prices reached their peak, the real estate bubble suddenly burst, houses became unsalable, and most people were no longer keen on buying houses.

Then, the real estate business model will become unsustainable.

Today's bursting of the Internet bubble has also had a similar impact on the Internet industry.

In recent years, the main money-making model for Internet websites is to first burn their own money to boost the popularity of the website, then raise funds and sell it at a high price.

Make money through this model.

And now, there is a problem in the last link of this model.

Website owners have burned their own money, but it is difficult to find investors to take over.

In this situation, many small websites simply choose to close down and stop operating.

But there are also some small websites that are unwilling to give up and still want to find a way to survive.

At this time, Longkong, which was formed by the merger of several small websites, naturally gave other small websites hope.

Especially after the emergence of Longkong, it surpassed Rongshuwei in terms of the number of works in the library and popularity, becoming the industry's number one novel website, which further stimulated the owners of some small websites.

……

The turmoil in the industry had little impact on Cao Sheng.

Only occasionally when I log into my email, I’ll see one or two emails from strangers.

In these emails, the other party claimed to be a fan of his books and also the editor or owner of a certain website. He was negotiating a merger with a certain website and wanted to invite him to publish his works on the website, or simply ask him to buy shares.

Cao Sheng would just glance at such emails once or twice each time.

Then give a brief reply of one or two sentences.

That's it.

He has no interest in communicating more with these websites.

Because these websites had little presence in the original time and space.

At this moment, he doesn't believe that these small websites have any chance of making a comeback.

Summer vacation has arrived.

the weather is getting hotter.

Cao Sheng went out less often. Every day, apart from typing, he would practice boxing. Occasionally, when he felt like it, he would fish for two or three hours in the Xin'an River next to his villa in the morning or evening.

Occasionally, I would go to my own Xitong Internet Cafe to take a look.

Although it is already summer vacation, the occupancy rate of Xitong Internet Cafe is still about 30% to 40% every day. In this era, Internet cafes are too attractive to young people.

It is much more attractive than the previous game halls.

Will the game halls of the past be deserted because of the coming summer vacation?

At the end of July, Cao Sheng saw that the side door of Huizhou Teachers College, which was across the road from Xitong Internet Cafe, began to expand.

The original narrow side doors were all demolished. Not only the doors were demolished, but also the walls and the roads behind the doors were demolished and dug up.

It looks like a big construction project is about to begin.

When Cao Sheng was standing at the entrance of the Internet cafe and looking at the side door of the school across the street, Liang Hongfei, the administrator of the Internet cafe, came to his side and said with a happy face: "Boss! You are going to make a fortune! Have you heard? Our alma mater is going to change this side door into the school main door, and the road inside is also going to be widened. When this road is repaired and the main door is moved here, the business of our Internet cafe will definitely increase several times! Hehe, when the time comes, you can just wait to count the money!"

Cao Sheng smiled.

This was what happened in his memory.

And now he is taking advantage of it.

He has never opened an Internet cafe before, so he wonders how much net profit he can make every month if the cafe is packed every day?
However, there should be quite a few.

He had heard about the huge profits in Internet cafes.

The key point is that he can earn this kind of money without typing or managing the Internet cafe himself.

He suddenly wanted to open a few branches.

He turned to look at Liang Hongfei and made a promise to him, "Senior! Work hard! If you do well this year, I will open one or two more branches by the end of this year or early next year. By then, everything from preparation to management will be handed over to you. In other words, whether you can get a promotion, how many stores and how many people you can manage, all depends on your own efforts."

Liang Hongfei was surprised and delighted when he heard this.

"Really? Boss, you didn't lie to me?"

Cao Sheng smiled, raised his hand and patted his arm, "Come on! You have to prove your ability first, and make me believe that you can manage several stores, then I will invest in you."

Liang Hongfei nodded repeatedly and promised that he would work hard.

……

Cao Sheng's assistant Wang Jing is back.

She has been in Cao Sheng's hometown recently, supervising the use of road construction funds on behalf of Cao Sheng.

When she came back, she brought a bunch of local specialties sent by the village committee of Cao Sheng’s hometown, including salted fish, bacon, etc.

I also brought back a bunch of photos.

These photos all show road construction scenes.

That evening, she brought these things to see Cao Sheng.

Hand those photos to Cao Sheng.

Cao Sheng flipped through it for a while, nodded, and handed it back.

"Thank you for your hard work!"

He said as he looked at Wang Jing's face which was obviously tanned.

Although Wang Jing was tanned and thinner, she looked more energetic than before, and her eyes were brighter. Hearing this, she smiled and said, "It's my job! Besides, I didn't do any work myself, it was mainly done by everyone."

Cao Sheng nodded with a smile.

Wang Jing added: "Oh, right! There is a situation I need to report to you."

Cao Sheng looked at her with questioning eyes.

Wang Jing: "It's like this. When the road was being built, your village chief proposed that every household in the village provide a laborer to build the roadbed for free! No wages, only a lunch. He said that every household would benefit from building this road, and those with money should contribute money, and those without money should contribute labor. If the laborers in the family are working outside and no one contributes to the road construction, they should contribute money according to their daily wages. I think this proposal is good, and no one in your village objects, so I agreed to it on your behalf. You won't blame me for acting on my own, right?"

She should have reported this matter to Cao Sheng earlier.

But in order to write "Honghuang Romance", Cao Sheng has been trying his best to avoid being disturbed by trivial matters recently. He doesn't answer calls from ordinary people and ignores text messages.

Before, Wang Jing went to his hometown and called him every day to report on her work. After he answered the phone twice, he let her make her own decision and report to him when she came back.

Since then, Wang Jing has not reported the road construction matters over the phone.

I didn't report this matter to Cao Sheng until today.

After finishing the report, she looked at Cao Sheng's expression with some guilt.

I was worried that Cao Sheng would say: I donated the money for the road, and you are still saving me a little bit of wages? Do I need you to save me a little bit of wages? Don’t you know that it is not easy for villagers to earn a little money?
but……

After listening to her report, Cao Sheng showed no sign of being angry.

He smiled and nodded, saying, "Well, that's good! Every household has contributed, and they will cherish this road in the future. If there are any large trucks passing by, they can stop them with confidence to prevent the road from being damaged by the trucks."

Wang Jing didn't expect this reaction and nodded happily in agreement.

After talking about the road construction, she reported another task to Cao Sheng.

——The issue of copyright of the original novel of “A World Without Thieves”.

Before, when Cao Sheng was writing the script for "A World Without Thieves", he subconsciously thought that this movie in its original time and space had no original novel.

Because he hadn't heard that this movie was adapted from a novel.

But after writing the script, he suddenly had an idea and looked it up online.

As a result, I actually found a novel with the same name.

Although the novel of the same name focuses on the character of Shagen, the movie he wrote focuses on the confrontation between the two thieves.

But in his current position, he doesn't want to be involved in this kind of copyright dispute.

I kept the script in my hands and didn't submit it to anyone.

When Wang Jing came to work for him, he asked her to try to buy the film and television adaptation rights of "A World Without Thieves".

At that time, he thought that if she could buy the film and television adaptation rights of the book, he could look for a buyer for the script in his hand.

If she doesn't buy it, he will never show her the script.

And today, Wang Jing finally reported to him the progress of this work.

"The film and television adaptation rights of this novel were previously acquired by Emei Film Studio, but for various reasons, Emei Film Studio has never filmed it. Similar situations are very common in the film and television industry. The copyright departments of many film and television companies will hoard a large number of copyrights of various novels and scripts. Very few of these works can actually be filmed and released in the end. And this book, "A World Without Thieves", is probably one of those that will never be filmed. I heard that you are interested in buying the film and television adaptation rights of this novel. The other party did not refuse it outright. I heard that they held a meeting to discuss it. Two days later, they called me back and said that the copyright can be sold to you, but the fee is 200,000!"

Cao Sheng listened with a calm expression.

After Wang Jing finished speaking, he nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, I..."

"I bargained down to fifty thousand dollars and got it."

Wang Jing's smiling words blocked the second half of Cao Sheng's words in his throat.

Cao Sheng looked at her with question marks in his eyes.

Wang Jing nodded with a smile.

Cao Sheng laughed, "Can't you just say it in one breath? Why are you panting so hard?"

Wang Jing smiled and said jokingly, "Only by saying this can you feel surprised! If you are surprised, it is possible that you will give me a bonus based on my contribution! Right? Haha..."

Cao Sheng laughed again, "Okay! Okay! I'll give you a bonus this month!"

Wang Jing leaned forward slightly in anticipation, "How much?"

Cao Sheng looked at her recently tanned complexion and slim figure, stretched out his hand and spread out his five fingers, "Five thousand! Are you satisfied?"

Five thousand?

Wang Jing opened her eyes wide in surprise and nodded repeatedly.

This is an income that many office workers cannot earn in a year.

Of course, compared with Cao Sheng’s current income, this is just a drop in the bucket. He earned more than 20 million in the first half of this year.

However, the more than 20 million was basically earned by him from writing scripts.

It has nothing to do with Wang Jing.

The reason why he was so generous and gave her 5,000 yuan as a bonus was for only one purpose: he hoped that if she encountered such a bargaining situation in the future, she would have the motivation to continue bargaining in this way.

If she had been more motivated to bargain, she might have helped him save hundreds of thousands more.

Just like this time, Emei Film Studio asked for 20 yuan, but she bargained down to 5 yuan and got it.

If he doesn't give her more rewards this time, next time something similar happens and she relaxes her mouth, he will have to pay a lot more real money.

Anyway, he asked himself, if someone offered 200,000, he would have absolutely no confidence that he could bargain the price down to 50,000.

……

A few mornings later.

Cao Sheng obtained the copyright transfer contract for the film and television adaptation rights of "A World Without Thieves".

This was printed out by Emei Film Studio, signed, and mailed to me.

Wang Jing took the two contracts that had already been signed by Emei Factory to Cao Sheng and asked Cao Sheng to sign.

"Boss! I drafted this contract myself. After I drafted it, I sent the electronic version to them. Now they have signed it and put their seal on it. Now all it needs is your signature and fingerprint for it to take effect.

However, according to the agreement between them and me, when we receive the contract, we must pay them the copyright fee within three days. "

While listening to her introduction, Cao Sheng reached out to take the pen she handed him and signed his name one by one where she pointed.

As soon as he signed, she handed him the opened ink box.

Cao Sheng had neither a personal seal nor an official seal, so he could only use his fingerprints when signing the contract.

That afternoon.

Cao Sheng sat in front of the computer in his study and called up the script of "A World Without Thieves" which had been saved in the computer for a long time. He wondered whether he should return the script to its original owner - sell it to Feng Xiaogang?

As far as he knows, the movie "If You Are the One" that he had sold to Feng Xiaogang before is currently being filmed. Feng Xiaogang is good at hype, and while the movie is being filmed, he actively releases various news to the public every now and then.

Therefore, news about If You Are the One can often be seen in the news.

After thinking for a while, Cao Sheng shook his head slightly.

I decided to wait until the filming of If You Are the One was finished before discussing the script of A World Without Thieves with Feng Xiaogang.

When he writes novels himself, his creative ideas are easily influenced by other works.

Therefore, I don’t want the script of “A World Without Thieves” to affect Feng Xiaogang’s thinking when filming “If You Are the One”.

(End of this chapter)