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Chapter 61 The Sincerity of Xinchang Publishing House
The next morning.

Cao Sheng received a reply email from Chang Qingshu.

"Zhongyuan Yidianhui, we have received your letter, but your expected remuneration far exceeds the range I can decide. I have reported your opinion to the president. Please wait patiently.

I personally don't think the president will agree to your price. From 4,000 RMB to 10,000 RMB, the increase is too big. Our company has never had such a precedent. I hope you can be mentally prepared. - Chang Qingshu"

After reading the email, Cao Sheng was neither surprised nor angry.

Ten thousand yuan per episode was not his bottom line.

Ask for a high price and pay back the low price!

Since Chang Qingshu asked him to state his expected remuneration, he would naturally state it was higher to leave room for the other party to bargain.

You can't just show your cards right from the start.

And his psychological bottom line is eight thousand per episode.

If that doesn't work, seven thousand or six thousand will be fine.

His bottom line in this regard is more flexible. Anyway, it is better than the original four thousand per episode.

but……

Wanwan, Xinchang Headquarters.

After reading Chang Qingshu's email and learning about Cao Sheng's expected remuneration, President Lan Tianhu frowned slightly but showed no sign of getting angry.

Frowning and thinking for a moment, he picked up the phone on the table and dialed the number of the Nanjing office.

After a while, the call was connected.

Chang Qingshu's voice came from the phone: "President? Do you have any instructions?"

Lan Tianhu smiled and said in a gentle tone, "I just read your email. Zhongyuan Yidianhui expects a remuneration of 10,000 RMB, right?"

Chang Qingshu: "Yes, President! His appetite is too big. I have already written back to him and told him that our company has no precedent for this. I have prepared him psychologically. I estimate that we can only give him 7,000 to 8,000 per episode at most. I..."

Lan Tianhu interrupted him, "No! No need to bargain with him, just agree to his request! If he wants 10,000, we will give him 10,000."

Chang Qingshu: "Ah? President, I'm sure I can get him to agree with at most 7,000 or 8,000..."

Lan Tianhu interrupted him again, "No! Don't bargain."

Evergreen: “…”

Lan Tianhu paused and continued, "I believe what you said. Seven or eight thousand should indeed make him agree. Five or six thousand is also possible. But, Shu! He is worth the price. At least his current book "I Want to Become an Immortal" is worth the price. You know, this book has made us win the monthly sales champion for several consecutive months. The value of this monthly championship title alone is worth giving him a higher royalty. Moreover, I think we need to show him our sincerity now. Only in this way will he be more likely to choose us for his next work. Do you want to see his next work signed by our opponent?"

Evergreen: “…”

After a moment of silence, Chang Qingshu sighed softly and said with emotion: "President, you are right. I only consider the present, while you have long-term considerations! Then I will tell him... do we agree with his expected remuneration?"

Lan Tianhu: "Well, tell him the good news as soon as possible! We need to make him feel happy to cooperate with us."

Evergreen: "Yes! I understand. I will write an email to inform him right away."

Lan Tianhu hesitated slightly and added, "However, in order to prevent him from asking for a raise in such an outrageous way after a while, um... you should ask him to sign an additional agreement! Require him to write at least one million words next, and during this period, he cannot ask for a raise in his remuneration."

Evergreen: "Yes! I understand. I will make him sign the agreement as soon as possible."

When Lan Tianhu said he was going to sign the supplementary agreement just now, what he was thinking was: According to him, the first nine episodes belong to the first part, which already has about 60 words. If another 100 million words is agreed upon, the full text will have 160 million words. It should be able to be completed even with such a long length. As a new author, he probably can't write a longer piece.

What he didn't know was that before Cao Sheng's rebirth, the works he wrote that performed slightly better had two to three million words, and the best one had more than five million words.

……

call ended.

The office in Nanjing.

Chang Qingshu sat there in a daze for a long time before he came to his senses.

He didn't expect the president to be so generous this time. Zhongyuan Yidianhui had such an outrageous request, but the president didn't even bargain for him. This was totally inconsistent with his identity as a businessman.

But the reasons the president just gave did convince him. Zhongyuan Yidianhui, who was able to write "I Want to Become an Immortal" with the highest sales in the entire Taiwan publishing market, was indeed worth showing goodwill and winning over.

After all, the sales champion is priceless, and the publishing house that owns the sales champion will inevitably become more famous, thereby attracting more famous writers to sign contracts with their publishing house. This kind of benefit cannot be brought by ordinary works.

……

noon.

Cao Sheng stewed an old hen for himself.

The weather in September was too hot, and he didn't want to spend a long time in the kitchen cooking, but he wanted to eat something delicious and nutritious.

Stewing chicken soup becomes a good choice.

Go to the market and buy a slaughtered old hen. Wash it and don’t even need to chop it into pieces. Just put it in a large casserole, add water, ginger and salt, and stew it for two or three hours.

The stewed chicken soup tastes great whether it is eaten with white rice or made into chicken noodle soup.

You can also add some green vegetables or mushrooms to the chicken soup, so that it has both meat and vegetables and is nutritionally balanced.

Moreover, he could eat a batch of chicken soup for at least two days.

During these two days, he didn't have to work in the kitchen for a long time.

This was the life experience he gained from living alone for a long time and being lazy before his rebirth.

At noon that day, he had chicken soup and white rice.

There are mushrooms in the chicken soup.

While stewing the chicken soup, she also cooked some rice in the rice cooker. Neither of them required him to watch over them in the kitchen. During this time, he could just sit in the living room, drink tea, and read a book.

When the time comes, we can eat.

only……

Maybe the chicken soup was too fragrant. When he was eating rice with chicken soup in the restaurant, he heard the little girl next door crying and shouting for the old chicken soup.

The woman next door tried to coax the little girl for a long time but failed. Finally, the woman seemed to compromise. Cao Sheng vaguely heard the woman say that she wanted to take the little girl out for some chicken soup, and he also heard the sound of the gate from the next door opening and closing.

Hearing all this, he couldn't help but smile.

After lunch, he went to the study on the second floor, turned on his computer and logged into his email.

Saw the email from Evergreen.

"Dear Zhongyuan Yidianhui, your expected remuneration has been approved by our president, who hopes you can see our sincerity in cooperating with you.

It is extremely rare to see such a large increase in royalties.

But our company is willing to give you such treatment because we hope that you will feel happy to cooperate with us.

We can sign the specific agreement at any time, but this time we hope to stipulate that your "I Want to Become a Fairy 2" must be at least 100 million words, and before it reaches 100 million words, you cannot ask for an increase in royalties again. If you have no other opinions, please print two copies of the contract, sign them, and mail them to me.

If you have other comments, please let us know in time.

Finally, I wish you and your family happiness and a flood of creative ideas.

——Evergreen

Below this email, there was also an electronic contract sent to Cao Sheng, waiting for him to download, print and sign.

Did they really agree?
Ten thousand dollars per episode? No bargaining?
Cao Sheng was very surprised.

He remembered that in the original time and space, the price of a single volume published in Taiwan by top masters such as Tomato could reach tens of thousands, but that was in the early 2000s.

And now it is 98.

Is Xinchang Publishing House so generous?

Is 10,000 per episode too little?
(End of this chapter)