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Chapter 143 Xu Sanguan's Tale of Selling Blood (Thanks to Mini Titan Lan for the reward)
After more than ten days, the purpose of Harvest Literature Network's call this time has changed.

Last time, Fang Qing asked Lin Ping to call Zhang Zhong to set the stage for the copyright discussion, but Lin Ping failed in the end because Zhang Zhong had no plan at all.

After more than ten days like this, Harvest Literature Network was almost busy with things, and there was no news from Zhang Zhong, so they were a little anxious.

Lin Ping exchanged pleasantries with Zhang Chong and then got to the point, but after talking about the specific conditions, she changed a person to chat with Zhang Chong.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang, I'm Fang Qing, editor-in-chief of Harvest Literature. Regarding the publication of "Wives and Concubines", our condition here is [-]% of the royalties, signing for ten years, and the first printing of [-] copies." Fang After Qing took the phone, she explained their conditions to Zhang Zhong in a simple and clear manner.

The other party's style is neat, Zhang Zhong also became neat, and said directly, "Sign for five years, I will keep the film and television adaptation rights for myself, and I will not ask for the number of first printings."

Generally, when talking about publishing, authors pay more attention to two points. The first point is the royalty point, and the second point is the first printing. These two conditions will directly affect the author's income, and it is the basic income.

Therefore, when the author asks for a high royalty point, he often asks for a higher first print. Even if the work does not sell well in the future, the loss will be borne by the publisher. Anyway, the author gets paid according to the number of prints, not how much it sells. Book.

Fang Qing was a little surprised by Zhang Chong's indifferent attitude towards the number of first prints, but Fang Qing still couldn't accept his conditions, "Mr. Zhang, it is impossible for our publishing house to agree to a five-year contract, and the film and television adaptation There is no precedent for our publishing house before."

"That's all my conditions. If possible, we can continue the discussion." Zhang Zhong said with a smile, implying that if the two conditions are not agreed, there is no need to continue the discussion.

Fang Qing on the other end of the phone paused for a moment. She didn't understand Zhang Zhong. Is this person just a fool who doesn't understand anything, or is he already an old man?

She told Zhang Zhong that the fact that they harvested literature without giving up the right to film and television adaptation was of course false, but she didn't think that a new author was enough to make them give up this part of the condition, because this was the treatment of those well-known bigwigs.

"Mr. Zhang, we can increase the royalties to 11.00%, which is already our bottom line."

Zhang Zhong smiled, "Editor Fang, I think I have made my conditions very clear to you."

……

Lin Ping saw that the smile that had always been on Fang Qing's face suddenly disappeared, replaced by a frown and a cold face, she seemed to be in trouble.

I knew that the other party was a difficult person, and even Editor-in-Chief Fang couldn't handle it.

After chatting for a few more words, Fang Qing still didn't win the ten-year contract period and the priority of film and television adaptation, but she didn't get nothing. She successfully reduced the royalties from 12.00% to [-]%, which was lower than what she originally expected. The set royalty floor of [-]% is three points lower.

"The matter is settled, you don't need to take care of this matter anymore, I will take over completely, and I will handle the matter of contacting this person in the future."

After hanging up the phone, Fang Qing said to Lin Ping.

Lin Ping breathed a sigh of relief, she couldn't do these things by herself, so it would be a good thing if Editor-in-Chief Fang took over.

"Oh, nine percent, I don't know what he thinks." Fang Qing shook her head, left Lin Ping's seat and returned to her office.

On the other side, Zhang Zhong also hung up the phone. He was satisfied with the result of the negotiation.

The sales volume of the book "Wives and Concubines" will definitely not be very high, even if it is released on his tuba, it is impossible to become a hit in the market.

Being able to firmly hold the film and television adaptation rights in his hands, and only sign for five years, is already very profitable for him.

If you are lucky, this book might win several literary awards, and then adapt it in a short period of time, so that when the contract expires, the conditions for renewal will naturally increase accordingly.

Now that the conditions have been negotiated on the phone, Harvest Literature will draw up the contract later, and Zhang Zhong will print it out and sign it and send it to the mail.

What Fang Qing told her was that the book would be published at the end of next month. In this way, Zhang Zhong calculated that he would have two books on the shelves at the end of next month, and the other one was "Murder on the Orient Express". ".

Two days ago, Zhang Zhong had [-] extra points in his hand, but this time he was not in a hurry to use them. Anyway, there are a lot of books in his hand that can be sent out recently. His "Snowman" is still being created, and it will be completed by the end of this year.

Therefore, he wanted to keep these points and draw again when he had accumulated [-] points. The system's chattering promotion every time played a more or less brainwashing effect. He did have some interest in advanced lottery draws.

……

It was the day of Xiaonian when Zhang Zhong accumulated [-] points.

Their New Year's Eve is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which is the seventeenth day of the first lunar month.

Now it's not very lively to celebrate the new year, let alone celebrate the small year.

The new year is too late, and the new year is too late.

When Jiangyang was young, he had a big meal at noon, and it was over, and some places in the countryside even gave away the Kitchen God.

After lunch, Zhang Zhong lay in bed for a mid-morning rest, when the news came from the system that his points had accumulated to [-].

[Open the advanced lottery draw mode. ] Zhang Zhong said to the system.

[Advanced lottery draw mode will consume more points, check the remaining [-] points, whether to consume [-] points to draw works? 】

【Yes. 】

[Open the advanced lottery mode. 】

[Obtained the work "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood"]

"Xu Sanguan sells blood!"

Zhang Zhong sat up from the bed at once, his face was both surprised and excited, the [-] points were not given for nothing, and he was able to get this book.

"Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" is one of Yu Hua's masterpieces, and also one of the best novels in China in the past 50 years.

When many people hear Yu Hua, the first book that comes to mind may be "To Live", but for Zhang Zhong, Yu Hua's favorite is still this book.

In Yu Hua's works, there are always all kinds of tragic little people, and Xu Sanguan in "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is one of them.

This book is not "mysterious" like the title of "To Live", but the title of the book simply and clearly summarizes the content of the whole book. This book mainly talks about one thing from the beginning to the end. Xu Sanguan sell blood.

If Zhang Zhong remembered correctly, Xu Sanguan sold blood seven times in total. Except for the first time he sold blood with people from the same village, out of curiosity and to prove his health, every other time he sold blood. There are compelling reasons.

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