When he walked out of the conference room of Zhouguang Science and Technology, Geng Shancheng's forehead tightened, and the secretary next to him saw it and hurriedly took out the small medicine bottle he was carrying, and poured out two pills from it for him to swallow.

After taking the usual painkillers, Geng Shancheng's face looked better.

After years of hard work, he fell into a migraine, and in the negotiation with Huang Jinshu just now, he was caused by Huang Jinshu's tough attitude that left no room for maneuver.

After more than an hour of tug-of-war, Geng Shancheng finally agreed to Huang Jinshu's conditions. Within six months, if the sales of any single book of four to five novels are less than 5 million copies, then Crown Publishing only needs to pay 15 percent of the royalties, and if each of the books sold more than 8 million copies, the royalty ratio must be increased to 30 percent.

With this condition, Geng Shancheng finally won the exclusive publishing rights of "Dragon Babu" within three years.

As for why he chose "Dragon Babu", it is because Geng Shancheng, a relatively traditional book fan, tends to have a more neutral style of Lao Cha.

It's not that "The Peerless Twins" is bad, on the contrary, the romantic and cunning little fish is very popular among the majority of book fans, and the Zhouguang Blog recently published a character list, which released several heroes and heroines in "The Peerless Twins" and "Dragon Babu" for fans to vote.

The final result is that Xiaoyuer overwhelmed the crowd and won the championship of the popularity list at this stage. Geng Shancheng estimates that when the two novels are over, this popularity list will be held again, and the result will be unknown at that time.

It's just that when he can only choose one of the two, Geng Shancheng subjectively chose "Dragon Babu". Another important reason is that Geng Shancheng obtained the final word count of these two novels from Huang Jinshu, and "Tianlong Babu" is hundreds of thousands more words than "The Peerless Shuangjiao".

This means that for the same thirty-two physical books, the full set of "Tianlong Babu" can produce five single books, and "The Peerless Double Pride" is only four books long.

Although he won the exclusive publishing rights of "Dragon Babu", Geng Shancheng is now half sad and half happy, because the conditions he gave are much beyond the company's predetermined bottom line, and Geng Shancheng has a headache about how to explain to the board of directors.

However, Geng Shancheng can convey Huang Jinshu's original words to the board of directors, according to Huang Jinshu's meaning, it doesn't matter if Crown Publishing House gives up cooperation, after all, there are still two or three companies in China that are in the same order of magnitude as Crown Publishing House. Even, Huang Jinshu can choose a relatively small publishing company, I believe that those small companies will be obedient a lot.

Therefore, the current situation is that "Dragon Babu" can do without Crown Publishing House, but Crown Publishing House cannot give up "Dragon Babu".

Moreover, the shrewd Huang Jinshu also divided the publishing rights into domestic publishing and overseas publishing, after all, the number of overseas Chinese is huge, and the number of people who love martial arts novels is not a small number, and the market is also huge.

Geng Shancheng knew that the highest-selling novel in a single book in the past was a martial arts novel by Zhong Luolei, which sold more than 8 million, creating a milestone in the domestic publishing industry at that time.

Geng Shancheng is confident that the sales of "Dragon Babu" can exceed this record, so he must convince the board of directors.

As long as the board of directors agrees, the next step is to sign a contract with Lao Cha.

In this regard, Huang Jinshu also solemnly emphasized one point just now, that is, Crown Publishing House must keep the true identity of Lao Cha confidential, and the confidentiality clause will be written into the contract, and once violated, it will be necessary to pay extremely high liquidated damages.

Geng Shancheng also understands that many famous novelists do not want to leak personal information to avoid being harassed by avid book fans.

With this complicated feeling, Geng Shancheng walked out of the office of Zhouguang Technology with his secretary, but met the general manager of another publishing company at the elevator door.

This is a company called Wanshan Publishing Group, which is at the top of the domestic publishing industry like Crown Publishing House, and is also a direct competitor of Crown Publishing House for many years.

"Old Geng?"

Wan Zining met this old opponent as soon as he got out of the elevator, and immediately thought that the other party appeared here, I am afraid that he is the same as himself, with the same purpose, and his face is suddenly not good-looking.

"Hey, Mr. Wan, hello, you also came to find those two people?"

also encountered an old opponent, Geng Shancheng was much happier, and his head didn't hurt anymore. Because he has won "Dragon Babu", although the process is very difficult, he still has an advantage over Wanshan Group.

"Old Geng, looking at your appearance, could it be that you already have good results?" Wan Zining asked tentatively.

Geng Shancheng put his index finger to his lips and said with a smile: "Trade secrets, trade secrets." Oh yes, I won't hinder you anymore, I still have to go back to the board of directors to make a report, good luck. ”

After that, Geng Shancheng laughed a few times and walked into the elevator.

"Mr. Wan, look at this ......" After the elevator door closed, Wan Zining's secretary asked worriedly.

Wan Zining snorted coldly: "That old guy is just bluffing us, I don't believe he can really win the publishing rights of the two books." Let's go in and meet them!"

Two hours later, Wan Zining walked out of Zhouguang Technology Company with a complicated expression, and the secretaries around him knew that Mr. Wan might not be in a good mood, so he didn't dare to bother him, so he followed behind.

Two days later, the news that "The Peerless Twins" and "Dragon Babu" were going to publish physical single books was publicized on the blog, and even, the official release of the Zhouguang Blog said that it was possible that the physical publication of the two novels would be faster than the update on the blog.

In other words, the endings of the two novels may appear on the physical book first, which is Huang Jinshu's suggestion to increase the sales of physical books, and also made Geng Shancheng and Wan Zining personally call Huang Jinshu to thank him, which can be regarded as a gimmick for their publishing house.

Many book lovers have rushed to tell each other, because book lovers who still retain the habit of reading physical books still feel more comfortable holding a single book with beautiful packaging and beautiful printing.

And those old book lovers who can't go online are so excited that they can't sleep after learning the news, and they go to a similar bookstore every day to see if these two novels are on the market.

At Suicheng Railway Station, Fang Tianwu said goodbye to Fang Yicheng and Fang Xiru, who sent him over, and entered the station with a backpack.

I saw that he was wearing a duckbill hat and glasses on his face, so I couldn't see his appearance if I didn't look carefully, and the train station was crowded and crowded, and ordinary people wouldn't pay attention to the appearance of others.

When Fang Tianwu came to the third entrance, he saw a beautiful woman standing there, carrying a duffel bag, looking around and looking around to see who was waiting for someone, it was Shen Lijun.

Approaching the National Day holiday, Fang Tianyu needed to go to Tanzhou Jiangnan Satellite TV in advance to promote the national competition of "Voice of Youth", and then participate in the national competition, so he specially asked the school for leave.

The school wants Fang Tianyu to leave, lest the girls in the school always seem to be doping, so the other party's application for leave is a green light, and it also hints that Fang Tianwu can't come back after the leave date, just call the school office to say hello, and don't need to come back to hand in the application.

Fang Tianwu smiled bitterly, this was obviously unwilling to go back to school by himself.

Shen Lijun also wanted to take advantage of the National Day holiday to visit her hometown, so she left with Fang Tianyu.

Quietly coming behind Shen Lijun, Fang Tianwu suppressed his voice and said, "Beauty, who are you waiting for?"

Shen Lijun was startled by this sudden voice, and hurriedly grabbed her duffel bag before daring to turn around to look, only to see that it was Fang Tianhu wearing a duckbill hat.

"Xiao Fang, are you here?" Shen Lijun was very happy, thinking that she could go back to Tanzhou with Fang Tianyu, she was so nervous that she couldn't sleep last night.

"Let's go, it's almost time. Fang Tianwu helped Shen Lijun take the duffel bag and took her to board the train together.

When the two came to the soft-seat carriage together, they saw that the carriage was almost full of passengers, so they hurriedly went to their seats.

The seats in the carriage are designed to be opposite each other, and after Fang Tianwu and Shen Lijun sat down, they saw two girls in their early twenties opposite, who also seemed to be college students.

Fang Tianyu hurriedly lowered the duckbill hat a little so as not to be recognized by the other party.

Shen Lijun next to her laughed softly: "It turns out that this is a soft seat, it's so comfortable." ”

"You haven't sat before?"

Fang Tianwu regretted it a little as soon as he asked, with Shen Lijun's frugality, I am afraid that every time I take the train, I buy a station ticket. Lingnan Province is adjacent to Jiangnan Province, and it takes six or seven hours to get from Suicheng to Tanzhou by train.

In his previous life, when he traveled in China, Fang Tianwu had suffered everything, let alone standing in the train, even if he walked hundreds of miles on foot, he had tried. But it's nothing for a man to suffer a little, thinking that a little girl like her has to stand for six or seven hours in a row, Fang Tianyu's heart will inevitably be tense.

Sure enough, Shen Lijun said: "I haven't bought a ticket before." ”

Fang Tianwu couldn't help but touch her head and said with a smile: "It's okay, your life will get better and better in the future!"

I don't know why, hearing Fang Tianyu's words, Shen Lijun felt a longing for her future life in her heart.

She said to the other eagle: "The train will take six or seven hours to get to Tanzhou, I made some steamed buns in the dormitory, and you can eat a little when you are hungry." ”

Fang Tianwu nodded, although there was food on the train, it definitely didn't taste very good, and the price was expensive, but Shen Lijun's craftsmanship was excellent, and she had eaten what she made before, and it tasted very delicious.

At this time, Fang Tianwu remembered the scene when he signed contracts with Crown Publishing House and Wanshan Publishing Group yesterday.

Because they met Geng Shancheng and Wan Zining as Lao Cha and Da Xiong respectively, plus a strict confidentiality agreement, they didn't know that Lao Cha and Da Xiong were actually the same person.

But despite this, they obviously didn't expect that two martial arts masters who could write such classic works would be such young people, and they would participate in the singing talent show so "unprofessionally".

If it weren't for Fang Tianwu showing the certification documents of the Copyright Office, Geng Shancheng and Wan Zining would probably have suspected that Fang Tianwu was impersonating.

The terms of Fang Tianyu's contract with Crown Publishing House are basically the same as the result of Huang Jinshu's negotiations, and there is a VAM agreement.

As for Wanshan Publishing Group, he directly signed a contract at a royalty rate of 27%, because Wan Zining learned that Crown Publishing House had won "Dragon Babu", and after seeing Huang Jinshu's extremely tough attitude, he basically had no strength to resist.

What's more, Wanshan Publishing Group only needs to set the price of a single book a little higher, and the profits will also be very lucrative, because they predict that the market potential of "The Peerless Double Pride" is by no means smaller than that of "Dragon Babu", and there is a good chance to create a sales miracle.