After chatting with the third uncle, Zhou Xuan asked him to go to the county on the fifth day of the new year, that is, on February 4, and talk to him about the next work at that time. Then Zhou Xuan gave his mobile phone number to the third uncle and asked him to call him in the county.

When the third uncle learned that Zhou Xuan had bought a mobile phone, he was envious, and he played with it in his hand for a long time before reluctantly returning it to Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan said a little funny: "After you work, I'll give you one." ”

"Really!" the third uncle looked shocked and incredulous.

"Of course. ”

When going to the field to promote, the main person in charge must be equipped with a mobile phone, otherwise how can Zhou Xuan understand the sales dynamics and command at any time.

At this point, Zhou Xuan decided where the third uncle was going to work for him. As for other relatives who thought the same as the third uncle, Zhou Xuan just gave his parents a breath, dragged them first, and waited for this year's development. When the time comes, you will have enough funds, whether you can open a branch or lend them money to invest.

After continuing to stay at home for a day, Zhou Xuan went back to the county with his parents.

When he arrived in the county, Zhou Xuan went shopping on the Internet. I found that there is really nothing to look at on the Internet now, the resources are extremely poor, and the limited number of websites are also ugly and ugly. And the cheating father's Internet speed also made Zhou Xuan a little crying without tears, it seems that the maturity of the network environment still depends on 99 years.

Zhou Xuan thought that it was now the fourth year of junior high school, and he didn't know how "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" was selling? Although the first two days were selling very well, but during the Spring Festival these days, the sales should not be good, right?

Zhou Xuan thought about it, but decided to call Wei Xiyue to find out about the situation, after all, this was related to Zhou Xuan's start-up capital.

"Hey, Zhou Xuan, you finally called me. I thought you didn't care about the sales of the Ming Dynasty at all?" the editor-in-chief Wei over there quipped with a smile.

Zhou Xuan felt that every time he called Wei Xiyue, Wei Xiyue had to tease him, but it made Zhou Xuan feel that Wei Xiyue was very easy to get along with, and the relationship between the two was inevitably closer.

"Editor-in-chief Wei, the Chinese New Year has been really busy in the past few days. You also know that there are many relatives in the countryside. Today's reunion of my family, tomorrow's reunion of that family, in short, not very free. Actually, I'm also annoyed by such times, but they are all relatives and have to go. Zhou Xuan explained.

"Haha, good you Zhou Xuan. Won't I just say it, you still explain to me such a big bunch. Did you call today to ask about the sales of the Ming Dynasty?"

Hearing that Wei Xiyue finally got down to business, Zhou Xuan hurriedly said, "I just want to ask about the current situation?"

"Haha, speaking of the Ming Dynasty, I, Wei Xiyue, have to say that I admire, why did you have so much confidence in the Ming Dynasty in the first place? At the beginning, I thought that this book would sell for two or three hundred thousand. But now it turns out that the sales are much more than that. Wei Xiyue sighed and said: "There were more than 12,000 copies on the first day, and I won't talk about more than 25,000 copies the next day." On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, many bookstores were only open for half a day and some bookstores were closed, but more than 21,000 copies were sold. ”

Then came the first day of the Lunar New Year, with more than 37,000 copies. ”

"As more and more people have read about the Ming Dynasty, the reputation is getting better and better. Sales in the second year of junior high school also reached a new high, reaching 58,000 copies. Yesterday, it reached sixty-one thousand. Although it seems that the increase is not much, with the growth of word of mouth, I feel that after the end of the holiday, the Ming Dynasty will win the sales climax again. ”

Zhou Xuan calculated, from the 25th to today's February 3rd, the Ming Dynasty has been on sale for 7 days, just one week. The Ming Dynasty actually sold 214,000 copies, and it was only 7 days.

You should know that the sales period of books is relatively long, and the annual sales volume is generally counted as reference data. At this time, anyone who can sell more than a million copies a year can be considered a bestseller.

Originally, according to the situation ten years after the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty sold more than 10 million copies in a few years. But you know, there are seven volumes, and on average, there are almost two million copies each, and they have been sold for several years.

Zhou Xuan originally estimated that it would take half a year to sell more than one million copies, but he didn't expect that the people's desire to buy books in this era was so positive, so it gave Zhou Xuan a big surprise.

Could it be that the Internet developed later, and many people like to read books on the Internet, which diverts a large part of the traffic. Now the Internet is not so developed, and many people still like to read paper books.

I don't know the specific reason, Zhou Xuan can only think like this.

Zhou Xuan calmed down and said to Wei Xiyue with a smile: "It looks pretty good." ”

"What! It's not bad, you're so calm. In my more than ten years of publishing industry, I haven't noticed that the book started with such crazy sales, according to my estimates, the book will definitely reach a million sales in two or three months. Then the sales will definitely slow down, and within a year, it is expected to exceed two million sales. Wei Xiyue over there gave a forecast for the Ming Dynasty in the coming year based on his more than ten years of experience in book publishing.

I have to say that seeing the prospects of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Xiyue's prediction is quite accurate.

"Hehe, since Editor-in-Chief Wei has said so. When settling the manuscript fee, it will be settled according to the highest royalty, so as to avoid the trouble of calculating it many times in the future. ”

As soon as Zhou Xuan said this, he immediately choked Wei Xiyue over there and didn't know how to answer: "Since the contract has been signed, we must act in accordance with the contract." However, for the sake of future cooperation......"

Zhou Xuan's pen name "Zhou Zixuan" was not famous originally, but with the hot sale of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", it immediately attracted the attention of the publishing house. After a brief investigation, Wei Xiyue was taken aback. When I heard Zhou Xuan say that he had also published some articles in other magazines, Wei Xiyue didn't care about it later because he was too busy.

Now I know that Zhou Xuan has published a number of works in several magazines across the country since October last year. There are short stories, long stories, and the genres are also diverse, including science fiction, romance, and youth novels.

couldn't help but pay more attention to Zhou Xuan, and after discussing with the president of the publishing house, he decided to win over Zhou Xuan at all costs and tie Zhou Xuan to Xiling Publishing House.

Therefore, when he heard Zhou Xuan's words, although he could not calculate the royalty of up to 20 percent, in order to win over Zhou Xuan, he said: "I discussed with the president, if you need money, we can give you royalties at 115 percent and sales of one million copies in the first month." How?"

When Zhou Xuan heard this, he was immediately shocked by the conditions of Xiling Publishing House. You must know that the contract stipulates that the manuscript fee will be settled once every three months, and it will be settled according to the actual sales volume.

In this way, Zhou Xuan can get a large amount of manuscript fees two or three months in advance this month, and he can start his own Internet investment a few months in advance, whether it is to open a clothing store or an Internet café, he has start-up capital.

This is a great gift, which is nothing more than to obtain the priority publishing rights of your future works. I was originally a troublesome person, since Xiling showed such great sincerity, why not do it?

Zhou Xuan thought for a moment and agreed: "Since your society is so sincere, then I will not be polite." I need money, and it would be nice if I could give me a royalty upfront. ”

"No problem, I'll apply. ”