Hou Muyun didn't count how much money he made from the book "Xuanyuan Sword Master", to be honest. At first, the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info would be concerned about how many copies were sold in a month, what kind of establishment was created, and what position it occupied on the North American book sales list, but later, I really didn't have the heart to care, at most occasionally a month or two to know an approximate sales figure.

At the end of the royalty half a year ago, Hou Muyun got more than 30 million US dollars, quite happy and excited, this more than 30 million US dollars is after deducting all taxes and other expenses, and it is completely the money in his hand, which is equivalent to nearly 200 million Huaxia coins, which is definitely the largest amount of money in hand at one time.

The $30 million is the North American royalties settled half a year ago, half a year ago, SS Group's main market for the book "Future War" has been maintained in North America, and then it slowly sold "Future War" to the world. Of course, SS Group's global sales were later signed with Hou Muyun, and the original contract was limited to the North American market.

In the past six months after the settlement cycle, the sales of "Future Wars" have been very strong not only in North America, but also around the world.

To put it simply, the royalties of this settlement, needless to say, are far more than the previous 30 million.

On November 1, Hou Muyun and Chu Qing took the time to rush back to Shanghai to meet with the senior management of the SS Group, where Sky Culture had found a new high-end office building as the office location, and the representative of the discretionary law firm was naturally present.

The senior management of the SS group who came this time is named James, blonde hair and blue eyes, whether it is from the perspective of appearance or surname, they are all British, as soon as they open their mouths, they can naturally be more certain, either the family education is in place, or they have gone to the United States for a few generations, and they have a pure London accent, from the expression, it is a perfect combination of the arrogance of England and the arrogance of the United States, and it may be a very important reason why he will always straighten his body and talk to you with his neck.

Of course, the SS Group sent such an arrogant and arrogant James to definitely not be angry with Hou Muyun and put any pressure on him, but ....... how to say it, if a person who knows at a glance that he is particularly arrogant and arrogant is complimenting you vigorously, this kind of sycophant is obviously more comfortable.

All in all, SS Group, as one of the world's most well-known book publishing companies, has a very good attitude towards Hou Muyun. If you have to say that this is the face of a capitalist, sometimes a capitalist is ruthless, and sometimes a capitalist is like a spring breeze, probably it depends on how much benefit you can create for him.

SS Group has made a very detailed information on the sales of "Future War" in the past six months, which is clear at a glance, and the other should be notarized and other information is complete, and the taxes and fees that need to be paid are also listed, and the final calculated figure is the money that Hou Muyun can get this time.

During this period, all the formalities were handled by SS Group and the law firm, and Hou Muyun was directly responsible for taking the money.

$65 million!

This is the money that Hou Muyun can get this time, and not all.

In addition, some of them have not been counted for the time being due to sales reasons and other factors, and there are probably hundreds of copies sold.

And the tenth book of "Future War Chronicles", which was just released yesterday, is naturally not included in the calculation.

In other words, so far, Hou Muyun's "Future War" has been sold through the SS Group channel and the final money is 95 million US dollars, nearly 100 million US dollars, and more than 600 million Chinese coins!

After settling the settlement in person, James called directly and asked the group to remit the money to Hou Muyun's account!

In this regard, SS Group did not delay at all.

Even, they were about to negotiate with Hou Muyun about the relicensing of the physical copyright three months after the completion of "Future War", and they didn't have the slightest intention to use it as a "bargaining chip".

This kind of attitude and thinking is undoubtedly clever, at least in Hou Muyun's place.

Sign!

Hou Muyun did not hesitate, and authorized the follow-up copyright to SS Group, not bothering the two owners, and the cooperation between them was pleasant, and there was no reason to think about finding a second one, or to delay time to increase the bargaining chips. Of course, the terms of this contract are definitely better than before, and in addition, the authorization is not a permanent license, but a three-year license.

In addition, it should be mentioned that when the authorization was signed, the law firm entrusted before was naturally not needed and did not continue to participate in it. The law firm regretted but did not have the slightest opinion on this, knowing before they came that this was a sure thing, and there was no reason for anyone to pay a little more for no reason.

Not to mention, this part of the cost is definitely not low, in the past ten months, the law firm has earned no less than one million dollars through the "Future War" case!

As for the film and television copyright development of "Future War" mentioned by SS Group next, Hou Muyun extracted some of the proposals and plans they made for this very seriously, and then said very seriously that he needed to consider it, and said half-jokingly: "James, I am also very optimistic about the film and television copyright development of "Future War", and I also attach great importance to it, I need to think about it for a certain amount of time. Also, in case you didn't know, I'm currently working on a film of my other novel. Film and television have always been a very important goal for me to write novels, and I want to try to see if I can express what I want to express in the novel through this shooting. If it works, God knows if I'll rush straight into Hollywood with Future Wars next. In that case, I'm going to have to ask you for help!"

James's expression was exaggerated: "Hou, I've always heard that you are a very amazing person, I didn't expect you to direct movies! God, if you really enter Hollywood with "Future War", then the sunshine in Southern California will definitely be even brighter because of you!"

Obviously, James took Hou Muyun's words as a joke.

In the end, the film and television rights were not negotiated, but James still went back happily with the follow-up authorization of the physical copyright and Hou Muyun's promise that if "Future War" developed film and television rights in North America, he would definitely notify SS Group in advance.

Of course, on the night before leaving, Hou Muyun must have done his best to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, and a hot pot made James and others shout God at least a hundred times in one night.

After James and others returned to the United States, the first thing SS Group did was to lobby the judges for the "Nebula Award" and the "Hugo Award", two "Nobel" awards for science fiction.

This is naturally not a hot pot that played a role, but signed the follow-up copyright.

If it wins the award, then the Future of War series will surely set off another sales frenzy and create greater benefits for SS Group.

In addition, there is one more thing that SS Group must do, and that is to submit Hou Muyun's royalty-related information to Forbes magazine.