I'll give you a lung, this old fox is really good enough to pick the door, when I'm an idiot. Hearing Deng Cheng give him an official tone, Xiang Junfei really understood what it means to be a traitor and a businessman. He suppressed his anger and explained to Deng Cheng: "Manager Deng, although the two comics have not yet landed in the Hong Kong and Taiwan comics market, but in the mainland, they have also experienced the test of the market, in the reader feedback of "Painting King" magazine, "Full-time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar" are second only to "Dragon Ball" works, if I don't have enough confidence in my own works, I will not ask Editor-in-Chief Wang to help me recommend to Hong Kong's comic publishing house." But if I sign a contract according to the treatment you just mentioned, it is equivalent to being signed by you two comics at once, and as a result, I can only get 1 million per year. And those second- and third-rate cartoonists can get 40-500,000 yuan a year just by serializing one comic. In this way, I was not signed by you for the value of a second-rate cartoonist. Besides, Hong Kong comics are all assembly line operations, and the background, character costumes, hair and other details do not need to be drawn by the main writer, and I don't even have an assistant now, the whole comic is completed by me alone, and its work intensity is comparable to those Hong Kong cartoonists. ”

"This, then according to the opinion of your classmates, how much do you think the treatment should be to satisfy you?"

"I don't need an annual salary, the manuscript fee is settled monthly, the manuscript fee for each page is 3,000 yuan, and the copyright of the work belongs to me and Dongli Company. The income of the single bank is 28 cents. "Xiang Junfei's asking price is not high, if according to the delivery speed of his manuscript in the era of "Painting King", a month, he can give Dongli nearly 100 pages of sketches, according to the manuscript fee of 3,000 yuan per page, then he can earn 300,000 yuan in a month of manuscript fees, and in a year, the manuscript fee alone is 3.6 million, plus the copyright fee of a single book, the net income in a year can easily exceed 5 million.

Such a super high treatment is naturally unacceptable to Deng Cheng. is a good pit boy, and he is really born to pit people, and he knows how to open his mouth at a young age. Although he was dissatisfied with the treatment proposed to Junfei, Deng Cheng did not want the negotiation to break down, so he patiently said to Xiang Junfei: "If you like to settle the manuscript fee on a monthly basis, our company can meet your request, but the manuscript fee of 3,000 yuan for a page you just said is too high, and you have to account for 20% of the income of a single book, which is also too unreasonable." No publisher in Hong Kong will accept such a request.

"Manager Deng, don't bully me because I'm young. I know that Japan's top manga artists charge more than 10,000 yuan per page, and that the copyright of their manga is shared between the author and the publisher, so I hope that the treatment is just like that that of ordinary Japanese manga artists, which is not too much.

"Xiang classmate, you can't say anything, you can't compare the comic manuscript fee in Hong Kong and Taiwan with the comic manuscript fee in Japan, in Japan, comics are already the pillar industry of this country, and the people of the country have the habit of reading comics from five-year-old children to seventy-year-olds. Just like Shueisha's weekly manga magazine "Shonen JUMP", which sold as many as 6 million copies in a single issue, this gives the publisher enough money to pay its manga artists high manuscript fees, but the manga atmosphere in Hong Kong and Taiwan is incomparable to that of Japan, and the public will not be willing to invest as much money in comics as the Japanese. When the comic atmosphere in Hong Kong and Taiwan can be compared with Japan, and people are willing to spend a lot of money to buy comics, then even if you don't mention it, we will be in line with Japan in terms of manuscript fees, but now we really have more than enough and not enough. ”

Xiang Junfei didn't know what Deng Cheng said, and he didn't expect Deng Cheng to agree to the advice he just made, it was just a negotiation technique.

In the following time, Xiang Junfei and Deng Cheng began to bargain with each other, and finally reached a consensus on the basis of 1000 per page manuscript fee and 0.5% of Xiang Junfei's single line income.

When Xiang Junfei signed his name on the contract drafted by Deng Cheng, Deng Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, for him, although he paid a lot of price this time, but he finally put Xiang Junfei such a comic genius into Dongli's banner, and now when he started a market grabbing war with Daran Company, Dongli no longer had to take a defensive position, and had the capital to start a mutual offensive with the other party.

And today's meeting with Xiang Junfei, Deng Cheng found out that the other party was very young, in addition to the fact that he already knew in advance, there was another surprise, that is, Xiang Junfei's appearance conditions are quite good, he can be called a standard handsome guy, even if he no longer draws comics in the future, and goes to be an actor, he will not worry about no way out.

The comics are well drawn, young, and handsome, Deng Cheng can fully imagine that Xiang Junfei will become the darling of the entire Hong Kong and Taiwan news media, and his fan base will definitely not lose to any idol star in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Although Xiang Junfei didn't know what Deng Cheng was thinking at this time, he didn't forget the fact that he was a student, at least before finishing high school, Xiang Junfei didn't want to expose himself as a "pit boy", so he specially reminded Deng Cheng: "Manager Deng, I have another request, please be sure to agree to me." ”

"Hehe, before you say this request, I also have a request for you, that is, don't call me Manager Deng, just call me Uncle Deng. In fact, my daughter is the same age as you, and it is really unaccustomed to being called a manager by a child of your age, and it also seems rusty. ”

"Uncle Deng, I hope that the company can keep my personal information confidential and promise not to disclose it. Although I am now a professional cartoonist, my relatives, friends, and classmates around me don't know about it, and I don't want to be found out about myself as a cartoonist until I finish my studies, and I want to spend my student life like an ordinary student. ”

"This ......" Deng Cheng seemed a little hesitant, he originally wanted to wait until the two comics were serialized to a certain extent, so he invited Xiang Junfei to Hong Kong and Taiwan to arrange various activities to meet readers to promote the sales of comics, but Xiang Junfei said this, which undoubtedly cut off this great publicity opportunity. After hesitating for a while, Deng Cheng sighed and said, "Okay, according to what you said, the company will keep your personal information confidential, but you have to promise me that when you finish your studies, you must accept the various activities arranged by the company for you, which can be done!" ”

"Of course no problem!"

"Alright, come on, let's have a drink!" Happy, Deng Cheng took out two wine glasses, poured red wine for his cup, and poured coconut milk for Xiang Junfei's cup.

Although Xiang Junfei was more interested in red wine than coconut milk, he still picked up the glass of coconut milk and clinked glasses with Deng Cheng and said, "Happy cooperation!" ”