After all, the location they are at is still at the school gate, and it is the peak time for students to go home from school, so Xiang Junfei is afraid that their conversation will be heard by these passing students, especially the dialogue about "Full-time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar", and he doesn't want people to hear it, otherwise the fact that he is a pit boy will be discovered by his classmates at school, and he won't want to go to school with peace of mind.

After hearing Xiang Junfei's reminder, Deng Cheng also felt that the school gate was not a place to talk about things: "Hehe, I was so happy that I forgot that this is not a place to talk, let's change places to discuss specific matters." ”

Deng Cheng took Xiang Junfei into a taxi, and then went to the Chongqing Hotel where he was staying, and in the VIP suite, Deng Cheng and Xiang Junfei sat on the sofa and began their formal negotiations.

Considering that Xiang Junfei was still an underage child, Deng Cheng did not hand him cigarettes and wine, but took out a can of coconut milk from the refrigerator and handed it to Xiang Junfei, and then said: "The reason why I flew from Hong Kong to Chongqing this time, I must have heard about it from Mr. Wang, right?" ”

"Yes, thanks to Mr. Deng this time, I can read two comics, and a powerful publishing house like Dongli is also worthy of me entrusting you with two works, but I don't know how much sincerity Dongli has?" Although Xiang Junfei is now 100% willing to sign two comics to Dongli, he also hopes to increase his manuscript fee as much as possible. Just becoming an excellent cartoonist is not Xiang Junfei's ultimate goal, becoming a person like Osamu Tezuka, who can promote the development of the national animation industry, is what Xiang Junfei desires the most, and it is not possible to do great things without money, so Xiang Junfei will signal Deng Cheng now, and put on a look that the manuscript fee is too small, so he will not sign a contract with you.

This kid is really not ordinary, where would a child of his age know how to put pressure on the negotiator, but if he were an ordinary child, he would never be able to draw a cartoon of that level. In addition to secretly admiring himself, Deng Cheng said with a smile: "Of course, our Dongli is very sincere, otherwise the general manager of my branch would not have come to Chongqing in person to discuss with you here." ”

"That is, I am very touched that a person like you, Mr. Deng, who is so busy with official business, took time out of his time for me to come to Chongqing to meet with me. However, I still want to know, if I sign a contract with you Dongli this time, how much will I get paid, and how is your manuscript fee standard formulated? ”

"Hehe, maybe there is some misunderstanding to my classmates, the comic publishing contract authors of Hong Kong and Taiwan do not pay according to how much the author pays per page, but directly pay the annual salary. Generally speaking, the annual salary of ordinary authors ranges from 100,000 to 300,000 yuan, the annual salary of well-known authors with medium and good sales is 500,000 yuan, and the annual salary of second-rate and first-class authors can be as high as one million! Although Xiang has not yet debuted in Hong Kong and Taiwan, there is no doubt about your comic talent, and "Full-Time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar" are also works that are destined to become popular. As long as you are willing to sign a contract with us Dongli and become our cartoonist, you will receive an annual salary of 1 million yuan in the first year, and we will determine your annual salary according to the sales of "Full-time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar". Depending on the talent of the classmates, I believe that the annual salary must increase year by year, and there will be no mistake. ”

After Deng Cheng said this, he thought that Xiang Junfei would dance happily. As far as he knows, the annual income of ordinary families in the mainland is only 2-30,000 yuan, and now Xiang Junfei has the opportunity to get an annual salary of up to one million, there is no reason to be unhappy and dissatisfied, but Deng Cheng didn't want Xiang Junfei to not only did not show the slightest happy look after listening to his words, but showed a playful smile.

"Manager Deng, I wonder if after I sign a contract with your company, in addition to enjoying the treatment of one million annual salary, I will automatically lose the copyright of my work?"

"Well, although the company will take over the copyright of the two comics, if the comics sell well, you won't be without any benefits. Didn't I just say that the company will increase your annual salary according to the quality of comic sales! ”

Xiang Junfei suddenly stood up at this time and said to Deng Cheng: "This time, I bother Manager Deng to fly thousands of miles from Hong Kong to Chongqing, but if what I just said is the so-called sincerity of Manager Deng, then I am really sorry, I can't sign a contract with your Dongli Company." ”

In fact, Xiang Junfei is not really not signing a contract with Dongli, after all, Dongli is now the only comic publishing house in Hong Kong that is willing to sign a contract with him, and signing with Dongli means that he can debut in Hong Kong and Taiwan at the same time, and it is also convenient for him to enter Japan in the future. Xiang Junfei now just wants to scare Deng Cheng and raise the bargaining chips for the negotiation meeting.

And Deng Cheng probably wouldn't have thought that Xiang Junfei, who was just a first-year junior high school student, would play this trick in front of him, a veteran of business warfare, thinking that Xiang Junfei was really unwilling to sign a contract with Dongli because the salary was too low. In fact, Xiang Junfei also saw this point and made this ruinous move.

Deng Cheng, who was determined to include Xiang Junfei under Dongli, saw that the other party was about to leave, and hurriedly stopped Xiang Junfei: "Please stay with Xiang classmates, if you are not satisfied, you can say it directly, everyone still has room for discussion!" ”

Xiang Junfei accepted it when he saw it, sat back on the sofa, and talked seriously: "Since Manager Deng said that there is still room for discussion, then I will say it directly." I felt that the treatment I was getting was too low, so low that I couldn't accept it! ”

"This million annual salary is really not low, I dare to say that in the entire mainland, no one can get such money by drawing comics, even in Hong Kong and Taiwan, there are only a handful of cartoonists who have the ability to get such a high annual salary, I can assure you." Deng Cheng patted his chest and said.

"Manager Deng, I believe you 100% in what you said above. But I still don't think the chips you said were enough for me to entrust my two manga to you. Manager Deng should have read my two comics beforehand, do you think my two works will be inferior to the comics drawn by the first-class comics in Hong Kong and Taiwan? ”

Deng Cheng has no doubts about the quality of "Full-Time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar", in his mind, these two comics have surpassed all current Hong Kong and Taiwan comics, reaching the point where they can be compared with popular Japanese comics. However, in the face of Xiang Junfei's aggressive questioning, of course he couldn't admit it directly, otherwise how could he lower the price. So he could only reply euphemistically: "Both comics are very good, but they have not yet been tested by the market, and it remains to be seen." ”