After the foreigner returned to Songjiang, within two days, the president of Bertelsmann's China headquarters, an elderly couple, hurriedly flew to Yuqing. Before, Wen Xun and the foreigner in the book selection department talked about the so-called intentional contract at the noodle stall, but now the foreigner boss came to sign a formal contract.

The so-called intentional contract is just a rough clause written and then signed. If you really want to regret it, the binding effect of this contract is not great, to put it bluntly, it is just a piece of paper that only guards against gentlemen and not villains. So in order to avoid long nights and dreams, these two foreigners hurriedly flew over to sign a contract with Wenxun.

The two of them also took the initiative to come to Kaixian, and according to Chinese customs, they directly booked a private room in the best restaurant in Kaixian, and prepared to negotiate a contract with Wen Xun while eating.

On this day, Wen Xun, Lan Yang, and Lu Yuqing came to the restaurant in a leisurely manner, and as soon as they entered the private room, they saw two white-haired foreigners holding Wen Xun's hands violently and shaking them wildly, as if Wen Xun was not the writer they were going to sign a contract with, but the legendary God of Wealth!

After taking their seats, the translator next to the two foreigners began to translate the foreigner's words: "Mr. Wen, the contract we brought this time has added a lot of very sincere clauses to it, I don't know if you want to read it first?" ”

"No hurry, no hurry, let's order food first. It's not too late to watch it after eating and drinking......" Wen Xun looked at the foreigner as if he still wanted to do things according to the foreign model, so he continued to teach the other party.

After that, Wen Xun picked up the ordering book and slowly began to order. While looking at the order book, he asked Lu Yuqing what Lanyang wanted to eat, and that posture didn't look like he was here to negotiate a contract, but like he was coming to eat with his family!

Foreigners can only smile and talk to Wen Xun at this time, who makes Wen Xun an uncle now? In business! What does it mean to be in business? That is, whoever is powerful is the uncle! If it is changed to Wen Xun's request for them, then they will be uncles, and they will have to work hard! When Wen Xun becomes an uncle, they have to accompany Wen Xun to build hard!

Wen Xun finished ordering the food, and before the food was served, he began to talk nonsense, talking all the way from the Middle East peace process to the US election, and then from the US election to the Taiwan election, and from the Taiwan election to Russia's Putin, which is simply a bit of the meaning of the great capital's brother Kanye!

When they finally finished eating, watching Wen Xun put down his chopsticks and wipe his mouth, the two foreigners were able to obey their restless hearts for more than an hour at this time, and began to take out the contract to Wen Xun. Wen Xun got the contract in Chinese format and looked at it, and at this time, the translator also flipped Wen Xun's foreigner's words.

"Mr. Wen, we have added a lot of sincere clauses to this contract. For example, we're here to give your Fullmetal Alchemist a top cover recommendation! You know, in the past, our Bertelsmann brochures never had any cover recommendations. But now, this cover recommendation is set up for you! ”

"Yes, that's good. So what do I have to pay? Wen Xun asked calmly. According to the common saying in Europe and the United States, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Wen Xun didn't believe that Bertelsmann's people would be living Lei Feng, and he was not self-interested and dedicated to others......

"Well, that's right. In this clause, we hope that Mr. Wen will grant us the right to be the exclusive sales agent of Bertelsmann China as the Chinese mainland......," the two foreigners said at this time.

"General agent?" Wen Xun was stunned for a moment, but he quickly understood what he meant! This is Bertelsmann who found out that his "Fullmetal Alchemist" is going to be a big hit, so he quickly wants to monopolize and monopolize! If this contract is signed, then Wen Xun will only be able to hand over the book "Fullmetal Alchemist" to Bertelsmann for sale during the contract period, and will no longer be able to supply it to channel providers such as Xinhua Bookstore!

"I'm sure you're not going to trade just one cover recommendation for my exclusivity, right?" Wen Xun smiled and asked the two foreigners.

"Hehe, of course not." The old man in the old couple said, "We can buy all batches of books from Fullmetal Alchemist at a 20% discount according to your opinion, and even the first batch after the contract is signed, we can also buy a million copies at once!" ”

Wen Xun understood at this time, it turned out that the foreigner in the book selection department had this idea! But it doesn't matter, when Wen Xun signed the intentional contract, his idea was to make a price all over the sky and wait for the landing to repay the money. He originally opened a 20% discount price! Which dealer will ask for a 20% discount price if he has to endure it? After excluding labor, loss, management, rent, etc., the 20% discount purchase price can not make them a profit! Did they come to help Wen Xunbai work?

Wen Xun didn't answer the old man's words quickly, he slowly looked at the contract. After looking at the terms of the contract for a while, Wen Xun found that the contract was valid for 3 years. In other words, if Wen Xun publishes "Fullmetal Alchemist" in three years, he can only choose Bertelsmann to sell it. After three years, he can change to other channel providers to sell things like "Revised Edition" and "Complete Works" to cheat money......

"Wen Xun, how is it written in the contract in terms of payment speed?" At this time, Lan Yang, an industry insider, walked to Wen Xun's side and quietly asked Wen Xun.

"What's wrong?" Wen Xun asked Lan Yang a little surprised.

"There's a lot of stuff in here! In the past, our publishing house was quite good, and basically got the payment from the bookstore, and immediately gave the author money. The publishing houses outside are not so kind, and if you drag you for three months, it can be regarded as conscientious! There are many that drag on for a year or two! Lan Yang slowly explained to Wen Xun at this time.

It turns out that it is the same as the so-called supermarkets and hypermarkets that owe money to upstream manufacturers. In order to increase cash flow, the publisher also chose to delay the author's manuscript fee! In supermarkets and hypermarkets, the first batch of goods provided by manufacturers is equivalent to "free"! Supermarkets and hypermarkets never give money after getting the first batch of goods! They will only give money for the first batch when they want to buy the second batch! Sometimes it takes a month to a quarter to pay money like this! Even when the first batch of goods is put on the shelves, they have to charge the manufacturer for the shelf fee!

Publishers are also doing the same, they don't have much money to withhold one author's manuscript fee for a year, but what if they withhold all authors' manuscript fees for a year? With so much money, how much more money can be earned back in a year? This is tantamount to making money from the author's manuscript fee, and not giving any interest!

Hearing this, Wen Xun thought about it, and after discussing it with Lan Yang, he said to the foreigner: "This contract is okay with everything else, but I want to add clauses in terms of payment speed." When the printed book arrives at Bertelsmann's warehouse, the money must be transferred to the publisher's account within 15 working days......"

Wen Xun felt that his clause was loose enough and enough to save face. 15 working days may not sound like much, but you know, there are only 22 working days in a month! 15 working days, that's more than half a month!

When the foreigner couple heard Wen Xun's words, they became obviously serious. As soon as Wen Xun's clause came out, it had a great impact on their Bertelsmann's cash flow. This time, a total of 1 million copies will be bought, and according to eighty percent of the yards, that is, a total of 8 million yuan, which will be transferred to the account of the Rotten Keyuan Publishing House within half a month. 8 million!