From Lyon to Marseille to Nice, Zhou Nan's oratory path has increasingly become the focus of society. Many students simply gave up their studies while the summer vacation was approaching, following Zhou Nan, not wanting to miss one of his speeches.

Although the content of his speech will be reprinted in the newspaper the next day, the attraction of Zhou Nan's speech is not only reflected in the content of the speech, because many moving small details in the process of his speech cannot be summarized at all.

Television in Paris and Switzerland have been the only television stations to have a video of Zhou's speech, which has been rebroadcast several times and is still watched by many people.

But it's a pity that Zhou Nan's performance is not allowed to be filmed. Therefore, almost everyone in Europe knows that Zhou Nan can play an oriental instrument, and he is still a master, but there are more people who have only heard of it, but have not heard of it.

This also led to many record companies pestering Etinney and wanting to help Zhou Nan burn records. With his current fame in Europe, he is not afraid that the record will not sell at all.

After consulting Zhou Nan, Etinny finally reached an agreement with Momoyo. Not only because they are one of the big four record labels, but also because they now have the most abundant shellac raw materials. Apart from them, other record companies have very little raw material to get from India.

The time for burning was scheduled for July, because only then did Zhou Nan have time to burn the record.

After his speech in Nice, Zhou Nan did not go directly to Italy, but returned to Geneva to attend a commendation meeting held by the International Red Cross in his honor.

The humanitarianism advocated by Zhou Nan is in line with the universal values that the Red Cross has always advocated, so after Zhou Nan enriched the humanitarian content with six speeches in Lyon and Marseille, the Red Cross deliberately sorted out these contents and published them.

There was a delay of almost two weeks in Paris, another two weeks on the side of Lyon and Marseille, and from the end of May to now, it is the end of June again.

During this time, Zhou Nan was busy socializing and traveling during the day every day, and then he had to write speeches, and he was tired enough during this time. So I also wanted to take this opportunity to go home and recuperate for two days before heading to Italy.

When he came to Geneva, Zhou Nan did not go to the hotel this time, but stayed directly at Jean Nord's home on the shore of Lake Geneva.

The first thing I did when I arrived in Geneva was to call Audrey.

Audrey wanted to come to Geneva, but was stopped by Mrs. Hemstra. Zhou Nan also promised to finish his busy work in Geneva, take advantage of Saturday to go back, and accompany her for two days to appease her.

"Jonas, Audrey is unhappy, isn't she?"

Seven-year-old Melissa has the exact opposite personality to her brother, and Noble is a severely autistic person who has no contact with anyone but an old housekeeper.

But Melissa has the mischievous and willful nature of a seven-year-old, and is an energetic and curious baby.

Etinny couldn't help laughing when he heard this, even he thought that Zhou Nan was a little too good to Audrey, although he was already a great person, but he cared about Audrey's joys and sorrows, and liked to accommodate her.

In his opinion, no matter how beautiful a woman is, she can't be accommodating, and if she is disobedient, she should be taught a lesson with her fists. Like he often goes out now, he won't make a phone call every day to ask for warmth, which will make women arrogant.

However, Audrey is also a cute girl, and her personality is more flattering, and he also admires Zhou Nan too much, so he did not show his "discrimination".

Zhou Nan bent down, pinched her little face and smiled: "Yes, she wanted to come to Geneva to see Melissa, but she couldn't, so she was unhappy." ”

"I also want Audrey, can I go to your house with you when you come home? Audrey promised me that when Ollie gave birth to puppies, she would give me two. ”

"Absolutely."

Jean Nord watched Zhou Nan talk to Melissa from the side, and couldn't help laughing. This little daughter is the only hope for the continuation of his family, and he is also spoiled to the bone. Fortunately, Noble's lessons made him pay attention to her education, so that she did not grow crooked.

Putting down the phone, Zhou Nan returned to the sofa and sat down, and Etinny leaned over again and said, "Jonas, the various committees of the League of Nations have sent invitations, and then there are arrangements from the Red Cross, we need to make a plan." ”

Zhou Nan sighed and said, "Etinny, please let me rest for half a day, at least before dinner, and let me be quiet for a while." All right? ”

Etinny shrugged. "Of course, you're up to the cracks."

Zhou Nan himself couldn't help but say: "The League of Nations has been disbanded, so let's all push down the invitations of those committees." I don't want to get involved in their power struggle until they have all the unity with the new United Nations. ”

"Okay, I'll send a rejection letter. What about lecture invitations from Anglo-American universities? ”

"Let's arrange this later, has the first volume of the English version of the General History of the World been printed?"

"It has been printed, but it will take half a month to distribute the goods in the UK, and as for the US side, it has not yet been negotiated with their publishing house."

"What is the main reason?"

"They are very generous in terms of royalties, the same conditions as Swiss publishers, but they think that this is an intellectual book, so the price is very high. This is not conducive to the spread of your knowledge, so we are still in coordination. ”

Zhou Nan asked curiously, "How much are they going to price a copy?" ”

The price of books in Europe is already very high, Zhou Nan's "General History of the World" is priced at eight Swiss francs, and other countries are about the same price in different currencies.

At the current exchange rate with the US dollar, it is a little more than two US dollars, which is already a sky-high price relative to current income and prices.

The average income in Switzerland is only about 160 Swiss francs, and it is even lower in other countries. This book is equivalent to two days' income.

In gold terms, it is equivalent to two grams of gold. If calculated according to the exchange ratio between the currency and gold of later generations, a book is several hundred yuan.

But this is the case in this era, the value of knowledge is the highest, followed by the necessities of life, the price of those cultural relics is not high, although there is a market for luxury goods, the market is also very small.

Just like the electronics in the mainland in the 80s, many people had to spend two or three years of income to buy a TV set, but later, the price of electronic products dropped, and half a month's income could buy a TV set, or even a week's income could buy a TV set.

"There are many categories of books in the United States, and if your book is listed as a knowledge book, the lowest price is probably more than four dollars, and those black-hearted businessmen, seeing that the sales in Europe are good, even want to price ten dollars."

Zhou Nan couldn't help but shook his head, but he didn't know what to say. No matter how proficient he is in business, he also knows that although his royalties are high when the price is high, the sales volume will be greatly limited.

Seeing that Zhou Nan was a little confused about the situation, Jean Nord, who had worked in the publishing business, reminded: "The publishing royalty in the United States is floating, and the royalty of the first edition is the highest, but the royalty will decline to a certain extent in the future." So if you print a little less on the front page, you will pay less royalties if you print it later. ”

Zhou Nan understood a little and asked, "How much less?" You can't give me the last point, right? ”

"Of course not, copyright is a protected inheritable property that is still protected for 50 years after the death of the author. They just want to lower the royalty percentage a little bit, which is a small percentage but a lot of money if your book sells well. ”

Zhou Nan was dizzy when he heard this, and he was always slow to accept knowledge other than he knew, so he didn't figure out how to deal with it for half a day.

If you reduce the selling price, the royalties will decrease, and if you increase the selling price, the sales volume will decrease, and how to grasp the balance in this is not something that a layman like him can master.

He could only say, "I still need to talk to them about this matter, the price of five dollars is too outrageous...... To lower it a little. What is the per capita income of Americans right now? ”

Stolko knew this best, and he recalled: "According to last year's statistics, the annual income of the United States was nearly $2,000 according to the average household income, and the average men's salary was $1,200. ”

Zhou Nan couldn't help but sigh: "The Yankees are really rich." ”

Now one dollar can be exchanged for nearly one gram of gold, and the annual income is 1,200 dollars, and there are more than 1,100 grams of gold. Europeans' incomes are more than half lower, with even the most stable Switzerland earning less than half as much on average.

Melissa leaned on Zhou Nan's lap, reached out to touch his tied hair, and said coquettishly, "Jonas, don't you have any money?" I have money, I can lend it to you first. ”

Zhou Nan laughed, rubbed her face and said, "Thank you Melissa, but I still have money, and I'll ask you if it's okay to borrow it when I don't have it?" ”

"Good ......"

At this time, he realized that his behavior was a little excessive, and said to Jean Nord: "I'm sorry...... I forgot that I should have stayed away from Melissa. ”

"It's okay......" Nord smiled, "I'm also happy to see Melissa willing to be close to you." I know you're not that kind of person. ”

Unlike in the East, outsiders are not allowed to get close to other people's children except their own parents. For example, in order to show closeness, Orientals often pinch children's faces, kissing and the like, which will be regarded as a violation of human rights in Europe and the United States.

Especially between the opposite sex, there can be no closeness, because it will be regarded as obscene and obscene, so Zhou Nan generally rarely communicates with children.

Let Nord not care about this at this time, I am afraid it is also to cultivate the relationship between Zhou Nan and Melissa. After all, Noble has a very serious character flaw, and it is difficult to say whether he can get married in the future or have offspring.

Melissa has become the only heir that Jean Nord can count on, and hopes that Zhou Nan can protect her well in the future. He still believes in Zhou Nan's character very much.

The more famous Zhou Nan is now, the greater the constraints of these fame on him, in order to maintain the fame that he has gathered so hard, he will not lose his future because of small losses.