Chapter 189: Difficult
With the publication of "Human Society", Zhou Nan hardly bothered.
Since his social status has become higher and higher, it is impossible for him to engage in such promotion as signing and selling books, which is too inconsistent with his identity.
His fame is enough to make all those who should buy his books voluntarily pay for them.
And he only needs to get through with the education departments of various countries, and his book becomes a textbook for history and humanities, so he doesn't have to worry about sales at all.
Every year, he only needs to sponsor a small amount of money from the education departments of various countries to make a lot of money in royalties.
At present, eleven countries in Europe have adopted his General History of the World as a textbook.
In Asia, there are also South China and Australia, and New Zealand has included his books in the textbook list.
As for the Americas, the Canadian Ministry of Education has now passed it, and Argentina and Chile in South America are also under negotiation.
Only the United States is now a hard bone, but the social sales in the United States are enough for Zhou Nan to be happy.
In the copyright department alone, Heitinga now has seven paralegals who specialize in inspecting markets and overseeing sales around the world.
In the past year, Zhou Nan has met with his lawyer no more than ten times. Every time, it was Heitinga who took a stack of power of attorney, or dealt with the legal issues related to investment, and needed Zhou Nan's signature, before he appeared.
After returning from the United States, he only stayed at home for one night, and in the midst of Kelly's complaints and John's reluctance, he left home for Geneva.
The second edition of the Jonas Foundation Awards Ceremony was held this year after the World Economic Forum, as usual, but now the Cold War between East and West has officially opened due to the Berlin crisis.
So in the Eastern countries, there were originally six winners, but this time none of them were allowed to receive the award.
There are only two groups and ten individual awards, and half of them can't come at once, which makes this year's awards much more deserted.
It is a complicated question whether these awards will be awarded when the recipients are unable to come.
After Zhou Nan contacted the foreign ministries and relevant departments of the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, and Finland, they tied this humanitarian award to political issues.
For example, in the Soviet Union, there were two awardees in their country, both of whom were willing to dedicate themselves and were representative individuals.
But they argue that in order for the laureates to receive their prizes, the Red Cross must support them on some political issues.
It's all a form of blackmail.
After two days of consultations, Zhou Nan finally made a decision with the selection committee.
The Jonas Humanitarian Prize is awarded to individuals or civil society groups that are representative of the humanitarian spirit and are absolutely not influenced by any political factors.
If the Soviet Union, led by the Soviet Union, insisted on being politically involved, then the Foundation would have to change people or disqualify them from receiving the award.
When the Jonas Foundation published this conclusion in the major newspapers, countries began to hesitate again and sent a moderate signal.
They didn't directly say that they wouldn't let people come, they just hung anyway.
This makes it a little difficult for the Foundation to handle, and it is a difficult choice whether to change people when it is not certain whether they will come or not.
You announced the replacement today, and they immediately claimed to let them go, so if these people come, will you give this award to others?
If you don't give it, it's your fault, and you change people to receive the award, which also means that your award is not credible.
At such a time, in the end, it was Zhou Nan who made the decision.
When the last communication was fruitless, the foundation publicly decided in major newspapers and magazines to disqualify the six people from receiving the award. At the same time, the prize money will be added to the prize pool and will not be re-evaluated.
The result of this was to directly offend the countries led by the Soviet Union, but because there was no re-award, it was considered to save a little face.
After dealing with this matter, Zhou Nancai returned to Jonas Farm to write the speech for this session during the period before the Spring Festival.
Based on the experience of three sessions, the topic of the fourth World Economic Forum was announced in the fall, entitled "Peace and Development".
Moreover, for the first time, large enterprises from all over the world were openly invited to participate in the forum, but this threshold is quite high.
For each industry, only no more than ten companies will be invited globally, and no more than three companies from each country. In addition, the scale of operation of all enterprises must be ranked within the top 50 in the world.
In addition to these restrictions, every company that wants to participate in the forum also needs to pay a high membership fee.
However, their money will not be wasted, as each industry will hold a breakout session dedicated to the development and planning of the industry, with experts and heads of government from around the world attending the conference prescribing it.
Although the World Economic Forum is not the governing body of the country, this prescription of focusing experts and leaders from various countries is already an industry-leading experience, or a guide to the development of the industry.
Therefore, although each company needs to pay a maximum of $50,000 and a minimum of $20,000, there are still a lot of companies that have signed up.
After several months of selection, 50 companies were finally selected to join this year's forum.
For example, five or six energy companies in the United States are qualified, Italy and the United Kingdom have only one qualification, and there are some small oil companies that are pitiful.
Then pick three from the United States first, and the rest of the places can be given to oil companies in those small countries, and you can't get in with ten of them, no matter how much money you spend.
As a non-profit organization, the organizing committee of the forum will use all the corporate sponsorship fees collected as travel subsidies for scholars from all over the world.
In the remaining part, an economic research center will be set up to conduct a comprehensive study of the overall development of the world economy, including the development of the industry.
And this research department, in the future, will form a permanent department, and will publish some white papers on a regular basis without any political influence.
Although the countries knew that Zhou Nan would form a powerful interest group in the future by doing this, as long as Zhou Nan did not want to control these enterprises through this research center, then he was not in any danger.
Although he knew that countries would be scruples, Zhou Nan would not give up these rights now. He has to concentrate these rights and grow them first, and then he can get what he really wants by returning them.
As for using these rights, and then turning them into power, Zhou Nancai will not do it, which is an act of seeking death.
With such a mind, it is better to develop a belt enterprise to compete with other enterprises, so that others can still accept it.
Audrey returned from England, and Zhou Nan inquired in detail about her process of learning acting with Vivien Leigh.
In terms of acting, Audrey is actually talented, her weakness is that her innocent temperament is too strong, which causes her to not have a wide acting path.
It's easy to let her play a princess, a nun, and a little girl who doesn't know the world, but it's not convincing at all to let her play the role of a few daughters, a scheming girl.
And Vivien Leigh, although she is amazingly beautiful, is a smart elf. It doesn't matter what role she plays, it's like what role.
Therefore, she can leave an impression of both beauty and talent, and Audrey only has the impression of physical beauty and spiritual beauty.
Of course, at this time, Audrey only had the previous impression.
On the twenty-fifth of the lunar month, Yannick came from Germany with his family, and with him came old Polscher, and he also drove a prototype 911 car for Zhou Nan.
Although the car was launched fifteen years ahead of schedule, it was still driven by the inertia of history and was named the 911 by the Polscher family.
They arrived at the same time as Enzo Ferrari, who had come from Italy. He brought Zhou Nan two cars, one was the 125S, which is now a multi-championship car on the track, and the other was a 250 designed by Zhou Nan.
Seeing the 911, Enzo Ferrari's eyes were full of resentment, this model compared to the 250, it is simply ahead of an era.
Even if he didn't say it, Zhou Nan could guess what he was thinking. Zhou Nan now owns half of Ferrari's shares, but he gave him a model that is just a relatively good one, but he has less than 20% of the shares in Porsche, but he gave the other party such a classic model.
Zhou Nan didn't take this problem into account at first, but now many designs are completely unconditioned to be realized. Even if he takes out the F50 and the Modena 360 model, he can't produce it.
Zhou Nan called Enzo Ferrari over, not for cars, but for motorcycles.
Filming of "Roman Holiday" will begin in April or May next year at the latest, and at that time, this world-famous motorcycle will create a sales miracle in the history of world motorcycles.
The motorcycle he designed was slightly different from the original Hornet, and was more inclined to the pedal models of later generations. Ferrari has been preparing for production and has already produced nearly 50,000 vehicles.
Due to the lack of strength of Enzo Ferrari, Zhou Nan invested less than 300,000 yuan to account for 50% of the shares, and Enzo refused to do so.
So although this motorcycle is named Ferrari, it is a private investment by Zhou Nan, and Ferrari now only earns processing fees.
The inventory of 50,000 vehicles has made Zhou Nan now live in debt, and all his funds have been invested, and now he can't stand the pressure and decides to start selling.
Relying only on Ferrari's sales channels, a few cars can be sold, so at this time, Zhou Nan also has to borrow Volkswagen's sales channels.
After arranging the sales of motorcycles, Zhou Nan also asked that as long as there is money to be returned, the scale of production will continue to be expanded immediately.
He remembers very well that the original Piaggio company produced less than 5,000 vehicles a month. But after the release of "Roman Holiday", in just one year, that motorcycle sold more than one million units worldwide, and I don't know how many of them were counterfeits.
Now is not the era of the future, in Europe and the United States in this era, there are countless counterfeit and shoddy products.
Tolkien's book, for example, sold so well in the United States that he didn't get royalties, and in the end the American publishers compensated him with a small amount of money, which was less than five percent of the royalties.
Moreover, he can't even win the lawsuit.
Now this motorcycle is more beautiful and has better workmanship, Zhou Nan believes that that motorcycle has sold two or three million units in a few years, and this one will definitely not be much less.
Therefore, this year, it is not only necessary to withdraw some funds, but also to expand the scale of production to cope with the possible sales frenzy in the future.