The headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross is located directly opposite the main building of the Palais des Nations, the headquarters of the former League of Nations, and is a five-storey I-shaped civil engineering building built on a gently flat hillside.

It is shaded by dense trees in three directions, and only the side slope has two entrances and exits, and the hillside is divided into three levels, and a red square cross composed of plants of different colors stands out.

From the entrance, there is a parking lot, and the red cross sign at the entrance is also very eye-catching. It's just that the scale of this building is not large, and as an international organization, it really doesn't deserve its name.

Later generations of Zhou Nan also came here, but it has been rebuilt beyond recognition. Zhou Nan still remembers that there was a museum next to this building, and many new buildings were built underground, but none of them are yet.

In later generations, half of the Red Cross were foreigners, but more than 80 percent of the more than 2,000 employees today are Swiss.

And this organization is a purely non-governmental organization, but in some countries, it has become an official organization.

The President of the Red Cross, a Swiss national, gave Zhou Nan a warm welcome to Zhou Nan and his delegation, and expressed his gratitude to Zhou Nan for his complete and detailed humanitarian enrichment.

When they received the invitation, Zhou Nan and Stolko guessed what each other meant, they showed such enthusiasm, of course, not just to praise Zhou Nan, they definitely still wanted to get some benefits from Zhou Nan.

Then, their purpose is obvious, because what Zhou Nan is worthy of their expectations now is only the publication of the humanitarian spirit.

Only this will not damage Zhou Nan's personal interests too much, but also bring greater honor to Zhou Nan through such a move.

So, before he came, he was ready to talk to the Red Cross.

The Red Cross does not belong to the League of Nations, let alone the United Nations, it is an independent international organization. Their contributions are mainly based on the contributions of member states and the donations of their branches, and the use of funds is of course stretched in the current era of not being peaceful.

The humanitarianism content is published in a book, and as long as it has a noble name, the book will not sell well all over the world. Of course, because it is less than 100,000 words in total, it can only be regarded as a small book, so the price will not be too high.

For this benefit, Zhou Nan believes that it can be waived, but since the corresponding interest is to be waived, there must be a compensation in terms of reputation.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries in the conference room, Quertai directly explained their wishes. "Mr. Zhou, we are all deeply educated about your summary of the humanitarian spirit, and we believe that we should let people all over the world understand and learn from your theory, and spread the spirit of sympathy for the weak forever from the heart."

Quertai was a standard Swiss, with a strong Swiss accent in German, which Zhou Nan could barely understand, and even guessed to understand what he meant.

Zhou Nan did not speak, and Stolko spoke for him: "Mr. Quertai, we all sincerely admire the role played by the Red Cross in international relief, and we are willing to contribute to the development of the Red Cross. But since it involves commercial operations, we would like to know some of your association's arrangements for publishing, as well as some amendments to the content. ”

"The Red Cross will use one to two months to invite sociologists from all over the world to ......revise the content of Mr. Zhou's speech," Quertai said.

Speaking of this, Zhou Nan interrupted him and asked, "Is there something wrong with my content?" ”

He smiled and said: "Of course not, it's just that Mr. Zhou originally divided into six speeches, and the content of the speech was mixed with some cases and explanations, so I think it should be reorganized." ”

Zhou You shook his head and said, "If you are not satisfied with the content of my speech, I will revise it myself." My works should be completely my creations, not those that have been changed by countless people and I don't know them. ”

Qu Ertai has a good personality and continues to smile: "We are just worried that Mr. Zhou has a lot of things to do, so we have such a proposal, if you are willing to sort it out yourself, of course it is better." But...... How long will it take you to get it organized? ”

Although the content written by Zhou Nan at the beginning was only about 50,000 words, and there was still a lot of gossip and reference in it, because the original draft was originally arranged according to the content of the speech, and now that the book is to be released, many links in it have to be revised.

Zhou Nan thought for a while and said: "Just fill in the corresponding content, I have a mature team, and I can write a book in two months." ”

Without waiting for Quertai to speak, Stolko asked: "Mr. Quertai, you seem to have misunderstood one thing, the content of Mr. Zhou's speech, including the classification of humanitarianism he proposed, the copyright of these works is in the hands of Mr. Zhou, not the Red Cross, and you have not discussed the copyright with us now, so you want to kick us out?" ”

At this time, Thorpe said with a smile: "No, no, we were just inspired by Mr. Zhou, and wanted to improve the theoretical content of humanitarianism and let the spirit of humanitarianism spread all over the world." There is no doubt that the copyright has always belonged to Mr. Zhou. ”

Zhou Nan glanced at Stolko, a little puzzled if he had thought too much about it before.

According to Thorpe, they don't seem to have the intention of asking for copyright! Don't they see the benefits behind this?

In today's meeting, there are mainly two people on both sides, and the roles they play are also very clear. Zhou Nan and Thorpe are good people, Stolko and Quertai are playing white faces to negotiate, and when they can't get along, it is time for Zhou Nan and Thorpe to go into battle to ease the situation.

If they are not interested in copyright, why put on this posture?

Stolko asked directly: "If it was just because of the revision of the content of the speech, it seems that there is no need to invite us here, right?" ”

The implication is that both parties are busy, and if there is anything to say, it will be directly pointed out.

Qu Ertai nodded and said: "Please don't think about it too much, we are completely because Mr. Zhou's speech is too in line with the purpose of our Red Cross, so we very much want to quickly sort out the theory of humanitarianism as the future action concept of our Red Cross." ”

Stolko was still guessing what they meant, but Zhou Nan understood a little at this time.

It's not that Zhou Nan is smarter, but because there are too many such things in later generations, and Zhou Nan has seen more.

What they play is to mix sand first, find a group of experts, and turn Zhou Nan's 50,000 words into 150,000 words, or 200,000 words, so that the humanitarian content is not exactly Zhou Nan's concept.

Then at that time, those experts will deliberately give up the benefits of revision and provide free services in the name of righteousness, and the Red Cross will not only own part of the copyright of the new book, but also directly force Zhou Nan into a corner.

Asking for money, asking for copyright, so many experts don't want to modify the content, are you still embarrassed to ask for it?

Zhou Nan couldn't help but want to laugh a little at this time, before coming today, he discussed this issue with Stolko and decided to give up the copyright of the humanitarian book.

But when they played this hand, he was a little unhappy to give.

But it is really a bit immoral to talk about the conditions of these charitable organizations, after all, the Red Cross has indeed helped many people in the nearly 100 years since its founding.

Not to mention anything else, in World War I and World War II alone, they rescued countless wounded.

Zhou Nan regretted a little at this time, when he didn't understand the other party's thoughts, he came directly today, and he was destined to suffer a loss.

This is also a lesson, you can't be careless in the future just because the other party has a good reputation.

Even a non-profit charitable organization does not necessarily have good intentions, let alone its political opponents.

While Stolco and the other party were still verbally probing, Zhou Nan had already thought about what he was going to do.

"Since it was Mr. Zhou who put forward the concept, of course, Mr. Zhou should improve it, and it is disrespectful for you to let others participate in it......

Zhou Nan raised his hand and interrupted Stolko's words. "Mr. Thorpe, Mr. Quertai, I think I understand what you mean. As for perfecting the content of humanitarianism, I will do it myself and will not involve anyone else. At the same time, I can also license the copyright of all languages around the world to the Red Cross for free. However, I need to set up a separate Humanitarian Award Foundation, with royalties earmarked for the book, and a number of awardees selected each year to be honored. And the name of this foundation, to be named after me, is my condition. ”

Zhou Nan thought for a while and added: "Other than that, I don't accept any other conditions." ”

You say you don't want copyright, but you want copyright in your heart. Then I will give you the copyright directly, but let you see it, but you can't touch it.

And you have to obediently come to achieve my fame and support me, otherwise, you will be scattered.

The more he thought about it, the more Zhou Nan felt that his idea was correct.

First of all, he is not short of money. The price of such a small book will not be too high, let alone a charitable organization to sell it, and it is impossible to price it too high.

Secondly, because it is a charitable book sale, the sales volume will definitely be very large, which will greatly promote Zhou Nan's fame.

Moreover, after all, they are well-known international organizations, and Zhou Nan can also use this to get closer to many international organizations in Geneva.

In the end, of course, this foundation was established to correct Zhou Nan's name, so that others did not dare to question Zhou Nan's reputation at will, even if there were some problems in the subsections, they would cover it up for themselves.

The other party obviously didn't expect that Zhou Nan had already guessed their thoughts, and when he heard that Zhou Nan was willing to modify the content and give them the copyright, he couldn't even say no for a while.

They clearly said that they didn't want the copyright anymore, but now the other party just gave them the copyright, do they let them refuse?

However, now that the copyright is given to them, it is conditional, not only to earmark the funds, but also to set up a foundation in the name of Zhou Nan, they can only have a good reputation, and they can't take advantage of it at all!

In any case, at this time, they can't help but refuse, because in the end, the Red Cross will be good, and if they refuse, it will be unreasonable.

So, Thorpe thought about it for a while, but nodded helplessly.