Even Lao Cheng is as serious as Sun Qicheng, and he was dumbfounded after listening to his daughter's words.

"How much? How much did you just say? ”

Compared with Sun Qicheng, who was stunned, his wife Chen Yan's reaction was fast, but she still had an expression of "Is there something wrong with my ears", and asked with a glare.

“…… More than 10 million! ”

Gu Dong swallowed a mouthful of spit, Sun Jing licked her lips and said: "The price of the Legend of the Condor Heroes is low, that is, about two hundred, and the royalty of twelve points is more than seven million; But Xiaoao's price is two hundred and six, and there is one more royalty, and the two add up to almost 17 million! However, considering that there is still a tax to pay......"

When it comes to paying taxes, Sun Jing also has a pain in her heart.

At the beginning, the first printing of 60,000 copies of Condor Shooting should have given Sun Peng more than 1.4 million royalties, but in the end he only got 1 million or more than 100,000 copies, and the tax rate was nearly 30%! Now there are more than 10 million royalties and at least several million taxes, and this is not a pain in the flesh, but a pain in the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys......

"For the problem of paying taxes, go to Xiaoya for help!"

The university professor who has published a lot of books is obviously clear about this, Sun Qicheng took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "Now that the country vigorously supports the cultural industry, there should be many preferential policies, Xiaoya and their lawyers must know more, let her help with it!" ”

"Oh my God, that's amazing!"

After hearing this, Chen Yan shook her head again and again, and said with an incredulous expression: "If you add Xiaopeng's online manuscript fee and the previous royalties, wouldn't the total amount exceed 20 million?" I remember a news at the beginning of the year, there is a so-called rich list of writers, 20 million am afraid that it is enough to enter the list, right? ”

Haha smiled, Sun Qicheng waved his hand and said happily: "That's not it, after all, the accumulation of those veteran writers is still very powerful, especially since most of their works have been adapted into TV, movies and other works, so the gap is even greater......

A huge ancient empire has created a huge publishing market.

The size of a country's publishing industry, or cultural and creative industries, is closely related to the country's economic development. For example, in China on the earth, although the scale of the publishing industry is also very large, and the number of books published is the first in the world, the market size is still not comparable to that of the United States, which has a population of only 300 million, and the per capita is several times worse! This is because the pricing of books, the value of derivatives, etc., are far apart.

What's more, textbooks and supplementary materials account for a large proportion of China's publishing market, and the less economically developed the region, the lower the consumption of popular books, coupled with the rampant piracy, so the income of writers is naturally lower in comparison.

But in this world, the situation is very different.

The population size of China is still 1.4 billion, two or three times more than that of the United States, but the economy is much more developed than that of the earth, and the per capita population has reached half of that of the United States! When people's incomes are higher, the figures for books purchased or read per capita are much better. Especially in the current Chinese publishing industry, with the support of various favorable policies of the state, with the world's largest population and influence in Asia, the size of the publishing market is twice that of the United States!

In such a situation, Huaxia's anti-piracy is naturally extremely strict!

In fact, it is inevitable that if a country's economy and cultural industry are backward, the country's protection of cultural creativity and copyright will naturally be weak, and even openly and covertly encourage piracy. China on the earth used to be like this, Germany, the United States and RB were also representatives of such countries for a time, and the Americans used to make Dickens and other British writers angry and vomit blood; However, if the cultural industry is developed, such as the United States, RB and other countries after becoming stronger, their attitude towards piracy will be different, and they will in turn desperately attack other countries where piracy is rampant, because it affects their interests.

Although the Huaxia of this world is not the top, it is no longer weak.

Therefore, the state has a strict attitude towards piracy, but there are many favorable measures for the development of cultural and creative industries, which have given rise to many high-income writers.

In this world, in the world's list of rich writers, Huaxia often accounts for one-third of the top ten, and there are hundreds of writers who sell hundreds of thousands or even more than one million every year. Sun Peng's physical books do make a lot of money, and he may be ranked on the list of writers on the earth, but in this world......

"But Xiaopeng has only been writing a book for more than a year, so it's already very powerful!"

After saying this, Sun Qicheng finally couldn't help but say with joy: "This kid ...... A year ago, I gave him a card to pay his property taxes, and after a year, he was able to buy an old house with almost all the money he earned! Haha, this kid is really impressive! ”

For his nephew's success, the old professor was obviously very happy.

Since the death of the second couple, Sun Qicheng is most concerned about the only male member of the Sun family, but the previous Sun Peng has always been disappointing, both academically and as a person. But now......

The old professor just wanted to look up to the sky and laugh three times, and sigh that there was a successor to the old Sun family.

Compared with the old man who was excited about the successor of the family, the old lady's focus was still a little different from Sun Qicheng after all, she blinked her eyes and suddenly asked: "Xiao Jing, you are now Xiaopeng's agent, doesn't that mean...... You can also get a lot of this money? ”

"Uh...... I guess so. ”

Stunned, Sun Peng replied a little dazed.

From receiving the editor's call to now being shocked, Sun Jing really hasn't thought about this problem. Now that she heard her mother talk about this problem, she roughly calculated in her heart, and suddenly became a little panicked.

Xpeng's agent?

Of course she is, and she has been talking about things for Sun Peng and the publishing house all this time, isn't it the responsibility of the agent?

But her job as a so-called agent is just to talk about things. The publishing house was found by Xiaopeng before, and the royalties, publication years, and settlement methods have all been decided, and what Sun Jing needs to do is to spend time with others and grind on the royalty points.

Is such a job really worth so much money?!

If according to the agreement with the younger brother, the money for printing this time alone will be more than 20 million, and Sun Jing can get five percent of it, that is, more than one million, this number instantly scared her again!

"Goo-dong!"

swallowed hard and spit, Sun Jing said in a trembling voice: "Dad, if I calculate it like this, I can take at least five or six hundred thousand, which ...... That's too much! I only earn two or three hundred thousand yuan a year at work, and now I just answer a few phone calls...... No, I'll go to Xiaopeng later, I can't take so much money! ”

“……”

Chen Yan opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but after hesitating for a moment, she still shook her head and said no more.

However, after Sun Qicheng groaned slightly, he also shook his head and said, "It's good that you have this idea, but it's better to discuss it with your younger brother before talking." My personal opinion is that Xiaopeng's future is limitless, so there must be an agent, if you have the confidence to do this job well, then take the money steadily, if you don't have confidence, it's over as soon as possible, understand? ”

"This ...... I understand! ”

Gritting his teeth, Sun Jing nodded solemnly and said, "Then I'll go to Xiaopeng early tomorrow morning, and tell him the news that both books are printed......"

"Huh? Xiaopeng still doesn't know? ”

Before his daughter finished speaking, Sun Qicheng's brows suddenly wrinkled.

Sun Jing was slightly stunned, nodded a little puzzled, and said, "Uh...... Yes, I made a phone call, and Xiaopeng turned off the phone, so I went home first......"

"Next time this kind of thing, tell Xiaopeng first!"

also didn't wait for his daughter to finish speaking, Sun Qicheng interrupted her very rudely: "You are now his agent, you must understand your duties and obligations!" If he turns off his phone, won't you come to the door to look for it? In addition, even if we are your parents, Xiaopeng is also our nephew, but for private things like income, don't talk about it at home without Xiaopeng's permission in the future......"