"It is reported that the robbers of the Zhongfu Building robbery targeted the bearer bonds worth $640 million in the building's vault, and now the robbers have all been caught, but those bonds are missing, Zhongfu Group urges the police to ......"

The news on the TV is still the news related to the Zhongfu Building robbery, this news is too exciting, and it is also related to 640 million US aid, and it has spread throughout the country in just one night.

"You seem to be in a good mood?" Jennifer came over and sat down next to Locke.

"Maybe I like to see the Japanese people unlucky." Locke shrugged his shoulders and pulled Jennifer into his arms: "Yesterday's scene was spectacular enough. ”

"Those guys are really unlucky, 640 million dollars, I heard that I don't know why they disappeared, and they haven't ...... yet" Jennifer pressed Locke's strange hand: "Isn't it enough?" ”

"How can I play with your legs for a year!"

Originally, Locke planned to stay in Los Angeles for a few more days, but in order to deal with the $640 million in bonds that had just arrived, he left a day later.

Over the next two weeks, Locke circled Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, and Paris, converting his bonds into a family fund before returning to Dallas to 'inherit' the vast inheritance.

In order to ensure safety, these bonds only inherited 420 million US dollars in the end, but fortunately, they have all been converted into 'legal' property, and there is no need to worry about being investigated, which is also necessary.

With this preparation, the chance of Locke being found out is almost zero, just like the previous Hans said, if you steal 600 million, they will definitely do anything to find you, if they don't think you are dead.

At this time, Hans was indeed dead, and Locke was a passer-by who had nothing to do with the incident, and he was only opposite the Zhongfu Building at that time.

Not to mention whether the FBI will investigate the people in this building, even if it does, he is not worried, because the intensity of the investigation is definitely far from being comparable to the crowd in the Zhongfu Building.

After a short time of leaving, everyone was so busy watching the situation in Zhongfu Mansion that no one paid attention to how long he was gone, not even Jennifer.

In particular, Locke also greeted and chatted with many of them, and many of them were very impressed by Jennifer's handsome boyfriend, so it was equivalent to having a sufficient alibi.

Shortly after returning to Dallas, Locke received a call from Random House to report on the sale of Arcane Throne as stipulated in the contract.

The publication of this book was at his own expense, and the reason is very simple, the price given by the publishing house is too low.

At the beginning, it was a buyout at a fixed price of $10,000, and after Locke got up and was about to leave, he chose a 4% share, and he also had to pay full copyright, and even newcomers were not willing to give 6%-14% of the usual price.

The reason for this is that as a rookie author, Locke is not famous, and the distribution depends on the channels of the publishing house, in this case, the risk of publishing is all on the publishing house, the publishing house needs to invest money in printing and disseminating, and the cost of building and maintaining the channel is not a small amount.

It is simply not clear who plays a greater role in the sales performance of a book, the author or the publisher.

Authors naturally think that they have the greatest role, and the quality of a book is the core, after all, readers are coming for the book, and if the content of the book is not recognized by the readers, where will the sales come from.

If the publishing house establishes a good channel, it can make money comfortably lying down, and still thinking of ways to squeeze our authors is simply not giving the author a way to live.

The publishing house believes that the channel is king, and if there is a channel in hand, the content of the book is ordinary and can be artificially popular.

After haggling with the publisher for a while, I couldn't reach an agreement.

At this time, Locke suddenly understood one thing, that is, no matter what 'sky-high price' the other party offered, in his opinion, it was a low price, and the psychological expectations of the two were not of the same magnitude at all.

Thinking of this, Locke simply decided to publish it at his own expense, so that he could naturally get a high enough share, even more than the ideal share at the beginning, and still hold the copyright in his own hands.

The first volume of 240,000 words, with a first printing of 100,000 copies, was put out for sale through the channels of Random House, and it was also accompanied by simple publicity.

It's been a month since it was released, and it doesn't seem to be quite in line with Locke's expectations, with just over a thousand copies sold.

But he is not in a hurry, after all, he is just a newcomer who is completely unfamous, and the previous publicity is relatively ordinary.

After thinking about it, he didn't rush to spend money to expand publicity, and planned to wait for word-of-mouth to ferment, after all, although he has small assets now, large-scale publicity requires a lot of money, and the effect may not be able to meet expectations, and it is easy to spend money in vain.

"Now that I have the money on hand, maybe I should invest in a big media company." Thinking of this, Locke thought.

"Harry Potter" can be popular all over the world, in addition to the quality of the book itself, the key promotion of WarnerMedia Group is also indispensable, and the two are mutually successful.

If Locke can become the majority shareholder of a large media group, he will naturally be able to promote his works all over the world through similar operations, so that he can better enhance his reputation and harvest potential points.

This method is much better than simply throwing money on publicity, and can save a lot of publicity funds, after all, the efficiency and utilization of funds are completely different.

Locke didn't really have much to say about the rest of his high school career, although he 'inherited' a fortune of hundreds of millions, but he didn't make too much of a profile, just put these funds into the stock market.

In addition to the stocks of potential companies, Locke also invested a large amount of money in Disney for the plan in his heart, and his usual study life has not changed.

That is, to relax once in a while, to balance the needs, this kind of friendship that is not public, is a quiet beginning, and then a natural end.

Other times, Locke was either studying, or using meditation to brush up on skills, an average of eighteen hours a day.

Especially after discovering that there are not only sitcoms in this world, but also the plots of some gunfight movies, Locke is even more interested, after all, the scenes of many gunfight movies are not small at all.

In this regard, Locke works much harder than Sheldon Jr., who always goes to bed at nine o'clock, and usually likes to read comics, play games, play musical instruments, and watch TV......

It can be said that little Sheldon wastes too much time every day, Peggy is better than Sheldon, but as a child, she also likes to play by nature, and is curious about many things, and she also wastes a lot of time.

But their learning efficiency is too high, with a super high IQ, basically they can understand as soon as they say, understand a little bit, and can draw inferences from one another, sometimes the professor is stunned when asked, and can't answer, some points of view, the professor has to discuss with them.

Locke's IQ at this time has surpassed that of Sheldon Jr. and Peggy, and the time he uses every day far exceeds Sheldon, so the brain's knowledge reserves naturally accumulate at an astonishing rate.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, he is about to graduate from high school, and Locke made a special trip to Princeton University to get the interview, and then waited for a while, and successfully got what he wanted.

As for Peggy, she got an offer from Princeton University earlier than Locke.

Sheldon Jr. also chose Princeton University, which is not the same as the Big Bang Theory plot.

Little Sheldon's mother, Mary, was strongly opposed to this at first, after all, if Sheldon went to Princeton, she would not be able to take care of him. Mary didn't feel comfortable letting her baby Shelly run that far to college alone.

But Beverly is also an expert, and after she first met Sheldon, she began to use various methods to soften Mary's thoughts little by little and reduce Mary's rejection.

In addition, Sheldon Jr. himself also strongly wanted to go to Princeton, and even chose a special confrontation method for this, and in the end Mary had to reluctantly compromise.