"Little Brother Gu, I know that your family is rich, but I didn't expect it to be so rich, and you need to set up a charitable foundation to avoid taxes."

Looking at the words Charity Foundation on paper, Uncle Alai was very surprised.

Southeast Asia is not like a developed country where the rule of law is more procedural.

The tax avoidance methods of the rich here are actually quite rough, and more often they directly evade taxes by bribing government officials.

If you go north and east in the chaotic areas, the largest corporations or mining companies are almost all controlled by the private families of the big warlords.

Talking about paying taxes or something, it's a complete joke.

Generally, only the international boss at the level of Chen Shenglin will set up his own private charity fund or something.

There is no sarcasm in the janitor's words.

No matter how much people want to benefit from the charitable foundation, at least Alai can see that the middle school student's donations to the orphanage are real money.

The change is real, and that's enough.

The children and the headmistress of the orphanage all regarded him as a little bodhisattva.

It is much better than the small bosses who have seen more than Alai in recent years, who stuff a large number of tattered goods that cannot be sold in the factory into orphanages and use them to cheat the government of subsidies.

"It's not my parents' money, my family is just ordinary people who open a small gallery in Yangon, and these are the money I earn from selling my own paintings. Now the money for the orphanage renovation comes from this. I plan to donate at least $10,000 to the Foundation's account every month in the future. ”

The "The Little Prince" project team has notified Gu Weijing of the news of the approval of the competition and the new contract.

Not counting the peripheral illustration book, in the final contract, Mr. Sloth's side won a 7.2% gross profit share of sales for himself in the Scholastic Group.

It is estimated that the publishing house should have the intention of showing favor to this detective cat lady for long-term cooperation.

The 7.2 percent share may sound like less than a tenth, but it's actually quite generous, nearly double the 4 percent share of illustrators in the industry.

If you don't count the operating costs of physical stores, books are an industry with extremely exaggerated gross profit margins.

To put it simply, it is equivalent to every time a copy of "The Little Prince" is sold, Gu Weijing can get a few pounds more in his account.

As long as he can sell thousands of books every month, Gu Weijing can steadily add tens of thousands of dollars in his account, and the little prince can get a day's money for every day he sells.

It is almost a hardcore crop that guarantees the harvest in drought and flood.

Former Principal of the Scholastic Group, J. K Rowling, it's been almost 20 years since the last Harry Potter book was published.

The annual share of the sales of the series is still astronomical, which is higher than the annual income of the entire British royal family.

A single best-selling author, almost in the modern urban romance dramas of Britain and the United States, the most classic image of the elegant and elegant diamond king Lao Wu, even the busy gold-suited lawyers or corporate gold-collar workers are not as popular as them.

Compared with the top super-bestseller writers of the Scholastic Group, whose signing fee starts at $5 million or even $10 million for each book they publish, the remuneration given to Gu Weijing by the publisher is not worth mentioning at all.

Gu Weijing said here is an understatement, but Uncle Alai was shocked and his jaw was about to fall.

$10,000 a month, $120,000 a year.

The most commonly used 100 kyats in the region are a few million kyats, enough to fill the main hall of the orphanage like a sea.

This income in the San Francisco Bay Area is already the income of elite programmers.

In Yangon, a third-world city with low consumption, it is enough to be barely counted as one of the rich.

The janitor has also seen real big money, but how old is this kid? How is it possible to make so much money.

"Selling paintings?"

"Don't fake, don't deceive people, just sell your own paintings, there is no more innocent money than this." Gu Weijing didn't explain too much, but stared at Uncle Alai with a somewhat suspicious look: "Don't you believe it?" ”

"If it were anyone else, I wouldn't believe anything."

Uncle Alai was silent for a long time, his eyes swept over the pen on the table and sketched for a long time, before he raised his head and looked directly at Gu Weijing, pursing his lips.

"After reading this pen drawing, as well as the previous Boss Chen's matter, I am willing to believe half of it. Plus you've always made a good impression on me, so I'm willing to believe it. ”

"Such an unrequited donation? Is it really just a desire to do good? ”

He furrowed his brows, trying to see if the other party was a complete fool under his young face, or if there was really anyone in this world who was a godly Mother alive and compassionate.

"I'm a very pure person. It makes me happy and satisfied to be able to change the lives of the children here. It's the most meaningful way I can think of to spend my money. ”

Gu Weijing motioned to Uncle Alai to look at the draft charter of the "Jasmine" Foundation.

"You see, all the funds in the account stipulated above will be used for the living, schooling and medical construction of drug orphans."

The legal provisions for the establishment of private charitable foundations vary from country to country, but they are similar in nature.

In addition to the need for judicial registration, it is also necessary to set up a foundation charter to stipulate the expenses and use of the funds in the account.

Like reasonable tax avoidance, foundation charters are also a hard-hit area for the wealthy to exploit legal loopholes.

Sponsoring poor students to go to school is charity, researching how to raise whale sharks in a villa, or building a safari park in Kenya, and hunting in a private helicopter during the summer when carnivores are "overflowing".

Excessively, it is not clear that private helicopters are paid for in charitable fund accounts.

Gu Weijing asked the Dyson consultant of Schönbrunn Palace to help set up the foundation named after Miss Jasmine, and he never thought of taking advantage of such a loophole.

It is easy to deceive the sky, but it is difficult to deceive yourself.

He doesn't want to cheat, and the system doesn't cheat.

In any case, his small private philanthropic funds do not even need to hire managers at present.

Naturally, 100 percent of the current expenses are spent on real charity.

"You're a painter, and you really need to find me as a cripple to work for you?" For the first time, Uncle Alai softened.

He is a man who has experienced a collapse in his outlook on life.

It's hard to believe that there are such pure good people in the world, but this middle school student puts everything in front of him frankly.

Uncle Alai's heart-shattering heart fluttered again.

He thought of his "Abba", the teacher who changed the fate of many drug orphans in his life.

The janitor's fingers were a little bit more unconsciously forced, and the fingertips of the aluminum water tank slowly turned white, and the hard metal kettle slowly deformed in the squeaky sound, but Uncle Alai didn't realize it.

"Please don't lie to me, really don't lie to me. I'm already so disappointed in the world. ”

The giant-like janitor stared at Gu Weijing's eyes, and his tone was slow and solemn.

"What if...... If you are a scammer with other schemes, then it is best to make sure that you can scam people for the rest of your life. Otherwise, whatever you want from me, I'll get it back tenfold and hundredfold. ”

"Besides, if I really become your assistant, I won't do anything bad for you, little ghost, don't think about using me as a thug."

The janitor warned, "I want to find out that your money is made for drug lords." Even if Jasmine likes you again, I will be the first to pinch your neck, and now I regret turning away, it's still too late. ”

"Yes, you're welcome to oversee, Uncle Arley."

Gu Weijing smiled and nodded.

"I don't need you to be my thug, I just need you to protect me. After all, uncle, you also know that there are so many bad people here, if the good people don't help the good people, then it will be too difficult to get to the world. ”

……

Gu Weijing said goodbye to the janitor, and asked him to help him change the security door and install a fingerprint lock and safe in his studio in the Good Luck Orphanage during this time.

On the way home,

He had time to check the rewards waiting to be claimed in the system panel.

Lang Shining, a famous court painter in Eastern Xia, made Gu Weijing, who was also from a family of court painters in the Qing Dynasty, look forward to it very much.

His great-great-great-grandfather also worked in the Forbidden City's art academy, but he was only a third-class painter with a monthly salary of seven taels of silver.

If the emperor really appreciated it, it would not be possible to throw it to Burma.

Compared with Lang Shining, who has gone through three generations of Kang, Yong, and Qian, has formal official ranks, and is one of the most famous court painters in the entire Qing court and maybe even in the entire history of Eastern Xia, he is really nothing.

The reason why Lang Shining has such a reputation,

It may not all be because foreign monks are good at chanting scriptures.

The collision between different art styles can often produce the dazzling effect of nuclear fusion.

Throughout the ages, cultural integration has been the most important part of art.

No matter how far away the span of space and time is, empires and empires are separated by oceans and snow-capped mountains, wars or plagues.

From the moment the two civilizations began to meet, the fusion of cultures began to take place.

Humanity has never been an island.

The integration of art and art is also longer and more tenacious than ordinary people imagine.

Archaeologists can see the murals of the Valley of the Kings in Egypt gradually changing and integrating elements of foreign styles such as Central Asia and Arabia.

At that time, the construction of the 100-meter-high Pyramid of Khufu had not yet begun, and the last mammoth in the world was still wandering slowly on the snowy field.

One can also see the shadow of Hellenism in the Gendra Buddhist art that was born on the banks of the Indus River.

Thousands of years ago, along the Danube, the heart of Europe, can be imagined in the fragments of silk silk unearthed in Europe, when the lords of Europe also set their sights on developing the distant maritime Silk Road, looking towards the Far East, and seeing the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

Symphonic musician Debussy wrote the immortal musical masterpiece "The Sea" inspired by Katsushika Hokusai's ukiyo-e masterpiece "Surfing in Kanagawa" in the Edo period, and when this symphony set off a frenzy in Paris, Debussy reverently used "Surfing in Kanagawa" as the cover of the music to pay tribute to the oriental painter.

War can destroy life, but it can hardly destroy civilization.

Two thousand five hundred years ago, the invincible Alexander the Great marched east with his thousands of horses.

Legend has it that the great commander in the world's military history decided to permanently erase his enemies from the world, both physically and culturally.

He ordered his soldiers to burn the fields, sow salt and thorn seeds in the burned soil, and take away all the men, women, children, and livestock.

The astrologer told Alexander, "Then there will be no more laughter, no more art, and no more poetry, but only wild beasts and wild grass." ”

Glorious Greece perished, and the brave Persian Empire failed.

Their culture has survived tenaciously, and the Greek, Persian, and Oriental cultures have survived...... In the flames of war, cultures from different countries are like immortal vines, entwined with each other, fused with each other, and stubbornly grown in salt and thorns.

Early cultural fusion was often accompanied by war and trade slowly.

After the seventeenth century.

As the pace of cultural exchange accelerated, talented artists began to take the initiative to integrate Eastern and Western cultures.

Most of these masters have created achievements that have amazed the world.

Lang Shining is one of the representatives.

Gu Weijing looked at the "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting" in the panel of the system, took a deep breath, and clicked to receive.

[Item: "Summary of the Essence of New Painting" Lang Shining]

[Quality: Knowledge Card]

[Special Effect: After obtaining the Knowledge Card, you will understand the corresponding content.] 】

[Equipment Requirements: Chinese Painting Level Lv.4, Oil Painting Level Lv.4]

[Master profile: Lang Shining, formerly known as Giuseppe Gastrione, is a native of Milan, Italy, a court painter, and one of the top ten painters of the Qing Dynasty.

Lang Shining is good at painting horses, portraits, flowers and animals, and pioneered the creation of the art genre of "new body painting". Stylistically, he emphasized the fusion of Western painting techniques with traditional Chinese brush and ink, which was loved by the emperor and greatly influenced the court painting and aesthetic taste of the Qing Dynasty after Kangxi. 】

[Note: The beauty of the West and the rhyme of the East, when fused, are my world. 】

In an instant, Gu Weijing felt a set of palace paintings dressed in complex and majestic ancient costumes, which slowly unfolded in his mind.

After Cao Lao instructed him to study Lang Shining's new style of painting, Gu Weijing had seen many of the artist's albums.

Whether it is a famous painting in the Palace Museum, or a work in the collection of the Guimet Museum in Paris or Waseda University in Japan, there is an electronic album on the official website.

Gu Weijing is actually no stranger to Lang Shining's new style of painting.

A large amount of information flows into my heart, and the picture scroll in my mind slowly unfolds, and even the strokes of the hair-thick hook brush are delicate.

At that moment,

He still felt the shock of the Qing Dynasty royal family when they saw such an innovative artistic style.

The fusion of artistic styles, which can easily penetrate the cultural gap between East and West, has won the same praise on both sides of the ocean.

Renoir had been apprenticed to an Oriental porcelain shop, and Monet had a lifelong love of Oriental culture, compared to these more Western-minded artists.

Although Lang Shining is an Italian, the artist who has accompanied the Oriental monarch for half a century is more like an Oriental, and his artistic ideas and painting ideas are also more Oriental.

(End of chapter)