Chapter 59: Worth Increases Dramatically
School life is carefree, and Chen Feng works in class every day as before, watched by the red leaves. After the last confession, Momiji has gradually accepted the relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend between the two. It's just that Chen Feng learned a lesson, so he didn't take an urgent way, so although the two have acquiesced to each other's lovers, they are still limited to hand-holding contact as before, and there are no intimate actions such as kissing and touching in substance.
During the holidays, in addition to the necessary training, Chen Feng is also racing against time to create, you know, the investment plan he plans in the future will all rely on this set of "Harry Potter". But his progress is really slow, and it seems that from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the fourth part of "Harry Potter" "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is still being revised and revised, and the final draft has not been completed, let alone translated directly into English. And for the revision and translation of the second and third parts of the previous part, the progress is not very large. The English translation of the second part is only a third of the way through. As early as three months ago, Cai Shuqing, the president of Feiyi Publishing House, hoped that he would take advantage of this Harry trend by the end of this year to launch a second part.
In November, the school held a mid-term exam, this exam, Chen Feng continued the myth he had before he took a year off, three homework, still full marks, although he in the previous unit test, almost every subject was also 100 points, but the meaning of the midterm exam is completely different. Except for Ye Xiaodong, the deputy class leader who has always been prejudiced against Chen Feng, all the students in the class shouted for Chen Feng to have a treat, which has almost become a routine in their class, as long as Chen Feng, the class leader, has any happy events, they will collectively shout for Chen Feng to treat, and Chen Feng generally will not refuse, anyway, these snacks will not cost much no matter how much they are invited, everyone is happy, and he can naturally be happy. Chen Feng happily took out a hundred yuan and handed it to the fat man Wang Chen, and asked him to take someone to the commissary to buy things, and the whole class "everyone has a share". It was also according to the practice of previous years, after Wang Chen brought people to buy a lot of delicious things, when he distributed them to Ye Xiaodong, he treated him as if he was a transparent person, and he missed it as before. Although this is not the first time in such a situation, Ye Xiaodong feels a huge sense of anger and humiliation in his heart every time, but he is helpless. When Chen Feng took a year off from school, he, a thousand-year-old 2, finally turned positive and became the class president, he thought that his opportunity had come, and he was always courteous to Hongye, and he also tried to win over some of his classmates to make himself stronger, trying to replace Chen Feng's position in the minds of the whole class. But it's a pity that a year has passed, and Momiji still ignores him, and there are more than 50 students in the class, only a few of them are willing to talk to him, but they are basically general friends. What's even more odious is that as soon as Chen Feng came back this semester, he, the class leader, immediately became a deputy again, and became a millennium old 2 again, and the academic performance that he was proud of was already firmly ranked first in the class, but he was once again pressed by Chen Feng, and even faced the threat of being overtaken by Hongye and Cai Qiaozhi again. His heart was full of resentment and dissatisfaction, but he could not vent it. Directly arguing with Chen Feng, he didn't dare before, but now because of Chen Feng's prestige and their family, he is afraid that Chen Feng will find a chance to clean himself up.
Under such a depressed psychological torture, Ye Xiaodong, who was only twelve years old, was in a state of mind all day long, and he fell seriously ill within a few days. After that, his character basically faded out of the sight of Chen Feng, Hongye and others.
After the results of the mid-term examination came out, Chen Feng ranked first in his grade, and was soon appointed as the captain of the school's Young Pioneers at the commendation meeting held by the school. For this appointment, Chen Feng really wanted to refuse, but he also knew that he couldn't refuse, otherwise, his father's thunderbolt would definitely greet him, so he had to reluctantly accept it.
A few days later, Cai Shuqing called from Hong Kong and excitedly reported to their family the sales of one million copies of the reprint, which has sold more than 700,000 copies in Britain in the past four months since its release, which is a miracle, and has topped the bestseller lists of many newspapers such as The Times and The Guardian. All remaining stock has been fully booked by major bookstores across the UK. As for why there is such a big sales, firstly, Feiyi Publishing House has increased its publicity offensive, and secondly, because this book is not only liked by children, but also by adults, especially the latter, they are all people who have direct spending power, so after word of mouth, a considerable number of adults have bought this very interesting, full of magical charm of the "fairy tale book". With the best-selling of this "Philosopher's Stone" in the UK, publishers in several countries in Europe and the United States have called their Feiyi Publishing House, trying to buy the copyright of "Philosopher's Stone" in their countries, among which the United States, which is also an English language, is the most enthusiastic, and several publishing houses have asked her about the international copyright of "Philosopher's Stone".
In addition to reporting the good news, Cai Shuqing's main purpose in calling this time is to hope to reprint it for the third time, hoping to become Chen Feng's literary agent in her own name, and help Chen Feng's "Harry Potter" series to the world and win greater honor and more wealth.
AT PRESENT, THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS ALMOST UNCLEAR ABOUT THE REAL SITUATION OF FENCHEN, THE AUTHOR OF "HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE", AND IF IT WERE KNOWN THAT THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR WAS ONLY TWELVE YEARS OLD, IT WOULD HAVE CAUSED AN UPROAR. This is one of the reasons why Chen Feng does not want to be interviewed by those reporters. And as "Harry Potter" continues to sell well, his fame gradually accumulates and increases, and he really needs an agent who is familiar with the book publishing market, and Cai Shuqing, as the president of Feiyi Publishing House, has worked in the publishing industry for more than ten years, and her professional conditions are still very much in line with his requirements, and Chen Feng is also very optimistic about her personality. Therefore, after Chen Feng hesitated for a moment, he asked Cai Shuqing to come over for an interview.
Then Chen Feng asked Chen Dayong to call Chen Hanjie and ask him about the situation of the literary agent, what their general commission is, whether they participate in the commission, etc.
After getting Chen Hanjie's professional* answer, Chen Feng had a plan in his heart.
Cai Shuqing at dusk the next day, from Hong Kong to do a plane transfer, the wind and dust came, in addition to a contract with almost the same content as the last time "Philosopher's Stone" for the second time to print another million copies, but also brought a broker contract, the commission and dividend requirements listed in the contract are far lower than Chen Hanjie told yesterday, so after Chen Hanjie, a full-time lawyer, communicated, Chen Dayong and his son signed these two contracts with Cai Shuqing that night. Chen Feng fully authorized her to negotiate international copyright issues with foreign publishers.
At the end of the year, with the authorization of Chen Feng, the international rights of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" were sold one after another, including the copyright in the United States for $500,000, in addition to the copyright in Australia for $200,000, and France and Germany for $100,000 each...... These prices can be said to have set sky-high prices in the publishing industry in several countries, and have been cited as news for a while. This does not include the contractual incremental royalties of 15% for the first printing of 1 million copies, 20% for reprints, and 25% for the third edition...... Up to 30%.
By the time it was time for the Chinese New Year, the deposit amount of the HSBC bank account in Hong Kong opened in the name of Chen Dayong had reached more than 80 million Hong Kong dollars. And with the still vigorous momentum of "Philosopher's Stone", in three or four months at most, the total amount of this account will exceed 100 million yuan.
For this reason, Chen Dayong and his wife were so excited that they couldn't sleep well for several days, suspecting that they were dreaming, their son was only thirteen years old after the New Year, and he was about to become a billionaire. Especially Chen Dayong, who was originally very loud and proud, was ashamed to mention it in front of his son, "Chen Yiyi", and felt a little embarrassed.
In the middle of the night, Chen Dayong couldn't sleep again because of the money in the Hong Kong account, so he got up and walked into Chen Feng's bedroom and woke him up.
"Son, Dad asked you something, didn't you say that you were going to invest in Beijing this year during your summer vacation last year? ”
Chen Feng, who was dreaming, was woken up by his father in the middle of the night, he was really depressed, he frowned angrily and squinted his eyes and said, "Dad, you woke me up in the middle of the night just to ask about this?"
"You stinky boy, make so much money, so that Lao Tzu has not slept well for the past few days, and you dare to talk to Lao Tzu like this, are your wings stiff? You hurry up and spend this money, so that Lao Tzu can sleep peacefully. ”
"Okay, okay, about July and August, let's go to Guangzhou to start investing and spending money, okay." ”
"Then there are still many months, you stinky boy is deliberately not letting you live a solid life. ”
Chen Dayong saw that his son closed his eyes and fell asleep again, and he could only sigh in his heart that he was not blessed with a life, and the family suddenly had so much money, which should have been a great joy, but he actually suffered from insomnia for several nights in a row.
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