Chapter 21 21. Salaries soar
Liu Yuan quickly called Nie Wei and made an appointment to meet at a coffee shop near Nie Wei's home.
Early the next morning, Sitian Cafe welcomed a customer. It was Liu Yuan who came from the editorial department with a contract. When he entered the cafe, he found a seat by the window and sat down, and ordered After a cup of coffee, I waited silently for Nie Wei's arrival.
The time they agreed on was nine o'clock in the morning. Liu Yuan arrived at the coffee shop at 8:40. Twenty minutes later, Nie Wei showed up on time and brought someone with him.
"Hello, editor Liu." Nie Wei greeted with a smile and introduced: "This is Cheng Shaohua, my legal advisor."
"It seems that you are well prepared." Liu Yuan smiled and joked. He was not surprised that Nie Wei could afford a lawyer. After all, in his eyes, the person standing behind Nie Wei was Zhou Aiguo.
But what Liu Yuan didn't know was that this legal advisor was not hired by Zhou Aiguo, but hired by Nie Wei himself.
Moreover, Cheng Shaohua's position is in his Fanxing Investment Company.
After all, as an investment company, there will be many signing contracts, various letters of intent, etc., which all require legal consultation. Instead of always asking a law firm, it is better to form a legal team yourself, and Cheng Shaohua is just the first among them. position and will continue to expand in the future.
After the two parties sat down, Liu Yuan first asked: "Nie Wei, I have read your second book "The Mysterious Cave of Longling", it is very exciting, but I still want to ask, what do you want this book to be in the end? How much to write?”
This was a topic that Liu Yuan was very concerned about. He would never feel at ease unless he asked about it, so he took advantage of today's signing of the contract to consult Nie Wei.
"Probably more than 1.6 million words." Nie Wei thought for a while and explained: "My novel is divided into eight independent stories. Each story will probably be around 200,000 words. I want to add Together we should be able to exceed this number.”
When Liu Yuan heard that there were 1.6 million words, Liu Yuan's eyes immediately lit up. This was already considered a super-long novel, and it was very long. The longer the better, because only novels with the word count could give their own newspapers and publishers He would bring more benefits to himself, so as long as Nie Wei could guarantee the quality, Liu Yuan would not be satisfied even if he wrote 6.1 million words in this novel.
"Except for "Longling Mysterious Cave", have you created all the others?" After knowing the total number of words, Liu Yuan continued to ask curiously.
"The third part "Yunnan Worm Valley" has indeed been completed, and the fourth part "Kunlun Temple" is more than half finished." Nie Wei finished speaking and took a sip of coffee, frowning slightly, he liked it more Tea from your own country.
"Then the third part..."
"Editor Liu, let's talk about the contract for the second part first." Interrupting Liu Yuan's thoughts, Nie Wei put down the coffee cup and directly led the conversation to the topic of today.
Liu Yuan smiled coquettishly, and understood that Nie Wei was waiting for a price, just like the contract he brought today was far more generous than the contract he signed for the first film.
There are many reasons for this. Part of it is certainly because novels have brought very obvious benefits to newspapers, but more importantly, they are worried about poaching from other newspapers.
Even Liu Yuan has received countless calls in the past few days, mostly asking for information about Nie Wei. Many newspapers have offered Liu Yuan generous offers to recruit him to work for his own newspaper, and the only requirement is I just want to package and bring "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" together.
Liu Yuan has no doubts about the ability of these newspapers to infiltrate. Although he himself was not successfully poached, it is very possible that his editorial staff leaked the information privately. It is very likely that Nie Wei's information is already there. In the hands of a group of people, maybe they have even come into contact with each other.
So this time, the top management of Yanshan Wenhua Group gave Liu Yuan great power and asked him to draw up a very lucrative contract in order to sign Nie Wei's next novel before all the newspapers.
Soon Nie Wei saw the offer from Yanshan Wenhua Group.
Because Nie Wei only sells newspaper serialization rights, the price when the first contract was signed was not high, only fifty yuan per thousand words. But half a month later, when Nie Wei accepted the second contract, it was By then the value of my articles had risen to 200 yuan per thousand words.
This is already a very lucrative contract for the newspaper industry, whose sales are currently declining. At least among the writers of these newspapers, Nie Wei's salary ranks among the top ten.
The entire contract is not much different from the first contract. The only difference is that the end of the contract states that Yanshan Wenhua Group has the priority to sign the contract. Nie Wei has no doubts about this. This media group is still very powerful. Yes, he is a good partner.
Nie Wei first looked over the contract himself, mainly to see the changes in treatment, and then handed it to Cheng Shaohua who was standing aside. After the lawyer took the contract, he read it carefully one by one, and sometimes even pulled out a code of law for comparison. For a moment, Liu Yuan couldn't help but sweat nervously. He was really afraid that there would be some loopholes in his contract, which would ruin the signing this time.
Twenty minutes later, Cheng Shaohua finished reading the contract and nodded towards Nie Wei. Liu Yuan, who was sitting opposite, also breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's a pleasure to cooperate." Nie Wei didn't care too much about the treatment. Just as Liu Yuan guessed, he also received many calls from other newspapers in the past two days, and they all raised the issue of treatment. For comparison, Yanshan Wenbao The contract given is also the highest salary offered by these newspapers today.
Looking at Nie Wei signing his name on the contract, Liu Yuan also showed an unconcealable smile on his face.
"Then Nie Wei, I wish us a happy second cooperation." Liu Yuan put away the contract, stood up and happily extended his hand to Nie Wei.
"Happy cooperation." Nie Wei smiled and responded, holding Liu Yuan's hand.
After saying goodbye to Liu Yuan and sending Cheng Shaohua away, Nie Wei walked towards home. Today, he still had half of the coding task to complete, and there were some acting trainings that needed to be repeated. After all, the TV series was about to start filming, and Nie Wei had to keep himself in a "combat readiness state" at all times, so that he could perform at his best when he needed to.
However, as soon as he stepped into the cabin and before Nie Wei turned on the computer, his phone rang.
"Hello, I'm Nie Wei." Nie Wei answered the phone.
"Hello, Mr. Nie Wei, my name is Zhou Wen. Excuse me, are you the author of "Ghost Blowing Light"? Wei Wei?"
When he heard that he was asking about Ghost Blowing Light again, Nie Wei smiled and answered directly: "If you are looking for the author, it is indeed me, but I am sorry, this novel has been signed to Yanshan Literature Newspaper, and I don't want to publish it in other newspapers for the time being."
After saying that, Nie Wei was about to hang up the phone. He had received too many calls of this kind recently, and he was a little impatient.
"No, no, no, Mr. Nie Wei, I am not from the newspaper." Suddenly, a voice of denial came from the other end of the phone, which made Nie Wei, who was about to hang up the phone, stop what he was doing. After a few seconds, a look of surprise appeared on his face.