Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 577 Everything else is fine, how is the manuscript fee calculated?

After Cao Zhiqiang came out of the bathroom, he was shocked when he saw a stranger.

Just when Cao Zhiqiang was in doubt, the young man in suit and leather shoes stood up first, bowed to Cao Zhiqiang in a proper manner, and then said sincerely: "Hi, Teacher Cao, hello, remember me, I'm Yuno Watanabe from Kodansha."

Only then did Cao Zhiqiang come to his senses: "Oh, yes, yes, you are the young editor of Kodansha, hello, hello."

"Hi, that's right." Yuno Watanabe smiled and bowed again, "I'm really disturbing you by visiting."

"It's all right." Cao Zhiqiang waved his hands with a smile, "It's just that I suddenly saw someone more at home, and I was a little surprised. Please sit down."

After Yuno Watanabe sat down, Cao Zhiqiang also sat down opposite him.

At this moment, Akina Nakamori suddenly trotted over and said anxiously: "Ah, I'm so sorry, I'm so busy and confused. I just arranged flowers here, and the table is a bit messy, why don't you go to the sofa Let's talk there, I'll clean up first."

Yuno Watanabe looked at the pile of flower branches and tools on the table, and secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking that you just found out that something was wrong when I sat down just now.

Although I thought so, as a guest, Watanabe Yuno naturally couldn't say that, so he also smiled and said: "It's okay, it's also very good here."

"No, no." Nakamori Akina shook her head, "Go and sit on the sofa, I'll tidy up a little, and it will be fine in a while."

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled at this moment, stood up and said, "Okay, Watanabe-san, let's listen to Akina-san and go over there to chat. This is also a kind of respect, what do you think?"

"Hi." Watanabe Yuno stood up now, "Then it's disrespectful."

As soon as Yuno Watanabe and Cao Zhiqiang came to the sofa and sat down, Akina Nakamori brought over a tea tray.

On the tea tray were two steaming cups of freshly ground black coffee, a small plate of sugar cubes, and a small jug of milk.

In fact, if there was only Cao Zhiqiang, there would be no such things in the tea tray, because Cao Zhiqiang likes to drink black coffee, that is, only coffee and nothing else.

Akina Nakamori didn't drink black coffee in the past, but because Cao Zhiqiang likes to drink black coffee, and the coffee beans prepared by Cao Zhiqiang are top quality, and they are delicious without other ingredients, and Cao Zhiqiang also said that drinking black coffee will help you lose weight , Adding milk and sugar will make you fat, so she also fell in love with pure black coffee.

It's just that now because there is one more Yuno Watanabe, there are more cube sugar and milk in the tea tray.

Akina Nakamori, who put down the tea tray, smiled at Yuno Watanabe and said, "Mr. Watanabe, coffee, please."

"Ah, thank you." Watanabe Yuno was flattered, "Akina-chan, no, Akina-san, thank you for your hospitality."

"Hehe, you're welcome." Akina Nakamori covered her mouth and smiled softly, showing her tenderness, just like the Japanese wife people expected.

In fact, the legend of Japanese wives has spread all over the world by this time. Not only in China, there is a saying that Japanese wives are the most virtuous and caring, but also in Europe and the United States.

But in fact, not all of them are like this, at least in Japan in the 80s, this is no longer the case.

Because in the 80s, the Japanese economy had been taking off for a long time, and the Japanese government introduced a series of protection policies for women, and a large number of female jobs appeared, which led to a large number of Japanese women taking up jobs. Therefore, in the 80s, Japan The status of women has been greatly improved.

With the improvement of the status of Japanese women, especially a large number of Japanese women took to the workplace, Japanese women naturally began to pursue more power.

Although there was no saying that a Japanese woman should have four boyfriends during this period, the number of traditional Japanese wives has actually been greatly reduced.

The reason is also very simple. The legendary Japanese wife does not work at all, which means she lives completely dependent on her husband.

But if a Japanese woman can work and earn her own income, why does she have to serve her husband after work and return home like an uncle?It doesn't make sense.

Of course, tradition is still very important, especially for women who are in love, they usually pick up Japanese traditions to please their men.

For example, the current Akina Nakamori, her gentleness, consideration and virtuousness are mostly learned by herself later, and she is only like this to Cao Zhiqiang.

To put it bluntly, Akina Nakamori doesn't really like to serve people in her heart, but she is actually a lazy person who doesn't like to clean up the house. I knew this from the last time Cao Zhiqiang went to her house.

Cao Zhiqiang went to Nakamori Akina's house last night, and knew that her house was in a mess. Although it can't be called a garbage dump, she is obviously not a girl who likes to clean up the house.

But this kind of woman who doesn't like to tidy up the house and is even a little lazy, after coming to Cao Zhiqiang's house, she suddenly looks like a different person. Not only can she do housework, she can also learn flower arrangement, no, flower art.

So, love can really change a person.

As long as you like someone and want to win the other person's favor, you can really change anything and do anything for the other person.

Obviously, Akina Nakamori is such a love brain, as long as the person she likes likes, she can do anything, even if she poses in various shy positions, she will not refuse anyone.

Ahem, of course, the shy posture or something, Cao Zhiqiang is not that perverted, he didn't force Akina Nakamori to do anything.

In fact, the so-called various postures were learned by Akina Nakamori secretly from others in order to please Cao Zhiqiang and tie Cao Zhiqiang's heart.

As for who she learned from, I don't know, but it seems to be learned from her senior female colleagues.

Well, I can only say that people in the Japanese entertainment industry are really messed up!

But Cao Zhiqiang also really likes this kind of chaotic circle, after all, he really enjoys it.

Talk too far.

In short, no one is born to like to be a Japanese wife, and the emergence of this type of Japanese wife is ultimately caused by the general environment.

Japan has gradually lost the environment for producing Japanese wives, so the current Japanese wives are more of a Japanese label and culture.

Of course, it’s not impossible to have a realistic Japanese wife, but unless you are very rich, powerful, or a love brain like Akina Nakamori, and you meet a man you really like, and take the initiative to be a Japanese wife to please him, Otherwise, few women would be happy to be Japanese wives.

After Nakamori Akina left with a smile, Watanabe Yuno looked at Cao Zhiqiang who was drinking coffee by himself, and instead of serving his own coffee, he sighed first: "Cao Sang, you are such a happy person, I'm so jealous of you."

"Huh?" Cao Zhiqiang was taken aback, put down his coffee cup, and looked at Yuno Watanabe in surprise, "Jealous of me? What do you mean?"

Yuno Watanabe made an exaggerated expression: "Wow, why do you still ask me? You still have such a puzzled face? Didn't you mean it?"

"What's on purpose?" Cao Zhiqiang frowned, "I really don't understand what you're talking about."

Watanabe Yuno shook his head: "Akina-san, that's Akina-san, a popular idol, Akina-san, right?"

Cao Zhiqiang blinked: "Ah, her current career is indeed an idol singer, so what?"

Yuno Watanabe exaggerated again: "So what? Do you know how many people like Mingcai sauce? Even I am a fan of Mingcai sauce!
We all thought that Ming Caijiang was still a single girl, but unexpectedly, unexpectedly, she already had a boyfriend and lived together, and, moreover, he was someone I knew?
How can it be repaired!Ah, you are going to be jealous of me!
If it weren't for the modern society, I really want to fight you! "

Cao Zhiqiang was speechless for a while, but he didn't expect this editor to be such a joke.

But yes, Japanese young people in the 80s seem to be a bit funny, and they do have nonsensical culture.

As a matter of fact, Eastern civilization, when the economy develops to a certain stage, the metropolis will experience some nonsensical culture, such as Japan, Hong Kong at this time, and South Korea and the inland after 2000.

Especially in Japan, because it is a big country of comics, this kind of funny and nonsensical culture developed earlier.

The so-called Two-dimensional culture and subculture actually originated in Japan in 1979.

It's just that the real rise of this kind of culture has to be after the 90s. In fact, there are not many people who can be so funny in the ninth day of the 80s.

Hmm, but considering this Yuno Watanabe is a Toga bully, oh, that's okay.

According to Japanese legends, the bully of the University of Toho is more or less out of his mind.

Thinking of this, Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "I understand, if you don't want Mr. Duanbian, you don't need to be jealous.

You have to know that idols are also human beings, not machines, let alone characters in comics.

Everything an idol performs on stage is just a pre-set character, just like an actor acting, it is a job and cannot be taken seriously.

But in private life, idols also need their own lives, with their own emotions.

So, this kind of thing is like drinking water, knowing whether it is warm or not.

If you really like Mingcai, you should bless her and keep the secret strictly for her, so as not to cause trouble to her.

Otherwise, you're just a dark selfish desire, not really liking at all, are you right? "

Cao Zhiqiang’s Chicken Soup for the Soul output, you have to change to someone from 2023, it will not work properly, and it will be automatically immune.

But in the face of Yuno Watanabe, the bully of Dongdae University in 1983, this set of chicken soup routines is still very easy to use.

Sure enough, he immediately nodded amusedly: "That's what I said, and I think so too, so don't worry, no matter what the reason is, for Ming Caijiang's happiness, I will definitely keep my mouth shut and never tell anyone about it." , please believe me."

"Well, I believe you." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, and then said, "So, when you found this place, you didn't really come here after Mingcai, did you?"

"Ah, of course not!" Yuno Watanabe quickly waved his hand, "No, no, absolutely not, I'm not that kind of person!"

"Then why are you here..." Cao Zhiqiang frowned deliberately.

"I'm here to see you, Mr. Cao!" Yuno Watanabe said hastily.

Immediately afterwards, Yuno Watanabe said quickly: "That's right, I thought the Norwegian Wood you contributed to me was very good, and then submitted it to our editor-in-chief for review. He also thought it was okay, so he has decided to officially publish it. novel.

By the way, because you submitted this manuscript to me, our editor-in-chief said that I will be fully responsible for the publication of this novel. "

Speaking of which, Yuno Watanabe picked up the briefcase, took out a document and a pen from it, handed them together and said: "Here, Mr. Cao, this is the contract document, please see if there is anything inappropriate.

If you think it is suitable, you only need to sign, seal or fingerprint on it, and then you can wait for your novel to be officially published.

Don't worry, I will personally grasp this case and publish it as soon as possible, so I won't keep you waiting. "

"Etc., etc."

Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand, and without looking at the contract, he asked Watanabe Yuno directly: "Everything else is fine, how is the manuscript fee calculated?"

Watanabe Yuno said: "That's it, you are a newcomer, according to the usual practice, we will pay you the manuscript fee in the form of sharing, and the sharing ratio is [-]% of the selling price.

To put it simply, because you are a newcomer, although I think your novel is really good, you are not well-known after all, so according to the rules, the number of our first edition printing is [-] copies, and the retail price is tentatively set at [-] days Yuan one.

That is to say, as long as you sign this contract, no matter how well the novel sells, you can immediately get the manuscript fee of 240 million yen. "

After hearing what the other party said, Cao Zhiqiang nodded, thinking that it was not bad.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang had expected the ratio of the other party's share, which was about the same as the price in his mind.

Because the sales model of traditional publications in Japan is to print first and sell later, the royalties to the authors will be given after printing, regardless of whether they can be sold later.

It is precisely because of this model that you will be paid after printing, it is also called "stamp tax" in Japan, which means that you will be paid after printing.

As a pure newcomer, Cao Zhiqiang can give [-]% of the royalties, which is actually very reasonable, and the printing volume of the first edition of [-] copies is also a rule.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang knew that the book "Norwegian Forest" would be a hit, but before it was officially published, no one knew what it would be like, so he could only test the waters and print [-] copies first, and then decide whether to reprint it based on the sales volume. .

Generally speaking, the [-]% sharing ratio is only the first version of the contract.

If it is the second edition of the contract, it will have to be re-signed. Therefore, the royalties to the author will often be higher in the second edition. The exact amount depends on the market performance.

As for how to look at market performance, the Japanese publishing industry has its own methods and standards, so Cao Zhiqiang doesn't need to worry about it.

"Wait!" Cao Zhiqiang said suddenly, "Is the copyright of the novel still mine?"

"Of course." Yuno Watanabe nodded, "Of course the copyright of the novel still belongs to you, unless you intend to sell it, and we have the desire to buy it, but for the time being, um, hehe..."

After hearing what the other party said, Cao Zhiqiang nodded, knowing that the other party's subtext was that the other party did not want to buy the copyright of his novel at present.

That's right, only for best-selling books, the publishing house will try to negotiate the issue of copyright acquisition. For those new novelists, usually they will not discuss the issue of copyright acquisition during the first edition.

According to Japanese law, as long as the copyright issue is not specifically discussed and a contract is written, the publishing house only has the right to distribute, and does not automatically own the copyright of the novel.

Cao Zhiqiang carefully looked at the contract, but he did not find any clauses related to copyright.

After thinking about it, Cao Zhiqiang asked again: "Is this 240 million yen after tax?"

Yuno Watanabe was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled: "Of course it is before tax. You have to pay the tax yourself."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded and immediately understood what the other party meant.

The meaning of the other party is very simple, the publisher is not responsible for the tax payment, and the author has to pay it himself.

Of course, you don't have to pay it, as long as you don't get caught.

In fact, most of the Japanese novel writers in the 80s were tax evaders, unless they were well-known writers.

However, Cao Zhiqiang did not intend to evade taxes, so he simply asked: "If I have to pay taxes, how much will I have to pay?"

Yuno Watanabe blinked, then smiled and said: "Well, you are a novel author, you only need to pay a personal income tax.

The payment of personal income tax is graded.

As far as I know, your current income is 24% of your income, which is [-] yen in personal tax. "

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "Then can you pay the tax for me?"

Yuno Watanabe was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Is this, of course it is also possible, but you have to write me an authorization."

"No problem." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "I'll write you an authorization right now."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang yelled at Nakamori Akina: "Akina, bring me a pen and paper, and my seal."

Yes, after being here for so long, Cao Zhiqiang also went to the countryside to make his own seal.

"Hi, here we come!" Akina Nakamori responded with a smile.

Soon, Akina Nakamori brought what Cao Zhiqiang asked for, and Cao Zhiqiang immediately wrote an authorization to pay personal tax according to Yuno Watanabe's request, and signed and sealed it.

After that, Cao Zhiqiang took a closer look at the first version of the contract in his hand, and carefully asked the transitional Bian Xiongye some detailed questions. After confirming that there were no pitfalls and no problems, he signed it with his seal.

(End of this chapter)