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Chapter 67 Cooperation
Although Akita Shoten is RB's fourth largest publishing house, the sales volume of its main journal "Weekly Shonen Champion" is about 50 copies per issue, which is not worth mentioning compared to the sales volume of the other three major journals' main journals of 400 million copies.This is why when it comes to the publishing houses of RB manga, they must be Shueisha, Kodansha, and Shogakukan. The Akita Bookstore after the three cannot be compared at all.

As the vice president of Akita Bookstore, Akita Keiko has been ambitious since she took office. She wants to change this status quo so that Akita Bookstore has the strength to stand shoulder to shoulder with the three major clubs.

But the fact is that most of RB's first-class cartoonists have already been carved up by the three major agencies, and the training of novice cartoonists has also gone ahead of other comic agencies.

As a result, Keiko Akita, who is determined to change, has made no achievements in the past six months as the vice president. She is too high-spirited and refuses to settle down to work step by step. Her work attitude has been criticized by the elders of the company, and her position is precarious and she may be removed from her position at any time.

This time, the plagiarism incident, which was very popular in the media and made Shueisha a fortune, brought Xiao Jian into Akita Keiko's field of vision. When other comic companies were still waiting and watching, she took the initiative to find Xiao Jian for cooperation. .

Xiao Jian has a good impression of this sweet-looking, child-like woman who speaks fluent Mandarin, the beautiful vice president of RB.

"Akita Bookstore hopes to represent all of Xiao Jianjun's comics, novels, albums, and peripheral products in the exclusive distribution of RB. In return, Akita Bookstore will give Xiao Jianjun 8% of the royalties. I believe that Xiao Jianjun will be very satisfied with this cooperation plan."

There was a mocking smile on Xiao Jian's face, this seemingly gentle and gentle little RB girl actually wanted to take advantage of the fire, although the share was higher than the 5% and 6% proposed by Xiao Xuekan and Kodansha, but she wanted peripheral products. Distribution rights are absolutely impossible.

Akita Keiko: "Xiao Jianjun, please don't be too greedy. You must know that 8% of the royalty share is already the price of a first-class manga artist in RB. Now the domestic public opinion in RB is not very good for you. I will give such a high royalty share. Chengdu has to take a lot of risks."

Xiao Jian said lightly: "12%, not to mention peripheral products."

Akita Keiko gave Xiao Jian a blank look: "Xiao Jianjun's 12% is impossible, this share is already beyond the price tag of a first-class manga master."

"What if I can release the second volume of "Longteng" ahead of Shueisha?"

Keiko Akita shook her head, "It doesn't have much effect, because the content of the second volume of "Youth Jump" is already being serialized. I specially read it and the content that is serialized in "Cartoon Weekly" in your country is not very different. Readers don't like this. Similar content will not be too interesting."

Xiao Jian was so angry that he had a toothache, "Has Shueisha grown so shameless? If so, then I will fight, three volumes, the first three volumes will be released together in half a month, and the first chapter of the fourth volume will be "Youth". "champion", how about this proposal?"

Keiko Akita was thinking in her mind that Akita Shoten would release the third volume before the second volume was serialized, so that Akita could grab the popularity of "Super Agent King" promoted by Shueisha to "Dragon Teng", and the hundreds of It is our bookstore's turn to enjoy the sales of one volume per million.

But can Xiao Jianjun draw the third book within half a month? A volume of 600 pages, even if five chapters have been drawn in the second volume, it still needs 900 pages.

It will be released within half a month, which means that the number of days Xiao Jian can actually draw is only about ten days, which means that he must draw at least 90 pages a day. Can it be done?

"Yes, but Xiao Jianjun must ensure the quality. Otherwise, I have the right to reject the drawing and invalidate the cooperation."

Xiao Jian smiled confidently: "I won't smash my own signboard."

After negotiating the conditions, Xiao Jian called Xiao Xiao and asked her to come back and get him a contract.Called Cao Lu, the lead writer of "Dragon Teng", briefly explained the situation, asked him to ask for leave quickly to catch up with the trouble, and be prepared to die for ten days and a half months.After that, I asked Akita Keiko to ask some RB editors to change the characters in the manga to Japanese, otherwise Xiao Jian, who doesn't understand Japanese, would not know how to do it.

Akita Keiko happily agreed to the matter, and asked the assistant to call RB back to ask someone to come to China for a business trip.After giving the order, she turned around and turned around, only to find that Xiao Jian had disappeared at some point, and when she found Xiao Jian...

She admits that men who work hard are very attractive, especially when a handsome and aristocratic man like Xiao Jian works hard, the charm he shows makes her heart beat a little bit.But he is not crazy, just now he vowed to release three volumes of comics within half a month, and now he is filming his low-budget movie. At such a critical moment, can't he just stop for ten days? Half a month?

The manga is very important, but the movie is also at a critical time, it will be finished in less than a week, Xiao Jian naturally doesn't want to waste time.

At night, the helpless Akita Huizi looked at the smiling Xiao Jian, and was seriously teaching Zhou Dongyu and Yang Yang the shots they were going to shoot tomorrow.

Zhou Dongyu and Zheng Xing and He Zhuoyan, who had already wrapped up the episode but refused to leave, looked at the goblin who came from RB with some hostility.

Akita Huizi dismissed the hostility of these yellow-haired little girls, and if she really wanted to snatch this man, they couldn't watch enough together.

When Wang Hao picked up Xiao Xiao and Cao Lu at the airport in the provincial capital, Xiao Jian had just finished teaching, so he drove the little guys back to rest, and went to greet them by himself.

Cao Lu didn't come alone, he also brought his art assistant, a beautiful woman from Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, seeing their flirtatious eyes, they must have an affair.

Since the serialization of the comic "Dragon Teng", Cao Lu, whose name is printed on the comic as the main writer, has become a man of influence in the Academy of Fine Arts.Especially after the single book was listed and bought, it can be said that it can be said to have both fame and fortune. Although it is only [-]% of Xiao Jian's royalties, it is not a lot, and love finally has some prospects, that is, Cao Lu was kidnapped by him to be an art artist for him.The recent public opinion made him very angry, and he really wanted to help Xiao Jian, and this opportunity finally came.

Cao Lu pulled Cao Lu and introduced: "Mr. Xiao, her name is Cao Lu, Yulu's Lu, and she is also the artist of "Dragon Teng" starting from the second chapter of the second book."

Cao Lu finally saw an idol not much older than herself, and said shyly, "Mr. Xiao, hello."

"Hello, classmate Cao Lu." Xiao Jian smiled and nodded to the beauty Cao Lu, and then said to Cao Lu: "I just said why your kid's painting skills have suddenly improved. It turns out that you hired a master, Cao Lu Cao Lu It's interesting. With the joining of classmate Lu, I am more confident."

"..."

Xiao Xiao read the terms of the contract one by one, and when there was no problem, Xiao Jian signed his name on the contract.

No champagne, no ceremony, no one taking pictures, a very meaningful contract was signed in this humble Banyan Hotel.

Xiao Jian held Akita Keiko's boneless little hand and said, "It's a happy cooperation."

Akita Keiko smiled winkingly, and said: "I hope Xiao Jianjun can do his best to draw the manga well, and don't be distracted."

"I'll do things, don't worry!"

(End of this chapter)