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Dad Xu was old and his eyesight was not good. He could not continue reading the manuscript for a few days. In the end, Lele stepped in to help read the manuscript.

Dad Xu was only responsible for listening.

If there was something he was not satisfied with, Lele would help mark it and write down his revision suggestions. He would then make revisions when Ji Yin got off work.

The entire autobiography has more than 300,000 words.

It is roughly divided into two parts.

The first half is about Dad Xu's life before he became rich, focusing on the misfortunes of his childhood and the bitterness of the couple raising three children.

Although this part of the content occupies most of the time span, it is only a quarter of the length, about 70,000 words.

Among them, the education of the youngest son is the top priority. Dad Xu exaggerated and "borrowed" some of the deeds of other children, and Ji Yin also used a lot of Spring and Autumn style writing.

In short, to sum it up in one sentence:

Although Mr. Shoufu's academic performance is very average, he is very smart, sensible, and filial, and he has shown extraordinary talent since he was a child.

Ji Yin has a little personal opinion here, and there is a hint of taking the opportunity to criticize the exam-oriented education.

Dad Xu is very satisfied with the content of this part.

The old man only made a few changes, mainly adding some content about his biological mother, which he suddenly recalled recently.

Next is the second half of the autobiography.

Different from the first half, Ji Yin creatively adopted two narrative lines.

One is Dad Xu's entrepreneurial process, and the other is to see the world from a God's perspective.

Whenever an important event happens, the two narrative lines will intersect, combining the macro and micro just right, which makes people feel the same.

There is an old saying: A glimpse of a part can tell the whole leopard.

In the long river of history, each specific person is a drop of water in the era. Ji Yin is ambitious and hopes to clearly show the changes of the entire era through the fate trajectory of Dad Xu.

The only pity is that Xu's father retired a little early. In recent years, there have been many ups and downs, no less than the previous ten years.

And the world will have more earth-shaking changes in the future, which can even rise to the height of the entire human civilization. This is not an exaggeration.

In other words, all the history that humans have experienced before, even if added together, is not as important as the past few decades in a sense.

It is unfortunate to be born in this era, because you are in danger of being swallowed up by the times at any time.

At the same time, it is also lucky, because you can participate in more history and even witness the end of human civilization.

No matter fortunate or unfortunate, no one can escape.

Xu's father is generally satisfied with the content of the second half, but he also put forward many revisions, which can be roughly summarized into three aspects.

First, the content about the youngest son was added, highlighting Xu Dong's irreplaceable role in the entrepreneurial process, and even promoted him to the position of co-founder.

The old man has seen it through. Since the title of the book is how to cultivate the richest man, it cannot be a sheep's head and a dog's meat.

Secondly, all the content about the old Pan family was deleted. This was the initiative of the other party when asking for Pan's father's opinion. It would not be good for their family to be high-profile.

Finally, at the end of the autobiography, Xu's father added a public will. This was specially requested by his youngest son. He wanted to donate 5% of the dividends of Xinke Haizao's shares to the Children's Bureau in his name.

Speaking of which, Xu Dong was helpless.

In the past two years, his wealth has risen somewhat amazingly, which is in sharp contrast with the current severe situation. It can be said that he is timid or stupid. Anyway, it is considered as losing money to avoid disaster.

The whole family is more in favor of this. After all, their family has enough money for a long time. It doesn't matter if they lose a few hundred million. As long as the equity is still in hand, it will be fine.

Only Xu Bin has been brooding about it.

He was so distressed that he couldn't sleep for several nights.

...

A month later, Ji Yin, through his father's relationship, took the final version of the manuscript and personally visited the general manager of Kangaroo Country Publishing and Media Group.

After a round of greetings, the two sides got to the point.

"Uncle Lei, this is the autobiography of my wife's grandfather, written by me personally, please correct me."

At first, Mr. Lei didn't take it seriously. There are dozens of similar cases every year, and most of the so-called "autobiographies" are actually loss-making businesses.

If you have a strong relationship, you have to bite the bullet.

If you have a shallow relationship, it's easier to deal with. Their publishing house will issue a book number and let the other party pay for it themselves, and they can also take the opportunity to make a fortune, which can more or less recover some losses.

After all, book numbers are a scarce resource at present.

However, when he took the manuscript, he only glanced at the title and keenly felt that this was definitely a bestseller.

"Xiaoyin, is Xu the richest man your father-in-law?"

"Yes." Ji Yin nodded, "My wife is the youngest daughter of my father-in-law."

Boss Lei immediately slammed the table: "Your father and I have been friends for many years, and he actually kept such an important thing from me?"

"Uncle Lei, don't be angry, my father didn't mean to hide it from everyone, it's mainly because you didn't ask, our family can't advertise it everywhere, right?"

"Okay, you are right." Boss Lei patted the manuscript lightly, "You are quite capable, you actually chased the daughter of the richest man, tell the truth quickly, when did you get married?"

"I got married during the Spring Festival two years ago."

"Do you have children?"

"Currently have a daughter, just turned one year old."

Mr. Lei nodded: "Go back and bring me a message to your father-in-law. Just say that our publishing house is very optimistic about this autobiography and plans to publish it online and offline simultaneously. As for the first printing, it will not be less than 500,000 copies."

"Uncle Lei, you didn't even look..."

Ji Yin quickly reminded.

"No need to read it." Mr. Lei waved his hand, "Because of your father-in-law's name and your writing style, with my many years of experience, I can guarantee you that this book will definitely be good, and the sales volume will be at least More than a million."

After all, Asia has nearly a billion people.

As long as one out of a thousand people buys it, there will be a million sales. Coupled with the disappearance of piracy, the book market still has great potential.

Seeing that the other party was so confident, Ji Yin stopped trying to persuade him: "Uncle Lei, I'll leave it to you."

"Is there any problem with copyright?"

Mr. Lei nodded and asked casually.

"No problem. Grandpa has entrusted all matters to me with full authority."

"That's good. In fact, I personally am very optimistic about this book and plan to try it in the overseas market. Are you going to translate it yourself or leave it to our publisher?"

Ji Yin shook his head: "Uncle Lei, my English is not good enough, so you should find someone to translate it! But I have a condition, I want the final review."

"no problem."

Mr. Lei agreed immediately.

The reason is simple. After all, this autobiography involves the richest man. Since the other party is willing to personally "check" it, their publisher is happy and relaxed. If there is a mistake, they will not be blamed.

Immediately afterwards, both parties signed a publishing contract.

The most important one is royalties.

Mr. Lei didn't know whether he was really optimistic about this autobiography or just for Xu Dong's sake, so he finally gave him a higher royalty rate: 12%.

However, the current book market is very similar to the movie market. According to the requirements of superiors, pricing is all people-friendly.

If it can really reach one million sales.

Dad Xu can probably get more than two million yuan in royalties.

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