Chapter 29: 15,000 Hong Kong Dollars
As a novel adapted from a film and television drama, it is easy to adapt Shaobao into a film and television drama. Adding branches, roles and scenes according to the main line will not affect the viewability of Shaobao at all as long as the scale is not large. In Xiangjiang, where scripts are rarely written, you can basically just take it and shoot it, so the adaptation rights will naturally be very valuable.
Moreover, there are only two free TV stations in Hong Kong, TVB and RTV, and they are constantly fighting. TVB is preparing to shoot Bao Qingtian, so RTV naturally focuses on Shaobao.
However, RTV does not have Liu Hongmin’s contact information yet, so he did not appear.
Luo Baoming met Liu Hongmin first, so he had a head start. If RTV comes to visit, Shaobao's remuneration will definitely increase again.
So, when Liu Hongmin invited him to Uncle Wang's restaurant for dinner again, Luo Baoming said simply: "Mr. Liu, I came here to talk to you about the remaining six parts of Shaobao. Contract. The price given by Mr. Jin Yong is fifty Hong Kong dollars per thousand words."
Liu Hongmin smiled, "Mr. Luo, don't worry, let's talk while we eat."
Luo Baoming suddenly twitched the corner of his mouth when Liu Hongmin held the Erguotou. The last time I ate here, Luo Baoming drank two glasses of wine, but nothing happened to Liu Hongmin. If he falls down again this time, he may be in trouble.
"Mr. Liu, don't be in a hurry about drinking. The price just now is the highest price given by Mr. Jin Yong. If you are still not satisfied, I can only go back in despair."< br>
When Liu Hongmin heard this, he said: "The remuneration of fifty Hong Kong dollars for a thousand words is actually pretty good. However, Mr. Luo, you should know how big a disturbance Shaobao caused in Hong Kong. If you wait for this disturbance When it reaches its peak, the royalties are no longer enough.”
Luo Baoming nodded, "Of course I know this."
"Since Mr. Liu knows so much about the situation in Xiangjiang, allow me to settle a score for you. "Famous in the World" can be serialized for ten days. For Ming Pao’s influence can last for about a month. According to our estimates, Ming Pao’s sales will increase by HK$240,000 this month.”
“But this does not take into account the costs of printing and paper. The cost is almost one-third of the sales, which is 80,000 Hong Kong dollars left..."
"There are also bonuses for us staff, because of good performance, we can get almost 10,000 Hong Kong dollars... "
"Other writers' remuneration has increased. If sales are good this month, writers' remuneration will increase during this period. According to our estimates, this month's remuneration will increase by at least 20,000 Hong Kong dollars..."
"The results of "Famous in the World" were good, and there were so many letters from readers that Mr. Jin Yong had to hire several employees, and their salary required at least 30,000 Hong Kong dollars..."
Liu Hongmin will Erguotou unscrewed it and poured it into Luo Baoming's cup. Seeing this, Luo Baoming knew that Liu Hongmin didn't listen to him at all, so he stopped helplessly and looked at Liu Hongmin.
"Mr. Luo, I don't know much about how to run a business. But it has nothing to do with me. After all, Mr. Jin Yong will not give me a penny when he makes money. What I want is just a fair , I will pay whatever my work is worth.”
Luo Baoming smiled bitterly: “But fifty Hong Kong dollars for a thousand words is the maximum I can give.”
Liu Hongmin said calmly: "Fifty Hong Kong dollars for a thousand words is not impossible."
Just when Luo Baoming was happy, Liu Hongmin continued: "But I can only sign a three-part contract with you."
Luo Baoming asked in confusion: "Why is this?" Liu Hongmin: "If not If I am short of money, I will only sign for one.”
A few days ago, Zou Shifang brought news that there was a family in Shichahai who wanted to go abroad, so he wanted to pay two bills. Siheyuan is for sale at a price of 10,000 yuan. Liu Hongmin had more than 7,000 yuan in hand, still more than 10,000 yuan short. He sold the serialization rights of three novels, which was nearly 15,000 Hong Kong dollars, which was just enough for him to take over the courtyard house, which was a big house with three entrances.
Compared with Siheyuan, what is a little loss in royalties?
But Luo Baoming doesn’t know!
He was afraid that Liu Hongmin would regret it, so he quickly signed a three-part contract with him. That night, he was drunk again by Liu Hongmin and was sent back to the guest house unconscious.
The next day, he returned to Xiangjiang without stopping with three single volumes.
In the few days since he left, the situation in Xiangjiang has changed again. TVB is acting quickly and has already begun project preparations. As soon as the money is available, shooting will begin. TVB did not have the rights to adapt Shaobao, nor did it think about buying the rights to adapt it. Instead, it found a book called Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses, compiled the script according to the records above, and incorporated some exciting cases.
RTV was not to be outdone and directly contacted Mingpao. However, Mr. Jin Yong was afraid of affecting Luo Baoming, so he kept delaying it.
But when Mr. Jin Yong learned that Luo Baoming only brought back the contract for three movies, he was a little unhappy. I've been dragging it out for you for several days, without even being a friend, so you only signed three movies?
Faced with the boss’s accountability, Luo Baoming expressed his bitterness.
"Sir, you don't know! This Liu Hongmin is totally incompetent! He is sure that the popularity of Shaobao will be even higher, and he will not sign the serialization rights for all six movies. If If it weren’t for him being short of money, he might not even want to sign on for three films, and would only let us serialize one.”
Mr. Jin Yong said speechlessly: “Don’t you know how to increase his remuneration?”
< br>Luo Baoming was awkward on the spot, boss, didn’t you order fifty words per thousand words?
Maybe he also knew that he was in the wrong, so Mr. Jin Yong ignored the matter.
“Do you think Liu Hongmin was lying to us when he said that Shaobao’s serialization rights would be given to us?”
“Probably not!” Luo Baoming thought for a while, “You know he didn’t give it to us. We Mingbao serialized it, but his serialization rights may not be sold. Although our remuneration is a bit low, for mainland China, it is a huge sum of money. It’s enough for him to buy a few houses.”
Mr. Jin Yong nodded, thought for a moment and picked up the phone on his desk.
"General Manager Huang, weren't you looking for the author of Shaobao two days ago? My editor who was on a business trip just came back... Yes... he was the one who contacted Liu Hongmin, and he is the only one who knows Liu Hongmin's contact Way..."
Mr. Jin Yong hung up the phone, "RTV will send someone over in a while, and then you take them to the capital. RTV will be responsible for the business trip subsidy."
"Okay, sir!"
Luo Baoming forced out a smile, the boss is really stingy! He didn't want to give him a few hundred yuan of business trip subsidy. If RTV didn't give it to him, his trip would be in vain.
In this way, the hard-working Luo Baoming flew to the capital again with representatives of RTV.
(End of this chapter)