Chapter 798 Rejection, the price of gold has fallen
Hairtail wanted to persuade Sun Quan again, and told Sun Quan in a private message that the price was easy to negotiate, and that if he went to the new website, she could help him obtain other resources, such as film and television adaptations of his works, etc.
Sun Quan was unmoved and still declined.
In the past few years of cooperation with Hairtail, he has no objection to Hairtail and the cooperation has always been pleasant. He is responsible for writing the book, and Hairtail helped him get some good recommendations. The cooperation between the two parties is win-win.
He made money and gained greater fame.
And Hairtail... also got a promotion and a salary increase, and is now the editor-in-chief.
But a personal relationship is a personal relationship, and when it comes to the direction of career development, it is impossible for Sun Quan to follow her because of his personal relationship with her.
In other words, the personal relationship between them is not that good yet.
It's not that he doesn't believe in the treatment promised to him by Hairtail.
For example, high premium buyout prices, film and television adaptations of works, etc.
Sun Quan actually believed these.
At this time in the original time and space, he had heard some rumors.
For example, when those great masters followed the new website, they all received premiums higher than the market price. A few of them also received the new website's commitment to film and television adaptations of their works.
But are these... attractive to someone else?
Premium buyout royalties?
Even if he stays at Qidian, he will earn a lot of royalties, but what he values more is that if he stays at Qidian, his new book will be seen by more fans and readers, and it will expand the popularity of his new work, and this...
It will be very beneficial for him to adapt the new book into a TV series in the future.
In contrast, if he goes to a new website, even if he can get a premium buyout fee in a short period of time, he can earn more in terms of contribution fees.
But what about the popularity of the work?
Compared with the royalties, the popularity of the new work is what he values more!
Only if the popularity of the new work is high enough can the ratings after it be adapted into a TV series be guaranteed.
He has passed the stage of only earning royalties from his works. Now, his biggest profit from each new work is no longer the royalties, but the income after it is adapted into a TV series.
In addition to this reason, Hairtail has just promised him a film and television adaptation of his new work...
It is even less attractive to Sun Quan. He owns Xianyu Film and Television, which has been very prosperous in the past two years. He has successively produced "The Last Wish of the Dead" and "This Dad Is Not Ordinary", which are very popular and have good reputation.
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His own company can produce his new work, so why would he need someone else to help him connect the dots and adapt and produce his work?
The film and television adaptation rights of all the works under his name have been tightly held in his hands in recent years. Even if a company wants to buy it, he is unwilling to sell it!
Helping him sell something he doesn’t want to sell, and then saying it’s the benefits the new website gives him, how funny is that?
He also knew that in a few years, the editorial team that had left the starting point and accepted Tongxun's funds to create a new website would return to the starting point as Tongxun acquired the entire Shanda Literature with billions of dollars.
But Sun Quan still didn’t want to go to the new website at this time.
Because he believes that as long as his writing level does not decline, no matter who the Qidian editorial team changes to or how they change, he or she will always be the one the editorial team wants to win over.
Only people who want to speculate will want to hug the editor's lap.
As for his grandson—"Salted fish, my old grandson"—does anyone else need to embrace someone else's lap?
He remembered that in the original time and space, none of the five top gods, the most famous "Five Whites of the Central Plains" in the Internet literary circle, went to that new website.
Then...a few years later, the editorial team that created the new website came back, and they didn't put any shoes on those five top guys.
The promotional resources that should be given will still be given.
The great master who has not lost his strength is still very popular at the starting point.
Well, when the original time and space editing team left Qidian to create a new website, Shenji, one of the "Five Whites of the Central Plains", had already left Qidian.
But the other four are still there.
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In the days after Sun Quan refused to bring in the fish.
Several senior editors who have left Qidian have invited Sun Quan to the new website through QQ or in person.
All kinds of benefits are getting higher and higher every time, just like buying him five insurances and one housing fund and having a beautiful secretary.
Not to mention, they were so enthusiastic that Sun Quan was a little embarrassed when he refused.
But he still refused.
In order to no longer cope with the enthusiastic invitations from these people, Sun Quan simply turned off his mobile phone and stopped logging into QQ for many days.
He is very sensible. Rather than going to a new website to make more money, he wants to stay at the starting point and let his new work gain more readers.
Brother Qiang, CEO of Shanda Literature, has been promoting his "pan-entertainment" plan in the few years since he took office, proposing that every popular online article has an IP.
And the pan-entertainment he talked about is to develop the entire industry chain based on this IP.
Various works such as movies, TV series, comics, audio novels, etc.
Facts have proved that Brother Qiang’s slogans have been loud in recent years, but the actual results have been very few.
But his grandson has never shouted this slogan, but he has been quietly doing this kind of thing in the past few years.
His Xianyu Studio has accumulated the rights to film, television and game adaptations of dozens of popular online books.
His Salted Fish Film and Television has developed web series and TV series of two novels.
As for audio novels, comic adaptations, game adaptations, etc., they have also sold a lot in recent years.
Compared with the CEO Qiang Ge, Sun Quan’s personal funds are far less than the entire Shanda Literature and the Shanda Group behind Shanda Literature.
But he has an advantage that Brother Qiang cannot match.
That is, he knows which books will be popular, which books have produced successful games in the original time and space, and which books have been adapted into film and television dramas that have received high praise.
In this aspect, he completely beats Brother Qiang.
By the way, if nothing else, Sun Quan knew that with the exodus of Qidian’s editorial team and a large number of god-level authors, Brother Qiang’s tenure as CEO would soon come to an end.
In Sun Quan's impression, Brother Qiang may be a master in hyping up concepts and then conducting capital operations.
But when it comes to online writing, he... is really an outsider.
He has been painting a pie for the big boss behind him for several years - to make money by listing the entire Shanda Literature.
But now, his plan is probably just a step away from success, and he is about to succeed in going public.
But at this critical period, a large number of Qidian editors and god-level authors left, giving him a heavy blow.
With this stick, the plan to go public that he had been brewing for several years was ruined.
Sun Quan remembered the original time and space. Soon, the entire Shanda Literature would be acquired by Tongxun with huge sums of money, and Brother Qiang would be out of the game.
Well...the countdown is about two years away.
Recalling these events in the original time and space, Sun Quan also wondered whether he could take advantage of this opportunity to raise funds to acquire the entire Shanda Literature, and bring the entire Shanda Literature, including Qidian, under his own banner?
But he didn't think about it for long before he shook his head and gave up the idea.
Because he doesn't have that much money.
He remembered that in the original time and space, it seemed that Paixun had spent about 5 billion to acquire the entire Shanda Literature.
With so much money, he still has a long way to go in the past few years since someone was reborn.
Perhaps, if he thought of a way, he wouldn't be able to leverage such a large acquisition, but he still had no interest.
This industry is so tough!
The overall copyright environment is so bad. In the domestic film and television industry, there are too few film and television companies that can adapt web texts well!
The technology in film and television special effects is not mature enough, and the price of special effects production is still ridiculously expensive.
However, if you want to successfully adapt popular classic online stories from male videos, you often need a lot of special effects shots.
These...all restrict the implementation of the "pan-entertainment" plan for online articles.
In contrast, he would rather concentrate on running his own Xianyu Studio and Xianyu Film and Television.
The investment is small, the scale is small, the ship is small and easy to turn around, everything is under his control.
But if it acquires the entire Shanda Literature, it will be different.
From visual inspection, the entire Shanda Literature is also a very large company.
But in fact, what can really be controlled by the company is a library of works, some online copyrights accumulated over the years.
But the most valuable part - the author group, has only a cooperative relationship with the website, and can leave at any time.
To put it simply, the website’s control over the author is actually very weak.
The content industry has always valued talents and ignored assets.
Sun Quan has no interest in spending a lot of money to take over such a company.
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Sun Quan, who eliminated distracting thoughts, continued to prepare the outline of his new book with peace of mind.
At the same time, Dayu was also asked to prepare the script of his "Legend of the Household".
Sun Quan's promise to Dayu was that as long as the script of "Legend of the House Ding" could be written to his satisfaction, his Salted Fish Films would prepare to film "Legend of the House Ding" as the next step.
This was a promise Sun Quan had made when he asked Dayu to write the script for "This Nanny Is Unusual", and this time it was fulfilled.
Sun Quan is very clear about the quality of "Legend of the Housekeeper".
He also knows that there are many fans of this book, so he believes that as long as the drama is well filmed and has good popularity and reputation, it will be successful.
This is the first costume drama that he plans to let Xianyu Film and Television test the waters.
He was not willing to use his own works, such as "The Immortal Dragon Ring", to test the waters.
It just so happens that Dayu has been urging him to film "Legend of the Housekeeper", so what else is there to say? Just satisfy Dayu's wish!
From the beginning of its establishment, his Salted Fish Film and Television never thought of shooting modern urban dramas.
In the past two years, his Xianyu Film and Television has been filming stories with modern backgrounds - "The Last Wish of the Dead" and "This Dad Is Unusual".
It is also to get in touch with the creative team of Xianyu Film and Television and accumulate everyone’s experience in filming dramas.
Compared with online dramas or TV series with modern backgrounds, costume dramas are naturally more difficult.
It just so happened that director Wang Zheng had almost finished filming the third season of "The Last Wish", and Sun Quan planned to let Wang Zheng take over "The Housekeeper" after the post-production of "The Last Wish" was completed.
Let’s see if Wang Zheng can handle this costume-themed drama.
If you can control it, naturally it's best.
If not, it doesn't matter much. Isn't his grandson preparing a new book - another urban-themed work - a modern son-in-law novel!
Looking back, Wang Zheng can continue to film modern dramas.
As for director Gao Yigong who has already finished filming "This Dad Is Unusual"?
After all, Director Gao is a well-known director. He usually has no shortage of dramas. This time he collaborated with Xianyu Film and Television for "This Daddy is Unusual". He was just impressed by the script of this drama, so he collaborated once.
It would be unrealistic to expect that director Gao would be able to sign a contract with Xianyu Film and Television as his own director after just one collaboration.
Unless Sun Quanneng makes an offer that Director Gao cannot refuse.
Obviously, with the current size and qualifications of Xianyu Film and Television, Sun Quan cannot offer such conditions to impress Director Gao.
Although Sun Quan felt a little regretful about this, it was okay.
He is not in a hurry!
He is still young.
Xianyu Film and Television already had the success of "Dead Man's Last Wish" and "This Dad Is Unusual". In the future, if his company wants to invite well-known directors in the film and television industry to direct dramas, it will be much easier.
That's good.
You have to eat food one bite at a time, and you won't become fat if you eat one bite at a time.
He understands all these principles.
He can afford to wait.
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Time has entered April.
Sun Quan soon waited for the news of the sharp drop in gold prices.
When he was having dinner at home that night and listening to his wife Yuan Shuiqing talking about the news, Sun Quan's expression was a little strange.
He was not surprised, but his brows were slightly frowned.
He was not surprised, naturally because this incident was expected by him. The price of gold was indeed the same as in the original time and space. When it reached a peak, it suddenly plummeted, which was beyond the expectations of countless people.
And the reason why he frowned...
It's because the news came a little too fast.
After his rebirth, he actually could not remember the exact time when the gold price plummeted.
I only vaguely remember that it was either 2012 or 2013.
But this time it happened to be like this. At the end of last month, he had just sold out all the paper gold in his hands and his wife's hands. At the beginning of this month, the gold price actually plummeted.
It makes him look like an investment genius.
Actually, is he?
He knows very well in his heart that he is not!
But at this time, he could see from the eyes of his wife Yuan Shuiqing, Han Li and others that they admired him. They seemed to regard him as a master in the investment world.
This is really a beautiful misunderstanding.
That night, Sun Quan walked into his study, turned on his computer, thought for a moment, logged on to QQ, and ignored the private messages sent to him by the senior editors who had left Qidian in the past few days. Sun Quan frowned and opened his book fans one by one.
Group, like a screen-peeping dog, checks the chat records in these groups one by one.
Sure enough, it was as he expected.
In these groups, some people are talking about the sudden plunge in gold prices today.
Then they all mentioned his grandson in passing.
He mentioned that at the end of last month, he reminded everyone in the group that if you have gold investment, it is best to sell it quickly.
Someone thanked him in the group and even sent him an exclusive red envelope!
The most generous one among them had a thousand yuan in the exclusive red envelope sent to him.
Some families are happy and some are sad. This has been the case since ancient times.
No, some people thanked him in the group for reminding him, while others regretted it and expressed their regret in the group. They regretted not listening to Sun Quan's advice before and never selling the gold they invested in. Now that the price of gold has plummeted, it is considered a good thing.
Smashed it in my hand.
It's quite pitiful to see these people speaking in annoyance.
Sun Quan sighed. At this point, there was nothing he could do.
I can only give you a simple word of comfort. Everyone has to taste the real bitter fruit for themselves.