"I still think that film and television copyrights for things like online novels are useless. If online novels can be adapted into TV series or movies, then there will be so many online novels on the Internet that there will be no shortage of things to make TV series or movies in the future.
Resources." Li He shook his head.
"Prejudice, your prejudice is too deep. When Jin Yong and others first started writing martial arts novels, wasn't it true that no one was interested in adapting them into TV series? But now, look at how popular the film and television rights of Jin Yong and others' martial arts novels are.
"Zhang Yuxuan said with a smile.
"Since you are optimistic about online novels, why did you buy the film and television rights of these online novels? Why don't you grab the copyrights of all online novels?" Li He still didn't believe Zhang Yuxuan's words. She always felt that
, things like online novels are still not popular.
But in 2009, it was normal. In the eyes of most people, the online novels in 2009 were not popular. However, as time went by, after the royalties of the platinum masters of online novels were exposed, this
Only then gradually did some people's prejudices against online novels begin to change. Later, online novels began to be frequently adapted into TV series, and most of the public's prejudice against online novels was eliminated.
"Caught it all in your hands?" Zhang Yuxuan was stunned for a moment, and his expression couldn't help but be a little subtle.
"What? Looking at you like this, do you really want to own the copyright of all online novels?" Li He suddenly saw the change in Zhang Yuxuan's expression and couldn't help but asked in shock.
"No, it's not possible! Sister Hed, go and ask if the original Chinese website is for sale. Oh, by the way, there is also Jincheng Literature City." Zhang Yuxuan said to Li Hed with bright eyes.
Zhang Yuxuan himself likes to read novels, and he always reads them at Yuanyuan. However, he also knows that the better website for selling novel copyrights is Jincheng Literature City, so Zhang Yuxuan wants to win over these two websites.
"Yuxuan, are you okay? You want to acquire two novel websites?"
"Of course I'm not sick. These two novel websites are very good resources for us. Our studio will make movies or TV series in the future, so we can't always let me write scripts and think about stories by myself, right? Even if I don't have the inspiration now
If you are exhausted, you can still write, but there will always be a day when your inspiration runs out. And there are countless excellent novels on these two novel websites. Even if 99% of the novels on them are not useful, the rest
One percent is definitely a very huge resource. The resources of the novel website, coupled with the fact that our studio shoots the novel into a movie and then releases it in our own movie theaters, this is almost a perfect industrial chain." Yuxuan Zhang
Said very seriously.
After hearing what Zhang Yuxuan said, Li He felt that it seemed to make some sense, so Li He began to try to contact Yuan Yuan and Jincheng to see if they could acquire these two websites.
As for Leslie Cheung, he sat in front of the computer, opened the original website, and started reading the novel.
While reading, Zhang Yuxuan muttered: "To read novels now, you have to read them on a computer. You can't read them on a mobile phone. It's really inconvenient. After acquiring the website, I will arrange for people to develop an APP. In the future, I will read it on the mobile phone."
Go directly to the novel.”
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"Yuxuan, don't even think about the novel website." Li He shook his head after coming back.
"Ah?" Zhang Yuxuan was a little surprised.
"They won't sell it!" Li He said with a shrug.
"Not for sale?"
"Yes, they are very optimistic about the online novel industry, so they don't sell novel websites."
Zhang Yuxuan frowned. He did not expect that the other party did not sell the website, which would be a bit troublesome.
"But even though we didn't reach an agreement on the sale of the novel website, I directly bought the copyrights of the novels you mentioned." Li He said with a smile.
"That's right, that's okay." Zhang Yuxuan couldn't help but nodded when he heard what Li Hao said.
The online novel is so big, but after all, what is really valuable is actually not that much.
A website has ten or twenty novels of good quality that are suitable for adaptation into TV series or movies, so it is already good to buy the copyrights of these novels.
However, although the copyrights of those valuable novels have been purchased, in the future, there will also be a steady stream of excellent works. When the IP value of the novels becomes high, if you want to buy it, it will not be at the current price.
, and at that time there was a lot of competition in all aspects, so you might not be able to grab it.
"Speaking of which, I didn't expect that an online novel website could be so valuable." Li Hed sighed.
"Huh? Why do you say that suddenly?" Zhang Yuxuan asked curiously.
"Do you know how much it costs? How much do they estimate for the two websites you mentioned?" Li He couldn't help but ask.
"What's the estimated price?" Zhang Yuxuan was a little curious.
"Three billion, three billion! Just two websites are valued at three billion. And the other party also has other websites in their hands. All of them, added up, are worth at least four billion!" Li He sighed.
"Three billion, four billion?" Henry Zhang couldn't help but twitch his eyes when he heard the price.
Yuxuan Zhang comes from a later generation and knows that online novels are often very big. But three billion, four billion, 09 years. This is not a small number.
But if you think about it carefully, this price seems normal.
Zhang Yuxuan vaguely remembers that in 2012, the ownership of the website changed, and the value seemed to be around 5 billion.
But when he thought that the value was so great, Zhang Yuxuan couldn't help but want to get involved, as long as Zhang Yuxuan liked reading novels.
"Three billion to four billion, this kind of price doesn't seem to be impossible." Zhang Yuxuan couldn't help but muttered.
"...The key is that at this price, they won't sell it! They are very optimistic about this market and feel that it is more likely to appreciate in value in the future, so they won't sell it!" Li He said, shaking his head.
"Um, how about you go and ask if I can become a shareholder?" Zhang Yuxuan thought for a while and said.
"...You really want to lend a hand." Li He couldn't help but say.
"Mainly because I prefer novels, and I also feel that online novels are often very popular," said Zhang Yuxuan.
"Okay, I'll ask again." Li He shook his head helplessly.
Finally, after Li He came back, he brought news that the other party could accept Zhang Yuxuan's shareholding. Zhang Yuxuan could invest 500 million yuan and hold 11% of the shares of the website.
The price is a bit exaggerated to be honest.
But Zhang Yuxuan thought about it and decided to be more modest. Who made Yuxuan Zhang really optimistic about online novels? He simply invested 500 million in exchange for 11% of the shares.
"Five hundred million, this is 500 million, you just put it in. Alas!" Li He shook her head. She always felt that 500 million in exchange for 11% of the website's shares was not worth it, even though it was owned by several companies.
I have a lot of shares in the online novel website as a whole, but I still feel it’s not worth it.
In Li He's opinion, it is enough to just buy the film and television rights of whichever novel you like.
How much is the film and television copyright of an online novel worth?
Just like the film and television rights of the dozens of novels that Li He bought before, the price was very cheap, ranging from 100,000 to 1 million. The highest price was only 1 million.
Five hundred million, this is enough to buy the film and television rights of many novels.
Li He obviously still doesn't realize how far online novels will eventually develop, nor does he understand how many times the film and television copyrights of online novels will expand in the future.
"It's only 500 million, which is not much. At most, this money can only build a movie plaza in a second-tier city." Zhang Yuxuan said with a smile.
"Fifty million is not much? That's all you can say." Li He shook his head.
Of course, Li He also knows that Zhang Yuxuan's net worth is only 500 million, which is really nothing to Zhang Yuxuan.
I don't even have any impression of the plan to build a movie plaza.
On the one hand, 500 million is really not much for Zhang Yuxuan. On the other hand, it is also because banks are very willing to lend money to companies like Zhang Yuxuan, and they are even afraid that you will not lend money. After all, compared to Internet companies,
This kind of virtual product, the real economy like real estate, has higher value and lower risk.
Of course, the acquisition of shares of an online novel website with a huge sum of 500 million was also a very big thing in 2009, and it could even be said to be a very sensational thing. After all, 500 million, in 2009, was really a huge deal.
Very big business.
So much so that for a period of time before and after the acquisition of shares in the online novel website, the Internet was filled with countless news about this, not only on the Internet, but also in the real media, and even involved the entertainment industry.
Because the person who came forward to acquire shares in online novels was Li Hedong!
The outside world may not know who Li Hendian is, and who in the entertainment circle doesn't know that Li Hedlock is Yuxuan Zhang's agent, and now he has become the head of Yuxuan Zhang's studio.
It can be said that Li Hedong completely represents Zhang Yuxuan himself.
Therefore, Li He's intervention to acquire shares in online novels almost represents the shares acquired by Zhang Yuxuan in online novels.
Some people who don't know Zhang Yuxuan's true net worth are particularly curious about how Zhang Yuxuan was able to spend 500 million to acquire shares in an online novel website.
After all, this is 500 million!
Even if Zhang Yuxuan's current salary is the highest paid among mainland movie stars, the salary for one movie is 15 million. Then Zhang Yuxuan would have to make dozens of movies to get so much money, let alone as a star.
, the tax paid is as high as 45%.
In other words, if Zhang Yuxuan makes ten movies with a salary of 15 million, he can get a salary of 150 million. However, out of this 150 million yuan, Zhang Yuxuan must pay at least 6750 million.
Ten thousand personal tax.
500 million, Yuxuan Zhang has to make at least 60 movies to get it.
Therefore, many people think that it is impossible for Leslie Cheung to be so rich. How did he come up with 500 million?
Of course, if calculated carefully, the TV series and movies produced by Yuxuan Zhang since his debut, plus advertising and endorsement fees, etc., add up to more than 500 million in fact.
So, on the Internet, many people began to discuss how much money celebrities can make. Many people even think that celebrities can make so much money. They can earn 15 million for a movie.
One million, in 2009, how many years of work does it take to earn this kind of money?
However, although Yuxuan Zhang's salary is very high, compared with international stars, these salaries are actually not much. Thanks to Hollywood superstars, Kung Fu Dragon Jet Li and others, their salary can easily reach hundreds of millions, even for stars in Hong Kong, easily
Even if you are loose, you can earn tens of millions. Yuxuan Zhang's salary is considered small among Hong Kong stars.
Therefore, although some people have discussed and even called for limiting the remuneration of celebrities, radio and television have almost ignored it.
After all, the salaries of today's stars are really not so high as to be unreasonable.
In today's TV series or movies, the proportion of stars' remuneration is not that high.
However, when many people began to discuss Zhang Yuxuan's high salary, or discuss how much money Yuxuan Zhang had and why it was 500 million, at this time, someone reported Zhang Yuxuan and reported tax evasion.
So, the tax bureau came to visit.
"Someone reported me for tax evasion?" Zhang Yuxuan looked at the comrades from the tax bureau with a stunned expression.
"Yes, so please cooperate with Mr. Zhang." The comrade from the tax bureau looked at Zhang Yuxuan seriously.
"Okay, cooperating with the tax bureau is your duty as a citizen." Zhang Yuxuan nodded and directly placed his income and taxes in front of his comrades from the tax bureau.
Then, the comrades from the tax bureau began to investigate.
Just the income of Yuxuan Zhang as a star made the comrades in the tax bureau lament that celebrities can really make money.
It's just that when the taxes of Yuxuan Zhang's real estate company and film investment company were revealed, the comrades in the tax bureau didn't know what to say at all.
And now, they also understand why Zhang Yuxuan was able to spend three billion at once to acquire Monkey Literature.
"Mr. Zhang's tax record is clear, and there is no tax evasion or evasion whatsoever." The comrades from the tax bureau made such a conclusion to Zhang Yuxuan when they left.
Subsequently, the official website of the tax bureau issued a statement stating that Zhang Yuxuan had not evaded taxes.
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"Did you see? Our family, Ah Xuan, has no problem at all. There is no tax evasion!"
"Yes, our Ah Xuan will not do such illegal things as tax evasion."
"There's no problem with Jacky Cheung's taxes? He didn't evade taxes? Then where did he get the money to buy an online novel website? That's 500 million!"
"Why can't our Ah Xuan have 500 million?"
"Brother Xuan is the best."
"Do all celebrities make money like this? It seems that it has been less than ten years since Zhang Yuxuan debuted, but he can earn 500 million in ten years? It feels so unreal."
"Yes, a star like Leslie Cheung has to pay 45% tax. How can he still get 500 million under such circumstances? Leslie Cheung didn't evade taxes. Why don't I believe it?"
"If you don't believe it, the tax bureau has issued a statement."
"I just feel strange, how did he get those 500 million?"
"Could it be that he was kept by a rich woman?"
"You have just been adopted. Your whole family has been adopted. How could our brother Xuan be adopted?"
"Fuck, 500 million! It's not 50,000 or 500,000. Which rich woman can afford this price?"
"Did we make a mistake? In fact, it was not Zhang Yuxuan who purchased the novel website, but someone else?"
"It's possible."
"But isn't Li Hedong's agent Zhang Yuxuan?"
"It's true that Li He is Zhang Yuxuan's agent, but that doesn't mean she came forward to sign the contract. The person behind the money is Zhang Yuxuan."
"I don't care about other situations, I just care about who owns those 500 million? And online novel websites, just a few broken online novel websites, how can they be so valuable?"
"A 'broken' online novel website worth 500 million? Hahaha."
"It's worth 500 million and it's still broken? Anyone who can say this is really rich."
"You are wrong. Five hundred million is just an 11% share. A complete online novel website is worth more than four billion."
"What? More than four billion? Internet novel websites, just a few websites, are worth more than four billion?"
"Why do I feel that this is fake news? Is it nonsense that online novel websites are telling in order to increase their own value?"
"This is not nonsense, it is really worth so much money."
"I still think it's unreliable. This is just a website. How much does it cost?"
"You don't understand anything upstairs, it's just a website?"
There are various discussions about Zhang Yuxuan on the Internet, and some are fans of Zhang Yuxuan, unequivocally supporting Zhang Yuxuan. It is really lively.
…
During the discussion about Zhang Yuxuan on the Internet, Fan Xiaobing, Li Bingbing, Zhou Xun, Gao Yuanyuan, Wang Jinghua and other people who had a good relationship with Zhang Yuxuan began to care about Zhang Yuxuan's situation. Some called, and some
Come directly to the door.
Regardless of whether they are distant or close, anyone who has a slight relationship will come together to care about Zhang Yuxuan.
After all, Zhang Yuxuan is so famous now, and everyone wants to get closer to Zhang Yuxuan. This is always right.
As for Leslie Cheung, he now has other plans.
"So, you want to build a novel website?" Li He looked at Zhang Yuxuan speechlessly.
"Yes!" Zhang Yuxuan nodded.
"You have already bought shares in several novel websites, and you still want to build a novel website?"
"Even if I have shares, I don't have much say. I still want to build a novel website that is 100% my own. It doesn't cost much to build a novel website anyway." Zhang Yuxuan said with a smile.
"...It's up to you." Li He was too lazy to say anything.
But Li Hed was too lazy to say anything, but he still had to trouble Li Hed to establish the novel website.
Therefore, under Li He’s management, a novel website called ‘Great Sage Literature’ was established.
The office of this novel website is right next to Yuxuan Zhang's studio.
After all, there is a whole floor, and there is a lot of free space next to it, which can fully accommodate the next 'Great Sage Literature' novel website.
As for the novel website, Li He was responsible for website suggestions and network management, as well as the editorial department, etc.
Although Li He thinks that Zhang Yuxuan is completely out of business.
But when establishing Monkey Literature, she still put a lot of effort into poaching a lot of screenwriters from other novel websites, and even offered other benefits to attract authors to join.
At the same time, Li He also linked the novel website with Zhang Yuxuan himself, which will be more helpful for the promotion of the Great Sage literary novel website.