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Chapter 286 Chapter 286 Huge Wealth and Recording
Chapter 286. 286. Huge Wealth and Record Recording
The two pieces of jewelry were sold for a total of 18 million Mg. After deducting the commission of 280 US dollars, there was still [-] million Mg.
Fu Lianhong has been working in the jewelry industry for many years and has rich experience in how to avoid taxes reasonably. With his help, Yue Wenxuan only paid about [-] yuan in taxes for the money he earned.
After deducting taxes, Yue Wenxuan still has about 270 million yuan left.
With a huge amount of first pot of gold, Yue Wenxuan believes that if he needs it, he can achieve a rapid increase in wealth in a short period of time.
In order to facilitate the rapid accumulation of wealth in this life, Yue Wenxuan did a lot of preparatory work in the previous life.
Including detailed financial information of each period, undiscovered treasure locations around the world, etc.
Even with the red warning restrictions, he can't do anything arbitrarily, but if he wants to become a rich man in a short time, it's not difficult.
The volume of the golden space is already large enough. In this life, he no longer has the urgency to expand the golden space. For making money, let everything take its course.
The main purpose of his visit to Hong Kong Island this time is to negotiate with Universal Music. After the contract is negotiated, he will record his first record immediately.
This is his most important job for a period of time in the future. If he can make more money during this period, that would be even better.
With everything he has now, it is not difficult to gather wealth, but he will not devote all his energy to earning wealth.
For the time being, he will not consider plans to gather wealth that require a long-term layout to be profitable.
But if there is an opportunity to make quick money, he certainly won't let it go.
The system mall just provided him with such an opportunity.
A rich man on Hong Kong Island was personally threatened abroad, and eager to raise a sum of money to save his life, he was willing to sell some fixed assets and some stocks at a very low price.
This is just an idea in his mind. In reality, time is too tight to operate.
The system mall has captured his desire to trade, and as long as Yue Wenxuan places an order, the transaction can also be completed.
This person sold part of the fixed assets and four stocks, the most valuable of which was the stock of Fenghui Bank.
This part of Fenghui Bank's stock is worth about US$160 million based on today's stock price.
And this part of the stock belongs to a single product in the system mall, that is to say, Yue Wenxuan only needs to use one opportunity to place an order to buy this part of the stock.
And for this part of Fenghui Bank's stock, the other party's psychological price is only 200 million US dollars!
As long as Yue Wenxuan places an order to buy it, he can earn nearly five times the profit by reselling it.
Even if Yue Wenxuan owns the system mall, such good opportunities to make money are rare.
What moved Yue Wenxuan the most was: because of the huge size of Fenghui Bank, after buying this part of the stock, it can be realized in the stock market immediately.
If he used up an opportunity to place an order in the system mall, he could earn nearly 1000 million dollars more in just a few days.Of course he would not miss such a good opportunity.
Click to place an order in the system mall to confirm the purchase of this part of Fenghui Bank's stock, and the account Yue Wenxuan just opened has lost 200 million yuan.
At the same time, there are more proofs of ownership of this part of the stock in the system space.
It took Yue Wenxuan four days to sell all the stocks.
At this time, his bank account deposit has reached 89 million US dollars!
In the 70s, whether it was for the domestic people or the people of Hong Kong Island, this was a huge fortune.
With such a large amount of cash, of course Yue Wenxuan would not put it in the bank to earn interest.
During his stay on Hong Kong Island, he planned to acquire a suitable investment company and use the money mainly for long-term investment.
There is no rush to do this right now. His top priority now is to quickly form a suitable negotiating team and negotiate the record signing as soon as possible.
Before he has the funds, he may have to work hard to form a suitable negotiating team, but with this money, it will be much easier to do it again.
He is now a VIP client of Fenghui Bank and enjoys many privileges. As long as he makes this request, with Fenghui Bank's huge influence in Hong Kong Island, it is very simple to form a suitable negotiation team for him.
But in three days, after getting his approval, his negotiating team was formally formed.
There are six members of the negotiating team plus him, including lawyers and veterans in the recording industry.
I called Fujita Yoichi and made an appointment to meet.
The next morning, Yue Wenxuan brought the negotiating team members to Universal Music's office building again.
Walking into the meeting room, after the two sides introduced each other, although Yoichi Fujita was calm on the surface, he was shocked in his heart.
He never expected that Yue Wenxuan, a singer from the mainland, actually formed a professional negotiating team, and each team member was an elite in the industry, even he dared not ignore it.
The combination of such a few people can be called luxurious.
As the president of Universal Music Asia, he has signed contracts with many big-name artists, but even the most famous artists do not have such a luxurious negotiating team to escort them.
This singer from the mainland has really broken his cognition repeatedly. From now on, he has to show the most correct attitude to treat this negotiation carefully.
All the previous thoughts of taking advantage of him were left behind by him.
Such a professional negotiating team was negotiating only Yue Wenxuan's personal record contract, which was a bit too extravagant.
As soon as the negotiation started, someone on Yue Wenxuan's side publicly stated that several other major record companies had also contacted Yue Wenxuan during this period, and offered very loose conditions.
If there are too many differences in today's negotiations, then starting tomorrow, Yue Wenxuan will formally contact other record companies.
Fujita Yang had already corrected his negotiating attitude. After hearing the news, he immediately decided to make a quick decision. As long as Yue Wenxuan's request is not too excessive, he will sign the contract today.
With the joint efforts of everyone, Universal Music backed down again and again, but within half a day, the two sides had a result.
Yue Wenxuan is not short of money, he will not sign a financial contract with Universal Music to restrict his work and life, and in the end he only signed a record contract.
The contract is for three years. Within three years, Yue Wenxuan will cooperate with Universal Music to record a total of three albums.
The copyright of the songs created by Yue Wenxuan belongs to Yue Wenxuan himself.
The signing fee has also risen from $50 to $[-].
Even Yue Wenxuan didn't know much about other details, or didn't think of them, but these professionals would not let go of any details, and fought hard for each one, striving for the best for Yue Wenxuan in all aspects. rights and interests.
Yue Wenxuan was very satisfied with the final negotiation result.
The total service fee Yue Wenxuan paid to Fenghui Bank was only US$[-], and Universal Music's concession on the signing fee was more than enough.
His request was indeed very demanding. Originally, he had already planned to give up the signing fee. As a result, under the premise of fulfilling his wish, the signing fee was increased by 40 mg.
In the entire negotiation process, the most time-consuming part is the proportion of record sales.
In the end, the two parties worked out a step-wise sharing ratio, that is to say, the more records sold, the higher the sharing ratio Yue Wenxuan could get.
Yue Wenxuan has confidence in his own soul sound, so he is naturally more confident in the sales of records.
In order to get a higher share ratio, he did not hesitate to give up the share of sales of less than one million copies.
For this reason, he personally took a huge risk. As a compensation, the subsequent sharing ratio was increased in the contract.
The contract was very detailed. After the negotiation in the morning, it took another afternoon to review and sign the contract.
After the two parties signed the contract, Yoichi Fujita said to Yue Wenxuan with emotion: "I regret signing this contract now, for Universal Music, the price we paid is too high.
If the first record we collaborated with doesn't sell well, maybe I have to change jobs. "
Of course, Yue Wenxuan would not believe his nonsense, "On the contrary, I have great confidence in the cooperation between the two parties.
When the first album he recorded sells well all over the world, I also think that Mr. Fujita may change his job, but it must be a promotion. "
Yoichi Fujita laughed loudly, "Then I will lend you a good word. I wish our first record of cooperation will be a hit!"
The signing of the contract was just the beginning of the work. On the second day, Yue Wenxuan came to Universal Music again, and the first task was to determine the track of this record.
Yoichi Fujita said: "Mr. Wenxuan, through our market research, the song "Spring in the North Country" composed and sung by you is very popular in our island country.
This song is definitely a sharp weapon for the first record. In order to fully explore the value of this song, I suggest you release a Japanese version of this song.
Regarding the lyrics of the Japanese version, we at Universal Music will definitely find a master lyricist in the Japanese music scene to create, and we will definitely not insult the songs you made.
The Japanese music scene will be the largest distribution market for our record. If we can add a Japanese song, it will definitely be of great help to the sales of this record.
Therefore, I hope that Mr. Wenxuan can seriously consider my suggestion. "
After Fujita Yoichi said these words, he felt very aggrieved.
When the contract was signed, if he could win the copyright of the song composed by Yue Wenxuan, he would not need to ask Yue Wenxuan for his opinion.
Unable to win the copyright, the adaptation of the song must obtain Yue Wenxuan's consent before proceeding.
In case Yue Wenxuan's temper was a bit weird and he disagreed with this suggestion, then he had no choice but to watch a large amount of money flow away.
Yue Wenxuan pretended to be thinking, and said after a while:
"Universal Music is a world-class company, I believe in the professionalism of the survey results, since you think it is necessary, then I have no objection.
However, it is not necessary to find a lyricist from the Japanese music scene to write the lyrics. You give me a day, and I will come up with a version of the Japanese lyrics first. You can listen to it first. "
Fujita Yoichi's face was not very good-looking, a native Chinese actually wanted to write the Japanese version of the lyrics, he didn't know what to say.
Of course Yue Wenxuan was aware of Yoichi Fujita's state of mind at this time, but he didn't intend to explain further, he just said in Japanese:
"I know Japanese and have read many original novels in Japanese. It should be no problem to adapt the lyrics of a Japanese version."
Fujita Yoichi never expected that Yue Wenxuan's Japanese was so standard and fluent, and he had a pure Tokyo accent.
He said in surprise: "It turns out that Mr. Wenxuan still understands Japanese, so why have you never spoken in Japanese before?"
"In the past two years, our domestic situation was relatively sensitive, and you should know the situation in this regard.
One thing more is worse than one thing less. I don't need to show my talent in foreign languages, so naturally I don't know how to speak them. "
Yue Wenxuan simply explained.
Yue Wenxuan's Japanese is so standard and fluent, it can be regarded as giving Fujita Yoichi some confidence.
He was going to make a decision after reading the Japanese version of the lyrics written by Yue Wenxuan. Before that, no matter what he said was meaningless, Yue Wenxuan would definitely not listen.
He went on to say: "About your first record, my opinion is ten songs.
The Chinese version and the Japanese version of "Northern Spring" are two songs, and we still have to choose eight songs. I want to hear your opinions first. "
Yue Wenxuan had already considered the tracks for the first album, and he said without thinking:
"I already had plans for the ten songs on the first record.
In addition to the Chinese and Japanese versions of "Spring in the North Country", I am also planning to add: "Jasmine Flower", "Praise of Red Plum", "I Love You, Snow in Saibei", "Little River Flowing Water", "Usuli Boat Song" "," Alslen's Eyes ".
In addition, I have also prepared two original songs that have not yet been published. I will submit the lyrics and music to you later, and you can review them. "
As a loyal fan of Yue Wenxuan, Yoichi Fujita has heard most of the songs mentioned by Yue Wenxuan, but this is the first time he heard the song "Alslen's Eyes".
He asked curiously: "I don't think I've ever heard the song "Arslen's Eyes" sung by Mr. Wenxuan. You put this song on your first record. It should be very nice, right?"
Yue Wenxuan said: "The lyricist of this song is Ke Bing, who just published the lyrics in a song magazine last year. I think the lyrics are very good, so I specially composed the song. It hasn't been sung to the public yet, so of course you haven't heard of it. "
The lyrics of this song were published last year, and it will be a few years before the songwriter Na Risong will compose music for this song.
Yue Wenxuan personally liked this song very much, so he carried it out in advance.
"It turned out to be a song composed by Mr. Wenxuan Xinjin, so I'm even more interested in it, and I can't wait to hear it soon."
"If Mr. Fujita is interested, I can record this song first."
Which song to record first is the same for Yue Wenxuan. Yoichi Fujita made a big concession when signing the contract. On the surface, he is his loyal fan. Yue Wenxuan doesn't mind giving him a little bonus.
Because Yue Wenxuan still wanted to create the Japanese version of "Northern Spring", he didn't have time to record today. After confirming the track for the first album, he said goodbye and went back.
(End of this chapter)
The two pieces of jewelry were sold for a total of 18 million Mg. After deducting the commission of 280 US dollars, there was still [-] million Mg.
Fu Lianhong has been working in the jewelry industry for many years and has rich experience in how to avoid taxes reasonably. With his help, Yue Wenxuan only paid about [-] yuan in taxes for the money he earned.
After deducting taxes, Yue Wenxuan still has about 270 million yuan left.
With a huge amount of first pot of gold, Yue Wenxuan believes that if he needs it, he can achieve a rapid increase in wealth in a short period of time.
In order to facilitate the rapid accumulation of wealth in this life, Yue Wenxuan did a lot of preparatory work in the previous life.
Including detailed financial information of each period, undiscovered treasure locations around the world, etc.
Even with the red warning restrictions, he can't do anything arbitrarily, but if he wants to become a rich man in a short time, it's not difficult.
The volume of the golden space is already large enough. In this life, he no longer has the urgency to expand the golden space. For making money, let everything take its course.
The main purpose of his visit to Hong Kong Island this time is to negotiate with Universal Music. After the contract is negotiated, he will record his first record immediately.
This is his most important job for a period of time in the future. If he can make more money during this period, that would be even better.
With everything he has now, it is not difficult to gather wealth, but he will not devote all his energy to earning wealth.
For the time being, he will not consider plans to gather wealth that require a long-term layout to be profitable.
But if there is an opportunity to make quick money, he certainly won't let it go.
The system mall just provided him with such an opportunity.
A rich man on Hong Kong Island was personally threatened abroad, and eager to raise a sum of money to save his life, he was willing to sell some fixed assets and some stocks at a very low price.
This is just an idea in his mind. In reality, time is too tight to operate.
The system mall has captured his desire to trade, and as long as Yue Wenxuan places an order, the transaction can also be completed.
This person sold part of the fixed assets and four stocks, the most valuable of which was the stock of Fenghui Bank.
This part of Fenghui Bank's stock is worth about US$160 million based on today's stock price.
And this part of the stock belongs to a single product in the system mall, that is to say, Yue Wenxuan only needs to use one opportunity to place an order to buy this part of the stock.
And for this part of Fenghui Bank's stock, the other party's psychological price is only 200 million US dollars!
As long as Yue Wenxuan places an order to buy it, he can earn nearly five times the profit by reselling it.
Even if Yue Wenxuan owns the system mall, such good opportunities to make money are rare.
What moved Yue Wenxuan the most was: because of the huge size of Fenghui Bank, after buying this part of the stock, it can be realized in the stock market immediately.
If he used up an opportunity to place an order in the system mall, he could earn nearly 1000 million dollars more in just a few days.Of course he would not miss such a good opportunity.
Click to place an order in the system mall to confirm the purchase of this part of Fenghui Bank's stock, and the account Yue Wenxuan just opened has lost 200 million yuan.
At the same time, there are more proofs of ownership of this part of the stock in the system space.
It took Yue Wenxuan four days to sell all the stocks.
At this time, his bank account deposit has reached 89 million US dollars!
In the 70s, whether it was for the domestic people or the people of Hong Kong Island, this was a huge fortune.
With such a large amount of cash, of course Yue Wenxuan would not put it in the bank to earn interest.
During his stay on Hong Kong Island, he planned to acquire a suitable investment company and use the money mainly for long-term investment.
There is no rush to do this right now. His top priority now is to quickly form a suitable negotiating team and negotiate the record signing as soon as possible.
Before he has the funds, he may have to work hard to form a suitable negotiating team, but with this money, it will be much easier to do it again.
He is now a VIP client of Fenghui Bank and enjoys many privileges. As long as he makes this request, with Fenghui Bank's huge influence in Hong Kong Island, it is very simple to form a suitable negotiation team for him.
But in three days, after getting his approval, his negotiating team was formally formed.
There are six members of the negotiating team plus him, including lawyers and veterans in the recording industry.
I called Fujita Yoichi and made an appointment to meet.
The next morning, Yue Wenxuan brought the negotiating team members to Universal Music's office building again.
Walking into the meeting room, after the two sides introduced each other, although Yoichi Fujita was calm on the surface, he was shocked in his heart.
He never expected that Yue Wenxuan, a singer from the mainland, actually formed a professional negotiating team, and each team member was an elite in the industry, even he dared not ignore it.
The combination of such a few people can be called luxurious.
As the president of Universal Music Asia, he has signed contracts with many big-name artists, but even the most famous artists do not have such a luxurious negotiating team to escort them.
This singer from the mainland has really broken his cognition repeatedly. From now on, he has to show the most correct attitude to treat this negotiation carefully.
All the previous thoughts of taking advantage of him were left behind by him.
Such a professional negotiating team was negotiating only Yue Wenxuan's personal record contract, which was a bit too extravagant.
As soon as the negotiation started, someone on Yue Wenxuan's side publicly stated that several other major record companies had also contacted Yue Wenxuan during this period, and offered very loose conditions.
If there are too many differences in today's negotiations, then starting tomorrow, Yue Wenxuan will formally contact other record companies.
Fujita Yang had already corrected his negotiating attitude. After hearing the news, he immediately decided to make a quick decision. As long as Yue Wenxuan's request is not too excessive, he will sign the contract today.
With the joint efforts of everyone, Universal Music backed down again and again, but within half a day, the two sides had a result.
Yue Wenxuan is not short of money, he will not sign a financial contract with Universal Music to restrict his work and life, and in the end he only signed a record contract.
The contract is for three years. Within three years, Yue Wenxuan will cooperate with Universal Music to record a total of three albums.
The copyright of the songs created by Yue Wenxuan belongs to Yue Wenxuan himself.
The signing fee has also risen from $50 to $[-].
Even Yue Wenxuan didn't know much about other details, or didn't think of them, but these professionals would not let go of any details, and fought hard for each one, striving for the best for Yue Wenxuan in all aspects. rights and interests.
Yue Wenxuan was very satisfied with the final negotiation result.
The total service fee Yue Wenxuan paid to Fenghui Bank was only US$[-], and Universal Music's concession on the signing fee was more than enough.
His request was indeed very demanding. Originally, he had already planned to give up the signing fee. As a result, under the premise of fulfilling his wish, the signing fee was increased by 40 mg.
In the entire negotiation process, the most time-consuming part is the proportion of record sales.
In the end, the two parties worked out a step-wise sharing ratio, that is to say, the more records sold, the higher the sharing ratio Yue Wenxuan could get.
Yue Wenxuan has confidence in his own soul sound, so he is naturally more confident in the sales of records.
In order to get a higher share ratio, he did not hesitate to give up the share of sales of less than one million copies.
For this reason, he personally took a huge risk. As a compensation, the subsequent sharing ratio was increased in the contract.
The contract was very detailed. After the negotiation in the morning, it took another afternoon to review and sign the contract.
After the two parties signed the contract, Yoichi Fujita said to Yue Wenxuan with emotion: "I regret signing this contract now, for Universal Music, the price we paid is too high.
If the first record we collaborated with doesn't sell well, maybe I have to change jobs. "
Of course, Yue Wenxuan would not believe his nonsense, "On the contrary, I have great confidence in the cooperation between the two parties.
When the first album he recorded sells well all over the world, I also think that Mr. Fujita may change his job, but it must be a promotion. "
Yoichi Fujita laughed loudly, "Then I will lend you a good word. I wish our first record of cooperation will be a hit!"
The signing of the contract was just the beginning of the work. On the second day, Yue Wenxuan came to Universal Music again, and the first task was to determine the track of this record.
Yoichi Fujita said: "Mr. Wenxuan, through our market research, the song "Spring in the North Country" composed and sung by you is very popular in our island country.
This song is definitely a sharp weapon for the first record. In order to fully explore the value of this song, I suggest you release a Japanese version of this song.
Regarding the lyrics of the Japanese version, we at Universal Music will definitely find a master lyricist in the Japanese music scene to create, and we will definitely not insult the songs you made.
The Japanese music scene will be the largest distribution market for our record. If we can add a Japanese song, it will definitely be of great help to the sales of this record.
Therefore, I hope that Mr. Wenxuan can seriously consider my suggestion. "
After Fujita Yoichi said these words, he felt very aggrieved.
When the contract was signed, if he could win the copyright of the song composed by Yue Wenxuan, he would not need to ask Yue Wenxuan for his opinion.
Unable to win the copyright, the adaptation of the song must obtain Yue Wenxuan's consent before proceeding.
In case Yue Wenxuan's temper was a bit weird and he disagreed with this suggestion, then he had no choice but to watch a large amount of money flow away.
Yue Wenxuan pretended to be thinking, and said after a while:
"Universal Music is a world-class company, I believe in the professionalism of the survey results, since you think it is necessary, then I have no objection.
However, it is not necessary to find a lyricist from the Japanese music scene to write the lyrics. You give me a day, and I will come up with a version of the Japanese lyrics first. You can listen to it first. "
Fujita Yoichi's face was not very good-looking, a native Chinese actually wanted to write the Japanese version of the lyrics, he didn't know what to say.
Of course Yue Wenxuan was aware of Yoichi Fujita's state of mind at this time, but he didn't intend to explain further, he just said in Japanese:
"I know Japanese and have read many original novels in Japanese. It should be no problem to adapt the lyrics of a Japanese version."
Fujita Yoichi never expected that Yue Wenxuan's Japanese was so standard and fluent, and he had a pure Tokyo accent.
He said in surprise: "It turns out that Mr. Wenxuan still understands Japanese, so why have you never spoken in Japanese before?"
"In the past two years, our domestic situation was relatively sensitive, and you should know the situation in this regard.
One thing more is worse than one thing less. I don't need to show my talent in foreign languages, so naturally I don't know how to speak them. "
Yue Wenxuan simply explained.
Yue Wenxuan's Japanese is so standard and fluent, it can be regarded as giving Fujita Yoichi some confidence.
He was going to make a decision after reading the Japanese version of the lyrics written by Yue Wenxuan. Before that, no matter what he said was meaningless, Yue Wenxuan would definitely not listen.
He went on to say: "About your first record, my opinion is ten songs.
The Chinese version and the Japanese version of "Northern Spring" are two songs, and we still have to choose eight songs. I want to hear your opinions first. "
Yue Wenxuan had already considered the tracks for the first album, and he said without thinking:
"I already had plans for the ten songs on the first record.
In addition to the Chinese and Japanese versions of "Spring in the North Country", I am also planning to add: "Jasmine Flower", "Praise of Red Plum", "I Love You, Snow in Saibei", "Little River Flowing Water", "Usuli Boat Song" "," Alslen's Eyes ".
In addition, I have also prepared two original songs that have not yet been published. I will submit the lyrics and music to you later, and you can review them. "
As a loyal fan of Yue Wenxuan, Yoichi Fujita has heard most of the songs mentioned by Yue Wenxuan, but this is the first time he heard the song "Alslen's Eyes".
He asked curiously: "I don't think I've ever heard the song "Arslen's Eyes" sung by Mr. Wenxuan. You put this song on your first record. It should be very nice, right?"
Yue Wenxuan said: "The lyricist of this song is Ke Bing, who just published the lyrics in a song magazine last year. I think the lyrics are very good, so I specially composed the song. It hasn't been sung to the public yet, so of course you haven't heard of it. "
The lyrics of this song were published last year, and it will be a few years before the songwriter Na Risong will compose music for this song.
Yue Wenxuan personally liked this song very much, so he carried it out in advance.
"It turned out to be a song composed by Mr. Wenxuan Xinjin, so I'm even more interested in it, and I can't wait to hear it soon."
"If Mr. Fujita is interested, I can record this song first."
Which song to record first is the same for Yue Wenxuan. Yoichi Fujita made a big concession when signing the contract. On the surface, he is his loyal fan. Yue Wenxuan doesn't mind giving him a little bonus.
Because Yue Wenxuan still wanted to create the Japanese version of "Northern Spring", he didn't have time to record today. After confirming the track for the first album, he said goodbye and went back.
(End of this chapter)
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