There are also the officer training class and the Yinjiang Guard Corps, which also requires a lot of funds!

It turns out that the money obtained by cracking down on evil forces has already come to an end. Finance Director Chen Jiming has complained about his hardships several times, saying that he cannot pass this year.

"Don't worry, the first royalty has been brought to you." Kang Mood turned around and waved his hand. The secretary behind him immediately put a password box at his feet on Zhong Yi's large mahogany table.

Commod stepped forward and opened it, then turned the box and pushed it in front of Zhong Yi.

Zhong Yi looked closely and immediately saw a box of green US dollars.

Commod pointed to the box and said, "Clock, 300,000 US dollars, it's all here!"

Zhong Yi was shocked, but he said calmly on the surface: "Why is it $300,000?"

Commod immediately explained: "Zhong, this is also impossible. Although our United States has emerged from the Great Depression in recent years, this unprecedented economic depression has changed the consumption habits of Americans. They are no longer willing to spend a lot of money to buy bestsellers like before."

After pausing, Commod said again: "So, we can only reduce the price, price Harry Bott and the Philosopher's Stone to one dollar. You must know that even bestsellers like the Hobbit have also reduced the price, from the original two dollars per volume to the current one, 15 dollars, so one dollar is really not low."

Zhong Yi couldn't help but hold his forehead, and then he realized that in this era, American best-selling novels were so expensive! The price per dollar per volume was really not low. You know, the average monthly salary of Americans in this era was only fifty dollars, which means that a month's salary was only enough to buy fifty novels.

In comparison, a magazine costs only twenty cents.

Therefore, this royalty was much beyond Zhong Yi's imagination, but he still thought it was less.

At that moment, Zhong Yi frowned again and said, "Commod, have you sold the two million copies of the second edition almost sold? You might as well settle the royalties of the second edition. I'm waiting for the money to be urgently used."

"How can this be done?" Commod said dumbfoundedly, "In fact, the first edition of the book has not been fully recovered. Our Commod family has paid the royalties to show you sincerity! But if we want to advance the royalties to the second edition, it is a big deal, and we don't have the strength."

Zhong Yi said coldly: "If this is the case, I probably have to consider cooperating with another publishing house."

"Oh? Zhong, you are not very interested." Commod said furiously, "You have said before that we should give our Commod family exclusive copyright."

Zhong Yi said: "I'm talking about Harry Bot and the Philosopher's Stone, not the entire Harry Bot series!"

"Okay, okay, I'll help you fight for it." Commod immediately compromised, because it involved millions or even tens of millions of dollars after all. In order to continue to obtain subsequent copyrights, it seems that it is not unacceptable to advance the royalties. It is nothing more than spending more talk and convincing the old antiques in the family.
Chapter completed!