I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 407: 100 yen is more precious than 3600 million yen

September 1998, 9, at a couple hotel in Shibuya District, Tokyo.

"We're rich, we're rich! Now we're really going to be rich, Gang-kun!"

The naked Ono Satoko didn't even have time to put on her clothes, and she ran naked in front of Sato Tsuyoshi who was lying limp on the bed.

Sato Tsuyoshi was still dazed after a hangover and a night of passion. He subconsciously covered his head with a pillow and ignored Ono Satoko.

"Snapped!"

The pillow was taken away, and Ono Satoko picked up another pillow and hit Sato Tsuyoshi hard on the head.

"What are you doing! Satoko! Can't you see I'm sleeping soundly?"

Sato just opened his sleepy eyes and glared at Ono Satoko with dissatisfaction.

If this woman didn't have a great figure, was willing to sleep with him for free, and was somewhat useful, he would have punched her long ago.

Seeing Sato Tsuyoshi's fierce expression, Ono Satoko, who was a little too proud of herself, shrank her head slightly, and then she realized what she had just done.

But soon, she smiled excitedly at Sato Tsuyoshi and said, "It's a good thing, a great thing! Tsuyoshi-kun!"

"What's going on? Tell me!"

Seeing her so excited, Sato Gang couldn't help but sit up and asked curiously.

Ono Satoko turned on the bedside lamp, but felt it was a little dark, so she simply turned on the main lights as well.

The bright light hurt Sato Tsuyoshi's eyes, and just as he was about to curse, a copy of today's Yomiuri Shimbun appeared in front of him.

The huge news headline circled by Ono Satoko in red immediately caught his attention -

"Along the River During the Qingming Festival in the History of Japanese Literature——On Kitagawa's New Work [Asakusa Red Group]"

Sato Tsuyoshi didn't know what "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was. He didn't recognize any of the Chinese characters separately, let alone when they were combined together.

But he knows the last one, "Asakusa Red Group".

Isn’t that the new book written by that great and capable writer?
What kind of best-selling book is written with the residents of the Asakusa community as the starting point?

"Japanese literary history? It seems very impressive?" Sato Tsuyoshi asked, touching his nose.

Ono Satoko rolled her eyes at him, jumped onto the bed, held up the newspaper, pointed at the author's name "Yamazaki Yosuke" and said with a smile, "Of course he's amazing! Gang-kun, do you know who Yamazaki Yosuke is?"

"Who is it?" Sato Gang shook his head.

Ono Satoko patted his shoulder gently and said in a low voice, "Do you remember Sister Momiji from Kabukicho?"

"Sister Hongye, are you talking about the busty girl?" A snow-white and pink image flashed through Sato's mind, and he felt a little affected.

Ono Satoko rolled her eyes at him again, nodded unhappily, and then said, "Yes, she is the sister who is in charge of all the red-light district affairs in Kabukicho Niban Street."

After she said this, Sato Tsuyoshi finally remembered.

Kabukicho now belongs to the Sumiyoshi-kai, but the Sumiyoshi-kai's main business is real estate, gambling, such as spinach and pachinko. Due to a shortage of manpower, the Sumiyoshi-kai assigned the Kabukicho business to its subordinate Kirishima-gumi.

The leader of the Kirishima Group, Kirishin Ichiro, is Momiji's brother.

The lifelong wish of bad boys like Sato Tsuyoshi and other biker gangs is to join the Sumiyoshi-kai and become official wakashu.

If they want to join from Kabukicho, the first choice is naturally the Kirima Group under Kirima Ichiro. Now, the bad boys in Asakusa community such as Sato Tsuyoshi basically belong to the bad boy group under the jurisdiction of a certain Wakashu of the Kirima Group.

In short, the sister Hongye mentioned by Ono Satoko is the biological sister of the eldest brother of the eldest brother of Sato Tsuyoshi's eldest brother.

"What's wrong with her?" Sato Tsuyoshi didn't understand what the relationship was between Sister Hongye and "Asakusa Red Group" and Kitagawa Hide.

"The author of this press release is Yamazaki Yosuke. His father is Yamazaki No, the editor-in-chief of the Nikkan Sports News. The fact that he can publish a press release in the Yomiuri Shimbun shows that he has connections!"

Ono Satoko showed off her little social knowledge to Sato Tsuyoshi.

“As for this Yamazaki Yosuke, I saw him with my own eyes at the Kabukicho Red Hall banquet last week, hugging Sister Momiji and entering the private room on the second floor!
Sister Hongye smiled at him the whole time, just like those cheap hostesses!"

"So what you mean is..." Sato was a little confused and a little surprised.

"That is to say, he is a big shot that even Sister Hongye can't afford to offend! And such a big shot directly helped promote "Asakusa Red Group" in the "Yomiuri Shimbun"!
In addition, there is this, Gangjun, look at this!"

Ono Satoko pointed to a data ranking list in the entertainment section.

That is a Yomiuri data chart created by the Yomiuri Shimbun based on the Oricon chart.

In the column about the sales of pure literature magazines, "Beichuan" released on September 9th topped the list with a shocking figure of 15 copies sold on the first day!
You know, in the past few months, "Beichuan" was still half-dead and hanging at the bottom of the new five major publishing houses. If it weren't for the fame of Mr. Kitagawa Hide and the popularity of the Beichuan Award, it might not even make it into the top five!
As soon as "Asakusa Red Group" was serialized, its sales skyrocketed, much higher than "Dazhong" released on the 2nd, and nearly more copies than "Xin Wenxiang" released on the same day!
Ono Satoko is not very good at math, but she knows by counting with her feet that this issue of "Kitagawa" will make money!
"Kitagawa" made a lot of money, so the one who deserved the most credit must be "Asakusa Red Group", and the contract they signed with "Kitagawa" clearly stated "dividends from sales profits".

She forgot what percentage it was, but even if it was only 1%, it should be several hundred thousand yen!
"hiss--"

No matter how stupid Sato was, he now understood.

"So we are going to get rich?" Sato Tsuyoshi's voice began to tremble.

Ono Satoko nodded vigorously and said, "Yes! I estimate the profit is at least more than 50 yen!"

"50 yen!!!"

Sato Tsuyoshi had never seen so much money in his life. This was probably the monthly salary of a thirty-something office worker who worked hard for two months. It was an unimaginable amount of money!
"Yes! Maybe 100 million yen is even possible!" Ono Satoko's eyes sparkled as she imagined what kind of life she would live after becoming a millionaire.
"Tsuyoshi, if we have 100 million yen, no, 200 million yen, what should we do with it?"

Of course, go to Kabukicho and have some fun!

Sato was about to blurt out the word, but when he saw the naked Ono Satoko, he held his words back.

If it's 100 million yen, this woman has it too.
I have to find a way to get it and then get rid of her!
"Well, of course I'll take you to Ginza for some shopping first."

Sato Tsuyoshi said with a smile, then he gently embraced her body and pushed her onto the bed.
"But let's not discuss the 200 million yen thing for now. I have something to discuss with you involving million yen."

"Hate!"

"On the first printing day, 79.1 copies were sold. The average market price of Kitagawa is 450 yen per copy. After deducting all the publicity and distribution costs, the gross profit is about 9887.5 million yen. If the company, employees and other expenses are taken into account, the profit should be around 5000 million yen.

The market is declining, so the maximum net profit this month is 7.5 million yen."

The deputy director of the finance department of Beichuan Entertainment stood upright, calculating the magazine's profits and earnings just like the ordinary company employees under him.

This kind of work is usually assigned to the lowest-level clerks in the Finance Department. A deputy minister like him, who is high up at the top, only needs to take a look at the report, sign it, give some opinions, and that's it.

But this time is different.

The person who called him out of the office was Kitagawa Yumeko, the legal president of Kitagawa Entertainment, and Kitagawa Hide, the man behind her who was a leader in the Japanese literary world.

Looking at the two bosses who were almost a generation younger than him, he felt like a rookie, almost sticking to the wall and sweating profusely.

He didn't know why Mr. Kitagawa suddenly appeared with President Yumeko, and then suddenly asked him to come over to calculate the profits and earnings.

Could it be that these two people want to thoroughly investigate the financial situation of Beichuan?

His mind was thinking rapidly, and he quickly reviewed those benefits that usually no one paid attention to, to see if there was anything that the bosses could not accept at all.

"That means even if the sales momentum is maintained, Kitagawa will only make 90 billion yen a year?"

Kitagawa Hide frowned.

Only 90 billion yen? The Deputy Minister of Finance stood up straighter.

He wondered if he had heard wrongly.

Even for a leading publishing house, a profit of 90 billion yen a year is a remarkable achievement in such an economic environment.

But from what Mr. Kitagawa said, you think it’s too little?
"This is the best case scenario, dear, that you can serialize novels in Beichuan every month."

Kitagawa Yumeko nodded.

"Without your novel serialization, the profits will be cut in half at least."

Judging from previous sales, there should be less than one-third of 90 billion left.

The Deputy Minister of Finance complained in his heart but didn't dare say it out loud.

"Well, it seems that it is still a bit difficult to free up a large sum of money for new projects."

Most of Kitagawa Hide's assets have now been transferred to US dollars, and he has limited liquidity. If he wants to establish new projects, he must start with the profits of each subsidiary.

These days, he has been browsing forums while thinking about the future development direction of the companies under his name.

During the first test of the Tokyo University doctoral students, what he said to Professor Ukai and others was his true inner thoughts.

He is certain that around the millennium, Japan will develop the e-book and light novel industry, just as it did in history.

Moreover, due to Kitagawa Network’s interference, the development of the Internet in Japan seemed to be a bit faster. It is very likely that e-books and light novels would have emerged before the year 2000.

The best examples are the several small online libraries that have emerged today.

These days he was busy writing "Asakusa Red Group" and "The Evil Girl". He frequently came into contact with the staff of "Wenyi" and "Kitagawa", and also started to think about career issues.

After all, times have changed. He now occupies the top spot in the Japanese literary world, and thousands of grassroots authors depend on him for their livelihood.

There are so many related companies with nearly 10,000 employees, who are also counting on Kitagawa Hide to open up new tracks and increase their salaries.

new project?
The Deputy Minister of Finance felt a little relieved, as long as it was not an internal audit.

But I seem to have heard some incredible inside information by accident.

Just as he was thinking about how to profit from this inside information, there was a knock on the office door.

"Please come in." Kitagawa Hide put down a pile of reports.

"Teacher Kitagawa, President, Sato Tsuyoshi and others are here." Kaoru walked in and adjusted her glasses.

"Oh." Kitagawa Hide knew why they came without having to guess.

He glanced at the deputy director of finance who was almost crouching in the corner with his head in his hands, and said to Kaoru, "The specific method of handling it will be as we said at the beginning. Deputy Director Fujino, you will be in charge of this matter, and editor Kaoru will assist you. Is there any problem?"

Deputy Minister Fujino immediately stood up straight again, bowed 90 degrees, said "no problem", and then glanced at the little girl at the door.

If I remember correctly, this editor Xunzi is an intern editor in the editorial department of Beichuan.

Well, it seems that he is a high school student who has not yet graduated, and he is a "relative" who stays in the editorial department of Beichuan for a long time in the name of unpaid internship.

It seems that the matters that Teacher Kitagawa was talking about are the ones she has always been in charge of.

And now Mr. Kitagawa said that he would be responsible and let editor Kaoru assist from the side. In fact, he was asking him to help give the green light!
"If there's no problem, you can go ahead."

Kitagawa Hide waved at them and then brought the topic back to money.

He had already set traps in the labor contracts for those bad boys and girls in the Asakusa community.

These guys refused to change their bad habits, but Kitagawa Hideya left them a way out many times.

As long as they don't come to seek death, they won't die.

But if they are willing to take risks for the sake of profit, Kitagawa Hide doesn't mind teaching them a lesson.

The price of this lesson may be something they will never be able to pay in their lifetime.

At the same time, at a night school in Tokyo.

"It feels like a dream, Meggie. Pinch me again and let me see if it hurts!"

Yumiko held the almost crumpled copy of Kitagawa in her hands. On the last few pages of the magazine, their jointly created article "We Living in Asakusa" was also published.

The authors' names are Yumiko and Meggie, and there are a few lines of brief introduction about them below.

The editor's name is Kaoru, the young female high school student who strongly supports them in publishing and writing books.

Thanks to editor Xunzi's repeated recommendations, their debut work was able to be posted at the end of the magazine and meet the readers.

Although they don't have any minimum guarantee agreement, as long as the novel does not receive a good response, the editorial department will cut it without mercy.

But I wonder how much effort those unknown authors have to put in to take this small step!
And there are these—

In the envelope under the magazine, the half-exposed Japanese yen banknotes exuded a charming smell of ink.

The total is 3600 yen.

The amount was not large, but it was the first time they had earned any hard-earned money.

Still an enviable amount of royalties!
Yumiko had imagined countless times how she and Meggie would spend the money.

They just think that these 3600 yen are more precious than 100 million yen!

"I don't!" Meggie shook her head, and then her thigh immediately felt pain.

Gongzi pinched him for the tenth time.

"It hurts!"

"It hurts, right? It's not a dream, right?" Gongzi looked at him excitedly.

"Of course it hurts!" Meggie rolled her eyes at her, then smiled, "Of course it wasn't a dream."

"Great"

Gongzi couldn't help but hug him gently, resting her head on his shoulder, and whispered,
"Meggie, promise me that we will keep writing, write together, and become writers as good as Mr. Kitagawa.

We will also go to college together, study together, graduate together, work together, and become useful people in society together, okay?"

"it is good!"

Meggie also hugged her gently, ignoring the surprised looks of her night school classmates around her.

At this moment, he no longer had a big afro, and his bow and bow had no more revealing clothes. He looked like the purest young student.

He added silently in his heart.

"We will walk into the church together and grow old together!"

(End of this chapter)