After receiving the prize, Xiao Zhen took the key to a safe in the vault of the American Commercial Bank's Hong Kong City branch and signed an agreement, indicating that the 100 kilograms of gold belonged to him personally.
Just a year ago, the Hong Kong authorities introduced a special tax exemption regulation, one of which stipulates that prize money and food from internationally influential events held in Hong Kong are tax-free.
In addition to the 100 kilograms of gold worth US$2.73 million for the overall championship, Xiao Zhen won a total of eight individual championships in the 1994 IAAF Golden League.
The prize money for each race champion is US$200,000, and there is a special reward of US$100,000 for breaking a world record.
He won a total of 400,000 yuan for two races in which he did not break the world record, plus two world records were broken in the other six races, which is 2.4 million yuan. The total prize money for the eight races was 2.8 million yuan.
The entire Golden League plus the championship prize is US$5.53 million, with a total income of approximately HK$42.97 million.
He also participated in the opening performances of his father Liverpool's new home stadium and the Wah Kwong Sports Centre in Shatin, Hong Kong, so his agency had to charge fees, collecting US$1.1 million and US$1.6 million respectively.
However, the latter two items are considered commercial development. He signed a full contract with Columbia Phoenix Agency, with a profit-sharing ratio of 9:1. After deducting the 270,000 yuan commission taken by the agency from the 2.7 million yuan, there is still 2.43 million yuan left.
These are all after-tax income, so in the second half of the year he earned US$7.96 million from athletics-related activities, totaling HK$61.85 million.
The bulk of his income comes from royalties from his serialized literary works, and there are also scattered copyright income from his musical works.
The annual royalties and music copyright income, after tax, is approximately US$580 million, and this is the income after the agency takes a 10% commission.
In other words, this guy's literary work "The Age of Magic" still has 4 volumes to be serialized, which means it will be completed until 1998.
At that time, his large special effects team had expanded to a large extent and was able to produce special effects that Xiao Zhen would be satisfied with. He would let Old Ka shoot it. If he was not interested, he would ask Peter to shoot it!
There are still 6 volumes left in the series of "A Song of Ice and Fire", which will be completed by 2000.
Xiao Zhen’s idea is to shoot a high-quality TV series with each episode lasting one hour, so that he can collect membership fees from Video Era.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" has a total of 8 volumes, 2 of which have been published and will also be completed in 2000.
In addition to studying books and training on semiconductors this year, Xiao Zhen, who was bored to death, wrote a time-travel novel: "Song of the Moon", which has 1.5 million words.
He also wrote the even larger-scale "Interstellar Age" in one go, totaling 3.2 million words.
Cai Meiyu saw that "Song of My Moon" had been translated into Japanese and Korean, which was taught to her in the first half of the year.
This woman knew that Xiao Zhen, who had a lot of private time, would write a book out of inertia, otherwise what else would he do.
As expected, Xiao Zhen gave him the Chinese and English versions of "Interstellar Age". This guy was also a publishing veteran and directly divided it into 8 volumes and released it slowly.
Since the content of the first volume has basically been adapted into a film or TV series, the international edition will kindly release two volumes, "Star Age 1" and "Star Age 2".
"Song of the Moon" was mainly released in Asia on November 11, with an initial release of 40 million copies. Among them, Japan likes the Song Dynasty, and the initial release there was 18 million copies, and the remaining 22 million copies were in other Asian regions.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Cai Meiyu took Xiao Zhen to the studio to take photos that afternoon.
Xiao Zhen is now a 16-year-old boy, and everything has been exposed anyway.
I might as well give a photo album to my female fans as a New Year's gift to my opposite-sex fans.
The four series of 8-page large-format photos tortured Xiao Zhen for four whole days.
Xiao Zhen said that he would only select 99 photos, and they should be masculine, not effeminate or weird.
Xiao Zhen knows that women will go crazy once they start spending, so the global price is US$99, which is not cheap at all. This price is in line with Xiao Zhen's status and is released together with "Song of Song".
Xiao Zhen has time and will hold four fan meetings this time, all of which are invitation-only, with only 500 fans who have bought genuine new books or photo albums invited to each meeting.
How to get the invitation? In Asia, there are four places: Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. There will be invitation letters with Xiao Zhen’s personal seal and a coded one enclosed. The specific fan meeting time will be announced on the day of the release.
Xiao Zhencai wouldn't hold a book signing event. He writes in a very methodical way, so it takes a lot of time.
The drama version of "Song of Legends" has already found its cast, and is directed by the prolific Wang Pangzi.
The actors selected this time are those who are most suitable for the temperament of the characters through Asian auditions.
So there will be many top and super-top Asian actors coming to audition, as this is a major drama that will be distributed throughout Asia.
However, this time the male lead Xiao Gu was not selected, and a boy named A Zu who returned from the United States got the male lead Zhao Xing.
It had been a tedious few days for his CEO, Cai. Originally, Xiao Zhen had wanted to release a music album, but he felt that having already "sold himself" once in a photo album, this was enough for this year.
As a side note, Cai Meiyun sent the team song he wrote for the People's Team to the US World Cup Organizing Committee a few months ago, and it became the theme song of this World Cup.
However, Xiao Zhen will not sing for personal reasons.
So we gave it to a group of singers from Colombia to sing, and the result was very good.
The income from the single is much higher than what he earns from participating in track and field competitions.
After Xiao Zhen finished these things, he had time to drive to Chow Tai Fook in Central to pick up jewelry for his grandparents, father, mother, three aunts, uncle, two uncles, aunt, Niu Wenxi and Ye Jiaojiao, and Liu Jun and Wang Juhua.
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