Rebirth, Starting from 2005

The manuscript fee finally came out.

On the 5th of the month, the author's background can check the manuscript fee of the previous month.

It was more than Chen Li estimated based on the minimum standard. His income from the manuscript fee was a little more than 170,000, which also included the reward for the first place in the monthly ticket.

However, this is pre-tax income, and part of the draft tax will be deducted when the actual distribution is made.

The taxation of manuscript fees is different from the standard of personal tax collection. Taxes will be levied on those exceeding 800 yuan. The taxation ratio of more than 4,000 yuan is about 11% of the income of manuscript fees. This ratio is 4,000 yuan, and the same is true for 40,000 yuan and 400,000 yuan. this ratio.

All taxes are directly deducted by the platform, and what is sent to the author is the after-tax income.

Until more than ten years later, the tax and fee reform was in line with the personal tax standard. First, the original standard was withheld, and then the tax was calculated according to 70% of the personal tax standard.

After the tax reform, for great writers, the personal tax that needs to be paid has increased, and a lot of money has to be paid a year.

For street writers, basically all the money withheld can be refunded.

But judging from the standard given by Chen Li's backstage, with such a large monthly income, after more than ten years, not only will there be no tax refund, but a part of the tax will also need to be paid.

The current manuscript tax system is quite favorable to him.

According to this standard, he needs to deduct more than 10,000 yuan in personal tax, and he can still have more than 150,000 yuan in his hands.

When Chen Li saw this data in the background, his hands were trembling.

This is higher than he imagined.

At this time, Yan Xin was on the night shift and was still sleeping in the rented room.

When he woke up, it was already past five in the afternoon, and by this time, most of Chen Li's excitement had been exhausted.

Yan Xin called Chen Li and asked him what dish he wanted to eat tonight, and brought it to him after he finished eating.

Chen Li replied: "Fried pork with celery."

Then he said, "I'll tell you something, last month's manuscript fee came out."

"How much?" Yan Xin suddenly became energetic.

"Including monthly ticket rewards, there are a total of more than 170,000. After tax is deducted, there are probably more than 150,000." Chen Li said.

"Wow!" Yan Xin exclaimed, "So many? We are about to develop!"

"It's not bad," Chen Li said lightly, "It's about ten thousand or twenty thousand more than I imagined."

When he said this, he was actually quite excited in his heart, but he had already concealed it very well, and it even sounded a little unconcerned.

This surprised Yan Xin: "How did this guy become so calm? Does he already have the psychological quality that a master of Internet literature should have?"

Hearing this number, he was so excited that he wanted to cheer loudly. He didn't expect Chen Li, who had always been very excited before, to be so calm now, which was a bit abnormal.

But after thinking about it, it's normal.

When the book "Fights Break the Sphere" was first serialized, it still attracted the attention of many people in the form of passionate writing, but it was only on Qidian.com.

Later, he got out of the circle because of a scolding fight with another top-ranking god on the website.

After that, it is to get out of the circle with a sensational updated word count and a far-leading sales record.

It has become a hot spot in the Internet literary world again and again, and in this process, the mentality has become more mature, which is also understandable.

Here he felt a little ashamed, and thought: "I have lived my whole life anyway, and my energy-raising skills are not as good as this boy who is not yet twenty years old. It seems that I was still very poor in my previous life. For such a sum of money Can't calm down."

I went downstairs to a small restaurant I often go to and had a five-yuan meal, and I also ordered a bottle of happy water.

There are only 30 to 40 yuan left in my hand, and I still have a week to pay my salary. It seems a bit extravagant to spend so much money this time.

But he doesn't care anymore.

More than 70,000 yuan will be allocated in no time. Do you still need to care about the cost of a bottle of Coke?

During the meal, he also ordered Chen Li a stir-fried pork with celery, and by the way, he also ordered a bottle of iced happy water for him on his own initiative.

—It's a good day, and it's worth the extravagance.

When he finished his meal, the boss had already finished the stir-fried meat with celery, and took two lunch boxes, one for rice and one for vegetables, plus a bottle of the coldest Coke, a total of eight. dollars.

Carrying this to the Internet cafe, Chen Li took over the computer after eating, looked at the data in the background, and read the comments in the book review area.

While eating, Chen Li said to him: "The publishing fee on the 15th, when the publishing fee is paid, I'm going to buy a computer, and then I won't use Internet cafes to code, what do you think?"

"It's pretty good!" Yan Xin said, "You have to buy a good computer, and use a better keyboard."

"There's no need for a keyboard..." Chen Li said hesitantly, "I'm used to a keyboard that costs more than ten yuan, I'm afraid I won't be used to it if I replace it with a good keyboard."

In fact, he still wants to try those legendary mechanical keyboards that feel good in the hand, but the price is too touching, and one will cost him several months' salary.

Now I can make money, but my consumption habits have not changed so quickly.

Yan Xin said: "Even if you don't get used to it, it's only temporary, and you'll get used to it in a short time. As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools and get his equipment right. Isn't it more difficult to write about it?" Are you comfortable?"

Chen Li thought for a while, gritted his teeth, and said:

"Then buy it! Buy a good computer and buy a good keyboard!"

There is a feeling of pain in the flesh when making this decision.

But at the same time, there is a very cool feeling.

He said to Yan Xin again:

"Now the manuscript fee is so high, half of us are more than 70,000 yuan, and one month's manuscript fee is enough for you to work as a security guard in Fengxiang City for seven years without eating or drinking. Do you want to consider resigning like me? This way we have more You don’t have to be so tired if you spend more time studying novels.”

"This, I'd better think about it first." Yan Xin said with a smile.

If you can get half of the manuscript fee, it's okay not to be a security guard.

However, being a security guard does not prevent him from coming up with novel ideas.

What he gave was originality, and many plots were directly pulled from the cool articles he read in his previous life, and they were not his own original creations. He only needed to consider whether it could be integrated into this novel, and the workload was not very heavy.

When I go to work, I just think about those things, and write down what I think, and I can earn an extra money-although the money is not much.

Hesitating now, the most important thing is that he doesn't have much sense of security in the matter of sharing the manuscript fee with Chen Li, so he has to share the bonus for a few months first, and then talk about resignation.

Anyway, this job is not tiring, and it is quite easy.

It's not easy to explain this reason to Chen Li in detail, so I can only find another reason:

"I worked as a security guard there, and I had the opportunity to meet all kinds of people, observe different lives, and have a lot of time to think about the plots of those novels. I think this is still helpful for writing novels, so for the time being, I still want to Stay there and do it."

Chen Li suddenly realized: "No wonder you can design so many characters, so you have been observing others!"

"Isn't it!" Yan Xin said with a smile, "We can't write online novels behind closed doors, can we?"