Time flies like a white horse, and four days pass in a flash.

Looking at the thick manuscript of the novel "Looking for Qin", Xia Yu had a sense of accomplishment.

Although this novel is not his original, it is not easy to copy it, the first three volumes have a total of about 190,000 words, and it takes four days to copy it out, which is difficult for ordinary people to do.

"It's time to submit!" Xia Yu muttered as he tossed over a thick stack of novel manuscripts.

Then, Xia Yu carefully packed the manuscript with his schoolbag, said hello to his parents, and went out.

In the past four days, Xia Yu has not wasted his free time in addition to being busy with writing, and has already considered the issue of submission.

The most direct way to benefit from a novel is to publish it, but in the absence of fame, it is very difficult to publish it, and the royalty is very low.

Even if it is successfully published, the probability of hitting the street is very high.

After all, the aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys!

Xia Yu is still self-aware, and he will not think that he is a reborn person, and as soon as the king's anger is gone, the publishing house will obey, the dealer will kneel and lick, and readers will gather......

This is completely unlikely!

Even if it depends on the quality of the work, it will still slowly form a reputation after publication, and finally become popular, but Xia Yu doesn't have the time to wait!

But fortunately, Xiangjiang was popular at this time to serialize novels in newspapers, and they would be published when they became famous.

This model is not only beneficial to newspapers and help them attract users, but also to publishers to help them screen excellent works, reduce risks, and save publicity costs, and at the same time, it is also beneficial for authors to charge more money. It can be described as a multi-party benefit!

So Xia Yu also plans to follow this rule, submit to the newspaper, and serialize it in the newspaper.

Since you plan to serialize it in a newspaper, the choice of newspaper is particularly important.

In Xiangjiang, there are not many other newspapers. Because of the low threshold for running a newspaper, as long as you have money, you can run a newspaper, so all kinds of newspapers emerge in an endless stream, and it is the most densely populated area in the world.

Among them, the mainstream newspapers include Oriental Daily, Ming Pao, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Sing Tao Daily, Ta Kung Pao, Sing Pao, South China Morning Post and so on.

Among them, "Oriental Daily" is a grassroots newspaper, "Hong Kong Economic Daily" is aimed at high-level intellectuals, "Ming Pao" started from the grassroots, but relying on Jin Yong's sharp commentary, it has also been popular with intellectuals for so many years, "Sing Tao Daily" is aimed at the middle and lower classes, and "South China Morning Post" is the largest English-language newspaper in Hong Kong......

For Xia Yu, the English-language newspaper South China Morning Post was first excluded.

And because the purpose of writing novels is to make money quickly, under this premise, the greater the influence possible, whether it is the treatment of his next book, or the follow-up publication and adaptation of "Xun Qin", etc. And the audience of "Xun Qin Ji" is the grassroots public, so newspapers that are not aimed at the public are also excluded.

Thinking about it this way, "Ta Kung Pao", "Hong Kong Economic Journal", and "Cheng Pao" are also excluded.

Then only Ming Pao, Sing Tao Daily, and Oriental Daily remain.

At this time, the top three sales are "Oriental Daily", "Sing Tao Daily" and "Ming Pao".

"Ming Pao" ranked third, with an average daily sales of about 130,000. Compared with the peak of the sales of the first position is somewhat reduced, there is a reason because Jin Yong has closed the pen, and there is a lack of novels comparable to Jin Yong's martial arts masters, although the rise of the grassroots, but Jin Yong has focused on intellectuals in recent years, wanting to realize his political ambitions, and ignoring the grassroots, so his influence among the grassroots has been relatively weakened in recent years.

However, as long as Jin Yong comes out of the mountain again, or there are works of grandmaster-level martial arts masters, sales will definitely be able to soar to the sky.

Founded in 1938 by Hu Wenhu, Sing Tao Daily is now under the control of his daughter Hu Xian, who is also known as the queen of the newspaper industry, and now sells an average of 160,000 copies a day. Over the decades, the channel has spread throughout Southeast Asia.

Founded in 1969 by the Ma family, Oriental Daily has been the No. 1 seller for 35 years, reaching a maximum of 530,000 copies, covering more than 3.4 million people.

"Oriental Daily" is the mouthpiece of the Ma family's self-protection and a tool for whitewashing. But I have to say that they did work hard to run the newspaper, and they faced a large customer base, so now the sales are the highest, with an average daily sales of 170,000 copies in this era.

In addition to the sales factor, Xia Yu also considered the manuscript fee factor.

Although the novel will gain a lot of fame if it is published in "Ming Pao", but the treatment given to the author by Mr. Jin is well-known in Xiangjiang, Xia Yu does not prioritize fame now, what he needs is money, as much money as possible, so Xia Yu did not put "Ming Pao" in the first place.

The reason why the sales of "Sing Tao Daily" are so high is because of the wide sales channels, all over Southeast Asia, and the boss Hu Xian has the title of the queen of the newspaper industry, and he is notoriously strong, Xia Yu did not put "Sing Tao Daily" in the first place.

As for "Oriental Daily", the Ma family has always wanted to develop "Oriental Daily" better, plus it was established the latest, the most lacking background, and the most important one is that the Ma family has a bad reputation. Writers are all literati, and most of the famous writers cherish feathers and disdain to be with the Ma family, so the "Oriental Daily" is not satisfactory in the reception of the novel.

For this reason, "Oriental Daily" can only rely on money, hoping to attract more submissions and see if it can choose better novels from them. Therefore, the manuscript fee given by "Oriental Daily" is the highest.

Fame and fortune can be provided by "Oriental Daily", and they all have an advantage, and Xia Yu certainly gives priority to "Oriental Daily".

Changing trains all the way, Xia Yu finally came to the door of the building of "Oriental Daily".

Looking up at the signboard of "Oriental Daily", Xia Yu showed a confident smile and strode inside.

Walking to the front desk, Xia Yu said to the receptionist: "Hello, I wrote a novel and want to submit it, what is the process?"

The usher was stunned when he saw Xia Yu coming in at first, after all, Xia Yu was just a teenager. At this time, when he heard that Xia Yu was here to contribute, he blinked his eyes, and after making sure that he had heard correctly, he was a little surprised, and couldn't help but smile, and sighed in his heart that Xia Yu was beyond his strength, but he didn't laugh in person, and pointed in one direction and said: "Submit to those rooms, all of them." ”

"Okay, thank you!" Xia Yu said thank you and walked to the room pointed by the usher.

Looking at Xia Yu's back, the usher shook his head with a smile and said: "It's still good to make money, the president released the news and received the manuscript at a high price, for the sake of money, everyone came to contribute, and now even the children are here, I really think the money is so easy to take." What kind of good novels can children write, hehe......"

Of course Xia Yu didn't hear the usher's contemptuous words, he had already come to the door of an office at this time, and there were five words on the office door: 'Manuscript Reading Room'. From the outside, you can see a middle-aged man looking down at the manuscript, and a large pile of novel manuscripts is placed on the table, like a small mountain.

After knocking on the door, the middle-aged man didn't raise his head, and said impatiently: "The door is unlocked, just come in."

"Hello, I'm here to contribute!" Xia Yu didn't care about his tone, walked in, and took out a thick stack of novel manuscripts from his schoolbag as he spoke.

At this time, the middle-aged man heard that someone had submitted, and finally raised his head, but after seeing Xia Yu, his face changed a little, and he scolded in a low voice, and then became even more impatient, and directly said put it on the table, go back and wait for the news. Then he lowered his head and continued to review the manuscript, without looking at Xia Yu.

Seeing the contemptuous attitude of the middle-aged man, Xia Yu clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, feeling very unhappy. But he could only endure it, put the novel manuscript on top of a pile of novel manuscripts, said thank you and went out.

Out of the door of "Oriental Daily", Xia Yu shook his head a little self-deprecatingly: "Although I have been mentally prepared, I am still very unhappy." ”

Before coming, considering his age, Xia Yu analyzed that he might be looked down upon, after all, there is never a shortage of people in this world who judge people by their appearance, but he didn't expect to really meet this kind of person.

"Forget it, anyway, it's over, let's go buy some notebooks again, and write as much as possible while waiting for news, so that you can get more money at once when the time comes. Xia Yu muttered, and then prepared to buy pens and paper.

He didn't think about the situation of not being able to draft, after all, this is the work of a martial arts master, how could it not be published?

It's a pity that it backfired, Xia Yu didn't take into account that in this world, after all, 'Maxima often exists but Bole does not often have'.

After Xia Yu left, the middle-aged review editor picked up Xia Yu's novel manuscript, browsed it, and saw Xiang Shaolong crossing to the Qin Dynasty, he smiled disdainfully: "Mao didn't grow up to learn to write novels, and he also wrote about the Qin Dynasty, I don't even say that I understand the Qin Dynasty, what does a child know, and what kind of messy crossing, scribbling!"

The middle-aged review editor casually flipped through a few times, sneered, and threw it aside, where it was the pile of manuscripts that did not pass.

"There are so many novels to review, most of them are garbage, it's annoying to read, %*!" the middle-aged editor rubbed his eyes, looked at the large pile of manuscripts on the desktop, scolded, and continued to review.

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