On the fifth day of submission, Xu Zhi received a call from the newspaper and invited Xu Zhi to go there to discuss some details.

After arriving at the newspaper office, Lin Wenzhou took Xu Zhi directly to the innermost office.

"Xu Sheng, let me introduce, this is the boss of our newspaper, Fang Qiang Fang!" Lin Wenzhou introduced his boss.

The fat man at the desk saw Lin Wenzhou coming in with a person, and without waiting for him to finish, he stood up and said with a smile: "This is Xu Sheng! Last time I happened to go out on a trip, I couldn't see it, come on, come on, please take a seat!"

"Hello, Mr. Fang. Xu Zhi smiled and shook hands with Mr. Fang.

All three sat down, and the secretary brought three cups of coffee from outside.

After talking nonsense for a while, Lin Wenzhou took out a newspaper and said to Xu Zhi: "Xu Sheng, this is the first edition of the newspaper we are going to publish, can you see if there are any problems?"

Xu Zhi took it and read it for a while, and the first paragraph of the main page of the novel was printed with the four big characters (Iron and Blood Tianjiao), and the following are some follow-up news page theme introductions.

Turning the first page on both sides is the content of the novel, the page size of the newspaper is actually a fixed value, generally the area of A3 paper, if it is a normal font, generally one page can cover 2000 words, but for commercial interests, many places in the middle are covered by advertisements, plus this is the first new novel, the first is up to 5000 words, and it simply covers 4 pages.

Xu Zhi read the article carefully and found that in addition to some irregular punctuation, there were also changes, but basically there were some problems with themselves. Because the novel in Xu Zhi's mind is simplified, and it must be written in traditional Chinese, this process will be more or less wrong.

After reading it, Xu Zhi said: "Yes, I basically don't have any opinions." ”

Lin Wenzhou nodded and said, "Okay, but I have a question, has Xu Sheng's novel been revised by others?"

"What do you mean?" Xu Zhi was puzzled.

Lin Wenzhou said: "The novels of ordinary writers, unless they are people like Jin Yong and Ni Kuang who have been writing for decades, many of the articles of ordinary writers will have some problems after they are written, such as word usage, paragraph format, etc., and you have almost no problems in usage except for some basic mistakes, and it is difficult for writers who do not have many years of experience to do this." ”

Xu Zhi thought for a while and said, "No, I just revised it twice after I finished writing!"

"Oh. Lin Wenzhou didn't dwell too much on this issue, and Fang Qiang, who was drinking coffee next to him, said with a smile: "Xu Sheng is really modest, not only can he write a good article, but he doesn't even have any places for my subordinates to revise, amazing!"

Lin Wenzhou said with a smile: "Yes, my colleagues in the editorial department and I were stunned for two days, but we didn't find anything that needed to be changed. ”

Xu Zhi was stunned by the two of them, I don't know what they want to do?

Fang Qiang continued: "I heard that Xu Sheng is still at home, I don't know if he is interested in coming to work in our newspaper?"

Xu Zhi glanced at Fang Qiang and said with a smile: "I won't prepare for work for the time being." ”

"Then Xu Sheng is writing another novel, or a sequel to the iron-blooded Tianjiao?" Fang Qiang asked: "It doesn't matter if you don't come to work, we just hope to have a long-term cooperation with Xu Sheng." ”

After speaking, he took out a copy of this ticket from his jacket pocket and said, "As long as Xu Sheng agrees, this is just a deposit for the next novel." ”

Xu Zhi smiled, it seems that the party in front of him is always willing to invest, took the check, opened it, and saw that it was 10,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Xu Zhi put the check on the table and said with a smile: "If I can't write the next book well, Mr. Fang's money will be spent in vain." ”

Seeing that Xu Zhi confiscated the check, Fang Qiang was not angry, and said with a smile: "This investment is still worth it, if Xu Sheng has any conditions, you can put it forward!"

Xu Zhi thought for a while and asked, "I don't know much about your newspaper, if you want me to cooperate with you, you have to let me know something." ”

Lin Wenzhou smiled: "I don't know what Xu Sheng wants to know." ”

Xu Zhidao: "How many newspapers can your newspaper sell in a day? What ?..........places do you basically cover?"

Lin Wenzhou also answered all the questions.

Xu Zhi also has some basic understanding of Huixing.

Fang Qiang founded this newspaper in 70 years, before he was only a bookstore owner, and then the bookstore business was not good, so he began to enter the printing industry, bought some second-hand equipment, and received some orders from some second-rate newspapers.

In Xiangjiang, the first- and second-tier newspapers all have their own publishing houses, and other small newspapers have adopted an asset-light model to outsource printing to concentrate on their own content, and printing houses not only receive orders from newspapers, but also advertisers, books, posters and other orders, both of which make a profit.

After two years of printing, Fang Qiang found that the hard-earned money was not as good as the profits of some marginal newspapers for a few months, so he opened his own newspaper and printed it by himself, and business has been very good.

But in 75 years, that is, the year before last, the Hong Kong government began to control the newspaper industry, and the newspapers that had a side ball were dealt with severely, and the small newspapers in Hong Kong ushered in the darkest moment.

Fang Qiang hurriedly abandoned the previous model, poached Lin Wenzhou from Ming Pao, and concentrated on making a regular newspaper, but it was difficult, but fortunately, Lin Wenzhou still had some ability, and in two years, he was stunned to make a lace newspaper into a newspaper with a daily sales of 6,000, covering the entire Kowloon. This is already a good level among third-tier newspapers.

"It turns out that Editor-in-Chief Lin is from Ming Pao. Xu Zhi smiled and told him about going to Ming Pao to submit his article.

"Hahaha, this is Ming Pao's loss, but it can't be helped. Lin Wenzhou smiled after hearing this: "Xu Sheng may not know that in Ming Pao, the task of editing is very busy. Especially for novels, most editors need to review the novels that are about to be reported, Ming Pao is a big newspaper, and the newspaper has very strict requirements for novels, basically every word is used and even punctuation is not wrong, once it appears, it is very likely that you will lose your job. ”

"So strict? Not a word is allowed to be wrong?" Xu Zhi asked curiously, some Internet reports in later generations are often full of various typos, although netizens also keep complaining, but as long as it is not wrong, everyone really takes it seriously.

"Yes, that's it, a word may not be nothing, but the important thing is the rules, is the attitude, if a small mistake has no consequences, then followed by hundreds of such mistakes, in fact, not only the newspaper industry, large companies are more concerned about some small problems is because of this reason. ”

I took another sip of coffee and sighed: "I was in Ming Pao back then, the work was very depressing, there were more than a dozen different newspapers under Ming Pao, there were many serialized contents, and there were many contributors, and the editorial department spent most of the time checking the novel, if it was a newcomer, take this novel as an example, it was not that the novel could not be written and thrown away, if you felt that there was potential, you must also contact the writer, communicate with each other, and improve the level of the writer, after all, there are so many newspapers in Ming Pao, and fresh blood is always needed." But people's time is always limited, if you don't have a certain literary foundation, even if the story is told well, but you don't have the ability to organize the writing, it's useless, even if you can organize it well, but a novel is easy at the beginning, and it becomes more and more difficult to write later. Therefore, it is not bright to report, and large newspapers have restrictions in this regard. ”

After a pause, he smiled again: "Of course, it is also because of this that Xu Sheng was missed, but Ming Pao's approach is also right, there is no perfect solution to anything in this world." And if it weren't for Xu Sheng right in front of my eyes, I wouldn't believe that this novel would have been written by a teenager. ”

Xu Zhi nodded and said, he actually understands all this, if he is the owner of the newspaper, a junior high school student came and said that he had written a long novel to submit, maybe he would look at the content, if there were a few every day, each one was a story that did not make sense, and after a long time, I am afraid that I would never read it again.

Fang Qiang listened quietly and said with a smile: "If it weren't for this rule, I'm afraid we wouldn't have this opportunity to cooperate!"

Xu Zhi asked: "Huixing only sells 6,000 copies a day now, although it is a lot, but the coverage area is probably not enough, even if you want to rely on the novel to open the market, I'm afraid it will be too late, right?"

When Fang Qiang heard this, he said: "So I hope Xu Sheng can change the ending, and continue to write it in the future, after all, more than 100,000 words, no matter how you control it, the two-month period will be over, and at this time, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the newspaper to completely open the market!"

Xu Zhi smiled, in fact, if the publicity is in place in two months, the fame of the novel should be able to be beaten, but the newspaper cannot make the most profits, after all, sales are everything, if the novel ends soon, the newspaper's largest advertising fee is not guaranteed at all.

"Actually, I have a way to increase sales quickly!" Xu Zhi said with a smile.

Fang Qiang asked, "What method?"

Xu Zhidao: "Raise the price!"

Lin Wenzhou was stunned, and Fang Qiang was also stunned.

"Don't give too much profit to the newsstand!" Xu Zhi said with a smile.

PS: The recommendation vote is left, and the newcomer list is only ranked 51st, sad!