Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.

In a bookstore, Honda Tounoro walked up to his friend, patted him on the shoulder and said, "What are you looking at?"

Miki Tanaka glanced back, then raised the book in his hand and showed the cover to Ichiro Honda.

"1999 - Our journey is the sea of stars!" Honda Tononoro frowned, he had never heard the name of this author, and it didn't seem to be a Japanese name, so he asked curiously, "This is the author's book?"

"It's like a Chinese writer. Miki Tanaka remembered that the science fiction master had been mentioned in the newspaper he had read in the morning.

Honda picked up the book from the shelf, opened it and glanced at the catalog, and asked curiously: "Is it science fiction?"

Miki Tanaka nodded: "Yes, I always feel that this title is very related to me, after reading it in the newspaper this morning, I ran over to buy a copy to see, and found that the book is great, I am going to buy a copy and go back to read it." ”

This Miki Tanaka is Yoshiki Tanaka, who later wrote "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes", which sold tens of millions of copies in Japan, among which the classic lines on the Internet in later generations: Our journey is the sea of stars, which is from his pen.

It's just that at this time, it was written by Huo Yaowen earlier.

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After Christopher Littor sold the rights to 1999 to Kodansha in Japan during the Hugo Awards last year, Sajiro Aso, the executive editor of Kodansha, returned to Japan and asked the company's translators to translate it into Japanese, and it took more than a month until December to finally translate the book into Japanese.

After more than 10 days of publicity and promotion, it was officially released in various bookstores and newsstands in Japan on January 3.

As a best-selling science fiction masterpiece in the United States, and the first best-selling myth created by an Asian in history, although the author Evan is a Chinese, the Japanese have always admired the strong, and after the release of "1999" on the first day, it directly sold more than 200,000 copies.

Xing Shinichi, who is respected by the Japanese as the "father of miniature" and "master of science fiction", after reading this book, praised the author Huo Yaowen in Japan's "Tokyo Daily" as a rare genius writer in a century, and the law of the dark forest in his "1999" perfectly interprets what it means to be the law of the jungle and the deceit of society.

As a result, "1999" sold out of stock in just three days, and if it weren't for the strength of Kodansha, one of Japan's largest publishing companies, it might not have been able to supply it quickly after it ran out.

Speaking of this Xing Shinichi, he is also a powerful writer, he was born in 1926, and was born in a scientific family since childhood, so he is full of enthusiasm for science, and his representative works include "Demon Heaven", "Artificial Beauty", "Agora Network" and "Devil's Target", but the most familiar work is "Hey-Out", which was introduced into a textbook article.

After Hoshi Shinichi praised the book "1999" in the newspaper, Kodansha saw that the book was almost out of stock, and also stepped up its publicity efforts, promoting it in many newspapers and TV stations in Japan, which also led to the sale of "1999" in less than a week.

At this time, Junichi Watanabe, who had already made a name for himself in Japan and had just published several suspense medical books, followed the trend in Japan at this time, bought this book, and after reading it carefully, he also praised this book in Japan's "Asahi Shimbun......

After two weeks of sales, by January 20, Huo Yaowen's "1999" had sold 3.6 million copies in Japan, completely causing a sensation in the entire Japanese literary circle.

"1999" was a bestseller in Japan, bringing great benefits to Kodansha, and its editor-in-chief, Sajiro Aso, was severely praised by the president and asked him to send someone to Hong Kong to discuss further cooperation.

After receiving the order, Aso Sajiro also immediately sent someone to take a plane to prepare to go to Hong Kong, hoping to take advantage of the book sales at this time, and then sign the Japanese copyright of several books he wrote before from Huo Yaowen's hands, so as to bring greater benefits to Kodansha.

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Kowloon, Hong Kong, inside Oriental Daily.

Ma Rulong sat in the office bored, with a cigarette in his mouth, swallowing clouds and mist, as if he wanted to spit out the unhappiness in his heart.

Since Lan Gang became the position of Inspector Zonghua, his territory has been much smaller, and his relative business has naturally decreased a lot, and almost all of the big heads in Hong Kong and Kowloon have been taken away by Wu Shihao.

For this reason, he drove to Lei Luo's house in Baijiadao early in the morning, hoping to ask Brother Lak to help mediate it, but he didn't even see the person's face, so he was invited out.

How not to upset Ma Rulong.

Li Daoguang walked in with the financial statements of the last three months, and he saw that Ma Rulong didn't seem to be very happy today, so he spoke very carefully: "President Ma, this is the financial statement of the recent March newspaper. ”

"Hmm. Ma Rulong was angry, but he didn't throw fire on Li Daoguang, he took the report in his hand and opened it.

When he saw that the newspaper's three-month profit was less than 100,000 yuan, far less than a few months ago, he frowned, looked at Li Daoguang like a sword, and asked in a deep voice: "Editor-in-chief Li, why is the profit in the last three months so low?"

Li Daoguang replied cautiously: "President Ma, the sales of newspapers have indeed declined a lot recently, which has also led to less money from those businessmen who advertise in newspapers, but I have been working hard to increase newspaper sales, and there has been a turnaround in the past two days." ”

Ma Rulong frowned: "Why did sales decline so quickly? Didn't I take you to a dog farm in Macau last year to get in touch with the leper dog?

"Yes, the tips for each issue were sent in a telegram. Li Daoguang hesitated for a few seconds, but still said: "President Ma, in fact, this tip is not exclusive to us, you also know that there are so many dog scriptures in Hong Kong, and people have more choices." ”

"Leper dog, you hit the street, I'll settle accounts with you when I turn back!"

As soon as he heard that the tips were not exclusive to himself, Ma Rulong angrily threw the report on the table, and he took Li Daoguang to Macau last time to contact a person in charge of the dog farm, just to be able to get the latest tips for each issue of the dog race, but he didn't expect this leper dog to sell the tips back to others, how not to make Ma Rulong angry!

This anger made Li Daoguang dare not breathe.

Maybe it was because of the roar, Ma Rulong's irritable heart was soothed a lot, he didn't care about the newspaper's profit, but he didn't want Li Daoguang and these people in the newspaper to mistakenly think that he Ma Rulong usually came to the newspaper office, which meant that he could do whatever he wanted regardless of the newspaper's affairs, and he still knew how to control people.

Ma Rulong took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one from it and put it in his mouth, took out a kerosene lighter and lit it, took a slow puff, spit out the smoke, glanced at Li Daoguang, and asked, "Why haven't there been any ghost blowing lamp articles in the newspaper recently?"

Li Daoguang said: "Mr. Huo has been busy lately and has no time to write books. ”

"Busy?"

Ma Rulong frowned and said: "Busy, you won't come to the door to urge, the newspaper is selling so poorly now, is it because there is no ghost blowing the lamp to serialize?"

"I've also urged Huo Sheng a few times..."

Without waiting for Li Daoguang to finish speaking, Ma Rulong said angrily: "If you tell him, just say what I say, let him deliver the manuscript in a few days, I am not missing his manuscript fee, in vain I gave him so much increase in manuscript fee before!"

"Yes, I will rush Huo Sheng as soon as possible. ”

Li Daoguang had a depressed face, he regretted working in "Oriental Daily" at this time, although he and Ma Rulong had been safe before, and the other party did not put too much pressure on Li Daoguang, but in the face of this boss with an underworld background, Li Daoguang didn't even dare to say anything to refute it.

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