Inside the Emperor's Daily News.

Zhong Weishun approached the newspaper office with the manuscript he had written today, and the newspaper clerks and editors in charge who he met along the way all got up to greet him.

"Mr. Zhong is here!"

"Mr. Zhong, Editor-in-Chief He is waiting for you inside. ”

Zhong Weishun greeted people with a smile on his face, and responded to the staff of these newspapers one by one, and when he arrived outside the editor-in-chief's office, he knocked on the door.

Editor-in-chief He, who was busy in the house, heard a knock on the door and casually said "Come in", and when he saw that the person who pushed the door in was Zhong Weishun, he got up with a smile and said, "Old Zhong is here." ”

From a few years ago to the recent period, the daily sales of the Emperor's Daily newspaper have increased sharply every day, thanks to Chung Wai-shun's participation in the scolding war between Ni Frame and others in the newspaper, and even more provoking the scolding war between the newspaper and the Oriental Daily last year.

When Zhong Weishun sat down, he asked in high spirits: "How is the newspaper sales of Editor-in-Chief He recently?"

"It's not bad, it's gone up by a few thousand since the end of the year. Editor-in-Chief He didn't hide it, the other party was an old man in the newspaper, and there was no need to fool around about this matter.

"That's okay, it has risen by thousands in seven or eight days, and I think it can go up again in the next few days, by the way, Editor-in-Chief He, this is the article I wrote today. Zhong Weishun is very satisfied with this increase, although his manuscript fee is fixed now, but as the newspaper sells better, his manuscript fee will naturally rise.

Editor-in-Chief He took a few pieces of manuscript paper handed over by Zhong Weishun, glanced at it briefly, and still scolded the Oriental Daily for being with the author, and at the same time spoke for Ni Frame, frowning and saying: "The people of this Oriental Daily have not responded, except for a few articles at the beginning, and now the floating life has not come forward, and if this continues, I am afraid that the sales of the newspaper will drop sooner or later." ”

Editor-in-Chief He knows that the sales of newspapers have been very good in recent times, and all of them are the pleasure of readers reading newspapers and scolding others, but if one side scolds people and the other side does not engage in the war, sooner or later readers will lose interest in buying newspapers.

"If you ignore us, then find someone to force him to end. Only by singing and singing a full set can you understand, and only when you have contacts with people can you continue to scold, and the one-man show will not be sung for a long time!"

Zhong Weishun naturally knew that the one-man show of scolding and fighting would not last until the end, so after learning the lesson of the last time, he did not confront Oriental Daily and Fusheng head-on this time, but mostly praised Ni Frame in the articles he wrote, supplemented by derogatory Oriental Daily and Fusheng.

In this way, it can not only provoke the resentment between Ni Frame and Fusheng, but also provoke the emotions of book fans on both sides, so as to bring the greatest benefits to himself and the newspaper.

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And things are also as Zhong Weishun planned, after he contacted a few friends, he praised Ni Frame as the first science fiction master in Hong Kong in many newspapers, and belittled those writers who used the ghost blowing the lamp to imitate the Ni frame, and incidentally stepped on the floating life of the ghost blowing the lamp.

Such a half-month-long newspaper touting not only made many newspaper readers watch the scolding war with relish, but even Ni Frame himself was proud.

When interviewed by the newspaper, he was asked by a reporter: "Mr. Ni, recently, many newspapers in Hong Kong have been saying that you are the No. 1 science fiction writer in Hong Kong and have a wild mind, I don't know what you think of this evaluation?"

Ni Frame smiled: "What can you think? Isn't this a fact? The science fiction book I wrote was a big hit, and it was not like those who wrote the text and hit the street in five years." ”

The reporter asked: "But many people have said in the newspaper that the plot of the alien tomb you recently wrote has borrowed a lot of things from the ghost blowing lantern written by the writer Fusheng, and many of them have similar methods of exploration in the tomb, but they are written in a nondescript manner." ”

Ni Frame looked displeased: "Although I write science fiction, I have asked professionals about some archaeological procedures in the article, which must be different from what everyone thinks on weekdays, and I am not hiding at home alone and making up nonsense." ”

The reporter's eyes lit up: "Mr. Ni, do you mean that the ghost blowing lamp written by Fusheng is made up and written blindly?"

Ni Qiao pouted: "You said it yourself, I didn't say it." ”

The reporter asked again: "Mr. Ni, what do you think of the fact that many people in the newspaper have recently said that you are not worthy of the title of Hong Kong's No. 1 science fiction writer?"

Ni Frame sneered: "Is it worthy of what they say? With such great ability, why haven't you seen how many good books they have written?"

Perhaps Ni Frame's answer was meant to belittle the floating life, but under the reporter's modification operation.

The next day, the newspaper ran a headline on its front page: "Ni Frame refuted a number of newspapers that his new work borrowed from ghosts and blows out the lamp, and angrily accused the writer of making up nonsense and writing nonsense." ”

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The University of Hong Kong Press.

"President. Clerk He Qidi knocked on the office door and walked in.

Huo Yaowen put down the newspaper and looked up at Brother He who was standing at the door: "Something?"

"That ......" Brother He hesitated, but he still approached and put a newspaper in his hand on the table: "President, take a look for yourself." ”

Huo Yaowen glanced at He Qidi suspiciously, picked up the newspaper on the table, and the first thing he saw was the headline of Ni Frame's angry denunciation, subconsciously frowning, and glanced at the upper right corner of the newspaper, which was the newspaper of "Hong Kong Evening News".

He quickly skimmed through the full text, threw the newspaper on the table, and said to Brother He: "That's it, put your mind on work in the future, don't bother with these meaningless things." ”

"I know the president. He Yidi thought that the president would be furious when he saw the newspaper headline, but he didn't expect that it was just a light reminder to work hard, and after being deflated, she turned around and left.

After the others left, Huo Yaowen looked at the Hong Kong Evening News on the table, frowned, not as light as just now, he also knew that although the people of the Emperor's Daily had been barking like a dog in the back, he didn't bother to go to the newspaper to scold Gu Shu Zimo again.

But this time is different, he has no grievances with Ni Frame, he is his first science fiction master, and the books he is currently writing in Hong Kong are sweet and sweet, except for the ghost blowing the lamp, and they have nothing to do with science fiction, so he can implicate himself?

At this time, Zhu Wenqing knocked on the door and walked in: "President Huo, someone from Aoki Publishing House sent a telegram, saying that the ghost blowing lantern has been published in Taiwan, perhaps with your previous reputation, and more than 2,000 copies were sold on the first day." ”

Hearing this good news, Huo Yaowen swept away the depression just now, and said with a smile: "Yes? It sold 2,000 copies on the first day, and it seems that the Taiwan market is still big, and it should be able to sell tens of thousands of copies if it goes on like this." ”

Zhu Wenqing put the telegram sent by the Aoki Publishing House on the table, "Yes, the people of Aoki estimate that Taiwan can sell about 50,000 or 60,000 copies, and the people over there unfortunately say that if this book is a romance, it will definitely be able to sell more than 100,000 copies in a short period of time with the help of the influence of the previous signing meeting." ”

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen smiled silently, he had indeed written a new romance book, but it was not yet the time to publish, and when Li Hanxiang's movie was almost finished, it would be bundled with his movie and sold.

Picked up the telegram and looked at it a few times, roughly as Zhu Wenqing just said, his eyes suddenly moved down, and when he saw the headline in the Hong Kong Evening News again, Huo Yaowen's heart sank, and he raised his head and asked casually: "Manager Zhu, do you know some people from the newspaper?"

Zhu Wenqing nodded: "I know the editors-in-chief of several newspapers, but they are all small newspapers, and the president wants to promote them in the newspaper?"

Huo Yaowen was about to say something, but after thinking about it, he handed over the matter to Oriental Daily, thought about his previous plan, shook his head and said: "It's not propaganda, you know about the fact that the society won the order from the Education Department the day before yesterday." ”

"Editor-in-Chief Wu told us that let's pay attention to recruiting people in the near future. Although Zhu Wenqing is from the marketing department, this matter is also related to him, and he has to hand over to various schools after the publication of the textbook.

Huo Yaowen thought for a few seconds and organized the language: "If you contact a few more newspapers, you will say that the University of Hong Kong Press, in order to support the Education Department's free education regulations for school-age children in Hong Kong, has won orders from the Education Department at a loss, alleviating the poor financial situation of the Education Department in recent years, aiming to let more children who have no books to read enter schools to learn knowledge and culture, and become pillars of society and talents for the prosperity of the country." ”

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