After hiring Christopher Littor as his copyright agent, Huo Yaowen did not care about this matter, and gave him full responsibility for it, and he has been busy going back and forth between the school and the publishing house with all his heart.

After a while, with Huo Yaowen's instructions before, Wu Liande arranged for someone to rent a factory in Bofulin for a few days.

The factory was rented, and there was good news from Luo Cheng's side, the batch of printing presses bought from the United States had also arrived at the Hong Kong port smoothly, and these two big expenses almost spent Huo Yaowen's first "1999" share of the manuscript fee, and this batch of printing presses shipped to Hong Kong, there were a total of ten, and the price exceeded more than 700,000 Hong Kong dollars, which far exceeded Huo Yaowen's first manuscript fee.

However, fortunately, Bantan Book Publishing Company also sent a manuscript fee settlement statement by mail, a full 235,000 US dollars, equivalent to about 1.2 million Hong Kong dollars, excluding the balance of the printing press, and the remaining money will still be available after a period of time, and it will not be transferred back to Hong Kong until the operation of tax avoidance by Rodes.

The new Yaowen Printing Factory is only about two kilometers away from the printing plant of the University of Hong Kong, which is neither far nor close, because Yaowen Book Publishing Company is still a shell company, except for a printing factory, there is not a single employee, Zhang Zhide has temporarily brought some newly recruited employees to operate the new machinery here, in addition to stepping up the printing of orders and tutorial books from the Education Department, it is to print the book "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind".

The days passed in a hurry, and when 100,000 copies of "Cloud" were printed, Huo Yaowen received a call from Li Hanxiang, saying that the movie had been finalized and would be officially released in Hong Kong in 15 days, and there was only one day left in Taiwan.

Fang, the editor-in-chief of Taiwan's Aoki Publishing House, also sent a telegram, saying that 200,000 copies of the book had been prepared and could be officially publicized and distributed.

I have to say that the editor-in-chief Fang is full of confidence in Huo Yaowen's new romance, and with the last "Sweet Honey", which was a big hit in Taiwan, he is not worried about whether this new book will hit the street.

In this regard, Huo Yaowen naturally contacted Wu Liande early, and asked him to inform Zhu Wenqing of the marketing department to contact those bookstore newsstands, and arrange for someone to pull goods from the warehouse of the printing house and send them to all parts of Hong Kong as soon as possible.

In order to cooperate with the promotion and release of his new book, Huo Yaowen contacted He Zuozhi of Hong Kong Commercial Television, and met with the celebrities before him to face this show, He Zuozhi was naturally very happy about this, after all, he naturally knew how famous Huo Yaowen was in Hong Kong recently, although it was to promote the new book, but the other party could come and naturally drive the radio listeners.

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Hong Kong Commercial Television.

At about six o'clock in the evening, in the program group of "Celebrity Face to Face", Huo Yaowen took the headset handed over by Luo Huizhen with a smile, sat next to the host Li Me, and quietly waited for the staff's instructions.

There are still a few minutes before the official start of the broadcast, and the host Li I glanced at Huo Yaowen and asked with a smile: "You have also read the script of Huo Sheng just now, if there is any question that is inconvenient to answer or does not want to answer, you can shake your head, and I will help you take it over." ”

"Mr. Li is polite, I have read the script, there are no questions that cannot be answered. Huo Yaowen shook his head, he is not one of those artists, although there are private topics such as asking him if he has a girlfriend in the script, but these are not some ulterior secrets, if there is, there is none.

"That's good. "Li, I have met Huo Yaowen a few times, when the ghost blows the lamp and makes it into a radio drama dubbing, he was deeply impressed by Huo Yaowen's zombie cry, but he didn't expect that more than half a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and the other party's achievements have become higher and higher, and the books he has written are selling better and better, and this attitude has naturally changed.

Luo Huizhen next to her was a little excited, since Xiao Xiao, the original host of the emotional show, gave birth to a child and came back, she only had the host of the program "Celebrity Face to Face", or with Li and I, at first I was still a little unaccustomed to this kind of interview-style program, but as she gradually became familiar with it, she found this kind of interview radio program where you ask me and answer it is quite interesting, not to mention that today's guest is Huo Yaowen, I haven't seen her for a few months, Luo Huizhen found that Huo Yaowen seems to have become more charming.

At this time, the staff in the opposite glass window made a gesture: "Brother Li counts down in ten seconds!"

"Good. Li I nodded, he has been hosting radio programs for seven or eight years, and he has long been familiar with this set, but he still turned his head to look at Huo Yaowen and said, "Mr. Huo just thinks that we usually chat." ”

"Hmm. As soon as Huo Yaowen said a word, Li and I calculated the time and opened his mouth and said: "Good evening, listeners and friends, this is "Face to Face with Celebrities", I am the host Li I!"

Luo Huizhen followed: "I'm Zhenzhen!"

Li I didn't rush to introduce Huo Yaowen, but asked with a smile as if chatting with Luo Huizhen: "Zhenzhen, today's guest seems to have always been a writer you like very much, right?"

"Yes, he's a writer I've always liked, whether it's a ghost ......" Luo Huizhen stopped talking as soon as she finished speaking, and she realized that as soon as she said the title of the book, the audience could guess who it was.

Li Me: "Haha, I think Zhenzhen can't wait to say the name of today's guest, then I will officially introduce it, welcome the well-known writer Mr. Huo Yaowen!"

Zhenzhen: "Welcome!"

Huo Yaowen: "Hello listeners and friends, I am Huo Yaowen. ”

Li Me: "Mr. Huo doesn't seem to be very nervous? Several of the guests who participated in our radio program before were more or less nervous, and they didn't speak fluently. ”

Huo Yaowen laughed lightly: "It may be a problem with my profession." ”

Li I praised: "Yes, Mr. Huo is not only a well-known writer, but also a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, and is very popular with the students of the University of Hong Kong. Can you ask Mr. Fok how you applied for the job of a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong?"

Huo Yaowen laughed: "Maybe it's luck, the philosophy course of the University of Hong Kong is a relatively rare course, only more than 30 students in the class I studied took this course, it just so happened that my teacher Teacher Zhang is old and is about to retire this year, the school has the intention of training a young lecturer, so I applied for it in a daze." ”

Li exclaimed: "This is not a lucky application, which shows that the University of Hong Kong recognizes Mr. Fok's talent and teaching skills, otherwise how could he choose you?"

Originally, Li thought that Huo Yaowen would be humble, but I didn't expect him to say: "Hehe, I think so too, maybe the school recognizes my talent!"

Luo Huizhen, who was next to "Haha......", suddenly covered her mouth and laughed, but no matter how she covered it, the voice was still transmitted through the radio microphone to the ears of all listeners in Hong Kong who listened to this program.

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Huo Tingting and her cousin were lying on the bed, holding the newly bought radio, listening to this show, and when she heard Brother Brother's shameless answer, Huo Tingting smiled and said, "Brother is so funny." ”

Even Zhang Wanjun, who has always been quiet, was holding her stomach with a smile, she didn't expect Brother Yaowen to answer the host's question like this.

On the other side, Lu Suzhen, who received Huo Tingting's news, was also sitting at the table listening to the conversation on the radio, and laughed out loud.

This scene happened in many places in Hong Kong, as early as a few days ago, people from Commercial Taiwan had been promoting the new guests, but their names were not revealed, but they attracted many listeners to listen.

I was still surprised when I first heard that the guest was Huo Yaowen, after all, it is very rare for the Hong Kong press to praise a person like this in the past month or so.

At this time, when I heard Huo Yaowen's nonsensical answer, I felt that it seemed a little wrong with the image of the literati written in the newspaper.

Li, I didn't expect Huo Yaowen to answer like this, and I couldn't help but smile and praise this sentence: "Mr. Huo is really funny, maybe this is the reason why Mr. Huo can write such different themes but can sell well, after all, a funny person can often be broader and unconstrained in creative ideas." ”

"Mr. Li, it's too much. "Huo Yaowen didn't expect Li to boast of people's ability to be so powerful, could it be that the host is very proficient in round talk?

Maybe it was because he saw that Huo Yaowen was talking more funny, and Li and I's questions were gradually not limited to the script, originally he thought that the other party was very angry, but when he looked at the other party's nodding with a smile, he understood that Mr. Huo didn't seem to care very much, so he continued to talk about the script.

The half-hour interview began with Huo Yaowen's first book, talked about the experience of publishing in the United States, and then went around and returned to the new book.

"I heard that Mr. Huo recently created a new romance book called "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind", which was remade into a movie by director Li Hanxiang, and it is reported that it will be officially released in Hong Kong on July 7 next month?" asked Li I.

"Yes. ”

Luo Huizhen, who was next to her, suddenly asked: "July 7 is the traditional Chinese Qixi Festival, Mr. Huo's book is a romance, is it a story about lovers who eventually become married?"

Li I interrupted with a smile: "Zhenzhen, Qixi Festival is the 19th of August, and that day is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which is the traditional Qixi Festival." ”

Although Hong Kong now uses the Gregorian calendar, the lunar calendar is also used in the people, and the July 7th day of the movie is the Gregorian calendar, which is not strictly speaking, it is not Valentine's Day, and it will not be until August 19th.

Luo Huizhen said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I remembered wrong." ”

Huo Yaowen said with a smile: "It's okay, but when it comes to the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar, I think of my little sister who told me about her birthday when I was a child, when I was a child, the family conditions were not very good, and I could only eat meat during the festival and birthday every year, my little sister lay on the calendar one day and told me, my brother is my birthday tomorrow, will my mother buy meat......?

"Haha, Mr. Huo's sister is really interesting, the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar?" Li and I laughed on the side.

Luo Huizhen also kept laughing.

Huo Yaowen laughed, completely unaware that Huo Tingting was blushing at this time and slapped her pillow angrily.

At the end of the words, Li I was about to make an ending, when I suddenly thought of something, looked sideways at Huo Yaowen and asked, "Mr. Huo, does your book "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" have any special meaning?"

"Special meaning?" Huo Yaowen thought for a few seconds and said with a smile: "Maybe Mr. Li can find this answer in a movie or book at that time." ”

"Yes, then I'm going to have to take a closer look at the movie, I'm interested in the title. Li smiled.

After the show ended, Huo Yaowen politely declined the invitation of Li I and Luo Huizhen to dinner, and drove a newly bought Mercedes-Benz car back to Hong Kong Island before the last ferry in the evening.

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Because his identity was disclosed by the newspaper, Huo Yaowen did not continue to simply use the pen name, but added his own name under the pen name, so that it could also increase sales and popularity, after all, the newspaper had been promoting Huo Yaowen's real name some time ago, and there was very little written about the pen name Fusheng.

In terms of publicity and distribution in Taiwan, Huo Yaowen and Wu Liande are not very worried, after all, Aoki Publishing House, as a well-known publishing house in Taiwan, has been in the industry for more than 20 years and has long been deeply rooted.

But the publicity on Hong Kong Island, Huo Yaowen is still a little worried, the failure of the ghost blowing the lamp earlier, but it made him see the shortcomings of his own publishing house, compared to the newspaper network in the literary world that has been open for more than ten years.

However, this will have been vigorously publicized by the Hong Kong press before, and even if he is a little worried, his heart is still relatively stable.

In fact, just as Huo Yaowen thought, whether it was because the previous big sale of "Sweet Honey" attracted the fame of the pen name Fusheng among female book fans, or the news reports of major newspapers more than a month ago, or Li Hanxiang's side took Zhen Zhen and Xie Xian everywhere to publicize, this new book has received great attention.

In just three days, "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" sold more than 20,000 copies in Hong Kong, far exceeding the previous sales of "Sweet Honey" that exceeded 10,000 in three days.

And the sales in Taiwan are even better, but the sales of 10,000 copies broke on the first day, and the sales of 40,000 copies directly exceeded in three consecutive days, which can be said to have caused a sensation in the entire Taiwan industry, whether it is a romance writer or a martial arts writer or a science fiction writer, they were amazed to see Huo Yaowen's sales of 40,000 copies in three days.

Ten days later, before the release of the film on July 7, Hong Kong and Taiwan totaled more than 370,000 copies.

After all, the plot in the movie is a selected plot, and if you want to see the complete story, you have to buy it, but compared to the era when Taiwan is still a romance movie at this time, Hong Kong may be much inferior.

Since Zhang Che filmed "One-armed Knife" in 1967, the box office sales of 1.3 million, Hong Kong romance movies have slowly entered the sunset, in the past two years, Wang Yu has made several traditional old-fashioned martial arts films have become the crown, Zheng Pei's film "Golden Swallow" in women's disguised as men sold 1.45 million at the box office last year, directly becoming the box office champion of Hong Kong films, and also led to the birth of martial arts films beating women.

At this moment, all the film companies in Hong Kong are swarming to follow up on martial arts films, causing fans who originally liked romance movies to be attracted by this hard-bridged martial arts film.

Therefore, after the release of "Cloud", it only sold more than 300,000 box office in Hong Kong, most of which were contributed by the title of the original book, but Taiwan is different, the movie just came out, and it directly broke the amazing box office of 500,000 in a week, and directly exceeded one million half a month later, and the box office reached an astonishing 1.23 million before the release of this movie, becoming the box office champion of romance movies over the years.

Even with Huo Yaowen's new book of the same name, "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind", it sold more than 50,000 copies in Taiwan, until Huo Yaowen was ready to fly to Vienna, Austria with Mr. Zhang, Professor Luke, President Le Pinchun and others to attend the World Congress of Philosophy.

The book sold a total of 450,000 copies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, breaking the first edition sales of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" published by Jin Yong in Hong Kong and Taiwan in one fell swoop.

Of course, this is only the sales of the first edition, Jin Yong later reprinted "Shooting the Condor" many times, and the sum of several editions has already exceeded one million copies in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

However, when Huo Yaowen heard Wu Liande mention that he was a big seller and broke Jin Yong's sales, he was still very happy, and before leaving Hong Kong, he went to the publishing house again.

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University of Hong Kong Press.

Huo Yaowen took a sip of tea: "Elder Wu, the recruitment of Yaowen Book Publishing Company will trouble you." ”

The new book was a big seller, and the manuscript fee in the United States was also successfully transferred back to Hong Kong under the operation of Luo Cheng, and at this time, Huo Yaowen, who had a lot of money, was ready to fill up which shell company he had and become a regular publishing company.

"This bowl of idle rice is really not delicious, not only to help you take care of the new book, but also to help you set up a company and recruit people!"

Wu Liande laughed, and handed over the financial report just submitted by the employees at hand to Huo Yaowen: "This is the financial report of your new book, after deducting some labor costs and some costs from the printing plant of the University of Hong Kong, including the profits of bookstores and newsstands, the net profit of your book will be more than 300,000 yuan in Hong Kong!"

Hong Kong sold 150,000 copies, 5 Hong Kong dollars per volume, excluding various costs and expenses, the net profit can reach 300,000, which can be said to be a very astonishing number, not including the share of Taiwan's Aoki Publishing House, Taiwan's side sold 300,000 copies, even if the profit has decreased a lot, at least 100,000 or 200,000, a book in Hong Kong and Taiwan to earn 500,000, it is simply a huge profit.

Huo Yaowen simply flipped through the financial report, put it aside, looked at Wu Liande with a smile and said: "Financial matters, I will arrange someone to come over and hand over to the publishing house later, I came this time mainly to tell Wu Lao, I am going to go abroad recently, go to Vienna, Austria to participate in the World Philosophy Congress, and I will come back at the end of July." In terms of tutoring books, I have arranged for Zhu Wenqing to contact the teachers and directors of various schools, and Wu Lao does not need to pay much attention to this aspect, but he still needs to put more effort into teaching materials, and now he has only printed more than 400,000 copies, which is still a lot of difference from the order of the Education Department. ”

"I know this, your new book is now printed less, the vacated machine can print more textbooks, I communicated with the editor-in-chief Zhang, it is completely possible to complete the order before the beginning of August, and the tutorial book has also been printed more than 100,000 copies, for the time being, I did not let the editor-in-chief Zhang continue to print, I am afraid that I will not be able to sell out of hoarding. Wu Liande is still worried about the sales of tutoring books.

Huo Yaowen said with a smile: "Editor-in-chief Wu, don't worry! I have already explained to Zhu Wenqing, and told him about the propaganda of the counseling book and a series of operational methods, and when the batch of new students in Kowloon starts school, the hundreds of thousands of counseling books can be completely eaten, even if there are more!"

Wu Liande looked at Huo Yaowen's confident appearance, although he couldn't figure out his propaganda methods, he didn't ask much, just nodded and responded: "Okay, I'll call Editor-in-Chief Chen later, and ask him to continue to let the workers rush to print all kinds of tutorial books, but I still have something to tell you." ”

"What's the matter?" Seeing Wu Lao's solemn face, Huo Yaowen was puzzled.

"There may not be enough warehouses. Wu Liande said helplessly: "During this period of textbooks, I have asked Zhu Wenqing to inform all government primary schools in Kowloon to find a car to pull them over according to the required number of each school, but the tutorial books are now hoarding, and our warehouse can only hold 150,000 copies, continue to print, what should we do if there is no place?" ”

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen frowned and said, "This is indeed a troublesome matter, if you build a warehouse now, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time, right?"

"Yes, at least a month or two. Wu Liande nodded.

"Then rent a warehouse, see if there are any useless warehouses or factories in the Pokfulin area, rent it and renovate it, and use it as a backup warehouse. ”

Huo Yaowen frowned and said: "With so many books in the warehouse, it is not safe in the first place, I am ready to plan to wait for this printing to be completed and renovate the printing house. ”

Wu Liande said sadly: "But the publishing house doesn't have any extra money now, renting a factory or warehouse is calculated according to the year, and it has to be renovated, which is ......."

Huo Yaowen waved his hand: "Take the account of Yaowen Publishing Company, anyway, the printing house has been done over there, and there is no supporting warehouse, so I just rented it to avoid trouble in the future." ”

"Alright, I'll take care of this as soon as possible. ”

After the business was discussed, Wu Liande suddenly remembered what Huo Yaowen said before, and said in surprise: "President, you said that you are going to attend the World Philosophy Conference?"

Huo Yaowen smiled: "It was arranged by the school, and I will leave the day after tomorrow, and I came here today to explain the situation in the club." ”

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