Even if Zhang Chu doesn't want to write "Wild Story" together, the number of words serialized is also a huge pressure on the magazine, and it is probably the best way to choose a newspaper that can be updated every day and combine it with the website.

On the one hand, we need to take care of young people, and on the other hand, we need to explore new markets, and we need to experiment in various channels.

Zhou Kang's so-called Spring Festival holiday is nothing more than working from home, and the workload has not decreased too much, but he is very happy.

Because this year is the most generous year for his year-end bonus, his salary is usually very high, and he has won hundreds of thousands of year-end bonuses!

After all, their company made five or six million when serving Zhang Chu, and Zhou Kang was directly linked to Zhang Chu, of course, he had to take more.

In addition, driven by Zhang Chu, Menglong Culture Media is much easier when it comes to acting for the rest of its writers, and all kinds of copyrights are selling off!

A first-line writer who is on the rise, a young man who is at the peak of creation, Zhang Chu's commercial value far exceeds that of many god-level writers who have achieved fame.

Because those people's works have been sold more or less, and the writing speed is not as fast as before, Zhang Chu can publish five or six books a year, and each book can not only sell well, but also sell the surrounding copyrights.

In fact, most of his works are suitable for adaptation, except for the upcoming "Fifteen Years of Wanli", which Zhou Kang really can't think of can be changed.

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Time passed little by little, and Mrs. Lin couldn't wait to return to her hometown from the city, thinking about the livestock she raised and the various plants in the yard of her hometown.

Fortunately, Zhang Chu's family went home together to burn incense and worship their ancestors after the sixth day of the junior high school, and of course Mrs. Lin's luggage was also brought back, she really didn't miss her son's family at all.

This year's winter was particularly cold, and you can still see hoarfrost all over the countryside that looks like snow from a distance.

The north wind was howling, Zhang Chu pulled the scarf around his neck, and squinted his eyes from the top of the hill to look towards the city.

Matcha seems to be too cold, even if she is wearing a small sweater knitted for it by Mrs. Lin, she still hides in the shovel officer's hat and doesn't dare to run out, but occasionally sticks out her head and looks curiously at this strange place, and there is no feeling of dragging and hanging the sky at all!

That's right, Zhang Chu put the matcha in the hat of his down jacket and carried it on his shoulder, which was warm and didn't take up the position of his arm.

The hills are undulating layer by layer, and there is no trace in the distance, and the howling wind makes Zhang Chu's mobile phone ringtone spread into the distance.

He turned around and turned his back to the vent, and he took out his mobile phone, and then successfully switched from Chinese to English channels, and asked familiarly: "Hi Richard, good afternoon." ”

"Happy New Year, Zhang, I didn't even notice that your Chinese New Year had arrived, and it seems that I hadn't been to Chinatown for a long time. By the way, it's past nine o'clock in the morning in London. ”

Richard humorously said that he was almost busy with the things at hand before he remembered to find this Chinese writer.

Zhang Chu is actually not particularly familiar with Richard, they have only worked together on the BBC's "Sherlock" series, Richard is a staff member of the BBC, and is also one of the producers of the Shenxia TV series, the kind that has a name on the video subtitles.

The first season of "Sherlock" has now come to an end, and although there are only three episodes, the global sensation has just begun, and the last episode has successfully attracted 11.8 million viewers in the UK, which is still 200,000 people away from equaling the BBC's TV drama ratings record!

You can imagine how successful this miniseries is, and now I am afraid that BBC TV is still selling the rights to this TV series to other countries.

can make this powerful figure of BBC TV call from thousands of miles away, Zhang Chu has already vaguely guessed what the other party meant.

"Thank you for your blessings, maybe next time you can come to China to see what the real Chinese New Year is like. So you didn't call today to wish me a happy holiday, did you?"

Zhang Chu is a straightforward character, just a simple greeting, there is no need to keep playing Tai Chi around.

Richard coughed lightly and said with a smile, "I may have a small matter to discuss with you. ”

"Say, I'll listen!"

"Now Sherlock has become our best-selling show of the year at a fraction of the cost of American dramas, and according to the estimates of our TV series treasurer, Ben Stephenson, the vast majority of BBC Universal's profits this year will come from exporting four shows, one of which is Sherlock, as well as "Subverting Partners", "Dancing with the Stars" and so on. It brings us a huge amount of income. ”

Zhang Chu pursed his mouth, no matter how much money this TV series can make for the BBC, he can't get a trace of dividends, so he responded appropriately: "This is a good thing, congratulations." ”

The BBC does not separate the revenue of each show, and Zhang Chu is an outsider after all, so it is impossible for Richard to disclose trade secrets.

Anyway, this year's profit return of BBC Globe will definitely be very good, so Richard couldn't wait to call Zhang Chu, after all, his next plan needs his cooperation.

"We were thinking, if Sherlock is so successful, why not do a second season? So I'm curious if you've already written Sherlock Part 2?"

It is impossible for Richard to let this cash cow sit like this, since the first season is popular, the second, third and even fourth seasons should be taken into account and so on.

It's just that there is a serious problem now, that is, when "Detective Sherlock" signed the TV series adaptation agreement, it was only for the one published by Zhang Chu, and it did not restrict the content at all.

It is impossible for the BBC to put aside Zhang Chu and directly develop the content of the second season, after all, they also thought like this, they don't want the original work, anyway, Zhang Chu is a fanfic work that writes "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes", so I will find a few reliable screenwriters to write this content.

Unfortunately, when their lawyer checked the contract, they found that Zhang Chu's "Sherlock" could not be avoided, because the arrival of Sherlock Holmes in modern times was already the core content of the book, unless they were willing to let Holmes go back to the last century.

But there isn't much to see in this way, and Richard doesn't know if the ratings miracle will continue.

After all, the production cost of the second season will increase a lot, especially those leading actors, it is impossible to treat them with the standard of ordinary actors, and Zhang Chu is not the original author and screenwriter who sent away just one million pounds.

"I'm sorry, but I'm currently working on a book about ancient Chinese mythology, and I can't write Sherlock for the time being, and my schedule is already scheduled for next year. If you're not in a hurry, I'm going to write Sherlock 2 again early next year. ”

This is Zhang Chu's answer, and he has the confidence to treat the BBC's real power like this!