The plot and contradictions set by the detailed outline are consistent with the characters' personalities, Zhang Chu writes quite quickly and smoothly, and there is no idea of reversing and starting over.

In this "Sou Shen Ji", the most popular character is never the protagonist Tuoba Ye, but Qiao Chiyou, Inspiration Yang and others!

When Zhang Chu saw the names of the two books on yesterday's sales list the next day, he himself was taken aback.

It is not surprising that "Detective Sherlock" is at the top of the list, and it is normal for "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" to drop to fifth place, but why are "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Sou Shen Ji" appearing on this list?

This is also a concern of thousands of readers and media, and these two books should not be in this position at all!

The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" published by the People's Education Publishing House sold 1,800 copies yesterday, and the work "Sou Shen Ji" published by the Dongshan Publishing House sold 2,800 copies, not counting the part that was returned.

The General Administration of Press and Publication wrote in yesterday's sales review: "Since there are a total of 21 different editions of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Sou Shen Ji", the two versions with the highest sales are now on the list. Among them, all editions of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" have sold a total of 4,100 copies, and "Sou Shen Ji" also has 5,500 copies. ”

After all, they are all ancient Chinese works, and any publishing house can take them out for publication, but you have to consider whether they can be sold after publication.

Most of these editions were printed and published several years ago, after all, the publisher knew that even if it was a public resource, it could be printed at will, but it was just that there was no need to pay the manuscript fee, and the rest of the cost had to be paid.

I have never been on the sales list before, but now I have been on the list in the past two days, and the reason is self-evident!

This time completely refreshed the industry's perception of Zhang Chu's works, just mentioning it on Weibo, it can already be on the list casually, if it is really a book, I am afraid it will be a completely sweeping ending.

……

Zeng Yanghua sat on the sofa with joy and fear, and his mood was very complicated.

As the vice president of Dongshan Publishing House, at the age of 48, he is likely to become a regular after the retirement of the president this year, which is definitely the prime of life in the publishing industry!

Especially this time, "Sou Shen Ji" actually sold 2,800 copies in so many editions, which was the work he presided over before, and it was considered a stupid trick by the publishing house before, but now he has directly turned over and become a wise representative.

If it weren't for Zhang Chu's insistence on calling this name, I'm afraid that this version of their publishing house wouldn't be able to sell for many years!

"Mr. Li, I have asked the workers to work overtime to deliver the goods, but to be honest, we don't have any inventory, and the printing plant is not working now. ”

"Xiao Wu, it's not that we refuse to deliver the goods, but it's out of stock, just now Xinhua Bookstore directly called a car to go to the warehouse to pull away the little inventory we had left. ”

"We also want to make money, doesn't it just happen to coincide with the Spring Festival? Workers are on holiday, and they refuse to come with three times their wages and red envelopes, and many people simply go back to their hometowns. ”

The work of the same name is obviously more influential, Zeng Yanghua's mobile phone has not stopped at all, and familiar dealers have called one by one to urge the goods.

If Zhang Chu can maintain the current popularity and upward trend, then there is a great hope that the work of the same name by their publishing house will sell another 100,000 copies or so.

But Zeng Yanghua and they arranged for a book "Imperial Hegemony" to be released around the Lantern Festival, which happened to bump into Zhang Chu's "Fifteen Years of Wanli"!

One is a fictional history, and the other is a serious academic historical work, and it stands to reason that the former is more popular with readers.

But this is just a normal situation, and now the author of "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" is Zhang Chu, and he can bring two neglected classics back into people's eyes with a Weibo.

Zeng Yanghua was extremely conflicted in his heart, he said to himself: "Forget it, anyway, the book "Imperial Hegemony" probably doesn't have a chance to reach the top, let's see how Zhang Chu's academic work is, if there are too many loopholes, it is not that there is no chance of overtaking." ”

On the one hand, he wanted to use Zhang Chu's fame to sell books, and on the other hand, he was worried that Zhang Chu's popularity was too high, and his publishing house's new works were crushed.

……

Compared with Zeng Yanghua's thoughts, these two low-ranking classics on the list naturally attracted a lot of attention and discussion, which also really showed Zhang Chu's appeal data.

No amount of praise and fright can be overstated, many people want to see what his source of inspiration is when they are waiting for Zhang Chu's new book, so "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" can have such good sales even if it does not have the same name.

"After I went to buy a book at noon, I saw Zhang Chu's big Weibo news, I bought the classical Chinese version of "Sou Shen Ji", which was a little pit. Learning classical Chinese in middle school was a kind of torture, but I didn't expect to have to endure this torture after work, and I had to read the books I bought on my knees!"

"I'll take it, it's equivalent to a lot of the Top100 sales that have something to do with Zhang Chu, and it's becoming too popular. ”

"It's unbelievable, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Sou Shen Ji" can be on the list, but it's just that Zhang Chu is too influential!"

"Zhang Chu is very awesome, call you crazy!"

"It's only sold a few thousand copies, and I thought I could sell tens of thousands of copies in a single day. ”

"It's floating, since it's time to write a new book, let's release "Wanli Fifteen Years" quickly!"

"What channel will "Sou Shen Ji" be updated? Don't tell me that it will take a few months or half a year, I guess I will forget about this book at that time. ”

"I have to admit that Zhang Chu is the hottest rookie writer this year, this popularity is close to first-line writers, it is really rare to be talented and talented, and to have sales. ”

The praise of these netizens didn't make Zhang Chu have any additional thoughts, because he didn't have time to pay attention to these things now.

Taking advantage of the Spring Festival holiday, no one bothered, no need to go to class, and some people cooked, washed, and fed the cats, Zhang Chu was stunned to write 50,000 words in a few days, which really tired him a lot!

Mrs. Lin felt a little sorry for her handsome grandson who was always sitting in front of the computer all day long, and she urged: "Don't children of your age run out all day long? Why do you always live in front of the computer, beware of myopia, in case you get hemorrhoids again, it will not be good." ”

"Grandma, I'm busy writing books. I get up every hour or two to move, don't worry. ”

Zhang Chu argued and said that he knew that he was already a standard otaku on TV in the eyes of Mrs. Lin.

"Nowadays we write books on the computer, we all write books by hand at that time, and your grandfather's pen writing is quite good, and the brush is not bad. When we wrote Spring Festival couplets in our town, many people came to your grandfather for help. ”

Mrs. Lin leaned against the door and began to recall the beginning, and her cloudy eyes looked a little confused.

She suddenly thought about what she had done, and immediately turned her head and asked, "What did you write after so many days of forgetting sleep and food, why didn't you see the finished product?"

"I've just written the beginning, and I haven't written the rest yet, so if you want to read it, then read it on my computer." ”

Zhang Chu felt a little inappropriate after speaking, because there are actually a lot of blood-pumping descriptions of men and women in "Sou Shen Ji", and he didn't make too many modifications or deletions!

In the previous life, many boys hid in the quilt and treated this book as a little yellow text, especially the description of Tuoba Ye and Concubine Yu played a lot of side balls.

There doesn't seem to be much of a problem with publishing such content, it's just slightly explicit, and it's not going to be forcibly deleted.

But Chinese culture has always been ashamed to talk about this aspect of the content, obviously the vast majority of adult men and women will do things, but they are taboo, if you write it out for parents to see, the embarrassment is estimated to be flooded!

Fortunately, Mrs. Lin shook her head at this time and said, "I don't like to look at computers, I'll show it to me after your book is printed." ”

Zhang Chu finally breathed a sigh of relief, at least the crisis was temporarily lifted, as for how it would be evaluated by readers or book reviewers, relatives and friends in the future, he couldn't control it, after all, everything was from a literary point of view, and everyone should not think casually.

"It's still modern technology, and you don't need to spend any pen and paper. But you still seem a little worried, what's going on?"

Mrs. Lin is very familiar with her grandson, and the depression on her brow looks like a mold printed from his father, and both father and son have such expressions.

Zhang Chu didn't expect Mrs. Lin to give any solution, so he thought he was looking for someone to talk to, so he moved a chair for her and sat down before saying: "I don't know what to do with my "Sou Shen Ji" now, it seems a little too early to publish it directly, that "Wanli Fifteen Years" was said to be released a month or two ago, but it hasn't been released yet. But it's not appropriate to serialize it on the Internet, I wrote another book called "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and it hasn't been updated yet, and readers will definitely scold me. Serialization in magazines was so slow that I really didn't know what to do. ”

He has been holding these things in his heart, and originally wanted to wait for his agent Zhou Kang to solve them, but there was no response at all, which made him very melancholy while writing the book.

"I thought something was going on, how easy it was to solve!" Mrs. Lin patted her thigh and said in an old voice, "Why don't you serialize it in the newspaper? When your father was born, your grandfather bought a newspaper every day and came back, just to watch the martial arts above. ”

Zhang Chu suddenly realized, "Yes, why didn't I expect it! The newspaper serialized it, this style and influence are there, and readers have nowhere to urge them to change, how good!"

Mrs. Lin smiled kindly, and she stood up from the chair, as long as she could be useful.

This can really be regarded as a word to wake up a dreamer, Zhang Chu is not thinking in this direction at all, after all, the newspaper industry is already setting in this era, and it is not as good as before!

But emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and even though fewer and fewer people read and subscribe to newspapers, the circulation of some of the big newspapers is quite staggering.

The tradition of newspaper serialization has a long history, and the earliest newspaper in China to open up a serial column was probably the "Zilin Shanghai Daily", which was founded in 1882, and various newspapers and periodicals have been serialized in an endless stream since then, and the famous satirical "The Appearance of Officialdom" and "The Strange Status Quo Witnessed in Twenty Years" were also originally serialized and published in newspapers.

Today, more and more newspapers are publishing serialized works, not only in the evening newspapers across the country, but also in some daily newspapers, especially Chen Zhi Newspaper.

Shanghai's "Jiefang Daily" even published two serialized works at the same time every day, and Jiangcheng's "Jiangcheng Evening News" has not been serialized since its inception in 1986, and has published countless works, which have been welcomed and praised by the majority of readers.

There is no consensus about newspaper serialization.

Some people believe that these newspapers are the mouthpieces of the party and the government and the front of news and public opinion, and that publishing them is not the task of newspapers and periodicals, and that they should not use their limited space for serialized works!

However, the responsibilities of newspapers are not only these, but also the dissemination of knowledge, the provision of appreciation, and the enrichment of the spiritual life of readers, not to mention the fact that there are so many types of newspapers nowadays, and they must always take care of the needs of different groups of people.

Of course, there are many literary books and periodicals, and there is a lot of choice, and young people nowadays rarely look for serials in newspapers.

With the acceleration of the pace of modern life, many people have the rest of their spare time, and it is difficult to devote the whole block of time to reading, and they rarely have the opportunity to go to bookstores and libraries to choose books and periodicals.

For this part of the readers, having a newspaper in their hands, after reading the news, and reading a serial by the way, is not time-consuming and can get mental adjustment, why not?

It's just that the function of paper newspapers is now being replaced by mobile media, and news information can be viewed in real time with mobile phones and computers.

Different newspapers have different serialization needs, for example, some official newspapers or military newspapers and other works will not publish works, and the ideal serialization is to achieve both elegance and vulgarity.

Some are elegant, very literary, and have a high level of appreciation, but they do not have a wide range of readers, and it is rare to find readers on the Internet, so it is perfect to choose this traditional way!

In contrast, a popular story like Zhang Chu's "Sou Shen Ji", which wins by plot, although the literary atmosphere is not strong, has a moving story with twists and turns, and is more popular with most readers.

In his opinion, newspaper serialization and online serialization can actually complement each other, expand the influence of "Sou Shen Ji" in the readership as much as possible, and maybe learn the operation mode of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and also get a listening function!

Now that this plan has been decided, Zhang Chu immediately edited the relevant content with his mobile phone and sent it to Zhou Kang's mobile phone, asking him to choose the most appropriate partner to work with.