Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Old Black Slave
After Wang Lijian ended the call with Zhuang Yan, he looked at Xiao Wang standing in front of him and said, "You go and print out the whole copy of "Alive...... Hit three copies first, and then give them to me after you're done. ”
"Okay, I'll do it now. Xiao Wang said.
Looking at Xiao Wang's back, Wang Lijian sighed, his assistant did things in a mess this time, but fortunately, it didn't affect the cooperation with Zhuang Yan in the end, or maybe it was Xiao Wang's stunned negotiation, and maybe he moved Zhuang Yan by mistake.
Moreover, he was originally publishing this book because he was very optimistic, not to mention the market reaction, the value of this book alone and the significance of its publication in a publishing house affiliated to the literary and artistic circles are very important.
In other words, the publication of "Alive" this time is the second most profitable, mainly to pull up the forced style of the literary and art circles that have gradually declined in recent years.
The reason why Xiao Wang was asked to print three copies was because he wanted to show the book to some people with more weight in the literary world before it was published, and it was best to write a book review, which would also be conducive to the promotion of the book.
Who should I show it? Wang Lijian turned the ballpoint pen in his hand and began to consider the candidate. There are not many people in China today, and there are many people who are very old-fashioned culture, and these people do not advocate vernacular, so it is naturally impossible to show them books.
Wang Lijian shook his head, although Gu Hongming was a study tour in the West when he was young and came into contact with Western culture at an early age, he was a staunch royalist.
If you want to show that Gu Hongming is conservative, there are too many deeds to prove, and just saying that he encouraged men to take concubines is completely contrary to today's socialist values.
He said: Men are teapots, and they must be equipped with a few more teacups to be like words.
He also said: A woman's little feet are the most beautiful thing in the world, and I feel excited when I see my wife's little feet.
From these two items alone, Gu Hongming is definitely the most disgusted person by feminism.
Excluding Gu Hongming, Wang Lijian thought of two other people, Cai Yuanpei and Kang Youwei, one of them is a staunch revolutionary, and the other is a literary master who has experienced the early reform and reform, and it can be said that he is the most receptive representative of new ideas in today's existing Chinese literary circles.
After Kang Youwei came into contact with Western culture in 79, he was only 22 years old at that time, and he advocated learning from the West in order to save China from the perill, and since then he has absorbed the evolutionary theory and political views from the West, and initially formed an ideological system of reform and reform. (This is not the case with real history, there is a parallel world in this book, and the history since the seventies is different, so don't dwell on the details.) )
Not to mention Cai Yuanpei, he is ten years younger than Kang Youwei, when he was young, China had already ended the semi-colonial and semi-feudal system, and when New China was founded, he was only 23 years old, and he was exposed to new ideas quite early.
In addition to these two people, he also remembered one person, that is, Ma Yinchu, a representative of contemporary Chinese young writers and now a professor and director of the Department of Economics at Yenching University.
All three are now in Yanjing, and Wang Lijian decided to visit in person.
……
Zhuang Yan didn't expect that not long after he posted the work, the news on ofo jumped out like a fight.
[The kitten who likes to write has paid attention to you]
[I beg readers to pay attention to you]
[I farted and didn't take off my pants and paid attention to you]
……
So many messages bombarded me, and Zhuang Yan was so frightened that he immediately turned off the message prompts he was concerned about, but then the messages of ofo's dynamic replies bombarded again, and he had to turn off the message prompts of the dynamic replies again.
"It's finally quiet. Zhuang Yan leaned back in his chair and let out a long sigh of relief.
However, being so lively on "face-to-face" made Zhuang Yan a little happy, which at least proves that his popularity is not bad now.
After a while, he clicked on the dynamic reply message and looked at it, but found that it was all about asking him about his profile and avatar.
Many people expressed doubts about his profile and even doubted his identity because of it.
Zhuang Yan pursed his lips, what is there to doubt about this, on the website of the literary and art world, didn't he already post a work related to it.
So for these questions, Zhuang Yan decided not to reply, and some people asked him whether he was a man or a woman, and how old he was, and he also rolled his eyes and said that he didn't want to answer.
He took a look, as of about half an hour now, he has more than 100 fans, of course, this number is constantly increasing, Zhuang Yan roughly estimated, according to his readership in the literary and artistic circles, his number of fans should eventually be between 1,000 and 2,000.
This is just a simple estimate, it is Zhuang Yan's own feeling, he estimated it according to the data of three to one, but he is not sure whether it will meet this data in the end.
His original intention of making a social account is certainly not to enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by fans like a star, but to prepare for the physical book "Alive" that will be published.
He doesn't know if the literary and art websites will promote "Alive" and in what way, but he himself has taken precautions, although the number of his fans is not too much, but one is counted as one, and it can be regarded as the starting point for the promotion of physical books.
He suddenly remembered the main way to promote the movie "After the End", that is, the Weibo follow-up of director and original author Han Han.
From the beginning of the filming of the movie, Han Han used Weibo to follow up and interact with netizens, and his Weibo also caused netizens to retweet comments and spoof again and again, and the outline of the last movie gradually became clear.
Making money on Weibo is already a channel that cannot be bypassed by all kinds of marketing. Of course, the role of social networks in information transmission and public opinion fermentation should not be underestimated.
Zhuang Yan can say that if it weren't for Han Han's continued posting on Weibo to maintain his popularity, it is estimated that the box office of "After the End" would be reduced by more than half.
Promote yourself and increase your popularity, although it is a little cheesy, but Zhuang Yan doesn't mind being such a layman, although he is not a copper-smelling businessman who regards money as his life, but he will definitely not be high enough to make money.
Thinking of this, Zhuang Yan smiled and opened the "face-to-face" status editing page and began to edit new news: Happy childhood, now gone, dear friends, have left their homes, left the world to go to the heavenly paradise, I heard them whispering to me, I came, I came, now I am old and hunched, I hear them calling me softly.
Why are you crying......
This dynamic is very long, it is the Chinese lyrics of "Old Black Slave", Zhuang Yan originally wanted to write it down from memory, but he couldn't remember the words halfway through writing, and finally completed it with the help of a search engine.
Fortunately, "face-to-face" is not like Weibo, there is no word limit, otherwise it will be more troublesome.