Before seven o'clock in the morning, it was still dark outside the window, but the sound of cars passing by in the distance had gradually intensified.

The scheduled alarm clock rang on time, Cui Qiwei closed his eyes and turned on the light, and then turned off the alarm clock on his mobile phone.

Waking up early in winter is torture, even with heating!

It took another two minutes to awaken before he opened his eyes, then quickly rolled over and put on his clothes.

Cui Qiwei, as a fresh graduate who has just turned from an internship, is not easy to rent a single-room house in a bustling big city.

The happiest time of the day is to read a book when commuting to and from work, immerse yourself in the world of books, and the troubles of the outside world are temporarily blocked.

Sitting on the toilet, Cui Qiwei began to play with his mobile phone, and the accumulated news of the whole night will be wiped out when he goes to the toilet, although there are reports that this may cause constipation, but going to the toilet and playing with his mobile phone is simply a perfect match.

"The Fifteenth Year of Wanli?"

As a former literary and artistic youth, Cui Qiwei knows history very well, but he usually doesn't read historical works much.

"What is there to write about this year?"

As said in the same commentary, the wind and rain were smooth, there were no catastrophes, no Hun invasion, no peasant uprisings, everything was so ordinary.

The 24-year-old Wanli Emperor has been on the throne for 15 years, and the former first assistant Zhang Juzheng has died five years ago, and the only thing worth remembering is the death of the famous Qing official Hai Rui.

Not going down the beaten path at all, Cui Qiwei doesn't even know what the book is about! And his only thought is to see if Hu Wei's experts will spoil it a little.

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Zhang Chu, who was asleep, didn't know what kind of sensation his Weibo had caused, so he closed his eyes at more than four o'clock, and slept directly until noon.

The biggest problem with Apple's mobile phone is the poor battery life, if Chu Lan hadn't knocked on the door directly, I'm afraid he wouldn't know what time it was!

While plugging his phone into the charger, he went to the bathroom to take a shower, and when he appeared on the dining table with wet hair, Zhang Bowen also looked sleepy.

"Eat first, and call your Uncle Zhou back after eating, just now he called me and asked why your mobile phone was turned off. ”

Zhang Chu put a piece of sausage in his mouth, and he replied: "I didn't have any electricity when I went to bed last night, and it automatically turned off when I just got up, and I'm charging it now." ”

Chu Lan stared at the two of them, and said a little angrily: "Did you two run away to be thieves last night? After eating, go and dry your hair, otherwise you won't feel bad when you have a cold or headache!"

"Gotcha. ”

During the winter vacation, you should not go against your mother at home, and you must promise everything with your mouth, so as to maintain family harmony.

Zhang Chu ate two full bowls of rice before leaving the table, there was almost no grain of rice left in the bowl, to avoid nagging, to start from small things, from the details!

Back in the room, he didn't care about blowing his hair, so he quickly turned on his mobile phone, but as soon as he turned it on, the sound of a dingding text message notification rang.

Not to mention the prompt sound on WeChat, fortunately, he wisely rejected the message push of QQ and Weibo before, otherwise it would have been even worse.

Zhang Chu sat on the edge of the bed, he clicked on the text message and looked, almost all of them were asking about his new book, teacher Yang Xuancong, editor Gu Xinxue of Nanhai Publishing Company, editor of Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House, his agent Zhou Kang, and a few buddies in the dormitory, etc.

They probably saw Weibo saying that they had finished writing, and they all came to them in the morning to ask for a manuscript to read.

The attraction of "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" is also too great!

However, at this time, Zhang Chu chose to return to the agent's phone first, and the rest will be passed on to them later, this kind of history book really needs to collect the opinions of experts before publishing, to see if there are any major loopholes, so as not to be picked on after publication.

"My little ancestor, you finally called, I thought you were playing all the time. Zhou Kang said exaggeratedly, "Since nine o'clock today, I have been answering the phone here. ”

Zhang Chu yawned and replied, "I stayed up late last night to finish the first draft, do you have any urgent business with me?"

Zhou Kang said with a smile: "It's not a hurry, it's just that the publishing house is a little anxious." After all, your book "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" has not yet been signed for publication. Every publisher wants to sign it off, and today I received an inquiry from more than 10 publishers!"

"There are only 10 of them, which is not much. ”

In addition to the Nanhai and Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing Houses that have had a cooperative relationship with us, there are also People's Literature Publishing House, Modu Translation Publishing House, Commercial Press, Writers Publishing House, Renmin University Press, Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House, Higher Education Press, Yanshan Publishing House, Liaolu Education Publishing House, Central Culture and History Publishing House, China Drama Publishing House, New Star Publishing House, etc. ”

If you are a reader, it is estimated that it is difficult to distinguish the difference between different publishing houses, and I think that they are all publishing houses anyway, and there is no difference between any one.

But for those in the book industry, the gap is too big!

Zhang Chu's eyes were about to pop out when he heard the name of this smoke publishing house, which almost wiped out the top publishing houses in China.

Whether it is a veteran publishing house, or a holy place in the publishing industry in my mind, or a spoiler in the publishing industry of reference books, or a publishing house affiliated to a top university in China, it is bold in its selection of materials and the cradle of literature.

"I'm a little flattered now, this isn't the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series, what's there to grab?"

It is obvious that the sales of "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" are not as good as "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and the copyright expansion plan for this type of book is almost equal to zero, who would expect to adapt such an academic work into a TV series!

Zhou Kang is also a little pleased, which proves that the word Zhang Chu has formed a certain social popularity, so that those publishers can ignore the content and subject matter factors and sign his new work.

"This is still after screening, and there are still some publishing companies and small publishing houses who want to pick up the leaks, thinking that no publisher dares to publish your new book. ”

Zhang Chu is also confident in the sales of his new book, which may not have exploded at first, but its ability to continue selling far exceeds that of any book he has ever written.

If it can't be sold in ten years, maybe a book can be made in the name of the people to make it popular.

When cooperating with a publishing institution, it is obvious that you can't just look at the royalty ratio, even if some small publishing houses offer Zhang Chu 15% of the top royalty, Zhou Kang will not agree!

No matter how high the royalty is, the problems of not being able to spread the goods, slow payment collection, and weak publicity ability are quite fatal.