August 1979. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was also more than ten days after arriving in Hong Kong, and after getting the official identity document from the police station. Lin Qi rented a house and moved out of Huang Zili's house.

The newly rented house is located near Broadcasting Road in Kowloon Tong, with an area of more than 40 square meters and a monthly rent of up to HK$2,000. At this time, the average salaryman in Hong Kong had a monthly salary of just over 1,000. Ordinary office workers, even if they rent such a large house, are shared by multiple people.

And renting an apartment alone like Lin Qi is already a very luxurious behavior.

However, Lin Qi has a lot of secrets, so he is reluctant to share a house with others, so as not to inadvertently expose his secrets.

"Lin Sheng, go out to find a job?" a working girl smiled when she went downstairs.

"Yes......" Lin Qi nodded.

In fact...... Just going out and hanging out, watching movies, visiting bookstores, and eating a snack on the street is like traveling at all, never going to hand in resumes and interviews.

After all, there are more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars exchanged in Shenzhen. During this time, I used up some of it, and I still have 90,000 yuan left in hand, even if I don't look for a job, I can mix in Hong Kong for a few years.

Lin Qi's main purpose in Hong Kong is just to apply for a legal identity certificate. And when the mainland policy is not open, start a business in Hong Kong to lay the foundation.

If you really want to develop, it must be on the mainland. After having a certain amount of assets, if they return to the mainland to invest in the name of Hong Kong businessmen, they can obtain super-national treatment in the early eighties and nineties of reform and opening up.

Now Lin Qiqi has more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in savings. With this little money, you can't do much business in Hong Kong. Therefore, Lin Qi is ready to first engage in an industry with a low threshold and a huge advantage for himself - the publishing industry!

The pattern of Hong Kong's publishing industry is roughly the same as that of Chi Qian, and no one can count how many publishing houses and newspapers there are in such a small place as Hong Kong.

Many publishing institutions do not even have a fixed office space, and only one employee. Most of these publishing organizations, which can be created and destroyed at any time, are playful and have no performance at all.

There are also many small publishing houses that adopt the business mode of "front store and back company". It is also the part of the bookstore that is open to the public at the front door, and the part that is not open to the public at the back of the store is used to open a small publishing house.

Lin Qi's goal is to prepare to start a small publishing house, the kind of "front store and back company", you can participate in or hold shares, it doesn't matter whether you have a controlling stake or not, as long as you have a certain right to speak in the early stage, you can let the publishing house operate according to your own suggestions.

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Kowloon Tong, Broadcasting Road, Ocean Bookstore.

A typical small publishing company with a front store and a back club, but the sea publishing house, is currently out of business. The circulation of the "Great Sea Weekly" founded by him has dropped from more than 3,000 copies in the 60s to more than 200 copies last month, and the sales of 200 copies are also watery, and most of them are given to relatives and friends for free.

There are also loyal fans, about 10 more.

Because of continuous losses, at least tens of thousands of dollars are lost every month. As a result, Zhang Dahai was forced to stop his publishing business. Although the Great Sea Publishing House has not declared bankruptcy, it has not published newspapers and books for more than a year.

After the closure of the publishing house, Zhang Dahai returned to the days before the establishment of the publishing house and continued to operate the Dahai Bookstore.

The business of Dahai Bookstore is also very average, but because the store is its own, it does not need to be rented. Therefore, you can still make some profit every month. But this profit is better than nothing, and it is better to rent out the store.

During this time, Zhang Dahai was considering whether to close the bookstore as well. In the future, the shop will be rented out and the rent will be collected.

Lin Sheng...... Do you like to read books very much?" Zhang Dahai looked at Lin Qi, who had been reading books a lot in the past few days, but Lin Qi was not authentic...... Just looking at it and not buying it, made him a little dissatisfied.

"Hmm?...... Oh, yes!" Lin Qi nodded and said.

"These books are meant to be sold, and if they are old, they can't be sold. Zhang Dahai said on his face, do you want to buy it?

"Oh?" Lin Qi nodded, took out the entire volume of "Tianlong Babu", and said, "I bought this set." ”

Zhang Dahai's face softened slightly, the price of a set of books is 200 yuan, and he can earn at least sixty or seventy yuan by selling it.

After Lin Qi paid the money, he didn't leave, but asked the boss: "I saw the sign of the Great Sea Publishing House hanging on the back door, why didn't I open the door?"

When Zhang Dahai heard this, he frowned and said: "The publishing house is not famous, there is no author, and the distribution is getting worse. If you can't sell books, you won't have the money to support your editors, and you can't afford to pay for printing, so of course you'll close your doors!"

"Actually......" Lin Qi said with a pretended embarrassed expression, "I am also a literature lover, and I saw the sign of the publishing house hanging on the back door and wanted to submit it!"

"Submission? a few years earlier, maybe received. But now there is not even an editor, and it is a fart to publish!" Zhang Dahai couldn't help but laugh and said, "Even if it is published, how much do you think I can give you a manuscript fee? Ten yuan for a joke, a symbolic manuscript fee, do you want it? Young people, there are so many publishing houses in Hong Kong, most of them are white wolves with empty gloves, and many of the manuscript fees promised are not given, and when they come to the door to ask for it, they are probably bankrupt and the building is empty. Therefore, young people should submit their contributions to Taisha, and even if the manuscript fee is a little less, they will not be in arrears, or even not given. ”

When doing publishing, Zhang Dahai inevitably did some things to brag and cheat the manuscript. But if I don't do it now, I will naturally expose the shady scenes of those small publishing houses mercilessly. Those companies that simply have no ability to pay the manuscript fee are simply defrauding a batch of manuscripts to operate, and if the operation is successful, they certainly have the ability to pay the manuscript fee. After the operation failed, the company has closed down, who can ask for the manuscript fee? It is only a few hundred yuan to register a company in Hong Kong, and there is no threshold in the publishing industry, and anyone can register a publishing company.

"The number of submissions to Taisha is piled up, and even if it is written similar to Jin Yong, it may be buried by an editor who is illiterate. Lin Qi Hukan said, "Small publishing houses have no author resources at all, as long as the quality is excellent, and you are lucky enough to meet a reliable publishing house, you may be able to become the pillar of the publishing house!"

"Great god, you are hitting the street, your tone is not small......" Zhang Dahai couldn't help but feel funny.

Seeing this, Lin Qi took out a stack of manuscripts and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, I'm afraid you don't know the goods!"

Zhang Dahai shouted in his mouth: "The current newcomers are all second to Jin Yong." In fact, most of them are pustules secondary. Then, he took Lin Qi's draft.

It didn't take long for me to be hooked on the content.

"Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi. Don't bully young people into poverty!"

The later fantasy Xiaobai's pinnacle masterpiece "Breaking the Sky" came out forty years ahead of schedule, which is completely nuclear-bomb-level innovation.

After Lin Qi took out this work, it was equivalent to a shock to the tiger's body. It was only the first tens of thousands of words, which had already made Zhang Dahai's heart surge, and after he finished reading it, he couldn't help but ask expectantly: "A good book, even if the writing is very ordinary, but it has also decided to have the potential to become popular! Is there still a book later? By the way, do you want to publish a book? For the sake of the book's creativity, I will make an exception for you!"

Lin Qi shook his head and said, "I'm afraid you won't be able to pay the manuscript fee......

When Zhang Dahai heard this, he couldn't help but be a little disappointed and said: "Yes, I knew that such a manuscript would not be submitted to such a publishing house as us." ”

"Boss Zhang misunderstood, I mean...... I will take a stake in your publishing house, and then, with my manuscript, I will win the world! Just like when Jin Yong founded Ming Pao and used his novels to attract readers to Ming Pao!

"Little brother, although I think your novel is very attractive, it is still much worse than Jin Yong's. Zhang Dahai shook his head and said, "Jin Yong's martial arts is a classic, even after reading it, the plot is ripe, and you can still turn it over a few times." Your novels mainly rely on new ideas, and there may be hope for selling books alone, but it is not enough to support a newspaper......!

In fact, Zhang Dahai previously said that he would publish "Breaking the Sky", but it was just a whim. In an instant, I recalled that the publishing house had lost enough money over the years to buy a few villas. Therefore, he also became hesitant to make an exception to publish the book he was optimistic about.

"In addition to the manuscript, I can also contribute to it. This injected funds to fund the publication of the novel "Breaking the Sky". Lin Qi threw out his own plan.

"How much can you contribute?" Zhang Dahai was a little moved.