The bright sunlight shines on the Ming Pao building. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Interior of the building.

At the moment, there is a "business negotiation" going on.

When Jin Yong mentioned the manuscript fee, the shrewdness of the businessman was instantly possessed, but there was no literati temperament. The manuscript fee of "Ming Pao" has always been not very high, at least it is not as high as "Dongfang" and "Cheng Pao".

Let's take Cai Yan as an example.

Cai Yan went to the "Oriental Daily" to write an article, and stipulated that he would write a three-month serial, 75 crosses a day, and the manuscript fee was 1,000 yuan. However, he translated the mystery novels of the island country in "Ming Pao", with 800 words a day, and the manuscript fee was only 653 yuan, which was 350 yuan less than that of "Oriental". Cai Yan was thin-skinned and did not mention protesting. But Ni Frame and Yishu are different. The brother and sister protested to Kim Yong, and the phone calls and letters flew together, asking for an additional manuscript fee.

Jin Yong always pushes left and right, and uses Tai Chi to remove the fierce bullying of the Ni brothers and sisters.

Therefore, all the way to the present, Ni Frame's manuscript fee in Ming Pao is not too high. Compared with "Oriental", "Fresh" and "Jade" are much inferior.

Yishu is the second brave man in the world who dares to negotiate with Jin Yong about the manuscript fee after Ni Frame.

Yishu is spicier than Ni Box, she directly proposed it in the column, and the words were scathing, almost saying that Jin Yong was being mean and crawling lattice animals.

In the face of such a fierce offensive, Jin Yong responded to all changes with unchanged, and even braked with static, making Yishu obedient and close, and after being promoted to a senior official of the government and government, he still obediently used a pen name to write a serialization that was not as good as ideal.

In Hong Kong's cultural circles, the Ni brothers and sisters are known for their spiciness, and they all make Jin Yong obedient. How great do you say Kim Yong's skills are?

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Xu Wenhui waited solemnly: "Cha Sheng, what is the price of a newcomer to your newspaper?"

"Twenty words in a thousand words!" Xu Wenhui asked about the manuscript fee for the serialization of the novel, and Jin Yong replied accurately.

This price, for newcomers, is not good or bad.

It's almost the same as the general non-mainstream tabloids, but it can't be compared at all in terms of popularity and evaluation, and compared with Oriental newspapers, it's a lot worse.

Nevertheless. If you write 3,000 words a day, you can earn 60 yuan, which is higher than the income of ordinary clerks.

For a person like Xu Wenhui who can write 10,000 or 20,000 words in one night, there are five or six hundred words a day, or a month......

This is still a newcomer's price.

Xu Wenhui took it for granted, and asked, "What about my book?"

"Forty in a thousand words!" said Zha Liangyong.

"This ......" Xu Wenhui suddenly hesitated.

Xu Wenhui frowned, as if he was a little dissatisfied.

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It's a good time to relax and unwind, with the egrets flying long and the sky high and the weather being cool.

Cai Yan saved a lot of time for Xu Wenhui, and after introducing Xu Wenhui directly to Jin Yong, he found a random place to sit down, looked at "Sou Shen Ji" again, stared at the page, and did not blink.

It seems that he does not participate in the negotiation between the two at all, but if you look closely at his shaking ears, he is actually still very concerned.

"Xiao Xu, you don't know, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, in fact, the price of our newspaper is already very generous... If you don't believe me, I'll give you an enumeration..."Zha Liangyong will observe words and looks.

Seeing this, I am afraid that Xu Wenhui is too little, he is a martial arts master, and it is absolutely no problem to read a novel. Like Cai Yan, he is very optimistic about "Sou Shen Ji", but he does not intend to break the tradition of Ming Pao.

To put it bluntly, he wants to buy a high-quality text at a low price!

His style has always been like this...... Whenever someone dislikes the low manuscript fee, and he is extremely optimistic, he often wants to sacrifice a big killer!

It's the same now.

Xu Wenhui saw him pick up the pen and paper and wave it, and hurriedly stopped: "Don't write Cha Sheng, I can accept this manuscript fee." I have a small condition, though. ”

Speaking of which.

Glanced at him, wanting to see how he reacted.

"On what terms?"

"You say. When it came to the conditions, Zha Liangyong immediately became vigilant, and Xu Wenhui's appearance as if he was facing a great enemy made Xu Wenhui feel funny, and he admired this little old man a little in his heart, no matter what his character was, he was very successful in business and writing books.

Xu Wenhui said succinctly and clearly: "I only have 200,000 words now. However, I would like to pay 500,000 words in advance, and I plan to write 1.5 million words for this book. ”

Seeing his words, Jin Yong and Cai Yan had different expressions, Cai Yan was strange why he wanted so much money, was he very short of money at a young age?

Jin Yong's face bloomed with a long-lost smile: "This is no problem, as long as you bring the first 200,000 manuscripts, the money will be sent immediately." ”

Although the wood flea is evil, it can't be tricked when it encounters glutinous rice.

Jin Yong is the glutinous rice that subdues the two naughty wood fleas of the Ni brothers and sisters.

For the sake of manuscript fees, many people say that Kim Yong is stingy. In fact, Jin Yong is not stingy, he just understands the principle of saving. He is not like Ni Frame who spends money indiscriminately, and he will not be rich and arrogant. He is applied, used for friends, and sometimes generous. Ni Frame has a deep understanding of this.

Xu Wenhui was very surprised that the other party was able to agree to it, and originally thought that he was going to wear out his mouth for a while!

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In fact, this is Xu Wenhui doesn't know, Zha Liangyong is secretly snickering at the moment. He is a writer, yes, and a businessman, judging from his keen eyes, the quality of Xu Wenhui's novel is absolutely excellent, and he feels that it is a sure thing to make money and even make a lot of money if he can win this novel at a little more price than a newcomer.

Earn big!

Xu Wenhui thought carefully and became active, he must have earned fame in Ming Pao, and he also got a manuscript fee of 500,000 words in advance, which is also a good thing for Xu Wenhui, who is very short of money now.

An old fox and a little fox, each feeling that they have earned it.

"Hahaha~" looked at each other and laughed.

Cai Yan was full of goosebumps when he heard this, and muttered in a low voice: "It's better to stay away from them in the future, I feel that I will be cheated after a long time!"

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The day after Xu Wenhui's successful submission, "Sou Shen Ji" was serialized in the supplement of "Ming Pao".

The first serialization contained a 10,000-word text. It occupies almost half of the pages of the supplement, which shows Jin Yong's appreciation and optimism about it. A daily serialization of 3,000 words followed.

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Oriental Daily News building.

In the daytime, it is like a high-end office building, and many of the commercial administrations of the East are carried out here.

At night, everything from real estate bidding to street protection fee reconciliation, in short, many things that cannot be made public, are exactly the same as other office buildings.

However, since the emergence of the Independent Commission Against Corruption a few years ago, under the shocking situation of the crackdown, the two founders and bosses ran away. The things that can't be put on the table have basically been moved to other hidden places, and even gradually reduced.

The current Oriental Daily is no different from ordinary newspapers, except that the paparazzi team is a little more powerful.

Sexy seductive female secretary as usual. Holding a stack of newspapers, he pushed the door in, and whispered to Editor-in-Chief Zhou, who was lying on the table writing, "Editor-in-chief, this is today's newspaper." ”

"Hmm. Editor-in-Chief Zhou nodded, moved his sour back and neck, and said to the secretary with a long breath: "You help me make a cup of tea!"

The female secretary went to make tea, and the editor-in-chief Zhou opened the newspaper sent by the secretary with great energy.

The main enemy of "Oriental Daily" is mainly "Ming Pao", "Sing Tao Daily" and other three or two major newspapers, the sales of Oriental Daily have declined recently, so he, the editor-in-chief, was scolded by his boss, and the two Ma Zong took turns to scold a dog's bloody head, asking him to solve the problem or he would roll up and leave.

Editor-in-Chief Zhou, whether he loves this job or not, one thing is certain: he doesn't want to be fired.

What a shame!

So I can only cheer up and continue to work.

Editor-in-chief Zhou has become accustomed to reading newspapers to understand the trends in the industry. The first to open it was the number one rival "Ming Pao", and I saw a report on the front page of "Ming Pao" that read, "Warmly celebrate the daily sales of Ming Pao" exceeding 100,000 copies.

"Hell!" Editor-in-Chief Zhou's face immediately turned ugly. scolded angrily, and almost tore up the newspaper.

But I thought it didn't make sense, wasn't the sales volume of Mingbao just over 90,000 a few days ago?

Editor-in-chief Zhou is a "loyal audience" of Ming Pao, and almost every issue must be read, and you can know what is going on. Strangely trying to find out why, he soon discovered that there was a new novel in the Ming Pao supplement.

"Who is this Xu Wenhui, whose vest is it? Doesn't it look like a name?" Editor-in-Chief Zhou stared at Xu Wenhui's name and muttered.

Just when the editor-in-chief surnamed Zhou wondered if Xu Wenhui's pen name was the 'trumpet' opened by a famous person, the secretary knocked on the door and said: "Editor-in-chief, there is a person outside who claims to be a columnist of Ming Pao and wants to come to our newspaper to contribute. ”

"What's it called?"

"Xu Wenhui. ”