Sensing the unhappiness in Deng Zheng's words, Gu Weiyuan hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, Brother Jin Liang. That's the case, I calculated with the editorial department, and in terms of the previously agreed remuneration, I am going to give you a little more, and in the end, the total remuneration is more than 10,000 yuan. ”

"Remuneration?" Deng Zheng said.

There are still newspapers that take the initiative to call the author to negotiate to revise the contract and improve the remuneration of the author?

And it is said that it has been summed up with the editorial department, and the head of the editorial department of this newspaper is collectively pumped?

Under normal circumstances, no matter how good the results are and how strong the response is, the price of the right to publish the book in the newspaper has been written in black and white in the contract. Even if the newspaper is benevolent and grateful, at most it will mean a lot of red envelopes after the end, or promise a big price increase for the next book, which is already interesting enough.

There has never been such a thing as changing contracts and raising prices halfway.

Therefore, Deng Zheng was even more puzzled in his heart, and asked: "Mr. Gu, it's not just about paying for manuscripts, right?"

"Hehe, that's right. Brother Jin Liang, see if you can ...... every week Try to submit as many manuscripts as possible? Today's issue was only serialized half a time, and the readers were excited, and all kinds of complaints and protests were called incessantly in the morning, and the newspaper was under great pressure ......"

Gu Weiyuan stubbornly said the purpose of the call, and his heart was both excited and helpless.

It stands to reason that today should be a day of great celebration, but after two days of word-of-mouth brewing over the weekend, the 60,000 copies of this issue were sold out at about 12 o'clock at noon today.

The second issue of the serialization has increased the circulation of a single issue of the newspaper by ten percentage points, and it has to be said that the serialization effect brought by "Pingxia Film" is better than everyone expected, injecting a shot in the arm for the newspaper.

But the problem also comes, according to the serialization plan they drew up before, except for the wedge, the thirty-one chapters of the main text of the novel are to be serialized for sixty-two issues.

On the one hand, the sixty-second issue is almost five months long, which can fully expand the publicity and maximize the serial effect.

On the other hand, this is also in line with the author's creative speed, because in their opinion, 450,000 words in five months, such a high text quality, such a huge and magnificent background story, it is quite difficult to complete it with quality and quantity.

So when I was drawing up the contract, I tried to mention it, and when I saw that Deng Zheng didn't object, I happily wrote it directly into the contract. In other words, every half a month, Deng Zheng needs to submit the text three times, almost 40,000 or 50,000 words.

But now the problem has arisen, and today's Monday's issue of "Capital News" published the first episode of the text: "Fingers are broken, strong people move military salaries, flying flowers flutter butterflies, and jade girls show their magical powers".

According to the original plan, the editorial department cut this time from the middle and divided it into two sections, and the result was good, the "strongman" came out, but the "Flying Flower Girl" that everyone was looking forward to the most did not show up.

According to the "wedge" and the title of the round above, it is easy to judge that this "Jade Girl" should be the little girl Yun Lei who was very concerned about everyone before, this time, I am anxious, waiting to see how she will appear in ten years, and what kind of readers will become Readers are gone.

In addition, the previous wedge was 15,000 words, and this first round was originally the least number of words in the thirty-one rounds, the only one with less than 10,000 words, and half of it had to be cut off and only 5,000 words remained.

From 15,000 to 5,000 all at once, this gap is not small.

Therefore, all morning, the seven hotlines specially prepared by the newspaper over the weekend to answer readers' praise, encouragement, and plot discussions have all turned into complaints and fierce protests!

The leaders of various departments, including Gu Weiyuan and editor-in-chief Li Haiyang, explained that their mouths were dry and sweating profusely.

What's even worse is that a senior leader of the Northern Media Group actually called to be concerned about the serialization of "Ping's Tracer Film", which was originally a great thing, but at the end, the leader said: "Xiao Gu, the book is good, and I read it with relish, but this serialization also has to talk about ways and means, too little, not enough to read after all." In my opinion, the typography can be more flexible, and other sections should give way to the way, and the pause should be suspended...... Of course, this is just my personal opinion, and I have to look at the specifics of your newspaper......"

Gu Weiyuan wanted to cry after answering the phone, leader, where do we don't want to free up the publication, we also want to directly serialize more than 10,000 words in one issue! But one issue is three times a week, at least 40,000 words, how can there be an author who can write so fast?!

Moreover, he knew that Deng Zheng did not have a manuscript in his hand.

However, since the leader personally "instructed", his subordinates had to take it seriously, and after combining with the editorial department, Gu Weiyuan had no choice but to call Deng Zheng hard.

"That's it?"

After listening to this, Deng Zheng couldn't cry or laugh, this may be a matter for others, but it is not a problem for him at all, let alone three times a week, it is not a problem to write thirty-one times a week. "So, how fast do you want from the newspaper?"

"Ah......h

"Is a Wednesday a week enough?"

"Hah?!enough!enough!absolutely!"

"That's done. Before Wednesday, I'll take the time to come out in a dozen or twenty times, and you will use it first. There is no need to increase the remuneration, it is not in accordance with the rules. Okay, I'm eating, I'll hang up first if there's nothing else to do. ”

“……”

In the office of the newspaper boss, Gu Weiyuan listened to the busy sound on the other end of the phone, the whole person was as stunned as a clay sculpture, his lips trembled and he couldn't speak, and he took the time to rush to use it for more than ten or twenty times first, brother, my brother, do we want to exaggerate like this? !

Editor-in-chief Li Haiyang and several other editors have been paying attention to the situation here, and when they saw the boss's expression, they knew that it was bad, although they were a little frustrated and helpless, but they could understand that the speed of writing could be said to be mentioned, so they came over and comforted: "Mr. Gu, it's not all good things that can be accounted for." We are all engaged in writing, very clear that speed and quality have always been contradictory, Mr. Jin Liang's speed is actually not slow, I see, in the final analysis, the most important thing is to ensure quality, I think as long as the reputation is maintained, readers will slowly understand, leaders will also understand......"

"Ocean, open the newspaper's official WeChat, official blog, and official website, and hurry up to send a message. Gu Weiyuan came back to his senses and commanded with a blushing face.

"Okay, Mr. Gu, we have just prepared a draft of how to explain it to the public, you can take a look at it first......"

"Explain? Explain what! Hurry up and send a message to inform you, saying that from the next issue onwards, "Ping's Tracer Film" will be serialized once a whole issue of each issue! I'll go call back to the leader first. ”

Li Haiyang and several editors were dumbfounded: "Mr. Li, this, Mr. Jin Liang's ......"

Gu Weiyuan took out the phone and dialed the leader with high spirits, and waved his hand and said, "Mr. Jin Liang said, speed is never a problem!"