Chapter Seventy-Four: Contradictions

As mentioned above, with Zhu Ziqing's status in the literary world today, his every step can attract the attention of the entire industry. What's more, it's writing martial arts across the line.

So when the Jinling Daily reported that 'Martial Arts: The First Talent Zhu Ziqing Challenges a New Genre', it caused a huge shock in the cultural circles.

Major media outlets reprinted the news, and then book critics and well-known writers from all walks of life also appeared.

"Zhu Ziqing entered the martial arts market. Yangcheng Evening News.

"Entering the martial arts market in a low-key manner exposed Zhu Ziqing's lack of confidence. "Southern Weekly.

Silian acquired Jianghu, and Zhu Ziqing made a low-key submission. ”

"Zhu's commercial publicity method uses works to drive the market. ”

"Can Zhu Ziqing revive the martial arts market......"

As a writer, he makes headlines at every turn, and Zhu Ziqing can be regarded as a precedent.

Of course, he doesn't make headlines so often just because of his literary achievements. It should be said that in this era, the ability of billionaires to attract fans far exceeds that of writers.

Most of the media reports focused on the impact of this incident, the current situation of the martial arts market, and speculation about whether Zhu Ziqing could reproduce the miracle and revive the martial arts market.

But book reviewers and writers are more concerned about the content of the book.

"Wonderful, clearly writing martial arts and writing about human nature. -- Writer Mobei.

"Zhu Ziqing is an author with ideas, which can be seen from his previous works. But he can write martial arts so well, which is very unexpected to me. -- Book reviewer Jia Ming.

"Integrating philosophy into martial arts is an unprecedented initiative. What's even harder is that he succeeded. - Writer Li Qiang.

As the last and only remaining martial arts master, Dang Lei spoke particularly highly of this book: "Zhu Ziqing has created a new martial arts genre, which is called allegorical martial arts. ”

The master personally came forward to give such high praise, so that more martial arts lovers picked up the book.

In fact, what is even more excited is Dang Lei himself. Although the decline of martial arts has nothing to do with him, he only declined after he closed his pen, which always gave him the illusion that it was his own reason. Watching the martial arts market shrink day by day, he also saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.

He also thought about making a comeback, but his ideas had already been written, and even if he put pen to paper, he couldn't write anything new. Not only can the forcible behavior not be able to reverse the decline, but it may also be difficult to protect oneself in the future. Eventually, the idea was dispelled.

Besides, the decline of martial arts lies in the fact that it cannot bring forth the new, and the successors cannot carry the banner. It is more useful to cultivate good authors than to make a comeback on your own.

So, he put the cause on training new people. When Longqu, Wei Shihan, Xiao Duan and others first debuted, he did his best to help.

These authors also performed very well, especially Longqu, a "Tianshan" shocked the martial arts world, and sold tens of millions of copies. was almost named the new martial arts master.

Alas, just almost. His second work did not continue the classic of "Tianshan", and finally failed to reach the top. Let Dang Lei be disappointed.

At Jia Qigong's place, Dang Lei met Zhu Ziqing once. At that time, he was still sighing why there was no such genius in the martial arts world.

But he didn't dare to say it back then. Although martial arts have been accepted by orthodoxy, the literary world is very complicated.

The discrimination between serious and elegant literature against popular literature has not ceased since the day this division began...... No, it should be said that this kind of discrimination was already real before the distinction between serious literature and popular literature. See clearly that it is unilateral discrimination, not fighting.

Martial arts were naturally divided into the camp of popular literature. So Dang Lei has a lot of fans abroad, but his position in the literary world is really embarrassing.

Zhu Ziqing is praised by the literary world as a first-day genius and a future leader in the literary world. If Dang Lei dares to say such a thing, he will definitely be sprayed to death by the group of serious literature. Even Master Chen Qiming may be looking for trouble with him. Master Jia Qigong couldn't say anything because of friendship, but he would definitely not be happy.

But what's going on now? Zhu Ziqing actually wrote martial arts, and he wrote so well. He couldn't believe his eyes.

Excited, he wrote a new type of praise around his neck. This is not a deliberate compliment, but a statement of facts.

This is not the end, after sending the scarf, he was still excited, and looked at the immortal sword over and over again.

But looking at him, his heart hung again. Zhu Ziqing's writing is good, but his identity is destined not to put too much attention on martial arts. That would be a loss for Zhu Ziqing himself and the entire literary world - it is still clear which is more important than the leader of the literary world and the master of martial arts.

In this case, what is the use of his martial arts writing no matter how good it is?

The more I thought about Dang Lei, the more unsettled my heart became, and it was mixed with unwillingness. I finally met a martial arts genius, should I just let it go?

Finally, he dialed Zhu Ziqing's phone. He wanted to know Zhu Ziqing's thoughts, whether he was playing tickets or really had ideas about martial arts, and his future plans. Only when you ask in person can you be sure.

Since he became famous, Zhu Ziqing has changed his phone, and there are only a few people with the new number. But for Dang Lei, it is still easy to find out his number.

Zhu ...... Hello Xiaoyou, I am Dang Lei. We've seen it at Jia Qigong, I don't know if you remember. Originally, he was going to call Mr. Zhu, but he felt that it was too raw, so he temporarily changed his words.

"Dang Lei?" Zhu Ziqing thought about who it was after a while: "It turned out to be the master of the party, and I am fortunate to be lucky." ”

Dang Lei, how could Zhu Ziqing not remember. Master of martial arts, his status is equivalent to that of Master Jin Yong in his previous life.

Because of Liu Xiaoping's matter, the two met at Jia Qigong's house. At that time, he was still thinking about making friends with the other party to see if he could get the right to adapt his novel or something. Later, there were too many things to forget about this stubble. Unexpectedly, he actually took the initiative to call over today.

By the way, what was he doing on the phone? Zhu Ziqing guessed in his heart. As soon as he admitted that the immortal sword was written by himself, Dang Lei called over, and it must have something to do with martial arts. As for the more, I can't guess. It can only be seen what he says.

"It's such an honor that Xiaoyou still remembers me as an old man. Seeing that the other party still remembered himself, Dang Lei was also very happy.

"The Master's words have tormented me. You are a senior, I am a latecomer, and I should ask you for advice. Zhu Ziqing said politely.

"Those who learn without succession are teachers. You are my teacher more than your literary achievements. ”

"I see, Master, you must have ruined me by calling today. ”

"Haha...... Little friend, you've wronged me. Old man, I don't have the guts to spoil a billionaire. ”

"Master, you're really here to spoil me. Unable to figure out his intentions, Zhu Ziqing began to go around in circles.

"Okay, okay, the more you talk about it, the more messy it gets. I'm not beating around the bush anymore. I've been looking at the Immortal Sword just now, it's really wonderful. Dang Lei didn't want to waste time in meaningless conversations, so he got down to business as soon as the conversation changed.

"The master praised it falsely, the graffiti work, I can't afford to be praised like this. Zhu Ziqing said modestly.

"Don't be modest, although I'm old, I'm not confused, and the good and the bad are still clear. The Immortal Sword is a masterpiece. Dang Lei saw that Zhu Ziqing was always going around in circles, and he was also quite helpless. But he also knew that this was because the two were not familiar with each other. Simply explain the meaning directly.

"The current status quo of martial arts must be clear to Xiaoyou, and the entire market has shrunk to the extreme. This is all our responsibility, and we have not produced qualified successors.

Over the years, I have been observing whether anyone can afford the banner of martial arts, but I haven't found it until now. After looking at the Immortal Sword, I found that the person I had been expecting appeared.

But your identity is too special, I don't know if you write about martial arts as a momentary interest or if you are really interested in this category. I can't let go of my heart, so I just want to ask, will you still write martial arts in the future?"

Zhu Ziqing was silent, and through these words, he felt an old man's concern and worry about his career.

After a long time, he replied: "Master, someone has said that every Chinese has a martial arts dream in their hearts. I have that too. Writing martial arts is not a whim, but to fulfill the martial arts dream in my heart. I'm sure I'll write more in the future, and many more. ”

"Good, good, great, so I'm relieved. Dang Lei said incoherently excitedly.

Dang Lei, who landed on the ground in his heart, was so happy that he pulled Zhu Ziqing and talked endlessly. However, most of them look back on how brilliant martial arts were back then, and regret the decline of martial arts now.

With Zhu Ziqing's statement issued, most of the people in China knew that he had written a martial arts article called the Immortal Sword. He doesn't have many fans, but people who like to read his books are loaded.

When everyone knows that he has released another book, it is still martial arts. Even if many people are not interested in martial arts, they can't help but walk into the bookstore and buy the night talk.

There is also this person who wants to see the results of Zhu Ziqing's challenge to a new type, and then ran to buy Jianghu Night Talk. As for those who are martial arts lovers themselves, they are even more ecstatic.

And those who have seen the Immortal Sword, whether they are martial arts fans or not, are attracted by Zhu Ziqing. All of them were deeply attracted by the story and were amazed.

Not surprisingly, the sales of Jianghu Night Talk directly came to a triple jump. In the past, its single-issue sales were 3.78 million, but when the news that Zhu Ziqing was the author of the Immortal Sword was confirmed, it sold more than 100,000 copies on the same day. It took only three days to sell 410,000 copies, exceeding the total number of previous sales in a single issue.

So much so that the night talk in the rivers and lakes is out of stock. Then there is the snowflake-like order to fly to the rivers and lakes for night talk. Fortunately, Lu Juncheng, the editor-in-chief, is very competent, and he has been prepared for a long time, printing one million copies in advance and placing them in the warehouse.

No one is surprised by this achievement. Zhu Ziqing made a move, if he couldn't achieve this result, it would be strange.

At this time, a long comment appeared in the House of Seven Nights. (To be continued.) )