Sima Mingfeng obviously didn't think so.

In a teahouse in the downtown area of Jiangnan, he sat opposite a middle-aged man.

There was pale yellow tea in the cup in front of them, and the fragrance of tea wafted into the nostrils, but the two of them had no intention of tasting it at all.

"Sima, how is the draft of the fifth part of "The Desert" prepared?"

Sima Mingfeng frowned: "It's almost the end of the month." ”

The middle-aged man on the opposite side shook his head slightly: "Speed up a little faster, I have received more than a dozen submissions in the past few days, all of which are imitations of "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua". The young man's brain is fast and he doesn't have much patience, so he can't press it for too long, otherwise they will go to his house......"

In fact, every magazine has its own author.

There are currently two "Chinese Youth", one is Shen Zhe's martial arts column, and the other is a youth column with the pen name "Flower Season of the Year".

The middle-aged man is the editor-in-chief of Jianghu magazine, surnamed Wang, and Sima Mingfeng has been a columnist for this magazine for more than ten years. For his status, there will always be some special treatment, such as the order or timing of the announcement, and the appropriate tilt.

After all, there are very few people who start sects in literature, and latecomers often still step on the good path of their predecessors.

"Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua" was serialized for three issues, and the two largest chivalrous magazines in China received dozens of such manuscripts, which were basically temporarily suppressed.

"Jianghu" and "Oriental Heroes" also need to look at the direction of the wind.

"Sima, what you write is chivalrous literature, do you think that Peach Blossom Island Lord can stand firm?"

If the martial arts column of "Chinese Youth" stands firm, with their circulation, "Jianghu", as the current leader of such magazines in China, will inevitably fall to second place.

What worries him the most is whether there will be a large loss of readers of "Jianghu"?

"Lao Wang, don't worry too much, that kid serializes nearly 30,000 words twice per issue, and this creative speed is the biggest weakness. Admittedly, the quality of the article is high, but it is precisely because of this that I am sure that he will not be able to sustain the column for a long time. ”

"The editor-in-chief surnamed Zhong is not engaged in literature, and when the readers are dissatisfied, see how he cleans it up!"

Editor-in-chief Wang said: "Then you are not going to do something to that author?"

The two looked familiar.

Sima Mingfeng spoke with a lot less scruples: "You think I don't want to, but that kid has been silent." ”

"In the past few days, his identity has been suddenly revealed, and he is indeed a genius, but the age is there, I ......" The latter words did not come out.

Editor-in-Chief Wang nodded.

If those who engage in literature are literati, they also need to have the same identity for scolding.

The old man scolds the old man, the master scolds the old man more excitingly, and the seniors attack the juniors on the surface, which is called bullying the small with the big, unless the junior has embarked on a crooked path.

I was a little unimpressed, as the editor-in-chief of Xia Ke magazine, I naturally have a deep understanding of this kind of literature.

Although it is not like an old professor like Sun Changqing who quickly sees the ideological core of the new martial arts, he also vaguely feels the meaning of an unusual storm.

"Sima, go back and take a good look at that magazine, maybe it's a little inspiring. ”

In his words, he saved face for Sima Mingfeng, after all, it was not good to let him learn the creative techniques of a junior.

……

Before the appearance of Liang Shi, there were also martial arts in the original time and space, but later they were called old-school martial arts.

In Shen Zhe's view, even the old-school martial arts are more advanced than today's chivalrous novels, Zhu Zhenmu's "Seven Killings Tablet", Wang Dulu's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as the representative of the Crane Iron Five-Part, Bai Yu's "Twelve Money Darts" and so on are all very readable, not to mention "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman".

Of course, he couldn't help but do some research.

thinks that the old-school martial arts must have been influenced by a lot of "Water Margin", and the first half of that masterpiece can also be regarded as a martial arts novel.

The whole content describes the ups and downs of the fate of the two chivalrous groups of Liangshan and Fangla, the Liangshan group was alluded to by Zhao'an, the compromise between the rivers and lakes and the temple, and the Fangla group that was not subject to Zhao'an could not tolerate the orthodox society and eventually died out.

Taizu has said: The book "Water Margin" is good at surrendering.

Shen Zhe is not qualified to evaluate Taizu, as for whether the heroes of Liangshan surrendered well, just look at their ending.

But the part of the book after surrender can definitely not be regarded as a martial arts novel.

And the absence of the book "Water Margin" in this time and space may also be part of the reason why the chivalrous literary pattern has remained unchanged for a hundred years.

Another great contribution of Liang Shi to martial arts is to successfully separate the rivers and lakes from the temples.

Outside of the real world, create a new world - rivers and lakes.

This river and lake can be called Liang's rivers and lakes, and there are many characters living in it that are unlikely to appear in reality, and the characters of these characters have the characteristics of general depression in reality, so after Hua Luogeng read it, he called Liang Shi's work a fairy tale for adults.

At this time, Shen Zhe didn't know that there was a chivalrous man in the south who gave a righteous evaluation, and he also had his own opinions.

The most commonly recognized in the martial arts novel industry should be the three masters of Jin Guliang.

Because each of them created a world of rivers and lakes, Liang's rivers and lakes, Jin Yong's world and Gulong world.

In the words of fantasy and fantasy, it is to open up the field.

Invincible in the field.

The plot, story, and writing are put aside, just looking at the situation of each world, the Liang family is too traditional, the human nature of the ancient dragon world is too dark, and Jin Yong's world is the most beautiful.

So Jin Yong is the most famous, and if possible, Shen Zhe also wants to go around.

……

On June 10, the second issue of "Chinese Youth" was released this month.

At this time, more than half of the whole book was serialized, and after the foreshadowing of the previous issue, magazine sales ushered in another wave of growth.

The editor-in-chief, Zhongli, had already obtained the estimate of the marketing department and breathed a sigh of relief.

It is predicted that the final sales of this week will reach about 4.8 million copies, and whether it can exceed the 5 million mark depends on luck.

He's also prepared for a drop in sales, and market research at the beginning of the month showed that a large percentage of readers were habitually subscribed. But what he didn't expect was that the original young readers would buy back the magazine, but it would arouse the interest of the elderly.

Most of the lost readers were young women.

Zhongli doesn't care, as long as sales don't decline, he is successful as a businessman.

The biggest takeaway is that in addition to layout design and marketing, the role of a good writer is far beyond his expectations.

The reader doesn't care about this, and just wants to read the plot as much as he can.

The most important character in these two appearances is Xin Rushenni, who subdued the four murderers who chased and killed Liu Mengdie with a wave of his hand, and accepted Liu Mengdie as an apprentice.

In order to highlight Liu Mengdie's talent for learning martial arts, the book also portrayed Hui Xiu, a registered disciple who is thirty years older than Shenni: "I think my qualifications and foundation are not enough, many wonderful martial arts cannot be practiced, and I am still only a registered disciple." I also know that I can't inherit her mantle, and I am very satisfied to learn a few superficial martial arts from her old man. ”

"The heart is like a god!"

"I swear, Shenni is definitely the best character in this book!"

"It turns out that Liu Lao Boxer is not the most powerful, there seems to be a group of monks and nuns outside the plug who are more powerful than him!"

"Where did the group come from?"

"Alas, how do you read the book, 'they are excellent in martial arts and are good at medicine', do you see the sentence, they are not a group?"

"You are not as serious as me, and you also said that the heart is like a god and nun is the most powerful, let me ask you, whose disciple is she?"

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone hurriedly turned it back and rewatched it.

"Zen Master Obscure!"

"Xinru Shenni is the only female disciple of the third generation of Zen Master Xuanming, so there must be other male disciples, taught by a master, can it be bad?"

"It's a little scary, Liu Mengdie said that Shenni is more powerful than her father's martial arts, so the second-generation disciple and the Zen Master of the Obscure Ming himself are not immortals?"

After the creation of "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua", it had a great response in Xiangjiang, and Liang Shi then published "The Legend of the Dragon and Snake" to consolidate the results. And then on this basis, the Tianshan series was deduced, so the time and character lines are not clear now, no wonder these readers are making a fuss.

This is the consistent creative technique of martial arts novels.

A bull man comes out, and then he is beaten down, and finally a chivalrous man with better martial arts will come out to scare away a group of people.

Mr. Jin Yong is also very good at this technique, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" came out of the Jiangnan Seven Monsters Ox Fork Boom, but he couldn't beat Mei Chaofeng, Qiu Chuji appeared like a master outside the world, and after reading the whole book, he found that it was really not good, and there was a small shrimp in front of the five uniques.

Under the so-called five uniques, they are all ants.

Readers in this time and space have never seen this kind of plot, and they are red at the sight of each other.

I can't wait to run outside the plug immediately, and ask to see the Zen master of the obscure Ming to bow down.

In the chivalrous world in June, "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua" opened a corner of the rivers and lakes, which made countless chivalrous lovers restless.