Chapter 373: Editor-in-Chief of Simon Publishing Group
After walking out of Guzhenhai's home, Yang Chuan felt very relaxed.
Today, Yang Chuan met two heavyweights, namely Lu Tianming, mayor of Nanjiang City, and Lin Feng, secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Just when Yang Chuan was happy, his mobile phone suddenly rang.
"Hey, hello! Are you Mr. Yang Chuan? ”
Listening to the non-standard Mandarin on the other end of the phone, Yang Chuan asked suspiciously: "Yes!" Who are you? ”
"Oh, that's great!" After hearing Yang Chuan's answer, the person on the other end of the phone shouted happily: "Hello! I am Davis, the editor-in-chief of Simon Publishing in the United States, and today I came to Nanjiang City with the propagandists of the "Da Vinci Code" movie. ”
Hearing that the person who called him turned out to be Davis, the editor-in-chief of Simon Publishing Group in the United States, Yang Chuan was also slightly stunned, to be honest, he really didn't expect Davis to call him.
Yang Chuan smiled: "Hehe! Mr. Davis, I'm glad to meet you. ”
Davis said, "Mr. Yang, I'm also glad to meet you. In fact, I have always admired you, to be honest, I have read your works "The Da Vinci Code" and "The Hunger Games" very seriously, and I am now a fan of your books. ”
"If it weren't for the promotional activities of the movie "The Da Vinci Code" to China, maybe I wouldn't have seen you, this time I came over and asked your cousin Ms. Yang Sitong for your phone number, so I called you as soon as I got off the plane."
After hearing that Davis was his book lover, Yang Chuan was a little embarrassed and said, "Mr. Davis, you have won the award." ”
Davis asked, "Mr. Yang, I have great admiration for your talent, can I make an appointment with you to meet you?" ”
In the face of Davis's enthusiastic invitation to himself, Yang Chuan naturally would not refuse.
"Yes, I wonder where Mr. Davis is now?"
Davis replied, "I'm at a Starbucks coffee shop. You can come over now. ”
"Okay, then I'll go right over."
After hanging up the phone, Yang Chuan walked out of Nanjiang University and took a taxi directly to Starbucks
About ten minutes later, Yang Chuan came to Starbucks.
As soon as he walked into Starbucks, Yang Chuan found that there were several foreigners with big noses and yellow hair sitting inside, of course, now the yellow-haired foreigners are not necessarily foreigners, and many Chinese people also dye yellow hair, so he had no choice but to make a phone call.
Soon the call was connected.
"Hello! Mr. Davis, I've arrived at Starbucks, where are you? ”
"Oh! Mr. Yang, I'm in that position by the window. ”
Hanging up the phone, Yang Chuan looked up and saw a foreign man with a high nose and yellow hair sitting by the window.
After confirming the identity of the other party, Yang Chuan walked directly towards him.
"Mr. Yang. Hello! I'm Davis, the editor-in-chief of Simon Publishing Group. ”
Seeing Yang Chuan coming, Davis stood up with a smile on his face and said.
Yang Chuan stretched out his hand and smiled, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Davis." ”
"Hehe~!" Davis smiled and said, "Sit down, may I ask what you are drinking?" ”
Yang Chuan thought for a while and said, "Bring me a latte!" ”
"Okay~!" Davis yelled, "Waiter, bring me a latte." ”
In less than a moment, a male waiter brought Yang Chuan a latte.
After taking a sip of coffee, Yang Chuan couldn't help frowning, to be honest, he didn't like to drink foreigners' coffee very much, because coffee tasted like cat. Forehead? It seems that cat poop coffee is quite expensive.
In short, Yang Chuan's favorite drink is Huaxia tea, which has a faint fragrance and an endless aftertaste after drinking.
After seeing Yang Chuan take a sip of coffee, Davis was surprised: "To be honest, I really can't believe that the author who wrote such a suspenseful work as "The Da Vinci Code" and "The Hunger Games" as an insight into human nature is still a student. ”
"Hehe~!" Yang Chuan chuckled and said, "Mr. Davis." As the editor-in-chief of Simon Publishing Group, you must have seen many young geniuses, and in the history of our country, there was a man who had already worshiped the prime minister at the age of eight. ”
Davis was surprised: "Huaxia is really a magical country. ”
Due to the different cultural backgrounds, the educational concepts of Huaxia and the United States are completely different, and Huaxia attaches great importance to the so-called prodigies or young geniuses from ancient times and modern times. You must know that some key universities in China have so-called junior classes.
This is not the case in the United States, where Americans are free to be. Therefore, their children, whether they are kindergarten, primary school, or junior high school, are basically play-oriented, in order to live a happy childhood with the so-called liberated nature.
In Huaxia, let alone kindergarten children, even the fetus that is still in the womb has to undergo so-called prenatal education, and shouts the slogan "Don't let the child lose at the starting line". Today's primary school students' schoolbags are getting heavier and heavier, and they have to attend so-called interest classes on weekends, and they can't wait for their children to become omnipotent supermen who wear underwear.
A survey shows that in fact, primary school mathematics in China is equivalent to the junior high school level in the United States, and there was once such an interesting joke. A Chinese student who had just entered the first grade of elementary school immigrated to the United States with his parents to study.
Once, an American teacher asked the whole class who knew how much one plus one was equal, but only the Chinese primary school student in the class raised his hand.
They believe that it is impossible for a student who has just entered the first grade of primary school to know how much one plus one is, so they suspect that the parents of the Huaxia elementary school student are suspected of child abuse, which is at best a joke in Huaxia.
Because in Huaxia, don't say how much one plus one is equal, you can ask a primary school student to calculate equations nowadays.
Yang Chuan smiled and asked, "Mr. Davis, is there anything wrong with coming to Huaxia this time?" ”
Davis replied: "The main reason for coming to China this time is to see the publicity effect of the movie "The Da Vinci Code", because this work is published by us, so we have to consider the economic benefits of the adaptation of our work. ”
"Of course, the most important purpose is to meet you, and I want to discuss future cooperation with you."
Hearing that Davis was going to discuss future cooperation with him, Yang Chuan couldn't help but be stunned.
To be honest, Yang Chuan has always wanted to change the cooperation model with Simon Publishing House, because now their cooperation model is that Yang Chuan writes manuscripts and submits them to Simon Publishing Group for publication in Europe and the United States, which is too simple.
In Yang Chuan's heart, he hopes to form his own cooperation model with Simon Publishing Group and Yanjing Fantasy Culture Group. (To be continued......)