January 28, 1980, another Monday.

A new week begins. Hong Kong's martial arts novel market has been a bit lively recently.

The novel editions of old newspapers such as "Ming Pao", "Hong Kong Commercial Daily", "Ta Kung Pao", "Sing Tao Weekly", "New Evening News" and so on have been revised invariably, not only serializing the works of martial arts masters, but also beginning to explore the works of newcomers.

Other professional martial arts novel journals such as "Martial Arts and History", "Martial Arts Spring and Autumn", "Martial Arts", "Martial Arts" and other magazines have begun to gain the support of the behind-the-scenes bosses and regain some vitality!

Hong Kong's martial arts novel market seems to have regained its vitality all of a sudden!

Because, from the beginning of the 70s, Jin Yong's pen was the prelude, and the number of active martial arts novelists in Hong Kong began to be scarce. During the same period, Taiwan's martial arts novels were looked down upon by Hong Kong novelists because of their mixed nature and low quality.

However, by the end of the 70s, Hong Kong's martial arts novelists had begun to sparse. In Taiwan, there are more than 300 authors who make a living by writing martial arts novels.

And, after Gu Long's works became famous in the Hong Kong market, Taiwanese writers began to land in Hong Kong one after another and make a lot of money in Hong Kong.

Originally, Hong Kong's prices were high, and ordinary writers could not make a living from writing, so the number of new generation writers was scarce. Under the impact of Taiwan's hard-working writers, local writers began to become more and more rare.

If it is said that in the 70s ~ 80s, in the gap period after Jin Yong's pen, there were 50 first-class martial arts masters in the market - Taiwan should occupy at least 45, but Hong Kong could only occupy five.

However, with the publication of Zhang Shaojie's "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", the situation began to reverse!

Because of the impact of the new fantasy style of "Datang", Taiwan's old-fashioned martial arts in the style of vendetta began to accelerate their decline.

At the same time, the fantasy martial arts style began to become popular!

Although, at this time, there is no such long serialized fantasy martial arts as "Datang".

However, there are also short fantasy martial arts that imitate the style of "Datang", which appear in various newspapers and periodicals!

For example, Ni Kuang was a little itchy after seeing Zhang Shaojie's "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", and he also began to serialize a "Goryeo Sword Hao". In this novel, roughly in the late Sui period, a Goryeo swordsman, with his peerless swordsmanship, killed the generals of the Sui army and burned the logistics of the Sui army, so that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty made three expeditions to Goryeo, all of which ended in failure. Among them, there is the protagonist who comprehends Jiuxuan**, and comprehends swordsmanship from the stars in the sky and Go on the ground.

In this novel, in the original history, Zhang Shaojie knew that Ni Kuang had never written this novel.

The reason why this novel appears now is mostly because after Ni Kuang saw the background of Fu Junzhuo in "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", he found inspiration from Fu Cailin, the master of Yijian.

Of course, Ni Kuang's suspected work of fan fiction is in the market, although many readers are reading it. However, there is also a lot of scolding!

First, it is a typical follow-up "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", and the martial arts in "Datang" such as Jiuxuan** and Yi Swordsmanship have been stolen.

Second, although Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty did not have a good reputation in history, from the standpoint of Chinese history, the three expeditions to Goryeo also taught a heavy lesson to the northern peoples, and laid the foundation for the later Tang Dynasty to destroy Baekje and Goguryeo. It also made the Korean Peninsula, in the later feudal dynasties, basically tamed China and laid the foundation.

Although Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goryeo three times, it was inevitable to be regarded as a war of aggression.

However, in order to oppose Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, he killed and injured the soldiers of the Sui army, hurt the vitality of the Central Plains court, and caused turmoil in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, which inevitably tasted like Han annihilation!

Of course, Ni Kuang doesn't care about the scolding of readers with leftist positions. Ni Kuang's own novels are regarded as rightist Han annihilation by the mainland because of their allusion to mainland politics.

In addition, Ni Kuang's novel itself is unscrupulous, and there are many taboos written, and there is even a plot in which the protagonist acts as a "ball annihilation" - suggesting that aliens punish the earthlings and kill all the humans on the earth.

Although Zhang Shaojie knows that the plot of the novel cannot be used to determine the surname of a novel author - the murder in the novel does not mean that the author is a murderer. Justice Ling Ran in the novel does not mean that the author himself is also a messenger of justice.

But when I saw that the martial arts protagonist written by Ni Kuang was standing against a hostile nation and fighting against the [***] team, I couldn't help but feel disgusted.

"There is no kingdom in the novel, but the author of the novel has a nation! Ni Kuang often hurts readers' national feelings in his novels, no wonder Ni Kuang's novels cannot be popular even after the ban is lifted in the mainland! Zhang Shaojie shook his head.

Jin Yong and Gu Long, who are popular in the mainland, one of these two is to fully consider national feelings.

For example, Guo Jing in Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", even though he grew up in Mongolia, finally stood on the position of national righteousness and resisted the Mongol invasion of the Song Dynasty in the south. In Gu Long's book, politics and dynasties are downplayed, and it will not hurt the national feelings of Chinese readers.

However, Ni Kuang was listed as [***] in the mainland, which in itself is that the content of the article is too sensitive. To put it simply, there are too many "leading the way" plots - taking aliens and killing earthlings. In order to so-called punish sin, kill all mankind. Such content is undoubtedly challenging the lower limit of morality.

"Brother, I read martial arts novels now, and you are still the best! Now even Ni Kuang is following your work!" Shaohuai is obviously worshipping to the extreme!

"Hehe, Ni Kuang, this person is essentially a panacea! Any type of article can be written, and there are endless ideas! However, because he is too impetuous, too much pursuit of the speed of writing, and does not bother to brew the plot. So, I haven't been able to be a first-class writer! Zhang Shaojie commented.

"Oh!" Hearing Zhang Shaojie's comment, Shaohuai obviously accepted this point of view!

At this time, if Ni Kuang were to be said to be a second-rate writer in Hong Kong, it would obviously not be accepted by readers and people in the publishing industry. In fact, Ni Kuang is already one of the most popular writers in Hong Kong. In the Chinese-speaking circle, Ni Kuang, the first person in manuscript fees, if he is rated as a second-rate writer, how can many third- and fourth-rate writers in Hong Kong who take Ni Kuang's experience as their goal to be embarrassed!

In fact, Shaohuai agrees with Zhang Shaojie's point of view, and it is indeed not just a worship of Zhang Shaojie! Because the 3,000 words at the beginning of "Broken Void" have been serialized in the fourth issue of "Martial Arts and History" in 80 years.

Although "Broken Void" is not as popular as "Datang", it has also attracted the attention of many readers.

In addition to paying attention to Zhang Shaohuai being Zhang Shaojie's younger brother, readers also really feel that "Broken Void" is readable!

Now in the market, the praise of "Broken Void" is obviously more than that of "Goryeo Jianhao" written by Ni Kuang in a hurry!

If nothing else, with the fantasy martial arts trend triggered by "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", "Broken Void" will also become a little popular

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