Taiwan's Wansheng Company has published good results, not only making Taiwan full of turmoil.

In fact, the news was fed back to Hong Kong, which also caused a shock in the publishing and cultural circles.

In these days, there are very few traditional literati who are bent on making a name for themselves in history, and those writers in the world of fiction today are essentially no different from actors in the film industry and singers in the pop music industry.

Fiction writers, mainstream ideas, still worship circulation!

A writer's circulation, which is only slightly excellent, will not be respected but will provoke jealousy. However, if the circulation of an author goes against the sky and reaches a height that is impossible for others to reach, then the public opinion trend of the entire industry will change from jealousy to admiration and admiration!

In the commercial society, it is inevitable in the publishing industry that only the circulation is respected!

Hong Kong, Taiwan, this region where capitalism prevails.

As early as the 60s, when martial arts novels were popular, the status of novelists was ranked by the number of circulation!

Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Liang Yusheng are worshipped in large part because of the staggering number of circulation of their novels.

Now, in just a few months, "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has set a record for publishing in Hong Kong and Taiwan - 150,000 copies in Hong Kong and more than 200,000 copies in Taiwan!

In other words, the sales of Zhang Shaojie's single book have exceeded 350,000 copies!

This is just the beginning, the book can sell so well, and it will be republished and republished again and again in the future. In the future, what the highest record of Zhang Shaojie's book will be, no one dares to guess casually!

In fact, few people now regard Zhang Shaojie as a cutting-edge writer, and few people only regard Zhang Shaojie's success as luck!

Luckily, I can't explain that "Martial Arts and History" is serialized and popular, and "Ming Pao" is also widely popular, and the highest circulation of physical books issued in Hong Kong exceeds 150,000 copies, and the circulation in Taiwan has exceeded 200,000 copies in just one week!

The amazing sales figures have clearly shown that Zhang Shaojie is the legendary powerhouse!

There are already media shouting - "This is not only a miracle in the martial arts novel industry, but also a miracle in the Chinese publishing industry!" ”

Of course, the mainland's publishing industry has been ignored by some Hong Kong and Taiwan media.

Chinese mainland, after the reform and opening up, book distribution, although crazy! Hegel's philosophical books can also sell millions of copies! Any third-rate poet's poems can sell hundreds of thousands of copies! Traditional classical novels such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Journey to the West" can sell tens of millions of copies in this era!

However, there is still no awareness of copyright protection in the mainland. Major publishing houses typeset, print and publish the works of famous artists at home and abroad at will.

In this era, some domestic writers may be able to receive a few hundred yuan for publishing a book. As for overseas works, when they are translated, domestic publishers will not pay the original author any remuneration!

Compared with the chaotic environment of the mainland publishing industry, the Hong Kong and Taiwan publishing markets are the main markets for Chinese popular novels at this time. This is because this market pays authors according to copyright laws.

Wansheng came to the publishing results, and Zhang Shaojie breathed a sigh of relief.

Because, every time Taiwan Wansheng Company publishes an episode, Zhang Shaojie can get a stable royalty of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars.

If the first episode published by Wansheng is a huge loss, presumably the subsequent cooperation will end without a problem. Zhang Shaojie doesn't want to lose such a crazy "golden job".

Because the first episode of "Datang" released in Taiwan went well. Therefore, Wansheng has paid a fixed fee of HK$1 million for the publication of this episode to the account of Yulang International Company. Huang Yulang and Zhang Shaojie cooperated happily, and once again divided the account by 55 Hong Kong dollars, each sharing 500,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Because of such a large amount of income, Zhang Shaojie's financial situation has improved unprecedentedly!

At this time, Zhang Shaojie had 550,000 Hong Kong dollars in bank deposits and another 1 million yuan in securities assets of "Hanmei Enterprises".

The market price of the 81-square-metre housing unit has risen to HK$500,000!

In this way, Zhang Shaojie can be regarded as a millionaire!

The continuous growth of wealth made Zhang Shaojie a little ambitious.

Before Wen Ruian came to Hong Kong in 81, Zhang Shaojie could firmly sit on the throne of Hong Kong's No. 1 best-selling author with "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".

In terms of Hong Kong comics, Huang Yulang and Zhang Shaojie, who monopolize the Hong Kong comic industry, have a close relationship. And the future comic giant Ma Rongcheng, under Zhang Shaojie's intentional wooing, has a better impression of Zhang Shaojie. If Ma Rongcheng's contract expires, Zhang Shaojie shouts, Ma Rongcheng will most likely take refuge in Zhang Shaojie!

Based on novels, it is Zhang Shaojie's ideal to further develop various and culture-related industries such as entertainment, ACG, etc., to promote Chinese culture and develop Hong Kong's cultural influence.

Now, in addition to novels, comics and other cultural industry foundations and marginal areas, Zhang Shaojie has set foot in.

is more core and more marketable in the film and television industry, but Zhang Shaojie has no influence.

The TV industry needs to have a TV station as a foundation. In Hong Kong, only TVB can make money in the TV industry, and most of the other TV stations are losing money one after another, with losses of more than tens of millions of yuan every year, which makes most TV stations go bankrupt and dissolve, forming a pattern in which TVB dominates the world.

Now let Zhang Shaojie lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year, he can't afford to lose.

If he cooperates with TVB, Zhang Shaojie is not confident that he can compete with Run Run Shaw and seize the controlling stake of TVB. There is no company that hopes to seize the right to speak, and Zhang Shaojie will not participate in it.

Therefore, in the TV industry, Zhang Shaojie can only give up for the time being.

Movie?!

Zhang Shaojie's brows jumped!

Zhang Shaojie knows that in the late 80s and early 90s, the golden age of Hong Kong films was full of yearning.

It's not that Zhang Shaojie is familiar with the film industry.

In fact, although Zhang Shaojie learned the basic knowledge of film and television screenwriting from Jin Yong, Zhang Shaojie knows nothing about film production.

But it doesn't affect his appreciation of the golden age of Hong Kong movies in the 80s!

The 80s and early 90s were an era of continuous development and innovation of Hong Kong films. Although, in the later Hollywood blockbusters overwhelmed the Hong Kong film market.

However, in the 80s, the achievements and innovation capabilities of the Hong Kong film industry were remarkable all over the world!

For example, the "Best Partner" series has opened up the theme of comedy agents.

"Mr. Zombie" created the image of Chinese-style zombies, and later, when many Chinese people think of zombies, they can't help but think of Chinese-style zombies wearing Qing Dynasty official uniforms and jumping around.

"The True Color of Heroes" not only made Chow Yun-fat popular, but also created the theme of urban heroes, and found the most beautiful shooting method for gunfight movies. This kind of gunfight, which is full of artistic flavor, was later widely used by Hollywood film directors to learn from it.

"The Legend of the God of Gamblers" made gambling movies popular.

The new martial arts era opened up by films such as "Smiling Proud Jianghu", "New Dragon Gate Inn", and "Huang Feihong" series found the best model for later Chinese martial arts films.

Even the experimental surname film "Three Heroes of the East", which hit the local box office in Hong Kong, is actually very close to the style of those big-budget Hollywood superhero films "Spider-Man", "X-Men", "Hulk", "Iron Man", "Batman", "Fantastic Four" and "Superman".

You must know that in later Hollywood, except for a few blockbusters, the mainstream on the screen is already the superheroes in the comic industry.

Especially in Hollywood at the beginning of the 21st century, it has almost become a battlefield for superheroes. At least half of the top 10 grossing movies in North America each year are superheroes.

It's a pity that "Three Heroes of the East", an experimental work of urban martial arts, although it has a good reputation, because of the box office, Hong Kong films have not continued to tap the potential of this theme, and lost the opportunity to create a Hong Kong version of superhero movies.

It is precisely because the Hong Kong film industry had too much glory and too many regrets in the 80s that Zhang Shaojie is eager to participate in this industry.

Since you have decided to get involved in movies, it is better to get involved later than early.

Because in the Hong Kong film circle at this time, only the old Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are competing for hegemony.

However, as the head of Shaw Brothers devoted his energy to the television industry and his investment in the film industry, he began to decline.

And Golden Harvest Company, although it used to cooperate with Bruce Lee, is like Zhongtian. However, with the end of Bruce Lee's era, Golden Harvest's supremacy began to waver.

In fact, the popularity of the Hong Kong film industry in the 80s was built on the basis of many small companies.

Because, the boom of the film market. Many directors and actors of large companies such as Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers have started their own businesses, and small-scale film companies have sprung up.

Many of these small companies were founded by senior directors and actors in the industry, and they have a better understanding of the market than businessmen. These small companies are more energetic and dare to fight, which made the Hong Kong film industry appear to be vibrant and blooming in the 80s.

At the same time, some capital outside the entertainment industry has also continued to invest in the film industry, bringing vitality to the industry.

For example, the later Xinyi City thrived because of the silent support of businessman Lei Juekun.

Lei Juekun does not make money from the profits of movies, but supports the dreams of many directors like a rich man.

Therefore, Lei Juekun gave some directors in the company a lot of autonomy, and most of the directors who hit the street were because of the opportunity given by Xinyicheng to let them "turn over".

Later, in Hong Kong, the vast majority of heavyweight directors were trained by New Arts City.

It can be seen that an industry is blessed to have the support of a big boss who really cares about the development of the industry.

Later, in the early 90s, although the new art city was like Zhongtian, the internal contradictions intensified. In addition, the behind-the-scenes boss Lei Juekun's physical condition is worrying, and the company was dissolved in the most glorious period, and after the disintegration, the film copyrights owned by the company were auctioned one after another, and the copyright dividends were obtained, most of which were distributed to the old employees of Xinyicheng.

Between the 80s and 92s, Hong Kong films were in a stage of rapid development, and there were basically no big problems. However, after the disintegration of New Arts City, the Hong Kong film market began to deteriorate, year after year!

By the mid-90s, except for the movies of Stephen Chow, Chow Yun-fat, and Jackie Chan, which could guarantee the box office, most of the remaining directors and actors hit the streets. Therefore, studios, which were originally keen to invest in movies, began to reduce their film investment.

Because of the depression of the Hong Kong film industry, many filmmakers can no longer rely on the film profession to make a living, so they naturally change careers one after another.

Later, despite the rapid development of film special effects technology, the overall professionalism of Hong Kong film industry practitioners is much worse than that in the 80s, so if Hong Kong films want to make sincere works like "The True Colors of Heroes", they can't shoot them at all!

Zhang Shaojie silently thought - does he have the ability to turn the tide and save the heroes of Hong Kong movies?