"The Rise of a Great Power" began to be serialized in "Ming Pao" on August 5. Although Zhang Shaojie knew that this was expected, he was also very happy. He knows that the thick text of "The Rise of a Great Power" is enough to expand his popularity from ordinary citizens and small people to intellectuals who don't read novels.

"There are not many omissions in the historical data. The text is not beautiful, but it is also so-so. can be published, and the remuneration will be given according to 350 yuan and 1,000 words! Jin Yong said, "This book doesn't need to be handed over to Yulang International." Ming Pao Group has recently started to strengthen its book publishing business, and your book "The Rise of Great Powers" will be published by Ming Pao! ”

Zhang Shaojie was a little stunned, the "Ming Pao Group" also decided to engage in physical book publishing? However, how should the remuneration for publication be calculated?

At this time, Jin Yong smiled: "20% royalty!" "This is usually the highest royalty in the international publishing industry, and if you can get so much royalties, the author will not make less money than the publisher's profit.

Zhang Shaojie suddenly said happily: "Congratulations to the teacher, Ming Pao finally has a new business, congratulations on the prosperity of the new business!" ”

"The Rise of a Great Power" Ming Pao Group is ready to publish a physical book, so let Ming Pao Company publish it.

Anyway, Huang Yulang has made a lot of money in the two fields of comics and novels. The publication of historical monographs such as "The Rise of Great Powers" is not good at Yulang International.

Ming Pao's status in Hong Kong is outstanding, not because Ming Pao's remuneration is high, on the contrary, Ming Pao's remuneration is not as good as that of Sing Tao Pao and the newly emerging first-class newspapers such as Oriental Pao and Apple Pao.

However, if an author can open a column and write an article in Ming Pao, he will immediately be able to gain wide attention!

With widespread attention, are you still afraid that you will not have money?

In fact, the columnists of "Ming Pao", whether they submit articles in other newspapers or publish physical books, are often open channels, and the famous authors of "Ming Pao" generally sell well when their books are published by virtue of the fame earned in "Ming Pao"!

It is precisely for this reason that even if Ming Pao appears to be stingy among newspapers of the same level, most Hong Kong authors, in order to make a name for themselves, are the first to submit their articles to Ming Pao.

Although, "Ming Pao" has hatched a bunch of famous novelists.

However, the mainstream readers of "Ming Pao" are more concerned about politics, economy, society, history, and so on. In addition to reading recent social commentaries, readers of Ming Pao also prefer in-depth historical commentary articles.

For many intellectuals, all history is contemporary.

What is happening in society today is actually closely related to history. Mainstream intellectuals, especially those who like to learn from history, think about strategies for strengthening the country by analyzing the cycle of chaos in history.

China is a big country, but China in this era is only a big country in terms of military and politics, but it is a weak country in terms of economy. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, although China had a certain industrial base, it was economically poor, underdeveloped in science and technology, and lacked cultural influence.

In modern history, the most popular proposition of intellectuals is salvation.

Now that the salvation has been realized, the "dream of a strong country" has become a new focus proposition.

Zhang Shaojie's "The Rise of a Great Power * Portugal" has just been published, and it quickly stimulated a response. Because Zhang Shaojie's historical essay has a very clear idea, that is, to use history as a mirror to analyze the rise of the great powers in modern history.

This macro perspective is concise and to the point, through the explanation of the historical process, and finally the author's summary.

This article is different from most history books on the market! It is completely from the perspective of taking history as a mirror and the rise and fall of the country. Moreover, the vision is very broad, not the history of a region or a country, but the process of developing from a weak country to a strong country, and finally flourishing and declining.

Although, now it is only a small part of the serialization, but the pattern has come out!

Calm, objective, and every word is based on history as a mirror and offers suggestions for the country's prosperity.

This kind of article was very common in ancient times, such as "Zizhi Tongjian" is such an article!

However, the articles of modern historians are often written from the standpoint of introducing historical events and increasing readers' understanding of history, rather than from the standpoint of offering advice and advice from the standpoint of a powerful country.

Although the historical data is exhaustive, the articles with popular science surnames lack the main idea, so they cannot cause the ideological shock of intellectuals!

The book "The Rise of Great Powers" has already revealed a hint of guidance from the title, which naturally attracts the interest of many like-minded people!

On the day this article was published, a reader wrote to Ming Pao and said: "At the end of the 20th century, the Chinese nation, which has gone through vicissitudes, has been in a relatively peaceful international environment, the reform and opening up policy has just been implemented, and in the face of new opportunities, whether it can embark on a road to rise has attracted the attention of one billion Chinese people." Taking history as a mirror, we can learn from the rise and fall. Mr. Zhang Shaojie's "The Rise of Great Powers" has a high intention, rigorous historical data, and chooses the rise and fall of the unpopular small country Portugal as the first article, rather than the history of the great powers known to Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, etc., which is even more valuable! I look forward to Mr. Shaojie's later article to maintain the historical height and ideological height of the beginning! ”

A Chinese scholar sent a letter saying: "When I read the article "The Rise of a Great Power", I was disdainful at first, but then I saw the author's narration, which was not impetuous or unconventional, but the central idea of the article was moving. Contemporary "Zizhi Tongjian"! That's how I feel it."

A history professor at the University of Hong Kong, after reading "The Rise of a Great Power" serialized in Ming Pao, happily bought more than 100 copies of the newspaper and distributed it to his students, saying, "I don't need to give a lecture today!" Read the "Rise of a Great Power * Portugal" chapter on "Ming Pao", in the next class, everyone will hand in a copy of my feelings after reading, if you don't write well, you will deduct the credits of this semester! ”

A group of students sighed and began to scramble to read "The Rise of Great Powers"

The person in charge of Hong Kong's "Xinhua News Agency" was emotional after reading "The Rise of a Great Power" and contacted Yanjing by phone. Xiang Xinhua's head office said: "There is a grand article in Hong Kong's "Ming Pao", and I hope that this article will be handed over to the heads of the central government! ”

"Which one?"

"The Rise of Great Powers!"

―――――――――― obtained that "The Rise of a Great Power" had been serialized in "Ming Pao" and quickly aroused repercussions, Zhang Shaojie was more happy. In fact, Zhang Shaojie is not pure plagiarism in this work.

But through the CCTV version of "The Rise of a Great Power", the Tang and Jin physical book version of "The Rise of a Great Power", the Hong Kong TVB version of "The Rise of a Great Power", and the experience summarized in the many historical rise and fall discussion posts on the Internet later, and even some views of a strong country in some alternate historical novels, Zhang Shaojie also borrowed it.

Of course, the historical materials used in the article are all from the original "The Rise of Great Powers". After all, whether it is a TV documentary or a physical book, "The Rise of a Great Power" has a group of historical experts who are constantly correcting errors, and there are very few bugs.

When it came time to summarize the text of the surname, Zhang Shaojie felt that the original version of "The Rise of a Great Power" was dry and dry, and it didn't look very interesting.

Therefore, Zhang Shaojie used the novelist's narration technique to summarize the text of the surname and write it more interestingly.

Moreover, Zhang Shaojie looks at the problem from the perspective of the reborn, and sometimes it can't help but smell like a "prophet".

In fact, many authors of this kind of political commentary, historical commentary and other powerful writings are confident in predicting the future.

But some people predicted correctly, and some people predicted wrong!

For example, the book "China Can Say No" in 96 is a book of foreknowledge, which on the surface looks a bit like the book "China Can Say No" in the 80s. However, within a few years of the publication of "Say No", it was sheared by the American Plaza Accord at the yuan exchange rate, and since then the economy has been in recession significantly, from the 90s to 2011 for 20 years, and the broker is still at the level of the late 80s.

If we calculate inflation, in fact, after 2011, my per capita purchasing power is only half of what it was in the late 80s.

The book "Chinese Can Say No" predicts that China's rapid economic development in the future will quickly surpass that of most industrial powers, and believes that "within 15 years, the Western economy will inevitably have big problems." "The U.S. fiscal deficit is large every year, and it is covered by tax increases and borrowing. U.S. companies have huge debts, and Americans pay huge debts to banks by paying for their houses, cars, and tuition fees in installments...... Now the American political axe and the Americans are 'spending their children's money', and 'eating the food of the next life in this life'. Regardless of the economics used, this situation will not last long. ”

In addition, in '96, when ordinary Chinese people did not have much confidence that they would be able to rise rapidly in a short period of time, they proposed that "as long as we survive 10 to 15 years, there will be great changes in the world situation that are favorable to our country" and "we must make early preparations in the financial sector to prevent the impact of the 'dollar collapse' and the 'world financial crisis'"

In 96 years, "China Can Say No" put forward such a series of prophetic concepts, and with the development of time, these prophecies were fulfilled one after another.

After 2007, on the Internet, many Chinese netizens have regarded this book as a divine book!

When Zhang Shaojie wrote "The Rise of Great Powers". He vaguely put some future prophecies in the book.

If you can read and agree with Zhang Shaojie's point of view, you will definitely benefit immensely.

If you disdain some of Zhang Shaojie's "bold predictions", it will definitely be a big loss for the other party!

It's all about time!

Zhang Shaojie secretly thought, 30 years later, will "The Rise of a Great Power" be listed as a sacred book on the Internet?

(To be continued)