Historically, "Legend of the Ancient World" was founded by the old artist Ren Qing and others in July 1981 with a loan of 15,000 yuan. "Legends of the Ancients" was unknown at first, but by the 90s, it had become a leading publication in the field of popular fiction. At the beginning of the 21st century, during the depression period of martial arts novels, "Legend of the Ancient Times" bucked the trend and successively established periodicals such as "Martial Arts Edition", "Story Edition", "Fantasy Edition", etc., and its influence was the first among similar publications in China.

It's only October 1980, and "Ancient Legends" was born a few months early? Zhang Shaojie thought to himself, most of it was because of his own variable.

Of course, the early launch of "Legend of the Ancients" is indeed a good thing.

Zhang Shaojie is also a writer, a writer who mainly eats in the Chinese market. The more the Chinese publishing market develops, the more it is in line with Zhang Shaojie's interests.

In Zhang Shaojie's view, he has so many ideas, which is already the greatest gift from God. Being able to use this kind of creativity to make some achievements in the Chinese cultural market across the Taiwan Strait and three places and contribute to Chinese culture is what Zhang Shaojie is most willing to do.

The market in China is so big, and there are more and more periodicals like "Ancient Legends" to attract more readers to read popular novels. Readers will know that Chinese novels not only have those pure novels, but also have the imagination of the overseas novel market!

More and more publications attract readers, further expanding the capacity of the entire market. In the whole cultural environment that is getting bigger and bigger, Zhang Shaojie can be like other writers, like a fish in water, and get more development!

Zhang Shaojie saw Ba Jin's appearance and said with a smile: "Could it be that "Ancient Legends" is a chess piece of Ba Lao?" Test the direction of the policy wind? ”

Ba Jin said embarrassedly: "This has nothing to do with me, it was Comrade Ren Qing and them who made it up." I just stamped the documents after they had applied! ”

Just stamped? Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but smile! Is it true?

The older generation of proletarian literary and artistic artists are fine! After experiencing the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the special decade, and so on, the hardships made people cautious. Whether it is the country's economic reform or cultural reform, risk-taking and prudence must be present at the same time in order to become successful.

Haste makes waste! Looking at Ba Jin's cunning look, Zhang Shaojie suddenly understood!

Zhang Shaojie said: "Okay, my "Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" can be submitted to "Ancient Legends", and the manuscript fee does not need to be prepaid for the time being. However, I ask that if "Legend of the Ancient World" makes money, I will share 10% of the profits! ”

"You want to share 10% of the profits of the entire magazine?"

"Yes! Because I believe that "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" will definitely be able to drive the sales of "Legend of the Ancients"! ”

Ba Jin smiled: "I will tell Comrade Ren Qing!" By the way, Shaojie, you can draw up the terms of the contract, as long as it is not too excessive, when the time comes, after Comrade Ren Qing signs and seals, I will send you a copy back! ”

Zhang Shaojie and Ba Jin, in a few words, discussed the serialization of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" on "Ancient Legends"!

After the reform and opening up, there has been no example of martial arts novels publicly released in China for the time being!

"Legend of the Ancients" serialized Hong Kong's new martial arts work "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", as the first to eat crabs, it may make a lot of benefits, but it also takes huge policy risks.

Those who do great things in these years must also have a certain sense of adventure.

For example, individual businesses, before the reform and opening up, were all illegal acts of "speculation". However, after the reform and opening up, self-employed behavior was not encouraged. However, the number of self-employed people in the country has gradually risen from tens of thousands in the past to hundreds of thousands or millions.

The initial self-employed people basically belonged to the marginal ball of the policy and were not recognized by the state. However, as the phenomenon of self-employment began to increase, the government began to formulate policies to recognize this self-employment.

Private enterprises are also formed by some adventurous people who have gone to the sea to do business. This kind of economic behavior outside the system has been hotly debated in public opinion and political axe meetings. Eventually, with the vigorous development of the private economy, it became more viable than the state-run economy, and it did solve the problem of political and financial and social employment pressure. So it wasn't long before the behavior of private enterprises began to be recognized by policy.

China's reforms are basically all about the people's adventures and attempts. The top level of the political axe paid close attention to and investigated, and waited until this phenomenon began to form a certain development trend, and it was logical to admit it. Therefore, this kind of reform appears to be steady, stable, and in line with the law of social and economic development.

However, the Soviets' reforms were basically carried out in accordance with the prescriptions prescribed by Western countries and carried out comprehensive political and economic reforms. This kind of vigorous and excessive reform did not take into account the actual national conditions of the Soviet Union at all, so the more the economy was reformed, the worse it became, which led to the tragedy of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The serialized martial arts novel of "Legend of the Ancient World" is a small-scale temptation! Zhang Shaojie knows that for the Chinese literary and art circles, the serialization and publication of martial arts novels can be regarded as gratifying progress. After all, rotten water does not flow!

The industry needs to have more and more novel themes, and imagination emerges in an endless stream, which is the source of continuous development and progress.

Historically, Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts novels entered the domestic market, and it was not until 81~82 years that Jin Yong frequently traveled to Hong Kong, Yanjing, and London to make efforts for the peaceful return of Hong Kong. At that time, Deng Lao of Yanjing, after meeting with Jin Yong, said that he had read all of Jin Yong's novels, and decided to lift the ban on Jin Yong's novels.

After the ban on Jin Yong's novels was lifted, a floodgate was opened for martial arts from Hong Kong and Taiwan to enter the mainland! In the 80s, martial arts culture became popular in the land of China!

"The Legend of the Ancients" asked Zhang Shaojie to write it means! Zhang Shaojie's works entered the mainland market at least two years ahead of schedule.

In the 80s, the domestic market was just like the state-owned enterprises in this era. The literati were not able to write the most popular subjects without brutal market competition. Hong Kong's martial arts, which has undergone fierce market competition, is far from being able to resist those in the market at this time!

Later generations of booksellers, even if they cost millions of yuan in advertising hype, they could not compare to the scene that caused a sensation across the country when Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts works entered the mainland in the 80s!

In the 80s, a classic martial arts and romance work from Hong Kong and Taiwan, after entering the country, often did not need much publicity and quickly became popular throughout the country.

Jin Yong and Qiong Yao's novels entered the mainland market in the 80s. Although it is allowed to be published, many intellectuals and educators regard it as a beast.

Male students look at Jin Yong, and female students look at Qiong Yao's era!

No matter how much the education sector prohibits it and the media criticizes it, it can't stop the trend of hundreds of millions of people watching martial arts and romance

In fact, and Jin Yong's martial arts, as well as the unprecedented sensation of the movie "Shaolin Temple"! It also aroused the interest of mainland writers in martial arts themes, and in the 80s and 90s, the mainland began to emerge the first period of martial arts creation!

However, the martial arts market in the mainland is also relatively short-lived. It emerged in the 80s, and by the end of the 90s, it fell into recession along with the martial arts novel market in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In the 21st century, various fantasy, Xianxia, and fantasy repackaged online novels have further replaced the status of traditional martial arts.

Zhang Shaojie naturally knows that although martial arts novels are refreshing and novel novels for the mainland market in the early days of reform and opening up.

However, after so many years of repetition of routines and lack of innovation in the Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts market, martial arts is already a "sunset novel", and most readers are basically aesthetically fatigued, unlike the 60s and 70s, where martial arts can feel constantly surprised.

If martial arts novels want to avoid the impact of new novel trends in Europe, America, Yueben and other countries, they must be one step ahead of time and upgrade!

New elements such as fantasy, magic, Xianxia, Xiuzhen, and national art are made out in advance, which should further stimulate the thinking of martial arts writers in the Chinese-speaking circle!

"In the final analysis, we must continue to innovate in order to revitalize the international influence and competitiveness of Chinese culture! Relying on traditional martial arts routines alone is not enough! ”

Zhang Shaojie thought that relying on the normal development of the market, novels such as fantasy, Xianxia, Xiuzhen, and national art would not appear until more than 20 years later.

If it had been so late, the three regions would not have been able to withstand the onslaught of Western novels such as "Harry Potter".

Copy Harry Potter? Zhang Shaojie is not ready to do this, because the popularity of "Harry Potter" is also lucky. The text and plot of the "Harry Potter" novels are not outstanding, but more due to the joint commercial operation of British publishers and Hollywood studios.

If Zhang Shaojie writes "Harry Potter", with his international connections, he will definitely not be able to promote the joint hype of many giants across industries, and there is no huge market support like the United Kingdom and the United States.

Even if Zhang Shaojie copied the original English version of "Harry Potter", he could not replicate the success of "Harry Potter"!

Moreover, JK Rowling, the author of "Harry Potter", is a poor, single widow with children, and Zhang Shaojie disdains to do it from the poor widow to snatch her only chance to change her fate.

Of course, "Harry Potter" Zhang Shaojie will not copy, it does not mean that he will not snipe the income of "Harry Potter" movies and novels in the future. In Zhang Shaojie's opinion, if JK Rowling can publish "Harry Potter" and sell hundreds of thousands of copies in the UK just before Hollywood adaptations of the movie, it will be enough for her to live for the rest of her life.

Zhang Shaojie disdains to copy "Harry Potter", and is giving JK Rowling a bite to eat. In the future, he is preparing to suppress "Harry Potter", in order to snipe the new cultural dark horses of Europe and the United States!

(To be continued)