Hong Kong, between the streets and alleys, the market.

The news that the physical book of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has been on the market has spread by word of mouth, making the city full of storms.

"Datang has finally been published!"

"A biweekly magazine serialized from scratch!"

Countless readers have long wanted to buy the physical book of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and read it from beginning to end. Instead of serializing a small piece of dried tofu every day in newspapers and magazines such as "Ming Pao" and "Martial Arts and History".

In fact, not only local book lovers in Hong Kong are following Datang, but even some book lovers in the mainland and Taiwan have taken the opportunity to travel to Hong Kong and buy the already published part of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".

Because "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" sold very crazy.

Therefore, it has also won the favor of major book retailers.

Whether it is a large bookstore or a newsstand, the first volume of the newly listed "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" almost fills the shelves of major bookstores!

Most of the comic publications under Yulang International are published in the form of weekly magazines, bi-weekly magazines and so on.

Published in the form of serialized publications, because the publication time is fixed, it is easier to cultivate a stable readership.

After all, a manga is often serialized for years, or even decades.

Most human beings are forgetful and dislike the old and love the new.

No matter how popular a published book is, if the publication time is unstable and there are frequent ticket jumps, readers will be attracted by other comics or other forms of entertainment.

Because the length of "Datang" is expected to exceed 5 million words, such a super-long novel, using ordinary publishing methods, is not conducive to cultivating stable readers.

Therefore, Yulang Company will serialize and publish "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" in the form of biweekly magazines for a long time.

The first volume of The Tang Dynasty was released in Hong Kong on March 17, 1980, and the second volume was released on March 31, 1980.

Such a biweekly serialization model, which has been tested by popular serialized comics such as Huang Yulang's "Dragon and Tiger Gate", has proved that it can indeed cultivate a large number of loyal readers.

"Dragon Tiger Gate" has been serialized for nearly ten years, initially only selling a few thousand copies, at its peak it could sell 100,000 copies per issue, and the circulation has not shrunk, but has greatly increased, which shows the advantages of long-term serialization in the form of periodicals.

Of course, at this time, the sales of the physical book of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" are not inferior to "Dragon and Tiger Gate". After the first issue of Datang, which was published as a biweekly magazine, was released, 13,000 copies were sold on Monday, March 17, 15,000 copies on March 18, and by Thursday, the 50,000 copies of Datang printed by the company had been sold out!

Huang Yulang followed up and asked the company to print another 50,000 copies.

In the next few days, although sales slowed down, they were still able to sell seven or eight thousand copies a day!

Therefore, before the second volume of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" was launched, all 100,000 copies of the first volume were sold out, which was not a big problem.

According to the calculation of 100,000 copies sold in each issue, after each issue is sold out, Zhang Shaojie can get a sky-high remuneration of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars. The annual remuneration will exceed 6 million Hong Kong dollars!

With the hot release of the physical book "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", Zhang Shaojie's media attention has increased again.

The entertainment news headline of "Sing Tao Yuebao" - "The mysterious martial arts popular king! 》

The article explains in detail that a few months ago, Zhang Shaojie, a newcomer to martial arts, signed a contract with the "Martial Arts and History" magazine under Ming Pao Newspaper at a low price. Unexpectedly, a month later, because of "Datang", "Martial Arts and History" sold 100,000 copies. The novel edition of "Ming Pao" published "The Tang Dynasty", which also drove the sales of the newspaper. Cheung Shaojie immediately became one of Hong Kong's most famous martial arts masters.

Before the Chinese New Year, Yulang International obtained the copyright of the physical book "Datang" at a sky-high price, and now the first volume of "The Legend of Double Dragons of Datang", published in the form of a biweekly magazine, has a circulation of more than 100,000 copies. According to the investigation, a number of Taiwanese publishers claimed to want to obtain authorization for the publication of Datang in Taiwan.

"Sing Tao Daily" commented that Zhang Shaojie's 70,000-word volume of "Datang" has created a direct market value of more than 1.5 million yuan, which is equivalent to a popular movie.

It is expected that the serialization and publication of "Datang" will bring Zhang Shaojie tens of millions of income! Zhang Shaojie can really be described as turning paper into gold!

After the report of "Sing Tao Yuebao", other newspapers and periodicals also published similar comments.

Some tabloid and third-rate authors even issued all kinds of "envious, jealous, and hateful" comments.

"The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty is pale in writing and poor in vocabulary, Zhang Shaojie does not deserve his current status at all!" -- A reporter with the pseudonym "Reading in Leisure" commented.

It is reported that Zhang Shaojie is simply a vulgar person, writing at a high speed of more than 20,000 or 30,000 words a day, and Ni Kuang is not as fast as him. Just imagine, writing 20,000 or 30,000 words a day, and still have time to think about the plot and polish the text? -- The martial arts writer "Chen Guanyu" commented.

"The Tang Dynasty is a fast food that has been read and forgotten, and the publishing industry should boycott such a work, otherwise in a few years, the real literary and artistic works will cease to exist."

This type of criticism was originally published only in a few tabloids.

However, as many writers who play with words see it, they all feel uncomfortable if they don't attack Zhang Shaojie! Grandpa has not been popular for so many years, this doll is only seventeen years old, and the first book is against the sky, this is okay!

Overnight. Countless second- and third-rate writers in Hong Kong have quietly joined the attack on "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and Zhang Shaojie in the form of "vests".

A bunch of sour comments and attacks further set off the red of "Datang", such as Zhongtian!

Of course, "Ming Pao", "Martial Arts and History" and other newspapers and periodicals in the Ming Pao system, any malicious attack on "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and Zhang Shaojie's commentary drafts will be thrown directly into the shredder.

The rest of the big newspapers, even if they publish reviews attacking "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", mostly publish well-founded criticisms, rather than articles that are like trolls scolding them.

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There is no suspense that the first volume of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" sold 100,000 copies in Hong Kong!

Yulang International Co., Ltd. can earn at least 500,000 Hong Kong dollars by publishing the first volume of the novel "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty". This has undoubtedly greatly reduced the financial pressure of Yulang International.

When the eyes of the entire media were attracted by the amazing sales of the physical book of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", Zhang Shaojie and Huang Yulang had already focused on the cosplay plan.

Yulang International Company low-key advertised in serial periodicals such as "Dragon and Tiger Gate", "Yulang Comics", "Funny Comics", "The Legend of Datang Shuanglong" and so on:

"Do you love comics, do you love martial arts novels? Do you love acting, can you sing and dance, and have talent? Are you a loyal reader of "Dragon Tiger Gate" and "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"? Are you a confident teenager, a cardamom girl? Do you want to be a star on stage? If you meet any of the above conditions, you can send your resume to Yulang Agency! It's all for comics, it's all about love, and we're going to make you popular! ”

This advertisement has left many people scratching their heads.

However, "everything is for comics, everything is for love", so that many comic lovers are burning!

Most of the people who read comics are hot-blooded teenagers, and most people feel that it is ordinary publicity, but in the eyes of crazy fans, it is possible to be "burned" all at once!

Over the years, "Dragon Tiger Gate" has accumulated 300,000 readers in Hong Kong, and there are as many as 100,000 loyal fans!

And "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has a total of more than 200,000 readers, and there are at least 50,000 loyal fans!

What's more, countless young boys and girls in Hong Kong have star dreams!

So, within a few days of the advertisement, Yulang International received more than 2,000 resumes.

Countless young people who love comics, love novels, or want to become popular have enthusiastically sent their personal information to Yulang International Company.

For this project, Yulang International has set up a cosplay group!

In the entire cosplay group, Huang Yulang served as the team leader, and Zhang Shaojie and Qi Wenjie served as the deputy team leaders. In addition, there are more than 20 dedicated employees in the entire group. The vast majority of these people are talented people recruited from the Hong Kong film and television industry, who can guide and train newcomers in acting, singing and other talents.

Of course, there are also some unambitious film crew members, although these people are unambitious in the film and television industry, but they should be enough for filming cosplay role-playing shows. After all, professional directors and cinematographers were rarely used in cosplay in later generations, and the vast majority of cosplay performances were filmed by amateurs.

The members of the group were selected intensively, and finally more than 100 cosplay models who met the requirements were preliminarily selected.

This is not the final list, it is ultimately subject to cross-checking.

The second selection will fully test whether those candidates can be qualified for the profession of cosplay model.

"To be a good cosplay model, the first thing is to have love for manga, anime, novels, etc.! The second point is to have affinity! The third point is to be able to perform a good role, although it does not require the same level as acting in a movie, but it can't be too perfunctory! Zhang Shaojie said to the members of the group.

"Well, Shaojie, these three points are the core requirements of our group's selection of models!" Qi Wenjie was beside him, applauding and saying.

Seeing Qi Wenjie agree, Huang Yulang also nodded and said, "Okay, for a period of time, you will be the judges of these draft activities!" The one-week draft is mainly based on these three points! Wen Jie, you have to supervise! ”

Qi Wenjie is the real organizer of the draft, he nodded and said: "Boss, don't worry, I will definitely do a good job in the draft!" ”