Chapter 264: Economic downturn
After "Dou Po" became popular in the later Internet era, a bunch of imitation works, "crossing into waste wood, encountering the old-timers who regretted their fiancΓ©e's marriage, and carrying with them the state of soul", this routine has become a rotten street.
However, the secret of the popularity of "Breaking the Sky" does lie in first suppressing and then rising.
First of all, the protagonist in the story is depressed, misunderstood as waste wood, and repented of his marriage by his fiancΓ©e. After a series of setbacks, the protagonist began to explode, but was able to create a continuous ** plot.
Moreover, the popular nine-stage setting of Dou Zhi Qi in Dou Breaking the Sky - Fighter, Dou Shi, Great Dou Shi, Dou Ling, Dou Wang, Dou Huang, Dou Zong, Dou Zun, (Semi-Saint) Dou Sheng, Dou Di. This setting is more clear than the level of martial arts in martial arts!
At the same time, on the otherworldly continent, the setting of families and sects has also begun to ceased to be the traditional "martial arts sects" such as Shaolin, Wudang, Qingcheng, Emei, and Huashan, and there is quite a novelty of breaking the conventions of martial arts.
Although Jin Yong constantly criticized, he was obviously gradually attracted to the storyline. After finishing the beginning, Jin Yong asked: "Is there any longer manuscript in the back?" β
"Hehe, only the first tens of thousands of words!" Zhang Shaojie said.
"How long is this going to be written, or is it like "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"?" Jin Yong asked.
"Of course!" Zhang Shaojie said with a smile, "The purpose of popular works is to entertain the public. You don't need to make a big sense, you can naturally make the story super long! β
During the Republic of China, strange people returned to the owner of the pearl building, and one was often written to five or six million words. And Pingjiang Buxiao is often serialized for more than ten years, which is also millions of words.
Therefore, Lu Xun, a great writer during the Republic of China, once jokingly criticized - writing to make money, the secret is to write long!
This sentence is to explain the mystery of the best-selling popularity of newspaper serialization at that time. And this mystery is true in the era of bookstore rental, as well as in the age of the Internet.
"A tome, writing millions of words, aren't you afraid, just a few books to write all the inspiration?" Jin Yong frowned and said. For the older generation of literati, even as a family, the words and sentences are mostly deliberate, and the inspiration is mostly limited. Troubled by inspiration is always a common problem for many writers of the older generation.
"Don't be afraid!" Zhang Shaojie smiled, "If I run out of inspiration, I will definitely be rich." At that time, I didn't write it myself, but asked other talented writers to write things for me! β
Jin Yong was stunned, he didn't expect that Zhang Shaojie would actually think like this.
However, Jin Yong soon hit him and said: "After a writer writes a book, habit becomes natural. In the future, even if you swear that you don't want to write, you can't control it! When you want to write but can't hold it back, you know the pain! β
In this regard, Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but sigh.
People can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes. This sentence is also applicable to writers! For example, Gu Long, over the years, Gu Long can be regarded as a success. Even if he really doesn't write it, can he still starve to death? However, Gu Long just can't control his writing**. On the one hand, he is distressed by the lack of inspiration, and on the other hand, he insists on writing all year round.
ββββββββββ at the end of 1981, Zhang Shaojie's main focus was on the creation of "Breaking the Sky", for a reborn, a simple copy of the book can no longer satisfy Zhang Shaojie.
Like "Breaking the Sky", Zhang Shaojie still writes according to the creativity, outline, and rhythm of the original, but in terms of details, Zhang Shaojie uses his own language more.
At this time, Zhang Shaojie's own writing, although compared with writers such as Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Wen Ruian, is naturally far inferior. However, compared with silkworm potatoes, it is not inferior.
Therefore, Zhang Shaojie absorbs and digests the essence of "Breaking the Firmament" and carries out secondary creation, which can completely reach the realm of originating from the original work, but it is higher than the original work.
In the time when Zhang Shaojie was concentrating on coding words, Hong Kong's economy began to appear to be depressed. In this regard, Zhang Shaojie is also quite helpless. After all, the economy has its own cyclical surname, and even HSBC's financial resources can only conform to the laws of the economic cycle, and dare not fight against the economic cycle.
What's more, what about Zhang Shaojie, a small writer?
For the economic downturn in Hong Kong at this time, Zhang Shaojie can only do his part.
For example, let many subsidiaries such as Tianxia Publishing, Dejian Library, ORD Technology, Baolong Film, Xiaobawang Games, Longteng Entertainment, etc., publish recruitment advertisements and manuscript information in the media, so that more people can have something to eat.
With Zhang Shaojie's strength at this time, he can provide more than 2,000 jobs in Hong Kong. These positions are mainly concentrated in the publishing, software, game industry, film industry, entertainment brokerage and other fields.
And it is precisely because it is not easy to find a job during this time. As a result, Zhang Shaojie's company began to accept many talent applications.
And there are also many unemployed people who have begun to try to make a living by writing, drawing comics, writing scripts, and so on. This has led to a surge in the number of comic submissions received by Tianxia Publishing Company, and Baolong Film has also acquired more than 5 scripts per month, and the number of artists signed by Longteng Company has also increased significantly.
What's even more awesome is that the two major companies of ORD Technology and Xiaobawang Games have not only accepted a large number of young people from Hong Kong and Taiwan to come to join, but also some technical talents from the United States and Europe have also come to visit.
For Zhang Shaojie's company, 1981 was an opportunity to vigorously gather talents.
For most traditional industries at this time, it is a huge depression and danger. The current world economy has not yet read the effects of the stagflation period of the 70s, and it is still looking sluggish.
In addition, the British political axe is about to lease Hong Kong, and at the critical moment of the negotiations, the British political axe actually threw out the tricks of "sovereignty" and "governing power", trying to recognize the sovereignty of China, but hoping that the Chinese political axe will still let the British govern the disguised colonial method to ensure Hong Kong's colonial interests.
China's political axe naturally rejects such a plan.
The negotiations between the two sides were quite gunpowdery.
Because Britain in South America for the Falklands, a colony that does not lay eggs, it also launched a fierce naval battle with the Argentine political axe. Hong Kong's economic interests are obviously 100 times larger than those of the Falklands.
Will war break out between China and Britain over Hong Kong?
It is because of this great fear and shadow that exists. Ordinary citizens are also calm, but some consortia and elites are mostly worried about the sky, and they look panicked.
Some British-funded consortia, as well as the Chinese comprador class, moved their assets to Australia, Canada and other places. The transfer of assets overseas, the lack of adaptation and weak foundation, led to huge losses, and made these consortia nostalgic for Hong Kong, and then returned to Hong Kong in disgrace. Tossing back and forth a few times, the capital scale of these old British-funded consortia has been shrinking.
In such a world, Hong Kong's stock market naturally cannot perform well.
For example, since the stock market hit a new high of more than 1,810 points in June 1981, it has been fluctuating between 1,500 points ~ 1,800 points for half a year. High volatility, for experienced investors, will mean that this is a typical sign of the main capital fleeing.
However, most small shareholders turn a deaf ear to this phenomenon and still try to speculate in this market.
Since helping Zhang Shaojie to trade stocks before, he has seen the ups and downs in the stock market, and he has made several times the sweetness of huge profits between changing hands.
Anita Mui's two elder brothers have gotten rid of mediocrity and lived a mediocre life, but they are obsessed with stock speculation and rentier.
However, since the second half of 81, the stock market has been as Zhang Shaojie said, and the booming market has ended, turning into a high-level shock, and it is suspected that mainstream funds are fleeing at a high level.
During this sensitive period of time, stocks are basically at a high level of volatility, often rising and falling frequently, but the unilateral bull market has been missing.
If you want to make money in this kind of bullhide shock market, it is very difficult for ordinary investors.
"Shaojie, in your opinion, how will this stock market go behind?" Mei Qiming respectfully took out the K-line chart he carefully drawn, and it can be seen that in the past few months, although Mei Qiming has been very superficial, he has not seen through the essence of the stock market. However, at least not as ignorant of anything as it was at the beginning.
"This has been sideways at a high level for more than half a year, and it has not yet broken through the high of 1800 points in June 81. If it does not rise for a long time, there will be a big fall. Zhang Shaojie said, "At least it will fall by more than 60%!" β
"How is it possible" Mei Qi was obviously very difficult to accept.
Mei Qiming only learned to speculate in stocks last year, and for more than a year, he has already had a car and a house. Full of thoughts about making money in the stock market, he calculated that the capital would double every year, 1 million would become 2 million in one year, 4 million in 2 years, 8 million in 3 years, and 10 billion in ten years
The magic calculation only exists in the fantasy rate of return in his mind, so that Mei Qiming is accustomed to filtering out the bad news of the stock market.
Jealous! This is naked jealousy
Mei Qiming thought to himself that his brother-in-law Zhang Shaojie had faded out of the stock market for more than a year, so he couldn't see others making a lot of money in the stock market, so he was alarmist.
It is precisely because of this that Mei Qiming began to be unhappy and no longer talked about the stock market with Zhang Shaojie.
Zhang Shaojie also looked at him silently, knowing that the maturity of shareholders was boiled out after making a bunch of mistakes. Brother Mei, as an investor, still lacks the lessons of the market.
Only by suffering multiple bull markets and bear market cycles in the stock market, and having 20 or 30 years of investment experience, can you be regarded as a mature investor.
"You're doing it yourself!" Zhang Shaojie also knows that it is difficult to convince others of such a thing as securities investment. Only investors, when they mature themselves, can gradually be rational.
(To be continued)