Chapter 3 Editor Hu's Struggle
At home, the bedrooms are separated by wooden planks and divided into two.
Half of it is Zhang Shaohuai's private space, and half of it belongs to Zhang Shaojie.
The reason why they have to be separated is so as not to affect Zhang Shaohuai's learning.
At night, his younger brother Zhang Shaohuai would pick up the lamp and read at night until eleven o'clock.
At 5 o'clock in the morning, my younger brother has already gotten up early, helped the house to clean up, and after eating some nutritious porridge and pickles, he will go to school.
It's winter vacation, but my younger brother is still very serious and continues to consolidate what he has learned before.
Both Chang brothers believe that learning is not just the beginning of the semester.
During the holiday period, we should also make scientific use of it, endure the unbearable loneliness of others, and be able to taste the sweetness of knowledge in loneliness and bitterness.
At night, the city is brightly lit.
In the next bedroom, the lights were out. Zhang Shaojie knew that his younger brother Shaohuai had fallen asleep, but at this time, he couldn't sleep because of excitement.
Zhang Shaojie took out a laptop from a locked box.
Accompanied by the boot music,The familiar picture of the win7 system slowly appearedγ
This is a laptop from 2011, if it weren't for owning this laptop, Zhang Shaojie would not have been able to write more than 5 million words of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" even if he has the talent!
This laptop undoubtedly allowed Zhang Shaojie to greatly shorten the initial struggle process!
Before he was reborn, because Zhang Shaojie liked to read and download and collect materials, the information stored in this computer was enough to be comparable to a library!
The hard disk capacity of 500G is loaded with more than 300G of music, games, movies, software, and the rest are e-books in EXE, PDF, TXT, CHM, STDU and other formats.
In addition to more than 100,000 professional books related to history, finance, IT, biographies, science and technology, military, politics and so on, these e-books are available.
It's full of novels loaded with more than 20 Gs.
There are more than 7,000 traditional novels, 1,000 martial arts novels, and more than 5,000 online novels
Zhang Shaojie's eyes fell on the e-book program "The Complete Works of Huang Yi", and stared at Huang Yi's personal information attached to the e-book expressionlessly.
Huang Yi, whose real name is Huang Zuqiang, graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Chinese University of Hong Kong. During his studies, he specialized in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy, and won many art awards. After graduation, he became the Assistant Director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, responsible for promoting local art and cultural exchanges between the East and the West. In 1989, he resigned from his position and devoted himself to writing novels. Huang Yi in the 90s swept Hong Kong and Taiwan with his unique martial arts works. His masterpieces, such as "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", "Turning the Rain and Clouds", "Looking for Qin" and other works, have achieved a total sales miracle of more than millions of copies during the depression of the martial arts novel market in Hong Kong and Taiwan!
These were originally Huang Yi's future achievements!
Now Zhang Shaojie can easily seize all these achievements and graft them on himself.
What he needs to do is to copy the text on the e-book software on the computer screen, word by word.
In this way, you don't need to use your brain, you only need to use physical strength to copy the work, and "creating" 30,000 or 40,000 words a day is only a few hours of work.
"The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is Huang Yi's pinnacle work, with a total length of more than 5.5 million words and a total of 63 volumes!
Although the authorization of the newspaper serialization of "Datang" has been sold cheaply to Ming Pao. However, the more lucrative physical book publication of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is still in the hands of Zhang Shaojie!
Historically, "Datang" is a monster in the publishing industry, but it is a monster that swept the Hong Kong and Taiwan publishing market!
At the peak of the sales of a single volume, more than 200,000 copies were sold, and even during the low tide period, the sales of a single volume of "Datang" were far more than 20,000 copies.
If calculated based on a conservative estimate of the average sales of a single volume of 50,000 yuan, the remuneration of "Datang" is also more than 2,000 yuan per thousand words.
In other words, the entire book of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is 5.5 million words, and it is worth at least tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars!
What did 10 million mean in the 80s?
In the Chai Wan area, it only costs 10 million to buy a 10-storey industrial building.
In Hong Kong, TVB shoots a TV series, and it only costs three or four million.
In Chinese mainland, the 86th version of "Journey to the West", which CCTV spent 6 years to build, actually cost only 6 million yuan to produce
Soon after, Zhang Shaojie calmed down and put an end to his cranky thoughts.
Pack up your mood, pull out a stack of manuscript paper, and quickly copy the content of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" from the computer screen!
Although, in doing so, Zhang Shaojie felt a little sorry for the original author Huang Yi.
However, he soon suppressed his uneasy conscience.
The primitive accumulation of capital, how can there be no blood?
In order to provide for my younger brother to go to college, and also to be able to live a happy and beautiful life for myself.
Huang Yi! I've copied it!
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"Martial Arts and History" is the first subsidiary publication of "Ming Pao".
When this magazine was founded, Jin Yong's "Flying Fox Biography" was serialized in this publication.
At the peak of the magazine, first-rate master authors such as Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng, and Gu Long scolded Fang Xuan in the magazine. There are also countless cutting-edge martial arts novels, and they are actively submitting.
In the late 60s and early 70s, when Gu Long's "The Peerless Double Pride" and "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" were serialized, the status of "Martial Arts and History" magazine in Hong Kong martial arts fiction publications was as high as Zhongtian.
However, in the early 70s, Jin Yong announced the closure of his pen after writing "The Legend of Deer and Ding", and Gu Long also stopped cooperating with "Ming Pao".
Since then, the circulation of "Martial Arts and History" has been shrinking, and now the circulation of this magazine is less than half of its peak.
The editors of the magazine, although they have also made some efforts to save the day.
However, because now there is no way to find a masterpiece like Jin Yong and Gu Long's peak to save the popularity of the magazine. Therefore, the decline of this old magazine is inevitable
However, the birth of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" made Hu Bo, the senior editor in charge of "Martial Arts and History" magazine, have a trace of expectation and excitement!
"Brother Meng, just promise me, "Datang" is really good!" Hu Bo is a little unreaching.
"But," Editor-in-Chief Meng hesitated a little, "the next issue of the page is already ready to arrange other books"
"What other books? Could it be a famous master of Gu Long and Liang Yusheng? Unlikely! Now the submissions to us are nothing more than the works of those third-rate writers, and you have also read the beginning of "Datang"! Such a good work, in today's manuscripts, can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, that is called - stand out from the crowd! Isn't such a good book worthy of our magazine's praise? Please, now our company's position in the company is becoming more and more marginalized. If you don't work hard, you will strive to promote high-quality works. Maybe, in a few years, our "Martial Arts and History" magazine will be suspended by the group."
"Okay, okay! I can't stand you, Xiaohu! I'm going crazy with you! Praise "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"! Editor-in-chief Meng said with a slightly wry smile.
In fact, the reason why Editor-in-Chief Meng agreed was not only because of the quality of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty". What's more important is because of the true identity of Master Hu Bohu.
Hu Bo was born in a wealthy family in Singapore, and because he liked the environment of Hong Kong and his personal preference for the profession of martial arts novel editor, he applied to work as a small editor at Ming Pao.
Of course, this is why Hu Bo deliberately avoided the family business β in fact, it would have been easy for Hu Dashao to become the editor-in-chief or even the editor-in-chief of a well-known publication.
Because Hu Xian, the Asian newspaper giant and the head of Sing Tao Group, is Hu Bo's aunt!
Editor-in-chief Meng deliberately betrayed favors because of Hu Bo's background. But Hu Bo himself didn't think through the reason for this, and only thought that Editor-in-Chief Meng was persuaded by the quality of "Datang" and Hu Bo's own eyesight.
Therefore, he couldn't help but have a triumphant smile on his face, and proudly arranged the typesetting and proofreading of "Datang".
Although "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is not a masterpiece of Jin Yong and Gu Long.
However, the winning creativity and pattern are very different from today's small-scale martial arts such as vendettas.
The characteristic of Huang Yi's novels is to integrate the general trend of history with the martial arts of the rivers and lakes. Before Huang Yi's novels, in many martial arts novels, there was no solution for chivalrous warriors to encounter the government and the army.
No matter how powerful martial arts are portrayed, in the face of violent machines such as the army and the government, the heroes of the world have become weak, and the huge sects and gangs have become a rabble.
However, in Huang Yi's novels, there are often generals, warlords, emperors, and ministers among the heroes in the martial arts. Most of the martial arts disputes are local phenomena caused by political confrontations and military confrontations.
This magnificent pattern makes martial arts no longer a small circle far away from the court, away from war, and away from society.
This kind of unprecedented large-scale and bold writing style is not particularly favored by the editors of "Martial Arts and History"!
In fact, Huang Yi's works are indeed a succession of the past and the future! In the field of martial arts novels, Huang Yi's writing style has indeed reached a new peak. From the perspective of online novels in the future, Huang Yi is the originator of the YY style.
In addition to creating a fast food, smooth, and YY style similar to that of web novels. Huang Yi also created the theme genres of online novels such as Urban Ability, Otherworldly Continent, Oriental Fantasy, Interstellar Ancient Martial Arts, Time Travel, Alternate History, etc.!
It can be said that Huang Yi is a physical publishing writer who has had the most far-reaching influence on the creation of online novels.