Ming Pao Industrial Center.

Zhang Shaojie just came to the editorial office of "Martial Arts and History" to chat with Hu Bo for a while.

Hu Bo is more energetic about the position of editor-in-chief of "Martial Arts and History".

In particular, "Martial Arts and History" held a large number of writers' exchanges and training activities this year, which drove the creative passion of a large number of new and old writers in Hong Kong.

Hu Bo also benefited from this, at least he was able to see a large number of good works.

The editorial department of "Martial Arts and History" used to have more than 20 people, but now it has expanded to more than 50 editors and employees, and hundreds of manuscripts are received every week.

"This year's martial arts novel market is much more lively than in previous years!" Zhang Shaojie sighed.

"Hehe, your "Tang Dynasty" has made great contributions! If it weren't for "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" activating the popularity of the market, and the martial arts novel industry would be as lifeless as before, maybe "Martial Arts and History" magazine would have ceased publication in a few years!" Hu Bo smiled, "That's right, the young master"

Zhang Shaojie smiled bitterly: "Hu Dashao, don't tease me." It is said that the Queen of News intends for you to manage Sing Tao Newspaper. In other words, if you want, you can be the prince of Sing Tao Newspaper! ”

Hu Bo said disdainfully: "My aunt has the ability to operate." But culturally, I look down on it. Sing Tao Newspaper always makes some shocking news to create gimmicks, real news and real surnames, as well as cultural tastes, are not particular. "Ming Pao" seems to be much more pleasing to the eye than Sing Tao! At least "Ming Pao" is stable and literate, and "Sing Tao" is too philistine! ”

Sweat! The most influential multinational newspaper group in Southeast Asia will be looked down upon by Hu Bo?

It must be known that although Jin Yong's "Ming Pao" has an outstanding status in Hong Kong, it can compete with Sing Tao Newspaper.

But in terms of the global news market, Sing Tao Newspaper is much more influential than Ming Pao. Whether it is Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and other Asian regions, or the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and other European and American regions, Sing Tao Press Group has set up branches in dozens of countries. In the true sense, it is the first overlord of overseas Chinese newspapers.

In addition, in the early 80s, the operation of Sing Tao Press Group was relatively stable, with an overall scale of more than 3 billion Hong Kong dollars. Ten times the size of Ming Pao and one-third the size of Murdoch's News Corporation!

However, since the 70s, Hu Xian has been keen to invest in real estate. At this time, there was still a lot of money, but in 89 years, real estate in the local area fell sharply. As a result, Hu Xian's net worth plummeted, dragging down the Xingdao newspaper empire and falling into a predicament!

In the end, Hu Xian was in a deep debt crisis and had no choice but to sell Sing Tao Newspaper Group to pay off his debts. The queen of the global newspaper industry, who has been roaring the Asian newspaper industry for decades, finally lost the ancestral foundation of the Hu family!

Zhang Shaojie couldn't help sighing, after Hu Xian fell into finance and real estate investment, he buried the shadow of failure!

Murdoch also inherited a small newspaper in the 50s, and in the 60s, Murdoch's News Corp. was far less powerful than Hu Xian's Sing Tao Group.

However, Murdoch has always focused on the field of news media, and has not indulged in real estate and finance that have nothing to do with news, so he has become stronger and stronger, and has become the world's largest news company.

Hu Xian is not a reborn person like Zhang Shaojie, he can know the time of the collapse of the financial real estate bubble, a strong woman who specializes in newspaper business, but she began to indulge in finance and real estate that have nothing to do with her main business, how can she be undefeated?

At this time, someone called Zhang Shaojie.

Zhang Shaojie saw that it was Jin Yong's secretary Yang Xingan.

"Mr. Cha, please take over the office!" Yang Xingan said.

"Yes, come right away!" Zhang Shaojie wanted Hu Bo and others to say goodbye.

Yang Xingan invited Zhang Shaojie into the office.

Jin Yong's successive secretaries are all relatively capable people, some can serve as the editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, and some later become famous entrepreneurs. After Yang Xing'an expired as Jin Yong's secretary, he was hired by Li Ka-shing as a private secretary. He was successively hired as a secretary by Jin Yong and Li Jiacheng, which shows that he is also a very capable person.

Because, the secretary is not simple! The secretary of a big entrepreneur is equivalent to half a president!

"Shaojie, the president is waiting for you inside!" Yang Xingan smiled.

"Yes!" Zhang Shaojie nodded at him.

After Zhang Shaojin entered the door, Yang Xingan closed the door.

Inside.

Jin Yong was holding a cup of tea and drinking. In his hand, he was holding a pile of manuscripts and reading them.

In fact, Jin Yong generally does not like to speak in the company, but likes to write, and when he can write on behalf of his mouth, he writes notes and instructions.

Among the hundreds of editors, reporters, and management of Ming Pao Group, only Zhang Shaojie and a few others can talk to Jin Yong face-to-face!

"Teacher!" Zhang Shaojie said respectfully.

He saw that what Jin Yong was currently doing was actually to revise the British chapter of "The Rise of a Great Power" for Zhang Shaojie.

The meaning of the text Jin Yong has not changed at all, but he used his pen to polish it, so that the text of "The Rise of a Great Power" has changed from the previous dryness to a more layered and rhythmic sense.

The text after Jin Yong's retouching, not to mention the content of the article, the text itself alone is pleasing to the eye.

"Yes!" Jin Yong looked at him, "How is the copyright purchase!" ”

"3 million funds, 700,000 used!"

"Well, there is a budget of 2.3 million this year!" Jin Yong is still the chairman and president of Ming Pao, and he controls the entire Ming Pao Group.

Zhang Shaojie is now an advisor to the chairman of Ming Pao Group. The position of consultant can be asked if you can take care of it, and there is no need for Zhang Shaojie to come to work every day in the "Ming Pao Group".

"Now, we have 10 novels in hand. Among them, although "Qingcheng Sword Immortal" is unknown, it is a novel that returns the pearl to the lord of the mansion to become more straightforward and popular. Moreover, "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan" is such a large tome, and the times are old, and ordinary readers may not have the patience to read it. And "Shushan" fanworks like "Qingcheng Sword Immortal" can be more acceptable to readers! Zhang Shaojie said.

Jin Yong nodded and said: "A magnificent work like "Shu Mountain", at least within a hundred years, no one can surpass it. As long as it can have the taste of "Shushan", the quality will not be too bad, and "Qingcheng Sword Immortal" is a valuable book! And those books, you think good! ”

Zhang Shaojie said: "Under the banner of this newspaper, there is an author with the pen name 'Thirty-two Changes', who wrote a "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I think that although this book is adapted from film and television dramas, it has no potential. But it has the value of adaptation in anime and games! Now Yulang International is promoting Meng culture, which was not accepted at first, but now it is gradually gaining some popularity in Taiwan and the market. Especially on the side of Yueben, Yin is prosperous and Yang is declining, and many young men actually like to dress up as women, so they must not be able to resist the impact of Meng culture. I'm going to recommend this novel to Huang Yulang, adapt the comics, and focus on the market! ”

If "Qingcheng Sword Immortal" imitates the book of the lord of Huanzhu Mansion, Jin Yong can still understand it.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" made Jin Yong feel that he couldn't keep up with the times.

The book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" not only contains the element of travel. The protagonist Sun Xunzhen is a science and technology in the 21st century, and has traveled to a world similar to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and soon Sun Xunzhen found that this world is Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, Cao Ying, Zhao Yun and other famous characters, and they are all women.

Moreover, in this world, female surnames have an incredible ability such as "military general skills" and "military teacher skills". Moreover, Zhao Yun and the like, the strongest in it, have shackles similar to the genetic lock in "Infinite Terror", which locks the true potential of the general.

Once the crisis is at a juncture, after awakening, those beauties and Lori generals will become extremely powerful, the kind that one person can PK thousands of people

In fact, the reason why Zhang Shaojie is more optimistic about the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is because in the 90s, China's CCTV filmed "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and after the screening, not only in China, but also in major Asian countries, the Three Kingdoms fever was ignited.

In particular, I am extremely passionate about the culture of the Three Kingdoms, and after the CCTV version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was screened in this book, various games and animations of the Three Kingdoms appeared one after another.

The more famous games, such as "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and "The War of the Three Kingdoms" series, were launched during the "Three Kingdoms Fever" period, and as a result, the games sold well and became classics.

Later, after the emergence of elements such as Meng culture and Nianghua, the game company of the book developed "Three Kingdoms of Love" and "Lovers of the Queen", turning the military generals of the Three Kingdoms into Meng Niang, such animations and games, and won a lot of otaku popularity in the book.

Zhang Shaojie thinks that a novel like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not a blockbuster at this time, but once the Three Kingdoms fever, Meng culture, and Niang culture boom surge.

Then, such novels adapted from anime and games are a powerful weapon to capture the market!

"I don't understand this kind of work, and it's not easy to evaluate! You just need to look good! By the way, what's going on with Ni Kuang's "Six-Fingered Piano Demon"? "Jin Yong inevitably makes a difference.

Zhang Shaojie said with a smile: "Originally, I wanted to find Ni Kuang and let him mean something, sell some works that can't be sold to us cheaply, and enrich the copyright library!" I didn't expect him to sell "Six Fingers Demon" cheaply! Although, "Six Finger Piano Demon" used to make a movie 15 years ago. However, it was the film technology of the era, and it was too backward. Now if it is remade, using new technologies and new concepts, "Six Fingers Piano Demon" is still quite marketable! ”

"Well, it's a pity that Ni Kuang didn't write martial arts in his early years! In my opinion, works like "The Six-Fingered Piano Demon" are better than his Wesleyan series. Jin Yong smiled.

Zhang Shaojie smiled secretly, Ni Kuang doesn't write martial arts, it is purely because Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng, Gu Long, Sima Ziyan, Zhuge Qingyun and other Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts masters in the same period are too strong!

In the 60s, it was the era when there were many famous martial arts novels in Hong Kong and Taiwan. made Ni Kuang feel that the novels he wrote might not be able to compete with these strongmen! So the sword went off the rails and chose the science fiction novels that were unpopular at the time.

Facts have proved that Ni Kuang's choice is correct, because he was engaged in writing science fiction earlier, and as a result, he is now the number one science fiction master in Hong Kong, science fiction novels such as "Blue Bloods", and even won international awards.

(To be continued)