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A young man who looked sixteen or seventeen years old and dressed in ordinary clothes walked in, his height was about one meter seven, his facial lines were very soft, and he looked like both a weak teenager and a heroic girl, quite a bit of a male and female indistinguishable taste.

After looking at it for a while, the sixteen or seventeen-year-old man stopped a staff member of Ming Pao and asked with a smile: "Sorry to disturb, may I ask where is Mr. Cha's office?" ”

After asking two or three people and figuring out the location of Jin Yong's office, he directly knocked on the wooden door of Jin Yong's office.

"Please come in!" A deep voice came from inside.

He pushed the door in, and Jin Yong, who was writing an editorial at his desk, raised his head, saw that it was a strange young man, and asked, "Are you?" ”

"Mr. Cha, I am a lover of novels, this is a novel I wrote, and I would like to invite you to take a look." He smiled and held the manuscript and put it on Jin Yong's table, smiling shyly, and his eyes were just right with the nervousness and expectation that a young man should have.

Jin Yong frowned, he hated being disturbed when he wrote. Moreover, this kind of manuscript of a new author should be handed over to the following ordinary editors for review, if everyone writes a manuscript to him, won't he have to read the manuscript every day?

Jin Yong is not good at words, and since this person has already brought the manuscript, it is not good for him to drive people out directly. I didn't talk to this young man who suddenly appeared at the moment, and I took the manuscript and flipped through it.

Jin Yong's brows were tense and relaxed, and after reading about 30,000 words, he wrote a few lines on a note, and then handed the manuscript to the person who came along with the note, waving his hand to signal him to leave.

This is Jin Yong's habit, because he is not eloquent, he writes notes many times, even the usual management of "Ming Pao".

The young man took the note and looked at it, only to see that it read: "Through time and space, the idea is quite novel, and the pen is also good." However, the plot is glamorous and vulgar, and I hope it will be corrected in the future, and you have a lot to do with the novel. ”

Affirmation, insufficiency, encouragement, all-encompassing, it is indeed worthy of the style of the elders of Duntun.

But this is all a scene, and what it really means is: your novel has a tendency to be a glamorous text, which does not conform to the style of "Ming Pao", so this newspaper does not accept this article.

The young man didn't care, and his face didn't show a look of loss, but picked up the manuscript and walked out of Jin Yong's office, and when he walked to the door, he looked back and smiled: "Thank you, Mr. Cha, we will meet later." ”

Jin Yong was stunned for a moment, and then politely smiled at the young man who didn't even know his name and nodded: "Goodbye." ”

Seeing this young man who didn't even know his name leave, Jin Yong didn't take the matter to heart.

His novels have a strong tendency to be glamorous, and although the key points are at the end of the day, "Ming Pao" has long been on the right track, and it will not rashly publish this kind of novel to lower its style.

Ni Frame's novels published in "Ming Pao" also have meat scenes, but they are all male and female love when they are in love. There is an essential difference between naked eros.

What's more, at the beginning of this year, the "Wesley" series, which had been serialized in "Ming Pao" for more than ten years, published the first single book "Old Cat", which detonated a new round of Wesleyan fever on Hong Kong Island, and "Ming Pao" took advantage of this shareholder trend to sell 150,000 copies at one time.

When Huang Yulang saw Wesley's fire, he immediately invited Ni Box to write a novel at a price of 500 yuan per thousand words, setting a new record for Hong Kong writers' remuneration.

Now that Ni Frame is popular, Wesley's series of "Chains" is serialized well in "Ming Pao", Jin Yong will replace Wesley of Ni Frame when he is crazy, and publish other people's works instead.

Walking out of the Ming Pao building, the young man craned his neck and took a deep breath, clenched his manuscript and the note written to him by Jin Yong in his right hand, and walked towards the other building nonchalantly.

His name is Ling Donglai.

Of course, he wasn't the Supreme Grandmaster who shattered the void, but in a way, he could be regarded as a shattered void.

Because he is a time-traveler, he traveled from China in 2016 to Hong Kong Island in 1979.

Today, he ran to the Ming Pao building to find Jin Yong, but he didn't actually have the idea of publishing his plagiarized novel in Ming Pao.

At this time, "Ming Pao" had manuscripts from a group of writers such as Ni Frame, and "Ming Pao Evening News" had manuscripts from a group of writers such as Wen Ruiyu, and the manuscript sources on both sides were very stable and sold well.

There is no shortage of manuscripts for Ming Pao, and countless writers in Hong Kong are rushing to send their manuscripts to Ming Pao for publication, not to mention that now Ni Frame is a stable contributor, no matter how wonderful his novels are, will Kim Yong take the popular Wesley series in Hong Kong from Ming Pao and replace them with his novels?

Don't think about it, it's simply impossible.

He came today just to meet Jin Yong, but now that he has seen it, he has obtained the note written by Jin Yong, and the purpose of Ling Donglai has been achieved.

As for his novels, "Ming Pao" doesn't want them, and some people are afraid that they will rush to ask for them.

The 70s was the most prosperous period for Hong Kong's newspapers, and the Hong Kong Peninsula was the size of the palm of its hand, but there were nearly 70 newspapers at the same time. After fierce competition and survival of the fittest, there were only 55 newspapers left in Hong Kong in 1982 and 38 in 1997.

Based on Hong Kong's population and total newspaper circulation at this time, almost every two and a half Hong Kong people would buy a newspaper, a figure second only to Japan in Asia.

With so many newspapers and such fierce media competition, how could Donglai worry that he wouldn't be able to sell a good novel when he had a good novel in his hand?

Walking around, Ling Donglai walked all the way to the front of the building of the "Oriental Daily".

In Hong Kong, Ming Pao, Oriental Daily, and Sing Tao Daily are the three newspapers that have the largest sales, and you are chasing after me to take turns to sit in the "newspaper sales champion", with each issue selling more than 100,000 copies.

During this time, due to the resurgence of the Wesley series, the sales of "Ming Pao" once exceeded 150,000 copies, which gave "Oriental Daily" and "Sing Tao Daily" a big headache.

In particular, the Oriental Daily, which often claims to be the No. 1 seller in Hong Kong, has been pressed by Ming Pao for several months, and I am afraid that the editor-in-chief of the Oriental Daily is in a hurry at this moment.

The editor-in-chief of "Oriental Daily" is called Xu Jixin, who is in his early fifties, and when Ling Donglai knocked on the door and entered, he was obviously stunned for a moment.

"I have a way to increase the sales of Oriental Daily, so that you can overpower Ming Pao." This was the first thing Ling Donglai said after he walked into the editor-in-chief's office.

Ling Donglai knew very well that he had neither a name nor a power, and if he wanted to attract Xu Jixin's attention, he had to take the lead, so as soon as they met, he released a big and bright satellite at Xu Jixin.