Chapter 177: The most difficult thing to mess with readers
The novel Journey to the West, starting from the first chapter, was written until Sun Wukong havoc in the Heavenly Palace, and these chapters are extremely brilliantly written. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But after Tang Seng appeared, the pen power was a little weak, and it felt like it was not as brilliant as the previous chapters, and the smoothness was a little different, but the difference was not too much, compared to the works of the same era, it was still able to blow them up a few streets.
In all fairness, Journey to the West is the worst novel among the four famous novels, and his advantage lies in his imagination, creating a magnificent and magnificent world of Xianxia, in which the demons and monsters, fairies and elves depicted give people a great sense of novelty.
Of course, although the writing of this book is a little worse than that of several other books, it is not too bad, the main difference is that the description of the characters is a little insufficient, and the vividness of the images of the supporting characters is not as detailed as the descriptions of their own magic weapons and exercises.
However, if you say that this book is poorly written, it also depends on how it compares with that book. Compared with the novels of the current Han Dynasty, there is no novel whose literary height can reach the level of "Journey to the West". Moreover, Li Feiyang's "Journey to the West" is still written in the ancient vernacular, which makes it more powerful.
It's just that "Youth Literature" is a periodical, not a weekly but a monthly magazine, which makes some people who follow this book feel very unpleasant.
In a hurry, some people wrote to the editors of the Youth Literature Society, asking them to increase the serialization of the novel Journey to the West, but more people asked the publishing house to publish this "Journey to the West" directly, instead of serializing it so slowly.
However, in order to whet the appetite of readers, the Youth Literature Club only expressed its understanding of the readers' voices, but did not follow their requirements. In this regard, although the reader is helpless, he can only pinch his nose and admit it.
Later, I heard that Li Feiyang divided "Journey to the West" into two versions, one is the ancient vernacular version of youth literature, and the other is written in the vernacular as a fairy tale suitable for children to read. After knowing this situation, readers who began to have a tendency to be obsessed with Journey to the West became interested in the children's periodicals of Yellow River Literature and Art.
Unlike youth literature, which is published once a month, children's literature is published once a week, which makes some people who are looking forward to the follow-up plot of "Journey to the West" focus their attention on children's literature.
As a result, the sales of children's periodicals of the Yellow River Literature and Art began to increase significantly.
The first explosion of sales of children's literature was because of Li Feiyang's fairy tale serialization, and later the Western magic novel Harry Potter also attracted the attention of some children, and the eyes of adults were also attracted.
Now because of a "Journey to the West", which was originally a children's journal read by children, it has once again attracted the attention of a group of adults. As a result, there was another sales boom in children's literature. The person who caused this phenomenon is still Li Feiyang, a fairy tale columnist.
The president of the Yellow River Literature and Art Huang He Liu sighed at the conference: "One Li Feiyang has fed our entire literary society!" Ladies and gentlemen, are we going to give him a little more money? ”
At that moment, some editors said with a smile: "Feiyang's fairy tales have been published all over the world, and the manuscript fee of the fairy tale series "One Thousand and One Nights" has already made him the leading little rich man in China. ”
Huang He said with a smile: "Whether he cares or not, it's his own business, whether we improve the treatment or not, this is our problem." ”
Editor-in-chief Liu Yihe said: "Of course, we must improve the salary!" Our literary club relies to a large extent on the works of Li Feiyang to develop into the current situation, and the value of people is now on par with the world's writers, so it is reasonable for us to give him a higher salary! ”
So Li Feiyang's remuneration has risen to a new level.
When "Journey to the West" began to be serialized, it only attracted the attention of literati in the cultural circle, and with the increase of serialization time, the world's attention to Journey to the West, a fairy and ghost novel, became more and more high, and in the end, the entire Han Dynasty knew that Li Feiyang had written an extremely remarkable novel, and the name of this novel was "Journey to the West".
With the increase in the reading base, the call for the printing and publication of the whole "Journey to the West" is getting higher and higher, and the youth literature magazine was overwhelmed, communicated with Li Feiyang, and began to publish the whole "Journey to the West".
Although the price of today's genuine novels is very expensive, you have to buy it for more than a dozen, twenty yuan, or even more than thirty yuan at every turn, which is almost the same as the salary of an ordinary worker, and the publisher's price for "Journey to the West" has increased to a very amazing height, fifty-one yuan! A complete set of novels "Journey to the West" is sold for 51 yuan in major bookstores! Not a single cent less will be sold!
This outrageous price made the person who bought the book resentfully accuse the publisher of being crazy about money, and at the same time gritted his teeth and took out a few tickets from his pocket and handed them to the owner of the bookstore, and was really angry at the publisher's madness and asking for money.
But who makes themselves love this book!
Those who buy books are cultural people, and in today's era, cultural people generally have a half-job official, life is quite passable, although buying a book feels a bit expensive, but it can still be afforded.
Ordinary people can't afford it, they can only read magazines, but fortunately, now major newspapers have also begun to serialize "Journey to the West", which saves them a lot of money to buy books.
When "Journey to the West" was first discovered, some monks didn't care too much. When "Journey to the West" became popular all over the world, some monks who liked to flip books couldn't sit still.
Among the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism, Buddhism is also fine, although Li Feiyang borrowed the mouth of Taishang Laojun in the book, and sat down to confirm the fact that Lao Tzu sent a letter to the west to turn Hu into a Buddha, but he was still very happy about the description of the great mana of the West in the whole book, and the praise of the great compassion of Guanyin in the South China Sea.
If one party is happy, there will naturally be another party who is unhappy.
Now the entire Taoist disciples of Dahan are very unhappy!
It is said that Zhang Qingyun, the head of Wudang, has not had a good face for several days, and has ordered his disciple to go to Tangcheng to find Li Feiyang to ask about this matter.
Wudang's performance is quite calm, and some of the disciples of the Daomen have a bad personality, so they will directly kill Tangcheng, and ask Li Feiyang to go out and apologize by name, otherwise they will be enemies of the entire Daomen.
For these people, Li Fei** didn't care, and he didn't punish them, but just explained: "It's just a novel, why is it so serious?" If the head of the Flowing Wind Dao hadn't persecuted my disciple too much, how could there be today's situation? ”
Those Taoists are still about to make trouble, there are already policemen standing next to them to drive them away, if they don't stop, the police are not eating dry food, Taoists are also people, and they are also citizens of the Han Dynasty, they make trouble, and the police can punish them according to law.
After several waves of Taoist priests went to Tang City, they all returned with a disgraced face, and their hearts were depressed, which can be imagined.
They also know that their reason for going to Tangcheng to make trouble is untenable, Li Feiyang is just a writer, people write novels and tell stories, that is people's freedom, you can't just because people have written a novel that is not very friendly to Taoism, you can't be unforgiving to others. People don't break the law! You are an outsider, why are you looking for trouble with others?
After thinking about it, a group of Taoists finally focused their anger on the source of this matter, and they were also Daoist people!
If it weren't for the pain of the idle people in the wind and road, and went to Tangcheng to find trouble with Li Feiyang, how could this "Journey to the West" come out now?
Regarding the situation of Liu Fengzi's unrelenting targeting of Li Feiyang at the beginning, many Taoists learned the details from the mouth of Senior Brother Gao Yunzi, and after listening to it, they were a little disapproving. Is the ode of "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable" worthy of your unrelentingness?
Now it's okay, Li Feiyang is angry with the entire Daomen because of you, and in a fit of anger, he came up with a "Journey to the West", which provoked the world to talk about Buddhism, but the image of the Daomen has plummeted.
Now many Daoists mention Liufeng Dao people, and they all have a gritted tooth look, hating them and hating them!
This stream of wind is really a sinner of the Daomen!
At this time, the "Daomen sinner" Liufeng Daoren was staying in the Sanqing Palace of Wanfu Mountain in Tangcheng with a sad face, sighing.
After all, Gao Yunzi was familiar with him, and he already knew that he was forced by the head of Qingcheng to come to Tangcheng to apologize to Li Feiyang, and when he saw that he was lingering at the gate of Sanqing Palace, he led him in.
Sitting down in the garden pavilion, Gao Yunzi said: "I knew this was the case, why bother in the first place? Brother Liufeng Dao, why do you say you are here? ”
The Liufeng Daoist was silent, and said in a half-loud voice: "Brother Dao, are you and Li Feiyang friends who have forgotten the year?" ”
Gao Yunzi nodded and said: "It's not false to say that he is a friend of the year, this kid often comes to the mountain to play chess and drink with Lao Dao, and you see that there are poems written by him drunk on the wall in front of him." ”
The Liufeng Dao people followed Gao Yunzi's gaze, and sure enough, there were four lines of big characters written on the white wall in front of him, but they were: Purple air in the morning and evening in the evening,
The Taoist people in the depths of the white clouds.
A few green pines with green water,
The dark fragrance is faintly a peach blossom!
The final payment was: Li Feiyang was drunk graffiti.
The Liufeng Dao people praised: "Good literary style! Good literary style! How did I provoke him! ”
Gao Yunzi said: "The rivers and lakes are sinister and difficult for people to walk, and the most difficult thing to provoke is scholars!" What's more, Li Feiyang is not just a reader! Brother Dao, you better admit your mistake to Li Feiyang! ”