Chapter Eighty-Six: Southern Literature
"Erfa Da, the reader's evaluation of this issue of "Dream of Red Mansions...... It's not too good. ”
Jiang Daoli, who was in the right code, was taken aback when he saw the news of the penguin's smoking gun.
"Dream of Red Mansions" can't work, so what's the difference?
"What's going on?"
"This issue of the novel section is serialized on your two works, "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Wenzong", and the results of the reader survey have just been counted, and the comprehensive satisfaction of readers of "Dream of Red Mansions" is less than 10%......"
Jiang Daoli has been in the hospital and did not buy this issue of "Jinghua Reader", and he couldn't believe it when he saw the cigarette gun say this.
That's "Dream of Red Mansions"! One of the four great masterpieces of ancient China! "Dream of Red Mansions", which is loved by countless readers!
"Why is this happening?"
Just now, Jiang Daoli sent a message to the smoking gun, and the other party replied in seconds, but when Jiang Daoli raised this question, the smoking gun was silent.
Is it a problem with the magazine? Jiang Daoli couldn't believe that a work like "Dream of Red Mansions" that could be passed down through the ages would not be applauded.
Because of the layout? Jiang Daoli remembered that Sun Man, the editor of "Jinghua Reader" the day before yesterday, approached him and lowered the length of "Dream of Red Mansions".
After waiting for three minutes, the cigarette gun replied to the message: "Second shot, call me, let's talk on the phone." ”
After Jiang Daoli sent the phone in the ward to the cigarette gun, the phone rang.
"Tell me, what's going on?" Jiang Daoli asked bluntly.
He didn't expect Jiang Daoli's voice to sound so young, and he thought that Jiang Daoli had to be at least thirty years old.
With a hint of guilt, Smoke Gun first sighed, and then said: "This is the first episode of "Dream of Red Mansions", and the editor-in-chief and I are very much recognized. ”
"The editor-in-chief should have contacted you before, and the length of 8 pages of "Dream of Red Mansions" should have been cancelled and replaced with 5 pages."
"This directly caused a fault in the story of the first episode of "Dream of Red Mansions", which I only discovered today."
"I didn't have that sense of obstacle when I read the story before, but when I read it again after I got the results of the survey today, something was wrong."
"It's ......"
Before he finished speaking, he was directly interrupted by Jiang Daoli: "Okay." ”
Why did MD hand it over to Jinghua Reader to publish Dream of Red Mansions? Jiang Daoli really wanted to suck himself in a big mouth.
only cares about earning glory points, only cares about making "Dream of Red Mansions" popular, but I haven't thought about what to do if a famous book like "Dream of Red Mansions" is destroyed in my own hands!
"Erfa Da, don't be angry first, listen to me." The cigarette gun was a little anxious, and Jiang Dao, who was afraid of getting angry, immediately hung up the phone.
"The president will get the results of this issue of the reader survey tomorrow, and with the performance of "Dream of Red Mansions" this time, it is estimated that the next issue will be even smaller."
"So ......"
"So I'm not going to do serialization in your magazines anymore."
The cigarette gun was interrupted for the second time, and he clearly heard the trace of anger in Jiang Daoli's tone.
Think about it, such a masterpiece was made like this by the newspaper where he works, if he is given 8 pages of layout, how can it make readers feel foggy?
"Erfa Da, although I have only read the content of this work once, I can still appreciate the potential in it. I sincerely apologize to you for this incident, and if I have the opportunity to meet, I will definitely apologize in person. ”
Listening to the "you" in the original mouth of the smoking gun, Jiang Daoli felt a little more comfortable, but when he thought that "Dream of Red Mansions" was buried by this "Jinghua Reader", the anger came up again: "Needless to say, I will not be serialized in "Jinghua Reader" anymore. ”
Seeing that Jiang Daoli was about to hang up the phone, the cigarette gun hurriedly said: "Erfa Da, I don't want you to continue serializing in "Jinghua Reader", even if you stay, the layout will only get less and less, alas...... Let's talk to you like this. ”
"Xue Liang is an extremely special person for our newspaper, so to speak, without him, our newspaper would not be where it is today. Although I joined the newspaper relatively late, I also heard about the past from my colleagues, Xue Liang ......"
"Because Xue Liang is indispensable to your newspaper, you ...... Why are you still coming to me? Jiang Daoli naturally knows that Xue Liang's contribution to the "Jinghua Story Newspaper", and he also knows that the "Jinghua Story Newspaper" can sell well all the way, and it is inseparable from Xue Liang.
But what he doesn't understand is that since this is the case, then let's just shoot and break up? Why are you talking so much?
"Erfa Da, you misunderstood what I meant, I didn't want to keep you." Cigarette Gun smiled wryly.
"At the meeting that day, the president told me a truth, he said, 'If it's a swan egg, then it doesn't matter if it's born on a duck farm.'" , I don't know what this means now, maybe our "Jinghua Reader" is a chicken farm. ”
"Don't get me wrong, I mean, I don't think works like 'Dream of Red Mansions' should be buried."
When Jiang Daoli heard this, he realized that he had been misunderstanding the meaning of the smoking gun just now, and he thought that the smoking gun wanted to keep him in "Jinghua Reader......
"I have a classmate who is now working at Southern Literature, and I give you his contact information, and I think this work of yours is more suitable there."
Jiang Daoli searched on the Internet, and "Southern Literature" is a literary journal under the Southern Publishing House, which is a weekly weekly like "Jinghua Reader". However, what caught Jiang Daoli's attention was the next news, "Southern Literature" was not selling well, and the Southern Publishing House wanted to withdraw the publication.
Although "Southern Literature" has been published for more than five years, it has always been in a state of mere sales.
And "Jinghua Reader" due to the existence of its brother publication "Jinghua Story Daily", its market has been completely opened.
Since "Jinghua Reader" chose Xue Liang, there will definitely be no good results if he stays here.
It is indeed a good choice to go to "Southern Weekly", which is not in good shape now, and with works like "Dream of Red Mansions", Jiang Daoli feels that saving "Southern Literature" is just a trivial matter.
"How did you elbow out?" Jiang Daoli also has a question, that is, as the editor-in-chief of "Jinghua Reader", why did this smoking gun help "Southern Literature" to hold himself?
The bongs fell silent suddenly.
The first phone call he made after receiving the results of the reader survey was with his classmates from "Southern Literature" and gave a general overview of the situation of "Dream of Red Mansions" in "Jinghua Reader". The second call was to Xue Liang and tell him the results of this issue's reader survey.
"Actually, I feel a little guilty. Before I became the editor-in-chief of "Jinghua Reader", I was first of all a fan of "The Return of the Great Sage". ”
"When "Broken Chapter" was published in "Jinghua Reader", I didn't expect such a result. That's why there was an appointment for "Dream of Red Mansions" later. ”