Chapter 109 Publication
Yes, Wen Xun and Lan Yang did this. In fact, Wen Xun and Bertelsmann's foreigner signed not a formal contract, but a contract of intent - how can a formal contract be prepared so quickly, and some of Lan Yang's actions have not yet been completed!
"How did your brain grow? How can you think about things that are so complicated? Lu Yuqing asked Wen Xun in confusion at this time. She really felt that she couldn't understand Wen Xun, how did she think Wen Xun seemed to be much more mature than her? Obviously, she is many years older than Wen Xun!
Without him, the growth environment is different. People are forced out, Lu Yuqing, who grew up in a greenhouse, and Wen Xun, who grew up in a ravine and a ravine to protect his family, is really incomparable to the experience of society!
When he returned to Kaixian, Lan Yang soon passed the so-called open application and became the new president of the "Rotten Keyuan Publishing Company", or the position of general manager. The name "Rotten Keyuan" looks terrible, but it is actually very connotative.
This name was proposed by Wen Xun and comes from the word "Rotten Ke". The meaning of Rotten Ke is that in ancient times, there was a woodcutter who went into the mountain to chop wood, and as a result, he happened to meet the Southern Dipper and the Big Dipper playing Go, so he stood by curiously and watched. Looking at it, he was fascinated, and waited until the fairy finished playing chess and the woodcutter woke up. He suddenly found that the handle of the axe he had placed on the ground had already rotted, and it turned out that the world had passed for a thousand years!
Ke, the axe handle is also. Rotten Ke, this is a name full of cultural flavor - ordinary people still can't understand it!
For this restructuring and for Lanyang's successful application, there is not a harmonious faction within the publishing house. Many people raised various questions, after all, Lan Yang was just a small editor before. But Lan Yang's body is not afraid of shadows! He has the experience of signing Wen Xun alone and then becoming an instant hit, who else in the publishing house has it? At the beginning, a group of old men in the publishing house were all timid and opposed, and it wasn't Wen Xun who raised money to sign it himself?
As soon as such an example is taken out, and then it is taken out again, and now the slogan that the prime minister is going to carry a coffin over a minefield, who else dares to say half a word?
And after Lan Yang got the position, the Bertelsmann foreigner took the initiative to fly to Yuqing without Wen Xun and others greeting him! After signing a secret contract, Rotten Keyuan became Bertelsmann's strategic partner in the Chinese market.
From Lu Yuqing's point of view, she felt that this contract seemed to be a bit of a loss. She thinks that Wen Xun's novel will definitely sell well, and she has this confidence in Wen Xun. So she felt that giving Bertelsmann so many benefits was simply a loser!
But from the perspective of Wen Xun and Lan Yang, they didn't lose anything! Because it has long been rumored in the publishing industry that the country wants to implement the real-name book number system, that is, the title of a book must be declared in order to receive a corresponding book number, and it cannot be mixed! In fact, such a system is aimed at cracking down on the illegal sale of book numbers by publishing houses.
Therefore, to a certain extent, one day in the future, Lan Yang will not be able to help Wen Xun buy a book number from the publishing house! Is this acceptable to Wen Xun? So just take direct control of a publishing house!
And what about after taking control of the publishing house? Anyway, they are all going to publish books, and if they publish their own, can't they publish other people's? By the way, it is OK to earn a little labor fee and help Bertelsmann publish a book! As for luring the wolf into the house or something, will it be cracked down on by all the publishing houses in the industry...... Are these things? Do those guys have what it takes?
After signing a contract with Bertelsmann, it didn't take long for Bertelsmann to sell Wen Xun's "Fullmetal Alchemist"! Although the book is not too popular within Bertelsmann, in their opinion, it is an act to prove their sincerity to their strategic partners!
So, soon! After receiving 50,000 copies of the book, Bertelsmann began to put the book on the front page of their mail-order booklet!
Zhuang Jia was in the dormitory that day, flipping through the booklet of her Bertelsmann Book Club, and as soon as she turned the first page, she saw an eye-catching recommendation column. In this recommendation column, a book called "Fullmetal Alchemist" is recommended.
Then, there is no word in this recommendation column!
Yes, there is only the title and number of the book in this recommendation column, not even the author's name! Not to mention any other words of recommendation or content introduction - except for the words "Wen Xun recommends......
She looked at the title and cover with some curiosity, and she really couldn't figure out what the book was about! She was a little curious, and looked at the price of the book, which was 10 yuan. It's not expensive, at least compared to those Bertelsmann books that cost more than a dozen yuan, this book is not suspected of cheating on the mother.
With hesitation, she slowly flipped through the bibliography behind it. But after looking through it, I found that there didn't seem to be any interesting books. But the requirement to buy books this quarter is about to expire again! In desperation, she simply gave in to her curiosity and prepared to choose the book "Fullmetal Alchemist" to read. She thinks that since Wen Xun can write such an interesting book as "Diary of a Sand Monk", then Wen Xun's recommendation should not be wrong, right?
At this time, there were many people in China like Lu Yuqing, who chose the book "Fullmetal Alchemist" under the pressure of Bertelsmann's regulations and the temptation of Wen Xun's recommendation. What they didn't know was what kind of surprise the book would bring them!
4 days later, when Zhuang Jia received the copy of "Fullmetal Alchemist", she was attracted by the plot of the protagonist from the side of the opening, and began to constantly want to see what was so powerful about the protagonist. Gradually, she sees the scene where the protagonist saves people in the church. She has little interest in these fights and kills, but then, when she sees the punishment that the protagonist and her sister are subjected to in order to resurrect their mother, she is tempted.
She was touched! I don't know what's wrong, she just sympathizes with the protagonist's brother and sister. When she saw that the protagonist's goal in life was to find the Philosopher's Stone, to help her sister find her vanished body, she was shocked. She couldn't help but get a little involved in the story, and she felt as if she was seeing a man who was slowly growing, a man who atoned for his mistakes. She is attracted to such a man, she is attracted to this unsmiling protagonist, she is attracted to the brother-sister relationship, she is attracted to the bond between the various characters in the center!
Gradually, she kept looking down, and in the process of watching, she was even brainwashed. Every time she sees a plot, she automatically reacts to the principle of "equivalent exchange" in her head!
At the same time, there are countless people in China who have the same or similar feelings as Zhuang Jia...... They were deeply attracted by "Fullmetal Alchemist"!