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In Garion's view, the current Parisian literary and artistic scene is a mess, and newcomers want to emerge not only because of talent and strength, but more importantly, luck. Otherwise, he could well become the next poor Kafka or Van Gogh – and it was not until after his death that he ushered in his own glory days. However, by that time, the author had become a piece of loess.

When Garian arrived at Zola's room, his previous house already had other tenants, so he had to look for another place to live as a last resort.

With his job lost and his house gone, Garián returns to Paris as a victor, but he has a lot of real problems to face.

For example, he barely slept on Zola's sofa tonight, and he had to find a house to settle down in early tomorrow morning.

Garian carried his luggage to the living room, and as he packed his clothes from his suitcase, he explained his ambitions to Zola.

"If a newcomer wants to make a name for himself in the Parisian literary and artistic world, he needs not only strength, but also luck. But if there is a salon, no, a literary group that is dedicated to discovering new people and bringing their work to the public. Let more talented authors get noticed by the world, so that their talents will not be buried. ”

Garion said very seriously, "Not everyone is as lucky as you and me. For example, the young man we met before, named Dude, would have a bright future if he could receive training and guidance. ”

Zola sat on the couch and said curiously, "Wait, why are you so optimistic about him?" I don't look like an author with a promising future. ”

"It's gold that always shines, at least he'll be my first guest in the salon."

More than 100 years later, the era of the rise of the Internet also has such a model, called. Garian is now holding a literary salon to discover new talents, which can be regarded as the originator of the online literature model in the future.

"There's one more problem, though."

Garion sighed, put the folded clothes on his lap, and said slowly, "Holding a literary salon group is not a simple operation, we need a start-up capital, and the sum of money extorted from Viscount Mifa is simply not enough. ”

"Why not enough?"

Garion carefully settled an account with him.

"Discovering new talents, advertising and promotion, book publishing, and so on all require money, and the initial investment is simply not enough."

Zola asked rhetorically, "So?" ”

"That's why I need to go to Her Royal Highness the Princess, and I hope she'll lend me a start-up capital, at least fifteen thousand francs." ”

"Are you crazy?"

Zola jumped up from the couch and said in a loud voice, "What do you give back to others when you borrow so much?" ”

Garion said indifferently, "It's okay, this money is not used to form a salon, I still have to find Mr. Turgenev, hoping to contact the Russian on the German side through his connections." ”

"So what the hell are you going to do? Borrowing money from Her Royal Highness the princess again, and pulling relations with the Russians? Do you want to do business too? ”

Garion spread his hands and said very honestly, "Or else? ”

"Of course, we have to raise funds, I said that it is not easy to hold a literary salon club, now throw out the blueprint and wait for the funds to be in place, and then take your time."

Zola thought for a moment and asked, "And what is the name of your literary salon society?" ”

Garion said casually, "Let's call it the Zion Retreat." ”

Zola frowned and said, "The Retreat of Zion? How does it sound like the name of a secret society? ”

"Hmm...... Let's use this name for the time being, I didn't think of a better one. ”

Garion was planning a bigger idea, and he even had some bad taste at the idea of how the future writer of "The Da Vinci Code" would have a twitching look on his face when he saw this piece of history.

On the other hand, after returning to the newspaper office, Goncourt began to arrange for the editor to proofread Garion's manuscript, and after getting the manuscript of "The Sixth Prison", he directly removed the other novels that had been originally arranged and replaced them with Garion's "The Sixth Prison".

As for the other manuscript he is about to publish, it will be reviewed by the editor-in-chief Goncourt himself.

He was really afraid that if there were any more anti-imperial remarks, even Her Royal Highness the princess would not be able to protect himself at that time.

"Huh? This manuscript is actually written about the Germans? Thankfully, Garion doesn't write about France anymore. ”

After a cursory look at it, Goncourt was relieved to see that there was no criticism of the government.

However, he was very surprised by the content, because there had never been a man of letters in Paris who could write about a feud, and Garion was the first.

However, when Goncourt slowly looked down, his expression became solemn.

This article is not a mere sarcasm or unwarranted ridicule, nor is it a disdain for the hillbillies in the north with the arrogance of the cultural centers of Europe.

Through a series of detailed and reliable data analysis, Garion indicated that in the not-too-distant future, the scattered confederation would be unified into a powerful empire under the leadership of one of the kingdoms.

And the only one who can stop unification is Paris. In the future, the unified empire will also become France's greatest rival.

However, this article also inherits Garion's usual stinky fault, and likes to stop abruptly at the most critical moment of the article, which makes the itchy Goncourt want to take the manuscript and curse.

"Bastard, will France lose or win next?"

There is no way, it is obvious that the king of drag is planning to open a serial, and if he can introduce the German Confederation in such an easy-to-understand way, I'm afraid there is only one Galion.

Goncourt, who watched it, finally sighed and said slowly, "This article is really thought-provoking, but if you throw it out, it will definitely be controversial." But I'm afraid that arousing public opinion is his purpose, and then again, this guy is really good at creating hot topics. ”

Eventually, Goncourt placed the article prominently under the headlines and gave him an exaggerated title. Since Garion wants to build momentum, he helps to fuel the flames once.

Shocked! The author of 1984 turned out to make such an analysis of Germany! 》

Presumably, tomorrow will not only shock the readers of Paris, but also bring a surprise to the whole of Paris.

"Thank me, Gallian, and I guess tomorrow Paris will be lively again because of your shocking arguments."