139 The signs of the Three Kingdoms fever

There was a cold despair in the October editorial office, and even the sunlight shining through the window was miserable.

"President, I'm afraid we won't be able to serialize "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" next month?" Several editors approached the president and spoke honestly about their suggestions.

"Yes, President, the facts have proved that our previous judgment was right, and we can't be wrong again and again." Another editor said.

The president didn't speak, but the expression on his face already showed that he was already a little moved, and the reasons that Ma Youwei had told him before seemed to be less convincing at the moment.

After sending a few editors away, the president thought for a while, then picked up the phone on the table and made a call to Ma Youwei: "Xiaoma, you come to my office." ”

After a moment, Ma Youwei pushed the door in: "President." ”

Ma Youwei's mood was a little bad, his face was also very bad, his eye sockets were deep, and his eyes were bloodshot.

"Ponies?" The president stopped talking.

"President, you don't need to say it, I know what to do, if the magazine's sales drop sharply because of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I will resign!"

"Pony, that's not what I meant!" The president hurriedly said.

Ma Youwei waved his hand: "President, I believe in Chen Beiming, and I also believe in my own judgment and intuition. President, do you have anything else to do, if not, I'll go first! ”

The president opened his mouth and finally waved his hand: "Then you go and get busy." ”

Ma Youwei came out of the president's office and came to the editorial office and clapped his hands: "Everyone, about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I hope you don't talk about it anymore, okay?" We still have a lot of work to deal with, and if everyone talks about it every day, first, it will affect other jobs, and second, the outside media will also misinterpret it.

I'll admit that in the past two days, our sales figures have declined, but this is only temporary, and I believe that the data will get better soon.

I just promised the president that if the sales of the magazine dropped sharply because of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I would resign! ”

Resign?

Everyone's hearts chuckled.

Ma Youwei looked around: "Everyone knows me, I am the most reluctant to leave here, so everyone should believe me, I don't dare to say such a thing without extreme self-confidence, okay, this matter is over, everyone can work with peace of mind!" ”

Editors, you look at me, I look at you, they all have a lot to say, but in the end, they just turned away in silence.

"Is Mr. Ma crazy? How could he say such a thing? ”

"He can't mean it, right? Doesn't he want to stay in the magazine anymore? ”

Some people who didn't like him even muttered secretly: "It can't be that he was also poached by Southern Literature, right?" Otherwise, how can you cut yourself off! ”

Everyone thinks that this month's sharp drop in magazine sales is a sure thing, and there will be no change!

General Politics.

Chen Beiming came to the office, and a colleague asked: "Xiao Chen, what happened to Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, did you turn your face?" Or are they reconciled again? ”

The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" published in October magazine was only serialized to the tenth chapter, that is, the chapter where Lu Bu and Diao Chan had a tryst in the garden and were then broken by Dong Zhuo, so readers of the plot behind it are very curious to know.

But Chen Beiming didn't answer this question, but just smiled and said, "What happened in the future, I haven't written it yet?" What, do you want Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo to reconcile? ”

"How is that possible? Neither of them is a good thing, it's better to hit a fish and die in the net! ”

At this time, another colleague interjected: "I don't think it's possible for the two of them to turn against each other for the time being, Dong Zhuo's old thief is actually very insidious, I'm afraid that he will swallow this breath for his own interests?" ”

At this time, a colleague from the song and dance department passed by the door, and when he heard everyone's discussion, he walked in: "What, you also see the Three Kingdoms?" ”

"Yes, Xiaoshan's work, shouldn't our own people support it?"

The guy quipped, "You two can read it, but Xiaoshan writes in Chinese?" ”

"Huh—you think you know Chinese?"

A few people discussed it word by word.

Jingle bells.

The phone rang suddenly.

A colleague picked up the phone: "Hey, hello, General Political Creation Department, who are you looking for?" Oh, it's Chen Beiming, please wait. ”

Putting down the phone, the colleague shouted at Chen Beiming: "Xiao Chen, your phone." ”

Chen Beiming walked over and picked up the phone: "Hey, hello." ”

"Xiao Chen, hello, I'm Yang Xiaosheng, the editor of Writer magazine!"

"Hello, Mr. Yang."

"Xiao Chen, didn't you tell you last time that you should remember to submit good works to me? Why don't you show me your "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? Yang Xiaosheng asked.

Yes? Chen Beiming was stunned. Then he smiled and explained: "Teacher Yang, I just wrote a beginning, and before I could revise it, I was snatched away by Teacher Ma Youwei in October." In addition, Mr. Yang, it seems that my work is not suitable for publication in your "Writer", right? ”

Yang Xiaosheng smiled: "Although our "Writer" has never published historical romance, as long as the work is good, no matter what type it is, we will publish it, your "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is very good, we like it very much, but since it has been preempted in October, then our "Writer" can only be reprinted, Xiao Chen, our "Writer" plans to reprint your "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from next month, do you have no opinion here?" ”

"Mr. Yang, it is my honor to publish an article in Writer, how can I have an opinion?"

"Okay, that's it."

"Okay."

just hung up the phone of "Writer", and Yang Ting, the editor of the poetry magazine, also called: "Xiaoshan, I am Yang Ting, the editor of the "Poetry Magazine", and a colleague just introduced to me the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" you published in "October", the opening song "Linjiang Immortal" is well written, I plan to make a column for you with the other three poems, how about it, no opinion?" ”

"No, thank you, Mr. Yang."

Hung up the phone of the editor of "Poetry Magazine", thought about it, Chen Beiming walked out, made a call to Ma Youwei with his mobile phone, and told the other party about "Writer" and "Poetry Magazine" just now, he wanted Ma Youwei to relieve a little psychological pressure, but what he didn't expect was that Ma Youwei smiled when he heard it: "Xiaoshan, it would be good if you called me yesterday, but now, it's late, it doesn't work." ”

"What do you mean?" Chen Beiming didn't quite understand.

"I just read more than a dozen newspapers, the supplements of these newspapers basically have articles by literary critics dedicated to commenting on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", although everyone's views are varied, but everyone has expressed a common characteristic, that is, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a very good, worthy of everyone to read, there are so many people who make such a high evaluation of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I believe that his sales will soon be better, just like you said, lost in the east, harvested mulberry, Although we will lose some readers in our repositioning, more high-quality readers will be attracted to them.

Oh, and by the way, there's also good news for you, although the sales of October magazines fell sharply on the first and second days of its release, but they have started to recover slightly since yesterday, and according to this trend, it should be back to normal levels in less than two weeks! ”