Xiang Yiran was born in 1889, a native of Pingjiang, Hunan, with both humanities and martial arts, and chivalrous spirit.

At the age of 14, he was admitted to Changsha Higher Industrial School, and then went to Japan and studied at Huaqiao High School and Hosei University.

After arriving in Japan, I didn't enter school for a while and wandered all day long.,I'm quite familiar with Japanese brothels and the lower class.。

Written as a condemnation of the current situation of students studying in Japan in the late Qing Dynasty, the novel "History of Studying in the East" is a work of great practical significance.

However, after returning to China, the bookstore only promised to pay Triangle for every 1,000 words, which greatly discouraged his enthusiasm for writing.

Nowadays, martial arts novels are popular, and Shen Zhifang, the general manager of Shanghai World Book Company, appreciates Xiang Yiran's talent and invites him to write martial arts novels, which is why "The Legend of Jianghu" appeared.

Ping Banya overheard the news, so he went to see Xiang Yiran, read the beginning of the novel, and thought it was not bad.

The publishing industry in Shanghai is fiercely competitive, and talented authors must not be spared, but they must not break the rules too much, otherwise they will be ostracized by the entire industry.

In this matter, the World Book Company took the lead, and Ping Banya had to come up with enough chips if he wanted to get back the score.

So, he thought of his big boss, anyway, he didn't have to use it in vain.

With Lin Zixuan's current status in the popular fiction industry, as long as he praises "The Legend of Jianghu", then this martial arts novel will be popular before it is published, and he will not refuse this heavyweight recommendation.

However, he doesn't know Lin Zixuan's character very well, and there are many strange phenomena in the literary world.

For example, both of them are writers of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School, and they may become confidants or enemies.

Lin Zixuan's own martial arts novels are well written, maybe he can't see others writing equally well on the same theme, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and Ping Banya doesn't dare to speculate in this regard.

Therefore, he directly brought Xiang Yiran to see Lin Zixuan's reaction.

If Lin Zixuan is perfunctory, then he will no longer have the idea of Xiang Yiran, if Lin Zixuan values Xiang Yiran, he also has a credit for the introduction.

This shows how difficult it is to be a qualified subordinate.

Lin Zixuan didn't know Ping Banya's careful thoughts, and after figuring out that Xiang Yiran was Pingjiang Buxiao's life, he became even more eager.

He actually hasn't watched "The Legend of Jianghu", even "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which was made into a movie in later generations, and he has no interest in this kind of martial arts novel during the Republic of China.

But the names of Pingjiang Buxiaosheng, Wang Dulu, and the owner of Huanzhu Mansion have still been heard.

"The Legend of Jianghu" takes the competition between the people of Pingjiang and Liuyang counties in Hunan Province as an introduction, and uses the disciples of Kunlun and Kongtong factions to help fight for Zhaojiaping, the "water and land wharf", as a clue, to draw out the grievances and hatreds of the two major martial arts sects.

The author is influenced by Hunan folklore, combining realism with gods and monsters, showing a different world of rivers and lakes.

even had a little bit of Xianxia color, which affected the creation of the later "Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan", the owner of the Pearl Building.

Lin Zixuan looked at it a little, but he still couldn't arouse his interest, mainly because he was not very accustomed to the narrative of old-school novels during the Republic of China.

Just like readers who are accustomed to reading online articles in later generations will not be used to reading traditional literature.

Online literature is fast food literature, ten lines at a glance, traditional literature needs to be read intensively, otherwise you don't understand the charm at all.

But this does not prevent him from attaching importance to "The Legend of Jianghu", and praised the setting of the plot in it, believing that this is a novel with a unique wit, which is of great significance in the innovation of martial arts novel writing.

Lin Zixuan promised to recommend the novel in the newspaper.

Xiang Ran was flattered.

Lin Zixuan is a master in martial arts novels, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is very wonderful, he originally wanted to imitate Lin Zixuan's writing style like other literati, but he has a pride in his heart.

Why can't I write the martial arts novel I have in mind?

He knows martial arts, his knowledge is not bad, and he can make up stories, so he found another way and wrote "The Legend of Jianghu".

He showed it to Lin Zixuan this time, and he was indeed a little apprehensive in his heart, but even if Lin Zixuan didn't appreciate it, he wouldn't give up, on the road of literature, no path must be right.

He believes in himself.

At this moment, with Lin Zixuan's affirmation, he became more confident.

Ping Banya took the opportunity to invite Xiang Ran to publish "The Legend of Jianghu Heroes" in "Popular Fiction Weekly", which is not contradictory to the final publication by the World Book Company, and can also allow the author to earn an extra manuscript fee.

Xiang Yiran did not sign a contract with the World Book Company, so he agreed to ban Ya.

Lin Zixuan secretly told Ping Banya that Xiang Yiran and Zhang Jianshui would be given the same treatment, and it was also the highest treatment.

This is the division within Vientiane Bookstore, for the authors of Vientiane Bookstore, as long as Lin Zixuan has heard of the names in later generations, he will focus on taking care of them, and those familiar names will be given the highest treatment.

To enlist writers, you have to start when they are not famous.

Lin Zixuan stood at the door, looking at Xiang Erran's back, with a sense of accomplishment that "all the heroes of the world have entered my place".

In fact, Xiang Yiran also wrote a "Biography of Modern Chivalrous Heroes" in the future.

This book is roughly based on the time of the martyrdom of the "Six Gentlemen of Wuxu" in the late Qing Dynasty, and pushes it up and down for about ten years, and the deeds of individual characters extend to the early years of the Republic of China.

In the book, the big sword king five is used as a guide, bringing out the biography of the hero Huo Yuanjia, interspersed with the introduction of heroes from all walks of life in the late Qing Dynasty, and interpreting the legend of Huo Yuanjia's "three dozen foreign strongmen", and finally ending with Huo Yuanjia being poisoned.

In order to highlight the heroes in the book, he made up a large number of non-existent legendary deeds in it, turning Huo Yuanjia from a human to a martial god.

In later generations, most of the plots in the TV series and movies of many martial artists during the Republic of China were derived from this book.

Sometimes what we think is real history is actually made up by Xiang Yanran.

No way, what the audience wants to see is a legendary story, not real life, real life is too boring.

The plot of "Jinmen Hero Huo Yuanjia" is also derived from "The Legend of Modern Chivalrous Heroes", but it was moved to this era by Lin Zixuan from later generations.

In the summer of 1922, a literary group was founded in Shanghai, called the Asakusa Society.

This is a literary group mainly composed of young people from Sichuan, and the main character is called Lin Ruji, whose creation is mainly "autobiographical" lyrical novels.

At this time, writers mainly from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such as Shen Yanbing and Zhou Zuoren, formed a literary research society.

Writers such as Guo Moruo and Yu Dafu, who studied in Japan, formed the Creation Society.

Ying Xiuren, a student from Zhejiang, formed the Lakeside Poetry Society.

Across the country, the era of the mass creation of literary groups has arrived, which heralds the emergence of a new literature from the stage of enlightenment to a stage of vigorous development.