Chapter 222: Competitors
In order to appease her male readers and martial arts fans, Xu Qingru's new work "Smiling Proud Jianghu" was finally published in the magazine, but it didn't even have the treatment of the frontispiece color page. A rookie cartoonist serialized in Martial Arts magazine.
One of the main reasons is that not so long ago, the Legend of the Ancients. In the publishing group to which Wuxia magazine belongs, a high-level figure has transferred the editor-in-chief Ding Yixiang, and then promoted his cronies, who are the deputy editor-in-chief named Liu Liqun, to the editor-in-chief.
However, Ding Yixiang has done a very good job over the years, and it is obviously not an easy thing to transfer this editor-in-chief with great credit for no reason, if it weren't for the deep background of that high-level figure, don't even think about this kind of thing.
Moreover, the transfer of Ding Yixiang will also use the term "promotion", and this kind of thing is not only in officialdom, but also common in large groups.
The high-level figure named "Hong Bo" is so distracted and aggressive because he is very optimistic about the development of martial arts comics. The sales of "Martial Arts" have further increased, and the income created is even more amazing, as if it is the arrival of the golden age of martial arts, which makes him determined to do a big job in this field!
However, "The Legend of the Ancients. Ding Yixiang, the editor-in-chief of "Martial Arts", did not cooperate at all, and asked the editor-in-chief to put pressure on Xu Qingru, but he was always very reluctant, but said that Xu Qingru was "Legend of the Ancient World. The most important pillar-level author of "Martial Arts" must not be too persecutive to Xu Qingru, and must encircle Xu Qingru......
This made Hong Bo very angry, what kind of thing is Xu Qingru?
He believes that "The Legend of the Ancients. It is enough for "Martial Arts" to have "Spring and Autumn Journey of the Sword", and although Xu Qingru has "preached" through the two works of the Condor series, he does not even have a real super popular feature-length work, but this author still enjoys various privileges, and the most critical point is that the author has no concessions in terms of copyright!
Hong Bo is very interested in the copyright income of Xu Qingru's martial arts works in the Condor series, because they are all very suitable for adaptation, and a person in a high position like him certainly knows how much interest the copyright around the comics contains, but unfortunately he can only watch it!
All of this made him determined that he wanted to take full control of the Ancient Legends. Martial Arts", and use some seemingly generous but harsh contracts to tie up talented authors, and take the income from copyright into their pockets, and make concessions in the magazine serialization fee and single book share.
After he paid a great exchange of benefits, Ding Yixiang, the editor-in-chief who discovered the genius creator Xu Qingru and made great contributions, finally "promoted" not long ago and entered the headquarters of the publishing group, with a higher position and a triple salary, but the position was very idle......
Ding Yixiang is also open-minded, at the celebration of his promotion, he admitted that he has struggled in the field of martial arts comics for so long, and he already feels tired, and it is better to be an editor than to be an ordinary reader, so that he can enjoy the pure joy of watching comics.
Xu Qingru's editor-in-charge Zhou Fang can also be regarded as Ding Yixiang's hardcore descendant, and Ding Yixiang's ascension and Liu Liqun's replacement made her heart very gloomy.
She didn't doubt Liu Liqun's ability, she just felt that the other party's personality was too strong and domineering, and she was even more resolute in doing things, she doubted that Liu Liqun could coordinate everyone well, after all, the eyes of the new editor-in-chief could not tolerate sand.
And Ding Yixiang is a very atmospheric person, even if he knows the reason for his "promotion", he still blesses Liu Liqun, who replaced him, with a wine glass, this kind of open-mindedness really makes people have to convince him.
However, after Liu Liqun took over as the editor-in-chief, he did not immediately make any big moves, but first invited the editors to unite people's hearts, and then went to meet several gods and popular cartoonists alone, including the author of "Spring and Autumn Journey of the Sword......
His attitude is also very approachable, and he immediately won the favor of many editors and authors, and everyone thinks that he succeeds Ding Yixiang, which does not seem to be bad.
But Liu Liqun ignored Xu Qingru, obviously he was fed up with this wayward author, coupled with the will of the big man behind him, the first decision he made was to suppress Xu Qingru's new serial "Smiling Proud Jianghu".
This kind of behavior, even if some editors have a lot of words in their hearts, they don't dare to say it clearly, after all, they are the new editor-in-chief, and this new official always has to burn three fires when he takes office.
Liu Liqun's highly praised cartoonist is this year's newcomer bounty award winner Li Hongliang, this newcomer award, Xu Qingru and Jiang Xue both went to be judges, this newcomer creator named Li Hongliang is indeed talented, he is only twenty-four years old this year, which can be described as unlimited potential.
Then Liu Liqun confidently believed that as long as Li Hongliang was picked up, he could completely replace Xu Qingru, so he deliberately arranged for the new serialization of "newcomer king" Li Hongliang to collide with Xu Qingru's "Smiling Proud Jianghu".
On the one hand, he promoted Li Hongliang's works overwhelmingly, and on the other hand, he spared no effort to suppress "Smiling Proud Jianghu", and finally the first phase of the popularity survey ranking of the two, Li Hongliang ranked third, while Xu Qingru only fifth......
Then Liu Liqun proudly declared at the editorial meeting that "Ancient Legends. "Martial Arts" has another real comic genius, he is Mr. Li Hongliang, because his new serial popularity ranking surpasses Xu Qingru.
Liu Liqun's statement made some editors slandered, Li Hongliang and Xu Qingru's publicity treatment is so different, if Li Hongliang can't surpass Xu Qingru in the popularity ranking of the first word, then he himself will probably be ashamed.
"I actually really appreciate Mr. Xu Qingru's works, but his new serialization "Smiling Proud Jianghu", the quality is really not good, the data of the popularity questionnaire is already very revealing, after I serve as the editor-in-chief, whether it is a rookie cartoonist or a senior cartoonist, everything speaks according to the results, if the popularity survey of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" continues to decline, then I will mercilessly cut this work!" Liu Liqun said loudly.
Zhou Fang looked at Liu Liqun with a domineering face, and suddenly thought of a word, called "Tu Poor Dagger".
"The quality of Mr. Xu Qingru's work has declined so seriously because there is no senior editor in charge, so if "Smiling Proud Jianghu" is cut in half, I hope she can return to the right track and use the right way to create a super popular feature-length work, preferably with "Shooting the Condor" with a world view." Liu Liqun finally said what he wanted to achieve in the end.
It's a pity that the popularity of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" did not decline at all as he imagined......
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