April 16, 19o8 (the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu).

On this day, except for some remote areas in the northwestern provinces where the Socialist Party is not strong, legal and illegal bookstores all over the country began to sell a batch of books that had just arrived.

This is a series of books called "Qing Palace Fever", which is full of novels to comics and pictures, beautifully printed and of high quality. These are all good things such as spring palace pictures, h comics and ** novels with members of the royal family of the Manchu Dynasty and famous princes and ministers as the protagonists.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were the era of the Gongkou Novel Exhibition, and many famous Gongkou novels were produced during this period, such as "The Golden Vase of Plums". However, no matter how the H book of this era is written, it is still relatively subtle and obscure about the process, and compared with the explicit and detailed description of the process in later generations, all of them are only kneeling. Therefore, as soon as these later-style gongkou novels were listed, they firmly caught the attention of the Yinmin masses, and compared with similar works of this era, it is like the difference between green vegetables and radishes and big fish and big meat, of course there are people who like to eat green vegetables and radishes, but most people still prefer big fish and big meat.

As for those cartoons and spring palace pictures, it is even more blind to the Yinmin masses, their blueprints are the works of the famous Gongkou comic masters of later generations, and the painting skills of the successive generations are not comparable at this time, the characters in it use the human body sketching technique, and combine a large number of Western oil painting and Oriental Gongbi painting skills, and also add a lot of film and television composition effects, so that the characters are vivid, the details are real and vivid, and the picture is exquisite, the lines are delicate. Finally, coupled with the CG rendering of the quantum computer's "Little Gate", all the spring palace diagrams at this time were completely exploded.

The figures are too abstract, the body proportions are distorted, and the background is monotonous, which are common problems in traditional painting. Even the most popular and exquisite atlases of the moment cannot avoid these problems, compared with these exquisite and realistic drawings of later generations, they are simply clumsy knockoffs, and they are not a grade at all. After this batch of newly listed Gongkou paintings arrived, the Yinmin masses directly threw their favorite Spring Palace-Pictures into the garbage heap.

What is even more sought after by the silver people is that the price of this series of books is very conscientious and very considerate to readers. For example, one of them, "The History of the Eleventh Emperor Yan of the Qing Dynasty", a full set of eleven copies, the paper printing and binding are all excellent, each of which is a novel of three or four hundred thousand words, and each chapter has exquisite full-color CG illustrations, such a set of good things actually bought for fifteen yuan!

You must know that books in this era are relatively expensive, and the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" published by the Book Integration Bureau costs three yuan, and "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" costs one yuan and two corners. Li Wenxuan's "The Legend of Da Ming Qixia" has a total of more than 200,000 words and a price of octagonal. "Arabian Nights" published by the Commercial Press is one yuan and five corners, and "The Hidden Story of the Continuation of Heroes" is two yuan.

And the price of this set of "Qing Palace Fever" books is too conscientious, the average text book is less than one yuan and five jiao per book, and the comic strips and picture books are only one yuan and five jiao to three yuan each. Not to mention that the quality of the paper and printing is the complete explosion of all books at this time, who has ever seen a full-color coated paper print in this era; Therefore, "Qing Palace Fever" triggered a rush to buy as soon as it was listed, and the first batch of 200,000 copies was sold out on the second day of its release. The majority of silver people have rave reviews for "Qing Palace Fever" and are highly sought after. In less than a week, the number of scheduled orders has exceeded the million mark, and it is still climbing sharply.

And Yuan Yuan Publishing House, which published this series of books, was a little-known Xintender bookseller a day ago, and there were countless fans overnight after the trip. In just a few days, the whole country was talking about "Qing Palace Fever" and Yuanyuan Publishing House. It made the old booksellers such as the Commercial Press and the Book Integration Bureau envious and jealous, and they all tied small paper figures in the office, or squatted in the corner of the wall to draw circles.

Can the good things of the workers be sold so arrogantly and publicly? The answer is yes. It is not surprising that, from a certain point of view, the Chinese silver people in this period were very blessed. At this time, even Qinglou was a legal enterprise, and even the major newspapers had advertisements for Qinglou, and it was still necessary to hide and hide a few good things from the Gongkou? Compared with the bitter era when the fart people in the original time and space and later generations had to go over the wall on the last H network, the Chinese silver people at this time were too blessed.

Of course, in areas where the Qing court could still maintain its rule, the booksellers were a little more restrained and did not sell them with great fanfare. They were like the merchants who sold H CDs in later generations, and they put them in boxes and sold them only to regular customers.

There is also a mobile type, the vendors carry baskets containing books all over the street, and when they see people who may be customers, they come up and ask in a low voice: "Big brother, do you want books?" The latest "Qing Palace Fever" ......" After speaking, he lifted the cloth on the basket and revealed the propaganda color pages inside.

The customer's eyes suddenly lit up: "Is there "xxx"?"

"Yes,Full color uncensored......"

After the two bargained, the customer took the money from the book vendor, and both parties dispersed happily. In the Qing court's ruling area, similar scenes were everywhere, and it was not uncommon in Beijing's Sijiu City, the ruling center of the Qing court, and even those Eight Banners disciples secretly bought it.

In a few provinces ruled by revolutionaries and constitutionalists, it was completely blatant and openly sold, with large propaganda posters plastered all over the city, and some booksellers hired a bunch of little boys and leaflets all over the streets.

The terrifying sales and soaring popularity of "Qing Palace Fever" caught the initiators of the Tianjin branch unexpected. Even Comrade Liu Yang, the planner, was stupid for several seconds after receiving these news. As for his men, they were even more unbearable, their glasses fell to the ground, and some of them had dislocated their jaws.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is not surprising that "Qing Palace Fever" can have such a response. On the one hand, these works of the Yue era, compared with their counterparts at this time, have an absolute advantage in quality, content and form, and there are fewer entertainment methods at this time, and the effect of attracting attention is very good. The most important thing is that the protagonists of this series are not ordinary people.

Gossip is the nature of human beings, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, it is the ** gossip of celebrities and superiors, especially the glamorous gossip, everyone is the most talked. Otherwise, how could there be so many legends about King Mu of Zhou, Emperor Yang of Sui, Wu Zetian and others in ancient China, and as for the meat jokes of foreign countries, especially European superiors, there will be even more. From Caesar and Nero in Roman times, to Catherine and the Duke of Windsor more recently, there are too many to count.

The protagonists of "Qing Palace Fever" are all emperors, generals, concubines and princesses, and they are all from this dynasty. The value and effect of the circulation of these fine ciphers are naturally more magnificent. After satisfying the gossip psychology of the Yinmin masses, this set of gongkou books has a sense of pleasure of breaking taboos. Watching those high-flying big characters make all kinds of ugly or flattering behaviors in the book, this psychological pleasure is even more than the attraction of the plot itself.

The unexpectedly good results made the Tianjin branch excited, and they immediately put more energy into this "Spring Palace Operation".

Comrade Liu Yang, secretary of the North China Region, made an important instruction at the branch meeting: the types of "Qing Palace Fever" lines should be increased, and the number of lines should be more. There are also more versions, and since it is so easy to sell, this price will also be adjusted. We can come out in three editions, one is a hardcover collector's edition, the paper and printing quality is better, the illustrations are added, all the pictures are in full color, and the price is five to ten times higher than now. The second is the paperback standard version, which maintains the existing quality and price. The other is the economical version of the paperback, the price can be greatly reduced, the number of pages and content of each book can be appropriately reduced, and the quality can be appropriately lowered to slightly higher than that of books of the same price, and the illustrations in the novel can be reduced, and all in black and white. In addition, we will open up foreign markets and increase the export of English, French, German, Russian, Japanese and other languages.

A week later, the second edition of the "Qing Palace Fever" series was sold, this time with a volume of 5oo million copies, and the variety increased by more than 3o types, divided into three editions. In particular, the launch of the lite-cover economic edition has overjoyed many of the silver-bound people who were shy in their pockets, although the quality of these soft-cover books is not as good as the collector's edition and the standard edition, but the content is almost the same, the text has not been cut without any deletion, that is, there are fewer illustrations, and you can also feast your eyes, which is much better than not seeing before.

Among them, the hardcover collector's edition is the fastest selling, although the price of the collector's edition is several times more expensive, but the quality really has nothing to say, especially those CG pictures printed by 1oo grams to 18o grams of coated paper and 32-bit true color technology, each one is exquisite like a work of art, and it is completely worth the money. There are many big dogs who bought the standard version before, and now after the hardcover collector's edition is released, they come to buy a whole set back to collect. There are even some rich brain-dead fans who even buy several sets at a time, and these big dogs who are willing to buy a complete set of hardcover versions will not care about buying a few more sets at all.

After the launch of ten foreign language versions such as Japan, France, Russia, Germany, Italy, and Japan, the world's silvermen rushed to buy it, just like not asking for money. Within three months, the sales volume in the international market exceeded 150,000 copies, and the profit reached 150,000 US dollars! Although it was still a little worse than the first issue of Playboy in the original time and space, which sold out 70,000 copies in one week, after all, the times are different, and the information dissemination and logistics of this era are far from being compared with those of the 5O era.

"Qing Palace Fever" was a success! The Great Gongkou Art Series! It inherited the glorious tradition of oriental art. Alcatraz Island, ** Coastline, Sitan, Grass Pomegranate, Playboy, Loft, Ichichi, Tokyo Fever, A4U Soul Possession at this moment!

There's no way, when have those European and American turtles seen exquisite prints, and that's how the means of entertainment are too scarce.

This amazing achievement scared everyone up and down the Tianjin branch. When Wen Deji learned the news, he accidentally broke the teacup. It took a long time for a sentence to burst out from between his teeth: "Damn, no wonder the bosses who sell H magazines have to be like pigs' heads, this profit is already comparable to arms......"

However, the potential impact is greater than the economic profits. The Manchu royal family and the nobles of the Eight Banners became completely famous, and suddenly became world-famous stars, and the diplomats of the great powers in Beijing would look strange when they interacted with the Qing court magnates. In the country, the image of the people has fallen to the bottom, and even the last trace of respect has been thrown to Java, and now when everyone mentions the Forbidden City, they will show a knowing smile that men understand.

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