Ni Kuang entered the Ming Pao building with a bag. The Ming Pao employees who met along the way who did not take New Year's Day holidays took the initiative to greet him with a happy holiday.
Compared to his fat head and big ears in the future, Ni Kuang's figure was much better at this time, and he could only be considered a little fat.When he came to Hong Kong, he was a super thin man and wrote a toad belly for many years.
Ni Kuang came directly to Jin Yong's office. Jin Yong's assistant saw that it was Ni Kuang and couldn't stop him, so he had to let him in.
After Ni Kuang threw the manuscript of "Wish Monkey God" in the second half of the Wesley series "Chain" on the table, Jin Yong took off his glasses and said with a smile: Brother Yiming, why are you here?I'll just ask someone to go to your house to collect the manuscript.
The people in the Ni family speak very straightforwardly, or very aggressively, whether it is Ni Kuang, Yi Shu or Ni Zhen.
Ni Kuang didn't give Jin Yong any face at this time and said straight to the point: I want to increase the manuscript fee, otherwise I really can't continue writing.Also, don’t fool me with the trick of my little sister, I won’t eat that trick.
The reason why Ni Kuang made his fortune by writing was entirely because of Jin Yong's support, and the relationship between the two was also very close afterwards.
But no matter how good the relationship is, Jin Yong has been paying the manuscript fee for decades, and he will be dissatisfied with it.
Jin Yong was not good at speaking, and he was silent for a while before saying: Didn’t you just increase your royalties last year?
Ni Kuang slapped a "Sing Tao Daily" on Jin Yong's desk and said: Look at what the above said?Kang Jianfei's new book manuscript is still 500 yuan, and he is the first person to pay for a manuscript in Hong Kong today. He said that I, Ni Kuang, is outdated!
Jin Yong sighed and asked: Then how much do you want?
Ni Kuang said angrily: At least 1,000 words are 501 yuan.I have written novels for decades, but I am not as good as a junior. Isn’t this a joke?
Hong Kong's economy has developed rapidly in the past two years, with prices and wages rising continuously. It is logical that it is time to add royalties to writers.Jin Yong said: 500 thousand words are too much, but how about 400 thousand words?
Ni Kuang said with red neck: No!Always check Ah, what I care about is not the little royalty, but the reputation!Do you know how many people made fun of me last year?I couldn't swallow that breath.
Ni Kuang is indeed reason to be angry. His Wesley series "Hair", was named the most popular novel for young people in Hong Kong the year before yesterday. The Wesley single-book released last year was sold for a big sale, and it was even more popular by Huang Yulang to become the first person in the literary world with a royalty of 500 yuan in a thousand words.
Just when Ni Kuang was in a state of strife, he knew where Kang Jianfei appeared. With an unheard of time-traveling martial arts "The Legend of Qin", he directly snatched his popularity, and he also surpassed him in terms of royalties.
Ni Kuang was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood. He privately said many strange things about Kang Jianfei, and even expressed his disdain for "The Legend of Qin" in front of the reporter.
Jin Yong shook his head with certainty and said: 400 yuan for a thousand words, no more.
Looking at Jin Yong's peaceful and determined expression, Ni Kuang had the urge to roll up his sleeves and beat him up.
But Ni Kuang, an old friend of the two for 20 years, knew how difficult it was to ask Jin Yong to add the royalties, so he could only say helplessly: Is this possible? Give me a royal fee of 400 thousand words, which is 550 thousand words.
Jin Yong didn't expect Ni Kuang to come up with such an idea of slapping the fat man's face, and said speechlessly: The extra 150 yuan manuscript fee of 1,000 words will be handed over to the government for a lot of manuscript tax.
Ni Kuang insisted on his own idea and said: When the tax collectors come, explain the situation to them. If it really doesn’t work, I will bear the manuscript tax myself.
This is called dying about face and suffering.
When it comes to the matter of royalties, Jin Yong, who was silly speaking, suddenly became erotic and shook his head and said: It’s still not possible. If I raise such a high royalties for you, will the royalties of other authors increase?Will the authors of "Ming Pao Weekly", "Ming Pao Monthly" and "Ming Pao Evening News" also increase their royalties?I can't tell them that you are getting fake royalties, if they all increase, I will suffer a huge loss.
You... quibble, "Oriental Daily" only gave Kang Jianfei a super high royalty, why can't I do it!Ni Kuang didn't expect that he couldn't afford to pay, and he suddenly felt the urge to vomit three liters of blood.
Brother Yiming, don’t worry, please say something.Seeing Ni Kuang's appearance of running wildly, Jin Yong quickly spoke out to comfort him.
At that time, Jin Yong and Ni Kuang's sister Yishu also had a good relationship, and Yishu's articles were also sales guaranteed for Ming Pao.
But because Jin Yong repeatedly rejected Yishu's request to increase the royalties, he was so angry that Yishu left Ming Pao directly after the severity, the losses caused were far greater than the amount of royalties Yishu asked for.
Ni Kuang said: What do you mean to me not be anxious?Look at what Ming Pao has been crushed by Oriental Daily this year. I can just fight with Oriental Daily for me by adding royalties.
Jin Yong said: A newspaper must be operated in the long run, and those hype methods can only bring temporary sales, and I disdain it.
Ni Kuang really wants to say: I don’t want your sister. If it weren’t for the speculation of money, Ming Pao would have seen a sharp increase in sales that year and become one of the three major newspapers in Hong Kong now?
Seeing Jin Yong like this, Ni Kuang knew that he would not want to increase the royalties again today, so he could only express his dissatisfaction with silence.
The two of them stared at each other for a while and then Jin Yong said: Let's do this, the royalty will increase your royalty by 410 yuan by a thousand words, and you will definitely not increase any more.
Ni Kuang sighed: 410 is about 410.
Seeing that Ni Kuang was dealt with, Jin Yong finally showed a smile on his face and asked: Have you read the "Oriental Daily" these two days?
Ni Kuang said: It is the New Year's Day holiday, and many newspapers and magazines have asked me to make an appointment with articles to write special articles in the New Year. I provide 10 articles for the articles of the publications every day. How can I have time to read the newspaper?
Ni Kuangyang Yang said that the article I compared with Kang Jianfei was given to me and my son showed me the article.
Jin Yong took out two copies of "Oriental Daily" from the drawer and handed it to Ni Kuang and said: Kang Jianfei's new novel is serialized, you can take a look first.
Today is January 2, 1981, and "The Journey of Ethereal" has been serialized in "Oriental Daily" for two days.
Ni Kuang didn't say a word, and looked straight in Jin Yong's office, looking through the newspaper.
At first, Ni Kuang was quite disdainful of "The Journey", believing that Kang Jianfei wanted to play the trick of traveling through history again, and even wanted to laugh at his poor skills.
But soon he discovered something was wrong, because the novel's writing turned from Earth to Mars. The cultivator battle between Fu Chongbi and Hua Mèi Niang on Mars is much more exciting than that of today's martial arts novels. Then the plot changed again and it actually arrived at a heavenly star with an ancient Chinese historical environment.
After reading the two-day serial content, Ni Kuang couldn't help but sweat and said nervously: If this kind of cultivation novel becomes popular, martial arts and science fiction adventure novels will be miserable!
It's Ah.Jin Yong nodded.
As senior top novelists, Jin Yong and Ni Kuang saw far more than others after watching "The Journey of Ethereal".
Ordinary readers will only find it novel and beautiful after watching "The Journey of Ethereal".But after reading it, Jin Yong and the others saw the huge threat to martial arts and science fiction adventure novels.
In terms of fighting scenes, cultivation novels often move mountains and fill the seas, which completely exert the internal skills of martial arts novels; in terms of plot development, cultivation novels take planets as scenes, incorporate various elements into them, and can open copies at will, which is enough to steal the limelight of science fiction adventure novels.
If this kind of cultivation novel becomes popular, then martial arts novels represented by Jin Yong and science fiction adventure novels represented by Ni Kuang will face the danger of readers' loss.
Ni Kuang asked: How is the Oriental Daily selling?
Jin Yong said: The sales of Oriental Daily fell a bit a while ago, but Kang Jianfei's new book, which has been promoted for a long time, was released, and yesterday's sales have been replied to more than 150,000 copies.As for today's sales, it is estimated that it will increase a lot.
……
January 3, 1981.
Wu Chenggang deliberately wandered around the streets, paying attention to the book shops and newspaper stands on the road from time to time.
Although he did not sign "The Journey of Ethereal", he wrote it after all, and the first tens of thousands of words were also modified by him, so Wu Chenggang was particularly concerned about the readers' reflections of this novel.
Wu Chenggang walked to a bookstore and asked: Boss, "Oriental Daily"...
Before the boss could finish his words, he interrupted: Today's Oriental Daily is sold out, come again tomorrow.
Wu Chenggang asked: Is Oriental Daily very easy to sell?
The boss said: Why is it not easy to sell?Originally, after the end of "The Legend of Qin", fewer people bought "Oriental Daily", but after "The Journey of Ethereal" was published, buying newspapers these days was the same as robbery.
Wu Chenggang pretended to ask: "The Journey of Ethereal" is so good?
The boss smiled and said: It’s not that I’m talking big, but after selling newspapers for so many years, “The Journey of Ethereal” is simply amazing.Only Kang Jianfei can write this kind of novel. How can other people have such magical imagination?
Wu Chenggang was a little disappointed. The boss praised the creativity of "The Ethereal Journey" from beginning to end, and did not mention the literary talent of the novel at all.
Walking out of the book and newspaper store, Wu Chenggang couldn't help laughing. What was he fighting with his cousin?And this novel was originally Kang Jianfei's creativity.
Wu Cheng had just arrived at the bus station and waited for a while and finally waited for the bus and was about to take the bus home.
There were a lot of people in the car. Wu Chenggang could only squeeze into the crowd and pull the horizontal bar, but he heard someone beside him saying: Hello, Abu, why haven’t you finished watching it yet?Show me quickly.
Wait a little longer, I will finish reading the second time.
What?You actually read it for the second time, and I said why did you watch it for so long!
It's going to be fine now, who told you not to buy a newspaper by yourself.
Where can I buy it? It's sold out long ago.
You won't subscribe to Ah?
I'd booked if I knew it.
……
Wu Chenggang turned his head and saw two young people grabbing a copy of the Oriental Daily.Needless to say, the two must be watching "The Journey of Ethereal".
The bus passed by a cinema, and the most conspicuous poster at the entrance of the theater was "Senior Sister Royal".
Although the ticket buying team at the entrance of the ticket hall is not as terrifying as the other day, if you want to buy tickets, you still have to queue for two or three minutes.
Wu Chenggang suddenly felt strongly that his cousin actually had such a great influence in Hong Kong!
Compared to his fat head and big ears in the future, Ni Kuang's figure was much better at this time, and he could only be considered a little fat.When he came to Hong Kong, he was a super thin man and wrote a toad belly for many years.
Ni Kuang came directly to Jin Yong's office. Jin Yong's assistant saw that it was Ni Kuang and couldn't stop him, so he had to let him in.
After Ni Kuang threw the manuscript of "Wish Monkey God" in the second half of the Wesley series "Chain" on the table, Jin Yong took off his glasses and said with a smile: Brother Yiming, why are you here?I'll just ask someone to go to your house to collect the manuscript.
The people in the Ni family speak very straightforwardly, or very aggressively, whether it is Ni Kuang, Yi Shu or Ni Zhen.
Ni Kuang didn't give Jin Yong any face at this time and said straight to the point: I want to increase the manuscript fee, otherwise I really can't continue writing.Also, don’t fool me with the trick of my little sister, I won’t eat that trick.
The reason why Ni Kuang made his fortune by writing was entirely because of Jin Yong's support, and the relationship between the two was also very close afterwards.
But no matter how good the relationship is, Jin Yong has been paying the manuscript fee for decades, and he will be dissatisfied with it.
Jin Yong was not good at speaking, and he was silent for a while before saying: Didn’t you just increase your royalties last year?
Ni Kuang slapped a "Sing Tao Daily" on Jin Yong's desk and said: Look at what the above said?Kang Jianfei's new book manuscript is still 500 yuan, and he is the first person to pay for a manuscript in Hong Kong today. He said that I, Ni Kuang, is outdated!
Jin Yong sighed and asked: Then how much do you want?
Ni Kuang said angrily: At least 1,000 words are 501 yuan.I have written novels for decades, but I am not as good as a junior. Isn’t this a joke?
Hong Kong's economy has developed rapidly in the past two years, with prices and wages rising continuously. It is logical that it is time to add royalties to writers.Jin Yong said: 500 thousand words are too much, but how about 400 thousand words?
Ni Kuang said with red neck: No!Always check Ah, what I care about is not the little royalty, but the reputation!Do you know how many people made fun of me last year?I couldn't swallow that breath.
Ni Kuang is indeed reason to be angry. His Wesley series "Hair", was named the most popular novel for young people in Hong Kong the year before yesterday. The Wesley single-book released last year was sold for a big sale, and it was even more popular by Huang Yulang to become the first person in the literary world with a royalty of 500 yuan in a thousand words.
Just when Ni Kuang was in a state of strife, he knew where Kang Jianfei appeared. With an unheard of time-traveling martial arts "The Legend of Qin", he directly snatched his popularity, and he also surpassed him in terms of royalties.
Ni Kuang was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood. He privately said many strange things about Kang Jianfei, and even expressed his disdain for "The Legend of Qin" in front of the reporter.
Jin Yong shook his head with certainty and said: 400 yuan for a thousand words, no more.
Looking at Jin Yong's peaceful and determined expression, Ni Kuang had the urge to roll up his sleeves and beat him up.
But Ni Kuang, an old friend of the two for 20 years, knew how difficult it was to ask Jin Yong to add the royalties, so he could only say helplessly: Is this possible? Give me a royal fee of 400 thousand words, which is 550 thousand words.
Jin Yong didn't expect Ni Kuang to come up with such an idea of slapping the fat man's face, and said speechlessly: The extra 150 yuan manuscript fee of 1,000 words will be handed over to the government for a lot of manuscript tax.
Ni Kuang insisted on his own idea and said: When the tax collectors come, explain the situation to them. If it really doesn’t work, I will bear the manuscript tax myself.
This is called dying about face and suffering.
When it comes to the matter of royalties, Jin Yong, who was silly speaking, suddenly became erotic and shook his head and said: It’s still not possible. If I raise such a high royalties for you, will the royalties of other authors increase?Will the authors of "Ming Pao Weekly", "Ming Pao Monthly" and "Ming Pao Evening News" also increase their royalties?I can't tell them that you are getting fake royalties, if they all increase, I will suffer a huge loss.
You... quibble, "Oriental Daily" only gave Kang Jianfei a super high royalty, why can't I do it!Ni Kuang didn't expect that he couldn't afford to pay, and he suddenly felt the urge to vomit three liters of blood.
Brother Yiming, don’t worry, please say something.Seeing Ni Kuang's appearance of running wildly, Jin Yong quickly spoke out to comfort him.
At that time, Jin Yong and Ni Kuang's sister Yishu also had a good relationship, and Yishu's articles were also sales guaranteed for Ming Pao.
But because Jin Yong repeatedly rejected Yishu's request to increase the royalties, he was so angry that Yishu left Ming Pao directly after the severity, the losses caused were far greater than the amount of royalties Yishu asked for.
Ni Kuang said: What do you mean to me not be anxious?Look at what Ming Pao has been crushed by Oriental Daily this year. I can just fight with Oriental Daily for me by adding royalties.
Jin Yong said: A newspaper must be operated in the long run, and those hype methods can only bring temporary sales, and I disdain it.
Ni Kuang really wants to say: I don’t want your sister. If it weren’t for the speculation of money, Ming Pao would have seen a sharp increase in sales that year and become one of the three major newspapers in Hong Kong now?
Seeing Jin Yong like this, Ni Kuang knew that he would not want to increase the royalties again today, so he could only express his dissatisfaction with silence.
The two of them stared at each other for a while and then Jin Yong said: Let's do this, the royalty will increase your royalty by 410 yuan by a thousand words, and you will definitely not increase any more.
Ni Kuang sighed: 410 is about 410.
Seeing that Ni Kuang was dealt with, Jin Yong finally showed a smile on his face and asked: Have you read the "Oriental Daily" these two days?
Ni Kuang said: It is the New Year's Day holiday, and many newspapers and magazines have asked me to make an appointment with articles to write special articles in the New Year. I provide 10 articles for the articles of the publications every day. How can I have time to read the newspaper?
Ni Kuangyang Yang said that the article I compared with Kang Jianfei was given to me and my son showed me the article.
Jin Yong took out two copies of "Oriental Daily" from the drawer and handed it to Ni Kuang and said: Kang Jianfei's new novel is serialized, you can take a look first.
Today is January 2, 1981, and "The Journey of Ethereal" has been serialized in "Oriental Daily" for two days.
Ni Kuang didn't say a word, and looked straight in Jin Yong's office, looking through the newspaper.
At first, Ni Kuang was quite disdainful of "The Journey", believing that Kang Jianfei wanted to play the trick of traveling through history again, and even wanted to laugh at his poor skills.
But soon he discovered something was wrong, because the novel's writing turned from Earth to Mars. The cultivator battle between Fu Chongbi and Hua Mèi Niang on Mars is much more exciting than that of today's martial arts novels. Then the plot changed again and it actually arrived at a heavenly star with an ancient Chinese historical environment.
After reading the two-day serial content, Ni Kuang couldn't help but sweat and said nervously: If this kind of cultivation novel becomes popular, martial arts and science fiction adventure novels will be miserable!
It's Ah.Jin Yong nodded.
As senior top novelists, Jin Yong and Ni Kuang saw far more than others after watching "The Journey of Ethereal".
Ordinary readers will only find it novel and beautiful after watching "The Journey of Ethereal".But after reading it, Jin Yong and the others saw the huge threat to martial arts and science fiction adventure novels.
In terms of fighting scenes, cultivation novels often move mountains and fill the seas, which completely exert the internal skills of martial arts novels; in terms of plot development, cultivation novels take planets as scenes, incorporate various elements into them, and can open copies at will, which is enough to steal the limelight of science fiction adventure novels.
If this kind of cultivation novel becomes popular, then martial arts novels represented by Jin Yong and science fiction adventure novels represented by Ni Kuang will face the danger of readers' loss.
Ni Kuang asked: How is the Oriental Daily selling?
Jin Yong said: The sales of Oriental Daily fell a bit a while ago, but Kang Jianfei's new book, which has been promoted for a long time, was released, and yesterday's sales have been replied to more than 150,000 copies.As for today's sales, it is estimated that it will increase a lot.
……
January 3, 1981.
Wu Chenggang deliberately wandered around the streets, paying attention to the book shops and newspaper stands on the road from time to time.
Although he did not sign "The Journey of Ethereal", he wrote it after all, and the first tens of thousands of words were also modified by him, so Wu Chenggang was particularly concerned about the readers' reflections of this novel.
Wu Chenggang walked to a bookstore and asked: Boss, "Oriental Daily"...
Before the boss could finish his words, he interrupted: Today's Oriental Daily is sold out, come again tomorrow.
Wu Chenggang asked: Is Oriental Daily very easy to sell?
The boss said: Why is it not easy to sell?Originally, after the end of "The Legend of Qin", fewer people bought "Oriental Daily", but after "The Journey of Ethereal" was published, buying newspapers these days was the same as robbery.
Wu Chenggang pretended to ask: "The Journey of Ethereal" is so good?
The boss smiled and said: It’s not that I’m talking big, but after selling newspapers for so many years, “The Journey of Ethereal” is simply amazing.Only Kang Jianfei can write this kind of novel. How can other people have such magical imagination?
Wu Chenggang was a little disappointed. The boss praised the creativity of "The Ethereal Journey" from beginning to end, and did not mention the literary talent of the novel at all.
Walking out of the book and newspaper store, Wu Chenggang couldn't help laughing. What was he fighting with his cousin?And this novel was originally Kang Jianfei's creativity.
Wu Cheng had just arrived at the bus station and waited for a while and finally waited for the bus and was about to take the bus home.
There were a lot of people in the car. Wu Chenggang could only squeeze into the crowd and pull the horizontal bar, but he heard someone beside him saying: Hello, Abu, why haven’t you finished watching it yet?Show me quickly.
Wait a little longer, I will finish reading the second time.
What?You actually read it for the second time, and I said why did you watch it for so long!
It's going to be fine now, who told you not to buy a newspaper by yourself.
Where can I buy it? It's sold out long ago.
You won't subscribe to Ah?
I'd booked if I knew it.
……
Wu Chenggang turned his head and saw two young people grabbing a copy of the Oriental Daily.Needless to say, the two must be watching "The Journey of Ethereal".
The bus passed by a cinema, and the most conspicuous poster at the entrance of the theater was "Senior Sister Royal".
Although the ticket buying team at the entrance of the ticket hall is not as terrifying as the other day, if you want to buy tickets, you still have to queue for two or three minutes.
Wu Chenggang suddenly felt strongly that his cousin actually had such a great influence in Hong Kong!
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