Chapter 83 Those Years in Hong Kong 5
Although today’s writing task was completed, looking at Liu Qi’s reaction, Liu Hiiragi decided to satisfy his brother.
After eating the curry beef brisket rice made by Liu Qi himself, Liu Hiiragi wrote another three thousand words.
Explained the follow-up of the island country's integration into the Tang Dynasty.
Liu Qi looked extremely satisfied.
There is no one today who doesn’t hate island countries.
Liu Qi has always regretted that he was born twenty years late and could not defeat the islanders with his own hands.
The next day, Liu Qi asked Liu Hieragi to write at home, and he went to send the manuscript to the newspaper in person.
The two chose a newly established newspaper.
The owner of this newspaper is a rich man, the third eldest child in his family.
The ancestral business at home was not his turn, so he took the money and wanted to start a business of his own.
This young man named Feng bought several small newspapers and merged them into one large newspaper. He wanted to become the media king of Hong Kong Island.
In order to increase the sales and reputation of the newspaper, Mr. Feng was eager for talents. Not only did he hire their editor-in-chief from another major newspaper with a high salary, but he also paid extremely high remuneration to the contributors.
The best remuneration offered by another newspaper to novel authors is 80 yuan per 1,000 words, while the remuneration for new authors is only 30 yuan per 1,000 words.
The best remuneration offered to authors by Feng Gongzi’s newspaper is one hundred yuan per thousand words, and forty yuan per thousand words for new authors.
Spend thousands of gold to buy horse bones.
Therefore, there are many people submitting articles to the new newspaper, but the quality is worrying.
Those famous authors did not submit articles to the new newspaper. One reason was the human relationship between the boss of the old newspaper and them, but the old newspaper had improved their treatment. They chose the old newspaper office.
The new newspaper has never received any amazing works, and the sales volume of the newspaper is far less than that of the old newspaper, which makes Mr. Feng very depressed.
On this day, Mr. Feng personally came to inspect the newspaper office and was discussing with the editor how to win over famous writers. Suddenly an editor excitedly knocked on the door and entered, saying to the two of them: "Boss, editor, I found a good article. ”
Mr. Feng became interested and asked, "What's a good article? Let me have a look."
The editor immediately handed the manuscript to Mr. Feng.
Master Feng took it and looked at it.
Then he was fascinated.
The editor-in-chief was curious when he saw Mr. Feng’s reaction, and took away the part of the manuscript that Mr. Feng had read and looked at it.
One more person was fascinated.
Seeing the reaction of the two people, the editor smiled.
He was like this before.
No way, this novel is so wonderful.
The author is so imaginative. How did he come up with the idea of letting Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty dress up as Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty?
After more than an hour, Mr. Feng and the editor-in-chief finished reading the manuscript, and they were still unsatisfied.
The editor-in-chief raised his head and immediately ordered the editor: "Zhang Sunyi, you should contact the author of this novel immediately and be sure to sign him. I will give you fifty yuan per thousand words."
< br>Master Feng said: "No, give him one hundred yuan for every thousand words."
The editor-in-chief was surprised: “This is just a new author.”
Master Feng: “When this novel is published, he will no longer be a new author, but a sought-after novelist. Why not submit it now? Good for him and let him stay in our newspaper.”
The editor-in-chief understood Mr. Feng’s thoughts and stood up and said: “Then I will go see this person in person.”
Mr. Feng also stood up: “I will go too.”
He was very interested in being able to write The person who came up with such a wonderful story is very curious. Liu Qi wrote the detailed address on the bottom of the envelope. Mr. Feng and the other two drove to the outside of the shop, got out of the car and walked into the shop.
Liu Qi and Liu Heng were both in the shop at this time. When they saw three people coming in, they thought they were here to buy furniture. Liu Qi stepped forward and greeted: "Excuse me, do you want to order furniture?" ”
Zhang Sunyi said: "Little brother, we are looking for someone. Is Mr. Kongliu here?"
Liu Qi's eyes lit up when Zhang Sunyi asked about "Mr. Kongliu".
Mr. Soryanagi is the pen name of his younger brother.
These three people knew Mr. Soryanagi, he must be from the newspaper office, and they must have found him for that novel.
Liu Qi immediately shouted: "Ahi, people from the newspaper are here to find you."
Liu Hiiragi came over and said to the three of them: "Hello, I am Mr. Kong Liu."
The three people's eyes widened, not believing what they saw.
Is the boy in front of me fifteen years old?
Based on the sophisticated writing style and exciting content of the novel, they guessed that the author of the novel was probably a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties, or a scholar of history.
It turned out to be just a boy with no hair at all?
How is it possible? !
The editor-in-chief said: "Little brother, stop joking, let's invite Mr. Kong Liu out."
Liu Liu knew that his age would make people suspicious, so he took out the manuscript and handed it to Three people: "I am really Mr. Kongliu, and this is my manuscript."
After saying that, he took out the pen and paper, wrote a line of words on the white paper, and handed it to the three people to verify the handwriting.
The three of them read the contents of the manuscript, and then looked at the lines written by Liu Hieragi, and they were sure that the young man in front of them was indeed Mr. Kong Liu.
"This is really... a hero emerges from a boy!" the editor-in-chief sighed.
Master Feng immediately stepped forward and held Liu Hiiragi's hand: "Mr. Kong Liu, the novel you wrote is so good. I am already a fan of your book. Can you please write the follow-up?"< br>
Liu Heng smiled and winked at his brother.
Liu Qi went up to the attic, took down the manuscript at the back of the novel, and handed it to Mr. Feng.
Mr. Feng resisted the urge to read it immediately, put the manuscript away, and talked about the signing with Liu Hao.
Liu Hao had inquired about the market situation before and knew that the manuscript fee for new authors was only thirty to forty yuan per thousand words, but Mr. Feng paid himself one hundred yuan per thousand words, which was higher than the fee of the most popular authors, which shows their sincerity.
With nothing to say, Liu Hao directly signed a contract with Mr. Feng’s newspaper.
This "Emperor's Crossing" was signed for serialization in Feng Gongzi's "Xiangjiang Daily". After Liu Hei wrote other novels, "Xiangjiang Daily" had the priority to publish them.
Mr. Feng’s name is not only a newspaper but also a publishing house.
When "Emperor's Crossing" was serialized in "Xiangjiang Daily", Liu Hao handed over the entire manuscript to the publishing house under Mr. Feng's name for publication.
Mr. Feng was very happy when his goal was achieved, and invited Liu Tiao and Liu Qi to have dinner in a restaurant to celebrate.
Liu Heng agreed with a smile and took Liu Qi to eat something delicious together.
Since the store's business has become dull, the living standards of the two have dropped a lot.
The curry beef rice three days ago was the second time they had meat this month.
Now that someone is treating me, I naturally have to take my brother to have a good meal.
Although the two of them were very greedy for meat, their etiquette at the dinner table was very good, so that Mr. Feng and the other three could not tell that they were greedy for meat.
The three Young Masters Feng found that the Liu brothers’ table manners were very standard, better than those of many nouveau riche families. They couldn’t help but guess that the two brothers had unusual identities and were probably the descendants of some down-and-out nobles.
After all, many dignitaries in the country are in despair because of the war and they fled there.
(End of this chapter)