Chapter 129 The kid breaks the defense again
In mid-April, a kid on a business trip in the United States discovered an English book written by Ito Hirobumi. Out of curiosity, he bought the book and took it back home.
After returning to the company, he told his colleagues about the incident. Colleagues immediately started studying the book with vigilance. It turns out that the book called "Lies" is "Ito Hirobumi".
They looked through the author information of "Lies" and discovered that it was written by Liu Hongmin from China.
"Liu Hongmin? This name sounds familiar."
A few people discussed it, but in the end they did not remember who Liu Hongmin was. They rarely read suspense novels, but they only bought "Ming Dynasty 1566" as a gift.
They informed the media about the incident, and soon the media publicized the incident.
The real name of "Ito Hirobumi" is "Lies", and the real name of Yamashita Nagagawa is Liu Hongmin, which immediately caused an uproar among the Japanese.
Many of the Japanese who had been deceived before took to the streets to protest, demanding boycott and sanctions against Liu Hongmin. There are even extremists clamoring to kill Liu Hongmin to eliminate harm for the Japanese.
Sanlian Publishing House, which has been paying attention to the movements of the Japanese, immediately made a decision to stop printing "White Night Journey" and put all the remaining books on the market, selling as many as they could.
The little devils who still don't know the truth at this time are still paying for "White Night Journey".
On the third day, someone finally discovered that Liu Hongmin was the author of "White Night Walk". A group of people gathered and went directly to the bookseller who cooperated with Sanlian Publishing House to protest. After the bookseller learned of this incident, he immediately held a press conference, publicly apologized, and decided to remove "White Night Journey" from the shelves.
They even wanted to hack the dividends given to Sanlian Publishing House, which Sanlian Publishing House had been on guard against for a long time. They had already greeted Random House and asked Random House representatives to come to their door to ask for the account.
Faced with his beautiful father, the bookseller did not dare to resist and could only obediently pay the dividends to Sanlian Publishing House.
By the time "White Night Journey" was removed from the shelves, a total of nearly 3.5 million copies had been sold.
Sanlian Publishing House feels very regretful. If the Japanese had not discovered it, "White Night Journey" would definitely have sold four million copies, and there was even hope of hitting the five million mark.
These are all money!
Still, they have reached a new cooperation with Random House, handing over the Devil’s Market to Random House for distribution. Otherwise, the loss of the Japanese market will be even greater.
Sanlian Publishing House is firmly on the Diaoyutai, but the Japanese have not stopped making trouble.
Some media followed suit and listed the novels written by Liu Hongmin one by one. What made the Japs break their guard was that these novels were very popular among the Japs. The least one of them could sell 200,000 copies.
Forget about the novels before "Ito Hirobumi", at that time Liu Hongmin had not revealed his sinister intentions. But "White Night Journey" actually sold 3.5 million copies, which allowed the Japanese to break through their defenses. In order to get rid of the lingering poison of "Ito Hirobumi", they turned around and pursued another novel by Liu Hongmin. Why is this so ironic?
Aso once again filed an application in the House of Representatives to ban all Liu Hongmin's works and to protest to China. The relationship between the two countries is thin, and the Chinese cannot be allowed to slander the "great man" of the Japanese!
This proposal was unanimously approved by the House of Representatives. They formally submitted a note to China, hoping to condemn or even sanction Liu Hongmin.
Xiyuan responded strongly, "Comrade Liu Hongmin only wrote novels based on the actual situation. Your failure to acknowledge history is the real reason that affects the diplomatic relations between the two countries." The two sides talked for a while and This incident did not affect future cooperation. As an old rival, Xiyuan knew the Japanese's virtues too well. If it wasn't for development, how could he endure such disgusting things?
There was no impact at the national level, but among the people, it aroused hostility between the two countries. The little devils are clamoring to completely suppress China and defeat China no matter what the competition is.
After this incident spread to China, the people were also excited.
Liu Hongmin just wrote a novel based on history, and the Japanese were just like her dead mother. This made many people recognize the true face of the Japs and became very wary of the Japs.
Of course, many people still criticize Liu Hongmin for affecting the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and even ask Liu Hongmin to apologize.
But more people spoke for Liu Hongmin. They believed that Liu Hongmin's novel exposed the Japanese's ambition. If they understood the current Internet slang, they would definitely say that Liu Hongmin deserves to enjoy the Ancestral Temple.
The huge public opinion has once again pushed "Lies" to the forefront. There has been a wave of book buying across the country again. Anyone with a little bit of culture wants to see what "Lies" contains that can make the Japanese so angry.
Peking University Publishing House was poorly prepared. They did not expect that "Lies", which had sold more than two million copies, would still be a hit. However, they responded quickly and immediately asked the printing factory to print 24 hours a day, and then distributed the goods to various places. In just half a month, "Lies" sold another two million copies.
It’s not that readers don’t buy it, but that the printing factory’s production capacity can’t keep up. The book was delivered to the bookstore and was sold out on the same day, forcing Beijing University Publishing House to contact many printing plants across the country and adopt the method of printing and delivering now to keep up with the speed of readers' purchases.
After half a month, the supply of goods was sufficient, and the bookstore only had surplus when it closed in the evening. It wasn't until a month later that this wave of buying was over.
According to later statistics, "Lies" sold more than 7 million copies in 1983. Throughout the 1980s, "Lies" sold tens of millions of copies.
Many students admire Liu Hongmin and think he has the style of Mr. Lu. Many students regard him as their idol and want to learn from him.
As a result, all kinds of gossip about Liu Hongmin became very popular, and a newly established newspaper in the south began to continuously report on Liu Hongmin’s deeds. Some were hearsay, and some were picked up from Xiangjiang News. Regardless of whether it is true or false, as long as it is written in a bizarre way, it will be very popular.
Relying on these gossips, a newspaper in the south quickly developed and became the first gossip newspaper in the mainland.
Some small newspapers and magazines were jealous of the rapid rise of a certain southern newspaper and immediately followed suit. It is more convenient for them to copy the news directly from a newspaper in the south, copy the news openly and put it in their own newspaper or magazine.
Sure enough, the sales of newspapers and magazines that reported Liu Hongmin’s gossip quickly increased.
The gossip news discussing Liu Hongmin suddenly became the most popular thing in the country, and even suppressed the popularity of "Lies".
Liu Hongmin was so angry that he was speechless. He did not expect that people in this era would also be keen on gossip. Fortunately, fan literature has not yet emerged. Otherwise, wouldn't Liu Hongmin be the male protagonist of pornographic novels?
(End of this chapter)