Chapter 166: Relaxing the relationship with Lao Su
In Xiangjiang, a book that sells 100,000 copies is considered a bestseller. After all, there are only so many people in Xiangjiang, and many of them don’t have the habit of reading. They prefer reading newspapers, so even Jin Yong's martial arts novels only sold hundreds of thousands when they were first published. The reason why it sold so many copies is the result of its many subsequent publications.
Jin Yong's novels have been popular from the 1950s and 1960s to the new century. Not only have they been published many times, they have also been adapted into film and television dramas many times, and they have always been a guarantee of ratings.
At this point, Liu Hongmin is indeed far behind Jin Yong.
However, in terms of international influence, Liu Hongmin is about to surpass Jin Yong.
"Richard, is "Terror Cruise" on the shelves?"
Richard is Liu Hongmin's exclusive editor at Random House, and only serves Liu Hongmin. Random House hopes that Liu Hongmin will focus more on Transformers. Compared with the revenue from Transformers, the revenue from publishing Liu Hongmin's book is negligible.
"Mr. Liu, "Terror Cruise" was just put on the shelves the day before yesterday, and the sales are not bad. Through feedback from dealers, the response is very good, and it is very popular among young people. It is hard for readers to say that they are influenced by friends from Xiangjiang I bought this book because of my recommendation.”
“A friend in Xiangjiang?” Liu Hongmin was a little surprised, “Do you know what’s going on?”
“I asked about it through a friend in Xiangjiang. Suddenly, the young people in Xiangjiang liked "Cruise of Terror" so much that they even formed a book club to discuss the contents of the book together."
Liu Hongmin laughed, "Really? Then I really have to thank them."
He didn't expect that there would be an unexpected surprise. These young foreigners in Xiangjiang can actually increase sales in the European and American markets. This butterfly effect is really unexpected.
In May, Liu Hongmin returned to the capital. When I went to find Professor Tao, I felt that the atmosphere in the school was a little different.
"Professor, what's going on in the school?"
Professor Tao shook his head and said, "Isn't it because Old Su has changed the leader?"
"I know this. , but what does it have to do with us?”
“This new leader is a believer in Western democracy. He has always wanted to change the political system of the old Soviet Union.”
Liu Hongmin frowned slightly. This...has nothing to do with us, right?"
Professor Tao glanced at him, "Don't you know the reason?"
Liu Hongmin shook his head speechlessly. He actually guessed the reason. As long as there is the American faction in the country, there will also be the Soviet faction. When the new leader of the old Soviet Union takes office, he is ready to abandon the political system, making the Soviet faction people collectively feel that the sky is falling.
The people of the Soviet faction took everything about Lao Su very well. Even if the two countries had a falling out, they still regarded Lao Su as their big brother. It's not that they don't know that there is no affection between the two great powers. Lao Su has been targeting us over the years, and they have witnessed it. They just want to find shelter out of fear of the United States. Compared to Lao America and Lao Su, no matter what, we have the same system.
To put it bluntly, both factions are actually surrender factions, but they have different goals of surrender.
Liu Hongmin has always disliked these two groups, but since the superiors have not dealt with them, it means that they are still useful. "I heard in Xiangjiang that Lao Su gave a lot less aid to Yue monkeys?"
"This is true." Professor Tao said: "This new leader has taken office After that, Lao Su’s attention has been focused on internal rectification, so at this time, Lao Su will gradually rein in his minions, and there may not be any new external actions until the internal rectification is completed.”
< br>“So, our relationship with Lao Su will gradually improve.”
“It depends on what Lao Su does. If you really want to improve the relationship with us, you must stop attacking Yue Monkey. Assistance."
Professor Tao really got it right. Although Lao Su did not stop the assistance, the assistance to Yuehou was much less. In recent years, under the blockade in Europe and the United States, Lao Su's economy has not been very prosperous. Not to mention compared with developed countries in Europe and the United States, even after the reform and opening up, there are still many gaps. If it weren't for Lao Su's strong foundation, I'm afraid it would have collapsed long ago.
Lao Su’s tough tactics made him have too many enemies. To engage in bipolar confrontation, you can only concentrate on dealing with Europe and the United States. You have to rely on your own strength to bully us.
We are in the third world. Although we cannot keep up with the United States and the Soviet Union, there are a large group of countries standing behind us. Take the Three Kingdoms as an analogy. You, Liu Bei, can't even deal with Cao Cao. You have to bully Sun Quan when you fight Cao Cao. Now that Cao Cao and Sun Quan are in alliance, are you, Liu Bei, okay?
Lao Su's presence in Afghanistan was equivalent to the Battle of Xiangfan. Being dragged into the quagmire of war is equivalent to Guan Yu being dragged away by Cao Jun, just waiting to be stolen by Lu Meng. Once the war is unsustainable, it will be equivalent to Guan Yu leaving Maicheng and Liu Bei losing Jingzhou. If there were no geniuses like Zhuge Liang, death would not be far away.
Obviously, the new leader of Lao Su realized this. Therefore, not long after he took office, he sent us a signal of goodwill.
However, improving relations between the two countries cannot be achieved in a short time.
We accepted the goodwill, but we were still wary of Lao Su. In northern Xinjiang, we withdrew some troops and sent a signal of goodwill to Lao Su.
In the two years when Chen Yugang retired, northern Xinjiang was not peaceful. Liu Hongmin's children were all militiamen in their hometown. Once again, an abnormality occurred in northern Xinjiang. They received an order to march more than a hundred miles on foot to Hanhai City to garrison. However, as soon as they reached Linxiang, they received an order to withdraw their troops.
Sure enough, Lao Su responded. They not only withdrew part of the army, but also once again cut aid to Yue Monkeys.
Seeing the relationship between the two countries gradually easing, trade in the north also began to normalize. This is a development opportunity for the Northeast region.
On the Peking University campus, the strange atmosphere gradually disappeared. The people of the Su faction were extremely disappointed with Lao Su and began to change.
Some of them felt that we still needed shelter, so they turned to Meipai. There are also some people who finally realize that it is better to rely on others than to rely on oneself and become self-improvementists.
In June, the goodwill shown by both sides was enough, Xiyuan adjusted its policy and announced a reduction of one million troops.
A large number of active-duty soldiers returned home. Liu Hongmin took the opportunity to set up a construction company and then recruited veterans aggressively. The quality of military industry these days is very trustworthy, and the construction speed is very fast. The construction of the family community of the toy factory and the commercial street has begun. After recruiting a large number of engineers, the construction speed immediately increases. It only takes another three to five months to fully complete the project.
This is the result of the strong support from Pengcheng. Without the coordination work from Pengcheng, the building materials would not be delivered in time. According to the rationing these days, it would be nice to be able to build it later.
(End of this chapter)