Chapter 6: Touching Porcelain Wen Ruian
Yang Ye briefly talked about the plot of "Kunlun" and the settings of the characters.
Pan Yuesheng understood as soon as he heard it, this kid is indeed a super imitation show of Jin Yong.
For example, the settings of the masters in the book are very similar to shooting vultures.
The six people Gong Yangyu, Xiao Qianjue, Jiuru Monk, He Duoluo, Shi Tianfeng, and Chu Xianliu are similar to the Five Jue in The Condor.
As we all know, there are more than just five people.
But Pan Yuesheng also heard that Yang Ye was by no means plagiarizing. He also had his own innovations. For example, he created Tianji Palace, a sect that was completely different from the traditional martial arts world.
The purpose of this sect is not to practice martial arts and strive to become the leader of the martial arts alliance. Instead, he kept a low profile and stayed in hiding. Protect the various classics passed down from dynasty to generation and preserve a little fire for Chinese culture.
From this point of view, those sects that fight and kill are all inferior compared to this.
The protagonist's martial arts does not come from philosophy and literature like Jin Yong, but from mathematics, which sounds very innovative.
Although he only listened to Yang Ye's general introduction and not a single word has been read in the whole book, with the background of "The Iron-Blooded Prodigy", Pan Yuesheng can almost conclude that once the book "Kunlun" comes out, it will definitely be very popular.
Pan Yuesheng has no objection to Yang Ye imitating Jin Yong, and believes that Jin Yong will not have any objection either. Jin Yong Gu Long relied on imitation in his early writing, and Jin Yong also copied "Dream of Red Mansions".
This is a process. First you have to imitate, and then you can innovate and find your own way.
This is true whether it is as small as a person or as large as a country.
Earlier Germany started by copying Britain. Later, the United States started by copying Europe. Later, Nippon Benz started its business by copying European and American products.
Pan Yuesheng didn’t know that China would later rely on the copycat world to make its fortune!
Counterfeiting is not scary, what is scary is poverty.
Now that I have decided to accept Yang Ye’s novel, the next step is to negotiate the royalties.
As soon as he heard the quotation given by Pan Yuesheng, Yang Ye's heart dropped.
He said... fifty yuan per thousand words.
Ordinarily, as a newbie, his royalties would be quite high. In Hong Kong in this era, only famous writers could get royalties of 100 yuan per thousand words. Only those at Ni Kuang's level can get two hundred yuan for a thousand words.
However, newspaper serialization has limited space, and one paragraph is only about 1,500 words. Even if Yang Ye gets 100 yuan per thousand words, he only gets 150 yuan a day, 4500 yuan a month, which is too little.
Yang Ye thought for a while and said: "The manuscript fee for my book will be the same as Wen Rui'an's. If that doesn't work, I would rather find another newspaper to submit the manuscript to."
Yang Ye has no choice. Let's face it, Ni Kuang, after all, he is one of the "Four Great Talents in Hong Kong" as famous as Jin Yong, although his level is far behind Jin Yong.
If they had to compete, they would be "Northern Qiao Feng, Southern Murong". Three Murong Fus are not enough to defeat one Qiao Feng.
Wen Ruian is also a generational genius. He wrote "Four Famous Catchers" at the age of sixteen, which shocked the literary world.
But he is only nineteen years old now, one year younger than Yang Ye, so Yang Ye can still touch him.
Jin Yong is quite stingy. The royalties of "Ming Pao" are relatively low among the major newspapers in Hong Kong. However, "Ming Pao" has a great influence on the middle class and intellectual class. Many Hong Kong writers are famous for their ability. I feel proud to have my work published in Ming Pao, so even though the fee is lower, I still flock to it.
Pan Yuesheng thought for a while and said: "Let's do this. The manuscript fee for "Iron-Blooded Prodigy" will be 50 yuan per thousand words. If it is really popular, when "Kunlun" is serialized, I will give you 1,000 words. A fee of 100 yuan. "
Pan Yuesheng was willing to give in because he considered that after Jin Yong closed the book, "Ming Pao" really needed a martial arts writer who could be famous, and Gu Long often gave up his job.
Yang Ye, a young man, is worth cultivating. It would be uneconomical to let him go to another newspaper.
There are more than 200 newspapers in Hong Kong, and Yang Ye has a lot of choices.
But Pan Yuesheng didn’t know that Yang Ye’s goal was the copyright of Jin Yong’s novels.
So, it is inevitable to form a good relationship now, and he has no choice.
Fifty hundred actually means just that. Even if you get 200 yuan like Ni Kuang, if you serialize it for one month, it will only cost more than 10,000 yuan, which is useless.
Ni Kuang can make a fortune from writing because he is a coding machine. He supplies articles to ten newspapers at the same time. No one knows how he does it. Maybe he also has a plug-in.
After Yang Ye learned about the market conditions, he didn’t bother to care and directly agreed! I only blame myself for my previous inertial thinking and not doing market research. In his previous life, it was not uncommon for top Internet writers to earn a million a month. Who knew that only top martial arts writers now earn such a small amount of money.
However, this is not a loss. At least it can be regarded as a successful entry into "Ming Pao".
After Pan Yuesheng and Yang Ye finished talking about business, they walked out of the office, only to find that it was already past the off-duty time and the company's employees had already left.
It turned out that the two of them were having such a good time chatting that they forgot about the time.
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After leaving the Ming Pao Building, Yang Ye sighed, writing books was a dead end.
Unless he also learns from Ni Kuang and makes a coding machine and supplies articles to ten newspapers and magazines at the same time.
It’s so easy to travel back in time and squat at home coding every day. This is too stupid. Yang Ye decided not to do it.
Next, I can only rely on singing or even making movies.
In fact, novels and music are just transitional options for Yang Ye. His ultimate goal is to make movies.
Nowadays, Bruce Lee has just passed away, and there is no successor to Kung Fu movies. Chen Long has made a few movies but cannot get ahead, and is about to go to Australia to sell fried rice.
After Yang Ye traveled through time, he actually had a lot of kung fu. If he didn’t make action movies, it would be a waste.
However, Yang Ye is not interested in starting from the Dragon Tiger martial arts master step by step like Chen Longhong Jingbao.
He wants to be like Bruce Lee and be the director and the protagonist in one step.
But Bruce Lee was able to directly play the leading role because he was born as a child actor. He had made many movies since he was a child. After going to the United States, he made "The Green Hornet" and other works.
Why Yang Ye?
So Yang Ye must first accumulate popularity. When he has enough popularity, it will be natural for him to become the protagonist.
Writing songs is a good option, and if you are good at singing, then you can act.
Of course, Yang Ye can also choose to directly open a film company, invest his own money, direct and act in his own films.
The reason why he didn't do this is because today's film business model is different from that of later generations.
Nowadays, theater chains and film companies are operated as one. For example, movies produced by Shaw Brothers can only be screened in Shaw Brothers theaters, and it is impossible to screen them in Golden Harvest theaters.
Large-scale film companies control the theater chain. If you open a film company to make a movie, even if it is made, you will not be able to find a place to show it.
The cost of building a self-built theater chain is too high, and it is impossible to do it without massive funds and the relationship between black and white.
Chen Long and Hong Jingbao were so good later that they had no choice but to affiliate their film companies under Golden Harvest. This is the reason why.
Then Zou Wenhuai founded Jiahe, why can he compete with Shaw Brothers?
Because Lu Yuntao, the old rival of Shaw Brothers Company, the boss of D&M Company, died in a plane crash, along with all the executives of the film company.
The Lu family has many industries in Southeast Asia, and movies are only one part of them. After Lu Yuntao died, the Lu family had no interest in continuing to operate the film industry. Zou Wenhuai seized this opportunity, found investors, and took over the management of D&M plate.
After Jiahe was established, Shaw Brothers frantically suppressed Jiahe, using all possible means to push Jiahe into a desperate situation.
But Golden Harvest survived the desperate situation, got Bruce Lee, broke box office records continuously, and successfully broke through.
After Bruce Lee's death, Golden Harvest relied on the Xu brothers' comedies to survive, and finally relied on Chen Long to soar into the sky and overthrow Shaw Brothers.
The opportunity for Jiahe’s rise is once in a lifetime, and Yang Ye cannot touch it.
However, he also got some capital through this stock market crash.
As long as we survive these two years, the world will be vast and there will be much to do.
(End of this chapter)