Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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"It's kind of interesting, but the writing is too rough, um... If you want to publish it in our "Ming Pao", we have to find someone to polish it for you... You can make a price." Hu Juren, editor-in-chief of "Ming Pao", said, suppressing her shock at the novel "Journey into the Misty" with its imaginative and unconstrained creativity.

"Five hundred words for a thousand words." Xu Cun quoted directly.

"What? Mr. Xu, are you sure you're not joking?" Hu Juren said with wide-eyed eyes.

"Isn't Ni Kuang's "Wesley" five hundred words? Doesn't Mr. Hu think "Ethereal Journey" is not as good as "Wesley"?" Xu Cun looked at Hu Juren and asked.

"Forgive me, Mr. Xu, you are just a newcomer, while Mr. Ni Kuang is a senior in the literary world who has been famous for a long time. In addition, Mr. Ni Kuang's remuneration for the manuscript is also unreasonable——Half a year ago, Huang Yulang launched a new magazine, It was just buying horse bones with the help of "Wesley" hot daughter, and wanted to give Mr. Ni Kuang a super high manuscript fee to create momentum, so as to make his magazine popular, so he gave Mr. Ni Kuang a price of 500 words per thousand. Mr. Ni Kuang The contribution fee for "Ming Pao" is only one hundred and eighty thousand words." Hu Juren said suppressing the unhappiness in his heart.

Xu Cun really didn't know what Hu Juren said. He only quoted the price when he heard from Li Zhuna that Ni Kuang's manuscript fee was five hundred per thousand characters. Hearing what Hu Juren said, Xu Cun also felt that the price he quoted was a bit outrageous. However, his sophistication did not show it.

After a pause, Hu Juren continued: "Under normal circumstances, five hundred for a thousand characters is the price of famous writer Zhuan Lan—for example, Ms. Yishu writes a film review, which is probably the price. However, if Ms. Yishu writes a novel "Ming Pao" does not have such a high requirement for publication, at most it is two hundred thousand words. So, Mr. Xu, if you really want to publish your "Earthly Journey" in "Ming Pao", I can only give you fifty thousand words at most. price."

"Fifty thousand characters?" Xu Cun frowned and repeated. The price was too far from Xu Cun's expectations - it's not that he didn't think that the Huju people would bargain, but he didn't expect that the Huju people would lower the price so low.

"Mr. Xu, the price of fifty thousand words is not low - the average newcomer writes a high-quality article only for thirty thousand words. I personally like your "Ethereal Journey", so I gave you a thousand words The price is fifty." Hu Juren lobbied Xu Cun.

Next, after some haggling, the two tentatively set the price at eighty thousand characters. However, Xu Cun did not agree on the spot, but only said that he would go back and think about it.

Hu Gairen personally sent Xu Cun out of the "Ming Pao" building, and then told Xu Cun to give him an answer as soon as possible, and then waved goodbye to Xu Cun.

Xu Cun, who left the "Ming Pao" building, went straight to the headquarters of "Oriental Daily" - Xu Cun would not make a final decision without shopping around.

On the way, Xu Cun bought a copy of "Ming Pao", a copy of "Ming Pao Evening Post", a copy of "Dongfang Daily", and a copy of "Sing Tao Daily" with the change left over from buying a pen, paper and dictionary yesterday.

After simply looking at the four newspapers, Xu Cun became more confident in his trip to the headquarters of "Oriental Daily".

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Xu Jixin is much younger than Hu Gairen, and "Journey into the Misty" shocked him more than Hu Juren.

After reading "The Misty Journey" twice, Xu Jixin put down "The Misty Journey" and said: "Mr. Xu, your "The Misty Journey" really opened my eyes! If you are willing to publish it in our "Dongfang Daily" "The Ethereal Journey", I will give you a price of fifty thousand words."

"To be honest, Mr. Xu, I just came out of "Ming Pao". I was very dissatisfied with the price given by Mr. Hu, so I came here to take a look. If you can only give this price, then I can only go again I read "Sing Tao Daily." Xu Cun said.

Xu Cun's words made Xu Jixin's heart sink - he knew that if he wanted to keep "Ethereal Journey" today, he would have to spend a lot of money.

Immediately, Xu Jixin asked Xu Cun calmly: "Mr. Xu, may I ask, what is the price Lao Hu gave you?"

Xu Cun is not a child who has never seen the world, how could he tell Xu Jixin the truth? He said slowly, "The price I quoted to Mr. Hu was five hundred per thousand characters."

"Uh... that... Let me be honest, don't mind—Mr. Xu, with your reputation, the price quoted is too outrageous. Mr. Ni Kuang's manuscript fee half a year ago cannot be used as an industry standard, so... "Xu Jixin said in astonishment.

"On the way here, I bought a few newspapers and saw that Ni Box's novel was published in "Ming Pao" and Wen Rui'an's novel was published in "Ming Pao Evening News". ” published, the prospect of “Oriental Daily” is a bit worrying!” Xu Cun said with a smile.

"Mr. Xu, you are very confident in your "Journey into the Misty"!" Xu Jixin said angrily.

"To be favored by Mr. Hu and you at the same time, "The Misty Journey" should be regarded as a good novel. Maybe it can change the current situation of "Ming Pao", "Sing Tao Daily", and "Oriental Daily"... I heard that "Ming Pao" has achieved its current status because of Mr. Cha's martial arts novels." Xu Cun said confidently.

Xu Jixin was silent for a while, then looked at "The Misty Journey", and then said to Xu Cun: "Mr. Xu, please wait for a while, I will go to Mr. Ma to discuss it."

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Mr. Ma is Ma Chengkun, the general manager of "Oriental Daily". He is only 21 years old this year.

Under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible for such a young Ma Chengkun to be the general manager of "Oriental Daily"!

But there is no way, Ma Chengkun's father Ma Xiru and uncle Ma Xizhen were accused of smuggling opium into Hong Kong and bribery successively this year, and both fled back to Taiwan. Therefore, "Dongfang Daily" can only be resisted by Ma Chengkun, the leader of the younger generation of the Ma family.

Ma Xiru and Ma Xizhen founded "Oriental Daily" and developed "Oriental Daily" into one of the most influential newspapers in Xiangjiang. They fled to Taiwan at the same time, which was a big blow to "Oriental Daily". It is conceivable that in just a few months, the sales volume of "Oriental Daily" has been reduced by half. If it goes on like this, it won't be long before "Oriental Daily" has to close down.

Therefore, when Ma Chengkun was deeply attracted by the novelty of "The Misty Journey", he immediately made a decision: "Give him a thousand words and three hundred, and I, Ma Chengkun, want to let the people of Xiangjiang know that Huang Yu is not the only one who is willing to buy bones with thousands of dollars." One wolf!"

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When Xu Cun returned to Li's house with 15,000 Hong Kong dollars and a contract for "Journey into the Misty", Li Zhu brought another piece of good news to Xu Cun: "Cunzi, my elder brother." Li Wo is working as a prop on the crew of "A Dream of the Red Chamber", and he promised to let you go to the prop team of "A Dream of the Red Chamber."

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