Yin Lian once thought that Miss Zeng should be the prototype of the daughter in "The Golden Jade Lock".
She actually guessed it right.
However, the heroine wrote a story about someone who had bullied her, and it was not a pure villain. There must be more reasons for this, or the rich lady Su Changhen wrote, the prototype was not just that. Miss Zeng.
She found that "Golden Jade Lock" had changed a lot.
How big is it?
It’s the point where the characters of the first and second female characters are directly replaced.
Rather, although at the beginning, the beginning of "Golden Jade Lock" seemed to be different from the original version, but then the story began to become very different from the original version. First, the plot of the first and second female characters was completely different. , the character design of the rich lady is also completely different.
The first girl was originally a Cinderella-like female student, but turned around and turned into the only daughter of a wealthy businessman whose marriage was in trouble because of a birthmark on her face - it is said that the birthmark was a birthmark with the outline of a butterfly.
As long as Yin Lian briefly imagined the "Golden Jade Lock" filmed in later generations, he could predict what tricks this "butterfly birthmark" could play on the character's face. But in this case, the gap between "Golden Jade Lock" and the original manuscript is too big. Yin Lian doesn't know if this manuscript can still have its original value.
However, this article "Golden Jade Lock" and "Ming Fang's Cleansing of Injustice" submitted by Yue Ke were indeed very popular after being published, and even reached the point of being sought after across the country - relying on Shen Lu's connections, Yin Lian's side was I made a lot of contacts and negotiated sales channels. However, because "Lady" was published not long ago, its popularity was still quite limited, so it was not easy to open up the situation.
However, the serialization of these two great writers is so powerful.
In early March, Yin Lian met with several big businessmen living in the capital through Shen Lu's introduction, including newspaper merchants from Hui, Heng, Jing, Yu and other places. Although Shen Lu's own business did not involve newspapers, advertising in newspapers was already a common thing at this time. Shen Lu's business was so large and varied, advertising was naturally an inevitable expense.
He also became familiar with many people in the newspaper industry. At this time, he chose the ones with good connections and convenient contacts and introduced them to Yin Lian.
When Yin Lian first talked to them about agency matters, most of them were not willing to do so. Later, Yin Lian grasped the vacancy market for women's newspapers and the profit margin of "Lady" due to the printing quality, and finally persuaded them to order "Lady" periodicals, but because they lacked confidence in a newspaper with the format and audience of Women's News, they initially ordered not a lot.
Unexpectedly, "Lady" was well received in several places.
Not only that, as some merchants brought a batch of "Lady" magazines to other cities on their own, the magazine instantly became famous in various cities. Ladies and ladies from all over the country naturally followed it, but there were also men who actively subscribed. Men subscribed mostly out of curiosity about new things and exploration of the opposite sex's thoughts. Because there was no such thing as a women's newspaper before, they had unrealistic and mysterious expectations for this kind of thing.
Although the truth is somewhat different from their actual imagination, in a sense, it can easily awaken the girlish hearts in some literary and artistic young people.
Of course, there must be a lot of people who don't like "Lady", but most of them don't accuse it of being deviant, but they think "What newspapers and periodicals do women read?" "What's good about periodicals run by women?" or The thought "Can a woman run a good journal?" shows disdain for it.
But this actually has little impact on the distribution of newspapers.
Because it is impossible for any periodical to capture all readers. As long as it can capture the hearts of some readers, Yin Lian has already won.
The new story was so well received that newspaper publishers, who were somewhat conservative at first, quickly began placing additional orders for a large number of issues. Compared with ordinary newspapers, the timeliness of this kind of magazine-like periodicals in this era is actually not that short. Coupled with the inconvenience of communication caused by communication and transportation, the sales cycle of periodicals in the same period is also much longer than that of later generations. Although There are many inconveniences, but there are also conveniences - "Lady" was founded too soon and its influence is relatively limited. Although it has developed very well, its foundation is not as good as other newspapers, and it has to ensure quality, so the publication cycle is a bit long. The number of manuscripts is not large enough, and the slow pace at this time actually reduces the pressure.
But no matter how slow the pace was, people still saw this business opportunity. Originally, many people thought that women's newspapers had no future, but now they had new ideas because of the popularity of "Lady", and they secretly reached out to this field.
Several newspapers created or were preparing supplements during this time. As for the new periodical, you can tell just by looking at its name that it is a newspaper created for ladies and ladies, but the number is not too large. After all, women's newspapers are larger than those of women's newspapers in terms of audience size and breadth of content. Not in normal newspapers.
Most newspapers still feel that this popularity is an exception or a passing trend.
In fact, their idea is not wrong, because the audience of women's newspapers is indeed far less than that of normal newspapers, because the number of well-educated women in this era has indeed been growing, but it is still far less than the male market. This is also proven by the fact that several female newspapers from major newspapers have tested the waters.
Although there were not many publications for women to choose from, the sales of these new magazines were very good after they were first published, but they were far inferior to the unique "Lady". Among many newspapers and periodicals, they were at the upper-middle level at most. This is still under the current situation where there are not many competitors and readers’ choices are very limited.
The mediocre test results of the new issue made many people quickly give up the idea of competing with "Lady". However, some newspapers also had other different ideas.
For example, many newspapers have realized the role of several writers in the hot sales of their periodicals. Although for many newspapers, the serial content of "Lady" is a bit unpopular and lacks the general sentiment of caring about the country and the people. Instead, it is all sloppy words that cater to the market. However, although this era is still pretentious, in fact, it has already Like a arrogant girl, she has realized her true desire deep in her heart. The noble words of caring about the country and the people are certainly admirable, but there is also a large market for stories that are popular, sincere, and directly touch the hearts of ordinary people.
The same goes for newspapers. There are those with profound ideas and those that are close to the market, and the latter are even slightly better than the former in terms of sales.
The serialized stories in "Lady" are actually not vulgar. Otherwise, several authors who were only called "writers" due to lack of time to prepare at this time would not have become famous writers a hundred generations later. Rather, it is such popular but not vulgar stories that can stand the test of time and last forever.
Although no one could imagine the influence of these writers in later generations at this time, it did not prevent some people from discovering the talents of these special contestants of "Lady" and therefore came to poach them.
Yin Lian soon found out about this.
The person who initially delivered the news to Yin Lian was not the writers in the capital, but Yue Ke who was far away in Lucheng. Although this female literary giant looks very nerdy, she unexpectedly behaves in a very classy way.
In her letter to Yin Lian, she talked about her recent ideas, and then talked about the actions of several newspapers and publishing houses: "..."Lucheng Daily", which I had previously contributed to, had already rejected "The Record of Ming Fang's Redress of Injustice" Recently, he suddenly contacted me and expressed that he could accept the subject of a female protagonist... After some thought, I guess it was because of the fame of "Lady" and "Ming Fang"... I tentatively rejected the proposals of several newspapers. Although it is still early to finish this article, I still hope to give priority to "Lady" for the next article, because the journal run by Erya was originally a publication that I longed for when I was a teenager but could not get it..."
"There are also other female newspapers asking for articles. I thought about it again and again, but I want to choose one or two of the best to submit a few short stories. It's not because I want to change the newspaper, I just want to give a little encouragement..."
Yin Lian knew what she meant.
There are no stories of Yue Ke being involved in politics in history, and she even deliberately avoided politics in her writing many times. But when Yue Ke expressed in the letter that he hoped to write an additional short article to encourage the female newspaper and sincerely told Yin Lian this idea, Yin Lian knew that Yue Ke indeed regarded her as a close friend, and this person who seemed to be Some casual and slovenly otaku writers have their own world in their hearts.
She also wrote back to the other party: "...You and I are good friends before we are partners. I also understand your ambition. Although "Lady" will compete for your next story, it will not use friendship to pressure it. , I will impress you with 100% sincerity. I am grateful for your understanding, and there is no need to restrain myself. I also hope that books that can be read by women in the country will be published one after another, and a hundred flowers will bloom."
After Yue Ke received the reply, he read it several times and walked back and forth in the room for a long time, but he was very touched.
"Golden Jade Lock" and "Ming Fang Awakens the Wrongs" are very popular in China. The story of "Golden Jade Lock" is very different from the previous life. Yin Lian originally thought that it might no longer be used as a manuscript. Later, as she read it, Yin Lian found that the story was even more exciting than the original version - this was something she did not have at all. expected.
In fact, she also has her own contribution to this.
Su Changhen had been living in Nanyi Province. When he wrote "Golden Jade Lock", although he was extremely talented, his knowledge was still limited.
But he was brought to the capital by Yin Lian.
In this era of Xia Kingdom, the north and south had completely different customs. Moreover, due to its good geographical environment and developed economy, Nanyi Province was developing very fast at this time. However, because it was far away from the political center, it was far from the prosperity and grandeur of the capital, and it also lacked a rich historical foundation. .
But this time, Su Changhen, who came to the capital, saw a world completely different from that of Nanyi Province, as well as the demeanor of many important figures in this world that were completely different from those in the south.
