"What the hell is going on over there at Kodansha!? Are you really that afraid of Mr. Makiro losing to other Japanese writers?"
"What do you mean about manuscripts being hoarded and not having enough manpower to process them, so they can only be put into the next issue?"
"The first issue of "Top Hat" magazine sold 500,000 copies on the first day, and an additional 300,000 copies were issued the next day. With "Top Hat" magazine being so popular, a publishing house as big as Kodansha, Don’t you know how to arrange more manpower?”
"I don't believe in the so-called hoarding of manuscripts. This is obviously the editor-in-chief of Kodansha or Top Hat magazine who is deliberately avoiding risks!"
"Yes, yes! As the saying goes, true gold is not afraid of fire. If Teacher Wucheng is really capable, give me a good competition and use your strength to slap everyone in the face!"
"If you don't have the strength, don't walk around on the Edogawa Climbing Dragon Award podium and say such arrogant words! If you think you will lose, come out and apologize properly!"
After all, Matsushima Gunma once served on the public relations team of a well-known celebrity.
The basic skills of spreading rumors and smearing others are as simple as eating and sleeping.
Although after the announcement was issued, there were still critics like Kasai Kiyoshi and Gonda Manji who stood up for Maijo Kesuke and vigorously refuted Matsushima Gunma's press release that discredited Kodansha and Maijo Kesuke.
But in the 1980s, this was an era when the Internet was not developed and most information circulation required the use of paper media.
Once a press release is issued, it will soon incite countless people who are not too worried about the excitement, making this rumor spread to every household like a virus!
And because the speed of information circulation in this era is extremely slow, and the draft cannot be published immediately after being written.
Therefore, Matsushima Gunma only had to spend one million yen to create the rumor, and Noma Genjiro had to spend ten or even twenty times more to quell the rumor!
Although this will cause the Baodao Club and Kodan Club to quarrel with each other, it is obvious that the Baodao Club at this moment no longer cares about losing face!
Takarashima Society just wants to use all its resources, all its connections, and all its energy to destroy Maijo Kyousuke, the supernova that is about to detonate the entire Japanese reasoning world!
Otherwise, when Maijo Keisuke really sweeps the Japanese mystery literary world, Takarashimasha may not even dare to think about competing against Kodansha!
The reason why Baodaosha is so afraid of Maijo Kyousuke is not groundless.
The fundamental reason is that in the history of Japanese reasoning, there have been extremely cruel lessons learned!
In 1956 (Showa 31), it was the second Edogawa Ranpo Prize. Since the Edogawa Ranpo Prize was first established, it was not an award given to new writers.
Its main awards are awards given to reasoning critics and reasoning research scholars. The recipients are either publishers such as Hayakawa Shobo or masters of Chinese studies such as Nakajima Kazutaro.
However, the then president of Kodansha, Eiji Noma, the father of Genjiro Noma, believed that this kind of award would not bring much benefit to Kodansha, so he planned to change the Edogawa Rampo Award to reasoning Newcomer Award.
This change was just an understatement in the history of Japanese reasoning, but it immediately triggered a bloody melee among publishing houses at the time!
Because at that time, the only channels for publishing mysteries were the "Naoki Thirty-Five Award" authorized by the Japan Literature Promotion Society to Bungeishunshūsha, the "Japanese Mystery Writers Association Award" authorized by Edogawa Rampo to Kobunsha, and blog posts The museum's "Gem" magazine!
If Kodansha is allowed to change the Edogawa Ranpo Award into a Newcomer Award, then Bungeishunshūsha, Kobunsha, and Hakubunkan will lose huge market share!
When other publishing houses saw what Kodansha was doing, they began to try their best to stop it!
As a result, nearly a hundred publishing houses at that time began to send out their aces to start a battle!
Masashi Henmou, Oshita Utaji, Takagi Toshimitsu, Yamada Fuutarou... a group of masters who are all-powerful in the reasoning world began to compete on the same stage!
Even Edogawa Ranpo, who had already announced that he would close the book, joined the publishing house's melee because of Kodansha's invitation!
It's a pity that these people really underestimate the methods of Literary Spring and Autumn Society.
In this publishing house melee, Bungei Shunqiu Society not only praised Matsumoto Seicho, the "father of socialist reasoning", but also directly suppressed all the masters of the original school, the change school, and the hard-line school.
In the past ten years, more than fifty publishing houses have even faced bankruptcy, and the presidents of more than ten publishing houses have mysteriously disappeared!
The most shocking thing was that the editor-in-chief of Hakumonkan's "Gem" magazine, the most powerful mystery magazine at the time, was stabbed more than seventy times in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, and was hacked to death!
This publishing house melee finally subsided completely in 1968. Bungeishunqiu Society used quite terrifying methods, coupled with Matsumoto Seicho's terrifying trump card, to defeat nearly 80 publishing houses in one fell swoop, and successfully entered the publishing house. Ascended to the throne of Japan's No. 1 publishing house!
Literary Spring and Autumn Society was the final winner in the whole "publishing melee".
Not only did Kadokawa Shoten's trump card, "The Great Master of Integrity Reasoning" Yokomori Masashiki, be temporarily closed.
He also tried his best to promote the famous "Qingzhang Curse"!
So far, the "Qingzhang Curse" has ruled the entire Japanese reasoning market for twenty-four years!
Takarashimasha is afraid that Maijo Kyousuke will turn into a terrifying existence like Matsumoto Seicho!
But what is even more frightening is that Maijo Keisuke will become the originator of Edogawa Ranpo, and he will have to blaze a path that no one has ever taken in the already stable reasoning pattern.
Become an existence that cannot be surpassed or even imitated!
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Although other publishing houses in Japan did not smear Kodansha and Maijo Keisuke as eagerly as Takarashimasha.
But most publishing houses, newspapers, and media have serious interests involved.
Therefore, at this time, almost all the presidents of publishing houses have set their sights on Maijo Kyousuke and Kodansha.
Some of the publishing house presidents are jealous and hate that geniuses like Maijo Kyousuke have not been discovered by their editors.
Another part of the presidents, like the president of Baodao Club, Hosei Shirakawa, fell into panic.
Because this is the storm before the publishing house melee. If the scene of twenty-four years ago happens again, bankruptcy will be a trivial matter. One person accidentally offends someone who shouldn't be offended.
It is very likely that even your life will not be saved!
After all, the more than 30 publishing houses that were left at that time were all strong enough to survive the last crisis. Each president was worth a few billion!
No one wants to be slaughtered in this "messy"!
Seeing that Takarashimasha couldn't keep calm, a group of publishing houses took the lead in attacking Kodansha and Maijo Kyousuke!
I also realized that I must not allow Maijo Keisuke’s popularity to continue to rise!
They all used their own advantages and began to attack the forum club and Maijo Kyousuke!
