Chapter 129 The Japanese broke through the defense again
In mid-April, a Japanese soldier on a business trip in the United States found an English book about Ito Hirobumi. Out of curiosity, he bought the book and brought it back to his country.
After returning to the company, he told his colleagues about this matter. They immediately studied the book with a vigilant mentality. It turned out that the book called "Lies" was "Ito Hirobumi".
They looked up the author information of "Lies" and found out that it was written by Liu Hongmin from China.
"Liu Hongmin? This name sounds familiar."
Several people discussed it, but they still couldn't remember who Liu Hongmin was. They rarely read suspense novels, but they bought "The Ming Dynasty 1566" as a gift.
They informed the media about the incident, and soon the media publicized the incident.
The real name of "Ito Hirobumi" is "Lies", and the real name of Yamashita Nagakawa is Liu Hongmin, which immediately caused an uproar among the Japanese.
Many of the Japanese who had been deceived took to the streets to protest and demanded a boycott and sanctions against Liu Hongmin. Some extremists even clamored to kill Liu Hongmin and rid the Japanese of harm.
Sanlian Publishing House, which had been paying close attention to the movements of the Japanese invaders, immediately made a decision to stop printing "White Night Walk" and push all the remaining books to the market, selling as many as possible.
The Japanese soldiers who were still unaware of the truth at this time were still paying for "White Night Walk".
On the third day, someone finally discovered that Liu Hongmin was the author of "White Night Walk". A group of people gathered and went directly to the bookseller who cooperated with Sanlian Publishing House to protest. After the bookseller learned about this, he immediately held a press conference, bowed publicly to apologize, and decided to remove "White Night Walk" from the shelves.
They even wanted to steal the dividends from Sanlian Publishing House, but Sanlian Publishing House had long been prepared for this. They had already made arrangements with Random House and directly sent a representative from Random House to collect the debt.
Faced with the American father, booksellers dared not resist at all and could only obediently pay their dividends to Sanlian Publishing House.
By the time "White Night Walk" was taken off the shelves, a total of nearly million copies had been sold.
Sanlian Publishing House felt it was a pity. If the Japanese had not discovered it, "White Night Walk" would definitely have sold four million copies, and there was even a hope of reaching the five million copy mark.
These are all money!
In addition, they have reached a new cooperation with Random House, handing over the Japanese market to Random House for distribution. Otherwise, the loss of the Japanese market will be even greater.
Sanlian Publishing House was sitting on the Diaoyutai, but the Japanese did not stop making trouble.
Some media followed the clues and listed all the novels written by Liu Hongmin. What shocked the Japanese was that these novels sold well in Japan, and the least one could sell 200,000 copies.
The novels before "Ito Hirobumi" were fine, as Liu Hongmin had not yet exposed his sinister intentions. But "White Night Walk" actually sold million copies, which broke the enemy's defense. In order to eliminate the remaining poison of "Ito Hirobumi", they turned around and followed another novel by Liu Hongmin. How can this be so ironic?
Aso once again filed an application in the House of Representatives to ban all of Liu Hongmin's works and to protest to China. The two countries are neighbors, and the Chinese should not be allowed to slander the devil's "great man" for no reason!
The proposal was passed unanimously by the House of Representatives, and they formally sent a note to China, hoping to condemn and even sanction Liu Hongmin.
Xiyuan responded strongly, "Comrade Liu Hongmin only wrote the novel according to the actual situation. Your failure to acknowledge history is the real reason affecting the diplomatic relations between the two countries." The two sides talked for a while, but this incident did not affect the subsequent cooperation. As an old rival, Xiyuan knew the Japanese's morality too well. If it was not for development, how could it tolerate such a disgusting thing?
There was no impact at the national level, but it aroused hostility between the two countries among the people. The Japanese were clamoring to suppress China in all aspects and to defeat China no matter what the competition was.
When this incident spread to the country, the people were also outraged.
Liu Hongmin just wrote a novel based on history, and the Japanese were just like their mothers had died. This made many people recognize the true face of the Japanese and become very wary of them.
Of course, there are still many people who criticize Liu Hongmin for affecting the diplomatic relations between the two countries and even demand that Liu Hongmin apologize.
But there are more people who speak for Liu Hongmin. They think that Liu Hongmin's novel has exposed the devil's ambition. If they understand the current Internet slang, they will definitely say that Liu Hongmin deserves to be enshrined in the imperial temple.
The huge public opinion once again pushed Lies to the forefront. A wave of book buying started all over the country. Anyone with a little knowledge wanted to see what Lies was about that could make the Japanese so angry.
Jingda Press was not well prepared. They did not expect that "Lies", which had already sold more than two million copies, could still sell well. However, they reacted quickly and immediately asked the printing factory to print 24 hours a day and then distribute the book to various places. In just half a month, "Lies" sold another two million copies.
It was not that readers did not buy the books, but that the printing houses could not keep up. The books were sold out on the same day they were delivered to the bookstores, forcing the Beijing University Press to contact multiple printing houses across the country and adopt the method of printing, delivering and selling the books immediately to keep up with the speed of readers' purchases.
Half a month later, the supply was sufficient, and the bookstore had some left when it closed at night. It was not until a month later that this wave of buying was over.
According to later statistics, Lies sold more than 1983 million copies in 700. Throughout the 80s, Lies sold tens of millions of copies.
Many students admire Liu Hongmin and think he has the style of Mr. Lu. Many students regard him as an idol and want to learn from him.
As a result, all kinds of gossip about Liu Hongmin became very popular. A newly established newspaper in the south began to report Liu Hongmin's deeds. Some of them were hearsay, and some were picked up from Hong Kong news. Regardless of whether it was true or not, as long as it was written in a bizarre way, it would be very popular.
Relying on these gossip news, a certain southern newspaper quickly developed and became the first gossip newspaper in the mainland.
Some small newspapers and magazines, jealous of the rapid rise of a certain newspaper in the south, immediately followed suit. They were more convenient and directly copied the news from a certain newspaper in the south, openly copied the news and put it in their own newspapers or magazines.
Sure enough, the sales of newspapers and magazines that reported Liu Hongmin’s gossip quickly increased.
The gossip about Liu Hongmin became the most popular topic in the country for a while, and even overshadowed the popularity of "Lies".
Liu Hongmin was so angry that he was speechless. He didn't expect that people in this era would be so keen on gossip. Fortunately, fan fiction has not yet appeared, otherwise Liu Hongmin would have become the male protagonist of pornographic fiction.
(End of this chapter)
