Chapter 188 Contemporary Zhou Yushan
On June 6, the new issue of Renming Literature was published. On the cover, Liu Xinwu directly wrote the words "Liu Hongmin's new work" in large letters.
The bookstore had received the news long ago and had prepared a banner and hung it at the door. After seeing the banner, people walked into the bookstore curiously and asked what type of new work Liu Hongmin had.
They have become accustomed to Liu Hongmin's idleness, so they always ask about the genre of the book before buying it.
People in this era still prefer novels with some artistic content or novels that are purely entertaining. Liu Hongmin has done a good job in both aspects. As long as he does not write stories about foreign countries, most readers can still accept it.
Even the Young Justice Bao series and My Brothers and Sisters, which had very poor sales back then, have seen sales increase in recent years due to Liu Hongmin's growing fame. Now, the sales of Liu Hongmin's novels in mainland China have become the lowest, with Horror Cruise Ship becoming the lowest.
The bookstore staff quickly introduced, "Let the Bullets Fly is serious literature, you can buy it with confidence."
Hearing this, people immediately swarmed towards the bookshelf. The serious literature written by Liu Hongmin must be a classic. They grabbed a copy of Renming Literature and ran to pay for it, fearing that if they were a step slower, the magazine would be snatched away by someone else.
As a result, within less than an hour of opening, "Human Name Literature" was sold out by word of mouth.
The editorial department's phone was about to explode with calls, but Liu Xinwu had anticipated this outcome. He had already asked the printing factory to work overtime, but he had to give priority to satisfying distant cities, after all, it was not easy to replenish stocks in distant cities.
Therefore, the nearby cities had fewer copies, with each bookstore receiving only about 100 copies. Liu Xinwu thought it would take at least half a day, but he didn't expect to finish the purchase in just an hour.
It seems that he still underestimated Liu Hongmin's influence.
"Ask the printing factory how much goods have been shipped, and supply more to relatively far cities, and make more trips to relatively nearby cities."
"Okay, Editor-in-Chief."
The next day, nearby cities still called to urge for delivery. On the third day, the goods were ready for delivery.
But relatively far away cities called to order another batch. According to the current sales situation, the goods they have can only last for ten days at most.
It would take at least ten days to ship the goods from the capital. If they didn't order in advance, they would have a gap.
Liu Xinwu was both happy and worried. He was happy because the two million copies printed in advance would definitely not be enough to sell, judging from the current sales situation. Based on Liu Xinwu's experience, Renming Literature would break the sales record this time and head for four million copies.
In recent years, the sales of magazines and books have been declining year by year. The breaking of the sales record by "Human Name Literature" is completely against the historical trend.
Liu Xinwu analyzed that magazines and books are becoming more and more commercialized, and if they want to sell well, they must have promotional points.
Looking at the best-selling books in recent years, they are either colored or have very strong story lines. The sales of those purely literary magazines and books are decreasing.
It can be seen from this that if we continue to run magazines and publish books according to the previous thinking, we will only die miserably. At present, the state requires magazines and publishing houses to be responsible for their own profits and losses. If we cannot change our thinking, we will only be drowned in the rolling tide of history.
Liu Xinwu is worried that if the sales of "Renming Literature" increase, more people will see "Let the Bullets Fly".
Liu Xinwu knows exactly what story Let the Bullets Fly tells. He believes that anyone with a little literary background can understand the story.
Ordinary people will certainly praise "Let the Bullets Fly", but some people are bound to make things difficult for Liu Hongmin.
Liu Hongmin would definitely not be afraid of one or two, but if there were hundreds or thousands of them, how would Liu Hongmin deal with them?
Liu Xinwu's worries were not without reason. From the 16th, newspapers across the country began to report on Let the Bullets Fly. Of course, these reports were only sporadic. After all, Let the Bullets Fly has tens of thousands of words. If you read slowly or have too much to do, you can't finish it in one day.
Starting from the 17th, reports on "Let the Bullets Fly" gradually increased.
They have rich combat experience in dealing with the old man surnamed Wang and others. The main reason is that these people only know how to belittle the country and then prove that foreign countries are beautiful.
As long as they can make it clear that the domestic situation is not good ≠ the foreign situation is good, the old man surnamed Wang and others will lose half of the battle. Then, if they can prove that the domestic situation is not good is false, they will win the other half.
On the 20th, Mr. Zhang's article was published. After several days of editing and revision, the article was penetrating and deeply rooted in people's hearts.
At this time, some people had already begun to overthrow Zhou Yushan, but in the eyes of the public, Zhou Yushan was still the fighter who dared to speak out and a well-deserved great writer.
This view was not first raised by Mr. Zhang. After Lies was published, some readers said so. However, there were relatively few representative works like Liu Hongmin at that time, so not many people agreed with this view.
After the publication of "Mr. Donkey", this view spread among ordinary readers, but was not recognized by the authorities. Ordinary readers were more likely to make fun of him, and they preferred to call Liu Hongmin "Little Zhou Yushan".
Now the authoritative recognition of Mr. Zhang has given ordinary readers a backbone. Some young writers who admire Liu Hongmin have begun to promote him in the media.
The old man surnamed Zhang and his group fanned the flames, and within two days all major newspapers began to refer to Liu Hongmin as "the contemporary Zhou Yushan".
Wang Xiaoping and others did not react at first, but Liu Xinwu discovered something was wrong and notified Liu Hongmin.
"Mr. Zhang was the helper that Mr. Wang asked for at the time. Now that he has written an article praising you, I'm afraid he has ulterior motives."
Liu Hongmin naturally paid attention to this article. He thought that some senior was optimistic about him. Now it seems that they are trying to flatter him to death.
Liu Xinwu warned: "The direction of public opinion is a bit wrong now. If you don't cool down, many people may hold you to the same standard as Zhou Yushan. As long as you fail to meet this standard, you will inevitably be criticized."
"Don't worry, Teacher Liu, I have a solution." Liu Hongmin didn't care at all and instead comforted Liu Xinwu.
"Do you really have any idea?"
"Really? Just read tomorrow's newspaper!"
After hanging up the phone, Liu Hongmin picked up a pen and paper and wrote a few words.
"Brother Chen, send this to the New Light Daily and have them publish it tomorrow."
Wang Xiaoping, Chen Jiangong and others also called Liu Hongmin to explain the seriousness of the matter.
Liu Hongmin still said that he understood and asked them to read tomorrow's edition of the Xinguang Daily.
Hearing that Liu Hongmin had a solution, they couldn't help but look forward to it, and wanted to know how Liu Hongmin would break the deadlock. Unfortunately, Liu Hongmin kept them in suspense and then hung up the phone.
Chen Jiangong was itching to get started, so he went to buy the People's Daily early the next morning.
After getting the newspaper, he couldn't wait to turn to the supplement of the "Xinguang Daily", and saw the front-page headline of the "Xinguang Daily" in ten big characters.
[Liu Hongmin: I am richer than Zhou Yushan!]
(End of this chapter)
