Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

"Boss Ma, you're too polite. Please sit down."

After Ma Shaoqiang sat down, Lin Daoqiu personally poured him a cup of tea.

"I have long heard that Boss Ma from Oriental Daily is a hero in his youth. Today I saw him and he is indeed well-deserved."

Lin Daoqiu is not bad at praising others, but I have to say that Ma Shaoqiang does deserve to be praised.

"Oriental Daily" is also prospering in his hands, and its circulation is slowly recovering.

Although his father and uncle dug a big hole for him before, Ma Shaoqiang still got through it.

"I don't know if Mr. Lin came to see me today. What's the matter?"

Ma Shaoqiang wanted to know why Lin Daoqiu, whom he had never met, suddenly invited him out for tea.

You must know that before this, the two of them had never had any intersection.

Ma Shaoqiang was so eager to know the purpose of dating him before he was told.

Lin Daoqiu didn't say anything. He smiled first, then turned around and took the manuscript over, and then handed it to Ma Shaoqiang.

"This is a novel I co-wrote with others, and I want to serialize it in Oriental Daily."

A novel co-written by Lin Daoqiu? When he took the manuscript, Ma Shaoqiang couldn't help but widen his eyes.

This is definitely big news, and considering Lin Daoqiu's identity and status, he actually co-authored a book with others, which is really topical.

Taking the manuscript handed over by Lin Daoqiu, Ma Shaoqiang lowered his head and saw that there were five characters "Legend of Sword and Fairy" written on the cover.

Although Ma Shaoqiang hasn't started reading it yet, he already subconsciously thinks that "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" should be a martial arts novel.

The authors of this novel are Lin Daoqiu and Huang Ying.

It is not surprising that Lin Daoqiu used his own name as the author's name. After all, he does not make a living by writing novels, so it is not a big deal to use his real name.

However, Ma Shaoqiang was still a little surprised when he saw Huang Ying's name.

He knew this person, but he was not very famous, and his reputation could only be described as average. Unexpectedly, he got lucky and could co-author a book with Lin Daoqiu.

Opening "Legend of Sword and Fairy", Ma Shaoqiang read it carefully.

If this novel was written by Huang Ying alone, Ma Shaoqiang would never care so much.

You must know that Lin Daoqiu's golden signature alone is enough to attract the attention of many readers.

Even if this novel is not well written, it will definitely attract a lot of readers as long as it relies on Lin Daoqiu's name.

While Ma Shaoqiang was reading the manuscript, Lin Daoqiu did not speak, but sat there alone, drinking tea and eating snacks.

After drinking two cups of tea, Lin Daoqiu noticed that Ma Shaoqiang's expression seemed more focused than before.

The manuscript Huang Ying only wrote about the martial arts competition to recruit a bride, but for Lin Daoqiu, this was enough.

This 100,000-word manuscript was enough for Oriental Daily to serialize it for more than a month.

In more than a month, Huang Ying will definitely be able to write more manuscripts.

After waiting for a while, Ma Shaoqiang put down the manuscript in his hand.

"The Sword Flying Fairy, Mr. Lin's novel has a novel theme, and it doesn't look like a martial arts novel."

In Ma Shaoqiang's opinion, the fighting scenes in it are not those in previous martial arts novels.

In ordinary martial arts novels, sword control is already considered a very advanced martial arts.

But in "Legend of Sword and Fairy", Li Xiaoyao, who had no martial arts foundation, learned how to control a sword overnight.

This can be said to be very rare in ordinary martial arts novels.

Not to mention the spells used by those on Fairy Island are even more astonishing.

"I define "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" as a fairy novel, which is naturally different from previous martial arts novels."

Lin Daoqiu briefly introduced to Ma Shaoqiang the difference between Xianxia and martial arts.

Ma Shaoqiang nodded while listening. From Lin Daoqiu's introduction, Ma Shaoqiang discovered that a new theme seemed to be about to be born.

"This "Legend of Sword and Fairy", please Mr. Lin must give it to "Oriental Daily" for serialization."

Ma Shaoqiang doesn't know whether this novel will be a hit or not.

But when he just read the manuscript of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", Ma Shaoqiang found that this novel did have many attractive features.

If the fairy tale theme that Lin Daoqiu mentioned really becomes popular by then, then for "Oriental Daily", this will definitely be an opportunity that cannot be missed.

So no matter what, I must seize the opportunity and serialize "Legend of Sword and Fairy" in "Oriental Daily".

"I invited Boss Ma out just to discuss this matter with you."

Since Lin Daoqiu asked Ma Shaoqiang out, he naturally wanted to serialize "Legend of Sword and Fairy" in "Oriental Daily", because he doesn't have any good places to go now.

"In Shang Yan Shang, I am willing to pay 500 per thousand words for this novel. I wonder what Mr. Lin thinks?"

The manuscript fee of 500 per thousand words was considered the top salary in Xiangjiang at this time, but even so, Ma Shaoqiang was still not sure that Lin Daoqiu would nod.

Perhaps to others, five hundred and a thousand words is a lot, but to Lin Daoqiu, even if it is a thousand words and a thousand, I am afraid he will not take it seriously.

"Boss Ma's price is very reasonable. If so, I wish us a happy cooperation."

Lin Daoqiu agreed directly without even thinking about it.

Lin Daoqiu did not ask for these remunerations. He would give all the money to Huang Ying.

Five hundred for one thousand words sounds like a lot, but writing one million words is only half a million yuan.

Maybe to others this is a lot of money, but to Lin Daoqiu, this half million is not even enough to buy a house, so he will naturally not take it seriously.

Originally, Ma Shaoqiang thought that he would have to waste more words and even pay more to get "Legend of Sword and Fairy" serialized in "Oriental Daily".

But what he didn't expect was that Lin Daoqiu agreed so happily, which made Ma Shaoqiang extremely happy.

This was probably the easiest and fastest business deal he had ever had.

But if you think about it carefully, the reason why Lin Daoqiu agreed so simply is probably because he doesn't care about the royalties at all.

As the boss of Oriental Daily, Ma Shaoqiang is somewhat familiar with foreign news.

Last Christmas, Lin Daoqiu's "The Mummy" was released in Hollywood and later sold more than 300 million US dollars.

Lin Daoqiu Guang's box office revenue is at least several hundred million Hong Kong dollars.

How could a person like him value the tens or millions of royalties?

But even so, if it happened again, Ma Shaoqiang would still offer the top royalties to Lin Daoqiu.

If nothing else, just these three words Lin Daoqiu are worth thousands of gold to Ma Shaoqiang.