Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 666 New Types

"Boss Ma is too polite, please sit down."

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

"I've heard for a long time that Boss Ma from "Oriental Daily News" is a hero, and today I saw him and he really lived up to his reputation."

It's not that Lin Daoqiu doesn't know how to praise others, but it has to be said that Ma Shaoqiang really deserves to be praised.

In his hands, "Oriental Daily" is also thriving, and the number of publications is slowly recovering.

Although his father and uncle dug a big hole for him, Ma Shaoqiang survived.

"I don't know if Mr. Lin asked me to come here today. What's the matter?"

Ma Shaoqiang really wanted to know why Lin Daoqiu, who had never met him, suddenly asked him out for tea.

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

Ma Shaoqiang was so anxious to know the purpose of asking him out beforehand.

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

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

A novel co-authored by Lin Daoqiu?When receiving the manuscript, Ma Shaoqiang's eyes couldn't help but widen.

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

After receiving the manuscript handed over by Lin Daoqiu, Ma Shaoqiang looked down and found the five characters "Legend of Sword and Fairy" written on the cover.

Although Ma Shaoqiang hasn't started reading it yet, he already subconsciously believes that this "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.

But when he saw Huang Ying's name, Ma Shaoqiang was still slightly surprised.

He knew this person, but the other person was not very famous, and his reputation could only be said to be average. He did not expect that he would be lucky enough to be able to co-author a book with Lin Daoqiu.

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

If Huang Ying had written this novel alone, Ma Shaoqiang would never have cared so much.

You must know that Lin Daoqiu's gold-lettered signboard alone is enough to attract the attention of many readers.

Even if the novel is not well written, as long as it relies on Lin Daoqiu's name, it will definitely attract many readers.

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

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

The manuscript Huang Ying only wrote about the martial arts competition and recruiting relatives, but for Lin Daoqiu, this was enough.

This [-]-word manuscript is enough for the "Oriental Daily" to be serialized for more than a month.

For 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.

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

In Ma Shaoqiang's view, the fighting scenes in it are not the moves of previous martial arts novels.

In general martial arts novels, Yu Jian is considered a very advanced martial art.

But in "Legend of Sword and Fairy", Li Xiaoyao, who has no foundation in martial arts, unexpectedly learned the art of controlling the sword overnight.

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

Not to mention the spells used by those people on Fairy Island, it is even more staggering.

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

Lin Daoqiu briefly introduced to Ma Shaoqiang, the difference between Xianxia and Wuxia.

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

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

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

But after he read the manuscript of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" just now, Ma Shaoqiang discovered that this novel does have many attractive features.

If the fairy tale theme mentioned by Lin Daoqiu really becomes popular at that time, then for "Oriental Daily", this is definitely an opportunity not to be missed.

So no matter what, I must grab this top incense and get "Legend of Sword and Fairy" to be serialized in "Oriental Daily".

"I asked Boss Ma out to talk to you about this matter."

Since Lin Daoqiu invited Ma Shaoqiang out, he naturally wanted to serialize "Legend of Sword and Fairy" in "Oriental Daily", because he has no good place to go now.

"In Shangyanshang, I am willing to pay a manuscript fee of five hundred thousand words for this novel. I wonder what Mr. Lin thinks?"

The manuscript fee of five hundred thousand characters is considered the top salary in Xiangjiang at this time, but even so, Ma Shaoqiang is still not sure that Lin Daoqiu will nod.

Maybe for others, five hundred words for a thousand words is a lot, but for Lin Daoqiu, even if it is one thousand words for a thousand words, I am afraid he would not take it seriously.

"Boss Ma's offer is very reasonable. If that's the case, then I wish us a happy cooperation."

Without thinking about it, Lin Daoqiu agreed directly.

Lin Daoqiu didn't ask for these remunerations, he would hand over all the money to Huang Ying.

Five hundred thousand words sounds like a lot, but writing one million words is only 100 yuan.

Maybe it is a lot of money for others, but for Lin Daoqiu, the 50 is not even enough to buy a house, so naturally he will not take it seriously.

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

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

This is probably the easiest and fastest of all the business he has ever talked about.

But thinking about it carefully, the reason why Lin Daoqiu agreed so simply was probably because he didn't care about the remuneration at all.

As the boss of "Oriental Daily", Ma Shaoqiang has some understanding of foreign news.

Last Christmas, Lin Daoqiu's "The Mummy" was released in Hollywood, and later sold more than 3 million US dollars.

Lin Daoqiuguang is the box office revenue, and at least hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars can be distributed.

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

But even so, if it happens again, Ma Shaoqiang will still give Lin Daoqiu the highest draft fee.

If nothing else, the three words Lin Daoqiu alone are worth a thousand gold to Ma Shaoqiang.

(End of this chapter)