Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 351
In Dengzhou, backstage of Ma Ziliu's theater troupe, Sun Xin brought a letter with a smile and called all the literati in front of him.

The letter was from Xie Zhen.

"This month, we sold [-] copies of "Chuan Xiaolang's Resurrection of the Tang Dynasty" in Bianliang City!"

"How many?"

"The people in Bianjing City are too rich..."

Sun Xin was very satisfied. Seeing everyone's expressions of surprise and surprise, he continued to encourage everyone and said: "This is only the sales volume of the second volume. The third volume was still in print when it was mailed. It must have been released now. Xie Zhen estimates that sales will increase.”

"The grades are so good, I should give everyone a big red envelope."

All the literati laughed.

Although Sun Xin provided the content outline of "Chuan Xiaolang's Resurrection of the Tang Dynasty", except for the first volume at the beginning, which is based on his dictation, the subsequent content is all followed by the six playwrights in front of him. Outline was created collectively, but in the end only Sun Xin's name was signed.

The superior establishes morality, the intermediate establishes deeds, and the inferior establishes words. Scholars these days seek to govern the country and the family in order to bring peace to the world. Writing books and saying that is a last resort only when there is no way to go out and do practical things. Literary writing is not even counted, so literati these days really don't value the authorship of novels very much.

Although most of the novels on the market were written by literati, most of them were just given a pseudonym. After many novels became popular, it was even impossible to find out who the author was.

Moreover, these playwrights believe that although they wrote the main text of this novel, the outline of the plot of the novel was all thought up by Sun Xin. It really doesn't count as anything, so the few people have no objection to attributing the novel's signature to Sun Xin.

But they are still very happy to know that the novel is popular. They are all down-and-out literati who have been reduced to the level of a troupe writing scripts for others. They had no intention of leaving anything worth preaching in the world, but now they are writing together with Sun Xin. After publishing a popular novel in the capital, they felt that they had finally achieved something in their life, and they were very grateful to Sun Xin, not to mention that Sun Xin promised to give them enough retouching fees.

Sun Xin was also very satisfied, Xie Zhen really did a good job this time.

People in this era think that writing time-travel novels is a very troublesome task. How can they expect the speed of more than 1 words a day here.

He can write three volumes of "Chuan Xiaolang's Resurrection of the Tang Dynasty" with a sales volume of [-] in a month.

Moreover, Sun Xin intends to finish this book in half a year, give it more than 100 million words, and publish ten separate volumes. After the ten novels are completed, the income can reach [-] yuan.

And according to what Xie Zhen said in the letter, not only did time-traveling novels make money in Bianjing, Ma Xiaoliu's troupe finally opened in Bianjing.

Huizong never gave Ma Xiaoliu and the others a chance to attack active duty. Xie Zhen thought of a way to ask Ma Xiaoliu to urgently rehearse the content of "Chuan Xiaolang's Resurrection of the Tang Dynasty".

In this era, there is no such thing as intellectual property rights. With the popularity of books, the novel story of the first volume "The Resurrection of Chuan Xiaolang in the Tang Dynasty" has already been arranged into a folk art show by the artists of Bianjingcheng.

But Ma Xiaoliu and the others have an excellent advantage, they can get manuscripts that have not yet been released on the market.

Xie Zhen directly asked Ma Xiaoliu to engage in differentiated competition with artists in Bianjing.

When the manuscript was released to the second volume, he asked Ma Xiaoliu and the others to start rehearsing the story content of the third volume, and then specifically asked Su Yuanjing to release news among the dignitaries in Bianjing that Xiaoliu's troupe could perform. Published stories.

The popularity of this time-traveling novel in Bianjing has become a phenomenon-level event. Even among the dignitaries, many people have read this book. The management of officials in the Song Dynasty has never been more lenient since ancient times. Officials don’t even care about going to brothels. , not to mention the trivial matter of inviting the red horn, so some officials who like this time-traveling novel all come to ask Ma Xiaoliu to come to their houses to sing.

Xie Zhen is not worried that Ma Xiaoliu's performance will hit the sales of the novel. After the novel is adapted into a drama, it is very different from the original text. Even those who have watched the drama will feel that it is not as refreshing as reading the novel before.

What's more, Ma Xiaoliu's troupe has no way to spread the details of the follow-up story to the whole Bianjing. I'm more curious about how the story will develop later.

In the letter, Xie Zhen believed that with the help of the troupe's performance, the sales of books could be further improved.

Sun Xin couldn't agree more with Xie Zhen's opinion. Once some film and television dramas adapted from web novels in later generations are successful, instead of reducing the sales of web texts, it will greatly increase the sales of corresponding web texts.

Moreover, Xie Zhen stated in the letter that his method has achieved results. After Ma Xiaoliu performed the story of "Sun Xiaolang's Resurrection of the Tang Dynasty", he no longer performed the content of the novel alone, but after each performance. Plus give a discount of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that their team is better at.

The wonderful Three Kingdoms story and those lifelike characters fascinated the audience at once. Xie Zhen said that among those who invited Ma Xiaoliu to perform the letter when the letter was sent out, more people wanted him to play the Three Kingdoms drama.

Zhao Ji has already asked Ma Xiaoliu to bring the troupe into the palace to perform in a few days. The performance is "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and Ma Xiaoliu is preparing nervously.

Along with Xie Zhen's letter, there was also a letter with chicken feathers in it, but it was written by Su Yuanjing.

Su Yuanjing had already been tied to Sun Xin's boat, and the reason why he actively helped Xie Zhen and Ma Xiaoliu was because Su Yuanjing also had interests in the opera troupe and printing workshop. More than 300 guan, Su Yuanjing's profit can be at least [-] guan.

Sun Xin opened the letter, and Su Yuanjing in the letter could not hide his joyful tone. It is a good thing to earn more than 50 yuan as Zhao Ji's close minister, but he paid more attention to Zhao Ji's appreciation for his book and performance. .

In the letter, Su Yuanjing suggested that Sun Xin take advantage of Huizong's fascination with time-traveling novels, and quickly establish this relationship.

After leaving the theatrical troupe, Sun Xin returned to the office of the supervisory committee and spread out the manuscript paper to write a letter.

In this letter, he used his best calligraphy, and if he was not satisfied with one part, he tore it up and rewrote it. After rewriting it three times, he finally wrote a calligraphy work with smooth charm.

Su Yuanjing told Zhao Ji that he was very pursuing in art, so Sun Xin deliberately limited the content of the letter to discussing the development of future books with Zhao Ji. It was just an exchange between an author and a reader, and nothing else Did not mention.

After writing the letter to Zhao Ji, Sun Xin wrote another letter to Xie Zhen and Su Yuanjing. After writing all the letters, they put them in an envelope, pasted wax on it, and stuck a chicken feather on it. The dealer sent it out quickly.

At the end of October, Hu Yanzhuo had already led the troops to confiscate Liangshan. Wu Song had been closely observing the movements of the Song army. According to the news collected by Wu Song, the staff agreed that the Song army was too underestimating the enemy. Return in defeat.

Now the line with Song Huizong has finally been cleared up, and it is estimated that his goal of intervening in the defense of the Dongsan Prefecture through Song Huizong will soon be achieved.

Half a month later, Sun Xin's letter was sent to Bianjing along with three sample books of "Chuan Xiaolang's Resurrection of the Tang Dynasty".

Xie Zhen, Ma Xiaoliu and the twenty or so farmers they brought to Bianjing have already rented a courtyard, and even set up a branch of the Bianjing City Supervisory Committee in this courtyard.

Xie Zhen opened the letter at the regular meeting of the Supervisory Committee and read Sun Xin's instructions on Bianjing's work.

Originally, he planned to try to see which way is more popular, web novels or opera troupes in Bianjing City. Now that novels have opened up the market, he instructed the dealers in Bianjing City to focus on developing the novel business in the next stage of work. superior.

For this reason, this time he also sent more than a dozen printing craftsmen to increase the speed of book printing, and asked Xie Zhen and the others to use the profits from selling books to build a printing workshop of medium size or above in Bianliang.

In the future, novels will be produced steadily in Dengzhou, and then the novels will be sent to Bianjing City to be printed and sold.

After reading this letter, most people were very happy, feeling that Sun Xin had not forgotten them, except Ma Xiaoliu and others were a little uncomfortable.

Ma Xiaoliu couldn't help but said: "The people in Bianjing City don't know what to do, our troupe has been performing for so long, and the effect is only mediocre, if it is performed in the Three Kingdoms Opera in Dengzhou, it will be hard to get a ticket. "

Xie Zhen smiled and said: "After we entered the palace to perform, even the experts praised my brother's interesting performances, and now we have received invitations to more than a dozen performances in a month, which is already a first-class troupe talent in Bianliang. Some treatment."

Although Ma Xiaoliu is not happy, the performance of their troupe is actually not bad. It has only been more than a month since they came to the capital and they have already gained a reputation. Although it is not top-notch in comparison, it is definitely worthy of the name.

But compared with the outstanding book printing workshop, the achievements of their theater troupe pale in comparison.

Although Ma Xiaoliu complained a bit, he had to admit that Sun Xin's approach was very fair, giving the novel and the opera troupe the same opportunity to compete, and the bankers who came to Bianjing City also cooperated with each other. The troupe has improved so much, Sun Xin decided to go all out to develop novels, and they couldn't say anything.

Ma Xiaoliu calmed down and cooperated with Xie Zhen. While they were performing the Three Kingdoms drama, they cooperated with Xie Zhen to promote the new book.

At the same time, Sun Xin also began to distribute "The Resurrection of Chuan Xiaolang in Tang Dynasty" in Dengzhou.

After its release, the book also quickly became popular in Shandong.

Ma Ziliu's troupe began to rehearse shadow puppetry adapted from the novel, and even a few women were fascinated by the book. Zeng Saihua wrote a letter asking Sun Xin to send the latest manuscript to she.

(End of this chapter)