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Chapter 190 General Fang, Help Your Brothers

Just as Fangyan expected, he really came for his manuscript and showed great sincerity.

Qin Zhaoyang and Meng Weizai are not only the editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief of Contemporary Magazine, but also the deputy editor-in-chief and editor of Renwen Press.

"I didn't expect you two to come."

Fangyan invited them to the small conference room of the publishing house.

“If the mountain doesn’t come to us, we will go to the mountain.”

Qin Zhaoyang said with emotion: "Since you didn't come to Contemporary, we had no choice but to come to October to disturb you."

"Don't say that."

Fangyan said: "This is really frustrating for me."

Meng Weizai sighed, "We had no choice but to do this."

Before the two of them came, Fang Yan had discussed with Lu Yuanchi and others that unless it was absolutely necessary, Contemporary Magazine would not send out the editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief to serve him. Even though General Fang's status in the literary world was becoming increasingly prominent, it had not yet reached this point.

"I think you must know that Contemporary is the main battlefield of reform literature, right?"

Qin Zhaoyang weighed his words carefully.

Fangyan nodded, this is a fact recognized by the literary world.

Just as "Yenching Literature" is the main battlefield of reflective literature, "October" is the main battlefield of love literature.

Although "People's Literature" has successively published the pioneering work of reform literature "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office" and the masterpiece "The Splitting of the Great Qin", and is far ahead of "Contemporary" in terms of quality, "Contemporary" is better in terms of quantity.

"All the reform literature works in the Contemporary Magazine, which we will release next month, cannot be published for the time being."

Meng Weizai showed a heartbroken expression on his face.

"In theory, we can just find other manuscripts to replace the withdrawn manuscripts," Meng Weizai said, "but unfortunately, the incident happened suddenly and we don't have any good manuscripts to replace them at the moment."

Fangyan understood all at once.

Contemporary is a bimonthly magazine published in odd months.

It’s almost July now, and the article on the front page cannot be used. What a blind opportunity!
Qin Zhaoyang said: "I originally planned to pick the best from the short ones, and pick the ones that are barely usable from the eliminated manuscripts."

Meng Weizai said with emotion: "We also sought help from People's Literature, and finally Secretary Zhang pointed us in the right direction, saying that you have an excellent manuscript that was just completed not long ago."

"good."

Fangyan suddenly understood.

Their senior asked them to come for help. Since they are all dedicated to the literary world, they wanted to lend a hand to their brother unit!
Qin Zhaoyang and Meng Weizai looked at each other in surprise and joy.

"However, this novel has not yet been finalized. There are many places that need to be revised and polished. It must also be submitted to the relevant departments for review to ensure that there are no leaks before it can be officially published."

Fangyan said: "I wonder if it's too late?"

"There's enough time!"

Qin Zhaoyang said that "Contemporary" will be published in mid-July. If it really doesn't work, it is not impossible to postpone it for a few days.

"I wonder if we can take a look at the article "Operation Sword"? " Meng Weizai's anxious tone was filled with anticipation.

Fangyan walked out of the meeting room and quickly came back.

Qin Zhaoyang took the novel and let Meng Weizai read it first. He then started chatting with Fangyan, with gratitude mixed in his words.

"Oh, it's really hard to put it into words."

“This is not a problem with literature itself.”

Fangyan consoled him with a few words, "When the wind changes direction, I think reform literature will rise again."

"hope so."

Qin Zhaoyang was filled with emotion.

This round of reform literature is mainly attributed to the emergence of "The Great Qin Splitting". When a literary genre has a benchmark work, it will naturally attract a group of writers to enter this field.

In order to revitalize reform literature, there needs to be another masterpiece of reform literature like "The Splitting of the Great Qin" to be published again so as to set off a new wave.

"I may disappoint you. The second part of the Daqin series will be historical literature, not reform literature."

Fangyan shook his head.

Qin Zhaoyang waved his hand. "Even if it is, it cannot be sent now. The timing is not right."

"Maybe not in novels."

Fangyan hesitated for a while, "But that doesn't necessarily mean drama is not good."

Once reminded, Qin Zhaoyang understood and said, "Are you talking about Cao Gong's Shang Yang?"

“Only a drama like this can possibly set off another great drama of reform, right?”

“I don’t know when this play will be…”

"Casting will be at the end of the month, and rehearsals will begin in July. How long we will rehearse will depend on when we can satisfy Mr. Wan."

Fangyan was thinking about the time to go to the People's Art Theatre meeting.

After a while, Meng Weizai handed the manuscript to Qin Zhaoyang and exclaimed that it was great. Under normal circumstances, Contemporary Magazine would definitely grab such a work and put it on the front page like a treasure.

"Has this manuscript not been submitted to other magazines yet?"

"No, that's what I was worrying about."

"Then let Contemporary Magazine publish it!"

Meng Weizai held Fangyan's hand tightly, as if he was holding a life-saving straw, and solemnly requested: "Please!"

Fangyan pondered for a moment and nodded.

Even if you don't look at the monk's face, you have to look at the Buddha's face.

I must give face to senior brother Zhang Guangnian!
"Thank you, this really helps a lot!"

Meng Weizai was very excited.

"We at Contemporary now owe you a big favor."

Qin Zhaoyang breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, the three of them chatted about other details of the novel's publication. When they talked about the royalties, Fangyan was no longer sleepy.

Although talking about money hurts feelings, if we don’t talk about money, we won’t even have feelings!
It’s just a pity that at this time, the manuscript fee standards of publishing houses across the country are the same, fixed and public.

There is no such thing as newspapers, magazines and publishing houses easily breaking this standard in order to compete for manuscripts from famous authors and high-quality sources of manuscripts.

The maximum is 10 yuan per thousand words, it can only be 10 yuan per thousand words.

However, Qin Zhaoyang and Meng Weizai are still human beings.

The standard of the price per thousand words for royalties cannot be raised, but it can be rounded off. The total number of words in the entire novel "Operation Sword" is 37.3, so we can just calculate it directly based on the number of words of 38.

Although it’s not much more, it’s better than nothing!
With the extra money, you can go to a trust store or the alleys to buy one or two old items.

Rounding it off, that means he earned several hundred million more!

However, compared to making money, Fang Yan is more proud of the fact that Operation Sword has been recognized and praised by so many big names in the literary and editing circles.

After all, it is different from his previous novels such as "The Shepherd", "Infernal Affairs" and "Insidious", because he knows that these works will definitely be successful, and he is just the icing on the cake.

Although a lot of energy was invested in the original creation of "The Great Qin: Fission", that was all thanks to the careful guidance of teacher Shen Yanbing. It is no exaggeration to say that it is completely standing on the shoulders of giants.

"Operation Sword" is different. It pioneered the concept of "military fantasy" in advance. From conception, field research, to sorting out and creation, one person pondered and wrote in seclusion, pouring in a lot of effort to come up with such a novel.

In particular, there is a military-themed IP universe hidden in it, such as "Yan Shuangying", "Bright Sword", "Wolf Warrior"...

General Fang is no longer the “young general” of the past!
From now on, he will make progress step by step, step by step, and reach the highest level. He wants to be the "commander-in-chief"!
Commander Fang!
(End of this chapter)