I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 135 This is far from enough, let’s start the counterattack now!
It turns out that the president really thinks so!

The editor-in-chief and others who had just been secretly delighted by the good sales volume were suddenly sweating profusely.

No wonder the president suddenly called them to come to the meeting with a sullen face.

The editor-in-chief regretted it so much that he wanted to slap himself a few times!
Not only did he fail to understand the president's intentions, he also openly questioned this goal!
I won’t be treated as the one who sticks out and be dealt with by the president, right?
Although Kawaide Shobo still retains the lifetime employment system, not firing you does not mean that the company has no means to punish you.

For example, they will find a random reason to suspend you from work and ask you to stay at home for half a year or a year. When you come back, you can no longer keep up with the progress of most projects, and your prestige in front of your subordinates will be gone.

Or maybe you will be transferred to the Hokkaido branch with a transfer order, where you will eat fish every day until you stink of the sea, and you will never be able to return to the headquarters to enjoy the best welfare benefits.

The editor-in-chief immediately took the lead and bowed 100 degrees to express his sincere loyalty to the company: "I am so sorry, President! I was a little too proud! With a top-notch 'upper-class writer' like Mr. Kitagawa, sales of million copies should be our goal!

Please rest assured that I and all the editors in the editorial department will do our best to achieve this goal! If we cannot do it, I will take the lead and resign! "

He felt that he had just caused such a big mess, so he should issue a military order and cover up the mistake before the president expressed his opinion.

The deputy editor-in-chief and several senior editors couldn't help but curse in their hearts, "If you want to resign, just resign by yourself, you bastard! What do you mean by taking the lead in resigning!"

But no matter what they thought, they moved faster than each other and bowed 90 degrees to express their opinions, fearing that if they were a step slower, they would be transferred to Hokkaido by Kawaide Shizuko.

Kitagawa Hide was shocked. He had heard that Japanese office workers have no human rights. In the company, no matter how high the position of the subordinates is, they have to be extremely alert when facing their superiors and apologize and bow at least hundreds of times a day to show their loyalty.

But when I actually saw it, I still felt it was quite magical. The scene was even more exaggerated than in Japanese dramas.

He turned his head to look at Rena Saito next to him and found that she looked normal. It seemed that this scene was very common in the Japanese workplace, so he also maintained his usual calm expression.

"Well, then work hard." Shizuko Kawaide squeezed out these words from between her teeth with great difficulty.

She no longer knew how to clear up this misunderstanding, so she had no choice but to make the best of it and let them go for the sales target of one million copies.

100 million copies sold?
Has "Wenyi" really achieved this sales volume?

She looked up at Kitagawa Hide, wondering if she should say something to get him to lower his goal a little.

Noticing the gaze from Shizuko Kawaide, Kitagawa Hide felt that the boss should be hinting at him to talk about the general plan, so he nodded and continued the topic.

He has always been very organized and likes to strictly follow plans step by step. Whether it is making money, falling in love, or copying novels, everything is slowly moving towards success according to his plan.

It is not his style to just paint a rosy picture for them of an unattainable goal and then sit back and wait for the results.

Therefore, when he found that sales did not meet expectations, Kitagawa Hide quickly worked with Saito Rena to make a detailed plan, striving to achieve the goal in the next period.

“As Editor-in-Chief Saito said just now, our issue of Literature and Art failed to achieve sales of 100 million copies, mainly because a group of readers and authors were diverted away by Gunzo and Wenxuejie.

I also have to apologize for my arrogance. It is too naive to think that "South of the Border, West of the Sun" alone is enough to withstand their offensive. If I want to really overcome the difficulties and complete a counterattack under the pressure of the joint essay contest, I have to rely on the strength of everyone here.

The following is the plan that Editor-in-Chief Saito and I have drawn up.”

Kitagawa Hide and Saito Rena took out the draft paper they had prepared long ago. It was covered with densely written words. It was unknown how many times it had been scribbled and revised, and the content could not be seen clearly at all.

They summarized three counterattack methods.

First, optimize the publicity and promotion activities.

Previously, under the leadership of Rena Saito, Hide Kitagawa and Mayumi Aso visited many departments of Kawaide Shobo and learned about their working methods.

On the day he returned, Kitagawa Hide wrote down many key points and issues that he thought were problematic in his shorthand notebook.

He had never worked in this industry, but with his vision and knowledge that were thirty years ahead of his time, coupled with his serious and rigorous research attitude, he was able to identify a number of substantive problems.

Just like when he was a security guard at a record company, Kitagawa Hide doesn't just focus on what he has at hand when doing a job.

He has a strong desire for knowledge and curiosity. He likes to understand things he doesn't understand and integrate knowledge that may be useful in the future.

So, apart from the difficult initial stage of his coffee shop, it is now doing very well. Thanks to the famous brand name of Kitagawa Hide and the novel business model, the customer flow and profits are very good.

After this incident, Kitagawa Hide further improved these summarized problems and solutions, and now is the best time to present them to professionals for reference.

Second, Hideki Kitagawa will revise "South of the Border, West of the Sun" again, striving for perfection, and continue to climb higher in the next and the next series, achieving results that surpass "Youth Trilogy".

Others don't quite understand why he is so persistent about this.

But Kitagawa Hide is very clear in his mind. "South of the Border, West of the Sun" was adapted and deleted by him. Things that were not suitable for this era were deleted, and some original plots were added by him.

Ever since he finished copying "芥廾", he gradually realized that if he just copied it, he might never be able to truly reach the realm of "the best in the world" in his lifetime.

Even if he managed to achieve it with some masterpieces, his high status and relatively low literary ability would always lead to his exposure.

The best way is to learn slowly in the process of copying, and try your best to improve your literary literacy, so as not to be so unworthy of your position.

He was confident that his talent and ability were not bad, and that he had knowledge beyond his time and an advantage that seemed to be extraordinary. With the combination of the two, he might be able to truly grow into an outstanding writer in a few decades.

But to achieve this goal, you have to start working hard from now on.

There is no room for slacking in any aspect.

The third, and most important, point is that the overall quality of "Wenyi" must be improved as soon as possible.

It is not enough to rely on Kitagawa Hide alone.

Readers won’t buy it either.

So this time he called Keigo Higashino, Shirou Dango and Mayumi Aso.

Rena Saito is also actively contacting previous authors. Regardless of their abilities or achievements, as long as they have good character and are willing to write novels, and with the guidance of Hide Kitagawa and others, they will definitely be able to produce some good works.

Moreover, Kitagawa Hide had already secretly hidden several big moves in this regard.

Keigo Higashino had previously followed his advice, gave up pure literature, which he was not good at, and returned to writing detective literature.

The book "Secret" written under the guidance of Hide Kitagawa has not been published yet.

This is the work that helped Keigo Higashino turn his life around!

It can be used to overcome this difficult time and also give this discouraged guy some self-confidence.

Dangui Shirou's writing ability is actually not bad. Kitagawa Hide racked his brains and finally found a work that suits his style - "Parent-Child Meal".

Of course it is impossible to ask him to copy the text verbatim, but with a blueprint, it would be much easier to give him guidance.

Mayumi Aso's situation is similar, and she has a certain writing ability and can also write new-style haiku.

The sequel she wrote this time, "South of the Border, West of the Sun", is actually not bad. Although it is still far inferior to the original work by the great Murakami, the writing skills it demonstrates are enough to allow her to slowly move towards the orthodox path in the literary world.

These things cannot be revealed yet, but after Kitagawa Hide and Saito Rena finished speaking, everyone immediately realized that they really had detailed plans and thoughts.

This doesn't sound unfeasible.

Shizuko Kawaide was shocked. For the first time, she discovered that her idol was not only an excellent writer, but also had extraordinary abilities in other aspects.

Especially when Kitagawa Hideichi starts speaking, it seems as if he has some kind of magical power that can easily bring people around him together and allow them to realize their potential.

Shizuko Kawaide discovered this while filming "Akumidori".

Although the success of this movie is inseparable from the efforts of everyone.

But after all, from the director Shunji Iwai to the main creative team, to the leading actors, none of them are serious senior practitioners in the film industry. The only reliable one is probably Hide Kitagawa who wrote the script.

But it was such a hastily put together team that produced a blockbuster film with a cost of only 1000 million yen and a box office of 5.6 million yen!
If you say it has nothing to do with Kitagawa Hide's personal charm, Kawaide Shizuko doesn't believe it.

"Actually, I know that the sales this time are not bad. But everyone, this is far from enough." Kitagawa Hide looked up at them, "If we are only satisfied with not being defeated by Kodansha, then Kawade Shobo will never be able to truly get rid of the embarrassing situation of being the last.

When I first met President Kawade last year, I said that I would make Wen Yi surpass Qun Xing and no longer be at the bottom of the list.

At that time, almost no one thought we could do it, but at the end of the year, we did it.

So it's the same this time.

Now let's start the counterattack!
In this competition, we must not only crush the conspiracy of Kodansha and Bungeishunju, but also completely trample them under our feet!
Let "Wenyi" become a pure literature magazine second only to "Xinchao"! "

(End of this chapter)