I am a literary giant in Japan

Japan's economy continues to decline, and there seems to be no end in sight for housing and stock prices.

Whenever you want to take advantage of the opportunity to invest money to buy at the bottom, the real estate market and the stock market will bring you a big surprise, making your hard-earned money go down the drain.

Among the green stock prices on the stock exchange, the Industrial Central Bank, the only red stock, stood out.

After the Industrial Central Bank purchased the full copyright of "Hanzawa Naoki" for 120 billion yen and quickly received market feedback, a large number of investors followed the trend and flocked to the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange, which was once crowded with people but is now deserted, has finally seen a nationwide stock buying craze again.

The share price of Industrial Central Bank continued to rise after a large number of investors poured in, and the counter-growth situation also slightly boosted the market's confidence.

During this period, "bank", "bubble era" and "Naoki Hanzawa" became words constantly mentioned by countless people.

The sales of "Mass" have also been rising, and it seems that if they just grit their teeth, they will be able to break through the monthly sales mark of 100 million copies!
This is a popular literature magazine!
In the publishing industry, the status of this type of magazine is only slightly better than that of the miscellaneous magazines that specialize in light novels and mystery literature.

Not to mention competing in sales, even if pure literary magazines were placed side by side with them, the former would feel a little nauseous.

The success of "Mass" also gave publishers a hint that popular literature is not without a market. As long as the quality of the work is good enough, readers will still pay for it.

Now is an era of economic depression with economic downturn. No matter how arrogant you are or how much you like to act pretentiously, you can't go against money.

Various publishing houses followed suit and began intensively preparing for popular literature supplements under their respective main publications, determined to take advantage of the market heat following Dazhong next month.

Kawade Shobo also held an emergency meeting. Kitagawa Hide, one of the board members, did not attend. The directors argued fiercely, believing that Kawade Shobo should not stick to the old ways, but should, like Kitagawa Entertainment, branch out into more diverse areas and also produce popular literature and mystery literature.

Shizuko Kawaide just watched the group of people quarreling and performing in silence, as if she was watching a monkey show.

She knew the situation of Beichuan Entertainment better than anyone else, and she understood better than anyone that the success of this company mainly depended on that man with a keen eye.

If you want to reach the level of Beichuan Entertainment just by following the trend, it is simply a pipe dream!

Most people can't do what Kitagawa Hide can do!

If it were that simple, why hasn’t any writer successfully imitated the “Youth Trilogy” since it’s been on the market for nearly four years?
After some debate, Shizuko Kawaide made the final decision and rejected the idea of ​​establishing a corresponding supplement for popular literature.

Her reason is simple.

First, Kawaide Shobo’s main goal now is to expand its overseas presence, to be ahead of other publishing houses as much as possible, and to fully understand the overseas Japanese literature market.

Second, among popular literature magazines, there is currently no one that can compete with "Dazhong". If you enter the market at this time, you will just be cannon fodder, which is unnecessary.

Third, Mr. Beichuan himself did not come to the meeting, isn’t his attitude obvious enough?

The directors of the board were speechless. They had no real power now. The entire Kawaide Study was a place where Kawaide Shizuko had the final say. If she opposed it, no one could get anything done.

After the final decision on this matter was made, Kawaide Shobo issued a notice immediately, stating that it would only focus on pure literature and would not get involved in the popular literature market.

This has made those publishing houses that were eager to try even crazier!
I was originally worried that with Kitagawa Sensei in charge behind the scenes, some big move would happen at Kawaide Shobo, and that I would definitely not be able to beat the main character in the competition.

Now it seems that this piece of market cake is really going to be divided!
On May 5, the new issues of "Kitagawa" and "Shin Bunsho" were released, and the movies adapted from "Childhood Friends" written by Mayumi Aso and "Everything About Lily Chou-Chou" written by Shiro Dango were released simultaneously.

"Beichuan" has been silent for several issues, and there have been no better works recently, but relying on its previous accumulation, it has successfully stabilized its sales and has always been ranked third among pure literature magazines.

At the end of this issue, "Kitagawa" used an entire page to introduce Keigo Higashino's upcoming new book "White Night Walk".

It is said that Keigo Higashino will focus on seeking advice from Mr. Kitagawa on this book, and it is likely to become another milestone in his literary career.

Taking advantage of this popularity, the magazine sales increased a little.

As for "New Literature and Art", those half-dead old guys have gradually lost their market appeal.

A large part of the market that originally belonged to them was monopolized by Kitagawa Hide alone, a small part was taken by emerging writers, and the last small part has now been lost to popular literature.

The distance between "Xinwenxiang" and "Beichuan" is getting smaller and smaller, while the distance between it and "Wenyi" is getting bigger and bigger.

The original intention of establishing Xinwenxiang Publishing House was to allow all publishing houses that were crushed by Kitagawa Hide to huddle together for warmth, so as to survive the economic winter and fight back.

Now, the new project has failed again.

However, Xinwenxiang Publishing House was not like Shinchaosha, which had a heavy idol burden. After seeing that the momentum was not good, the management and the board of directors immediately reached a consensus and learned from Dazhong to open many publishing houses related to popular literature.

Not only that, they also simply found many new authors, imitating "Hanzawa Naoki" and wrote a lot of novels on financial and banking themes.

These novels popped up like mushrooms after a rain, making Kitagawa Hide himself laugh and cry.

Because only the prologue and the first two chapters of "Hanzawa Naoki" have been serialized so far, and these imitations have to speed up serialization and updating in order to attract attention, so after copying the original work, they had to adapt it themselves, and wrote various stories about "Hanzawa" entering the bank.

Without exception, these imitations all wrote their sequels in the simplest and crudest way, and none of them came close to the original plot.

However, thanks to the popularity of "Hanzawa Naoki", the sales of these imitations are also very good, and some of them are even well-known among readers.

There is no way. Mr. Kitagawa's serialization speed is not fast enough. Readers want to read it again after finishing it, so they can only use these meal substitutes to satisfy their cravings temporarily.

1998 5 Month 18 Day.

The reading craze sparked by "Hanzawa Naoki" has not completely subsided yet, and the new issue of "Wenyi" has made readers who are still in the afterglow of the climax crazy again.

Because this issue of "Literature and Art" will serialize another new book written by Mr. Beichuan!

At the opening ceremony of Beichuan Entertainment’s new building last month, Mr. Beichuan said that he would write novels in both the popular literature and pure literature tracks.

If anyone else had said this, they would have been criticized by people in the industry.

But after hearing what Teacher Beichuan said, everyone could only believe and look forward to it!
On the same day, the Swedish Academy sent the shortlist for the new Nobel Prize in Literature.

As the vice president of the Japan Literature Society, Kitagawa Hide was invited by the president, Niwa Fumio, to watch the show in the secret room.

As expected, Hidekazu Kitagawa's "Norwegian Wood" was not selected.

The Arno couple showed him through their actions what literary cliques are, what it means to have absolute power, and what it means for Western culture to discriminate against Eastern culture.

Kitagawa Hide had anticipated this. After all, when he was on the phone, hearing the tone of Ma Yueran and others, he knew that there was a high probability that he would not be able to bring down Arnault.

Not only that, the news that Ma Yueran and three other Nobel Prize in Literature lifetime judges withdrew from the nomination also caused a sensation in the world literary world.

Writers and practitioners in the literary field who were of sufficient status soon saw the fishy thing from this new shortlist.

Kitagawa Hide, who attracted everyone's attention last year and almost became the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and almost won all the three major literary awards in the world, has been targeted!

Not only did I fail to win the award this time, I wasn’t even included in the shortlist!

You know, "Remembrance of Things Past" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude" written by Hide Kitagawa last year and "The Old Man and the Sea" written this year have all been rated as outstanding overseas works of the year.

The first book set off a reading craze in France, solidifying Kitagawa Hide's status as a Goncourt Prize winner. The second and third books were a huge hit in various states in the United States, allowing him to easily win the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.

Now all that’s missing is the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A literary giant who was only 26 years old, it sounds very epoch-making.

Then the fire of hope among everyone was extinguished by the Arnaults.

The Arnault private club they run represents the dark side of the world literary world. These people are equally powerful and have a high degree of overlap with some of the dignitaries who later visited Lolita Island.

After these people stood on the opposing side, even Kitagawa Hide had to be kept in his position.

Who makes Japanese literature dispensable in world literature?

Fumio Niwa was so angry that he was fuming, while Osamu Takeuchi and others directly used their status as university professors to write a joint letter to publicly protest against the shady practices of the Swedish Academy.

Soon, news came from the Swedish Academy:

They denied any shady dealings and disqualified Kitagawa Hide, Takeuchi Osamu and Niwa Fumio as nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The reason is that the Japanese Literary Society was suspected of leaking the shortlist for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

At this time last year, people like Ichiro Tanizaki who had committed similar acts were like rats crossing the street, and everyone was shouting and beheading them.

But this time, after Kitagawa Hide and the other two were disqualified, there was a chorus of applause in Japan, with people cheering for them and expressing their indignation.

The Swedish Academy also "sanctioned" Kitagawa Hide, publicly stating that his violations were contrary to literary ethics and banned him from running for the Nobel Prize in Literature for the next five years.

This act of putting the blame on someone else completely angered everyone associated with Kitagawa Hide.

Shizuko Kawaide immediately announced that Weng Yi would withdraw from the Norwegian and Swedish markets forever.

A large number of Japanese literary magazines followed closely behind.

Of course, Japanese literature accounts for almost zero percent of both countries, so no one cares.

But at the same time, Japan's six major financial groups also stated that they would consider moving some companies and factories out of Norway and Sweden.

They may leave Northern Europe and head to the six civet countries.

Japanese companies have a relatively large scale overseas, especially Toyota and other automakers, which still have a large market share in Northern Europe.

Now the Norwegian and Swedish governments are a little panicked.

However, such a withdrawal would also be a huge loss for the six major conglomerates. Of course, they did not really withdraw, and they are still issuing announcements to express their stances, which seem to be threatening and supporting Kitagawa Hide.

Kitagawa Hide didn't believe that these big companies would give up the Nordic market just for him - that was a market worth trillions of yen. In comparison, he was just a small Karami.

However, it is good that the six major financial groups can make such a statement for themselves.

The Japanese are pretty good in this regard.

Their respect for writers is truly like worshipping gods, rather than just calling them "national teachers" in lip service.

He was bullied overseas, these people are really mean!

The Nobel Prize Council didn't pay any attention to these little things.

Their focus is on core awards such as physics and chemistry. Literature is ultimately a hobby of the rich and cannot shake the foundation of society.

But Japan's reaction was unexpectedly strong, and the literary circles of other countries also jointly protested, which surprised the Nobel Prize Council, which then investigated the whole matter.

On May 5, a large number of board members of the Swedish Academy came to hold an emergency meeting on the matter.

Back in Tokyo, Japan, the public relations and publicity departments of Kawaide Shobo cleverly used this incident as bait and publicized it extensively, attracting more readers' attention to this issue of "Wenyi".

[Teacher Kitagawa does not need the recognition of foreigners, just focus on our Japanese literature! 】

[New work by Mr. Kitagawa——Deconstructing the current situation of Tokyo people from a different perspective! 】

All kinds of strange banners were hung on the streets of Shinjuku.

The president of the Sumiyoshi-kai, Shigeo Nishiguchi, is still the same. I can’t understand Mr. Kitagawa’s book when I read it, but I have to buy it!

And not only do they buy, they also have to help promote it!
I don't know where he heard the news from, but when he learned that Teacher Beichuan was bullied by a foreigner, he was very angry and slammed the table to help Teacher Beichuan!

From May 5th, all Nordic tourists are prohibited from entering the custom shops in Kabukicho, Shinjuku - if any shop dares to violate the regulations and accept customers, the little yellow-haired people of the Sumiyoshi-kai will arrive in three minutes to smash the place up, and their attack speed is faster than the police!
Not only that, all the colorful neon signs in Kabukicho were turned off, and replaced with red and white signs that looked like dead people, all flashing the same slogan.

Foreign tourists who had made the effort to come to Kabukicho were stunned after seeing this scene.

Isn’t it said to be the hottest red-light district in Southeast Asia?
Red is good, but the white is visible through the red, it looks like the mother is dead!
August 5 at noon.

Tetsutarou Mori and Hiroshi Yamaguchi got out of a luxury car.

Seeing the red and white Kabukicho, Hiroshi Yamaguchi tightened the collar of his suit, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he followed forward helplessly.

He really didn't want to get involved with the not-so-bright Shigeo Nishiguchi.

These gangsters are either simple-minded and strong-limbed, or simply have no brains at all.

People think that the yakuza in TV dramas are a bit too dramatic, but in fact, they are even stupider in the real world.

There is no way!
He still has to come when it comes to matters concerning Teacher Beichuan.

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing?" Several extreme young men suddenly jumped out from the side.

The biker gang and the yellow-haired guy's outfit made Yamaguchi Hiroshi even more unhappy.

“I am a national lawyer.”

"I don't care who you are! Have you bought the latest issue of "Wenyi"?"

"I have not"

"Go, go, go, turn left here. There is a book stand in front of a brothel. Buy some magazines and read Tokyo People before you are allowed to enter Kabukicho to shop and play."

The gangster boy wielding a baseball bat picked his nose and pointed impatiently at a bookstall not far away.

"Is Nishiguchi-san crazy?"

Looking at these young people and other tourists who were stopped outside, Yamaguchi Hiroshi felt like he was back in the post-war martial law era! (End of this chapter)