I am a literary giant in Japan

Naoto Kan's secretary followed the crowd into the large conference room on the right side of the Ministry of Education's office area.

There were still more than ten minutes before this impromptu meeting was to start, and the large conference room was already packed with people.

It was the first time that the secretary saw so many people coming to the Ministry of Education's office. He was speechless and scared for a moment.

It turns out that Mr. Kitagawa’s influence in the political world is far beyond my imagination!
Fortunately, I did not confront the minister to the end, otherwise, given Mr. Kan Naoto's temper, there is a high probability that he would really let his confidant who has followed him for many years retire!
Moreover, Mr. Naoto Kan’s judgment on the current situation is correct!

Seeing this scene, he immediately reflected on his initial recklessness and arrogance.

Mr. Kan is right.

When it comes to things related to Mr. Kitagawa, you can never be too cautious!

Looking at the current situation of the Ministry of Education, this is not simply a question of whether to take sides or not. I am just being too careless.
After sorting out his complicated feelings, the secretary quickly perked up and took the task assigned by Naoto Kan as an important task from the bottom of his heart.

He quickly found several colleagues who worked in other departments among the crowded crowd.

After some inquiries, he finally understood the whole story.

After proposing to grade the latest issue of "Beichuan", Mr. Beichuan himself did not expect that voices of opposition would arise from within "Beichuan".

Among all the objections, the one who was the loudest and the most aggressive was Director Kazama of the Kazama family.

Not only did he threaten to override Mr. Beichuan's ideas and directly manipulate the publicity and promotion of "Beichuan", he even verbally insulted the editor-in-chief appointed by Mr. Beichuan in the "Beichuan" editorial department!
The secretary had also heard of the little-known girl who had a close relationship with Mr. Kitagawa.

It is said that she is the prototype of the little dancer "Kaoruko" in "The Dancing Girl of Izu", and it seems that she is also the heroine in the drama version!
There are also rumors that she is Mr. Beichuan's lost sister.

In short, there is no doubt that she is someone that Mr. Kitagawa values.

"No wonder Mr. Kitagawa was so angry about this."

After the secretary learned the details, he became even more frightened.

He originally thought that Director Kazama was just courting death, and that Teacher Kitagawa was just trying to flex his muscles for the right to speak.

If there were no irreconcilable conflicts, he felt there was no need to give up the Kazama Group so decisively.

After all, the Kazama Group has a very loud voice in Sapporo, not to mention that there are hundreds of thousands of voters in Sapporo who are actually inclined towards the New Democratic Party.

Just in the election within the New Democratic Party, whoever can win the love of these people will be able to sit firmly in the top spot.

But since this is the truth of the matter.

Furthermore, from the words of several contemporaries, it can be heard that after the local people in Sapporo learned that the Kazama Foundation intended to obstruct Mr. Kitagawa from publishing his new book, they became furious.

Abandoning the Kazama Group was not what he imagined, "sacrificing the pawn to save the king", but rather an extremely precise separation from the doomed people. What was wrong with that?
Of course, it is not ruled out that Mr. Kitagawa wants to take advantage of this incident to rectify his publishing houses and large companies.

Anyway, the fact that the latest issue of "Kitagawa" is going to be rated has become known to everyone in the political circles and high society, and Director Kazama who intended to block this proposal is doomed.

The discussion that is about to begin is not so much an approval and discussion meeting for the literary magazine rating system as it is a gathering of everyone to discuss how to amend the bill to better suit Mr. Kitagawa's wishes.

"Mr. Kitagawa is more than just a writer.

After the re-election of the House of Representatives and the Senate, Mr. Machimura, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, vowed that as long as he was in office, Mr. Kitagawa would always be a member of the Diet. "

A colleague who worked at the Ministry of Justice chuckled and whispered to him,

“You should know the Charity Group mentioned in The Crucible, right? It’s one of the money bags of your New Democratic Party.

But after provoking Mr. Kitagawa, it is said that even the Americans in the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office were alarmed, saying that it was an investigation into the Ci Ai Group, and there was no limit to the investigation! "

"Hiss——" The secretary was shocked again.

The problems of the Ci Ai Group have also made him very anxious recently.

As members of the New Democratic Party, who among us has not enjoyed the benefits brought by the Charity Group?
Now the Prime Minister and his cabinet seem determined to get to the bottom of the matter, and many of the party’s top brass have gone abroad to avoid the limelight.

Even so, the secretary did not think that the higher-ups would really overturn the charity group that Seiji Maehara was trying hard to protect.

After all, there are too many high-ranking political and business leaders who have vested interests in it. The Aum Shinrikyo incident has already driven away several prime ministers.

The same thing happened with the Ci Ai Group this time. It’s become a big deal, so someone has to take the blame, right?

But listening to what this colleague said, it seemed that things were far from as easy and simple as he had imagined.

"Teacher Kitagawa is such a scary man," he muttered, looking up at the new Minister of Culture, Arima Akira, a famous Japanese physicist, educator, and poet who was already 69 years old this year, as he walked into the conference room.

Oh no, another leader in the academic and political circles who is a brainless fan of Mr. Beichuan!
When he saw that Arima Lang personally came to preside over the meeting, he understood that the implementation of the literary magazine classification system was imperative and no one could stop it!

Kitagawa Hide, who was hailed as a "terrible man" by Naoto Kan's secretary, was frantically working on his manuscript at home.

I only started writing "The Crucible", "Children in the Dark" and "A Wonderful Journey" in January, and all three novels will be released and serialized this month, so it's actually quite busy.

The good response after the publication of "The Crucible" made Kitagawa Hide feel very happy, proving that even without the support of a perfect original work, he could still achieve very good results through some self-adaptation.

This shows that his writing ability is indeed improving steadily, and he is not just relying on plagiarism to make a living.

Of course, his continuous improvement and growth are also due to his years of reading and learning.

Most of the literary works in this world cannot be compared with those in the original time and space, but there are also many works worth learning and drawing lessons from.

Kitagawa Hide has never been idle. While understanding the literary world of this world, he is also studying the literary works of indigenous writers, hoping to draw some nourishment from them, or to verify them with famous works in the original history and extract something unique to his own.

Day after day, year after year, he strived to improve himself, and before he knew it, his actual writing level had entered the ranks of "upper-class writers".

This is what makes Kitagawa Hide happiest and what he thinks is the most worthy of celebration.

In addition, the success of "The Crucible" has also brought a lot of attention to the special group of deaf and mute people from all walks of life.

In 1999, when the Internet was not yet well developed and Japanese social media was basically controlled by the government and consortiums, it was actually very difficult to gain the support of public opinion.

This is why the man who asked Kaoru for help wasted half his life and was unable to successfully help the deaf and mute community speak out.

Their power is too small, their voices are too faint, and no one will pay attention to them. Now, as the situation develops, the petition of the Disabled Volunteer Association is also accepted by more and more ordinary people.

It can be said that even if the Charity Group does not collapse, the deaf and mute people who have been bullied by some people with ulterior motives will be able to receive a certain degree of respect and care.

Of course, Kitagawa Hide's goal is clear.

As long as the Charity Group is not destroyed and Seiji Maehara does not step down, he will not be done with the New Democratic Party and those senior politicians!
"Phew, I finally finished writing another 30,000 words. With these drafts in hand, I don't have to worry about not being able to continue writing the novel for the time being."

Kitagawa Hide closed the notepad windows of the three novels and let out a long sigh.

Thanks to the fact that he spent his previous life typing away at various papers and projects, his typing speed was extremely fast. Without getting stuck, he could easily write 5,000 words in an hour.

If he copied the original novel directly, Kitagawa Hide could even write 8,000 words in an hour!

Unfortunately, his creative ideas have gradually leaned towards his own thinking. Even for some plots that do not need major changes, he will consider them again and again and only start writing after careful consideration.

After all this, even if he stayed in the study all day, Kitagawa Hide could only write a little over 20,000 to 30,000 words.

This was the only point he was not satisfied with.

However, if these thoughts were to be exposed, I'm afraid all the writers in the world's literary world would curse him as the "King of Literature".

After finishing today's writing, Kitagawa Hide opened the Yahoo Japan Forum as usual to relax.

Ever since he became completely financially free thanks to the financial crisis, he had let Senhara Masato invest in various large companies and industries that he had heard of in his previous life.

When Yahoo Japan was first established, it was not very well-known. Kitagawa Hide took the opportunity to invest heavily before SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and successfully acquired 51% of the shares, making it completely his younger brother.

This is also the core reason why Beichuan Entertainment can now control both the online and offline literary criticism circles.

Today, the number of Internet users in Japan has exceeded 1000 million (with a total population of about 1.27 million). The Internet penetration rate is actually very good. The reason for its underdevelopment is that Internet cafes have not yet become popular, which is equivalent to being next door in the s.

Such a huge number of Internet users means that this is a huge market that has not yet been developed.

Beichuan Xiu didn't have a deep understanding of the Internet, so he could only tell the programmers of Beichuan Network whatever he could think of. How much they could understand and what they could accomplish depended on their own luck.

Now it seems that the Yahoo Japan Forum is operating quite well, and it already has a bit of the early flavor of the Baidu Tieba next door.

As usual, he clicked on the literature section and found that "The Crucible" really dominated the screen. The follow-up posts and reply posts were basically all cursing the inhumane Charity Group.

The troublemakers have already completely stripped the underwear of the Ci Ai Group, and Seiji Maehara has become a rat crossing the street that everyone on the Internet is shouting and beating.

The "Internet Law" these days does not prohibit netizens from opening the box. Now the principal of the Ci'ai School for the Deaf and Mute whose box was opened stayed indoors all day long, for fear of going out to buy vegetables. He was inexplicably shot eight times in the back and was finally defined as having committed suicide!

What makes Kitagawa Hide feel relieved is that although netizens are cursing, no one has done anything extreme yet, and it is still at the stage of "gentlemen use words but not actions."

Some more organized netizens started fundraising and charity activities in their posts, but online fraud has already appeared these days, and Kitagawa Hide quickly sent a text message to the head of Kitagawa Network, Murabayashi Kyohei, asking him and his team to pay attention to this matter.

Kyohei Murabayashi is a real workaholic. Once he receives the order, he immediately convenes a company meeting to motivate the employees, asking them to work overtime and solve the problem immediately!

On the other hand, after browsing a bunch of posts, Kitagawa Hide was shocked to find that there were no spoiler posts about the upcoming ratings of literary magazines on the Internet, which changed his view of Japanese politics a lot.

But it's not a good change, but a fearful change.

Having seen many funny things in Japanese politics in his previous life, he always felt that the politicians in this country were in name only and were all rotten fish and shrimp.

This time he specifically mentioned that he didn't want the matter to be leaked too early, and the political circles actually kept their promise and kept their mouths shut.

This ability to take action and execute should not be underestimated.

"Politicians are not all stupid. I just mentioned the grading system casually, and I didn't get many people to join in. But in the end, it caused a stir in the political and business circles, and I don't know how many strangers got involved.

These politicians are more cunning than one another, and they cannot be underestimated." Kitagawa Hide frowned, thinking that if he lived in Japan for a long time, he would have to consider not letting those with ulterior motives in the political circle to rip him off.

This group of wicked guys like to flatter others and then divide them up when the power is about to collapse.

Ichiro Tanizaki, who is still in prison, is the best example.

He has accumulated countless political connections over the years, but when the situation finally fell and the monkeys scattered, there were only people who took advantage of his misfortune, and no friends who came to his aid.

If you want to prevent the political circles from influencing you, then you should let them drive your own thorns into your midst.

"It seems like I have to find an opportunity to invite Naoto Kan to dinner." Kitagawa Hide had a good candidate in mind.

After making a mental note of this, Kitagawa Hide continued browsing the forum, and then saw a new post officially released by Xinwenxiang Publishing House.

Due to the extremely high popularity of "The Crucible", even though Xinwenxiang bought traffic, it was unable to get this post into the top ten. This situation must have made Xinwenxiang's public relations department very depressed.

The content of the post was very simple, saying that their newly introduced Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Evindt Johnson from Sweden, would serialize a new book in "New Literary Image" which would be released on the 15th.

The new book is titled "City in Darkness" and is accompanied by a panoramic view of Tokyo shrouded in darkness.

The fact that a top overseas writer is going to write a novel with Tokyo, Japan as the background will definitely trigger a frenzy of anticipation.

Xinwenxiang also understands this very well. The information pinned to the top is that Evander Johnson is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and it uses this to criticize Kitagawa Hide.

Because of previous incidents, Japanese people are actually not so interested in the Nobel Prize in Literature anymore.

However, the local Tanizaki Prize and Akutagawa Prize have become worthless, the newly emerging Kitagawa Prize has not yet been launched, and the domestic awards are not attractive, so everyone can only continue to focus on overseas.

Even if Arnault's incident further reduces the credibility of the Nobel Prize.

But as long as no new substitutes emerge, the Nobel Prize in Literature will remain the "Oscar" of the literary world.

Arnault and Kitagawa Hide were playing an off-course match, but this time, Event came to confront him head-on.

Only by comprehensively defeating a Nobel Prize winner in literature in terms of word-of-mouth, sales and other dimensions can Kitagawa Hide truly clear his name.

After reading this post, Beichuan Xiu, who originally wanted to take a break, felt a rare sense of urgency, opened the notepad again, and started writing! (End of this chapter)