I am a literary giant in Japan

Kitagawa Hide's initial judgment was that any one of the three books, "The Crucible", "Children in the Dark" and "A Wonderful Journey", was not enough to compete with his competitors.

That's why he decided to make a big move in January, directly publishing his three novels in "Dazhong", "Beichuan" and "Wenyi" respectively, using a combination of punches to deal with Maehara Seiji and others and Shinbunxiang Publishing House.

In order to make the novel more coherent, with a clear and progressive theme, Kitagawa Hide designed a trilogy.

Unexpectedly, after the release of "The Crucible", it caused a sensation in Japan, and the response to the novel far exceeded his expectations.

The following "Children in the Dark" was like a cheat code. Even though the domestic sales system was implemented in a tiered manner, it still managed to firmly occupy the top spot on the magazine sales list.

It also became a big hit in Thailand!
Not only have all Kitagawa Hide's worries been put to rest, but the trilogy concept may also push the heights of these three novels to a higher level!

In short, after discovering that Kitagawa Hide had his own set of progressive logic for the trilogy, Saito Rena decisively gave up all doubts and chose to unconditionally support his ideas——

This is the tacit understanding between the two after four years of long-term cooperation. A glance is enough to make the other party understand what they mean.

After quickly finalizing "A Wonderful Journey", Rena Saito got up and ran to the publicity and promotion department to discuss matters related to tomorrow's serialization of the novel with the staff there.

Kitagawa Hidenori left the meeting room, turned a corner and went straight to the small room where Sakai Izumi and Nagato Daiyuki were.

The door was half-open, and through the gap one could see Nagato Daiko trying to persuade Izumi Sakai with all his heart.

"I'm not saying anything bad about you, Quanshui. Although Mr. Beichuan is usually very busy, he definitely has time to eat.

You have to seize the opportunity and ask Mr. Beichuan out for dinner or something like that. You can't always wait for him to ask you out."

"But Mr. Kitagawa has already..." Izumi Sakai lowered his head and rubbed the corner of his clothes.

Nagato Daiyuki had a look of disappointment on his face, and was about to tell her that there is no such thing as a cat that doesn't steal fish, but before he could open his mouth, the door of the conference room was pushed open by Kitagawa Hide.

"Teacher Kitagawa?" Nagato Daiyuki forced himself to hold back the words.

Thinking that the previous conversation might have been heard by Kitagawa Hide, his face turned slightly red and he felt a little embarrassed.

"Good afternoon, President Nagato. If there's nothing else, I'll borrow the spring water to have lunch."

Kitagawa Hide greeted Nagato Daiyuki with a smile and a friendly look, not at all like someone who had heard something he shouldn't have heard.

But Nagato Daiko, who was quite familiar with Kitagawa Hideto, knew that this was a sign before Kitagawa teacher got angry.

In the entertainment industry, Hideichi Kitagawa has always been known for his good communication and interaction skills.

Beichuan Entertainment also has good relations with many artists in the entertainment industry and has had many pleasant collaborations.

But all of this is based on the premise that Mr. Kitagawa will not be angered or annoyed.

In his previous literary battles with several "world's best", Kitagawa Hide had clearly demonstrated his temper.

If someone steps on his minefield, he will make the other person pay at all costs!
"Ah, ah, it's okay, I just came to talk to Quanshui about the upcoming concert. If Mr. Beichuan is hungry, you guys can go eat first!
The company's affairs are not important and there is no rush."

The cold sweat on Nagato Daiyuki's back was almost soaking his shirt.

He is an old fox in the Japanese entertainment industry and has more contact with larger capitals. Therefore, he understands the scale of Beichuan Entertainment and the entire Beichuan Group better than ordinary bosses.

In the eyes of most people, Mr. Kitagawa is probably just the top writer who leads the Japanese literary world with his writing and earns more than 100 billion yen in annual royalties and royalties.

Taking into account his status as a member of parliament and president of several companies, his annual income is estimated to exceed 300 billion yen.

This income is indeed considerable, but it is dwarfed by that of many Japanese domestic conglomerates.

But in fact, according to Daiyuki Nagato, the total assets of the Kitagawa Group have exceeded 1 trillion yen!

Its size alone is enough to rank among the upper-middle class financial groups in Japan.

Several companies under the Beichuan Group are still thriving, and their ability to attract money is among the best in their respective fields, in addition to the personal wealth accumulated by Mr. Beichuan.
This is definitely not something that any ordinary entertainment company can claim!
Nagato Daiyuki didn't want to offend Mr. Kitagawa because of some small thoughts and then completely lose his job in the industry.

After he bowed tactfully and left, Kitagawa Hide put away his smile and extended his hand to call Sakai Izumi to go downstairs with him.

The weak Sakai Izumi is not stupid. From the attitude shown by the president, it can be seen that Mr. Kitagawa is far more capable than she imagined.

It's the kind of power that is powerful enough to scare even a big boss like the president.

This made her even more unwilling to trick Mr. Kitagawa according to the "accidental event" planned by the president.

Her admiration for Mr. Kitagawa was greater than her liking for him. Seeing Mr. Kitagawa and Miss Mengzi living happily and harmoniously, she was also very happy and did not feel very sad.

In her heart, as long as she could always watch Teacher Beichuan from afar, secretly pray for him, and help him with some insignificant little favors, it would be enough!

"Be content with what you have, Sachiko Kamachi." She said this to herself secretly in her heart.

The two of them left the Kawaide Shobo headquarters building side by side.

I met many employees of "Wenyi" along the way. Each of them seemed to be full of energy. Just as Saito Rena said, they were not afraid of working overtime, nor did they resent working overtime because of Kitagawa Hide's book.

After seven or eight years of painstaking management by Shizuko Kawaide, Kawaide Shobo has really become a big family, with everyone working hard for this common home!
Kitagawa Hide personally likes the atmosphere of Kawaide Shobo very much, which is why he is willing to let Kawaide Shizuko's "airborne paratroopers" intervene in the internal affairs of "Mass" and "Kitagawa".

Unfortunately, by the middle of this year, the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will issue a new decree to "formally liberalize dispatched workers in Japan."

After the full implementation of this policy, most companies will take advantage of this policy to carry out a comprehensive purge of their internal employees.

The so-called dispatched labor refers to the "labor dispatch model", that is, the "temporary worker and contract worker model" that neighboring enterprises and institutions are most skilled in.

Before 1996, even though the Japanese labor market encountered a huge impact from the bursting of the bubble economy, it still adhered to the model of "lifetime employment system" and "seniority system" and gave preferential treatment to applicants.

But after 96, Japan's academic qualifications depreciated significantly, society entered a "period of disorderly employment", and the market spontaneously carried out a round of reforms.

In the early days of reform, the market independently abolished the campus recruitment system that was once popular, and replaced it with a cruel model that allowed recent graduates and people from the society to compete together.

In the later period of reform, the labor dispatch system gradually emerged and was gradually tacitly approved by the government and trade unions.

It is worth noting that the labor dispatch system in 96 was limited to 26 types of jobs, and had limited impact on society and the public. Medium- and high-paid technical jobs such as editors and regular employees of publishing houses were definitely not within the scope of the labor dispatch system.

However, this new policy decree in the middle of this year will directly cancel the job type restrictions of the labor dispatch system and treat all jobs equally!
This is the evolution of the market and has nothing to do with personal will.

Once the government order is fully implemented, a large number of companies will inevitably follow suit and reduce labor costs.

As bosses have more money in hand, they will invest it into the company to further improve the company's competitiveness.

Other companies will also be forced to roll up when the business environment becomes tough.

At the end of the craze, it will definitely not be a victory for the workers, but a lose-lose situation for capital, workers and the market!

Leading companies like Hechu Shobo and Beichuan Entertainment will be affected to a slightly smaller extent and their reform pace will be slightly slower, but they will definitely not be able to survive against the trend.

Of those who now greet Kitagawa Hide with a smile, about half will inevitably become "contract workers" without lifelong security.

By then, the entire literary market and publishing industry will be severely impacted, and the so-called competition for the top publishing houses will become a complete joke.

When one is poorly clothed and hungry, internal strife will hasten death.

If Kitagawa Hide remembers correctly, after the implementation of this round of government decrees, the graduating students in recent years have fallen into the dilemma of employment involution and have had to face a more intense competitive environment.

With the abolition of the campus recruitment system, fixed campus recruitment time no longer exists, which forces students to look for job opportunities in advance.

Some students even join internship programs of major companies during their freshman year, and from freshman to senior year, almost every student is preparing for future employment.

Hide Kitagawa still remembers seeing an old clipping from the Nikkei newspaper when he was a graduate student, which described this situation as an "employment arms race."

Then, at the turn of the millennium, a wave of research swept across society.

In such an environment, many job seekers tend to only focus on whether they can find a job and ignore the importance of salary level.

Due to the excessive internalization of college students’ employment, there is even a saying that “college students are slaves.”

All this has been going on since 1999 until 2020, and Japan has never completely gotten out of this vicious circle.

As a time traveler, Kitagawa Hide knows the best way to solve this problem.

That is, before things become irreversible, we should first expand employment and jobs, and use newly emerging industries to absorb the excess unemployed population.

In the original history, Japan relied on the high-tech industry and the entertainment industry, step by step, and it took nearly three decades to resolve this major problem.

What’s funny is that just as the employment problem has been solved, the more serious problems of population aging and declining birth rate have emerged.

After lamenting the difficult situation in the future, Kitagawa Hideya probably thought of some ways to protect the people around him.

Previously, he had entered the e-reading and new-age light novel industries in order to inject fresh blood into the almost stagnant publishing and literary circles.

I hope that by then these things will be able to prevent "Wenyi", "Beichuan" and "Dazhong" from being affected too much by the policies!
Beside him, Izumi Sakai followed Kitagawa Hide closely, like a well-behaved little wife.

She saw Kitagawa Hide sometimes frowning, sometimes looking relieved, and sometimes worried, and she couldn't help but become nervous too.

It would be great if I could share some of the pressure with Mr. Kitagawa.
Izumi Sakai quietly clenched her fists and decided to spend more time and effort on the theme song of "Children in the Dark"!
1999 1 Month 18 Day.

The first issue of "Literature and Art" this year has finally come out after much anticipation.

Since 1997, Wen Yi has maintained an enterprising attitude of making small revisions every six months, major revisions every year, and complete revisions every three years, to ensure the magazine's fashionability and novelty at all times.

At the beginning of this year, Kawaide Shobo has continuously launched various concept collections and setting collections, showing the design concept and direction of the new version of "Wenyi" to readers.

At the suggestion of Hide Kitagawa, the cover of "Wenyi" was changed from a realistic style to an anime cartoon style that is more popular among young people.

The cover of the January issue of "Wenyi" is a cartoon drawn by the famous painter and animation master Hayao Miyazaki.

Miyazaki’s painting style is quite warm, which matches well with this issue’s main theme, “A Wonderful Journey” which is also beautiful and warm.

The idea of ​​the whole cartoon comes from Hide Kitagawa, a pure girl drawing under a parasol.

This was actually a creative reference to the poster of "The Wind Rises".

Anyway, the original author is Hayao Miyazaki, so it doesn’t count as plagiarism if you copy yourself!

As soon as the new cover was released, the fresh and unworldly "Wenyi" instantly stood out among a bunch of serious and gloomy literary magazines and was seen by many people at the first time.

The graded sales of "Beichuan" have made it difficult for young people under the age of 20 who want to watch "Children in the Dark" but cannot.

When "Wenyi" was released this time, they put in all their efforts and rushed to the bookstore as soon as possible, and were instantly captured by the new cover!

“What a warm cover, what a beautiful design!”

Some elementary school girls bought several copies of "Literature and Art" with sparkling eyes.

"It's actually a painting by Mr. Hayao Miyazaki! I thought he really stopped painting!" a high school girl whispered.

After the release of "Princess Mononoke" in 1997, Miyazaki Hayao has not produced any new works.

On January 1 last year, he also announced his official withdrawal from Studio Ghibli and set up a new studio called "Pigsty" nearby, where he only participated in less tiring work in animation production, such as screenwriting and character setting.

There are rumors in the industry that Hayao Miyazaki is going to retire and stop working.

I didn’t expect that after two years of silence, he would make a comeback and join forces with Mr. Kitagawa!
The joint production of two masters in their respective fields has made countless people look forward to "A Wonderful Journey".

Three days ago, "Beichuan" and "Xinwenxiang" were just released, and everyone was still immersed in these two dark pure literary novels.

Now, all the sales counters in all bookstores are filled with "Literature and Art". The other two magazines are nowhere to be found! (End of this chapter)