Chapter 47: The Cultural Work of the Elders
The reason why Wu Ming printed Dream of Red Mansions is very simple, in order to be famous.
Dream of Red Mansions is such a great book, the Ming Dynasty has four strange books, these four books are "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West" and "Golden Bottle Plum" These four novels, but in the Qing Dynasty, "Dream of Red Mansions" squeezed out "Golden Bottle Plum" to the top of the list and became one of the four famous novels, which can be said to be very good.
After all, Wu Ming is an elder who graduated from the history department on the spaceship, and the reason why he carried out this interstellar trip, to say farther, is actually related to Zhao Jiaren's father, the "big man", who knows which lackey suggested to him that he should erect statues in the major mining star colonial galaxies or the remains of the statues of the four presidents similar to Mount Rushmore in the United States, to commemorate the great leader of the past, the former leader who suddenly led social progress with new technology and led mankind into space since 2016.
The devil knows what's going on, so the government summoned a group of artists, carvers, and some historians to study how to carve the great people of the country, how to carve the plan, Zhao Jiaren's father has not been on the tour for a long time, and in fact he is about to go to the next location for inspection, if not......
Wu Ming also settled down, and carefully looked at this improvised novel, the first volume of Dream of Red Mansions, a total of ten chapters, Wu Ming plans to take his time, a total of 12 volumes, and finish all the 120 chapters, the above is a very good-looking regular script, written "Dream of Red Mansions", written by Wu Mingzi.
This is his pen name, thinking of this, Wu Ming felt that his waist was straighter, and said to the foreman of the printing house: "Very good, this handwriting is very clear, the quality of the paper is very good, after printing 3,000 books, you don't have to be busy, spend your time printing those Anmin notices, as well as brochures, wait until the Dragon Boat Festival, and then find a few days, I will estimate the heat, and then study how to put the following novels, don't worry." ”
The foreman was a little stunned, and said: "My lord, this matter of printing books cannot be delayed, and those Jiangxi businessmen are the best at reprinting." ”
Wu Ming said nonchalantly: "Let him pirate, the rest of the one hundred and ten chapters are all in my ...... Well, it's all here with me, where did he steal it, hunger marketing is amazing, you don't understand, I'll tell you, it's amazing. ”
The foreman was submissive, and these strongmen who had occupied the palace commanded, he naturally did not dare to delay, and immediately called a few young men, and pushed the 3,000 copies of "Dream of Red Mansions" out of the printing house on a cart, and sent them to the booksellers in the capital who had already been contacted by a group of laborers, and as for how these people planned to sell them, it was none of the foreman's business.
Wu Ming naturally has his own overall sales plan, and his set is nothing new, as I said before, hunger marketing, you know, when the Dream of Red Mansions was the hottest, a businessman's daughter was fascinated by the Red Mansion, and she was bedridden, and her father burned the book in a fit of rage, and she cried bitterly and said: "Why burn my Baoyu!" "There is also a man who is a man who burns incense and prays at home every day...... One day, he pulled out the incense, walked out of the door, and said that he was going to Lihattian to find Daiyu, and then disappeared for several days......
These are all diseases, and they must be cured.
As long as you wait until the second and third volumes start to be published, the money will not be brushed, and when the time comes, you will be the publisher, and you will follow the practice of those black-hearted publishers in later generations, what kind of drawing rare novels, the great writer Wu Mingzi personally signed the novel, hardcover edition, collector's edition, all kinds of ways to get it, although according to the vote of the people, as the host, he can only get 20% of the profits, and he has to hand over most of the small treasury to the presbyterian church and other things, of course, the elders have not yet issued currency, opened a bank, The so-called small vault can at most receive some worthless copper coins or silver taels, but unfortunately it is estimated that it is better to send someone to the gold mines in Australia to run a trip to the gold mines.
Of course, this is also approved by many people, although the approval point is different, Liang Cunhou nodded and praised, want to transform this new world, it is indispensable to conquer by force, but cultural export is also extremely important, you don't see, the garbage like a stick, is relying on hypocritical external propaganda, making a fuss, but well, why do millions of people have to rely on China not to go after the visa period.
However, surface work is also very important, and the dream of the Red Chamber, as a collection of the essence of Chinese culture a hundred years later, and the age is similar, and it is an overhead theme, compared to those other novels of the Qing Dynasty in terms of safety, as for you said to modify the original text, sorry, no one in the Presbyterian Council has this ability, and those who have this ability are all in the Academy of Social Sciences.
This is based on united front considerations.
Of course, the mainstream elders still look at the most important, the economic aspect, and it has been proved that whoever masters the trend of culture, especially pop culture, can grasp the pricing power of various products, and even the power of life and death of enterprises.
For example, the so-called horse bone powder, which is obviously of no nutritional value, is also considered by the brain-disabled Hahan clan to be a life-saving holy relic, and they worship it, which is simply ......
Anyone who makes a judgment without going through a double-blind test is a hooligan, Chinese pickles, wrapped in sticks, and then it becomes Oba pickles, which are frantically bought home by the rice, screaming anything, Oba shit refuses to eat, and what qualifications do you have to call yourself a diehard.
Well, that's what the elders think financially.
Of course, there are also some elders, who have been affected by various costume films for many years, Miss Qianjin's private lifelong back garden, and the film and television drama of eloping with the son, feel that they can package themselves as writers in various ways, many people know that they are scumbags like Hu Shi, "stallions" like Alexandre Dumas, but they have deceived a lot of little girls in this way, of course, this kind of thinking is very low, and almost no one communicates, that is, someone is secretly so YY.
Just when Wu Ming went to build his own path as a writer, as soon as he left, in the printing house, the foreman sneakily said to a man next to him: "Have you hidden the extra 100 copies I asked you to print?" ”
"Hide it, Dad, but what can it be used for?"
It turns out that the craftsmen of this era have been engaged in their father's profession for generations, your father is a blacksmith, you are a blacksmith, your father is a carpenter, you are a carpenter, passed down from generation to generation, never change, and it can be regarded as a lifelong employment in the old era.