Chapter 4545 [Update 1]
Local magazines in the north are usually concentrated in major newsstands. Since Wuxia has no channels in the north, this time it followed the publishing house of Dasong and distributed it in major regular bookstores and libraries.
People who have read the book published in "The Great Song Dynasty" want to know the next plot and rush to buy "Wuxia" magazine.
Because the "Wuxia" magazine was sealed in a transparent plastic bag and could not be opened for reading, they had no choice but to buy it.
Some people could not finish reading the book in one go in the bookstore, so they bought the book and went home to read it. After finishing reading, they returned to the bookstore and learned that there was a subsequent series in the "Wuxia" magazine. Some people bought the magazine directly in the bookstore. Some people thought that there was a newsstand near their home, and thinking that buying the magazine at the newsstand might be a little cheaper, they went to the newsstand near their home to buy it.
I went to the newsstand to ask, but they didn't have "Wuxia".
“It’s the martial arts series that serializes the story of ‘My Time as a Constable in the Song Dynasty’. I think it’s sold in any bookstore!” Seeing that he couldn’t buy it at the newsstand, he had no choice but to go to the bookstore closest to his home, and sure enough, there it was.
After hearing about Wuxia, the people at the newsstand also went to inquire about the magazine.
In fact, it's not that "Wuxia" has no sales in the north. It's just that the base camp of "Wuxia" is in Guangzhou, Nanshi and Shanghai, and the market it radiates is also based in these three places, so the impact on the north is very small.
But as long as people are moving around, they will pass on some information to each other.
However, "Wuxia" declined in the 1990s, its top authors were poached, and employees were frequently transferred, resulting in the serialized martial arts novels in "Wuxia" not being as good as before. The market shrank, and the magazine was not selling well. Naturally, merchants in the north would not subscribe to "Wuxia". In addition, there were many magazines with extremely high sales in the northern market, which led to many readers in the northern market being completely unaware of "Wuxia".
Now someone comes to them to buy "Wuxia". Since there is a demand, they will naturally go to look for it and also go to the bookstore to buy a copy of "Wuxia". To see what magazine it is, some of them buy "Da Song" together.
Such scenes occurred in many places in the north.
Jiang Ning thought that the first print run was 100,000, so there should be no need to reprint more. After all, in the era she lived in later, paper books were greatly impacted by electronic books, and a book with sales of 50,000 or 100,000 was considered a bestseller. Unexpectedly, because of the serialization of "The Great Song" in "Wuxia" and the publishing of the book, the sales of "The Great Song" in the south were directly boosted. Of the 100,000 first print runs, only half was allocated to the southern market and was digested in one go.
Even the publishing house did not expect that the sales of "The Great Song" would be so good, and they urgently contacted Wang Yong to sign a contract with Jiang Ning for additional printing.
Some publishing houses, after signing a publishing contract and the first print run with the authors, usually print an additional 100,000 or 200,000 copies of the book after it has sold out, because the authors are not familiar with the market data. The authors themselves are kept in the dark and have no idea that the publishing houses are secretly printing additional copies without their knowledge.
But the publishing house that Director Li chose this time has in-depth cooperation with their magazine, and this time they are working together for mutual benefit. You provide channels to help me enter the northern market, and I provide a platform to use their magazine's influence to help you promote in the south. In this case, the publishing house wants to conceal the number of reprints from Jiang Ning, but it is impossible to do so.
They hadn't signed the contract for additional printing with Jiang Ning yet, but they had already signed the quantity of additional printing with the printing factory and rushed to print more books. By the time Jiang Ning signed the contract and sent it over, the additional books he had printed were already on the market.
With the hot sales of books published by "Da Song" in the north, "Wuxia" finally successfully entered the northern market.
Director Li found out that "Justice Bao" has a total of 236 episodes. Before "The Great Song" was serialized in "Wuxia", "Bao" had already been popular on TV for quite some time. Now "The Great Song" is in its eighth episode in "Wuxia". Another two months have passed. According to the current broadcast speed of "Bao" of two episodes a day, Director Li estimates that "Bao" will be completed and taken off the air by New Year's Day at the latest.
By then, the popularity of "Bao" will inevitably decline with the release of the new TV series.
Although "The Song of Greatness" seems to be very popular now and has boosted the sales of "Wuxia", no one can guarantee whether "The Song of Greatness" can still maintain its current popularity after "Bao" is taken off the air.
Director Li, who personally did the publicity plan for "The Song of Great Song", knew very well that the publicity of "The Song of Great Song" was just riding on the popularity of "Bao". Even the character on the waistband was directly drawn by the artist based on the image of Zhan Zhao.
Director Li has always been worried that the popularity of "The Great Song" will decline, and the sales of "Wuxia" will also decline, and the magazine will face the possibility of being cancelled at any time, which is definitely not what he wants to see.
Now that the northern market has been opened, Director Li no longer has to worry about the magazine being closed down. After all, the northern market alone can increase their sales by at least 500,000 copies a month, and as they further expand in the northern market, sales will inevitably rise.
A branch of the magazine was also opened in Jinshi. Due to too many personnel transfers in the Guangshi branch, only Director Li and Editor-in-Chief Bao were left who could truly take charge of the overall situation. Editor-in-Chief Bao was also responsible for magazine editing and controlling the overall content of "Wuxia". Director Li had to go to Jinshi in person to take charge and build up the team there first, and then return to Guangshi after recruiting a suitable editor-in-chief and editing team.
All of this brought Jiang Ning real income in the savings book. With this money, she could take her grandfather to see a doctor, and she would have money to pay taxes when applying for a real estate certificate in Shanghai.
All the procedures in Shanghai have been completed. She just needs to go to the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau to pay the taxes and then she can get the certificate.
Jiang Ning didn’t have time before, but with the release of "The Great Song", New Year’s Day is approaching.
Senior high school students only have one day off on New Year's Day, sophomores have two days off, but freshmen have three days off.
She planned to take advantage of the New Year's Day holiday and ask her class teacher for another day off to take her grandfather to have his chronic diseases and geriatric diseases checked out, have him take medicine and recuperate, and also settle the issue of the real estate certificate. If time permits, she also wanted to go to Guangshi and personally visit the clothing and shoe factories there, then negotiate with them about purchasing goods and quickly get the store set up.
Because she has not been home, she is not sure whether the work of the forest ranger will start and end on New Year's Day. If it ends on New Year's Day, after bringing grandpa back from Shanghai on New Year's Day, she will not have to go back and can just leave grandpa in Wucheng. By then, the storefront will have been rented, the money will have been paid, the goods will have been laid out, and they will just be waiting for someone to help sell the goods. Even if Grandpa Jiang is forced to do something he has to stay.
This does have the implication of kidnapping, but there is no way. Through normal communication, it is impossible for Grandpa Jiang to give up his job as a forest ranger. He has been doing this for so many years. In a situation where it is so difficult to find a job in the countryside, he can have a stable job and get a high salary of nearly one thousand yuan every year. This is a good thing that others can't even think of. How could Grandpa Jiang be willing to give up his job and come to Wucheng where he is unfamiliar with the place?
But she had to keep her grandfather with her.
Grandpa died from a fall.
He fell that afternoon. In the evening, his grandmother called them and said he was fine and they didn't need to come back. But in the evening, he was gone.
He walked very fast, so fast that none of them could react in time.
Except for my uncle and aunt, no one from the younger generation is left in my hometown.
No one saw Grandpa Jiang for the last time.
Jiang Ning simply couldn't believe it, nor could he accept it.
She could never understand how a person could die just by falling down.
Mountain terrain is where it is easiest to fall.
When Jiang Ning went to ask for leave from Teacher Wang, Teacher Wang was very surprised: "The midterm exam is coming up soon, and you are asking for leave now? What is it that you can't go during the three-day New Year's Day holiday? Why do you have to go now?"
"What do you need leave for?"
In Teacher Wang's opinion, nothing is more important than examinations.
It is the duty of students to give way to exams.
Besides, there are three days off for New Year’s Day!
If he were to say, they wouldn’t even be given the three-day New Year’s Day holiday!
Stay in school and take extra classes for me!
I couldn't tell him about getting the real estate certificate and going to Guangshi to check the source of goods. I couldn't fool Teacher Wang by saying something about the essay competition like I did to Grandpa Jiang. All I could say was that I took Grandpa Jiang to see a doctor.
Jiang Ning also said so, and took out the physical examination report from the last National Day when he took Grandpa Jiang for a physical examination: "During the National Day, I took my grandpa to Shanghai for a physical examination, and found a lot of problems, but I never had time to take my grandpa to see a doctor. It's just right to take grandpa to see a doctor this weekend."
Teacher Wang didn't listen to her nonsense and asked her, "Where are your parents? Where are your grandfather's other children? They didn't take your grandfather with them, but wanted you, a child, to go to Shanghai to see a doctor?"
Jiang Ning: ... "They all went out to work and will not be back until the New Year."
"Those two days of leave are enough, why do you want another day off? No!"
Jiang Ning said slowly, "I went home, picked up grandpa from his hometown, and then transferred to Shanghai. It took a whole day. Last National Day, we arrived at the Shanghai Railway Station at midnight. We also had to find a place to stay. The next day, we went to the hospital for a physical examination. The physical examination report could not be issued in one day. Some took two or three days. On the third day, we had to rush back to attend evening self-study. Last time it was just a physical examination, and the physical examination report could be mailed to the school. This time, we are going to see a doctor. The time is too tight. It will take at least three days."
These are all true.
Although there were no fatal diseases in the physical examination report, Grandpa Jiang suffered from many old age diseases and illnesses caused by long-term malnutrition, so he also had to see a doctor. Jiang Ning had been concerned about this for a long time.
Jiang Ning always felt that his grandfather passed away so quickly because of his poor health.
Teacher Wang didn't want to approve Jiang Ning's leave, but according to Jiang Ning, he really needed to take leave. However, he still said reluctantly: "Why can't you go to the provincial capital to see a doctor, but have to go to Shanghai?"
It takes two hours to get from Wucheng to the provincial capital by car.
Jiang Ning said: "The medical conditions in Shanghai are better and the doctors are more skilled."
Teacher Wang thought for a moment and said, "It's not impossible for me to grant you a day off." He looked at Jiang Ning steadily, smiled, and said slowly, "Your progress in the last monthly exam was not bad. If you can still consistently rank in the top ten in the grade in this midterm exam, it's okay for you to take a day off."
There was expectation, encouragement, appreciation for students and joy at their academic progress in his eyes.
No teacher would dislike a hard-working and insightful student like Jiang Ning.
It’s not that he doesn’t ask for leave for students, he just hopes to ask for as little leave as possible.
He didn't know whether Jiang Ning's performance in the last monthly exam was a coincidence or whether he could continue to perform steadily.
Teacher Wang naturally hopes that she can perform consistently every time and be among the top ten in the grade. Can he even walk in the office with the wind?
Jiang Ning smiled without hesitation and said, "I'll try my best."
"It's not enough to just work hard, you have to make sure you can get in!"
How can Jiang Ning guarantee this? Before the results came out, Jiang Ning never made any guarantees for such loans. If he failed to do so, it would be a loss to his own credibility.
Teacher Wang said cunningly, "Then, on the day after the exam, I will find your test papers for each subject and have them graded for you. I will then look at your total score. If your total score reaches the score of the last monthly exam, I will grant you leave. If it does not, then you will definitely not get leave."
It’s fake, so we still have to criticize it, but in order to make students work harder, we still have to put pressure on them.
Jiang Ning said: "What if my score is lower than the last monthly exam, but my actual ranking is in the top ten in the grade?"
If there really was a total score from the last monthly exam, even if there was some error, the ranking in the whole grade would not be low. Teacher Wang simply said generously: "Then I will give you a margin of error within ten points. As long as the score is not less than ten points compared to the last score, I will give you leave!"
Unlike the usual weekly and monthly tests, the midterm exams of each semester will rank the entire grade. The top 200 students in the grade will be posted on the bulletin board at the bottom of the school. All students in the school can see their scores and rankings. Students can also clearly see whether they are making progress or regressing through the results of each major exam.
Just to take into account the self-esteem of students whose academic performance is not outstanding enough, the school will not post everyone's academic rankings, but they will be posted next to the blackboard of their respective classes. It will not be counted in the grade ranking, only the class ranking of their class.
The top 200 rankings are mainly based on the two key classes in each grade and the top 80 of the eight parallel classes below.
The number of places in the key class is not fixed. Students in the parallel class who have outstanding grades and surpass those in the key class can also enter the key class at the beginning of the new semester. Students in the key class whose grades drop too much will also be transferred to the parallel class.
Not every student can adapt to the teaching pace of key classes.
Some students cannot keep up in the key class, but once they arrive at the parallel class, they make rapid progress and even surpass the students in the key class. This is normal. However, once they enter the key class, their grades drop rapidly again.
So every year, there are students from key classes who drop to parallel classes, and their grades improve. The teachers ask the students and their parents whether they would like to be promoted to key classes or continue to stay in parallel classes, and they all choose to stay in parallel classes.
Posting of this ranking can also allow students from both classes of the key class to clearly see their current ranking in the school, and that there are students from the parallel class catching up, creating a sense of urgency that can pull you out of the key class at any time. This sense of urgency will urge them to study harder and make progress. Students in the parallel class will also see that their grades are getting closer to those of the key class, and have a goal to pursue.
If you work hard and try harder, you can get into the key class!
And in every exam, the scores of the students in the parallel classes I taught exceeded those of the key classes, and some even made it into the top 50 in the grade. I would even dare to think that they would be in the top 10 in the grade. This was the proudest thing for the teachers of the parallel classes.
This shows how proud Teacher Wang was when he met other teachers after the last monthly exam.
For a teacher like Wang who loves to show off, his class has one of the top ten students in the grade, but because the monthly exam results are not listed on the bulletin board, he is like a lonely person walking in the night in gorgeous clothes.
Jiang Ning actually doesn't feel any pressure. She still follows her own pace every day, reading books, doing exercises, and writing articles, doing her own things calmly and methodically.
Because she had to go to Shanghai again, she couldn't write the whole weekend and could only use these few days to write more for Wang Yong.
Sometimes she felt sorry for the editor Wang Yong, who came all the way from Guangzhou to the small county of Wucheng just to accompany her to the Internet cafe to write articles.
In fact, she now has enough manuscripts for "Wuxia". She writes them by hand every day, and they can be sent by email.
But he stayed and took care of things for her in her life that were inconvenient for her to do.
Jiang Ning even wanted to pay him a salary.
Because of the influence of the two markets of Nanshi and Shanghai on Wucheng, the magazine "Wuxia" is very popular in Wucheng. The students of No. 1 Middle School are locked up in school every day and cannot go out, so they don't feel it deeply. But in the surrounding schools, even primary school students are discussing "The Song Dynasty", guessing that the murderer of the case being serialized now is Shui.
"Ning Meng is really good at keeping people in suspense!"
Some students from No. 1 Middle School also secretly brought magazines into the dormitory, and everyone read them in private.
Jiang Ning had the magazine sent by "Wuxia". The first issue was placed in the dormitory and was seen by them. In addition, "Wuxia" sent every issue over, so now "Wuxia" has become the spiritual food of the 610 dormitory.
The girls from the next door dormitories, knowing that they had "Martial Arts" magazines, also came over to borrow them.
Many of the stories in the magazine were previously serialized, so they couldn't read the beginning. Only "The Great Song" was read in its entirety from the first issue, and it was also the only story in the magazine written from the perspective of a female protagonist. The most discussed story among these girls was "The Great Song", and they waited for Jiang Ning's latest magazine every week.
Because of the magazine borrowing incident, their relationship with Jiang Ning became closer, and they realized that Jiang Ning was not as crazy as people said she was, that she only slept three hours a day and read with a flashlight in her bed at night.
"I think it's more like reading novels in bed." The girls said with a smile, because that's what they are doing now.
Reading a magazine a week does not affect their studies, but the number of magazines is limited. There are eight people in a dormitory and they pass the magazines around one by one. Each person has to finish reading quickly before it is the next person's turn. So sometimes, if the magazine they read is so exciting, they will read it quietly under the covers.
Now, everyone felt that they were aware of the truth.
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