Chapter 7575 [Update 1]
"Huh? Books have been published?" Director Li was a little surprised. He took the two books handed over by Xiao Qin and asked: "How many cases have been published?"
After the magazine came out, he flipped through it twice, but Director Li was too busy and didn't read many of the later plots. If the plot hadn't been so well written, he wouldn't have remembered this work. He didn't expect that the book would be published now.
"Leave the book here, I'll take a look first." Not every book is suitable for adaptation, especially since the protagonist of this book is not Bao Zheng. He needs to take advantage of the popularity of "Judge Bao" to make it into the second part of "Judge Bao". Then the protagonists will have to be adapted into Bao Zheng and Zhan Zhao and others. It depends on whether this work is suitable for adaptation.
Unexpectedly, he kept reading until the evening, and he couldn't stop until he finished reading the last case. Then he realized, "That's it? It's not finished yet?"
It was not until the last page of the book that he saw the title of "Wuxia" and realized that the article was still being serialized in the magazine "Wuxia". Then he looked at the time. Many of his colleagues at the TV station had already left work. Only a very small number of people were still working overtime to edit the work. His office was the only one on this floor of the office building with the lights still on.
He raised his wrist to check the time, took the two books, and quickly went downstairs to see if any newsstand was still open.
The winter nights are bitterly cold, and this year is another cold winter. The owner of the newsstand couldn't stand the cold this winter, so he closed the shop early and went home.
Director Li searched around but couldn't find any subsequent content. At this time, he was blown away by the cold wind and walked out of the plot of "The Great Song Dynasty". He looked up at the night sky where snow was falling to the ground. He realized that only these two volumes of "The Great Song Dynasty" were enough. He didn't need to read any more subsequent serialized content. He was sure that the copyright of "The Great Song Dynasty" could be purchased.
People of this generation are very action-oriented. It doesn’t matter whether things are done well or not. What matters is that they do it as soon as they think of it.
Director Li came to the TV station the next day and asked Xiao Qin to contact the publishing house.
Xiao Qin is a staff member of a TV station. He does not have his own program yet. He is like a brick of the TV station and can be moved wherever he is needed.
After receiving the task assigned by Director Li, Xiao Qin, as a loyal fan of "The Great Song", immediately ran to contact Jiang Ning with the publishing house.
She knew that "The Great Song" was first serialized in "Wuxia" and later published as a book. Moreover, the publishing house and "Wuxia" magazine obviously had a cooperative relationship. "Wuxia" magazine kept launching new books, and the last page of the published book also said that "The Great Song" was serialized in "Wuxia". She knew that these two magazines and publishing houses were probably sister units, and that any of them could have Jiang Ning's contact information.
She also mentioned that she wanted to buy film and television copyrights from Teacher Ning Meng.
When the publishing house heard that a TV station wanted to buy the film and television rights of the book to make it into a TV series, they were very surprised.
Although the film and television copyright of "The Song Dynasty" is not represented by their publishing house, if this book can really be released, the sales of the physical book will be greatly increased. They very actively gave the contact information of Jiang Ning's editor Wang Yong to Xiao Qin of the TV station, and strongly recommended other books published by their publishing house to Xiao Qin.
Unfortunately, the TV station where Xiao Qin works has limited funds, and currently only has enough money to prepare for the production of one TV series. Whether from the popularity or her personal preference, she would choose "The Great Song Dynasty" and has no interest in other works. But she said, "Okay, okay, you can send the book to our station later. If there is a suitable cooperation, we will contact you."
I'm just giving it a try with the publishing house. It would be best if we could have more cooperation, but there's no deeper cooperation. We're just sending a few books over.
After hanging up the phone with Xiao Qin, the publishing house suddenly realized that Ning Meng should be on winter vacation. It was probably because Ning Meng's school had entered the final exam period and the study was very intense. They tried various ways to contact Jiang Ning and asked her to sign some autographed books and send them to them, but they couldn't contact Jiang Ning. Thinking that she should be on vacation, they found the editor and said, "Ning Meng should be on winter vacation, so send the 5,000 autograph pages prepared in advance to Jiang Ning and ask her to sign them before sending them back.
The second volume was released in the last few days before "Justice Bao" was taken off the screen, and Jiang Ning had her final exams, so there was no time to prepare signed books. However, when it was printed, 5,000 copies were left unprinted. After Jiang Ning signed 5,000 signature pages, the signature pages were inserted into the title page, and some exquisite bookmarks were customized to make it a collector's edition of the book published in "The Great Song Dynasty".
Wang Yong didn't expect that a TV station would buy the film and television rights of "The Song Dynasty". He was so happy that he almost jumped up. Before he had time to contact Jiang Ning, he told Li Ang the good news.
Li Ang was far away in Jinshi, and now he is in Jinshi to develop the northern market. When he heard the good news, even though he had been through a lot, his heart skipped a beat. He took a deep breath and said calmly, "Although the film and television copyright of "The Great Song" is in the hands of Ning Meng alone, this is also a great thing for our magazine. It would be best if Ning Meng could write more and not rush to finish it."
This is a win-win situation for Ningmeng and their magazine.
The withdrawal of "Justice Bao" caused their magazine sales to decline, but it was still within a controllable range. The most important thing at the moment was to find a phenomenal work to replace "The Great Song" and stabilize the sales of "Wuxia" after "The Great Song" had been serialized for nearly 400,000 words.
But the reason why phenomenal works are called phenomenal is because of their rarity. Every time an article appears, it can directly drive the sales of the magazine, and even bring phenomenal popularity in publishing, film and television and other aspects, such as all the works under the names of Jin Yong and Gu Long.
But it is so difficult to have such a phenomenal work, or even a phenomenal author like Jin Yong or Gu Long, and it is something that you can only encounter by chance.
If "The Great Song Dynasty" could be made into a TV series and released, given the current readership of "The Great Song Dynasty", the ratings of the TV series "The Great Song Dynasty" would not be too bad. The ratings of the TV series "The Great Song Dynasty" would also drive the sales of published books and magazines.
It is true that when you think there is no way out, you will find a way out.
Li Ang pushed this matter forward even more actively than Jiang Ning.
After Wang Yong received instructions from Li Ang, he immediately contacted Jiang Ning.
He and Jiang Ning mainly communicate through email. Jiang Ning submits articles to him via email almost every week. Another way to contact him is through Teacher Wang’s office number.
After learning about the strict management of relationships between men and women in No. 1 Middle School, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Wang Yong would not make this call unless it was necessary. If there was anything between them, he would directly email Jiang Ning, unless there was no day off for a whole half month like the last joint entrance examination. Otherwise, at the weekend, she would always check the messages on time and reply to him in time.
But today, seeing that Jiang Ning's email had not been replied, he became anxious and called Teacher Wang's office directly.
After the winter vacation, Teacher Wang no longer needed to be in the office every day, but there were still senior three teachers from the English group in the office. After answering the phone, he realized that it was for Jiang Ning.
The senior English teachers in the office knew Jiang Ning. Teacher Wang was always showing off Jiang Ning from their class three in a roundabout way, so it was hard for them not to know her.
Hearing the voice of a young man, the English teacher of the senior year immediately became alert and asked him, "Who are you?"
Wang Yong knew that Jiang Ning didn't want too many people to know that she made money by writing novels. He also didn't want people to know Jiang Ning's real identity from a selfish point of view. He knew that her class teacher, Mr. Wang, knew that Jiang Ning made money by submitting articles, so he said, "I am Jiang Ning's cousin."
The senior English teacher knew that the phone call could be directly made to the teacher's office. If someone dared to contact a student through the class teacher, it was highly unlikely that he had any complicated social relationship with her. He only asked in confusion: "Don't you know that she's on winter vacation?"
"I know, but I only have the phone number of Teacher Wang's office to contact her. She opened a clothing store at the school gate. Can you help me call Jiang Ning?"
Seeing how well he knew Jiang Ning, the English teacher of the senior year of high school also dispelled his doubts and said, "It's not convenient for you to attend class now. I will pass on your message to Teacher Wang when I see him later."
Wang Yong waited in the office for a long time but received no reply, and he couldn't help feeling anxious.
He stayed in Wucheng for a few months and had some understanding of Jiang Ning's movements. He knew that she had bought a house in Shanghai. The person in charge of the magazine in Shanghai even called to ask about Jiang Ning's real identity and issued an income certificate to Jiang Ning. He couldn't find Jiang Ning at the school, so he called the Shanghai branch of "Wuxia" magazine and found Editor-in-Chief Qian to ask whether Jiang Ning was in Shanghai.
Editor Qian called Manager Qian again, and only then did he find out that less than half a year after buying two houses, Ning Meng came to Shanghai to buy another house, and it was a villa!
He knew that Jiang Ning's two books of "The Great Song" had very good sales. During this period, relying on "The Great Song", the publishing house and their "Martial Arts" magazine had made a lot of money. In the short term, as long as there were no wrong decisions, there would be no need to worry about not being able to pay salaries and the closure of the magazine. As the author of "The Great Song", Ning Meng's two books had very high royalties, but he didn't expect it to be so high that he came directly to Shanghai to buy a villa.
This made Editor-in-Chief Qian fall into deep silence.
He was not jealous. He thought it was a blessing for their magazine to be able to produce such a phenomenal work, and that he also avoided the risk of being laid off.
Wang Yong found Jiang Ning through Manager Qian, and told her that a TV station wanted to buy the film and television rights of her work, and asked for her opinion and whether she was willing to sell it.
Jiang Ning's answer did not exceed Wang Yong's expectations: "Sell it, of course!"
With the money she earned from the store during this period, the royalties from "Wuxia" and the royalties from the two volumes of "Da Song", she spent all the money she earned when buying the villa, except for the high mortgage payments of 300 yuan per month for the two apartments and 200 yuan per month for the villa. Now that she has income from film and television copyrights, of course she will sell them. If she doesn't sell them, will she just wait to get a bad deal?
For Jiang Ning, it doesn’t matter how much the first work sells for. What matters is that it can be filmed. As long as your first work is filmed successfully, it will be easy to sell the film and television rights later.
After Wang Yong got a definite answer from Jiang Ning, he gave Jiang Ning the TV station's contact information and asked her, "Do you need me to come over and help you look at the contract?"
Jiang Ning had signed quite a few such publishing contracts or film and television copyright contracts in his previous life. He might know more about the traps in the contracts and the necessary clauses that needed to be entered into the contracts than Wang Yong, so he naturally rejected him.
As the editor who had discussed the contract with Jiang Ning, Wang Yong knew that she was smart and mature, so he was not worried about the cooperation between Jiang Ning and the TV station.
The people at the TV station soon received a call from Jiang Ning. Even though Director Li had already expected that the author of "The Great Song Dynasty" was a woman, he really didn't expect that the voice coming from the phone was so young, so young that it still had the soft and tender voice of a baby who hadn't yet reached the voice change stage.
Jiang Ning was born at the end of the year. At this time, she had just turned fourteen, and was only sixteen years old. Her voice was in the transition period between a little girl and a young girl, but her voice was cold and steady, which made Director Li think that Jiang Ning just had a small voice.
Their TV station has several voice actors like this who can produce such soft and tender baby voices, so it's not surprising.
He just looked at the phone receiver, put it back to his ear, and asked uncertainly: "Ning Meng?"
"Yes, I'm Ning Meng. I heard from my editor at "Wuxia" that you want to buy the TV drama copyright of "The Song Dynasty"? " The tone coming from the other end of the phone was completely different from the steady voice of hers.
At that time, the division of film and television copyrights was not so detailed. When Director Li heard Jiang Ning talking about the TV drama copyright, he paused and said, "Yes, we watched your "The Great Song Dynasty" and thought that the cases in your work are very suitable for adaptation into the second part of "Justice Bao". We want to buy the TV drama copyright and adaptation rights of your work. I wonder if you are willing to do so."
Jiang Ning originally thought that she was going to directly film "The Song Dynasty", but she didn't expect it to be an adaptation.
Jiang Ning did not hesitate too much. "It can be adapted, but it must be stated in the TV series title that the TV series is adapted from Ning Meng's "The Years I Fended Off the Chief Constable in the Song Dynasty". In addition, the copyright authorization for the TV series "The Song Dynasty" is only five years. If there is no filming plan or project establishment within five years after the contract is signed, I have the right to resell the TV series contract after the contract expires."
Director Li didn't expect Ning Meng to be so familiar with film and television copyrights. She even knew how to set up a TV series project after purchasing the copyright. "No problem," he said. He was just afraid that Ning Meng would insist on using "The Great Song Dynasty" as the name of the TV series, so his plan to ride on the popularity of "Justice Bao" would fail.
As long as Jiang Ning is willing to authorize the adaptation into "Justice Bao", it would only be an indication of the adapted work in the opening credits, which would not be a big deal for him.
Then we talked about copyright fees.
The film and television copyright fees at that time were not as high as her publishing fees, but for the TV station, the copyright fees she paid were already very high.
Currently, the TV station's income all depends on giving gg to businesses. The initial investment in shooting a self-made drama, in addition to purchasing the copyright, also requires contacting the original "Judge Bao" crew's director and actors, shooting location, costumes, makeup, etc., all of which require money.
At this time, the performance fees for actors in mainland China were very low, but the actors in the "Judge Bao" crew were currently at the peak of their popularity, especially the performance fees of the actors who played Zhan Zhao and Bao Zheng, which was also a considerable expense.
After the negotiation, Director Li quickly finalized the contract. Knowing that Jiang Ning was now in Shanghai, he asked Xiao Qin, who recommended "The Song Dynasty" to him, to come to Jiang Ning with the contract. At the same time, he also contacted the director, crew, and actors.
When the TV station bought the mainland broadcasting rights for "Justice Bao", they had the contact information of the crew and actors.
Although "Justice Bao" has just been released, this drama was completed earlier, and the actors in the TV series have also taken on other jobs. Now I heard that "Justice Bao" is going to have a second part, and the actors who have benefited from "Bao" have also expressed that they are willing to continue filming the second part after completing their current work.
It is actually inaccurate to say that it is the second part, it should be called the third part.
"Justice Bao" initially had only 46 episodes. After the release of "Bao", the ratings soared and it became an instant hit, which led to the subsequent filming of more than 200 episodes.
Now the actors in the crew of "Justice Bao" are just doing the same as before, just continuing to reshoot after finishing the work at hand.
On the screenwriter side, Director Li quickly found the original screenwriter of "Justice Bao", bought all the copyrights of "Justice Bao", and asked the original screenwriter to adapt the cases in "The Song Dynasty".
The original screenwriter had written more than 200 episodes for "Bao" before. He was almost exhausted and his CPU was about to burn out. When he heard that he was asked to write the script for "Bao" again, he strongly refused in his heart. If he could really still write it, why didn't he take advantage of the popularity and write another 200 episodes?
Isn't it really impossible to write this?
But when Director Li said that there was a ready-made case, which came from a very popular book in mainland China, with sales of two million copies, the original screenwriter was also surprised. In fact, their population in Hong Kong Island is limited, and sales of 100,000 are already a very popular work. Sales of two million should be a phenomenal work even in mainland China. At least the case and logic are not big problems. Directly adapting such a work with an existing case is much easier for the original screenwriter whose CPU has long been overburned and who really can't squeeze out any juice. He said that he wanted to take a look at the physical book of this work first, and then see if it is suitable for adaptation.
In fact, I have already agreed to accept it in my heart.
Director Li did not just approach him. Their TV station had its own screenwriter, who was an educated youth who went to the countryside. Because he was a good prose writer, he was transferred back to the city. In 1992, China officially changed from the planned economy to the market economy, which led to the closure of a large number of factories and the unemployment of a large number of workers. At that time, many workers surrounded the gate of a machinery factory and blocked the factory director, asking him: "Three generations of my family have been workers. We are all working class. What right do you have to fire us?"
This incident caused a huge sensation at the time. The screenwriter of their TV station adapted a script based on this incident. The host of their station played the role of a reporter who interviewed another middle-aged man who played the role of the director of a machinery factory. During the interview, the director of the machinery factory talked about the current market environment and national policies, and how he had to lay off employees and carry out reforms, otherwise the entire factory would go bankrupt and more people would face unemployment.
This video interview, which was edited by their screenwriters, was not broadcast without authorization because it involved national policies. Instead, it was sent to the higher authorities, which received personal approval from the top leader and published in the People's Daily. The top leader personally supported the director of the machinery factory, and the interview was broadcast on CCTV's prime time at 8 o'clock that evening.
This made this originally unknown little screenwriter of their station suddenly become the chief screenwriter of their station. Now he is directly connected with the Propaganda Department and senior leaders. It would be somewhat difficult for Director Li to invite him to be the screenwriter of the adaptation of "The Song Dynasty".
Unfortunately, Director Li was not very confident about the other young screenwriters. After thinking about it, he decided to go directly to the chief screenwriter.
The chief screenwriter recently received a task assigned by his superiors. Since the implementation of opening up to the outside world in early 1984, W City in their province has become a pioneer in the reform and opening-up policy. From the poverty and backwardness in the 1980s to the current policy of seizing the opportunity of reform and opening-up, from cities to counties and then to villages, every household has set up a small factory, and there have been earth-shaking changes. The superiors asked him to write a script based on the changes in W City in their province, specifically to publicize the achievements made by W City in reform and opening-up, so as to publicize national policies. Note 1
The top leader also said that the task was conveyed personally by the higher-ups, and it must be done well!
The chief screenwriter is Alexander.
Director Li came to him at this time, and he listened to Director Li's request politely, and then told him about the task he had just received. After listening to Director Li, how could he dare to ask the chief screenwriter to write a script?
But the chief screenwriter also has a strong interest in the station's own drama, especially after hearing that the original book of this work has a total sales volume of more than two million, he even had the idea of taking a look at it. However, he is currently busy and has heavy tasks, and does not have the time and energy to work on his own drama.
Director Li had no choice but to find Comrade Xiao Qin, a brick of the TV station. If the original screenwriter of "Judge Bao" was unwilling to take this job, he asked Comrade Xiao Qin to find a few classmates to learn how to write scripts from the chief screenwriter, and they would write the script themselves.
The pressure was immediately transferred to Comrade Xiao Qin.
Comrade Xiao Qin couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad.
The good news is that if she really leads the team to write and plan the station's first self-produced drama, then she will be basically responsible for the subsequent dramas. She has also gone from being a project-smashing staff at a TV station without specific projects to having a specific project for the first time. Once this project is completed, it will be of great help to her in the future.
What worries me is that the director actually wants to give such a big project to her? She couldn't even imagine the consequences if she messed up their station's first self-produced drama.
However, the most important thing at the moment is to go to Shanghai and sign the contract for the film and television copyright and film and television adaptation rights of "The Great Song Dynasty".
Both Director Li and Qin Shumin are action-oriented. After things were confirmed, Qin Shumin went straight to the Shanghai Stock Exchange with the printed contract.
The provincial capital where she lived was not too far from Shanghai. It only took four or five hours to reach Shanghai by train. In the guesthouse outside the Shanghai Hospital, she met Ning Meng, the author of "The Great Song Dynasty".
She is an old reader of "The Great Song Dynasty". Before she met Ning Meng, she had wondered what Ning Meng looked like. It was rumored that she was an old police officer in the public security system, an old police officer, and she agreed with that. She thought that Ning Meng might be a male police officer in his thirties, or a female police officer in her thirties, but in the lobby of the guesthouse where they had an appointment, she saw a girl of about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a childish face and a calm temperament.
She hesitated for a moment, thought about it, and still felt that it was impossible, so she sat on the chair next to her, took out the contract, and looked at it while waiting for Ning Meng to arrive.
When Jiang Ning saw the contract in Qin Shumin's hand, he knew that this was the person he was waiting for. He walked over and asked with a smile: "Excuse me, is this Teacher Qin Shumin?"
Qin Shumin looked up from the contract and asked in surprise, "Who are you...?"
"I'm Ning Meng."
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