Chapter 180

If she really wanted to write, Jiang Xi had countless topics in mind, but she had been writing about ancient martial arts and immortals, so she wanted to change her taste.

Even if she changed to a romantic sweet cookie, it would be fine, but a romantic sweet cookie would not be suitable for serialization in "Martial Arts". She needed to find a new publisher to cooperate with, but no one could guarantee that the new publisher would have more than the thousand words given by "Martial Arts". A thousand words were directly related to the mortgage she had to pay every month. In addition, the plot of the sweet cookie was destined to be short, at most 200,000 or 300,000 words, and it would be finished.

And there were too many similar works on the market, and there were too many better works than hers.

She is good at plot and layout. As for the relationship, from "The Great Song" to "White Snake" to the current "Golden Guards", there is actually no emotional description, almost all of them are based on the plot.

But during this period of time with Song Peifeng, Jiang Xi, who was originally not good at emotional lines, suddenly felt that she might be able to write emotional lines.

At the beginning, readers all thought that the heroine's CP was the crown prince, and they were all looking forward to the heroine growing up, having a stunning appearance, and having a deep relationship with the crown prince, and the crown prince disregarding the harem for her.

As a result, the main plot of Jing Meng is all about her career. Because she traveled through time, she knew too well the status of women in ancient times. After experiencing it personally, she was deeply disgusted by it and directly eliminated all thoughts that might expose her identity as a woman. In addition, she grew up with Huang Taisun since childhood. So she was not so much Huang Taisun's study companion as she was a teacher and friend. Since she was a child, after gaining Huang Taisun's trust, she has been cautious, little by little, by Huang Taisun's side, using her own values ​​to influence Huang Taisun's cognition of the world, including the cultivation and establishment of his three views.

Even among friends, when they spend a long time together, many values ​​and habits will influence each other. Not to mention the heroine, who is the most trusted and longest-time companion of the Emperor's grandson. During this period of more than ten years, although the Emperor's grandson was also influenced by the surrounding environment and people, he was definitely the one who was influenced the most by the heroine. In particular, the heroine first influenced the Emperor through practical actions. The emphasis and improvement of gunpowder and artillery, the scientific planting and breeding of grain, achieved increased production. Although not as good as modern hybrid technology, compared to this era, even if the yield per mu increased by 100 kilograms, it was extremely exciting news for both the common people and the court. They also went overseas to look for new high-yield crops, discovered a large amount of silver mines on the outer islands, and led people to attack, occupy and dig.

These tangible benefits alone made Huang Taisun have a strong interest in and attention to science and technology. More importantly, the heroine has been working hard to improve the status of women.

This is certainly not just talking with her mouth, or fighting with people in the court, and it can't even be shown in her daily words and deeds. She has to achieve her goal from the side of the way of boiling a frog in warm water.

For example, half of the Jinyi Guards she led were women with strong martial arts skills. As for why their martial arts skills were so high, it was of course because the heroine had a golden finger.

She accumulated a lot of money, built orphanages and baby towers all over the country, adopted and trained baby girls, and these were not things that could be done overnight.

Of course, she did not write about this in the text, and even just brushed it off. For many things, she just gave an order, and her mother did it for her. Her mother thought that it was more appropriate and safe for her daughter to be served by girls.

Because of the beauties around her, the heroine even had a reputation of being a womanizer at a young age. She had been in poor health since childhood and always attached great importance to health preservation. In order to make the crown prince stronger, before the crown prince grew up, the crown princess strictly prohibited the palace maids from seducing the crown prince and ruining his body. The crown prince was clean and there was not even a kitten around him.

This made some readers who like to read romantic dramas scream with joy, thinking that the author set up such a plot so that the crown prince would keep his virginity for the heroine.

As a result, bullshit!

Not only is the author not a human being, she is also not a romantic brain.

The choice of the Crown Prince's wife has nothing to do with love. It is entirely based on political considerations. In addition, the Crown Prince's personal qualities are to be cultivated as the future queen. Naturally, she has excellent conditions in all aspects. More importantly, the Crown Prince must have a certain political accomplishment and vision, rather than a love-minded person who only has love in his mind.

Jiang Xi directly focused on the big national pattern, rather than sticking to small love affairs, and arranged the plot clearly.

On the day when the Crown Prince got married, the CP fans who were originally looking for sugar in the broken glass almost blew up the hotline of "Martial Arts" magazine, all of whom strongly requested that Xi Meng change the plot.

But not everyone likes to watch the plot of the love brain. Many rational readers follow the plot and focus on the overall layout, and think that this plot arrangement is correct.

The heroine does not take care of herself as the future commander of the Jinyiwei, who is second to none and thousands of people, and runs to the harem to be a concubine? Once the identity of the heroine disguised as a man is exposed, it will be a crime of deceiving the emperor. The whole family will be executed in serious cases, and the family will be confiscated and exiled in minor cases!

Is it the heroine who is crazy, or is it you who is crazy? They

quarrel offline and online.

At that time, there was no chat software or chat room, so they quarreled on the Internet forum.

But no matter how the netizens and readers argue, Ximeng just won't change the plot, and writes it as it should be. The CP fans are angry and scold while watching. The marriage of the Huang Taisun must be based on political considerations. If the heroine can't become the queen, then she can be the white moonlight or the cinnabar mole.

As a result, Ximeng also arranged a crazy operation. The heroine got engaged when she was 20 years old.

It's so sad!

In particular, there are too many plots about Huang Taisun in the early stage of the work, which leads to the shadow of sweetness between the heroine and Huang Taisun. Fortunately,

without Huang Taisun, there are still loyal subordinates, and the sweetness between the heroine and the loyal subordinates is also good.

The current plot has reached the point where the heroine has completed the layout of the major sects in the martial arts world. The prince, the emperor, is also old. In addition, the young man followed Emperor Taizu to fight, which damaged his foundation. Although the heroine's spiritual spring water can repair the hidden injuries of his body, he is the prince, and all the things that enter are strictly supervised and controlled. The heroine can grasp very few opportunities, so he decided to abdicate and become the emperor, and the prince ascended the throne.

As soon as the prince ascended the throne and became the emperor, he appointed the heroine as one of his right-hand men and the commander of the Jinyiwei who holds great power.

The heroine is still young at this time, riding on a tall horse, dressed in hunting clothes, and full of vigor!

This can be said to be the climax of the whole article.

Wake up and take power over the world!

Not to mention the male readers who are excited, among the female readers, are there not many ambitious women?

In a lot of romance-oriented works nowadays, when such a clear-headed person who only wants to pursue a career appears and even the crown prince is a tool to realize her ideal, the desire for power suddenly reaches its peak!

Seeing many career-oriented readers here, I just think, go to your white moonlight and cinnabar mole, the heroine is so handsome!

When Jiang Xi called Wang Yong and told him that "The Commander of the Imperial Guard" was about to be finished, Wang Yong, who was also following the series, was going crazy and couldn't believe it at all.

"Isn't "The Commander of the Imperial Guard" at its most exciting point? I think you still have at least 500 chapters to write, so why is it going to end? Become the Commander of the Imperial Guard, and then what? Go stir up the martial arts world and let the martial arts world see the power of our Commander of the Imperial Guard!"

Jiang Xi: "Isn't the layout complete? Various spies have been inserted into the major sects and forces in the martial arts world, and they are just waiting to close the net and it will be completed. "

Wang Yong didn't listen at all: "No, you can't end it like this. If you end it here, readers will send razor blades to the magazine. Isn't your book called "The Years I Was the Commander of the Imperial Guard"? What about those years? You haven't written about those years yet. You're going to end it right after you became the commander of the Imperial Guard. Are you worthy of the name you chose?" "

Then it needs to be arranged into small unit stories like "Lu Xiaofeng", and the outline needs to be rewritten."

Wang Yong: "You write it! You rewrite it!"

Jiang Qi currently has only a vague idea of ​​the new article and does not have a definite outline.

After Wang Yong's advice, it is not a good idea to end the article "The Imperial Guards" here. The main reason is that if Jiang Xi really wants to write it, it is not that he cannot continue writing, but he just needs to re-write the outline.

If he continues writing like this, it will not be as easy as before, because the plot of the small unit must connect all the main lines, and various foreshadowings must be set up. This is very similar to "The Great Song", but the writing method is different.

"The Great Song" focuses on the case itself, while "The Imperial Guards" is indeed a story of the underworld, so it cannot just be about the heroine, but a group portrait, highlighting the wonderful personality of the subordinates, such as the personality of the secret agents such as Gui Hai Yidao and Haitang in "The World's Number One", which is very rich.

After becoming the commander of the Jinyiwei, the first major case the heroine took on was the murder of a wealthy businessman in Jiangnan. The heroine sent her loyal subordinates to lead several Jinyiwei to investigate the case, but they naturally never returned. At

this time, the heroine secretly cultivated the Orphan Corps for more than ten years. After many selections, she selected the five best subordinates. They were young and energetic. Because of their different backgrounds, experiences, and personalities, these people were capable but lacked practical experience. It happened that the heroine took them to investigate the case in person.

Since it was a group portrait, Jiang Xi decided to set up some funny plots, come up with a funny role, and focus on a contrast.

She felt that she could write another million words.

The main reason was that she wanted to change the subject matter. It was already 1998, and there were still two years until the millennium. She was thinking about whether she should write an article about future technology, about the next thirty years, or even longer, about lithography machines, chip sanctions, various foreign sanctions between countries, and trade war policies. While she still had some fame, she wanted to write about it with some personal opinions, so that more people in the country could see it. This might have a beneficial impact on the future. Of course, it might also have a worse impact.

But she was afraid that such an article would be harmonized.

The last official article was harmonized.

After thinking about it, Jiang Xi slowly typed a title on the computer: "The Years I Driving a Mecha in the Interstellar Space"

. Yes, Jiang Xi decided to open two articles.

Her current speed is 6,000 at the lowest and can soar to more than 8,000 at the highest. She is still just an auditor at school. Even though she is interested in all the classes and wants to learn, she can still spare one or two hours every day to write. The length

of "The Commander of the Golden Guard" is too long. When she thought of finishing it, she felt a little tired of writing. She wanted to change the article, change her mood, and give her brain a rest.

However, she did not plan to publish the article "Star Mecha" immediately, but wanted to save the manuscript first, and mainly focus on "The Commander of the Golden Guard".

The TV rights for the article "The Imperial Guard" were bought when it was serialized for a month, but the people who bought the TV and film rights for this article at that time were actually attracted by the high ratings of her adaptations of "The Great Song" "Bao Er" and "Bao San". The beginning of the article "The Imperial Guard" looked a bit like "The Great Song". After seeing the ratings of the adaptation of "The Great Song", they quickly bought the TV rights of "The Imperial Guard" before waiting for the full plot to unfold.

The TV rights of "The Imperial Guard" were approved early, but the later plots were not released, and their script was not easy to write. Now that most of the plots have been released, they have begun to work on the script.

The truth is, this script needs to be polished and there are too many places that need to be adapted.

First of all, the love line cannot be the same as written in the novel. The crown prince and the heroine have married their own wives. Although the heroine married a fake wife, this is definitely a big thunder point in the TV series and must be changed. They decided to change the CP lines that readers are currently supporting to male one, male two, male three, and male four. In short, the heroine is a Mary Sue who is loved by everyone.

There is also the female supporting role plot. Didn’t the heroine in the novel marry a wife? The wife he married was his cousin who had been broken off for many years, whose parents had passed away and who was almost unable to survive due to the world and her family. It just so happened that the cousin was related to the heroine's family, so she was taken to live with the heroine. She accidentally learned the heroine's true identity. When she was almost killed by the heroine, she took the initiative to express her desire to marry the heroine. On the one hand, she wanted to seek a shelter for herself, and on the other hand, she saw another different way of living for women in this world, so she wanted to take the initiative to protect the heroine's secret and help her cover up.

The screenwriters thought that the wife here could be changed to a female supporting role, and then a love line could be arranged.

On the other hand, the film copyright of "The King's Woman", which had not been approved before, had a rising box office during the Chinese New Year. After the winter vacation, the box office of "White Snake" began to decline gradually, but among the several movies in the winter vacation Lunar New Year's movie, it was still the most popular movie together with "Party A and Party B".

"Party A and Party B" was also taken off the screen after the winter vacation. The box office of the entire winter vacation Lunar New Year's movie was 30 million, and the box office in Beijing alone was 10 million.

If it weren't for the sudden appearance of "White Snake" later, which took away too much of the box office of the Lunar New Year's movies, the box office performance of "Party A and Party B" might have been higher.

The final box office of the movie "White Snake" when it was released was as high as 42 million, making it the highest-grossing movie of the year, 500,000 higher than the second-ranked "Storm Warriors".

It accounted for 10% of the total box office of the year.

This wave, "White Snake" can be said to have won.

With an investment of 7 million, the box office exceeded 40 million, which is simply faster than robbing money in this era.

Of course, "Party A and Party B" is not inferior, with an investment of 6 million and a box office of 30 million, but such an outstanding performance is slightly inferior to "White Snake". For a while, at the beginning of this year, the two most popular movies were "White Snake" and "Party A and Party B".

The reason why these two movies are mentioned together is that, in addition to the fact that both of them were released during the winter vacation and the New Year's Day holiday, both of them were nominated for the "Popular Film Festival" this year.

The Wanhua Film Festival is held every two years, and this year happens to be the year of the Wanhua Film Festival.

Obviously, these two films are strong contenders for this year's Wanhua Awards. Now it depends on which work the judges like more. The

"King's Guard" crew, which originally bought the film copyright of "The King's Guard" but had not yet approved the project, saw the box office of "White Snake" and quickly approved the project, and entered the urgent script adaptation and casting, hoping to take advantage of the popularity of "White Snake" and take advantage of the name of the adaptation of the same cute work to catch the heat.

The script has not yet come out, but the general roles to be selected can be known by looking at the work. The first thing they need to confirm is a few leading actors.

The first thing they thought of was the heroine of "White Snake" which was very popular during the Chinese New Year, and the actor who played the role of Mingyue.

Not to mention the heroine of "White Snake", after the movie was released, although she didn't become completely popular, at least her value increased, and she would have no shortage of film contracts. The actor who played Mingyue's appearance was not only outstanding, but also very recognizable, and very positive, not evil.

With his appearance, both the TV version of "The King's Guard" and the movie version of "The King's Guard" have invited him.

Of course, he is not the protagonist, but he can definitely play the role of the third or fourth male lead.

When Jiang Bo left the "White Snake" crew, he left his number. Apart from anything else, he is Xi Meng's brother. Maybe he will work with Xi Meng in the future? So I definitely had to leave the phone number of Ximeng's shop. Plus, Ximeng hadn't gone to Beijing at that time and didn't have a landline in Beijing, so I naturally left the shop's phone number, which was also the phone number that could be used to contact Jiang Bo.

The crew of the TV series "The Imperial Guards" also contacted Jiang Bo through the crew

of "White Snake". They were all in the same circle and in Beijing. They didn't say they were very familiar with each other, but they all knew each other. It was easy to ask for an actor's number, especially when the director of the "White Snake" crew heard that the actor who played "Ming Yue" was the author Ximeng's brother. He immediately decided that, in addition to the male lead, as long as Jiang Bo could play the main role, he must leave him a role!

People in the entertainment industry are superstitious. Ximeng's works are more popular and more profitable.

Not to mention the two Justice Bao adaptations of Song Dynasty, which had high ratings, the box office of White Snake was the highest of the year!

Of course, they don’t know it’s the highest of the year yet, after all, it’s only the beginning of 1998, but 42 million?

And his three books also sold millions of copies. Driven by the popularity of White Snake during the Chinese New Year, Song Dynasty is about to break 10 million copies. How many years has it been published? It’s about to break 10 million copies. Even if novels of this era sell millions of copies, tens of millions and millions are not at the same level.

They know how popular Ximeng is now. It can be said that the readers of Ximeng himself can contribute a lot of box office revenue to the movie. With the gimmick of the original author Ximeng, this movie has basically won the starting line before it is released. As long as the movie is not too bad in the end, it will definitely not lose!

They all think that Ximeng is destined to be popular!

Ximeng is destined to be popular, so Ximeng's brother must be a lucky star and have a lot of money in his life. Otherwise, the first movie he shot would have exceeded 40 million? This can't be said to be destined to be rich?

Invite him! Must invite him!

Jiang Bo is a typical person who can't do two things at the same time.

He has a very strong concentration. When he studies, he studies seriously and concentrates on the machinery. Especially his teacher is a senior engineer who retired from a machinery factory. He is completely different from the auto repair master in his previous life who was always hiding things from him, guarding against him, never really teaching them the technology, and only asking them to do odd jobs. After discovering his talent, this old engineer devoted himself to cultivating this disciple. For Jiang Bai, he taught him everything he knew.

Jiang Bai is not busy, but his life is very regular. Except for the time he goes to the store every day to deliver meals to Grandpa Jiang and sell clothes in the store, he spends all his time studying and immersing himself in various machines every day.

So Jiang Bai's first reaction to receiving this call was not to go.

However, he thought of his friend Tong Jingang who loved acting, and did not say anything final. Instead, he said that he was still a student, and the school had strict management, and he would not be given leave during the study period.

The crew immediately said, "It's okay, it's okay. The official casting will take some time. The script is still being polished. After the script is polished, it will take some time for Teacher Meng to take a look and give some advice. After the script is finished and the casting is over, it will take a few months for the official shooting to start. Then you can come and audition for a role when you have time!"

Jiang Bai thought of Tong Jingang, asked him to leave his phone number, and agreed.

If it was a holiday, he would have to work. His classmates' summer jobs were basically internships in various machinery factories, but they didn't have to. Some could only serve dishes and distribute flyers.

During the summer vacation, there were no students in the school and no business in the store. If he didn't shoot a movie, he would have to find another job. The salary of the job he found might not be as high as the salary of shooting a movie.

He also called Tong Jingang to tell him about this, "They only invited me, not you, but you can go with them and see if there are any roles to play, just like last year, we can play some minor roles and earn some living expenses."

"Brother! You are my real brother!" If he wasn't on the phone, Tong Jingang would have wanted to jump up, jump on his back and run a few laps excitedly.

After Jiang Bai confirmed it, the crew called Jiang Meng again, wanting to invite her to the crew as a screenwriter. They knew everything. The main plot and outline of the movie "White Snake" were written by Meng Meng. The framework and tone of the whole movie were set by Meng Meng.

More importantly, Meng Meng was a student at Beijing University. They were in Beijing now, so it was very convenient to find Meng Meng.

Of course, in order to invite this great writer, Ximeng, they offered a high screenwriting fee. However, Jiang Xi rejected the offer because he had to go to school, attend classes, and write "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Mech". They immediately said they wanted to invite Ximeng to be their screenwriting consultant. After all, the person who knows Ximeng's works best is Ximeng herself.

Although he can't be a screenwriter, the fee for being a screenwriting consultant is not small. Even though Jiang Xi is not short of money now, they offer too much. Jiang Xi will definitely go!