Chapter 4545 [Update 1]

Local magazines in the north are usually concentrated in major newsstands. Since Wuxia has no channels in the north, it is following the publisher of Dasong and selling in major regular bookstores and libraries.

After reading the book published by Dasong, people who want to see the next plot will rush to buy Wuxia.

Because Wuxia is sealed in a transparent bag and cannot be opened for reading, they can only spend money to buy it.

Some people couldn’t 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 went back to the bookstore and learned that the sequel was serialized in the magazine "Wu Xia". Some people bought the magazine directly in the bookstore. Some people thought that there was a newsstand near their home, and they thought that buying the magazine at the newsstand might be a little cheaper, so they went to the newsstand near their home to buy it.

As a result, they went to the newsstand to ask, but there was no "Wu Xia".

"It's the "Wu Xia" that serialized "My Years as a Constable in the Song Dynasty". I saw that it is sold in the bookstore!" Seeing that the newsstand really couldn't buy it, they had no choice but to go to the bookstore closest to their home, and the bookstore really had it.

After hearing about "Wu Xia", the people at the newsstand also went to ask about this magazine.

In fact, it is not that Wuxia has no sales in the north. It is just that the base camp of Wuxia is in Guangzhou, Nanjing, and Shanghai, and the market radiated by Wuxia is also based in these three places, so the impact on the north is very small.

But as long as people are mobile, they will more or less pass on information to each

other. It’s just that Wuxia declined in the 1990s, the top authors were poached, and the staff were frequently transferred, making the martial arts novels serialized in Wuxia not as good as before. The market was compressed, and the magazine could not be sold. Naturally, merchants in the north would not subscribe to Wuxia. In addition, there are many magazines with extremely high sales in the northern market. This is why many readers in the northern market don’t know Wuxia at all.

Now someone wants to buy Wuxia from them. They will naturally go to look for it and go to the bookstore to buy a copy of Wuxia. Some of them buy Dasong together with Wuxia.

This kind of scene happened in many places in the north.

Jiang Xi thought that the first print run was 100,000, so there was no need to print more. After all, in the era she lived in later, paper books were greatly impacted by electronic books. A book with sales of 50,000 or 100,000 was considered a bestseller. Unexpectedly, because of the serialization of Dasong in Wuxia and the publication of the book, the sales of Dasong in the south were directly boosted. Of the 100,000 first print runs, only half was allocated to the southern market, and it was all consumed in one go.

Even the publisher 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 Qi for additional printing.

Some publishers, after signing a publishing contract and the first print run with the author, usually print more than 100,000 or 200,000 copies because the author does not understand the market data. The author is kept in the dark and has no idea that the publisher is secretly printing more copies.

But the publisher that Director Li chose this time has a deep cooperation with their magazine. This time they are also 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 publisher wants to hide the number of additional prints from Jiang Qi, but it is impossible.

They had not signed the contract for additional printing with Jiang Xi yet, but they had already signed the contract for additional printing with the printing factory and rushed to print. By the time Jiang Xi signed the contract and sent it over, the additional books he had printed were already on the market.

With the hot sales of the books published by "Da Song" in the north, "Wu Xia" finally successfully entered the northern market.

Director Li found out that "Judge Bao" has a total of 236 episodes. Before "Da Song" was serialized on "Wu Xia", "Bao" had been popular on TV for quite a while. Now "Da Song" has been serialized on "Wu Xia" for the eighth time. 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 broadcast 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 popularity of Song Dynasty seems to be hot now and has boosted the sales of Wuxia, no one can guarantee whether Song Dynasty can still maintain its current popularity after Bao is off the air.

Director Li, who personally planned the publicity for Song Dynasty, knew that Song Dynasty was just riding on the popularity of Bao. Even the characters on the waistband were directly drawn by the artist according to the image of Zhan Zhao. Director

Li was always worried that the popularity of Song Dynasty would decline, and the sales of Wuxia would also decline. The magazine would face cancellation at any time, which was definitely not what he wanted to see.

Now that the northern market has been opened, Director Li no longer has to worry about the magazine being cancelled. After all, the northern market alone can now increase their sales by at least 500,000 copies a month, and as they further expand in the northern market, sales will inevitably increase.

The magazine branch in Jinshi has also been opened. Due to too many personnel transfers in the Guangzhou branch, only Director Li and Editor-in-Chief Bao are left to truly take charge of the overall situation. Editor-in-Chief Bao is also responsible for the editing of the magazine and the overall content of "Wuxia". Director Li can only go to Jinshi in person to take charge, first build up the team there, and then return to Guangzhou after recruiting a suitable editor-in-chief and editing team.

All of this brought Jiang Xi real income in her savings account. 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.

The procedures in Shanghai were all done, and she just had to go to the Housing and Construction Bureau to pay taxes and get the certificate.

Jiang Xi had not had time before, but with the release of "The Great Song", New Year's Day was approaching.

The third year of high school only had one day off on New Year's Day, the second year had two days off, but the first year of high school had 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 would also like to go to Guangzhou and personally visit the clothing and shoe factories there, then negotiate with them about purchasing goods and get the store ready as soon as possible.

Because she has not been home, she is not sure whether the work of the forest ranger starts and ends 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 stored, and she will just be waiting for someone to help sell the goods. Even if Grandpa Jiang has to rush to put the goods on the shelves, he has to stay.

This does have the implication of kidnapping, but there is no way. Through normal communication, Grandpa Jiang will not give up his job as a forest ranger. He has been doing this for so many years. In the case of such a difficult job in the countryside, he can have a stable job and get a high salary of nearly 1,000 yuan a 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 must take Grandpa with her.

Grandpa fell and died.

He fell that afternoon. In the evening, grandma called them and said that he was fine and they didn't need to come back. But he was gone in the evening.

He left very quickly, so fast that none of them could react.

Except for the eldest uncle and the eldest aunt, none of the younger generation was at home.

No one saw the last face of Grandpa Jiang.

Jiang Xi couldn't believe it at all, and couldn't accept it.

She couldn't understand how a person could die after falling.

And mountains are the easiest place to fall.

When Jiang Xi went to ask for leave from Teacher Wang, Teacher Wang was very surprised: "The midterm exam is coming soon, and you come to me to ask for leave now? What's the matter that you can't go during the three-day New Year's Day holiday?

You have to go now?" "What do you want to ask for leave for?"

In Teacher Wang's opinion, nothing can be more important than an exam.

Everything gives way to the exam, that is the duty of students.

Besides, what about the three-day holiday for New Year's Day?

If you ask him, they were not given the three-day holiday for New Year's Day!

I kept them all in school to make up for the lessons!

I couldn't tell him about the real estate certificate and the trip to Guangzhou to check the source of goods. I couldn't fool Teacher Wang with the essay competition like I did with Grandpa Jiang. All I could say was that I took Grandpa Jiang to see a doctor.

Jiang Xi also said so, and took out the medical examination report of the last National Day when she took her grandfather to Shanghai for a medical examination: "During the National Day, I took my grandfather to Shanghai for a medical examination, and found many problems, but I never had the time to take him to see a doctor. It was just right to take him 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, and asked you, a child, to see a doctor in Shanghai?"

Jiang Xi: ... "They all went out to work and will not be back until the New Year."

"The two days' leave are enough, why do you want another one? No!"

Jiang Qi said slowly: "I go home, pick up grandpa from his hometown and then transfer to Shanghai. It takes a whole day. Last National Day, we arrived at the Shanghai Railway Station at midnight, and we still 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, and some took two or three days. On the third day we had to rush back for evening self-study. Last time it was just a physical examination, and the physical examination report could be mailed to the school. This time I am going to see a doctor. The time is too tight, at least three days."

These are also true.

Although there was no fatal disease in the physical examination report, Grandpa Jiang had many old age diseases and long-term malnutrition, and he also needed to see a doctor. Jiang Xi had been worried about this for a long time.

Jiang Xi always felt that Grandpa's passing away so quickly was closely related to his poor health.

Teacher Wang did not want to approve Jiang Xi's leave, but according to Jiang Xi, he did need to take leave, but he still said reluctantly: "Why can't you go to the provincial capital to see a doctor, but go to Shanghai?"

It takes two hours by car from Wucheng to the provincial capital.

Jiang Wu 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 approve a day off for you." He looked at Jiang Wu steadily, smiled, and said slowly, "You made good progress in the last monthly exam. If you can still be among the top ten in the grade in this midterm exam, you can take a day off."

There was expectation and encouragement in his eyes, as well as appreciation for students and joy for their improved grades.

No teacher would dislike a student like Jiang Wu who is willing to work hard and has insight.

It's not that he doesn't want to give students leave, but he still hopes to give as little leave as possible.

He doesn't know whether Jiang Wu's performance in the last monthly exam was a fluke or whether he can continue to perform steadily.

Teacher Wang naturally hopes that she can perform steadily every time and enter the top ten in the grade. He can walk in the office with the wind, okay?

Jiang Wu smiled without hesitation and said, "I will work hard."

"It's not enough to just work hard, you have to promise that you can get in!"

How can Jiang Wu guarantee this? Before the results come out, Jiang Wu never makes such a guarantee for a loan. If he fails to do so, it will be a loss of his reputation.

Teacher Wang said cunningly: "Then, on the day after the exam, I will find your test papers in various subjects and ask someone to correct them for you first. I will look at your total score. If the total score reaches the score of the last monthly exam, I will give you leave. If it doesn't reach it, then the leave will definitely be gone."

Leave should be granted, but in order to make students work harder, of course, she still has to be pressured.

Jiang Xi 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 the total score of the last monthly exam really is the same, even if there are some errors, the ranking in the whole grade will not be low. Teacher Wang said straightforwardly and generously: "Then I will give you an error of less than 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 exams, the midterm exams of each semester will rank the whole 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 grades and rankings, and students can clearly see whether they are making progress or regressing through the results of each major exam.

Just to take care of the self-esteem of students whose grades are not outstanding enough, the school will not post everyone's grade ranking, but they will also post it next to the blackboard of their respective classes. It will not be counted in the grade ranking, only the class ranking of their own class.

This top 200 ranking is mainly for the top 80 rankings of the two key classes in each grade and the eight parallel classes below.

The number of places in the key classes is not fixed. Students in parallel classes with outstanding grades that surpass the key classes can also enter the key classes at the beginning of the new semester. Students in key classes whose grades drop too much will also be transferred to parallel classes.

Not every student can adapt to the teaching rhythm of the key classes.

Some students cannot keep up in the key class, but once they are in the parallel class, they progress very quickly. It is normal for them to surpass the key class students. However, once they enter the key class, their grades drop sharply.

Therefore, every year, there are students from the key class who drop to the parallel class and their grades go up. The teacher asks the students and their parents whether they are willing to be promoted to the key class or continue to stay in the parallel class. They all choose to stay in the parallel class.

And this kind of ranking posting can also allow students from the two classes of the key class to clearly see their current ranking in the school, and the sense of urgency that the parallel class students are catching up behind and 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 have a goal to pursue when they see that their grades are getting closer and closer to those of the key class.

If you work hard and try harder, you can enter the key class!

In every exam, the students in the parallel class she taught had scores higher than those in the key class, and even ranked in the top 50 of the grade. If you dare to think about it, the students in the parallel class ranked in the top 10. This is what the teachers in the parallel class are most proud of.

This shows how proud Teacher Wang was when she met other teachers after the last monthly exam.

For a teacher like Teacher Wang who loves to show off, her class has a student in the top 10 of the grade, but because the monthly exam results are not publicly ranked in the bulletin board, it is like walking in the night in a gorgeous dress, feeling lonely like snow.

Jiang Xi actually has no pressure. She still follows her own pace every day, reading books, doing exercises, and writing articles. She does her own things calmly and methodically.

Because she has to go to Shanghai again, she can't write articles all weekend, so she can only use these few days to write more for Wang Yong.

Sometimes she felt sorry for Wang Yong, the editor-in-chief, who came all the way from Guangzhou to the small county town of Wucheng just to accompany her to the Internet cafe to write.

In fact, "Wuxia" now has enough manuscripts in stock. She can write them by hand every day and send them by mail.

But he stayed and handled things for her in her life that were inconvenient for her to do.

Jiang Qi even wanted to pay him a salary.

Because of the radiation of the two markets of Nanshi and Shanghai to Wucheng, the magazine "Wuxia" is now particularly 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 the surrounding schools, even the elementary school students are discussing "Da Song", guessing that the murderer of the case currently serialized is Shui.

"Xing Meng is really good at keeping people in suspense!"

Someone from No. 1 Middle School also secretly brought magazines to the dormitory, and everyone read them in private.

Because Jiang Xing had a copy of "Wu Xia" magazine, the first issue was placed in the dormitory and they saw it. In addition, "Wu Xia" sent every issue to them, and now "Wu Xia" has become the spiritual food of the 610 dormitory.

The girls from the next door dormitory knew that they had "Wu Xia" magazine, so they also came to borrow it.

Many of the magazines were serialized before, and they couldn't see the beginning. Only "Da Song" was followed from the first issue, and it was the only article in this magazine from the perspective of the female protagonist. These girls still talked about "Da Song" the most, and they waited for Jiang Xing's latest magazine every week.

Because of the magazine borrowing, their relationship with Jiang Xi became closer, and they found out that Jiang Xi was not as hardworking as people said, that he only slept three hours a day, or that he read books with a flashlight under the covers at night.

"I think reading novels under the covers is more like reading." The girls said with a smile, because that's what they do now.

Reading a magazine a week will 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. Everyone has to finish reading quickly before it's the next person's turn. So sometimes they read a very exciting magazine quietly under the covers.

Now, everyone knows the truth.