Chapter 7575 [Update 1]

"Huh? Books are published?" Director Li was a little surprised. He took the two books handed over by Xiao Qin: "How many cases are published?"

After the magazine was published, he also flipped through it twice, but Director Li was too busy and didn't read many of the later plots. If it weren't for the wonderful plot, he wouldn't have remembered this work. He didn't expect that it would be published as a book now.

"Leave the book here, I'll take a look first." Not every book is suitable for adaptation, especially 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 be adapted into Bao Zheng and Zhan Zhao. It depends on whether this work is suitable for adaptation.

Unexpectedly, he kept reading until the evening, and he couldn't stop at all. It was not until he finished reading the last case that he realized, "That's it? It's not finished yet?"

It was not until he saw the "gg" of "Martial Arts" on the last page of the book that he knew that this article was still being serialized in the magazine "Martial Arts". Then he checked the time. Many colleagues at the TV station had already left work. Only a few people in the entire TV station were still working overtime to edit the works. His office light was the only one on this floor of the office building.

He raised his wrist to check the time, took the two books, and quickly went downstairs to see if the newsstand downstairs was still open.

The winter night was freezing cold, and this year was another cold winter. The newsstand owner could not stand the cold this winter, so he closed the shop early and went home.

Director Li looked around but could not find the follow-up content. At this time, the cold wind blew him away from the plot of "The Great Song Dynasty". He looked up at the night sky where snow was already falling on the ground. He realized that only these two volumes of "The Great Song Dynasty" were enough. He did not need to read more of the follow-up series. He was sure that the copyright of "The Great Song Dynasty" could be purchased.

People of this era are very active. It is not important whether things are done well or not. What is important is to do it as soon as you 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 the TV station. She does not have her own program yet. She is just a brick of the TV station, and she moves wherever she is needed.

After receiving the task assigned by Director Li, Xiao Qin, as a loyal fan of "The Great Song", immediately ran to the publishing house to contact Jiang Xi.

She knew that "The Great Song" was first serialized in "Wu Xia" and then published as a book. Moreover, the publishing house and "Wu Xia" magazine obviously have a cooperative relationship. "Wu Xia" magazine keeps launching books, and the last page of the published book also says that "The Great Song" is serialized in "Wu Xia". Knowing that these two magazines and publishing houses are likely to be brother units, any one of them can have Jiang Xi's contact information.

She also told Teacher Meng that she wanted to buy the film and television copyright.

The publisher was very surprised when they heard that a TV station wanted to buy the film and television rights of this book first and make it into a TV series.

Although the film and television rights of "The Great Song" were not represented by their publisher, if this book can really be released, it will greatly increase the sales of the physical book. They actively gave the contact information of Jiang Xi's editor Wang Yong to Xiao Qin of the TV station and strongly recommended other books published by their publisher to Xiao Qin.

Unfortunately, the TV station where Xiao Qin works has limited funds, and currently only has enough money to prepare for the filming of one TV series. Regardless of popularity or her personal preference, she would choose "The Song Dynasty", and has no interest in other works. But she said, "Okay, okay, you send the book to our station later, and we will contact you if there is a suitable cooperation."

The publishing house just gave it a try. It would be best if there could be more cooperation, but if there is no deeper cooperation, it would just be a few books sent over.

After hanging up the phone with Xiao Qin, the publisher suddenly thought that Xi Meng should be on winter vacation. Before that, Xi Meng's school was entering the final exam period, and her studies were very busy. They tried various ways to contact Jiang Xi and asked her to sign some autographed pages. They sent them to them, but they couldn't contact Jiang Xi. Thinking that she should be on vacation, they found the editor below and said, "Xi Meng should be on winter vacation, so send the 5,000 autographed pages prepared in advance to Jiang Xi and ask her to sign them before sending them."

The second volume was released in the last few days before "Judge Bao" was released, and Jiang Xi had her final exams, so they didn't have time to prepare the autographed pages. However, when printing, 5,000 copies were left unprinted, just waiting for the release date. After Jiang Xi signed 5,000 signature pages, he inserted the signature pages into the title page and customized some exquisite bookmarks to make a collector's edition of the published book "The Great Song".

Wang Yong did not expect that a TV station would buy the film and television rights of "The Great Song". He was so happy that he almost jumped up. Before he had time to contact Jiang Xi, he told Li Ang the good news.

Li Ang was far away in Jinshi, and now he is in charge of opening up the northern market in Jinshi. Hearing this good news, even though he has been through many ups and downs, his heart skipped a beat at this time. He took a deep breath and said calmly: "Although the film and television rights of "The Great Song" are in the hands of Xi Meng alone, this is also a good thing for our magazine. It would be best if Xi Meng could write more and not rush to finish it. "

This is a win-win situation for Xi Meng and their magazine.

The withdrawal of "Justice Bao" caused the sales of their magazine to drop, 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 "Wu Xia" 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 benefits to publishing, film and television, etc. It has become a phenomenon-level hit, such as all the works under the names of Jin Yong and Gu Long.

But it is so difficult to have such a phenomenon-level work, or even a phenomenon-level author like Jin Yong and Gu Long.

If "The Great Song" can be made into a TV series, with the current readership of "The Great Song", the ratings of the TV series will not be too bad. The ratings of the TV series "The Great Song" will also drive the sales of published books and magazines.

This is really, the mountains are poor and the waters are complicated. There is always a way out.

Li Ang pushed for this even more actively than Jiang Wu.

After Wang Yong received instructions from Li Ang, he immediately contacted Jiang Wu.

He and Jiang Wu mainly communicated through email. Jiang Wu would send him articles through email almost every week. Another way to contact him was through Mr. Wang’s office number.

After learning about the strict management of No. 1 Middle School in terms of relationships between men and women, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Wang Yong would not make this call unless it was necessary. Whenever there was something going on between the two of them, he would email Jiang Xi directly. Unless there was no day off for half a month like the last joint entrance exam, she would always check the messages on time and reply to him in time on the weekend.

But today, seeing that Jiang Xi's email had never been replied, he was anxious and called Teacher Wang's office directly.

After the winter vacation, Teacher Wang did not need to be in the office every day, but there were still senior three teachers from the English department in the office. After answering the phone, he realized that the call was for Jiang Xi.

The senior English teacher in the office knew Jiang Xi. Teacher Wang was always showing off Jiang Xi from their class three in a roundabout way, so it was hard for them not to know her.

When he heard the voice of a young man, the senior English teacher immediately became alert and asked him, "Who are you?"

Wang Yong knew that Jiang Xi didn't want too many people to know that she made money by writing novels. From a selfish point of view, he didn't want people to know Jiang Xi's real identity. He knew that her class teacher, Teacher Wang, knew that Jiang Xi made money by submitting articles, so he said, "I am Jiang Xi's cousin."

The senior English teacher knew that the phone could be directly called into the teacher's office. If someone dared to find a student through the class teacher, it would probably not be a complicated social relationship. He just asked in confusion, "Don't you know that she is 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 Liu?"

Seeing that he knew Jiang Liu so well, the senior English teacher dispelled his doubts and said, "It's not convenient now during class. I will convey your message to Teacher Wang when I see her later."

Wang Yong waited in the office for a long time but received no reply, and he couldn't help but feel anxious.

He stayed in Wucheng for a few months and had some understanding of Jiang Xi'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 Xi's real identity and issued her an income certificate. The school couldn't find Jiang Xi, so he called the Shanghai branch of "Martial Arts" magazine and found Editor-in-Chief Qian to ask if Jiang Xi was in Shanghai.

Editor-in-Chief Qian called Manager Qian again, and they found out that within half a year after buying two houses, Jiang Meng had come to Shanghai to buy another house, and it was a villa!

He knew that Jiang Meng'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 were making a lot of money. In the short term, as long as they did not make wrong decisions, they would not have to worry about not being able to pay wages and the magazine's cancellation. As the author of "The Great Song", the manuscript fee for the two volumes of Jiang Meng's books was also very high, but he did not expect it to be so high that he came directly to Shanghai to buy a villa.

This made Editor-in-Chief Qian deeply silent.

He was not jealous. Their magazine was able to produce such a phenomenal work. It was a blessing for their magazine, and even he avoided the risk of being fired.

Wang Yongyi went to the money manager to find Jiang Wu, and then she told Jiang Wu that a TV station wanted to buy the film and television copyright of her work, and asked her opinion and whether she wanted to sell it.

Jiang Wu's answer did not exceed Wang Yong's expectations: "Sell it, of course!"

She spent all the money she earned from the store during this period, the royalties from "Wu Xia" and the royalties from the two volumes of "Da Song" when she bought the villa, except for the high-value mortgage of 300 yuan per month for the two apartments and the high-value mortgage of 200 yuan per month for the villa. Now that she has the income from film and television copyrights, of course she will sell it. If she doesn't sell it, will she be in trouble?

For Jiang Wu, 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, it will be easy to sell the film and television copyrights later.

After Wang Yong got a definite answer from Jiang Wu, he gave Jiang Wu the contact information of the TV station and asked her, “Do you need me to come over and help you look at the contract?”

Jiang Wu had signed many such publishing contracts and film and television copyright contracts in her previous life. Jiang Wu might know more about the traps in the contract and the necessary clauses that need to be entered than Wang Yong, so she naturally rejected him.

As the editor-in-chief who had discussed the contract with Jiang Wu, Wang Yong also knew her intelligence and maturity, and was not worried about Jiang Wu’s cooperation with the TV station.

The people at the TV station soon received a call from Jiang Xi. Although Director Li had already expected that the author of "The Great Song" was a woman, he did not expect that the voice coming from the phone was too young, so young that the voice still had the soft and tender voice of a baby who had not yet changed her voice.

Jiang Xi was born at the end of the year. At this time, she had just turned fourteen years old. She was only sixteen years old. At this time, her voice was in the transition period between a little girl and a young girl. However, her voice was cold and steady, which made Director Li think that Jiang Xi just had a young voice. For

such a person, their TV station had several voice actors who could change into such a soft and tender voice, which was not surprising.

He just looked at the phone receiver, put it back to his ear, and asked uncertainly: "Xing Meng?"

"Yes, I'm Xing Meng. I heard from my editor in "Wu Xia" that you want to buy the TV drama copyright of "The Great Song"? " The tone of the voice on the other end of the phone was completely different from the calmness of her voice.

At that time, the division of film and television copyrights was not so detailed. When Jiang Xi mentioned the TV drama copyright, Director Li paused and said, "Yes, we watched your "The Great Song" and thought that the case in your work is very suitable for adaptation into the second part of "Judge Bao". We want to buy the TV drama copyright and adaptation rights of your work. I wonder if you are willing."

Jiang Xi originally thought that he was going to shoot "The Great Song" directly, but he didn't expect it to be an adaptation.

Jiang Xi did not hesitate too much. "It can be adapted, but it must be noted in the TV series title that the TV series is adapted from Xi Meng's "The Years I Spent Blocking the Chief Constable in the Song Dynasty". In addition, the copyright of the TV series "The Song Dynasty" is only authorized for 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 did not expect Xi Meng to be so familiar with film and television copyrights. He even knew that after buying the copyright, the filming of a TV series had to be established. "No problem." He said. He was afraid that Xi Meng would insist on using "The Song Dynasty" as the title of the TV series, so that his plan to ride on the popularity of "Judge Bao" would be futile.

As long as Jiang Xi is willing to authorize the adaptation into "Justice Bao", it is just a matter of marking the adaptation work in the title. It is not a big deal for him.

After that, it is a matter of copyright fees.

At that time, the copyright fees for movies and TV were not as high as her publishing fees, but for the TV station, the copyright fees he paid were already very high.

At present, the income of the TV station is all dependent on giving gg to the merchants. In addition to buying copyrights, the initial investment in the filming of a self-made drama also requires contacting the director and actors of the original "Justice Bao" crew, shooting locations, costumes, etc., all of which require money.

At this time, the performance fees of actors in the mainland are very low, but the actors of the "Justice Bao" crew are currently very popular, especially the performance fees of the actors who play Zhan Zhao and Bao Zheng are also a considerable expense.

After the negotiation, Director Li quickly finalized the contract. Knowing that Jiang Wu was in Shanghai, he asked Xiao Qin, who recommended "The Song Dynasty" to Jiang Wu, to bring the contract to Jiang Wu. At the same time, he also contacted the director, crew, and actors.

When the TV station bought the mainland broadcasting rights of "Justice Bao", they had the contact information of the crew and actors.

Although "Justice Bao" has just been released, the filming of this drama was completed earlier, and the actors in the TV series have also taken other jobs. Now that they heard that "Justice Bao" is going to shoot a second part, the actors who have benefited from "Bao" have also expressed that they are willing to continue to shoot the second part after completing their current work.

It is actually inaccurate to say that it is the second part. It should be said that it is the third part.

"Justice Bao" originally had only 46 episodes. After the show was released, the ratings soared and it became popular, so more than 200 episodes were reshot.

Now the actors of the "Justice Bao" crew are just like before, finishing their work and then reshooting.

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, and he was almost exhausted. His CPU was about to burn out. When he heard that he was going to write the script for Bao again, he strongly refused in his heart. If he really could still write, why didn't he take advantage of the popularity and write another 200 episodes?

Doesn't this mean that he can't write anymore?

But when Director Li said that there was a ready-made case, which was from a very popular book in the Mainland, with sales of 2 million copies, the original screenwriter was also surprised. In fact, there are limited people in Hong Kong Island, and sales of 100,000 are already very popular. Sales of 2 million should be a phenomenon-level work even in the Mainland. At least the case and logic are not a big problem. Directly adapting such a work with an existing case is much easier for the original screenwriter whose CPU has long been overheated and 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, he had already agreed to take it in his 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 to work. 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 are workers. We are all working class. What grounds do you have to fire me?" "

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 and 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.

Because this video interview was edited by their station’s scriptwriter, they did not dare to broadcast it without authorization, but sent it to the higher authorities, and got the personal approval of the leader, and published it in the People’s Daily. The leader personally supported the director of the machinery factory, and the interview was broadcast on CCTV’s prime time at 8 o’clock that night.

This made this little-known scriptwriter of their station suddenly become the chief scriptwriter of their station. Now they are directly connected with the Propaganda Department and the leader. It is still a bit difficult for Director Li to invite him to be the scriptwriter of the adaptation of "The Great Song Dynasty".

Unfortunately, Director Li was not very confident about other scriptwriters. After thinking about it, he went directly to find this chief scriptwriter.

Chief Editor Ju recently received a task from the higher authorities. Since the beginning of 1984, when the province began to open up to the outside world, W City in their province has become a pioneer in the reform and opening-up policy. From the poverty and backwardness of the 1980s, to the backwardness of culture, now taking advantage of the policy to seize the opportunity of reform and opening-up, from the city to the county and then to the countryside, every household has set up a small factory, and there have been earth-shaking changes. The leaders above asked him to write a script based on the changes in W City in their province, specifically to publicize the achievements of W City in the reform and opening-up, so as to publicize the national policy. Note 1

The leader also said that the higher authorities personally came to convey this task, and the task must be done well!

Chief Editor Ju was Alexander.

When Director Li came to him, 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 editor-in-chief to write a script?

But the editor-in-chief also had a strong interest in the original drama of the station, especially after hearing that the original book of this work had a total sales volume of more than two million, he wanted to take a look, but he was busy with things and tasks at the moment, and he did not have the time and energy to work on his own drama.

Director Li had to find Comrade Xiao Qin, a brick of the TV station, and if the original screenwriter of "Judge Bao" was unwilling to take this job, let Comrade Xiao Qin find a few classmates to learn how to write scripts from the editor-in-chief, and they would write the scripts themselves.

The pressure was immediately transferred to Comrade Xiao Qin.

Comrade Xiao Qin couldn't tell whether she was happy or worried. She

was happy because if she was really the one to lead the team to write and plan the first self-made drama of the station, then she would be basically responsible for the subsequent dramas. She also went from being a vandal who didn't have a specific project 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 worried her was that the director wanted to give such a big project to her? If she messed up their first self-made drama, she couldn't even imagine the consequences.

But the most important thing at the moment was to go to Shanghai and sign the contract for the film and television copyright and film and television adaptation rights of "The Great Song".

Both Director Li and Qin Shumin were action-oriented. After the matter was confirmed, Qin Shumin took the printed contract and went straight to Shanghai.

The provincial capital where she lived was not too far from Shanghai. It only took four or five hours to get to Shanghai by train at that time. In the guesthouse outside the Shanghai Hospital, she met the author of "The Great Song", Xi Meng.

She was an old reader of "The Great Song". Before she met Xi Meng, she had thought about what Xi Meng looked like. It was said that she was an old police officer in the public security system. She agreed with it. She thought that Xi 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 met a girl of 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 waited for Ximeng to come while looking at it.

When Jiang Xi saw the contract in Qin Shumin's hand, he knew that this was the person he was waiting for, and he walked over and asked with a smile: "Excuse me, is this Teacher Qin Shumin?"

Qin Shumin looked up from the contract, looked at her and asked in surprise: "Who are you...?"

"I am Ximeng."