Reborn Tycoon Rise

Xu Zhi took the rejected manuscript and accompanied Wu Peng, who looked frustrated, downstairs.

"My manuscript was rejected, why are you looking like this?" Xu Zhi asked.

Wu Peng shrugged and said, "You wrote so well, but Mingbao doesn't want it. It's really unreasonable!"

Xu Zhi smiled and said: "My surname is not Kang, so of course they can't accept my manuscript directly."

Wu Peng asked: "What kind of health?"

"It's nothing, just joking, but what the person just said is somewhat reasonable. There are millions of people in Xiangjiang, and everyone is submitting articles. I'm afraid no matter how many people there are, they won't have time to review them!" Xu Zhi said with a smile: "And Most novels are relatively stable. A good quality novel can take two or three years to write. There are not many newspapers and Ming Pao has many famous writers, so it is normal for them not to give them a chance!"

"I'm just not willing to give in. If you can succeed, you will be a great writer!" Wu Peng sighed: "Then do we still want to check out the other ones?"

Xu Zhi replied: "It's already here anyway, so let's go and have a look!"

Hong Kong in the 1970s was the most prosperous period for newspapers. 70 large and small newspapers owned more than 500 different newspapers and periodicals, and more than 2 million newspapers were discovered every day. Among them, those located in the golden area of ​​Central include Ming Pao, Ta Kung Pao, Oriental Daily, Sing Tao Daily and so on.

Causeway Bay in Xiangjiang is extremely prosperous, but the area is not very large. Even if you walk, you can go anywhere in half a day.

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It was already dark when we returned to Kowloon, and my family had already had dinner.

My sister Xu Yaxin was watching TV on the sofa. When she saw Xu Zhi coming back, she immediately jumped down happily and asked: "Dazhi, are you done yet? Are you already a great writer?"

Xu Zhi felt embarrassed. A few days ago, he had boasted in front of his sister that he was about to become a writer, but now he has accomplished nothing. Throughout the afternoon, he and Wu Peng visited several major newspapers and got the same answer: he was not qualified enough and could not even meet the editor-in-chief.

However, the receptionist of Oriental Daily politely asked him to leave the manuscript there, but before receiving a positive reply, he did not dare to put the only manuscript on someone else's property. If it was thrown away or lost, he would There is nowhere to cry.

Seeing that her son didn't say anything, her mother Wang Hua said: "Dazhi, it's okay. Don't be discouraged even if your manuscript is rejected. Even Xiaoxin said you wrote well, and there will definitely be other opportunities in the future. The food is already on the table, go and have some. .”

"Yes." Xu Zhi nodded and hurried to the dining table to eat. After running around all day in the afternoon, he was already starving.

Xu Yaxin was obviously not satisfied with Xu Zhi's silence. She sat at the table and chattered questions, and Xu Zhi simply told what happened.

Xu Hongbang came over from the sofa and said: "I see that you are either delivering goods to me or writing by yourself these days, which is quite hard. From now on, just do your own thing!"

Xu Zhi asked: "Where is the store?"

Xu Hongbang replied: "Don't worry, you can't drive without it. Didn't we come here the same way when you were in school?"

"But…"

Xu Hongbang shook his arm: "Your mother and I have been doing seafood all our lives. This business is too hard. You used to have no other choice but to follow us. Now it's rare that you have any interest, and your sister says you wrote it Yes, as a father, of course I have to support you!"

"Then I'd better accompany you to restock the goods in the morning. I'll stay at home during the day!" Xu Zhi thought for a moment and said. He didn't want to refuse this, even though it was a bit hard to be a dad. But the long-term tossing about seafood made him exhausted, and he had to waste time to rest after writing the novel. As a result, not only was I tired, but my writing speed was also very slow. For half a month, I could only barely write 100,000 words while copying with my eyes closed. At this rate, it would probably take half a year to finish writing a million-word book.

Xu Hongbang said again: "Okay, don't talk anymore. You should write the book first before talking about it. Nothing can be accomplished overnight. People who refuse to accept your manuscript are afraid that you will give up halfway. There will always be a chance after you finish writing!"

"Okay!" Xu Zhi stopped being pretentious and nodded in agreement. He indeed needed more time, not only to write novels, but also to go out and search for some resources and information.

After dinner, Xu Zhiye and his family watched TV in the living room. According to today's understanding of the newspaper industry, it is almost impossible for a newcomer like him to publish a novel in a second-tier newspaper, let alone a big magazine like Oriental Newspaper. The only way is to go to a small newspaper and publish it first to attract some fame.

But where is the small newspaper office in Xiangjiang?

This is a problem! What's more important is that there is no guarantee when working with small newspapers. No matter how good a novel is, if there are not enough resources to recommend it, it may be difficult to gain fame.

Just like the later Harry Potter, although it is a good novel and the quality itself is not bad, if the publishing consortium behind it had not copied it everywhere, it would not have become a novel with an output value of tens of billions of dollars. huge industrial chain.

If Kunlun is published in a small newspaper, even if it can become famous in the future, it will not meet Xu Zhi's requirements if he can't get any benefits now.

"Brother, why don't you watch TV?" Seeing Xu Zhi lying on the sofa and staring at the ceiling in a daze, Xu Yaxin asked curiously.

Xu Zhidao: "It's okay, I want to think about something."

Xu Yaxin said: "Don't you like watching this TV? Don't you like Fa Ge very much?"

In 1977, the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong had not yet risen. At this moment, the most popular people on the TV screen were Zheng Shaoqiu, Fa Ge and others.

Xu Zhi smiled: "I've just seen it before, but now I think it's a bit boring!"

Different from the era of information explosion in later generations, the only companies in Xiangjiang that can produce TV series are TVB and Li's, and their funds are not as good as those of major film and television groups in the mainland in later generations. People in Hong Kong don’t have many choices in front of their TV sets. Most of the time, they just replay the same TV series countless times.

Fortunately, people in this era are not picky about food. Less than 24 hours after the premiere, there was still a group of people watching the rebroadcast the next afternoon with gusto.

But for Xu Zhi, all this is torture. Although he often turned on the TV in his previous life, he was basically either scrolling through TikTok or reading novels.

What is on TV right now is Dajiang North and South starring Fa Ge, Sister Zhi, and Uncle Da. It premiered last year. According to Xu Zhi’s memory, this TV show has been shown at least 5 times, but the family is still watching it with great interest.