Chapter 1086 Royal Gunner!

The popularity of martial arts novels in Xiangjiang was actually from 1953 to 1973, and it was a period of decline for a long time after that.

Wanwan's martial arts novels flourished for another ten years. In the 1980s, they reached a low point with the death of Gu Long.

In 1985, Gu Long passed away, and the eternal legend came to an end. Almost at the same time, all martial arts novel publishing houses closed down, and the publishing of martial arts novels became difficult. After that, Wanwan martial arts novels almost disappeared.

In other words, the popular period of martial arts novels in the Bay Area was from 1966 to 1985, starting from the "Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement" and ending with Gu Long's death.

A long period of decline followed.

Even then.

Among the major newspapers and periodicals in Hong Kong, many newspapers and periodicals would simply not be able to survive without these serialized martial arts novels.

Before that, Oriental Daily also had literati in this field. In addition to columns writing about horse scriptures, dog scriptures, sports news, etc., there were also literati who wrote columns on martial arts novels.

However, now that the Imperial Group has acquired Oriental Daily, Yang Ming must make changes.

Among them, it is aimed at those hidden gentlemen.

The reason why those hidden gentlemen buy Oriental Daily is because they can find relevant trading channels, trading methods, trading locations, and even specific trading times.

However, now that Yang Ming has acquired Oriental Daily, he cannot be like before. Moreover, Yang Ming is different from the Ma family, and he cannot be like the Ma family.

This means that without these values, there will definitely be fewer buyers like Yin Junzi, and the sales of Oriental Daily will definitely fall.

And these hidden gentlemen will also be transferred to other related newspapers and periodicals.

Historically, the Oriental Press Group not only had the function of Oriental Daily News, but also the Sun Newspaper, which was newly established in the 1990s.

It was not until the 1990s, when the Internet entered the information age, that the function of Oriental Newspaper was gradually replaced by the Internet and even more secret communication methods.

There, Zhou Shi introduced to Yang Ming in detail the operation methods of Oriental Daily and other related supplements and magazines.

Basically, it is similar to the information investigated by He Chaoluo.

On the surface, it relies on newspaper subscriptions and advertising fees to make money. In fact, these are just to maintain the operation of the company. The way the Ma family really makes money is through special methods, and then launders it into the legal industry.

It is precisely because of that that the Ma family's industries are spread all over the world.

However, in the era before MacLehose, the Ma family worked together with the four major Chinese detectives. During that time, they made more money and became more aggressive.

"How is the market for martial arts novels now?"

Martial arts novel?

"Sir Yang, martial arts novels have long been in decline in Hong Kong. In addition, Mr. Jin has stopped writing. The martial arts novels in Xiangjiang are not good. Later they were transferred to Wanwan. The martial arts novels in Wanwan were okay at first, but gradually Not anymore. In the past, we also signed a group of Wanwan martial arts novel writers, but now there are basically very few or even no martial arts novels that are eye-catching. The contents are the same over and over again, which is not interesting, so, Our daily newspapers rarely publish those martial arts novels. However, as a newspaper, many citizens and readers still like to read novels, so now there are also some other popular novels.”

Yang Ming didn't expect that it was still like this.

Of course, Ming Pao continues to publish many novels, including those by Ni Kuang, Yi Shu, Lin Yanni, Hu Juren, Xiang Zhuang (Dong Qianli), Zhang Wenda, Huang Zhan, Zhang Junmo, Deng Gongbi, Liang Fengyi, etc.

Among them, Ni Kuang continues to update new books, so the readers of Ming Pao are still very stable, or even increasing.

However, Oriental Daily has long stopped relying on these to attract readers and fans.

Yang Ming feels that the decline of martial arts novels is doomed. Basically, they are all finished and they have no new ideas. Readers naturally don’t like to read them.

However, Yang Ming knew that there was no market for martial arts novels at all.

Like later, Huang Yi still wrote many very innovative martial arts novels.

Including "Looking for Qin", "Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and so on.

However, at this time, Huang Yi moved to Lantau Island in the late 1970s and worked at the Hong Kong Art Museum. During this period, he studied palmistry, astrology, horoscopes, guqin, dongxiao, metaphysics, and the "Book of Changes". It was not until three years later in 1989 that he resigned from his high-paying job in an art museum and lived in seclusion on Lantau Island, a place deep in the mountains of an outlying island where wind and water gather to hide wind and water, and concentrate on his creation.

Today, Lantau Island has been reclaimed and developed by Yang Ming. I don’t know if Huang Yi is still there.

In Yang Ming's view, martial arts novels are doomed to decline, and, except for some martial arts novelists such as Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Liang Yusheng who have adapted them, most others have no meaning in adapting.

In other words, it is difficult for martial arts novels to have other prospects.

Even if he's not completely dead yet, he's probably almost there.

"Martial arts novels can no longer be published, but there are many other novels that can still be published."

Like now, Hong Kong Asia Film Company produces zombie films, horror films, etc. Although Shaw Brothers has been making horror films for a long time, it was not Shaw Brothers Films that really took off, but other film companies.

Now, also under the guidance of Yang Ming, Xiangjiang's zombie movies and horror movies are popular in Xiangjiang, Bayan, and even Southeast Asia, and are very popular in the market.

Including Lin Zhengying, she has really become famous in the film and television industry because of zombie movies and horror movies.

That is to say, there is still a novel market in Hong Kong, and the payment is not small, but novels with new ideas are needed.

"Sir Yang, you mean other novels?"

"Two-dimensional Company, do you know?"

Two-dimensional Company?

Zhou Shi knew it.

He also knew that Two-dimensional Company was a subsidiary of Empire Group, but this two-dimensional company was not simple. Its comic magazines were popular in Japan, and the sales of each weekly magazine in Japan were about 8 million to 10 million copies.

This number can be said to be very scary.

In Hong Kong, the sales of comics of Two-dimensional Company were also about 200,000 to 300,000 copies.

Zhou Shi and his family also liked to read two-dimensional comics.

It can be said that the products of Two-dimensional Clear Water Bay Comics must be fine products.

Zhou Shi and his family did not miss any issue.

"There are no dedicated comic writers for the comics of Two-dimensional Company. All of them are signed by the Two-dimensional Comics Studio. In other words, these gunmen do not have the copyright of those comics."

Speaking of gunmen.

Even martial arts novelists like Jin Yong have ghostwriters. In fact, when martial arts novels were popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan, there were still many ghostwriters.

Zhou Shi is naturally very clear about ghostwriters.

Even Oriental Daily has hired ghostwriters to publish some articles and columns under false names.

"I am going to set up a new novel column and also plan to hire a group of ghostwriters like the Second Dimension Company. These ghostwriters only have income, but no copyright."

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