Chapter 1088 The Earliest Tomb-Robbing Novel!

Zhou Shi followed Lin Xiuzhi in.

He saw Sir Yang sitting in front of his desk.

At this time, there were already printed outlines of two novels, "Ghost Blowing the Light" and "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" in front of the desk.

"Sir Yang, I'm here."

"Editor Zhou, this is the outline of the novel I prepared, take a look first."

Zhou Shi took it respectfully.

Then he sat there and read it.

The other party was also a literati, and he didn't take it seriously at first, but when he saw the title of the novel, especially the three words "Ghost Blowing the Light", he was really surprised.

A good novel, in many cases, can be seen from the title of the novel.

Now Zhou Shi is the same, thinking that the title of the novel is very spiritual.

What is a ghost, what is blowing the light, put together, what is ghost blowing the light.

However, when he read the outline, he knew it was a tomb-robbing novel.

It can be said that the excavation of ancient tombs in my country has a long history.

From the archaeological data about the Neolithic Age, we can see the incident of intentional destruction of tombs. The earliest recorded tomb to be robbed in history is the tomb of Shang Tang, the first king of the Shang Dynasty, which is about 3,600 years old.

After the social changes of "the collapse of rituals and music" in the Spring and Autumn Period, the trend of lavish burials emerged, and tomb robbing became increasingly popular. The Qin Gong No. 1 Tomb in Fengxiang, Shaanxi, is the largest tomb discovered in the pre-Qin period so far, and it is also the largest tomb excavated in my country using scientific archaeological methods.

247 robbery holes were found in this ancient tomb, of which more than 10 robbery holes were directly dug into the coffin chamber.

Qiu Falangjiang, a general of Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms, and a lieutenant who dug gold.

The so-called poems of the Tang people, such as "many mosquitoes and flies in the group of thieves", "the sound of hoes in the desolate tomb", "half of the marrow is out of the ground", and "the bones are crisscrossed under the white bones", also reflect the prevalence of tomb robbing.

During the reign of Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty, the tomb of Guo Ziyi's father was robbed, and some people suspected that it was Yu Chaoen who instructed it. When Guo Ziyi talked about this matter in front of the emperor, he admitted that the army he led also had many acts of destroying tombs.

In addition, tomb-robbing novels actually appeared in Hong Kong the earliest.

For example, "Tomb Raiders" is the 56th of the Wesley series of science fiction novels written by Ni Kuang, which was serialized in Ming Pao from June 23, 1981 to November 26, 1981.

Ni Kuang was the first to come up with the idea of ​​the "tomb-robbing trio". As early as in the chapter "Tomb Raiders", he created three tomb-robbing masters, Qi Bai, Virus, and Shan Si, and also imagined a large number of ancient tomb mechanisms, tomb-robbing techniques, and tomb-robbing schools.

The first cemetery that Ni Kuang visited was the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Tomb of Qin Shihuang, where he discovered the story of the resurrection of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses. Later, Zhang Yi's movie "Ancient and Modern Battles of Qin Terracotta Warriors" also originated from this.

Ni Kuang was also the first to design crises such as corpse transformation, poison, and resurrection. The plots of his tomb-robbing novels are interlocking and full of dangers, making people unable to stop.

The most imaginative part is that he robbed the ancient tomb of aliens, and in the end, Qi Bai was together with the underworld messenger Li Xuanxuan. This imagination has not been matched so far.

Ni Kuang's description of the environment and methods of tomb robbing also exceeds ordinary imagination. Among the three tomb robbers, Qi Bai's tomb robbing methods are the most advanced. The "Exploring the Pearl" method designed by him in the later period can avoid the tomb mechanism and "fish" out precious artifacts without entering the ancient tomb, which goes beyond the traditional concept of "grave robbing must go down the corridor" of ordinary people.

Zhou Shi has read "Grave Robbery" written by Ni Kuang, but at that time, there were not many readers and the influence was not very good.

Now, he looked at the outline of the novel given by Sir Yang and said, "Sir Yang, in fact, Ni Kuang has published similar tomb robbing novels in Ming Pao before, but the market response was average."

Ni Kuang?

Yang Ming knew that Ni Kuang mainly wrote the Wesley series of novels, and even wrote about UFOs and aliens.

However, the most famous is indeed the Wesley series of novels. If Zhou Shi hadn't reminded him, he really didn't expect that Ni Kuang had already written tomb robbing novels in this era.

However, it has never become a genre and has little influence.

It is obvious that the tomb-raiding novels written by Tianxia Bachang and Nanpai Sanshu are very mature in terms of the world view and story.

In his previous life, although Yang Ming knew about the Wesley series of novels written by Ni Kuang, he had not read many of them, let alone tomb-raiding novels written by him.

"However, the novel outline you provided, Sir Yang, is more like a real tomb-raiding novel, which is very different from Ni Kuang's."

This is inevitable.

If Ni Kuang's writing was really that good in history, he would not have just written some novels related to tomb-raiding, but wrote a lot, and even developed them into movies and TV series.

No, that is to say, the other party's writing is not good, and there are not many readers, which is much worse than Tianxia Bachang and Nanpai Sanshu.

"Take it back and let someone perfect the outline first, and then write it through the royal gunman. After I think there is no problem, start to officially serialize it in the novel column of Oriental Daily."

"Yes, Sir Yang."

After Zhou Shi left.

Yang Ming was still thinking that no one in Hong Kong had written a tomb-raiding novel, but unexpectedly, someone had already written one.

However, Ni Kuang had written one.

Now the novel outline provided by Yang Ming is completely different from what Ni Kuang wrote, and perhaps it will have a different effect.

. . .

Three days later.

The office of the chairman of Empire Group.

Zhou Shi came.

He brought a more complete novel outline of Ghost Blowing Light and Grave Robbers' Chronicles.

This was written after he discussed with a group of court writers, that is, it was expanded on the basis of the novel outline given by Yang Ming.

Yang Ming could see it.

After they discussed and expanded the outline of the novel, it did become different and more perfect.

Yang Ming read it and found no problem, and asked: "How is the sales of Oriental Daily now?"

A few days ago, the Empire Group officially took over Oriental Daily, and the Ma family had completely withdrawn from Oriental Daily.

In Yang Ming's estimation, without those hidden gentlemen, the sales of Oriental Daily would definitely fall.

But Yang Ming was not sure how much it would fall.

"Sir Yang, the sales of Oriental Daily are still relatively stable, about 300,000 copies."

Still very stable?

Did the Ma family's departure not affect those hidden gentlemen?

Or did the Oriental Daily continue to write some news that those hidden gentlemen could understand clearly.

"It's still relatively stable now, but over time, those hidden gentlemen will give up Oriental Daily and look for other new channels."

"Then do you think the Ma family will re-establish a new newspaper to serve those hidden gentlemen?"

"Sir Yang, since the Ma family took the initiative to sell Oriental Daily to you and the Empire Group, the Ma family dare not re-establish such a newspaper."

After all, one side just sold its own newspaper, and the other side re-established a new newspaper. Isn't it deliberately taking Sir Yang's money?

The Ma family dare not do that at all.

Yang Ming nodded.

"First, let someone follow the outline of the two novels, and then bring the first issue of the serial content to me. If you think there is no problem, you can arrange for publication."

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