The 1970s was the most prosperous period for Hong Kong newspapers. The palm-sized Hong Kong Peninsula had nearly 70 newspapers at the same time. After fierce competition and the survival of the fittest, there were only 55 newspapers left in Hong Kong in 1982 and 38 in 1997.
Based on the current population of Hong Kong and the total circulation of newspapers, almost every two and a half Hong Kong people would buy a newspaper. This figure was second only to Japan in Asia.
Now, it could be said that there were many newspapers.
However, Lin Li was already too lazy to think about it, and directly asked Zou Wenhuai to help contact Ma Xizhen of the Oriental Daily.
Oriental Daily was a comprehensive daily newspaper in Xiangjiang. January 22, 1969. It was founded by Ma Xizhen and others of the Oriental Press Group. At the beginning, the newspaper had more than 10 staff members, and the sales were not good. At the beginning of 1970, famous people were hired to write the Dog Sutra. The sales volume increased and the number of newspapers increased to one and a half. More than 80,000 copies were sold in a year and a half. In the autumn of 1972, the content of the purification supplement exceeded 110,000 copies. The following year, the sales continued to expand, and the daily sales exceeded 300,000 copies.
It was still the beginning of 1972. When she learned that Lin Li wanted to publish her novel in her newspaper, Ma Xizhen came to look for Lin Li personally.
Moreover, he offered a sky-high price of 100% for 1,000 words.
In this era, this price was already considered very high, and Lin Li did not care about these three walnuts and two dates.
He directly threw the novel to Ma Xizhen.
Ma Xizhen was also a master of operations. She immediately published the Jingwu Sect in the newspaper. At this time, the sales of the Oriental Daily were still quite good.
As soon as the citizens of Xiangjiang City saw the novel, they became excited and bought it one after another.
Even if the quality of his writing was poor, it didn't matter.
After all, entertainment was too scarce in this era. The first day the novel was published, it immediately attracted the attention of the public.
Lin Li!
This name also attracted the attention of countless people. He was Fujita Gang of the Jingwu Sect and Zhang Ping 'an of the Tang Shan Big Brother.
Ma Xizhen was indeed an expert in operations.
The focus was on Lin Li. Since the newspapers were still not famous enough, he would start with celebrities.
Lin Li, Bruce Lee, and all the names that could be used were naturally used.
Previously, the citizens of Xiangjiang City were not satisfied after watching the movie of Jingwu Sect. However, now that they saw the novel, they couldn't wait anymore.
The next day, the sales of Oriental Daily increased from 110,000 to 120,000.
On the third day, it was 140,000.
On the fifth day, it had already reached 160,000.
This number stunned Ma Xizhen. He had underestimated the fame of Bruce Lee and Lin Li at this moment.
"Print! Print!"
The entire Oriental Daily was about to go crazy. In this era where entertainment was scarce, many people were bored to death.
This was something unimaginable in the future, but in this era, it was common.
After Jin Yong found out about all this, he was stunned for a long time. He admitted that it would have been better if he had not let Lin Li off.
However, Lin Li did not care about that at the moment.
His studio was officially established.
Although he was still affiliated with Jiahe, Lin Li had to come personally to recruit all the employees.
As for the office, it was not far from Jiahe.
Lin Li's studio was currently mainly recruiting wordsmiths. To put it simply, Lin Li needed to find a screenwriter.
As for the actors, he could choose to replace them or find them from Jiahe.
As soon as Lin Li's recruitment notice came out, many screenwriters came to apply.
In the 1970s, Hong Kong's scriptwriters did not receive much attention. The salary for writing a script for a film was naturally not much. Many screenwriters lived a life where they did not know what to eat.
Now that Lin Li had set up a studio, he was naturally eager to do so.
He wrote three scripts by himself, and two of them had the same theme. How could he be popular?
For a moment, countless people were rushing over.
An excellent script could add color to the film and increase the box office revenue. This was an indisputable fact that the bosses of the film and television companies had placed in front of them. Only then did the higher-ups of the film and television companies realize that a good script could guarantee such a box office revenue.
Zou Wenhuai wanted to rope Lin Li in, and the others wanted to get in touch with Lin Li as well.
The title of screenwriter with a box office of 10 million had indeed attracted the attention of many film companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. After being provoked, they sent representatives to discuss with Lin Li, and promised that as long as they wrote a script that was popular, they wouldn't mind offering a price of 100,000 Hong Kong dollars per episode.
Even Ni Kuang, Gu Long, and the other seniors would only get 50,000 to 80,000 Hong Kong dollars for each episode of their revenge script. However, Lin Li did not agree to it. He had to be crazy to agree to it.
Do you really think I'm worthless? Now that I'm working with Jiahe, the script fee for each movie is 200,000 yuan. There's also a box office bonus above 5 million yuan.
Lin Li had interviewed many people in the afternoon.
However, it was obvious that their thinking had been hardened by this era. Lin Li did not mind, and directly chose some screenwriters who were quite good at writing.
Six people were left behind.
Of course, it was not for them to write the script.
If they were to rely on them to write the script, the movie would probably be finished. Lin Li asked them to start writing from the novel.
First, he would make some changes to the plot of 'Big Brother Tangshan'.
He would change it into a novel of 600,000 words.
Anyway, if he wrote it, the Oriental Daily would definitely want it.
Lin Li made a simple outline, and let the scriptwriter write it, spreading his own thoughts first.
As for the movie script, there would be plenty of opportunities in the future.
Not everyone was as experienced as Lin Li.
Of course, Lin Li had assigned tasks to each of them.
Give them an idea, a story outline, and then let them create it.
Zou Wenhuai could not wait to welcome Lin Li after he stabilized himself.
"Ah Li, how have you been recently?”Zou Wenhuai came to Lin Li's office, drank a cup of tea, and said impatiently,
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