However, just as Fan Lei hummed a little tune proudly and walked home…
Someone suddenly dragged him into a small alley.
At the same time, a folding fan appeared on his shoulder near his neck.
"Kid, do you know me?"
Fan Lei looked at the person in front of him. As a reporter, he naturally knew many people.
Especially those famous people in Shanghai, he knew them all.
When Fan Lei saw this person, he said with some fear,""How can I not know the double-aged history master of the eight-part history?”
"Master Shi, why are you looking for me?”
Looking at Fan Lei's smiling face, Shi Shuangling felt a little disgusted. He didn't delay any longer and said directly,""Since you know me, you should know my methods. I'll ask you a few questions, and you have to answer them honestly. If you lie, I'll tear your mouth apart, understand?”
" Understood, understood," Fan Lei said fearfully." Master Shi, please tell me. I promise to tell you everything I know."”
"That Hong San, why is he looking for you?" Shi Shuangling asked.”
Fan Lei rolled his eyes and hesitated.
But at this moment, Shi Shuangling's folding fan pressed against his neck.
Seeing this, Fan Lei didn't dare to delay and hurriedly said,""Boss Hong, Boss Hong is looking for me to open a newspaper office and a publishing house. He asked me to help him with the procedures.”
Shi Shuangling frowned.
" Start a newspaper office and a publishing house??"
Fan Lei hurriedly nodded.
"Are you kidding me? He, Hong San, ran a gambling den, so why did he start a newspaper and publishing company?”
Fan Lei was so scared that he was about to cry.
"Master Shi, I don't dare to lie. I didn't lie to you. Boss Hong really looked for me to open a newspaper and publishing house!”
Looking at Fan Lei's frightened appearance, Shi Shuangling no longer doubted him.
"Don't tell anyone about me looking for you today. If you don't like talking, I don't mind having someone tear it up for you. Also, if there's any news from Hong San, tell me immediately, understand?”
"Yes, yes, yes, I understand." Fan Lei hurriedly said.”
Seeing Fan Lei preparing to leave, Shi Shuangling suddenly called out to him,""Wait a minute."
After he finished speaking, he took out two big bucks from his pocket and threw them in front of Fan Lei.""If you do your job well, you'll get a lot of benefits.”
Fan Lei was overjoyed.
"Alright, Master Shi. I will definitely listen to your orders!”
Fan Lei, who had left the alley, was still a little scared, but when he saw the two big bucks in his hands, he immediately smiled.
He was really lucky today. Not only did he find a job that paid ten bucks a month, but he also got two bucks for nothing.
In the future, there would probably be many of them.
In the alley.
Shi Shuangling looked at Fan Lei's back as he left. He rubbed his chin and muttered in confusion,""What the hell is this Hong San trying to do? He actually wants to open a newspaper office and a publishing company. Is his brain fried?”
However, when he thought of Shen Qingshan's instructions before he left, Shi Shuangling did not think too much about it.
With a wave of his hand, a lackey came to his side.
"Go, go and see if our eight-legged party has a better shop in the French concession. Also, prepare a congratulatory gift.”
"Yes, Master Shi!"
Late at night.
The lights in Hong San's room were still on.
At the desk by the window, Hong San was writing furiously.
As he wrote, he cursed,"D * mn, in my previous life, I was just a slave who wrote web novels. Now that I've transmigrated, I don't even have a keyboard anymore.”
Hong San thought of the novel he had worked so hard to write in his previous life. In the end, it had been pirated. If you said it was pirated, it would be pirated. After reading the pirated version, the readers would actually come to the official website to leave comments and scold the author!
Thinking of those bitter days, tears streamed down her face.
But now, even in his previous life, he had to write novels by hand!
He could write 10,000 words a day on the computer, but wouldn't he be exhausted if he had to write by hand?
When he was in school in his previous life, he could write two or three pages of a 300-word essay.
Now, he had to write a novel of millions of words by hand.
He was a little irrational.
Most importantly, in this era, other than some students who had studied abroad, most people still used brushes!
Motherf * cker!
At this moment, Hong San felt as if his wrist was broken!
"Sigh, if only I had a fountain pen. If not, I could have a ballpoint pen. Even a pencil would do."
Just as Hong San was fretting, he suddenly froze.
"That's right!"
"Pen! A ballpoint pen!"
"If I remember correctly, although foreign fountain pens are very popular, there is no proper production line or manufacturer in China. It was not until 1928 that a fountain pen factory in Shanghai produced the first domestic fountain pen!”
"It's 1927 now!"
Hong San once again found a business opportunity that could make money.
Moreover, it was a business opportunity that would help most people in the country!
He could even say it!
However, this was not something he could do now.
Now, the first thing he had to do was to run the newspaper and publishing business.
Although he could exchange for a lot of things in the system's store, there were very few things that could really help him earn more money.
In Hong San's opinion, the most suitable choice would be some literary works.
In this era, there were very few things for the people to entertain themselves.
Although most people didn't have much energy for entertainment, there was still a market.
This was what Hong San thought after he bumped into Fan Lei.
In the current era, classical Chinese was changing to vernacular Chinese.
Many famous works, foreign famous works, novels, etc., did not have vernacular versions yet.
As for the ordinary people, most of them could not understand much of classical Chinese.
This was because the vast majority of the people in China were illiterate.
Only some wealthy families would let their descendants study.
Most of the knowledge was concentrated in the aristocratic families and the noble families.
Therefore, not to mention later works, just the adaptation of historical classics into vernacular literature was already a blue ocean.
However, Hong San wasn't prepared to do business with these works first.
Firstly, these works needed money to be exchanged in the system.
Secondly, the attraction was not that explosive.
On the contrary, Hong San chose Mr. Jin Yong's novel, Smiling Proud in Jianghu!
He thought about the influence of Mr. Jin Yong's novels in his time.
Now, it was only a few decades ahead of time. In addition to the era described by Smiling Proud Martial World, there was no generation gap between them and the ordinary people.
Hong San dared to guarantee that once this novel was released, it would definitely become popular all over Shanghai!
If it weren't for the fact that communication wasn't so developed in this era, and his own business network wasn't so powerful, it wouldn't be difficult for him to become famous all over the country.
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