Return to 1983 and be a detective

When Cao Ling said she wanted to start a magazine, Xu Shan's heart moved.

In fact, the 80s was the best era for publishing magazines.

No matter what kind of magazine it is, as long as you dare to print it, someone will dare to buy it.

Moreover, the circulation is easily hundreds of thousands of copies. You must know that this kind of circulation will be huge after the 21st century.

In later generations, paper media such as magazines have declined greatly under the impact of online media. The best-selling magazines only have more than [-] copies. Except for a few magazines, they still retain a certain number of subscriptions due to their former channels. Besides, the rest is all about hard work.

Xu Shan also liked to subscribe to magazines at the beginning, such as a certain comic book, a certain fantasy world, etc. It cost a lot of money every year just to subscribe to magazines, so he knew the ups and downs of this magazine to a certain extent.

Now that Cao Ling said that she wanted to start a magazine, Xu Shan suddenly thought of the two magazines he founded in the past few years, one is Poison Digest and the other is Chiyin. Poisoner is actually the Toxic Digest of Lao Mei, by Liang Published in Jincheng Province, Bu was deeply loved by the public as soon as it was published.Everyone likes to read beautiful articles on Duzhao, and some people even excerpt beautiful articles from it and use it to write essays.

It’s just that the Duzhao magazine has changed unknowingly, and many foreign articles with rounder moons have appeared, and it has also washed the brains of a generation. When Xu Shan was a child, it was because of an article about Duzhao. The article on summer camp distorted and fabricated the mythical island child's excellence and deeply fell into a low self-esteem. It was not until I grew up that I realized that the island child written in that article had grown up to be a loser. Staying at home and playing games all day, Xu Shan, the later generation who became a fat reasoning nerd, can be regarded as reaching the same destination through different paths.

In addition to poison picking, there are several similar digests with short stories and great wisdom, all of which are full of fabricated and mechanical lies. For example, ridiculous articles such as foreign flies can collect honey, which have distorted generation after generation. child's mind.

If this absurdity can be eliminated from the source, will it be possible for children in at least 20 years to have a positive, scientific, and logical worldview?

Thinking again of the group of young people in the Five Star Poetry Society who listened to the enemy station, and how they were caught without knowing where they were wrong, Xu Shan suddenly felt a heavy weight on his shoulders.

Running a magazine is not only about making money, but more importantly, it is about giving young people a correct outlook on life and preventing their thoughts from becoming a racecourse for Western lies.This makes sense.

However, according to Cao Ling's style, it is obviously impossible to create an abstract magazine like Duzhi. Xu Shan's plan for her should be documentary literature like Chiyin, with quite exaggerated titles, such as "For a Story" "One hundred and five dear brothers, three sisters are planting bloody flowers on the mountain." This is a particularly long and thought-provoking sentence. If you don't read it carefully, you definitely don't know that it is actually about the Water Margin.

But Chiyin Magazine was obviously successful. At its peak, it sold 500 million copies per issue, and later also published light novels, manga and other magazines, enriching the cultural market. Later Xu Shan was also a publisher of this magazine. Loyal readers are among those who spend money to buy every issue.

Xu Shan secretly made a decision. I, Wang Duoyu, voted for this project. No, I, Xu Shan, voted for it.

He scooped out a small bowl of tofu dumplings from a large bowl, drank it all in one gulp, and then took a deep breath and said, "You've found the right person. I'll pay for it."

"I knew you would definitely pay. Don't worry, as long as you are willing to pay, just leave the rest to me. I will definitely be able to help you get things done properly."

"That's great, but reporter Cao, oh no, I'll call you editor-in-chief Cao from now on. In the early stage, I may not invest too much money, less than 5 yuan. I don't know if it will be enough for you to spend. .”

Cao Ling's eyes widened: "How much?"

Xu Shan felt a little guilty. If he really had to squeeze in and scrape together, it would still be easy to get one hundred thousand. There was a saying in the late 80s that a household with 10 yuan was a poor household, and a household with [-] yuan had just started. Xushan is now considered to have just started.

He didn't know how much money it would cost to open a magazine. In fact, how could there be any precedent for privately opening a magazine these days?

Even when magazines are in decline, magazines cannot be run by private individuals. Generally, magazines must be run by a competent authority, which must be managed by an agency. Individuals can then rent an issue number from these supervisory units before they can operate.

So he explained guiltily: "Fifty thousand, I don't have enough funds on hand. After all, I have to spend money everywhere..."

"No, no, no, you misunderstood me. What I mean is that you gave me too much. Let's find a competent authority and apply for an issue number, and then we can start. It doesn't take much to start a magazine. With a copy editor, an art editor, and one or two reporters, we can basically start work. Then we will contact the printer, start printing, and then it will be released."

Cao Ling said it very easily. She probably had the idea of ​​setting up her own business for a long time, but because she didn't have sufficient funds and no one showed her the way, she has been thinking about it until now.

After hearing this, Xu Shan also felt that the supervision these days should not be too strict. At least applying for a publication number should be a very simple matter.Although he didn't know whether it would be difficult to apply for future issue numbers, but judging from the fact that many magazines borrowed issue numbers, it probably wouldn't be too easy.

Therefore, you should start a magazine as early as possible, before the standards have been formed, make the first pot of gold, and make your magazine bigger first, and then you will become the maker of the standards.

"Then how much do you want?"

Cao Ling counted on her fingers: "Twenty thousand, I think it's enough, I guess I won't even use it. The manuscript fee for an article doesn't cost too much. The standard manuscript fee is five yuan per thousand words. Poems don't count." For a thousand words, 20 yuan per article is enough, which is already the highest standard now. Staff salaries don’t need to be too high. For offices, my friend has an empty house in Shanghai. You can work there for a while, etc. Once the magazine is completed, you can find other places. The most expensive part is printing. We will print [-] copies of the first issue, and it probably won’t cost too much. If it sells well, we can print more... "

Cao Ling's eyes lit up and she spoke eloquently. Ever since she heard that Xu Shan was willing to invest money, she hadn't moved her chopsticks again. She was probably not hungry at all at this moment. She was so excited that she couldn't return. Can't afford to eat.

"Okay, you are a professional. I am the one who provides the money. I will provide the money. You can do the work. I can rest assured that you can do the work."

Isn’t it just 2 yuan anyway?Xu Shan is not short of money now. Even if he just throws it into the water and makes a sound, Xu Shan is willing to give it a try. As long as Cao Ling stops following him and digs out his privacy, Xu Shan feels that no matter how much money he spends, It's worth it too.

The meal was quite a waste, so Xu Shan had to pack it all up and take it away.

Packing meals these days is actually not an easy task, because plastic bags and the like are not very common, and generally you can only bring a lunch box. Fortunately, state-owned restaurants are very good and provide packed lunch boxes, provided that you leave Deposit, and the lunch box will be returned when the time comes.

Xu Shan didn't care about the little money, so he rented a lunch box and brought the food to the rookie criminal police team.

Since the criminal police team participated in the commendation meeting, everyone has been very motivated, and they have become more involved with each other.The provincial department also decided to make a copy of all the major and important cases in the province and transfer them to Longshui Criminal Investigation. If the new criminal police officers are willing to participate in solving the case, they can apply and, with the approval of the provincial department, they can participate in solving the case.

The two groups have each taken on a case, and they are holding on to each other's efforts and are trying their best to solve the problem.

Xu Shan has been pestered by Cao Ling these days and has no time to ask about the cases of the two groups. Today he finally got free time. He called Li Yanzi and Su Jing over and listened to their reports.

You don’t know this if you don’t hear it, and you’re really shocked when you hear it. It seems that the cases these two people received are quite interesting.