The Cold War: Jumping back and forth between the two camps

"Don't blame Clay! I'm the one who talks too much!"

Rui Yi certainly understood what Dunn said, but because she spoke too much, she implicated Zhang Dezhong, which made her feel a little guilty.

"As far as we know, I won't be too harsh on Clay! I just need to talk to him about it tomorrow, but other than that he won't be punished in any way!

After all, he has done something wrong this time, and he needs to understand where he went wrong!"

But he said helplessly that he certainly would not blame Clay too much. In fact, to be frank, he was also partly at fault in this matter because he did not entrust Zhang Dezhong with anything before returning.

But of course I didn't expect that the person who would pick me up at the airport this time would be Rui Yi.

Rui Yi nodded and said nothing. He knew that this was already very good.

CIA agents are really strict when it comes to confidentiality.

William had told her this.

Like today, Zhang Dezhong did not reveal any substantive content, but if it is strictly judged, it is enough to get a disciplinary punishment.

In this case, just a few words of reprimand are already a very light punishment.

"By the way, how is the opening of the magazine going?"

At this time, Dunn also changed the subject in a timely manner. He didn't want to dwell too much on Zhang Dezhong's matter.

In fact, after Deng En passed away, he probably wouldn't even blame Zhang Dezhong, he would just remind him to be more careful.

After all, Zhang Dezhong was just an ordinary intelligence agent recruited by him, and in the future Zhang Dezhong would only be responsible for smuggling matters for a long time.

He will not be allowed to engage in much intelligence work.

Therefore, there is no need to be too harsh on Zhang Dezhong's request.

"Very smooth!"

Speaking of this, Rui Yi became excited.

"And we have sold tens of thousands of copies of the first issue of the magazine, and we are currently urgently reprinting it! I don't know, but because of the popularity of the martial arts novel in the Metropolitan Newspaper, many people subscribed to the magazine, and everyone is basically satisfied with the stories in this issue..."

Dunn glanced at Rui who was talking nonstop and smiled knowingly.

When Rui Yi saw Dunn's smile, she immediately realized that what she said seemed a bit too much and her face turned red instantly.

He asked somewhat reproachfully.

"What are you laughing at?"

"nothing!"

Dunn reluctantly put away the smile on his face.

"I just thought that you were so obsessed with going to the food factory on the isolated island before, and now I find that you are quite happy doing this job!"

"It's mainly because I've achieved results at work. Of course I'm happy!"

Rui couldn't help but roll her eyes and said.

“But I think we can set up a branch of the magazine in the isolated island area!

The market in Hong Kong is still too small! Although we have sold more than 1 copies of the magazine, which is already very good in Hong Kong, if it were placed in the market on the isolated island, I think this number would be several times higher! "

Rui also gave his own suggestions.

Considering the literacy rate of the people at that time and the financial problems, the sales volume of 1 copies in Hong Kong was indeed a lot.

And this number is still increasing.

But at the same time, the market in Hong Kong is not that big. Even if the Macau region is included, the sales volume it can contribute is actually very limited.

If a branch were to be created on an isolated island, I believe the magazine would sell more.

And there is no need to deploy too many people on the isolated island.

Basically, you just need to arrange a few business personnel.

The magazine can be printed in Hong Kong and then sent to the isolated island. Both sides use traditional Chinese characters anyway.

In fact, simplified Chinese characters have not been promoted yet, including in mainland China. It’s a pity that this novel magazine is destined to fail to open up the mainland market.

If we want to open up the mainland market, we probably have to wait until the future reform and opening up, when the novels currently serialized in magazines can be printed as whole volumes and sold in the mainland.

And we also have to face widespread piracy in mainland China.

The most important thing is that we still have to wait for nearly 30 years, which is too long, and it is hard to say what it will be like by then.

"I will consider your suggestion, but if we really want to do it, only Mr. Liu can do it. It's not easy for both of us to do it!"

Now his relationship with Ray is basically public. Some things cannot be done so obviously. The novel and magazine he founded was created under the nose of the CIA.

The problem is that he did it in the name of Liu Liyuan and did not directly participate. However, if he asked Rui Yi to go to the isolated island area to supervise the matter, it would basically confirm his relationship with the magazine.

Faced with the difficulty of securing such a large profit, some senior CIA officials in the future will not be jealous.

So sometimes you have to be more restrained when doing things.

Selling the magazine to the isolated island, I believe that with my own face and as long as I can get through to Feng Enshuo, this matter will basically not be a big deal.

Therefore, the current conditions on the isolated island may not be much better than those in Hong Kong.

However, if the market and population base are large enough, it is indeed possible to increase Hong Kong's current sales volume several times.

Moreover, this is the first issue of Changhe Magazine. When it becomes more famous in the future, it is expected to see greater sales even in the Hong Kong market.

"Well, I'm only responsible for the magazine's advertising business now!"

Rui Yi spread his hands and said.

So she and Deng have basically established a relationship now, but Rui Yi has a good personality and he didn't go too far in this regard.

In the following time, the two people talked about the future development of the magazine in the car.

In fact, Dunn didn't care much about these issues, or he was used to being a hands-off boss, and he thought that the magazine would not be run too badly if it was looked after by his subordinates.

The most important thing is that he is confident in the works he has on hand now, which have been tested by the market in the future.

So some things may seem a bit ahead of their time in this era, but Dunn was not too ahead of his time. Most people are still relatively receptive to martial arts novels.

You have to know that in this era, there are already fantasy novels like "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and so on.

If possible, everyone has even considered promoting the concept of fantasy novels at the right time, but there is no need to rush this matter.

Eat your food one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. Don't take big steps. Squeeze the toothpaste first!

The next day, Dunn called Liu Liyuan to his office and told him what Rui Yi had thought yesterday.

Liu Liyuan also began to prepare to promote Changhe magazine to isolated island areas.

With Dunn around, this path is not difficult to take.

After a brief greeting with Feng Enshuo, the other party paved the way for him.

Just two weeks later, Gudao also released the first issue of Changhe magazine.

Unlike magazines in Hong Kong, magazines in the isolated island region have an extra chapter for each novel!

After all, sales started two weeks later than in Hong Kong.

I copied one more chapter in order to catch up with the progress in Hong Kong.

Once the progress of the two regions is equal, the update progress on both sides will also be equal.

For the next period of time, life was relatively peaceful.

The Changhe Novel Magazine also triggered a sales frenzy in Hong Kong and the isolated island region.

The sales of Changhe Novel Magazine also soared, although many people criticized the content published by Changhe Novel, saying that it had no substantive meaning and that it was too focused on blood, violence, and some love-related things.

However, the lower classes of people are still relatively receptive to martial arts novels. Not only the lower classes but also many elites are obsessed with martial arts novels.

Their criticism did not stop the sales of Changhe's novels.

By the time the fifth issue of the magazine was published, sales in Hong Kong had expanded to 5 copies, and sales in the isolated island region were more than four times that of Hong Kong.

You know, fiction magazines are published twice a week.

With sales of nearly 30 copies, after deducting costs, staff salaries, and author's royalties, each issue can generate a profit of nearly HK$10.

With sales of 8 issues in a month, plus some advertising revenue, the total income would be nearly one million Hong Kong dollars.

Of course, this is only theoretical sales. In fact, Changhe Novel Magazine had just published five issues, and perhaps before the sales figures for the eighth issue were released, Lloyd's telegram was received. I checked the date and it was already June 8th.

Of course Dunn knew what this date meant. The war on the peninsula should have officially begun.

Although he was very unhappy, Dunn packed his bags and flew to Japan.

Now that the fighting has begun on the front line, the peaceful days are probably over, and we will probably be busy for a long time to come.

It was already the 26th when Dunn arrived in Japan. At this time, the South Korean troops on the front line could basically be said to have been defeated.

The trend of defeat has already formed, and it is impossible to stop the army from the north.

Lloyd did not summon Dunn alone this time. After arriving in Japan, he stayed there for an afternoon and was not called to a meeting until the evening.

"Although we have received news in advance that the North will definitely start a war! But the intelligence still has some errors. No one expected that the North would start so early!"

Lloyd said somewhat dejectedly at the meeting.

"Judging from the current situation, I'm afraid the South Korean army won't be able to hold out for long!

The news I just received is that the military is considering intervening in this war, so we must be prepared to go to war at any time! Our biggest task at the moment is to collect all the intelligence about the peninsula, especially the north!"

When he said this, Lloyd's eyes drifted towards Dunn from time to time.

This made Dunn curse in his heart. Of course he knew what Lloyd meant.

At the same time, I also felt a little regretful about revealing the fact that I knew Korean.

It’s a pity that it’s too late to regret now.