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Chapter 595 The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival

February 21 was originally just an ordinary Monday, but because of "Zero and One", it became different.

Originally, the Chinese version of "Zero Zero One" was going to be released in different regions in the United States, but when negotiating with the book dealer about the agency, the magazine changed the original plan.

A well-known book company in New York, Everland Culture Media Co., Ltd., finally won the general agent in North America with a guaranteed purchase volume of 100 million copies per issue.

Even if the sales of the Chinese version of "Zero and One" are not good in North America, Everland Company has to pay the "Zero and One" magazine for 100 million copies of the magazine every week.

And this agency period has been signed for 5000 issues, that is to say, from the moment the contract was signed, the Chinese version of "Zero Zero One" has sold a total of [-] million copies in the United States.

To sign this contract, Everland Company needs to take a lot of risks.

The number of 100 million copies does not sound like a big number, because the sales volume of "Zero Zero One" in China is now stable at between 900 million and 1000 million, and sometimes it can even reach 100 million.

But the problem is that this is a Chinese language magazine sold in North America.

Now the best magazine in the United States is Digest, with a sales volume of about 1000 million per issue, but this is the result of decades of careful management.

For ordinary magazines, it is not bad if an issue can sell hundreds of thousands, and it is already very popular if it can sell millions.

The current sales volume of the English version of "Zero and One" is about 200 million per issue, which is already a very scary result.

What the English version can do, the Chinese version cannot do, because the audience has been reduced a lot.

According to statistics, there are no more than 1000 million Chinese-speaking people in North America today. It is very difficult or even impossible to sell 100 million magazines to these less than 1000 million people.

After Everland announced that they got the agent, many lower-level booksellers came to inquire, and the popularity was quite high for a while.

But it’s still a lot of thunder and little rain. Many bookstores are interested, but they don’t want much. Except for cities like Cupertino with a lot of Chinese, many other bookstores only want a little bit, or even a lot of money. A large bookstore in New York only ordered ten copies.

ten books...

For these ten books, the person in the purchasing department of the bookstore repeatedly confirmed whether they could return them if they couldn’t be sold, and they were satisfied only after getting a positive answer.

Two days before the magazine went on sale, 100 million copies and 30 copies were still unaccounted for. It took a lot of trouble for Everland to finally release this part of the magazine.

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Like Cupertino, Alhambra is a city with a predominantly Chinese population. There are 9 people in the city, of which [-] are Chinese, accounting for half of them.

And before "pzday", Alhambra's Chinese infrastructure and services surpassed those of Cupertino, that is, after "pzday", Cupertino caught up with Chinese infrastructure and services .

However, it is also because the Chinese language service is so good that many local Chinese have lived here for a long time and their English is very mediocre. Therefore, people who bought a heavy book before are not as good as Cupertino, because many Chinese people here are not good at learning English. Buy the book in English.

Li Chengcheng is a local who does not speak English very well. He has been in the United States for five years.

He was originally a local cheongsam master in Huaxia Magic City. His daughter was doing well in studying in the United States, so she took him over and let him live a retired life here.

When he first came here, he was still a little apprehensive, after all, he was far away from home and could not speak the language, but after coming here, he found that there are Chinese people everywhere, Chinese characters are everywhere, and there is no resistance to life at all.

As a result, he lost the motivation to learn English, and he still knows some daily expressions.

But what makes him uncomfortable is that he used to like to read books, but it is not very convenient to read Chinese books here.

Fortunately, he still has friends in China, and sometimes he would ask his friends to help him buy a few domestic books and bring them over.

Recently, he heard good news that the local area is going to start selling magazines in Chinese.

So he came to the bookstore early in the morning to buy a new magazine.

He has also read several issues of "Zero and One" magazine, but he is not satisfied. After all, it is not good to bother people to send books over.

But now it's all right, you can see it here too.

I heard that Zhang Zhong's new book will also be serialized in the magazine.

This is even better, it is equivalent to helping him solve two things at once.

"Boss, take a copy of "Zero and One" in Chinese." In the bookstore, you can communicate directly in Chinese.

The clerk smiled and brought him a copy, "Hello, this is the magazine you want."

After Li Chengcheng paid the money, he found a seat in the bookstore and sat down, then flipped through the catalog of the magazine. He wanted to find Zhang Zhong's new book first.

Perhaps for the convenience of readers, Zhang Zhong's new book is the first one.

"The password for the Qingming Shanghe Tu? The name is straightforward and common. Is it related to the Qingming Shanghe Tu?"

Find the text, and the first sentence you see: the third year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty, Qingming.A ship, like a heavy chess piece, falls on the chessboard of Song Dynasty, and the general trend of the world changes accordingly...

Sure enough, it is the Qingming Riverside Picture.

This issue only wrote the introduction and Chapter 1, and Li Chengcheng finished it soon.

After reading it, he was a little puzzled, what was the book trying to say?
Looking at the introduction part, it is quite fantasy, especially when the passenger ship disappears and the Taoist priest in white appears.

But seeing Chapter 1, it feels like reasoning.

Hu Sheer took Liang Waiqi to sue Zhao Buyou, the litigant, saying that Liang Waiqi shaved his face, but the man cut Liang Waiqi with a knife instead of paying him.

But it was exposed by Zhao Buyou and Mo'er, saying that they were self-inflicted and false accusations.

This paragraph is a bit like a forensic doctor's case. Mo'er analyzed the wound and clothes and identified the truth.

Li Chengcheng couldn't figure out what the theme of this book was, but then he thought of "Surfing the River During the Qingming Festival".

He has seen the photos of "Riverside Scene During the Qingming Festival", but he is not very clear about the paintings inside. After reading this book, he suddenly came up with an idea. Could it be that what is written in this book is all painted by pictures? Is there such a scene?
He couldn't help but had an impulse in his heart, he wanted to find out the Qingming Riverside Picture, and compared it with the book to find out if these things happened.

……

There are many people who have the same idea as Li Chengcheng.

And when the magazine in North America was released, the Qingming Riverside Picture had already become a wave of hot searches in China.

This world-famous painting has appeared in front of the public again because of a new book by Zhang Zhong.

　Thank you [book friend 20170108213906082] for the reward
　　
　
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