Chapter 159: The First-Class Satire
The news that Renming Literature was going to publish a special issue soon spread throughout the capital. The last time Renming Literature published a special issue, it was "Lies".
"Lies" not only caused a craze in China, but also sold well abroad, and even broke records in Japan. A novel that cursed the Japanese sold more than 10 million copies in Japan, causing the Japanese society to break down.
So, what will "Human Name Literature" publish this time?
Many people were looking forward to it. They had long been dissatisfied with the scandalous articles in the newspapers. They were waiting for the higher-ups to respond. Unexpectedly, Liu Hongmin took the initiative.
When Mr. Wang heard that "Human Name Literature" was going to publish a special issue, he immediately became anxious.
He immediately contacted the person he bribed at the printing factory and asked him to steal Liu Hongmin's manuscript for him.
The people at the printing factory were puzzled. "We don't print Liu Hongmin's book?"
"What?" Mr. Wang felt something was wrong and called to check. The news he got was that Liu Hongmin's new book was actually printed at the printing factory of Beijing University Press.
Jingda Press was Liu Hongmin's territory, and all of Liu Hongmin's books in the mainland were published by Jingda Press. It was harder than climbing to the sky to get Liu Hongmin's manuscripts from Jingda Press.
The reason why he let those newspapers report those articles was to force the higher-ups to take action. When the time comes, the foreign media, which have been prepared for a long time, will publicize that there is no freedom of speech.
Now that the higher-ups have not taken action, Liu Hongmin has written a novel that makes him feel dangerous. If Liu Hongmin writes another novel like "Lies", he really doesn't know how to break the impasse.
However, now there is no chance to sabotage the publication of Liu Hongmin's novel. He can only wait patiently for Liu Hongmin's novel to be published and then respond accordingly.
A few days later, he saw Liu Hongmin's novel.
Liu Xinwu took some sample books back to "Human Name Literature". When Mr. Wang learned about it, he immediately asked someone for a copy.
The novel of more than 20,000 words was finished quickly, but the old man surnamed Wang could not come back to his senses for a long time. Putting the book down, the old man surnamed Wang felt a pain in his heart. The thing he was worried about finally happened.
He was born as a writer and had a literary vision. In terms of literary attainments, Donkey Gets Water surpasses Lies.
The advantage of "Lies" is that it combines historical facts and has a grand background, which allows for more literary description. "Mr. Donkey" is short and often only needs one sentence to describe the characters, which is a real skill.
More importantly, the content of "Mr. Donkey" is that the originally peaceful campus has become demonized since the arrival of the special envoy. And this special envoy represents the period before the founding of the People's Republic of China. In other words, it is equivalent to saying that before the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was a society that could turn good people into demons. And this truth is very simple, and anyone with a certain level of education can see it.
This attack hit the weak spot of Mr. Wang's plan. The articles he had people spread could not stand up to scrutiny. As long as people looked carefully, they would find the unreasonable parts.
There are so many articles, but there are only a few that are worthy of praise before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Anyone who has read the articles carefully can notice this. No one is talking about it now, just because they don't want to cause trouble.
Now that Liu Hongmin has stood up, those writers who have a good relationship with him will definitely act as his pawns. It is conceivable that as long as "The Donkey Deshui" is published, there will be a lot of articles published to strongly oppose him.
Once again, Mr. Wang was right. After the publication of "Mr. Donkey Deshui", there was an immediate buying craze. Many people lined up to buy "Renming Literature" before dawn, and the bookshelves of "Renming Literature" were swept away as soon as the bookstore opened. Because it only has 32 words, this issue of "Renming Literature" is in -mo format, and the price is also very cheap, only cent.
Seeing the price, the book buyers were excited. Each person bought five or six copies, or more than ten copies. Usually, they would buy a book with a few or a dozen people. Now that "Mr. Donkey" is so cheap, of course everyone wants a copy.
They never thought about the quality issue. If Renming Literature could publish a special issue, then Donkey Deshui must be good enough.
Sure enough, when he arrived at the unit and took a look, he immediately started shouting excitedly.
"Amazing! This book is amazing!"
“This is the most satirical novel I have ever read in my life.”
"Liu Hongmin's writing is getting better and better."
After Liu Hongmin's friends read "Mr. Donkey Deshui", they immediately wrote their own reviews and sent them to the newspaper. As a result, the newspaper had a pile of manuscripts. The editor-in-chief immediately published all the pages of the review. Even so, there were still more than half left!
When the evening paper came out, everyone was shocked. Is it possible to publish a commentary article in this way?
Some people smelled something unusual in it, they opened the newspaper and read the article.
The main text on the front page belongs to Chen Jiangong.
His title is: The first-class satirical novel - "The Donkey Gets Water" describes a magical world.
In the article, he analyzed the writing intention of "The Donkey Gets Water" and then told another story.
I have also heard of the story of "The Donkey Gets Water", but I forgot when. At that time, I just thought the story was interesting and had no intention of creating a novel. Now that I think about it, I may have heard it with Hong Min, but I didn't expect him to write a novel about it. After reading the novel, I am very glad that I didn't think of adapting it at that time, otherwise I would be outdone by Hong Min.
Whether in terms of writing style or story rhythm, "The Donkey Gets Water" is an excellent work. I would like to call it the first-rate contemporary satirical novel.
Haven’t there been a lot of articles recently that yearn for the period before the founding of the People’s Republic of China? Now that the Red Citizens have responded, how should you respond?
Next to Chen Jiangong's article, there are also articles by Liu Zhenyun, Wang Xiaoping and others. These people are either famous writers or young backbones of cultural units, all of whom are celebrities from major newspapers and publishing houses.
Their standing up was equivalent to the young people in the cultural circle of Beijing standing up. At this point, people with political sensitivity immediately noticed something and all cheered for Liu Hongmin in the newspapers.
How could the old man surnamed Wang accept this? He immediately prepared a counterattack. The newspaper accepted all their articles. After all, only when there is a give-and-take can the news be hyped up. If the news is not popular enough, how can it attract the attention of everyone in the country?
Liu Hongmin looked at the confusing articles in the newspaper and suddenly laughed.
This nest is big enough. I wonder if Ms. Deng is satisfied with it.
Ms. Deng was quite satisfied that Xiyuan had remembered all the people who jumped out. However, they did not take action, but wanted to see who these people were close to, so as to catch the big fish.
(End of this chapter)
