The release of two consecutive Daqian movies, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Third of the Lord of the Rings", made the world's movie market excited for four to five months. By the time November came, the entire movie market finally calmed down. Although the Daqian announced that a new movie, "Treasured Lotus Lamp", would be released on the 6th of November and would also be released at the same time worldwide, this news did not cause much of a stir. Even the Daqian did not do much promotion.
Well, it was not that there was no promotion. It was just that the promotion was mainly focused on the domestic market. As for the overseas market, Boss Jia did not even consider it.
If "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was considered to have some cultural resonance because of the war, then "Treasured Lotus Lamp", which was a legend of the Hua Xia mythological system, did not resonate at all.
In the middle of October, Boss Jia was busy with another matter.
On this day, Boss Jia came home to rest. It was rare for him to find his sister reading a book.
This shocked Boss Jia. Ever since his sister graduated from university, he had never seen her read a book. The only thing that could be considered a book was probably a script.
But now, for the first time, his sister was reading a book. This really surprised Boss Jia.
"What are you reading?" Boss Jia asked curiously.
"I'm reading a novel. It's a novel written by the Yuzhang people. It's quite interesting and full of ideas!" Jia Jiafeng said.
"That's rare. You have such a high evaluation!" Boss Jia was even more surprised. His sister actually had such a high evaluation of a novel. This was indeed rare.
Then, Boss Jia picked up the novel. With just a glance at the name of the novel, he suddenly understood.
Indeed, if it was a novel, it was worthy of such a high evaluation.
The novel's name was "Legend of Wukong".
There was not much to say about "Legend of Wukong". Basically, anyone who had read online novels would know about it. Boss Jia was also an experienced online novel enthusiast in his previous life. He started reading novels in 2003. The first novel he read was "The Legend of the Blademaster" by Huang Yi.
Since then, writing novels and drawing became Boss Jia's two most important pastimes and hobbies. Boss Jia also tried to write a novel. His first novel was "My Eight Loves" when he was in junior high. Although Boss Jia did not have any love experience when he wrote this novel, he was still a typical shy boy.
Well, that was a little off topic.
All in all, Boss Jia was very familiar with web novels, but he wasn't too sure about web novels from the year 2000.
Moreover, there were already online novels published in the year 2000?
Boss Jia curiously looked at the publication information of this novel. He realized that this novel was only published a month ago. It was jointly published by Sina.com and Guang Ming Daily. (Historically, the first volume was published in February 2001. However, the novel was already serialized on Sina.com at the beginning of 2000. This was slightly earlier.)
The author was indeed from Yuzhang.
What made Boss Jia blush was that in the preface, the author actually wrote that his idol was Boss Jia.
"It's a pity that this is the only novel in the world. Otherwise, I could have praised him!" Boss Jia shook his head and put this matter aside.
The appearance of "Legend of Wukong" reminded Boss Jia that the online novel industry in China had matured. Therefore, it was time for the Daqian Group to create their own online novel website.
With Boss Jia's personal orders, the speed at which the website was set up was naturally extraordinary. With the efforts of hundreds of programmers, it only took three days for a professional online novel website to appear in front of everyone. It was much more mature than any other online novel forum, such as the BBC.
Then, something that was known as the first big event of the online novel era happened. The Daqian Group officially announced their entry into the online novel market. At the same time, they acquired several of the most popular online novel forums and websites.
This included Dragon's Sky, Illusory Sword Alliance, Western Continent, Under the Banyan Tree, Verdant Jade Abode, Sky Eagle and other websites.
Don't ask why there was no Qidian. It was because Qidian was established in 2002.
Then, the Daqian Group integrated all the novel resources and established a brand new online novel website: Zhong Dian Novel Website.
In fact, online novels in this era were not worth much, especially since most of the online novel authors relied on their passion to write their novels.
In this era, there was no VIP system and no advertising revenue. The only way for online novels to make money was through physical publishing. However, there were very few successful online novels. The most successful ones were probably novels like "The First Intimate Contact" and "Legend of Wukong".
However, more than 99.9% of the online novel authors had zero income.
And these online novel websites didn't have any profit value in the eyes of the capital, so it was very cheap to buy these websites. All the costs added up to less than 500,000 yuan, and these websites were all bought.
The Daqian Group spent a huge amount of money to buy so many online novel websites and announced their entry into the online novel industry in a high-profile manner. This attracted the attention and curiosity of many media outlets.
At the same time, many of the online novel authors who were in a difficult situation were crying tears of joy. With such a huge investment in the online novel industry, these hardworking authors could at least make a living.
They didn't ask for too much. They were satisfied with 300 yuan a month for cigarettes.
Soon, many famous authors in the industry, such as Jiang X, Blood X, Xuan X, Ming X, and other first-generation online novel authors, received an invitation from the Daqian Group to attend a conference in Yuzhang.
[PS: Ahem, I don't know if I offended the big bosses. Please forgive me. I'm just going through the story.]
This made these hardworking online novel authors feel flattered. Especially since the conference was held in a five-star hotel. Such a high standard of reception made them feel so touched that they were about to cry.
However, this shock was nothing compared to Boss Jia's personal appearance. The famous Hua Xia's richest man actually came to the conference in person and had a friendly conversation with them. Moreover, he participated in the entire conference. Everyone felt as if they were dreaming.
Moreover, what made it even more unbelievable was that Boss Jia was exceptionally concerned and knowledgeable about online novels. He even had a unique understanding of many of the descriptions and the structure of the world.
As a result, many authors felt that they had become readers, and Boss Jia, who was on the stage, was writing novels and telling stories to them. These authors could never forget this experience. Many years later, they would repeatedly mention this symposium to the reporters.
However, this conference was not for Boss Jia to meet these great authors who he would never have met in his previous life. The main purpose was for Boss Jia to tell them that the Daqian Group's Zhong Dian Literature Network was about to launch a new online novel.
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