Chapter 182

Monday morning, Chief Dacheng announced the sales statistics of the previous issue of the journal at the "April Youth" editorial department, a full 210,000 copies, exceeding the original planned 200,000 copies.

Not only that, "Literature Spring," as the main competitor, because of the shrinkage of channels, sales last week continued to fall, only about 190,000 copies.

This means that the sales of "April Youth" surpassed "Literature Spring" by a full 20,000 copies, becoming the third in the sales ranking of Nihon literary magazine journals!

After hearing this news, the scene welcomed a burst of cheers and applause. Everyone in the editorial department felt completely confident in their hearts and showed excited expressions!

Chief Dacheng smiled and nodded, then instructed everyone to come to the conference room and started the regular meeting on Monday morning.

Under the instruction of Chief Dacheng, Sujin Xiushu distributed a sales analysis table sent by the statistics force.

On this sales table, the sales of each day from Monday to Sunday were clearly counted: besides the 144,000 copies in total from Monday to Thursday, 76,000 copies were sold from Friday to Sunday.

Heben Junyou, as the deputy editor-in-chief, looked at the change in the sales curve and felt an incredible feeling in his heart.

After all, for literary journals, every 50,000 copies is a threshold. But "April Youth" actually returned to this level of 200,000 copies so quickly!

He originally thought that returning to this position would require more effort.

However, what should we do later?

His heart sank for a moment. Now "The Invisible Guest" has finished serialization. If there is no subsequent manuscript, sales might soon...

"Everyone, there is one more thing to inform here." Chief Dacheng put down the document in her hand, then cleared her throat.

"Mr. Akiwara has already provided a new manuscript, named 'Police Assistant Gu Tian Renzanlang'. Regarding the plot, it is roughly like this..."

Immediately after, she told the general plot and added that this is a short story serialization series.

Heben Junyou couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Short story serialization, and it is a detective case-solving series, this is really a good thing!

If this series can be operated well, the sales of "April Youth" for the next half year don't need to be worried about!

He thought about it and asked: "Editor-in-chief, what do you mean?"

Actually, this is an unnecessary nonsense. After all, Chief Dacheng has already announced this matter. If there is no accident, it will definitely be the focus of publicity for the subsequent work.

But he still asked it, to test how much support Chief Dacheng has.

Chief Dacheng looked at Heben Junyou with meaningful eyes.

"In the next twelve weeks, the focus of 'April Youth' work will be on this work. Besides that, in public relations, channels, and cover design, I have already formulated corresponding plans."

"But in the specific execution, I have to trouble everyone to work hard, and work overtime a bit more recently."

She didn't say what Akiwara Yuto proposed about becoming the number one in the industry. In her view, it's enough for her to know this matter.

Otherwise, if it spreads to the outside world, I don't know what kind of turmoil it will cause...

She coughed and said again: "By the way, Executive Sanchiao has promised that at the end of this month, an extra bonus will be arranged for everyone in the editorial department."

Hearing this news, cheers sounded in the conference room again!

When the "April Youth" editorial department was cheering, Akiwara Yuto made a phone call to Hehe Xintai, confirming that he was going to participate in the lecture mentioned before.

Hehe Xintai provided a phone number to him after receiving the reply, letting him contact the other party after arriving.

Early the next morning around 6 o'clock, Akiwara Yuto took his prepared luggage, took a taxi to the station, and sat on the Shinkansen heading to Kyoto.

After more than 3 hours, he finally reached the destination of this lecture—Kyoto University.

Kyoto University is a comprehensive university, located in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, and is a national university whose history is second only to the University of Tokyo. Although it is a comprehensive university, its Literature Department's strength cannot be underestimated. In his past life, it even produced many Akutagawa Award winners.

And the Kyoto University in this world has a similar situation.

Akiwara Yuto walked into the school gate, continued to walk inside along the road, and felt a bit surprised in his heart.

He originally thought that this university was crowned with the word "Kyoto," and the overall style should be based on traditional Japanese architecture. But he didn't expect that looking all the way, they were basically Western modern styles.

Because he didn't know the specific location, he asked two girls for directions, and only then did he find the location of the building he was going to.

In the telephone booth under the building, he inserted a phone card, dialed the phone number provided by Hehe Xintai, and contacted the counterpart named Yuanshan Xiu.

After waiting for less than five minutes, the other party walked over quickly, bowed and said: "Mr. Akiwara, sorry to keep you waiting, I am Yuanshan Xiu, nice to meet you, please take care of me."

Akiwara Yuto also bowed politely and handed over his business card. At the same time, he also sized up the other party.

This professor named Yuanshan Xiu is about 50 years old, wearing a light gray suit and a silver-rimmed glasses, and the whole person has a very easy-going temperament.

"Professor Yuanshan, the lecture time is at 10 o'clock, right? Then let's go over now."

Yuanshan Xiu smiled politely, then led the way, and brought Akiwara Yuto into a tiered classroom, with a scale that could accommodate more than 200 people.

When arriving at the tiered classroom, Akiwara Yuto was surprised to find that it was already crowded, and it was densely packed with people.

Some people, because there were no fixed seats, could only stand in the last row.

But whether they were sitting or standing, basically everyone held a notebook in their hands, as if they had already prepared to take notes.

"Have the students of the Literature Department all come?" Akiwara Yuto asked with a bit of surprise.

"This is only a part, but because the number of applicants is too large, so only that batch of senior students can be arranged."

Yuanshan Xiu explained apologetically, "I didn't expect so many people to want to listen to your lecture at the time, so I didn't have time to apply for a larger auditorium."

Akiwara Yuto nodded. After all, this was his first time opening this kind of academic lecture, and he didn't care much about how many people there were.

Just at this moment, another middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes walked over and smiled at Akiwara Yuto.

Under Yuanshan Xiu's introduction, Akiwara Yuto learned that the other party was the director of the Literature Department, Shanben Dahe.

Shanben Dahe said in an apologetic voice: "Mr. Akiwara, sorry, the preparation for this lecture is insufficient. But please still give us your advice and talk more about your viewpoints."

Akiwara Yuto responded politely: "I will definitely do my best."

He glanced at the clock on the back wall of the classroom and found that it was almost time, so he walked onto the podium.

He scanned the audience roughly and found that the listeners below were not only students, but even some middle-aged people who looked relatively old. If there was no accident, these people were also professors in the Literature Department of Kyoto University.

Although he was sure, after seeing this scene, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous in his heart.

If he wants to make his fame in the academic circle go further, then he must convince these people off stage. Otherwise, he might even become a laughingstock.

He clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and prepared to start his speech.

Let himself use the theory he learned in his past life to convince this batch of listeners!