On the campus of Beijing University, the autumn wind is rustling and the fallen leaves are everywhere.

It is rare for students from the school to be found on campus, but foreign tourists almost squeezed out the campus of Beijing University.

When the car drove to an office building, the two got out and quickly walked into the office building.

The two of them originally planned to go for dinner, but as soon as Li Fan fastened his seat belt, he received a call from Sister Jiang, saying that the copyright issue of the new book was basically settled and he was waiting for him to finally decide.

Li Fan followed Sister Jiang’s suggestion and decided to cooperate with Jisen Publishing House. After all, Jisen Publishing House is the most authoritative publishing house in the three northeastern provinces, and has certain advantages in book proofreading, printing, distribution, and channels.

As for the specific details, we need to have a meeting and discuss it in detail later, but the publishing house hopes that Li Fan will find a scholar to help him write the preface. After all, this is a traditional convention.

Who can I find?

Li Fan immediately thought of Mr. Xiao in Chuncheng. Mr. Xiao just agreed, but after 3 minutes of putting down the phone, the old man called again and he regretted it.

He said he felt that he was a little ineligible to write a preface to Li Fan. He had been studying new texts and his head was dizzy every day, and countless materials were broken. His brain was often messy and had no clues, and there were not many academic achievements that he was satisfied with. In this field that Li Fan had developed, he said that he was just a "accompaniment", so how could the "apprentice" give a preface to the "sect leader"?

Li Fan grinded his lips and did not let the old man change his mind, so he had to call others. In the end, he found Bi Shengyuan, a famous Chinese scholar in China.

This old man Li Fan dare not disturb him. This generation of masters who have been in the glory of the late Republic of China to today is an internationally renowned master and a national treasure-level master.

Originally, Li Fan and Old Bi had no contact. When he just called Dean Cui, Dean Cui smiled and said, "Old Bi is by my side and said, "If you don't dislike him, he is willing to write a preface for you."

Li Fan shivered when he heard this. He asked uncertainly: "Which old man Bi?"

"Bi Shengyuan, Mr. Bi!"

Li Fan was ecstatic, what kind of virtue he could do!

Mr. Bi was well-versed in Chinese and Western learning, and his achievements in Chinese studies reached the pinnacle, and he studied multiple disciplines at the same time. He was a rare genius scholar in the world. He also translated his works into English, German and Russian languages. Whether it is personal talent or hard work, it is a shocking existence in the academic world.

Li Fan never expected to have the opportunity to get along with Mr. Bi. He respected Mrs. Bi, and he was very happy along the way.

Li Fan and Gu Yating came outside the vice president's office and waited quietly. He temporarily put away his excitement and suddenly asked in confusion: "Hey, Mr. Gu, why did you, a profiteer, study the mentality of consumers so well? When I was in the office just now, I admired you a little!"

"I grew up next to my father's desk. Every day I watched people coming and going in the supermarket, I was thinking about how to empty their wallets. Over time, I became a 'prodigal businessman'."

"Then I have to criticize you, Gu Yating, other girls have been thinking about eating and eating since childhood. Thinking of all kinds of prince charming, how can you think about consumers' wallets? Aren't you separated from the female group and moving towards a vulgar and low-end fun? You can't think about eating, drinking and having fun in your head every day, thinking about handsome guys, and thinking about me more?"

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk, get out! I'd better think about God of Wealth, put a few more incense sticks, and the wealth will come. Thinking of you? When I think of you and my head are full of worries. Lin Xiaofeng told me that when you participated in "The Strongest Brain", those little girls were like crazy."

Li Fan rolled his eyelids and said, "You shouldn't worship the God of Wealth, you're wrong!"

"Who to worship? Guan Gong?"

Li Fan shook his head.

"Lu Buwei?"

"No, no, no, from the same period!"

"who?"

Li Fan smiled and said, "Ba Widow Qing, the first female entrepreneur in my country's history. It's unreasonable to say that you, a girl, want to go to business, instead of worshiping female entrepreneurs, but go to worship others!"

"Get out, do you want me to be a widow in the future? I have no objection."

"Get out, what are you saying?" Li Fan scratched his head, "But I should really pay a visit. Think about it, during the Qin Dynasty, a businesswoman was neither a royal relative nor a national relative, and was rich by mining the "dan cave". He had thousands of servants, tens of thousands of workers and soldiers, and had his own private armed forces. This was awesome in the era when the Qin Dynasty burned books and burying scholars to destroy weapons in the world!

And even Qin Shihuang practiced the "Huaiqingtai" for her. Isn't it very decent? Do you know what the "Danxiu" produces?"

"Cinsha, containing mercury, is undoubtedly the large amount of mercury in the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang."

Li Fan added: "Not only that, she also spent a lot of money to support Qin Shihuang in building the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu cried the Great Wall, and the widow was clear and the Great Wall was built. Everyone only knew Meng Jiangnu, but not the widow.

If the Widow Qing was filmed into a TV series, it would be so legendary, one hundred times more than the legend of Meng Jiangnu.

‘Brave businessman’, if you want to worship, you have to worship ‘Widow Qing’.”

"You are just a profiteer, shut up!"

Li Fan shook his head and said, "No business is not businessman, no businessman is not businessman! Hey, but this word did not mean this before."

"It's not a businessman. In the old days, when buying rice, it used a lever to measure the rice. When measuring rice, the seller would use a mahogany ruler to cut the rice raised in the lever to ensure the amount is accurate. After the silver goods are completed, the merchant would also place some rice in the rice basket and add it to the rice bowl. In this way, the surface of the flattened rice will bulge into a pinch of "sharp" and try to make concessions.

It was originally a positive word, but later in the process of development, it became a negative word, "no business without evil" and a negative word."

While the two were chatting, an elder with white hair and beard came from the entrance of the stairs. The elder was in his early 80s and was in a state of wind and in great spirits.

Li Fan and Gu Yating quickly walked over.

"Hello, Mr. Bi!"

"Old Bi, hurry up."

Old Bi looked at the juniors kindly and smiled, "No problem, let's go into the house."

When he walked into the office, Li Fan and Gu Yating were a little helpless and nervous. The elder in front of him was a cultural treasure. For their younger generations, being able to have a strong fate is a great blessing in life.

Mr. Bi hung up his glasses, looked at the two young people in front of him for a moment, and then started chatting with them, as if chatting about family matters, and the atmosphere was harmonious and warm.

The reason why Mr. Bi wanted to write a preface for Li Fan was that the "new textual study" proposed by Li Fan was indeed a new direction in the academic world, and Li Fan's academic level was extremely high. After reading Li Fan's articles, Mr. Bi was also very proud of it and told everyone that the younger generation finally had a benchmark Chinese genius.

There are many scholars in troubled times, while talents in prosperous times have withered. Since the 2000s, there has never been a true master of Chinese studies in China. The masters he has been granted by himself or praised by others do not count. There is no such young scholar under the age of 45 who truly deeply cultivated Chinese studies and have authoritative academic research.

The talent is in decline and Chinese studies are difficult to inherit. In this new era of informatization, Li Fan suddenly popped up. Countless elders in the literary world want to sigh to the sky. Why don’t there be more pops up?

Love talents, the more scarce talents are, the more they love talents. In today's society, extinct young scholars like Li Fan have made many insiders cherish them very much.

Mr. Bi wrote the preface for Li Fan. He asked Li Fan to wait for a while, then took out the pen and found the manuscript paper, but he smelled the rustling on the paper, and there was no time to come out. The "Preface" was completed.

"Li Fan, take a look, will it still work?"

When Li Fan received a slash in his hand, he felt a sense of admiration in his heart instantly burst into pieces.

The font is elegant and lively, and it is mixed with several branches, forming a unique style. Li Fan thought to himself: I can't compare to it!

Let’s look at the content, have unique insights and sincere recommendations, and every point of view involved in it is well-known and accurate!

When Li Fan closed the manuscript, he was completely convinced. There was someone outside of him.

After saying goodbye to Mr. Bi, Li Fan walked out of the office and sighed: "My rural grandma is about the same age as Mr. Bi, but she can no longer get off the kang. She is so old that she is so tough that she seems to be 70 years old. Her agility is so awesome about the college students in Beijing. This old man was so awesome when he was young!"

Gu Yating shook her head slightly, "I'm completely convinced!"

Li Fan lowered his head, "So too! For this day that is very meaningful to me, I decided!"

Seeing Li Fan pause, Gu Yating asked, "What did you decide?"

"I will never brag anymore!"

...

After returning to the dormitory and taking a nap, Li Fan flew to Nanjing City the next morning.

After leaving the airport, Li Fan did not rush to the residence arranged by "The Brainiest", but walked directly to a nearby hotel.

He had just gotten off the car, and the vice president, editor-in-chief and several others had been waiting for a long time. Everyone walked into the conference hall and sat down one after another to study the specific details of the book together.

Li Fan didn't expect that Jisen Publishing House was so anxious. He just made an appointment yesterday to discuss in detail, but it was held today, and it was not in this province.

For Jisen Publishing House, Li Fan’s work is extremely important. In this era, physical publishing has long been in a quagmire. Within ten years, everyone’s reading habits have undergone earth-shaking changes, and they have long been transferred from paper books to online clients, and many publishing houses have been unable to maintain them.

For example, the transformation of the "Poetry Magazine" in Beijing into the "Chinese Studies Times" APP is also a way to survive by being forced into a desperate situation.

Nowadays, there are only a few writers who can sell physical books, and the authors are all romantic figures of the younger generation.

Jisen Publishing House’s expectation for Li Fan’s new book is the sales of millions, and 1.5 million is the ideal valuation. Because of Li Fan’s topic and fan popularity, let alone beat those top best-selling writers, even in the Chinese entertainment industry, who can compete with Shuai Li Yi for the popularity?

With such huge popularity as a guarantee, are you still afraid of not having to worry about selling new books?

Li Fan was very worried. After all, can readers understand such purely academic works? Will they buy it?

The vice president smiled and said, "Just because this book is purely academic, we have greatly lowered our target expectations."

The editor-in-chief added: "If this is a work like essays or novels you wrote, our estimated sales will be at least 2 million copies, and the target expectation will be at least 3 million copies."

Li Fan has no confidence, okay, wait for the market to prove it, who will buy it? It’s obscure and difficult to understand, who is stupid?

Li Fan couldn't figure it out and couldn't understand it. Many people were also very suspicious. This was the time when the new book was put on the shelves and check the market feedback.

As for pricing, the result after discussion was 49 yuan, which is very high compared to popular works. Famous novels and novels are often only about 30 yuan, but this book is very reasonable in professional books.

After the basic details were finalized, the vice president asked: "Which scholar should I ask for your preface?"

"Bi Shengyuan, Mr. Bi!"

Everyone inside was shocked and said in unison: "Who?"

"Bi Shengyuan!"

Everyone started shouting:

"Wow, are you going to invite him?"

"We are the last master of Chinese studies in China!"

"If there is a preface to Mr. Bi in your book, we will promote it in just one sentence: Bi Shengyuan recommends it with all his heart!"

"Just like the three words Bi Shengyuan, the style of our book has doubled!"

...

The vice president asked: "When will we write it for us? Our books will be released at the end of the year."
To be continued...