Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 214: Window to the World
Subtitle of this chapter: What I want is not your money but your ...
"Your Majesty, you are not the Queen Mary who was beheaded. How can you be so selfish?"
Our Master Yuan is very good at dealing with literary young women. He started with this sentence. Miss Brown opened her beautiful eyes wide in surprise and said in protest: "My Lord Fool, how can I be selfish?"
"You only think about the reading tastes of you young literary people, but ignore the spiritual needs of the vast majority of working people. How is this not selfish?" Yuan Yan said earnestly: "Your Majesty, since you are already a member of our SCP Foundation, you should always put the well-being of the people of the world first..."
“The people, and only the people, are the driving force behind world history!”
"Pika Pika."
"I didn't hear you."
Although he was interrupted by the Master Ball, his words still worked. Helen said with tears in her eyes, "Yes, yes, I'm sorry, Master Fool, I was wrong."
He nodded with satisfaction and said, "Isn't that right? Our communist... well, the thoughts of the Arcanas and the work of our SCP Foundation will also be stained with dust and should be cleaned and washed. Running water will not cause corruption, and door hinges will not be infested with insects..."
“Pika Pika!”
"I still didn't hear it."
Even so, he turned around and said, "Mr. Magician and Mr. Justice, you should also pay attention. Criticism and self-criticism are the two magic weapons of our SCP Foundation."
The two Major Arcana nodded together and said, "We understand!"
Our Master Yuan is truly worthy of being the successor to the cause of communism. He is clearly a cult leader now, yet he acts like a branch secretary.
Although Miss Brown realized her mistake, she still couldn't change her mind for a while. So she said aggrievedly: "My Lord Fool, I know I was wrong. But I still can't bear to part with Women of the World. After all, it is like my child..."
"Okay then." Yuan Yan sighed in her heart. The American bourgeois lady's consciousness was really too low. In fact, in addition to Helen's low consciousness, some of her Arcanas still did not take the SCP Foundation too seriously, thinking that it was just a hobby group organized by Master Yuan on a whim.
From a hobby group to a real evil organization, this is of course a process.
He hesitated for a moment and said, "How about this, let's publish a magazine for your children's children... your grandchildren. The magazine will be called..."
"Windows of World."
He looked at the "Queen" who was only in her early twenties, and felt that this girl was not very reliable. How about...
"How about this. Your Majesty, go find your father and ask him to ask his colleagues in the publishing industry about Dewhit Wallace..."
DeWitt Wallace is the founder of Reader's Digest. He was born in 1889 and is now 31 years old. He was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and later went to the University of California, Berkeley for college. When he graduated, he just caught up with World War I and joined the US Army.
He worked as a book salesman for a while in Brazil, so he was no stranger to publishing. When Mr. Wallace was bravely wounded in World War I, he read a lot of magazines while recovering in a hospital in the rear. At the same time, he also found that the soldiers around him needed a simple and easy-to-understand reading material.
This kind of reading material does not need fancy words or profound viewpoints, it is just to kill time. In addition, this form of magazine does not require high requirements for manuscripts and editors. Just pick out the wonderful articles from magazines and newspapers, and slightly change them to make a publication.
So he had the idea of starting a digest magazine. Coincidentally, at this point in time, Mr. Wallace was actually promoting his idea to major publishers in New York.
Of course, in the original timeline, he didn't meet a good person. So he had to start this magazine with his wife and friends in 1922, which later became world-famous. At that time, their start-up capital was only 5,000 US dollars, their office was their own home, and the printing factory was in the basement of an illegal hotel. They served as editors, salesmen, and printers. But by 1938, its circulation reached 1 million copies, and it became one of the best-selling magazines in the world.
The people at the SCP Foundation now have much more resources than he does.
Our Master Yuan can now make a bold prediction: in terms of sales, Mr. Ai Shouyi’s "Qima Magazine" may have a great advantage at the beginning because it serializes his own "A Song of Ice and Fire", but it will be left behind by "Window on the World" in the future.
"Your Majesty, you and His Majesty the Emperor should go and talk to Mr. Wallace. I heard that he is also interested in establishing such a magazine. Since you are not very interested in it, then you can ask him to be the editor-in-chief of Window on the World..."
"As for how you want to cooperate with him, I won't interfere. After all, Women of the World belongs to you and John. But you can't just let it go. This magazine must be controlled by our SCP Foundation!"
Yes, Reader's Digest... um, Window on the World will definitely be one of the best-selling magazines in the world in the future. But Master Yuan's first consideration is not money.
Of course, a little money is never too much. And his 18 points of charm can only last for a while, not forever. Only when those Arcanas taste the sweetness of fame and fortune will they follow him.
To Mr. Fool, this popular digest magazine, or more precisely, the various popular magazines he is going to "found", are an important part of his grand plan that has not yet taken shape!
Let’s not talk about the subtle influence of Windows on the World on this generation of Americans and people all over the world. Imagine that during World War II, he could have used the perfect excuse of providing spiritual food for war heroes to let the Allied forces… Maybe every soldier on the front line of both sides had a magazine similar to Windows on the World, and of course, there were also magazines like Playboy and Penthouse.
If this assumption comes true, then wouldn’t it be...
"Your Majesty, do you understand?"
“Master Fool, I understand. But…”
Helen changed to a delicate voice and said, “Master Fool, you promised to help me realize my dream. You won’t lie to me, right?”
"Your ideal... hehe." Yuan Yan laughed and said, "Your Majesty, isn't your dream to be a famous writer? Why, you haven't started writing the Titanic trilogy yet?"
Ms. Brown said a little embarrassedly: "I did write a little, but I can never write with the 'Mary Sue feeling' you mentioned."
"Hey, it's because you're too proud... well, you can't let it go."
