Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 215 Live Advertisement
This chapter's subtitle: The Master accidentally enters the White Tiger Hall
"Your Majesty, you can't write a Mary Sue-like story because you can't let it go."
"Master Fool, what should I let go of?"
"Moral integrity... Look, the way you wrote this at the beginning is wrong."
"What's wrong?"
Our Master Yuan began to talk nonstop: "First of all, as an author you have to keep up with current events. Do you know 'Bloody Sunday'?"
"You know everything, so the heroine should be set as Irish. Her parents died of depression due to the oppression of the British. Their last words before death were to let their only daughter go to the free America. In this way, the heroine has a very noble reason to reject the handsome and wealthy British aristocrat like the hero at the beginning..."
"Noble, understand?!"
"The hero gradually realized the crimes committed by his country during his interactions with the heroine , which made him repent and change his ways to make a clean break with the past. If you write it this way, wouldn't all kinds of dramatic conflicts come?"
"Secondly, in addition to the national hatred and family feud, the heroine's indifference to the hero is not due to her inferiority complex, but her pride. She is really too proud..."
"Proud, understand?!"
"Pride means that it's a stinky man's duty to pursue me. Whether I pay attention to him or not is my own business and has nothing to do with others!"
"Finally, and most importantly, you wrote the heroine so beautifully..."
"Your Majesty, listen to me. Do you think your readers are all beautiful, intellectual ladies like you? Of course not! You write Mary Sue so beautifully, how can they relate to her?"
"Don't blush! Listen, you should write her as someone who looks ordinary but has a special temperament... After all, every girl thinks she is special and has a temperament that others don't have."
"Temperament, understand?!"
"Of course, she can't look too ordinary. The heroine only needs to dress up carefully and put on an evening dress to be the most beautiful among all the beauties. This also satisfies the readers' self-imagination. They are not ugly but they just don't have the money or time to dress up. By the way, you put the saying 'there are no ugly women, only lazy women' into your book..."
In order to win the hearts of the Arcanas, the Fool took time out of his busy schedule to give some guidance to the literary young woman on the book "Titanic".
He raised his wrist to check his watch and said, "Okay, that's all for today. Your Majesty the Queen, Your Excellency the Magician, please continue your efforts. Your Excellency Justice, let's go."
Yuan Yanshu’s third and final stop today was Chinatown. He was going to inspect the sales of the “magic water under Baisui Mountain” and to send Doctor Wen back “home” at the same time.
When they drove to the store, they were shocked. There were crowds of people in front of the store, and most of these customers were white foreigners. Nonsense, in 1920, how could Chinese people be so bored as to buy a bottle of angelica root for ten dollars?
Wait, doesn’t America have Prohibition? Then why can alcohol be sold so openly in Chinatown?
On the one hand, because Chinatown is a lawless place, the NYPD does not pay much attention to such slums where Chinese people gather.
Liang Shiqiu has an essay titled "Drinking", in which there is a passage: "It is difficult to ban alcohol. The United States implemented prohibition in 1923, and it was vigorous and vigorous, but alcohol was still drunk everywhere. At that time, I was out of New York. One day, a friend invited me to a Chinese restaurant. I walked straight into the back room, asked for some angelica peel, and drank happily. Suddenly, a policeman broke in, and my friend told me not to be alarmed. The policeman sat down slowly, unhooked his gun, put it on the table with a clang, asked for some angelica peel to drink alone, and soon fell asleep at the table."
It can be seen that in the 1920s, alcoholic beverages could be sold semi-openly in Chinatown.
One more thing to note is that Health Treatment Esscen is not alcohol, but medicine. Fairy Water is now an officially registered alcohol tincture. Customers can buy it as long as they have a doctor's prescription.
What do you mean you don't have one? Someone, write him one... Of course there will be a handling fee.
It has to be said that selling medicine in America in 1920 was much easier than it would be a hundred years later.
The famous FDA (Food and Drug Administration) was established in 1906. Before that, the pharmaceutical industry in the United States had no regulation at all, and it was completely dependent on the "conscience" of practitioners. Of course, conscience is generally unreliable.
It was during this period that the drug abuse in the United States began. A reporter personally visited the drugstores in New York and found that they could easily buy KEKAYIN, which had become a banned drug, from pharmacies in New York. Even children could buy it.
Like the BOI, which is an executive agency under the U.S. Department of Justice, the FDA is led by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)..
Although the FDA has been established for more than a decade, its control over drugs is still very lax, almost the same as before. It was not until 1938 that it began to require drugs to be proven safe before they could be sold; and the requirement that drugs must be proven effective before they could be sold was not implemented until 1962.
In 1920, drug sellers did not have to prove the safety or effectiveness of the drugs they bought. The poor American people could not see the efficacy of the drugs, so they had to look at the advertisements.
So, is there any advertisement more popular during this period than Master Yuan’s live advertisement, which has been widely reported in almost every newspaper?
Yuan Yanshu could only sit in the car and look at it now. Even so, many people were staring at the car for unknown reasons. They didn't know why the more they looked at the car, the more they liked it.
So he asked Mr. Chandler to go straight to the Anliang Building. Of course, Master Yuan did not dare to show off in front of the building , but went through the back door in a low-key manner...
“Hong, Hong, my dear brother Hongjian, what are you doing…what are you doing…what are you doing…”
The fifth brother of Hongqi was naturally held by his 18 points of charm, and the eloquent steward of Hongmen became a broken parrot.
At this moment, the sound of women's laughter . Before they came in, Yuan Yan suddenly smelled a strong and fragrant aroma.
The fourth sister of Jin Feng lifted the door curtain and said enthusiastically: "Oh, the girls here are looking forward to the second master's coming like the stars and the moon..."
“What! What! What!!! What!!!”
