Rebirth of Rural Literary Life

Chapter 715 Revival Literature Award

In November, a message came in the news.

Writer Lu Yao died of liver cirrhosis.

This news was spread in the writer's village, and some gossips also spread like wildfire at the same time, causing many people in the writer's village to sigh and sigh.

"I heard that Lu Yao's wife ran away because her family was too poor!"

"Lu Yao died of poverty!"

Just like many unfounded secret histories and unofficial histories in later generations, the news that Lu Yao died of illness due to poverty, spread wildly among domestic literature lovers after his death like weeds after the rain.

Some crazy readers even wrote to He Ping, asking in the letter: You are also a Chinese writer with a net worth of tens of billions, why can't you lend a helping hand to Lu Yao, who is also a writer?On the contrary, I have lived a life full of fat and fat, with wine pools and meat forests.

He Ping replied to the author with a letter very seriously, stating clearly in the letter.

First, Lu Yao is poor, not because he has no money, but because he has money, but spends too much, and has many troubles at home.

In 1982, Lu Yao published the novel "Life" with a total of 13 words. Lu Yao received a manuscript fee of 1300 yuan. Converted to the price at that time, the manuscript fee for publishing a novel was equivalent to two years' income of an ordinary worker.

In 1988, Lu Yao's "Ordinary World" won the Mao Dun Literature Award, and the bonus was 5000 yuan.Last year, the average salary in Beijing could reach 200 yuan, which was enough for him to buy a house in Beijing.

What I listed is only a very small part of Lu Yao's income. For example, shortly after "Ordinary World" won the award, Lu Yao was named "National Expert with Outstanding Contribution" and "Expert with Outstanding Contribution in Xishan Province". This income alone ensures that even when I am not writing, I earn more than most people.

Here I am not in a position to talk about how Lu Yao spends the money, if you are interested, please ask yourself.

Second, my money is my business, and it has nothing to do with others, and I am not the rich and unkind, wealthy and wealthy as you describe.In 92 alone, I donated more than 2200 million yuan to various charities across the country.As of this year, the Global-Good Farmer Charity Foundation initiated by me has built more than 1200 "Chunxiao Hope Primary Schools" across the country, with a total investment of 1.3 million yuan.I guess I have more say than you in how to help others.

Third, I understand your regret and reluctance for the untimely death of a literary idol, but please don't spread your grievances on others, it won't solve any problems.

Perhaps because of his displeasure with He Ping's reply, the reader delivered He Ping's reply to the newspaper. Once this reply was reported, it aroused heated discussions among cultural circles and literature lovers across the country.

Generally speaking, the discussion is divided into two positions, the pro-He faction and the pro-Lu faction.

Those who supported the readers and Lu Yao thought that although He Ping didn't make it clear in the letter, it could be seen from the lines that he didn't approve of Lu Yao.The deceased is the greatest, He Ping is out of style to say so.And many people think that He Ping is now rich, and he really has an obligation to help practitioners who are living in distress in the literary world.

Those who supported He Ping believed that He Ping said that Lu Yao was right, and someone went to inquire about Lu Yao's lifestyle according to what he said in the letter.I was taken aback by this inquiry. They have two packs of good cigarettes a day, good wine to drink, and good coffee to write.When you go out to attend a conference, you don’t even eat the breakfast provided by the organizer. You must go to a coffee shop to have a Western-style breakfast. It’s not expensive. It costs 5 yuan a meal. In the 80s... coffee shops are hard to find.

What's more, He Ping's qualifications in the literary world are no less than Lu Yao's, and he is better than Lu Yao in terms of popularity of works, awards and honors, etc. Why should he be so harsh on him?Is it because they are rich?

But the problem is, people have money, so they donate a lot!They haven't heard how much Lu Yao donated. Isn't this a moral kidnapping?
The arguments of the Ting He faction angered the Ting Lu faction. As the saying goes, the dead are the greatest, isn't it too careless for you guys to pick out the eyeballs of the dead?

This anger even extended to He Ping. If it wasn't for what he said about Lu Yao in the letter, those people wouldn't have gone over Lu Yao's old account.

It didn't take long for rumors to spread in the market.

To put it bluntly, He Ping is a womanizer.However, if any of his works are to be adapted for film and television, the heroine must obtain his own consent.

As for how to get He Ping himself to agree, everyone knows everything.

Some people used the "Miss He" argument that spread in the past few years as an example, and also used the example of He Ping interceding for Zhang Yu in the newspaper when she was criticized for her acting skills.

The two sides changed from arguing to attacking, and it was fine for He Ping to be angered, and even the deceased was pulled out as a tool.

He Ping is complaining about Lu Yao, I and others have left, you still don't let me stop, this matter has nothing to do with me?
This debate has lasted for nearly a month. Not only did it not disappear, but it caused heated discussions again because of an article.

At the beginning of December, an organization in Xi'an Province published an article in the provincial newspaper, criticizing public opinion for blasphemy against the deceased writer Lu Yao, and the article also smeared He Ping implicitly.

A certain organization came to help out, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, making the impact of this turmoil expand again.

Even many well-known writers in the circle have begun to speak out. Although He Ping has neither participated in organizations nor activities in recent years, he has a lot of fans in the literary world. The writer village alone has allowed him to gain a pivotal position in the domestic literary world .

Therefore, against the Pro-Lu faction supported by a certain organization, the Pro-He faction does not suffer in public opinion, and even has a slight advantage.

He Ping was not expecting this round of turmoil in the outside world. He wrote too many letters to readers in these years. You can't mess with all kinds of things.

He decided to do something about it.

At the end of December, New Era Group issued an announcement announcing the establishment of the "Fuxing Literature Award".

The purpose of the award is to encourage the creation of excellent domestic literary works and promote the prosperity of Chinese socialist literature.

The awards are set to be selected every two years, and the award time is June in the middle of the year, avoiding the awarding time of the Maolu two awards.

The awarding time of the first literary award was set in June 1994, and the first three months were for readers to vote.

The scope of the selection includes novels, poems, essays, reportage, translation literature and other literary works publicly published and published in the last two years, including dozens of long, medium, short, micro-story, prose, essays, etc. Break down awards.

There is one and only one winner of each subdivision award, and if there is no outstanding work in the previous two years, the award can be vacant.

The Fuxing Literature Award has a total prize of 500 million yuan each year, and the prize money is divided according to the weight of various works. The prize money of the year's bye will be shared equally by all other award-winning works.

The award selection method is also very interesting. Different from the Mao and Lu awards, the Fuxing Literature Award will be nominated by the Fuxing Literature Award Committee, and then the New Times Group and hundreds of newspapers and magazines across the country will vote for readers, and finally select the winner By.

Readers who love to watch movies should be familiar with it. Isn't this the literary version of the "Hundred Flowers Award"?

That's right, not fake.

"If you want to choose, you must choose works that the people like to hear and see!"

This is what He Ping said to Liang Yuejin.

Even so, the award process adds a lot of trouble and cost, but if it is done well, it will really be loved by the broad masses of the people.

The Renaissance Literature Award is also very likely to become the highest domestic literary award by virtue of this operation.

As soon as the news of the establishment of the Fuxing Literature Award was released, the matter of He Ping and Lu Yao was instantly forgotten by the literary world and literature lovers.

500 yuan!

What was the concept in 92?
The per capita annual income of urban residents across the country is less than 3000 yuan, and an ordinary wage earner needs to work for more than 500 years to earn 1000 million yuan.

Even though the Fuxing Literature Award has dozens of subdivided awards, the bonus is still 10 yuan.

Before the advent of the Fuxing Literature Award, the most well-known "Mao Dun Literature Award" and "Lu Xun Literature Award" in the domestic literary circle had a prize money of around [-] yuan.

The Fuxing Literature Award increased its bonus tenfold as soon as it came up, which is a typical example of disrupting the awards market, and made the jury of the other two awards very unhappy.

It doesn't matter if the jury is unhappy, all the writers in the literary circle are going crazy with joy!

Compared with the prize money of the Fuxing Literature Award, Mao Dun and Lu Xun's two awards were instantly weaker, and they won't worry about eating and drinking for a few years at most.

But if he won the Fuxing Literature Award, he would really have no worries about food and clothing for half his life.

The writers are all inquiring about the establishment of the "Fuxing Literature Award" and the criteria for the award. No one has a grudge against money, and it is a great thing to win an award for a published work.

The relationship between New Era Group and He Ping is not a secret. Anyone who is interested will know that this matter was initiated by He Ping.

Many writers in the literary circle can't help but sigh, look at people's awareness and attitude, after being scolded, they donate money for awards.

When many writers and literature lovers in China were lamenting He Ping's generosity and awareness, he was talking on the phone with Wang Meng.

"I said you kid is really generous!"

"This is a big deal. In a country as big as ours, there are only Mao Dun and Lu Xun's famous literary awards, which are still too few for many literature lovers and writers. If you always have something new in the future This work might even win an award at the Fuxing Literature Award!"

"That's good, I'm an old tree blooming, haha!"

When Wang Meng called to ask about the establishment of the Fuxing Literature Award, he also talked about the controversy some time ago, and organizations from all over the world were involved in it.

"This is the reason why I don't want to join the organization. They are all engaged in literary creation. It's better to keep it simple. Don't go online at every turn and form cliques."

Knowing that he had never had a good impression of the organization, Wang Meng told him not to intensify the conflict on the phone.

"Don't worry, I hope everyone is safe and sound."

Wang Meng, a retired old man, made a special call to ask about the Fuxing Literature Award, which shows the popularity of this matter in the domestic literary circle.

He Ping's establishment of the Fuxing Literature Award can be considered to have achieved his goal.

The first is to enrich the number and evaluation criteria of domestic literary awards. He also specially emphasized to Liang Yuejin that serious literature must not occupy the absolute mainstream of the awards, so as to avoid the suspicion that the award-winning works are too few after a few sessions, otherwise the impact of the awards will be affected. force will be greatly weakened;
The second is to quell the previous controversy. With the huge prize money of the Fuxing Literature Award, who cares about He Ping and Lu Yao? Facts once again prove that not many people really care about traditional serious literature;
The third is to advertise for the New Era Group with a high cost performance. Before the establishment of the Fuxing Literature Award, the New Era had a lot of business in China, but its influence in the hearts of ordinary people was relatively weak. Now that the award is out, it has attracted much attention. .Not only that, but every time before and after the award is a huge exposure opportunity for the new era.500 million in two years, but only 40 million in 1 years. Compared with the influence brought by the award, this amount of money is too worthwhile.

The successful establishment of the Fuxing Literature Award and the perfect achievement of several goals made He Ping quite proud.

Time hastened to 93, when Global Investment entered a year of harvest.

First of all, at the beginning of the year, Hu Yao Glass, which invested, chose to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Hu Yao was established in 87. In 89, he won a large auto glass order from Peugeot in Yangzhou. Since then, he has opened the door to the auto glass business, and it has been out of control.As of the end of last year, the total output value exceeded 5 million yuan.

Coupled with the presence of Global Investment, Hu Yao Glass has no difficulty in listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The listing price of Hu Yao's stock was HK$9.5, and the listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange raised a total of HK$2.45 million.

On the day of listing, the opening price was 12.3 Hong Kong dollars, the closing price was 12.8 Hong Kong dollars, and the market value was 33 billion Hong Kong dollars.

For Hu Yao, a glass manufacturing company that has only been in development for 6 years, achieving such listing results is almost perfect.

After Hu Yao went public, Wang Wenjing's UFIDA followed closely. Not only was the company's establishment time behind, but even its listing time was too late.

But unlike Hu Yao Glass, UFIDA was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Today, UFIDA has become the largest supplier of management software, ERP software and financial software in China, and also the third largest supplier of ERP software products in Asia.

More importantly, the average annual growth rate of UFIDA is more than 36%. Even among the global enterprise application software suppliers, it is one of the few potential enterprises.

According to UF's conditions, it would be best to list on NASDAQ in America, but it is a pity that many of UF's domestic customers are government agencies, finance, finance, tobacco, electricity...

As the saying goes, success is Xiao He, and failure is Xiao He. UFIDA took advantage of the opportunity of electronic office of domestic government agencies to develop rapidly, but also because of this, it has too much sensitive information in hand, and it is impossible to choose to go public overseas.

Global Investment is also well aware of this truth, and did not dare to risk the world's disgrace to encourage Wang Wenjing to go public abroad, so he could only choose to go public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in a low-key manner.

(End of this chapter)