1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 591 Shame of the Literary World

We had dinner together today, and Yu Hua didn't hide anything. He got in touch with Cheng Hong after he arrived in Yanjing, and soon established a relationship. Now the relationship is stable. Listening to the tone of the two, they are basically rushing to get married. went.

"If you have the idea of ​​getting married, it's better to save some money. The conditions of the houses allocated by the unit are relatively poor. It is best to buy a house. If you buy a house, you will be completely settled in Yanjing." Lin Weimin Said.

When it came to houses, Yu Hua became interested, and said in an exclamation tone: "The house prices in Yanjing have risen too exaggeratedly in the past two years. I read reports that some new houses were sold for 2000 yuan per square meter! My question this time is The royalties are enough to buy a toilet."

"Yanjing is the capital, so rising house prices are inevitable."

Yu Hua couldn't help admiring: "Mr. Lin, you still have a vision. In the past few years, the houses in your hands have increased by two or three times, right?"

"It's just anti-inflation. The money is too fast in the bank." Lin Weimin said casually.

Anti-inflation?Do you always misunderstand these three words?Yu Hua thought to himself.

"This fellow Mo Yan really hit the jackpot. The house he bought should have gone up quite a bit."

A few years ago, when Mo Yan was studying in the Faculty of Arts, he asked Lin Weimin to help him buy a house with his manuscript fee. It stands to reason that he was not qualified to buy a house in Yanjing, but everything can be done. His house is indeed rising now. Not a lot.

Yu Hua sighed again as he spoke, "Oh! I haven't seen you for such a long time, I still miss him."

When Mo Yan was in the Faculty of Arts, he had planned to stay in Beijing after graduation. He told Lin Weimin at that time, and Lin Weimin also planned to help him clear his work.

Unfortunately, when it came time to graduate, he backed down.

Mo Yan is a soldier. During the years of studying in the military arts and literature colleges, he has been receiving subsidies from the army. After graduation, he will be out of the army. Still didn't do that, and returned to the army honestly.

Of course, when he returned to the army, his treatment was not bad, but because he went out and was plated with two layers of gold, his treatment was even better than before.

"With his temperament, it will be a matter of time before he gets out of the army." Lin Weimin said.

Yu Hua nodded in agreement.

Mo Yan's character is a bit sloppy, probably because of his early living environment, so he has a cynical spirit in his writing, as evidenced by novels like "Song of Garlic in Heaven".

In the past two years, he wrote two more novels, "Thirteen Steps" and "The Herbivorous Family", and the response was relatively mediocre.

In contrast, "Screaming in the Drizzle" and "To Live" have received good word-of-mouth and response, and Yu Hua has been a bit of a latecomer in the past two years.

While eating, Yu Hua suddenly asked: "Mr. Lin, the novel you received from the editorial department is really good. I feel that it is no worse than Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng's novels. We still have such powerful martial arts in our country." Fiction writer?"

Lin Weimin's hand holding the vegetables paused, and said with a smile: "The quality is not good, and I won't take it back as the headline work of the first issue."

Seeing that Lin Weimin didn't answer his question like this, Yu Hua asked, "Who is this 'Little Zhuanfeng'?"

"Why do you ask so many questions? Authors don't want to reveal their own information, so don't ask nonsense. You are an editor, don't you know this taboo?"

Lin Weimin's secretiveness made Yu Hua even more suspicious. Writing a martial arts novel is not something shameful, unless...

"This novel is not written by Tie Sheng, is it?" he said suddenly.

Lin Weimin glared at him, "Don't guess!"

Regardless of Lin Weimin's life and death, Yu Hua was even more curious. From Lin Weimin's attitude, he had already judged that the author of this novel must not be a traditional martial arts novelist, but maybe one of their group of pure literature writers.

As far as he knows, there are not a few writers who like to read martial arts novels, and he himself likes to read them very much. He not only loves to read, but also tries to write and publish them.

Therefore, it is not impossible for a writer who is good at writing martial arts novels to emerge from the group of pure literature writers.

In this way, Teacher Lin's caution makes sense.

These days, pure literature writers write martial arts novels, that would be regarded as a disgrace to the literary world.

This person must be very close to Mr. Lin, who could it be?

Tiesheng?Mo Yan?Wang Shuo?Lu Yao?

Yu Hua guessed something in his heart, and he never had An Sheng again for this meal, and he kept thinking about who the author would be.

A few days later, in the office of the News Agency's editorial department.

After Yu Hua and the others came, they were a little absent-minded. Today is July 7th, the day when the first issue of "Kyushu Heroes" goes on sale.

The four people in the editorial department have been preparing for the first pure martial arts publication in China for four to five months, and now it's finally time for the results to come out.

The publication subscription work has been carried out for more than 20 days, and the final feedback result is more than 8 copies, far exceeding everyone's expectations. This result has given everyone great confidence.

The number of subscriptions for the publication is just a reference. The first issue of "Kyushu Heroes" will be printed with [-] copies, and it will go on sale today.

The distribution of publications is not like ordinary books. Because the sales cycle is relatively short, the feedback time is naturally short. If there is no accident, there should be feedback within a few days.

The whole morning was spent in everyone's absent-mindedness and fishing in troubled waters.

In the afternoon, just as everyone was about to concentrate on their work, Lin Weimin walked into the office.

"Xuegang, I chatted with Mr. Liang Yusheng through an intermediary. He plans to hand over the publishing rights of his novels in the mainland to our Tongwen News Agency. You should prepare in the next few days and go to Xiangjiang to sign a contract with him on behalf of the agency.

When you arrive in Xiangjiang, Mr. Liu Yichang will send someone to pick you up. At that time, under his leadership, you will visit several Xiangjiang martial arts writers and try to sign the publishing rights of their works. This is the list. "

After Lin Weimin finished speaking, Li Xuegang was a little excited, not only because he was going to Xiangjiang for a business trip, but also because he could meet several famous martial arts novelists in Xiangjiang. If he didn't like martial arts novels, he wouldn't be transferred to Tongwenshe.

Li Xuegang took the list given by Lin Weimin, glanced at it, and wrote the names of four or five people. The only name he was familiar with was Wen Rui'an. In the past two years, Wen Rui'an's pirated martial arts novels had just appeared in the mainland and attracted many readers of martial arts novels. Most of the writers whose names he has never heard of.

"Wen Ruian and Huang Ying are writers of traditional martial arts novels, Huang Yi writes fantasy martial arts, and Nan Gongbo specializes in historical novels. Their works have different styles. You can buy a few of their works after you go to Xiangjiang Take a look, you should be prepared when you meet." Lin Weimin reminded.

"Okay, I understand." Li Xuegang agreed.

The others looked at Li Xuegang enviously. They could not only go to Xiangjiang on a business trip to see the colorful world, but also meet various masters of martial arts novels. This is the business trip life that everyone dreams of.

Lin Weimin looked at the other people and said, "Xuegang is going to go for about a week, you three stay at home and guard the stall. The inaugural issue has just been released, pay attention to collecting market feedback. Yu Hua, Xuegang is not here for a few days, you in the editorial department call the shots."

"Okay, Mr. Lin."

"In addition, the review of the content of the next issue of the journal must be careful and careful, and there must be no mistakes in the previous issues." Lin Weimin explained again worriedly.

Yu Hua acknowledged that he knew it, and complained to Lin Weimin: "Mr. Lin, just after leaving school, there are only three people left in our editorial department. This person is really a little short. When can we assign a few more people? I'm really afraid that I won't be able to handle it by then."

"I have already applied to the agency. A new batch of college students will start working soon at the end of this month. The batch of melon eggs who are interns in the proofreading department will be divided into three of us."

As soon as Lin Weimin finished speaking, smiles filled the faces of several people.

Finally, there is a new animal power!
The news agency editorial department has been established for half a year, and the work has not been too busy.

But things have changed since this month. With the release of "Kyushu Heroes", a monthly publication has become the daily work of the editorial department. In the future, it will also be responsible for the publication of popular books. The staff has indeed begun to change. Stretched.

"After the person arrives, your editorial department will be split into two editorial offices. One is the editorial office of popular books, and the other is the editorial office of "Kyushu Heroes"."

Lin Weimin's words before leaving caused everyone to fall into discussion.

There are more staff in the editorial department, and the business of the publishing house has also begun to expand. It is inevitable to split the editorial office.

Li Xuegang is already the editor-in-chief of the editorial department, and he must be in charge of the editorial department of popular books.

There are only four people in the editorial department. Mr. Lin gave Yu Huaan the title of deputy editor-in-chief of the editorial department before.

Liu Maowen and Qi Xianghua were slightly disappointed, but they cheered up again.

The news agency has only been established for half a year, and now there are two editorial offices, and there will be more departments in the future.

Mr. Lin is the most fair person, and the two of them are veterans of the founding society. As long as they perform well, are they afraid that they will not be promoted?

While several people were discussing, people from the second editorial room of contemporary literature next door ran over. We were all colleagues before, and we were very familiar with each other.

They heard Lin Weimin's words just now, and they congratulated Li Xuegang when they came. The business trip to Xiangjiang is a good one.

"It's better for you Tongwen News Agency. In just half a year, you will have the opportunity to go to Xiangjiang for a business trip."

"Xuegang, hurry up and change some foreign exchange, and buy more things when you go to Xiangjiang!"

……

Half a year ago, it would have been impossible to say that everyone envied the young editors of Tongwen News Agency.

If he went to a subordinate agency to work as an editor, and his job was still popular literature, many people in the agency expressed puzzlement at the choice of these young people.

But now, Jin Yong's collection of works has been published, and sold more than 1000 yards of foreign goods in two months. Although it is under the name of Guowen Society, everyone knows that this is the performance of Tongwen Society.

The martial arts publication "Kyushu Heroes" has been on sale for several months, with more than 8 orders. The key is that you still don't know what kind of future they can develop, maybe better?
You know, the sales volume of general popular books these days is pretty good, often hundreds of thousands or millions, which is much better than pure literature publications.

Now Li Xuegang is going on a business trip to Xiangjiang again. The Chinese Literature Society usually has this kind of opportunity once every two years, but in the past, only the old leaders and experts in the society were eligible to go. For Li Xuegang, there are very few who can go at this age. Not much.

Just because of this treatment, Li Xuegang, the director of the editorial department, was not in vain.

Colleagues were laughing and chatting, and Li Xuegang slipped into Lin Weimin's office.

He and his wife have always wanted to buy a computer, but now Zhongguancun can often buy a computer for [-] to [-] yuan, which is not affordable by their family's financial conditions. Taking advantage of the opportunity of a business trip, they can go to Xiangjiang to buy a computer.

After Li Xuegang finished his request, Lin Weimin smiled, "What should I do? I'll bring you some foreign exchange tomorrow."

"Thank you Teacher Lin!" Li Xuegang said happily.

(End of this chapter)