Chapter 732 How long are the Chinese away from the information superhighway?
During this year and a half, if we were to say who is the busiest person in the Chinese Literature Society, Gao Xianjun might not be ranked first, but he should be in the top three.
He is the director of the Second Editorial Office of Contemporary Literature and also the deputy team leader of the Bu Lao Hu series editorial team.
As an important editorial department of Guowen Publishing House, Contemporary Literature has a lot of editing tasks, not to mention the Buhuhu series. It handles thousands of novels a year, the workload of which exceeds that of any domestic publishing house.
This year, Lin Weimin has launched a series of youth books called "Rag Tiger", and Gao Xianjun has been so busy that he almost lives in the office.
Fortunately, the Youth Rag Tiger Essay Competition that lasted for more than four months has finally come to a temporary end, and Gao Xianjun finally has the leisure to care about the staff housing of the National Literature Society.
After a tour of the construction site, Lin Weimin invited Lao Zhou and Gao Xianjun to dinner, and during the meal they talked about the Youth Ragdoll series.
During this period, the editorial team has received more than 90 novels, more than 360 novellas and thousands of short stories from all over the country.
Over a period of more than four months, the amount of manuscript reviewing increased dramatically without a significant increase in staff. This was a very severe test for all editors in the Bu Lao Hu series editing team.
Finally, after strict review by the editorial team, 1 novel, 4 novellas and 9 short stories were left.
These works will be presented to readers across the country in the form of a novel, a collection of novellas and a collection of short stories in mid-to-late August.
"When will the young authors arrive?" Lin Weimin asked Gao Xianjun.
"Two of the authors are from Yanjing, and the others should be here next Monday or Tuesday."
"Well, when they arrive, hurry up and sign the contract, explain everything that needs to be explained in advance, and cooperate with the agency's publicity."
"clear."
A few days later, more than a dozen young authors of the Youth Ragdoll Series published by Guowen Publishing House who were about to sign contracts finally arrived in Yanjing.
The Youth Ragdoll Series of Books has strict age restrictions on authors, who must be born after 1970, so the six authors whose works were selected this time are all relatively young.
The largest author is Feng Tang, a senior student from Yenching Union Medical College. He is only 23 years old this year. His selected work is "Joy".
Joy is a novel written by Feng Tang when he was 16 to 18 years old. According to his own account, he had just graduated from junior high school at that time and had nothing to do, so he stayed at home. He was always thinking about a girl in his heart, so he used his vacation time to sketch out the story in his mind bit by bit.
"I've read your novel. It's very cleverly written, a bit like 'The Wild Animals'. Very good. Keep up the good work!"
When they met, Lin Weimin patted Feng Tang on the shoulder and encouraged him.
Feng Tang was very excited when he heard Lin Weimin compare his novel to "Animal Fierceness".
After praising Feng Tang, Lin Weimin shook hands with the little girl next to him and gave her a few words of encouragement.
The Youth Rag Tiger Series of Books essay contest has been going on for more than four months. Feng Tang is the only future celebrity that Lin Weimin is familiar with among the dozen or so young authors whose works have been selected, but this is enough.
"Spring water is just beginning to flow, spring forests are just beginning to grow, and the spring breeze is ten miles long, but it is not as good as you."
There should be few young people in later generations who have not heard of this sentence, which comes from Feng Tang’s poem "Spring".
The other 13 authors whose works were selected for the Youth Ragdoll Series are between 17 and 23 years old, including 4 high school students, 8 college students, and 2 who are already working.
Among the 14 people who came, 7 were accompanied by their parents.
As the deputy team leader of the Ragdoll series editorial team, Gao Xianjun is responsible for the specific signing matters of these young authors. Looking at these little guys, his heart is filled with emotion.
Young people who are only around 20 years old even need their parents to accompany them when they go out, but the works of these children have been selected into the Youth Ragdoll Series. Gao Xianjun couldn't help but think of Zhang Ailing's words "Become famous as early as possible".
But then he saw Lin Weimin who was talking cordially to this group of young authors, and it suddenly occurred to him that he was only 20 years old when he edited "The Disguiser", and he was only 21 years old when he wrote the classic "Farewell My Concubine"!
Compared to this, these little guys in front of me seem to be nothing.
There's no comparison!
After completing the signing of the selected authors of the Youth Rag Tiger Series, there was still nearly a week before the new book launch, and Guowen Publishing House thoughtfully arranged a tour in Yanjing for these young authors.
August 20, Banquet Hall of Yanjing Hotel.
For many journalists, this is old news.
Today, Guowen Publishing House once again held a new book launch conference here, which included three long works in the Rag Tiger Series and three books in the Youth Rag Tiger Series.
Since March, there has been no new book in the Rag Tiger Series, mainly because some of its focus has been shifted to the Youth Rag Tiger Series.
This time, both the Rag Tiger and the Youth Rag Tiger series were unveiled, which naturally attracted the attention of many media.
Because of the presence of a bunch of young and talented authors in the Youth Ragnarok Series, several veteran writers in the Ragnarok Series were not welcomed by reporters at all. The cameras and flashes on the scene were always pointed at these young authors, making them nervous and restless.
In the view of many media present, the Youth Tiger Series essay solicitation by Guowen Publishing House seemed to be a bid for a fortune and an attempt to recruit reserve talents for the future literary world. The news was published in newspapers the next day, and most of the news reports revolved around this point of view.
Many journalists believe that among this group of authors there is a high possibility that some future famous writers will emerge.
When Lin Weimin saw these reporters' presumptuous reports, he thought to himself that it is not so easy to find good writers. It is already great if one or two future famous writers emerge in a writing competition.
Amid the media's heated coverage, several works in the Youth Rag Tiger Series were finally published.
With the golden signboard of the Rag Tiger Series, several works of the Youth Rag Tiger Series have been well received by readers as soon as they were released.
Especially young readers, they have a very strong favorable impression on the release of the Youth Rag Tiger series.
In the traditional Chinese literary world, works targeting young people are actually very rare.
Most teenagers have a wide range of children's literature to choose from during their childhood, and when they grow up, they also have many famous books and classics to read.
The only difference is that between the age of thirteen or fourteen and twenty-four or twenty-five, there is a lack of works that suit their real life and reading tastes.
The Youth Rag Tiger Series has launched three books this time: a novel, a collection of novellas, and a collection of short stories. They were selected from hundreds of works and have gone through layers of screening by Guowen Publishing House.
The style of all selected works must be unique and in line with the reading tastes of current teenagers and young readers, and different from the dullness and restraint of traditional literature.
Adhering to the principle of "young people reading things written by young people", Guowen Publishing House's review standards are different from the past, and have indeed led the aesthetic trends of many young generation literature lovers to the greatest extent.
The three books have been on the market for half a month, and the book with the highest sales is "Joy" by Feng Tang, which sold nearly 80,000 copies.
The other two collections of novels also sold 64,000 and 59,000 copies respectively.
Such figures are certainly nothing compared to the incredible sales of hundreds of thousands of copies of the Rag Tiger series in a single month, but many authors of the Rag Tiger series have been famous for many years after all.
These young authors of the Youth Rag Tiger Series are still a blank slate in the field of literature.
Such sales volume achieved in just half a month is enough to make all the young authors selected for the Youth Rag Tiger Series and their families feel proud.
At the same time, such results also made the Guowen Society feel relieved.
Despite the huge fanfare surrounding the Youth Rag Tiger Series, books targeting teenagers and young readers in China are actually a very unpopular field. Before sales figures come out, no one can guarantee that the Youth Rag Tiger Series will be a big hit.
Now, with cumulative sales exceeding 200,000 copies in just half a month, Lin Weimin can finally sleep well.
Otherwise, Old Cheng would have to nag him about the 1.5 million yuan in royalties every day.
Time flies and it is September. The busy life of Qingchun Buhu has come to an end and Lin Weimin's work has become much easier.
That weekend, Lin Weimin drove Tao Huimin and Xiao Doubao to the west gate of the Capital Gymnasium.
After nearly two months of hard work, Qu Xiaowei and Zheng Guo finally opened the computer room.
"Leap over the Internet Cafe".
The name was so tacky but Qu Xiaowei insisted on it and Zheng Guo had no choice.
Internet cafes, as the name suggests, provide Internet-connected computers and coffee, but in reality there are only computers and coffee here.
As for the internet, Qu Xiaowei hung a huge blackboard at the door of the store with a line of big words written on it.
"How long will it take for the Chinese to get to the information superhighway? 117 days!"
Since telecommunications companies are currently unable to provide dial-up Internet access services, the term Internet cafe is certainly not worthy of its name.
Qu Xiaowei originally wanted to just call it "Feiyue Computer House", and he could change it later when the Internet was connected.
But Lin Weimin had a bad taste and used the slogan of China's first Internet company, Yinghaiwei - "How far are the Chinese from the information superhighway? 1,500 meters to the north."
"Weimin, you know what, this sentence you asked me to write is really eye-catching. Since it was posted yesterday, no less than 20 people have come to ask about it, all wanting to know what it means."
As soon as he saw Lin Weimin, Qu Xiaowei pulled him aside and talked.
Today is the opening day of the Internet cafe, Qu Xiaowei is very proud. Compared with him, Zheng Guo seems much more low-key.
"This Weimin advertisement is unique and really good!" Zheng Guo also said.
Lin Weimin waved his hand to stop the two from praising him.
After chatting for a few minutes, we went in to take a look.
Feiyue Internet Cafe is not large. It is a row of shops facing the street. Two of them were rented by Qu Xiaowei and his partner and renovated into Internet cafes.
In the internet cafe of more than 100 square meters, there are two rows of 12 Pentium computers in the middle, and four young people have already tried them out. In the remaining space, a circle of sofas surrounds these computers and computer tables. These sofas are used to provide coffee service to customers.
Lin Weimin didn’t know about the design of the Internet cafe before, but when he saw it today, he was amazed.
"Which of you came up with this pattern?"
Qu Xiaowei pointed at Zheng Guo and said, "Him!"
Lin Weimin looked towards Zheng Guo.
What a talent!
Those surfing the Internet in the middle are like monkey show, and those drinking coffee in the outside circle are just watching the monkey show!
Lin Weimin patted Zheng Guo on the shoulder and encouraged him, "Zheng Guo, stop working for the foundation and change your career to the film and television industry. You will definitely achieve great things!"
Zheng Guo looked at Lin Weimin speechlessly. Although he didn't understand what he meant, he always felt that what he said was not good.
Feiyue Internet Cafe opened today. Many friends came, including Shi Tiesheng and his wife.
Lin Weimin pulled Shi Tiesheng with great interest.
"Come on, Tiesheng, I'll teach you how to play games!"
(End of this chapter)
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