Chapter 147147After
Jiang Wu came to Beijing, she did not go directly to the training team, but first found a hotel to stay in, and then went to a real estate agency to ask about the current house prices in Beijing.
There was no need to think about the house prices within the Second Ring Road. When Jiang Wu asked about the house prices in the Second Ring Road, she thought it was not 1997, but 2017.
In this era, the house prices in the Second Ring Road are as high as 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per square meter, which shocked Jiang Wu.
You know, when she was in college in her previous life in 1999, the average salary of people was only 500 yuan a month. Now it is only the beginning of 1997, and it is 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per square meter.
This is not the down payment, nor the price of the whole house, but the price per square meter.
However, when Jiang Xi asked about the third ring road outside the second ring road, the price dropped rapidly. Depending on the location, it was only 2,000 to 4,000 yuan per square meter. Buying a house also gave you a household registration. This is the same as Shanghai, but Shanghai has a Hudong area where you can get a bargain, but there is no place to get a bargain in Beijing.
After comparing, Jiang Xi directly chose to buy in Chaoyang District.
A house that costs 2,000 yuan per square meter, even if it is 100 square meters, is only 200,000 yuan. If the down payment is 30%, it is only 60,000 yuan.
This winter vacation, because of the broadcast of the third part of "Justice Bao" on the Z Province TV station, the sales of the physical book "The Great Song Dynasty" have never dropped. In fact, because all the books are completed, people buy them in complete sets. The publisher has even come up with a complete set of classic collector's editions and a complete set of classic collector's editions. At present, the sales of the six books combined are close to tens of millions. The bulk of Jiang Qi's royalties come from the physical book royalties of "The Great Song Dynasty".
"White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" has been serialized for such a long time. Although it has been strongly promoted by "Wuxia" and the publishing house, and driven by "The Song Dynasty", although the sales volume is not as high as "The Song Dynasty", but so far, the sales of several books combined have reached more than 4 million. Although this sales volume, when distributed to each volume, is just over a million, or even less than a million, the total sales volume is amazing.
In particular, the film and television copyright of "Legend of the White Snake" has been sold. Seeing that the great director came to discuss the copyright in person, he should attach great importance to the copyright of this movie. I believe that the project should be approved soon. If this movie can be made and successfully released, the readers of "Legend of the White Snake" alone can bring a wave of box office to this movie. If the movie is well made, it will also feed back to the physical book of "Legend of the White Snake", which will inevitably bring a new wave of sales.
The publication points of her two works are not low. From the original twelve points, it has now risen to thirteen points.
Teacher Yu once said that he could make a living for a lifetime with one "To Live".
Jiang Xi is the same now. She can also make a living for a lifetime with the royalties from two articles "The Great Song" and "White Snake".
On the contrary, the copyright fees for film and television copyrights and TV drama copyrights in this era are not as high as those in later generations.
Now Jiang Xi’s only worry is that after the completion of "White Snake Cultivation", the fixed monthly fee of more than 20,000 yuan from "Wu Xia" will be gone. Then, can she continue to pay off her current mortgage of up to 10,000 yuan on time?
So she really has to be careful when buying a house at this time, and she must keep at least enough money in her bank card to cover the entire mortgage for one year.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xi, who originally wanted to take a break before writing, couldn't sit still anymore. What's the point of taking a break! Write! Must write!
But before writing, she still called Wang Yong and told him that she decided to write about officialdom in her next article.
After Wang Yong learned that Jiang Xi's "White Snake Cultivation" was about to end, he immediately reported the news to Director Li Ang and Editor-in-Chief Bao. During the serialization period of "White Snake Cultivation" in "Wu Xia", although the magazine sales were not as good as when "Da Song" was serialized, the peak monthly sales were close to 5 million, but that was with the blessing of the TV series. Without any TV series, "White Snake Cultivation" was able to maintain the monthly total sales of "Wu Xia" at more than 3 million, which was already a hit among hits and a surprise among surprises. When
Director Li Ang and his colleagues heard the news that "White Snake Cultivation" was going to end, even though they were also pushing other new works in "Wu Xia" magazine, there were still very few works that could reach the phenomenon level of "Da Song" and "White Snake Cultivation".
Although there are more time-travel works on the market because of these two works, in terms of subject matter, "The Great Song" is not new at present. It can only be regarded as the originator of time-travel criminal investigation literature. However, "White Snake" is definitely not even a substitute for other works.
How many authors can study "Animal World" so thoroughly? Even the habits of snakes are so clear. Even the part about snakes in "Animal World" has only been published for one issue. But Jiang Xi read all of "Animal World" in his previous life, so when he wrote about the little white snake and other snake-footed demon cultivators in Snake Valley, his writing was particularly exciting and immersive, and the details were also well written. This is something that other authors cannot imitate even if they want to.
Who made it 1997 and they watched too little "Animal World"?
Another very important point is that the article "White Snake Cultivation" created a brand new cultivation system, which is also the point of establishing a school of cultivation literature. Many previous works on cultivation were actually still ideological cultivation.
For example, "Shushan" starring Lin Qingxia in 1983 is actually the representative of current works on cultivation. It is a typical ideological cultivation flow. There are also "Journey to the West" and "Investiture of the Gods", in which they practiced some kind of magical power. For example, Sun Wukong practiced "Seventy-two Transformations" and "Muscle Fighting Cloud", etc., which is not the case in "White Snake Cultivation". Whether it is mortal cultivation or demon cultivation, there is a cultivation system from Qi training to Mahayana.
Surprisingly, this kind of immortal cultivation system was accepted by many people at once, and after getting inspiration from "White Snake Immortal Cultivation", some people began to write human immortal cultivation stories, serialized in "Wuxia", and the results were quite good, but it has not yet reached the influence of "White Snake Immortal Cultivation".
Therefore, once "White Snake Immortal Cultivation" is about to end, they will inevitably face the same situation as "Song Dynasty Immortal Cultivation", that is, reducing the first print run and shrinking the market.
Now Jiang Xi called Wang Yong and said that she had already thought of the next article, which was to write an officialdom article.
Wang Yong could not help but inform Director Li Ang and Editor-in-Chief Bao of the news.
They also faced a choice: to continue serializing cute new works in "Wu Xia" or to continue to maintain the pure martial arts style of "Wu Xia" without changing.
Why did "Wu Xia" magazine, after creating a glorious monthly sales of more than 3.5 million in the 1980s, face the desolation of being closed down in the early 1990s? In addition to the head writers of their magazine being poached, there is another very important reason, that is, other magazines are flourishing, while "Wu Xia" is sticking to only publishing martial arts works.
In other magazines, whether it is youth romance or chivalrous tenderness, it is divided into sections, and the subject matter of each section is different, so that every reader can find what they want to read.
But "Wu Xia" only has martial arts.
Although the 1980s and 1990s were the golden years of martial arts novels, the magazine's upper limit was inevitably limited by only producing martial arts works. It could only attract readers who liked martial arts works, and other readers were not interested in the magazine. The reason
why "Martial Arts" broke the past conventions and achieved a miracle of more than 5 million total sales during the serialization of "The Great Song" was mainly because "The Great Song" was written from the perspective of the female protagonist. In addition to the old readers of "Martial Arts", it attracted a large number of female readers and readers who liked to read criminal works, as well as readers attracted by the new theme of "time travel". In addition, it was adapted into a popular TV series. Under these multiple factors, it created such a miracle of monthly sales.
Now they are faced with the question of whether to transform and serialize a new work, a bureaucratic novel, in the magazine "Wu Xia".
This is not something that can be decided on a whim.
First of all, they have to consider the reaction of the original readers of "Wu Xia" to this matter.
When "Wu Xia" serialized "Da Song", many readers called and wrote to say that "Wu Xia" has declined and has actually started to serialize a criminal work. They said that "Da Song" is not a martial arts work at all, but can only be considered a criminal work at most.
Of course, some readers also refuted, saying, "If "The Great Song" cannot be considered a martial arts work, then
can "Lu Xiaofeng", which is also a detective martial arts work, be considered a martial arts work?" "The Great Song" and "White Snake Cultivation" can both be considered martial arts works and are accepted by readers of "Martial Arts". However, Meng Meng's new officialdom work has nothing to do with the word "martial arts" at all. It is a pure modern officialdom work.
Now they do not doubt Meng Meng's writing ability, but they are afraid that if this article is serialized in "Martial Arts", it will not be accepted by the local environment and will be collectively boycotted by old readers of "Martial Arts", or even turn from fans to haters.
This is not impossible.
The direct result is that the magazine "Wu Xia" not only failed to transform successfully, but also suffered a devastating blow.
But if the new works of Xi Meng are not serialized in "Wu Xia", it means that Xi Meng will choose to cooperate with other magazines. Then, they can no longer hide the fact that they have been carefully hiding Xi Meng's true identity.
Why have they kept Xi Meng's identity strictly confidential? Isn't it because they are afraid that the past events in the early 1990s will happen again, and that the top authors of their magazine will be poached by other magazines?
If her new works are not serialized, then she is not poached by other magazines, but she left on her own initiative.
What level of author is Xi Meng now? The total sales of physical books of "The Great Song" are close to 10 million, and it is only a matter of time for the total sales of "The Great Song" to exceed 10 million.
Although she has only written two works so far, both of them are phenomenal.
So whether to serialize the new work of Meng is not something they can decide immediately.
Director Li Ang, Editor-in-Chief Bao, Wang Yong, and other new editors of the magazine went to the conference room to discuss this issue.
After discussing for a long time, they still couldn't solve this problem. Some people couldn't help but complain: "Why does Xi Meng have to write about officialdom in her next work? Why does she have to write about modern officialdom? Can't she write about ancient officialdom? Insert martial arts elements into it, just like Bao Qingtian. She wrote about Bao Qingtian solving cases, and there were ancient knights protecting him, such as Zhan Zhao. Why did she have to write about modern officialdom? What's good about this?"
They were also puzzled. Why did Xi Meng give up the current good martial arts market and good situation to write about the modern officialdom that she was completely unfamiliar with.
Moreover, many of the management of "Wu Xia" knew Xi Meng's true identity. What does a high school student of only 16 or 17 years old, a little girl, know about officialdom? Does she know how to write the two words "officialdom"? Just writing about officialdom?
This is not just a matter of whether to serialize Xi Meng's new work, but they have no confidence in Xi Meng's new work.
If Xi Meng's true identity is really an old policeman in the system, then no problem, you are in the system, you can write whatever you want, at most we will discuss the issue of magazine transformation, and now it is also related to whether Xi Meng's new work is worth "Wuxia" taking such a big risk to serialize it and make some transformation.
This is something that no one has confidence in.
Let alone these new editors, even Editor-in-Chief Bao and Director Li Ang can't make up their minds to make a decision to do this immediately.
To be honest, Wang Yong doesn't have much confidence either.
Director Li Ang said to Wang Yong, "Xiao Wang, you are the editor of Ximeng. Can you persuade Ximeng to change the modern officialdom into the ancient officialdom and insert some martial arts elements?"
Wang Yong nodded and said, "Okay, I'll ask and try my best to persuade her, but I can't guarantee whether I can persuade her."
It's just like before, the people of "Martial Arts" magazine wanted Ximeng to continue writing the second and third parts of "The Great Song", but Ximeng said that she would not write "The Great Song" after the case was finished. She just wanted to write a new article with a new theme, and it was an animal cultivation article that people had never seen before.
They couldn't convince her.
Director Li Ang also thought of the scene when Ximeng insisted on writing "White Snake Cultivation".
Some authors write whatever the editor tells them to write, and whatever is popular. For example, when "The Great Song" became popular, countless time-travel and crime-themed works were imitated. When "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" became popular, countless works on the theme of cultivation of immortals were published.
But some authors are not like that. They write whatever they want to write, whatever they are inspired to write, and they don't care what the editor wants or the editor's suggestions. Compared with the previous type of authors, this type of author has one advantage, which is that it is easy for them to write big hits. The previous type of authors wins in stability.
Obviously, Meng Meng belongs to the latter type.
After writing two big hits, she didn't care about the life and death of the magazine at all. If she wanted to write officialdom, she would write officialdom.
Director Li Ang said, "If she must write about modern officialdom, we should not rush to deny her new work. Let her send it to us first. Didn't we sign her work before? There is no one who signed her. She can invest in whatever she wants. Now she is willing to call us to tell us, which shows that she has a good relationship with our magazine."
Jiang Xisi had no idea that "Wuxia" had already held a meeting to discuss her new work. She is now buying a house in Chaoyang District.
Thinking of the house price later, Jiang Xi calculated the money in her bankbook and simply bought a 200-square-meter large flat at 2,000 yuan per square meter, with a down payment of only 120,000 yuan.
120,000 yuan was already a sky-high price for many ordinary people at that time, but it was nothing for Jiang Xi.
She wanted to emulate a certain host in later generations and buy herself a house every month, so that when she was in her forties, she could retire and travel around the world to collect writing materials.
But although she was only a department-level cadre in her previous life, she had already been promoted to the deputy director level in terms of power and responsibility. In fact, the next step was to be the deputy director level steadily, so she was very clear about many development directions of this era, and naturally knew which direction to invest in this era to make the most money.
Apart from other things, everyone knew about the two Ma teachers. Even if you don’t make equity investments in the two Ma teachers, there are still some well-known companies in the future, such as Da Electric and Yike, which are also known to everyone. Even if you don’t know these, you must know about Moutai, right? Even if you don’t
know these, with the return of Hong Kong, a major event that almost everyone knew about happened in 1997, which was the Asian financial crisis.
This was a man-made stock market crash.
Jiang Xi didn't study finance. She knew about this, but she couldn't do
anything about it. This kind of international chess game, not to mention that she can't participate now, even in her previous life, she didn't play such a big chess game. But at least there is one thing, there are too many ways to make money in this era, and she has no need to get involved in this stock market crash.
Jiang Xi wants to make money, not just to make money, but to think about the chip and lithography technology that will be stuck in our country in the future. If she has enough money, can she plan investment research in advance?
At present, all this is still too far away for her, so she should buy her house first.
Song Peifeng and Jiang Wu arrived in Beijing almost at the same time. Unlike Jiang Wu who was still strolling around and buying a house in Beijing, Song Peifeng did not stop at all after arriving in Beijing, but went straight to the winter camp training team in Beijing.
There are more than 200 people selected from all over the country in the training team. In the end, they will pass the exams again and again, and only 50 people will be left as the finalists to decide the six places to represent the country in international competitions. In addition to these six places, in order to prevent some accidents, there will also be six reserve places. In other words, only six people can finally participate in the competition.
From the national competition, more than 200 top Olympic talents were promoted step by step to enter the winter camp, and six were finally selected from the winter camp. This is truly one in a million, and the top six were selected from the most talented high school students in the country.
When Song Peifeng arrived at the training team, he went straight to the dormitory area.
Although the dormitory area is divided into different areas for men and women, they live in the same white dormitory building, just like the new dormitory building of Wucheng No. 1 Middle School, the men and women are divided into areas, with boys living in the left area and girls living in the right area.
When Song Peifeng carried his luggage and entered the dormitory building, his eyes unconsciously looked to the right dormitory area. He knew what he was expecting.
In fact, every student who came here wanted to bring glory to the motherland and win honor for the motherland. Although men and women were mixed, they would not fall in love at this time. Everyone's mind was on intensive learning, learning combinatorial arguments, generating functions, graph theory, recursive relations, embedding and integration, probability, number theory, etc. The continuous intensive learning every day was enough to kill all their brain cells. How could anyone have spare time to talk about other things?
Mathematics is much more interesting than objects, right?
Song Peifeng thought so in the past.
Song Peifeng still thinks so now, but he always unconsciously searches for her figure in the crowd.
He is not a slow person.
If he only had a vague feeling before, but it was not clear, after he realized that he was unconsciously searching for her figure in the crowd, he immediately realized what he had done.
It was not because they were both from Wucheng, or because they were the only two people in Wucheng on this trip.
He knew himself too well. He was not a person who would have any psychological fluctuations towards others just because they were classmates or people from the same place.
After realizing his own thoughts, he was not a person who would hide his thoughts or even suppress his thoughts. He did not think there was anything to suppress. When he realized his own thoughts, he let it go and followed his heart to pursue the other party.
Why do I say chasing, not pursuing? Because pursuing is actually a behavior that will disturb others. He knows very well that just like he doesn't want to be disturbed by anyone, he knows that Jiang Ning won't want to be disturbed by others. It will only make her feel troubled and disgusted.
He didn't talk to her many times, but he just knew it somehow.
In the past, if someone said that Song Peifeng would have a crush on someone, let alone others, Song Peifeng himself would not believe it. He knew very well that if he liked something, he would definitely pursue it and would never stand still.
But when facing Jiang Ning, he knew clearly that before he gained her favor, or before becoming a familiar friend, he could not and would not rush to disturb her.
Even so, he was still full of joy, just because there was such a person in this world. Just seeing her made his heart beat fast and he was filled with joy.
Even though he was still young, he had read enough books and seen enough of the world. Of course, he knew that not everyone in this world was lucky enough to meet such a person.
Most people, searching in the vast sea of people, would never meet such a person in their entire lives, but he met her when he was a teenager, when his time was the best.
How lucky.
He even felt inexplicably fortunate that he had never cared about it in the past, but now he took the initiative to maintain a good appearance that was still outstanding in the crowd, as long as her eyes could stay on him for a moment or a second.
Even though he sometimes even felt that she was looking at him as if she was looking at an old friend whom she admired.
That was definitely not the same as his thoughts about her.
The girl he liked and admired always looked upwards, and she was always pursuing progress and excellence.
But the more she did so, the more he admired her. Just seeing her was like seeing the sunshine, and there was only pure joy and happiness in his heart.