For Lin Xiaoguang, one million words can only earn 4,000 yuan. If he is busy, he can copy it out in 3 months, which is more than 1,300 yuan a month. Compared with ordinary people's monthly salary of 40 to 50 yuan, I don't know.
How many times higher.
But he thought it was too little.
"Heroes" costs 60 Hong Kong dollars for one thousand words. For the same one million words, he can earn 60,000 Hong Kong dollars. Converted to the official exchange rate, he can earn 12,000 yuan. This book is worth three others, let alone broadcasting.
The copyright, one million words and three volumes, is 45,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is also 9,000 RMB, which is much more than that.
But there is no way, in Hong Kong he is an old author, but in the mainland he is an out-and-out newcomer.
Newcomers must abide by the rules, and the literary and art world must also lack seniority.
But Lin Xiaoguang did not agree, let alone refuse. Instead, he said: "The manuscript fee should wait until I finish writing the first volume and submit it."
He lacked confidence in whether he could deliver the manuscript on time.
Yin Meili couldn't persuade her any more. Although it was reform and opening up, it was not yet a commercial society. Yangtze River Literature and Art was a state-owned institution. The amount of royalties was regulated by the state and could not be increased by one's will.
It is normal for us to not reach an agreement for the time being when we meet for the first time. Nothing is done overnight.
Yin Meili immediately resigned.
In the next few days, Editor Yin kept visiting whenever he had time, which made Lin Xiaoguang extremely annoyed.
Later, Yin Meili followed Editor Xia's instructions and raised the manuscript fee appropriately, to four and a half yuan per thousand words. Finally, she and Lin Xiaoguang reached an agreement to submit the manuscript on September 1st, with 330,000 words, and the former came to Peking to pick up the manuscript.
That's how things were settled.
Before leaving, Yin Meili specifically asked two things.
The first thing she asked was: "What content did we talk about a few days ago, such as classmate Lin's experience and the books he read? Can these contents be written in the preface when it is published?"
Lin Xiaoguang thought about it and realized that she was talking about banned books.
If it hadn't been for the reform and opening up, he wouldn't have dared to say this. Even now, some books are still banned. But as the saying goes, since ancient times, thieves, stolen goods, adulters and couples have been caught. His reading of banned books is a thing of the past.
It’s too late, is it possible that there are still people who can’t let go of this?
Besides, it was Qinling Xiaoxiaosheng who read the banned books. Even if he was to be arrested, what does it have to do with him, Lin Xiaoguang?
He nodded directly: "No problem. When the time comes, you can edit it and I'll take a look. It's almost ready."
He thought to himself: "Anyway, the signature is Qin Ling Xiaoxiaosheng. As long as the three words Lin Xiaoguang do not appear, as well as his gender, place of origin, and age, it doesn't matter."
Yin Meili expressed her understanding and asked the second question: "Can I change the pen name of Qinling Xiaoxiaosheng to another one?"
As soon as these words came out, Lin Xiaoguang felt a little unhappy.
He deliberately used Qinling Xiaoxiaosheng as his pen name, of course it was intentional.
However, he thought about it and decided not to discuss it anymore. It was really indecent to discuss banned books with a woman in her 26s and 27s when there was no one around. If someone overheard, they would think he was
Playing hooligan.
"Editor Yin, may I ask, is it your opinion, or that of the colleagues at your company, that suggests changing your pen name?"
This question is difficult to answer.
Yin Meili knew that saying it was her own opinion was tantamount to admitting that she knew about the banned book and its author, Lan Lingsheng, and that it was not good to say it belonged to a colleague from the publishing house.
She was a little embarrassed: "No matter whose it is, it needs to be changed anyway."
"Okay, let's change it and call it Qin Xiaosheng."
Yin Meili thought he would change it, but she didn't expect that when he did so, five characters were reduced by two, becoming three, which is equal to an abbreviation.
However, she took a closer look, and when she looked again, it turned out to be much normal. Qin Xiaosheng, with Qin as his surname and Xiaosheng as his first name. When others looked at it, they would not think of Qinling Xiaoxiaosheng, let alone Lanlingsheng.
At that moment, she nodded: "Okay!"
As soon as the matter was over, Lin Xiaoguang sent her out of campus. Yin Meili took the bus, went straight to the guest house, checked out and bought a train ticket. She got on the southbound train on the Beijing-Guangzhou line that day and arrived in Jianghan the next day.
The next day, she returned to Yangtze River Literature and Art and reported the experience of this business to Editor Xia. The mission of this business trip was completed and normal editing work began again.
When Yin Meili was working, Lin Xiaoguang was not idle either.
In addition to regular classes every day, I have to copy books during extra-curricular time, and I also have to read financial statements.
Copying books can be done as usual every day, "Heroes" is 2,000 words, and I will find time to write the remaining novels, which will be serialized at 10,000 words per month. The little time left is used to read financial statements.
Since the last payroll day on the 10th, when we carried out internal reforms and decided to expand outward, picture sales have gradually been on the right track.
When the market in the urban area of Beiping was exhausted, they expanded outward to develop suburbs and suburban counties.
These days, there are only eight districts and nine counties in Beiping. The urban area is only the east and west cities of Chongwen and Xuanwu, and the corners of Chaoyang and Fengtai in Haidian. Pingxi is directly a suburb.
In 1979, the city's permanent population was 8.915 million, and the urban population was more than 5 million.
There are still more people in the suburbs and suburban counties. Of course, the market is not as good as that in the urban area of Beiping. As Xiao Kun said, elementary school students are not as rich as those in the city. They cannot afford to buy pictures for ten cents each, so they have to cut them and sell them.
There were more than 900 people. After receiving their wages, some left because they felt it was too little, and more people came in.
For this reason, Guo Hongbing came here to ask for instructions: "Brother Xiaoguang, there are still many people who want to join. There are so many people. I have at least a hundred people here. Do we want to join?"
Lin Xiaoguang asked back: "Why not? It's like what No. 10 said, the general agent and the sub-generation, if they want to come in and do it, they can do it, but they must abide by the rules. We have more people, more power. The more people, the more money we can make.
The more income we have.”
Guo Hongbing understood.
Following this order, more people joined in. In less than ten days, the number of people exceeded one thousand and two.
There are as many schools and markets as there are in the entire suburban counties of Peiping. With so many people, on average, there are more than 100 people in one district and county to develop the market. It is estimated that there are not so many primary schools in the entire district or county.
Therefore, Lin Xiaoguang once again asked the three people to command the general agent and continue to expand to surrounding counties further away.
For example, go to Fangshan Daxing in the south, Tongxian in the east, Shunyi, Pinggu, and Miyun in the northeast, and Changping, Huairou, and Yanqing in the north.
And further, it went out of the administrative jurisdiction of Beiping, entered Beihe Province and Jinmen City, expanded eastward, first to Langfang and then to Jinmen, and 1,200 people poured into the two areas.
Because the distance was a bit far, the tricycle Lin Xiaoguang ordered someone to buy for hauling goods also lagged behind.
It just so happened that Guo Hongbing had a general agent who worked in a car factory and had some connections. He got a truck to pull the goods and solved the problem of pulling the goods.
Lin Xiaoguang had to sigh that the guys in Sijiucheng had so many connections. After that, he took the initiative to propose that driving this Gas, when fully loaded, would cost ten yuan for a round trip. In this way, driving two round trips a day would cost twenty yuan.
Yuan, six hundred yuan a month.
The general manager named Dai Guowei was very happy when he saw the money, and his younger brother Feng Wei, who drove Gas, was even happier.
Pedal tricycles are exchanged for gases, it’s a mighty and huge formation.
Seeing this, Lin Dongxia couldn't help but worry: "Xiaoguang, will something happen with such a large battle?"
She just said it on the front foot, but within a day of the back foot, something big happened.
The two chief agents, Guo Hongbing and Jiang Xuewu, each led more than 20 people under their command, and fought directly on the street to fight for the school. The fight was a group fight, and all the seriously injured people were sent to the hospital.
After hearing the news, the police came and arrested more than ten people who had no time to escape.