That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1273 The former wave died on the beach

May 25th, Thursday, Branch 1.

Huang Mengjia knocked on the door and walked into Li Ye's office.

"Director, your flight to Shanghai next week has been confirmed. It's China Eastern Airlines at 3pm on Monday."

"Monday at 3pm, right? OK, I understand. Go and notify the others and make sure they know the train number and the meeting place. Also, apply for a mobile phone for the team members."

Li Ye agreed and made a mark on the desk calendar.

This year, Shanghai will hold an international automobile exhibition, and a branch factory has decided to send people and cars to participate, so Li Ye has to go on a business trip.

However, due to the reimbursement standards, only Li Ye can take the plane, and the rest of the people have to take the train or drive in advance, so good coordination work must be done.

"I have already arranged everything."

After Huang Mengjia answered Li Ye, she did not leave immediately, but smiled and said, "Director Li, I have something else I want to ask you for."

Li Ye raised his head: "Other things? What things?"

Huang Mengjia said: "Director Li, since the establishment of our company's BBS platform, the number of visitors has been growing slowly.
So we investigated other BBS platforms and found that those popular platforms have novel content. You are also a well-known novel author. Can you write some novels and post them on our factory's BBS?"

"Novels? Which platform has novels?"

Li Ye was very surprised. A few days ago, he was troubled by the lack of visitors to his own BBS platform. He ordered the technical personnel in the unit to write a lot of content such as "Interpretation of Common Automobile Faults" in the hope of increasing the popularity and number of visitors of the platform, but the effect was minimal.

Now, from what Huang Mengjia said, I think I was pointing my employees in the wrong direction?
"There are so many! Especially those platforms at universities, almost all of them have novels."

Huang Mengjia quickly turned on the computer and connected to a platform and gave Li Ye a demonstration.

Li Ye took a look and found that it was indeed Tsinghua University's "Shui Mu Qing Hua" BBS.

After Li Ye took a closer look, he suddenly had a sense of déjà vu.

"Oh my goodness, this is a pirated website!"

Huang Mengjia asked curiously, "Director Li, what did you say? Pirated website?"

"It's okay, I just said it casually, you go ahead and do your work! I'll take a look first."

Li Ye did not explain to Huang Mengjia what a pirated website was, because there was no concept of "piracy" in the mainland at that time.

In the era of physical books, printing pirated books also requires a huge cost. What's more, a group of poor students with limited funds used the living expenses they had saved with great difficulty to go to the bookstore to buy a book. What do you say to them about "piracy"?
They spent money.

Therefore, the only one who suffers is the author, but the author cannot blame the readers, so he has to find other ways, such as serialization.

One of the biggest features of serial novels is timeliness.

For example, when The Legend of the Condor Heroes was serialized in Ming Pao, there were only a few thousand words each day. If pirates wanted to print pirated books, they had to wait until a certain number of words had been accumulated, otherwise it would not be enough to cover the cost.

Therefore, many novelists in Hong Kong in the 1980s continued this serialization model, updating only a few thousand or tens of thousands of words in magazines each time, making it difficult for pirates to start.

You can't sell a booklet of tens of thousands of words, right?

But the rise of the Internet has solved this problem because it has no cost.

For example, on the BBS website that Li Ye is browsing, there are many Hong Kong novels that are being serialized.

This reminded Li Ye of when he first started using the Internet, he often saw serialized novels on Tianya Forum or Baidu Tieba, such as "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty". [Is this something I did?]

Li Ye couldn't help laughing.

He had pushed for the promotion and dissemination of the BBS platform in the mainland ahead of time, but he had never thought about this problem. He also didn't know whether the authors would greet some of Li Ye's relatives after knowing it.

But what Li Ye didn't know was that even without his promotion, the "Shui Mu Qing Hua" BBS forum was still the most famous site for serializing novels.

After Shuimu Tsinghua University was established, the literature and martial arts sections became very popular, the latter of which relied on reprinting novels from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Many novel websites that came after that did similar things to Shuimu Tsinghua two thousand years ago.

When we look back on this history several years later, it seems that the emergence of BBS forums accelerated the birth of the product "online literature".

[If I were to write online articles now, would some people say that I was self-degrading? ]

Li Ye stroked the computer keyboard and couldn't help laughing.

There used to be a joke in the novel world.

When martial arts novels first appeared, they were severely despised by traditional literature, which felt that they were dull and tasteless.

Later, when martial arts novels became too popular, traditional literature had to "recruit" this group of "bandits", and then the two of them joined forces to despise online literature.

Anyway, those who arrived first got into the system and then turned around and began to look down on the "newcomers" behind them. Even though they know that the newcomers will always push the old ones out, who is willing to die on the beach?

. . . . . . . . . .

Li Ye looked at "Shui Mu Tsinghua" for a long time, and then opened his own "Qidian" BBS.

Looking at how experienced other people's visitors were and then looking at the number of his own visitors, Li Ye felt extremely depressed.

What is horrible? This is it.

Although Li Ye did not have much time to tinker with his own platform, Li Juan, Li Ying, Wen Leyu and the sisters were all very enthusiastic and provided great help to Li Ye.

For example, cousin Zhao Meiwen provided Li Ye with a professional article titled "Yellow people are not the sick men of East Asia" from a professional perspective, which strongly refuted the fallacy that "yellow represents unhealthiness" which was very popular at the time.

In terms of strength, whites and blacks may have a slight advantage, but if you look at weightlifting, shot put and other events, it is not impossible for yellow people to win.

In terms of anti-allergy, disease immunity and so on, flower growers are much better than them.

When Li Ye was a child, he watched foreign movies and TV shows in which children were often allergic to pollen, peanuts, etc. Li Ye didn't understand at the time. How could one get an allergy just by eating peanuts and picking a few wild flowers?
Li Ye's younger sister Li Ying collected information from their school library and even consulted teachers to help him write a comparative table of the development of the East and the West.

When flower growers had formed a complete agricultural production system, Westerners were still relying on the weather for their livelihood. So looking back over thousands of years of history, we were only temporarily lagging behind.

However, the article that Li Ye published with great effort received only a few "likes".

From the eldest sister Li Yue, from the younger daughter-in-law Wen Leyu, and from the younger sister Fu Yiru. They are all praises of friendship.

[Forget it, they don’t know who I am anyway.]

Li Ye pondered for a while, and finally couldn't resist the itch, and typed the three words "Zhang Xiaofan" on the keyboard.

It has been ten years since Li Ye came into this world. Times have changed. The vulgar literature that was once despised can now try to enter the mainstream.

(End of this chapter)