Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 392 deserves any praise!
Hong Kong is adjacent to Shenzhen, and the customs clearance speed is very fast. Lin Chaoyang was still in Hong Kong in the morning and returned to Shenzhen in the afternoon.

After returning to Shenzhen, he did not leave in a hurry, but went to find Er Maitai to see how Luo Huifang's work was going.

When Er Maitai heard Lin Chaoyang talking about work, he was overjoyed.

After Lin Chaoyang left that day, Chen Zifang began to arrange work for Luo Huifang.

The old woolen mill was not doing well and was eager for all its employees to leave. Plus, with the help of Chen Zifang at Zhuyuan Hotel, Luo Huifang's job change went extremely smoothly.

The formalities have been completed in the past two days, and I can officially start working at Zhuyuan Hotel tomorrow.

Listening to Er Maitai's words, Lin Chaoyang smiled, and he accepted the favor.

"Chaoyang... do you think we should send something to Manager Chen?" Er Maitai asked hesitantly.

Lin Chaoyang pondered and said, "You can give gifts, but they don't have to be expensive. Just show your courtesy and don't mention favors."

Er Maitai was a little confused and wanted to ask more, but Lin Chaoyang said, "Just do as I say, and tell Afang not to have any psychological burden and to work hard at Zhuyuan Hotel."

At present, being a waiter at Zhuyuan Hotel is considered a very good job in Shenzhen, and it will be better than the lower positions for at least the next ten years.

Lin Chaoyang said to Er Maitai again: "Afang went to Zhuyuan Hotel. You should also think about it. Working hard at the construction site all the time is not a long-term solution."

Er Maitai scratched his head and said, "I'm different from you. My brain can only do some work!"

Lin Chaoyang was angry and said, "Don't make excuses for your laziness. Shenzhen's development is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity..."

He talked to Er Maitai for a few words, but found that the guy was unmoved and only wanted to live a simple life with Luo Huifang.

Lin Chaoyang felt helpless. Perhaps coming to Shenzhen had consumed Er Maitai's greatest courage in his life.

He finally sighed and said, "Forget it, buy more houses in the future. Buy houses when you have money."

Hearing the seriousness in Lin Chaoyang's words, Er Maitai nodded seriously.

Lin Chaoyang looked at his cross-eyed face again, and the image of a big fool flashed through his mind. He added, "Don't sell it after you buy it. Don't sell it until the price goes up to 100,000 per square meter!"

Er Maitai looked at Lin Chaoyang as if he was a mentally retarded person. He suspected that Lin Chaoyang was crazy!

Sensing what was in his mind, Lin Chaoyang stepped forward and kicked him without any hesitation.

"Remember?"

Lin Chaoyang's kick was almost like tickling. Er Maitai rubbed his butt and said, "Since you found a job for Afang, I won't bother with you for this kick!"

"Virtue!"

Er Maitai added, "It's just right that you're back. I went to Afang's house today. His father heard that Afang's job was thanks to you, and he kept saying that he wanted to treat you to a meal."

"Forget about the meal, let's wait for your wedding with Afang."

Lin Chaoyang declined Er Maitai's invitation, said goodbye to him, and went to Shenzhen Railway Station.

The current Shenzhen Railway Station is only about 100 square meters and is extremely simple. The yellow and white walls appear very shabby and look like a railway station in a poor county.

Lin Chaoyang bought a train ticket from Shenzhen to Guangzhou. While waiting for the train at the train station, he strolled around the backpack stall at the train station. Unexpectedly, he found some news related to himself.

"Money supremacy harms the literary world", "What is the royalty payment system? Let's talk about the sky-high royalties for "Crossing the Guandong"..."

Lin Chaoyang remembered that when he held a work seminar in Guangzhou a few days ago, Yangcheng Evening News was the first to report the royalty payment agreement he had reached with Huacheng Publishing House.

He went to Hong Kong for a few days, but he didn't expect that the wind not only did not stop, but it tended to get stronger.

When you find a cockroach in your home, it often means that there are countless more in the corners.

By the same token, he discovered two articles about "royalty payment" while just browsing the schoolbag stall, so the public opinion impact of this incident can be imagined.

Lin Chaoyang carefully read the two articles he found at the book bag stall. One of them was a criticism of the "royalty payment system", believing that this form disrupted the pure atmosphere of the literary world.

This article is more inclined to explain to readers what the "royalty payment system" is, and there is no praise or criticism of Lin Chaoyang between the lines.

But Lin Chaoyang found two articles, one critical and one neutral, and the probability already explains the problem.

Lin Chaoyang was on the train for a few hours and got off in Guangzhou. He did not rush to buy a train ticket back to Yanjing, but went to Huacheng Publishing House near Dashatou.

As soon as he saw him, Li Shifei's attitude was very enthusiastic, but also a little guilty.

"Chaoyang? Why are you here? I saw you winning an award on TV a few days ago!"

The fact that the people of Guangdong can watch Hong Kong's TVB Jade Channel is thanks to a villager who accidentally discovered it in 1978.

At that time, televisions all used analog signals, so you needed to set up an antenna outdoors. This was because receiving the analog signals from TV stations required a certain angle for the antenna, and sometimes the antenna would be blown crooked by strong winds and the signal would not be received.

As luck would have it, when a villager was turning on the antenna, he suddenly received a TV signal from Hong Kong, which caused a sensation.

At this time, Hong Kong's television programs are much more interesting than the poor and boring television programs on mainland TV stations.

In order to receive TV signals from Hong Kong, the common people imitated the fish skeleton antenna used by the family that first received the signal. In less than half a year, almost the entire Pearl River Delta region followed suit. At that time, in Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shenzhen, Zhongshan, Zhuhai and other places, the fish skeleton antennas in every household formed a "beautiful landscape".

Even in the past two years, the authorities have carried out special rectification in order to curb this unhealthy trend, but it was of no avail.

Not to mention ordinary people, even officials love to watch Hong Kong TV. How could it be banned under such circumstances?

Li Shifei asked Lin Chaoyang about the Academy Awards, appearing very generous, and Lin Chaoyang briefly told him about it.

"You are the first screenwriter in our mainland to win the Hong Kong Film Awards. This is a record," said Li Shifei.

"It's just a regional film award. What's the big deal?"

Lin Chaoyang's tone was flat. Li Shifei wanted to refute him, but after thinking about it, he found that what Lin Chaoyang said was not wrong.

It’s just a regional film award, and its value is not as good as the Golden Rooster Awards.

After chatting for a while, Lin Chaoyang took out the two newspapers he bought at the train station.

"Lao Li, your Guangdong newspapers are very unfriendly to me!"

Hearing the implication of calling for vengeance in Lin Chaoyang's tone, Li Shifei was a little short of breath, "This matter... In fact, it is not only reported by newspapers in Guangdong, but also by many newspapers in other places..."

When he said this, he felt even less confident.

The issue of royalties came from their publishing house, and was first reported by the Yangcheng Evening News.

In just a few days, at least a dozen newspapers across the country reported the incident, and the media with a critical attitude were the mainstream.

The target of these media criticisms certainly cannot be the publishing house. After all, the publishing house is the one that spends the money, so if they want to criticize, they can only criticize Lin Chaoyang, a "gold worshipper" and a "money-worshiper".

It is now 1984. The concept of market economy has not yet been deeply rooted in people's minds and the people are simple-minded.

In the eyes of some ordinary people, it is an easy job for writers to get paid for their writing, and it is not fair to ask for more.

In addition to this idea, some people believe that writers did not even receive royalties for their writing ten years ago, but in just a few years, writers not only receive royalties for their writing, but also royalties.

Such a huge change makes these people feel psychologically unbalanced. Why should writers get royalties?
Regardless of the mentality behind the criticism, the effect on Lin Chaoyang is the same. So many people paid attention to this matter in just a few days, which fully proves the popularity of the literary industry today and also proves Lin Chaoyang's influence.

After explaining a few words in a pale tone, Li Shifei forcibly changed the subject.

"Those criticisms are just nitpicking. Our publishing house is willing to give you royalties, and no one can stop you. Chaoyang, guess how many copies of this issue of Huacheng have been sold?"

Lin Chaoyang shook his head. "Don't guess. Just tell me what you want to tell me."

Li Shifei failed to keep the secret, so he grinned and said, "280 million copies! 280 million copies in one and a half months! At this rate, the sales of this June issue of the magazine will definitely exceed 300 million copies."

He said this with a serious look in his eyes, "Chaoyang, "Crossing Guandong" has created a new record for Chinese literary journals!"

The record-breaking sales of "Huacheng" was inseparable from the great popularity of "Crossing the Guandong". As an author, he was naturally happy, but he was more concerned about the publication of the novel.

After all, no matter how well the magazine sells, he won't get any royalties.

After hearing him talk about this, Li Shifei said, "If nothing goes wrong, it should be published in September. We plan to take out 20,000 hardcover copies from the first print run of 200,000 copies."

The hardcover edition is better. The hardcover edition has a higher price and Lin Chaoyang gets more royalties.

"In this way, there will be three months between publication and the time will be longer, so readers will be more enthusiastic about repurchasing the book."

Listening to Li Shifei's arrangements, Lin Chaoyang nodded slightly.

Li Shifei went on to talk about the response to "Crossing the Guandong". After the two issues of the magazine were published, the true face of this novel was fully presented to the literary world and readers.

There is no need to elaborate on the positive reviews that the literary community and readers have given to this novel. It has almost become the novel with the highest overall evaluation in the literary community since the new era.

In particular, "Crossing the Guandong" is vast in length, has a broad perspective, and has lofty intentions, which exactly hits the taste of the Chinese literary world's preference for grand narratives.

In the eyes of those critics, the novel was perfect.

During this period of time, the praise for "Crossing the Guandong" from the literary community, especially the critics, has reached a peak.

The most direct reaction to this unprecedented high evaluation is that if anyone in the literary world dares to criticize this novel, he or she will inevitably be besieged by the fans of "Crossing the Guandong" without any mercy.

In the words of some enthusiastic readers in a letter to the editorial office of Huacheng: "If novels like this are subject to criticism, then what works in contemporary Chinese literature deserve praise?"

This sentence not only represents the voice of readers, but also represents the feelings of many people in the literary world.

In the eyes of these people, the success of "Crossing the Guandong" is not only a victory for Lin Chaoyang, but also a victory for contemporary Chinese literature.

For a long time, contemporary Chinese literature has been unable to escape the shadow of imitating Western modernism. Although "Crossing the Guandong" also has the colors of Latin American magical realism literature, it expresses more of the profound and strong national culture.

Rich cultural connotations and profound philosophical principles are melted into the fascinating storyline. Coupled with the exquisite and rigorous structure, the well-balanced density and the appropriate use of literary language, this work not only has a high degree of artistry, but also achieves an aesthetic reading effect that is appreciated by both the elite and the masses.

Such a magnificent epic full of artistic charm and aesthetic value deserves any praise!
(End of this chapter)