Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 397 Chairman of the Folk Literature Association
Li Tuo sometimes likes to exaggerate when he speaks, and his enthusiasm for Lin Chaoyang's affairs sometimes even exceeds his enthusiasm for his own affairs.

Chen Jiangong and other friends jokingly call him Lin Chaoyang's military advisor, so his words are naturally subjective.

But no matter what, after this struggle with the media, many writers who spoke up for Lin Chaoyang did feel closer to each other.

The so-called four irons of life: studying together, carrying guns together, visiting prostitutes together, and dividing the spoils together.

The good or bad nature of the thing itself is not important; what is important is the shared experience, the sense of community and belonging.

This incident was triggered by Lin Chaoyang. After this period of quarrels and disputes with many media, he has become a link between many writers, making their relationship closer than before.

For Lin Chaoyang, this incident also allowed many people in the circle and many literature lovers to see his good popularity in the domestic literary circle.

In just over a month, dozens of well-known writers spoke out for him. Such a scene has never appeared in the domestic literary world before.

What kind of personal charm is needed to be able to bring together so many writers with their own unique thoughts and personalities!

In addition to being amazed, a name somehow began to spread in the literary world, called the Folk Literature Association.

The so-called Folk Literary Association refers to Xunweizhai, which is Lin Chaoyang’s home.

Perhaps it is because after the annual National Excellent Short Story Award Ceremony, this place becomes a gathering place for well-known writers from all over the country.

And Lin Chaoyang himself naturally became the "Chairman of the Folk Literature and Art Association".

No one knew where this rumor came from, but it spread very quickly. As soon as the storm was over, friends who came to visit him started to tease Lin Chaoyang by using this name.

The National Day is a rare long holiday nowadays. Including Sunday, you can have three consecutive days off.

For the Republic, every fifth and tenth year requires grand celebrations. This year, there will not only be grand celebrations in front of Tiananmen Square, but also a military parade.

Early in the morning before dawn, Lin Chaoyang and his family got up, packed up, and then crossed Chang'an Avenue to the Tiananmen Gate Tower.

As early as half a month before the National Day, Lin Chaoyang received an invitation from the Ministry of Culture to watch the ceremony, which was held on the viewing platform on Tiananmen Square.

At 5 a.m., Lin Chaoyang and his family arrived at Tiananmen Square. All the ground troops participating in the parade had gathered near Tiananmen Square and were on standby.

On East Chang'an Avenue, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored vehicles, howitzers, smoothbore guns, howitzers, rocket launchers, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, command vehicles, transport vehicles and missile launchers are arranged in neat rows, with a thunderous force ready to be unleashed.

The sky was slightly bright at this time, and the Tiananmen Tower and Square were colorful and particularly magnificent during the festival.

After a long wait, both sides of Chang'an Avenue were filled with hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life in the capital.

Looking down from the viewing platform, the crowds on Chang'an Avenue were endless and huge.

After the flag-raising ceremony, people began to gather along Chang'an Avenue to participate in the festival.

Finally, at 9:40 in the morning, many bigwigs, together with people's representatives from all walks of life and guests from various countries, climbed onto the Tiananmen Gate Tower amid thunderous applause. Lin Chaoyang's family was among them.

At 10 o'clock, Chen Xitong, then mayor of Yanjing City, announced: "The celebration of the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China begins!"

The sound diffused by the loudspeakers echoed over Tiananmen Square, and the celebration began with the majestic national anthem "March of the Volunteers" and 28-gun salutes.

The old man started off in a black convertible Hongqi parade car, drove out of Tiananmen Square and crossed the Jinshui Bridge.

"The troops to be reviewed are ready. Please review them."

"Hello, comrades! Hello, Chief!"

"Thank you for your hard work, comrades! --Serve the people!"

Huge waves of sound like overwhelming tidal waves echoed throughout the ten-mile-long street, just like 35 years ago.

Military music sounded and battle flags fluttered.

As tall as the mountains and as vast as the sea, such a flowing picture will surely condense into an eternal moment in history.

At 10:18, the military parade ended, and then the old man delivered an important National Day speech on the Tiananmen Gate Tower. His loud voice with a strong hint of transmission echoed.

Finally, the old man’s speech ended with the slogans “Long live the great People’s Republic of China! Long live the great Communist Party of China! Long live the great People’s Liberation Army of China! Long live the great unity of all ethnic groups in the country!”

The grand parade was announced to begin, and the army, navy and air force guard of honor escorted the bright red "August 1st" military flag into Tiananmen Square first.

Following that, the military academy team, infantry team, sailor team, airborne team, female medical team, armed police team and male and female militia teams entered Tiananmen Square in turn.

It's a line when viewed horizontally, it's a line when viewed vertically, and it's still a line when viewed diagonally.

The uniform goose-stepping formed a resonant sound field in the empty square, like majestic mountains, forming the Great Wall of New China. The people along Chang'an Avenue cheered and shouted, their blood boiling and they were extremely excited.

When 24 mechanized troop formations stretching for several kilometers passed in front of Tiananmen Square, the shouts of the masses reached a climax.

Steel chariots and iron horses, a rolling torrent, and brave war eagles coming through the clouds and fog, and then flying away.

Every Chinese person present had tears in their eyes and a surge of warmth in their hearts when watching this scene.

At 10:58, the parade ended and the entire military parade ceremony officially ended.

The largest and most awe-inspiring National Day military parade since 59 years has ended. All the guests who watched the ceremony were excited, but also felt regretful. They just hated that the parade was too short and was not worth watching!

Lin Chaoyang and his family followed the crowd down the viewing stand, and Lin Erchun kept chattering excitedly.

"It's magnificent! It's magnificent!"

As a person with only primary school education, he really wanted to talk a lot at this time to express his surging emotions, but unfortunately, after thinking for a long time, he could only say this one sentence.

When watching the military parade just now, he was so excited that he shed tears. Their generation may have a clearer and more profound feeling about the prosperity of their motherland.

In comparison, although Lin Chaoyang and his wife were excited, they remained rational.

Little Dongdong, who was carried on Lin Chaoyang's shoulders, didn't understand what a military parade was and what patriotism meant, but he was also infected by the solemn and majestic atmosphere, and the whole process was full of joyful laughter and shouting. The military parade was over, but the square was full of people. It took Lin Chaoyang and his family nearly an hour to walk a few hundred meters home, and it was almost twelve o'clock when they got home.

As soon as he got home, Li Tuo, Zhang Chengzhi, Chen Jiangong and others followed him.

They also came to watch the military parade today, but they could only stand on Chang'an Avenue. When they heard Lin Chaoyang talk about his feelings on the viewing stand, their eyes turned red with jealousy.

"We are all members of the Cultural Association, so why are you allowed to go to the viewing stand?" Chen Jiangong asked a soul-searching question.

Li Tuo shook his head and said, "Jian Gong, don't compare yourself to him. He is now the chairman of the Folk Literature Association!"

His ridicule made Lin Chaoyang smile bitterly. Who came up with these words?

Everyone was excited when talking about this topic.

"Who did you hear that from?"

"I heard it from Li Tuo."

"Li Tuo, who told you that?"

"Zhang Dening, Wang Meng, and Su Xinqun, they all said so."

……

A group of people talked about it for a long time but still couldn't find the original source. But anyway, Lin Chaoyang's position as "Chairman of the Folk Literature and Art Association" was confirmed.

Then this group of people naturally asked Lin Chaoyang to treat them to a meal in the name of "promotion", and they even seemed so confident in eating for free.

While eating, everyone talked about the article in yesterday's Economic Daily and felt overjoyed.

The Economic Daily has little presence in the literary world, and people generally don't pay attention to or discuss articles published in such media.

But the situation is different this time. The debate over the royalty payment system has been going on for two months between the media and the literary community. No matter which side has the upper hand in public opinion, it is actually difficult to end this debate.

The article in the Economic Daily affirmed the superiority of the royalty payment system from the perspective of economic and cultural development. It was like they were acting as the referee, raising the hands of Lin Chaoyang and his team and announcing their victory!

So naturally everyone was filled with joy and excitement.

As they chatted, some people couldn't help but giggle as they imagined the wealthy life they would have in the future after receiving royalties.

"Don't dream. The first print run of your collection of novels is 5,000 copies, and it's been a year and they haven't sold out yet, and you're still getting royalties? You should just take your basic remuneration honestly, or you'll starve to death!"

Zhang Chengzhi's "vicious" words made Chen Jiangong extremely angry, "How are you? Are you selling well? Are the novels you wrote good enough to be published in a collection?"

Zhang Chengzhi's novel output in recent years is indeed not high, mainly because he went to Toyo Bunko in Japan for further studies for several months in the second half of last year.

The two hurt each other, and the intensity of the confrontation was no less than that of a fight between two weaklings. Lin Chaoyang gloated on the side.

Li Tuo acted as a peacemaker at this time, "Instead of arguing, why don't you two learn from Chaoyang? It's only been ten days since the release of Crossing the Guandong, and it's already selling like hot cakes!"

When he said this, Chen Jiangong and Zhang Chengzhi's attention was drawn.

Chen Jiangong complained, "It's more than just a crazy sale. I went to three or four bookstores and couldn't buy it. I wonder if the book was sold privately by the salespersons after it arrived."

"If you don't work hard subjectively, you should look for the reason objectively. Others can buy it, but you can't. Why don't you think about whether you didn't queue up early enough?" Zhang Chengzhi mocked him again.

Before Chen Jiangong could refute, Zheng Wanlong said, "The sales of Crossing the Guandong are indeed a bit outrageous. I queued up in front of the China Bookstore at 4 o'clock that morning and finally managed to grab a copy. The two people behind me couldn't buy one either."

Li Tuo said to Lin Chaoyang at this time, "Chaoyang, I feel that the momentum of "Crossing Guandong" this time is stronger than your previous books..."

Chen Jiangong interjected: "It's still a little worse than "The Garland Under the Mountain"."

"The situation is different. The Wreath Under the Mountain is unique, with the right time, right place and right people." Li Tuo said to Chen Jiangong, then looked at Lin Chaoyang, "I'm afraid that Crossing the Guandong will sell three to five million copies, right?"

Lin Chaoyang shook his head. "It's only been on the market for ten days. Who can tell the exact sales volume?"

Li Tuo said, "Of course it's indispensable. The sales of "Crossing the Boat" have exceeded two million copies, right? It's only been a year. "Crossing the Guandong" has a wider readership and a greater influence, so the sales will only increase, not decrease."

At this point, he said with emotion: "You signed a royalty contract for this novel..."

After Li Tuo finished speaking, everyone immediately understood what he meant, and they were all thinking about the income that "Crossing the Guandong" would bring to Lin Chaoyang.

It’s not like I don’t know, it’s just a shock.

These people's eyes are red with envy!

"Crossing the Great Wall" is a large volume, with a total of more than 600,000 words, which is almost equivalent to the content of three normal novels.

Correspondingly, the publishing price is much more expensive than that of ordinary literary works.

The simplified version of "Crossing the Guandong" is divided into two volumes, with a single volume priced at 1.4 yuan, and the whole book is 2.8 yuan.

There is also a hardcover edition, priced at 2.9 yuan per volume and 5.8 yuan for the whole book.

Even if we only calculate based on the paperback version, if "Crossing the Guandong" can sell 100 million copies, the total sales will be 280 million yuan.

Lin Chaoyang received 12% of the royalties, or 33.6 yuan.

When they got this number, everyone's eyes turned red and even their breathing became rapid.

Not to mention 33.6 yuan, even if it's 33.6 yuan, there are still a lot of people who can't make that much these days.

What's more, is it possible that "Crossing the Guandong" will sell less than 100 million copies?
Not to mention 100 million copies, even 200 million or 300 million copies are probably not its limit.

The royalties brought to Lin Chaoyang by the movie "Crossing the Guandong" will probably be no less than one million yuan!
(End of this chapter)