The car giant started by marrying the daughter of the king

Chapter 26 Uninvited Guest

Jiang Hui's audit at the Capital Accessories Factory can be said to have been a complete success.

Whether it was He Qingquan, Tang Riyue, or other technical staff, they all knew that a talented person had emerged from the technical department of the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant.

In the next few days, Jiang Hui visited several supporting manufacturers including the Capital Automobile Shock Absorber Factory, the Capital First Spring Factory, the Capital Fitting Factory and the Chaoyang Automobile Parts Factory.

Basically, he would come up with some unique design solutions in every place.

As they are all companies on the "Automotive Industry Street", Jiang Hui's popularity has spread rapidly within a certain range.

However, these plans are still at the conceptual stage, and whether they can be implemented and what their effectiveness will be need further confirmation.

So for the time being, this incident has not caused too great an impact.

On Friday, Jiang Hui went to the Capital No. 1 Spring Factory to discuss with them the change of leaf springs to coil springs, and the cooperation with the Capital Automobile Shock Absorber Factory to develop the McPherson independent suspension. He left work a little later than usual.

"Xiao Jiang, go back quickly. Someone is looking for you today and has probably been waiting for you for several hours."

When passing by the security booth of the dormitory building, the security guard Lao Li specifically leaned his head out and spoke to him.

"Someone is looking for me?"

For a moment, Jiang Hui really couldn't react to who would come here to find him.

Few people know that they live in the dormitory building of the health center.

"Yes, I saw their work IDs were from the People's Literature Society, and they didn't say what they wanted from you."

Old Li looked at Jiang Hui with great curiosity.

Although he himself can barely read, his daughter entered the Chinese Department of Capital Normal University this year and is fascinated by literature.

As a result, even Lao Li, a semi-illiterate man, has heard of some well-known literary magazines.

"I'll go back and see what's going on. I'll talk to you another day."

When Jiang Hui heard the People's Literature Publishing House, he immediately knew what was going on.

"Desire" was mailed out last Sunday, and it has been almost a week.

Judging from the time, there should be some movement over there.

After Jiang Hui parked his bicycle, he quickly returned to the dormitory building.

Before I reached the door, I heard laughter and talking coming from inside.

It seems that the editor of People's Literature is very talkative.

It actually managed to arouse the enthusiasm for chatting in Zhu Lin, who is not very talkative.

"When I went out today, I heard the magpie calling. It turned out that a distinguished guest came to visit."

As soon as he appeared at the dormitory door, Jiang Hui saw two more guests inside.

"Team Leader Cui, Editor Ge, this is my beloved Jiang Hui."

When Zhu Lin saw Jiang Hui coming back, his somewhat stiff smile immediately became lively.

"Jiang Hui, this is Cui Yongfang, the head of the fiction group at People's Literature, and Ge Suhong, the editor."

As the hostess, Zhu Lin must step forward and introduce both parties.

However, she finally breathed a sigh of relief when Jiang Hui came back.

Just now she had used all her skills to deal with the conversation between two women who were very good at talking.

Fortunately, most of the topics discussed were related to the content of "Desire", and Zhu Lin could explain a few things about it.

After all, these days Jiang Hui would take time to write several thousand words of "Desire" every day after get off work.

"Team Leader Cui, Editor Ge, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

"I didn't know you would come today, otherwise I would have come back earlier."

The other person had been waiting for him for several hours. Regardless of whether it was his fault or not, Jiang Hui must apologize to the other person first.

"It's not your fault. I just had a sudden impulse and decided to come over and have a good exchange with you, the author."

"I just heard from your wife that the novel "Desire" will be about 500,000 words long. This is just the beginning."

"I am now even more curious about the following plots." Cui Yongfang looked at Jiang Hui and felt that they had found a treasure this time.

Such a young writer has written a novel like "Desire" that makes people unable to put down their reading. If there are other works in the future, "People's Literature" will definitely take the lead.

Although People's Literature enjoys a high status in China's literary and artistic circles, there is still a lack of truly classic works in each issue.

No editor would complain about having too much good work.

"I have already planned out the rest of the plot, and I expect to write it gradually in the next few months."

Jiang Hui didn't intend to give away any spoilers, so he simply gave a brief introduction of his plans without saying too much about the content of the novel.

Instead of discussing the content of the novel with them, he felt more interested in discussing the royalties.

"By the way, the last manuscript you mailed to us was about 20,000 words. I heard from your wife that you have been working on it in the past week. Can I see the latest manuscript?"

Cui Yongfang could feel that Jiang Hui was not very interested in discussing the subsequent plot of "Desire".

However, the manuscript that has already been written will definitely be different.

In fact, Cui Yongfang really wanted to ask Zhu Lin to help find the manuscript just now, but she felt it was a bit inappropriate and held back.

"No problem. I have about 20,000 words in reserve."

As Jiang Hui spoke, he took out the manuscript of "Desire" from the drawer of his simple desk.

After Cui Yongfang took the manuscript, he started reading it immediately.

Normally, Jiang Hui thought she would just flip through it and take a quick look.

Unexpectedly, after five or six minutes, she showed no intention of stopping.

This made Jiang Hui feel a little awkward sitting there.

"Teacher Jiang, we have decided to publish the novel "Desire" in the next issue of the magazine. While Team Leader Cui is reading the manuscript, can I give you a brief introduction to the royalties?"

Ge Suhong felt that her team leader's behavior seemed a bit rude, so she started to bring up a new topic.

"Okay, thank you for your help!"

Jiang Hui was so interested in this topic that even his tone of voice sounded a little excited.

How can I not be excited when my money-making plan is about to begin?

It’s just that the royalties in this era are one-time and have nothing to do with how many volumes are published, which is a bit of a pity.

Of course, if the performance of "Desire" is good enough, it is possible that the publishing house will find a way to give you some compensation.

However, the apparent remuneration for royalties is relatively fixed.

"Normally, the current remuneration is 2 to 7 yuan per thousand words, and this is the system that was just restored at the end of last year."

"For new authors, we usually pay them 2 or 3 yuan per thousand words."

"But our team leader is very optimistic about Desire and has applied for a rate of 5 yuan per thousand words for you within the company."

“This is a very high standard among newcomers.”

After Ge Suhong said this, Jiang Hui immediately did a quick calculation in his mind.

If the fee is 100 yuan per thousand words, then the fee for words is yuan.

For 50 words, that's 2500 yuan, which doesn't seem to be a lot.

However, considering that my salary is only a few dozen yuan, this number is very high.

It would probably take an average family decades to save 2500 yuan.

"Five yuan for a thousand words!"

Jiang Hui repeated it subconsciously.

Ge Suhong keenly noticed that Jiang Hui did not seem surprised by the royalties, but rather a little disappointed.

Thinking about the attractive beginning of "Desire", she immediately added: "If the results are good, then it is possible to continue to improve in the future."

(End of this chapter)