The time has slowly entered April.

In April, China's domestic economy began to recover.

At this time, HAO Culture Company did something that sounded very related to culture, and that was to pay tribute to the outstanding poets of the year.

——This is still the promise made when Fang Hao encountered an image crisis, in order to roll up a sum of pension money, when he crowdfunded a poetry collection.

At that time, the promise was that for every book of poetry sold, they would donate a dollar to set up a fund for the care of poets, looking for a few poets they thought were outstanding to fund.

Funding is one-tenth of the total amount of that fund each year until the money is exhausted.

Of course, in this process, the money will not be stored in the bank, but will buy more stable financial products.

If the benefits of financial management are considerable, they will continue for more years.

Now the time has come to cash in.

They hadn't thought about how big the plate would be before, and it was estimated that it would be hundreds of thousands to millions.

One-tenth of a year, that is, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, give one point to the people of the company, and then it's over.

No one expected that the physical book plus the electronic version would eventually sell an astonishing tens of millions of copies.

In this way, the scale of this poet fund has reached tens of millions of yuan, and the total amount of poets that need to be rewarded in a year has reached more than one million.

All they want to reward is a few poets, and the average reward amount for each person is more than 100,000 yuan.

This is being targeted by many people.

Everyone knows that online writers are very hard, but in fact, poets are more bitter than online writers.

At least professional web writers can sign a contract and live on a full-time meal of a few hundred yuan a month (although such a treatment will soon be no longer available).

And if a professional poet wants to live on his poetry, he is basically dreaming.

In the eighties and nineties of the last century, there was still that possibility, anyway, there were many illiterate people at that time, and if they could read a string of words long and short, they could be honored as poets, and then they were treated like stars, and when they were lonely, there were even girls who came to give them their arms.

It was an era of literacy, and it was also an era of illiteracy.

Now that compulsory education has been widely implemented, there is no shortage of enter keys on everyone's keyboards, and the sense of sacredness of poets has disappeared.

It's not easy to get a bowl of rice to eat by writing poems.

Now there is such a poet fund, which can give out millions of yuan every year to reward poets, and those poets who don't know where to climb out of the pit are staring at that fund with hungry wolf eyes.

In this case, it is too difficult for someone who wants to give the award to the company.

Being found out is extremely bad for the company's image.

But if you don't award it to the company, how unwilling will the fertilizer water flow into the fields of outsiders?

At that time, I was just thinking about cutting some leeks and rolling up a sum of money to leave, and it would be more righteous and strict to use this as an excuse.

Now that the image crisis has long passed, it is necessary to worry about the image.

After discussion with the company, it was decided to expand the number of poets funded each year to ten.

Then mix four of your own people in it, so that you can also take away some of the money.

4 a year, 40 in 10 years, and the company's employees are not so many.

The company's employees are not directly involved in the publication of the poems, but they all have relatives who publish poems on online platforms. Worry-free Literature Network

Therefore, there are also qualifications to run.

The other six people, of course, still consult experts, find two or three well-known poets to fill the scene, and find two or three poets who are very hard to fund.

In this way, the face is all gone, and everyone is happy.

Such a poetry award ceremony was held in April, and a total of 10 poets were selected, which was called the top ten of the year.

Some poets have published poetry collections, some poets have published poems in newspapers and magazines, and some have only published poems on online platforms.

As for the level of poetry, it depends on the wisdom of the people.

The same enter key, different ways to use, it's hard to say which way to use it is necessarily better.

Anyway, this kind of thing, if the name is closed for blind testing, the works of famous poets and unknown poets will not be judged by ordinary people.

This thing is a very subjective thing, and it can only be listened to by the organizer.

Or else?

The money is in other people's hands, what else can you do?

There are no first, second and third places, no first, second and third prizes, it is the top ten of the year.

Everyone's bonus is the same, 100,000 yuan per person.

Love doesn't come, there are prizes for those who come, and there are awards for those who don't come.

Anyway, there is no shortage of two kinds of people in this world, one is an online writer, and the other is a poet.

If one doesn't come, you can change another one, and if you don't come, you can exchange another ten, so there's nothing to worry about.

After they sent out the invitation, not a single one was absent.

Including three long-established poets who used it as a façade.

Prestigious is prestigious, but not much money is really not much money.

If it weren't for their early debut, they stood out in an era of illiteracy, and this association and that association were mixed with some positions, and they were supported by the state, and with the sales of their poetry collections, they would have starved to death long ago.

But relying on the little allowance of this association and that association, life is still tight.

This is a prize of 100,000 yuan, although it seems a bit shameful to accept the award with some people who have never heard of it, but in this era, as a living poet, who does not feel shameful?

The renminbi is fragrant, and there is no way to refuse it.

What made them feel even more ashamed was not to accept the award with some unknown poets, but to give them the award, which was the flow poet Fang Hao, whom they regarded as a shame in the poetry world.

In the past, I had only heard of wandering poets, but now there are traffic poets, the difference between one word and heaven and earth.

Fang Hao's poems are all written by Liu Qing, if you want to say how good the quality is, it may not be how good, but it is not necessarily how bad.

But when his poems had so many sales, his poems were considered vulgar and unbearable text garbage in the industry.

Poets should be lonely, they should be poor, and they should keep a certain distance from the world.

It should even be angry, melancholy.

It shouldn't be living in a villa, earning a lot of money, and having a lot of brains.

It's such a shame for such a vulgar person to come and give them an award!

This is the tainting of literature!