On January 15, 2006, under the attention of many industry insiders and professional authors, the 2nd Annual Conference of Original Literature Success Tour and Starting Point Authors was held in Shanghai Thumb Square.

The annual meeting was hosted by Sina, Sohu, NetEase, TOM, Tianya, Intranet and other well-known websites, and received the support of Shanda Network, Shanghai Hotline, Pacific Computer Network, and Popular Bookstore.

In addition, Chen Tianqiao, chairman of the parent company Shanda Group and the richest man in Chinese mainland in 2004, also appeared on the scene.

Chen Tianqiao made huge profits by acting as an agent of "Legend", and then continued to develop and represent new games, and successfully listed on the NASDAQ in the United States, becoming the richest man in Chinese mainland.

At this time, Ma Yun, Ma Huateng, Li Yanhong, etc., are all junior brothers in front of Chen Tianqiao.

The starting point is also after being wholly acquired by Shanda in 2004, with Shanda's point card system that spreads all over the country and is convenient to recharge, it has cultivated a large number of genuine readers, and has been firmly occupying the top position in the online literature for more than ten years in the future.

However, Chen Tianqiao, who made his fortune with games and ascended to the position of China's richest man, inevitably became the target of public criticism and was infamous as the "creator of electronic opium".

And, Chen Tianqiao, who felt that his life had reached its peak, then invested heavily in various fields, buying, buying, buying, taking too big a step, pulling the egg, and losing his main game business, and finally being surpassed by Tencent, NetEase, etc.

It can't be said that Chen Tianqiao's investments have failed, but when he attacked everywhere like a goddess, most of the other Internet companies focused on their own proficient fields, and finally far surpassed Shanda Network in terms of market value.

Shanda's game business deteriorated, and later Chen Tianqiao simply privatized Shanda Internet Europe, delisted from the stock market, and concentrated on being an investor.

It's just that he has gradually disappeared from public view and is concentrating on investment, so it is difficult to see reports about him.

But at this time in early 2006, Chen Tianqiao was ambitious to make Shanda China's Disney, and wanted to integrate PCs, mobile phones, televisions, movies, music, games, broadcasting, e-commerce, online payments, online literature, and so on into a grand box.

His layout is earlier than the Xiaomi box in the back, the LETV box and so on.

It's just that as the saying goes, half a step ahead is a genius, and a step ahead is a madman.

Chen Tianqiao took the lead too early, the network transmission speed and software and hardware conditions at that time were not optimized, and finally the grand box did not get up, and ended up without a problem, and dragged down his main game, and the scale of the group was gradually surpassed by Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Sohu, NetEase, etc.

Of course, Chen Tianqiao, who was in the limelight at this time, didn't know that the grand box he made would fail in the end.

In the area of online literature alone, he not only acquired the starting point, but also successively acquired websites such as Red Sleeves Tianxiang, Novel Reading Network, and Under the Banyan Tree, planning to merge into Shanda Literature, and wanted to unify the online literature rivers and lakes.

Therefore, as the most important pillar of the grand literature in the future, Chen Tianqiao was able to take the time to attend the annual meeting and deliver a speech.

Subsequently, Wu Wenhui, general manager of the starting point, reviewed the achievements of the starting point in the past year, thanked the authors and editors for their efforts, and then began a short cultural performance.

When Wei Mingrang came to the stage to sing "I Believe", the atmosphere at the scene was the most enthusiastic, and many authors applauded below.

Wei Mingrang, who is both a singer and an author, is undoubtedly the most popular on the scene.

After a short theatrical performance, it was time for the award ceremony.

There is no doubt that the 2005 Outstanding Achievement Award for Author of the Year and the overall winner of the monthly ticket of the year was awarded to Yanyu Jiangnan, the author of "Blasphemy".

"Profanity" fully dominated the championship in the first four months after the establishment of the monthly ticket list, and was in the top few almost every month after that, and there is no doubt that the total number of accumulated monthly tickets won the annual championship.

This is not only an honor, but also a cash prize of 80,000 yuan.

Wei Mingrang undoubtedly won the 2005 Outstanding New Talent Award for his perverted performance in "Buddha is the Way", which was later commonly known as the Newcomer King of the Year, and this bonus was only 50,000.

There are not many awards now, and after the Outstanding Achievement Award and the Outstanding New Talent Award, there is a signing ceremony for the simplified publication of five works arranged at the starting point.

Wei Mingrang's "Buddha is the Way" has now been published in the traditional Chinese version of Taiwan to more than 1 million words, and the sales are gratifying.

Therefore, it is only natural that some publishers in the mainland are discussing the publication of simplified Chinese.

However, this was the starting point to help Wei Mingrang contact, and they naturally took it as an achievement to sign a contract at the annual meeting.

At this time, online novels did not have the concept of full copyright operation of film and television, games, and animation, and it was not easy to sign a contract for publication.

Therefore, the simplified signing of five people, including Wei Mingrang and Tang Jiasanshao, made the other authors in the audience envious.

After the publication signing was over, the starting point held an on-site lucky draw, of course, the lottery was limited to the author.

Dancing, Blood Red and the others were quite elated when they drew mobile keyboards or photoelectric keyboards and mice, but Wei Mingrang didn't get anything.

After the random draw, it's time for dinner.

Wei Mingrang sat at the front table with a group of people with the best grades such as Jiang Nan, Blood Red, Dancing, Tang Family Sanshao, and Zhongsheng, chatting while eating.

During the chat, Wei Mingrang could see that Xuehong, Jiang Nan, Yuntian and others already had some opinions on the proportion of the starting point.

At this time, there are no separate contracts for platinum and gods, and they are all ordinary contracts divided into five.

Therefore, in fact, there is no discount for the great gods, at most there is a difference in the recommended position.

The emotions shown by Xuehong and others at this time also laid the foundation for them to be bought out and poached by the collective, so that the starting point was forced to introduce a platinum writer system to retain the remaining gods.

Originally, the status of the three young men of the Tang family was not as good as that of the blood-red and Yanyu Jiangnan at this time.

Xuehong is the first online writer with an annual salary of more than one million, and Yanyu Jiangnan is the champion of the monthly ticket list and the annual champion in the first four months.

It was the departure of Xuehong, Yanyu Jiangnan and others that made Tang Sanshao the first batch of platinum writers at the starting point, and then continued to accumulate popularity step by step for more than ten years, and finally became the first person to write online.

Listening to everyone whispering about the way out in the future and where to write the next book, Wei Mingrang was also hesitating what to do with his next book.

PS: This year is a bit unlucky, the novel is not well written, and there are many troubles at home, so the update was unstable some time ago. Wife's due date in June, as a result, last night stomach cramps hospitalized, the doctor said there was a risk of premature birth, the infusion kept overnight, and now it is getting better, but I have to stay in the hospital for a few days to observe, and I hope that the book friends will take care of it a little bit on the update, and there is only one change today.