It's the summer of 2000.

Today's China is stepping on the threshold of the new century.

Regardless of other industries for the time being, the development of literature is more than ten years behind the original time and space.

In recent years, essays, novels and other literary works still read with the atmosphere of the era of great changes. Entertainment literature and popular literature are even more rare, romance novels are still in the historical background of wives and concubines competing for favor, the old school of martial arts is in power, that is, chivalrous novels, Jin Guliang has not appeared.

The Internet era has just emerged, and literature with the Internet as the carrier has not yet shown its sharp corners.

The vote that overcame the obstacles in the original time and space and created the situation of online literature does not know where to squat.

Especially 20 years ago, after the exchange and opening up of Eastern and Western cultures, the lack of literary works made the Chinese people gradually turn their attention to the West.

But this time and space has much better protection for copyright, and piracy is rare, even in Western literature.

Shen Zhe has seen more than once that some people are pestering their friends in order to borrow a biography of a German celebrity. Most people can't find enough recreational reading materials, so they have to subscribe to various magazines and newspapers in search of little reading pleasure.

This situation was enough for Shen Zhe to make him snicker.

……

The sound of a TV rings in the living room.

Father Shen Mingcheng came back from work, crossed Erlang's legs, and sat on the sofa to watch the news.

On July 7, Chinese Prime Minister Fan Shouxin met with President William Taylor of the United States at the Ziguang Pavilion. ”

"The two sides had in-depth conversations and exchanged views on the relevant content of the global trade agreement. ”

"This is the first time that Prime Minister Pham has met with foreign dignitaries as head of state since his election in mid-May, and the need to exchange views on today's global economic development issues can also be seen from the location of the meeting, which also shows the importance that the Cabinet attaches to this foreign affairs event. ”

Half of the nine-member cabinet attended the event. ”

Hearing the movement, Shen Zhe pushed away the chair, moved his wrist, got up from the computer and went to the living room.

Once as a person who made a living from words, he never considered himself a writer, at most he was a codeword, a laborer.

Now that he has a huge amount of resources in his hands, the original author of those works has not appeared in this time and space, but it is impossible for him to copy the original text. The content must be in line with today's social reality, and some need to change the background or something, and it takes only 20,000 words to code in one afternoon.

"Dad—"

Shen Zhe sat on the sofa and screamed.

Shen Mingcheng glanced at his son, "um", and continued to watch TV.

When the news of the Prime Minister's meeting with foreign guests passed, the picture shifted to reports of the leaders of the education department inspecting the campus.

Shen Mingcheng sighed and lit a cigarette.

"Dad, what's wrong?"

"Alas, it is estimated that the work will not be good in the future, and the national policy will change, I don't know if the salary will be lowered......"

"What are you talking about!" Before Shen Zhe could speak, his mother Yang Xin leaned out of the kitchen.

Shen Zhe made a fuss: "Wow, Mom, you listen to us." ”

"Go!" Yang Xin was a little embarrassed, walked out with a shovel, wiped his hands on his apron and scolded: "It's so ugly, you two still have secrets in front of me?

Turning his head to look at Shen Mingcheng: "What did you just say?"

Suddenly, he saw the cigarette roll between her husband's fingers, frowned, and said, "Snuff out the cigarette!"

Shen Mingcheng was furious by his wife's eyes, and hurriedly extinguished the cigarette, and said suspiciously: "I didn't say anything......"

"You say a salary cut?"

Shen Zhe helped on the side: "Mom, don't you hear this very clearly?"

Yang Xin raised the shovel to make a gesture to shoot, and Shen Zhe raised his hand to surrender.

"Hey!" Shen Mingcheng said suddenly: "I thought I had committed something big, isn't this what the news just said." Huaxia may have to sign a global trade agreement, and the focus of economic development will definitely shift, and the employees of iron and steel enterprises are not as popular as before......"

Yang Xin's face was anxious: "Employees reduce wages, aren't you the head of the workshop, too?"

"You don't listen to the wind or the rain is good, I didn't say it fell!"

"It's good that it didn't come down. Yang Xin breathed a sigh of relief, looked left and right at the two men waiting on the sofa for dinner, and said very dissatisfied: "If you have no heart and lungs, you will get a salary alone at home, and it will be less than 20,000 yuan......

"Ten thousand twelve!" Shen Mingcheng interjected.

Shen Zhe listened funny, and his mother told outsiders that his father's work was "him, not much, less than 20,000".

Yang Xin waved a shovel, quite a bit of a point of pointing: "You also know that less is not, this month's electricity bill will be more than 80 ......"

"Heh," Shen Zhe smiled, "Mom, what about more than 11,000?"

"Hey, you're competing with me, aren't you?" Yang Xin said angrily.

"Don't dare!"

"Hmph, you don't want to think about it, you will be in college next year, the tuition fee will be a few thousand, and the living expenses will be a few thousand. If you talk about a girlfriend again, then the money you spend is even less, and your father's salary will drop again, what will the family do in the future?"

"Mom, wait a minute, let me pick up the ......" Shen Zhe looked for a draw.

"Smack!" didn't dodge this time, he was hit the back, and he was honest immediately.

After teaching her son, Yang Xin rushed to the kitchen and dropped a sentence: "Wash your hands and prepare to eat!"

Every time a family of three chats together, the whole Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

There is no book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in this time and space, and the Chinese people only know that it is relatively confusing about that period of history.

Two of the four famous novels are missing, and the other is "Water Margin".

Therefore, the most fans in China are "Dream of Red Mansions", and they worship the author Lao Cao and respect him as a saint, and his status is several levels higher than the original time and space.

Everyone seems to be able to say a couple of words about the passage.

The global trade agreements in the news are similar to the WTO in the original time and space. In the context of peace and development, global economic integration, the focus of decision-making of the Chinese cabinet will inevitably shift. gave people a feeling that a wolf was coming, but Shen Zhe knew that his father's worries were a bit unfounded.

In fact, it is Western countries that should be feared, and hard-working Chinese people never have to scare anyone.

Shen Zhe didn't explain it to his father, he only understood it after experiencing it, and besides, this kind of change was a good thing for him.

The more the economy develops, the more colorful life becomes, and the more thirsty it is for cultural products.

……

After eating, Shen Zhe returned to the study.

Looking at the number of words displayed in the document, there are almost more than 30,000 words in the past two days.

Reading it again from beginning to end, correcting typos and punctuation, he was a bit obsessive-compulsive and perfectionist for codewords alone.

The next step is to choose the magazine to submit the article to.

If the article is too long, the newspaper will definitely not work, and the audience for readers is also different, Shen Zhe is ready to choose a magazine of youth literature.

It's best to be local to Zhonghai City.

I searched the Internet and found that it was a bit dazzling.

Entering the keywords "Zhonghai", "magazine" and "youth", there were seventy or eighty magazines at once.

The average issuance is indicated later, ranging from 5,000 to millions, and those that are too few are passed, sorted by circulation, from top to bottom.

"Huaxia Literature and Art", a national magazine and monthly magazine, has an average circulation of 8.4 million copies.

"Young People", a national magazine and weekly magazine, has an average circulation of 4.2 million copies.

"Chinese Youth", a national magazine and weekly magazine, has an average circulation of 2.8 million copies.

……

"Oriental Heroes", a local magazine and monthly magazine, has an average circulation of 12,000 copies.

Shen Zhe smiled, thinking of the little girl Lin Yuhan on the other side, the "Oriental Knight" magazine was her father Lin Yuanzhi's unit. It has to be said that it is a very small single-genre magazine with a fixed readership, but not a large number of people.

No wonder Uncle Lin's salary is not high, and Aunt Huang also participates in the work, faintly the head of the family.

Lin Yuhan is Shen Zhe's daughter-in-law, but she has just reached adulthood and is still young, so she has to endure it for the time being.

Lin Yuanzhi can do it easily, do what he likes, doesn't he like chivalrous novels, as long as he has a hobby. A hobby is a slit, and flies with broken legs can also bite it, Jin Guliang is possessed, and it's strange if he can't get it.

Aunt Huang is a bit of a money-conscious person, and I'll talk about this later.

Shen Zhe's gaze seemed to pass through several walls and landed on the small room of 302.

Talk about the magazine.

The bigger the magazine, the better, so that the work can be circulated more widely, and the manuscript fee is more generous.

"Huaxia Literature and Art" is not suitable, this is the second largest magazine in the country, but it is relatively strict, and the manuscript review is also strict.

Then "Young People", a book for young people in China.

Finding the submission email from the official website of the magazine, Shen Zhe sent the first 30,000 words prepared.

I closed my computer and practiced calligraphy for a while.

Sleepy, sleepy.