October 1, 1980.

A group of people from Yanjing came to Hong Kong.

These people, including Ba Jin, whom Zhang Shaojie knows, are more strangers.

"Mr. Ba, why are you here in Hong Kong again?" Zhang Shaojie was a little surprised by Ba Jin's arrival.

Ba Jin pointed to a few people around him and said with a smile: "Commissioned to come!" A few of you here are the editors of the People's Publishing House, and they are the ones who are looking for you!"

After Ba Jin's introduction, a middle-aged man in his forties shook hands with Zhang Shaojie: "Hello, Mr. Zhang Shaojie! My surname is Qiu, and I'm the editor of the People's Publishing House in Yanjing! ”

Zhang Shaojie and Editor Qiu shook hands politely and said, "Hello, Editor Qiu!" I don't know, why did you come to me thousands of miles away? ”

Editor Qiu said: "Mr. Zhang Shaojie, your "The Rise of a Great Power" has aroused great repercussions in China, and with the special approval of the State Council, the People's Publishing House has been instructed to come to discuss the introduction and publication. I wonder if you are interested in cooperating with the People's Publishing House? ”

Zhang Shaojie was shocked and said in disbelief: "Publishing in the mainland?!" "In the early 80s, although Chinese literary and artistic workers began to go to various countries for literary and artistic exchanges. However, the scale is still too small, especially the number of foreign works imported by China every year is still too small. Hong Kong and Taiwan belong to capitalist areas, and before the reform and opening up, there was no cultural exchange between Hong Kong and Taiwan, and even if they wrote letters, they were suspected of being spies who betrayed intelligence.

After the reform and opening up, exchanges between coastal areas and Hong Kong and Taiwan began to be frequent. However, it is mainly businessmen from Hong Kong and Taiwan who invest and set up enterprises in the mainland. Cultural exchanges, on the other hand, are very lacking.

Editor Qiu smiled: "With the cultural exchanges between China and Hong Kong, more and more Hong Kong works will be imported and published in China!" ”

Books like "The Rise of Great Powers", which have not been officially published, have already caused huge repercussions in China. It can be expected that when it is officially published, it will definitely be able to achieve great benefits.

In fact, the document of the political axe only clearly proposed to lift the ban on "The Rise of a Great Power" and allow it to be published in China, but it did not clearly point out that it must be handed over to the People's Publishing House for publication.

The People's Publishing House rushed to Hong Kong as soon as possible to fight for "The Rise of a Great Power", in order to quickly catch up with other publishing houses and get the copyright of this very popular book and mainland publishing in the mainland!

Zhang Shaojie suddenly said: "What is the standard for settling the manuscript fee?" Many writers sell hundreds of thousands of books, but the remuneration given by the publishing house is about the same as that of the authors who sell very poorly."

"Zhang Shaojie, your book is divided into remuneration according to the royalty system in Hong Kong, right! We can also give you 20% royalty! The editor of the People's Publishing House said boldly.

Zhang Shaojie nodded and said: "I am in favor of such a share." I have one more question, though! At present, the relevant policies and regulations of mainland publishing are still relatively chaotic, and there is not even a copyright protection law. ”

The editor of the People's Publishing House said with a smile: "There will definitely be a copyright protection law in the future." But with the publication of "The Rise of Great Powers", you don't have to worry about piracy! When the time comes, the red-headed documents of the Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Culture prohibit other unauthorized units from pirating and printing "The Rise of a Great Power" without permission! ”

At present, the domestic law is not perfect, and only the red-headed document is used as an expedient measure.

When Zhang Shaojie heard this, he said that he was quite satisfied with this reply.

It is different from the later private pirates who took risks and produced pirated literary and artistic works. In the 80s, there was no copyright law in the mainland, and major formal publishing houses also pirated and pirated books. For example, Jin Yong's novels were printed and pirated by dozens of regular publishing houses in the 80s, and hundreds of millions of pirated copies were sold. In those years, pirated books were fearless, because there were no copyright-related regulations in domestic law!

It was not until 87 that the new version of the General Principles of the Civil Law began to appear in the implementation of the principle of copyright protection. It was not until 89 that the Copyright Law began to be formally adopted in China.

However, the People's Publishing House has a very large origin, and it is directly under the central government, and it can consult with the Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Culture to send red-headed documents to major local publishing houses to prohibit piracy. Presumably, there should not be many local publishing houses that dare to commit crimes against the wind, right?

―――――――――― Ba Jin and his entourage from the People's Publishing House came to Hong Kong and prepared to stay in Hong Kong for three days.

Zhang Shaojie, as the host, naturally also entertained him hobly.

The last time we met, Zhang Shaojie mentioned the scars that are harmful to society.

After Ba Jin returned to China, after the actual investigation, he was indeed touched.

This time in Hong Kong, Ba Jin took the initiative to say to Zhang Shaojie: "Shaojie's observation is really thorough, originally I thought that the scars are nothing more than reflection and reminiscence. But in fact, this is not only the case, more and more scars are filled with hatred and revenge against society, and these emotions gradually expand to the literary and artistic youth group. The scars evolved like this, and it really didn't want to see them."

Zhang Shaojie hit the nail on the head and said: "The reason why this is the case is because during the ten years of turmoil, the dignity and dignity of intellectuals have been trampled on, which has made professors, experts, and literary artists extremely psychologically distorted. They live to distort the minds of young people, create negative emotions and take revenge on society through classroom lectures and scar articles! If this negative impact is not channeled as soon as possible, in the future, after the growth of this group of post-60s and post-70s young people, it will continue to be transmitted to the next generation born in the 80s, 90s, and 00s! ”

In the classroom, some professors with a grudge willingly become pawns of Western countries in order to take revenge on the country and society, and transmit bad emotions to students.

In society, the scar literati have gone from reminiscing about the injuries they have suffered in the past to getting worse, so that the entire journal is full of negative emotional articles.

Under the instigation of some unscrupulous intellectuals and literati, the planning of foreign forces almost caused a catastrophe. However, the fundamentals of China's industrial and agricultural production at that time were more stable than those of the Soviet Union, so they were not succeeded by the conspiracy of Western subversive forces.

Later, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Chinese government and the opposition had a deeper understanding of the conspiracy methods of some Western countries.

In fact, the chaos in China in the 80s was only a drop in the bucket compared to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In this era, 90% of the forces of the Soviet Union were concentrated in the Soviet Union.

As for China, there is only a slight amount of pressure. Therefore, it is safe to spend without danger. After China survived the turmoil, it was surprised to find that the big brother of the Soviet Union had collapsed!

Later generations summed up their experience -- the birth of the Soviet Union was to wake up China!

The USSR grew up to guide China!

The USSR thrived to help China!

The demise of the Soviet Union was a warning to China

Looking through the history of the world, there is no longer a country with such a pair of relations as the Soviet Union and China.

For China, the Soviet Union was simply the quintessence of bowing, and it was just the end of the day. First, the planned economy of the Soviet Union showed China how to achieve industrialization in an agrarian country.

Later, the Soviet Union began to build a set of aid to China, although it was backward, but it was a complete system. It has laid a solid foundation for China's modernization.

Later, in the 80s, the Soviet Union began to imitate the system of Western countries for reforms.

China is also reforming, but it is first observing the gains and losses of the Soviets' reforms, and then considering whether to follow up. In the end, the Soviets used their own disintegration to warn China to beware of the conspiracy of Western countries.

This gang of foreigners in the Soviet Union tossed and turned, and the Soviets walked the dangerous road again, so that the Chinese behind could learn a lesson and take the right road of development. The Soviets were the spirit of internationalism that was not self-interested and exclusively self-interested.

After the collapse of the USSR.

Zhang Shaojie will consider sending a tribute - the big brother of the Soviet Union is immortal!

Zhang Shaojie talks about politics is more funny.

Although Ba Jin is a serious older generation character, he can't help but feel very relaxed and happy.

"In the past, [***] said well in one sentence: 'serve the people'! , naturally, is no exception, to be in line with writing novels and articles that serve the people! What about the current literati, are they serving the people? They're either in the service of art, or they're in the service of their own little emotion. Zhang Shaojie said, "If you want to serve the people, writers from Hong Kong and Taiwan have done it!" Writing that people love to watch and like to watch, after work, watching martial arts and romance novels can bring people pleasure and relaxation, which is a good way to serve! ”

Ba Jin smiled: "You said it very well, to serve the people, not to serve the arts!" Art detached from the people is worthless! Some literary and artistic comrades in Hubei Province are preparing to set up the magazine "Legends of the Ancient and Modern," and they are also imitating the popular line of Hong Kong and Taiwan. ”

"Ancient Legends?!" Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but be shocked!

Zhang Shaojie naturally kept this journal in mind. Historically, in July 81, Hubei Province officially approved the establishment of "Ancient Legends". This journal had a capital of only 15,000 yuan at the beginning of its establishment, but by the 90s, it had a circulation of more than 200,000 copies per issue.

During the depression of martial arts in Hong Kong and Taiwan, martial arts leaders such as Huang Yi and Wen Ruian also began to serialize martial arts in the mainland's "Ancient Legends". A large number of famous writers contributed to "Ancient Legends", making this journal later began to become the first journal of Chinese martial arts!

"Didn't Shaojie want to publish martial arts works in the mainland? When the time comes, I will submit it to "Legends of the Ancient World", presumably Comrade Ren Qing will be very happy! Ba Jin laughed.

Zhang Shaojie knows that the old revolutionary artist Ren Qing is one of the main founders of "Ancient Legends". The original intention may not be so fashionable, but simply to revitalize traditional Chinese chapter back novels, classical novels, and folk tales. Martial arts novels can also be regarded as an evolution of traditional Chinese novels. "Ancient Legends" became interested in martial arts before it was launched, Zhang Shaojie had to admire the far-reaching vision of the editors of "Ancient Legends"!

(To be continued)