"Mr. Cheng, in your opinion, what do you think are the novels in the period from 94 to 98 that have any hope of winning the 5th Mao Award?" Xiao Fei asked.

Editor Cheng thought for a moment and said: "After entering the 90s, especially since the mid-90s, the publication of novels has entered a peak period. ”

"There are more and more long-form publications, in 95 years, China's long-form publishing has reached an average of two novels per day, and in 97 years, it is more than 800 novels published throughout the year, and this year I estimate that it will not be less than 97 years."

"However, just because there are more long works doesn't mean that there are more excellent works."

"On the contrary, in fact, there are fewer influential excellent novels."

"As far as I know, I think your "Life and Death Fatigue", Mr. Zhou Daxin's "Act 20", Mr. Zhang Ping's "Choice", A Lai's "The Dust Settles", and Wang Anyi's "Song of Long Hatred" are more dramatic."

As far as the several works listed by the program editor, three of them are really the winning works of the 5th Mao Award.

Among them, Zhou Daxin has been famous for a long time, and his "Twentieth Act" is also his most important masterpiece, a brilliant masterpiece of realism.

Zhang Ping and Wang Anyi can also be regarded as old writers who have been famous for a long time.

Xiao Fei and Ah Lai are newcomers.

Among them, Alai is even newer than Xiao Fei.

After Ah Lai's "The Dust Settled" was written, I don't know how many publishing houses I voted for, but no one dared to publish it, but it was a national society like the People's Literature Publishing House that had the courage to help him publish the book.

Even after the book came out, it was not particularly famous. At least in the minds of the majority of readers, it does not have much influence.

"The Dust Settles" mainly caused quite a stir in literary circles, and many writers spoke highly of it. In addition, the subject matter it writes about is rare minority content.

Therefore, the award of "The Dust Settles" is expected.

The newcomer won the grand prize. became famous in one fell swoop, which is also a common occurrence in the early evaluation process of the Mao Award. In fact, among the four winners of the 5th Mao Award, in addition to Alai, there is also Wang Xufeng, the author of the "Tea Man Trilogy", who is also a rookie writer.

After meeting Ba Lao.

Editor Cheng still has a lot of work to do, so he is in a hurry to go back first.

Xiao Fei thought, what happened to Hangzhou, I had to go to see how Ma Yun and their company were doing.

He stayed alone and called Ma Yun.

After receiving Xiao Fei's call, Ma Yun was very pleasantly surprised. He told Xiao Fei that the company has opened an office building in Hangzhou, and the B2B website has almost been completed and will be launched soon.

Ma Yun asked Xiao Fei why he didn't contact him when he flew to Hangzhou.

Xiao Fei told him that he came in a hurry this time, and he didn't know that he was going to Hangzhou in advance.

Ma Yun asked where Xiao Fei was, and told Xiao Fei to let Xiao Fei wait in place, and he went to pick up Xiao Fei in person.

Xiao Fei thought that the other party was driving to pick him up.

But after half an hour. He saw that Ma Yun was driving a motorcycle and roaring over, and stopped beside Xiao Fei with a creak.

"Get in the car! Mr. Shaw! ”

Ma Yun shook his head and said coolly.

Xiao Fei smiled. stepped into the back seat and asked, "Why doesn't Brother Ma buy a car to drive, this is also a face of the company." ”

"Mr. Xiao, the company was founded. If you haven't made a profit yet, how can you spend money indiscriminately for the sake of face? The most important thing now is to get things done first. Otherwise, how can you and Mr. Ren's investment be worthwhile? Ma Yun said with a smile.

"Brother Ma, haven't you heard a word? In China. Face is also a very powerful productivity! If your company seems to have a small plum strength, others will doubt you, and then deny you, and it will be much more difficult to carry out business. Xiao Fei sat behind Ma Yun and said with a smile.

Ma Yun drove the motorcycle while talking to Xiao Fei.

When he heard Xiao Fei say this, he was very surprised.

I thought to myself, Xiao Fei is not very old, but he really sees the world very clearly, and this sentence makes Ma Yun feel empowered.

How fresh it is, face is the most powerful productivity.

If you think about it, that's really the case.

"Mr. Xiao, you said this very well, I have understood, according to what you said, I really want to buy a good car and come back to pretend to be faced." Ma Yun said.

"Buy it, a high-tech big company must have at least a few cars of about 300,000 yuan to support the façade." Xiao Fei said proudly.

It didn't take long for Ma Yun to carry Xiao Fei to an office building.

This is a new building that has not been built for a long time.

The name is Huaxing Building.

There is a small square in front of the building, which is full of vehicles. The exterior of the building is a cylindrical tower, decorated with glass curtain wall outside, and the building is full of about 30 floors, which is very high-grade.

"Our company occupies a house of more than 300 square meters on the eighteenth floor, and the rent is not cheap, 9 yuan per square meter per month, but the rent and property fees are more than 3,000 per month." Ma Yun parked the car and took Xiao Fei upstairs.

The richest man in Asia in his previous life is now struggling with the monthly rent of about 3,000 yuan.

Xiao Fei thought it was quite interesting.

However, when he started his business in his previous life, he worked from his own home, and this situation lasted for a long time.

Xiao Fei was also relieved.

Ma Yun is a budget-conscious person after all.

"Brother Ma, this building is good, it can improve the image of our company, so we should rent such a high-end office building." Xiao Fei said.

"Yes, yes! Mr. Xiao likes it. Ma Yun said.

"Brother Ma, you're welcome, just call me by my name." Xiao Fei said.

"Oh, that's okay, I'm older than you, and I'm a lot bigger, it's not an exaggeration to call you by your name, Xiao Fei, I won't be polite to you." Ma Yun nodded at Xiao Fei.

The two took the elevator to the eighteenth floor.

Getting out of the elevator, Xiao Fei smelled a lot of paint and the stinging sound of an electric drill.

It seems that there are quite a few companies on this floor that are being renovated.

Ma Yun led Xiao Fei into an open large office room.

Xiao Fei saw that the office room was not decorated much, but only separated the departments with partitions, and there was a company plaque at the door, which read: Hangzhou Alibaba Network Co., Ltd.

Everyone in the office is immersed in their work, crackling and tapping on the keyboard is loud, and the working atmosphere is very hot.

"Pap-pa-pa-"

Ma Yun clapped his hands and said loudly: "Everyone stop what they are doing, and I will introduce you to a distinguished guest." ”

As he said this, everyone stopped their work and looked this way.

"This is Mr. Xiao Feixiao, he is an excellent young writer, and he is also the major shareholder of our Alibaba company, everyone applauds and welcomes!" Ma Yun said. (To be continued.) )