Sun Dunquan officially began preparations for the launch of the new book after the "May Day". Inspired by the East Lake Club, he has been conceiving a new book since he returned, and finally decided to use East Lake Industry as the prototype, and the protagonist locked Tang Yikun.

Yin Yutao once suggested that he take Tao Tang as the prototype, and thought that he was familiar with state-owned enterprises, after all, he had worked in state-owned enterprises for more than ten years, and he had conditions for the system and mechanism of state-owned enterprises that ordinary writers did not have. Moreover, there is Tao Tang, you can get the necessary materials from Tao Tang.

After thinking about it, I still don't find such a story attractive. If you take Song Yue as the prototype, you can still expand the story, but the theme is more gloomy. He chatted with his editor a few times on QQ, and told the editor about the idea of his new book, and the editor thought that it was not appropriate to use a ** molecule as the prototype of the protagonist, and recently there were new requirements for online literature, whether it was history or reality, or to promote positive energy.

Positive energy? Do we have positive energy? Sun Dun was full of slander. Yin Yutao is just a suggestion, what to write and how to write it is completely his business, and no one interferes with him. That's the beauty of freelancing, Sun Dunquan is a person who longs for freedom in his bones, so he has never regretted leaving the system that he hated so much.

While continuing his love story of the Republic of China, he conceived the framework of the new book. After the general idea of the new book was decided, all he had to do was collect the materials. There is a profile of East Lake Industry on the Internet, which is of a propaganda nature, and it can't meet his requirements at all, what he wants is the development history of East Lake, or the history of Tang Yikun's fortune.

It's not an easy task. Sun Dunquan didn't even know any of the middle and senior staff members of East Lake.

But during the "May Day" holiday, Sun Dunquan unexpectedly got the opportunity. That day he went to hang out at the Palace of Culture and met a man.

Pingquan City Cultural Palace has an antique thrift market every Saturday and Sunday, Sun Dunquan is mainly looking for old books and newspapers, he once bought a lot of broken magazines and newspapers in the Cultural Palace used books and newspapers in order to write the book in his hand, and he is still a little obsessed with "old books". However, because of the lack of money, he could not afford to buy better things. When visiting the thrift market of the Cultural Palace, Sun Dunquan would think that if he was Tang Yikun, he would be beautiful, and these things would be whichever one he liked, and he didn't even ask about the price. is Tao Tang, whose salary is hundreds of thousands a year, and there is no problem in maintaining such a hobby. But not on my own...... Immediately, he realized that people like Tang Yikun Tao Tang would not have leisure time to visit the thrift market, they had money, but they did not have their own leisure, things in the world were always so mysterious, and if they had this, they could not have the other, so they should not complain about anything.

That day, Sun Dunquan was looking through a villain book in the thrift market, the cover was gone, but the painting was extremely beautiful, he must have seen it when he was a child, so he squatted there and flipped through it. The comic strip was created in the 70s of the last century, the content is a criticism of the Water Margin, probably an essay by order, the comic strip tells the struggle of the "two routes" of Shuibo Liangshan, so that Sun Dunquan reread it with relish after more than 30 years. The comic strip greatly praised Li Kui as a thorough revolutionary, which made Sun Dunquan feel amused. He has read "Water Margin" carefully, although Li Kui has his honest and lovely side, but Sun Dunquan does not like this reckless man nicknamed "Black Whirlwind", and seriously suspects that he has mental illness. Because Li Kui in the book doesn't love money and doesn't like women, in addition to good wine, he is thirsty for killing, picking up the board axe and slashing and killing the future without asking what is going on, and even chopping corpses like crazy...... Unlike Wu Zixu's whipping corpse, which has a deep hatred, Li Kui's thirst for killing is almost pathological...... In that era, everything was subordinated to political needs, and this typical murderous maniac in Sun Dunquan's eyes became a tall and complete hero.

Or maybe the comic strip evokes childhood memories, and Sun Dunquan watched it there with relish, until a female voice laughed at him, "Serious enough." Running here to read villain books for free? ”

He looked up and saw a woman of his age looking at him with a smile, but for a moment he couldn't remember who the other person was.

"What, don't you know?"

"It looks familiar, I'm sorry, I really can't remember......"

"Zhang Hongqin. Your name is Sun Dunquan, right? ”

"Zhang Hongqin? Oh, oh, look at my memory. You're a good friend of Lu Qi, right? You were almost inseparable at that time. Sun Dunquan stood up and stretched out his hand to the other party.

"I finally remembered. What, in the collection of villain books? Zhang Hongqin smiled and shook Sun Dunquan's outstretched hand, "I haven't seen you for a long time, Lu Qi is still in the factory?" How is she? ”

"I'm a blind wanderer, I can't talk about collecting, and I don't have the financial resources. Lu Qi is in the factory, what? Have you lost contact? ”

"Well, I went there when she got married, and then I lost contact...... Can you give me her number? ”

"Of course. Oh, why don't you go back to the factory with me, she's fine, we had dinner together not long ago. By the way, you remember Tao Tang, right? ”

"Yes. Of course I do. Isn't he in Yanjing? Hey, forget it today, let's go back to the factory to see Lu Qi another day. ”

Tao Tang returned to Hongxing as the leader, Tang Yikun picked up the wind for Tao Tang, and several classmates had a meal together. There are Zhou Hongyou, Han Ruilin, oh, and Gu Meijun. ”

"Ah, Tao Tang has become the leader of the Red Star? That's amazing...... What about Lu Qi, what is she doing now? What about you, also in the Red Star? Become a leader, right? ”

"Lu Qi is the deputy director of the planning department, and she has a beautiful life. I've quit my job a long time ago, and I'm now a vagrant, so why don't I hang out here? By the way, where are you now? ”

"I'm eating a bowl of rice in East Lake Industrial ......"

"You're in East Lake, that's not bad......" Sun Dun thought to himself, "This is your son?" He looked at the **-year-old boy holding Zhang Hongqin's hand.

"Yes. The second child in my family, he also has a daughter...... Xiao Zhi likes to read villain books, rested, idle, just come and go around, I didn't expect to meet you, you haven't changed much, a little fatter. ”

"I have both children. Not bad. It's not too early, meeting is fate, let's find a place to talk? No, you must listen to me. Sun Dunquan took out 30 yuan to buy the villain book, and he didn't bargain, so he couldn't help but say that he pulled Zhang Hongqin's son, "Which set of books do you like, tell your uncle, and your uncle will give you a gift." ”

"You're still the same, haven't changed." Zhang Hongqin was still smiling.

Half an hour later, Sun Dunquan and Zhang Hongqin's mother and son entered a fast food restaurant in the Cultural Palace, and he spent 280 yuan to buy Xiao Zhi an old version of "The Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty".

"Just eat whatever you want, don't ask for alcohol, I'm driving here." Zhang Hongqin stopped Sun Dunquan.

"Then let's stop drinking. It's a pleasure to meet you. How did you get to East Lake? Sun Dunquan ordered a few side dishes and asked for fruit beer, "This thing is no problem, it should be wine." For our unexpected reunion. ”

"I'm not like you, I didn't go to university, I was admitted to a textile factory technical school, and after graduation, I worked as a car stopper in a textile factory, and I was tired to death. Later, East Lake recruited workers, and I went to take the exam, so I entered East Lake. ”

"Then you are the patriarch of East Lake. With Tang Yikun covered, life is good, right? ”

"What's good. People are big bosses, and I am a wage earner. Private enterprises don't talk about classmates. ”

"Last time I had dinner at the East Lake Club, Old Tang didn't mention you...... What are you doing at East Lake? It is said that East Lake created the wealthy class of Pingquan. Sun Dunquan looked at Zhang Hongqin's dress, "Look at you, you are the one who got rich first." ”

"You've looked up to me. By the way, how did you quit your job? ”

"You can't blame the factory for this. It was because I didn't adapt to the style of state-owned enterprises, I came to the Propaganda Department, and it was really boring, so I resigned. Hehe, now it seems that our 58 class is really a dragon and tiger class, and there are several trendsetters, but, in terms of achievements, you Boss Tang is still counting, I don't think Zhou Hongyou and Tao Tang are as good as Tang Yikun. ”

"I don't see it that way. Achievement in life cannot be measured in money. ”

"What is that measured? Isn't that all there is left for now? ”

"I don't see it that way anyway. Hey, Lu Qi's life is better now," Zhang Hongqin chuckled as if she thought of something, "It doesn't matter what you say now, Tao Tangke was interesting to Lu Qi at the beginning, I hope he hasn't forgotten." When did he come back? I really haven't heard of it. ”

"I was transferred last month. Tao Tang, in fact, his life is not so good, his wife died in a car accident, and now he is a single person. He kept in touch with me and our family went to disturb them and was very warm and attentive, and he was in the Marina ...... Tao Tang is good, really. ”

"People, once the status changes, it will change. When Tang Yikun founded East Lake, it was really like Hu Chuankui singing 'more than a dozen people, seven or eight guns' in "Shajiabang", and he had a good relationship with us. Tao Tang is good with you because you resigned, if you were his subordinate, I'm afraid you wouldn't say that. ”

"Looks like you're not willing, please forgive me for using the wrong words. What do you do at East Lake? ”

"I've done a lot of errands...... Now he has been driven to Donghu Machinery, headquartered in the Development Zone, and the boss is Tang Yikun's younger brother Tang Yiwei. Maybe you know? ”

"I certainly don't know. To be honest, I didn't say a few words to Tang Yikun at that time. If it weren't for the incident at the Pingquan Hotel, I might have forgotten about this person. By the way, I've always been curious, why did Tang Yikun start Donghu Industrial? Gathering tens of billions of assets in 20 years is an out-and-out myth. ”

"Well...... In the big picture, it's a good time. On the small side, Tang Yikun is really powerful, with vision, the start of East Lake started from coal mines, and now the focus has shifted to real estate, and people can always find opportunities to make money. In the past few years, the coal mine made more money, and the car that hauled coal in the Dongshan Coal Mine could be discharged for several miles! Just now you said that East Lake created the wealthy group of Pingquan, and what you said is not wrong. But East Lake is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, not to mention the Tang Yikun family and those who hold real power, the treatment of several major sections of East Lake is far behind. The worst is Donghu Machinery, some of its factories are about to go out of business. By the way, what did you do after you quit? Selling antiques? It's not like that. ”

"I'm not going to hide it from you. I'm making a living by selling papers. ”

"Writer. Can't tell. Xiaozhi, you see Uncle Sun is a great writer. ”

"Don't scold me. Writer? How many real writers are there now? Our highest award is the Contradictory Literature Award, once every four years, and now it's been held for eight times, except for a few books in the first session, which book is really famous? I see that the life of a professional writer is getting more and more difficult, what money do you make if you can't even sell 1,000 copies of a book? On the contrary, online literature is quite popular, and there are at least tens of thousands of 'writers' on Origin.com, with the highest income being tens of millions. ”

Zhang Hongqin was taken aback, "There are so many?" ”

"Absolutely. However, there are very few of those great god levels. Most of the 'authors' are part-time, and people like me, who have no proper occupation and a dismal number of book subscriptions, must be the worst category. By the way, Hongqin, I'm going to write a book based on East Lake Industry, I just met you, can you tell me about East Lake? I checked on the Internet, and there were a lot of introductions to East Lake, but none of them were what I wanted. ”

Zhang Hongqin became interested, "Then what do you want to know?" ”

"The first pot of gold. It is the capital to make a fortune. This is true in business, and it is true in other fields. The first pot of gold is the hardest. I've bought a few copies of Sparks here, have you ever heard of the name? ”

"Nope. I only know that there is an article called Spark in the Plain. ”

"Yes. The title of that set of books was inscribed by an old man. It is said that it was the only time he inscribed the title of a book written by someone else. ”

"Oh, who wrote it? Such a big face? ”

"The founding general. It is a collection of essays. Thirty years after the founding of the army, it was initiated by the General Political Department, and a total of eight copies were published before the reform and opening up, and I bought three copies here. Do you know? The chairman started with the army, which army did he start from? ”

"I don't care about these ......"

"Women don't read these kinds of books very often, but it's really interesting. Let me tell you, the first pot of gold in the old man's career was the Red Fourth Army, which was the army in Jinggangshan. There are two sources of it, one is that he personally led the remnants of the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Jinggangshan, and there were several big figures in the middle, such as Marshal Luo Ronghuan and General Tan Zheng. The other part is the remnants of the Nanchang Uprising brought by Zhu De to Jinggangshan, and there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the middle, such as Chen Yi, **, Su Yu...... Awesome, right? This is the first pot of gold, with those thousands of people, the old man has laid a thousand miles of ......"

"It's inappropriate for you to take Chairman Tang Yi Kunbi, right?"

"It's the same thing. I know a little bit about Tang Yikun's business, but when he suddenly bought Dongshan Coal Mine, I don't know where I got the funds. Just because he went south to Shenzhen to do small business, how many mines can he earn? I was curious. Loan? Is it that easy to get a loan? Don't banks want mortgages? What mortgage does he rely on? ”

"Hey, you're really asking people. I'll tell you the truth, I did this in East Lake. As far as I know, Tang Yikun's current wife has money in her family, and she funded Tang Yikun. ”

"I've heard this rumor - I've been collecting information about East Lake recently, and according to what I've learned, the shareholding structure of East Lake is actually very simple, it's in the hands of the Tang and Wei families, but the Tang family is absolutely dominant, right? Although the husband and wife are one, I don't think things are that simple, because Wei Fengru's money is not her own, but her father or other elders, if it were you, would you give the equity to Tang Yikun? No way? ”

"Why do I think you're investigating East Lake?"

"Why am I investigating East Lake? I really did it to write a book. These are just materials. Maybe you don't read online novels much, but the best-selling ones now are urban categories, which are nothing more than the history of geniuses. Young readers search for the satisfaction of reality in an imaginary world. I think a private enterprise like East Lake is very legendary in itself, isn't it? ”

"Then there's no need to exhaust history."

"I'm not exhaustive of East Lake's history. I wanted to make the story more moving. I have always believed that the story of the beginning of the business is the most important and the most exciting, and if you don't write this paragraph well, the article will lose its foundation. Just like a house, if the foundation is not stable, the quality cannot be talked about...... Don't worry, I have no intention of smearing East Lake, and if I write it, I will also promote East Lake. Also, I'm not going to let you provide the material for nothing. ”

Zhang Hongqin chuckled, "Haha, what benefit do you give me?" ”

"I'll tell you the truth, I've written several books, but now I realize that those books in the past are all nonsense and have no value. Only now do I understand that online literature is also literature. Since it is literature, it must follow the general laws of literature, and there must be materials for life. I don't rush it, I must do a good job of preparation...... What benefits do I give you, you ask? I'll give you a gift that you can get your hands on - if the book is successful, you can choose what you want, and I'll do the talk. ”

"Teasing you. You're serious. I don't want any pay, even if I do you a favor......"

So, while eating, Zhang Hongqin told what she knew about East Lake. Before I knew it, the time slipped away, until Xiaozhi made a fuss, Zhang Hongqin said, "No, I have to go home, I have something to do in the afternoon." ”

The two left each other's phone calls, and the meal was still paid for by Zhang Hongqin, Zhang Hongqin said to Sun Dunquan, "Don't argue, look, you buy books for my son, aren't I polite?" I hope you can write a novel worth reading. ”

Sun Dunquan gained a lot, and his "investigation" of East Lake was a big step.