Chapter XXVI: The Golden Age
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Khan, great Khan!
When did my name become so big?
"Well, I'm not that famous, am I?" Tianming couldn't help but wipe his sweat and asked.
Meng Xinyi, who felt that her expression was a little exaggerated, showed a naughty expression, and said with a grin: "It's not so exaggerated, I just heard a great god say in a chat that your writing is very good, and you can rank in the top three in the sky, I don't believe it." Then went to see it a few times and it was really nice. But you're updating too slowly.,I won't chase it when I see 1oo chapters.γ β
Tianming sweated again.
"By the way, has your book been updated now, I want to read it."
"What's more, I've had time lately. 19o million words, updated every day. β
"That's great, I'll check it out later."
At this time, everyone had almost eaten. Meng Xinyi told SΓΉ Tianming that she is the full-time writer "Yan Jiuniang" of Sky Chinese Female Frequency, and has been writing books for 8 or 9 years.
Yan Jiuniang, why does this name sound a little familiar? Somewhere else seems to have told me, but I don't remember much.
She also told SΓΉ Tianming that now she is a silver-level female writer of Sky Chinese.
Silver Writer. Second only to gold and platinum. According to the income bracket, the platinum level should have an annual salary of more than one million, and the gold level should have an annual salary of less than one million. As for the silver level, it is not bad, with an annual salary of about 5o thousand.
In the entire Sky Chinese website, there are less than 5o writers above the silver level. Meng Xinyi can be shortlisted as a female writer, which means that she is at least in the female frequency, and it is estimated that she can't find a few more powerful than her.
As for Tianming himself, with his book "Otaku", which has only passed 7ooo, he can only be regarded as a bronze-level writer with an annual salary of about 2o.
After lunch, while Meng Xinyi went to wash the dishes, Tianming chatted with her aunt for a few words, and then she was about to leave.
"Xinyi, go get 20,000 yuan and return it to Tianming." The aunt shouted to her daughter who was washing the dishes in the kitchen.
"Oh"
Tianming waved his hand again and again: "No, no need, aunt, I'm not in a hurry to use money." β
"What's not necessary, how can Auntie spend your money?" couldn't help but say, he took his daughter who came out of the room after taking the money, took the 20,000 yuan handed over from her, stubbornly put it in Tianming's hand, and said, "There are not many good guys like you." β
When waving goodbye, Dou Xianglan said to Tianming: "You have to come and play often." β
"Auntie, I'm upstairs, if you have any difficulties, just let your daughter knock on the door, I'll usually be at home."
After Tianming went upstairs and disappeared, Dou Xianglan sighed and saw that her daughter was cleaning up the table. My heart moved, and I asked: "Daughter, what do you think of Tianming?" β
Meng Xinyi replied without thinking much about it: "It's not bad, the cooking skills are very good." β
I'm not asking about cooking. Why are you so unenlightened? Dou Xianglan asked with some annoyance: "Girl, you are almost 28 this year, right?" β
"Mom, why are you talking about this again, 27 years old, okay, how can I be so old?"
"Even 27 isn't too small, right? Aren't you in a hurry to make a lifelong event? Look at you, even a dish is not good to cook, and the eyes are high. If Mom is gone, who will take care of you? Who's going to cook for you? β
"Mom, it's still early, you will definitely live a long life."
"Alas~!" Dou Xianglan's tone suddenly softened, and she sighed and said, "Silly girl, don't you understand what Mom means?" I just asked Tianming's young man, he is almost 27 years old this year, a little younger than you. It seems that you don't have a girlfriend yet, don't you want to find someone like him, in one place? β
Meng Xinyi's face turned red all of a sudden, and she said a little embarrassed: "Mom, what are you talking about, I don't have that kind of thought?" β
Seeing her daughter like this, Dou Xianglan was a little relieved: "I knew that you would also be shy for a day, my mother guessed right, he is the kind of person you are looking for." β
Meng Xinyi had to explain: "Mom~! Don't you say it, why didn't you take a fancy to him? Don't think about it. β
"My silly girl, look at people, what a good young man. I can cook, I can take care of people, I have a good personality, I look good, and I live upstairs in our house. Isn't that providential? Is there such a coincidence in the world? Daughter, my mother doesn't ask you how much money you make, she just wants to find a man who is good to you and entrust him for life. You're 27 or 8, and if you don't hurry up, you won't have a chance......"
Seeing that her daughter was a little touched, Dou Xianglan hurriedly hit the railway while it was hot: "Daughter, a good guy like him, it's hard to find, after this village, there will be no shop!" Don't stay at home all day, dress yourself up nicely, go upstairs and have a look when you have time, and hang out ......"
Meng Xinyi shook her head and twisted: "Mom, don't say it, my daughter is ashamed." β
"Okay, okay, mom won't force you, but you have to listen to mom and try to have a general relationship, right?"
Seeing that her bitter words had some effect, Dou Xianglan decided to retreat and move forward, and slowly figured it out.
Ten years ago, since her husband died after a serious illness that could not be cured. The family is poor, and Xinyi, who has just graduated from high school, came out to work, with little soup and little water, and the mother and daughter live an extremely hard life depending on each other. Brushing dishes and washing dishes, working as a nanny, and working as a temporary worker, Dou Xianglan has done all kinds of dirty work, but she doesn't want her only daughter to suffer with her.
The daughter is also angry, relying on a second-hand laptop to write a novel for nearly 1o years, not only repaying the hundreds of thousands of debts owed, but also buying this high-end decoration house of more than 1oo yuan, and the poor life has been changed little by little. There are also hundreds of thousands of pensions in the pension passbook that her daughter gave herself.
These are all things that she has personally experienced.
If she is still dissatisfied, it is that her daughter has never been in love once, and she only cares about writing novels all day long.
"Mom, I'll listen to you, but you have to promise me that you can't force me to marry again." Meng Xinyi said.
Dou Xianglan laughed heartily: "Okay, good, mom will promise you everything!" β
Actually, Meng Xinyi heard her mother talk about Tianming before, but when she saw it today, she felt that in addition to the impression that she was very good at cooking and handsome. It's not like falling in love at first sight. To be honest, she still prefers the beautiful men and cold and arrogant men she paints with her pen, the kind of imaginary perfect male gods, so that her heart is not much interested in real men.
It's just that in real life, how can there be so many perfect male gods? For her, this qiΔ is destined to be a mere reverie.
As a veteran writer of Sky Chinese, her high popularity is based on three changes a day and continuous changes for many years.
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January 2o16, the beginning of the year. It is an important day for Sky Chinese, because this month is often called "God War Month".
What is the Divine War Moon? It is the fierce moment when many online gods began to update desperately and compete for the first place on the monthly pass list.
According to the convention, the gods generally open new books in June and July every year. At the end of the year, in the first month of the coming year, new books have entered the stage where the plot is unfolding and exciting. At this time, the only criterion that can prove the quality of the new book and the strength of the godhead is the ranking of the "monthly ticket list" of the god war month.
And every year or two, there will always be one or two newcomers who suddenly kill! staged a slaughter of the list and preached, and the scene of the rise of newcomers became gods. In January last year, there was a newcomer named "Don Quixy Conan", who became famous with 19ooo monthly tickets and ranked eighth on the monthly ticket list, and became the most dazzling new star of the year.
19ooo tickets, all the monthly passes obtained during the entire creation period of Tianming's two books, do not add up to so much.
In other words, when Tianming had just entered the online literature industry, online literature was thriving. But it was by no means as popular as it is now, at that time there were many people who wrote books, and there were many good books, and the 19ooo monthly pass was definitely the top god! Whatever month of the year, it's not negotiable to take the first. Why can I only get the 8th place in 19ooo tickets now?
We have to start with the results of the fight against piracy over the years.
2o1o years ago, online articles were popular, and piracy was also popular. After many novels enter the VIp chapter, the song search ranking, many original websites are not as good as pirated websites, and more than 9o% of the reading traffic is lost to pirated websites, especially the storage zΓ i of the song signature bar, which can increase popularity and promote piracy, so that the author loves and hates, and is helpless.
It's not that the authors don't want to take measures to stop piracy, but there are too many pirate websites, knock down one, and come up with a bunch. And the largest piracy base, the song signing, the crackdown, will lose the author's popularity and lose readers. If you don't crack down, you can only make a living with a pitiful income.
Five years ago, this situation changed dramatically.
What changed this qiΔ was the former god of online literature, and now the president of the Overlord Demon Dragon Novel Network, Zhang Junyi.
After sealing his pen and creating the Overlord Demon Dragon, he realized that the biggest opponent in the online literature industry was not a few online literature websites that fought to the death, but rampant piracy.
An online website, no matter how you operate and compete, you can only eat one-tenth of the cake at most, and the other 9o% is lost in vain, but you have no choice.
Zhang Junyi convened network technology experts, studied for a whole month, and finally found a set of effective ways to solve the problem of piracy.
First, he convened and united the three giants of the online literature industry at that time: Sky, Phantom World, and the End Point, and found the vice president of Duge Search Company. The group held a "Seminar on Combating Piracy", and the history of the online literature exhibition said: This is a conference that will change the pattern of online literature.
At this meeting, Zhang Junyi took out his "Three Strategies to Combat Piracy" and introduced his thoughts in detail:
First, all parties jointly invested 8ooo million to open an anti-piracy engine embedded in the Duge search engine, as long as a novel chapter is similar to the genuine VIp over 9o%, the anti-piracy search engine will automatically respond, and then start counting traffic in the background. As long as the IP traffic exceeds a certain amount, the effective click is converted and multiplied by the price of 3 cents for the genuine thousand words, and when the loss of the genuine novel exceeds 20,000 yuan, the legal proceedings will be immediately initiated, and the piracy will be directly punished by the law.
Second, the Writers' Rights Protection Lawyers Association was established. Invite 1oo influential god-level writers to join, and hand over 5% of their annual income to the Bar Club as an operating fund. By authorizing the Bar Association to handle all kinds of piracy and infringement lawsuits, authors no longer have to go into battle shirtless to fight piracy.
Of course, when the water is clear, there are no fish. If the crackdown on piracy is too severe, it will inevitably lose a lot of readers who are not able to pay, and these readers make up a large part of all readers, which will be detrimental in the long run.
To this end, they cooperated with Duge Company to open a special novel signing bar section, uploading the author's updated VIP chapters for free for these readers to read. Of course, the latest chapters updated on the sign bar must wait for 24 hours after the original website is updated before it can be uploaded.
This 24 hours is called the genuine protection period.
Under all these measures, an anti-piracy war has begun! After only two years, the effect came out, and the piracy phenomenon of online novels disappeared by 8o%!
Many experts and authors predict that after the successful anti-theft, the number of subscriptions to genuine reading can increase by at least 3 to 5 times. However, the reality is that all original novels have increased their subscriptions by 5 to 8 times, and individual authors have even increased by 1o or 2o times! It's terrifying!
In 2o15, the benefits of the online literature industry broke through the 5oo billion yuan mark for the first time, plus the peripheral benefits of mobile terminals, film and television, games, physical book publishing, etc., the overall benefits exceeded 1.5oo billion!
In 2o15, countless masterpieces appeared on the stage, and newcomers appeared. And this year is called the "second golden age" of online literature history.