Generally speaking, the more influential the award, the more complex and time-consuming the selection process will be. The selection of the Pen Fun Prize www.biquge.info Goncourt Prize for Fiction lasted for half a year, while the selection of the Nobel Prize in Literature lasted for a whole year.

In September last year, the Nobel Committee sent letters of invitation to nominations to institutions or individuals who are eligible for nomination. The former Nobel laureate in literature, after receiving the invitation letter for the nomination, selected Zhou Hexuan as the candidate for nomination, and contacted the American publisher to produce the nomination materials.

At the end of January this year, the deadline for nominating candidates was closed.

The Nobel Committee will spend two months selecting 15 to 20 candidates from among the hundreds of candidates nominated as preliminary candidates and submitting the list to the Swedish Academy of Letters.

Then, it will take another month to select five final candidates from among these 15 to 20 people.

From June to August, members of the Swedish Academy spend three months reading the entire works of the five finalists, and the Nobel Committee prepares a separate selection report.

By September, members of the Swedish Academy began discussions to evaluate and compare the merits and contributions of the candidates.

It wasn't until early October that members of the Swedish Academy began voting, and the winners had to receive more than half of the votes to be valid.

This was followed by preparations for the award ceremony, which was not officially presented until mid-December.

Not only did Zhou Hexuan not know that he was one of the hundreds of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he didn't even know that his work had caused a sensation in France, and it would take at least a month for the news to reach China from Europe.

Because Zhang Mouzhi wanted to develop in Shanghai, Zhou Hexuan could only take his father-in-law to visit around. Anyway, he is only responsible for introduction, and as for whose relationship he can climb, it depends on Zhang Mouzhi's own ability.

"Steward Chen, the water has stopped again." The servants of the house came to repay the reward.

"When the water stops, I'll go to the water delivery worker," the old housekeeper Chen Han said depressedly, "This Shanghai is really good, even Jiujiang is not as good, and the tap water will be cut off at both ends in three days." ”

Zhou Hexuan happened to come back from outside with his father-in-law, and when he heard the housekeeper's complaint, he explained with a smile: "The workers of the French Concession Waterworks are on strike, and it is estimated that it will not be solved for a while, so it is better to have more drinking water at home." ”

"What my uncle said is, I'll arrange it." Chen Han said respectfully.

Zhang Mouzhi shook his head and said: "The request made by the workers of the water plant is too unreasonable, they actually want to double the salary, how can the French agree?" ”

Zhou Hexuan explained: "I heard that the French Concession Water Plant has not raised wages for several years, and prices have risen sharply in recent years. ”

Not only are they complaining, but the entire French Concession in Shanghai is complaining.

People can go three days without eating, but they can't go without water for three days.

Even the mayor of Shanghai was shocked by this matter, and sent people to persuade and negotiate to no avail, and in the end the mayor could only visit Du Yuesheng in person, hoping that Du Yuesheng could come forward to solve it.

Du Yuesheng was in a stalemate with the mayor of Shanghai because of the opium smuggling case some time ago. This time, he took the opportunity to make a score, and the city government came forward to contact several times and promised a lot of benefits, and Du Yuesheng finally agreed to help.

Don't look like just a gang leader, but Du Yuesheng really has the means in Shanghai, and with his contact and communication, the strike of the water plant workers was successfully resolved. The French Concession Water Plant agreed to give the workers a 75 percent wage increase, but the wages during the strike were not recognized, and Du Yuesheng paid the workers out of his own pocket.

Although it cost some money, Du Yuesheng's benefits are greater. After this was done, the French owed him a favor, the Shanghai Municipal Government owed a favor, and the workers of the water plant also praised Boss Du's benevolence and righteousness.

"Son-in-law, what do you think I should do in Shanghai?" Zhang Mouzhi, who has not yet decided on a development project, said, "My old business is comprador and real estate, but the competition between these two industries in Shanghai is too fierce." We're new here, and we can't compete with anyone else. ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said, "Dad, do you believe me?" ”

"Of course!" Zhang Mouzhi hurriedly said. He now knows that his son-in-law is very powerful, even Minister Yan Xishan and Yan have to come to the door to ask for advice, and business celebrities like Yu Qiaqing and Xu Shenru also favor their son-in-law, and it is impossible to have some ability.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Don't do anything now, wait a few months to go to the United States to make a fortune." ”

"The United States?" Zhang Mouzhi was surprised.

Zhou Hexuan explained: "According to my speculation, the United States will soon have an economic crisis, and whether it is buying short to do finance, or buying equipment and personnel to build factories, it will be a profitable business." ”

"Really?" Zhang Mouzhi was skeptical.

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "You'll know when the time comes." ”

Zhang Mouzhi frowned and pondered for a long time before saying, "Then I'll wait a few more months, and then we will go to the United States together." ”

Weng and his son-in-law got along quite happily, and Zhou Hexuan handed over the exclusive agency of "Meikou" underwear in Jiangxi to the Zhang family to operate. Nowadays, although there are a lot of copycat underwear, "Meikou" is a brand of goods, and the upper-class celebrity ladies only recognize "Mr. underwear".

Due to the government's inaction to protect patents, Zhou Hexuan has decided to change his business strategy after discussing with Xu Shenru and Zhang Jiazhu. In the future, "Meikou" will only make mid-to-high-end underwear, and let the low-end market to those miscellaneous brands to fight.

Zhou Hexuan also wanted to invent other money-making gadgets, but he couldn't figure out what to do after racking his brains. MSG has long been invented by the Japanese, and although stockings are very profitable, the technology is too complex for China to make without a petrochemical base.

In these days, the more profitable the exclusive invention, the more risky it is.

Like Qu Huanzhang, the founder of Yunnan Baiyao, he was forced to death by the government of the Republic of China. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the government called on businessmen to donate, and Qu Huanzhang pledged that it was useless to donate a plane, so he had to donate 300,000 yuan. Qu Huanzhang couldn't come up with so much cash, so he was imprisoned.

At this moment, Jiao Yitang, the director of the Central Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum, sent him an invitation and asked Qu Huanzhang to go to the Chinese Medicine Museum to do things. Qu Huanzhang thought that he had met a savior, so he hurriedly ran to Chongqing, but was asked to hand over the Yunnan Baiyao prescription and produce it by Jiao Yitang's privately controlled Zhonghua Pharmaceutical Factory.

This is obviously a carefully set up bureau, just to occupy the Yunnan Baiyao prescription. Qu Huanzhang refused to agree, and as a result, he was placed under house arrest and eventually died of hunger strike.

You must know that Qu Huanzhang has been running shopping malls and officialdom for more than 30 years, and he also knows many big names, and there is no shortage of political umbrellas. But Pifu is not guilty, he is guilty, who let him have a treasure in his hand, and there is only one way to die if he is targeted.

Thinking about this clearly, Zhou Hexuan immediately had no interest in making an exclusive invention.

When Weng and his son-in-law were chatting about the shopping mall, the maid suddenly came in with a telegram and said, "Uncle, Beiping is urgent!" ”

There were only eight words on the telegram: Union Hospital, Ren Gong is critically ill.