Chapter 52: Buying a Computer
Ye Heng called back, but unfortunately, no one answered. After waiting for a long time, I suddenly realized that people may have left work. Nonsense, which editor is still working in the company at night.
Ye Heng has a headache, he has to go to school during the day, his sister won't answer the phone, and the other party will definitely not be able to contact him when he calls.
"Either I take a day off tomorrow, plus two days on the weekend, I just go to the city to buy the computer. Here's one, and then go to the earth to get a good one and put it in the eternal world. Oh, by the way, the Eternal World is still getting ready to build a power plant. Ye Heng muttered to himself.
Early the next morning, Ye Heng went to the school to ask Gong Xingdong for leave.
"Can't you go to the city tomorrow? Computers are so expensive, what kind of computers do you buy? Can't I buy it when I work in the future?" asked Gong Xingdong.
"Teacher, I've been learning programming lately, so I'll buy a computer and study it. Ye Heng said.
"Spending money again. You're panicking with a lot of money, aren't you?" Gong Xingdong scolded.
"Teacher, how can you say that you are spending money indiscriminately, doesn't it say that computers are the passport to the 21st century, and if you don't learn it, you will fall behind. I read computer books every day, but isn't it just talking on paper if I only read books and have no actual operation?" Ye Heng said.
Gong Xingdong thought about it and said, "Okay, you can go." Study hard, the school recently plans to buy a batch of computers to build a computer room, you quickly learn it, and the computer class of our class will let you come. Gong Xingdong said.
"That's good. Teacher Gong, that's it, it's decided, I won't do anything if you don't let me go in the future. Ye Heng said happily after hearing this.
"Hey, are you still serious?" Gong Xingdong said in surprise.
"Of course it's true. Are you kidding? I don't admit it, but I take it seriously. In the future, let those boys call me Teacher Ye, hehe. ”
"People are small and big. When the time comes, I will have to take the test, and if I can pass the test, I will let you take the class. ”
"It's a deal, but don't go back. Ye Heng said.
"It's a deal. Gong Xingdong said funny. The Ministry of Education does have a plan to allocate funds for all middle schools in the county to set up computer labs, but it is difficult to find a teacher who teaches microcomputers. Now computers are so expensive, except for the above financial allocation, otherwise who can afford it.
Ye Heng returned home and waited until 9 o'clock to dial the first strange call from yesterday.
"Hello. This is the editorial office of Story, who are you?"
"Hello, I'm Yiye Zhiqiu, you called yesterday, I'm sorry I'm not at home, I didn't receive your call. I guess I'll get you back to work today. ”
"Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Ichiba Zhiqiu, and I am glad to inform you that your novel "The Sword of the Yue Girl" has been accepted by our magazine. I'm going to call the editor Lu Fangqing, who is in charge of your novel, to talk to you, and please wait a moment. ”
"Hmm. ”
Soon Lu Fangqing came over, picked up the phone and said, "Hello, I'm Lu Fangqing, the editor of "Story", is it Mr. Yiye Zhiqiu?"
"Hello Editor Lu, I'm Yiye Zhiqiu. ”
"Mr. Yiye Zhiqiu, I am very glad that you can contribute to our magazine, and I am honored to inform you that your novel "Yue Nu Jian" has a novel story and sophisticated writing, and after the unanimous consent of our editorial department, we have decided to include your novel at a price of 80 yuan per thousand words, I don't know if you have any comments?"
80 yuan for 1,000 words in 95 years, and it will be about the price of 7 or 800 words for 1,000 words in 20 years, and "Yue Nu Sword" is more than 32,000 words, with more than 2,500 manuscript fees. Ye Heng happily accepted this price, and asked, "What about the copyright?"
"Of course, the ownership of the copyright is still with you. However, there is a provision in our "Story" submission agreement that when you submit a novel to us, you have tacitly entrusted all the copyright of the novel to us. Of course, please rest assured, our "Story" platform will try its best to help you promote, if there is a company that wants to buy your copyright, we must get your signature and consent before we can sell it. We will charge a 20% agency fee for the sale of copyrights, which is a common rule in the industry. I wonder if Mr. Ichiha Zhiqiu can accept it?"
"Yes. ”
"That's great. By the way, can Mr. Zhiqiu Yiye be a special author of our "Story"? That is, publish all your works in our magazine. Once the novels submitted by the special authors are admitted, we will pay them according to the highest standards. And for excellent works, the manuscript fee is negotiable. Lu Fangqing said.
"Contributing author? By the way, I have a question for you. ”
"You say. ”
"Do you have a publishing channel for novels?" Ye Heng asked.
"Absolutely. Jiangnan Publishing House has a very good relationship with our "Story" magazine, and if you have a good novel to publish, we can also represent you. The agency fee is generally 20% of the remuneration. Lu Fangqing said.
"Well, if there is a need for this, I will contact Editor Lu to you. ”
"Well, well, please give our magazine a call when the time comes. Then please report your real name, ID number, bank account number and receiving address to me, and I will mail you the agency contract and the remittance of the manuscript fee. ”
"Well, good. Then you take a note. My name is Ye Heng, a Ye who knows autumn, and a true love is eternal, and ...... Ye Heng reported his identity information and address to Lu Fangqing.
After calling "Story", Ye Heng called "Yayi" again. Similarly, Ye Heng's novels were also accepted here. The manuscript fee they gave was 60 yuan per thousand words, and "Plum Blossom Branding" had a total of about 260,000 words, and the manuscript fee alone was about 15,000 yuan. And "Yayi" plans to publish the complete work directly after serializing this work, after some discussion, the other party and Ye Heng finally agreed that Ye Heng will authorize the simplified Chinese version of "Plum Blossom Branding" to "Yayi" magazine for three years, and they will be responsible for publishing and distribution, and Ye Heng will get 5% of the royalty remuneration. The first printing of 30,000 copies, priced at 35 yuan. But it's a pity that the full collection of "Plum Blossom Branding" was released at least half a year later, which means that the money will not be available until at least half a year later.
As for the other copyrights of "Plum Blossom Branding", it was also handed over to the agency of "Yayi" magazine, and the agency fee here is also 20%. Ye Heng knew that he was a complete newcomer now, and he didn't bargain with them, waiting for him to slowly show his strength and make a name for himself in the literary world before he could gain the right to speak.
After dealing with the novel, Ye Heng went directly to the provincial capital to buy a computer. Ye Heng configured one himself, Jin Great Wall 486, cpu is cyrix 486-66, graphics card is Cirrus Logic CL-GD5424, 4M memory, 500M hard disk, 14-inch Great Wall display, sound card is jazz16, and Real-life 9000 vcd decompression card and Panasonic 2x optical drive, more than 10,000 are used for this configuration. Ye Heng plans to use this computer as a few girls and Yuan Song's teaching. Then I also spent more than 10,000 on earth to configure a fairly good computer, i7 8700 CPU, the motherboard is Gigabyte Z370-HD3, 16G Kingston memory, and the graphics card is MSI's GTX1070 GAMING hard drive 256G.
You can compare the two, the same price, no, the difference in purchasing power between 10,000 yuan in 95 and 10,000 yuan in 2018 is almost 10 times, and Ye Heng bought a computer that is 10 times worse than the computer on the earth at 10 times the price. This price made Ye Heng himself vomit blood a little.
"This is the progress of the times. Ye Heng said.
"MD, if I had that strength, wouldn't I be making a lot of money now making computers? Ye Heng sighed. Even if the money is enough, Ye Heng doesn't plan to start a business now, he still has to accompany his little beauty.