That's right, at the beginning, Cao Zhiqiang never thought that a poem would make him popular all over the country.

It was completely outside his mind.

He had written so many short stories that would later be famous.

For example, Ted Chiang's "Tower of Babylon" and "The Story of Your Life".

Although both short stories received a good response, they did not have the sensational effect of the poem "Seeing and Not Seeing".

It's like, no one appreciates what you have worked so hard to write, but the casual plagiarism of impromptu ideas is very popular.

What a hell of a life.

What he didn't know, however, was how strong the charm of poetry was at the beginning of 1983.

He didn't know what kind of effect a later Internet celebrity poem like "Seeing and Not Seeing" could have in 1983.

A sensation, a real national sensation!

How sensational was it?

Poetry magazines, because of this poem, have been reprinted five times in a short period of time!

That's not enough, it's not enough.

It is said that all over the country are selling like crazy, and they are all asking for reprinting.

Even many people can't buy it, and they actually copy this poem everywhere, which causes the capital to be expensive for a while.

Of course, the high cost of paper in the capital is an exaggeration, but it is true that it is copied everywhere.

As for the real feedback in reality......

Anyway, it didn't take long for the poem "Seeing and Not Seeing" to begin to be sung on the streets and alleys, and many young people would know one or two lines even if they couldn't memorize it.

For example, "You see, or you don't see me." I was right there, not sad or happy. ”

Or "You love, or you don't love me." Love is there, neither increasing nor decreasing. ”

Many people are familiar with lines like this, and they have even become a code to distinguish whether you are an intellectual youth or not.

If you can recite this poem in its entirety, you are a real cultural youth.

No, it's pseudo-Wenqing.

If you don't know anything and haven't heard of this poem, you're a big deal.

By the way, the name of Qiangzi also became an instant hit, and he became a new famous modern poet in China.

What Gu Chenghaizi, at this time, he is just trying to be happy, even if it is Beidao, the influence at this time is not as good as his poem.

There is no way, the charm of Internet celebrity poems in later generations, in 1983, has the power of this atomic bomb.

In fact, this is normal, because the way of writing in later generations is completely different from this era.

After all, later generations are in an era of knowledge explosion, the threshold is already very high, and the poems that can stand out in later generations, if they are brought here, it will of course be at the level of a nuclear bomb explosion.

In short, many people say that the poet Qiangzi is the king of the new generation of love poetry after the reform, and many people write to ask about Qiangzi's true identity, and even there are tens of thousands of courtship letters, as well as men and women.

There's no way, Qiangzi is just a pen name, and his identity is not disclosed, and everyone doesn't know if he is a man or a woman.

Taking advantage of this trend, Qiangzi decisively came to the poetry magazine in person, and under the warm reception of the editor-in-chief, he gave his second poem - "The Farthest Distance in the World".

That's right, it's a bunch of versions of the poem in later generations, and it's the one given in Chinese and English.

Yes, this time, because of the huge success of "Seeing and Not Seeing" before, and Hadron already has a certain popularity, Cao Zhiqiang is no longer a newcomer, but has a certain bargaining power.

Plus this new poem is also expensive, and the artistic conception is quite good.

So after bargaining, the editor-in-chief finally made a decision and decided to win the song "The Farthest Distance in the World" at a capped price of 1,000 yuan.

The price is quite high, but it's actually quite normal.

After all, "The Farthest Distance in the World" has a lot of words, a lot of lines, and a follow-up story, so the overall length is not small.

The most important thing is that if you can create the sensation of the previous song "Seeing and Not Seeing" again and sell more magazines, the money will be easily recovered.

The magazine did not lose at all.

And a magazine like Poetry Magazine, which has a circulation of more than one million at every turn, is not short of this little money at all.

However, the editor-in-chief of the magazine is a little unsatisfied.

After all, this poem is so good, and if you supplement it, there is only one too little.

But if you don't take advantage of the popularity of "Seeing and Not Seeing" and the fame of Hadron is flourishing, a supplement will be issued immediately.

I really waited for a month, and the next issue came out again, and the previous heat passed, and the superposition effect was gone.

That's right, the editor-in-chief of this period is also quite flexible, and he also knows that popularity is directly proportional to sales.

Rubbing the heat of this matter, people in this period will also.

Therefore, the editor-in-chief asked if there were any new poems.

Even if it's not as good as these two songs, just use his fame to fill up the numbers and issue a special supplement.

At this time, Cao Zhiqiang immediately calmly took out a booklet.

In this booklet, there are fifty poems, all of which are some of the classic Internet celebrity poems that have not yet appeared, but are very classic in later generations.

For example, the poem "Taken for Granted" in the pamphlet is plagiarized from the later poem "Cangyang Gyatso Said".

This poem "Cangyang Gyatso Said", mentioning the name alone, may not be clear to many people in later generations, but if you talk about the verses in it, such as the beginning-

"I am all the men in the world, you are all the women in the world, I love you, of course."

Yes, if you mention the verses in it, many people may have an impression.

The author of this poem is actually a person with the author of "Seeing and Not Seeing", and he is very talented.

But helplessly, the other party lives in the Internet era, although the writing is good and the poems are very popular, but she herself is not very popular, this is the helplessness of later poets.

Poetry is dead, something burns paper.

This is the current situation in the poetry world of later generations.

And the poets of later generations are basically not welcomed, and it is difficult to break into fame.

But in 1983, the twilight era of modern poetry, it was different.

Dusk is always beautiful, and it's the last crazy age.

Sure enough, when the editor saw this booklet, especially the opening "Of Course", he immediately fell in love with it.

Looking at the poems in the back, I am even more fascinated.

He only read ten poems, so he simply decided not to issue a supplement, and wanted to publish a separate poetry collection for Cao Zhiqiang.

This is a serious book with a book number.

The editor-in-chief of that publishing house was also particularly optimistic about Cao Zhiqiang, and wanted to buy it out at a high price, or pay a high price for the manuscript.

But Cao Zhiqiang just doesn't agree, and he is too rigid about copyright, that is, he doesn't want the publishing house to buy out the publication exclusively, and only wants to publish it at his own expense, or share it proportionally.

The reason is very simple, at that time, he had almost made up the money to publish books at his own expense, and it may not be enough to publish martial arts novels, but it is no problem to publish a poetry collection with few words and pages.

In the end, after talking, an editor surnamed Yu put forward a suggestion, thinking that in order to win Cao Zhiqiang, don't let him go to other places to publish books at his own expense, and make other publishing houses popular, so he should simply give him royalty remuneration.

Playing with the royalty system, at least the magazine and the publishing house can still get a piece of the pie, otherwise, if Cao Zhiqiang is allowed to go to other small publishing houses to publish books at his own expense, then none of them will be able to make a good profit.

And so it was decided.

It is said that this royalty system of remuneration shared with writers is the first time in the domestic publishing industry, and it has never been done before.

In the history of Cao Zhiqiang's previous life, the first person to play the royalty system in China was a ruffian writer surnamed Wang, and that was in the nineties.

But here, if he is really paid royalty, he is the first domestic royalty producer.

The so-called royalty system of remuneration.

To put it simply, the writer's publishing house bought out the exclusive publishing rights of the book "Collected Poems of Hadron" for five years.

During this period, the book could not be published by other magazines, and could only be published by the Writers' Publishing House.

At that time, the writer's publishing house will pay Cao Zhiqiang the remuneration for this book in the form of royalty remuneration.

After discussing for a long time, the publisher finally set a royalty rate for this poetry collection, or a share for Cao Zhiqiang, which was 6%.

Therefore, the manuscript fee that Cao Zhiqiang can get is the number of copies of "The Collected Poems of Hadron" × the distribution price of a single book × the royalty rate (6%), and the amount of money obtained from this is the manuscript fee for Cao Zhiqiang.

And this remuneration is settled on the first day of January.

Assuming that the price of "The Collected Poems of Hadron" is two yuan, and the number of copies issued in that month is 100,000 copies, then the remuneration that Cao Zhiqiang can get that month is 2×100,000×6%, which is equal to 12,000 yuan.

Don't look at only 12,000 yuan, but this is in 1983 when the RMB has not depreciated!

There are 12,000, and at this time you can buy a small courtyard house, or buy an imported motorcycle.

Of course, that was only a preliminary negotiation plan, and the actual publication of the book was more profitable than he thought.

In the end, he and the editor-in-chief finalized the publication plan, which was the name of the poetry collection, which was changed to "The Farthest Distance in the World".

This is more literary and eye-catching.

And "Collected Poems of Qiangzi" is too earthy and not literary enough.

As for the pricing, there are a total of fifty poems, priced at eight yuan a book.

This price is relatively high in this era.

After all, there are fewer words, less paper, and low cost.

What Cao Zhiqiang didn't expect was that after finalizing the publishing plan, the poetry magazine, or the writer's publishing house behind the poetry magazine, was so efficient in publishing books.

He negotiated with the editor in the morning to publish the book and signed the contract, and in the afternoon he got the release number, and then began to typeset overnight that night, and began to produce and print on the third day, and officially published and listed on the fifth day.

It took five days before and after to complete the entire process from negotiating the contract to issuing the book to go public, and the speed of issuance simply made Cao Zhiqiang stunned.

Good guys, really good guys.

It is worthy of a writer's publishing house with people on it.

It is worthy of the 1983 year when literary works grew savagely.

The speed of publishing the book alone will not be comparable to that of future generations.

This is still the era when there is no computer typing and computer printing, and everything is typesetting.

Now, this book "The Farthest Distance in the World" has been officially released for half a month, but the sales volume has exceeded 200,000 copies.

That is to say, the printing index of the first phase of the test water has been sold out, but Xinhua bookstores around the country are still urging the release of books, saying that too many people want to buy but can't buy them.

It is said that because the sales of this poetry book were so hot in various places, the printing house began to reprint it again, and this time the initial print run was one million copies.

In fact, the sales volume exceeded 200,000 copies in half a month, which has broken the record of the Writers' Publishing House for publishing poetry and literary publications.

So by now, this book of poems has been a huge success.

In this process, the writer's publishing house certainly made a lot of money, while the poetry magazine magazine participated in proofreading and typesetting because of its signature, not to mention the share, and the most important thing was to earn fame.

Especially the editor Yu who proposed to play royalty system with Cao Zhiqiang and didn't let Cao Zhiqiang go, was even more rewarded.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang is even more fame and fortune.

Not to mention anything else, even if the sales of this book do not increase in the future, according to the previous remuneration settlement method, he Cao Zhiqiang can still get the remuneration of 200,000 copies, that is, 96,000 yuan!

Ninety-six thousand dollars, what kind of concept is this in 1983?

A concept that scares people to death!

Perhaps it was because of his good grades that the editor-in-chief found him today, not only paid him in advance, but also rewarded him with a lot of industrial volumes and other related tickets.

That's right, the industrial volumes that Cao Zhiqiang bought for the tape recorder were all given to him by the publishing house, which was a special reward and was not included in the remuneration.

Otherwise, with Cao Zhiqiang's current factory income, he would not have been able to scrape together enough to buy an industrial roll of tape recorders.

After all, industrial rolls, or purchase coupons, are linked to your salary at this time, and they are currently issued every ten yuan, and they are received together when you pay your salary.

As far as Cao Zhiqiang's current salary of 30 yuan per month is normally only three industrial rolls per month, he has worked for less than three months, and it is impossible to buy a tape recorder of more than 300 yuan.

Not only that, but the editor-in-chief also sent him an invitation to participate in the upcoming "Youth Poetry Meeting".

In addition to these, the editor-in-chief also said that he would be recommended to join the National Writers' Association and become a full member.

He also wanted to transfer Cao Zhiqiang to be the editor of the magazine.

It is said that in his case, it is not troublesome to transfer work, even if it is troublesome, Cao Zhiqiang can resign first and then go to work in the magazine.

At this time, the poetry magazine was a serious public institution, and the official editors in it were all career establishments.

In 1983, the establishment of careers was already more popular than that of workers, and the status of the editor of the magazine was more decent.

Basically, in the case of Cao Zhiqiang, as long as he agrees, he will be able to complete the job transfer soon, and there will be no problems.

Even if the factory really doesn't let people go, Cao Zhiqiang can forcibly resign by himself first, and then go to the magazine to apply for a job, just go through such a formality.

Don't think that people are fooling people, but it's really not.

In 1983, it was relatively difficult to establish an organization, or cadre establishment.

After all, this establishment requires the identity of cadres.

And those who can become cadres during this period are either promoted by the army, or they go to school honestly, such as those who have a secondary school graduate degree, and a college student or above.

But the transition between workers and business editors is relatively simple.

Basically, as long as the counterpart unit wants you and is willing to give you the relevant preparation, then everything is fine, and the academic requirements card is not so dead.

For example, in his previous life, a poet surnamed Zhao, whose pen name was the one on the island, was a construction worker first, and then became famous for writing poems, so he went to be an editor of a magazine, became a career editor, and then went to the company as a leader.

But no matter how much he changes, he can't become a civil servant, he can't become a member of the system, without him, his academic qualifications are not enough, and his academic ability is insufficient!

In fact, if he didn't do it himself, he could have lived a very nourishing life, but unfortunately, he became famous too early, his thoughts were too floating, and he was too cynical, thinking that he was awesome, so he would fight against that, so he did it.

Having said that, the career editor is really good, but it's a pity that he doesn't have his ambitions here, but has his own plan.

In other words, a magazine editor with a career can no longer satisfy his ambitions.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang only agreed to fill in the application to join the Writers' Association, but when he went to work as an editor in a poetry magazine, he politely refused, and only said that he would consider it again.

Did he tell anyone else about this?

Did he show it off?

Is he proud?

Not at all!

He has always done things quietly and never told outsiders.

This proves that he Cao Zhiqiang is still a very low-key person.

It's just that because this is a contract signed by Cao Zhiqiang personally to the writers' publishing house in Beijing, not a letter submission, so when people pay the manuscript fee, they don't send the remittance slip through the post, but directly give the bank check.

Now, the check for 96,000 yuan is in a check holder and placed in Cao Zhiqiang's pocket.

If he took out the check for 96,000 yuan, the third master, Yan Bugui, would see it, and he would not be frightened and faint.

Not to mention, the manuscript fees for the short stories he submitted in other magazines before, as well as the manuscript fees for popular science articles, are now being paid back one after another.

These manuscript fees have been added up one after another, especially with the more than 2,000 that Science Illustrated just gave him, and a total of more than 6,000 yuan has been received.

All combined, it is more than 100,000.

In this era when 10,000 yuan is a big money.

What is the concept of a 100,000 yuan household?

The concept of 100,000 households combined!

Good guy, he originally set a small goal, and he wanted to be a 10,000 yuan household first.

As a result, he accidentally crossed the 10,000 yuan household and directly became a 100,000 yuan household.

It can only be said that plans are not as fast as changes.

Cao Zhiqiang, also for the good of the third uncle, didn't tell the truth before, and didn't take out the check to scare him.

The remuneration of more than 2,000 yuan was enough for him to be shocked.

But then again, Cao Zhiqiang really didn't expect that writing poems would be so profitable these days.

He has only fifty poems and a book, which is more profitable than all the other works he has published before.

The money he made from writing so many works is less than a fraction of a book of poetry!

No wonder the poets of the eighties were so rich.

If you become famous for writing poetry these days, you are really not ordinary rich!

No, the root cause is still the publication of books, popular books.

Therefore, there is no future in submitting articles to magazines, even if it is a thousand words and a hundred words, it is not interesting, and at most you can earn some pocket money.

Publishing books to earn royalties, this is the king!

Sure enough, in 1983, to make money cleanly, publishing a book is the most reliable!

So the book "Broken Void", I still have to find a way to publish the book at my own expense.