Chapter 645 Literary Works on Anti-corruption in Officialdom
It was already the second night when Fang Minghua returned to Xijing by train.
He didn't ask Song Tangtang to pick him up at the train station and took a taxi home. As soon as he opened the door and entered the small courtyard, he heard the voice of a little girl.
"Dad is back"
Then two children ran out of the living room and rushed towards him.
"Good"
Fang Minghua put down his luggage bag, bent down and picked up his daughter who was running in front.
Forget it about my son.
When the children grow up, they cannot hold two at a time.
At this time, the nanny Li Xiaoqin also came out and asked her eldest brother to help him carry his luggage. Fang Minghua held his daughter in one hand and led his son into the living room.
"Dad, did you bring us any gifts during this business trip?" the daughter asked impatiently.
“How could I forget to buy gifts for the two babies?” Fang Minghua smiled and put down his daughter, took out a beautifully wrapped Barbie doll from the travel bag and handed it to Ruirui.
"Thank you, Dad!" The little girl opened it happily.
"Dad, where is mine?" the son asked quickly.
"Of course I won't miss you." Fang Minghua took out another book from his travel bag and raised it towards his son.
"Look, what is this?!"
"Wow, the hero of the universe, Ultraman!" The son screamed.
Immediately took it and turned it over with great interest.
Just in January of this year (1993), Shanghai TV broadcasted the Japanese animation "Ultraman, Heroes of the Universe". Once it was broadcast, it quickly captured the hearts of children in Shanghai and led to the Olympics. Terman's first wave of craze in mainland China.
Ultraman-related cards are also scattered in the canteens around the school. Every Wednesday and Saturday at around five o'clock in the evening, many children will hold their benches and wait in front of the TV, waiting for the transformation of superheroes from Japan.
Shengshi Book Company, which was relocating to Shanghai, discovered this phenomenon and immediately contacted the producer, Tsuburaya Company of Japan, to purchase the comic copyright of this cartoon and distribute it nationwide.
Fang Minghua bought one of this set of books for his son.
After comforting the two children in Haoli, Fang Minghua took off his coat, put on cotton slippers, and asked the nanny: "Where is Tangtang? She hasn't gotten off work yet?"
"The eldest sister is busy upstairs. At work."
As he spoke, Song Tangtang, wearing cotton pajamas, came down the stairs and greeted.
"Minghua, are you back? How was this business trip?"
"It's not bad. I met a few friends Yu Hua and Wang Anyi, had a meeting for three days, and walked around Nanjing with Yu Hua For three days."
"I saw the news about your seminar was published in Guangming Daily, saying that you proposed the concept of "new realist novels" at the meeting? "Song Tangtang sat at Fang Minghua? Said the side.
"Yes." Fang Minghua briefly explained the content of the meeting.
"So Minghua, are you going to write another new reality novel?" Song Tangtang asked again.
"That's the plan, I've been busy recently."
"Is it similar to "The Piano of Steel" reflecting corporate reform?"
Fang Minghua shook his head.
"No, this time, I want to write a novel about officialdom. Specifically, it should be an anti-corruption novel in officialdom." "Ah? You write this? It seems that no one has written it yet." Song Tangtang was a little surprised.
"Isn't it right? Last year Liu Zhenyun wrote a novella called "Official Land" and published it in "Yanhe"." Fang Minghua replied.
He is right.
Liu Zhenyun changed from his previous new realistic novels that focused on small characters and published a novella "Official Land" in "Yanhe", penetrating deeply into the officialdom.
It is said that in a certain place, the district wants to promote a deputy district commissioner among 7 or 8 county secretaries including Lao Jin, Lao Cong, Lao Zhou, Lao Hu, etc. These 7 or 8 The personal psychological activities of old friends when they were arranged to live in the same house, and finally led to a series of stories about the sophistication of human relations in officialdom, using Lao Jin as the deputy district commissioner as a clue.
This novella is far less famous than "Tapu", "Chicken Feathers in a Place", "One Sentence is Worth Ten Thousand Sentences" among Liu Zhenyun's works, but it pioneered contemporary officialdom novels in the Mainland.
Hearing Fang Minghua say this, Song Tangtang looked a little worried: "Minghua, it's hard to grasp the scale of this kind of novel. It might be like the reportage you wrote last year, which was well written but unable to be published publicly."
"Don't worry about this. I have carefully considered it and will get the size right. After all, the novel is not reportage, it is fictional."
"Okay, I'll make you a cup of tea."
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Song Tangtang stood up.
Fang Minghua had already thought about this issue on the train back.
There is an important component in the soon-to-be-popular "new reality novels" - anti-corruption novels.
Especially popular from the mid-to-late 1990s to the new millennium.
Wang Yuewen's "Traditional Chinese Painting", Yan Zhen's "Canglang Water", Li Peifu's "Sheep's Gate" and Lu Tianming's "Heavy Snow Without Traces", etc., and of course Zhou Meisen's series of anti-corruption works: "The Human World" Righteous Path", "Supreme Good", "Absolute Power", etc.
However, Zhou Meisen has now given up writing and doing business and has gone into real estate speculation.
He found Jiao Jian, a writer from Shandong, and together they went to Daya Bay, Tamsui, Guangdong Province, with all the 130,000 yuan from manuscript fees. However, they ended up losing money and started working in their old business again. ——Write a book.
Later, he himself joked about this experience: "Wang Shi built a house and built a Vanke house, but we built a house and built a chicken coop."
Some commentators interpreted his move as, "In the 1990s, The economic centralization was the result of the run on the literary center in the 1980s."
Right now, Zhou Meisen is still fiddling with his house.
One of Zhou Meisen's most popular novels is "In the Name of the People". Although the TV series adapted from it has only been broadcast once, its popularity on the Internet has not diminished.
Although the background of the story takes place in the 2010s, it would still be in the 1990s.
Moreover, Fang Minghua doesn’t have to worry about whether he can publish, as the social environment in this era is more relaxed.
Just write about him.
The next morning, Song Tangtang got up and went to work, and took her two children to school. It was so cold in the winter, and sometimes it was windy and snowy. It was still dark early in the morning and the children were allowed to walk to school. I really can't bear it.
Song Tangtang will send it to you in the morning, and Fang Minghua will pick it up when he has time at noon, so you don’t have to worry about school in the afternoon.
Not long after his wife and child left, Fang Minghua also got up and washed up. Although he hired a nanny, he still liked to stroll to Lao Sun’s shop outside Chaoyang Gate every morning and drink a bowl of steaming hot spicy soup. My whole body suddenly felt much warmer.
After returning, Fang Minghua went up to the second floor and entered the study room, made a cup of tea, turned on the computer and prepared to write.
The story of "In the Name of the People" takes place after 2010. Naturally, some official titles, departments, objects appearing in the novel and even some plots have to be changed to conform to the current social environment of the 1990s.
But this is not the difficulty. The difficulty is that although the TV series is very popular, the original novel is also very popular. It is said that more than 1.5 million copies have been sold. This is simply unimaginable in the 2010s when physical novels were declining.
But from the perspective of literary value, this novel is not a classic.
(End of this chapter)