Chapter 116 Qilin Cup
Zhao Changtian came to Chen Linfeng not only for this matter, but just talked about it on the phone.
"Starting next year, the New Concept Essay Contest will no longer be able to provide college admissions for the first prize. Everyone is worried about the future development of the contest."
He asked, "Do you have Is there any good way? "
Chen Linfeng doesn't have any way. Most of those parents and students come to the competition mainly for recommendation. Without this, they will definitely not be so enthusiastic in the future.
What's more, considering the various turmoils caused by the competition in recent years, it would be better if there were no walks.
He has never liked this kind of activity, which is unfair and prone to shady activities.
Chen Linfeng couldn't express his inner thoughts, but kept saying with relief that the title of the new concept competition had already started.
It is always an honor for the students and should attract many people to participate.
Zhao Changtian didn’t answer, just sighed.
Chen Linfeng figured it out immediately. It was because he was paying attention in his heart, and it was probably difficult to speak.
He simply asked directly, "Uncle Zhao, do you have any ideas?"
Zhao Changtian hesitated for a while and said, "I thought, before the next competition, You will be a judge.
Then open another column in your name so that the winning children can submit popular literary works after your guidance.
Then. What do you think about selecting outstanding works and publishing them together with your short novellas? ”
Isn't this a good voice for future generations? The team teacher leads the students who were rolled out to make their debut.
Chen Linfeng doesn't mind helping, but it feels like it's time-consuming and the effect won't be very good.
After all, most of the people participating in the New Concept Competition are children with a literary bent. If they are temporarily asked to change the track and tell stories, they may not necessarily have good results.
He thought for a while and said, "We might as well change our thinking.
Uncle Zhao, your original intention of holding the new concept contest back then was to revitalize the budding magazine, right?"
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Zhao Changtian nodded, this is indeed true.
"In this case, we might as well put aside the new concept competition and start a new one."
Since the sales of Chen Linfeng's works are exaggerating year by year, we should learn from his ideas and There are more and more people who create in rhythm.
Most of these people are young, and many of them publish their works directly online.
If you want to attract viewers on the Internet, you need to work harder on storytelling.
Many people wrote directly based on the worldview of his novels, which were early fandoms.
As a result, Chen Linfeng's name is most popular on the Internet, especially among people who create online.
“So we should create a new model, set up awards directly for online novels, and get some powerful magazines to endorse, such as "Harvest" edited by Cheng.
At that time, there will be With reputation and bonus, you don’t have to worry about getting good works.”
Zhao Changtian understood the key point in Xiao Chen’s words. Setting up literary awards is nothing new. Setting up awards for online novels is the key.
He doesn't pay much attention to online novels. To be honest, he doesn't pay much attention to them.
But this is Chen Linfeng’s opinion after all. Nowadays, magazines rely more and more on this great writer.
It is not easy for him to refute, and there is no need to refute. There is no harm in setting up more awards.
I'm just thinking about whether it makes sense if this thing is done, and how many resources will be invested if it is really done.
Seeing Editor-in-Chief Zhao deep in thought, Chen Linfeng added, "I can pay for the first phase of the prize. Two million should be enough. Accordingly, I want the title of this prize."< br>
He is short of everything now, but he is not short of money. 2 million is not much for him. If he can have a good reputation, plus the possibility of winning a big prize in the long run, he can even repay the budding favor, and It’s a great value.
If the awards are really implemented later, it won’t be his turn to contribute the money.
Zhao Changtian was shocked, "So much?"
He quickly advised, "Even if you make some money writing these books, you can't spend it randomly. I wanted to borrow your name in the first place. Boss, you don’t need to pay.”
He wanted to find something else from the company. A few hundred thousand would be enough for a company to beg alms. Who would have thought that this kid wanted to start such a big battle.
These days, those who are engaged in literature must be crazy to think that there are millions of bonuses.
“Since we are going to do it, we will do it according to the standards of the grand prize. The bonus is higher. It may attract more people to participate and submit articles.”
The starting reward must be attractive enough. Only people can have the opportunity to gain the upper hand.
Chen Linfeng explained, "Don't worry, I'm not impulsive, and with this little money, I can make the decision myself. If you don't believe it, you can ask Sister Mei."
Zhao Changtian agreed dubiously. With so much money as a gimmick, he could really attract more units to endorse and raise the official level of the award.
Now that online novels have just begun to develop, if there is a domestic highest award standing in front of it at this time.
As long as you win this award, you will be enlightened and become a saint.
As time passes, it is very likely that it will take root in the growing online literature.
In the long run, as the initiator and the source of the prize, Chen Linfeng’s gains are far beyond what these two million can buy.
In the end, Zhao Changtian could not refuse this large sum of money.
He and Chen Linfeng agreed that the name of the contest would be the Qilin Cup Novel Grand Prix, and the biggest prize would be called the Supreme Prize for Internet Literature.
The competition mainly includes novels published on the Internet, and the application is extremely simple. For full-length novels published on various websites, you only need to submit the novel title and related information through the website.
The only requirement for this is the physical publication of the online article, which is the responsibility of Sprout.
Basically, it can be confirmed that this will cover most online novels. After all, it is just reporting information, no additional operations are required, just in case you win.
At present, the scale of online writing is not large enough, and there is no need to set a threshold for the time being.
Offline submissions are also accepted, but a separate award will be given and will not overlap with the Supreme Award for online articles.
In order to prevent shady events, the award rules directly use data as the standard for judging.
At the request of Editor-in-Chief Zhao, the standards will not be announced to the public, but no matter what, we will not select works that we have never heard of.
The two simply confirmed the principle issues, and Chen Linfeng would leave the rest to Sister Mei to follow up.
"So Sister Mei, I will leave this follow-up matter to you."
The next day, Chen Linfeng explained the matter clearly to Sister Mei, and he could let it go.
"Okay, I understand."
Sister Mei wrote down this matter, and then talked about the expert named Tang whom she met two months ago.
This person was originally an associate professor at a certain university and was about to have his professorship evaluated, but it appears that it has failed.
Some of the articles he published before were not quite right and were criticized by many experts in the same field. Now his associate professor may also be in danger.
"I will still keep an eye on him and give him some eye drops from time to time. In short, I will not make this old guy with academic misconduct feel comfortable."
Sister Mei said very harshly.
Of course.
Benefited from Chen Linfeng’s initial investment in NetEase.
In June this year, Penguin went public, and he invested a lot. It will be no problem to earn a few small goals in a few years.
In addition, Chen Linfeng also moved some of the money back and bought shares in some domestic forums.
Although these forums will not bring any investment returns, in terms of public opinion, the power of the Internet has begun to gradually emerge.
Chen Linfeng, a later generation, certainly pays great attention to this aspect.
He also specially asked Sister Mei to recruit people and set up a network group at Long and Qilin Company to guide public opinion.
Many administrators of major forums are directly members of the company's network group.
It is not difficult to watch a so-called "expert" who has a bad reputation being tortured.
(End of this chapter)