Chapter 191 Private money has skyrocketed, and six thousand foreign exchange dollars will arrive in the account (please order in full)
As expected, as the father-in-law feared, with the continued fermentation in major newspapers, different voices have begun to come out!
The first one to jump out was the Tianjin Daily, which had just shut down.
An article titled "New Theory of Passing the Qin Dynasty" was published again, which once again brought Cheng Xuemin, a pioneer who boasted about the Qin Dynasty, to the forefront.
Many local newspapers followed closely, and they also published some related reports one after another.
It can be said that the fight really started!
About this!
Cheng Xuemin simply retreated to Yanda without paying much attention to it. Taking advantage of the fact that Feng Jiayou was in class and he was not assigned any courses, he took the foreign language manuscript he had written to his father-in-law's foreign language bureau.
"Hey, Xuemin, you are finally here!"
"How's it going? How's the manuscript going?"
Zhou Weiming from the Foreign Affairs Office asked Cheng Xuemin not to be too surprised.
A few years ago, it was Lao Feng, his son-in-law, who came to him and said he wanted to write some foreign language articles and submit them to outside newspapers and magazines.
Zhou Weiming was overjoyed when he heard this. This is a good thing!
Originally, Lao Zhou is now in charge of the Foreign Affairs Department. It can be said that the entire foreign exchange earning task of the Foreign Languages Publishing House falls entirely on his head.
Relying on the "Chinese Literature" published by Cheng Xuemin's father-in-law to earn foreign currency and earn royalties from foreigners is somewhat uninteresting.
After all, the manuscripts published in their "Chinese Literature" are almost all local articles in our country. They are nothing more than translating the articles into foreign languages for foreigners outside to read.
However, cultural differences determine that the sales of "Chinese Literature" outside the country will not actually earn much foreign exchange.
It's more of a political propaganda meaning.
If their foreign language bureau wants to earn foreign exchange and improve its foreign exchange performance, it still has to take the route of "writing content that is popular with foreigners and submitting it to mainstream foreign media newspapers and magazines."
As a result, there are very high requirements for the content of submissions.
At least a little!
The content of the manuscript must be in a Western style of writing, but such a requirement can stump most domestic authors.
Nowadays, even the translation can’t convey the inner flavor of others, let alone write it directly.
so!
Now their Foreign Languages Publishing House is in short supply of writers who can write manuscripts with a local flavor, so most of the manuscripts submitted by Lao Zhou are rejected or rejected.
My manuscripts are always rejected. If I can't publish my work, I won't be able to earn the foreign exchange royalties. It's no wonder that my foreign exchange results are good.
Therefore, Lao Zhou’s Foreign Affairs Office of the Bureau of Foreign Languages and Literature is very short of manuscripts!
Originally, Lao Feng’s son-in-law had intended to write foreign language manuscripts, but Lao Zhou didn’t take it seriously.
But with the emergence of Lao Feng, the son-in-law who was a "pioneer in reforming", Lao Zhou was dumbfounded and asked Lao Feng, is your son-in-law still writing the foreign language manuscript?
I got a reply from Lao Feng that he is writing it and should finish it soon.
As a result, Zhou Weiming had a little bit of expectations.
I hope that Lao Feng, the son-in-law, can write other articles that are sharp and sharp. If the outside articles can also describe the inside taste of others, that would be incredible!
"Hello, Teacher Zhou, I was delayed during the Chinese New Year, and the manuscript was not delivered in time!"
"Now that it's written, it's done. Teacher Zhou, please help me review it!"
Cheng Xuemin said with a polite smile.
"Have you finished writing?! That's a good feeling. Let me take a look!" Lao Zhou nodded repeatedly when he heard this. He did not wait for Cheng Xuemin to take the manuscript from his briefcase. Instead, he stood up and asked politely, "Xuemin Min, come to our Foreign Languages Publishing House and give you some coffee?”
Originally I was thinking of making tea, but thinking that their Foreign Languages Publishing House only used coffee to entertain foreign guests, Lao Zhou asked casually.
"Teacher Zhou, I'll just do whatever you want, don't be too polite!"
Cheng Xuemin replied politely and took out the English manuscript he had written from his briefcase.
“Then coffee!”
"This thing is prepared by the bureau for entertaining foreign guests. We also try it out occasionally!"
"But I'm not used to drinking that stuff. It's too bitter and unpleasant to drink. I don't know why those foreigners like to drink it so much!"
While Lao Zhou took out the coffee box from the cabinet, he shook his head and smiled at Cheng Xuemin, "I heard that you young people also like to drink it. It just so happens that Xuemin, you can try it too!"
Cheng Xuemin glanced at the coffee box and his expression was stunned on the spot.
Christmas Island?
My father-in-law’s foreign publishing bureau is so arrogant, and the coffee used to entertain foreigners goes directly to ‘Christmas Island’?
This is one of the best coffees in the world, almost none of them.
What’s even more outrageous is!
Lao Zhou in front of him complained that the coffee was bitter and he couldn't drink it at all, so he only gave it to those foreigners.
Come on, come on!
Cheng Xuemin is really not sure whether Lao Zhou is really not used to drinking, or he is talking to him about Versailles and deliberately told Cheng Xuemin in such a showy way.
"That's a good relationship. I'll try Mr. Zhou's coffee and have a chowder!"
Cheng Xuemin was not sure, but he still had to say what he said on the scene.
As for the coffee?
In fact, Cheng Xuemin doesn’t like drinking very much, so he still drinks our own tea to maintain his health.
"Well! Then, Xuemin, just try it! If you think it tastes good, you can take all this box with you. We don't drink much here anyway!"
Lao Zhou was very generous and made Cheng Xuemin a cup of coffee in a serious manner.
The most outrageous thing is!
Because we were not receiving foreign guests, we didn’t have to be so picky at all, so Lao Zhou made the coffee directly in a big tea cup!
Seeing this, Cheng Xuemin cried out in his heart that he was wasting something!
This is 'Christmas Island', the king of coffee, not much higher than Starbucks.
Cheng Xuemin knew it!
Christmas Island coffee is exported to England. Because of its small output and high quality, it is a special coffee for the British royal family.
At this time, our own domestic wine is the same as Moutai.
To be surprised, Lao Zhou used a big tea cup to brew it and asked Cheng Xuemin to have a drink...
All right!
Cheng Xuemin is now convinced that Lao Zhou is not talking to him about Versailles, he really doesn't know much about coffee.
"Hey, Xuemin, your foreign language writing is so beautiful?"
Placing a large bowl of coffee in front of Cheng Xuemin, Zhou Weiming also noticed the manuscript Cheng Xuemin put on the table, picked it up and looked at it and exclaimed in surprise.
This foreign language is so beautifully written, like a tadpole, very eye-catching.
"so much?"
After flipping through it again, I found this thick stack of manuscript paper and couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Teacher Zhou, I don't have one manuscript here, but five!" Cheng Xuemin smiled and replied to Zhou Weiming, "Each manuscript has about 10,000 words, a total of more than 50,000 words!" More than 50,000 words are equivalent to Domestic publications with 50,000 to 60,000 words, and international magazines outside, basically calculate manuscript fees based on words.
However, people don’t seem to have a rough idea of how much a thousand words are, but rather how much a word is.
Years ago, when I went to the Foreign Guest House with Lao Zhou and met the foreign reporters and editors, Cheng Xuemin had some knowledge about the remuneration.
For example, the publishing fees of those great writers are generally settled at the rate of one meter per word, and there is also a share of sales copyright.
The royalties for international writers can be as high as five or six meters per word.
so.
If Cheng Xuemin were to be a great international writer, his 50,000-word manuscript would bring him a guaranteed royalties of at least more than 200,000 yuan, and the sales copyright share would have to be calculated separately, and it would still be the bulk of it.
certainly!
Cheng Xuemin is now entering the international cultural market, and he is a complete newcomer.
Therefore, during the interview, Cheng Xuemin also learned that even if a new and unknown author like him could get his manuscript published, the fee would only be a few cents.
The price can exceed ten cents, which is already very impressive!
Anyway, Lao Zhou had told Cheng Xuemin before that the highest remuneration their Foreign Affairs Office could offer to foreign authors was only twenty cents.
No matter how high the price is!
certainly!
This time Cheng Xuemin sent five manuscripts. He did not intend to go through ordinary channels. He went through the one-time buyout price of the full copyright.
In fact, most newcomers take the buyout option, and being able to get a share shows that the quality of the manuscript is really awesome.
"There are five manuscripts, so many?"
When Lao Zhou heard this, he was stunned again. He didn't expect that Lao Feng's son-in-law's production capacity was as good as the legend.
In the past, when his son-in-law wrote domestic articles, they would be one article after another, and sometimes four or five articles would be published together in major magazines.
Now Lao Zhou originally thought that Lao Feng's son-in-law had finally written a foreign language manuscript and sent it to him without stopping.
But I didn’t expect that there would be five articles!
High yield, high yield!
Lao Zhou could only say in his heart that he was highly productive, but he also hoped that while being highly productive, the quality of his manuscripts would also be excellent.
After submitting these five manuscripts for review and submission, if even one of them passes, it would be a huge success.
"Yes, Teacher Zhou. There are five manuscripts here. I hope Teacher Zhou can help review them and then submit them for the full copyright buyout price!"
Cheng Xuemin nodded, expressing his inner expectation.
The number of words in each of his five manuscripts is basically controlled at about 10,000 words, because foreign magazines, in addition to calculating the manuscript fee based on the word, also buy out the entire copyright at one time based on the number of articles!
For example, Cheng Xuemin can only control a manuscript of about 10,000 words. The international standard buyout price is one thousand and two meters of gold for a direct buyout, and there will be no sales share.
Moreover, according to Cheng Xuemin's understanding, those who can get a share of sales are basically well-known authors.
Other new authors basically use the buyout price.
So Cheng Xuemin also did the math!
Even if his manuscript can be published and he can take his share of the work, the price will not be too high, only five or six cents per unit.
Then the royalties he can get for this 10,000-word manuscript are around 500 to 600 meters gold, and the sales share will be calculated separately.
The minimum guarantee is five to six hundred, and the sales share will be calculated separately!
Maybe the royalties from the sales volume are higher than the guaranteed royalties of five to six hundred, but Cheng Xuemin thinks it might not be much higher.
Even if it can be much higher, there is a time sunk cost!
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin thought it would be better to go step by step and adopt the buyout price for newcomers, and get a one-time buyout price of 1,200 meters per article, without worrying about the undivided sales volume!
First, gain experience points to increase his popularity in the world, and then use Harry Potter to contribute the role that an author should contribute to the country's great cause of earning foreign exchange.
And apart from Harry Potter, Cheng Xuemin even felt that he could also sacrifice the online novel "Coiling Dragon" if he wanted to vote outside.
Cheng Xuemin knew that Platinum Tomato Boss's "Coiling Dragon" could be said to be the ceiling of Western fantasy literature, and it was very popular among international audiences.
And now that the outside world is more liberal than it is now in our country, there is really no market for fantasy web articles.
After all, Harry Potter has such a big market, and "Coiling Dragon" may not have one either.
Cheng Xuemin also thought about writing an introduction of more than 100,000 words and then put it out to test the waters.
If it can be as popular as Harry Potter, then Cheng Xuemin simply can't imagine how much foreign exchange achievements a "Coiling Dragon" with more than three million words can create for a country in this era.
Yes!
If it is changed, the term “national foreign exchange creation” cannot be avoided at all, and will be raised soon!
Cheng Xuemin, as a pioneer in reforming the imperial inscription, must of course be at the forefront in the face of the great cause of earning foreign exchange.
And by then, there is no shame in making money for the country!
I am not afraid of being stared at, chased and criticized like now.
"Full copyright?"
"Okay, Xuemin, I will have someone check it for you as soon as possible. Once I have the results, I will ask Lao Feng to inform you immediately. Then we will go to the Foreign Guest Guest House to interview the reporters and editors there!"
Zhou Weiming also nodded repeatedly and looked at the manuscript in his hand. To be honest, he really couldn't understand it, even though he was in charge of the work of the Foreign Affairs Office!
But he is good at Russian, and he really knows nothing about this English manuscript. He has to let other English editors carefully review the manuscript to see if there is any sensitive content.
After chatting with Lao Zhou for a while, I tactfully mentioned to Lao Zhou that after reviewing the manuscript, I can submit it to several well-known mainstream magazines and newspapers outside.
Especially Lao Mi’s Playboy, Cheng Xuemin focused on it and copied a very famous manuscript.
Cheng Xuemin also put his heart into several other articles, and they were basically the best-selling manuscripts after they were published that year.
It has always been Cheng Xuemin's style. If you want to copy, just copy the best. This is the most basic tribute to the original author.
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin was very confident in his five manuscripts.
I think if the five manuscripts were submitted separately, they might all be successful!
If all are submitted!
Each article is worth 1,200 meters gold, and those five articles are directly worth 6,000 meters gold. The private money in the small treasury instantly surpasses the public small treasury of his wife Feng Jiayou.
And this time, be sure not to be discovered by your own wife.
In fact, if all the manuscripts were rejected, six thousand meters of gold in foreign exchange... Cheng Xuemin was afraid of his wife's little heart, and she couldn't bear the excitement.
He had to rush back to avoid being noticed by his wife Feng Jiayou. He sneaked out in the morning, so he didn't stay at the Foreign Languages Publishing House for too long. He didn't even go to say hello to his father-in-law, so he hurried back. .
Before leaving, Lao Zhou was too enthusiastic. Seeing that Cheng Xuemin liked drinking that coffee, he simply gave him two big boxes, brand new ones!
It was the benefit brought by those five manuscripts, otherwise Lao Zhou might have brought back the half-opened box for him.
Next, we will quietly wait for news from Lao Zhou!
What Cheng Xuemin didn't expect was that before news came from Lao Zhou of the Foreign Languages Publishing House, his mother-in-law sent another message, asking him to follow him to Zhonghai tomorrow!
Mr. Wu summoned!
Sure enough, what was supposed to come has come. Ever since Cheng Xuemin lectured on ‘The Fission of the Qin Dynasty’ in front of thousands of college students in the Grand Auditorium of Yantai University, he thought that it would definitely alarm the higher ups.
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(End of chapter)