Chapter 252 Staged Harvest and New Beginning
“How many words are you expected to write in this novel?”
Kaiyuan sent a message after a long absence. Recently, he has been busy expanding his author library. There is indeed a lot less communication with Li Yan who has entered a stable period.
However, Li Yan is gradually shifting his energy to other things. On the one hand, the plot has indeed entered a period of steady advancement. Readers’ enthusiasm for discussing the grass snake gray line has long dissipated. During the next wave of outbreaks, Before it arrives, the tepidness will last for a while; on the other hand, the excitement of the Internet article itself for him has dropped a lot.
There is no other reason than money.
In addition to the lofty motivation of "creating works that will leave a mark in history" when he wrote online articles, he also had a strong drive to make money.
But now earning thirty or forty thousand a month from online writing can no longer motivate him.
Sometimes if you make money but don’t spend it, you will not understand the meaning of making money.
The reading of "Nangong Boy" is decreasing little by little every day, which is inevitable.
It is a long story, even if it is updated every day with 10,000 words, it will not be enough for readers who follow it.
The experience of reading tens of thousands of words in a row is definitely better than reading a little bit every day. Everyone will start to cherish books. The fun of chasing books is gone, the atmosphere is gone, and there is no way to pick them up again.
Sometimes I haven’t read it for so long that I forget the previous plot. When I click on the latest chapter, I am still not very interested in it. The development direction is even different from what I expected, and my enthusiasm drops to the freezing point.
There is no way, unless tens of thousands of words are updated every day, and it is completed in a month or two. Everyone just happens to finish reading the book in the excitement, and the reading experience is very good.
Even Li Yan would have a hard time doing this.
Li Yan’s income can no longer be supported by follow-up readers, but mainly relies on new readers.
What's terrible is that as the success of his book has increased, piracy has increased.
Kaiyuan has only one thing to say about this: There is really nothing you can do, some people are beating you up, what can you do.
Li Yan is a programmer himself, and of course he knows that reporting the website is meaningless. Many new readers have gone to see pirated copies. Li Yan has no other choice but to thank the genuine readers in the comment area.
He has only one motivation for writing online novels now. After writing this wonderful story, he will be remembered by future generations when they mention online novels.
This high-level sense of accomplishment takes time to develop.
"Three to four million words," Li Yan replied.
Kaiyuan just said, "It can still improve for a while. I'll try to get more recommendations for you," but nothing more happened.
Master Shenxu is still enthusiastic about his story, and he can still discuss some plot details, which can be considered as intermittent motivation for Li Yan.
A good brother is a good brother.
Now Li Yan is thinking that according to the plot arrangement, the next wave of hidden dangers will occur in mid-June. He hopes to detonate the Internet literary world and let him learn from all the awesome authors when he attends the award ceremony. He heard Nangong Li's name.
At the end of May, Li Yan spent an extremely busy Dragon Boat Festival.
First, I took Chen Fan and Deng Yudi to find Fang Shu, who was working overtime, and made it clear that they could use a small workbench to study mobile phone system development - Fang Shu could provide them with some very basic engineering documents, and also I can ask colleagues from the technical department for some simple answers.
However, there is no need to think about more technical support.
Li Yan is not surprised. In the final analysis, it depends on Wang Peihua’s face. Wang Peihua’s face has to be transferred to a handicraft bureau... At present, Li Yan does not have much value to Fangshu or even the founding family. It's basically a favor transaction.
Bringing in the awesome Deng Yudi just made Fang Shu feel that "they are playing this game quite seriously".
Why is it awesome? Because on May 29, the results of the Linjiang Province Youth Informatics Olympic Trials came out.
Deng Yudi won the first place in the selection and became the number one player in Linjiang Province to participate in the national competition.
Zheng Da and Rao Feng were also shortlisted. Miraculously, Deng Yudi’s female partner, who cried because she felt like a drag, also won the “must have” seat for the only female contestant. .
Chen Fan represented Linjiang junior high school students in the national competition Category C competition with a good result of second place in the junior high school group.
As for Li Yan... magically, the announcement made a separate column for him.
Category B of the national competition is originally an informal competition. The contestants are the first prize winners of the provincial league high school improvement group but failed to make the list of 15 people in Category A. This list is very long, and in a sense it should not be counted as an honorary list. ——Because the first prize of the Provincial League has been announced a long time ago, and now that the candidates have been eliminated in the trials, they may not be happy if they have to show it to them again.
However, Linjiang Province’s announcement of the selection results clearly stated “National Competition Category B: Li Yan Junior High School Group First Place (New Taipei No. 1 Middle School)”.
It is really a situation where outsiders are confused after reading it and insiders are confused after reading it.
This also caused Chen Fan, who was ranked first in the junior high school group, to clearly write "second place" again. Just by looking at such an awkward announcement, Li Yan could guess what kind of big discussion had occurred within the society.
It should be a point of view that multiple parties take turns to insist on and compromise.
It doesn’t matter, as long as it’s the same set of test papers, I can overturn the examination room.
Li Yan originally wanted an access card, but Fang Shu said that he could only come in when he was in the office.
“Very reasonable.” Li Yan smiled.
But then I will make you wish I was in the Founding Lab.
As long as the value is in place, it is natural for the two-level reversal of offense and defense to change shape.
In the afternoon, Li Yan took them to Linjiang University again. With the announcement of the provincial computer election, Li Kai obviously had a lot of respect for the three juniors in front of him.
Although he knew that Deng Yudi was the teacher's son, they cared more about Li Yan.
Since the last time we saw each other, Hu Xinyue has been brainwashing the group members every day about what a super existence Li Yan is, and it has instilled in them a sense of awe.
The key is, it’s obviously about perfect scores in all subjects, great essays, great sports, and connections with big bosses, but why is it that when we meet today, it’s because of the computer scores?
Almighty isn’t the way to play it, right?
In one afternoon, Li Kai and He Bo analyzed the home delivery mechanism they learned from Colonel Ken, and then showed a fancy ppt to explain the takeout platform system conceived by the team.
It looked like he was reporting to Li Yan, because Chen Fan and Deng Yudi looked confused.
Of course Li Kai didn’t feel like he was reporting, he thought he was showing off.
He even collected information that a group of people from Shanghai Jiao Tong University were working on a food delivery platform - but they were still in the data collection stage, and he was quite proud of his team that had already made initial results.
Then Li Yan said, "The home delivery system and the takeout platform are completely different things." "Utilization" and "failed to change human life style" are misleading.
“It’s not enough to just focus on one takeaway. Takeaway is just a breakthrough, and the mechanism studied from it is really valuable.”
Li Kai was about to start a debate when he met Li again Yan took out a whole planning book and explained clearly the various problems and coping mechanisms that he was thinking about in the food delivery platform. Finally, he summarized a set of platform operation models and promoted them, imagining the future after the popularization of smartphones. lifestyle.
The two college students were still surprised by Li Yan's ideas. Li Yan opened the computer again to show the ppt. The content was the algorithm requirements for his project. Chen Fan and Deng Yudi felt very involved in this. .
Although Li Kai is skeptical about things like "smartphone popularization", "mobile payment", and "GPS positioning services", Li Yan's ideas are logically self-consistent and there are many exciting things worthy of discussion. Thoughts on, he still plunged into the heated discussion.
In the end, they agreed to carry out a platform pilot based on Li Yan's ideas, expand some new merchants, and have their team members and recruited volunteers (classmates) act as delivery persons to collect a wave of basic data for Li Yan and others to test the algorithms they developed.
I will try the algorithm myself later to see how to debug the algorithm’s order dispatching, route planning, and time estimation.
Mobile payment is definitely a no-brainer. You can only advance it to the merchant first and then ask your classmates to collect it later.
"Delivery fee..." He Bo whispered.
“Just use the project funds as subsidies.”
"We have so little money for this project..." He Bo smiled bitterly.
Li Yan suddenly took out ten red tickets from his pocket and said, "Subsidy."
The two of them were stunned. Their first reaction was "whose family is the richest?", and Deng Yudi also stared. His eyes widened - even though he couldn't really open them wide.
Chen Fan is used to it. I don’t know how much this person’s physical and online manuscript fees are. He recently received a bonus of 50,000. In fact, all the bonuses add up to almost 80,000. Give me One thousand is enough to buy a set of real test data for your own algorithm, which is quite worth it.
"Everyone has gone home during the summer vacation, and the only one who can be tested is June..." Li Yan was interrupted halfway by He Bo who had received the money:
"We can still take the test in July. We won't all go home so soon. There are still internships. There will be fewer people by then, and we can expand the scope of research."
So positive?
“Okay, when the workload of the hard-working seniors increases, the subsidies will be in place.”
“Hey, it’s all about research, don’t mention this.”
On the way back, Li Yan sighed from the bottom of his heart:
College students are really the top cheap labor force...
(End of this chapter)