In recent days, Jiang Yulou has received constant good news.
The first one is the release of the sixth issue of "Yanhe". Two of his poems have caught up with the last train of the June issue.
"Yanhe" literature is a monthly magazine with 12 issues per year. The price of each issue is 2 cents. The publisher is the post and telecommunications office in the provincial capital. As for reservations, they can be made at all post and telecommunications offices across the country.
In other words, his two poems are about to meet the people across the country.
The second good news is that his manuscript fee and sample issue arrived at the same time.
According to the "Trial Press and Publication Remuneration and Subsidy Measures" of 1977, the remuneration is basically 2 yuan to 7 yuan per thousand words. But the medium of poetry is different from prose and novels, and the number of words is usually smaller.
Calculating the word count of ancient poetry and modern poetry, it is too difficult to reach a thousand words. If the number of words were reduced, the poet would starve to death.
Therefore, the current remuneration for poetry is calculated based on ten lines and one thousand words.
The 1970s and 1980s were the twilight of modern poetry in China. A large number of modern poets were born in this era and were sought after by young people.
Relying on the remuneration is not too much, but it is not enough to go hungry. It is much better than simply farming or going to work.
Even so, the remuneration is still low.
For example, Jiang Yulou's "Mountain Wood" and "Poem of the Ten Commandments" have sixteen lines in one, and the other has more lines, only twenty-four lines.
According to the highest standard, the remuneration is only thirty-five yuan, which is far less than what he would get if he wrote a novel.
This kind of remuneration standard has greatly dampened the creative passion of poetry creators, and is also not conducive to the acceptance of poetry-based literary magazines.
Therefore, there is another standard of royalties within the magazine, which is calculated by line.
This kind of remuneration calculation method is usually only available to famous poets.
Logically speaking, a newcomer like Jiang Yulou does not receive such treatment, but who made him write good poems?
After discussion with the editorial staff of "Yanhe", they decided to calculate the royalties on a line-by-line basis.
Thus, Jiang Yulou’s special royalties were released.
His two poems have a total of forty lines, and the remuneration for each line is not the lowest two yuan, nor the highest seven yuan, but the middle number is four yuan.
With two poems, Jiang Yulou received 160 yuan, which was much higher than the fee for his first work "Li Shisan's Turbulence".
The average worker earns a little more than this in a year.
Jiang Yulou accepted the remittance order with satisfaction and took out the huge sum of money at the post and telecommunications office.
At that time, it also caused quite a stir among the employees of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. They received two large sums of remuneration in succession. It was difficult not to attract attention!
Don't think that "Yanhe" will suffer. Just based on Jiang Yulou's two poems, their sixth issue of the magazine sold out.
That's right, it's really sold out.
Over the years since its publication, "Yanhe", a first-class literary magazine in Shaanxi, has sold about 60,000 copies per issue.
But this time, all 60,000 copies were sold out in less than a week.
Yanhe Literary Monthly Society.
"President, post and telecommunications offices across the country are increasing orders. Our current issue of "Yanhe" is selling very well!" an editor said happily.
Lei Le, the president of Yanhe Literary Monthly, has been engaged in literary creation and editing for a long time. At the beginning of this year, he became the president of Yanhe Literary Monthly.
In so many years in Yanhe, this is the first time that I have encountered such a good thing.
Lei Leqi said: "Hey, what happened this time? How come our magazine sells so well?"
"According to the responses from various post offices and Xinhua Bookstores, the reason why "Yanhe" sold out this time is because of two poems!"
"What poem is so powerful?" Lei Le became even more curious.
Yanhe is a magazine that focuses on poetry, but it doesn't say which poem is so powerful.
Editor-in-chief Sun Hu's eyes lit up and he quickly asked: "Are the two poems you mentioned "Mountain Wood" and "Poem of the Ten Commandments"?"
"Yes, those are the two poems." The editor nodded.
Lei Le understood that he knew these two poems and thought they were quite good at the time, but the romantic ones were not to his taste. Unexpectedly, it was these two poems that made the sixth issue of "Yanhe" magazine sell out.
"Sun Hu, you are the first one this time!" Lei Le praised.
Originally, he had objections to Sun Hu's proposal to pay Jiang Yulou a high remuneration, but everyone in the editorial department agreed, so he no longer objected.
Now that the results have come out, he is glad that he did not refuse Sun Hu's proposal.
Sun Hu smiled and praised: "Thanks to the president for supporting our work, and Comrade Lu Yao and Comrade Wang Ye for being serious and responsible."
"Everyone has merit," Lei Le said.
"Then how much more should we print?"
"More printing, more printing is necessary." Lei Le immediately decided to do more printing, and then asked: "How many orders are there now?"
"There are almost more than 20,000 volumes."
Twenty thousand copies, just because of two poems, Yanhe earned an extra five thousand yuan!
Lei Le reported a number: "An additional 50,000 copies will be printed."
"Is 50,000 copies too much? I think printing 40,000 more copies will be enough." Sun Hu advised.
An editor said cheerfully: "Not much, not much. Editor-in-Chief, my daughter read our magazine and particularly liked two poems by poet Jiang Da. She told me that these two poems are known to everyone in their school. Everyone knows that some little girls are so obsessed with it that they almost go crazy.”
"That is to say, the post office and Xinhua Bookstore in the provincial capital cannot buy it, otherwise their schools will have to have one copy."
Sun Hu said happily: "It seems that I am still conservative."
As a result, the plan to print 50,000 copies of "Yanhe" was successfully passed at the meeting.
After receiving the order, the state-owned No. 523 Factory ran its machines at full capacity and went all out to print Yanhe Literature.
And as these 50,000 copies of the magazine spread across the country, more and more young intellectuals saw Jiang Yulou's two love poems and knew his name.
In a factory in the provincial capital, a young worker is holding the sixth issue of "Yanhe" magazine in his hands and reading poems to his fellow workers:
"...
You can see each other at one glance, and one step is like a heavy city.
Love is separated by mountains and seas, and mountains and seas cannot be leveled. "
"This is the love poem "Mountain Wood" written by our Shaanxi poet Jiang Yulou. This poem is a beautiful ode to love across classes! Now is a new era. We workers are the masters of the country, and we must bravely pursue our own love!"
"Okay, this poem is great!"
"It expresses our working class's yearning for love!"
"This is a truly good poem. When I get off work, I will also buy this issue of "Yanhe"."
"Go together, go together."
Beijing, on the campus of Peking University.
"First of all, it is best not to meet each other, so that we can not fall in love.
…
Ande and you are inseparable, so we don't have to worry about missing each other in life and death. "
A fair-looking girl was reading a poem crazily. This poem expressed her inner feelings. She fell in love with it the first time she read it.
In my early twenties, when I have beautiful fantasies about love, how can I resist such a poignant love poem?
After reading this poem, she thought a lot about her future sweetheart, but mostly about the poet Jiang Yulou whom she had never met.
What a talented man he is!
