The major media outlets have reproduced it one after another, which proves the attitude above and saves Xiang Nan from an unnecessary disaster.
It is precisely because of the reprinting by major media that the popularity of "Garland Under the Mountain" has greatly increased, becoming one of the most popular in 1979.
Because it was so popular, the People's Publishing House sent people to Tianfu to ask Xiang Nan for permission to publish it. Even People's Broadcasting Station sent a letter to Xiang Nan, hoping to be allowed to change it into a radio drama.
And Xiang Nan's fame has reached a whole new level with the popularity of this book. It can be said that it is a household name, known to all women and children.
And what Xiang Nan gained was not just an increase in fame.
In terms of royalties, dozens of media reprints brought Xiang Nan thousands of royalties.
At that time, according to national regulations, the remuneration for newspapers and magazines was three to ten yuan per thousand words.
The higher the quality of the manuscript and the greater the author's reputation, the higher the remuneration will be.
"Garland Under the Mountain" is an epoch-making and excellent work, and Xiang Nan's name is well-known throughout the country. Therefore, magazines and newspapers offer very high remuneration, basically seven or eight yuan per thousand words. .
This is already a considerable price for a young author. Ye Wenyu has been the editor of "Yanjing Pictorial" for so long that he can usually write essays and essays, but he can only get four yuan for a thousand words.
The full text of "Wreaths Under the Mountain" has 95,000 words. Calculated at 7 yuan for 1,000 words, the total is 665 yuan. Coupled with serialization in dozens of newspapers, Xiang Nan earned 12,000 yuan in royalties from this article alone.
Twelve thousand yuan in 1979 is definitely a huge sum of money. You know, the wages of workers at that time were only forty or fifty yuan per month. Xiang Nan's twelve thousand yuan is something that ordinary people would never be able to achieve in their lifetime.
Moreover, this is only the royalties paid for serialization in newspapers and magazines, and does not include the royalties for publishing by the People's Publishing House and the royalties for adaptations by the People's Broadcasting Station.
According to final statistics, Xiang Nan earned more than 53,000 yuan from this book alone.
In the early 1980s, with so much money, one could be considered extremely wealthy.
In addition to money and fame, Xiang Nan also successfully joined the Writers Association with the help of this department and became an honorable member.
As a member of the Writers Association, you can communicate and discuss with your colleagues; you can participate in various activities organized by the Writers Association; you can be recommended by the Writers Association to participate in literary awards; you can even take a temporary job in the Writers Association to experience life in a local area... In short, there are benefits A lot.
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After making money, Xiang Nan has to invest.
He knows that money is becoming less and less valuable.
In 1979, ten thousand yuan was still a huge sum of money, enough for ordinary people to earn a lifetime. Forty years later, a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan will be nothing more than a social animal. So it’s best to spend the money, otherwise the more you save, the more it will depreciate.
Since the real estate market has not yet been liberalized, properties are not privately owned and private sales are not yet allowed, so Xiang Nan focuses his investment on antique calligraphy and paintings.
Hide gold in troubled times, buy antiques in prosperous times. Xiang Nan knows that the economy will get better and better in the future, and antiques will become more and more valuable.
Its value-added rate is even higher than that of real estate.
So he visited the cultural relics store in Tianfu and bought more than ten antique treasures one after another.
At that time, most people did not have enough to eat and naturally had no time to collect antiques, so the prices of antiques were very low. The official kiln porcelain from the Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong dynasties only cost a few hundred yuan.
In Xiang Nan's opinion, it was like buying cabbage, so he sold more than a dozen items at a time, just like robbing. According to his estimation, the antiques he bought would cost at least two to three hundred million if they were to be sold at an auction house in the future.
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And while Xiang Nan is busy creating and visiting art stores in his spare time, time is also passing by day by day.
In the second half of 1979, Xiang Nan wrote two more works: "Triumph at Midnight" and "Spirit and Flesh", which were published in the magazines "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" and "Harvest" respectively. After it was published, it once again aroused strong responses.
In the second half of the year, because there was no longer the threat of war, the atmosphere of the art troupe deteriorated again.
There are more and more people in the military camp who wear bell-bottom pants, listen to Hong Kong and Taiwan tapes, gather in groups to play poker, circulate magazines, and secretly pick up people.
Xiang Nan knew that the art troupe would be disbanded in half a year at most, so he didn't want to be a bad person at this time, so he simply let them go. As long as it's not too much.
As for the political commissar, he is busy being transferred. He has had enough of staying in the art troupe. He has been a political commissar since eight years ago and has been serving until now. With his merits and qualifications, he should have been promoted long ago.
Previously, it was because Xiang Nan was in college, so he had to stay and look after the family. Although Xiang Nan came back later, the war also started, and his transfer was stopped again.
Now that the war is over and Xiang Nan has returned to the art troupe, it's time for him to move up. Therefore, his management of the military camp was also somewhat lax.
The two top leaders didn't care much, which made the team members more and more reckless. Just like the chirping cicadas in midsummer, they chirp so unscrupulously and have no idea that cold autumn is coming.
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At the end of 1979, the military region gave rewards based on merit.
For his outstanding performance, Xiang Nan won the first-class personal merit award from the military region and the title of combat hero.
However, it has only been a year since he was promoted to full leader. Therefore, he was not promoted or promoted, and he continued to serve as the leader of the cultural troupe.
Xiang Nan accepted this calmly.
He knew in his heart that the higher he went, the harder it would be to climb. For most people, if they work hard all their lives, it would be great if they could become the group leader.
At the end of the year, Xiaoping came all the way from Yanjing to see him.
The two had a good time making love, which made many people see it and feel sad in their hearts.
Xiaoping was in the art troupe and spent the Spring Festival with Xiang Nan.
"Xiao Ping, you are really different from before. It seems that going to college is really about cultivating people." Xiao Suizi looked at Xiao Ping and said with envy.
I remember when Xiaoping first came to the art troupe, she had low self-esteem and was timid, so she had to rely on her to protect her from being bullied.
Now she is confident and generous, and her clothes and conversation are of a high standard. At first glance, she is someone from the capital, not someone who can be compared with Tianfu.
"Suizi, actually your foundation is better than mine. I think you should also go to college." Xiaoping said with a calm smile, "After all, you can't stay in the art troupe forever."
She is now not only a proud college student, but also a nationally renowned songwriter. This year, she also wrote "Female Soldiers Chasing the Troops", "Floating Flower Headband" and many other works, which also aroused great response after being published.
Success in career and nourishment in love allowed Xiaoping to naturally get rid of her inferiority and timidity and grow into a confident, optimistic, generous and positive person.
Now, even if Little Ballet, Wu Baozhu, Sun Yanyan and others bully her again, she will not take a step back.
Xiao Suizi nodded when she heard what she said.
