1980 My Literary Era

Chapter 69 "The Cliff" Released Booklet
In the 80s, the term spy war novels was not popular, and the public still classified it as military-themed novels.

Since the 50s, there have been many outstanding military spy novels in China.

Due to political reasons in the past few years, the domestic literary world has withered, and it has not recovered until recent years. This cannot be separated from the leadership of insightful people in the country and cultural circles.

The explosion of "Contemporary-Spy Wars Album" has largely aroused the enthusiasm of domestic readers for novels about spy wars, and similar scenes have appeared in later generations in this period.

In 1982, Mr. Li Yu completed the creation of the novel "Harbin Under the Night", with a full text of 71 words.

The novel was first serialized in "Harbin Daily" and published by Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House in June of the same year.The first edition printed 6 copies, and it was reprinted 11 times within two years, with sales exceeding 7 copies.

Afterwards, "Harbin Under the Night" was once popular all over the country through sound and TV adaptations.

Spy war-themed novels are easily accepted by domestic readers because they have strong suspense attributes and special era backgrounds, but any works with acceptable quality can achieve good results.

Lin Weimin's "The Cliff" is the only novel in the album, and this is enough to see the quality of this novel.

The popularity of the album made the humanities club elated. At this time, Lin Weimin received a notice from the editor-in-chief, Qin Chaoyang, that the club hoped to release a booklet for "The Cliff".

Lin Weimin looked at Tan Chaoyang in disbelief, "Editor, are you serious?"

"Of course it is true. Readers have a high degree of recognition for our album this issue. Most of the letters mentioned your "Cliff", hoping to release it separately, so our editorial department and the leaders of the agency have considered it comprehensively. For a moment, I decided to respect the ideas of the readers."

"That's great." Lin Weimin clapped his hands happily, "How much is the manuscript fee standard?"

Tan Chaoyang's face suddenly became displeased, "Vulgar!"

Lin Weimin was taken aback, "Why, the club still plans to use my novel for nothing?"

Qin Chaoyang laughed angrily at him, "Look at your awareness! Don't worry, the manuscript fee is not bad, ten yuan per thousand words."

A thousand words and ten yuan, this standard is not low, if it is placed in an ordinary editorial department or publishing house, it must be the first-class powerful writer to get it.

The full text of "The Cliff" is 20 words, so the income of 2000 yuan can be earned just by publishing it.

This is not counting the manuscript fee paid to him by "Contemporary" at that time. The standard for the manuscript fee paid to "Cliff" by the editorial department of "Contemporary" was 600 yuan per thousand characters. The income brought in has exceeded [-] yuan.

This is 1980 yuan in 600!

Otherwise, there is still a future for writing a book!

"Okay, then "The Cliff" will be handed over to the agency for publication."

To ask for Lin Weimin's opinion is purely a matter of situation. Even his people are from the Guowen Society. Can the novel go to other units?

Of course, Qin Chaoyang definitely couldn't say this in person.

Anyway, the company spent a lot of money, and Lin Weimin couldn't fault him.

The news that "The Cliff" was about to be published spread quickly, and all the colleagues in the editorial department came to congratulate Lin Weimin.

After thanking his colleagues for their blessings one by one, Lin Weimin made a mug of tea for himself, and sat comfortably at his desk enjoying the rare leisure time.

It is already the beginning of December, and if we calculate it in AD, we will enter 1981 in less than a month.

When "Yula's Death" and "Latent" were released before, the money in his hand had just broken through a thousand.

During this period, I spent nearly 400 yuan on daily necessities, going back to my hometown in Northeast China to do errands, and funding Shi Tiesheng’s hospitalization. I have about [-] yuan left.

The house in his hometown was sold for 800 yuan, and with the income from "The Cliff", his savings have reached an astonishing 5000 yuan.

Lin Weimin looked at the sky outside the window, thinking in his heart, should he also buy a place to live?

From the 60s to the present, domestic cities have implemented the welfare housing allocation policy. This is a unique form of housing allocation in the planned economy era, and it was not abolished until nearly 2000.

At this time, the main criteria for judging the housing allocation are non-economic factors such as length of service, factory experience, and family structure. In a unit, it often happens that old colleagues who have been working for decades are blushing and neck thick because of the benefits of housing allocation. There have been a lot of situations where gifts are taken away from relationships and entrusted with favors.

With Lin Wei's working age at the Guowen Society in the early days of the Republic of China, he will be allocated a house, at least ten years later, he can't afford to wait, and right now he happens to have money in hand.

In later generations, housing prices in Yanjing are firmly in the forefront of the country, and ordinary people like Lin Weimin are far behind.

But it’s different now. Houses in Yanjing are also more expensive than other cities in China, but there are quite a few of them.

It's not that you can't think of a courtyard house if you work hard.

Thinking of the courtyard houses that cost hundreds of millions in later generations, but now only 8000 yuan, Lin Weimin couldn't help feeling an urge to rush out to pick up the leaks.

But he calmed down and thought about it. There was still no rush to buy a courtyard house. He asked someone to ask first. Much more convenient.

Buying a house at this time is not as convenient as later generations, because with the policy of welfare housing distribution, ordinary people may not live well, but most urban people do not lack houses.

One of the most common situations in which people buy a house is when their children are about to get married. People think about buying a house because they have short working years, cannot be allocated a house, and feel that the living conditions in the dormitory are too poor.

Moreover, everyone’s income levels are similar these days. Those who earn more than 100 yuan per month must be senior cadres, intellectuals or technicians. A dual-career family may not be able to save more than 200 yuan a year. If there are many children in the family, It is normal to make ends meet, and it is not easy to save enough money to buy a house.

Lin Weimin has some money now, but it is still not enough to buy a courtyard house he likes.

Most of the mansions of the dignitaries in the previous dynasty have now become important offices for government departments, and some of them have even become cultural protection units.

Once again, the first class is the rich people in the past. This kind of courtyard house is usually small in scale, and the three entrances are top-notch. There are dozens of households, and the property rights are not clear, so it is troublesome to buy.If you just look at the price, Lin Weimin can still get it if he works hard.

The last one was the Dazayuan before Liberation, which was almost invisible, and there were the most in Nancheng.

Thinking about it this way, the dream of living in a courtyard house is really a long way to go!

(End of this chapter)