That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 26 If you dare to use me, I will spend it

"In retail sales, you can weigh ten or eight kilograms a day and earn at most seven or eight yuan, and you still have to deal with gangsters.
Wholesale starts at 5 pounds, and if you find the right person, you can clear the money and goods in [-] minutes.”

Li Ye told Hao Jian about business experience on the spot. Within a few minutes, Hao Jian's eyes were shining brightly.

The various wholesale markets that emerged in the Great China at the end of the 80s gave birth to countless "rich families", a typical representative of which is the place where the story of "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky" takes place.

These wholesale markets are still very dynamic many years later, so it turns out that wholesale is a relatively easy way to make money.

The provincial capital is only [-] kilometers away from Qingshui County. It has a large population and enough middle- and high-income groups. It is a potential treasure land waiting to be developed.

Although sesame candy is an inconspicuous snack, it meets all the requirements for developing market channels and primitive accumulation of funds, so Li Ye chose Hao Jian and asked him to test the waters for him.

Hao Jian was already moved, but he did not blindly agree to Li Ye, but expressed his difficulties.

"Brother, to tell you the truth, my family needs money very much, and I am willing to go to the provincial capital to try my luck, but I have no capital!"

On weekdays, Hao Jian can only pour a basin of sesame candy, which weighs [-] kilograms, with a cost of five or six yuan and a turnover of more than ten yuan. If he wants to do a wholesale business of hundreds of kilograms, he can't afford that much money.

Li Ye thought for a while and asked, "How much capital do you lack?"

Hao Jian gritted his teeth and said, "It requires at least 50 yuan and a bicycle."

After saying these two requests, Hao Jian felt uneasy. He was very afraid that Li Ye would leave in anger.

After all, if you calculate the cost of more than 100 kilograms of sesame candy, you will know that Hao Jian's two requests basically mean that he has nothing to lose.

But Li Ye said: "Then hurry up and go to the provincial capital! If you think it is feasible, come to the County No. [-] Middle School to find me."

Hao Jian watched Li Ye finish his sentence and leave. He was stunned for a long time.

[Did he agree? 】

Hao Jian still didn't believe it.

If Hao Jian had regarded Li Ye as a "child" who was easy to coax an hour ago, then now he had no intention of looking down upon him at all.

Li Ye first took Hao Jian back to get the sesame candy, then explained to him the concept of "wholesale", and then gave Hao Jian five yuan of "activity funds".
This series of decisions were straightforward, decisive and neat, making Hao Jian feel that he was not facing an eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy, but the village chief who kept his word.

After being stunned for a long time, Hao Jian came to his senses and walked to the county hospital against the cold wind.

He wanted to get medicine for his children first. Since he had money, he might as well get a few more bottles first and spend a dollar or two on them.

Hao Jian has never been a pedantic person. Although he still doesn't understand why Li Ye believes in him so much, he also vaguely guesses that he must have something that Li Ye needs and is worthy of Li Ye's use.

If you dare to use me, I will spend it.
If you don't bite me if you have too many lice, if you don't worry if you have too many debts, how can you still bite me to death?

Anyway, I'm not at a loss.

. . . .

Hao Jian felt that it was not a loss, and Li Ye also felt satisfied.

Hao Jian only calculated the financial costs and felt that Li Ye suffered from this cooperation.

But Li Ye calculated the human cost more comprehensively, and the more important risk cost.

It is still risky to be an individual these days. He plans to train Hao Jian as an agent and hide himself behind the scenes. If something goes wrong, there will be room for mediation.

Li Ye knew that Hao Jian was a "profiteer", but what their "entrepreneurial" business needed was not honest and loyal scalpers, but ambitious and courageous warriors.

In these days, I am not afraid that you will be ambitious, but I am afraid that you will not dare to do it. As long as you "do it", you have taken the most important first step.

As for whether Hao Jian can be controlled by Li Ye in the future, that is another matter. If you want to make the first pot of gold, you have to take the first step and try, right?

Back at County No. [-] Middle School, Li Ye went straight to his dormitory.

After arriving at the dormitory, he took out a wad of bills from the cotton wool inside the pillow and counted a total of one hundred and five yuan.

This is all the funds that Li Ye can use now, most of which he has saved in the past few months.

After all, there used to be Lu Jingyao who couldn't keep much money in his pocket.

Now his family gives him three to forty yuan a month, a meal with two dishes only costs more than a dozen yuan a month, and a bag of food every two days only costs six or seven yuan a month for Qianmen.

There are no krypton gold games at the moment. You can’t spend it all no matter how much you spend. You can’t spend it all.

But if he and Hao Jian really start a money-making plan to go to the provincial capital, this "huge sum" of more than 100 yuan will not be enough.

The capital for a small game in the early stage should be enough. If you diversify into something else in the later stage, or even assign Hao Jian to go south to catch the tide, you won't be able to start the game without a million or eight thousand capital.

[Let’s do this for now, it’s not bad to make some pocket money. 】

Li Ye thought about it and was not too anxious. His basic requirement was that he could earn enough money to live comfortably before entering college next year.

With a hundred thousand yuan in his pocket, he rode a crane down to Yangzhou. He had enough taste in his previous life to appreciate the difference between a wealthy college life and a moneyless college life.

. .

In the afternoon, as soon as Li Ye entered the classroom, he saw a circle of people surrounding Xia Yue, many of whom were from foreign classes, and they all looked excited and envious, which was very abnormal.

Li Ye glanced at it for a few times and didn't pay attention, but after walking to the seat and sitting down, Xia Yue started to say strange things. "As educated youth in the new era, we must use our knowledge to create a better life. Ten years of hard work have condensed our fighting spirit and given us the strength to be proud."

"We must not be like parasites, relying on our parents and family, enjoying superior material and not being satisfied, and spiritually superior to our classmates."

Li Ye raised his eyelids coldly, just in time to meet Xia Yue's provocative gaze, and immediately understood that she was referring to Sang and Huai.

But maybe Li Ye's eyes were too sharp, or maybe Xia Yue had been frightened by Li Ye recently. She only had eye contact with Li Ye for a few tenths of a second before turning her head and looking away.

This is like a little teddy with a rope around its neck, barking happily, suddenly seeing an "honest and humble" Chinese pastoral dog, and instantly feeling suppressed.

But Xia Yue's words resonated with many people around him, and they all echoed, making Li Ye feel a little ridiculous.

Ten years of hard work is indeed worthy of recognition, but family conditions cannot be despised.

Countless students from poor families have become the rich generation through their own efforts, so shouldn’t their next generation be able to spend their father’s money with peace of mind?
Only by looking at problems rationally and constantly making up for one's own shortcomings can we surpass those who have pioneered and beat the previous waves to death on the beach.

When a poor person has ambition, the key lies in ambition, not poverty.

Li Ye was in no mood to argue with them, and Xia Yue and the others didn't name them, so why bother stepping on that shit?

But he still wanted to know the whole story, so he asked his deskmate Wen Leyu what was going on.

Wen Leyu curled his lips and said: "Lu Jingyao wrote to Xia Yue, showing off that she published a poem and earned five yuan and fifty cents in royalties. She spent a lot of your money before, and now that she has earned money, she feels free." "Noble"

"Fees?" Li Ye suddenly felt enlightened.

"Well, it's only five dollars?" Wen Leyu whispered, sounding quite comforting.

But Li Ye's mood was different.

Yes, I can earn royalties!

Is this routine of Wenzhao Gong vulgar?

Vulgar, too vulgar.

Is this model of earning royalties a bad one?

It sucks, it sucks.

But it is undeniable that earning royalties is the most direct, simplest, most effective, and risk-free way to make money in this era.

No need to run errands, no need to go out, no need to nod and bow to customers, just a piece of paper and a story in your mind can be exchanged for money.

Li Ye feels reliable, especially now that Guo Jia has just clarified the standard for royalties.

In fact, if we really want to discuss it seriously, the royalties of Great Celestial Dynasty have been declining.

Let’s not talk about Lu Xun’s time when he became a celebrity by relying on royalties. Even after 77, authors who lived on royalties also experienced a very nourishing spring.

In 77, the State Publishing Administration issued the "Notice on the Trial Implementation of Remuneration and Subsidy Measures for News Publishing", which stipulated that the author's remuneration should be 2-7 yuan per [-] words.

In 80, Group D of the National Publishing Bureau formulated a new standard for royalties, which was raised to 3-10 yuan per thousand words. For more than ten years, authors' royalties were based on "basic royalties + royalties for additional printings."

In 84, this standard was raised again, reaching a level of 6-20 yuan per [-] words.

In this era when pork costs less than one yuan per catty and rice costs more than two cents per catty, this remuneration standard is extremely high.

think about it!A worker's monthly salary is only three to forty yuan, which is no more than the author's fee for a few thousand words.

How rare were households worth 80 yuan in the [-]s?Compared with future generations, it can still be considered a middle-class level, right?

But many authors can reach this standard with just two books.

But in later generations, "author" was almost directly linked to "poverty", which shows how big the gap is.

Of course, there are not many publications in this era, and the number of publishing houses is also small. It is still difficult for authors to publish articles and novels.

But for Li Ye, this difficulty is only "a little bit" difficult at most.

In his previous life, Li Ye wrote online articles and earned royalties in his spare time. His writing routines and reading accumulation were enough.

In this era where second-rate martial arts from Hong Kong and Taiwan can both go sideways, are the high-quality online novels from later generations not going to be massacred indiscriminately?

Don’t look down on Internet literature. Both Internet literature and martial arts are popular literature. Internet literature is still developed on the basis of martial arts novels.

The authors of high-quality online articles may not be as good as Gu Liangjin, but they can definitely be compared with other martial arts authors.

And when "The Condor" was released, weren't martial arts not recognized by mainstream literature?But isn’t it popular all over the country?

[Well, how many words are there in "Fights Break the Sphere"?Isn’t it a bit ahead of its time? "Looking for Qin"?Or is it ahead of its time? 】

[How about "Latent"?Is it in line with the background of the times? 】

Li Ye pulled out a stack of stationery and began to list and analyze the works that best fit this era.

(End of this chapter)