10: My years in America
"After retiring, I earned my first million in my life in the United States!"
When Xiao Han saw this title, he thought he had read it wrong. He stroked his glasses again and looked at it word by word, and found that the title was really correct, especially the one million words were deliberately written a little bigger, which made people recognize it at first glance.
What Xiao Han didn't know was that after experiencing the influence of the title party in later generations, Qin He was contributing to readers, story meetings, and music magazines with clear purpose.
Before writing the article, Qin He carefully read through the contents of several famous magazines in his memory, and he found a very interesting question.
That is, the style of readers' magazines is mostly positive in terms of values, close to life, positive energy, and finally, it is admiring foreign countries and fascinating foreign countries!
Many articles describe a better life abroad, and compare domestic people with real objects to educate children, as if abroad is the correct answer.
The styles of story club magazines are mostly tragic themes, curiosity, satire, especially those from 2000 years ago. They are basically in this style. The style of story clubs in the 1990s is particularly ironic, which is very satirical, satirized by reality, satirized by society, satirized by officials, lead section chiefs, directors, clerks, and doormen, and has a very strong sense of reality.
As for Zhiyin Magazine, the style of this era is completely a skewer, strange star secrets, and stories about a well-known figure and a certain actress. In a word, the more serious the emotional dispute is, the more bloody the Zhiyin Magazine likes it.
As for these three magazines, Qin He liked to read the most when he was a child, it should be a story lesson. After all, many of the stories in it were amazing. Later, he gradually entered a harmonious society, and many articles were restrained a lot, and gradually he did not have the same taste.
If Qin He’s favorite magazine in this era is definitely Zhiyin Magazine. As for why?
Because it gives high royalties!
Qin He once watched a program in later generations, and it seemed that a host joked about Zhiyin Magazine. It probably means that Zhiyin Magazine offered a sky-high price for manuscripts. In the 1990s, it was only a thousand words and thousands of yuan.
This price was in the magazine circle at that time, and that was a sky-high price.
It is now 1997. Although Qin He doesn't know how much the manuscript fee for Zhiyin Magazine in this world, after experiencing this period of time, Qin He discovered that the development direction of this parallel world is basically no different from that time he was.
It’s just that there are fewer people, but at the same time there are more people. The more people, it automatically completes the work, life and reputation of celebrities.
Just like that, the world will not stop rotating just because there is no one left.
This may be the self-healing function of parallel worlds.
These three magazines are very famous, so Qin He then contributed to the magazine, and his main target is these three magazines.
Because these three magazines have large sales and are formal, there should be no default on royalties.
Therefore, Qin He carefully wrote twenty or thirty articles in response to the styles of these three magazines, all of which are in line with the styles of these three magazines.
For example, Reader Magazine, the article that editor Xiao Han has seen so far.
Xiao Han was indeed attracted by the title. If there were no one million titles, the submission letter would have been rejected.
Xiao Han touched the thickness of the envelope and frowned a little, but thought that it should be no hurry today, so he decided to take a look at this submission first.
Xiao Han poured himself a cup of tea again, opened the envelope, and a thick stack of paper appeared in his hand.
The article begins with a real-life narrative method. A young man just retired from the Laoshan front line in the 1980s. Because his family is in a poor manner, he decided to go out and try it out.
By chance, the young man came to the United States and relied on hard work to finally save an old couple who had no children. The old couple took him in. Because the old couple opened a factory that was about to go bankrupt, they also gave the young man a job. The young man moved a partner through honesty and hard work, and finally brought the factory back to life. Finally, before the old couple died, they left a will and left their property to the young man, who became a million-dollar rich man from then on.
The whole article is full of honesty, hard work, hard work, and touching, and finally miracles. The will at the end makes young people become millionaires, leaving people with envy, jealousy and hatred guesses.
This is a good article of positive energy and truth, goodness and beauty, which is particularly in line with the style of readers' magazines. Moreover, this article is completely written in the tone of real-life narratives, which always makes people feel too real. This is what I think is the world. Only honesty and hard work can move the old couple, the Americans, and ultimately make him a millionaire.
If this article was published more than 20 years later, Zhihu users would scold this article to the point of being so harsh. Let’s first look at the logic, how can you, an ordinary young man, go to the United States? In addition, Americans believe in guns but not kung fu, and they rely on honesty when doing business in the United States? You are afraid you are unconscious!
But it was precisely in the 1980s and 1990s that Chinese people believed in honesty to move Americans, and they believed that only in the United States did they know that good people were rewarded, so getting millions of property from the old couple was the end of the story they thought they should.
Xiao Han was also moved and was about to reminisce about this article again, but suddenly his eyes swept inside and outside the envelope. When another manuscript was released, his eyes were obviously stunned again because the title on it was.
"The football champion born in the slums of the United States!"
Xiao Han stroked his glasses and began to continue reading this article. Before he knew it, the tea on Xiao Han's desk had already cold. It was not until his colleague passed by his office and knocked on the door that he realized that it was already time to get off work at noon.
Before he knew it, he looked at it for more than an hour. Xiao Han couldn't help but shake his head, picked up the teacup, and just took a sip, he found that the tea was already cold. He stood up helplessly and stretched.
He looked down at the submission letter he had just read, and couldn't help feeling mixed feelings. There were five articles in this letter, each of which was very consistent with the style of readers' magazines. He even felt that each article could be selected as the best article this year, because each article expressed storyliness and positive energy, as well as a positive style, which made him unable to put it down.
If Qin He knew the editor's mood at this time, he would probably make a pig-like laugh. The articles he submitted to readers' magazines included seven points of fake one point of real, and two points were compiled purely from "anti-" positive energy stories composed of later Zhihu jokes.
Relying on the Zhihu style model, these articles appear particularly real, as if only those who have experienced it personally can understand it. If Editor Xiao Han carefully studied these articles, he will find that these articles have a rule, that is, they are basically bitter first and then sweet, and the protagonist's personality must be open and upright, not the kind of negative energy attribute.
At the same time, the editor of Zhiyin Magazine is already at work. Lao Cui, the editor in charge of reviewing manuscripts, is in a bad mood today because he was once again scolded by his boss. His boss called him the manuscripts he sent in the past few months, which were all shit, and it was not stimulating, and it was not deep. Finally, he published a popular article and was sued by the person involved.
"How do I know that the contributors are making up randomly? Who knows if it is true? The private lives of celebrities are already very messy, okay?"
Lao Cui murmured to excuse himself.
The cover of each issue of Zhiyin Magazine is a beautiful star, and most of the contents are revolving around stories such as love and love. The special celebrity’s private lives are particularly popular among readers.
So at some point, Zhiyin Magazine frantically collected manuscripts of such celebrities’ private lives. The more exciting the appointment, the manuscript fee was also astonishingly high, with a thousand words and a thousand yuan. In this month, when the monthly salary was only a few hundred, he made up a few thousand words, which was enough for half a year’s salary.
Originally, celebrities also needed exposure. Every issue of Zhiyin Magazine exposed some blood among celebrities, and everyone laughed at it. You need traffic, I also needed exposure, and everyone defaulted on each other.
However, during this period, the article became more and more popular. I began to name a certain person's private life was chaotic, such as having illegitimate children, such as multi-person sports SM, and so on. These messy things were so messy that the star could bear, so he encountered hard steel.
In fact, this is this era, when many things are written on the storefronts, for example, in many published books, there are wonderful descriptions of various organs, and various secret articles of officials can be seen everywhere.
Who dares to write in later generations?
Who dares?
Chapter completed!