After rebirth, I became a great writer

Chapter 395 Can this novel be recommended?

In Kyoto, the conference hall of the Ministry of Culture, the third plenary meeting on the library collection activity has just come to an end.

The members participating in the meeting gradually dispersed, but several bigwigs from the cultural circle gathered in the office of Tang Quanli, the Minister of Culture.

For example, Director Shi of the Ministry of Education, Zhu Yanlin, President of the Writers Association Headquarters, and several deputy ministers and vice presidents.

"Everyone, there are only less than two months left. We must hurry up the review work of our three companies! Lao Shi and President Zhu, you must be careful to keep an eye on it."

Tang Quanli called his secretary to serve tea to everyone while talking about work.

"Haha, there are not many books with educational significance in this session, and there are even fewer submissions online. I am not under much pressure, so it depends on President Zhu's side."

Elder Shi replied with a reply.

The library collection activity is said to be organized by three companies together. In fact, the Education Bureau is the most leisurely because the organizer is the Ministry of Culture. After all, the National Library is under its jurisdiction, and the Writers Association has the most works to review.

"Minister Tang, there is no problem with the Writers Association. We have already drawn personnel from the Writers Associations of various provinces."

Zhu Yanlin gave a guarantee.

"That's good. I'll say to Director Shi Da. Since you have few submissions, why don't you help us share the burden."

Tang Quanli looked at Director Shi's comfortable look and teased.

"Don't, you have a specialty in your profession! Let's just follow the scores. Besides, the small contribution does not mean that we have a small workload. In order to change this phenomenon, we have all taken the initiative to ask for an article."

"Haha, I've heard a little about this. Didn't you go to Kyoto University last month? How about it? How did you talk to that kid?"

Tang Quanli continued to quip.

"Old Tang, you can't say anything nonsense. I went to see that boy not to go to make an appointment, but to criticize him. His writing of "Fat Ball" made us hold an extra plenary meeting. After a long quarrel, do you think it should be?"

Director Shi would not admit that he had made an appointment with the manuscript alone. No matter what, he is also a ministerial official and must have a style.

"Haha, that's right, it's time to criticize that little guy."

Everyone in the house responded, and even Zhu Yanlin, who had always admired Chen Tianhong, nodded and said yes.

This kid is really too jumpy. It is reasonable to dare to confide everyone.

The advantage is that it will not be criticized for being in vain. "Fat Ball" and "Border Town" have been confirmed to be selected.

"After my criticism and education, Tianhong admitted his mistakes and said he wanted to write a novel about educational subjects to make up for it."

"Oh? Educational novels?"

Hearing Director Shi's words, everyone became interested.

Zhu Yanlin even turned his face to look at his secretary. The secretary shook his head at him and signaled that there was no new contribution from Chen Tianhong to be sent over recently.

"Yes, that kid agreed to me like that. I gave him two months. It's been a month now. I don't know what he wrote. Do you think I want to urge me?"

Director Shi was asking in the story, but he had actually taken out his cell phone.

Fortunately, the phone was not connected quickly this time like Zhu Yanlin.

"Hey, Director Shi, I'm just about to call you. You want me to write the article. It's a novel. I'll send it to the public email address. Do you still need to send it to you privately?"

"No need, by the way, don't you still write a book to promote culture?"

Director Shi glanced at Tang Quanli and turned the volume of his phone up.

"I'm going to write, but I'll have to wait a few days."

"Don't worry, there is still time. Let's do it first. I'll go and read your new novel."

As soon as the phone was hung up, Tang Quanli asked with a weird look: "Old Tang, why did I just hear the child say you asked him to write it? Also, he has prepared two more books? One of them promotes culture?"

"Ahem, let's talk about it later. Lao Tang, log in to your email address and read the novels sent by Tianhong."

Director Shi coughed twice and covered up the topic.

Everyone was not worried, and got up and surrounded the computer. Tang Quanli made a crackling operation, logged in to the public email, refreshed several times, and finally received an email from Chen Tianhong.

Clicking on the attachment next time, it took a few seconds to download it. As soon as the attachment was opened, everyone was stunned when they looked at the number of words displayed in the document.

That's a full six figure!

"Five hundred thousand words? I read that right?"

A deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture said in disbelief.

"It's not wrong, what's that? He set a record of writing million words in a month."

"But that's online literature. Can it be compared with traditional literature?"

"Hey, Minister Han, your position is wrong. You have forgotten "The Ball of Fat."

"Ahem, I don't mean that. I mean a long traditional novel, written in one month, is it of quality?"

"You can tell if it's right or not. Why do you guys, are you watching with me or do I have someone print it out?"

"Forget it, Lao Tang, I'll go back and read it. It's more than 500,000 words, and I won't be able to finish it in a short time. I'll say goodbye. By the way, Tianhong did say that day that day that I would write another book about promoting culture."

Director Shi was the first to say goodbye and specially confirmed the information for Tang Quanli before leaving.

Then Zhu Yanlin also said goodbye, and in the end only Tang Quanli and his secretary were left in the office.

"Wolf Totem? Is it a writing about wolf? Is there anything worth learning about the wolf? Is this really a novel about education?"

With doubts, Tang Quanli read the main text.

The story of "Wolf Totem" takes place in the last piece of the primitive grassland near the border in the late 1960s.

The protagonist Chen Zhen is a young man with a certain level of culture. He volunteered to come to the NMG prairie to experience it and blended with the herdsmen because of the wolf.

Local herders retain the ecological characteristics of nomadic peoples, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, water to eat water, relying on the grassland to shed horses, and together with the strong and cunning wolf, maintaining the ecological balance of the grassland.

The protagonist Chen Zhen met the most prestigious old man among the herdsmen, Bilig, as his father. He learned a lot about the grassland, especially the stories of the wolf on the grassland.

He discovered a very interesting phenomenon. Herders hated wolves because they were enemies who invaded their homes and would eat their free cattle and sheep. At the same time, they were in awe of wolves and regarded wolves as worshipped wolves totems, learning wisdom and team spirit from them, as well as hunting talents.

They even have a custom called sky burial. Whenever a herdsman dies, their families will take off all the clothes of the deceased, then roll up the body with a felt and put it on the carriage, and send it to the sky burial. After they arrive, they will whip the horses to run quickly until the deceased is pushed off the carriage.

Then the family members who followed would open the felt and turn the deceased up toward the sky, as simple and open as they had just come to the world. At this time, the deceased already belonged to the wolf, and the wolf sent him to Tengri (the sky).

As a result, the protagonist Chen Zhen developed a strong interest in the "wolf culture" among herders. He once witnessed female herders and children fighting with the wolf who attacked the flock with bare hands. He also followed Bilig to witness how the pack of wolves successfully hunted hundreds of yellow sheep under the command of the leader wolf.

In order to study the wolf, he even secretly left the young wolf to feed during a wolf nest activity, hoping to explore the habits of the wolf and the philosophy of the wolf through the growth of a little wolf.

Unfortunately, it took a long time. Because of the greed of some people, they robbed the food stored by the wolf. In order to retaliate, the wolves attacked the military and horse herds. Foreign cadres ignored the opposition of the herdsmen and began a large-scale battle to hunt the wolves. Modern weapons caused the wolves to suffer heavy losses.

The dignity and spirit of sacrifice of wolves before death shocked many people who participated in the hunting and frightened the cadres. While carrying out the campaign to destroy wolves, they increased the amount of grazing on the grassland, destroying the ecological balance of the grassland, and the grassland environment began to deteriorate.

At the same time, the little wolf raised by Chen Zhen eventually died because of his untamed spirit. The old man Bilig, who explained the wolf totem to the protagonist, also passed away. He became the last person on the grassland to practice sky burial.

The sad thing that makes people feel is that the White Wolf King who has also become a lonely wolf.

Finally, Chen Zhen returned to Kyoto, and the herdsmen on the grassland ended their nomadic life and began to settle down. The wolf on the grassland basically disappeared. The sandstorm from the Mongolian grassland had covered the sky and avoided the sun and ravaged the surrounding cities. Humans finally tasted the bitter fruit they planted with their own hands.

It was already a week later when Tang Quanli finished reading the story of "Wolf Totem". After all, he could not read books all day. As the minister of the Ministry of Culture, he had a lot of work, so he sacrificed his rest time.

After reading it, he was in a very complicated mood. He didn't know how to define this novel. He said it was OK. Some of the "wolf culture" views described in the story were not correct. He said it was bad. He also contained national, philosophy, religious thoughts, and even ecological consciousness.

"Forget it, forgot, since it's what Lao Shi wants, then ask him what he thinks."

After muttering, Tang Quanli picked up his cell phone and called Director Shi.

It took a while for the phone to be connected, and the sound on the other side of the phone was very noisy, as if many people were arguing about something.

"Hey, Minister Tang, what's the matter? What am I busy with?"

Director Shi's voice was exhausted.

"What? Are you busy? I have nothing to do, I just want to ask if you have finished watching "Wolf Totem"?"

"I finished reading it, I finished reading it last night. I'm having a meeting to study that now."

"Research?"

"Yes, I'm almost making a big fuss about studying whether this novel has educational significance. I won't tell you first, do you have time at noon? I'll go to your place for a cup of tea and take a break."

“Available.”

After hanging up Director Shi's phone number, Tang Quanli called Zhu Yanlin again. As a result, this man had just finished watching "Wolf Totem" and was in a state that he could not be better than him. After hearing Director Shi was about to go to the Ministry of Culture for tea at noon, he said that he would come too.

So, a week later, three bigwigs from the cultural circle gathered in the office again.

Director Shi was the last one to arrive. He sat on the sofa and shouted that Tang Quanli would hurry up and serve tea.

"Lao Shi, what's the result of your conversation?"

Tang Quanli and Zhu Yanlin exchanged glances and asked first.

"There is no result, half of the people who support and deny each account for. What do you two think?"

Director Shi picked up the tea that his secretary had just given him and said while blowing the wind.

"Haha, Minister Tang and I have different opinions. I think "Wolf Totem" is worth recommending. Just based on the story itself, through dozens of organic and coherent stories of wolves, the survival strategy of wolves, the family affection and friendship among the wolf clan, and the relationship between wolves and everything on the grassland, we can learn a lot of positive "wolf culture"."

"Especially the realistic description at the end can cause us to reflect on the ecological environment. Under the interference of humans, the wolves became victims and the grassland began to desertify. I couldn't help but think of the sandstorm I encountered in Kyoto in the early years. Isn't this caused by our destruction of the natural ecology?"

Zhu Yanlin expressed his point of view, and he recognized the novel.

"Yes, President Zhu is right. There are many spirits in the wolf that are worth learning from, such as the spirit of crisis and struggle that exists all the time, and the spirit of teamwork and the overall situation. It should be said that this is the wolf's way, which can encourage young people with ambition to unite like wolves and conquer the world together to conquer the world.

In terms of ecology, wolves have also made an indispensable contribution to the prosperity of the entire grassland and the ecological balance."

Director Shi took over the conversation and spoke in a slight manner. He sounded more agreeable than Zhu Yanlin.

"What you are talking about is the surface, we also need to look at the deep meaning. After reading it, don't you think the descriptions in the book say that the farming people are meek and obedient, and the nomadic people are brave and unyielding. Isn't this a theory of pros and cons?"

"Also, you can't just look at the good side of the wolf. It bites the herdsmen's flock and attacks humans. Even if you eat enough, you will bite it to death when you encounter prey. In my opinion, its nature is cruel and violent. Can such a "wolf culture" be promoted? Can such a novel be recommended?"

Tang Quanli held a different view and even made fierce rebuttals.

"Well, what Lao Tang said makes sense. This kid is indeed a bit insidious. Migrant workers represented by Lao Wangtou in the book poached wolf's frozen yellow sheep, forcing the wolf to besiege the army and horses, and also used the stolen swan eggs as bait to shoot the swans.

Even those foreign cadres created the demise of the wolf pack and caused great damage to the grassland. I have reason to suspect that he was deliberately smearing our image in the Central Plains."

Director Shi suddenly slapped the table and became indignant again.

His actions made Zhu Yanlin and Tang Quanli not know what to say for a moment.

Why is this guy not at all stance? Is there a fence-bearing man pouring over there?

"Old Shi, I finally know why you are so worried about the meeting. You are just a double-faced person!"

Tang Quanli cursed with a smile.

"What is a double-faced thing? What you said makes sense! Do you two think "Wolf Totem" can be distributed and promoted as an educational novel?"

Director Shi threw the problem to the two of them. He picked up the teacup and drank the water on his own.

His question also has another meaning, which is whether it can be used as an educational subject, meaning that he fully recognizes that "Wolf Totem" was included in the National Library's classic books.

Tang Quanli and Zhu Yanlin had no objection to this, but whether they could be regarded as educational novels? One supports them and the other does not.

After exchanging eyes again, the two of them carried the ball back.

"You Education Bureau decides for yourself."

"Haha, if we make a fuss, I'll go here to ask you what you are doing. Forget it, I'll call that brat and ask him to write an educational novel for me. That's how he deals with me?"

Director Shi pretended to be angry and took out his cell phone and called Chen Tianhong in front of the two of them.

(End of this chapter)