Rebirth of the Wild Age

Song Weiyang didn't set up magazines and magazine agencies to make money, but to find work for his girlfriend.

The first thing is to determine the name, articles of association, office address, business scope, etc. of the magazine, and then take these detailed materials to find an affiliated unit with publishing qualifications. After the affiliated unit agrees and stamps the seal, apply to the publishing management department corresponding to the affiliated unit, and after approval, the magazine can be established.

Song Weiyang did not seek help from Shenghai's Youth League organization, because if the magazine was affiliated with a local Youth League organization, the materials would have to be handed over to the capital for review, and then the General Administration of Press and Publication would make an approval. This is really too troublesome, and the yamen in the capital has to go twice, and the approval process is also extremely strict.

So Song Weiyang went to Shenghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, invited someone to have a meal, and settled the affiliation unit. He was certified by the Municipal Publishing Bureau in minutes, and handed over the materials to the General Administration of Publishing. After contacting through the relationship of CCTV, the leaders of the General Administration of Publishing recognized it very much, and issued instructions to deal with special matters. Before New Year's Day, even the magazine and the issue number were approved.

In addition to the role of Song Weiyang's personal connections, the positioning of "Under the Banyan Tree" magazine is also very flattering: the first issue of online literature!

Internet literature has been born for two or three years, but so far there are no related publications. Its status is very embarrassing, traditional literature is looked down upon, and the public cannot see it, but the media reprints it every now and then, and its influence among young people is growing.

The application report was written by Song Weiyang himself. He said that the Internet is the development trend of the times, and that Internet literature is a technological extension of traditional literature. We cannot and should not lag behind. At present, China's online literature is full of mud and sand, good and bad are mixed, and there are even many vulgar works that violate social laws and morals, which is not conducive to conveying healthy literary concepts. "Under the Banyan Tree", as the first publication of Internet literature in China, must establish a correct value orientation for Internet literature, guide the sustainable and healthy development of Internet literature, and become a bridge connecting Internet literature and traditional literature.

Song Weiyang personally signed the application to make the application report more convincing, so it was quickly approved by the Special Affairs Office. If the magazine is not well run, it is enough to strengthen supervision or rectify it, and there will be no bad impact; if the magazine achieves good results and the social response is strong, then for the leaders, it may not be a small political achievement.

"Vulgar, negative, or too satirical, these articles cannot be used," Song Weiyang said to Lin Zhuoyun, "We are the first publication of online literature, and many people are staring at it. The content must be positive and healthy. There are many hits under the banyan tree. Very high essays and essays, although of high quality, must not be published in magazines."

Lin Zhuoyun said: "I know that all traditional media will pay attention to this issue."

Song Weiyang said: "The current media supervision is too loose, to the point where many newspapers and magazines deliberately kill themselves. As an online literary magazine, we should be more cautious than traditional media, otherwise it will easily cause social criticism."

Song Weiyang is not joking, it is true that the supervision is too loose.

A few years ago, it was the "Yangtze River Daily" that publicized Xifeng's donation for disaster relief. Such a large publication actually publicly fabricated a lie, saying that there was actually a sixth person in the "*****" who was still the deputy squad leader. He defected to the enemy, but was accidentally injured by the Japanese invaders and died.

This report made the "*****" survivors stand up, write letters to report, and sue for lawsuits. The process of the lawsuit was even broadcast on the TV stations of Hunan and Hubei provinces. Facts have proved that the "Changjiang Daily" made up and deliberately slandered the anti-Japanese martyrs. Sued the survivors of the Five Heroes who sued the Changjiang Daily.

Paper media are so loosely regulated, and the Internet is even more unreliable. Not to mention the major forums, the three major portals are also very pornographic and violent, and you can directly browse small pornographic articles (without directly describing organs). This situation will last for several years before rectification begins.

Song Weiyang said that articles that are "too satirical to reality" can't be used. In fact, the scale is very large, as long as they don't "anti-x and anti-xx". Essays satirizing and slandering corrupt officials could be published in this period, and they were especially popular with readers. With the huge scale of "Selected Journals of Essays" at that time, it was placed 404 minutes after more than ten years, but it was rated as a "double-effect journal" (both social and economic benefits) by the General Administration of Publication in 2001.

In mid-November, Song Weiyang went to Brunei to attend the Asia-Pacific CEO Summit. The application for the magazine and issue number has not yet been approved, but Lin Zhuoyun is already busy with the preparations. She rented two office buildings, hired an American editor and page editor, and called her little sister You Xueying to help.

Song Weiyang and Rongshuxia each invested 250,000 yuan, holding 51% and 49% of the magazine's shares respectively, and the affiliated unit of the magazine is the Shenghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

At this time, cats and dogs can be editors, and the professional qualifications for publishing will not be recognized until next year. Otherwise, Lin Zhuoyun would have to take the intermediate editorial certificate in "Sprout", while You Xueying would have to take the junior editorial certificate to be an assistant editor, and to apply for a magazine agency must also have relevant professional qualifications.

On the eve of New Year's Day, before the magazine was officially registered, the first issue of "Under the Banyan Tree" magazine had already been completed, and it was only waiting for approval before it could be published.

The construction of distribution channels is a big problem, and now only many netizens under the banyan tree are willing to order. As for the offline market, they can only find magazine publishers as agents. Lin Zhuoyun is not very suitable for this job, but the girl named You Xueying stepped forward.

You Xueying took the magazine samples and an assistant, running all over South China and North China, dealing with distribution agents half-learned and half-practiced. She caught the gimmick of "the first issue of Internet literature" and gave it to agents to popularize science about the "Four Kings of Internet Literature" and "Troika of Internet Literature". Finally, she persuaded some agents to try to help publish it.

The first issue of "Under the Banyan Tree" did not dare to print too many copies, and the first print was only 3,000 copies, mainly for schools, airports and train stations.

Facts have proved that this kind of pure literature magazine is not very popular in the train station, and its sales volume is not as good as that of "Story Club". But it is especially popular in schools and airports, because the words "the first issue of Internet literature" are printed on the cover. The Internet is a trendy thing, and Internet literature is even more fashionable. There are always some young people who are curious and buy it.

Moreover, "Three-Body Problem" by "Zenith Starman" has been serialized since the first issue of the magazine, and it is promised that it will never be updated... Many Three-Body Problem fans on the Internet want to laugh when they read it, but it is a sneer.

In order to let ordinary readers understand Internet literature, each issue of the magazine will introduce the "God of Internet Literature", and each of the materials is so awesome that it makes people worship.

Ning Caishen, who came from the junior class of East China University of Science and Technology; Xing Yusen, a Ph.D. in information engineering from Beiyou... Just looking at the academic qualifications of these people, Ning Caishen is even more legendary. He had his own trading seat back then, and this seat was once lost within a day Tens of millions of dollars.

Regardless of whether readers are familiar with the Internet or not, when they see the introduction of Internet writers in magazines, they will involuntarily feel a sense of superiority.

As for the introduction of the author of "Three-Body Problem", it is very mysterious.

Zentraedi, the representative work "Three-Body Problem".

Unknown age, unknown occupation, unknown education, suspected to be male, once claimed to be "the most handsome guy in China and abroad", and was called "an unprecedented, unrepentant late-stage cancer patient" by netizens. "The Three-Body Problem" once set a record of not being updated for six months. It was rumored several times that the author had died in a car accident. In December 1999, thousands of readers held an online memorial service for him. During the memorial service, the "Zenithite" suddenly cheated on the corpse, and updated five chapters of "Three-Body Problem" in one go.

Regarding the true identity of the "Zenithite", some people say that he is Song Weiyang, the chairman of Xifeng, and others say that he is the administrator of the secret scientific research base, because he once posted advertisements on the Internet: professional maintenance of nuclear submarines, reactors, and refurbishment of nuclear warheads , polishing, waxing, recycling second-hand aircraft carriers, cleaning aircraft carrier oil tanks, space shuttle maintenance and replacement of three filters, high-altitude operations cleaning satellite surface dust...

Well, this author introduction was written by Lin Zhuoyun herself.