Literary Master 1978

Not only did Lin Chaoyang not bring his food coupons, he also didn't bring his RMB.

He wanted to show his face, but he thought his face might not be worth a bowl of fried liver and two buns, so he took out a 2 franc coin.

"Check out!"

Lin Chaoyang handed over the coin, "Don't give me the change."

"Hey!"

The waiter stopped him, "Give me the money!"

"Aren't you going to give it to me? This is my foreign currency!"

The waiter waved the coin in front of his eyes, "No, we will accept RMB and food coupons now."

Lin Chaoyang said in embarrassment: "Why don't you take this foreign currency and help me pay for breakfast."

The waiter looked at him suspiciously, and then took the coin in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully for a long time, without saying anything.

Lin Chaoyang took out a 20-yuan "Debussy" from his pocket, "Look, it's really a French franc."

It would have been fine if he didn't take the "Debussy", but once he took it out, the waiter was even more unconvinced. Whose banknotes are so poorly printed?

Seeing that the waiter was about to treat him as a liar, Lin Chaoyang felt helpless.

"Hey, Chaoyang?" A surprised voice sounded.

Lin Chaoyang turned his head and saw, "Wang Shuo? Are you here for breakfast?"

"Yes, bring them some food."

At the party in the West Courtyard yesterday, most people left at night, but there were still a few diehards who stayed up until midnight and slept in the West Courtyard at night.

"You are..."

Lin Chaoyang smiled bitterly, "Forgot to bring food coupons!"

Wang Shuo couldn't help but smile, and teased the waiter: "This is a great writer who just won glory for the country abroad and returned home with honors!"

"Writers can't eat for free!" The waiter said righteously.

"Don't talk nonsense, help me settle the bill."

Being held by Wang Shuo with cymbals, Lin Chaoyang said to him unhappily, stuffed the Debussy into his hand, and walked out the door.

Wang Shuo took a look at the coins in the waiter's hand, asked for the money, and still said unforgivingly: "Look at you, you can't make money, and let me pick up half a month's salary for nothing."

After he finished speaking, he paid for Lin Chaoyang. The waiter looked at the foreign currency in his hand again, and this time he regretted it a little.

I should have known not to stick to the principle!

It was less than 6:30 when Lin Chaoyang came out of the breakfast shop. He went home for a while, and Zhu Wei came to find him from the west yard.

"You haven't left yet? It's just right, let's take a ride."

At almost eight o'clock, Lin Chaoyang drove Zhu Wei to the East Third Ring Road.

At the location of the East Third Ring Road, which is located at the northeast corner of Changhong Bridge in the future, there are two buildings standing side by side, square and well-behaved, like a pair of twins.

The 16-story building is inconspicuous in the future, but in 1987, it was enough to look down on the low buildings in the Tuanjiehu community across the road.

The two buildings belong to different units. The one to the east is Tongguang Building, and the one to the west is China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Building, with the house number "No. 10, Nanli, Agricultural Exhibition Hall".

The China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Building is called the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, but it is actually jointly built by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Association of Literary and Art Circles.

After the humanitarian flood ended, the National Association of Literary and Art Circles lived in the compound at No. 2 Shatan North Street, which was not a long-term solution.

So they jointly submitted a report on the construction of the building to the upper level with the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. At the end of last year, the building was finally completed at No. 10, Nanli, Agricultural Exhibition Hall.

In addition to a 16-story main building, a theater-style auditorium and a 5-story building used as a guesthouse and canteen were built on the north and northeast sides of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles Building.

Lin Chaoyang's Crown drove into the courtyard of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles Building, and Zhu Wei got out of the car and said to Lin Chaoyang:

"It's still early, come to our place and sit?"

"Okay!"

The two went straight to the fifth floor.

After the completion of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles building, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and its organs did not move in directly. The Federation of Literary and Art Circles asked several smaller associations under its jurisdiction, such as the Music Association, the Fine Arts Association, the Folk Association, and the Quju Association, to move in.

The Literary and Art Circles asked its subordinates, such as the Writers Publishing House, the Literary Gazette, and the People's Literature Publishing House, to move in.

The reason why the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Literary and Art Circles did this was mainly because the domestic literary and art undertakings have developed greatly and the literary and art teams have grown rapidly in the past ten years of reform and opening up.

The newly built Federation of Literary and Art Circles building could not accommodate all the personnel of the two units before it was even used.

At this time, people have to have face. Which leader would have the nerve to move into the magnificent building and let the second-level units and subordinates squat in the earthquake-resistant shed? Aren't they afraid of being poked in the back?

Going up to the fifth floor, this is now the place where People's Literature and Poetry Magazine share space.

Standing at the stairs, Lin Chaoyang joked: "Okay, your People's Literature is really a better place now!"

When Tao Yushu was still working at People's Literature, they were still working at Dongsi 8th Street, and the conditions were difficult.

"The times are developing, society is progressing, and we can't stand still, right?"

Zhu Wei joked and led Lin Chaoyang into the office.

In less than two minutes, the whole floor was bustling, and everyone wanted to see the "new French Renaudot Literature Award winner".

This was of course a joke, but everyone really wanted to see the excitement.

Because of Tao Yushu, Lin Chaoyang has a good relationship with People's Literature. He met with everyone and talked and laughed, and it was so lively.

"I was wondering who came to make People's Literature so lively? It turned out to be the protagonist today!"

As everyone was talking, a hearty laugh came from the door. It turned out to be Tang Dacheng.

He is now the head of the Literary Association and has dealt with Lin Chaoyang many times.

And the reason why he said Lin Chaoyang was "today's protagonist" was because the Federation of Literary and Art Circles was going to hold a commendation meeting for Lin Chaoyang in the auditorium.

Lin Chaoyang chatted with him for a while, and when he saw that the time was almost up, he went downstairs to the auditorium.

The huge banner with red background and yellow characters of the commendation meeting was hung right behind the rostrum of the auditorium, showing an invisible momentum.

When Lin Chaoyang and Tang Dacheng entered the auditorium, there were already quite a few people sitting inside.

Among them were mainly people from the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, as well as people from subordinate second-level units.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the commendation meeting officially began. As the head of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Tang Dacheng delivered an enthusiastic speech, and gave a very high evaluation of Lin Chaoyang's winning of the French Renaudot Literature Award:

"... Comrade Chaoyang's award has effectively expanded the boundaries and artistic realm of our contemporary Chinese literature, and has also set an excellent example for the development of contemporary Chinese literature overseas. It should have its own place in the history of contemporary Chinese literature."

After Tang Dacheng finished speaking, it was Lin Chaoyang's turn to speak.

Tang Dacheng praised him so much before, so Lin Chaoyang naturally had to be modest and low-key. He briefly described the process of winning the award and expressed his feelings. After the speech, there was warm applause from the audience.

The content of the commendation conference was really unremarkable. What was important was the form and the recognition of the Writers Association.

In the National Writers Association, the summary and commendation conference is held every year, but it is very rare to hold a commendation conference for writers alone.

Writers who win domestic literary awards do not have this treatment. Basically, they have to win more important awards overseas or be recognized by some authoritative international organizations.

In all these years, few domestic writers have won awards overseas.

Therefore, the commendation conference held by the Writers Association for Lin Chaoyang is naturally of great significance.

As Tang Dacheng said in his speech, the recognition of the Renaudot Literature Award has made Lin Chaoyang lose the identity label of "young writer" and let him truly have his own status and voice in the contemporary literary world.

The commendation conference ended in an hour, and then Lin Chaoyang accepted an interview with the "Literary Newspaper".

After he finished his meal outside and returned to Xiaoliubukou Hutong, he found that there were several guests at home.

After chatting, he found out that these were people from the Youth League Committee or Student Union of several universities in Yanjing, who came to invite Lin Chaoyang to give a report at the school. Lin Chaoyang readily agreed.

In the next few days, Lin Chaoyang has been running around various universities in Yanjing.

Wherever he went, there were crowds of people, and thousands of students welcomed him like an idol.

The welcome he received was even more enthusiastic than those poets in previous years.

The enthusiastic pursuit of readers certainly made people feel happy, but what made Lin Chaoyang even happier was that since the news of the Renaudot Literature Award was sent back to China, many of his previously published works have ushered in a wave of hot sales.

Among them, the increase in "The Truman Show" was the most exaggerated. According to rough statistics from Huacheng Publishing House, "The Truman Show" sold nearly 500,000 copies in the ten days after the news of the award was sent back to China.

Originally, bookstores around the country certainly didn't have so much inventory. It was only after Lin Chaoyang won the award that he told the cooperating publishers the news, so these publishers were not caught off guard by the sudden surge in sales.

After all, "The Truman Show" is an award-winning work, so it is understandable that it has achieved such outstanding results.

In addition, his new work "Big Times" also performed very well, and its reputation in the critics' circle quickly recovered, which has something to do with his winning the award.

But the more important reason is that many media in Guangdong recently reported on the stock market crash in Hong Kong last month.

Throughout October, not only the Hong Kong stock market, but also major stock exchanges around the world, including New York, London, Sydney and Toronto, have experienced index plunges to varying degrees.

Among them, the London stock market led the way with a drop of 45.8%, followed by the US stock market with a drop of 41.8%.

The Hong Kong stock market is highly correlated with the US and British stocks, and naturally could not be spared in this stock market crash.

After the initial plunge of more than a week, the Hang Seng Index showed no signs of recovery. It has continued to fall in recent days and has now fallen below the 2,000-point mark.

It took more than a year for the Hang Seng Index to rise from more than 1,000 points to more than 3,000 points, but it only took half a month to return to its original state. This can be regarded as one of the biggest tragedies in the Asian stock market in recent years.

Hong Kong society was wailing, and the media's follow-up reports further fueled the pessimism of citizens and stockholders. Public opinion was constantly heated, and all kinds of strange stories about the stock market crash emerged one after another.

Among them, there was a wave of news that was particularly eye-catching, that is, the statement that "The Great Times" "accurately predicted" this stock market crash.

After many days of reporting by the Hong Kong media, this statement has long been known to the people of Hong Kong, and even caused a rush to buy and read the novel among the people.

In just over half a month, the Ming Pao Publishing House version of "The Great Times" sold more than 800,000 copies in Hong Kong.

This number has created a record for the sales of serious literary works in Hong Kong's history. Even if popular literary works are compared together, it is still rare.

After all, Hong Kong is just a city with a population of four or five million.

Originally, Lin Chaoyang had become a hot topic in the domestic news circle because he won the French Renaudot Literature Award.

Now it suddenly came out from Hong Kong that his new work actually had the power to influence the Hong Kong stock market, and of course these domestic media had to make a big fuss about it.

With the Guangdong media's first attention to the Hong Kong stock market crash, the connection between "The Great Times" and this stock market crash also attracted the attention of more mainland media.

Since the Guangdong media began to report the news about "The Great Times" and the Hong Kong stock market crash, in less than a week, many domestic media have reprinted the relevant content.

In addition, many media have fully exerted their subjective initiative and found a lot of seemingly true information through various channels, and published it in newspapers without verification.

The outrageousness of these reports can be called outrageous to open the door to outrageousness - outrageous to the extreme.

For example, there is a report that:

On the day when the novel "The Great Times" was released in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index plummeted by 1,100 points, causing a tragedy in the Hong Kong stock market that has not happened in decades.

For another example, there are newspapers reprinting the content of Hong Kong newspapers, saying: The prediction of the stock market in "The Great Times" led to panic selling in the Hong Kong securities market, which was the direct cause of this stock market crash.

At this time, there is no Internet, and newspapers are the most authoritative way to release news. Ordinary people can be said to have no doubts about the content of newspapers.

Most of the media in the 1980s were still conscientious, but the degeneration of many media and reporters had already begun to show signs.

The most typical example is the road to fame of Master Haideng, a monk.

Master Haideng was originally just a monk living in seclusion in Sichuan. He was quite famous in the Buddhist community, but he was not well-known among the people.

In order to shoot a large-scale news documentary "Sichuan Fun Records", Emei Film Studio found out about Master Haideng.

A personal visit to Master Haideng allowed Master Haideng to show his superb martial arts, which made Master Haideng famous all of a sudden. Things were normal up to this point.

But after Master Haideng became famous, a reporter from the "Yanjing Evening News" wrote a half-true and half-false report in order to attract readers' attention, in which Master Haideng's identity was changed to the abbot of Shaolin Temple.

Ordinary people believed it to be true and thought that Master Haideng was the abbot of Shaolin Temple.

As a result, the real Shaolin Temple abbot was annoyed, and he filed a lawsuit with the China FJ Association, causing a big disturbance.

Although the news about "The Great Times" and the Hong Kong stock market crash had been distorted when it reached China, it did not prevent the people from believing it.

Moreover, humans are often unable to resist mysticism and conspiracy theories.

"The Great Times" caused the Hong Kong stock market to plummet" sounds exciting and explosive. It is so interesting to talk about it!

Many news about "The Great Times" and the Hong Kong stock market became popular in China in a short period of time.

In addition to attracting many readers' attention from many media reporting on this incident, the most direct impact is that the popularity of the novel "The Great Times" has soared, and sales have continued to rise.

On November 17, Lin Chaoyang returned to Beijing for a week. He participated in commendation meetings, interviews, reports, speeches... All kinds of activities, which can be regarded as completing the government's propaganda tasks.

In a blink of an eye, he has been away from Hong Kong for more than half a month, and he has to go back to see his wife and children.

He flew back to Hong Kong, and Tao Yumo teased him as soon as he got home.

"Oh, isn't this the 'light of Hong Kong'?"

"What light of Hong Kong?"

Lin Chaoyang was confused when he heard this, and he was completely confused.

"You don't know yet? This is the name given to you by the Hong Kong media!"

Tao Yumo smiled very brightly when he talked about this.

More than half a month ago, the Hong Kong stock market crash broke out, and some newspapers linked "Big Times" with the stock market crash.

The reporters wanted to dig some news about the author Lin Chaoyang, but they couldn't find him after two days of searching. Tao Yumo still told them that Lin Chaoyang went to France to receive the award.

These reporters were very sorry that they couldn't dig out the inside story of "Big Times" and the stock market crash, but this regret was soon smoothed out by the fact that Lin Chaoyang won the award.

The stock market crash made "Big Times" very popular in Hong Kong, and Lin Chaoyang, the author of the novel, naturally became the focus of public attention. He won an award abroad, isn't this also a very eye-catching news?

The reporters waited for two days, and indeed found the news of Lin Chaoyang's winning in some international media, and then some media reprinted the news immediately.

Lin Chaoyang has been receiving a lot of attention recently, and people love to read news about him.

After the news was reported, it immediately achieved good results.

Seeing this, some media began to explain to the public the awesomeness of the Renaudot Literature Prize. The trend of the whole incident was exactly the same as the operation of the mainland media more than a week ago.

Later, everyone praised Lin Chaoyang so much that the public became numb, and the media also felt that it was a bit lackluster.

So, Ming Pao made a big move, and they published an article saying: The Renaudot Literature Prize is the crown of French literature, and Lin Chaoyang's winning of this honor can be called the light of Hong Kong.

Ming Pao is originally a major newspaper in Hong Kong, with a good influence, and the evaluation is about Lin Chaoyang, a popular writer who has been dominating Hong Kong recently.

The title "The Light of Hong Kong" immediately won the recognition of many Hong Kong citizens. In addition to allowing Ming Pao to fight a beautiful battle for popularity among media peers, it also gilded Lin Chaoyang with a layer of gilded image.

After Tao Yumo finished talking about the origin of the title "The Light of Hong Kong", he asked Lin Chaoyang with a smile on his face: "How do you think? Brother-in-law, this title sounds good, right?"

Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "Of course it's good. How can I not be happy when being praised?"

"You have really become a celebrity in Hong Kong now. In recent days, various media have invited you to interview endlessly, and there are rich people who invite you to their dinner parties."

The media's interview invitations were within Lin Chaoyang's expectations, but the invitations from the rich surprised Lin Chaoyang.

"Rich people? Who?"

"Li Zhaofu, Zhuang Zhongwen."

After Tao Yumo reported these two names, Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but frown.

Zhuang Zhongwen is a patriotic businessman. When Lin Chaoyang visited Hong Kong with the mainland writers' group, he was also entertained by him.

After living in Hong Kong, Lin Chaoyang never contacted him.

After all, he is a wealthy man, and Lin Chaoyang doesn't want others to think that he wants to get close to him.

Zhuang Zhongwen and Lin Chaoyang have met once, and there is a reason to invite him to the banquet, but what about Li Zhaofu?

In a society like Hong Kong, a tycoon like Li Zhaofu, who is worth nearly 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, is at the top of society. Lin Chaoyang doesn't think he has anything worth winning over.

After thinking for a while, Lin Chaoyang could only attribute the reason to his operation in the stock market.

When he thought of this, he called the stock trading phone of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

After understanding the situation and confirming what he thought in his heart, Lin Chaoyang hung up the phone.

When the stock market crash happened before, Maggie Cheung asked him if he bought stocks. He did not buy them, but it did not mean that he did not do anything.

It would be unreasonable for him not to make some pocket money in the 87 stock market crash.

Before the stock market crash, he targeted the stocks of Huang Yulang's Yulang Organization. He first cleared all the stocks of China Taicheng City in his hands, and then leveraged 10 times to raise up to 140 million Hong Kong dollars from the institution.

Then he used all the money to borrow stocks of Yulang Organization from securities companies.

It was a fantasy to want to borrow such a huge amount of stocks through securities companies.

But Wong Yuk-lang's operation was too slick, giving Lin Chaoyang the opportunity to take advantage of it.

Wong Yuk-lang founded Yuk-lang International in 1979. Last year, Yuk-lang International was listed in Hong Kong under the name of "Yuk-lang Organization Co., Ltd.". Wong Yuk-lang held 75% of the shares, with a market value of HK$240 million.

At that time, Yuk-lang Organization published 14 comic books and a weekly magazine called "Yuk-lang TV", sweeping the Hong Kong comic industry.

After the listing, Wong Yuk-lang's confidence swelled and he kept moving.

First, he spent HK$13 million to purchase the Chai Wan Hongmin Center as the factory building of the Yuk-lang printing factory.

Later, he bought the 10-story King's Road News Building from the Sing Tao Newspaper Group for HK$70 million as the administrative and production headquarters of the Yuk-lang Group.

Then, he set his sights on "Daily Daily".

This daily newspaper, founded by Wei Ji-ze and Wei Ji-shun of the Wei family in 1960, was the world's first color newspaper. It was acquired by Liu Tianjiu of the Hermione Group in 1977.

The Hermione Group went bankrupt the following year, and the Hong Kong British government bankruptcy management agency took over its liquidation.

The domestic Jincheng Bank was its creditor, and the New H Company entrusted the patriotic Hong Kong businessman Ho Sai-chu to preside over the "Tian Tian Daily".

As a result, the "Tian Tian Daily" was revived under the leadership of Ho Sai-chu and became the second largest daily newspaper in Hong Kong.

In April this year, Wong Yuk-lang reached an agreement with Ho Sai-chu and acquired 70% of the shares of "Tian Tian Daily" and all the shares of its Tian Tian Color Printing Company at a price of HK$77 million.

In July, Wong Yuk-lang once again spent HK$25.2 million to acquire "Fresh Weekly".

In the same month, he acquired "Youth" magazine for HK$9.3 million.

In just over half a year, Wong Yuk-lang made several moves and spent money like water.

The Yulang Organization has just been listed, but it has begun to take shape. Where does so much money come from?

Even if his Yulang Organization is a golden goose, it is impossible to draw such a huge amount of money in a short period of time.

This is no secret in the Hong Kong securities industry. The reason why Wong Yuk-lang has so much money is that he was inspired by his fellow countryman and friend Liu Luanxiong to sell his company shares in exchange for a huge amount of funds.

In more than half a year, the more shares Wong Yuk-lang issued, the richer he became. The richer he became, the more he invested, and the higher the stock price rose.

The snowball rolled bigger and bigger, and the market value of Yulang Institution also soared from HK$240 million when it was first listed to HK$2 billion.

Wong Yuk-lang raised a total of HK$450 million, and the company's shares he held also dropped sharply from the original 75% to 36.4%.

With hundreds of millions of funds in hand, Wong Yuk-lang, who had won consecutive investments, ushered in the highlight of his life, but he would never have thought that he was about to face the biggest failure in his life.

In fact, it was not only him, but all Hong Kong securities practitioners and stockholders who could not think of it.

Before the stock market crash, Wong Yuk-lang once again followed his fellow countryman Liu Luanxiong and spent HK$260 million to enter the market and speculate in futures.

At the peak, the floating profit was HK$210 million. However, the bear market came and the futures index plummeted by 2,000 points. The futures contracts held by Wong Yuk-lang turned directly from a floating profit of HK$210 million to a floating loss of HK$90 million.

The main business of Yulang is publishing, not securities investment.

Wong Yuk-lang was not doing his job and suffered heavy losses in the stock market crash. Last week, he was jointly attacked by the small shareholders of Yulang.

Affected by the stock market crash, the stock price of Yulang fell all the way.

As soon as the news of the small shareholders forcing the palace came out, the stock price of Yulang plunged directly, with a market value of less than HK$300 million, and the stock price continued to decline with the market's decline.

Two days ago, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission ordered Yulang to suspend trading for 6 days and accept investigation, which was worse than the previous day.

Although Yulang Institution has been suspended, everyone knows that the company's stock price may still have a lot of room to fall.

Lin Chaoyang just called the stockbroker to verify the current situation of Yulang Institution and Huang Yulang.

With a God's vision, he was ruthless in shorting Yulang Institution.

Now Yulang Institution's stock price has fallen by 80% from its peak. Even if the handling fee and dividend compensation are paid, Lin Chaoyang's conservative profit will exceed 100 million Hong Kong dollars.

What he needs to do next is to buy the bottom at a very low price after Yulang Institution resumes trading, and return the same number of stocks to the brokerage firm.

With such a result, he must be happy.

And his predictive operation naturally cannot escape the eyes of Li Zhaofu, the chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

So Lin Chaoyang guessed that this should be the reason why Li Zhaofu took the initiative to make friends with him.

Lin Chaoyang was not worried that his shorting of Yulang Institution would cause others to covet it after it was spread.

Huang Yulang's investment style is very aggressive. If there is a little negative news, the stock price of Yulang Institution will easily go up and down. It just so happens that he has issued too many shares before, so it is normal for some people to short sell.

Moreover, there are many short sellers in the market. Lin Chaoyang just happened to catch up with the stock market crash and made a lot of pocket money.

As for the media reports that "Big Times" predicted the stock market crash, the novel did write about the stock market crash, but the details had long been changed by Lin Chaoyang and were very different from the reality.

This matter is more of the media's far-fetched, combined with the anxiety and panic of society and stockholders, it has such a big impact.

I calculated everything in my heart, but only one or two minutes passed.

Seeing that Lin Chaoyang was silent in thought after the call, Tao Yumo couldn't help asking:

"Brother-in-law, what are you thinking about?"

"Nothing, where is your sister?"

"My sister said she had something to talk to Prince Zhong and Prince Chen tonight, so she had to come back later."