Rebirth of the Great Era 1993

August 1, Beijing, People’s Literature Conference Room.

Around 9am.

The senior people's literature leaders who were directly under the leadership of the XX department stepped into the office one after another as if they had already discussed it.

Today is a special day, and people’s literature attaches great importance to it.

President Zhou Feng issued an order in advance as early as last week: all senior people's literature leaders, whether they have work at hand or are on business trips, must come back today.

Rush back for a meeting.

At 9:02, Tao Ge followed Hong Zhenbo into the conference room.

As an assistant, Tao Ge could only sit in the back to listen and record, and was not qualified to participate in the roundtable meeting in the front row.

There is no right to speak or vote.

At a glance, Tao Ge found that except for Vice President Zouping and Deputy Editors He Qizhi and Xing Xiaobin, everyone else was basically here.

For example, President Zhou Feng and Vice President Xiang Tiancheng.

For example, editor-in-chief Hong Zhenbo.

There are three deputy editors-in-chief, including Nie Hu, Zou Bo and Feng Xiaoyu, members of the editorial office.

In addition to the above-mentioned big shots, the heads of the editorial department, editorial office, management department, and office below also came.

A total of 19 people are eligible to vote.

It's ten minutes past nine.

Zhou Feng looked at his watch, then at the three empty seats on the left, looked around and said seriously: "Wait for another five minutes, we will have a meeting."

But as soon as Zhou Feng finished speaking, footsteps sounded outside the door. Immediately, vice president Zou Ping and deputy editors He Qizhi and Xing Xiaobin walked in.

Everyone is in their place...

Zhou Feng said: "Everyone is here, let's have a meeting below."

The assistant handed out documents. Each document had 11 pages and was bound into a small booklet with staples. The contents were related to Zhang Xuan's new book "Latent" novel.

In fact, this seminar was postponed for special reasons, and the content of the seminar also revolved around the two books "Latent" and "White Deer Plain".

So the procedure is very simple, just read the information, express your opinions, and finally vote by show of hands.

The 11-page paper is not thick, but the whole conference room took half an hour to read it.

Half an hour later, when it felt like time was almost up, Zhou Feng said: "The new book "Latent" in March has been copied to everyone a few days ago.

I believe that everyone has read it these days, and they must have their own thoughts and opinions. Let me speak in order, Lao Hong, you go first. "

As the editor-in-chief Hong Zhenbo, whose position within the society is second only to the president, and as the main supporter of the new book "Latent", he came prepared this time.

I saw Hong Zhenbo moving slightly in his position, sitting up straight, and slowly speaking under the gaze of everyone:

"March's new book "Latent" is much like an exquisite clock. The active second hand actively sows clouds and rain for the story, and the calm minute hand guides readers to wander deep in the jungle of suspense.

The heavy hour hand runs in the dark, and it bears the author's extremely serious writing ideal: the mystery of the confrontation between man and time, and the way of getting along between man and society, has not only been stolen in the many changes, but also in the solid memory. , encountered complete oblivion.”

After speaking incisively and vividly for 10 minutes, Hong Zhenbo finally slapped the table with his right hand and solemnly concluded:

"It is no exaggeration to say that "Latent" in March ranks in the top 5 of all the books I have read."

Who is Hong Zhenbo?

He is the editor-in-chief of People's Literature and one of the people who reads the most newspapers in the society.

In his decades of life, he has read many Chinese and Western classics and contributions, such as Crucian Carp Crossing the River, and there are not even 10,000 but 8,000. He said that "Latent" ranks among the top 5. What a compliment is this?

What an honor is this?

It also shows Hong Zhenbo's determination, his determination to make a desperate move, and his determination to succeed if he doesn't succeed.

After listening to his speech, the attendees instantly understood that the editor-in-chief, who usually had a good personality but played a stubborn role in "lurking", was ready to flip the table and leave.

It was tit-for-tat from the beginning, with clear stances and a somewhat solemn atmosphere.

But under Zhou Feng's gaze, he began to speak one by one in an orderly manner.

At this time, the conference room was divided into three groups.

There is a group of five people with Hong Zhenbo as the core. This group of people naturally tries their best to sing the praises of "lurking".

The other group is a six-member group with deputy president Zouping as the core and deputy editors-in-chief He Qizhi and Xing Xiaobin as the main backbone.

This group of people immediately praised "White Deer Plain" at the same time. He is also responsible for being picky and picky about "lurking", which is neither this nor that.

The last faction is composed of president Zhou Feng and his confidants.

This is the faction with the largest number of people and the strongest strength, with a total of 8 people.

Most of them stood in a neutral position, had both praise and criticism for both books, and their comments were also of the passive-aggressive type. As long as the tone of Zhou Feng who spoke last was, they could immediately switch to that tone freely.

At the end of the round, no one except Zhou Feng and Zouping had spoken.

Others had different opinions and contradictory words, and the situation was already in turmoil.

The meeting room was already noisy, spits were flying, everyone was arguing with their faces red and their necks were thick, and they were about to start a fight. Damn it, no one would accept it!

This was not the first time Tao Ge had seen this scene in the conference room. This was the third time he had made a public fuss over the selection of the Mao Dun Literary Award, and he was already used to it.

Tao Ge was used to it, and Zhou Feng was even more used to it. After letting them bicker for about 20 minutes, he stood up and coughed dryly.

Hearing this dry cough, the conference room that was like a pot of porridge just now fell silent.

The three parties all changed their previous gnashing of teeth and became polite and elegant again. They sat down in an orderly manner and looked at Zhou Feng, who was standing above them, as if they were listening.

Zhou Feng and the others stared at each other for two minutes.

Then Zhou Feng turned to look at Zouping and said, "Old Zou, it's your turn. Tell me what you think."

The sculpture Zouping, who had been looking at his nose and nose without expressing any opinions after entering the door, finally reacted when he heard his name being called.

Zouping straightened his body first, then leaned forward a little, put his hands on the conference table, looked at everyone, and said dryly:

“I didn’t want to speak originally, but the president asked me to say a few words, so I will say a few words.

After staying up late to watch "Insidious", I suddenly had an idea, an idea to use physical discomfort as an excuse not to attend today's meeting.

But after repeated mental struggles this morning, I finally came.

Then I will briefly talk about my thoughts after watching "Insidious". "

Zouping said: "If March, who wrote "The Wind", is a genius writer, then March, who wrote "Latent", is undoubtedly worthy of greatness."

Wow!

As soon as Zouping finished speaking, everyone in the conference room was stunned.

Zouping, what are you going to do?

Zouping, do you want to be a traitor?

Zouping, if you fucking want to defect in battle, you should let us know in advance. Are you treating us like monkeys?

We were flaunting our power just now, and we were arguing with others for so long. As the boss, you actually tried to trick us into death with your first sentence?

Is this something humans do?

Are you still a human being?

The above are the thoughts of members of the Zouping faction.

They are quite angry now!

Very angry!

Very very angry! ! !

If we weren't in the conference room now, if we weren't holding a seminar, if we weren't all decent people, we would have grabbed Zouping by the collar and asked him what was right and wrong!

Without any hesitation, he rushed over and beat Zouping violently!

Y, I hate rebels the most in my life.

Although the members of Zouping's faction were extremely angry, they still looked at Zouping with earnest eyes.

They couldn't help but wonder if this was Zouping's old routine of first exalting and then suppressing. Now he would praise a few words and then step on them crazily, adding insult to injury.

They thought so and comforted themselves so much, and their emotions gradually became much calmer.

Looking at Zou Ping again, his eyes were filled with anticipation.

Members of the Zouping faction were surprised.

Zhou Feng was equally surprised. He glanced at Zouping and remained silent.

Hong Zhenbo stared at Zouping with bulging eyes, feeling very excited.

Tao Ge lowered his head to suppress a smile and quietly made a fist with his right hand. so excited! So happy!

As a party involved, Zouping naturally felt the appearances of all beings in the conference room clearly and understood it better than anyone else.

But Zouping ignored it and continued to go his own way: "March has deeply explored a subject area that many people have only dabbled in, and used his own unique spotlight to illuminate so many secrets, technical, artistic, valuable, and... Human.

And all of this is connected by wonderful stories.

Everything shines on the story tree."

After talking briefly for 7 minutes, Zouping finally concluded:

""Latent" is a good book, in my eyes it is a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation.

How could such a good book be buried due to selfish desires? We are people's literature, so I vote for it. "

After Zouping finished speaking, he leaned back on the chair to rest, closed his eyes and stopped talking, ignoring everyone.

Everyone looked at Zouping, and the conference room was so silent that you could hear a pin drop.

fell into silence…

He Qizhi and Xing Xiaobin looked at Zouping, who was pretending to be deaf and dumb again, in confusion. Complex expressions of anger, confusion, confusion, and shame flashed across their faces, and then the two of them fell into silence.

They had previously thought of asking Zouping to argue and question him afterwards. But after hearing the phrase "We are people's literature", their literary character suddenly made them feel ashamed.

The supporters of "White Deer Plain" saw that the three core members were silent, and they all shrank away. After feeling regretful, they turned their attention to Zhou Feng again.

They knew that as long as Zhou Feng was more optimistic about "White Deer Plain", nothing would be a problem and everything would be full of hope.

At this moment, Hong Zhenbo suddenly became less nervous. Even his old rival Zouping stood on the side of his conscience. He had already succeeded more than half of the way.

Hong Zhenbo was thinking at this time that even if he failed in the end, he would still be worthy of himself, March, and the "lurking" he was highly optimistic about.

Hong Zhenbo was like this, and so was Tao Ge who was sitting next to him in the back.

However, Tao Ge is young after all and does not have the character of the older generation of literati such as Hong Zhenbo and Zouping.

She is very excited now, very excited, and really wants to call Zhang Xuan and tell him: What does it mean to conquer the enemy without fighting? This is it!

"Latent" is great, and the future is endless!

Sister is so relieved!

After getting excited, Tao Ge, like everyone else, looked at Zhou Feng nervously and apprehensively.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Zhou Feng knew that it was time for him to speak and take a stand.

Zhou Feng picked up the tea cup in front of him, took a sip, put down the cup and said:

"With a fair, just and responsible attitude, I stayed up all night for the past few days and read the "Latent" novel three times."

In more than 2,000 words, he systematically analyzes the story structure, artistic aspects and literary value of the book "Latent"...

Zhou Feng finally said: "I personally think that "White Deer Plain" is a rare masterpiece. Its level is enough to win the Mao Dun Literature Award, and history will prove this."

As for the new book "Latent" in March, I was trembling all over after reading it. I finally expressed my respect in four words: the creation of the world! "

Create the world!

Hearing such a concise yet powerful comment that was higher than the sky and thicker than the earth, everyone present was inspired.

Really shocked!

What a profound compliment this is!

This is the first time that everyone has seen Zhou Feng evaluate a book in such a direct and frank way.

Everyone is thinking, can such a straightforward expression of love be something that an old man like Zhou Feng can say?

The sun is really coming out in the west.

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This chapter was not easy to write. After all, I am not a big boss, so I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the big boss’s tone and mentality.

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