During the Spring Festival, it is still very cold in the Central Plains.

In winter, most people use coal stoves to keep warm.

With the country's publicity for many years, there are always some gas poisoning happening every year.

But this kind of hidden danger is not available at Ling Jiefang's home.

Because they use air conditioners in winter.

There are more than one air conditioner in Ling Jiefang’s home, but there are 7 air conditioners in total, four bedrooms, two living rooms and a study room, all of which are installed.

But they did not pay for it. This is Wei Xiaofan from Huajing who celebrated that they helped with the new house and specially bought it for them. The imported air conditioners in China are not available for purchases. Ordinary people can't buy these air conditioners outside.

Hitachi's air conditioner is not very noise-free, and the temperature is particularly suitable. It is very warm when entering the house in winter, and it is even cooler in summer and makes people not want to go out.

Its only disadvantage is that the electricity bill is too expensive.

For example, in the summer month, the electricity bill for seven air conditioners is more than 100 yuan, which is almost the two-month salary of a family in the city.

The same is true in winter. After using it for more than half a year, it cost more than 500 yuan. If it were replaced by it, Mrs. Ling would definitely not dare to use it like this.

But why dare to use it now?

Because Ling Jie's novels published two of them, he made a lot of money.

Needless to say, the publication in the country is only more than 5,000 yuan. After all, it is now a domestic buy-out at a bargain price.

What really makes Lingjiebao make a lot of money is the royalty sharing of Qilin Culture from Xiangjiang.

A friend Ling Jiefang met, Bao Qingtian and Wei Xiaofan, who is famous all over the country, happened to be the vice president of Qilin Group and the general manager of Qilin Group Huajing Branch.

He admired Ling Jiefang's talent very much, and applied for the Kirin Group's "Art Development Fund" for Ling Jiefang a few years ago.

Then at the end of 1982, Ling Jiefang wrote his first novel and read it for Wei Xiaofan. Wei Xiaofan not only contacted him for domestic publishing, but also helped Ling Jiefang sell global copyrights.

The so-called global copyright is actually the traditional Chinese version, and there are a lot of things like film and television adaptation rights.

The first published work in China brought Ling Jiefang more than 2,000 yuan in income, which is equivalent to Ling Jiefang's salary for three years, which greatly improved Ling Jiefang's life at home.

But this is simply a slap compared to the money given by Qilin Culture in Xiangjiang.

The first royalty given by Qilin Culture is HK$100,000, plus the film and television copyright fee, the total is HK$200,000.

When the money was exchanged for RMB and transferred to Ling Jiefang's home by the person from the Huajing Branch of Qilin Group, Ling Jiefang and Mrs. Ling couldn't believe it with their passbooks.

Even in the next seven or eight days, they failed to sleep well. The passbook was pressed under the pillow and they almost didn't dare to leave for a moment.

After more than a month, their lives returned to normal, but they still dared not use this money, for fear that one day the country would send people to say that this was an illegal income and they had to pay it to the public.

However, more than two months later, the second royalties followed one after another, and the RMB exchanged for 100,000 Hong Kong dollars made the couple a little numb.

However, this time, in addition to the second royalties, the employees of Qilin Group Huajing Branch also brought tax payment certificates to the Ministry of Culture, which made them feel much more at ease.

Finally, the money is available.

It was also at this time that Ling Jiefang realized that his books became popular in the Chinese circles all over Asia and sold very well. The second printing was sold out, and the third batch was being printed urgently, and the number was doubled.

It was also at this time that he realized that every time the books published in Xiangjiang were printed, they would be given royalties according to the contract. The more they sold, the more they would get.

Compared to Xiangjiang's method, the domestic publishing and buying out model is simply a plunder of the author.

Ling Jiefang also called Wei Xiaofan for the income of about 60,000 yuan.

After putting down the phone, he reminded his wife to see if there was a house with good terrain, and then, before moving, he purchased new furniture and appliances.

The house he lives in now is a large courtyard house with a size of more than 300 square meters. In addition to the two courtyards, it is also divided into twelve rooms.

In addition to living in a family of three, they also brought their parents over, so the house was not so deserted.

Then, in August 1983, the second part of Ling Jie's play was written, and it was still published in the previous two ways, and the film and television copyright was sold.

In fact, Ling Jiefang didn’t know how much the film and television copyright was changed to be sold, but he signed the quotes he received from Qilin Culture without even reading them.

In his words, "I believe Mr. Wei will not lie to me. He and Qilin Culture are my benefactors."

With the preparation of the first part, the number of initial prints of the second part has increased several times, so that by this year's Spring Festival, another 100,000 yuan was added to the passbooks placed in Lingjie.

What made him even happier was that the person who came to deliver the money brought him some newspaper edits, which were all about the right evaluations.

The comments from more than a dozen newspapers are all praised and written in a superb way, and are simply a rare imperial novel in recent years.

As a literati, after being satisfied with food and clothing, what they like most is honor and praise.

Originally, high sales meant that novels were popular, but now literati are singing praises to him, so it’s no wonder Ling Jie felt very relieved.

For this reason, he was much more motivated to write the third part.

During the Spring Festival, the Ling family and his wife came to his new home for the New Year. Ling Festival was so proud that it was rare.

Not only did he buy five luxury banquets that were all chickens, ducks and fish, he also gave a large red envelope.

The parents of both parties each took 1,000 yuan.

There is no RMB 100 yuan per card now, and only RMB 10 yuan per card at most. 100 thick pieces are squeezed into the red envelope, making the relatives stunned.

Then the second brother, third sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law... and so on, all of them are red envelopes worth 500 yuan.

Even the children could get huge red envelopes worth 50 yuan, and they were so happy that they screamed.

This is not a fault for Ling Jiefang and his wife giving money indiscriminately. It was because they had a hard time in the past few years and had been taken care of by their family members.

For example, when they first got married, there was nothing, and these relatives brought them food and clothing.

After my daughter was born, didn’t my sister-in-law carry 100 eggs from her hometown to supplement her wife’s nutrition?

Now that they have finally made money, they certainly have to repay their families.

This is also a manifestation after the general development of Chinese people.

Wealth and honor are not revealed, just like walking in the night in brocade, right?

...

There is far more than one who has been changed to his destiny.

The "Literary and Art Development Fund" that has to be subsidized every month has now been increased to 10 million US dollars.

Calculated based on the high interest rate of US dollars, its annual income is US$1.4 million, which is RMB 3.25 million.

Although it is a bit of a loss when exchanged at the official exchange rate, it is money issued by the official cultural department, so it is naturally not bad. The 1:5 exchange rate in the market.

The money is currently being funded by more than 5,000 writers, screenwriters, poets and directors, and they are paying them between 50-100 yuan every month.

With the support of this money, many people have already made achievements like Ling Jiefang.

In 1981, Qilin Culture has published 15 novels for mainland writers.

The sales were not very good at that time. Even if it was published for Chinese all over Asia, Lu Yao's best short story collection only sold about 15,000 copies, but the profit of more than 50,000 Hong Kong dollars was greatly encouraged.

The same is true for other writers and private writers, who devote themselves to writing and creating better works.

So in 1982, Qilin Culture published 39 novels, poetry collections, prose and other works.

In 1983, Qilin Culture published 85 novels, poetry collections, prose and other works.

Moreover, as overseas Chinese become familiar with them and eliminate prejudice against some cultural people in the mainland, sales have also increased significantly.

The best one is naturally the Eryue River. The two pieces sold more than 100,000 copies at one go, and they are still being printed.

Then the works of other authors may be seven or eight thousand, ten or twenty thousand, and thirty thousand or ten thousand…

In the huge overseas Chinese market, there are always many of their confidants, which has also earned them high praise and the royalty income they need most at this time.

Of course, the income from royalties given to them by Qilin Culture is registered and reported through official channels, and then paid taxes according to the law, and then handed over to all the authors. Everything is legal and reasonable, and people cannot find any problem.

If you say that those officials are not jealous, it must be fake.

But they don’t want to put it in their bags, but they now have to use money for their work everywhere. They are almost mad and want to take it to their own department.

But this matter was handled by Qilin Culture throughout the process, and they couldn't even intervene.

Considering the strength of Qilin Group and considering that a food factory is opened, Mr. Xiao and Mr. Yun will come to congratulate him in person, but few people dare to have bad ideas.

These literary and artistic workers are able to earn their own labor income through their own wisdom and talent, which is a great move for them to improve their self-esteem.

Literati must have hated the food that comes from pity, and they can write books, poems, and scripts to make money, which is nothing more gratifying.

This is how these literary and artistic workers in the mainland are now.

With such a huge Chinese market abroad, even if their sales are average, with this domestic standard of living, they will be rich enough.

In this case, what reason do they have not worked hard to create?
Chapter completed!