After Shao Jingwen came out of President Wang's office, he introduced the publishing house to Zhou Chen.
"Our Jiangliao Publishing House is the largest publishing house in Jiangliao Province. It is a state-owned unit and has multiple departments. We are the editorial department of Golden Land Magazine. In addition to you and me, we are responsible for the Golden Land Magazine.
There are four editors, each performing their own duties and editing news for the magazine."
"As for colleagues from other departments, I will introduce them to you when we meet them later. Now let's go back to our office first."
The publishing house has more than just one magazine department: Golden Land Magazine. There are two offices in Golden Land Magazine. Shao Jingwen and another old editor have one office, and the rest of them have another office.
Zhou Chen followed Shao Jingwen to the office and met the other four editors. Shao Jingwen introduced them one by one.
The other four editors are all very young, the oldest is over fifty, older than Shao Jingwen, and the other three, the youngest are all in their thirties.
"It is true that a hero comes from a young age, Comrade Bingkun."
Although Zhou Chen is the youngest, none of the four people look down on Zhou Chen. They don't know Zhou Chen's details, but being brought here by Shao Jingwen personally and being an editor specially approved by the president shows that Zhou Chen is definitely not simple. They naturally
I won't be cold-hearted.
Zhou Chen greeted them very humbly and kept his attitude low.
Wherever there are people, there is a world. Zhou Chen wants to stay at the publishing house until he can take the college entrance examination, which means there are still eight or nine years left, so it is definitely beneficial to have a good relationship with his colleagues.
Of these four editors, the eldest one is named Liu Xingyuan, and the other three are named Hu Ke, Qian Zhenqing, and Ji Hongbo.
"Old Liu, you guys don't look down on Bingkun just because he is young. Let me tell you the truth. Although Bingkun is young, he is very talented. He is very good at writing poems and stories. Anyway, I am ashamed of myself.
Not as good as."
Liu Xingyuan and the others originally thought that Zhou Chen had a background, but after hearing what Shao Jingwen said, it seemed that was not the case. Could it be that this young man was really recruited because of his talent?
Shao Jingwen did not explain any more, but asked Zhou Chen: "Bingkun, those poems you wrote are very good. I would like to select a few for the next issue of the magazine. What do you think?"
Zhou Chen said: "Of course it's no problem, but I don't want to use my real name. Can I use a pen name?"
Shao Jingwen said happily: "Yes, you can use a pen name. Bingkun, I have already discussed it with the president. If I use your poems, I will give you a retouching fee, but it may not be much."
Literati also need to eat, so writing poems and books is not only to become famous, but also to make money.
If a publishing house like theirs invites some well-known poets and authors, they will definitely have to pay editing fees.
Today's publishing houses are all state-owned entities, not private enterprises, and there is little chance of exploiting employees.
Nowadays, the circulation of publishing houses is very average. For many contents such as magazines and newspapers, the editorial department needs to find them by themselves. If they cannot find them, they will edit them themselves.
If you can write well, there will be rewards in the society, not much, but it is also an unexpected fortune.
It's just that nowadays, the circulation of newspapers is good, but the sales of magazines are very average.
That is to say, everyone is a formal employee with a formal establishment. If we had put it in a few decades, we would have been fired by the boss with this kind of performance.
"It doesn't matter. I don't need to pay for the writing fees. If the agency allows me to work, I'll be satisfied."
Zhou Chen has gradually come to understand this era. Publishing publishing editing is already a very decent job with a good salary.
As for the retouching fee, he really didn't care too much whether he paid more or paid less.
The main reason is that this era is a bit special, money is not everything, and many things cannot be bought.
For example, the house that everyone cares about cannot be traded casually at this time, and food and clothing require tickets.
So in the past few years, having money is not a good thing. Even if you have money, you don't dare to spend it casually, otherwise you may be reported by someone who is interested.
"I want to use your song Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms Blooming as the layout of the next issue of the magazine. What do you think?"
Among the many modern poems given by Zhou Chen, Shao Jingwen liked the two best ones the most, so he wanted to use one of them as the layout. He believed that once this poem was published, it would definitely make their Golden Land Magazine a hit.
Zhou Chen smiled and said: "I don't have a problem here. I don't write poetry for my own entertainment. If more people can recognize my poetry, it will be a happy thing."
"That's good."
After getting Zhou Chen's authorization, Shao Jingwen felt relieved, "You can think of a pen name in the past two days and let me know when you think about it."
"good."
Shao Jingwen called Hu Ke over: "Xiao Hu, in the past two days, you will first familiarize Bingkun with the specific affairs of our magazine."
"Okay, editor-in-chief."
Hu Ke responded, then took Zhou Chen to choose a desk, and then introduced their specific work and process to Zhou Chen.
Throughout the whole day, Zhou Chen did not participate in work, but followed Hu Ke to familiarize himself with the situation of the publishing house.
Hu Ke is thirty-one years old this year, the youngest among them except Zhou Chen, and is not married yet.
It is relatively rare in this era to be unmarried at the age of thirty-one.
However, Hu Ke is a very talkative and enthusiastic person. He took Zhou Chen to get to know him well up and down the publishing house and introduced many people to Zhou Chen.
For example, the logistics department, printing department, etc. It can be seen that Hu Ke has good connections in the publishing house.
Zhou Chen has worked in both state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, and has been the head of private companies many times. He is very familiar with all the leaders in the company.
Even now, in the late 1960s, many things can still see the shadow of the future, and it is natural to become familiar with them very quickly.
Coupled with his strong memory, he basically memorized everyone introduced by Hu Ke.
From now on, I will always be a colleague of a publishing house, and I will keep my head down but not my head up. I don’t seek to have a good relationship with everyone, but I will try my best not to offend anyone.
A few days passed, and Zhou Chen was already familiar with his work process. The work was not very busy, but there were many things to do.
Because he had just arrived, Shao Jingwen did not arrange much work for him. He was mainly responsible for the preliminary review and proofreading of manuscripts and articles, finding typos and sentences, etc.
In addition, Shao Jingwen's biggest hope is to allow him to express himself freely and write better articles and poems.
For this reason, Shao Jingwen also specially found a lot of books and articles collected by the publishing house for Zhou Chen to read. In his spare time, he also taught Zhou Chen what to pay attention to and so on.
The publishing house is not on the same road from the cinema, so Zhou Chen cannot take the long way to see Zheng Juan every day, but only goes there every now and then.
After the song "Facing the Sea, Spring Flowers Bloom" was published in Golden Land Magazine, it immediately caused a huge sensation in the literary circles of Jiangliao Province. It was then published by other magazines and newspapers at an extremely fast speed and circulated nationwide.
Zhou Chen still underestimated the influence of a good poem in this era.
Especially in this special era, because the school no longer enrolls students, it is a torture for many students and literati not to be able to gather together to discuss knowledge.
At this time, a good poem suddenly appears, and it will naturally be sought after by countless people.
The author of this poem, Zhou Chen, quickly became a celebrity in the literary world. Especially in Jiangliao Province, Zhou Chen was sought after by countless people.
Soon, Zhou Chen worked at Jiangliao Publishing House for more than a month and received his first salary of 53 yuan.
Of the 53 yuan, 26 is salary and the remaining 27 is writing fees.
In addition to the poem Facing the Sea, Spring is Warm and Flowers are Blooming, Zhou Chen subsequently published several more poems. Although they were not as good as that one, the publisher still paid a considerable sum of money for editing.
Getting a salary of RMB 53 a month is definitely a very high level in this era, and is more than some important cadres.
In addition to cash, the publishing house also issued food stamps, cloth stamps and meat stamps, as well as two industrial papers.
These tickets are all good stuff. It has been a few months since he came to this world, and Zhou Chen has eaten meat only a handful of times.
If you eat meat often, you don't think it is a good thing, but if you don't eat it for a long time, the feeling of nostalgia will be particularly unpleasant.
When he got off work, Shao Jingwen went to find Zhou Chen and stuffed him with a meat ticket, saying that their children were not at home and did not need so much meat.
Zhou Chen naturally declined, but Shao Jingwen was very determined and gave it to him, so he had no choice but to accept it.
After receiving his salary, Zhou Chen was in a good mood, so he rode his beloved 28-meter bar and headed to the cinema.
Zheng Juan and her mother, Aunt Zheng, were packing their things and preparing to go home. Taiping Hutong was a bit far from the cinema, so they needed to go back early, otherwise it would be more difficult to walk when it gets dark.
"Has the stall been closed?"
Hearing the familiar voice, Zheng Juan and her daughter raised their heads, and Zheng Juan even smiled unconsciously.
"Well, we're getting ready to go back. Do you want to buy candied haws on a stick?"
These days, Zhou Chen can be said to be their most stable customer. He alone has bought dozens of strings.
"Bring me five."
Zheng Juan asked in surprise: "Why do you want so many today?"
Zhou Chen smiled and said: "Happy, hey, this is money."
Zheng Juan wrapped the candied haws and handed it to Zhou Chen to borrow the money, but the next moment, she was stunned.
I saw that in addition to a dime, there was also a food stamp and a meat stamp.
To be continued...