Chapter 33: We Are Legends (Part 2)
Su Jian's eyes swept down lightly and continued: "As everyone knows, our school has many clubs, and the students' extracurricular cultural activities are extremely rich. This is completely unimaginable in those high schools! For this, I want to thank our principal, school leaders, and all teachers. It is their tolerance and understanding that have given us such a colorful campus life!
The Writing Club, as the name suggests, is a group of students gathering together to explore and learn writing skills. Compared to other clubs, the existence of the Writing Club is more widespread! Even in those high schools, key high schools, there are also shadows of the Writing Club!
However, I believe everyone is very clear that recently our school's writing club has been in the limelight! Countless newspapers and magazines have criticized us by name, even big newspapers like Ancient City Cultural News, Ancient City Youth News, and Ancient City People's News have all ridiculed us with veiled satire. Why is this? Why do other writing clubs live so comfortably, while our writing club is treated with such disdain?
After several days of analysis and reflection, I finally understood that our writing club has a function that other writing clubs do not have! And the problem lies in this function! What is it? Other writing clubs only discuss writing techniques together, while our writing club not only discusses writing techniques but also actually writes! Not only do we write, but we have also formed a strategic partnership with Dream Net, and our works can be published on Dream Net! Even some outstanding works are taken by Dream Net's another strategic partner, Hongwen Publishing House, to be published into physical books! Letting our club members truly achieve their writer dreams, truly earning money through writing! This is where we differ from other writing clubs.
Maybe some of you are curious, isn't this a good thing? Doesn't it mean that our writing club is more successful than others? We should be praised, not criticized! Yeah, I was also puzzled, we should be praised, why were we criticized?! When I read these critical articles word by word again, I finally understood!
Let's take a look at what these newspapers say! 'School is a place for learning, and students' main business in school is to learn! Although they can have some hobbies as a supplement to their studies, they can only be supplements. If they let their hobbies exceed their main business, that is not doing their job properly, or even indulging in frivolity!'
And schools are a pure place, this should be the simplest and most beautiful place in the world, it should not be mixed with all kinds of complex factors in society, especially not stained with interest relationships, money should be kept away from school. If even students in school become infatuated with money and become worshipers of wealth, does this world still have ideals? Does it still have responsibility? Does it still have morality? For those who intend to introduce monetary benefits into schools, we should give them severe punishment, otherwise, we cannot warn the world, otherwise, we cannot purify the campus, otherwise, we cannot protect the future of our country and the tomorrow of our nation!
By now, everyone should understand that we can set up a writing club, write books, and even publish them, but the only thing we cannot do is make money from it! If we make a living by writing, then we have lost our ideals, responsibilities, obligations, and morals. We would become thoroughgoing worshipers of Mammon! We should be subject to the people's sanctions!
Now that it's come to this, we can't help but have doubts. Do the books written by those writers and scholars not make any money? It doesn't seem so, as each of their works in bookstores comes with a hefty price tag. If they can earn money and do so justifiably, then why is it such a heinous crime for us to write books and earn money?!
Hehe, I believe everyone has such doubts! But I have some data here that will make everything clear after you see it. Last November, our writing club was officially established, and 15 students participated in writing books, which means we wrote a total of 15 books. At that time, they were just the beginning of the books, as online literature is different from traditional literature, usually written and uploaded simultaneously. We put all 15 books on the Dream Net website, and their responses were not bad. Among them, Liu Wenle's "War in Heaven and Earth" performed exceptionally well, with over 5,000 recommendations and nearly 3,000 yuan in rewards within a month! As for what recommendations and rewards mean, you can go to the Dream Net website to understand, I won't say more here. In short, this achievement is considered top-notch even if all existing online literature is combined. After "War in Heaven and Earth" was uploaded for a month and a half, it was discovered by Hongwen Publishing House, which signed a contract with Liu Wenle and began issuing physical books in reality. As of now, more than a month has passed, and as of the day before yesterday, the latest data from the publishing house showed that "War in Heaven and Earth" physical book sales have successfully broken through 10,000 copies!
What is this concept? Generally speaking, a book that sells 100,000 copies in a year can be considered a bestseller. The annual sales of a first-line author's books are generally around 700,000 to 800,000 copies. In other words, Liu Wenle has already been able to rival a first-line author!
And how much income did this book bring to Liu Wenle? According to the contract signed between Liu Wenle and Hongwen Publishing House, Liu Wenle's sales share is 8%, and the unit price of "War in Heaven and Earth" is 20 yuan. That is to say, so far, Liu Wenle should have received 16,000 yuan!
16,000 yuan! This is just his income for more than a month. How much did he earn that year? Moreover, Liu Wenle is not an isolated case! As time goes by, our writing club has also been growing gradually. By now, the number of members has approached 400, and the books uploaded to Dream Net have exceeded 60 volumes! Among them, five have broken through the data of "War in Heaven and Earth" at that time, and are currently discussing publication with Hongwen Publishing House. With the verification of the Internet, we have no doubt that they will also achieve success in reality!
Now that we've reached this point, I believe everyone understands that it's not because we're really evil or guilty, but because we're too outstanding, so much so that they can't sleep or eat! The main reason is that what we create isn't just individual examples, nor are they suddenly emerging geniuses. What we create is a system, an endless industrial chain! As long as this industrial chain exists, it will continuously produce creative profits! So they're jealous, they envy us, but unfortunately for them, they can't compete with us on the battlefield of fairness! Writing books relies solely on ability, and readers will only acknowledge the books they truly enjoy reading! This is a place where seniority means nothing!
So, they came up with this despicable trick, standing on the moral high ground, waving the banner of care and love to criticize us! They forced us to give up this emerging industry, so that they can accept the past in a legitimate way, divide the fruits of victory at will, and then eat their fill before smiling and saying to us, "I did all this for your own good, you can't think about money now, your main job is studying, talking about money means you've fallen!" That's their true nature!
In fact, if we were orthodox high school students, they would have a few words of reason to say to us. But what are we? We are vocational school students! High school students will go on to university after graduation, but we will directly enter society after graduation! As a vocational school student, our main task is to make the most of the last period of time in school, quickly contact with society, experience society, so that we can find our own position in society as soon as possible after graduation.
If we can utilize our own abilities in school to earn our own money in this society, it will be of great help for us when we enter the society in the future!
In just a short month, we have cultivated an author who can be mentioned in the same breath as traditional first-rate writers. Is it really because his level has reached that of traditional first-rate writers? No, everyone knows that's impossible. Any traditional first-rate writer is forged through thousands of hammerings and refinements. Whether it's writing style, composition, plot or depth, ideas, connotations, I believe Liu Wenle's work still has a big gap compared to a traditional first-rate writer! But why can he achieve the results of a first-rate writer?
Because we discovered a new type of industry! The Internet industry, this is an emerging industry, but also an industry that will inevitably bring about change. Any change will always create a batch of new beneficiaries, and the first person to eat crabs will inevitably get the most generous returns.
Of course, in the tide of the times, no one dares to be sure that they are standing on the right side. This is a gamble in itself, and winning means reaching the sky. Losing, haha, as students of a business school, even if we eventually enter society, we will only be at the bottom rung anyway. Even if we lose, can the outcome be any worse?
"So, I hope everyone can actively participate in this wave, it's the best opportunity for everyone! Now maybe everyone doesn't feel it, just because of curiosity, having fun and other reasons to walk in and follow the trend, but perhaps one day, everyone will look back and find that they are also standing in a place that makes people look up to them, originally in others' eyes you are also part of creating history, originally you are also legendary!"
Su Jin finished speaking, and the applause from the audience was like thunder! In fact, during Su Jin's speech, there were constant bursts of applause. Su Jin didn't know if it was the effect of the system skill or if his speech had truly moved the hearts of the teachers and students. Later on, he simply stopped paying attention to these things and continued speaking as he pleased, for this was originally his true thoughts, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with them!
He bowed deeply to the audience, and when he looked up, he saw General Wei standing at the edge of the auditorium giving him a thumbs-up, and returned with a brilliant smile. Su Jin walked down from the stage.
