Re-select the life system

Chapter 10: My Years in America

"After retiring from the army, I earned my first million dollars in the United States!"

When Xiao Han saw the title, he thought he had read it wrong. He stroked his glasses again and read word for word. He found that the title was indeed correct, especially the words "100 million" were deliberately written a little larger, which made it seem more confusing. People recognize it at first sight.

What Xiao Han didn't know was that, having experienced the influence of later generations of clickbait parties, Qin He had a clear purpose in submitting articles to readers, story clubs, and Zhiyin magazines.

Before writing the article, Qin He carefully looked through the content of several famous magazines in his memory, and he found a very interesting question.

That is, the style of readers’ magazines is mostly about three things: uprightness, closeness to life, positive energy, and finally, admiration for foreigners!

Many articles describe the beautiful life abroad, and then compare the people in China with the real things to educate children, as if foreign countries are the correct answer.

The style of Story Club magazines is mostly tragedy, novelty, and satire. Especially the Story Clubs before 2000 were basically in this style. The style of Story Club magazines in the [-]s was particularly satirical, satirizing reality, society, and officials. , there are many words about section chiefs, directors, department members, and janitors, which are very realistic.

As for Zhiyin magazine, the style of this era is completely on the sidelines, weird celebrity secrets, and stories about a certain famous person and a certain actress. In one sentence, the more serious the relationship dispute is, the more bloody, Zhiyin magazine The more I like it.

As for the three magazines, Qin He's favorite magazine when he was a child should be the story club. After all, many of the stories in it were amazing. After gradually entering a harmonious society, many articles became more restrained, and gradually lost their flavor.

If Qin He was reborn in this era, his favorite magazine would definitely be Zhiyin Magazine. As for why?
Because of the high royalties it gives!

Qin He once watched a program in later generations, and it seemed that the host made fun of Zhiyin magazine. It probably meant that Zhiyin magazine paid astronomical fees for manuscripts back then. In the 90s, the price was a thousand words and a thousand yuan.

In the magazine circle at that time, this price was sky-high.

It is now [-]. Although Qin He does not know how much the publishing fees of World Zhiyin magazine are, after experiencing this period of time, Qin He discovered that the development direction of this parallel world is basically the same as his own time.

It is nothing more than a few people are missing, but at the same time there are some more people, and those more people automatically complete the work life and reputation of those celebrities who are missing.

Just like that sentence, the world will not stop turning just because someone is missing.

This may be the self-healing function of the parallel world.

These three magazines are very famous, so Qin He contributed articles to the magazines, and his main target was only these three magazines.

Because these three magazines have a large sales volume and are regular, there should be no arrears of manuscript fees.

Therefore, in response to the styles of these three magazines, Qin He carefully wrote twenty or thirty articles, all of which conformed to the styles of these three magazines.

For example, Reader Magazine, the article editor Xiao Han is currently reading.

Xiao Han was indeed attracted by the title. Without the 100 million title, this submission letter would have been rejected.

Xiao Han touched the thickness of the envelope, frowning a little, but thinking that there should be no rush today, he decided to read this submission first.

Xiao Han poured himself another cup of tea, opened the envelope, and a stack of thick paper appeared in his hand.

At the beginning of the article, a real-life narrative is used. A young man in his 80s has just retired from the Laoshan front and returned home. Because of his poor family background, the young man decided to go out for a break.

By chance, this young man came to the United States. With his hard work, he finally saved an old couple who had no children. The old couple took him in because they opened a factory that was about to go bankrupt, so they also gave him life. A job for a young man. With honesty and hard work, the young man moved a certain partner and finally brought the factory back to life. Finally, before the old couple died, they left a will and left the family property to this young man. This young man He has since become a millionaire.

The whole article is full of honesty, hard work, hard work, and touching, and finally there is a miracle. The will at the end makes the young man a millionaire, leaving people with envious and jealous guesses.

This article is full of positive energy, truth, goodness and beauty, especially in line with the style of readers' magazines, and this article is written in the tone of a real person's narrative, which makes people feel too real. This is the world I think. Only honesty and hard work can move the old couple, move the Americans, and finally make him a millionaire.

If this article was published more than 20 years later, Zhihu users would scold this article bloody. Let’s start with the logic. How did you, an ordinary young man, get to the United States?In addition, Americans believe in guns but not kung fu, and do business in the United States rely on honesty?You're probably out of your mind!
But it was precisely in the 90s and [-]s that the Chinese believed that honesty can impress Americans. They believed that only in the United States, people know that good people are rewarded, so getting an old couple's millions of property is the end of the story they think they should have.

Xiao Han was also moved, and was about to revisit this article again, but suddenly his eyes scanned the inside and outside of the envelope, and when he saw another manuscript, his eyes were obviously stunned again, because the title on it was .

"Football champion born in the slums of America!"

Xiao Han stroked his glasses and started reading this article again. Unknowingly, the tea on Xiao Han's table had gone cold. It wasn't until his colleague passed by his office and knocked on the door that he realized what he was doing. He looked at his watch. It’s already time to get off work at noon.

After watching for more than an hour without knowing it, Xiao Han couldn't help but shook his head, picked up his teacup, and just took a sip, he found that the tea was completely cold, so he stood up helplessly and stretched himself.

He once again looked down at the submission letter he had read just now, and couldn't help but feel mixed feelings in his heart. There were five articles in this letter, each of which was very in line with the style of the reader's magazine, and even he felt that each of them Every article can be selected as the best article of the year, because each article expresses a story, positive energy, and positive style, which makes him fond of it.

If Qin He knew the editor's mood at this time, he would probably laugh like a pig. The article he voted for the readers' magazine was [-]% fake and [-]% true, and [-]% was purely composed of jokes known by later generations." An article made up of "anti" positive energy stories.

Relying on the mode of Zhihu, these articles are very real, as if only those who have experienced it can understand it. If Xiaohan editor carefully studies these articles, he will find that these articles have a rule, that is, they are basically Bitter before sweet, and the character of the protagonist must be upright and upright, not the kind with negative energy attributes.

At the same time, the editor of Zhiyin magazine has also gone to work. The editor in charge of reviewing manuscripts, Lao Cui, is in a bad mood today, because he was once again scolded bloody by his boss. If you want to be exciting but not exciting, if you want depth but not depth, I finally published an explosive article and was sued by the person concerned.

"How do I know that the contributor made it up? Who knows if it's true? The private lives of celebrities are messy, okay?"

Lao Cui murmured to himself to excuse himself.

The cover of every issue of Zhiyin magazine is a beautiful star, and most of the content in it revolves around stories such as love and love, especially the private lives of celebrities, which are especially popular among readers.

So for a certain period of time, Zhiyin magazine was frantically collecting manuscripts about the private lives of celebrities. The more exciting the appointments, the higher the manuscript fees were. One thousand words and one thousand yuan. In this era when the monthly salary is only a few hundred, you can just randomly make up thousands of words. , enough for half a year’s salary.

Originally, celebrities also need exposure. Every issue of Zhiyin Magazine exposes some gossip among celebrities, and everyone laughs it off. You need traffic, and I also need exposure. Everyone agrees with each other.

But during this period of time, the taste of the article has become more and more serious. I started to name and say that a certain person’s private life is chaotic, why did he have an illegitimate child, what kind of multiplayer sports SM, etc. These messes, that celebrity can bear it, so This is where hard steel comes in.

In fact, this is the era where many things are written on the surface and no one cares about them. For example, in many books published in this era, the descriptions of various organs are so wonderful, and various secret articles of officials can be seen everywhere.

Who in future generations will dare to write?
Who dares?

(End of this chapter)