Regarding the subscription certificate, Yu Dong actually only heard a general idea, but what he remembered most clearly was that the subscription certificate was also called a fortune certificate. Anyway, as long as you buy this thing, you will definitely make a fortune.
As a native of Shanghai, there are real-life examples around him. A cousin of his who is still in business bought a subscription certificate and made a lot of money.
But as for when the subscription certificate was issued and how to purchase it, Yu Dong had no idea.
Thinking of this, Yu Dong became a little anxious. After all, the treasure mountain was right in front of him. It would be a pity if he let it slip away from him.
Yu Dong has no business acumen and is not very good at making money. When he was young in his previous life, he even regarded money as dirt.
But after getting sick, his thinking changed a lot. It was because he got sick and was a burden on his family that he realized how important money is.
Now that he has been reborn, he has stopped smoking, but he cannot guarantee that he will not get sick again.
If he really gets sick again, he will have to make the same mistake again. Fortunately, his parents will suffer.
With money, at least when he gets sick again, he can be more calm, and his parents' life will not be so difficult.
Even if he is not sick and has money on hand, it will be easier to do something in the future.
For example, he once had a dream to set up a magazine. Later, when the magazine became less popular, and after the Internet became popular, he wanted to set up a literary website.
If you want to do these things, you can't do it without money.
So Yu Dong became interested in the stock market and decided to take some time to explore the news and see when the subscription warrant would be issued.
If there is enough time, he can save some capital during this period to buy more subscription certificates. If there is not enough time, he can buy as many subscription certificates as he can and make as much as he can.
…
After a period of time, the students officially started attending classes, and Yu Dong became more relaxed. He occasionally visited the students and held meetings with them, but he could spend most of the rest of his time on his own.
Most of this available time was used by him to write novels, and the rest was spent thinking about stocks.
He inquired about the subscription certificate from many sources, but did not hear any specific news. There was no news, but it was good news. At least it meant that this matter would not happen in the short term, and it also gave him some time to prepare.
…
September 16, Chengdu, "Science Fiction World" magazine.
Tan Kai was sitting in his office, tapping the cap of his pen on the table in a daze, and what made him dazed was the pile of manuscripts placed on the table.
For "Science Fiction World", this manuscript seems a bit thick, as they usually only accept short stories.
This stack of manuscripts roughly calculates to have nearly 40,000 words, and the most important thing is that this is only one-eighth of the full text, which is estimated to be 320,000 words!
Normally, when encountering this kind of situation, Tan Kai would return the manuscript and attach a rejection letter, telling the other party that it was not suitable.
But this time, Tan Kai hesitated.
Because he saw the great potential of this novel.
Although the author only sent 40,000 words, not even an outline of the work, only one-eighth of the content was enough to shock Tan Kai.
The writing of the novel is very good, the concept is very good, and the rhythm is very good...but these are not good enough to make Tan Kai hesitate. What really makes him hesitate is the different near-future world shown in these 40,000 words.
He has never seen an author who can write about the near future in such a realistic and detailed way, and many of his wild imaginations feel very reasonable.
For example, the mobile phones and social networks mentioned in the article...these two things appear to be derived from mobile phones and computer networks at first glance, but they seem to be different things.
Mobile phones can not only make calls, but can also send real-time telegrams anytime and anywhere, and can even conduct face-to-face video communication.
In front of these things, Tan Kai no longer pays attention to the story behind it.
He couldn't write a rejection letter, but... what if he didn't write a rejection letter? Could he really send it to a magazine?
Are you doing serialization?
How can this work? This method of forcing readers to buy is not easy to use. If it is not used well, "Science Fiction World", which is already in turmoil, will die directly.
Or, contact the publisher to help publish a single volume?
Which publisher is willing?
Tan Kai went through several publishing houses that he could contact in his mind, and finally found that he was not sure to convince any of them. The current poor market for science fiction novels is partly due to the "spiritual pollution" that occurred in the past few years.
The aftermath of the incident is still lingering, and few publishers are willing to easily touch a domestic science fiction novel.
Just when there was almost a hole in the table, Tan Kai seemed to have made up his mind, grabbed the manuscript on the table and walked out of the office, heading towards the office of President Yang Xiao.
Yang Xiao is studying the sales data of these issues, combined with recent domestic news about science fiction literature, and she has come to the conclusion that Chinese science fiction is developing in a good direction.
Boom, boom, boom.
The knock on the door was very urgent. Before Yang Xiao could answer the door, he looked up and saw Tan Kai running in in a hurry.
"President Yang, look at this."
Yang Xiao looked at the manuscript on the table and then at Tan Kai. She didn't know why Editor Tan, who had always been cautious, behaved like this.
"What is this?" she asked.
"A novel."
"One article?" Yang Xiao glanced at the thickness of the manuscript, "It must be tens of thousands of words, let's..."
"More than that, this is only one-eighth of the full text. The full text has more than 300,000 words."
"More than three hundred thousand words!?" Yang Xiao had a look of doubt on her face, but then she seemed to understand something. She pressed her hand on the manuscript on the table and said, "Editor Tan, I thought we had reached a consensus that we will not accept long manuscripts.
.In other words, we don’t have the ability to accept it. If you really think it’s okay, I can help contact the publisher.”
Tan Kai shook his head and just said: "You read the manuscript first, we will talk about other things later."
After hearing Tan Kai's words, Yang Xiao stared at his face seriously for a while, and finally said helplessly: "Okay, I will take a look."
"I suggest you watch it now."
If someone else had talked to Yang Xiao like this, she would have slapped the table and told people to get out. But Tan Kai was different. They had worked hard for "Science Fiction World" together and had gone through ups and downs side by side.
Moreover, Tan Kai is never like this, and today is also abnormal.
Based on all this, Yang Xiao was not angry, but nodded: "Then wait for me here."
She picked up the first page of the manuscript and saw the title of the work - The Second World.
Chapter completed!