sbdcsierra Chapter 116 As the tide rises, so does every boat
Chapter 116 As the tide rises, so does every boat
Hong Ye finished frying the venison, and Chen Tuo stopped worrying about their ulterior motives.
Instead, he talked to the two of them about Blood Wolf Plains, which they had already written a little over.
Times have changed, and the individuals' understanding of wildness, untamedness, and fierceness has also differed.
Chen Tuo's understanding leans towards individual heroism.
Xiao Kai and Hong Ye's understanding, however, leans towards the demonstration of collective strength.
For a work to maintain its longevity, it needs to both fit the times and transcend them.
By compromising the understanding of the three people, Chen Tuo was able to write the Blood Wolf Plain.
However, the two of them couldn't fill the gaps in the Blood Wolf Plains material.
This requires the White Dragon and Su Dao from the mountain to fill the gap with their hunting experience and survival skills passed down through the three tribes of Soren.
Beishan is very close, so writing about Blood Wolf was not difficult.
For the subsequent Wolf Totem, Chen Tuo needed to go to the grasslands to collect some materials.
Of course, writing blindly is not impossible, but it depends on the reaction after Blood Wolf Dog is published.
If the semi-blindly written Blood Wolfhound receives a good response, Chen Tuo can then try writing Wolf Totem blindly.
This timeframe is too long; Chen Tuo doesn't want to wait.
So I wanted to go to Ejin Horo Banner in Hulunbuir with Su Dao and Morigen to get some basic information and write semi-blindly like Blood Wolfhound.
However, Bai Long has not come down the mountain recently, and he cannot contact Su Dao and Morigen, who are still staying at the settlement in Beishan.
"Chen Tuo, are you going to Jagdaqi with Su Dao? They go by train and come back on horseback; it'll take them one or two months round trip!"
When Chen Tuo mentioned going to Hulunbuir for research, it wasn't Hong Ye who stopped him, but Xiao Kai.
Xiao Kai stopped Chen Tuo for a simple reason: the incident of accidentally injuring a wolf was still unresolved, and he was afraid Chen Tuo would cause trouble.
He Yunqing, who suggested that the medical team get into danger, has been politely escorted out of the country by the Songling Forestry Bureau and returned to the provincial capital in disgrace.
Before the forestry system reaches a conclusion, the Songling Forestry Bureau certainly doesn't want Chen Tuo, the real insider, to rush out of Songling and brag.
The Xingan Mountains are vast and sparsely populated; it takes a whole day to travel from Songling to Jagdaqi by train.
After exchanging supplies, Su Dao and his group drove their horses and sheep back to Songling.
Ten or twenty days is considered incredibly fast.
It's normal for it to take a month or two to get away when the weather is bad.
There was no need to consult the Forestry Bureau; Xiao Kai already knew the outcome.
Nowadays, people and workplaces may not care much about material pursuits, but they are extremely concerned about saving face.
If Songling Forestry Bureau's reputation is damaged, it will also affect Xiao Kai's career advancement.
"Section Chief Xiao, Blood Wolfhound, Blood Wolf Plain, and Wolf Totem are my series of works; time waits for no one!"
The first part of Bloodhound has just been sent out, and Chen Tuo dares to call it a series, which is not an exaggeration.
Since the establishment of the Songling Forest Area, the number of people who have been able to publish articles in Longjiang Literature and Art has been extremely limited.
After all, this is a forestry unit in the uninhabited area of the Xingan Mountains, and everything is focused on forestry production.
At Songling Forestry Bureau, from the Party Secretary and the Director to the support staff, everyone's first step is on the front line of logging.
If you can't get promoted to a higher position, there won't be any opportunities in a lower-level position. If you can't adapt to this kind of work environment, then you have no choice but to leave.
This is also why Songling Forestry Bureau is able to preserve a large number of external books.
When people from above come, the first thing they do is walk through the logging area.
If you don't go to the front lines of logging, you won't be given food rations or warm clothing. Who can endure the bitter cold of winter in the Xingan Mountains?
In Chen Tuo's view, Songling's promotion model should be the fairest.
However, this cold and realistic promotion model also limits the introduction of so-called high-end talent.
Let alone logging on the front lines, just the environment of the Xing'an Mountains is so bad that even a short trip to the logging front would leave you feeling like you've been skinned alive...
Following "The Story of Fish Picking," Chen Tuo's "Wolverine in the Forest Area" was also published in Longjiang Literature and Art.
Although there has been no reader feedback yet, the publication of these two articles has already established his status as the leading figure in Songling literature.
Unlike Huacheng, which is also a provincial-level literary journal, Longjiang Literature and Art is a major literary center in northern China.
Getting an article published in Longjiang Literature and Art can be considered a stroke of luck.
If two of his works can be published in a row, then Chen Tuo is indeed one of the true young writers in Heilongjiang Province.
If Chen Tuo's "Blood Wolf Dog" had been submitted to Longjiang Literature and Art Publishing House instead of Huacheng Literature and Art Publishing House, it might have been published.
Whether he has an identity or not is no longer important.
With the novella "Blood Wolf Dog," he could easily dominate the literary circles of Northeast China; there was nowhere he couldn't go.
This also reflects the status of Heilongjiang literature and art in the literary world of northern China.
This is also why Xiao Kai came to the educated youth settlement to accompany Chen Tuo in his creative work.
Chen Tuo, who was not well-known, had already been mentioned by the higher-level forestry bureau when his "Fish-Picking Notes" was published.
The Forest Wolverine posted, naming names again.
If the forestry system knew, he had also finalized a commission for a series of articles on fishing and hunting with Beidahuang Literature and Art.
Regardless of whether Chen Tuo was an employee of the Forestry Bureau, the Songling Forestry Bureau would probably allocate an office in the factory area specifically for his creative work.
This was the treatment writers deserved in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and it wouldn't be diminished in the slightest by the tide of change.
As Chen Tuo's works increase and his fame grows, his status will inevitably rise accordingly, which is an indisputable fact.
Although no feedback has been received from any party.
However, judging from Xiao Kai's behavior during this period, his identity as a writer has been tacitly acknowledged by the Songling Forestry Bureau.
"Well... Chen, could I go back and ask about it?"
Xiao Kai intervened to stop Chen Tuo from going to the grassland, partly because the Forestry Bureau did not want him to leave its jurisdiction.
Secondly, although no one was regulating Su Dao and his group's transactions, they involved large sums of money in speculative activities.
In this black soil region where Heilongjiang Province meets the grasslands, not only is the Songling Forest Area of the Xing'an Mountains sparsely populated.
North and west of Songling, and even to the south of Heihe and Nenjiang, the land is sparsely populated.
Further south, the area of a county might not even be as large as a township or commune here.
Some village-level jurisdictions are actually much larger than county towns outside the Great Wall.
The vast land and sparse population, in addition to being isolated, must also have limitations in the flow of goods.
Therefore, the authorities turn a blind eye to some local markets.
But the goods exchanged are different. If you exchange some chili peppers or leather, it's not a big deal.
They would take small items like salt, tea, chili peppers, and liquor to the grasslands and trade them with herders for horses, sheep, or hides.
After the transaction was completed, the actual amount was truly a headache.
The forestry bureau buys a heavy draft horse through legitimate channels, with prices ranging from one to two thousand yuan.
However, these heavy draft horses also have another name on the grasslands: "meat horses".
Wu Laowai's sack of chili peppers could easily be traded for a horse.
Horses, cattle, and sheep that are not included in the supply and distribution system are worthless on the grasslands, but their prices rise just as much once they leave the grasslands.
In the forest area, a Mongolian horse can easily sell for seven or eight hundred yuan.
Further south, it's possible there could be one or two thousand more.
One or two horses, nobody cared.
But when Su Dao and his group went there, they didn't just exchange one or two horses; often they exchanged herds of dozens or even hundreds of horses.
The horses in the horse-making department recovered little by little.
The forestry bureau can turn a blind eye to hunters engaging in such transactions.
It's not exactly a pleasant story for Chen Tuo to go along and do this kind of business.
After all, he was about to become, or already had become, a young writer in the Songling Forest Area...