Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

It turned out that the day after Cao Zhiqiang officially broke Gua Qinghong, Hongguang Machinery Factory called Cao Zhiqiang and asked Cao Zhiqiang to go to the work unit the next morning.

Just like this, two days ago, Cao Zhiqiang went to work at Hongguang Machinery Factory early in the morning, and as soon as he went to work, he was called to the factory director's office.

Director Li was in his office, chatting kindly with Cao Zhiqiang for a long time, and the topic was about the publishing house.

According to Director Li, the publishing license applied for by Hongguang Machinery Factory has been approved.

In other words, from the moment Director Li came to talk to Cao Zhiqiang, there was already a new publishing house affiliated with Hongguang Machinery Factory - Hongguang Publishing House.

Don't blame the name because it was decided in advance. In fact, the name of the publishing house is really beyond Cao Zhiqiang's control.

After all, the main sponsor of this publishing house is Hongguang Machinery Factory, so according to normal procedures, the new publishing house must of course be called Hongguang Publishing House.

In order to take care of Cao Zhiqiang, the former editor-in-chief of Hongguang Magazine, Zhou Huaien, was appointed as the president of Hongguang Publishing House.

The reason why Zhou Huaien is appointed as the president is not only because he is the oldest and has the highest seniority, but also because Zhou Huaien is now 58 years old and is about to retire.

Nowadays, Editor-in-Chief Zhou is basically retiring at home in Hongguang Machinery Factory. In the past, he did not even need to participate in the duty activities of the magazine department. He only had to go there regularly at the end of every month to check the contents.

It only matters if there are any sensitive issues in the published article.

To put it bluntly, Zhou Huai'en's previous position was said to be chief editor, but in reality it was just a review. He only needed to show up at the end of the month for final inspection, and he was not required to do anything else.

When this old man came to be the president, he clearly delegated power to Cao Zhiqiang, the general manager.

That's right, according to Director Li, after the Hongguang Press applied for it, it was nominally a subsidiary unit of Hongguang Machinery Factory, but in fact, Hongguang Machinery Factory would sign an internal contracting agreement with Cao Zhiqiang personally.

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In other words, as long as the contract agreement is signed, Cao Zhiqiang will be the general manager of this publishing house and will be fully responsible for all operating matters of this publishing house. However, Hongguang Machinery Factory does not need to pay a penny to this publishing house.

Cao Zhiqiang only has a publishing house, and everything else, such as office space, water and electricity bills, and staff salaries, etc., are all Cao Zhiqiang's responsibility.

By the way, the old people from the original Hongguang Magazine Department, such as Lao Qian and Sister Niu, were also arranged to join the newly established Hongguang Publishing House.

It's just that these people don't need to work in a publishing house, they just need to be idle and get their wages on time.

In other words, whether it is President Zhou or Sister Niu, those old people who used to work at Hongguang Magazine are now paid by Cao Zhiqiang, but their relationship is still with Hongguang Machinery Factory.

People like Sister Niu do not need to participate in the operation and management of the publishing house, but their salaries must be paid on time, and other medical reimbursements and other benefits must not be bad. This is equivalent to letting Cao Zhiqiang support these idle people for the machinery factory.

As a result, Hongguang Machinery Factory will have one less burden, but this burden will have to be shouldered by Cao Zhiqiang.

It doesn't matter, after all, it's just the salary of six people. Even if bonuses and allowances are included, it's nothing in this era. Cao Zhiqiang didn't notice it anyway.

As a contractor, Hongguang Publishing House should also pay a management fee, or contracting fee, to Hongguang Machinery Factory.

Generally speaking, this kind of contracting fee can be divided into two models, one is the unfixed sharing model, and the other is the fixed model.

The sharing model means that the publishing house and the machinery factory share the money in proportion to their profits.

Generally, it is 30-70 cents, which means that the publishing house pays a fixed 30% of its profits to the machinery factory every year.

The disadvantage of this model is that the more the publishing house makes, the more money it has to pay.

The advantage is that if the publishing house does not make a profit or suffers a loss, it theoretically does not need to pay management fees.

As for a contractor, since he has the right to operate a unit, if he wants to cause the unit he has contracted to suffer a loss on the books, it is too simple. He can just find a qualified accountant to do it.

Therefore, during this period, most contractors generally like to play the share-sharing model, but most contracted units often do not like it because the risks are too high.

Another model is the fixed management fee model.

In this model, no matter whether the unit contracted by you as a contractor makes a profit or loses money, or whether you make more or less, you only need to pay a fixed management fee.

Under this model, the contractor is under greater pressure, while the contracted unit is under less pressure, because no matter whether the contractor makes a profit or loses money, the contracted party will always get money.

Originally, because of the good relationship, Director Li wanted Cao Zhiqiang to implement a share-sharing model.

After all, under the share-sharing model, the contractor can play many tricks and have less pressure. As long as he makes a book loss every year, the machinery factory will not ask for management fees from him.

To put it bluntly, this is a kind of care from Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li, who want to help Cao Zhiqiang start his own business.

Of course, the premise of this kind of care is that Cao Zhiqiang has a good relationship with the two big leaders, Uncle Xu and Uncle Wang. If it weren't for these two giant Buddhas, neither Secretary Dong nor Factory Director Li would be so kind to Cao Zhiqiang.

Easy to talk to.

Among them, Uncle Xu has actually been relegated to the second line, and his actual power is not great, but his connections and prestige are there.

But Uncle Wang is different. Not only does Uncle Wang have connections and prestige, he is also a leader with real power. In terms of power and status, he is only higher than Uncle Xu.

With these two people standing behind Cao Zhiqiang, they were just a publishing house, and Hongguang Machinery Factory didn't take them seriously at all.

In fact, although in Cao Zhiqiang's view, units like publishing houses are very important, difficult to manage, and even promising.

But in the eyes of many people, especially people like Secretary Dong and Director Li, a mere publishing house is nothing.

Because opening a publishing house is very difficult for Cao Zhiqiang himself, but for people like Secretary Dong and Director Li, it is not a problem at all.

Cao Zhiqiang later learned that even if he didn't ask for help from senior leaders but only from Secretary Dong and Director Li, he could still get his unit to apply for a publishing house and then hand it over to him as the contractor.

The reason is very simple, that is, it is not difficult to be powerful.

As an individual, Cao Zhiqiang wanted to open a publishing house, but it was certainly difficult at this time.

But Hongguang Machinery Factory, as a large state-owned enterprise in Beijing with more than 8,000 people and directly affiliated to the Ministry of Metallurgy, would not be easy if it wanted to apply for a publishing house in the name of the company.

I didn't do this before, just because it was too troublesome and unnecessary, and I was afraid of adding another loss-making department.

After all, during this period, most publishing houses were actually loss-making units. At this time, they were similar in nature to hospitals. They were all under a differential funding model, not a self-financing model like a design institute.

The era when publishing houses really became popular, when a hundred flowers blossomed, and every unit wanted to set up a publishing house to make money. That was only after 1985.

What a coincidence, that is, around 1985, most publishing houses became self-financing units, and everything was responsible for their own profits and losses.

Perhaps it is precisely because most publishing houses have become self-financing units and are under great pressure that later publishing houses only focused on making money.

The sideline magazines and pirated audio tapes are all produced by a bunch of no-name publishing houses.

Of course, it was precisely because of the chaos during that period that after the 1990s, relevant departments began to strictly investigate and crack down, and a large number of problematic publishing houses were cancelled.

In addition, let me tell you a little knowledge.

That is, in the 1980s, not all publishing houses were public institutions. State-owned enterprises could also open publishing houses.

But in most cases, such as in big cities like Beijing, most publishing houses are public institutions.

But in local cities, especially small cities established on the basis of enterprises, such as the birthplace of Qinghong, many local publishing houses are state-owned enterprises and are subordinate units of factories.

In those small local cities, local government agencies and institutions are far less powerful than local state-owned enterprises. Not only are they not as rich as state-owned enterprises, they also do not have the power.

Therefore, as a state-owned enterprise in the capital, Hongguang Machinery Factory has no problem applying for a publishing house.

However, for state-owned publishing houses, this is no longer a differential funding model. The government will not allocate funds to this type of publishing house. Instead, the sponsoring state-owned enterprise will be entirely responsible for the publishing house’s expenses.

However, whether it is a publishing house modeled as a public institution or a publishing house modeled as a state-owned enterprise, it must be supervised by the Publishing Bureau.

Therefore, the Hongguang Publishing House contracted by Cao Zhiqiang is only managed by the Hongguang Machinery Factory, but it is also subject to the management and supervision of the Publishing Bureau.

In the eyes of Director Li, after the publishing house is established, if it can be contracted out and there is no need to invest money in it, and someone will support them with a group of old employees who only take money but do not work, and pay a lot of money, then it is still a waste.

I couldn’t ask for it more.

Even if he doesn't need management fees in order to allow people to provide for others, that's fine.

You know, whether it's Lao Zhou, Lao Qian, or Sister Niu from the original magazine department.

Those people are all senior cadres, with high seniority and seniority, so their wages are quite high, with an average of two hundred yuan per person per month.

On average, each person is two hundred, so six people are one thousand two hundred, which is actually more than one thousand five.

This thousand and a half is given every month, which works out to eighteen thousand yuan a year, which is really not a small amount of money!

Not counting the medical reimbursement of these people, at this time, the medical expenses of these factory cadres are fully reimbursed!

If you include medical expenses, these old guys will spend at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year!

This amount of money is a considerable burden for Hongguang Machinery Factory.

Therefore, in Director Li's view, Cao Zhiqiang can contract a magazine and support idle people like Lao Zhou, which is a great help to Hongguang Machinery Factory. It would be a bit unethical to ask for management fees, let alone

Cao Zhiqiang still has a lot of connections behind his back.

It's just that Hongguang Machinery Factory is a state-owned enterprise after all, and it must follow rules in everything. It is impossible not to ask for management fees, and it cannot be passed organizationally, so it has to be symbolic no matter what.

That’s why Director Li wanted Cao Zhiqiang to choose the share-sharing model.

Because in this way, as long as Cao Zhiqiang manipulates the accounts and makes losses every year, he will not have to pay management fees.

But Cao Zhiqiang did not choose this, but chose the fixed payment model.

The reason is very simple. In Cao Zhiqiang's view, no matter how clever you are in making false accounts, there are still traces. As long as someone checks, they will definitely be found out. And once found out, it is not a matter of making up money, it is very likely to be continued.

The license will be revoked.

In addition, falsifying accounts is not so easy to pass.

It was okay when Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong were both there, but what if they were replaced?

Secretary Dong is now fifty-six, and Factory Director Li is also fifty-five, both of whom are about to retire.

Once these two people retire and a new leader comes in, they may not be so easy to talk to.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, he is very confident in himself.

He is very sure that under his leadership, or in other words, under his own system plug-in, his publishing house will prosper and become a terrifying cash cow.

After all, the business scope of his publishing house is very wide. It is a comprehensive publishing house that can not only publish books and magazines, but also audio and video products.

In other words, Hongguang Publishing House can not only publish books and novels, but also publish magazines, newspapers, and even audio and video products.

To put it bluntly, today’s publishing house is a distribution platform.

As long as you have the name of a publishing house, you can legitimately be linked to the post office and Xinhua Bookstore, the largest publication distribution organizations in the country at this time.

In other words, without the cover of a publishing house, you can also print books for sale privately, or record audio-visual products for sale privately.

However, this kind of private behavior without official certification is only a minor problem when it is inspected by relevant departments. The biggest problem is that it cannot quickly distribute goods and expand its influence.

Because you don't have publishing qualifications, you can't get distribution channels from the post office and Xinhua Bookstore, and you can't quickly send your products to sell across the country. You can only do it in your local city.

Only by going to the post office and Xinhua Bookstore can you distribute it nationwide and win the favor of the national market.

Moreover, if you have a formal publication number, no one will dare to check the products you publish, and you will naturally earn more profits.

Another point is that because the publishing house is an official unit, it can also pave its own way in China at this time.

For example, if a publishing house wants to publish a book at this time, in addition to cooperating with the post office and Xinhua Bookstore, it can ask them to help distribute the book.

You can also establish a new distribution channel by yourself, send people to various cities to establish branches and warehouses, and then hire people locally to distribute books to various small booksellers.

This means that you can establish a separate distribution channel belonging to the publishing house, similar to the express delivery model.

Because you are a regular publishing house, you will not encounter too many difficulties when you send it to various places to establish distribution channels, which means that you can establish a transportation network in advance.

Under this model, you don't have to share the profits with the post office and Xinhua Bookstore. You can earn more profits, and of course the expenses will be higher. Generally speaking, it is not as cost-effective as cooperating with the post office and Xinhua Bookstore.

But in Cao Zhiqiang's eyes, this is another way to make money.

What is this? This means that you can establish a distribution channel alone!

Once there are branches in every city, you can easily switch to other careers in the future.

Moreover, with branches, you can also establish franchised small bookstore chains in various places, start a bookstore chain, and compete with Xinhua Bookstore.

Bookstores now not only sell books, but also newspapers, audio and video products, soda, melon seeds and snacks.

what is this?

This is a national chain supermarket group!

It can be said that once Cao Zhiqiang has a publishing house that he has the final say on, he will have opened a map of the country. The markets across the country will no longer be a natural barrier for him, and there will not be too much he can do.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang insisted on paying a fixed fee, and the term was set for a very long time.

In the end, due to the bargaining between Cao Zhiqiang and Factory Director Li, the final contract agreement was signed.

According to that contracting agreement, Hongguang Publishing House was contracted and operated by Cao Zhiqiang himself, and the contracting rights were for thirty years, which was similar to the land contracting period.

Within thirty years, Cao Zhiqiang had the final say on all operating activities of Hongguang Publishing House, and all expenses were contracted by Cao Zhiqiang.

During this period, Hongguang Machinery Factory is not allowed to interfere in the specific operation and personnel management of the publishing house at will. At most, it has the right to make suggestions.

In other words, within thirty years, Cao Zhiqiang alone has the final say over the financial, personnel, and administrative powers of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang has the final say, and this is all relative.

Hongguang Machinery Factory has the right to reject some publications that clearly violate regulations.

President Zhou Huaien exists mainly to play a review role.

During the thirty-year contract period, Hongguang Publishing House had to pay a fixed management fee of 5,000 yuan to Hongguang Machinery Factory every year.

Well, originally Director Li only wanted a thousand yuan for this fixed management fee.

Still, Cao Zhiqiang thought it was too outrageous and was afraid that it would be difficult to silence everyone, so he forced himself to increase it to 5,000 yuan a year.

Five thousand yuan is already a large amount of money in this era.

A publishing house pays a fixed amount of 5,000 to the contractor every year. At this time, I believe no one can say anything, and many people may even want to see Cao Zhiqiang's joke.

Of course, after a year, I believe many people will regret it, because by then, five thousand yuan will really be a waste.

Also, Cao Zhiqiang requested a thirty-year deadline. Originally, Director Li only wanted a one-year deadline.

Of course, Director Li's one-year deadline was a good intention, because he was afraid that Cao Zhiqiang would not be able to withstand it, and the one-year deadline would allow him to stop the loss in time, and then the contract could be changed again.

But how could Cao Zhiqiang give up this good opportunity? It would take thirty years.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang was able to do it for fifty years, but when he thought it was too much and couldn't justify it, he changed it to thirty years.

Thirty years is enough.

Thirty years later, it will be 2013. The publishing industry has probably made corrections long ago, and it is unlikely that it will still be as chaotic as it is now.

When the time comes, his arms will not be able to twist his thighs, and his contract will not be able to stop the general trend. Sooner or later, it will have to be rectified.

However, with this contract, even if there is a major overhaul in the publishing industry in the future, he will be able to take advantage of it, and the benefits will be many.

Because the contract he signed with Hongguang Machinery Factory was a contract between him and a state-owned enterprise, and the subject of the contract was Hongguang Machinery Factory, not the director himself, so there was no need to worry about the death of the people and the government.

There are also some supplementary clauses that may seem inconspicuous, but are very important in Cao Zhiqiang’s opinion.

For example, if Hongguang Machinery Factory goes bankrupt due to poor management, it will automatically belong to the Metallurgical Department, the parent unit of the machine factory.

If Hongguang Machinery Factory is annexed or merged with other units for rectification, and the corporate legal person changes, then the ownership of Hongguang Publishing House will automatically belong to the new unit.

But no matter who owns the Hongguang Publishing House at that time, the thirty-year contract will remain unchanged.

In order to ensure the authority of this contract, at Cao Zhiqiang's strong request, the contract was notarized at a notary office. The contract was also backed up and archived. It has strong legal effect and is difficult for ordinary people to overturn.

Everything is to prepare for a rainy day!

Because Cao Zhiqiang knows that if the publishing house's operating conditions are average or even losing money, no one will be jealous.

But if Hongguang Publishing House makes a lot of money every day, someone will definitely be jealous, and someone will definitely want to cause trouble.

At that time, this contract will be the most advantageous weapon.

As for the two uncles, Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li...

These people are powerful now and can indeed protect Cao Zhiqiang very well, but they are all too old.

In thirty years' time, even if they are still alive, they will have retired long ago and may not still have the power to protect Cao Zhiqiang.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang must provide himself with more insurance from the beginning.

It would be better to waste time and do useless work than to be blinded when something really happens.

"That's just the way it is, and that's the situation!"

After explaining the general situation of Hongguang Publishing House, Cao Zhiqiang took a drink of water first, and then continued to Yu Deli who was stunned:

"So, not only have I obtained a publishing license, I have also signed a contract with our factory and officially contracted the Hongguang Publishing House.

Although the ownership of this publishing house is not owned by me personally, for the next thirty years, I alone will have the final say over this publishing house.

So, I already have the ship, when will the crew you mentioned be in place?"

Just as Yu Deli was about to speak, Cao Zhiqiang suddenly interrupted: "By the way, I almost forgot, this is also a formal state-owned publishing house. Because it is a subsidiary of a state-owned enterprise, it also has a formal establishment.

Although there are not many, there are currently only three agency establishments and five enterprise establishments, but they do have formal establishments.

Moreover, I have a good relationship with the leader. If our efficiency is good in the future, I can spend more money and continue to apply for establishment with the boss.

So, you don’t have to worry about compilation issues.”

Yu Deli nodded with a smile on his face: "If that's the case with you, then of course there will be no problem with me."

After a pause, Yu Deli said: "Don't worry, what we need most these days is ships, not people!

You already have a boat, but are you worried that you won’t be able to recruit people?

Give me three days and I promise to bring him to you!"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly and raised the red wine glass in front of him: "Then I wish us..."

Just as he said this, a middle-aged man suddenly stood up from the table next to him. Cao Zhiqiang was startled and he looked over subconsciously.

Then Cao Zhiqiang discovered that after the man stood up, he kept waving at the door.

While waving his hands, he shouted loudly: "Mr. Sato, here, we are here!"