Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

After leaving the courtyard house on the Houhai side, the first place Cao Zhiqiang went to was Wangfujing Bookstore, or Wangfujing Xinhua Bookstore.

The reason for coming here is very simple, because so far, the Xinhua Bookstore in Wangfujing has the highest traffic volume among any bookstores in Beijing.

Therefore, as long as a newly launched book in China can be sold here, it will basically enter the mainstream business circle.

As long as you know the sales situation of a book in Wangfujing Bookstore, you can basically know the general situation of the book.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Wangfujing Bookstore is the barometer of Peking Bookstore.

Because of the importance of this place, the people in charge of this store are Cao Zhiqiang's most valued new right-hand men, namely Shen Zhenhua and Liu Donghai.

Liu Donghai was recruited by Yu Deli. He was a soldier, had been on the battlefield, and had participated in the counterattack against Vietnam in 1979.

But those are all gimmicks, and the reality is not that mysterious.

Because this Liu Donghai is not a combat soldier, he is an art soldier, and he is an orderly in the art army who does odd jobs, such as repairing set boards, moving equipment, helping with laundry and sweeping the floor, etc.

When he went to the battlefield, he stayed in a safe place in the rear, so he was not taken seriously.

After the battle, the army began to lay off a large number of art soldiers, including Liu Donghai.

Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for Liu Donghai, a native of Liao Province, to stay in the capital.

But Liu Donghai was tall and powerful, so while at work, he secretly fell in love with a female art soldier from the capital.

In this way, after changing his career, Liu Donghai did not return to his hometown to farm. Instead, he came to the capital with the female artist soldier and quickly got married.

After getting married, the father of the female literary soldier had some connections and helped Liu Donghai arrange a job as a typesetter in a publishing house, specializing in typesetting.

During this period, all types were typeset, and typesetters had a heavy workload but low pay.

But there was no way, Liu Donghai was from a rural background, and relying on his father-in-law's relationship to stay in the capital was already very good, so he didn't dare to complain.

But this does not mean that Liu Donghai has no ambition.

During the opening ceremony, Liu Donghai did Cao Zhiqiang a small favor and asked Cao Zhiqiang to avoid drinking with the boss, so he came into Cao Zhiqiang's sight.

After several contacts, Cao Zhiqiang discovered that although this Liu Donghai looked very burly, he was actually very careful, and he was very good at getting things done, and he was also very good at maneuvering.

Ever since, Cao Zhiqiang secretly developed Liu Donghai.

The so-called development is nothing more than giving him some money and adding some big pie, and soon he quietly pulled Liu Donghai over and became his insider.

Not to mention Shen Zhenhua, he is one of his own.

Shen Zhenhua, whose nickname is Huazi, is the neighbor of Yang Anping, who is still learning to drive.

The reason why Yang An'an initially recommended this person to Cao Zhiqiang.

Firstly, it was because Yang An'an now had to learn to drive and could not continue to be Cao Zhiqiang's errand boy, so he found a substitute to temporarily take over his duties.

Secondly, Yang Anping wanted to find a good job for Shen Zhenhua so that he would not continue to idle around.

After all, Shen Zhenhua's situation is special and it is impossible for a normal state-owned unit to want him.

Cao Zhiqiang was indeed short of manpower before, and Huazi was recommended by Yang Anping, so he accepted it.

However, at the beginning, Cao Zhiqiang just asked Hua Zi to dress up as a businessman and go to a big hotel to see if it was possible to find Lou Xiao'e, and second, to find if there was any reliable Hong Kong business owner.

In fact, the purpose of finding Lou Xiao'e can only be said to be incidental. After all, Cao Zhiqiang never thought that he would actually meet Lou Xiao'e at that time.

Therefore, the real purpose of letting Huazi stay at the hotel is to let him find reliable Hong Kong businessmen, and then he can take the initiative to contact those Hong Kong businessmen.

Who would have known that less than a week after Huazi started working, he had not found a reliable Hong Kong businessman, but he found Lou Xiao'e first.

Now that he has contacted Lou Xiao'e, Cao Zhiqiang does not need to find other Hong Kong businessmen for the time being. After all, it is better to be familiar with it.

From then on, Hua Zi no longer wore a suit and tie all day long and went to various foreign-related hotels to find Hong Kong businessmen. Instead, he resumed his role as an errand boy.

For example, it was him who helped Cao Zhiqiang run an errand to buy something, or helped him order takeout.

Later, Shen Zhenhua's mother fell ill, and he went to the hospital to take care of her. He happened to miss the opening ceremony of Cao Zhiqiang's publishing house.

However, after the publishing house was officially put into operation, Shen Zhenhua's mother recovered and was discharged from the hospital, so he came back to report to Cao Zhiqiang.

Cao Zhiqiang was also very straightforward and signed an employment contract with Shen Zhenhua directly in the name of the publishing house, making Shen Zhenhua an employee of the publishing house.

Although Shen Zhenhua is only a contract worker and has the same nature as Zhou Huai'en's daughter, the degree of reuse is completely different.

You know, although Hongguang Publishing House is very small, its current employees are basically divided into two groups.

One faction is the veteran faction headed by Zhou Huaien.

The other faction is the cutting-edge faction headed by Yu Deli.

The so-called veterans are mainly Zhou Huaien, Sister Niu and other old people from the original Hongguang magazine department.

These people come to the publishing house originally to provide for their retirement. In theory, they only take money here and do nothing. The treatment of these people is all borne by Hongguang Publishing House. This is why the machinery factory agreed to contract and operate it.

one of the conditions.

For this reason, Cao Zhiqiang was also willing to bear the salaries of these people, so when these veterans came, Cao Zhiqiang gave them noble but indifferent positions.

However, after the publishing house actually opened, I don't know what happened. As for these veterans, some of them no longer stayed at home all day to continue to take care of themselves, but instead came to work in the publishing house all day long.

For example, the president Zhou Huaien, the editor Qian Degui, and Sister Niu, these three people go to the publishing house to work almost every day, and at most they are late and leave early.

The enthusiasm of these three people for their work is not small, at least when it comes to the planning of subordinate magazines, they do their best.

Because these three people have a background in in-house magazines and have rich experience, the planning projects of subordinate magazines are currently basically handed over to them, and the progress is quite fast.

By the way, these three people also have a common feature, that is, they all arrange for their own children and relatives to be involved.

For example, Zhou Huaien brought his daughter in as an intern editor.

Qian Degui and Sister Niu also arranged for their sons to join in.

After calculation, these three veterans who come to work every day, plus their three children, equals six people!

Six people, this is quite a number of veterans.

At present, it seems that these people in the veteran faction are very obedient. Cao Zhiqiang does whatever he says and rarely has his own opinions. He is a bit like an old scalper who works a lot but talks little.

On the contrary, those in the cutting-edge group always offer various opinions.

The so-called new sect is what Cao Zhiqiang calls himself, referring to the group of people recruited by Yu Deli.

That group of people were brought by Yu Deli from various units relying on his own connections.

They are all young employees of various magazines or publishing houses with certain work experience. They followed Yu Deli to come here to try their luck because they were unwilling to continue to earn a meager salary in their original units to gain qualifications.

Obviously, since this group of people was brought by Yu Deli, they must mainly listen to Yu Deli's words.

For example, Yang Shouwen dared to openly contradict Cao Zhiqiang at an all-staff meeting, but he did not dare to contradict Yu Deli. This is evident from this.

Although Cao Zhiqiang doesn't seem to care about this on the surface and appears to be very generous and approachable, it's all just pretense.

In fact, how could Cao Zhiqiang really not care?

But there is no way, Cao Zhiqiang is too young, has too few qualifications, and even though he has good connections, he is too high-end.

This determines that it is impossible for Cao Zhiqiang to have a true confidant at the moment.

Fortunately, the publishing house was founded by Cao Zhiqiang from scratch. He controls the personnel and financial power of the publishing house, and the leadership backing behind him is also very strong, so he has absolute say.

Furthermore, Hongguang Publishing House is just a small temple now, and there are no conflicts of interest, so the so-called factional disputes are not a problem.

But Cao Zhiqiang knows that when the publishing house grows, it may not be so peaceful.

Therefore, he must have some real manpower of his own.

At the very least, you cannot let the people below join forces to evade you and make you confused about what they are doing.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang simply brought Shen Zhenhua in, formally signed an employment contract with him, and asked Shen Zhenhua to be his secretary.

In this way, Shen Zhenhua became his own person.

The role of secretary to the general manager is a lowly and powerful role. Shen Zhenhua became the secretary to the general manager, at least in the publishing house, he has enough intimidating power.

It is precisely because of Shen Zhenhua, the secretary to the general manager, that Cao Zhiqiang can read novels at home without having to go to the office building all day long.

Without him, if something happens, Shen Zhenhua, a loser, no, the secretary to the general manager, will call him to report the situation.

Therefore, through the secretary Shen Zhenhua, Cao Zhiqiang can control the entire publishing house.

This is actually not difficult.

After all, the publishing house has just started, there are not many people, and there is only one project, which is Cao Zhiqiang's buy-one-get-one-free book bundle.

Under such circumstances, as long as Shen Zhenhua is in the publishing house, it should not be too easy to supervise everyone.

It is precisely because of Cao Zhiqiang’s buy-one-get-one-free book project that currently, except for Cao Zhiqiang, the general manager, and three veteran elders, Zhou Huaien, Qian Degui and Sister Niu, still remain in the publishing house.

Others, including the children of veterans such as Zhou Huaien, were sent out to promote sales and monitor book sales in real time.

The reason is also very simple, that is, the publishing house's current main project is the release of Cao Zhiqiang's two books, and the publishing house no longer supports idle people except for those few veterans, so it sends people out to promote sales and count sales.

That’s when people are put to their best use.

As a barometer of Wangfujing Bookstore's top priority, Cao Zhiqiang certainly could not leave it to outsiders. Of course, he had to leave it to his two confidants, namely secretary Shen Zhenhua and editor-in-chief Liu Donghai.

In addition, it should be pointed out that this personnel appointment was personally ordered by Cao Zhiqiang.

The purpose is to force Liu Donghai to take sides and let everyone know that Liu Donghai is Cao Zhiqiang's man.

In this way, Liu Donghai was standing in the open, and could no longer be on both sides.

Actually this is not a bad thing.

After all, a small publishing house doesn't need to have insiders or insiders.

It is enough to let everyone know who holds the highest power and who is the most beneficial to follow.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a veteran or a cutting-edge person, so what?

If the people who follow you find out that you actually don't care about what you say and can't give yourself enough benefits, then it will only take a matter of minutes to become disloyal.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang only needs to let Liu Donghai and Shen Zhenhua have enough power and get better benefits than others. Then everyone will naturally know how to choose sides.

Letting Liu Donghai and Shen Zhenhua come to Wangfujing Bookstore not only because they are confidants and can convey the correct information to Cao Zhiqiang more accurately, but also to give them the opportunity to make meritorious deeds.

Only by doing meritorious deeds can you be rewarded, and only by being rewarded can you make progress. Progress can attract people's envy. If someone is envious, they will naturally know who has the final say and who they should fawn over in the future.

What? Why bother?

It's no trouble.

The publishing house is now created by him with great efforts, and many people are watching him.

Cao Zhiqiang can only succeed, not fail!

In other words, Cao Zhiqiang has to rely on the experienced Yu Deli and Zhou Huaien in many ways. At least until Cao Zhiqiang himself becomes an industry insider, he cannot do without the help of these two people.

Furthermore, there is no party or faction, and there are all kinds of strange things.

When there are more people, different factions and circles will naturally appear.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to expect to eliminate factions.

If you really use strong methods to eliminate it, you can only eliminate it on the bright side. Once the bright side turns to the dark side and a group of people secretly create a small circle, it will be more troublesome.

On the contrary, it would be better to deal with it as it is now, with everyone's factional identities clearly stated.