Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Just as Cao Zhiqiang continued to massage his temples with his eyes closed, there was a sudden knock on the office door.

"Come in!" Cao Zhiqiang, who was rubbing his temples, said casually.

The door was then opened, and it was Xiang Dongfang and Secretary Xiang who had returned.

Cao Zhiqiang opened his eyes and looked at Xiang Dongfang, put down his hand and said with a smile: "Secretary Xiang, why did you come back so soon and didn't have a good chat with that school girl of yours?"

Xiang Dongfang smiled, and while walking towards Cao Zhiqiang, he said softly: "Vice President Chen is here, so I don't need to say more. Besides, I came here only a few days before her, so let me tell you the rules here.

It’s not appropriate.”

Cao Zhiqiang smiled and nodded.

Indeed, although Xiang Dongfang came here earlier than Xu Jingli, it was only a few days earlier.

Speaking of which, Xiang Dongfang and Xu Jingli were transferred here thanks to Cao Zhiqiang.

It's just that the relationship network Cao Zhiqiang used was not Uncle Xu's thigh, nor Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li, but a new relationship network opened up through Yu Deshui's relationship line.

Because since Cao Zhiqiang listened to Hao Shuwen, temporarily accepted Yu Yuanyuan, and bought a house to hide his beauty, on the surface, he continued to maintain a sibling relationship with Yu Yuanyuan.

Regarding Yuanyuan's statement, he was very busy with work recently, and everyone needed some time to think about it. In other words, Yu Yuanyuan was given a cooling-off period to avoid regrets in the future.

Of course Yu Yuanyuan has no regrets, or in other words, she couldn't have wished for Cao Zhiqiang to buy her a house, continue to act like a brother and sister on the surface, and accept her secretly.

But Yu Yuanyuan and Yu Fangfang are easy to talk to, but Yu Yuanyuan's parents can't say so openly.

So what Cao Zhiqiang told Yu Yuanyuan's parents was that Cao Zhiqiang was still young and wanted to spend more time on his career and studies, and put his children's personal relationship aside for the time being.

At the same time, I also hope that Yu Yuanyuan can test Cao Zhiqiang more during this period to see if he is suitable.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang is only nineteen years old now, which is still early in the legal marriage age.

Therefore, the two parties do not openly communicate with each other first, but communicate secretly first, which is a buffer for both parties.

Ordinarily, it would not be easy to persuade Yu Deshui and Yao Guiying with this kind of argument, but Cao Zhiqiang bought a house for Yu Yuanyuan, and what Cao Zhiqiang said was indeed reasonable, and Yu Yuanyuan was also happy with it, so she didn't say it.

what.

After that, although Cao Zhiqiang continued to call Yu Yuanyuan brother and sister, Yu Deshui and Yao Guiying actually regarded Cao Zhiqiang as their future son-in-law, not their godson.

During this period, Cao Zhiqiang took advantage of his connections with Yu Deshui and used the excuse to transfer work to Xiang Dongfang and Xu Jingli to connect with other leaders.

Under the recommendation of Yu Deshui, Cao Zhiqiang has been socializing almost every night in the past half month, either having dinner with this leader or that leader.

Although it is hard work, the hard work is very valuable.

Because Cao Zhiqiang was generous and had a clean financial background, he quickly became acquainted with a group of leaders by eating and drinking.

Relying on the leadership to introduce new leaders, he soon became famous in the circle of local leaders.

Although there are many officials in the capital, when it comes to local leaders who are actually in charge of affairs, they are actually only a small circle.

So soon, Cao Zhiqiang got to know the leader of Beijing Normal University, and they even had dinner together and gave him gifts, which was considered a bit of a relationship.

Now that he has a relationship with Cao Zhiqiang and has accepted the gift, it will be easy to handle the work internship transfer for the two students from the school.

In this way, Xiang Dongfang and Xu Jingli came to work at the publishing house Cao Zhiqiang in the name of internship.

Relatively speaking, it is easier for Xiang Dongfang, because she is still a graduate student and does not have a specific internship unit. In other words, her current internship unit is the school. After all, she is a college counselor.

As long as it's a position in a university, it's very easy to transfer. It only takes one sentence.

Xu Jingli is relatively troublesome, mainly because Xu Jingli has already interned in other schools.

If you want to transfer Xu Jingli to an internship position, you must first make accommodations with the unit where Xu Jingli is currently interning.

Fortunately, this is not difficult. The relevant leaders of the university introduced the relevant leaders of the middle school where Xu Jingli was interning to Cao Zhiqiang. They all sat down to have a meal together and gave a gift, and then the matter was settled.

It’s done.

It can be said that after nearly half a month of eating and drinking, Cao Zhiqiang finally managed the internship arrangements between Xiang Dongfang and Xu Jingli. It was really not easy.

This is still a situation where you have money and connections. If you don’t have money and connections, there really are no connections at all.

Of course, looking at it from another perspective, Cao Zhiqiang's continuous eating, drinking and attending dinner parties for more than half a month has also expanded his, Chen Jiabang and Yu Deshui's network of contacts.

Judging from the superficial results, it seems that it was just to transfer internships to two female college students.

But looking at a deeper level, in the process of constantly attending dinner parties, Cao Zhiqiang, Chen Jiabang and Yu Deshui all got to know many leaders in the circle, and everyone became familiar with them.

This will be of great benefit to Cao Zhiqiang and the publishing house's future business operations.

Overall, although these days were hard, it was Cao Zhiqiang himself who benefited more.

It's just that he feels that he has reached his limit. If he continues to drink like this every day, even if he pretends to be drunk every day, his body will really not be able to hold on anymore.

It seems that this dinner party culture is really not suitable for him.

"President Cao." Xiang Dongfang suddenly said when he came to Cao Zhiqiang, "Do you still have a headache?"

"Yeah?" Cao Zhiqiang continued to close his eyes and massage his temples.

"Last night I had dinner with several city leaders. Those people are very good at drinking. Although I have tried every means to avoid drinking, in the end... forget it, it's nothing. I'm just a little hungover. After a while

Enough."

Xiang Dongfang said: "President Cao, let me massage your head. You can't do this."

Cao Zhiqiang opened his eyes and looked at Xiang Dongfang, and found her indifferent smile. After thinking about it, he agreed.

"Okay, I'll bother you then, Secretary Xiang."

Xiang Dongfang smiled: "As your secretary, this is what I should do."

After saying that, Xiang Dongfang came behind Cao Zhiqiang, gently placed his hands on both sides of Cao Zhiqiang's head, and leaned the back of Cao Zhiqiang's head against her belly.

Cao Zhiqiang frowned and was about to speak when Xiang Dongfang suddenly said: "President Cao, it's about to start. Please close your eyes."

Cao Zhiqiang then closed his eyes and stopped talking.

Then as expected, Xiang Dongfang began to gently massage Cao Zhiqiang's temples and acupuncture points on the top of his head, which made Cao Zhiqiang feel comfortable.

"Hiss, it's comfortable!" Cao Zhiqiang hummed in comfort, "Secretary Xiang, I never thought you could do this. Who did you learn it from?"

"When I was young, I worked with an old Chinese medicine doctor." Xiang Dongfang said while massaging.

"That's right." Cao Zhiqiang said with his eyes closed, "I almost forgot that you are a son of an official. You must have been exposed to many strange people since you were a child. But then again, this is the craft of serving people, how can you learn it? It can't be for the sake of it.

Do you want to please your parents?"

"What you said is half right." Xiang Dongfang said while pressing Cao Zhiqiang's head.

"Half of it?" Cao Zhiqiang asked, "What do you mean?"

Xiang Dongfang said: "Actually, when I was very young, my mother was not in good health. She took medicine every day and often had headaches. I saw that my mother was very sad and my father was always not at home, so I learned this traditional Chinese massage method.

, wanting to ease the mother’s pain.”

"Oh, that's it." Cao Zhiqiang said with his eyes closed, "It seems that you are still a filial girl."

Xiang Dongfang smiled slightly: "So, after I learned this, I only used it for my mother. Others, including my father, have not enjoyed my massage technique."

"Really?" Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, "Then am I not the first man to receive your massage technique?"

At first, Cao Zhiqiang just said it casually, but Xiang Dongfang smiled and nodded: "Yes, you are the second person to enjoy my massage after I learned massage, and you are also the first to enjoy my massage."

man."

"Uh." Cao Zhiqiang moved his eyes and suddenly felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere, so he decisively shut up.

Seeing that Cao Zhiqiang stopped talking, Xiang Dongfang continued to press Cao Zhiqiang's head and said softly:

"President Cao, I know these necessary social activities are important, but no matter how important social activities are, they are not as important as good health. You, you don't have to ruin yourself or wrong yourself for us."

"Yeah." Cao Zhiqiang closed his eyes and hummed, "I know everything you said, but since I promised you, I must do it, so forget it, you don't need to know this.

In short, since you are here, do your best.

Do the work you like and don’t think too much about the rest, I’ll take care of everything.”

Xiang Dongfang was silent for a moment, and then said softly: "President Cao, you are so kind to me."

"Don't get me wrong." Cao Zhiqiang continued to say with his eyes closed.

"No matter how good I am to you, I will never be as good as your father is to you.

I just think you are a rare talent, and the talent I need, and you are willing to work for me, so of course I have to do my best to keep you.

A thousand armies are easy to get, but a general is hard to find.

You have been here for a few days, and you should know that my publishing house is just a grassroots team, and I almost rely on myself inside and outside.

While this does give me a lot of power, it does make me feel exhausted.

To be honest, when I put all my effort into opening this publishing house, my original intention was just to make more money and gain more benefits for myself.

After all, I was just a small writer at that time, and I had to submit articles to various magazines and publishing houses, and earn some meager royalties.

At that time, I thought, why can I only eat a small part of what I put so much effort into writing, and let others eat the big part?

So I wanted to open a publishing house of my own, or at least a publishing house where I had the final say.

In this case, I have the final say on my own territory, and I can set the royalties for my own works in my own publishing house.

For example, the royalties are divided into remuneration. Although it cannot be said that my publishing house is original, the current royalties shared by our publishing house are indeed the most friendly and favorable to authors. Even if the current publications only include my own works,

I am the only author who has signed a share contract.

But I believe that with my success and as the publishing house gradually grows, this sharing model will inevitably attract more outstanding authors.

After all, no matter how noble the author is, he will never struggle with money.

As long as it attracts more excellent authors and publishes more excellent works, the publishing house can develop healthily.

But unfortunately, this goal is still very long-term.

At present, the entire publishing house is really supported by my works alone, and there are not many real talents in the staff.

To be more precise, the current people in my publishing house are all staff who serve me. They don’t have much experience in running a publishing house themselves, and everyone is just trying to figure it out."

"Isn't this better?" Xiang Dongfang smiled, "Without experience, crossing the river by feeling the stones means that you have no shackles and can be brave enough to try new models and new ideas. Isn't this the purpose of reform and opening up.

For example, the royalty model that you mentioned is divided between the author and the publishing house. I think it is very impressive. It should be the only one in Beijing."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "It's not necessarily the only one. It's probably the case with other publishing houses, but not many.

But no matter what, we don’t dare to disclose this revenue sharing model, so we can only sign a secret sharing contract privately.”

"Why?" Xiang Dongfang asked.

Cao Zhiqiang said: "Because our temple is too small and its foundation is too shallow. If we dare to publicly sign a share-sharing contract with the author, our colleagues will definitely oppose us. We still can't afford it."

Xiang Dongfang nodded: "That's the truth, but if that's the case, why didn't you focus on publishing, and then opened a magazine and a music company in a hurry for quick success? Isn't this a distraction?"

Cao Zhiqiang sighed: "It's very simple, anything good in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. Who made the "Journey to Jianghu" we released before so outrageous that it aroused everyone's jealousy?

I told you that at present, the entire publishing house is supported by my works, and only my works.

The entire publishing house operates around my own works.

The book series "Journey to Jianghu" is a collection of poems in name, but in fact it mainly sells the martial arts novel "Shattered Void" as a bonus.

It is precisely because of the martial arts novel "Shattered Void" that it is such a best-seller.

Otherwise, no matter how good my poems are, the number of people who like poetry is limited after all, and it is impossible to have such terrible sales.

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During this period, I also took advantage of the book's bestseller to establish an offline marketing network on my own.

Although this network is only in its prototype, it has already begun to take shape.

In this case, it offended distribution units like Xinhua Bookstore.

It's just that "Jiang Hu Xing" has an agreement with Xinhua Bookstore, and Xinhua Bookstore cannot easily break the contract.

But if I continue to publish publications, if I do not publish martial arts novels but continue to publish poetry collections, let alone whether I have so many good poems, the key point is that if they do not become hits, the profit margin will be too low.

My current stall is too big. Not only do I have to support a publishing house, but I also have to allocate a large amount of money every month to subsidize the machinery factory and subsidize the wages of the workers in the machinery factory. Therefore, it must be supported by high-profit products.

As for continuing to publish books, the turnaround time is slow and the profits are low, which is not as fast as writing songs, singing and releasing records.

By the way, have you brought the distribution data of "Red Flag Fluttering"?"

"Bring it here." Xiang Dongfang said, "I wrote the summary sales data of "Red Flag Flying" for more than half a month yesterday and recorded it in my notebook. Do you want to see it?"

"Of course!" Cao Zhiqiang immediately opened his eyes, subconsciously raised his hand and held Xiang Dongfang's hand massaging his head, "Bring it to me quickly!"