Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Chapter 370 It’s no use just painting a pie for me

Cao Zhiqiang has long wanted to say these words to Director Li.

It's not that Cao Zhiqiang wants to show off, this is really not the case.

If you really want to show off, you should at least say it in a crowded place, not just when two people are whispering.

In fact, what Cao Zhiqiang said was from the bottom of his heart, and he really thought so.

After all, he is not an ordinary person, he is a systematic time traveler.

As a cheating time traveler, Isn’t this normal for being a bit ambitious?

It would be abnormal not to.

Of course, if it was just like this, Cao Zhiqiang would not say these words at this time.

In fact, when he said these words, he also meant to take the opportunity to secretly beat Director Li.

He wanted Factory Director Li to understand the positions of both parties and not to think that Cao Zhiqiang was really an easy target.

He also wants Director Li to understand that it is Director Li who is begging him now, not the other way around.

He has long understood why Director Li is so kind to him and why he is so tolerant of the publishing house.

To put it bluntly, everything is ultimately because of the great leader, that is, Uncle Xu!

In fact, as for Hongguang Publishing House, it was Cao Zhiqiang who single-handedly established a relationship with Uncle Xu through Silly Pillar at the beginning, and then met Uncle Wang through Uncle Xu, and relied on his outstanding performance to get Uncle Wang to agree to let him.

Cao Zhiqiang founded a publishing house.

Without Cao Zhiqiang's hard work, Director Li would never have thought of asking someone to open a publishing house.

After obtaining the license, the publishing house settled in Hongguang Machinery Factory and became a subordinate unit of Hongguang Machinery Factory. This was mainly a compromise.

To be more precise, Uncle Xu, the former leader of the Ministry of Metallurgy, wanted to use this as a pilot reform.

The reason is very simple. That is when Cao Zhiqiang went to Uncle Xu’s house to meet him for the first time and had a talk in front of him. In particular, he talked about how Cao Zhiqiang earned 100,000 yuan in a short period of time by writing books and explained in detail how to launch a book.

When the profit of the company was so high, it actually gave Uncle Xu a big impact.

Uncle Xu never expected that a young man could make so much money just by writing a collection of poems.

According to what Cao Zhiqiang said at the time, he only made a fraction of the profit at that time, and the majority of the profit was taken by the publishing house.

The subtext is that if the publishing house can let Cao Zhiqiang open it, it will make more money.

In this case, Uncle Xu wanted to give Cao Zhiqiang a chance to see what he could do.

The reason why the publishing house became a subordinate unit of the machinery factory after its license was issued was because it was not illegal, and it was also to take care of the Hongguang Machinery Factory and use this Hongguang Machinery Factory as a pilot project.

That's right, if we say that when Cao Zhiqiang met Uncle Xu for the first time, Uncle Xu didn't know much about Cao Zhiqiang and was just shocked by Cao Zhiqiang's literary talent, speed of making money and bold ideas.

So when Cao Zhiqiang left Uncle Xu's house, people naturally had a way to investigate Cao Zhiqiang.

After figuring out Cao Zhiqiang's situation, Uncle Xu came up with the idea of ​​using Cao Zhiqiang as a pilot for reform.

That's right, the reason why Uncle Xu was able to find Uncle Wang and get Uncle Wang to agree to help Cao Zhiqiang open a publishing house was not entirely because Cao Zhiqiang played and sang a few nice songs in front of him and Uncle Wang, nor was it because

Cao Zhiqiang can give massages or give gifts such as tea paste.

For people like Uncle Xu, these gadgets are basically not on the market. Because of this, they will not use their old connections to find Uncle Wang, who is in charge of cultural propaganda.

To put it bluntly, Uncle Xu was so willing to help Cao Zhiqiang because he was interested in Cao Zhiqiang's talent in writing and singing, and his ability to realize his talents.

When Uncle Xu sent someone to inquire about Cao Zhiqiang's identity, he naturally also inquired about Cao Zhiqiang's income. This information was not a problem at all for Uncle Xu.

When Uncle Xu heard that Cao Zhiqiang had earned 96,000 yuan in just over half a month by publishing a collection of poems, he was shocked.

Although the figure of 90,000 yuan is nothing in Uncle Xu's eyes, if it comes to an individual and he earns it in half a month, it is indeed a bit scary.

With real achievements, combined with the boasts that Cao Zhiqiang had boasted in front of Uncle Xu, Uncle Xu was slightly tempted.

He suddenly felt that the publishing house might be really interesting.

Then he asked someone to investigate the situation of the publishing house.

As a result, he discovered that today's publishing houses are actually making money, but not that much.

The reason why Cao Zhiqiang earned 96,000 yuan in half a month is entirely because his poetry collection was so popular, which is a rare phenomenon in recent decades.

After all, poetry collections are unpopular niche books, so large publishing houses like Writers Press have never sold more than 200,000 copies of poetry collections in half a month since its establishment.

Precisely because poetry collections are niche and unpopular books, the price is on the high side, and they are only liked by a group of intellectuals.

The ability to sell 200,000 copies in half a month, and the fact that some of his poems are popular throughout the city, shows that Cao Zhiqiang is one of those real poets, without any water in them.

The key point is that Cao Zhiqiang's singing is also very good. Both the lyrics of the song and Cao Zhiqiang's personal singing are rare masterpieces from Uncle Xu in the past few decades.

Those who have talent, ideas, and strong ability to act are real talents.

That's why Uncle Xu wanted to give Cao Zhiqiang a chance to start his own publishing house and see how far he could go.

Of course, a personal publishing house is impossible, at least not at this time.

Therefore, Uncle Xu wanted Cao Zhiqiang's publishing house to be placed under Hongguang Machinery Factory and become a sub-unit of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

The purpose of Uncle Xu's doing this is, firstly, to satisfy Cao Zhiqiang's request to own a publishing house. Secondly, he also wants Cao Zhiqiang to share some profits with the machinery factory after making money, and see if he can help the machinery factory collect some third-party services.

production workers.

After all, Uncle Xu has long known that Hongguang Machinery Factory is facing rectification. He also knows that after the rectification is completed, it is impossible for all employees to be accommodated. Many employees will definitely be laid off. After all, the unit that annexed the machinery factory does not have enough positions.

So Uncle Xu put the publishing house into the machinery factory because he wanted Cao Zhiqiang's publishing house to take the opportunity to recruit as many tertiary industry workers as possible from the machinery factory.

In this case, when the machinery factory is annexed and rectified in the future, Cao Zhiqiang's publishing house will automatically become a public institution, which is worthy of Cao Zhiqiang.

As for further ideas, such as letting Cao Zhiqiang support the entire machinery factory, Uncle Xu really never thought about it at the time.

In order to delegate power to Cao Zhiqiang, Uncle Xu had already communicated with Factory Manager Li and Secretary Dong, asking them to take more care of Cao Zhiqiang and delegate more power to Cao Zhiqiang, even if they asked for contract operation.

It was precisely because of Uncle Xu's words that Secretary Dong and Director Li were so tolerant of Cao Zhiqiang.

Otherwise, how could Director Li and Secretary Dong resist taking action in the face of cash cows like Hongguang Publishing House?

I really thought they were all moral models and were playing a long game to catch big fish.

Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li are both old men on the verge of retirement. If there weren't bigger officials watching from above, how could they have resisted taking action.

In fact, at the earliest stage, Uncle Xu's verbal intention was to let Cao Zhiqiang directly control the publishing house through a contract management method, that is, to directly let Cao Zhiqiang be the president.

However, both Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li felt that this was inappropriate and would easily attract gossip, so they forced someone to be the president and made Cao Zhiqiang the vice president and general manager.

On the surface, this was done for Cao Zhiqiang's benefit, but in reality it was to drive a wedge in that could seize power at any time.

After all, the person they arranged is the president, and the position and power of the president are not fake. If you don't use it, it doesn't mean you don't have it.

However, neither Factory Director Li nor Secretary Dong expected that the people they arranged to join would be so helpless. Even when Cao Zhiqiang had made great achievements, he still had conflicts with Cao Zhiqiang and tried to seize power.

Even privately embezzling from a small treasury is intolerable.

You're kidding, Hongguang Publishing House is a project that the top leaders are closely watching. You, a nail we sent here, dare to reach out at this time. Aren't you looking for death?

What if Cao Zhiqiang files a complaint with Uncle Xu?

Moreover, at that time, Cao Zhiqiang had already asked the publishing house to publish a book called "Journey to Jianghu", and in a short period of time, a hit product was born, and the income earned made both Secretary Dong and Director Li jealous.

Cao Zhiqiang has proved his worth with his own strength.

Under this situation, Factory Director Li took decisive action and sacrificed the two nails to appease Cao Zhiqiang's anger, leaving Cao Zhiqiang to continue here.

After that, Director Li decisively delegated power to Cao Zhiqiang, allowing Cao Zhiqiang to gain more power. He even told Cao Zhiqiang about the crisis facing the machinery factory to reassure Cao Zhiqiang.

In fact, Factory Director Li deliberately created a powerful department like the Office of Tertiary Industry and Industry, and made Cao Zhiqiang the deputy director of the Office of Tertiary Industry and Industry, just to bind Cao Zhiqiang deeply and prevent Cao Zhiqiang from leaving the machinery factory in anger.

Because Director Li has already understood that it doesn't matter whether it is published by a publisher or not.

What is really important is Cao Zhiqiang, the cash cow.

With Cao Zhiqiang, there is a steady stream of small money and a bunch of completely feasible new ideas.

Especially after Cao Zhiqiang took the initiative to give 20% of the profits to Director Li and Secretary Dong, the two of them relied on Cao Zhiqiang even more.

It's just that Secretary Dong is an old fox. He usually doesn't show up, and the only one who does is Director Li.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang knew little about these things, but he ate too much with his boss these days, especially after getting to know Yu Deshui. Sometimes after drinking too much, he couldn't help but talk about how he became the boss.

The experience of a publishing house president.

This is also normal. When Cao Zhiqiang has dinner with his boss, he always introduces his identity. However, it is obviously abnormal for him to become the president of a publishing house at such a young age, so it is only natural for everyone to ask about the situation.

This is also a way to check each other out and prevent contact with some unscrupulous people.

Leaders also have separate meals. Not just anyone can sit and eat with them. You must prove your worth and status before others can let you integrate into their circle.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, if he didn't understand it before, now that Yu Deshui is a military advisor, he understands it even if he doesn't understand it.

So he just concealed Uncle Xu's true identity and only said that he had a good relationship with Secretary Dong and Director Li of Hongguang Machinery Factory, and then through their relationship, he got the position of president of the publishing house affiliated with the machine factory.

This makes sense.

After all, Hongguang Machinery Factory is one of the enterprises directly under the Ministry of Metallurgy and is a unit in Beijing, so its level is quite high.

Among them, Secretary Dong is the main director and Director Li is the deputy director. They have been in the capital for decades, so it is not difficult to run a publishing house.

It's just that Hongguang Machinery Factory is facing rectification. It's not a secret to the leaders in Beijing, so they began to transform into various analysts to analyze the situation for Cao Zhiqiang.

After a group of leaders analyze it with you, Cao Zhiqiang will be able to understand the intentions of Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong, even if he didn't understand it originally.

Then Cao Zhiqiang suddenly woke up.

Yes, now it is Factory Director Li and they are begging him, Cao Zhiqiang, to do more, not the other way around.

Because Cao Zhiqiang is the kind of person who is rich, talented and capable. People like him are always scrambling for places wherever they go.

As for Hongguang Publishing House, once Cao Zhiqiang is gone, what will it have?

With Yu Deli's support, without Cao Zhiqiang's forward-looking guidance and micro-management, what good things can be accomplished?

It is precisely because he wants to understand this that Cao Zhiqiang is becoming more and more confident.

But just like this, Cao Zhiqiang will not have a direct showdown with Director Li.

It is true that what Director Li has done recently is a bit unethical.

It's not about anything else, but Director Li has recently begun to send a lot of people to the publishing house.

Only this time, the people Director Li pushed over were no longer talented people like Chen Jiabang, but some bastards who were just messing around.

Two days ago, Cao Zhiqiang learned from Hua Zi, also known as Shen Zhenhua, that the publishing house had ten more people last week.

Originally, it was just ten more people, but according to Hua Zi, these ten people just drank tea and read newspapers every day after they came, and did nothing. They just came to get their wages for free.

It was obvious that Huazi was snitching on Cao Zhiqiang and hoped to regain Cao Zhiqiang's favor through this method.

This is also true, because when Cao Zhiqiang comforted Hua Zi, he told him that Hua Zi was his confidant, and the reason why he was transferred to the publishing house as an internal security guard was mainly to let him secretly monitor every move of the publishing house for him.

This is of course just an excuse. The main reason is that Shen Zhenhua's ability is just that. After Cao Zhiqiang has more manpower available, Shen Zhenhua's ability will become dispensable. Letting him be a security guard is actually for his own good.

But Shen Zhenhua obviously didn't think so. He really regarded himself as Cao Zhiqiang's confidant, and really thought that he was a guard secretly monitoring the publishing house for Cao Zhiqiang.

Although Cao Zhiqiang himself despises snitches, such people are really good to use.

It was through Hua Zi that Cao Zhiqiang knew that those ten people came to get their salaries for free.

Of course Cao Zhiqiang couldn't bear it, so he called Chen Jiabang and wanted to get rid of the ten people who were living in poverty.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jiabang told him that it was arranged by Factory Director Li, and they were all related to Factory Director Li.

After knowing this, Cao Zhiqiang let it go for the time being, but still wanted to find an opportunity to have a formal showdown with Director Li.

"Director Li, we can make money together, and we can also save Hongguang Machinery Factory together and make this factory more glorious. But since you believe in me and put your future in me, don't cause any more trouble for me.

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Having said this, Cao Zhiqiang sighed and said: "Director Li, I remember your kindness to me, but I hope you understand that I am only grateful to you, and it does not mean that I must also be grateful to your relatives.

Therefore, I hope that the matter of manpower placement for publishing houses will not happen again.

Of course, this matter itself is not important. At most, I can afford to support ten people.

What I really care about is the convenience kiosk project!”

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang pointed to the convenience kiosk board room that had just been painted and was not completely dry and said: "Director Li, I believe you also know how important this convenience kiosk project is. Once successful, our tertiary industry office will

Most of the people were accounted for.

So at this time, we cannot take it lightly.

For example, the group of people who will be piloted in the early stage must be truly down-to-earth people who are willing to work hard and can endure hardships. Those kind of bastards who are related to each other are definitely not allowed.

No matter how good a project is, it must be executed by reliable people.

If the people are not good, it will be useless no matter how good the project is.

Why did Wang Anshi's reform fail? Isn't it because of improper employment of people?

You don’t know this, right?”

Director Li was silent for a moment, then sighed and said, "So you care about this. In fact, it's my fault that I assigned people to your publishing house, but there's nothing I can do about it.

Those ten people are actually just distant relatives of me, not that close to me.

It's just that these people are all veteran employees with decades of experience. After they found out that your publishing house pays you well, they come to my house in groups all day long to block the door and live and eat at my house.

I really couldn't bear the trouble, so I agreed to transfer them to your place.

Originally, this was my own scandal, so I didn't tell you.

Since you mentioned this, I will explain it to you now."

After taking a deep breath, Director Li said with a serious face: "Don't worry, I know the severity.

It's actually nothing to arrange for a few troublemakers to go to your publishing house to make a living.

After all, it's all under their noses, and they can't think of anything else. They just want more bonuses. I believe you can't get it.

But without these old gangsters in the factory, many things in the factory will be easier to implement.

As for the kiosk project, I certainly know it's important.

Therefore, the people selected in advance are reliable and will never be held back.

In fact, working as a salesperson at a convenience kiosk is definitely not as comfortable as working in a factory, and most old bastards probably won't be happy to do it.

If everyone realizes that you can earn a lot from this job, I will be able to deal with those old bastards.

Anyway, Zhiqiang.

You don't let me down, I don't let you down.

Old Dong and I are both of this age, and we have also taken 10% of your members. We are what, yes, it is called a community of interests!

Do you think our community of interests is more reliable, or those relatives who are beyond our reach?"

Cao Zhiqiang thought about it for a while. After all, he wanted to divide 20% of the profits to Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong respectively. This in itself was the greatest benefit link.

From a profit perspective, Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li can only continue to enjoy the 10% profit after they retire by giving their positions in the factory to Cao Zhiqiang.

Otherwise, it is just a verbal agreement, and Cao Zhiqiang can break the contract at any time.

Thinking of this, Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "So, Director Li, do you really intend to make me the next director?"

"That's for sure." Director Li nodded.

"Let's see." Cao Zhiqiang rolled his eyes, "I am impatient, and I am also afraid of long nights and dreams. Therefore, I hope that next year at the latest, or in other words, after I solve the rectification crisis of the machinery factory, I can make the factory fully responsible for its own profits and losses.

After turning losses into profits, I will become the director of the factory, can you make this promise?"

Director Li frowned: "Are you too impatient?"

"It's okay if you don't rush." ​​Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly, "It's no use just painting a pie for me. What I want is a real commitment and a real deadline. Otherwise, I won't have time to continue to accompany you.

Play the game of drawing cakes to satisfy your hunger.”

After a brief pause, Cao Zhiqiang continued: "Let's just call it a deal.

As long as you can guarantee that I will definitely be the director of the machinery factory next year, then I will make a joint-stock reform.

The specific plan is to turn the publishing house into a joint-stock system, and then let you and Secretary Dong all own shares in the publishing house in the form of personal shares, each with 10% of the shares.

In this way, you are all formal shareholders, and you don't have to worry about me going back on my word and not giving you 10% of the profits.

And 10% of the shares, from the perspective of dividends, can earn more than the so-called 10% of profits, don’t you think so?”

"Oh?" Director Li's eyes widened, "Are you serious about this?"

"Of course it's true." Cao Zhiqiang nodded with a smile.

Director Li touched his chin: "Okay, I will go back and discuss this matter with the old director.

Although it is a bit hasty to make you the factory director next year, special circumstances will be treated accordingly.

Now the factory is suffering from a crisis. If you can get the factory out of the crisis and gain a certain prestige, and I and the old director work together to encourage you, it will not be impossible.

But the premise is that you must really be able to support the entire machinery factory, and really make the machinery factory responsible for its own profits and losses, without having to rely on government financial subsidies.

If you can't do this, without this great contribution, without the support of the cadres and workers in the factory, it will be useless no matter how much I or the old director recommend you.

Don't talk about us, even the big leader behind you, it's useless for him to recommend you."

"Don't worry." Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "As long as you can trust me as always, I will definitely be able to do it!"

“It’s a deal!”

“It’s a deal!”

(End of chapter)