Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

"What? You want to open your own comprehensive publishing house? Are you kidding me?"

After initially expressing condolences to Cao Zhiqiang, Editor Yu was very surprised when he heard Cao Zhiqiang's purpose for coming to him.

"Of course I'm not kidding you." Cao Zhiqiang said seriously.

"Editor Yu, I have thought about it. I want to open my own publishing house, publish my own books, magazines, and even records.

Only in this way can I maximize my benefits and minimize others' exploitation of my personal talents."

Editor Yu frowned: "However, although it has been opened now, this area has not been liberalized yet.

Especially for an organization like a publishing house, individuals are not allowed to open it.

Not to mention publishing houses and magazines, you can’t run them by yourself, so you have to find an employer to sponsor them.”

"It all depends on people." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "How will you know if you can do it if you don't try?"

"Besides, I didn't say that I must open a personal publishing house, right?

I just want a publishing house where I can have the final say. What I want is power.

That’s why I came to discuss with you to see what we can do.”

Editor Yu frowned: "You said you want to open a magazine, and I can help you think of a way, but you said you want to start a publishing company where you have the final say and can publish books, magazines, and records.

Society, I’m afraid this will be difficult.”

"How difficult is it?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

Editor Yu shook his head: "It's hard to reach the sky!"

Cao Zhiqiang frowned, looked at Editor Yu, then smiled and shook his head, and said quietly: "What if I have a leader to help me?"

"Leader? What leader?" Editor Yu asked.

As soon as he asked who this person was, Editor Yu saw Cao Zhiqiang's half-smiling smile and smacked himself in a hurry: "Look at my mouth."

Immediately afterwards, Editor Yu asked: "Well, you, do you really know such a big shot?"

"Don't worry about it." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "Let me ask you, if I pay for it myself and have a leader like this to help me, can I open a publishing house?"

Editor Yu frowned: "If there can really be... that kind of leader, then this matter will be settled.

As long as the Publishing Bureau nods and is willing to issue us a license, it will be easy for us to operate from now on.

At that time, we only need to find a supervisory unit, and then find an affiliated undertaking unit, and then you can negotiate with these two units to share the price in the form of a contract operation. If you have a formal business place, the publishing house can be listed.

Operated.

In short, as long as the Publishing Bureau approves our establishment of a publishing house and agrees to give us a founding license, everything else is easy to discuss.

But let me remind you, it is very difficult for publishers to do this, and the risks are extremely high.

Especially for a contract operation like yours, where you have to be responsible for your own profits and losses, the risk is even greater.

Like our poetry magazine and the writers’ publishing house behind it, they are big enough, but they still suffer losses every year and ask for money from them every year.

Publishing a book for you this time is a rare opportunity to make a lot of money. I heard that they are planning to buy a new car.

But if you are responsible for your own profits and losses and have to pay for everything yourself, it will be difficult.

Regardless of whether you make money or not, you have to pay the supervisory unit and the organizer on time, which is typically thankless.

In fact, when it comes to making money, if you have confidence in your work, you might as well directly negotiate with the publishing house to publish the book at your own expense. In this way, you can make a lot of money, but the publishing house will bear many risks. How great.

If that doesn't work, you can start your own magazine, which has less risk, less responsibility, and makes money faster, which is much better than a publishing house."

Cao Zhiqiang shook his head and said: "No, no, no, I have to do things, either I don't do them, or I do what I say and others!

A magazine is not enough to support my ambition, at least a publishing house is enough.

In other words, it is my dream to open a publishing house where I have the final say!"

"Dream?" Editor Yu shook his head, "How can dreams be worth money?"

"That's right." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "Dreams must also be realistic. After all, money is not everything, but nothing is impossible without money."

"That's right." Editor Yu nodded in agreement, "Since you want to make money, why don't you still be a publisher?

In fact, if you submit a manuscript to a publishing house, or cooperate with a publishing house, and publish a book at your own expense, you can make steady money, so why do you have to open your own publishing house?

A publishing house has to deal with various yamen, support a lot of people, and pay a lot of taxes, which is very troublesome.

If you publish a book at your own expense, all the money you make will be your own, and you won’t have to pay taxes. How great would that be?”

Cao Zhiqiang sighed and said: "Didn't I say it? You have to have some dreams in life!

For me, making money is not the first priority. I am also a person with ideals and ambitions, and the publishing house is the boat that carries my dreams and ideals.

This is not only a matter of money, but also issues such as spreading ideas, bringing in private goods, promoting national culture, rebuilding national self-confidence, building multicultural industries, resisting cultural plunder, and consolidating the hegemony of Chinese culture.

Forget it, I can’t explain it to you right now, so I won’t say it anymore.

In short, I just want a publishing house where I have the final say.

Only in this way can I maximize the benefits of the beautiful articles in my mind, and let everyone hear my voice, see my words, and understand my thoughts.

In short, this is a rare opportunity, and I have decided on this publishing house.

Moreover, other people may lose money when running a publishing house, but if I were to run it, this publishing house would definitely be a goose that lays golden eggs!

Lao Yu, please believe me again and help me again.

Just like when you and I first met, you saw my first poem and trusted me to help me without hesitation, right?"

After listening to Cao Zhiqiang's words, Editor Yu frowned and fell silent.

Seeing that Editor Yu didn't speak and Cao Zhiqiang didn't speak either, he just looked at each other silently.

He believed that the other party would be convinced by him.

If not for anything else, it's just because he still has some aggressive energy in him and doesn't have a lifeless temperament.

In other words, he also has something called ambition.

Only ambitious people are unwilling to be lonely and want to change the status quo.

Editor Yu, whose full name is Yu Deli, is a middle-aged man who is just over thirty-five years old and the hair on his head is still very dark and lush.

He always wears a pair of silver-framed glasses and likes to wear suits and ties. He has a bit of a ruffian face, but he is actually a very elegant, easy-going and warm-hearted good man.

At least that's what Cao Zhiqiang personally thinks.

However, he is now just an ordinary proofreading editor at the poetry magazine, not the editor-in-chief.

So strictly speaking, he is just an ordinary editor, very inconspicuous, with little energy.

But Cao Zhiqiang valued him very much.

The reason is simple, because he was the first editor Cao Zhiqiang met when he first went to the poetry magazine.

Cao Zhiqiang's original article "Seeing and Not Seeing" was submitted to him internally. After reading it, he immediately made a decision and decided to publish it for him. He also gave Cao Zhiqiang a high price of five yuan per line of poetry.

In a sense, this editor Yu is Cao Zhiqiang's boss and nobleman. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is kind to Cao Zhiqiang.