Chapter 380: Historical Questions
Hearing Chai Peng tell such a bizarre story, Ma Fei originally scoffed, but after thinking about it: the old president's attention to this guy can be called paranoid, and this possibility cannot be completely ruled out!
If Chai Peng can really complete the task and pull Pang Yi off the horse in one fell swoop, he will definitely become the hero of the entire group, and his future is promising, which also meets the expectations of the old man, and can prove to Sister Hua that his judgment back then was correct......
In this way, could it be that Chai Peng's psychology is distorted because he suddenly encountered these?
Thinking of this, Ma Fei held back his temperament and continued to listen to Chai Peng's story.
"Brother, you have just joined the unit, and you may not know a lot of things. If you want to understand the entanglement between the old man and Pang Yi, you have to start from many years ago......
"At that time, we were not called Tianyang Newspaper Group, but Tianyang Daily. You know, in those days, all newspapers were under the management of the higher levels, and everyone relied on financial appropriations for food, but when they caught up with the institutional reform, the units were given two ways -- either they were laid off to find their own way out, or they tried to reform their lives and jumped into the path of market-oriented media.
The old man was already the vice president of the daily newspaper at that time, and this matter had nothing to do with him, but for the sake of most people's jobs, he took the initiative to ask for help and began to plan to set up the Tianyang Evening News. But no one has walked this road, and only his old man knows the difficulties and obstacles.
Fortunately, after some games and efforts, the superiors finally completed the approval, and the unit also passed all the procedures, but the problem faced by the old man was that if he wanted to set up an evening newspaper, he had to resign from his position in the system, and he had to sign a military order with the unit - those who should have been laid off and re-employed were assigned to the evening newspaper for placement, and there could be no disputes!
"Do you think, there was no precedent in the whole country at that time, how much courage and courage did the old man have to dare to take the lead in eating crabs? But for the sake of everyone's future, he still did it! Speaking of which, this is the reason why everyone respects him now!"
Listening to Chai Peng talk about these old things, Ma Fei certainly wouldn't doubt it. After all, these historical backgrounds are well documented, and the other party has no reason to lie to him.
Immediately after that, Chai Peng changed his words and began to tell more little-known secrets.
Later, the evening newspaper successfully set up a stall, and dozens of people went up and down, and the unit only allocated one month's salary. In other words, if you can't make money, everyone will have to drink the northwest wind, and the organization will have to cure the old man's sins!
Fortunately, relying on years of media experience, the old man quickly arranged all departments of the newspaper in an orderly manner, and the influence of the newspaper gradually increased, and in less than half a month, it became famous all over the city, and even the national media began to comment on this reform!
"When fame comes in, advertising naturally comes. Tianyang Evening News received a snowflake advertising contract, and the advertising revenue of that month caught up with the level of the old daily newspaper for half a year! This made everyone in the evening newspaper rejoice, glad that they had followed the right person, and since then they have changed from a down-and-out literati on the verge of unemployment to a real high-income group!
"Many of these people are mid-level and high-level players within the group today. Brother, the three you are most familiar with, Pang Yi, Long Zhaoxue and Luo Zhongxun are among them.
At that time, Pang Yi was the director of the Social News Department, Long Zhaoxue was the director of the Current Affairs News Department, and Luo Zhongxun was the old man's closed disciple and his assistant.
With the success of the evening newspaper's test of the water, the superiors also realized that this is a path that can be explored, so they have increased their efforts and issued a document to encourage the unit to do the overall market-oriented transformation!
As soon as this important task came, the unit panicked directly, and discussed with the old man, so it was decided to draw the backbone from the evening newspaper and disperse to take the lead in making other attempts.
In this way, Pang Yi was assigned to take the lead in starting a new stove and began to prepare for the establishment of Tianyang Metropolis Daily, while Long Zhaoxue was transferred back to the daily newspaper because of his experience in current political news, leading the team to be responsible for the transformation of the daily newspaper. ”
Hearing this, Ma Fei suddenly realized: It turns out that the so-called factional division is rooted in the "separation" of the year!
But if this is the case, Pang Yi and Long Zhaoxue should be very grateful to the old man, and they should have a feeling for the evening newspaper, why did they become inseparable opponents in the end?
Soon, Chai Peng's account explained his doubts.
Soon, Tianyang Metropolis Daily was also in full swing, but Pang Yi at that time was young after all, not as old as the old man, and his achievements and influence were far inferior to the evening newspaper. As for the daily newspaper, because of the bloated and pedantic personnel organization, the transformation did not go smoothly.
However, the pressure on the superiors to complete the market-oriented transformation on schedule has not decreased, and in order to meet the standard, the brand of Tianyang Newspaper Group has been hung up hard, and since then it has embarked on the road of self-financing.
"It's good now, so many people open their mouths to eat, and the income of the evening newspaper alone is obviously not enough, and the income of the metropolitan newspaper is slow to rise, which is very bad for the group leaders at that time.
"In order to encourage everyone to compete healthily, they came up with an idea and directly issued a notice to the group, saying that whichever newspaper had a high income back then, the person in charge of the newspaper would be the chairman of the group!"
Speaking of this, Chai Peng shook his head with emotion: "It stands to reason that there is nothing wrong with letting the capable people live in the group's leader, but after listening to me for a long time, I believe you should also have a judgment, thinking that the chairman's position should be justified by letting the old man change his name, right?"
"Hehe, but as soon as this notice came out back then, some people didn't believe in this evil and tried every means to compete with the old man for the limelight.
"To be honest, with the ability of the old man to lead the team at that time, as well as the strength and morale of the evening newspaper, it is not a problem to win in the competition. But soon, there were rumors that there were reporters in the evening newspaper who engaged in paid news, accepted other people's property, and ruined the reputation of the industry - this was a serious crime in those days, and the group confirmed the matter after some investigation, and even gave the old man a punishment!
"Well, the evening newspaper, which was originally focused on news and income generation, had to start a round of discipline and rectification, and everyone was suspicious and attacked each other, which directly affected the morale of the team and greatly slowed down the progress of income generation.
At the same time, Pang Yi led the Metropolis Daily to make great progress, not only got a bunch of advertising contracts, but even poached many reporters from the evening newspaper!"
For these old news, Ma Fei is still more inclined to believe it. After all, this is too much in line with Pang Yi's character - unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, head-on competition is just a trick, and it is also a target to those who have the grace of knowing him, which is simply too limitless!
"In other words, from this time on, Pang Yi and the evening newspaper will be completely married?"
Chai Peng nodded: "Yes! But this is still a small fight, and the real excesses are still to come!"