Yaowen Book Publishing Company, in the editor-in-chief's office, Yao Wenjie brought the brewed tea to Huo Yaowen, hesitated for a few seconds, and asked with hesitation: "Chairman, we just got a weekly book for teenagers, and now we have to reopen a weekly department, will we be in a little too anxious?"

"Don't worry, the new weekly department will take its time, as long as the editor, editor and other positions that should be recruited are determined before the year, and I will take care of the rest. ”

Huo Yaowen picked up the teacup and didn't drink it, just held it in the palm of his hand to warm it, the temperature in Hong Kong has suddenly plummeted in the past two days, he still only wore a thicker suit this morning, but as soon as he went out, he found that the temperature outside was very low, so he had to go back and add a thicker coat.

Yao Wenjie heard what the chairman said, so he didn't talk much, and put the year-end report of the finance department and the marketing department on the table in front of Huo Yaowen this morning, and opened his mouth to say: "Chairman, this is the year-end report submitted by the finance department and the marketing department this year. ”

Huo Yaowen put down the teacup, picked up the year-end report of the marketing department, flipped through a few pages, and looked directly at the last page, in most of last year, the company published a total of 15 books, of which the best sales were Huo Yaowen's "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" sold more than 400,000 copies in Hong Kong and Island; followed by "Autumn Fairy Tale" written by Zhang Wanjun, which sold 200,000 copies, and the rest like Huo Yaowen's "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" two-part series also sold about 100,000 copies in Hong Kong and Taiwan on average.

As for "1999", which was a big hit in the United States, after being translated into Chinese, it only sold more than 100,000 copies in Hong Kong and Hong Kong Island, and a large part of this was the sales driven by newspaper praise and Fok Yiuwen's personal fame.

I have to say that at this time, science fiction fans in Hong Kong and Taiwan are still more inclined to the suspenseful science fiction literature of Ni Frame, and there are not many science fiction texts like Huo Yaowen, which is not surprising, after all, most readers still read curiosity, rather than a long story to explore the life and death of the world after the alien invasion.

The rest of the books published are all commissioned by Yao Wenjie, or voluntarily submitted by other authors, most of them are okay, and the book with the lowest sales has also sold 40,000 or 50,000 copies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, almost all of which have brought a certain degree of profit to the company.

After reading the year-end report of the marketing department, Huo Yaowen picked up the report of the finance department again, different from the report of the marketing department, he read the report of the finance department in more detail, although he did not understand financial things very well, but he still had the ability to simply read a report.

According to the financial statements, last year, the company removed various miscellaneous expenses such as labor costs, material costs, and writers' manuscript fees, and the total net profit was about 570,000 yuan.

It seems that this money is not a lot, but this is the company's pure profit, without any arrears of manuscript fees, employee salaries, and various material costs on the printing house, and the profit of 570,000 yuan in most of the year is relatively much, among which if there are no bestsellers of Huo Yaowen and Zhang Wanjun, the company may not be able to make so much profit.

Yaowen Book Publishing Company Up to now, Huo Yaowen's own manuscript fee share has been as high as six or seven hundred thousand, and Zhang Wanjun has also earned sixty or seventy thousand manuscript fee share with "Autumn Fairy Tale", which is still because Huo Yaowen gave Zhang Wanjun a much higher share ratio than the rookie writer, otherwise according to the original share of "Sweet Honey", Zhang Wanjun sold 160,000 copies, and could only get less than 50,000 yuan.

"Yes, it seems that I made a lot of money last year. Huo Yaowen saw that the financial statements stated that the company's profit was less than 600,000, and he was still relatively happy, although it was not as good as the Hong Kong University Press, but this was his own wholly-owned company, and it was possible to earn so much in the first year to show that the company's future development would be better.

"It's still thanks to the few books you wrote, chairman, otherwise the company can make a profit of more than 100,000 yuan. Yao Wenjie grinned, he still knew that the company could have such a high profit, and without Huo Yaowen's bestsellers, it would never have been possible.

Listening to Yao Wenjie's flattering words, the corners of Huo Yaowen's mouth turned up slightly, he was not as modest as usual, after all, this is indeed the truth, he suddenly thought of the magazine, and asked, "How are the magazines selling now?"

Hearing the chairman ask about the magazine, Yao Wenjie sighed: "The sales are not very good, it has been published for three days, and only about 1,000 copies have been sold." ”

Seeing that the editor-in-chief Yao's face was not very good, as if he was blaming himself for not completing the task well, Huo Yaowen comforted: "Take your time, new magazines always need time to cultivate readers, this is not like a newspaper for a dime and a half, everyone can afford it, buy it if you want, and use it as wallpaper or toilet paper when you go home after reading it." ”

Huo Yaowen is quite open to the bad sales of magazines, after all, magazines are different from newspapers, even if the new newspaper is not sold well, there are still hundreds of copies a day, but this cannot be compared, who let a magazine cost four and a half dollars, and a newspaper is only a dime.

"The chairman is right, I will do a good job of the weekly. Yao Wenjie was not discouraged, he was also the first time to start a magazine, and he had been making a fuss about book publishing, so he was inevitably a little frustrated when he saw that the magazine was not selling very well.

"That's right. ”

Seeing Yao Wenjie regain confidence, Huo Yaowen smiled and said: "This is about to be the New Year, no accident at the end of this month, the company will have an annual vacation, taking advantage of these days, in addition to quickly recruiting the personnel of the Kyushu Weekly Department, I decided to take out a sum of money from the company's profits and send it to everyone as a year-end bonus, what do you think, Editor-in-Chief Yao?"

"Sending a year-end bonus?" Yao Wenjie was stunned for a few seconds, then nodded with a smile: "The chairman can issue a year-end bonus, and I must be happy as an employee, but I suggest that I use this money to buy New Year's goods and send them to everyone." ”

Huo Yaowen pondered for a few seconds, and did not directly agree, but asked, "How many people are there in the company now?"

Yao Wenjie thought for a while and said, "Plus the printing house, there are more than 60 people in total. ”

Huo Yaowen said: "Then let's do it, I will take 50,000 yuan out and issue a year-end bonus according to my personal contribution to the company, and 30,000 yuan to purchase New Year's goods and send them to everyone." ”

"Then thank you chairman, it seems that this year can have a good year. Yao Wenjie smiled happily.

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After coming out of the company, Huo Yaowen went to the HKU Press again, and also took a closer look at the financial statements of the publishing house, last year the HKU Press can be said to have made a lot of money, but no matter how much he earned, it had nothing to do with Huo Yaowen's half a dime, and he donated all the money to establish the Hong Kong Charity Education Foundation.

Speaking of the Charity Education Foundation, Luo Qiaozhen has already arranged the schedule of distributing tuition fees to poor students, which is on the fifth day after the New Year, which was originally before the start of school, but Huo Yaowen considered that Huo Guantai was helping him to operate the title of Justice of the Peace, and he also wanted the foundation to arrange the arrangement of funding tuition as soon as possible, so as to add a little more reputation to himself as a philanthropist.

After dealing with the affairs of the company, the publishing house and the foundation, the University of Hong Kong took another seven or eight days of classes, and officially closed on January 15, Huo Yaowen was able to completely relieve the tedious schedule of going back and forth between the school and the company every day.

Director Huang had already told the principal about his stay without pay, and although Le Pinchun was a little unhappy at first, when he thought of the huge benefits brought to the school by the profits of the HKU Press last year, he also agreed that Fok Yaowen would retain his position as a school faculty member and not arrange courses and pay salaries, so that Fok Yaowen could work in the publishing house with peace of mind.

Inside the office.

Huo Yaowen was alone packing up his belongings on the desk.

"Knock Knock"

Hearing the knock on the door, Huo Yaowen raised his eyes and saw Zhang Yingying, Xu Anhua and other seven or eight female students in the class standing outside the door.

Huo Yaowen put down the things in hand with a smile, walked over and asked, "Why are you here?"

Zhang Yingying hesitated for a few seconds: "Teacher Huo, I heard from other teachers that you are going to resign?"

"Who told you that I was going to resign?" Huo Yaowen smiled slightly and said, "I just have to concentrate on the work of the school press in the future." ”

"Isn't that the same?" Xu Anhua pouted.

Huo Yaowen looked at these female students, their eyes were red, as if they were reluctant to leave by themselves, and chuckled: "Okay, it's not that I can't see each other, I will still come to school often in the future, but I won't take you to class." ”

As soon as Zhang Yingying heard that Huo Yaowen would not take them to class in the future, her red eyes and tears suddenly fell down.

"Why are you still crying?"

Huo Yaowen stepped forward and rubbed Zhang Yingying's forehead hair to comfort her, and saw that Xu Anhua and several other female students around her seemed to be emotionally affected, as if they were going to cry in the next second, so they had to smile bitterly and said helplessly: "Okay, okay, today, the teacher has a treat, let's go out and find a restaurant to have a good meal." ”

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