Luo Fangyi knows that Ruan Yiyi has always been procrastinating and chewing on the root of his tongue, but such a person is popular in the unit, and everyone always offers and hides everywhere. That's right, this is a society of the jungle, and no matter how the times progress, this will not change.

Luo Fangyi walked towards the restaurant alone. Along the way, she thought about Xiangbei and Fat Dong's recent encounters. Luo Jingchen's death, Li Weizhen's death, and the death of Fat Dong's employees...... The deaths happened one after another, which was really unpredictable, and this series of news made Luo Fangyi depressed.

Before I knew it, I had arrived at the cafeteria on the first floor, and other colleagues had also arrived.

Buffet, in the history of the mid-year work conference of Bac Giang Evening News, this seems to be the first time in the history. In the impression of some old employees, the worst treatment for working meals is also the standard of no less than 1,000 yuan per table. However, everyone seems to be accustomed to this kind of change, and now the whole society is advocating tightening their belts to live a hard life, who dares to commit crimes against the wind at this time?

Although it was a buffet, in order to satisfy the guests who came from afar, Lianshan County still made a thorough preparation. Each dish is very exquisite, there are about 10 large and small cold dishes and hot dishes, cold dishes include pickled cucumbers, mixed cabbage, pastrami beef, saliva chicken and other side dishes, and hot dishes include roast lamb shank, fungus fried beef, shrimp and kale, yam stewed lamb chops, chestnut fried local chicken, etc. From these dishes, it is not difficult to see that the per capita standard of the buffet is not low.

The restaurant also has a wide range of drinks. Alcohol is expressly forbidden to appear in this event, in addition, juice, cola, black tea, coffee are all available, Chinese and Western, suitable for all ages.

Looking at the layout of the luncheon, the whole restaurant has hundreds of square meters, and twenty or thirty large round tables are set up, each round table can accommodate fifteen or sixteen people, and various dishes are placed on a long row of tables on the left and right sides, covered with dark red satin, reflecting some faint light under the projection of the light.

There are no too many procedures and politeness for the whole lunch, and everyone can enter the meal by showing their room card to the hotel waiter at the entrance of the restaurant.

Colleagues lined up in a long line, rushing in.

"Although the accommodation is a little worse, the dishes look really good. Luo Fangyi was in a daze at the dish, and was so frightened by this voice that he trembled. When did this kid follow her?

"What?, scared you?" Zhang Zhiyao said with a grin.

"No," Luo Fangyi shook his head, "What floor does Director Zhang live on?"

Among colleagues, the word "director" is actually not an honorific title, but more of a ridicule or even a joke. However, Zhang Zhiyao still enjoys such a title very much.

"Sixth floor, what about you?"

"On the third floor, I share a room with Sister Yiyi. Luo Fangyi said.

"Oh, then you're going to suffer. Zhang Zhiyao said with a smile, his tone seemed to be joking.

Luo Fangyi didn't understand what he meant: "What do you mean by that?"

Zhang Zhiyao looked at the left and right sides, made sure that no one was listening to their conversation, and bowed his head and whispered: "You don't know? I can guess that she will get up in the middle of the night like a night owl and toss. ”

Where do you start with this? Luo Fangyi's eyebrows furrowed, and he was even more confused.

Zhang Zhiyao saw her puzzled expression, and became even more energetic: "Don't you know the rumors about her in the newspaper? Let's bet, she will get up quietly tonight and go on a date with her lover!"

Could there be such a thing? Sounds exciting. Luo Fangyi naturally heard rumors about Ruan Yiyi, saying that she had an ambiguous relationship with a certain senior executive of the newspaper. However, rumors are rumors after all, not only Ruan Yiyi, but whenever a girl in the newspaper gets too close to a boy, she is often criticized. Luo Fangyi has always believed that such rumors are actually rumors spread by some people with ulterior motives. Behind the parents are short and say bad things about people, this seems to be the kind of boring people who squat on the wall and bask in the sun in winter!

"Director Zhang, I always thought you were a business backbone and reserve cadre, but I didn't expect you to be also a gossip master, a newspaper speaker. Luo Fangyi disdained to listen to these frivolous rumors, and dismissed him with a sneer.

Who are they? Luo Fangyi's mood instantly dropped to freezing point, and she felt that she was the last person to attend these meetings. Alas, I really should apply to stay on duty at the newspaper!

Zhang Zhiyao is a person whose emotional intelligence is higher than his IQ, he understands the meaning of Luo Fangyi's words very well, and he also knows that his kind of person cannot enter Luo Fangyi's eyes. Therefore, he has long given up the idea of pursuing the other party.

The two slowly moved forward, and finally lined up in the vegetable area.

Luo Fangyi chose some light vegetarian dishes, a few prawns and a few pieces of mutton, and she quickly made a visual inspection

The ratio of calories, protein and carbohydrates in these foods is, yes, a combination of meat and vegetables, nutritious and healthy.

Of all the tables, the one in front of the middle is the largest, and can seat more than 20 people. Needless to say, this table must be for leaders. Anyone with a little workplace experience will obediently bypass it and choose to sit at another round table.

Luo Fangyi is the same, after a few years of professional career, she has more or less worn out her very stupid and naïve energy, and she chose a round table to sit down.

Sure enough, as more and more colleagues entered the restaurant, the leader-specific table in the middle was gradually full, and the main leaders of the newspaper, including Xiahou Mingqi and Chen Jizhou, were all seated.

Luo Fangyi admired a plate full of tempting meals, picked up the chopsticks and was about to start, when she found a person sitting next to her, she looked up and saw that it was Qu Changguo.

Qu Changguo's seat surprised her.

"Mr. Qu, aren't you supposed to sit there?" Luo Fangyi pointed to the big round table in the distance, obviously there were still a few vacant seats to sit.

"Haha, I'm not qualified to sit there yet. Qu Changguo laughed, not like a joke.

How is this possible? The dignified executive deputy editor-in-chief of the Beijiang Evening News is not even able to take his turn to eat at the main table? How high can the leadership level of this main table be? Luo Fangyi felt unbelievable.

Qu Changguo put down the chopsticks in his hand: "You see, the people sitting in the middle are President Xiahou and several leaders of the group. There are only five people in our newspaper office who can sit there, and the remaining ten people are city and county leaders. These are all arranged in advance. ”

Qu Changguo was explaining to Luo Fangyi when a voice came from the main table.

"Everyone, be quiet," Seeing that the newspaper staff were basically all in place, Xiahou Mingqi stood up from his seat. It seems that this is the rhythm of the opening speech.

The originally noisy hall suddenly fell silent, and all eyes turned to the main table in unison.

"I am very happy to gather with you today to participate in the mid-year work meeting of Beijiang Evening News," Xiahou Mingqi straightened up, and began to toast without drink, although he is only in his forties, but his aura is still quite strong, and he can be in the position of leader, no matter what his mentality is, he must be full of spirit, only in this way can he calm the audience," First of all, I am very grateful to the leaders of the city and county for their meticulous and thoughtful arrangements, the outstanding people of Lianshan County, and the pleasant scenery of Lianhua Mountain Resort, so that we can have a beautiful mood. I believe that you can spend a pleasant and unforgettable two days here, and I hope that in this short two days, you can combine work and rest, relax your mind, use your brains, summarize the work of the first half of the year, and then meet the work of the second half of the year with higher morale, and finally draw a successful end to our work throughout the year. ”

Xiahou Mingqi's opening remarks were short and concise, he knew very well that everyone's mind was on the plate in front of him, and no one would care too much about what he said, but there were some things that should be said and must be said.

Everyone was looking at Xiahou Mingqi with a very serious expression. Only Qu Changguo was an exception, he sometimes took a sip of coffee, and sometimes picked up a peanut and poked it into his mouth.

These actions were all seen by Luo Fangyi, who was sitting on the side. She didn't expect that on such a serious occasion, Qu Changguo would make such a contemptuous move, which was more like a silent rebellion.

After Xiahou Mingqi finished speaking, the representatives of local officials spoke together to express their welcome to the staff of the Beijiang Evening News, and there were many polite words such as "take care of Lianshan and publicize Lianshan". These statements can be summed up in three points: "welcome", "thanks" and "invite". The so-called "welcome" naturally refers to the hospitable heart of "having friends who will come from the provincial meeting"; the so-called "thanks" refers to expressing gratitude to the Beijiang Evening News for its continuous support for Lianshan County's propaganda and reporting work over the past few years; and the so-called "invitation" is to hope that all the guests will put down their work tasks and bring their families to Lianshan County for sightseeing.

For both the guest of honor, such a set of ceremonial processes has been extremely simplified compared to before, undoubtedly thanks to the improvement of the atmosphere and the relaxation of those who have been tired of dealing with the wine scene for many years.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the half-year work summary meeting of Beijiang Evening News was held in the conference room of Yulian Mountain Hotel. The newspaper administrators were really thoughtful, and the meeting room was neither big nor small, just enough to accommodate everyone.

Of course, the afternoon meeting was a closed-door meeting, and except for the leaders of the Bac Giang Newspaper Group and all the staff of the Bac Giang Evening News, all other unrelated people left the meeting.

The half-year work summary meeting is nothing more than the following processes: first, the president makes a speech to convey the spirit of the newspaper group's semi-annual work conference; second, the heads of the three subordinate companies of discipline inspection, editing, administration, marketing, and Bac Giang Evening News make speeches one after another to report on the work of the first half of the year; and third, the newspaper is elected

Fourth, President Xiahou Mingqi made a concluding speech and arranged the work for the second half of the year.

The whole meeting lasted for more than three hours, and if it was according to the situation in previous years, the employees seated in the audience had already gone out of their bodies and flew to the top of Yulian Mountain and the gold-plated Buddha statue to enjoy this rare beauty. However, the president's final concluding speech was intriguing, pulling everyone's heartstrings back, and even the mood suddenly became heavy.

Why is it heavy, because the content of Xiahou Mingqi's speech is related to the self-interests of every employee.

Luo Fangyi listened carefully, Xiahou Mingqi's speech revealed three layers of meaning, and each layer of information made people worry about it.

First, the newspaper Beijiang Evening News is becoming more and more difficult to sell, which means that the influence of reporters is getting smaller and smaller. As an evening newspaper that used to be influential in Bac Giang province and even in the whole country, the sales volume of Bac Giang Evening News has fallen off a cliff in recent years.

Xiahou Mingqi talked about a detail, the newsstand in the central square of Hedong City is the highest sales point in the newsstand in the whole Hedong City, even so, only 14 copies of the Beijiang Evening News are sold here every day, you know, when the paper media is the most beautiful, it can sell hundreds or even thousands of newspapers a day.

More commonly, most newsstands are just newspapers as a guise to sell drinks, ice cream and snacks. Because a bottle of purified water is worth the top 10 newspapers. To put it bluntly, the Beijiang Evening News is nothing more than a "sheep's head", and people hang it to sell "dog meat".

Xiahou Mingqi is in an important position in the leadership, and he is naturally very well-informed in the industry. He revealed an internal secret to all the participants: at the end of this year, Life Daily, which also belongs to the Bac Giang Newspaper Group, will officially cease publication and no longer print and sell newspapers. Why do you do that? Because newspapers have become the biggest cost burden for daily newspapers.

Everyone has the potential to gossip to some extent, and they are especially interested in inside information. Before Xiahou Mingqi's words fell, the venue was boiling, and everyone suddenly came to the spirit and talked about it. Who can guarantee that today's Life Daily will not be the tomorrow of Beijiang Evening News? Everyone is worried about their future.

The second meaning of Xiahou Mingqi's speech is that the newspaper's operating income is getting lower and lower. On the one hand, this is because newspapers are becoming more and more difficult to sell, on the other hand, newspapers have been transforming to new businesses such as two micro and one end, all-media reporting, etc., which are inseparable from a large amount of capital investment - technology, talents, operations, promotion, and all aspects have to burn money.

However, at present, this kind of investment is "losing money and not making money".

Xiahou Mingqi also listed a very convincing data: in 2012, the annual income of Beijiang Evening News was more than 400 million yuan, reaching the peak of the newspaper's history. Since then, the business has deteriorated, and there was only a profit of more than 10 million yuan in the first half of this year. Look at this posture, and continue to refresh the low.

This speech was undoubtedly another blockbuster news, which triggered an abnormal reaction from the audience. Everyone began to talk to each other and had a lively discussion. Sitting on the rostrum of the venue were the leaders of the group and the five senior executives of the newspaper. Everyone watched the small commotion in the audience quietly. It seems that Xiahou Mingqi's speech was instructed by someone to test the reaction of the newspaper staff.

Of course, this information is even more valuable to employees, because the newspaper's operating income is directly linked to employees' salaries, which also means that in the foreseeable future, everyone's salary level may be reduced.

The third meaning of Xiahou Mingqi's speech revealed another insistence of the newspaper's top management under pressure: not to assign business tasks to reporters. To put it bluntly, no matter how hard life is, I will not let reporters sell newspapers.

Nowadays, in order to survive, many newspapers bundle the performance appraisal of reporters with marketing tasks. However, Xiahou Mingqi still insists on separating editing from marketing. He understands that he can endure and endure the hard days of lack of money, but if the news is tied to the business, the quality of the news will inevitably decline, and the newspaper Beijiang Evening News will become sour. At that time, there will really be no way to go back. The golden sign of Beijiang Evening News cannot be smashed in your own hands.

Listening to Xiahou Mingqi's words, Luo Fangyi suddenly had a sour feeling of heroic twilight in his heart. She thought of her dream of being a reporter when she was a student, the glorious period of Beijiang Evening News, and the excitement of getting her press card. Now, however, it seems that these may be in the dust. When a newspaper has no readers, where does the glory and pride of the journalist profession begin?

Maybe ten years, maybe twenty years, she feels that the end of traditional media will come sooner or later. But then again, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the decline of paper media is the general trend, just like the BB machine and telegraph in those years, which will inevitably be replaced by new things. However, it is not necessarily so pessimistic, perhaps ten or twenty years later, those dying traditional media will appear in front of people in a different image.

(End of chapter)

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