During this time, the coverage of the World Expo was in full swing, and the entire Bac Giang Evening News entered a "wartime state", and everyone was like a wound clockwork, nervous, and devoted themselves to interviews and writing, with almost no concept of time.

Even if some reporters usually complain, they don't dare to relax when it comes to work. Completing the work of reporting comes first, which is the most basic professional ethics.

Everyone in the newspaper has a division of labor, and they work hard in their own small field. This seemingly inconspicuous report guards the last position of traditional print media.

For Xiahou Mingqi, the new head of Beijiang Evening News, the work is not as simple as code words. All aspects of work, such as editing, marketing, logistics, and even discipline inspection, must be taken into account, and no mistakes can be made.

From Xiahou Mingqi's heart, during this time, he has realized more and more a truth: the higher a person's position, the requirements for ability are secondary, and more important is his spirit of responsibility.

Many times, there is no shortage of people with professional ability to complete every detail, but whether to do it or not is another matter, and someone must take the whip to push forward. Therefore, the responsibility of the leader is to hold the whip, show a sense of presence in each link, and urge subordinates to do their own work.

Because of this, even when the editorial business is so busy, Xiahou Mingqi will attend the internal meetings of various departments on time to understand the overall situation of the newspaper. The work of the discipline inspection team is also among them.

Before getting off work that day, Xiahou Mingqi made a phone call to Chen Jizhou. "Lao Chen, how's the progress on your side?"

"President, everyone is in the process of statistical verification of some data. You see, if you have time, I'll go and report back?"

Xiahou Mingqi looked at the time - five twenty in the afternoon. At this time, the sun has returned to the Tropic of Capricorn, the daylight hours are getting longer, and the sky outside is still bright. "Are the members there?"

"Except for two who went on a business trip to investigate and collect evidence, the rest of the people were there, a total of 8 people. In this short period of time, Chen Jizhou stepped up his efforts to replenish his strength, transferred 4 people from other departments, and doubled the number of task forces.

"How long do you work overtime at night?"

"It's hard to say, it depends on the progress of today's work, generally speaking, it will be around 9 o'clock. ”

"Okay, I'll go to your place to talk to everyone, and after the chat, everyone will call it a day and go home early to rest. ”

After Chen Jizhou hung up the phone, he hurriedly summoned the other eight people to learn about the latest progress of the investigation work, and demanded that tonight's report materials must be sorted out as soon as possible and formed into written materials. Half an hour later, Xiahou Mingqi came to the office of the discipline inspection team, there were a total of 4 workstations in the office, and everyone found a few chairs from other rooms to form a temporary conference room.

Seeing Xiahou Mingqi coming in, everyone stood up and waited for him to speak.

"Let's all sit down, let's just talk casually today, don't be restrained," Xiahou Mingqi said, "I have worked hard for everyone during this time, and I thank you for your efforts." ”

"Yes, this is the job of the discipline inspection department. Chen Jizhou hurriedly responded.

"I'm also a member of our task force, but I'm a little incompetent, and I can't fight side by side with everyone many times," Xiahou Mingqi first politely said, "Lao Chen, how do you report it? Why don't you start up?" Let's have a short meeting, Lao Chen will summarize first, the time limit is 20 minutes, and others will add if they have anything to add, and each person will have a time limit of 10 minutes. ”

"Okay, President, then I'll talk about it first. Chen Jizhou said. "Although this period was very hard, it was really rewarding. Last time, I reported to you that the series of violations of discipline and law in newspaper offices are roughly manifested in four aspects: First, the financial system is not perfect; second, the financial personnel do not strictly follow the procedures when handling the financial affairs of the units; for example, the control of funds in the marketing link is too lax, resulting in some funds being undocumented and their whereabouts are unknown; third, two-thirds of the reporters and marketing personnel have the problem of violating discipline; of course, the problems are big and small, the big problem is the fact of taking bribes and extorting money in the name of the newspaper, and the small problem is the demand for food, drink, and cards, or the use of hands and feet in business trip expenses。 Fourth, at the management level, some people do not act or act indiscriminately, which breeds corruption. For all these problems, the time span is 4 years. The specific questions are in these materials. ”

Chen Jizhou handed over the materials to Xiahou Mingqi. Xiahou Mingqi stared at the material and read it word by word, "Old Chen, you continue to speak." ”

Chen Jizhou paused, and continued to report the investigation in detail.

Xiahou Mingqi looked at the thick materials, which involved the issue of leadership corruption, his gaze stopped, and there were many names of high-level personnel - "Zhao Qingdong" and "Yu Chongqing...... And, of course, the names of several current leaders. Xiahou Ming counted strangely, and there were seven or eight people.

This Chen Jizhou is bold enough! He has dug up all my predecessors, but he is quite bold. However, this also presents me with a difficult problem, involving so many middle and high-level people, how should I deal with it? I am afraid that even I have no power to deal with some of them! Xiahou Mingqi weighed it in his heart.

"All of this is conclusive evidence?" Xiahou Mingqi interrupted Chen Jizhou and asked, pointing to the material.

"Yes, we have human and physical evidence of these. As for the size of the problem, it varies from person to person. Chen Jizhou glanced at Xiao Li, "Take that stack of materials." ”

Xiao Li comprehended and took a few briefcases from his desk and handed them to Chen Jizhou.

"These are all collected evidentiary materials, this bag is the financial statement records, this bag is the marketing operation records, and this bag is the materials taken from the hotel. ”

Xiahou Mingqi didn't open it to see, with his understanding of Chen Jizhou's professionalism, there was no need to question the reliability of these materials.

"So, what about the amount of money involved?

"Yes!" Chen Jizhou glanced again, and Xiao Li knowingly took another material and handed it to Chen Jizhou. Chen Jizhou was about to reach out to pick it up, but after thinking about it, he took his hand back again, "Xiao Li, you should report the situation of this piece." ”

"Okay," Xiao Li was a little overwhelmed by this sudden arrangement, he adjusted his state and began to tell the amount of money for this series of disciplinary problems.

It was a very efficient and short meeting, where everyone did not talk nonsense and reported on the progress of their own areas of labor.

As his speech deepened, Xiahou Mingqi's expression became more and more solemn, especially Luo Fangyi's report, which made him realize the seriousness of a problem.

"President, I'm in charge of investigating the violations of laws and regulations among journalists," Luo Fangyi was about to stand up and report, when Xiahou Mingqi motioned for her to sit down.

Luo Fangyi sat in a standard position, and everyone turned their eyes to her. At this time, her expression was serious, and she completely lost her usual nonsensical and funny energy.

"Deputy Team Leader Chen also said just now that two-thirds of the newspaper reporters were found to have more or less problems......

Luo Fangyi was about to introduce the next when he was interrupted by Xiahou Mingqi.

"Two-thirds, that's not a decimal number. Xiahou Mingqi realized the seriousness of the problem, if he checked them all, the entire editing work would be paralyzed. He knew very well that his first job as president was to ensure that the 24-open newspaper was printed on time every day.

Xiahou Mingqi didn't know, there were more serious problems waiting for him.

"President, I don't know if I can report to you here. Of course, this issue is not within the scope of our task force's investigation, but it is inextricably linked to the case. Luo Fangyi didn't know if it was appropriate to say, she looked at Xiahou Mingqi and asked for the other party's consent.

Xiahou Mingqi nodded: "You say." ”

"From what I've observed, most of the journalists are emotionally unstable right now. Although no one knew about acting with the wind, they were all aware that the newspaper was investigating them. Also, I don't know if someone spread it, and everyone seems to be talking about it in private. Luo Fangyi replied.

"Discuss, discuss, discuss, what?" asked Xiahou Mingqi.

"I don't know the specifics, but it seems that the newspaper is secretly investigating them. Some people are very dissatisfied with this, saying that they have worked hard and will be investigated by the newspaper...... Others said something heavier......" Luo Fangyi hesitated for a moment and did not speak.

"What's heavier, you just say. Xiahou Mingqi was curious.

Including Chen Jizhou, everyone's eyes were on her. She also glanced around everyone.

"Said that the cunning rabbit died and the lackey cooked. ”

"What do you mean?" Xiahou Mingqi suddenly cheered up, a very interesting sentence.

"This ......," Luo Fangyi did not say. She didn't know if she was right to report this matter, but her intuition told her that if Xiahou Mingqi didn't take any more measures, the newspaper would inevitably usher in a storm.

"Then let me guess?" Xiahou Mingqi saw that Luo Fangyi was reluctant to explain, so he analyzed, "The cunning rabbit refers to some former executives, and the lackeys are those reporters who talk in private, right?"

Luo Fangyi nodded.

"It seems that things are more serious than I expected. Xiahou Mingqi said.

Chen Jizhou coughed lightly, suggesting that Luo Fangyi should stop talking. Few people want to hear someone say that about themselves, even if it's true.

Luo Fangyi realized Chen Jizhou's prompt, and quickly stopped his mouth, staring at Xiahou Mingqi with a nervous expression.

Chen Jizhou glanced at Xiahou Mingqi's face, even if he heard such a serious matter, knowing that everyone behind his back commented on him like this, he was calm and did not get angry at all.

"Your name is Luo Fangyi, right?" Xiahou Mingqi asked with a smile on his face.

Luo Fangyi nodded, and sighed in his heart, oh no, I'm afraid it's a disaster!

"The information you report is important. Do you have anything else to say?" Xiahou Mingqi looked around, and everyone lowered their heads.

"Since you don't have much to say, I'll just say a few words. Xiahou Mingqi cleared his throat. Everyone realized that this was going to make a concluding speech, and quickly took out a notebook to make a record.

"The morale of the newspaper is very worrying. As we all know, editorial is the most important department of the newspaper, and without the hard work of editorial and editorial work, we will have no rice to cook if we want to run this newspaper well. However, before I came, I found that there were some problems with the atmosphere of editing and editing, and after I came, this problem became even more prominent. If we want to investigate the case and change the atmosphere, we will naturally offend some people and touch the bottom line of some vested interests, but we must not give up food because we are afraid of offending some people, because we want to please some people, and our determination will be shaken. As long as it is everyone's legitimate interests, I will do my best to safeguard and strive for it, including going to the leaders of the group to fight for it, which is no problem. However, I will also investigate and deal with some unjust enrichment, which is our bottom line and principle. ”

After Xiahou Mingqi finished speaking, he had already formed a train of thought in his heart: the bright line and the dark line followed up at the same time, the dark line was the investigation of the task force, and the bright line was a special operation within the newspaper.

Xiahou Mingqi is a person with great action. Within a few days, he announced a message to the management of the newspaper to improve the welfare of the newspaper's employees, such as transportation expenses, meal expenses, and housing subsidies, which have been improved to varying degrees.

In the situation of declining newspaper revenue year by year, Xiahou Mingqi's move is undoubtedly a shot in the arm and makes employees excited. As a result, there was a dramatic reversal in the internal evaluation, and everyone received rave reviews about the new star of the system.

Xiahou Mingqi naturally noticed everyone's evaluation, and he could see the difference just from the way others looked at him when he was eating in the cafeteria. The first stage of the bright line was won, and then it was time to make a second move.

A few days later, Xiahou Mingqi issued an important news at the meeting of the newspaper's management: in the coming week, the newspaper will carry out an action to study the rules and regulations of the group and the newspaper, requiring each employee to self-examine and self-correct, find shortcomings, make up for shortcomings, and form written materials to hand over to Chen Jizhou.

Xiahou Mingqi gave his decision a code name - Bathing Action. The purpose is self-evident, at such a juncture, it is very important for all people to unify their understanding and thinking, and only when everyone understands the position, the next step of investigation and handling will naturally come naturally, and it will be much smoother.

Sure enough, the following week, the newspaper launched the operation with a bang. Qu Changguo is the person in charge of the editing platform, although he doesn't know the profound intention of Xiahou Mingqi's move, he also understands that this is an excellent opportunity to perform, so he naturally works very hard.

Most of the time, journalists work alone, and the time is uncertain. Qu Changguo listed three concentrated study times, allowing everyone to choose a time period to study according to their own situation. In the end, he wrote a summary of dozens of pages of written materials and handed it over to Chen Jizhou.

Some people's bad faults have been found out, such as some people like to spread gossip, some people like to make small reports, some people love to take advantage of small things, etc., all of which have been put on the bright side and have to be restrained.

After this battle, the atmosphere of the newspaper has indeed changed significantly.