Chaoyang Magazine, in the editor-in-chief's office.

Today's Wang Jing is wearing a professional suit, tightly wrapping Wang Jing's plump and proud figure, sitting on the office chair, leaning forward slightly, and the fullness of her chest is about to come out.

However, at this moment, Wang Jing had a serious face, and Wang Jing was standing in front of Wang Jing's desk with a middle-aged man holding a document, his lips trembling slightly, as if he was reporting something to Wang Jing.

"Editor-in-chief, the sales of this issue of the magazine have increased compared with the previous issue, and the sales volume in the city is 5,000 copies. The middle-aged man clearly knew this.

"What was the last issue?" Wang Jing said lightly, not very excited because of the increase in sales, for the editor-in-chief of a magazine, it is more important to take a long-term view and figure out the reasons for the increase in sales and grasp the direction of the market.

"The last issue was 3,000 copies?" said the middle-aged man with some excitement.

"Have you figured out the reason for the increase in sales?" Wang Jing's expression was a little solemn.

"I've figured it out, but I don't think something is quite right. The middle-aged man was a little hesitant when he heard this.

"Oh, what's wrong?" Wang Jing was stunned when she heard this, could it be that the statisticians made a mistake when they made statistics? If such a low-level mistake was really made, then the magazine should also rectify it and change the blood, Wang Jing's eyes froze, and her face turned a little colder.

"Editor-in-chief, as you know, our magazine has always focused on the middle-aged market, and most of the people who buy our magazine are people who have stable jobs and started families. ”

Wang Jing nodded, this is the truth, and it is also Wang Jing's headache, due to the initial positioning of the magazine, although these people have purchasing power, and the sales of the magazine are relatively stable, but it is difficult to open up new markets, after all, what young people like to watch is very different from what middle-aged people like to watch, young people like entertainment, like movies and television, like to read novels, and middle-aged people prefer to pay attention to things in life, and it is difficult to unify the two. Wang Jing's work ability is very good, and her personality is also very strong, she has long wanted to make changes to cater to the trend of this situation, but it is precisely because the sales of the magazine are too stable that the profit has been maintained to a certain extent, and the boss of the magazine is not enterprising, just thinking about maintaining the status quo, Wang Jing can understand this idea, but it does not mean that Wang Jing agrees, at this point, Wang Jing and the boss of the magazine have a slight disagreement, but fortunately, due to Wang Jing's strong work ability, the boss also took a step back and allowed Wang Jing to make small changes to test the water, which can serialize the novel in the magazine, otherwise it is difficult to say whether Ye Chen's novel can be serialized in the magazine again！”

Wang Jing didn't speak, picked up a pen in front of her, and played with it casually, but she was contemplating in her heart.

Seeing that Wang Jing didn't speak, the middle-aged man continued to speak:

"The reason for this increase in sales is actually because of a novel serialized in the magazine, and even more bizarre is the report from our market researcher that many young people have also bought our magazine. ”

When Wang Jing heard this, a thought subconsciously appeared in her heart.

"Which one is serialized in the magazine?" asked Wang Jing.

It was the book "The Devotion of Suspect X" that the editor-in-chief personally made, and the editor-in-chief really knew it. The middle-aged man complimented.

Sure enough, it was really this novel, ignoring the middle-aged man's sycophant, Wang Jing had a headache, logically speaking, this means that his grasp of the market is correct, and he may be able to use this to convince the boss that it is not necessarily, but Wang Jing is not sure, so Wang Jing knows very well that this book "The Dedication of Suspect X" There are only 100,000 words.,Now the increase in magazine sales is because this novel is being serialized.,Once the novel is finished, the magazine sales will definitely return to the original point.,And if you take this opportunity to change the content of the magazine.,And then the sales will decline.,It's worth the loss.,In the end,There's still a lack of good quality novels.,It's a pity.,Xiao Chen's next book is about to be published.,There should be no time to continue serializing new books in the magazine.。

But it's too far to think about these now, let's deal with the current matter first, Wang Jing has resumed the vigorous and resolute style of a strong woman, and after thinking for a while, Wang Jing decisively ordered:

"At the beginning of this week, all the staff worked overtime, the bonus was doubled, the magazine was published twice a week, and I was there to persuade the boss, and in addition, to give "The Devotion of Suspect X" more space. ”

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "Editor-in-chief, should we take advantage of the serialization of "The Dedication of Suspect X" to gain popularity, and the weekly magazine is more suitable, why is it the opposite?"

Wang Jing still has some appreciation for the middle-aged man's style of thinking about the magazine, but Wang Jing can't explain it, and he can't tell him that "The Dedication of Suspect X" is more than 100,000 words, and it will be serialized soon, and he can't ask the author to continue serializing new novels in the magazine, right?

Wouldn't that seem to be incompetent!

There is another reason why Wang Jing didn't say it, that is, Wang Jing wants to help Ye Chen, Ye Chen's new book is about to be published, and he is about to compete with the suspense little prince on the same stage.

"Go ahead, I've got my own considerations. ”

The middle-aged man no longer talks nonsense, to get to this point, it is indispensable to observe words and looks, how to get along with the boss is something that must be learned, in fact, he regretted the sentence just now, how can the subordinates question the orders of the boss, doesn't it seem that he is smarter than the boss? This is the way to die!

Therefore, the middle-aged man closed his mouth very interestingly and went down to do something.

After the middle-aged man left the office, Wang Jing thought about it, took out her mobile phone and dialed Ye Chen's number.

Ye Chen didn't expect Wang Jing to call him suddenly, he was still thinking about the serialization of "The Dedication of Suspect X" just now, what a coincidence.

"Hey, Aunt Wang, what's the matter with you calling me?"

"Xiao Chen, that's the case, I have something to tell you, I decided that the magazine will publish it twice a week from today, and at the same time add two pages to your novel in the magazine until the end of the serialization of your novel, do you have no opinion?" On the other side of the phone, Wang Jing smiled.

Ye Chen was stunned for a moment when he heard Wang Jing finish speaking, and then he was overjoyed, why did he serialize "The Dedication of Suspect X" in the magazine? In fact, I had a better choice at the beginning, such as choosing newspapers and periodicals that were issued every day, but I didn't do that because Chaoyang Magazine was more famous, but to be honest, Chaoyang Magazine was only a magazine after all, and it was issued in the form of a weekly magazine, which was not very helpful to Ye Chen in a short period of time, and it could only be said that talking was better than nothing, but if it was really published twice a week as Wang Jing said, it would be very promising for him.

After being happy, Ye Chen calmed down, didn't rush to agree, and said with some hesitation:

"Aunt Wang, you shouldn't be like this because you want to help me, right?"

Wang Jing on the other end of the phone was stunned, and her heart was also warm, she really didn't see the wrong person, if it was an ordinary person, she would definitely be in a hurry to agree, and Ye Chen could still think about herself.

"Don't worry, Aunt Wang is very principled, and this will not do any harm to the magazine. ”

Ye Chen was relieved when he heard this, and said with a smile on his face: "Then Xiaochen will thank Aunt Wang!"

"Of course you have to thank me, and you have to invite your Aunt Wang to dinner when the time comes!" Wang Jing joked.

"That's a must!" Ye Chen patted his chest and promised.

After briefly chatting with Wang Jing about some trivial matters, Ye Chen hung up the phone, and now there is still a week before the publication of "The Da Vinci Code", and the preparations that he should make have been made, and the next thing is to do a real fight.

"Suspenseful little prince, WHO is afraid of WHO, beat him!"

Just when Ye Chen was cheering himself up, he was in a elegantly decorated suite in a high-end residential area in Qingyang City.

"Mr. Cheng, this time you came to Qingyang City to release the new book "Auntie", I have done my best to cooperate with the publicity, and now the resources of the entire Huayu Publishing House are basically tilted to you, this week's publicity must have been seen by you, I don't know if you are still satisfied?"

The one who spoke was a middle-aged man in his thirties, with a round head and a round head, a shiny face, only a pair of small eyes that shone from time to time, a slightly chubby figure, and a beer belly, the middle-aged man's name was Zhu Jin, who was the deputy editor-in-chief of Huayu Publishing House.

Mr. Cheng, whose real name is Cheng Ji, is sitting opposite Zhu Jin, a man in his early thirties, a little handsome, with a pair of glasses on his face, and he looks very Sven.

Speaking of which, Cheng Ji still has some relationship with Ye Chen, Cheng Ji also studied in Qingshui High School more than ten years ago, and he can be regarded as Ye Chen's senior.

"Editor-in-Chief Zhu, the scale of your publishing house is still a little smaller, far inferior to Deyun Publishing House. When I started at Deyun Publishing House, the propaganda offensive went far beyond your Huayu Publishing House, and it wasn't just a matter of hanging a few banners in a bookstore. Cheng Ji was a little dissatisfied.

Without waiting for Zhu Jin to speak, Cheng Ji seemed to remember something, and continued to ask: "Editor-in-chief Zhu, is there anyone else who has a new book to publish during this time?"

remembered that the last time he failed was because he didn't know how hard to fight that person in the ring, and as a result, he lost completely, and Cheng Ji already had a psychological shadow.

Zhu Jin's face twitched, it was very useful for Cheng Ji to call himself Editor-in-Chief Zhu, although it was a little weird, it sounded a bit like Editor-in-Chief Zhu, but the surname was given by his parents, so there was no way. But in his heart, he didn't think much of Cheng Ji, "I still compare myself with when I was in Deyun Publishing House, not to mention that you were just a small role when you were there, and you are still far from a real famous writer, not to mention that now you have been terminated by Deyun Publishing House because of your bad grades, and you are still picky." ”

Thinking so in his heart, Zhu Jin still said: "Yes, yes, I am a little wronged in terms of publicity, but I can also make up for it from other aspects, there are no new books by famous authors published during this time, oh, by the way, except for a new book called "The Da Vinci Code" signed by the editor-in-chief of our publishing house." ”

"Which author wrote The Da Vinci Code?" Cheng Ji asked.

Zhu Jin saw that Cheng Ji was nervous, and he also smiled secretly in his heart, knowing that Cheng Ji was bitten by a snake once and was afraid of the well rope for ten years.

But now he and Cheng Ji are grasshoppers on the same line, and Cheng Ji also signed it by himself, if the new book is not published, his life in the publishing house will not be easy, not to mention, Zheng Wei's chair, he has been thinking about it for a long time! Zhu Jin's eyes flashed a cold light.

But now I still have to appease Cheng Ji, Zhu Jin smiled:

"Don't worry, it's just a newcomer who wrote it, and this newcomer still has a bit of a relationship with you, and it's your junior. ”

"Oh, this author is from the same university as me?" Cheng Ji was a little curious.

"No, the author is from the same high school as you, and he is your junior. ”

"It turned out to be my junior brother, hehe, after so many years of walking out of Qingshui High School, someone finally imitated me, presumably this junior is my fan, and he also wants to learn that I wrote novels when I was in high school, haha. Cheng Ji said with a sneering face.

Zhu Jin was speechless, this Cheng Ji is talented, but it is too smooth, and this character is a little strange.

Ignoring these, Zhu Jin talked about what he wanted to talk about when he came to meet Cheng Ji this time.

"I heard that the principal of Qingshui High School invited you to come back to your alma mater to give a speech, right?"

Cheng Ji didn't know what Zhu Jin meant, but he still nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Then did you agree?" Zhu Jin asked.

"I haven't agreed yet, I'm ready to refuse, after all, "Sister-in-law" will be published soon, and I have to recharge my energy. Cheng Ji said proudly.

"Prepare your sister, I'm eating, drinking, and having fun all day long, and it's all us who run errands, except for writing suspense, everything else is a mess. Zhu Jin complained in his heart, but he said: "Mr. Cheng, I suggest that you still agree, think about it, you graduated from Qingshui High School, Qingshui High School is your alma mater, you are the senior of these students, if you go to give a speech and promote the new book "Auntie" by the way, then when you come home and say it, parents will definitely buy your new book, after all, you are their role model, don't you say?"

Although Cheng Ji's eyes are above the top, he has some arrogance that he shouldn't have, but he is not stupid, listening to Zhu Jin's analysis, he was suddenly a little moved, but he just said that he was not going to go and immediately agreed to it now, so he was a little hesitant.

After getting along these days, Zhu Jin has long known what kind of person Cheng Ji is, and when he saw this, he didn't understand what was going on, and secretly scolded in his heart, "I want to be a ****, but also want to set up an archway"

After some persuasion, Cheng Ji agreed to go to Qingshui High School to give a speech with a "reluctant" face.