"Huaishan, you're here so early. Li Er put the briefcase on the table, said hello to Zhang Huaishan next door, and sat down. Then he yawned heavily.

"Unlike you, I'm slow typing. If you don't start early, you won't be able to finish it when you get off work. Zhang Huaishan, who was sitting next door, stopped what he was doing, turned his head, and saw Li Er's two panda eyes, "Yo, what did you do yesterday with such big dark circles?"

"I discussed the plot with the author for a night, and I didn't sleep at all. ”

I heard that the editors in charge of our four groups are at most chatting with the authors on the Internet during working hours, urging the manuscript or something. It's rare for someone like you to work during breaks without overtime pay. ”

"I still like to be face-to-face. Li Ertug tore open the bag of instant coffee and poured ground coffee into the cup. However, most of the authors of "Jing Shao" are all over the country, and there are not many people like Gao Qiao who are really in Beijing. ”

"Because the price of going to Beijing is too expensive!" Zhang Huaishan sighed.

"And the results of "Wanyou King" are too dangerous, as the editor-in-charge, you can't work hard. ”

"yes. Zhang Huaishan shook his head, "This Zou Gu, although he is a senior, he can't trick you like this." If "Wanyou King" is cut in half in your hands, then you will have to carry this black pot for the rest of your life. has this black history, so I don't know when I will be the editor in charge next time. Huaishan said indignantly.

Li Er took the boiling kettle and poured water into the cup: "Hey, hey, don't be a crow's mouth! ”

"Well, I can only resign myself to fate. The rule is to cut it in half if you finish at the bottom three times in a row, you can ask for more blessings. ”

Seek more blessings...... Li Er took a sip of coffee, which was bitter. He doesn't like the feeling of his fate in the hands of others, knowing that he has no responsibility for anything, but he has to pay for the mistakes of others. This feeling is very uncomfortable.

And whether it will be a fire or not, who can say. Although he and Gao Qiao both like the changed plot later, no one is 100% sure, and readers must like it.

The fact that your favorite book will definitely be a hit, and the editor-in-chief may not be sure.

But he couldn't look uncertain.

Gao Qiao's confidence was extremely low because of one failure after another. He finally used letters from die-hard fans to rekindle Gao Qiao's confidence. If he was hesitant as the editor-in-charge, Gao Qiao's confidence would be insufficient.

If you don't have faith, you won't be able to draw a story that is supposed to be interesting.

The editor-in-chief of Dabai walked out of the office and named a few people: "A few of you, as well as Li Er, who has just served as the editor-in-charge, come to the conference room together." ”

Zhang Huaishan looked at Li Er, made a cheering gesture and said, "Warrior, I support you spiritually!"

“…… How can you be like a righteous martyr, don't curse me!" Li Er spit out, took the notebook and pen, and followed Da Bai and the rest of the editors in charge to the conference room.

Because of his low qualifications, he can only walk last. He noticed a detail, and that was that the four of them were the last to enter the conference room.

The entire editorial office is divided into four groups. Each group is responsible for a similar number of works. Because the entries are ranked every week, and the rankings are related to the prize money that each group can get, the competition between them is very fierce.

Before Li Er entered the fourth group, he had heard the news that the fourth group had been at the bottom for half a year. As Zhang Huaishan said, the editors of the four groups are basically not motivated at all, and everyone does their best to do their own work during working hours, and they also try their best to grind foreign workers.

This is also related to the salary mechanism of the editorial department.

The basic salary of a formal editor is only 2,000, which is not enough for basic expenses in Shangjing, a place with high prices. Rent and water and electricity are more than that.

Corresponding to this are the high bonuses. As long as the work is in the top 10 of this newspaper, the editor-in-charge will receive a corresponding bonus according to the number of votes received by the work he manages on the reader's survey. For example, if there are 500 votes, it is 20,000 yuan, and it is distributed weekly.

Each category will then receive 50% of the total prize money for the month. This portion is divided equally among everyone. Even if you don't have a copy editor or art editor who doesn't have a work, if your group's results are not very bad, you can get a bonus of about 5,000 a month.

It adds up to about 7,000 yuan, which is a little more than the average salary of 6,300 yuan in Beijing.

This newspaper only drew 1,000 questionnaires, which means that the total number of votes was only 3,000. Because "Shangjing Boy" has 20 works being serialized at the same time, the total number of votes in the top ten is definitely less than 3,000. Based on 2,000 votes, it is a prize of 80,000 yuan a week.

That's 320,000 a month.

The editor in charge who mixes a little better, the monthly salary is about 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, which is also very good in Beijing.

Some people may think that editors will deliberately buy magazines for the sake of salary, but this will not work. Because the statistics of the questionnaire are secretly commissioned by a third-party agency to sample and count, it is extremely difficult to manually swipe votes. In this way, basic fairness is guaranteed.

The four groups have not entered the top 10 for half a year. If you don't enter the top ten, it means that you don't have a bonus, a basic salary of 2,000, and you really have to tighten your belt to live in Beijing. Even if the company has food and accommodation, editors with families and children can't get by.

It's only natural that there's no motivation.

But this is also not a reason to abandon the author. If the author's grades are not good, the editor should do his best to provide professional help to the author, like Zou Gu, who licks if he has good grades and has a cold face if he has bad grades, Li Er is disdainful.

"Everyone is here. The black, thin, middle-aged man wearing a pair of thick-bottomed glasses said with his hands propped up in front of his face. He is the editor-in-chief of "Weekly Shangjing Boy", Bao Congyun. Because he has a half-moon-shaped birthmark on his forehead, the small circle privately calls him Master Bao.

In the 90s of the last century, he served as the editor in charge of popular comics such as "Young Grandmaster" and "White Blood Man". At that time, the sales of "Weekly Shangjing Boy" were at their peak, and there were even five million.

The good times are no longer over, with the increasing popularity of mobile phones, the Internet, and television media, the spring of comic magazines has also passed. Now the sales of "Jing Shao" are only in the early two millions.

Master Bao lifted his glasses and said, "Now announce the ranking results of the quick report." ”

Everyone except for the four groups was nervous, because the ranking of the flash report was likely to reflect the high and low of the registration.

"First place, "The Adventure King", the author Potato Dou, the editor-in-chief of the group to which he belongs, Zhao Pang, 46 votes. ”

Zhao Pang hurriedly stood up and bowed to everyone. The crowd applauded.

"Adventure King" is the signature manga of "Weekly Shangjing Boy", and it is the most popular fantasy bloody battle theme, and it is natural to get the first page. What I didn't expect was such a big lead. If this newspaper is the same, maybe the prize money will be won by one group.

"Second place ......"

The second place is also a group. One group is worthy of being a strength group, and about forty percent of the prize money goes into their pockets every month.

"Third place...... 4th place......"

The next group did not have four parts, either two or three, and then another group. The people in the four groups applauded and were weak, because the works of the four groups did not enter the top ten this time.

I finally survived the top 10 parts. The morale of the four groups has reached the bottom, and the opposite group is jubilant, and has already begun to discuss which high-end restaurant to go to after work.

Although the second and third groups did not take as much as the first group, they also had their own income.

Only four groups of pellets were not harvested.

"Quiet. Next up is the work of the bottom three. Master Bao said expressionlessly, and the conference room immediately became silent.

"The third-to-last place, "Super Firefighter", author Tianyi. Six votes, fourth group, keep up the good work. ”

The four groups lowered their heads in unison.

"The penultimate place, "Hot Blood Wrestling Club!", by Yokoyama. Three votes, fourth group, keep up the good work. ”

All four groups wanted to bury their heads in the ground.

At the critical moment of "penultimate ......", Mr. Bao stopped talking. He raised his head, and his gaze was exactly how much as Li Er's, and Li Er's heart almost skipped a beat.

won't be so unlucky, Zhang Huaishan said it.

"...... "Wanyou King", zero votes. Because this manga has been at the bottom three times in a row, I decided to cut this work in half. ”

Lear's mind went blank.