Chapter Twenty-Three: Drawing Wages from the Bottom of the Cauldron
Just this afternoon, the starting point and Huanjian jointly issued a statement. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The approximate meaning of the statement is: the recent chaos in the online novel industry has brought many unnecessary troubles to authors and readers, which has greatly affected the writers' peace of mind. As the leader in the industry, Huanjian and the starting point have the obligation to maintain a good order in the industry, and it was decided through negotiation that from now on, the two will carry out friendly cooperation.
There are two main contents of cooperation: first, the benefits given to authors by both websites are kept in sync, and second, the authors of the other websites are not accepted to change jobs.
In the short notice, there is not a word of Zeyue.
But a discerning person can see at a glance that the three kingdoms are competing for hegemony, and the two alliances, although they don't say it, the purpose is no more obvious, and the two families who joined forces will deal with Zeyue together.
The atmosphere in the office was solemn, and everyone looked at Zhao Zejun, the actual owner and spiritual leader of Zeyue.
The newborn Zeyue was still proud some time ago, but he didn't expect that overnight, he would become the target of public criticism, and was regarded as an enemy by the two strongest websites in China. The people present are all backbones, but they are also ordinary college students with limited experience, and almost all of them are involved in face-to-face confrontations in shopping malls for the first time in their lives, and they are inevitably nervous.
These two opponents are too high, one is the domestic leader, with the deepest heritage, and the other is the most professional in the industry. Especially Huanjian, just a month or two ago, in their minds, Huanjian was still the object of worship in the industry.
In the face of these two joining forces, most of the Zeyue employees had a feeling of impending disaster.
Zhao Zejun hugged his arms, stared at the announcement on the big screen for a while, and suddenly grinned: "I think Lao Tzu is Cao Cao." ”
The lethality of this announcement is indeed very powerful.
The synchronization of the two benefits means that the two sides have stopped the price war, which to a certain extent offsets Zeyue's biggest advantage at present: abundant funds.
Some time ago, the competition between the three companies, in the final analysis, was robbing the author, relying on improving the treatment of the author and using money to attract the author.
Just from the comparison of capital reserves, whether it is Huanjian or the starting point, the economic strength of a single family is not as good as Zeyue.
One-to-one is not as good as Ze Yue, not to mention the consumption of three families, which is equivalent to each one in one dozen two, the consumption is too large, in the absence of external intervention, it must be Ze Yue who can last until the end.
Now the benefits of the other two are synchronized, and there is no price war between each other, which reduces internal friction and concentrates strength and Zeyue fight.
Second, Huanjian and the starting point do not dig each other's feet, which is also to reduce the internal friction of the two families. On the surface, this article has nothing to do with Zeyue, but in fact, the website always has to develop and grow, to attract authors, they don't dig each other's corners, want to grow, where do the authors come from?
In addition to these two superficial meanings, the alliance between the two companies, as well as many influences that cannot be expressed in words, has released a signal to the entire industry and changed the situation in the domestic online novel industry again, with the alliance occupying the absolute upper hand and market share, while Zeyue has been marginalized.
Zhao Zejun's eyes swept in the temporary conference room, and suddenly realized that this was a good opportunity to hone the team, so he said: "All of you here are the backbone of Zeyue, what do you think about this matter?"
After being silent for a few seconds, Song Yun was the first to speak: "Mr. Zhao, I think it should be broken one by one!"
"Tell me, what do you think?"
Song Yun thought for a while and said, "The starting point and the Huanjian family were also old rivals before, and the contradictions are very deep, I don't believe it, they are monolithic." This time I joined forces, in fact, I was forced to be helpless, on the surface it seems to be an alliance, but this alliance is not strong, just like Wei Shu Wu, Shu Wu formed an alliance, but they still fought each other. If they can form an alliance in tandem, why can't we find a raccoon sword or a starting point, give better terms, and break their alliance?"
After a pause, Song Yun squeezed out a smile: "Looking at it from another angle, it shows that our Zeyue is strong enough to surpass any of the other two websites, forcing them to form an alliance." ”
This idea was approved by some employees, and Zhao Zejun also nodded slightly, and said noncommittally: "Song Yun's idea is quite the style of the ancient Zongheng family. There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests, not bad. ”
Zhao Zejun's attitude of not being in a hurry made the atmosphere in the conference room relax a lot, and there were more people who dared to put forward their own ideas.
The company's current accountant Xiaotong is in his twenties this year, just graduated, young people are energetic, bold, hesitated, and said: "Mr. Zhao, Brother Song, I am in charge of money, and I am relatively familiar with the company's accounts. Economic abundance is our advantage, even if the other side is in alliance, it is impossible to concentrate the use of their own funds, in essence, they are still fighting on their own, so we still have an economic advantage. I think that if he beats him, we will beat ours, don't pay attention to their tricks, we continue to improve the treatment of authors, and naturally more authors will pour into Zeyue. ”
Zhao Zejun laughed, "Yes, the two re-alliances are still two websites, and their own strength has not changed qualitatively." In Accountant Tong's words, all enemies are paper tigers, and they can be broken when they are poked. ”
Accountant Tong smiled embarrassedly, "Thank you, Mr. Zhao, for your compliment." ”
A few more people spoke next, but Zhao Zejun was still noncommittal and only praised him.
It is also strange to say, before Zhao Zejun came, the atmosphere in the conference room was very tense, one or two were like a great enemy, nervous, as if the knife was on the neck, but after a collective discussion, the tense atmosphere seemed to disappear unconsciously, on the contrary, they all rekindled their fighting spirit, and they were quite a bit of a momentum to gear up and can't wait to do a big job.
Zhao Zejun watched coldly, and when he saw that the heat was almost over, he raised his hands and pressed them down gently.
There was silence in the conference room.
"After everyone's discussion just now, we can at least be sure of one thing at present: the situation is not as unfavorable as it seems, on the contrary, we still have the initiative in fact, and there are many ways to deal with it. ”
Zhao Zejun nodded slightly at the few people he proposed just now, and then continued: "Whether it is breaking the alliance of the other party or raising the price, it is a long-term tug-of-war, in order to win more authors. My personal idea is that the other two will directly cut off the possibility of the other two coming to Zeyue to poach people, and the alliance of the other party will be self-defeating. ”
One after another puzzled eyes fell on Zhao Zejun's body, and he didn't understand what he meant by 'drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle'.
Zhao Zejun paused and said: "I am going to implement the contract system between the author and the website in Zeyue, and legally implement the relationship between the author and the website." No contracted writer can write on other websites during or for a long time afterward. ”
As soon as this remark came out, the whole house was shocked.
"Mr. Zhao, this ...... Will this work?" Song Yun was the first to express his doubts.
Zhao Zejun smiled faintly and did not answer Song Yun directly, but continued to throw a heavier bomb: "Not only must the legal relationship between the author and the website be implemented, but at the same time, the website must own all kinds of copyrights of the novel." ”
Now the conference room is completely fried.