Soon, Qi Tianxiang's special car slowly stopped in front of Xinhua Bookstore in Hezhou Square under the guidance of the police car.

Hezhou Square is a prosperous commercial area of Hezhou City, the so-called square is the former Hezhou center renovated, because it is the traditional sense of the ancient city center of Hezhou, the drum tower of the morning bell and dusk drum is built on this central point, becoming the landmark building of Hezhou.

With the square drum tower as the center, four main streets extend to the east, west, north and south on all sides, connecting the cities in the city wall together, forming various functional areas with orderly layout and planning. With the development of the city's commerce, the central position of the drum tower has become increasingly prominent, and the discerning merchants began to make articles around the drum tower, and soon formed a business district around the drum tower, and the administrative center gradually faded, especially after the city wall was demolished, the drum tower business district also continued to expand, and became a veritable commercial center of Hezhou City.

With the new city movement, especially the convening of the City Games, the transformation of the old city has become an important part of the city's taste and image display, and the drum tower, as the city's commercial center, has become an important symbol of urban planning upgrading. After several arguments, the Drum Tower finally ended its history of hundreds of years of existence, and together with the city wall demolished in the early years, it became the memory of the city, replaced by a flat and wide square, and a sculpture representing the image of the Drum Tower, standing high above the original site of the Drum Tower, witnessing the growth of the city as a visitor.

After the center of the drum tower was expanded into a square, the business district was also expanding, and the commercial facilities built around the drum tower in the past were either retreated or rebuilt in other places, and they have entered the process of re-planning and construction. In the past, the pattern of four main streets, east, west, north and south, with the establishment of the square and the widening and extension of the road, became the four main arterial roads, and around the square are the high-rise buildings generated at the same time as the widening of the main road, which wraps the square diligently and forms a new commercial center.

Compared with the traditional sense of commercial services based on business centers, the new business center has been replaced by banks, securities, office buildings, business centers, and can be among the central areas of every inch of land, in addition to these economic upstarts, is the leader in the traditional format, and the foundation of their existence is the existence of the past.

Xinhua Bookstore is one of these outstanding people who can exist, because of historical reasons, cultural undertakings, especially Xinhua Bookstore, as a part of the mainstream culture of society, once as a symbol of political power and system, has an important meaning and symbol of existence, and the result of attention is that as long as it is a city center or a prosperous commercial area, there must be Xinhua Bookstore. Just as there are banks and pharmacies as long as there are streets, there are different social tendencies, and the appearance must be different.

At the beginning of the establishment of Xinhua Bookstore, it was rebuilt on the original site of the Confucian Temple on East Street, after the clay statue of the Confucian Temple was invited out of the temple, the spacious lobby became the business hall of the bookstore, and the school and house behind the Confucian Temple, or became a book storehouse, or became an office, played a necessary role, and for a period of time, it became the banner and leadership center of Xinhua Bookstore in the province, and occupied an important position and played an important role in the fields of cultural inheritance and book distribution.

After the reform of the book system, the special book sales market and the relaxation of restrictions, the strong position of Xinhua Bookstore no longer existed, and with the swarming of various forms of bookstores, sales and profits were greatly impacted, and gradually fell behind in the economic wave. However, due to its position, especially the reconstruction of the central square, it has brought new opportunities to Xinhua Bookstore, and the Xinhua Bookstore, which was demolished and rebuilt by the Confucian Temple, was demolished and rebuilt again, and from the store that was once located on East Street to a treasure land adjacent to the square, not only the four-story bookstore building was built on the original site, but also the hotel and office building above the four floors, becoming a veritable building.

In the era of nationalization of the whole people, Xinhua Bookstore was in the middle and upper echelons of state-owned enterprises, with both administrative and management functions and management functions, and had a relatively superior and unique position. Unlike the catering service industry, I don't want to be an industrial enterprise, busy and tired, it is a decent and relatively leisurely and elegant job with both cultured people, and the income is not worse than other industries, or even better.

Since the marketization, especially after the enterprise operation, because the Xinhua bookstore occupies a favorable terrain, and has authoritative book release channels, especially with strong economic and market competitiveness, the operation has not had too many twists and turns, and with the decentralization of management power, the operation and management is relatively relaxed, the provincial Xinhua bookstore also set up a group, the original distribution of the province's bookstore administrative management system, linked into a whole.

However, the good times did not last long, with the shrinking of the official channels of books, the increase in the share of self-operated sales of publishing houses, and especially the opening of the teaching and auxiliary book market, the cold winter of Xinhua Bookstore suddenly came without warning. Although some countermeasures have been taken, the fragmented market share, the severely shrinking book sales situation, and the arrival of the Internet and mobile phone reading era will all hope that after the cold winter, the expectation of a sunny and green spring will be ruthlessly shattered, and can only be supported on the edge of the cliff.

The Xinhua bookstore system in large and medium-sized cities is better, after all, the stalls are big and thick, and they can barely support it, and the Xinhua bookstores at the county level and small cities are difficult to sustain, or reduce the scale of operation, or increase the scope of business, and some simply rent out stores to collect rent to maintain their existence. Although the group exists, it actually exists in name only.

Under such circumstances, the Provincial Department of Culture and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, as the competent departments for the administration and supervision of the group, adopted administrative measures to merge the Xinhua Bookstore Group into the newly established publishing group. Although this kind of coercive method of pulling and matching has temporarily solved the existing dilemma of the Xinhua Bookstore Group, it has invisibly increased the difficulties of the publishing group, and naturally caused the dissatisfaction of the publishing group. For Xinhua Bookstore Group, it has changed from department management to enterprise management, not to mention that its status has declined, and its current status quo also makes the publishing group unwelcome, and there is always a kind of child born by a stepmother.

It is precisely in this kind of bump and bump that the dispute between the two groups over the management and management ownership has not subsided for several years, and they have always been in a contradiction of competing for power and profit. In the restructuring plan of the publishing group, the divestment of the Xinhua Bookstore Group, the disposal of the group's assets and personnel, and the closure of the grassroots bookstore were the first contents to be implemented, so it also aroused strong dissatisfaction among the cadres and workers of the Xinhua Bookstore Group.

When Qi Tianxiang's special car came to the Xinhua Bookstore Building, it was 2:20 in the afternoon, which was the time when the bookstore's business was light, and there was still a lot of room to go before the time of gathering at 3 o'clock with Sun Pingfang, so when Zhou Tong asked Qi Tianxiang's opinion, Qi Tianxiang did not hesitate to choose the special car to park at the door of the bookstore, instead of going to the parking lot in the back compound.

"Your meeting doesn't start until three o'clock, and it's only a ten-minute drive from here to the provincial government, so there's still plenty of time, so let's go around the bookstore together!" I haven't been to a bookstore for a long time, and I don't know what I'm busy with? After instructing Xiao Wang to park the car in front of the bookstore, Qi Tianxiang glanced at his watch, smiled slightly and said to Zhou Tong: "What's the matter, I have to let you do something, otherwise I will really force you to be an accompaniment!" ”

"What's this, I also took your car for free, who has such treatment." Zhou Tong knew very well what Qi Tianxiang said, so he responded with a smile, waited for the car to stop, pushed open the door, took the lead in getting out of the car to look at the surrounding environment, and waited for Qi Tianxiang to get out of the car from the other side of the car before continuing to say just now: "I won't tell you, I haven't entered a bookstore for at least half a year, and I'm afraid it will be longer if I don't buy books!" ”

"Even those of us who love to read books don't go into bookstores and don't buy books anymore, so you can imagine how much better this book selling day will be?" Qi Tianxiang stood in front of the door, did not move, let alone enter the bookstore immediately, but continued to sigh: "Think about going to college, I really love books!" I have a little money to buy books, so that eating has become a problem, and I am embarrassed to open my mouth to my parents, after all, I have a month's bursary plus scholarship, and I still shouldn't have any problems eating, and I don't want my parents to worry. So I had to go to the canteen, or go to the canteen less, and often asked the monkey to bring food, or didn't give money, so that the monkey was stretched thin for a long time, and he didn't even dare to invite his girlfriend to watch a movie. ”

Speaking of the previous embarrassment, Qi Tianxiang was relishing, and a sweet look appeared on his face, as if he was telling Zhou Tong, and as if he was recalling the past time.

"That's right! So much so that many people later speculated that Qi Dacai found Teacher Xiao Yan for love or for a meal ticket, which is really debatable. Zhou Tong looked at Qi Tianxiang and said faintly, knowing that Qi Tianxiang's mood was very good at the moment, and this kind of self-disclosure would not only not affect Qi Tianxiang's reputation, but would increase the capital of boasting, which was a kind of boasting in itself. Looking at Qi Tianxiang's eyes looking at him with a slight smile, Zhou Tong then explained: "This is not my speculation, but I heard the monkey tell it himself, and there are other channels and versions, do you want to listen to it too?" ”

Qi Tianxiang smiled, of course he understood that Zhou Tong was to cheer up, and it was still to make himself happy, but he still pretended to be dissatisfied and said: "This monkey is vainly sympathetic to the leader's intentions, tampering with the leader's history, smearing the leader's face, and seriously affecting the leader's tall and pure image. ”

Zhou Tong looked at Qi Tianxiang's expression and wanted to say something more, but the side light of his eyes saw Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang walking out of the bookstore quickly, and he knew that the work of the two of them exploring the way first had been completed, and Qi Tianxiang was waiting outside the store It should be over, so he smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and signaled Qi Tianxiang that he could enter the store to choose books and read.