Chapter Twenty-Three: You Carry the Black Cauldron, and Fly Separately When the Great Disaster Comes
Zhou Chenghao bought Shujian five years ago, and when he chose to invest in an Internet company, in addition to his own little interest, the most important thing is that he wants to grasp the upstream content of games and film and television adaptations, and this kind of strategic vision is the basic quality of a successful investor.
Despite this, as one of the many companies invested by Zhou's family, Zhou Chenghao's attention to it is very limited, and he usually knows more about it except for occasionally going to the website to look for historical novels, and only in Lu Weiran's work report.
However, one day, his son Zhou Kaifeng, who is studying at Rixin Middle School, called him to tell him that there is now a new book with great influence in the online literature industry, which many of his classmates are reading, which may affect the website he invested in.
After Zhou Chenghao finished talking to his son on the phone, he asked the assistant to ask Lu Weiran, and the reply was that the book was the result of the Chinese Network in order to promote the website and attract new authors, and the matter was then over.
Then in March, the news that "Panlong" had exceeded 10,000 in 24 hours was vigorously promoted, and the novel's influence began to expand to a wider range, first in simplified and traditional Chinese, then in comic adaptations, and finally in the attention of game companies.
Coincidentally, when Zhou Chenghao attended a gathering of CEOs, he happened to be asked about the book by the CEO of a game company, and the boss said that he was very interested in the game copyright of the book and hoped to cooperate, but fortunately, Zhou Chenghao still had a little impression of the book, so he had to explain that the copyright of the book was not in the hands of his company, and the boss smiled and said: "Can other websites also publish this kind of book?" Zhou Chenghao was impressed.
After returning from this party, Zhou Chenghao decided to talk to Lu Weiran in person, the phone was not yet ready to go out, his son Zhou Kaifeng's weekly phone call came first, Zhou Kaifeng reported his life and study this week according to the usual practice, and after saying this, he even mentioned the book called "Panlong" again: "This book was originally submitted to our website, but it was rejected by one of our editors, and the author had no choice, and submitted it to a departing editor-in-chief, which was signed away. And I heard my classmate say that the editor-in-chief who left the post was squeezed out by the editor who rejected the manuscript, Dad, you can ask Lu Weiran. ”
After listening to his son's words, and thinking of the words of the boss of the game company, Zhou Chenghao's face became a little unsightly, and immediately called Lu Weiran, and after connecting, he reprimanded him: "How did you report to me before, the number of books they swiped, the books they operated themselves, and now the whole world knows about them, why haven't I seen you operate such a book out, do you think I'm a layman, so foolish, I handed over the company to you to manage, are you ready to repay me like this?" ”
Zhou Chenghao's anger at this time was actually only three points, but when the table came out, he technically mentioned six points, Lu Weiran heard the big boss's angry tone, and knew that the matter couldn't be stopped, so he immediately pushed out the drunken Baichi and took the blame: "The editor who left the post seems to be a little contradictory to the drunken Baichi, and I don't know the specific things, I'll turn back to him, and then report to you, Master Hao." ”
"You've got a clean pot. What drunk Baichi, I think he is the most idiot, you don't have to ask him, I'll go to the company tomorrow. After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone directly, and after Lu Weiran slowly put down the phone, he found that his back was already soaked, so he called Zuibaichi.
On March 3, Zhou Chenghao really went to Shujian, although he had received the news in advance, but when he was notified to go to the chairman's office, Zui Baichi's legs were still so shaky, and his heartbeat was still so chaotic.
"You've got three minutes to explain, let's get started."
After drunk Baichi entered the office, Zhou Chenghao glanced at him and threw this sentence directly to him.
Drunk Bai Chi was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Lu Weiran, who was expressionless, like an old monk in a fixed position, obviously he would not give him any hints, at this time, everyone was protecting themselves, who had time to take care of him.
"Han Jiangxue resigned by herself, as far as I know, she can't stand the work attitude of one of her editors, the editor in charge often reports to me at the same level, and doesn't listen to her much, I said her a few times, but I didn't care too much, and then we had an annual meeting of the great gods of our website, I took into account that the editor was better at interpersonal communication, so I took her over, Han Jiangxue ran to lose my temper with me because of this incident, and finally said that she wanted to resign, I was also angry at the time, so I said a word that she dared to resign and I dared to criticize, As a result, she really resigned, and for this reason, I called her to keep her, but at that time she may have received the conditions for winning the championship, and decided to leave the company......"
Without waiting for Drunken Baichi to finish speaking, Zhou Chenghao sneered: "They are all masters of throwing the pot, since this incident happened, I have never heard a word of self-blame from you, it is all about shirking responsibility, okay, if you want to shirk responsibility, I will let you push enough, Lu Weiran, you go and call that editor to me." ”
It was the first time that Lu Weiran was so eager to leave the chairman's office, and when he heard Zhou Chenghao's words, he hurriedly went to the third floor to call someone, and after a while, he brought a girl with beautiful eyebrows but obviously nervous face, it was Luluo.
Zhou Chenghao asked: "Your editor-in-chief of Drunken Baichi said that you squeezed Hanjiangxue away, isn't that so?" ”
Luluo's face changed when he heard this, and he looked at Drunken Baichi incredulously, Drunken Baichi didn't expect this Haoye to be so treacherous, and he actually made a discordant plan on the spot, and he was stunned, but he didn't dare to explain, only heard Luluo smile miserably, and said: "I squeezed out Hanjiangxue, how could I, a responsible editor, squeeze out an editor-in-chief, if Haoye didn't call me today, Mr. Chi was ready to push the black pot to me?" ”
Zhou Chenghao said: "I'll give you a chance to explain now." ”
Luluo glanced at Drunken Bai Chi, a pair of beautiful eyes full of hatred of "You are unkind and unjust", and said: "Master Hao, you can first ask Mr. Chi how he usually chats with us female editors, I don't know the specific reason for Han Jiangxue's resignation, but I can be sure that Han Jiangxue must have also received various explicit text messages and kk messages from Mr. Chi." ”
Drunk Baichi finally couldn't bear it anymore, and continued: "Luluo, pay attention to what you say, you can't be so framed and framed, you have to have evidence." ”
Luluo said: "Of course I have evidence, and there is a lot of evidence, in addition, I also have evidence that you asked me to refuse to sign "Panlong". ”
Drunk Baichi said: "The rejection of the submission of "Panlong" is obviously your review mistake, it is because you were lazy when reviewing the manuscript yourself, and refused directly without reading the content, and now it is also pushed on my head?" ”
Luluo said: "At that time, I received this submission, and I was a little unsure, so I asked your opinion, but you first scolded the author, and then asked me to reply to the author and say that our Shujian Temple is small, and let him go to another house to see, am I framing you for this?" ”
Drunk Baichi was stunned for a moment, when the green pothos sent the author's submission message to herself, she did say so.
"Alright, you don't have to say any more." Zhou Chenghao waved his hand: "I already know what happened, and I can see that if you make such a noise until dark, no one will feel that this matter is their responsibility." ”
Lu Weiran hurriedly said: "Master Hao, as the manager of the book sword, I have an unshirkable responsibility for this matter, and I ask for punishment." ”
Zhou Chenghao glanced at him and said, "There will definitely be punishment, you don't have to worry." But then again, in such a big company, it's inevitable that employees will make mistakes once in a while, and I won't let you go just because you did something wrong. ”
When the three of them heard this, they were all relieved, and then they heard Chairman Zhou say: "But you are obviously not suitable for your current position." ”
When the three of them heard this, their faces changed miserably.
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When Jiang Hanxue heard the news that Zui Baichi was demoted to the editor-in-chief of the operations department and that Luluo was transferred to customer service and resigned, she was playing chess and other takeaways with Ning Qingzhou.
"Master Hao came to deal with it personally, everyone was shocked, they didn't expect the punishment to be so heavy." Bingxin's voice on the phone was somewhat gloating.
Jiang Hanxue glanced at Ning Qingzhou in front of him and said, "How could you alarm Zhou Chenghao?" ”
"I can only say that the testimonial of the twelve young people on the shelf is too lethal, eh, if he had listened to your advice and submitted the manuscript to me, my year-end award this year would have been lost."
Jiang Hanxue laughed and thought, "I'm afraid that no matter how I persuade him, he won't submit the manuscript to you." He said, "So I'm lucky." ”
"It's your strength and accumulation."
The two chatted for a while, hung up the phone, Jiang Hanxue continued to play chess, and said casually: "Ning Qingzhou, let me ask you, did you say anything else when you submitted the article to the pothos?" ”
Ning Qingzhou threw himself on the chess game, and when he heard Jiang Hanxue's question, he also replied casually: "I didn't say anything, I just told a few truths." ”
Jiang Hanxue smiled: "You must have set her up." ”
"I'm not that sinister." As he spoke, he reached out and picked up his car, took a step forward, and said, "Catch the horse, you can't escape." ”
"You're taking revenge, I just ate your horse like this, and you deliberately ate my horse like this."
Ning Qingzhou raised his head, looked at Jiang Hanxue with a smile, and said, "Throughout the history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, there will never be anything wrong with revenge. ”