On Monday morning, Chie Sakai appeared in the president's office of Wasakee Press. As her career continues to expand and she takes over the family business, she has rarely set foot here. Although his permanent office has been relocated from here to the top floor of the headquarters building of the Sakai Foundation, he still serves as the president of Wasakee Publishing House. She personally typed and copied the content of the manuscript of "Dream Chaser", and stored it in the same USB flash drive as "Weiyong's Wife".

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, Chie Sakai, looked at the world outside the glass, and directly instructed his secretary: "You go and print out the "Dream Chaser" in the USB flash drive first, and then send it to everyone in the sales planning department. Tell them clearly and clearly that they will put aside everything they are doing for the time being, and finish reading the content of "Dream Chaser" within an hour. In an hour, I'll meet them in the big conference room. As for the original manuscript of "Wei Yong's Wife" and the cover page that I personally selected on the USB flash drive, there is no need for people to repeatedly review and check, and they can be directly sent to the printing factory, and the initial printing quantity is 500,000 copies. ”

The secretary who responded to the word "yes" picked up the USB flash drive from the office desktop, turned around and went out directly to do it. Today, all the staff up and down the mustard publishing house more or less felt that the atmosphere was not quite right, after all, the blue-blooded princess Sakai Chie was there in person.

They couldn't guess and didn't dare to inquire blindly, but they knew that the proportion of a mere mustard publishing house in the overall business of the Sakai consortium was insignificant. If this is left on weekdays, the big and small matters of the publishing house do not need to be reported to her, but are all finalized by the executive vice president.

An hour later, all the staff in the sales planning department of Wasakee Publishing House sat in the large conference room and waited for Sakai Chie's arrival. Whispering and talking to each other, although they had carefully read the copy of "Dream Chaser", they still did not understand what should be the work of some editors in the editorial department of the publishing house. Why did you suddenly transfer to the sales planning department?

The tempered glass door was pushed open by the secretary, and Chie Sakai, who walked straight in, went straight to the chair at the top of the rectangular conference table. With her right hand, she flicked the boss's chair and sat down. Everyone was chattering a moment ago, but from the moment she walked in, it suddenly became silent.

Sakai Chie, who was not in a hurry to speak, motioned with her left hand to the secretary sitting on her right to announce a decision for herself. Just sat down. Secretary Chie Sakai, who had not yet sat down, stood up in a proper manner and announced to all the members of the sales planning department: "In one year, the sales of Takeshita Kusake's new novella "Dream Chaser" must exceed one million copies in Japan. If this goal is accomplished, those of you here will not only be able to take your wife and children on a free vacation to Europe for a month, but you will also receive a 50 percent salary increase. ”

Hearing such an exciting news, all the colleagues in the sales planning department couldn't help but burst into the warmest applause. They were jubilant, and they almost shouted the slogan of Sakai Chie.

"Please be quiet. Don't rejoice too soon, after all, I'm not done yet. "Secretary Chie Sakai, who fully understands their mood at this moment. Then he left the matter that he had not announced, and continued: "If you can't achieve the goal of selling more than one million copies of "Dream Chaser" within a year, you will be fired. At this time, their expressions revealed more or less difficulty. If that sentence is really answered, the sky will not drop pies for no reason.

The reason why Chie Sakai made such a decision was to strive for the sales of "Dream Chaser" to exceed one million copies, so as to keep the golden body of Takeshita Kusaokesa's million-dollar writer. She not only gave her subordinates great motivation, but also gave them a lot of pressure, and the ultimate goal was to ask them to do their best to complete their goals.

Chie Sakai predicts. This unsatisfactory single book of Takeshita Kusaoke's novel was sold normally in Japan, and it sold three times in one year. 500,000 is not a problem. However, she asked for neither 500,000 copies, nor 600,000 copies, 700,000 copies, 800,000 copies, or 900,000 copies. Rather, it had to break through a million copies sold.

Of course, Sakai Chie, who knew that there was a lot of difficulty in this, leaned back on the back of the boss's chair and said calmly: "If any of you think this is an impossible task, you can resign now." ”

The head of the sales planning department, who was stared at by his subordinates, took the lead and expressed his personal opinion, "President Sakai, that's not right. It should be President Sakai. In all fairness, the level of Mr. Takeshita's "Dream Chaser" is indeed much worse than his representative works such as "Rashomon", "I Am a Cat", and "Human Disqualification". It is not easy to sell 1 million copies in China in one year. You see, can you reduce our target of 300,000 copies, no, 200,000 copies? Even if it is only a reduction of 100,000 copies, it will do. ”

Sakai Chie, who had no intention of bargaining with them in this aspect at all, said without any ambiguity: "Don't say that I will reduce the number of copies to you, even if I reduce you by one volume, I will not be able to reduce one volume for you." If it weren't difficult, I would still have to sit here and ask you if you have any good ideas for promotions? ”

"President Sakai, do you think this will happen? Is it to bundle Takeshita Kusaokei's "Dream Chaser" with his other classic short and medium-length works in the past? The head of the sales planning department, who thought about it for a while, proposed a feasible plan to her.

"No, "Dream Chaser" must be sold as a single book. That's not what I meant, but what Takeshita-kun meant. Sakai Chie, who directly denied his plan, had a headache with sales.

A moment later, everyone in the sales planning department was chatting enthusiastically in the big conference room. Of course, they will not choose to resign voluntarily, on the one hand, they know that the current job is not easy to find. What's more, it is still a job with a good income, good benefits, and experience, which is even more difficult to find. None of them have the consciousness to make room for others, and they will not cry for their father and mother to retreat and give up because they encounter difficulties; On the other hand, I also want to challenge, after all, the reward of completing this goal is quite tempting. (To be continued.) )