210 Factions and circles
After leaving the courtyard on the other side of Houhai, the first place Cao Zhiqiang went to was Wangfujing Bookstore, or Wangfujing Xinhua Bookstore.
The reason for coming here is very simple, because by far this Xinhua bookstore in Wangfujing is the most visited bookstore in Beijing, there is no one.
Therefore, a newly listed book in China, as long as it can be sold here, has basically entered the mainstream business circle.
As long as you know the sales of a book in Wangfujing Bookstore, you can basically know the general situation of the book.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Wangfujing Bookstore is the barometer of Beiping Bookstore.
Because of the importance here, the person in charge of this store is Cao Zhiqiang's most important new right-hand man, that is, Shen Zhenhua and Liu Donghai.
Liu Donghai is a person found by Yu Deli, characterized by being a soldier, on the battlefield, and participating in the 79-year counterattack against Vietnam.
But that's all a gimmick, and it's not that mysterious.
Because this Liu Donghai is not a combat soldier, he is a literary soldier, and he is a service soldier who does miscellaneous work in the literary and artistic soldiers, such as repairing the scenery board, moving equipment, helping to wash clothes and sweep the floor, etc.
His so-called going to the battlefield was also staying in a safe place in the rear, so he was not taken seriously.
After the battle, the troops began to lay off a large number of literary and artistic soldiers, including this Liu Donghai.
According to the normal situation, it is impossible for Liu Donghai, a native of Liao Province, to stay in the capital.
But Liu Donghai is tall and mighty, so during his work, he secretly fell in love with a female literary soldier from the capital.
In this way, after changing jobs, Liu Donghai did not go back to his hometown to farm, but came to the capital with the female literary soldier and quickly got married.
After getting married, the father of the female literary soldier had some connections, and helped Liu Donghai arrange a job, which was to go to a publishing house as a typesetter, specializing in typesetting.
During this period, it was all typesetting, and the typesetter was a heavy job with little pay.
But there is no way, Liu Donghai is from a rural area, and it is already very good to stay in the capital by relying on the relationship between his father-in-law, where can he dare to complain.
But this does not mean that Liu Donghai has no ambitions.
At the opening ceremony, Liu Donghai did Cao Zhiqiang a small favor and asked Cao Zhiqiang to avoid drinking with the leader, so he came into Cao Zhiqiang's eyes.
Through several contacts, Cao Zhiqiang found that although this Liu Donghai is very burly, he is actually as careful as a hair, and he is very good at doing things, and he is also very good at drilling camp.
So, Cao Zhiqiang secretly developed Liu Donghai.
The so-called development is nothing more than giving some money and painting some pies, and soon Liu Donghai was quietly pulled over and became his own internal line.
Not to mention Shen Zhenhua, he is his own person.
Shen Zhenhua's nickname is Huazi, and he is Yang An'an's neighbor who is still learning to drive.
The reason why Yang An'an recommended this person to Cao Zhiqiang at the beginning.
First, it was because Yang An'an was now learning to drive and couldn't continue to be Cao Zhiqiang's follower and run errands, so he found a substitute to temporarily replace his position.
Second, Yang An'an wants to find a good job for Shen Zhenhua, so that he will not continue to be idle.
After all, Shen Zhenhua's situation is special, and it is impossible for a normal state-owned unit to want him.
Cao Zhiqiang was indeed short of manpower before, and Huazi was recommended by Yang An'an, so he accepted it.
However, Cao Zhiqiang at the beginning, he just asked Huazi to dress up as a businessman and go to the hotel to squat, first, to see if it was possible to find Lou Xiao'e, and second, to find out if there was a reliable Hong Kong businessman.
In fact, the purpose of finding Lou Xiao'e can only be said to be incidental, after all, Cao Zhiqiang never thought that he could really meet Lou Xiao'e at that time.
Therefore, the real purpose of letting Huazi squat in the hotel is to let him find reliable Hong Kong businessmen, and then he can take the initiative to contact those Hong Kong businessmen.
Who knows, it has been less than a week since Huazi was put into work, and the reliable strange Hong Kong businessman did not find it, but he found Lou Xiao'e first.
Now that he has contacted Lou Xiao'e, Cao Zhiqiang does not need to find other Hong Kong businessmen for the time being, after all, it is better to be raw than cooked.
Since then, Huazi no longer wears a suit and tie all day long, and goes to various foreign-related hotels to look for Hong Kong businessmen, but resumes the role of running errands.
For example, helping Cao Zhiqiang run errands to buy something, or helping him order takeout or something, it's all him.
Later, Shen Zhenhua's wife fell ill, and he went to the hospital to take care of his wife, but he happened to miss the opening ceremony of Cao Zhiqiang's publishing house.
However, after the publishing house was officially put into operation, Shen Zhenhua's mother was also discharged from the hospital, so he came back to Cao Zhiqiang to report.
And Cao Zhiqiang was also very simple, and directly signed an employment contract with Shen Zhenhua in the name of the publishing house, so that Shen Zhenhua also became an employee of the publishing house.
Although Shen Zhenhua is only a contract worker, he is of the same nature as Zhou Huaien's daughter, but the degree of reuse is completely different.
You must know that although Hongguang Publishing House is very small, the current staff is basically divided into two factions.
One faction is the patriarchal faction headed by Zhou Huaien.
The other faction is the cutting-edge faction led by Yu Deli.
The so-called patriarchs are mainly Zhou Huaien, Sister Niu and other old people who were originally in the Red Light Magazine Department.
Theoretically, they only take money here and don't care about things, and the treatment of these people is all borne by Hongguang Publishing House, which is also one of the conditions for the machinery factory to agree to contract and operate.
For this reason, Cao Zhiqiang was also willing to bear the salaries of these people, so when these veterans came, Cao Zhiqiang gave them a noble but indifferent position.
However, after the publishing house really opened, I don't know what was going on, what about these veterans, there are people who no longer stay at home all day to continue to care for the elderly, but come to work at the publishing house all day long.
For example, President Zhou Huaien, as well as the editor Qian Degui and Sister Niu, these two people go to work in the publishing house almost every day, at most they are late and leave early.
This person's enthusiasm for work is not small, at least in the planning of the subordinate magazine, it is dedicated.
Because these three people are originally engaged in internal magazines and have rich experience, the planning projects of the subordinate magazines are basically handed over to them at present, and the speed of progress is quite fast.
By the way, these two people also have a common feature, that is, they all arrange their own children and relatives to be included.
For example, Zhou Huaien inserted his daughter into it and became an intern editor.
Qian Degui and Sister Niu also inserted their sons separately.
In this way, these three veterans who come to work every day, plus their three children, are equivalent to six people!
Six people, the number of this patriarch is quite a lot.
At present, these people in the patriarchal faction are very obedient, Cao Zhiqiang does what he says, and rarely has his own opinions, a bit like an old scalper who works a lot and talks little.
On the contrary, those who are in the new school always put forward various opinions.
The so-called cutting-edge faction is Cao Zhiqiang's own name, and he is talking about the group of people found by Yu Deli.
Those people were all brought from various units by Yu Deli relying on his connections.
They themselves are all young employees of various magazines or publishing houses, and they have a certain amount of work experience, but because they are unwilling to continue to work in the original unit with a meager income, they follow Yu Deli to break through here.
Obviously, since this group of people was brought by Yu Deli, they must mainly listen to Yu Deli's words.
For example, Yang Shouwen dared to openly contradict Cao Zhiqiang at the all-staff meeting, but he did not dare to contradict Yu Deli, which can be seen.
Although Cao Zhiqiang doesn't seem to care about these on the surface, he seems to be very generous and approachable, but it is all pretend.
In fact, how could Cao Zhiqiang really not care?
But there is no way, Cao Zhiqiang is too young and has too little qualifications, even if he has good connections, he is too high-end.
This determines that Cao Zhiqiang cannot have a real confidant at present.
Fortunately, the publishing house was established by Cao Zhiqiang from scratch, and he has the personnel and financial power of the publishing house, and the leadership behind it is too hard, so he has the absolute right to speak.
Besides, Hongguang Publishing House is now a small temple, and there is no conflict of interest, so there is nothing wrong with the so-called factional strife.
But Cao Zhiqiang knows that after the publishing house grows, I am afraid it will not be so peaceful.
Therefore, he had to have a bit of a real hand of his own.
At the very least, you can't let the people below join forces to distract yourself and make it unclear what they are doing.
Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang simply brought Shen Zhenhua in, officially signed an employment contract with him, and let Shen Zhenhua be his secretary.
In this way, Shen Zhenhua has become his own person.
The role of the general manager's secretary belongs to a lowly and powerful role, and Shen Zhenhua has become the general manager's secretary, at least in the publishing house, he has enough deterrent power.
It is precisely because of Shen Zhenhua, the general manager's secretary, that Cao Zhiqiang can study at home with peace of mind instead of going to work in the office building all day.
Without him, once something happens, Shen Zhenhua, the dog-legged, no, the secretary of the general manager, will call him to report the situation.
Therefore, through Shen Zhenhua, the secretary, Cao Zhiqiang can remotely control the entire publishing house.
It's really not that hard.
After all, the publishing house has just been created, there are not many people, and there is only one project, that is, Cao Zhiqiang's buy one get one free bundled books.
In this case, as long as Shen Zhenhua is in the publishing house, it is not too simple to supervise everyone.
It is precisely because of Cao Zhiqiang's buy one get one free book project that in the current publishing house, in addition to Cao Zhiqiang, the general manager, as well as Zhou Huaien, Qian Degui and Sister Niu, the three veteran old men still stay in the publishing house.
Others, including the children of Zhou Huaien and other veterans, were sent out to conduct promotions and monitor book sales in real time.
The reason is also very simple, that is, the main project of the publishing house is the release of Cao Zhiqiang's two books, and the publishing house no longer raises idlers except for those elders, so it is the best use of people to send people out to engage in promotions and count the number of sales.
Wangfujing Bookstore is the most important barometer, Cao Zhiqiang must not be handed over to outsiders, of course, he has to hand it over to his two henchmen, that is, the secretary Shen Zhenhua, and the editor in charge Liu Donghai.
In addition, it should be pointed out that this personnel appointment was ordered by Cao Zhiqiang himself.
Its purpose is to force Liu Donghai to stand in line and let everyone know that Liu Donghai is his Cao Zhiqiang's person.
In this way, Liu Donghai is standing in the bright place, and it is impossible to be at both ends of the first rat.
Actually, it's not a bad thing.
After all, a small publishing house doesn't need to do anything inside.
It is enough to let everyone know who holds the highest power and who is in the best interest of following him.
It doesn't matter what kind of patriarch or new school you are, so what?
If the people who follow you find out that what you say doesn't count, and you can't give yourself enough benefits, then centrifugal detachment is a matter of minutes.
Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang only needs to let Liu Donghai and Shen Zhenhua have enough power and get better benefits than others, and everyone will naturally know how to choose sides at that time.
And letting Liu Donghai and Shen Zhenhua come to Wangfujing Bookstore to sit in the town, in addition to the fact that they are confidants, can convey correct information to Cao Zhiqiang more accurately here, it is also to give them the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
Only by meritorious service can we be rewarded, only by being rewarded can we make progress, and progress can arouse envy, and if some people are envious, they will naturally know who has the final say and who should be the one to talk to in the future.
What? Why bother?
No, no, no.
The publishing house is now all created by him with great effort, and many people are staring at him.
Cao Zhiqiang can only succeed, not fail!
In other words, Cao Zhiqiang still relies on the experienced Yu Deli and Zhou Huaien in many ways, at least until Cao Zhiqiang himself completely becomes an industry insider, he can't do without the help of these two people.
Moreover, there are no parties and no factions, and there are all kinds of strange things.
When there are many people, there will naturally be different factions and circles.
So it is unrealistic to expect the elimination of factions.
If you really use strong means to eliminate it, you can only eliminate what is on the surface, once it turns from light to dark, and a group of people secretly engage in small circles, it will be more troublesome.
On the contrary, it is better to deal with it as it is now, where everyone's factional identities are clearly displayed.
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