Chapter 370 It’s no use just painting a pie for me

Cao Zhiqiang has long wanted to say these words to Director Li.

It's not that Cao Zhiqiang wants to show off, this is really not the case.

If you really want to show off, you should at least say it in a crowded place, not just when two people are whispering.

In fact, what Cao Zhiqiang said was from the bottom of his heart, and he really thought so.

After all, he is not an ordinary person, he is a systematic time traveler.

As a cheating time traveler, Isn’t this normal for being a bit ambitious?

It would be abnormal not to.

Of course, if it was just like this, Cao Zhiqiang would not say these words at this time.

In fact, when he said these words, he also meant to take the opportunity to secretly beat Director Li.

He wanted Factory Director Li to understand the positions of both parties and not to think that Cao Zhiqiang was really an easy target.

He also wants Director Li to understand that it is Director Li who is begging him now, not the other way around.

He has long understood why Director Li is so kind to him and why he is so tolerant of the publishing house.

To put it bluntly, everything is ultimately because of the great leader, that is, Uncle Xu!

In fact, as for Hongguang Publishing House, it was Cao Zhiqiang who single-handedly established a relationship with Uncle Xu through Silly Pillar at the beginning, and then met Uncle Wang through Uncle Xu, and relied on his outstanding performance to get Uncle Wang to agree to let him.

Cao Zhiqiang founded a publishing house.

Without Cao Zhiqiang's hard work, Director Li would never have thought of asking someone to open a publishing house.

After obtaining the license, the publishing house settled in Hongguang Machinery Factory and became a subordinate unit of Hongguang Machinery Factory. This was mainly a compromise.

To be more precise, Uncle Xu, the former leader of the Ministry of Metallurgy, wanted to use this as a pilot reform.

The reason is very simple. That is when Cao Zhiqiang went to Uncle Xu’s house to meet him for the first time and had a talk in front of him. In particular, he talked about how Cao Zhiqiang earned 100,000 yuan in a short period of time by writing books and explained in detail how to launch a book.

When the profit of the company was so high, it actually gave Uncle Xu a big impact.

Uncle Xu never expected that a young man could make so much money just by writing a collection of poems.

According to what Cao Zhiqiang said at the time, he only made a fraction of the profit at that time, and the majority of the profit was taken by the publishing house.

The subtext is that if the publishing house can let Cao Zhiqiang open it, it will make more money.

In this case, Uncle Xu wanted to give Cao Zhiqiang a chance to see what he could do.

The reason why the publishing house became a subordinate unit of the machinery factory after its license was issued was because it was not illegal, and it was also to take care of the Hongguang Machinery Factory and use this Hongguang Machinery Factory as a pilot project.

That's right, if we say that when Cao Zhiqiang met Uncle Xu for the first time, Uncle Xu didn't know much about Cao Zhiqiang and was just shocked by Cao Zhiqiang's literary talent, speed of making money and bold ideas.

So when Cao Zhiqiang left Uncle Xu's house, people naturally had a way to investigate Cao Zhiqiang.

After figuring out Cao Zhiqiang's situation, Uncle Xu came up with the idea of ​​using Cao Zhiqiang as a pilot for reform.

That's right, the reason why Uncle Xu was able to find Uncle Wang and get Uncle Wang to agree to help Cao Zhiqiang open a publishing house was not entirely because Cao Zhiqiang played and sang a few nice songs in front of him and Uncle Wang, nor was it because

Cao Zhiqiang can give massages or give gifts such as tea paste.

For people like Uncle Xu, these gadgets are basically not on the market. Because of this, they will not use their old connections to find Uncle Wang, who is in charge of cultural propaganda.

To put it bluntly, Uncle Xu was so willing to help Cao Zhiqiang because he was interested in Cao Zhiqiang's talent in writing and singing, and his ability to realize his talents.

When Uncle Xu sent someone to inquire about Cao Zhiqiang's identity, he naturally also inquired about Cao Zhiqiang's income. This information was not a problem at all for Uncle Xu.

When Uncle Xu heard that Cao Zhiqiang had earned 96,000 yuan in just over half a month by publishing a collection of poems, he was shocked.

Although the figure of 90,000 yuan is nothing in Uncle Xu's eyes, if it comes to an individual and he earns it in half a month, it is indeed a bit scary.

With real achievements, combined with the boasts that Cao Zhiqiang had boasted in front of Uncle Xu, Uncle Xu was slightly tempted.

He suddenly felt that the publishing house might be really interesting.

Then he asked someone to investigate the situation of the publishing house.

As a result, he discovered that today's publishing houses are actually making money, but not that much.

The reason why Cao Zhiqiang earned 96,000 yuan in half a month is entirely because his poetry collection was so popular, which is a rare phenomenon in recent decades.

After all, poetry collections are unpopular niche books, so large publishing houses like Writers Press have never sold more than 200,000 copies of poetry collections in half a month since its establishment.

Precisely because poetry collections are niche and unpopular books, the price is on the high side, and they are only liked by a group of intellectuals.

The ability to sell 200,000 copies in half a month, and the fact that some of his poems are popular throughout the city, shows that Cao Zhiqiang is one of those real poets, without any water in them.

The key point is that Cao Zhiqiang's singing is also very good. Both the lyrics of the song and Cao Zhiqiang's personal singing are rare masterpieces from Uncle Xu in the past few decades.

Those who have talent, ideas, and strong ability to act are real talents.

That's why Uncle Xu wanted to give Cao Zhiqiang a chance to start his own publishing house and see how far he could go.

Of course, a personal publishing house is impossible, at least not at this time.

Therefore, Uncle Xu wanted Cao Zhiqiang's publishing house to be placed under Hongguang Machinery Factory and become a sub-unit of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

The purpose of Uncle Xu's doing this is, firstly, to satisfy Cao Zhiqiang's request to own a publishing house. Secondly, he also wants Cao Zhiqiang to share some profits with the machinery factory after making money, and see if he can help the machinery factory collect some third-party services.

production workers.

After all, Uncle Xu has long known that Hongguang Machinery Factory is facing rectification. He also knows that after the rectification is completed, it is impossible for all employees to be accommodated. Many employees will definitely be laid off. After all, the unit that annexed the machinery factory does not have enough positions.

So Uncle Xu put the publishing house into the machinery factory because he wanted Cao Zhiqiang's publishing house to take the opportunity to recruit as many tertiary industry workers as possible from the machinery factory.

In this case, when the machinery factory is annexed and rectified in the future, Cao Zhiqiang's publishing house will automatically become a public institution, which is worthy of Cao Zhiqiang.

As for further ideas, such as letting Cao Zhiqiang support the entire machinery factory, Uncle Xu really never thought about it at the time.

In order to delegate power to Cao Zhiqiang, Uncle Xu had already communicated with Factory Manager Li and Secretary Dong, asking them to take more care of Cao Zhiqiang and delegate more power to Cao Zhiqiang, even if they asked for contract operation.

It was precisely because of Uncle Xu's words that Secretary Dong and Director Li were so tolerant of Cao Zhiqiang.

Otherwise, how could Director Li and Secretary Dong resist taking action in the face of cash cows like Hongguang Publishing House?

I really thought they were all moral models and were playing a long game to catch big fish.

Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li are both old men on the verge of retirement. If there weren't bigger officials watching from above, how could they have resisted taking action.

In fact, at the earliest stage, Uncle Xu's verbal intention was to let Cao Zhiqiang directly control the publishing house through a contract management method, that is, to directly let Cao Zhiqiang be the president.

However, both Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li felt that this was inappropriate and would easily attract gossip, so they forced someone to be the president and made Cao Zhiqiang the vice president and general manager.

On the surface, this was done for Cao Zhiqiang's benefit, but in reality it was to drive a wedge in that could seize power at any time.

After all, the person they arranged is the president, and the position and power of the president are not fake. If you don't use it, it doesn't mean you don't have it.

However, neither Factory Director Li nor Secretary Dong expected that the people they arranged to join would be so helpless. Even when Cao Zhiqiang had made great achievements, he still had conflicts with Cao Zhiqiang and tried to seize power.

Even privately embezzling from a small treasury is intolerable.

You're kidding, Hongguang Publishing House is a project that the top leaders are closely watching. You, a nail we sent here, dare to reach out at this time. Aren't you looking for death?

What if Cao Zhiqiang files a complaint with Uncle Xu?

Moreover, at that time, Cao Zhiqiang had already asked the publishing house to publish a book called "Journey to Jianghu", and in a short period of time, a hit product was born, and the income earned made both Secretary Dong and Director Li jealous.

Cao Zhiqiang has proved his worth with his own strength.

Under this situation, Factory Director Li took decisive action and sacrificed the two nails to appease Cao Zhiqiang's anger, leaving Cao Zhiqiang to continue here.

After that, Director Li decisively delegated power to Cao Zhiqiang, allowing Cao Zhiqiang to gain more power. He even told Cao Zhiqiang about the crisis facing the machinery factory to reassure Cao Zhiqiang.

In fact, Factory Director Li deliberately created a powerful department like the Office of Tertiary Industry and Industry, and made Cao Zhiqiang the deputy director of the Office of Tertiary Industry and Industry, just to bind Cao Zhiqiang deeply and prevent Cao Zhiqiang from leaving the machinery factory in anger.

Because Director Li has already understood that it doesn't matter whether it is published by a publisher or not.

What is really important is Cao Zhiqiang, the cash cow.

With Cao Zhiqiang, there is a steady stream of small money and a bunch of completely feasible new ideas.

Especially after Cao Zhiqiang took the initiative to give 20% of the profits to Director Li and Secretary Dong, the two of them relied on Cao Zhiqiang even more.

It's just that Secretary Dong is an old fox. He usually doesn't show up, and the only one who does is Director Li.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang knew little about these things, but he ate too much with his boss these days, especially after getting to know Yu Deshui. Sometimes after drinking too much, he couldn't help but talk about how he became the boss.

The experience of a publishing house president.

This is also normal. When Cao Zhiqiang has dinner with his boss, he always introduces his identity. However, it is obviously abnormal for him to become the president of a publishing house at such a young age, so it is only natural for everyone to ask about the situation.

This is also a way to check each other out and prevent contact with some unscrupulous people.

Leaders also have separate meals. Not just anyone can sit and eat with them. You must prove your worth and status before others can let you integrate into their circle.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, if he didn't understand it before, now that Yu Deshui is a military advisor, he understands it even if he doesn't understand it.

So he just concealed Uncle Xu's true identity and only said that he had a good relationship with Secretary Dong and Director Li of Hongguang Machinery Factory, and then through their relationship, he got the position of president of the publishing house affiliated with the machine factory.

This makes sense.

After all, Hongguang Machinery Factory is one of the enterprises directly under the Ministry of Metallurgy and is a unit in Beijing, so its level is quite high.

Among them, Secretary Dong is the main director and Director Li is the deputy director. They have been in the capital for decades, so it is not difficult to run a publishing house.
To be continued...