Office of the General Manager of Oriental Daily.
The beautiful female secretary pushed the door in with a stack of newspapers, whispered to Ma Chengkun, who was leaning against the boss's chair and closed his eyes to rest: "Boss, this is today's newspaper."
Ma Chengkun opened his eyes, breathed a breath and said to the secretary: "Make me a cup of coffee."
The female secretary received the order to make coffee, and Ma Chengkun forced himself to open the newspaper sent by his secretary. The first thing he did every day was to read the newspaper, which was a habit Ma Chengkun developed for a long time. Now the newspapers on the table are screened and sorted by the secretary, and the more important the report is placed, the more it is placed.
As the head of a large newspaper group, the 23-year-old Ma Chengkun is really too young.
There was no way, Ma Chengkun's uncle was accused of smuggling 700 tons of opium into Hong Kong the year before yesterday and fled to Taiwan in a panic. His father was accused of drug trafficking and bribery last year, and he abandoned his insurance and absconded to Taiwan. He is still in prison. The older generation of the Ma family was from a three-member association, and after the incident, they all ran away. The Oriental Daily could only be carried by the younger generation.
Now in the Oriental Daily, Ma Chengkun controls the overall situation as the chairman and general manager, and his cousin Ma Tingqiang, who is the same age as him, is responsible for the external affairs of newspapers. Two young men of twenty-three years old are in charge of a large newspaper. Although they are full of energy, they are not experienced or skilled enough. The sales of Oriental Daily have been falling again and again, and they are almost falling below 100,000 copies.
The first thing Ma Chengkun opened was his own "Oriental Daily". He scanned all the pages roughly. When he frowned when he flipped into the supplement. The page that should have serialized Ni Fu's novels was actually replaced by a new novel "The Legend of Qin". The author Kang Jianfei had never heard of the name.
As the general manager, Ma Chengkun is in charge of the management department of Oriental Daily, mainly responsible for the management of newspaper advertising, distribution, external communication, etc. As for the content of newspapers and the selection of manuscripts, Xu Jixin's editorial department is responsible for it.
Xu Jixin is an old man left by his father, and Ma Chengkun respects him very much and generally does not interfere in the editorial department. But this time he is a little dissatisfied with Xu Jixin. It is a big deal to replace Ni Fu's novel in the supplement. Xu Jixin actually didn't even say hello to him.
If the novel is small, he will not be informed of the big deal. Ma Chengkun’s anger comes from Xu Jixin’s disrespect for him!
Ma Chengkun pressed his unhappiness and continued to open other newspapers. Now he still has to rely on Xu Jixin to publish the newspaper. It will be no good for anyone to tear apart.
The second place is the Ta Kung Pao, the secretary directly opened the seventh edition, and used a red pen to tick out important reports.
"Hidden defilement, shame in the newspaper industry"
The bold black font made Ma Chengkun feel unhappy when he saw it.
This report specifically criticizes Oriental Daily. The content of the criticism is basically concentrated on the romantic version of Oriental Daily, saying that Oriental Daily sells eroticism and is vulgar.
The Fengyue Edition mentioned in "Ta Kung Pao" is actually one of the pages of the supplement of "Oriental Daily", which specializes in publishing some colorful and romantic events. The flesh-and-hearted drama in Kang Jianfei's "The Legend of Qin" is simply a small matter compared to the content of the Fengyue Edition of "Oriental Daily", so that the editor-in-chief Xu Jixin had no worries about the erotic articles in "The Legend of Qin".
The Ta Kung Pao has a mainland background, while the Oriental Daily is pro-Taiwan, and the two newspapers are already tit-for-tat. This time, due to the continuous decline in sales of Oriental Daily, the articles on Fengyue's page have become more and more lustful and explicit. They immediately attracted criticism from the Ta Kung Pao. At the end of the article, the Hong Kong government even suggested that the Hong Kong government suspend the Oriental Daily for rectification.
Ma Chengkun was furious when he saw this kind of article. The sales of Oriental Daily reached the highest in Hong Kong two years ago. As a result, his father and uncle had a series of accidents. Other newspapers beat the dogs in pain, and various negative reports flocked, causing the sales of Oriental Daily to suffer consecutive setbacks.
"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"
The knock on the door sounded, and Ma Chengkun threw away the newspaper, sat up straight and pretended to be calm and majestic, and then coughed and said, "Come in."
The editor-in-chief Xu Jixin came in. He held the newspaper in his hand and looked happy. It seemed that he had encountered a big happy event.
Ma Chengkun stood up and said enthusiastically: "Uncle Xu, please sit down, is there anything wrong with me?"
Xu Jixin raised the Oriental Daily in his hand and said happily: "Chairman, the 110,000 newspapers today have been sold out. It seems that at least 120,000 copies will be printed tomorrow!"
"Really?" Ma Chengkun, who was just pretending to be experienced, finally revealed his youthful and unrestrained nature, with an excited and joyful look on his face.
When Ma Chengkun took over the Oriental Daily last year, the Ma family was in turmoil and the newspaper was dispersed. The newspaper sales dropped from 160,000 copies to 102,000 copies last month. Just when Ma Chengkun was about to hold on, the sales of newspapers suddenly bottomed out and rebounded. How could you not be excited?
"It's true," Xu Jixin, as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, was not less pressure than Ma Chengkun. Now he seemed to be freed from hell. He said, "The response of "The Legend of Qin" was surprisingly good. Within three hours of the newspaper being sold, hundreds of readers called to ask about the novel."
"The Legend of Qin is so easy to sell?" Ma Chengkun asked suspiciously. He just glanced a few times and didn't look carefully.
"It's absolutely easy to sell. Readers have never read such martial arts novels that travel through time and space before. If you only read a few hundred words, you will be attracted!" Xu Jixin nodded.
Before Xu Jixin finished speaking, Yao Guangzhen, the manager of the distribution department, burst in excitedly: "Chairman, the newspaper is selling well! I have notified the printing factory to print another 3,000 copies today and 120,000 copies tomorrow!"
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The second day after the series of "The Legend of Qin" was published, the female secretary Ali came to Ma Chengkun's office and reported excitedly: "Boss, all the 120,000 newspapers today have been sold out. Manager Yao from the distribution department wants to print 5,000 copies directly, and ask if it is feasible to print 140,000 copies directly tomorrow?"
"All 120,000 copies sold?" Ma Chengkun was extremely surprised and walked around excitedly, as if he was about to spread the depression that had been suppressed in his heart for a year. He kept rubbing his hands and talking to himself: "It's so great, it's so great..."
After being excited for a long time, Ma Chengkun said: "Celebrate, Ali, you call the heads of various departments to come and have a meeting right away!"
The big and small leaders of the Oriental Daily soon gathered in the conference room. Ma Chengkun stood up and patted her hands and said, "Everyone, before the meeting, let us applaud Editor Xu. He knew the heroes with a keen eye and discovered a good novel, which led to the overall sales of the newspaper. Thanks to Editor Xu for his contribution to Oriental Daily!"
"Smack it..."
A burst of thunderous applause sounded, and basically all the old employees of Oriental Daily were present. Two years ago, the two founders of the newspaper ran away one after another. Oriental Daily was about to collapse, and many employees resigned, and those who were left were all sincere to the newspaper.
Everyone worked under tremendous pressure for a year, and now that the sales of newspapers have increased again, they are naturally in a good mood. Everyone gave Xu Jixin a sincere applause.
After the applause was over, Ma Chengkun said: "Collegemen from all departments should tell us about their own situation."
Yao Guangzhen, manager of the distribution department, said first: "Since the serialization of "The Legend of Qin", the sales of newspapers on the first day have increased by 8,000 copies, and will increase at least 9,000 copies today. Judging from the market reaction, I think we should be bolder and print 140,000 newspapers directly tomorrow!"
Ma Chengkun nodded and said, "It's very good. I'll print 140,000 copies tomorrow. The issuing department must keep an eye on the feedback information from the market at any time."
"Let me talk about the situation of the advertising department," Ma Tingqiang spoke for the second time. He is Ma Chengkun's cousin and the future husband of the female star Li Zi in the parallel space. "Due to the surge in newspaper sales in the past two days, the advertising department received four new advertising orders this morning. If newspaper sales still surge tomorrow, I suggest raising the advertising price and returning the advertisements of the Oriental Daily to the previous price."
"Okay, good!" Ma Chengkun said repeatedly. At this time, he was happy that he could not find any other words to express except the word "good". Sales and advertising are the lifeblood of a newspaper. The news reported by Yao Guangzhen and Ma Tingqiang was actually announcing that the Oriental Daily had become glorious again.
Xu Jixin suddenly spoke out: "Chairman, I want to explain a situation to everyone here. Before I can talk about it, I will first review my negligence."
Ma Chengkun was in a happy mood and said with a smile: "Editor Xu, you said that as long as you didn't kidnap the Governor of Hong Kong, everyone will help you with other things."
Xu Jixin said: "Chairman, we must now stabilize Kang Jianfei, the author of "The Legend of Qin". According to the manuscript contract signed that day, the issue of manuscript fees must be re-discussed in the second week of the novel serialization. If the manuscript fees cannot be agreed upon, he can take "The Legend of Qin" to other newspapers to publish at any time."
"What?" Ma Chengkun's face changed and he blamed, "Why are you so confused? You have to trap him from the beginning!"
Xu Jixin smiled bitterly and said, "That guy is very difficult to talk about. When he comes, he compares himself with Ni Fu. How could I promise to give him such a high royalty? At that time, I only thought "The Legend of Qin" might be very good, but I didn't expect it to be so sensational? Now the whole of Hong Kong is talking about this novel."
"Contact him quickly. No matter how high the royalties are, you must keep him," Ma Chengkun forced himself to calm down from his excitement and said, "A novel brings back a newspaper. In just two days, "The Legend of Qin" has increased the sales of "Oriental Daily" by 20,000 copies. This can be compared with Jin Yong and Ni Fu. This person must not be let go!"
Xu Jixin said awkwardly: "Actually, I wanted to contact him yesterday, but Kang Jianfei did not leave an address or a phone number. I really couldn't find anyone, so I had to wait for him to come to my house."
"You... are so confused!" Ma Chengkun wanted to kick Xu Jixin out with one kick.
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After six days of serialization in the "Qin Zhi" in Oriental Daily, with the climax of the novel, the sales of newspapers have grown wildly again, reaching 158,000 copies.
With a time-travel martial arts novel, Oriental Daily once again won the title of "Hong Kong newspaper sales champion", and the entire Hong Kong newspaper industry was shocked.
You should know that the resurgence of the Welly series in half a year has only increased the sales of Ming Pao by more than 20,000 copies, but "Xu Qin Ji" directly increased the sales of Oriental Daily from 102,000 copies to 158,000 copies!
Before that, the sales of Oriental Daily declined for more than a year in a row and was about to decline.
One person saves him and he will be rewarded!
Now the bosses of various newspapers are asking about Kang Jianfei and want to ask this newly-produced popular writer for an article.
In Jin Yong's office, Pan Yuesheng, the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao, said with an ugly expression: "Mr. Cha, it was my negligence this time. "The Legend of Qin" was originally submitted to Ming Pao first, but I didn't even read the manuscript, so I drove away the person."
Jin Yong couldn't see any displeasure on his face, but instead asked with a smile: "Why, that Kang Jianfei has also asked you to read the manuscript?"
Pan Yuesheng said awkwardly: "Yes, I was about to go back to the editor-in-chief's office to review Ni Fu's manuscripts, and I only regarded Kang Jianfei as an ordinary new author. I felt that this person was too slippery, so I didn't read his manuscripts, but only glanced at the name of the novel "The Legend of Qin". I didn't expect that this novel was so powerful that it actually overshadowed Wesley's limelight."
"It doesn't matter," Jin Yong waved his hand and said, "The Oriental Daily takes the vulgar route in the market, and the Ming Pao has a much higher style. I have read the manuscript of "Xu Qin Ji", and even if I do it again, I will still return his manuscript. Running a newspaper is to run a newspaper, not publishing a novel journal. Adhering to the concept of running a newspaper is the long-term way, and relying on novels to increase sales is only a temporary solution."
When he sent Pan Yuesheng to leave, Jin Yong, who was still calm just now, felt a little regretful. If he had known that "The Legend of Qin" was so popular, he would have opened a new novel column for Kang Jianfei in the supplement, and then personally supervised the newspaper editor to delete and modify the mediocre scenes in "The Legend of Qin".
Unfortunately, regret is useless. The sales of "Oriental Daily" has once again surpassed the Ming Pao with the hot sale of "Xiang Qin Ji".
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I’m very sorry for those who want the essence. The weekly essence is limited. There are too many book friends who post, so the essence of this week was used up on Monday.
Chapter completed!