Office of the General Manager of Oriental Daily.
The secretary pushed the door in with a stack of newspapers in his hand, and whispered to Ma Chengkun, who was leaning against the boss's chair and resting with his eyes closed: Boss, this is today's newspaper.
Ma Chengkun opened his eyes and spat out a breath and said to the secretary: Make me a cup of coffee.
The secretary received the order to make the coffee, and Ma Chengkun forced himself to open the newspaper sent by the secretary.
The first thing he does when he works every day is to read newspapers, which is a habit that Ma Chengkun has developed for a long time.
The newspapers on the table are now screened and sorted by the secretary, and the more important the report is, 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, and is still in prison.
The older generation of the Ma family were from the Triad Association, and after the incident, they all ran away with fine and soft work. The Oriental Daily could only be carried by the younger generation.
Today, 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 foreign affairs of the newspaper.
Two 23-year-old young men were in charge of a large newspaper. Although they were full of energy, they were not experienced or skilled enough. The sales of Oriental Daily fell again and again, and it almost fell below 100,000 copies.
The first thing Ma Chengkun opened was his own "Oriental Daily". He scanned all the pages roughly, and when he frowned when he flipped into the supplement.
The above page should have been serialized in Ni Kuang's novel, but it was actually replaced by a new novel "The Legend of Qin". The author Kang Jianfei has never heard of it.
As the general manager, Ma Chengkun is in charge of the management department of Oriental Daily, mainly responsible for the advertising, distribution, external communications, etc. of newspapers.
As for the content of the newspaper, the selection of manuscripts, etc., it is the responsibility of Xu Jixin's editorial department.
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 randomly.
But this time he was a little dissatisfied with Xu Jixin. It was a big deal to replace Ni Kuang's novel in the supplement. Xu Jixin didn't even call 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 run 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 criticized Oriental Daily. The content of the criticism was basically concentrated on the romantic version of Oriental Daily, saying that Oriental Daily sells erotic and vulgar.
The Fengyue Edition mentioned in the Ta Kung Pao is actually one of the pages of the supplement of the Oriental Daily, which specializes in publishing some lustful pornographic events.
Compared with the content of the Fengyue Edition of Kang Jianfei's "The Legend of Qin", the mediocre scene in "The Legend of Qin", is simply a small matter, so that the editor-in-chief Xu Jixin had no worries about the erotic article 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, in order to attract readers, the articles on Fengyue's page became more and more pornographic and explicit, and immediately attracted criticism from 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, and other newspapers beat the dogs in pain, and various negative reports flocked to the sales of Oriental Daily.
Dongdongdongdongdongdong!
The knock on the door sounded, Ma Chengkun threw away the newspaper, sat upright 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!
real?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 newspapers were dispersed, and the sales of newspapers fell 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. As the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Xu Jixin is not less pressure than Ma Chengkun. Now he seems to be freed from hell. He said that the reaction of "The Legend of Qin" is 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 is definitely 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 ask them to print 3,000 copies today and 120,000 copies directly tomorrow!
……
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 out?
Ma Chengkun was extremely surprised and walked around excitedly, as if he was about to spread all the depression that had been suppressed in his heart for the past 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: Meeting, 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. It was him who knew the hero with a keen eye and discovered a good novel, which led to the overall sales of the newspaper.Thanks to Editor-in-Chief Xu for his contribution to the Oriental Daily!
Slap sex...
A burst of thunderous applause sounded, and basically all the old employees of the Oriental Daily were present.
Two years ago, the two founders of the newspaper ran away one after another. The Oriental Daily was about to collapse, and many employees resigned, and those who remained were people who were sincere to the newspaper.
Everyone has worked under tremendous pressure for a year, and now the sales of newspapers are getting back up, so they are naturally in a good mood. Everyone has sincerely applauded Xu Jixin.
After the applause was over, Ma Chengkun said: All colleagues from all departments should tell us about their own situation.
Distribution Department Manager Yao Guangzhen first spoke: Since the serialization of "The Legend of Qin", newspaper sales have increased by 8,000 on the first day, and at least 9,000 sales will be increased today.Judging from the market reaction, I think we should be bolder and print 140,000 newspapers directly tomorrow!
Ma Chengkun nodded and said: Very good, 140,000 copies will be printed tomorrow. The issuing department must always keep an eye on the feedback information of the market.
Let me talk about the situation in the advertising department. Ma Tingqiang made the second speech. He is Ma Chengkun's cousin and the future husband of the female star Gigi Lai in the parallel space. Due to the surge in newspaper sales in the past two days, the advertising department received 4 new advertising orders this morning.If newspaper sales continue to surge tomorrow, I suggest raising advertising prices and returning the ads of Oriental Daily to their previous prices.
well!
Ma Chengkun said repeatedly that 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 is actually announcing that the Oriental Daily has become glorious again.
Xu Jixin suddenly spoke out: Chairman, I want to explain a situation to you 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 royalties cannot be negotiated, 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 to. He compared himself to Ni Kuang as soon as he came. 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, which can be compared with Jin Yong and Ni Kuang. 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.
……
After six days of serialization in the Oriental Daily, with the climax of the novel, the sales of newspapers have grown wildly again, reaching 158,000 copies.
"Oriental Daily" once again won the title of Hong Kong newspaper sales champion with a time-travel martial arts novel, 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 then report to Ah!
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, this time it was my negligence."The Legend of Qin" was originally submitted to Ming Pao first, but I didn't even read the manuscript, so I drove away.
There was no trace of displeasure on Jin Yong's face, but instead asked: Why, Kang Jianfei has also asked you to read the manuscript?
Pan Yuesheng said awkwardly: It's Ah. At that time, I was about to go back to the editor-in-chief's office to review Ni Kuang'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 saw the name of the novel "The Legend of Qin".Unexpectedly, this novel is so powerful that it actually overshadows Wesley's popularity.
It doesn't matter, Jin Yong waved his hand and said that the Oriental Daily took the vulgar route, while the Ming Pao style was much higher.I have read the manuscript of "The Legend of Qin". Even if I do it again, I will still return his manuscript.Running a newspaper is running a newspaper, not publishing novels and journals. 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.
After sending Pan Yuesheng away, Jin Yong, who was still calm just now, felt a little regret in his heart.
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 meat scenes in "The Legend of Qin".
Unfortunately, regret is useless. With the hot sale of "Xuan Qin", the sales of "Oriental Daily" has once again surpassed the Ming Pao.
The secretary pushed the door in with a stack of newspapers in his hand, and whispered to Ma Chengkun, who was leaning against the boss's chair and resting with his eyes closed: Boss, this is today's newspaper.
Ma Chengkun opened his eyes and spat out a breath and said to the secretary: Make me a cup of coffee.
The secretary received the order to make the coffee, and Ma Chengkun forced himself to open the newspaper sent by the secretary.
The first thing he does when he works every day is to read newspapers, which is a habit that Ma Chengkun has developed for a long time.
The newspapers on the table are now screened and sorted by the secretary, and the more important the report is, 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, and is still in prison.
The older generation of the Ma family were from the Triad Association, and after the incident, they all ran away with fine and soft work. The Oriental Daily could only be carried by the younger generation.
Today, 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 foreign affairs of the newspaper.
Two 23-year-old young men were in charge of a large newspaper. Although they were full of energy, they were not experienced or skilled enough. The sales of Oriental Daily fell again and again, and it almost fell below 100,000 copies.
The first thing Ma Chengkun opened was his own "Oriental Daily". He scanned all the pages roughly, and when he frowned when he flipped into the supplement.
The above page should have been serialized in Ni Kuang's novel, but it was actually replaced by a new novel "The Legend of Qin". The author Kang Jianfei has never heard of it.
As the general manager, Ma Chengkun is in charge of the management department of Oriental Daily, mainly responsible for the advertising, distribution, external communications, etc. of newspapers.
As for the content of the newspaper, the selection of manuscripts, etc., it is the responsibility of Xu Jixin's editorial department.
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 randomly.
But this time he was a little dissatisfied with Xu Jixin. It was a big deal to replace Ni Kuang's novel in the supplement. Xu Jixin didn't even call 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 run 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 criticized Oriental Daily. The content of the criticism was basically concentrated on the romantic version of Oriental Daily, saying that Oriental Daily sells erotic and vulgar.
The Fengyue Edition mentioned in the Ta Kung Pao is actually one of the pages of the supplement of the Oriental Daily, which specializes in publishing some lustful pornographic events.
Compared with the content of the Fengyue Edition of Kang Jianfei's "The Legend of Qin", the mediocre scene in "The Legend of Qin", is simply a small matter, so that the editor-in-chief Xu Jixin had no worries about the erotic article 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, in order to attract readers, the articles on Fengyue's page became more and more pornographic and explicit, and immediately attracted criticism from 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, and other newspapers beat the dogs in pain, and various negative reports flocked to the sales of Oriental Daily.
Dongdongdongdongdongdong!
The knock on the door sounded, Ma Chengkun threw away the newspaper, sat upright 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!
real?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 newspapers were dispersed, and the sales of newspapers fell 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. As the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Xu Jixin is not less pressure than Ma Chengkun. Now he seems to be freed from hell. He said that the reaction of "The Legend of Qin" is 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 is definitely 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 ask them to print 3,000 copies today and 120,000 copies directly tomorrow!
……
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 out?
Ma Chengkun was extremely surprised and walked around excitedly, as if he was about to spread all the depression that had been suppressed in his heart for the past 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: Meeting, 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. It was him who knew the hero with a keen eye and discovered a good novel, which led to the overall sales of the newspaper.Thanks to Editor-in-Chief Xu for his contribution to the Oriental Daily!
Slap sex...
A burst of thunderous applause sounded, and basically all the old employees of the Oriental Daily were present.
Two years ago, the two founders of the newspaper ran away one after another. The Oriental Daily was about to collapse, and many employees resigned, and those who remained were people who were sincere to the newspaper.
Everyone has worked under tremendous pressure for a year, and now the sales of newspapers are getting back up, so they are naturally in a good mood. Everyone has sincerely applauded Xu Jixin.
After the applause was over, Ma Chengkun said: All colleagues from all departments should tell us about their own situation.
Distribution Department Manager Yao Guangzhen first spoke: Since the serialization of "The Legend of Qin", newspaper sales have increased by 8,000 on the first day, and at least 9,000 sales will be increased today.Judging from the market reaction, I think we should be bolder and print 140,000 newspapers directly tomorrow!
Ma Chengkun nodded and said: Very good, 140,000 copies will be printed tomorrow. The issuing department must always keep an eye on the feedback information of the market.
Let me talk about the situation in the advertising department. Ma Tingqiang made the second speech. He is Ma Chengkun's cousin and the future husband of the female star Gigi Lai in the parallel space. Due to the surge in newspaper sales in the past two days, the advertising department received 4 new advertising orders this morning.If newspaper sales continue to surge tomorrow, I suggest raising advertising prices and returning the ads of Oriental Daily to their previous prices.
well!
Ma Chengkun said repeatedly that 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 is actually announcing that the Oriental Daily has become glorious again.
Xu Jixin suddenly spoke out: Chairman, I want to explain a situation to you 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 royalties cannot be negotiated, 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 to. He compared himself to Ni Kuang as soon as he came. 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, which can be compared with Jin Yong and Ni Kuang. 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.
……
After six days of serialization in the Oriental Daily, with the climax of the novel, the sales of newspapers have grown wildly again, reaching 158,000 copies.
"Oriental Daily" once again won the title of Hong Kong newspaper sales champion with a time-travel martial arts novel, 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 then report to Ah!
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, this time it was my negligence."The Legend of Qin" was originally submitted to Ming Pao first, but I didn't even read the manuscript, so I drove away.
There was no trace of displeasure on Jin Yong's face, but instead asked: Why, Kang Jianfei has also asked you to read the manuscript?
Pan Yuesheng said awkwardly: It's Ah. At that time, I was about to go back to the editor-in-chief's office to review Ni Kuang'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 saw the name of the novel "The Legend of Qin".Unexpectedly, this novel is so powerful that it actually overshadows Wesley's popularity.
It doesn't matter, Jin Yong waved his hand and said that the Oriental Daily took the vulgar route, while the Ming Pao style was much higher.I have read the manuscript of "The Legend of Qin". Even if I do it again, I will still return his manuscript.Running a newspaper is running a newspaper, not publishing novels and journals. 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.
After sending Pan Yuesheng away, Jin Yong, who was still calm just now, felt a little regret in his heart.
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 meat scenes in "The Legend of Qin".
Unfortunately, regret is useless. With the hot sale of "Xuan Qin", the sales of "Oriental Daily" has once again surpassed the Ming Pao.
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