Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 181 Contract Publishing House, unchanged for 30 years

It turned out that on the second day after Cao Zhiqiang officially broke the melon, Hongguang Machinery Factory called Cao Zhiqiang and asked Cao Zhiqiang to go to the work unit the next morning.

In this way, two days ago, Cao Zhiqiang went to work at Hongguang Machinery Factory early in the morning, and was called to the factory director's office as soon as he went to work.

Factory Manager Li chatted with Cao Zhiqiang for a long time in his office, and the topic was about the publishing house.

According to Director Li, the publishing house license applied by Hongguang Machinery Factory has already been approved.

In other words, from the moment Director Li approached Cao Zhiqiang to talk, there has been a new publishing house affiliated to Hongguang Machinery Factory in this world——Hongguang Publishing House.

Don't blame the name being decided in advance, it's really beyond Cao Zhiqiang's control over the publishing house's name.

After all, the main body of the publishing house's bid is Hongguang Machinery Factory, so according to the normal process, the new publishing house must of course be called Hongguang Publishing House.

In order to take care of Cao Zhiqiang, the president of Hongguang Publishing House was appointed by Lao Zhou, the editor-in-chief of the former Hongguang magazine department, that is, Zhou Huai'en.

The reason why Zhou Huai'en was appointed as the president was not only that Zhou Huai'en was the oldest and most senior, but also because Zhou Huai'en was now 58 years old and was about to retire.

Nowadays, editor-in-chief Zhou is basically at home in the Hongguang Machinery Factory. He didn’t even need to participate in the on-duty activities of the magazine department before. It doesn't matter if the published article has any sensitive issues.

To put it bluntly, Zhou Huai'en's past position was said to be editor-in-chief, but it was actually a review. He only needed to appear at the end of the month and check at the end. He didn't need to do anything else.

There is this old gentleman who comes out to be the president, and it is clear that he is delegating power to Cao Zhiqiang, the general manager.

That's right, according to what Director Li said, after the Hongguang Publishing House bid, it is nominally a subsidiary unit of the Hongguang Machinery Factory, but in fact, the Hongguang Machinery Factory will sign an internal contracting agreement with Cao Zhiqiang personally. .

That is to say, as long as the contract agreement is signed, Cao Zhiqiang will be the general manager of the publishing house and will be fully responsible for all the operations of the publishing house, while the Hongguang Machinery Factory does not need to pay a penny to the publishing house.

Cao Zhiqiang only has a signboard of a publishing house. Others, such as office space, water and electricity bills, and staff salaries, are all in charge of Cao Zhiqiang himself.

By the way, the old people from the original Hongguang magazine department, such as Lao Qian and Niu Dajie, were also arranged to join the newly established Hongguang Publishing House.

It's just that these people don't need to work in a publishing house, they just need to be idlers and receive their wages on time.

In other words, whether it is President Zhou or Sister Niu, those old people who used to work in Hongguang Magazine are now paid by Cao Zhiqiang, but the relationship is still with Hongguang Machinery Factory.

People like Sister Niu don’t need to participate in the operation and management of the publishing house, but their salaries must be paid on time, and other treatment such as medical reimbursement should not be bad, which is equivalent to asking Cao Zhiqiang to support these idlers for the machinery factory.

In this way, Hongguang Machinery Factory has one less burden, but this burden has to be borne by Cao Zhiqiang.

It doesn't matter, after all, it's just the salary of six people, even if bonuses and allowances are included, it's nothing in this era, anyway, Cao Zhiqiang didn't take it seriously.

As a contractor, Hongguang Publishing House should also pay a management fee, or contract fee, to Hongguang Machinery Factory.

Generally speaking, this kind of contracting fee can be divided into two modes, one is an unfixed sharing mode, and the other is a fixed mode.

The sharing model is that the publishing house and the machinery factory share the money according to the profit ratio.

Generally, it is thirty-seven cents, that is, the publishing house pays [-]% of the profits to the machinery factory every year.

The disadvantage of this model is that the more the publishing house earns, the more money it pays.

The advantage is that if the publishing house has no profit or loss, theoretically there is no need to pay management fees.

As for a contractor, since he has the right to operate a unit, if he wants to turn his contracted unit into a loss on the books, it is too simple, and he can find a qualified accountant to do it.

So during this period, most contractors generally like to play the sharing model, but most of the contractors often don't like it because the risk is too high.

Another model is the fixed management fee model.

In this model, regardless of whether the unit contracted by your contractor earns or loses, and no matter how much you earn or how little you earn, you just pay an agreed management fee.

In this mode, the pressure on the contractor is relatively high, while the pressure on the contracted unit is relatively small, because no matter whether the contractor earns or loses, the contractor will get the money.

Originally, because the relationship was in place, Director Li wanted Cao Zhiqiang to engage in a sharing model.

After all, under the sharing model, the contractor can play a lot of tricks and the pressure is small. As long as the book losses occur every year, the machinery factory will not ask him for management fees.

To put it bluntly, this is a kind of caring between Secretary Dong and Director Li, who wants to take care of Cao Zhiqiang's business.

Of course, the premise of this kind of care is that Cao Zhiqiang has a good relationship with the two great leaders, Uncle Xu and Uncle Wang. If it weren't for these two great Buddhas, neither Secretary Dong nor Director Li would have treated Cao Zhiqiang like this. easy to talk.

Among them, Uncle Xu has actually retreated to the second line, and his actual power is not much, but the prestige of his connections is there.

But Uncle Wang is different. Not only does Uncle Wang have connections and prestige, he is also a leader with real power, and in terms of power and status, he is not inferior to Uncle Xu.

With these two people standing behind Cao Zhiqiang, Hongguang Machinery Factory didn't pay attention to a mere publishing house.

In fact, although a unit like the publishing house is very important in Cao Zhiqiang's view, it is difficult to manage, and even has great potential.

But in the eyes of many people, especially Secretary Dong and Director Li, a mere publishing house is nothing at all.

Because it was very difficult for Cao Zhiqiang himself to start a publishing house, but for people like Secretary Dong and Director Li, it was not a problem at all.

Cao Zhiqiang later found out that even if he didn't ask for big leaders, he only asked Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li to get his unit to apply for a publishing house and hand it over to him for the contract.

The reason is simple, that is, it is not difficult for those with power.

As an individual, Cao Zhiqiang wanted to open a publishing house, which was of course difficult at this time.

But Hongguang Machinery Factory, as a large state-owned enterprise in the capital directly under the Ministry of Metallurgy with more than 8000 people, would not be too easy to apply for a publishing house in the name of the unit.

I didn't do this before, just because it was too troublesome, unnecessary, and I was afraid of having another loss-making department.

After all, in this period, most of the publishing houses were actually proper loss-making units. At this time, they were similar in nature to hospitals, and they were all based on the differential funding model, not the self-revenue and self-finance model like the design institute.

Publishing houses are really popular, and a hundred flowers are really starting to bloom. It will be an era in which publishing houses make money in any unit, and that will be after [-] or [-] years.

So coincidentally, around [-], most of the publishing houses became self-supporting units, and everything was self-financing.

It may also be precisely because most of the publishing houses have become self-supporting units, and the pressure is so great that the later publishing houses are only focused on making money.

All the fringe magazines and pirated audio tapes are produced by those miscellaneous publishing houses that are flourishing.

Of course, because of the chaos during that period, after entering the 90s, the relevant departments began to strictly investigate and crack down, and a large number of problematic publishing houses were cancelled.

In addition, I would like to say a little knowledge.

That is, in the 80s, not all publishing houses were public institutions, and state-owned enterprises could also open publishing houses.

It's just that in most cases, such as in big cities like Beijing, publishing houses are mostly public institutions.

However, in local cities, especially small cities established on the basis of enterprises, such as Qinghong’s birthplace, many local publishing houses are state-owned enterprises and subordinate units of factories.

In those local small cities, the local government agencies and institutions are far inferior to the local state-owned enterprises.

Therefore, Hongguang Machinery Factory, as a state-owned enterprise in Beijing, has no problem in applying for a publishing house.

However, state-owned publishing houses are not in the differential funding mode at this time. The government will not allocate funds to this type of publishing house, but the state-owned enterprise will be fully responsible for the publishing house's expenses.

However, whether it is a publishing house in the form of a public institution or a publishing house in the form of a state-owned enterprise, it must be supervised by the Publishing Bureau.

Therefore, the Hongguang Publishing House contracted by Cao Zhiqiang is only the Hongguang Machinery Factory as the organizer, but it is also subject to the management and supervision of the Publishing Bureau.

In the eyes of Factory Manager Li, after the publishing house is established, if it can be contracted out and no need to invest money in it, someone will support a group of old employees who only get money and don't work for them, and get a lot of money. I wish for it.

Even in order to allow people to support idlers, he doesn't need management fees.

You know, whether it's Lao Zhou or Lao Qian from the former magazine department, or Sister Niu.

Those people are all veteran cadres, regardless of their length of service or rank, they are quite high, so their wages are also quite high, with an average of 200 yuan per person per month.

The average is two hundred per person, and six people is one thousand and two, which is actually more than one thousand and five.

This thousand and five is given every month, which is 8000 yuan a year, which is really not a small amount of money!

Not counting the medical reimbursement expenses of these people, the medical expenses of these factory cadres are all reimbursed at this time!
If medical expenses are included, these old guys will spend at least [-] to [-] a year!
For Hongguang Machinery Factory, this amount of money itself is not a small burden.

Therefore, in the view of Factory Manager Li, Cao Zhiqiang was able to contract a magazine office and support the idlers like Lao Zhou. He was doing Hongguang Machinery Factory a great favor. Cao Zhiqiang still has a big relationship behind him.

It’s just that Hongguang Machinery Factory is a state-owned enterprise after all, and everything must be done according to the rules. It’s impossible not to ask for management fees, and the organization can’t pass it, so it has to be a little symbolic.

That's why Factory Director Li wanted Cao Zhiqiang to choose the sharing model.

Because in this way, in the future, as long as Cao Zhiqiang plays tricks on the books and makes a deficit every year, he won't have to pay management fees.

But Cao Zhiqiang chose not to choose this, but to choose the fixed payment model.

The reason is very simple. In Cao Zhiqiang’s view, no matter how clever you are in making false accounts, there are still traces. As long as someone checks, they will definitely find out. Licenses will be revoked.

In addition, making false accounts is not so easy to be passed.

It's okay to talk about it when Director Li and Secretary Dong are both around, but what if they are replaced?

Secretary Dong is now 56, and Director Li is also 55, both of whom are about to retire.

Once these two people retire and a new leader comes up, it may not be so easy to talk to.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, he is very confident in himself.

He is very sure that under his leadership, or under his own system, his publishing house will prosper and become a terrifying cash cow.

After all, his publishing house has a very wide business scope. It is a comprehensive publishing house that can not only publish books and magazines, but also audio-visual products.

In other words, Hongguang Publishing House can not only publish books and novels, but also run magazines, newspapers, and even audio-visual products.

To put it bluntly, today's publishing house is a distribution platform.

As long as you have the name of a publishing house, you can justifiably link up with the largest publication distribution organization in China at this time - the Post Office and Xinhua Bookstore.

In other words, without the cover of a publishing house, you can print books for sale or record audio-visual products for sale.

However, it is only a small problem that this kind of private behavior without official certification is inspected by relevant departments. The biggest problem is that it cannot be quickly distributed and its influence cannot be expanded.

Because you are not qualified to publish, you cannot obtain the distribution channels of the post office and Xinhua Bookstore, and you cannot quickly send your products to the whole country for sale, so you can only do small things in your local city.

Only by going to the post office and Xinhua Bookstore can you distribute it nationwide and win the favor of the national market.

And if you have a formal publication number, no one will dare to check your published products, and you will naturally earn more profits.

Another point is that because the publishing house is an official unit, it can also pave the way in China at this time.

For example, if a publishing house wants to release a book at this time, in addition to cooperating with the post office and Xinhua Bookstore, asking them to help distribute the goods.

You can also establish a new distribution channel by yourself, send people to each city to set up branches and warehouses, and then hire people locally to distribute books in various small booksellers.

This is equivalent to saying that you can establish a separate distribution channel that belongs to the publishing house, similar to the express delivery model.

Because you are a formal publishing house, you won't suffer too much trouble in this way of sending to various places to engage in distribution channels, which means that you can build a transportation network in advance.

In this mode, you don't have to share with the post office and Xinhua Bookstore, you can earn more profit, and of course spend more. Generally speaking, it is not as cost-effective as cooperating with the Post Office and Xinhua Bookstore.

But in the eyes of Cao Zhiqiang, this is another way to make money.

what is this?This is how you can build a distribution channel by yourself!
Once there are branches in each city, you can switch to other careers at will in the future.

And with branches, small bookstores with a franchise chain nature can also be established in various places, and a chain of bookstores can be established to compete with Xinhua Bookstore.

Bookstores now not only sell books, they can also sell newspapers, buy audio-visual products, soda, melon seeds and snacks.

what is this?
This is a national chain supermarket group!
It can be said that once Cao Zhiqiang has a publishing house that has the final say, he will open a national map. For him, the markets across the country are no longer a natural barrier, and there are not too many things he can do.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang insisted on paying a fixed fee, and the period was set for a long time.

In the end, after bargaining between Cao Zhiqiang and Director Li, the final contracting agreement was signed.

According to the contracting agreement, Hongguang Publishing House was contracted and operated by Cao Zhiqiang himself, and the contracting rights were 30 years, which was about the same as the land contracting period.

For 30 years, Cao Zhiqiang has the final say on all the business activities of Hongguang Publishing House, and Cao Zhiqiang will also contract all the expenses.

During the period, Hongguang Machinery Factory was not allowed to intervene in the specific operation and personnel management of the publishing house at will, and at most had the right to make suggestions.

In other words, within 30 years, Cao Zhiqiang has the final say on the financial power, personnel power, and administrative power of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang had the final say on all of this, and it was relative.

Hongguang Machinery Factory has the right to reject some publications that clearly violate the regulations.

The existence of President Zhou Huai'en is mainly to play the role of an audit.

During the 30-year contract period, Hongguang Publishing House has to pay a fixed management fee of 5000 yuan to Hongguang Machinery Factory every year.

Well, for this fixed management fee, Director Li originally only wanted 1000 yuan.

It was Cao Zhiqiang who felt that it was too shameful, and was afraid that it would be difficult to block everyone's mouths, so he forced it up to 5000 yuan a year.

5000 yuan is already a large sum in this era.

A publishing house pays [-] yuan to the contractor every year. At this time, I believe no one can say anything, and many people may even want to see Cao Zhiqiang's jokes.

Of course, after one year, I believe many people will regret it, because by that time, 5000 yuan will really be nothing.

Also, the 30-year deadline was also requested by Cao Zhiqiang. Originally, Director Li only wanted to give a one-year deadline.

Of course, the one-year deadline given by Factory Manager Li is also a good intention, because he is afraid that Cao Zhiqiang will not be able to withstand it, so the one-year deadline can be used to stop losses in time, and the contract can be changed again at that time.

But how can Cao Zhiqiang give up this good opportunity, it must be 30 years.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang could do it for 50 years, but when he thought it was too much, he couldn't justify it, so he changed it to 30 years.

30 years is enough.

Thirty years later, it will be 30, and the publishing industry probably has rectified long ago, and it is impossible for it to remain as chaotic as it is now.

At that time, his arm will not be able to twist his thigh, and his contract will not be able to stop the trend of the times, and sooner or later he will have to follow the rectification.

However, with this contract, even if there is a major rectification in the publishing industry in the future, he can still take the lead, and there are still many benefits.

Because the contract he signed with Hongguang Machinery Factory is a contract between him and a state-owned enterprise legal person, the subject of the target is Hongguang Machinery Factory, not the factory director himself, so there is no need to worry about death.

There are also some seemingly inconspicuous but important supplementary provisions in Cao Zhiqiang's view.

For example, if the Hongguang Machinery Factory closes down due to poor management, it will automatically belong to the Ministry of Metallurgy, the superior unit of the Machinery Factory.

If Hongguang Machinery Factory is annexed or merged with other units for rectification, and the corporate legal person changes, then the ownership of Hongguang Publishing House will automatically belong to the new unit.

But no matter who owns the ownership of Hongguang Publishing House at that time, the 30-year contract will remain unchanged.

In order to ensure the authority of this contract, at the strong request of Cao Zhiqiang, this contract was notarized at a notary office, and the contract was also backed up and saved in files. It has strong legal effect and is difficult for ordinary people to overturn.

Everything is for a rainy day!

Because Cao Zhiqiang knew that no one would be jealous if the publishing house's operating conditions were average or even at a loss.

But if Hongguang Publishing House makes a lot of money in the future, there will definitely be people who are jealous, and there will definitely be people who want to make trouble.

At that time, this contract is the most favorable weapon.

As for the two uncles, Secretary Dong and Director Li...

These people are powerful now, and they can indeed protect Cao Zhiqiang very well, but they are all too old.

In 30 years, even if they are still alive, they will have retired long ago, and they may not have the power to protect Cao Zhiqiang.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang had to insure himself more from the very beginning.

It would be better to do unnecessary work than to be caught blind when something really happens.

"That's the thing, that's the situation!"

After roughly explaining the general situation of Hongguang Publishing House, Cao Zhiqiang took a sip of water first, and then continued to Yu Deli who was dumbfounded:
"So, not only have I obtained the license of the publishing house, but I have also signed a contract with our factory, formally contracting the Hongguang Publishing House.

Although the ownership of this publishing house is not owned by me personally, in the next 30 years, this publishing house has the final say on my own.

So, I already have the ship, when will the crew you mentioned be in place? "

Just as Yu Deli was about to speak, Cao Zhiqiang suddenly interrupted: "By the way, I almost forgot, this is also a formal state-owned enterprise publishing house, because it is a subsidiary of a state-owned enterprise, so it also has a formal establishment.

Although there are not many, there are currently only three agency establishments and five business establishments, but they do have formal establishments.

And I have a good relationship with the leader. If our benefits are good in the future, I can spend a little more money and continue to apply for the establishment with the above.

So, you don't have to worry about compilation issues. "

Yu Deli nodded with a smile on his face: "If you are like this, then of course there is no problem with me."

After a pause, Yu Deli said: "Don't worry, what is most lacking these days is the boat, not the people!

You have all the boats, are you afraid that you won't be able to recruit people?
Give me three days, and I promise to bring you someone! "

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly and raised the red wine glass in front of him: "Then wish us..."

As soon as I said this, a middle-aged man suddenly stood up beside the dining table, startled Cao Zhiqiang, and subconsciously looked over.

Then Cao Zhiqiang discovered that after the man stood up, he kept waving at the door.

While waving his hands, he also shouted loudly: "Mr. Sada, here, we are here!"

(End of this chapter)