Chapter 112 Jiuzhou was working well, but was suddenly fired...
He was working well but was suddenly fired. He had worked in the company for a year and knew someone there, so Liu Ying wanted to find out what happened.
Only then did they realize that the person who came up with the idea for the company's boss was Li Daohua, and Liu Mei happened to be pestering Li Daohua in the company, which of course the boss was unwilling to do.
To put it bluntly, Li Daohua is a money-giving boy to his boss.
On the way back, Liu Ying kept complaining to Liu Mei: "I told you, watch your mouth when you're out there. When you get back, go to Liu Fa's place. I don't have a job right now and I can't support you."
"What right does he have to fire us just like that? We have joined the company in earnest, so he should give an explanation." Liu Mei was not convinced.
Why should he be fired just because he said a few words? Don’t you understand freedom of speech?
"Use your brain. This company is his. He can do whatever he wants with it. Do you think you are in a state-owned enterprise in China and cannot be fired at will?"
Liu Ying was really fed up with him. This piece of trash was a complete burden to him.
He even traveled thousands of miles to send Liu Mei directly to Liu Fa, whose life was better than his because she was good at making up stories and she worked in a magazine.
As an Asian, all she has to do is write about her so-called curious experiences in China to satisfy the curiosity of Americans.
This was simply heaven for Liu Mei, and the two siblings hit it off instantly, and even made a big fuss out of Liu Mei's identity.
By the time the country received news about Liu Mei again, it was because Liu Mei was like a mad dog abroad, attacking the country crazily.
Those who were originally speaking for Liu Mei finally saw what kind of person he was. Only a small number of people who yearned to go abroad remained and they supported Liu Mei even more firmly.
Li Daohua has always laughed at people like this. Is it okay abroad?
Of course it is good. For rich people, life abroad is much better than at home. If you have money, you can do whatever you want. You don’t care about crimes. As long as you have money, none of these things matter.
Things they want to do that cannot be done due to the law in the country can be done openly abroad.
But for those who have no money or come from ordinary families, life abroad is like hell. No one will care about your life or death. There will even be people who keep an eye on you all the time, trying to squeeze out the last bit of your value.
After all, manpower is not valuable, but people are still quite valuable.
Li Daohua is applying to start a magazine in China. Her purpose in starting the magazine is simple: to open her eyes to the world.
For ordinary people in China, the channels for obtaining information are very limited in this era. Television, newspapers and magazines are their main sources of information.
For a long time, the News Broadcast was a very popular TV program because it was updated steadily, had new information every day, and really contained all kinds of information at home and abroad.
It is also because of this that foreign forces have the opportunity to infiltrate the country, causing negative impacts on the country in these aspects and cultivating a group of determined colonists.
If these colonists were just ordinary people, they would be considered disgusting at best. However, once they receive education and reach higher positions, they will pose a great threat to the country.
The "toxic textbook" incident is a classic example of the influence of colonial culture. It starts with culture, poisons children, and affects several generations.
And this is only part of what has been exposed.
That is why she wanted to start a magazine to compete with those magazines that specialize in promoting foreign countries for readers.
Starting a magazine is different from starting a company. A company like Yuanfang Logistics was just a makeshift team at the beginning. It not only had a small number of people, but also had little experience.
It was through little by little trial and error that we gradually established a complete system and developed it into a serious company.
Moreover, when they first started out, they operated as individual businesses and later established private companies.
From the very beginning of its establishment, a magazine must have as complete a system as possible, and the staff must also include some experienced people, and someone must guide the new inexperienced employees.
Not only the editorial department, but also the printing factory, bookstores, pricing, news, and marketing...
In short, there are many things to consider in the early stages, but once things are on track, they will run on their own, and Li Daohua won’t have to think too much for a long time.
Their magazine has an advantage that no other magazine has, which is that they can cooperate with Yuanfang Logistics at the lowest price to deliver magazines to all parts of the country, thus realizing a truly national magazine.
At this time, except for a few journals, most journals are regional. This is because the transportation costs are high. If the quality itself does not have an absolute advantage, it will easily become a loss-making business.
Li Daohua placed an advertisement in the newspaper, saying that he wanted to set up a magazine and welcomed calls for consultation.
The magazine has its own pay phone, but not many people called after the ad was sent out.
This is actually normal. It would be abnormal if many people called immediately.
First of all, they are a private magazine and lack advantages compared to public ones. Secondly, because they are a magazine, they have higher cultural requirements for employees, who must have at least a high school or college degree.
A high school degree at that time was less common than a college degree, and since many people had already started working, even fewer people met the requirements.
It was not until the advertising scope was expanded that more people called.
Due to inconvenient transportation, and in order to prevent these job seekers from wasting time, making a phone call can be considered an online interview.
I will briefly ask about their academic qualifications, their views on certain journals, whether they have done related work, and also introduce the current situation of their company.
After several months of screening, ten people were finally selected. Most of them were members of the editorial department, and there were only two people in the business and administrative departments.
Li Daohua herself has had a lot of dealings with magazines, and she also borrows people from other magazines to work with her.
Their magazine is not a competitor of many other magazines. In a broad sense, they are competitors, but not in a specific sense.
Their magazine is what Li Daohua said, "Open your eyes to the world." It mainly reprints various foreign news, and in the future they will have to take the initiative to discover and summarize news on their own.
To this end, Li Daohua also asked Ian to help her find several employees in America to specialize in news translation. Now they only translate TV news, as the news on TV at this time is usually bigger.
It is much easier to find translation talents abroad than in China. Talents who are proficient in English in China are all treasures and are needed in many places. Li Daohua simply cannot recruit anyone at this point.
It is different abroad. In addition to the Run people, there are also many overseas Chinese, who are natural translators.
The news translated from abroad is sent back to China, where it is reorganized and edited, while also conveying its own point of view.
In this regard, Li Daohua’s requirements for the three views of the editorial department staff are greater than their academic qualifications.
She hopes to show the real foreign countries, both the good and the bad.
She is not an extreme person who only reports the bad things about foreign countries. She believes that there are still good things about foreign countries at this time.
There are also places that reflect good qualities, such as the firefighters at this time have not completely given up, for example, they are also fighting drugs at this time...
On the day the magazine was officially established, Li Daohua treated everyone to a meal, and the next day the magazine began operations.
Their magazine opened a dedicated line to facilitate communication, and it cost a lot of money to open this line.
The first few articles were written by Li Daohua. She didn't have to wait for the translator to translate the news. She wanted to write about her real experiences and the story of the owner of the Chinatown restaurant she had dinner in America.
The restaurant was inherited from my ancestors. The owner is in his fifties and was born in 1932. His father told me that not long after he was born, his whole family went to America to work.
His father was also introduced by a relative.
"My dad said that when we first arrived, life was very hard. We often had to fight with the locals. The locals looked down on us. We were doing business honestly, but not only did we have to pay protection fees, we were also often bullied."
When talking about these things, the boss did not show any resentment. As far as he can remember, his family had already established itself, and the people in Chinatown were still very united in some aspects.
The boss also mentioned that his family also donated money during the Anti-Japanese War. At that time, some people from China went to Chinatown to give speeches about the domestic situation, and many people donated money.
Although everyone is just trying to make a living here, "but my dad said that this is our roots and there are still many people in the family."
Later, after the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, we fought a few more battles and finally gained a firm foothold.
"My dad also said that I must go back to visit in the future."
The boss also said that many people in Chinatown knew that Li Daohua won the Nobel Prize and felt honored for it, especially because of Li Daohua's speech, which was courageous.
"I didn't expect that a girl like you would be so tough. Are people in China so tough now?"
Li Daohua just smiled and said nothing at that time. I wonder what the boss thinks after seeing Liu Mei’s speech now.
The boss also has his own little worries. This restaurant has been passed down from his ancestors and is run well in his hands. However, his children are unwilling to take over the restaurant.
He felt that running a restaurant in Chinatown was a dead end, and his children wanted to venture out to try their luck. As a result, part of his family's savings was lost.
"You can earn more money here than in China, but there are also many more places to spend money than in China. Not only are things expensive, there are also various taxes. It's too noisy at night, and basically no one eats out..."
The lives of overseas Chinese are also very representative. In the future, she will interview some real stories of people. After all, not everyone can go to America to work through formal channels.
She organized this story and named it "The Story of Overseas Chinese", which is so simple and plain.
As for the name of the magazine, she chose "Jiuzhou".
The first book in China to open people's eyes to the world, "Illustrated Records of Maritime Countries", was based on "Records of the Four Continents".
So she chose to name the magazine Jiuzhou, which combines the past and present, China and the West.
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