Chapter 113: Big Account Check Li Daohua runs a magazine, and after her move...
Li Daohua started a magazine, and soon many people knew about it after reading her recruitment advertisement.
It’s just that most people don’t know what type of magazine Li Daohua publishes.
Because she herself is engaged in literature, many people naturally think that the magazine published by Li Daohua should also be pure literature, and can be compared with journals such as "Harvest" and "October".
Other newspapers and magazines also wanted to know what kind of journal she was going to publish. After inquiring, they found out that it was pure international news.
There are relatively few such tracks in China, but it cannot be said that they do not exist. There are, but there are magazines about this track, and it is not a purely international track.
It is also literature, but it is an international soft advertisement. The advertisement is not for a brand, but for a country.
The reason why there are so few tracks is not because everyone hasn’t thought of it, but because they can’t do it.
To publish this magazine, you need strong connections both at home and abroad. Otherwise, who would know what your purpose is in publishing this magazine?
Even the well-known chicken soup literature, The Two Heroes, Du Mou and Yi Mou, only dare to promote it abroad secretly. Of course, they do this secretly in order to export something that does not exist at all.
When Li Daohua was training the editors at the magazine, in addition to teaching them how to revise the translated news, she also recommended the editors to watch the now-released "The Twins".
"There are many articles in it that we can learn from. Of course, I don't mean to plagiarize, but... For example, an article praised a certain country for its craftsmanship, and someone who made rice for 20 years was called a rice immortal. What do you think?"
"It shows that this person is persistent. At the same time, people in his country also respect this person."
Although I don’t understand why Li Daohua gave such an example, this is the leader. As an excellent employee, how can I let the leader’s words fall on deaf ears?
A young editor used his brain and gave his answer, but he was actually confused when he said it.
"How old are you? Where are you from?"
"Boss, I am 21 years old this year and my family is from Tianjin Province."
"Then your parents should be around 40 this year. If they started cooking for themselves when they were 20, then they have been cooking every day for 20 years. They are cooking immortals!"
Who doesn’t know how to use the formula? I’m a cooking genius. China has nine years of compulsory education, plus three years of kindergarten, three years of high school, and four years of university, a total of 19 years, making me a learning genius!
After Li Daohua said this, the editors present had their brains frozen and their CPUs were about to burn out.
"Leader, my grandfather is a carpenter and has been doing it for more than 40 years." An editor raised his hand and answered.
"The Carpenter Immortal! No, the Carpenter Emperor!"
The editors exclaimed in surprise. If you put it that way, they would understand.
When Li Daohua told this story before, they thought it was quite impressive, but looking at it now, it seems just so-so?
"These stories about gods, immortals, honesty, and the spirit of contract, what we need to do is to expose the truth. We should not refute for the sake of refutation, but to convey the truth."
Of course, when I recommend it to everyone, I will definitely not ask them to spend money or pay for work. Then what kind of person would she, Li Daohua, become?
The magazine quickly ordered a whole year's worth of chicken soup literature for everyone's reference.
When we founded the magazine, it was actually a difficult time.
Magazines are meant to publish foreign news. Even though foreign news is now also published domestically, the news broadcast will also mention some major international news.
But most of these are official media, and the news is carefully selected.
If Li Daohua had not been abroad before and firmly defended the country, it would be easy for people to think wrongly of someone else.
Li Daohua carefully summarized his idea of starting a magazine into a manuscript of more than ten pages.
The manuscript describes the reasons for its founding, the importance of the ideological and cultural field, and the consequences of losing dominance in this field.
After the establishment, what will she do, what is the use of doing it, and how to guide public opinion.
At that time, the person in charge of culture who was in contact with Li Daohua also told her about the leaders' concerns.
After all, the country is not strong enough, especially in terms of people's livelihood, it is still far behind developed countries.
After these are disclosed, what will everyone think and will social stability be affected?
"Leader, do you think that in the eyes of the people, which country is better, the Western countries or our country?"
The leader didn't say anything. He said some of the things were inappropriate, but they were obvious to the public and the people were not stupid.
The reason why people don’t like to watch international news in the News Broadcast is because many people think that it only reports bad news and not good news. They feel that things are so good abroad, so there can’t be so much bad news.
Little do people know that domestic news is really honest and tells the truth.
Ordinary people abroad have never thought that the news from their foreign countries is really dishonest. When there is news, it is hidden so secretly that even their own people are wary of it.
"Since many people are already doing good for foreign countries, there is no need to worry when we tell them some real situations. However, there are also big problems abroad. When these problems are exposed, ordinary people have to think clearly about what is better for them."
Disintegrating a country from the cultural field is what Western countries are best at, and the Soviet Union, which is about to disintegrate, suffers from this aspect.
“What’s the problem abroad?”
Li Daohua knows that many people actually don’t know much about foreign countries, which is normal.
"In foreign countries, the prices of many industrial products are very low, especially those exported by our country. Of course, this is a matter of price differences, but the prices of agricultural products are relatively expensive.
The salary is very high, and accordingly, the expenses are also a lot, including advance consumption. Advance consumption means that if your savings are not enough to support you to buy something, such as a house or a car, the bank can lend you money, which is very easy.
But the job is contract-based. Once laid off, if you can’t find a suitable job in a short period of time and can’t repay the loan, then the house and car will be repossessed…”
Although foreign industrial products are no longer cheap in 2025, they were shockingly cheap in the 1980s.
In addition to the domestic initiative to lower industrial product prices in order to obtain foreign exchange, there is also the price difference. In the 1980s, the domestic price breakthrough had not yet been completed. Even if it was sold at the original price, the price difference with foreign countries was very large.
Li Daohua plans to make account reconciliation a separate column, which can also be regarded as a featured column.
After all, there are many things that need to be updated in the reconciliation, and this separate column can take a long time to update if nothing unexpected happens.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, and even comparing the changes in different countries every few years, are all good topics.
Their first issue, in addition to Li Daohua's stories about overseas Chinese, also included major news that happened abroad last year, only major news.
Because the magazine had just been established, there was so much to report that ordinary news could not be ranked.
The first phase of reconciliation was to check the prices of some necessities, including agricultural products, textiles... Of course, the bulk of the price was still agricultural products.
These prices are collected by employees in America, and other countries will be added in the future.
Some of these are cheaper than in China, while others are more expensive. The more basic the product is and the less processing required, the lower the price in China.
Their first issue of the magazine was released amidst much difficulty.
The bookstores we had previously negotiated with were not sure whether their magazines could be sold.
This kind of magazine is different from other magazines and its audience will not be too wide.
Most ordinary people don’t care too much about the situation abroad, they just need to work hard to live their own lives.
As for those who can read and write, we have to exclude some students who are too young to understand. The rest are only those who have been to school, are over 15 years old and have money.
"Is this the magazine run by Teacher Daohua?"
The book had just arrived at the store and had to be placed on the shelf manually. When the clerk saw the name "Jiuzhou", he immediately became interested.
Thanks to other newspapers and periodicals, quite a few people know about Jiuzhou. Whether they buy it or not is one thing, but it does not prevent them from knowing about the existence of such a magazine.
The sales of a magazine ultimately depends on the quality of its content, and has little to do with the boss, unless the boss commits a crime and brings harm to the magazine.
Magazines at that time did not have plastic covers or anything like that, and plastic covers cost money.
The cover of this issue of "Jiuzhou" is a globe, and there is a sentence written at the bottom: Open your eyes and see the world. The cover is in color, and the inside is in black and white.
At the front is the table of contents. The story written by Li Daohua is on the first page, followed by various major news, and the big reconciliation column is placed on the last few pages of the magazine.
The first thing to look at when reading a book is of course the table of contents. The table of contents also makes it easy to retrieve the content you want to read.
Obviously, the clerk felt that what interested him most in the book, apart from Li Daohua's story about overseas Chinese, was the reconciliation of Chinese and foreign accounts at the end.
After careful consideration, he turned directly to the back of the magazine to look at the big account reconciliation.
As a real magazine, their big reconciliation is not like chicken soup literature, which just puts a landscape picture together and then starts to make up stories.
The pictures they attached were all taken by themselves, including photos taken in China as well as photos taken abroad.
The difference between the two is very obvious. The logo behind the price is different and the text is completely different.
As we all know, photos are impossible to fake, so this is definitely true.
The clerk was so fascinated by the dazzling prices that he even forgot his job. It was not until he was reminded by his colleagues that he started to do his job in a hurry.
This time the work was done more quickly than ever before, just to make time to continue watching as soon as possible.
Seeing him like this, other colleagues asked curiously: "Is this magazine so good-looking?"
"It's good, of course it's good! If you read it, you will definitely think it's good too! Oh, I won't tell you anymore, I have to buy a copy for myself!"
He had a feeling that Jiuzhou would be a big hit, and if he didn't buy it in advance, he might not be able to buy it later.
As soon as the magazine was delivered to bookstores, the employees at the magazine became nervous.
They are worried that the magazine won’t sell well. If sales remain poor for a long time, they might face the dilemma of being unemployed again.
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