Chapter 117 After several more National Day team-building events, Chicken Soup Magazine...
After a few more rounds, Chicken Soup Magazine broke down and privately tried to make peace with Li Daohua.
But Li Daohua doesn't want to do that. If you say to cause trouble, I will cause trouble. If you say to make peace, I will make peace. Then what will become of me, Li Daohua?
"She said that she, Li Daohua, is not a saint, and it is wrong to ask her for help with such a saintly matter. She suggested that she go to America. Here, she knows how to repay evil with kindness and how to repay kindness."
"Only villains and women are difficult to raise!" The editor-in-chief of Chicken Soup Magazine was almost mad with anger.
As the editor-in-chief of Chicken Soup Magazine, he is also quite famous and many people around him know him.
As a respected intellectual, he has the right to look down on those uneducated and uncultured people.
During this period, because of the "Jiuzhou" incident, some rough people dared to criticize him, and his children and relatives also asked him in a roundabout way what was going on.
If you don’t want to make peace, then don’t make peace. Chicken Soup Magazine decided to calm down and not argue or quarrel, as a cultured person should be.
Unexpectedly, they did not argue or quarrel, and "Jiuzhou" was still being produced.
They are no longer limited to finding materials in chicken soup magazines, but have invented new tracks themselves. The anti-chicken soup literature they write is more outrageous than the other, and cold jokes come one after another.
Anti-chicken soup literature is not written in vain. Jiuzhou also verifies the various chicken soup literature written by Chicken Soup Magazine bit by bit.
After this period of quarrels, the sales of "Jiuzhou" have been gradually increasing. Of course, this is also related to the improvement of the national education level. The more people can read and write, the higher the sales of "Jiuzhou" will be.
On the contrary, the sales growth rate of Chicken Soup magazines has been declining, and sometimes even reached negative growth, that is, sales volume declined.
In the past, daily newspapers often reprinted articles from Chicken Soup Magazine, but now they often reprint articles from Jiuzhou.
Of course, what I am reposting is not anti-chicken soup literature. Chicken soup literature has been ruined now, and anyone who believes in it has a problem with his brain.
The majority of readers have been trained by "Jiuzhou". When they read chicken soup magazines, they always feel that something is wrong and subconsciously want to refute them.
When high school and college teachers recommend magazines to students, they will not recommend chicken soup magazines, but "Jiuzhou". "Jiuzhou" contains a variety of foreign news, which is much more comprehensive than domestic news.
These news can broaden their horizons or help them write essays, so they don't always use old-fashioned examples.
"Jiuzhou" now not only reprints news, but also makes certain comments on the news, and these comments are also reviewed by Li Daohua.
At the beginning, Li Daohua led them to analyze little by little what could be seen from the daily news, which news was worth analyzing for its deep meaning, and which news was just passing by.
Get rid of flattery, starting from the editorial department.
In August, Li Daohua began to solicit opinions from the editorial department. During the National Day holiday, they would travel to America, and the magazine would reimburse the travel expenses. If they wanted to buy extra things, they would have to pay for them themselves.
However, the magazine can help you exchange foreign currency for use in America at the official exchange rate.
Although he said he would help with the exchange, for the sake of convenience, Li Daohua had already decided to get the money directly from Ian. Anyway, her copyright fees were continuous and enough to exchange money for the editorial department.
"This time it's voluntary. It's not good to take up everyone's holidays, but our editorial department is really busy at other times. But it's also good to go out and take a look. Everyone, think about it. Give me the statistical table in three days. I need to apply for visas for everyone in advance."
Li Daohua told the HR department to go to each office to notify them.
Their magazine usually has three or four people in one office, and each office is responsible for one column.
There are a lot more editors than before, otherwise I would be even busier.
At first the office looked empty, but soon, a lot of various materials were added to the office. A small office or with many people sitting in it was not conducive to work.
The staff of Jiuzhou magazine is generally young, with only a few editors being older.
The person in the Personnel Department went out holding back his laughter. He first stamped his feet with joy, then quickly ran to inform everyone that they would be traveling to America on the 11th and asked everyone to sign up.
I just notified an office and now I can't leave. The editors stopped me and asked me all kinds of questions.
The key point is that even if the HR department cannot answer the questions they ask, that doesn’t stop them from continuing to ask.
For example, when to go, where to go, what tourist activities are there, how many people will go, how many days will it take...
How would the HR know? He could only tell them to wait for notification. He was just counting the number of people and asking them if they wanted to go.
"Teacher Daohua said that if we go, the National Day holiday will be gone, so we should think carefully."
"Go, go, go. I have nothing to do at home during the holidays anyway." Traveling is traveling no matter where you go. The company also reimburses travel expenses and handles visas. It's so cool!
They have been writing the manuscript for such a long time, but this is the first time they are actually going to America for an on-site investigation to see if it is really as outrageous as reported in the news.
Reporters also need to bring cameras and take pictures when necessary for future use.
This year it is America, and next May Day we will change to another country to broaden the horizons of the magazine’s editors.
This time they are not going just for tourism. Li Daohua has already discussed with Ian that they are going to Philadelphia and Las Vegas.
We will visit public and private hospitals, and also visit the first private prison.
These must also be informed to the magazine's employees in advance. If anyone is dissatisfied with the travel arrangements, they can withdraw at any time and not participate in the trip.
Even though they have been reporting foreign news for the past six months, they still don't know much about American cities. After receiving the notice, everyone has to go out of their way to check where these places are and what they look like.
Everyone was shocked when they heard that they would also visit a private prison.
What shocked them was not the prison visit but the term private prison.
Even prisons can be privately owned, it's worthy of America!
After returning home and looking for their household registration books, many editors would tell their families that they were going to travel to America on National Day and would bring them some local specialties when they returned.
Before e-commerce became popular, local specialties were a must-buy product for every tourist.
They just couldn’t think of what specialties to buy, and they didn’t know what kind of special products America would have.
The woman held her several-year-old child in her arms with a worried look on her face. She watched her husband packing his things happily, talking about how great the benefits at the magazine were and how he had made the right decision to join the magazine.
It took him a while to realize that the atmosphere in the house was not right, and the woman did not respond to him.
"What’s wrong with you?"
The woman lowered her eyes: "You will come back..."
Every year, too many people go to America and never come back.
"Of course I will come back. Don't be silly. This is just a trip. It's no different from going to the Forbidden City. It's just a little farther away... Otherwise... I won't go..."
After saying that, he felt a little regretful. In this day and age, it is not easy to travel abroad. In addition to the money required, the more important thing is that it is difficult to get a visa.
"Go ahead, if you want to go, I heard that this opportunity is not easy to come by."
Similar conversations occurred in more than one magazine, and eventually everyone in the magazine signed up as planned.
On September 30th, everyone gathered with their luggage. Before leaving, Li Daohua made it clear that on this trip, only a certain number of people would go and a certain number of people would return, and everyone had to strictly follow the guide's steps.
"The place we are going to this time is not a place you often visit. Some places are dangerous. This is also for your safety."
Those who had already packed their luggage said they understood, but whether they really listened or not, only they themselves knew.
Before leaving, Li Daohua specially published a message in the newspaper, saying that everyone was going out to expose the truth about capitalism, to write only true stories, and not to be running dogs of capitalism.
If Jiuzhou is not a running dog, then who is? She didn’t say anything.
With excitement, the group arrived in America smoothly, and under Ian's arrangement, they went directly to Las Vegas that day.
As a gambling city, Las Vegas was filled with the feeling of money from the moment they arrived, and everything was just right.
There is a special person to pick you up at the airport, a Lincoln stretch car, free drinks in the car, someone opens and closes the door, and uses their hands to prevent heads from bumping.
The ordinary people from the country had never been treated like this before and were at a loss as to what to do. It was only until Li Daohua took the lead in demonstrating how to do it that the others followed suit and got on the bus.
The editors who did not sit in the same car with Li Daohua all regretted it. Without Teacher Daohua, they always felt insecure.
"This car is really nice and high-end."
"It is indeed high-end. I wonder how much this car costs and when our country will be able to produce such a car."
Looking at the car and everything around it, the editors felt that everything was novel and attractive.
After getting off the bus, I heard the editors who were in the same bus with Li Daohua say that the drinks and cakes in the bus were free. I felt that I had suffered a loss. This was free, and I missed the opportunity to fleece capitalism.
"The wool comes from the sheep. Guess who is the sheep? Let's go in and take a look."
Even though it is late at night, Las Vegas is brightly lit everywhere, truly a city that never sleeps.
Compared with the current power shortage in the country, there are few lights at night. Even in Beijing, there are only dim lights on the streets.
For the editors at that time, such light pollution was like arriving in the future.
Even though it was October and the night was a little chilly, there were quite a few women in ragged clothes who had been looking at them since they got off the bus.
Some even walked up to the editor, put their arm around him, and flirted with him in an ambiguous tone.
Unfortunately, she spoke English and the editor had to wait for the translator next to her to translate.
"She said she wants to follow you. You can do whatever you want, but I don't recommend it. These prostitutes may not have any diseases. You can choose prostitutes in the casino. The casino will give them regular physical examinations, so it's safe."
After hearing the translation, the editor stood there in a daze, his arms stiff, not knowing what to do.
In China, anyone who behaves like a hooligan, regardless of gender, will be shot to death, but here they actually say this in public...
"Here, sex is legal. Many of these women were not willing at first. You can look at her arm. Oh, it's night time now, so I can't see clearly. In order to control these people, they are usually injected with drugs, and they can't get out of this kind of life."
As soon as they arrived in Las Vegas, before they even entered the casino, these editors were impacted by the capitalist society, where there is money and everything is legal.
What they didn't know was that this was just an appetizer that Li Daohua showed them.
Compared with the various civilized soft advertisements and inspirational stories in China, the real impact of capital society is completely unimaginable in a socialist society.
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