"Brother Zhao?"
"Mr. Xie, of course I know about Rongcheng Publishing Group. If it weren't for this relationship, I wouldn't have known Mr. Xie."
Zhao Dong didn't know what Xie Jinghu was planning, so he just went along with what Xie Jinghu said.
Zhao Dong did not lie.
If Zhao Dong hadn't known Jiang Youjia, he wouldn't have had the chance to know Xie Qian.
If he didn't know Xie Qian, how could he climb up the ladder and get in touch with Xie Jinghu?
Speaking of which, Zhao Dong really took advantage of Jiang Youjia to the extreme. Even though Jiang Youjia no longer associated with him, Zhao Dong was eager to squeeze out some benefits from the remaining friendship in the past, so he publicized the relationship between him and Jiang Youjia.
"It's Mr. Jiang. I'm very familiar with him."
Zhao Dong had borrowed Jiang Xuekun's connections in Chengdu, but after Jiang Youjia saw through Zhao Dong's eagerness for quick success, Zhao Dong could no longer use the Jiang family's connections.
Now when Xie Jinghu mentioned Rongcheng Publishing Group, Zhao Dong praised himself without hesitation.
Xie Jinghu smiled and said, "Brother Zhao, you should make good use of such connections. I can help you with the funding, but you also have to be cautious. Whether the government will grant you the right to operate the business depends not only on whether you have enough money in your pocket, but also on your background. I told you earlier that culture and tourism are inseparable. You should package your background well."
Zhao Dong suspected that Xie Jinghu was implying something about him, but Zhao Dong was so thick-skinned that he didn't respond for a long time.
Xie Jinghu felt that Zhao Dong was slow to react.
——No wonder he hasn’t achieved anything after returning to China for so long. The Zhao family is good at nothing but living off their wives!
Xie Jinghu pointed out the truth to Zhao Dong: "I heard that your ancestors were scholars and even served as Hanlin in the Qing Dynasty. Then, Brother Zhao, you are a descendant of a famous family. Now you are returning to China with funds to support the economic development of the motherland and hometown. Such an interesting story is worth writing a book and promoting it!"
Now Zhao Dong could confidently remove the "doubt" because Xie Jinghu was implying something about him.
Zhao Dong knew very well how the Zhao family accumulated its wealth.
Can such an experience be written into a book?
"Brother Zhao, don't rush to refute me. Think carefully about what I'm saying. When you're socializing with someone in the business world, is it more respectful to pour them a drink and light their cigarettes? Or is it more impressive to give them an autobiography and ask for their feedback?"
Businessmen's inherent drive for profit drove Zhao Dong to be drawn in by the prospects Xie Jinghu described before he could even get angry. Relationships built through gifts and meals were unreliable. He'd lost the previous licensing battle because the Chengdu government didn't trust him. While the Zhao family had accumulated a fortune, they hadn't achieved anything remarkable abroad. The domestic government wasn't as easily fooled as it once was.
If you package your background and publicize your identity as a patriotic overseas Chinese businessman, it should be much easier to do certain things.
After interacting with Xie Jinghu for so long, Xie Jinghu finally let out a sweet fart for Zhao Dong to smell. Zhao Dong took a deep breath and felt refreshed.
"Mr. Xie's words really enlightened Zhao!"
Zhao Dong then thought about the fact that the Xie family and the Jiang family were relatives, and realized that Xie Jinghu mentioned Rongcheng Publishing Group because he wanted him to find a publishing house under Rongcheng Publishing Group.
Zhao Dong said that he would definitely visit President Jiang when he returned to Chengdu. Xie Jinghu waved his hand and said, "That's not a big deal. Publishing your autobiography is no big deal. I'll give you a phone number and you can contact her. But you have to decide how to say it. You can't say that I asked you to contact me."
Xie Jinghu gave Zou Weijun's new mobile phone number to Zhao Dong.
Whether Xie Qian has set his sights on Zhao Dong or not, wouldn’t it be easy to find out by testing him?
If Xie Qian opposed Zou Weijun writing Zhao Dong's autobiography, the last incident was most likely leaked by Zhao Dong. Xie Qian has become wary of Zhao Dong, so there are some things he cannot ask Zhao Dong to do.
If Xie Qian didn't object... it proved that the news was leaked from Xie Jinghu. He would definitely sort out everyone around him and deal with them if necessary!
Zhao Dong felt something was strange when he heard the order.
After agreeing to Xie Jinghu in person, Zhao Dong asked his secretary to call the number given by Xie Jinghu after returning to Chengdu, and found out the owner of the number - wow, the contact information was actually that of "Mrs. Xie"!
Is Xie Jinghu crazy?
Zhao Dong looked at himself in the mirror.
In terms of appearance, he is not as good as Xie Jinghu, but he is younger than Xie Jinghu and is a promising young man.
Xie Jinghu not only asked him to help take care of his lover, but also arranged for him to report his work performance to his wife. Zhao Dong really couldn't understand what was going on in Xie Jinghu's mind.
Zhao Dong was so angry that his eyes turned red. People like Xie Jinghu could have huge wealth. He worked so hard, why couldn't he make a fortune!
Although Zhao Dong was angry, he still had his rationality. He did not go directly to Zou Weijun, but asked someone to help him contact the local Writers Association in Chengdu first.
With the introduction of a friend, Zhao Dong met a writer named Song in the Writers Association.
When he was young, writer Song was famous for his poetry and was quite popular in Chengdu's cultural circles. Later, he joined the Writers Association and became the editor-in-chief of a magazine. Now, no new works of his have been published for a long time. It is said that his daughter has great literary talent, so he has devoted himself to cultivating her, hoping that she will inherit her father's aspirations.
The introducer praised Writer Song highly: "Teacher Song is amazing! His daughter won first prize in the New Concept Writing Competition last year. She published her own novel at such a young age, and it's now selling like hotcakes."
Zhao Dong doesn't care about the New Concept Writing Competition at all.
He took a fancy to writer Song because the magazine of which writer Song was the editor-in-chief also belonged to the Rongcheng Publishing Group.
In this way, it is not at all strange that he asked writer Song to write his autobiography and then had writer Song act as an intermediary to Xie Jinghu's wife Zou Weijun.
Zhao Dong had already inquired about it. Zou Weijun had just started working and had already planned a very best-selling popular science book. Even if Xie Jinghu had not given any instructions, Zhao Dong would still feel at ease to hand over his autobiography to Zou Weijun for publishing.
Writer Song certainly knows what it means to ghostwrite an autobiography for someone else.
There are two modes of ghostwriting. One is that the person involved in the autobiography provides the materials, and the author compiles them into a book in his own words. The title of the book is "Autobiography of So-and-so", and the signature is still the name of the ghostwriter.
The other type is pure ghostwriting, which is more like being a ghostwriter. The book is written by the author, but it is signed by the autobiographer.
Writer Song has been famous in Chengdu for a long time and is more concerned about his reputation, so he would rather choose the former model.
However, Zhao Dong was after fame, and it was obvious that he was spending money to buy fame and find an opportunity to integrate into the Chengdu circle. How could he give the right to authorship to writer Song?
Writer Song wanted to refuse, but although Zhao Dong was worried about the hundreds of millions of dollars, he was not short of small amounts of money.
It was a small amount of money for Zhao Dong, but a lot for Writer Song. Writer Song finally fell under the sugar-coated bullet of real money and agreed to be a ghostwriter for Zhao Dong!
Zhao Dong did all these things without hiding them from the driver. He wanted to test the driver's background.
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