First update
It is said that people feel joyful when good things happen to them. The entire editorial department is experiencing a series of good things. The cheers and excitement are almost blowing the roof off. After increasing the advertising income, the monthly income of their journal has more than doubled.
"Manager Qin, I have a reform plan for the magazine. We must adapt to the new era!" He Jia handed in his reform proposal with a confident look on his face.
Qin Yao flipped through it and said, "No, do everything as I say. You can't add so many ads."
"You——" He Jia's eyes widened.
Mao Lina said quickly: "Editor He, you are new here and you are not familiar with our magazine. Manager Qin has her own arrangements."
"Women are mostly timid. The higher-ups arranged me here because they want me to take over the position of editor-in-chief. A person can get lucky once, but he won't be unlucky all the time—" He Jia covered his mouth suddenly. His subtext was self-evident.
But everyone else understood: You, Qin Yao, are a woman who was lucky enough to run a journal. How can you make successful decisions every time?
Seeing the huge advertising revenue of the journal, He Jia was ambitious and planned to add more advertising space in the journal. According to his plan, it would be no problem for the journal to generate monthly revenue of over two million.
“No matter how high the advertising revenue is, the content must be good first. I don’t agree with your suggestion.”
Because advertising makes money, you fill it with ads? Too much is as bad as too little; it will only bore readers.
Qin Yao knew that the overwhelming wealth before her eyes had made a lot of people greedy, and short-sighted people emerged.
He Jia is a paratrooper who was sent to the island. He has long been dissatisfied with Qin Yao's management of the situation and intends to find her faults and bring her down.
This is the disadvantage of being affiliated with an organization, you will still be subject to various constraints.
Qin Yao had just planted a tree when someone came to pick the fruit.
"Advertising should be moderate, and content is the bottom line. I must pay close attention to content and reader satisfaction. If I lose readers, how can I sell advertising?"
Mao Lina said: "That's right, Manager Qin is right."
"Yes, Manager Qin is right!"
Most of the people in the editorial department echoed Qin Yao's words. Qin Yao observed everyone's faces and found that many people had different ideas. Her heart turned cold for a moment.
Among the paratroopers, there were people like He Jia who did not submit to her, and among the old men in the editorial department, there were also a few older men who did not submit to Qin Yao. It’s not for any other reason, but precisely because of their gender. They are unwilling to be dominated by a woman and believe that literature is a man’s world.
These people were really arrogant, but Qin Yao had already made preparations. If she could hold on, she would. If she couldn't, she didn't mind starting over with others.
It is 1979 now, almost 1980, and it is already an era of freedom. Although starting a business on her own is a bit troublesome, she has the final say, and all the profits from the journal belong to her.
Rather than a peaceful transition, it would be better to escape by stealing.
With the experience of establishing a journal this time, Qin Yao has the funds, connections, and sufficient reserve resources of authors, so making a comeback is no problem for him.
Qin Yao is determined to make the magazine stronger. Not only is it a lifestyle magazine, but she is also ambitious to make magazines on movies, literature, martial arts novels, and emotions.
The 1980s was a time when martial arts novels were popular, and it was also a time when all kinds of romance novels were popular. It would have been unreasonable not to get a piece of the pie.
Qin Yao: "Editor He, if you are not satisfied with my decision, you can apply for a transfer. Since you are here to be an editor, you should do your job well. This kind of suggestion is not your place to interfere."
"Your basic salary will be cut in half this month, and there will be no performance-based salary!"
Qin Yao slammed the table and said, "This is my one-man show. Anyone who doesn't agree can leave. I won't leave anyone behind."
"You, you, you are indeed a woman, narrow-minded!"
Qin Yao glanced at the man and said, "Sun Qiang, right? I'll write your transfer letter now and take it away tomorrow."
As the general manager, although she cannot fire people at will, she has the power over personnel matters and can transfer people she doesn't like.
Of course, domestic reform is still in its early stages, and it won’t be long before state-owned factories take the lead in breaking the precedent of “dismissing employees.” At that time, Qin Yao would not be transferred but directly fired.
He Jia sneered, "Manager Qin, is this your one-man show? Have you let me down too?"
Qin Yao looked at him deeply. She knew that He Jia was so confident, there must be someone behind him. Maybe someone was specifically instructing him to usurp power.
Nowadays, the advertising revenue of journals is too enviable. A watch advertisement can earn one hundred thousand per issue. If you take more advertisements, I don’t know how much profit you can make. This is just the apparent profit. If you are greedy, you can pocket hundreds of thousands in a month.
With such income, it’s no wonder that they would collectively protest.
Qin Yao: "Okay, I'll satisfy you."
Qin Yao wrote a letter of resignation. He Jia took the letter fearlessly and sneered before leaving: "Manager Qin, you will regret it."
The next day, Qin Yao received a call from the cultural center. The director criticized her harshly, "Qin Yao, don't think you can do whatever you want just because you have grown wings. Do you know who He Jia is? He is Secretary Zeng's man. You better ask him to go back!"
"Don't mess around. Negotiate everything with him. Today is different from the past. Do you know how many people are watching your journal now?"
Other literary magazines don't make much money, but the lifestyle magazine run by Qin Yao takes an alarming amount of advertisements. How many people are jealous!
Qin Yao said coldly on the phone: "This is not a trash can. As long as I am here, the people I 'ask' to leave will never come back."
"Don't use other things to pressure me. At worst, I will quit being the general manager, and I don't want to be the deputy director either."
Qin Yao thought to herself: Pah, how disgusting! She didn't want to share the millions of advertising revenue with these people. Instead of waiting for the equity change later, it would be better to overturn the table now.
It was like a bomb was dropped into the editorial department, causing an uproar.
"Manager Qin, are you leaving your post?"
"You're not just being angry, are you? Are you really leaving?"
No one understood why Qin Yao made such a decisive decision to resign. This was clearly the time when Lifestyle Magazine was at its peak, with huge advertising fees and a bright future. Why did she just resign like that?
Qin Yao smiled slightly: "Those who are willing to go with me can go together. I am going to start a new journal."
She founded the Southern Life Magazine with only 10,000 or 20,000 yuan of funds. Now that she has more money, she is not worried about not being able to run the magazine.
"Zhang Feng, what's your choice?"
Zhang Feng is a veteran of the journal, a fan of Qin Yao's books, and the chief steward of the opening. At this moment, he looked at Qin Yao silently, and Qin Yao instantly understood what he meant. He would not leave.
Well, Qin Yao didn’t think about how many people she could take away.
Almost none of those who claimed to be her loyal fans and founded the journal with her were willing to follow her now.
"Manager Qin, I'll go with you!" Mao Lina raised her hand.
Zhang Feng blurted out: "Xiao Mao, you——"
Mao Lina used to be in charge of the women's content section of the journal. It is a bit troublesome with her leaving, but it is not very important and someone can be found to replace her.
"I have made up my mind. I will go wherever Manager Qin is. I can't do my job without Manager Qin!" Mao Lina's heart was pounding, but she still stuck to her choice, even though she didn't know what the future would bring.
But in her opinion, the Lifestyle Magazine was maintained to this day by Qin Yao alone, especially the content about women's beauty and dressing, which were all written under the guidance of Manager Qin!
What else can we do if Qin Yao is not here?
Therefore, despite her worries, Mao Lina still chose to follow Qin Yao, who was the core of the entire journal.
"Manager Qin, I'm going with you too!" Qiao Jie said loudly, and the people around her looked at her in surprise.
Qiao Jie cares a lot about the work in the editorial department, but she "doesn't care about this job". She has a bad temper and can't stand this group of people "getting rid of the donkey after it has done its job". What era is this? Why are they still playing the game of "the cunning rabbit is dead, the running dog is cooked, and the good bow is hidden away".
During the time she had been in contact with Mao Lina, she knew that the success of this magazine was all thanks to Qin Yao. Now someone else was taking advantage of it. How infuriating!
Qin Yao looked at everything lightly and said, "I will never treat anyone who follows me unfairly in the future."
In the end, there were six or seven people who were willing to go with her, and among them was Jiang Meiye. Originally, four people were introduced to the editorial department, and except for Qiao Jie and Jiang Meiye, the other two stayed.
Qin Yao understood why Qiao Jie went with her, but Jiang Meiye's choice was unexpected. She now lives a peaceful life.
"Manager Qin, I believe you." Jiang Meiye looked at Qin Yao seriously. Qin Yao was the most beautiful woman she had ever seen in her life, and also the most knowledgeable woman she had ever seen. It would never be wrong to be with her.
"Well, you will definitely be glad you made that choice."
*
Qin Yao was preparing to re-launch the magazine and start all over again. He named the new magazine "Time Life Monthly" and divided it into the previous and next monthly magazines. Qin Yao found a new office location, contacted the printing side, and found new employees through literary workshops and poetry readings.
It was a new magazine and there were few staff members, so only one employee could do the work of three. So Qiao Jie and Jiang Meiye had to do a lot of odd jobs, but Mao Lina was familiar with the work and gave orders in an orderly manner, like a veteran.
Qiao Jie asked her: "I saw that you were quite nervous when you made your choice. Even Zhang Feng didn't leave. Why aren't you afraid now?"
"Now it's just the few of us who are going to start the magazine again!"
Mao Lina glanced at Qin Yao and said, "When I think of the memory of the founding of the magazine, I am less and less afraid. When it was first founded, half of the magazine was written by Manager Qin."
"Half of the book? That's an exaggeration!" Qiao Jie's jaw almost dropped to the ground.
"It's not an exaggeration. It's really not an exaggeration. I counted it for Manager Qin last time. She has thirty-six pen names."
Qin Yao blurted out: "So many?"
She mainly uses six or seven aliases. If Mao Lina hadn't told her, she wouldn't have known that she now has dozens of aliases.
"Thirty-six!! Qin Yao, are you a god? How many brains do you have?"
"It was Manager Qin who said that it would be embarrassing if there were only a few authors for the entire book. Manager Qin writes long articles, short articles, and various beauty and fashion sharing articles..."
"Qin Yao, you are so amazing! Does your old Gu know how amazing you are?"
Jiang Meiye stroked the callus on her middle finger and looked at Qin Yao with admiration. She had no skills and could not help much. She did odd jobs, but she had more opportunities to touch paper and pen.
She also had the opportunity to contact some poets and writers. While listening to them talk about their creations, she couldn't help but secretly write something with pen and paper.
She is not very educated and cannot write beautiful sentences. Her writings are all in plain language, but she has written several "stories" in the past two days.
Jiang Meiye did not dare to show her articles to others for fear of embarrassing herself. In the stories she wrote, there was no pursuit of freedom, no literary geniuses, but mostly ordinary infatuated men and resentful women.
The scumbag husband who favors boys over girls, the arrogant and mean mother-in-law, the scheming sister-in-law, the spoiled and unfilial descendants... These characters are written vividly by her, making people grit their teeth, but Jiang Meiye writes them with great pleasure, making these people suffer bad luck!
In addition to these, she also yearns for pure and beautiful love. Jiang Meiye has never studied literature seriously, and all she learned are from newspapers and miscellaneous books, so she is more open-minded than ordinary authors. She writes about the hero and heroine studying at Harvard, and about them carrying their ideals to understand the world. She also writes about the African savannah and the Egyptian pyramids...
After finishing it, she was too embarrassed to take it home, so she hid it in the office.
*
After Qin Yao left, a group of leaders were parachuted into the original editorial department, and He Jia was among them. When he came back, he was arrogant and said, "This Qin Yao is nothing special. She is really a woman. She has a bad temper and will leave if provoked."
"Long hair, short knowledge."
"If you can endure it for a while, everything will be fine. Now you are kicked out!"
He Jia found his advertising plan again: "Add more advertisements, this side, this column, all of these need to be changed!"
“There’s room for two more ads here.”
Zhang Feng said: "They are all advertisements, what about the content?"
"Yeah, what about the next issue? What about the other issue?"
Originally, the special volume serialized the autobiography that Qin Yao wrote for Mr. Gu, which attracted many readers, and most of them bought the magazine just for this special volume.
Now that Qin Yao is gone, the series cannot be continued.
“Find another author to write a manuscript.”
"What should we do with the content in these women's sections? And this, this..."
He Jiahun said nonchalantly, "Contact those authors and ask them to write for him. I think Xiao Mi Li's writing is pretty good, so why did he only submit his manuscript once?"
"Do you have the contact information of Xiangpiaopiao? Recruit her to work in the editorial department. She writes good articles about women. Let her be in charge of the women's section in the future."
"Contact the authors on this list again and tell them that our editor-in-chief has changed."
"Why aren't you talking?"
Someone in the crowd whispered, "Xiao Mi Li is Manager Qin's pen name."
"Xiangpiaopiao seems to be the pen name of Manager Qin."
"This one on the list, and this one... I remember that was also Manager Qin's pen name."
"I wrote this, but that was the outline given by Manager Qin."
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