So red that everything is black

Chapter 4 Light Red ([-])

"Follow-up rate, subscription ratio, discussion, influence, number of votes, and future subscription and commercial conversion possibilities." Mujin tried to excuse the company, "I attended an industry reception at the end of last year and had a conversation with an old man My classmates talked about this female writer. The other person also said that this writer had too much foreshadowing in the first three chapters and was too bland, which did not fit the fast, accurate and ruthless rhythm of the golden three chapters of online literature, so I did not sign a contract with other websites."

Qiao Zhen chuckled: "I briefly read a few chapters on the way here. Although the level is not necessarily high, it is not as bad as you said."

"Yes, although this writer's writing level has improved, the review standards of our editorial department have also been improving year by year in recent years. After all, the company also has its own difficulties."

"The difficulty? Mr. Lu said this morning that there are so many readers on the Internet who want to reward Guifu, but they find that Guifu cannot pay because he has not signed a contract. I want to ask if you are deliberately struggling with the money?"

Operations Director Wu Ren interjected: "Assistant Qiao, signing the contract means that you will be given a perfect attendance award. Today's online works often cost millions, and it takes several years to write them, but the subscriptions they give back to the company are only RMB [-] cents. The perfect attendance awards issued by the company to young writers cannot be exchanged for income at all, and they have been unable to make ends meet. Writers like Guifu who cannot bring profits to the company can no longer sign."

“Doesn’t the group still have copyright income from big IPs?”

"The marketing expenses of big IPs are too high, but they have to spend money on publicity. Nowadays, the top-notch meat and florets are priced astronomically, and it is impossible to promote derivative products without inviting them to cooperate. The company has fallen into losses in the past two years, and the editorial department has only It can increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and improve audit standards.”

Luo E continued to help: "Yes, Special Assistant Qiao. Originally, the Internet literature industry was considered to be three pillars. Our Wenyuan Pavilion was the largest, the website of Wanfeng Consortium was second, and Wei Qingkuan's Meng Lei Culture was third. But in the past two years, Meng Lei Culture rides on the trend of female topics and short video adaptations, and has the potential to surpass one or two. The newly emerging Chengguo Qingti takes the new media route and uses news clients and CC public accounts to obtain huge amounts of money at a small cost. Profits. Luobishenghua.com and Liangmeng.com have also been expanding their strength with the help of free reading."

Luo E sighed: "And our company has spent a lot of money in order to retain well-known writers to attract traffic to the website. We also have a large number of ordinary writers under our control, and our financial income and expenditure have been overwhelmed. Our financial report at the end of last year was worse than The No. 4 Chengguo Qingti website is beautiful! Therefore, we will not sign writers like Guifu. Special Assistant Qiao, this hot search is just an accident. The editorial department is not targeting her at all. It is because the company really cannot support her. It’s time to be idle.”

The usually taciturn editor Ku Peng coughed and said slowly: "Actually, Guifu wrote a good story, but his grammar is not yet polished. It requires a good screenwriter and a good editor to perform all-round secondary processing to produce a finished product. Maybe all of you colleagues They all have this concern.”

Qiao Zhen asked: "How many writers like Guifu are there?"

Luo E didn't dare to answer.

Mu Gui also didn't want to speak.

Qiao Zhen's eyes turned to Mu Jin, "Does Editor Mu know?"

Mujin replied in a low voice: "There are probably about a hundred people who have not signed the contract for more than 500 million yuan."

Qiao Zhen frowned slightly, "What about those who haven't signed for more than 100 million?"

"There is no specific statistics, but it is roughly estimated to be four figures."

"So many?" Qiao Zhen sneered, "No wonder this incident has such a big impact. It turns out that a big hole has been dug!"

The editors bowed their heads.

"I will report the difficulties mentioned just now. But things have already happened. We need to appease netizens' emotions and reduce the impact on the stock price. Do you have any good solutions?"

Everyone is still silent.

Mu Gui said: "Assistant Qiao, Editor Mu has always been the backbone of the editorial department. Please let Editor Mu have a talk first!"

Mu Jin nodded: "Let me tell you a few immature thoughts. First of all, we must send an electronic signing invitation to this young writer as soon as possible. At least sign the "Fall" first."

Wu Rendao, director of the operations department: "'Fall' is almost over, and we have no precedent of signing a contract until it's almost over."

Qiao Zhen signaled Wu Ren to be silent and said to Mu Jin, "Keep talking."

"Second, I want to meet Guifu himself and sign a three- or five-year contract. I also want to try my best to sign the two currently controversial works to our company. I must not give away the copyright."

Wu Ren interrupted forcefully: "We have no precedent of signing a contract after finishing the book!"

Qiao Zhen also responded forcefully: "The situation has developed to this point, and young writers must not sign on to other websites! Do you want Wenyuan Pavilion to become a joke to the entire industry?"

The operations director was shocked by Qiao Zhen's attitude.

Qiao Zhen was angry and dignified: "Editor Mu, are there any more?"

Mu Jin was also stunned by Qiao Zhen and was stunned for a second before she came back to her senses.

Although there was still a lot he wanted to say, his experience in the workplace made Mu Jin smile and not answer: "No more for now. I wonder what Editor-in-Chief Mu thinks?"

Mu Gui clearly felt that Qiao Zhen agreed with these two suggestions, so he followed Mu Jin's words and said: "I think Editor Mu said it very well. Although there is no precedent, the rules can be changed. Let's pass the hot search first. Don’t affect the company’s stock price.”

Qiao Zhen heard what the peacemaker meant and looked at deputy editor Luo E: "What do you think, Mr. Luo?"

Luo E replied: "This is the best way at the moment. Please take the trouble to contact the editor-in-chief. In addition, it is best to study this long-term contract collectively, and you cannot use the previous versions of other writers. That little writer looks very tough. , if we don’t sign the contract but post it online, inciting netizens to poke our spines, the company will be in a more disadvantageous position.”

Mu Jin said: "What Mr. Luo said is true. The contract really needs to be changed. I don't dare to make the decision alone. I have to ask all the leaders to check it."

Qiao Zhen stretched out his arms to the man next to him and said: "Just in time to introduce you to everyone, this is lawyer Hu Zun from the legal department of the headquarters. It happens that Lawyer Hu will be stationed in Haicheng to handle some business, and the contract drafted about this incident can be Please ask Lawyer Hu to take a look."

When they heard that it was the legal affairs department at the headquarters, the faces of the editors present all turned dark.

Wenyuan Pavilion has a mature legal team, and the headquarters also sends people to interrogate, which is obviously a hidden distrust.

Editor-in-chief Mu Gui was a little angry and showed no signs of welcoming guests.

Seeing the situation, deputy editor Luo E hurriedly stood up and shook hands, smiling slightly but not smiling: "That's great, we have Lawyer Lao Hu!"

Hu Zun shook hands and returned the gift, calming the atmosphere and saying: "I am happy to help! In fact, I am also a newcomer. I have just joined YCEC not long ago. I am still familiar with the business of each branch. Please forgive me if I don't understand!"

The most taboo thing in the legal industry is to say that you are junior.

Hu Zun is willing to lower his status, which can be regarded as a step forward for the editorial team.

"Where is it! Lawyer Hu is really young and promising! YCEC's legal department is one of the first-class departments in Yazhou, and no ordinary person can get into it!" After Luo E complimented him, he motioned to the editor-in-chief Mu Gui with a busy look, asking him to hurry up. This meeting is over, otherwise we don’t know how many traps have been created.Mu Gui said: "Let's arrange it like this! Editor Mu will put aside other work at hand and concentrate on handling the hot search events. Mr. Luo will help coordinate the arrangements and trouble Lawyer Hu to review the contract!"

Qiao Zhen ignored the intention to break up the meeting and sat firmly in the chair and said: "Is this just like this? Today there is Guifu, and tomorrow there will be four-digit Zhang Fu, Wang Fu and Zhao Fu. I'm afraid this matter won't be so easy to get over."

"What does Assistant Joe mean?"

"Chief Editor Mu has expressed his opinion just now, but Editor Ku Peng and Editor Liu Yun haven't spoken yet! All the editors here can talk freely!"

There was an awkward silence for three minutes, with no one speaking.

None of the veteran editors who had worked hard in the workplace dared to say anything. Only the youngest editor, Liu Yun, who was not afraid of tigers, was the first to break the situation: "I have an idea, I don't know if it will work."

Qiao Zhen said kindly: "Tell me about it! We are now in the brainstorming discussion stage. It doesn't matter if you are wrong!"

The editor Liu Yun said: "Many low-level writers have not seen the light of day. After all, they still have no way to promote themselves. We might as well hold a talent show and let these low-level writers sign up for themselves and show their works in front of the public. If they themselves do not cooperate with the publicity , then it is not our company’s responsibility.”

Just when Luo E was about to tell the editor to shut up, Qiao Zhen glanced at the editor and continued to smile at the editor: "Did you come up with this idea? Can you elaborate on it?"

"Well, that's what I thought. I used to be a planner in an entertainment company, and I'm quite familiar with the process of making stars. In fact, the best way to promote a person is through the draft. Although large-scale drafts are not allowed in recent years, we You can find another way, do not initiate online voting, do not ask the audience to pay, just ask the judges to review, and then show the writer's style on the homepage of this website. At present, no other platform has done a talent show for writers. We might as well do an issue to reveal the online writers A program with a mysterious veil can also be considered as giving a chance to writers at the bottom.”

Qiao was really interested in the proposal and chatted for several hours.

Seeing that it was time for dinner, Mu Gui asked: "Assistant Qiao, it's time for dinner, please let's have a light meal together first!"

"Thank you Editor-in-Chief Mu for your warm hospitality. I have a private appointment today, so I won't be having dinner with you. Please ask Lawyer Hu to attend the banquet on my behalf, and we can also talk about the contract."

"Okay, where are you going? We will send a car to take you?"

"Thank you, I've already called a car. Please also ask Mr. Luo to start a group. We can contact you in the group if anything happens."

"it is good."

Without Qiao Zhen's wine shop, the Hongmen Banquet would be much less meaningful.

After the regular reception, Hibiscus and several female editors left first.

As soon as she left the hotel, Mu Jin received Qiao Zhen's CC friend application: "Editor Mu, would you like to come out and have a chat?"

Hibiscus immediately passed the application and came to a high-end teahouse not far away.

The faint scent of sandalwood lingers around my nose, and a thin trickle of water flows over me.

The slim waitress finished pouring the tea and then left.

Mujin raised her head: "What does Assistant Qiao have to do with me?"

"Although I met Editor Mu for the first time today, I felt like we were old friends at first sight." Qiao Zhen offered hot tea, "I have read Editor Mu's summary report last year, and it was very well written! I don't know how much Editor Mu treats low-level writers. What do you think about the improved treatment?”

"With all due respect, Wenyuan Pavilion is too big, and reform is destined to affect the whole body. As you saw at today's meeting, I think it is very difficult to help this small writer, let alone the thousands of people behind. "Mujin smiled bitterly, "The operations department shouts every day that the company is not a charity, and even our formal editors' promotions, benefits and vacations are not guaranteed, let alone the low-level writers who have not signed a contract?"

"What's the difficulty with editing?"

Hibiscus simply reported truthfully the issues such as the inability to be promoted when full editors were employed, lower wages and less performance, too many writers assigned, too busy work leading to a severe squeeze on vacation time, as well as difficulties in dividing CC communications, and constraints on channel resources, etc. A few words.

"I understand." Qiao Zhen took a sip of tea, "Right now, let's deal with Guifu's matter urgently. It's not convenient to say something in front of too many people today, but since Editor Mu is the person directly responsible for this incident, I I’ll give you the full details in my personal capacity.”

"Please speak."

"With so many companies under Mr. Lu, it is not easy to get to where we are today. This incident must be handled properly and must not bring about deeper negative public opinion."

"What does Mr. Lu mean?"

"Reduce the negative voices and make sure that Mr. Lu retires safely. You must not be as harsh on the contract you signed this time as you were with other writers. In the past, it was [-] points, but this time it is [-] points."

Seeing Mu Jin frowning, Qiao Zhen added: "No matter what trouble you encounter, contact me directly. I will help you remove all obstacles."

"I understand. Thanks to Mr. Lu and Assistant Qiao for their trust. I will do a good job."

"Hard."

*
Early the next morning, Mu Jin went to the editor-in-chief Mu Gui to talk about the matter.

"Chief editor, who is that special assistant Qiao? I feel very energetic."

Mu Gui replied: "The future daughter-in-law chosen by Mrs. Lu, the future hostess of YCEC."

"what?"

"Mrs. Lu has chosen several wealthy daughters who graduated from prestigious schools to keep around her. She is obviously choosing a concubine for Mr. Xiao Lu. Looking at it now, this Qiao really has the best chance of winning."

"Then what do we do?"

"Just do what she says! Mr. Lao Lu will retire in a year. He probably heard about Mr. Jiang from Wanfeng being invited to have tea and wants to keep a low profile before retiring. We will just do it! This time with that one You should pay close attention to the contract signed by the young writer! There can be no mistakes!"

(End of this chapter)