Rebirth Of Xiangjiang: From A Multinational Chaebol To The Light Of A Private Enterprise

In the summer of 1979, Xiangjiang, Mingbao Building.

Han Xiao is sitting in Daxia Zha's office.

Daxia Zha was kind-hearted, with regret on his face, and tried his best to persuade him to stay: "Xiao Han, do you really want to leave? You are a talent, and our newspaper needs you very much! If you have any requests, just mention them. Otherwise, I will Give you a salary increase of 2,000 yuan, and pay you 5,000 yuan a month, how do you think?"

Han Xiao smiled and shook his head and said: "Mr. Cha, thank you for your kindness. However, I have made up my mind to go. I want to do something of my own while I am young."

Daxia Zha saw that he couldn't keep it, so he had no choice but to say: "Success! You are a very ambitious young man, I hope you can make some achievements as soon as possible!"

"By the way, the response to your serialization of The Legend of Double Dragons in the Tang Dynasty is still very good. I hope you can continue to finish writing this book after you leave your job. I will pay you according to the best remuneration."

Han Xiao smiled and asked, "How much is Mr. Cha going to give me per thousand words?"

Daxia Zha gritted his teeth and said, "You know, when Ni Kuang writes a manuscript with me, the thousand words are only three hundred Hong Kong papers. How about I give you three hundred thousand words?"

Is this being an idiot?

I have traveled through time! I naturally know that Ni Kuang's manuscript fee is the highest in Hong Kong. In the late 1960s, Ni Kuang had already received a thousand words and a thousand dollars! By the 1980s, it was already two to three thousand yuan per thousand words.

Han Xiao shook his head and said, "Mr. Cha, I don't ask you too much. If you have 500 words, I'll sell you the whole book for exclusive serialization!"

"I have finished writing this book, with a total of 4.8 million words! Enough for you to serialize for 5 years!"

"If you can't make a deal, forget it. I'll set up my own publishing house and sell the book."

In Xiangjiang, it is not easy to set up a publishing house.

Cha Daxia rolled his eyes a few times and said, "Where is the manuscript?"

Han Xiao lifted the canvas bag by his feet to the table, opened it, and found that it was full of thick manuscripts, which were thousands of pages thick. And it's neatly stacked.

"It's all here. Mr. Cha, please take a look!"

Daxia Zha carefully checked the neatly bound manuscript.

Of course, his inspection is to read one or two pages of each episode, mainly to see the level of writing and the quality of the story.

After reading it, Daxia Zha pondered for a while and said, "Do you want to pay in one lump sum, or pay you monthly?"

Han Xiao said without hesitation: "I want a one-time payment! It must be cash!"

Daxia Zha said: "If you want a one-time cash payment, then I will pay you in two installments, 1 million in one payment! The total manuscript fee is 2 million! Young man, you don't want to get so much from any newspaper in Xiangjiang. , because you are not very famous yet! Your novels are not very valuable!"

This Mr. Cha is really shrewd, and he cares about everything.

However, this is a virtue for businessmen.

If it is not enough to instigate, it is impossible for Mr. Cha to run the famous newspaper so successfully.

"If that's the case, you must pay 2 million in one lump sum!" Han Xiao said firmly.

"Deal!" Daxia Zha said with a smile on his face.

Han Xiao said: "This is just the royalties for exclusive serialization, not buying out the copyright! If you want to publish books and sell them, you have to pay me royalties!"

"That's no problem!" Daxia Zha said lovingly, "Xiao Han, if you have a new work in the future, you should show me it first. I'm the only one in Hong Kong who can give you such a high manuscript fee! The best writers are all cooperating with me, this is the best proof!"

Han Xiao added: "I have one more request. I want to publish a newspaper recently, and I'm following the path of anecdotes and secrets. I hope that Mr. Cha can give me an endorsement so that I can publicize it."

Cha Daxia smiled.

He thought to himself, this young man is really ignorant. The competition in Hong Kong's newspaper industry has now reached a tragic level. If you don't have two brushes and nothing special, want to run a good newspaper?

Dream it!

What Daxia Zha thinks is that this young man has an extraordinary skill, and he wrote a 4.8 million-word masterpiece. He is really talented!

Therefore, he still wanted to sell a good one to Han Xiao.

When Han Xiao gets hit badly in society, he will naturally come back to help him.

Therefore, Cha Daxia agreed to help Han Xiao endorse his newspaper.

An hour later, Han Xiao had completed the resignation procedures, and he left Mingbao with a 2 million cash check.

Going downstairs to the lobby, I happened to meet Ni Kuang.

Han Xiao and Ni Kuang also met a few times, had a drink and a meal together, so they were relatively familiar.

After all, Han Xiao previously worked as an editorial assistant on the serial pages of famous newspapers.

Han Xiao had a few words with Ni Kuang.

"Mr. Ni, I'm going to start a newspaper, and I want you to be an image spokesperson, do you think it's okay?" Han Xiao said with a smile.

Ni Kuang squinted at Han Xiao: "There are enough newspapers in Xiangjiang, young man, don't be too ambitious, you can't succeed. Your novel is still good. I'm chasing Tang Shuanglong, it's very attractive." People. Can't you write your manuscript well?"