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179 Contract publishing house, unchanged for 30 years(1/2)

It turned out that on the second day after Cao Zhiqiang officially broke the green color, Hongguang Machinery Factory called Cao Zhiqiang and asked Cao Zhiqiang to go to the unit the next morning.

In this way, two days ago, Cao Zhiqiang went to Hongguang Machinery Factory to work early in the morning, and as soon as he started working, he was called to the factory director's office.

Director Li talked to Cao Zhiqiang for a long time in his office, and the topic was about the publishing house.

According to Director Li, the publishing house license applied for by Hongguang Machinery Factory has been approved by the above.

In other words, since the moment Director Li asked Cao Zhiqiang to speak, there has been a new publishing house affiliated to Hongguang Machinery Factory in this world - Hongguang Publishing House.

Don’t blame the name for being decided in advance. It’s really not something Cao Zhiqiang can control.

After all, the applicant for this publishing house is Hongguang Machinery Factory, so according to the normal process, the new publishing house must of course be called Hongguang Publishing House.

In order to take care of Cao Zhiqiang, the president of Hongguang Publishing House was the former editor-in-chief of Hongguang Magazine Department, Zhou Huaienlai.

The reason why Zhou Huaienlai was given the position of president was not only because Zhou Huaien had the oldest qualifications and the highest seniority, but also because Zhou Huaien is now 58 years old and is about to retire.

Nowadays, Editor Zhou is basically in the Hongguang Machinery Factory for retirement. When he was in the past, he didn't even have to participate in the magazine department's duty activities. He just needed to click on the mail at the end of each month to check whether there were any sensitive issues in the articles in the internal journal.

To put it bluntly, Zhou Huaien's past position was actually an audit, and he only needed to appear at the end of the month and check it in the end, and he didn't have to do anything else.

If this old man came out to be the president, it was obvious that he would delegate power to the general manager Cao Zhiqiang.

That's right, according to Director Li, after Hongguang Publishing House applied for it, it was nominally a subsidiary of Hongguang Machinery Factory. But in fact, Hongguang Machinery Factory would sign an internal contract agreement with Cao Zhiqiang personally.

In other words, as long as the contract agreement is signed, Cao Zhiqiang is the general manager of the publisher and is fully responsible for all the business matters of the publisher. Hongguang Machinery Factory does not need to pay a penny to the publisher.

Cao Zhiqiang just had a publishing house sign, and Cao Zhiqiang was responsible for other office spaces, water and electricity bills, staff salaries, etc.

By the way, the old people from the Hongguang Magazine Department, such as Lao Qian and Sister Niu, were also arranged to join the newly established Hongguang Publishing House.

But these people don’t need to work in a publishing house, they just need to be an idle person and get their salary on time.

In other words, whether it is President Zhou or Sister Niu, those old people who used to be Hongguang Magazine now have their salaries, but their relationship is still with Hongguang Machinery Factory.

Sister Niu and others may not participate in the management of the publishing house, but their salary must be paid on time, and other medical reimbursements and other treatments cannot be bad. This is equivalent to asking Cao Zhiqiang to raise these idle people for the machinery factory.

In this way, Hongguang Machinery Factory has a less burden, but this burden has to be carried by Cao Zhiqiang.

It doesn't matter. After all, it's just the salary of six people. Even if you include bonuses and allowances, it's nothing in this era. Anyway, Cao Zhiqiang didn't see it.

As the contractor, Hongguang Publishing House should also pay a management fee, or a contract fee, to Hongguang Machinery Factory.

Generally speaking, this kind of contract fee can be divided into two modes, one is an unfixed share mode, and the other is a fixed mode.

The share model is that the publishing house and the machinery factory share the money according to the profit ratio.

Generally, it is 30% or 70%, which means that the publishing house pays 30% of the profits to the machinery factory every year.

The disadvantage of this model is that the more the publisher earns, the more money he pays.

The advantage is that if the publisher does not make a profit or lose money, in theory, there is no need to pay management fees.

Since a contractor has the right to operate an organization, it is too simple if he wants to make the contracted unit he has made a loss on the books. Just find a qualified accountant to handle it.

So during this period, most contractors generally like to play the share model, but most contracted units often don’t like it because the risks are too high.

Another model is the fixed management fee model.

This model is to pay a fixed amount of agreed management fee regardless of whether the unit you contracted by your contractor makes or loses, or no matter how much you make or how much you make.

Under this model, the contractor is under greater pressure, while the contracted unit is under less pressure, because no matter whether the contractor makes or loses, the contractor has money to get.

Originally, because of the relationship, Director Li wanted Cao Zhiqiang to enter a share model.

After all, under the share model, the contractor can play a lot of tricks and the pressure is low. As long as he causes a book loss every year, the machinery factory will not ask him for management fees.

To put it bluntly, this is a kind of care between Secretary Dong and Director Li, who want to take care of Cao Zhiqiang's business.

Of course, the premise of this kind of care is that Cao Zhiqiang has a good relationship with the two leaders, Mr. Xu and Mr. Wang. If it weren't for these two great Buddhas, neither Secretary Dong nor Director Li would have spoken so well to Cao Zhiqiang.

Among them, Mr. Xu has actually retreated to the second line, and his actual power is no longer great, but his connections are prestige.

But Uncle Wang is different. Uncle Wang not only has connections and prestige, but also has a real power leader, but also has power and status, but is only higher than Uncle Xu.

There are these two people standing behind Cao Zhiqiang, and a publishing house, Hongguang Machinery Factory doesn't take it seriously at all.

In fact, although units like the publishing house are very important, difficult to deal with, and even have great potential in Cao Zhiqiang's opinion.

But in the eyes of many people, especially those like Secretary Dong and Director Li, a mere publishing house is nothing.

Because it is difficult for Cao Zhiqiang to open a publishing house, but for people like Secretary Dong and Director Li, that is not a problem at all.

Cao Zhiqiang later learned that even if he didn't ask for the big leaders, he only wanted Secretary Dong and Director Li to apply for a publishing house and then handed it over to him for contracting.

The reason is very simple, that is, it is not difficult for those who are in power.

As an individual, Cao Zhiqiang wanted to open a publishing house, so it was certainly difficult to reach the sky during this period.

But Hongguang Machinery Factory, a large state-owned enterprise in Beijing with more than 8,000 employees, belongs to the Ministry of Metallurgy, should not be too easy to apply for a publishing house in the name of the unit.

I didn't do this before, just because it was too troublesome and unnecessary, and I was afraid of another loss-making department.

After all, during this period, most publishing houses were actually loss-making units. At this time, the nature of the hospital was similar. They were all differential funding models, and they were not self-investment models like design institutes.

The publishing house is really popular and it is really beginning to bloom. Any unit has to set up a publishing house to make money. That will happen in 1985 years later.

Coincidentally, around 1985, most publishers became units with self-containment and self-supporting mode, and everything was self-contained.

Perhaps it is precisely because most publishers have become self-sponsored units, and the pressure is high that later publishers are focused on making money.

What are the edge magazines and pirated audio tapes? They are all made by those miscellaneous publishing houses that bloom with flowers.

Of course, it was precisely because of the chaos during that period that after the 1990s, relevant departments began to crack down on them, and a large number of problematic publishing houses were abolished.

In addition, I would like to tell you a little knowledge.

That is, in the 1980s, not all publishing houses were public institutions, and state-owned enterprises could also open publishing houses.

But in most cases, in big cities like Beijing, most publishing houses are public institutions.

However, in local cities, especially small cities established based on enterprises, such as Qinghong's birthplace, many local publishing houses are state-owned enterprises and subordinate units of factories.

In those small local cities, local government agencies and institutions are far less awesome than local state-owned enterprises. Not only are they less rich than state-owned enterprises, but they are also less powerful than state-owned enterprises.

Therefore, as a state-owned enterprise in Beijing, Hongguang Machinery Factory has no problem applying for a publishing house.

However, publishers of state-owned enterprises are not at this time’s differential funding model. The government will not allocate funds to publishers of this form, but will be solely responsible for the publishing company’s expenses.

However, whether it is a publishing house with a public institution model or a publishing house with a state-owned enterprise model, it must be supervised by the Publishing Bureau.

Therefore, the Hongguang Publishing House contracted by Cao Zhiqiang is only the organizer of Hongguang Machinery Factory, but it is still subject to the management and supervision of the Publishing Bureau.

In the eyes of Director Li, if the publisher can contract out after the contract is completed and there is no need to invest money in it, someone will raise a group of old employees who only take money but don’t work and get a lot of money for them. That’s all they want.

Even if it is to support people, he can do without management fees.

You should know that whether it is Lao Zhou, Lao Qian, or Sister Niu in the former magazine department.

Those people are veteran cadres, and they are very high in terms of service and level, so their salary is also quite large, and each person gets an average of 200 yuan per month.

The average person is 200, and six people are 1,200, and actually more than 1,500.

This thousand five is a monthly fee, and it is 18,000 yuan a year. It’s really not a small amount of money!

It’s not counting the medical reimbursement of these people. At this time, these factory cadres have all reimbursed their medical expenses!

If the medical expenses are added, these old guys will spend at least 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year!

This money is a considerable burden for Hongguang Machinery Factory.

So in the opinion of Director Li, Cao Zhiqiang was able to contract a magazine and raise Lao Zhou and other idle people, which was just a big help to Hongguang Machinery Factory. If he asked for management fees from others, it would be a bit unethical, let alone Cao Zhiqiang's death.

But after all, Hongguang Machinery Factory is a state-owned enterprise, so it is impossible to follow the rules of everything. It is not possible to not have management fees. It cannot be passed by the organization, so it must be a little more symbolic.

That's why Director Li wanted Cao Zhiqiang to choose the division model.

Because in this way, as long as Cao Zhiqiang tampers with trouble on the books and causes a loss every year, he will no longer have to pay the management fee.

But Cao Zhiqiang didn't choose this, but instead chose a fixed payment model.

The reason is very simple. In Cao Zhiqiang's opinion, no matter how clever you do, there are traces. As long as someone checks, you will definitely find it out. Once it is found out, it is not a problem of replenishing money. It is very likely that even your license will be revoked.

In addition, making fake accounts is not so easy to pass.

It’s okay to say when Director Li and Secretary Dong are both here, but what if someone is replaced?

Secretary Dong is now fifty-six, and Director Li is fifty-five, and he is almost retired.

Once these two people retire and have a new leader, they may not be so easy to talk to.

And Cao Zhiqiang is very confident in himself.

He was very sure that under his leadership, or under his own system plug-in, his publishing house would prosper and become a terrifying cash cow.

After all, his publishing house has a wide business scope. It is a comprehensive publishing house that can not only publish books and magazines, but also produce audio-visual products.

In other words, Hongguang Publishing House can not only publish books and novels, but also publish magazines, newspapers, and even audio-visual products.

To put it bluntly, today's publishing house is a distribution platform.

As long as you have the name of a publishing house, you can legitimately link it to the largest publication agency in China, the Post Office, and Xinhua Bookstore.

In other words, without the skin of a publishing house, you can print books and sell them privately, or record audio-visual products and sell them privately.
To be continued...
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