Li Youfu's self-deprecating statement was obviously beyond Cao Zhiqiang's expectations.
Cao Zhiqiang never expected that the other party would actually want to become a member of the publishing house and have a formal establishment by creating such a drama that could be used as a plot of a movie.
Of course, the essence of what the other party does is to have a backer and make better money.
The ultimate goal is to make money.
From this perspective, what Li Youfu did was similar to what Cao Zhiqiang did back then.
It's just that the path Cao Zhiqiang took is different from the path Li Youfu took.
From the beginning, Cao Zhiqiang took advantage of his mother's death to directly take over his identity and entered the factory as an apprentice.
Then he took advantage of the opportunity to grasp the stupid pillar.
Then he met the big leader through Shazhu, and then convinced the big leader to help him open the way.
Overall, Cao Zhiqiang was able to get where he is today in a short period of time, using a top-down approach.
In this process, Cao Zhiqiang not only knew a lot of plot information in advance and was able to take advantage of the situation, but the key was that he had cheats and could use them wildly.
If I don’t talk about anything else, let’s talk about the time when I met with the big leader.
Although the big leader himself is very good and is willing to support the younger generation, this support is not available to everyone.
If Cao Zhiqiang hadn't been brought over by Sha Zhu, the big boss wouldn't have met Cao Zhiqiang at all.
In addition, when he met the big boss, Cao Zhiqiang had already become a worker at Hongguang Machinery Factory ahead of schedule, and he was considered a member of the metallurgical department.
Moreover, Cao Zhiqiang also wrote poems in advance and became a famous poet who has been in the limelight recently. Not only did the leaders have heard of his name and read his works, but they also knew that he could earn an astonishing amount of wealth in a short period of time. .
Finally, Cao Zhiqiang played and sang a new song in front of the big boss. With his excellent talent and skills, as well as beautiful tunes and touching lyrics, he finally impressed the big boss, that is, Uncle Xu.
After that, Uncle Xu found Uncle Wang from the Zhongxuan system and chatted with Cao Zhiqiang for a while.
Cao Zhiqiang worked hard and managed to create a publishing house with a contract management model affiliated with a machinery factory.
During this period, ability, opportunity, plug-ins, and luck are all indispensable.
But overall, it was because Cao Zhiqiang had cheats, his own abilities were indeed strong enough, and he had made outstanding achievements, that he caught the eye of the two leaders and decided to give Cao Zhiqiang a chance to display his ambitions.
Afterwards, when Cao Zhiqiang came to give Uncle Wang a massage again, he learned from Uncle Wang that a small publishing house was just a phone call away for someone like Uncle Wang.
If it was just for this matter, Uncle Wang would not have gone to see Cao Zhiqiang at all. Even if it was to save Uncle Xu's face, he would have helped.
On the contrary, what Uncle Wang really cared about at that time was not Cao Zhiqiang's intention to open a publishing house, but Cao Zhiqiang's other business, which was a restaurant with a private economy model.
Because the country was already discussing the issue of private economy at that time, but the opinions were not yet completely unified.
But generally speaking, Uncle Wang prefers to open up the private economy, but this requires a pilot, and this pilot must be successful, otherwise he will not be able to convince others.
What a coincidence, when Cao Zhiqiang's incident happened, he came over to take a look and listened to Cao Zhiqiang's idea.
Regarding what Cao Zhiqiang said about the restaurant group, he actually tended to agree.
After all, when it comes to catering, China has actually opened up a lot, but currently most of them are self-employed or contracted, and there is no real private catering company model.
Uncle Wang is still very worried about whether to let Cao Zhiqiang take the lead and become the first boss of a private company.
In the end, he decided to see Cao Zhiqiang's quality first, that is, let Cao Zhiqiang open a publishing house first, and then decide whether to hand over the title of the first private company to Cao Zhiqiang based on Cao Zhiqiang's management ability.
Because of this, although Cao Zhiqiang went to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau early to fill out the form, filed a record, and submitted the catering company's plan to the Director of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, to this day, there is no news there.
At first, Cao Zhiqiang was a little disappointed, but later Uncle Wang told him privately that he should relax and focus on getting the publishing house done well. If the publishing house is done well, the private restaurant affairs will naturally be easier to handle.
Uncle Wang said that, and of course Cao Zhiqiang understood what was going on. This was clearly a test for him.
But no matter what, being able to be tested by Uncle Wang means that Uncle Wang is watching him.
With that person's attention, it was very convenient for Cao Zhiqiang to do anything. For example, when the Xinhua Bookstore Head Office first contacted him, he offered to purchase the goods at 50% of the price. This was already a great deal of respect for himself.
You must know that most publishing houses in Beijing currently sell books to Xinhua Bookstore at a purchase price of 40% or even 30% off the list price.
Cao Zhiqiang's Hongguang Publishing House was able to sell products at a 50% discount from Xinhua Bookstore right out of the gate. This is the treatment of a big publishing house.
For example, Writers Publishing House also offers a 50% discount on Xinhua Bookstore’s shipping price.
However, the origin of all this, or in the final analysis, is because Cao Zhiqiang has a cheat.
The external manifestation of this kind of cheating is the word "talent".
It is precisely because Cao Zhiqiang is talented, innocent, and has a rough life experience.
Coupled with the fact that he is young and vigorous, and has a certain representativeness of being a prodigal son, Cao Zhiqiang won the favor of the big boss, and decided to give Cao Zhiqiang a chance and use him as a guinea pig to try.
Yes, it’s a guinea pig.
After all, whether it is contracting and operating publishing houses or opening up to private companies, these are the issues discussed above.
Nowadays, some people take the initiative to be the guinea pig, of course they are happy.
But you can’t just be a guinea pig, you have to have the qualifications.
Just like if you want to be patriotic, you must have that qualification.
If you don’t have that qualification, why are you patriotic?
Since people are willing to give Cao Zhiqiang a chance, of course they have to investigate Cao Zhiqiang's personal situation.
But Cao Zhiqiang's personal situation is too inspiring, his path is too righteous, and he is a young man, so the two uncles are willing to help.
Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang's ability to reach where he is today in a short period of time since time travel is due to many factors, but the main reason is that Cao Zhiqiang is a cheater and has a clean financial background.
Comparing Cao Zhiqiang's situation, Li Youfu's situation is completely different.
According to Li Youfu, Li Youfu's father was a capitalist and was overthrown as early as 1966.
After that, Li Youfu remarried with his mother and was bullied by his stepfather in his new home.
Later, in order to protect him from his stepfather's beating, his mother stabbed his stepfather in the waist with a pair of scissors. Then he was taken to prison and is still serving his sentence in the border area.
And he, Li Youfu, was also kicked out of the house by his stepfather.
In order to make a living, he, who had not graduated from high school, took the initiative to go to the countryside to join the team. Later, he luckily returned to the capital through self-mutilation.
But after he came back, he couldn't find any job.
What should I do? I can only become self-employed.
Fortunately, Li Youfu is different from others, at least his experience and starting point are different.
Not to mention knowledge, the starting point is that Li Youfu is rich.
When his father was criticized and his house was ransacked, his mother actually secretly buried some property, such as some gold bars and jewelry.
Currently, only his mother, who is still serving a sentence, and Li Youfu, who helped bury the property, know about this matter.
Later, Li Youfu relied on the gold bars he had secretly hidden, and then sold goods from the south to the north.
Moreover, although Li Youfu is a prostitute, the items he chooses to do so are not the same.
He did not choose things like clothes and pants, but audio-visual products such as audio tapes and books.
The reason why I chose these things was not only that Li Youfu himself liked reading, but also because the inspection intensity of these things was relatively low.
At this time, if you are caught by the police with all kinds of electrical appliances, clothes, shoes and hats, they will be confiscated and fined.
But if it is reselling books and audio-visual products, because the jurisdiction in this area is relatively vague, as long as there are no obvious explicit and implicit pictures, the police will basically not take care of it.
Moreover, when he pays tolls during the transportation period, the tolls for books and audio-visual products can also be reduced. After all, they are considered cultural products.
Especially, if the books you pull include some scientific books, especially those in English, many toll stations will only charge you half of the toll.
There is no way, who made all parts of the country attach great importance to culture and scientific literacy.
At the same time, southern martial arts and audio tapes are quite popular among the people, and there is no need to worry about selling them.
Li Youfu just put some scientific books on the surface to support the scene, and inside there were a large number of martial arts and pop music tapes, and then brought them to the capital for wholesale and sold them to small vendors.
Through this method, although Li Youfu was young, he became a householder worth 100,000 yuan in just a few years, and was considered a big boss in the self-employed business.
Not to mention anything else, there are dozens of people who work for him, and they have long since left the category of self-employed people.
But at this time, he fell into a bottleneck period, because it would be difficult to handle further development.
The scale is getting bigger. If you want to go further, there are only two ways at this time.
Or, just find a regular national-brand unit to work for and become a worker.
Or, continue to expand secretly, and then form a gang to form an underground gang like the Chopper Gang.
Of course, Li Youfu didn't want to be the boss of an underground gang, but wanted to find an employer to affiliate with, because it was safer.
Why did he choose books and audio-visual products in the first place? Wasn't it because these things were relatively safer?
But in 1983, most state-owned units, especially those in the capital, were very arrogant. No matter how poor they were, they would not look down on people like Li Youfu and would not agree to let him be affiliated.
Li Youfu once found many ways and spent a lot of money, but in the end, this way didn't work.
Of course, it's not entirely because he dislikes Li Youfu. The most important thing is that Li Youfu's background is problematic.
Although it has been changed now, and on the surface it no longer looks like one is born, in fact, in real life, one still pays great attention to one's origin.
If you are in a situation like Li Youfu, no matter whether it is a state-owned enterprise or a public institution in the capital, it is impossible for someone like Li Youfu to be affiliated with you. If something goes wrong, it will be difficult to handle and they will not be able to shoulder this responsibility.
It was precisely because he was rejected so many times that Li Youfu became discouraged and began to take deviant measures.
Originally, it was fine that other units didn't have a chance, but finally Li Youfu saw an opportunity and discovered the loopholes of Hongguang Publishing House, so why didn't he pounce on it quickly?
In Li Youfu's view, although Hongguang Publishing House is a small publishing house, it is also a formal publishing house with a national brand name.
The key point is that this publishing house has little experience and dares to secretly deal with private individuals and conduct private transactions with second-rate dealers. This is a pure crime of speculation.
Li Youfu believes that this must be caused by someone inside who is crazy about money. They make money secretly but lack experience.
Sooner or later, people will find out about this kind of thing, and sooner or later, people will use it to attack and report it.
In this case, it is better to let yourself get this handle before others.
As long as he has this handle, Li Youfu doesn't have to worry about the other party not giving in. He can also take the opportunity to negotiate terms with the other party, affiliate himself with this publishing house, and do business legitimately.
Li Youfu believed that although the publishing house had no experience, with his participation, it would definitely become popular.
"What you call the news is that you want our publishing house to work for you and take the blame for you?" Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile.
"How can you say you are working for me?" Li Youfu said, "What I mean is to cooperate and make money together."
Having said this, Li Youfu was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Cao Zhiqiang carefully: "Wait, your publishing house? You, you are from Hongguang Publishing House? Not from the Security Department?"
Cao Zhiqiang shrugged: "When did I say that I was from the security department? You misunderstood."
After smiling slightly, Cao Zhiqiang said again: "Let me meet you, my name is Cao Zhiqiang, I am the general manager and vice president of Hongguang Publishing House.
But that’s not important. You can understand that I am the leader of Hongguang Publishing House and I have the final say in everything. "
"Cao Zhiqiang?" Li Youfu blinked, "Are you the General Manager Cao who founded Hongguang Publishing House?"
"Huh?" Cao Zhiqiang said in surprise, "You know me?"
Li Youfu nodded quickly: "Yes, of course I know, Shen. Brother Shen has been talking about your deeds since he drank too much. Of course I know you."
"This guy." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "It seems that we can't let him drink in the future. Once he drinks, he won't be able to control his mouth."
Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang looked at Li Youfu again: "Li Youfu, that is to say, you have done so much, just want to join our Hongguang Publishing House, or be affiliated with our Hongguang Publishing House, is that what you mean?"
"Yes." Li Youfu admitted.
"I have also heard about your experience." Cao Zhiqiang said, "If they are true, then you can be considered a talent."
"Everything I said is true, and there is absolutely no lie." Li Youfu said quickly, "If you don't believe me, you can go check it out!"
Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "It's easy to say, but you said so much, about how hard you worked and how miserable you were, but you didn't actually get to the point."
"What do you mean?" Li Youfu asked.
Cao Zhiqiang leaned back slightly, folded his arms, crossed his legs and said:
"Li Youfu, I can let you go, or I can accept you into our publishing house, and then our publishing house will protect you so that you can do business with confidence and boldness.
The crux of the question is, why?
In other words, after taking you in, what can you bring to me?
If you can't reflect your worth, you can't give me what I want.
Why should I let you go, and why should I accept you and protect you? "
7017k
