Obviously, what Cao Zhiqiang said to Director Li was a kind of misdirection based on adaptability, but the misinformation was just right and Director Li believed it.
The reason is very simple, that is, Cao Zhiqiang's explanation is very reasonable, and it is what Director Li has in mind.
After all, in Director Li's view, the 10% benefit he asked for was not much at all, and it was Cao Zhiqiang who took the initiative.
In addition, during this period of time together, he and Cao Zhiqiang have always cooperated well, and there have been no conflicts or conflicts between the two parties. He has even been very supportive and protective of Cao Zhiqiang.
According to Factory Manager Li's view of Cao Zhiqiang, even if Cao Zhiqiang feels sorry for the 20% of the profit, he will take the initiative to discuss it with him. There is no reason to secretly complain to the old leader, not to mention that with Cao Zhiqiang's mind and means, he may not feel sorry for those 20%. into profit.
After all, the 20% of the profits were given to him and Secretary Dong, which was equivalent to a bundle of interests. From now on, the three of them were in the same boat.
There is no reason for someone as smart as Cao Zhiqiang to be so short-sighted. He just wants to take back his profits now.
In addition, Factory Director Li also knew very well that the old leader hated corruption, bending the law, and bribery. If Cao Zhiqiang told the old leader, Cao Zhiqiang would also be implicated, and he might even lose the old leader's trust and care.
The reason why he is so sure is that Director Li not only understands the character of the old leader, but also knows the details of Cao Zhiqiang.
That's right, compared to others, Factory Director Li actually knows better what the real relationship between Cao Zhiqiang and the old leader is. He knows that the direct relationship between the two is not at all like distant relatives as the outside world spreads.
Very early on, Director Li secretly investigated Cao Zhiqiang. After learning that Cao Zhiqiang's real backstage was the old leader, he became even more cautious and inquired about his true relationship with the old leader.
In fact, it is not difficult to find out the real relationship between Cao Zhiqiang and the old leader. As long as he has a meal with the old leader's nanny, gives some gifts, and arranges her son's work issues, everything will be clear.
According to the nanny of the old leader, Cao Zhiqiang and the old leader were not related to each other. It was just that the old leader had a good friend who was a cook and had known each other for many years.
And this Cao Zhiqiang is the neighbor of the old leader, the cook's friend.
Then, somehow, Cao Zhiqiang found out about the relationship between his neighbor and the old leader, so he begged the neighbor to help him and introduce him to the old leader.
Under the introduction of the cook named He Yuzhu, after Cao Zhiqiang formally met with the old leader, and with his eloquence and indeed some talent and ability, he made a self-recommendation and actually won the favor and favor of the old leader. So I gave Cao Zhiqiang a little help and became a close friend.
In this way, the old leader became Cao Zhiqiang's backstage and spared no effort in helping him.
I remember when I heard the news, Director Li was still amazed and amazed at Cao Zhiqiang's ability to work.
But this also shows that the relationship between Cao Zhiqiang and the old leaders is not deep. At best, it is a relationship between an old cadre who has taken a back seat, appreciating talented juniors and supporting them.
Therefore, once Cao Zhiqiang takes the initiative to tell the old leader that he secretly sent money to Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong, this will definitely trigger the old leader's resentment.
Normally, according to the temper of the old leader, if Cao Zhiqiang is really the whistleblower, the old leader should call him, Secretary Dong and Cao Zhiqiang to confront each other, and then criticize and educate them together, instead of just asking Secretary Dong to follow him and not Cao Zhiqiang. Called, not even a word of criticism towards Cao Zhiqiang.
The only explanation is that the old leader misunderstood and thought that he and Secretary Dong took the initiative to ask for bribes from Cao Zhiqiang. He believed that Cao Zhiqiang was an innocent victim, so he did not ask Cao Zhiqiang to come over or criticize Cao Zhiqiang.
In fact, the old leader's last criticism was of the same tone, that is, he and the old director were severely criticized, but Cao Zhiqiang was not mentioned at all.
This originally made Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong suspicious, but this suspicion was not that they suspected Cao Zhiqiang of filing a complaint, but that there was something wrong on their side.
Director Li asked Cao Zhiqiang just out of caution, but he was more worried that Cao Zhiqiang would leak the information, not that he suspected something was wrong with Cao Zhiqiang.
Cao Zhiqiang was also very smart and quickly understood what Factory Director Li meant, so he simply made something out of nothing and misled Factory Director Li.
In fact, Cao Zhiqiang did this not because he was afraid of Factory Director Li, but because he didn't want to cause trouble.
After all, he had made it clear to Uncle Xu before that it would be enough to let Uncle Xu beat Director Li, but he did not want to change people. After all, he and Director Li worked well together.
Of course, the reason why Cao Zhiqiang secretly complained to Uncle Xu was not because he felt sorry for the 20% profit.
After all, that 20% was 20% of the net profit, not 20% of the selling price. These were two different things, so at the time, it was not too outrageous.
However, with the popularity of the book "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes", the income is getting higher and higher, and the net profit earned by Cao Zhiqiang is also getting higher and higher. In contrast, Director Li and Secretary Dong are getting more and more money. It has reached a ridiculously high level.
It can be said that with the amount of share that Director Li and Secretary Dong currently receive, once they are exposed, it will be a major economic crime.
Once Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong are in trouble due to financial problems, Cao Zhiqiang will have to follow suit because he is the briber.
Don't think for anything, this is Cao Zhiqiang's personal income, and his 20% of profits are private donations. This rhetoric is of no use to the relevant departments.
In other words, Cao Zhiqiang originally thought that this method was OK, but later he consulted relevant people, specifically Secretary Chen Jiabang, and realized how wrong he was.
The biggest problem is that the way Cao Zhiqiang makes money is through Hongguang Publishing House, and Hongguang Publishing House is a state-owned enterprise or a subsidiary of Hongguang Machinery Factory.
In this way, Cao Zhiqiang makes money from Hongguang Publishing House and then pays it to Director Li and Secretary Dong. Regardless of whether the money given is part of your personal income or not, this is considered bribery.
Don't ask, ask, that's the rule.
Therefore, after understanding this, Cao Zhiqiang had long wanted to find an opportunity to cut off this profit sharing path and find a more reasonable or compliant method for Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong to "legally" get rich.
The idea that Cao Zhiqiang gave to Director Wang of Yuhong Machinery Factory, that is, the idea of "buying box office" through the video hall, was an attempt by Cao Zhiqiang. This practice, which was obviously illegal in later generations, is currently legal. .
Why is it legal?
Because when transferring money through the video hall, Cao Zhiqiang used his personal income to buy the box office of the video hall. Even if there is a problem with this matter, it is Cao Zhiqiang's personal behavior, and it involves self-employed individuals and does not involve state-owned assets. It's not a big problem, or it's not a problem.
And if this self-employed person who has made money happens to be a relative of the factory director or secretary's wife or children, according to the current regulations, it is not a problem at all.
Family members of cadres were not allowed to engage in business. That was a later matter, and this rule is not yet in place.
In short, the current situation is that there is no small matter for state-owned enterprises. Cao Zhiqiang's previous bribery, no, the share-sharing method, as long as it involves state-owned assets, it is a crime.
Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang has long wanted to cut off the line of interest binding with Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong, but he couldn't say it clearly for fear that the other party would have other ideas.
It just so happened that Cao Zhiqiang had just given Uncle Xu a "big gift". If nothing unexpected happened, the relevant departments would focus on protecting Cao Zhiqiang in the future. So why not take this opportunity to use Uncle Xu to give Director Li and Secretary Dong a hard time and let them Understand the seriousness of the matter.
In this way, Cao Zhiqiang does not need to be a bad guy to cut off Director Li and Secretary Dong's share of the publishing house, and of course the reselling transactions with other machinery factories, and resolve the related crisis in advance.
As for Cao Zhiqiang's personal income, it is not a problem, because his personal income is clearly royalties and is collected according to the contract. These are two different things.
However, if Cao Zhiqiang's personal income collected in accordance with the contract is directly distributed to Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong, this would be considered bribery.
Of course, this does not mean that Cao Zhiqiang will burn bridges and deny benefits to Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong, but he will not do so.
But Cao Zhiqiang wants to use a better method, which is the method he told Director Wang before, to tie Director Li and Secretary Dong to himself again, but this method is at least legal for now.
Also, through this incident, Factory Director Li and Secretary Dong can also be more vigilant and clean up the people around them in advance to avoid jealous people looking for trouble.
Anyway, it's all good and no harm.
that's the truth.
After the meeting with Director Li, Cao Zhiqiang quickly implemented Wang Xiaohong's job and made her a cashier of Hongguang Publishing House.
That night, Cao Zhiqiang made an appointment with Director Li and Secretary Dong to have dinner together, and told him the idea he had originally told Director Wang, which was the method of "buying box office in the video hall".
As soon as this method was mentioned, Director Li and Secretary Dong were immediately tempted.
After all, as Cao Zhiqiang said, this method is safer and less afraid of investigation.
Just like that, the next day, Director Li's eldest grandson and Secretary Dong's third grandson each borrowed a sum of money from Cao Zhiqiang and opened a self-employed video parlor in different places.
Thanks to the help of Director Liu from the Art Bureau, the procedures for opening a video studio in the capital were very easy and not difficult for the two of them.
As long as the procedures are complete and the money is in place, renting a house, buying equipment, and doing renovations are all trivial.
While Director Li's eldest grandson and Secretary Dong's third grandson were busy working in the video room together, Cao Zhiqiang was not idle either.
In other words, Cao Zhiqiang is the busiest during these days.
Because he is busy dubbing and dubbing for the movie "Love in Gu Pavilion" he shot, post-production, polishing "Love in Gu Pavilion", releasing his own new music album, and releasing a new music album for Hao Shuwen.
The dubbing and post-production of "Love in the Guting" is actually not difficult. After all, he has a "dream space for audio-visual production". It is not difficult to score and post-produce the video he has shot.
The real difficulty is that Cao Zhiqiang needs to take his time during post-production and not go too far in post-production, so as not to be unable to explain afterwards.
Of course, it was precisely because he wanted to hide it from everyone that Cao Zhiqiang decided to bring a copy of the master tape of the movie with him when he went to Japan, and then pretended to find a post-production company in Japan to use Japanese technology for post-production. Make.
As for the Japanese post-production company, Cao Zhiqiang had already thought about it. He could not find a ready-made post-production company in Japan. Instead, he would use the US dollars given to him by the relevant departments afterwards to set up an offshore company.
The company is registered in the Virgin Islands and its office is located in Japan.
At this time, at least my home country is not that capable to find out the specific situation of a company in Japan, not to mention that it is registered in the Virgin Islands.
Even if someone checks it, it can be said that it is a service-oriented company. The specific post-production personnel are anonymous and are company secrets. This should be able to cope with it for a long time.
In other words, the post-production company must be from abroad, and it is best to have more than one company and several more companies.
Film and television post-production companies are not a sensitive industry. Generally, no one will investigate, and no problems can be found.
As long as Cao Zhiqiang's post-production is not too outrageous and does not exceed Hollywood standards, there will not be a big problem.
At most, when people ask, they just say that the Hollywood team accepts private work anonymously, which is not a big problem.
Of course, setting up a company in Japan is only a temporary solution, and the best place to set up a company is in Hong Kong.
However, at present, it is not convenient for Cao Zhiqiang to go to Xiangjiang to do it. This will be discussed later.
Post-production is easy, but as for the dubbing, it only takes two days to concentrate on it, and everything will be fine.
Music albums are no problem. They are all ready-made. Just find a few good songs, copy them, and then record them into records.
Only this time, Cao Zhiqiang does not plan to make a solo record, but a group record, which is a duet between him and Hao Shuwen.
The tracks on the record are all ready-made, just copy "Above the Moon" from Phoenix Legend in the previous life.
Although the album "Above the Moon" was called a country song and rural heavy metal in its previous life, its popularity is real.
In the early 1980s, this album was actually more relevant to the times. As long as the lyrics were slightly changed, it would be a hit.
This is also true, because during the actual singing and recording process, Cao Zhiqiang was okay, but Hao Shuwen was really surprised by the songs in this album.
Especially the title song "Above the Moon" made Hao Shuwen unable to stop singing.
However, Hao Shuwen's voice is hoarse and low, so when she actually sings, Hao Shuwen actually sings the original male part, and the original female part is sung by Cao Zhiqiang.
Needless to say, this way, the effect will be explosive. After all, Cao Zhiqiang is gifted with a golden voice, and the high pitch is the easiest to stand out. When paired with Hao Shuwen's deep female voice, the effect is very good.
Cao Zhiqiang works non-stop every day without even a moment of leisure.
In this kind of high-intensity work, he spent a whole week to finally get everything done here.
Next, he can go abroad to Japan with peace of mind.
However, the night before Cao Zhiqiang was about to go to Japan, two uninvited guests suddenly came.
