1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Liu Hanghang was also very motivated and said immediately, "I'll call Chen Hongheng now. He should be in the office today."

Zhou Yan nodded in agreement, and then Liu Hang made the call.

After a while, the call was connected. Liu Hang briefly exchanged greetings with Chen Hongheng, and then brought up the topic of work.

Liu Hang roughly said that they had a position that was more suitable for him. He didn't say the specific content. He just said that if he was willing, he would talk to the boss.

After hearing this, Chen Hongheng said decisively: "Of course I am willing."

After jumping out of his original company, Chen Hongheng opened a company in Shanghai, but the development was average. Although there was business and he could make a living, it was far from his previous plan.

Now he also recognizes the fact that no matter how experienced he is in this industry, it is useless as he still needs resources and connections.

Zhou Yan's studio obviously has both resources and connections, making it a good platform for him.

Therefore, after Liu Hang finished speaking, he agreed to further communication without any hesitation.

Liu Hang was a little surprised to hear Chen Hongheng agree so quickly. He glanced in Zhou Yan's direction and said, "Then I will let the boss talk to you directly now."

"Okay, no problem."

Liu Hang covered the microphone and said to Zhou Yan, "Boss, you can tell him now."

Zhou Yan nodded, walked over and took the phone, "Hello, I'm Zhou Yan."

Hearing Zhou Yan's voice, Chen Hongheng smiled and said, "Hello, Mr. Zhou, it's been a long time."

Zhou Yan and Chen Hongheng haven't been in touch since they contacted each other because of Shueisha's collection. It has indeed been a long time.

Zhou Yan did not exchange greetings with Chen Hongheng, but went straight to the topic, "Our studio is now planning to set up a literature department to handle the book business of me and several other writers, so we are in urgent need of someone who understands publishing, so Liu Hang told me I recommended you. Since you are willing to work in Yanjing, let’s not beat around the bush and talk about the conditions directly. There are not many jobs in the Literature Department at this stage, and the salary will definitely not be particularly high.”

Chen Hongheng thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Zhou, actually I don't care much about salary. What I care about more is, Mr. Zhou, the purpose of establishing this literary department. If you say it is just to handle the copyright business of you and several other writers, , then I can’t go there.”

Zhou Yan's reputation is great, and he must have a lot of book copyright business, but no matter how much business he has, he can't just rely on Zhou Yan and a few other writers to grow the department.

If it is just to ensure the harvest during droughts and floods, there is no need for Chen Hongheng to go to Yanjing to work. Wouldn't it be better for him to continue to run his company in Shanghai?

And although the company is developing slowly, it has been making progress. In the future, it will definitely be better than a bad department.

Zhou Yan also understood that this Chen Hongheng was very ambitious and looked down on petty troubles.

This is also understandable. If Chen Hongheng was not an ambitious person, he would not change jobs from his previous company and start his own company.

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "If you are really capable, I will leave this department to you, and you will decide how it develops. I want to know how much you know about the publishing business. Can you tell me about your details?" You can also tell me about your work experience and what your plans will be if you really come to take charge of the Literature Department.”

Chen Hongheng did not get into Zhou Yan's rhythm. He asked Zhou Yan, "Before we talk about this, Mr. Zhou, I want to ask you first, what is the cooperation model between our studio and writers? Are we acting as writers' agents?"

"Well, that's about it."

"Mr. Zhou, I'm not pouring cold water on you. In China, the functions of writers' agents are broken down by the writers themselves, publishing houses and some copyright agencies. In such an environment, the prospects of writers' agents are not good, let alone setting up a special one. Specialized department. Nowadays, the domestic publishing industry is not mature enough, commercialization is not enough, and the income is not high. It is difficult for writers to make money, so why should they give us money? Mr. Zhou, what do you think of the advantages of our studio? What, how can you find a way out in such a bad environment? "

Hearing Chen Hongheng's words, Zhou Yan twitched his lips. This guy was really interesting. He was so interesting in what he said.

"The domestic environment is indeed not good, but there are always some writers who can make money, and some writers have the need to expand abroad. You also know this. The collection that Yu Hua and I have done is what you have done before. In addition, Our studio covers music, movies, and TV series, and has a wide range of business, and has the ability to help writers manage their works. This is our advantage.”

Chen Hongheng was silent for a while and said, "Mr. Zhou, can we talk in person? If possible, I will go to Yanjing to find you."

"No problem." Zhou Yan also wanted to talk face to face with Chen Hongheng.

It’s not convenient to talk about many things on the phone.

"Okay, then I'll check the tickets and go to Yanjing as soon as possible."

"Well, just ask Liu Hang to reimburse you for the travel expenses."

…

After agreeing to meet and chat later, Zhou Yan hung up the phone.

Liu Hang smiled and said, "Boss, are you satisfied with him?"

He knew Zhou Yan, and if he was dissatisfied with Chen Hongheng, he would not let anyone come to Yanjing at all.

"Yeah, not bad." Zhou Yan nodded.

Although the two of them didn't talk about anything too detailed just now, Zhou Yan could tell that Chen Hongheng did know a lot about book publishing and was professional.

There are few talents in China who understand book publishing, because there are no private companies in this field. As Chen Hongheng said, the functions of domestic writers' agents have been broken down.

The most capable of replacing writers' agents are various publishing houses.

Most writers will choose to establish cooperative relationships with publishing houses, and the promotion of books and copyright transactions in the later stage will also be handled by publishing houses.

Since such talents are rare, Zhou Yan will certainly not give up easily.

Chen Hongheng also attracted Zhou Yan in that he also had some understanding of the book market in Japan. If their works enter Japan again in the future, it will be much easier for Chen Hongheng to operate.

"Boss, when will the new department go through the administrative process?"

This is the charter of their company. If a new department is to be established, it must go through the administrative process. After the process is passed, it means that the department is officially established.

After the department is established, the personnel and finance will be connected with the new department.

"No hurry, wait until Chen Hongheng's matter is settled, but you can ask the logistics department to get two rooms in Building No. 3 as offices for the new department."

"Okay, I understand."

After saying that, Zhou Yan was about to leave, but suddenly thought of something and turned back to ask, "How is the implementation progress of the short film plan we decided on before?"

"It has been prepared, and we will officially send out a call for submissions to several schools in three days."

The first short film of their studio is to collect suitable scripts from various schools.

Because it is aimed at schools, only students in school are eligible to submit. Once the script is approved, the studio will assist the other party in shooting the short film.

As for the specific investment amount, it depends on the evaluation results within the studio.

The higher the evaluation level, the more investment you can get.

"What about the deadline?"

"It's a month in total, and it will automatically close after one month."

"Have the judges been selected?"

"There are eight people in the judging panel, headed by you, the boss, and Huo Jianqi, Wang Xiaoshuai, Li Hong, Xiao Can..."

"Forget about Xiao Can, he's busy with his own movie, don't assign him other work."

Liu Hang nodded, "There are also Gao Jinwen, Shen Yan, and Tian Youliang."

"Well, let's add Liu Qing."

"No problem, the eight judges will be divided into two groups, and there will be two rounds of screening in total."

Liu Hang couldn't let Zhou Yan spend a lot of time reading the scripts submitted by the students. He must first conduct a round of screening, and then let Zhou Yan take a look after the scripts are posted.

"Okay, let's do it."

...

Wang Zuxian stayed in Yanjing for five or six days, but she was not idle. Most of the time, she went to visit the elders with Zhou Yan.

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The Zhou family has many good friends in Yanjing. It was inconvenient to go there before, but now Zhou Yan is in Yanjing and they have more and more contacts. I feel embarrassed not to go there during the New Year.

Some of them even called him to come over to play, such as Wang Junhua's family and Huo Siqi's family. When they called to invite Zhou Yan, they also invited Wang Zuxian.

Especially Aunt Chen Lian from Wang Junhua's family, she specifically asked to bring Wang Zuxian to visit.

When Wang Zuxian left, she was still very resentful, saying that she didn't have a good time with Zhou Yan this time.

However, she will not stay in Taiwan for too long this time. She should be able to come to Yanjing again next month. By then, the weather will gradually warm up and they can go out more.

The day after Wang Zuxian left Yanjing, Chen Hongheng came.

Zhou Yan talked with Chen Hongheng for more than an hour and settled the matter of the Department of Literature.

He will not only come alone, but also bring his team.

However, his team is not very large, with a total of four people.

When Chen Hongheng proposed to bring the whole team, Zhou Yan agreed without hesitation.

Trust people when you employ them, and don't employ them if you don't trust them. Moreover, the Literature Department had just been established, so they had to recruit people, and the recruitment was originally supposed to be handled by Chen Hongheng.

Since he could bring people over directly, this step would be omitted, so why not do it?

They were all acquaintances of Chen Hongheng, which saved the time for the team to get used to each other, and the efficiency was not a little bit improved.

The efficiency of the studio was also very fast. After the matter was settled, Chen Hongheng had not brought his team over yet, but they had already completed the process of establishing the department and arranged the office for the Literature Department.

Other departments in the studio were very curious when they heard that a new department was to be established, especially when they heard that the new department was the Literature Department, there was a lot of discussion.

When the TV series department was established, everyone knew that the new department was mainly responsible for producing TV series.

But everyone didn't know much about what the Literature Department was going to do. This new department seemed to have no connection with other departments.

Moreover, the people in the new department were recruited from outside, and none of them were transferred from other departments.

Everyone is also speculating when this new department will have business.

The previous new department, the TV drama department, has not yet started work.

However, what everyone did not expect was that the new department had already received business before the department head arrived. All follow-up matters of Zhou Yan's new book "Don't Let Me Go" were handed over to the literature department for handling.

In addition, the literature department also signed two writers, Yu Hua and Shi Tiesheng.

…

Chen Hongheng was obviously a man of swift action. He went back to Shanghai to settle down briefly, and without caring about the rest of the team, he went to Yanjing again with his luggage.

After arriving in Yanjing, he spent half a day to simply communicate with the HR department and other departments, and then directly took over the business of "Never Let Me Go".

His first job was to contact the people of Yanjing Publishing House.

Yanjing Publishing House sent a special person to communicate with the studio. When the other party learned that Chen Hongheng was the head of the literature department, they were very surprised. They had never thought that Zhou Yan Studio actually had a special literature department.

Then Chen Hongheng's professionalism surprised the other party again. This supervisor obviously knew more than the people in their publishing house.

What surprised the other party the most was that Chen Hongheng was already considering the subsequent foreign language publication of "Never Let Me Go".

Liu Yang, who was responsible for communicating with Chen Hongheng, was surprised by Chen Hongheng's professionalism, but he also disagreed with his excessive "forward-looking".

"Don't Let Me Go" has only serialized the first part. Although the response is good, it is still too far from considering entering the international market.

In his opinion, Chen Hongheng is just talking big.

After chatting with Chen Hongheng for a while, Liu Yang hung up the phone and said to his colleague sitting next to him, "Zhou Yan is indeed a big star. There is a special department responsible for the operation of novel publishing."

"Really? How is their department? Is it professional?"

"Professional is not bad, but it is a bit too ambitious. It has started to consider entering the international market so early."

"Haha, it's understandable. The employees below must flatter the leader. Besides, Teacher Zhou is already very famous internationally, so it's normal for them to think so."

"Music movies are different from literature. Zhou Yan's works are very good, but..."

Liu Yang didn't say the rest of the words, but the meaning was very clear. Zhou Yan is indeed famous in foreign countries, but that fame is brought by music and movies. Can this fame be transferred to literature?

Literature is always different from music and movies.

The man next door smiled and said nothing.

Liu Yang lowered his head and continued the work he had not completed before. However, he had just started working for a while when the president opened the door of the office and called to him, "Liu Yang, come here."

Hearing the president's call, Liu Yang stood up and walked over with a puzzled look on his face.

As soon as he entered the office, he heard the president say, "Liu Yang, contact the printing factory and print 300,000 more copies of "Don't Let Me Go." (End of this chapter)