1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 571 The Production Team's Donkey

The word sub-brand refers to the subordinate publishing houses under the large publishing houses in the publishing industry.

Speaking of Popular Literature and Art Publishing House, the time is relatively long.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a ZY-level publishing house in Yanjing that published books for workers, peasants and soldiers, and specialized in various popular books. It was one of the largest publishing houses in the country at that time-Popular Books Publishing House.

The books published by Popular Reading Publishing House are divided into five categories, one is popular theoretical readings, political readings and party history and party building readings, the second is current affairs, policy readings and rural work readings, the third is Chinese knowledge readings, history and geography readings and popular science readings, The fourth is folk art and rap, stories and legends, historical novels, drama novels and other popular literature and art books, and the fifth is comic books, picture books and New Year pictures.

From the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to 1958, the Popular Books Publishing House was merged into the Renmin Department Publishing House for some reasons. This publishing house edited and published more than 1700 kinds of popular books. Thousands of volumes, at most several million volumes.

The number of books planned to be published each year alone is as high as 4000 million, which is enough to surpass the entire domestic publishing industry at that time in terms of book sales and influence.

In 1955, only two years after the establishment of the Popular Books Publishing House, the team expanded to more than 240 people, and the office conditions were poor. The publishing house decided to raise funds to build a five-story office building with an area of ​​more than 6600 square meters, located at 320 South Chaonei Street Road. No. 166, which is now No. [-] Chaonei Street, where the Guowen Society is located.

Unexpectedly, the building was built in 57, and experienced a brutal mass dismemberment in 58, when the Popular Books Publishing House was split and merged into the People's Department Publishing House.

Most of its political theory, current affairs policy, library, "Current Affairs Handbook", "Political Study" book publishing tasks and editorial cadres, as well as art, publishing, distribution, and administrative cadres were merged into the People's Publishing House;

The publishing tasks and editorial cadres of scientific books were merged into Popular Science Publishing House;
The publishing tasks and editorial cadres of literary and artistic books, as well as the Baowentang bookstore, were merged into the National Literature Publishing House;
Baowentang Printing Factory was taken over by the Ministry of Culture.

To some extent, the People's Publishing House and the National Literature Publishing House are now staying at No. 166 Chaonei Street, which is a bit suspected of occupying the magpie's nest.

The difference between Popular Literature and Art Publishing House and Popular Books Publishing House is only two words, and they belong to the sub-brand of Popular Books Publishing House.

After the publishing of popular literature and art books by the Popular Reading Publishing House and the merger of Baowentang Bookstore into the National Literature Publishing House, the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House also became the sub-brand of the Guowen Society.

Sub-brands are not uncommon in the domestic publishing industry. For example, People’s Fine Arts Publishing House has two sub-brands, Chaohua Fine Arts Publishing House and Chinese Classical Art Publishing House, as well as People’s Education Publishing House and Cultural Education Publishing House. .

There are quite a few publishing houses and sub-label agencies with the same team, two names, and those people still work, but they changed their names when publishing the book, and some have mixed personnel, such as the president of the sub-brand agency. It is very likely that they are concurrently serving as the president and vice president of the higher-level publishing house, and the editorial department is probably the same. Between the principal and the deputy, you have me, and I have you.

In addition to the sub-brand of Popular Literature and Art Publishing House, there are many other sub-brands owned by Guowen Society, such as Shanghai Lu Xun's Writings and Publishing House, Times Publishing House, Tianxia Publishing House, Writers Publishing House, Literary Ancient Books Publishing House, Art Publishing House, Chinese Drama Publishing House, Music Publishing House, Foreign Literature Publishing House, etc.

The destinies of these sub-brand clubs once owned by Guowen Society were different.

Such as Shanghai Lu Xun's Works Publishing House and Times Publishing House are completely merged and completely digested.

There are also publishing houses such as Writers' Publishing House and Art Publishing House, which restored their independent organizational system after the reform and opening up.

There is also the situation that the publishing house of ancient literary books, after several twists and turns in the past few decades, is still the sub-brand of the Guowen Society.

When Lin Weimin went to the office to seek justice, he said that he wanted to restore the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House. Apart from giving the leadership a step down, he also had his own agenda.

After he became the editor-in-chief of the Guowen Society, he planned to expand the publication of popular books in the society.

However, the Guowen Society is in the final analysis a publishing house that specializes in pure literature, and it publishes too many popular books. Regardless of the opinions of the outside world, I am afraid that the Guowen Society itself will be the first to voice opposition.

Restoring the sub-brand of Popular Literature and Art Publishing House is killing two birds with one stone. It not only solves the immediate troubles, but also solves the troubles that may arise in the future.

I specialize in setting up a publishing house that produces popular books, whether it is from my own people or outsiders, it will be unreasonable to find faults, right?
Lin Weimin confided his thoughts with Cheng Zaochun, and Cheng Zaochun agreed after thinking about it.

Now that Lin Weimin has already done everything, Cheng Zaochun is not hypocritical, so hurry up and ask someone to report first.

With one more sub-brand press, the Guowen Society will have more motivation in the development process, and the sooner the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House can recover, the better.

"You must grasp the publishing direction of the sub-brand agency after it resumes, including planning the bibliography as soon as possible. You can't set up all the brands and leave them empty." Cheng Zaochun warned.

"Don't worry, since it's my idea, I definitely can't let it sit idle."

Cheng Zaochun said again: "Since the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House was proposed by you, I think it's better for you to be the president and editor-in-chief."

"You want to exhaust me to death?" Lin Weimin yelled strangely.

Cheng Zaochun frowned and looked at him, "What? The mess you took back by yourself, and you still want someone else to clean it up for you?"

Lin Weimin laughed and said, "Look at what you said. If others hear it, they will think it's some kind of hard work. It's fine for me to be the editor-in-chief. The president will let others do it."

"How much resources do you want to occupy in a sub-brand agency?"

Lin Weimin looked at Cheng Zaochun depressed, "Leader, the donkeys in the production team don't behave like that!"

"I'll give you an extra subsidy."

I owe you this subsidy?
"Leader, you are talking about it. I request that this matter must be discussed at the meeting." Lin Weimin argued hard.

Cheng Zaochun looked normal, nodded and said: "Sure, we will have a meeting tomorrow to settle this matter."

There was a reason why Cheng Zaochun was so determined.

The sub-brand agency has just resumed, and since Lin Weimin is concurrently the editor-in-chief, the position of the president must not be lower than him.

Looking at the Guowen Society, there is no one except the president and secretary.

The secretary is a retreat, and he definitely doesn't want to get involved in this kind of thing. If Cheng Zaochun doesn't do it, who else is suitable for the president of this sub-brand club besides Lin Weimin?
Moreover, leading cadres are paid on the basis of high principles when holding concurrent positions, and whichever position has the highest salary, they will receive whichever one.

If Lin Weimin was also the president and editor-in-chief of the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House, it would be no worse than the position of editor-in-chief of the higher-level publishing house of the Guowen Society. His salary has not changed, so Cheng Zaochun said to give him an extra subsidy.

It's like doing too much work, but not much money. This work really belongs to those who can afford it and can't see it.

Lin Weimin was a little depressed, feeling like he had dug a hole for himself.

"Don't be under pressure. You are a leader after all, and the specific work can be handed over to the subordinates. Go back and think about the development path after the establishment of the sub-brand agency, write a document later, and wait for the above to approve our application. We need to have a meeting to discuss it!"

While comforting Lin Weimin, Cheng Zaochun sent him out of the office and turned around with a bright smile on his face.

Finally, he cheated this monkey grandson, oops!What a joy!
Lin Weimin left the office with a sad face, he was melancholy for a while, and let go of the emotions in his heart.

Chinese New Year is coming soon, don't think about these troubles for now, let's talk about it after a few days of fun.

During this period of time, he just took up the post of editor-in-chief, and he has been devoting all his time and energy to work. Seeing that the Spring Festival is less than a week away, it is time to relax.

The next day was the weekend, Lin Weimin planned to take Tao Huimin to Wangfujing for shopping in the morning, and to watch a drama at Renyi in the evening. When he got up early, he received a call from Wang Shuo, asking him to have dinner with Tao Huimin.

"I'm not free at night, so please invite me at noon." Lin Weimin said bluntly on the phone.

"Beating sex! Treat you to western food, what's the mood for lunch?"

Lin Weimin teased: "Yo, Master Shuo is bleeding, today I'm going to be a dick!"

"Maxim, at seven o'clock in the evening, love will come!" Wang Shuo said and hung up the phone.

Lin Weimin didn't feel annoyed either. This was his usual way of getting along with Wang Shuo. He turned to Tao Huimin and said, "We can't watch the drama anymore. Tonight, Wang Shuo will invite you to dinner at Maxim."

"It's okay, I haven't eaten western food for a long time, just to satisfy my craving." Tao Huimin smiled.

The two talked and laughed, packed up and went out.

According to the plan, first go to Wangfujing for shopping and shopping.

As the Spring Festival approached, there were no places in Yanjing that were not related to shopping and entertainment that were not busy. Lin Weimin and Tao Huimin went into Wangfujing and felt shoulder-to-shoulder and crowds of people.

When I came out again, in addition to a bunch of new year's goods in my hand, I was still sweating.

The reason why there are so many people in the shopping mall is not only due to the proximity of the New Year's Eve, but also to the sharp rise in prices in the past few years.

In the past few years, there will be a wave of panic buying from time to time, and the common people will be frightened. If there is any trouble, they will immediately flock to the mall, wishing to spend all the money in their passbooks.

It doesn't matter if you have no money, as long as you have something, after all, if you buy something late, it really increases in price!
After shopping in Wangfujing, Lin Weimin and Tao Huimin went to Quanjude for lunch first, and then went to the Friendship Store in the afternoon.

What I bought in Wangfujing in the morning were ordinary New Year's goods, and I went to the Friendship Store to buy some New Year's goods for gifts. The things here are a bit expensive, but gifts have face, and Lin Weimin has been used to buying them in the past few years.

While shopping at the Friendship Store, Lin Weimin asked Tao Huimin, "When will Mom and Dad arrive?"

"He said he was leaving tomorrow, but he should be able to arrive the day after tomorrow."

This year's Chinese New Year, Lin Weimin and Tao Huimin did not plan to return to their hometown in Ruian, but invited Tao Huimin's parents to come to Yanjing to celebrate the New Year. After the Chinese New Year, Tao Huimin would take Tao's parents and Tao's mother to play in Yanjing for a while.

Tao's mother just retired this year, and Tao's father still has two years to retire. Lin Weimin discussed with Tao Huimin and wanted to take the two of them to Yanjing to settle down.

Tao's father and Tao's mother are just such a daughter. After retiring, they are getting older and have no one to take care of them. Lin Weimin asked Tao Huimin to take this opportunity to persuade her parents.

After shopping outside for a day, Lin Weimin and Tao Huimin sent home all the new year's goods at around 2:[-] pm, and then drove to Maxim Western Restaurant at No. [-] Chongwenmen West Street.

After Maxim's opened in 1983, it became the leader of Yanjing Western restaurants. In the past few years, it has become more and more lively.

A few years ago, Bertolucci was filming "The Last Emperor" in Yanjing, and he liked to patronize here when he had nothing to do. He had a hot fight with the restaurant manager Song Huaigui, and even let Song Huaigui play a cameo role in the movie. Lin Weimin once suspected that the two had something indescribable , Unfortunately, he has no evidence.

When I came to the restaurant today, I didn't see Song Huaigui standing at the door of the restaurant to welcome customers. Lin Weimin took Tao Huimin into the restaurant and saw Wang Shuo standing in the corner of the restaurant, waving at him, with a black "baner brick" in his waving hand "Extraordinarily conspicuous.

(End of this chapter)