C61 What are you gawking at?! (1/2)

”Director Jiang, what are you staring at?” Chen Jing looked at me with fixed eyes, and waved his hand in front of my eyes.

I snapped out of my daze and looked at Chen Jing, ”Chen Jing, I have a few things to ask you.”

”Feel free to give any orders, Leader!” Chen Jing giggled as she sat on the sofa beside me and looked at me with her hands on her cheeks.

”Mm …” I pondered for a moment. ”In the one year that I've been gone, many things and businesses in the unit and department have become unfamiliar. Especially the important things that happened in the unit for the past year, I don't know much about them. Also, our Department of Public Information has added 3 new university students and a few old comrades. I'm not very familiar with the operational situation of the personnel in the department right now, so …” ”Huu.

”Mm …” Okay, this is easy to talk about, let me report to you, ”Chen Jing responded,” I will first talk to you about the newspaper, but in truth, there hasn't been much change in personnel this year, it's just that you, Mei Ling and Liu Fei have changed a little. However, the thinking of the newspaper has greatly improved, Secretary Ma has suddenly started the newspaper's rapid development process.

”Oh …” ”What about them?”

The first is to improve the working conditions, the slogan is' Farewell on Printing Lead and Fire, Farewell on Office Paper and Pen ', the printing plant has introduced a color offset printing system, and has implemented office automation and a large number of microcomputers.

”Oh …” Well, that's the direction of modern journalism, ”I said.” And what else?

Second, we need to build a large scale infrastructure, build a news building, build a staff dormitory, improve office conditions, improve living conditions, build a high rise, 20 levels of the news building, a staff dormitory building, 18 levels of the building...

I was startled. ”How could our newspaper have so much money? Printing and distributing are not profitable, and our annual advertising revenue is not more than 5 million. Aside from the office and salary fees, we basically don't have any remaining. This buying office equipment and building must have a total investment of over a hundred million, so where would all this money come from? ”

He has a wide range of connections, looking for the approval of the city leaders, running to the Finance Department to ask for money, and looking for a bank loan. Anyway, he has a lot of ways to do things, and those of us who run the newspapers every day are all nowhere to be found … Why was Mei Ling in charge of the Assistant to the President this time? Why did he manage the infrastructure and administration? including the director in charge of Liu Fei's office, hmph, there must be a reason behind all of this, he can't wait to call Mei Ling's mother right now … ”

After hearing what Chen Jing had said, I felt that although the Secretary Ma had a lot of courage, he was in a hurry to achieve great things and gather the hearts of the people. He was a little disregarding reality and was a little overestimating his own abilities, separating himself from the newspaper's actual economic, financial and development situation. This loan was to be repaid, not for free, and there was also interest.

Looking at the other local newspaper organizations in the province, Jianghai Daily's strength is below average. There are many with strong economic strength, but there isn't a single news building on a large scale in the entire province. In the entire province, only the Provincial committees reported that the East River daily newspaper has a news building, but the advertising revenue of the East River daily newspaper is one hundred million a year, how can we compare to that?

I thought about it and did not comment. I felt that my thinking was perhaps too naive, the leaders were experienced fighters, experienced, and if they did this, then there must be a reason and consideration for it. I did not need to worry about this as the little director of associate level.

”Tell me about our department room's situation.” I looked at Chen Jing.

”Our department room, as an ordinary staff member, from my perspective, can be considered as giving my leader a suggestion …” Chen Jing laughed as she looked at me, ”I feel that our Department of Public Information has two problems at the moment, one is the instability of the hearts of the people, each of them fighting on their own, suspecting each other, lacking the solidarity, solidarity and fighting spirit that they had in times of the Director Liu, the second is that everyone has become more relaxed in their studies, the amount and quality of their writing has generally decreased, the new people have no one to bring, the new people will be blindly involved, the business will be improved very slowly, not long ago, the whole province's second half of the news selection was not evaluated, the last place in the entire province, the Secretary Ma almost died from anger …”

When I heard it, I felt that the situation was very serious. I looked at Chen Jing and asked, ”What do you think the main reason is behind these two problems?”

The reason is precisely because of this Liu Fei, ”Chen Jing said in an excited tone,” A Director Department of Public Information doesn't think about how to lead everyone into doing business, nor do they think about how to improve everyone's business qualities. They don't write drafts, they don't catch up on news services, they just think about going to the camp to fawn over their leaders, they think about using the journalist's convenience to get close to the official, and they think about using the reporter's profession as a springboard to climb up. Think, can such a director bring out good troops? As for the three new university students, no one cared if they were asked or allowed to do as they pleased. Up until now, they hadn't even been able to write a short post and they didn't even know how to conduct interviews … Thinking back to when Sister Liu Yue was here, the dean had personally led the troops, personally taught them, and now that they looked at it again, it was really painful … But, Liu Fei will definitely come and take care of things, Mei Ling likes him a lot, and Secretary Ma likes him too.

The expression on Chen Jing's face was helpless yet furious.

I listened quietly and nodded. ”I already have a rough understanding of the situation, thank you for your response. Remember, keep it to the outside world and don't say these things. You are a straightforward person, so as to prevent the wall from having ears.”

”Mm …” I know, I'm only telling you, not others. ” Chen Jing heard the care and love in my words, and her face was brimming with happiness and satisfaction as she softly said those words to me.

The information that Chen Jing had provided me was very important, it allowed me to return to the newspaper one year later and quickly grasp the first hand of the newspaper and the real situation of the department room, providing strong support for my work after New Year's Day.

Then, I arranged for the interview during New Year's Day to take place on duty. After dealing with the few manuscripts I had, I handed them to the chief editor. I checked that it was late and it was time to get off work, so I closed the door and went downstairs.

When he reached downstairs, he saw Liu Fei standing in the courtyard.

Liu Fei was currently commanding people to place colored flags and hang lanterns on the roof of the office. At the entrance of the courtyard, a few workers were also hanging big red lanterns, showing placards that said they were celebrating New Year's Day.

Liu Fei appeared to be in high spirits, his expression was elegant yet arrogant, his gestures and gestures revealed a noble demeanor and temperament, really like a leader.

I didn't want to greet Liu Fei, and wanted to quietly go around Liu Fei's back. But when Liu Fei turned his head and saw me, he took the initiative to change his face into a concerned smile: ”Xiao Jiang … Oh, no, I should call you Director Jiang now.