Chapter 97 Two lines of light and dark
During this period, the World Expo reports are in full swing, and the entire Beijiang Evening News has entered a wartime state. Everyone is like a tight spring, nervous, and devoted themselves to the state of interviews and writing articles, with almost no concept of time.
Even if some reporters complain, they dare not relax at all when they work. Complete reporting work is the first priority, which is the most basic professional ethics.
Everyone in the newspaper has a division of labor and works hard in their own small field. These seemingly inconspicuous reports guard the last position of traditional paper media.
For Xiahou Mingqi, the new leader of Beijiang Evening News, the work is not as simple as typing. He must take into account all aspects of work such as editorial, marketing logistics and even discipline inspection, and no mistakes can be made.
From Xiahou Mingqi's heart, during this period, he has increasingly realized a truth: the higher the position a person has, the more important the requirement for his ability is, and what is more important is his sense of responsibility.
Many times, there is no lack of professional ability to complete every detail, but whether or not it is another matter, and someone must push it with a whip. Therefore, the responsibility of the leader is to hold the whip, show his presence at every link, and urge his subordinates to do their job well.
Because of this, even when the editorial and editing business is so busy, Xiahou Mingqi will attend internal meetings of various departments on time to understand the overall situation of the newspaper. The work of the discipline inspection team is also included.
Before getting off work that day, Xiahou Mingqi called Chen Jizhou. Lao Chen, how is your progress?
President, everyone is in the statistical verification of some data. Do you think if you have time, I will report it over?
Xiahou Mingqi looked at the time - 5:20 pm. At this time, the sun has returned to the Tropic of Cancer. The daytime is getting longer and longer, and the sky outside is still very bright. Are the team members here?
Except for two people who went on a business trip to investigate and collect evidence, the rest were all there, with a total of 8 people. In this short time, Chen Jizhou stepped up his efforts to replenish his strength and drew 4 people from other departments, and the number of special task force doubled.
What time will everyone work overtime tonight?
This is hard to say, it depends on today's work progress. Generally speaking, it will take around 9 o'clock.
Well, I'll go to your place to chat with you. After chatting, everyone will finish work and go home early to rest.
After Chen Jizhou hung up the phone, he quickly summoned eight other people to learn about the latest progress of the investigation and asked to organize the report materials tonight to quickly form written materials. Half an hour later, Xiahou Mingqi came to the office of the Discipline Inspection Group, with a total of 4 workstations in the office. Everyone found a few chairs from other rooms and formed a temporary conference room.
Seeing Xiahou Mingqi coming in, everyone stood up and waited for him to speak.
Let’s sit down, let’s talk casually today, don’t be restricted, Xiahou Mingqi said, thank you for your hard work during this period.
It should be that this is the job of the discipline inspection department. Chen Jizhou responded quickly.
I am also a member of our task force, but I am a little incompetent and often I can't fight side by side with everyone. Xiahou Mingqi first makes a polite decision. Lao Chen, how do you report? Why don't you start? This way, I know everyone is working hard. Let's have a short meeting, Lao Chen will summarize it first, the limited time is 20 minutes. If others have any supplements, please add it. Each person has a limited time of 10 minutes.
OK, President, let me talk about it first. Chen Jizhou said. Although this period was very hard, it did gain a lot. Last time I reported to you that the newspaper's series of violations of discipline and laws were roughly reflected in four aspects: First, the financial system was not sound; second, the financial personnel did not strictly follow the procedures when dealing with the unit's finances. For example, the control of funds in the marketing process was too loose, resulting in some funds being unfounded and missing; third, two-thirds of the reporters and marketers had violations of discipline. Of course, the problems were big and small. The big problem was the reality of bribery and extortion in the name of the newspaper, and the small problem was the need to eat, drink, or make trouble on business trip expenses. Fourth, at the management level, some people did not act randomly, breeding corruption. All these problems span 4 years. The specific problems were in these materials.
Chen Jizhou handed over the materials to Xiahou Mingqi. Xiahou Mingqi stared at the materials and looked at them word by word. Old Chen, you continue to talk.
Chen Jizhou paused and continued to report the investigation in detail.
When Xiahou Mingqi looked through the thick materials, which involved the corruption of the leader, his eyes stopped. There were actually many names of senior officials - Zhao Qingdong and Yu Chongqing, of course, and the names of several current leaders. Xiahou Mingqi counted, and there were seven or eight people.
Chen Jizhou is brave enough! He has dug out all my exes, but he is quite courageous. However, this also posed a problem for me. What should I do if I involve so many middle and senior executives? Some of them may not even have the power to deal with them! Xiahou Mingqi weighed it in his heart.
All these have conclusive evidence? Xiahou Mingqi interrupted Chen Jizhou and asked at the materials.
Yes, we all have evidence of these. As for the size of the problem, it varies from person to person. Chen Jizhou glanced at Xiao Li and took the stack of materials over.
Xiao Li took a few briefcases from his table and handed them to Chen Jizhou.
These are all collected evidence materials. This bag is a financial statement record, this bag is a marketing operation record, and this bag is a material retrieved from a hotel.
Xiahou Mingqi did not open it. With his understanding of Chen Jizhou's professional qualities, the reliability of these materials needs no doubt.
So, what about the amount involved? Is there any statistics?
Yes! Chen Jizhou gave another look, and Xiao Li knew how to bring another piece of material and handed it to Chen Jizhou. Chen Jizhou was about to reach out to pick it up, but then he thought about it, and took it back. Xiao Li, you should report on the situation in this area.
OK, Xiao Li was a little overwhelmed by this sudden arrangement. He adjusted his condition and began to talk about the amount of funds for this series of violations.
This is a very efficient and short meeting. Everyone has no nonsense and reports on the progress of their own division of labor.
As the speech deepened, Xiahou Mingqi's expression became more and more serious, especially Luo Fangyi's report, which made him realize the seriousness of a problem.
President, I am responsible for investigating the illegal and irregular issues among the reporters. Luo Fangyi was about to stand up to report, and Xiahou Mingqi signaled her to sit down.
Luo Fangyi sat on the chair in a standard posture, and everyone turned her eyes to her. At this time, she looked serious and completely lost her usual nonsense and funny spirit.
Deputy Team Leader Chen also said just now that two-thirds of the newspaper reporters were found to have more or less problems.
Luo Fangyi was about to introduce it further, but was interrupted by Xiahou Mingqi.
Two-thirds, this is not a decimal. Xiahou Mingqi realized the seriousness of the problem. If he checked it all, the entire editorial work would inevitably be paralyzed. He understood very well that his first job in the position of president was to ensure that the 24-public newspaper was printed on time every day.
Xiahou Mingqi didn't know that there were more serious problems waiting for him.
President, there is another question I don’t know if I can report to you here. Of course, this question is not within the scope of our task force’s investigation, but it has a close connection with the case. Luo Fangyi didn’t know if it was appropriate to say it. She looked at Xiahou Mingqi and sought the other party’s consent.
Xiahou Mingqi nodded: You said.
According to my observation, most of the reporters are emotionally unstable. Although no one knows to act with the wind, they have already realized that the newspaper is investigating them. Moreover, I don’t know if someone has spread it, and everyone seems to be talking about this matter privately. Luo Fangyi answered.
Discussing? What are you talking about? Xiahou Mingqi asked.
I don't know the specific content, it seems that the newspaper is secretly investigating them. Some people are very dissatisfied with this, saying that they have worked hard and have to be investigated by the newspaper, and some people say something heavier. Luo Fangyi hesitated for a moment and did not say it.
What is heavier, you just say it. Xiahou Mingqi is very curious.
Everyone, including Chen Jizhou, stared at her. She also glanced at everyone.
Say that the cunning rabbit dies and the lackeys cook.
What does it mean? Xiahou Mingqi immediately cheered up, a very interesting sentence.
Luo Fangyi didn't say it. She didn't know if she was right to report this matter, but her intuition told her that if Xiahou Mingqi did not take any measures, the newspaper would inevitably usher in a storm.
Let me guess? Seeing that Luo Fangyi was unwilling to explain, Xiahou Mingqi analyzed that the cunning rabbit refers to some previous executives, and the lackeys were those reporters who discussed privately, right?
Luo Fangyi nodded.
It seems that things are more serious than I expected. Xiahou Mingqi said.
Chen Jizhou coughed lightly, hinting that Luo Fangyi should not say anything more. Few people would like to hear others say this, even if what she said was the truth.
Luo Fangyi realized Chen Jizhou's prompt, stopped talking quickly, staring at Xiahou Mingqi with a nervous expression.
Chen Jizhou glanced at Xiahou Mingqi's face. Even though he heard such a serious matter, he knew that everyone was evading him in secret, so he was calm and did not get angry at all.
Your name is Luo Fangyi, right? Xiahou Mingqi asked with a smile.
Luo Fangyi nodded, and his heart skipped a beat. Oh no, I'm afraid I'm going to have a trouble!
The information you report is very important. Is there anything else you want to say? Xiahou Mingqi looked around and everyone lowered his head.
Since everyone has nothing to say, let me say a few words. Xiahou Mingqi cleared his throat. Everyone realized that this was going to make a summary speech, so they quickly took out a notebook to make a record.
The people of the newspaper are in a state of turmoil, which is indeed very worrying. Everyone knows that editors and editors are the most important department of newspapers. If we do not work hard on editors and editors, we will be able to put the rice in the newspapers. However, before I came, I found that there were some problems in the editorial atmosphere. After coming, this problem became more prominent. If we want to investigate cases and change the atmosphere, we will naturally offend some people and touch the bottom line of some vested interests. However, we cannot give up because of the fear of offending some people and trying to please some people, which will shake our determination. As long as it is the legitimate interests of everyone, I will do my best to maintain and fight, including seeking the group leaders. This is no problem. However, I will investigate and deal with some unjust gains. This is our bottom line and principle.
After Xiahou Mingqi finished speaking, he had already formed a thought in his mind: the light and the dark lines followed up at the same time. The dark lines were investigations by the task force, and the bright lines were special actions within the newspaper.
Xiahou Mingqi is a person with strong action. Within a few days, he posted a message to the newspaper management that the welfare benefits of newspaper employees, such as the subsidy standards for transportation, meals and housing allowances have been improved to varying degrees.
As newspaper revenues are declining year by year, Xiahou Mingqi's move is undoubtedly a shot of a heart-warming agent, which makes employees very excited. As a result, internal evaluations have undergone a dramatic reversal, and everyone has praised the new stars of this system.
Xiahou Mingqi naturally noticed everyone's evaluation. You can tell the difference just by looking at others when they were eating in the cafeteria. The first stage of the Ming Line won, and then it was time to take the second move.
A few days later, Xiahou Mingqi posted an important news at the newspaper management meeting: In the next week, a concentrated study of the rules and regulations of the group and newspapers will be carried out in the newspaper, requiring each employee to conduct self-inspection and self-correction based on his own situation, find shortcomings and make up for shortcomings, and form written materials to Chen Jizhou.
Xiahou Mingqi gave his decision a code name - the bathing action. The purpose is self-evident. At such a juncture, it is very important for everyone to understand and unify their thoughts. Only when everyone understands it in place, the next investigation and processing will naturally come naturally and be much smoother.
As expected, in the next week, the newspaper launched this action vigorously. Qu Changguo was the person in charge of the editing and editing platform. Although he did not know the profound intention of Xiahou Mingqi to use this move, he also understood that this was an excellent opportunity to perform, so he naturally worked very hard.
Most of the time is not fixed. Qu Changguo listed three concentrated study time, asking everyone to choose a time period to study according to their own situation. Finally, he wrote a summary of written materials of dozens of pages and handed them to Chen Jizhou.
Some people's bad habits have been revealed, such as some people like to spread rumors, some people like to report, some people like to take advantage of others, etc., all of which are placed on the surface and have to restrain themselves.
After this battle, the newspaper atmosphere has indeed changed significantly.
Chapter completed!