Chapter 163 Understanding President Pu’s ‘Real’ Intentions

Meng Xingkong's control of the office chair is now very smooth.

He pressed his right foot lightly on the ground, and the ground gave him a recoil force.

Then lift your feet quickly to avoid friction with the ground.

This power will send him and his chair across the long office corridor to Editor-in-Chief Xiaoxing's side.

"Pa~"

Put your hands on the brakes, put your feet down, and do it all in one go.

The two met at Xiaoxing's desk because it was far away from Mr. Pu's office to prevent Mr. Pu from hearing some of his immature opinions.

He, Meng Xingkong, cannot and does not understand what Mr. Pu really means.

Therefore, after every meeting, he would seek confirmation from Xiaoxing.

Make sure you understand the 'real' Mr. Po strategy.

It's not something superficial, then anyone can do it, and there's no need to recruit Xiaoxing to be his partner.

In Meng Xingkong's view, editor-in-chief Xiaoxing was the one whom Mr. Pu sent here to help him because he was afraid that he would not understand what he usually said.

As expected of Mr. Pu, he has left no stone unturned!

"Xiaoxing, tell me, why didn't Mr. Pu ask about our profitability just now?"

Xiaoxing pondered for a moment and adjusted his black-rimmed glasses with his hands.

Meng Xingkong seemed to see a flash of light passing by.

"First we have to rule out that Mr. Pu forgot to ask this stupid question."

"I speculate that Mr. Pu actually wants to remind us of one thing through such a small incident: just because he doesn't say it, doesn't mean he doesn't know."

"Through some of Mr. Pu's previous operations, we know that Mr. Pu is a person who counts every step he takes. He will plan everything before deciding, and every word he says is full of meaning, even if there are some words that we can't understand at the moment. Understand it, and you will naturally realize it when it comes into play later.”

"Think about it, Mr. Pu must have a better grasp of the company than we do, so he must know everything about the financial aspects. He doesn't know about the profits. I guess as long as Mr. Pu hears us say how many books we have, update How many words, coupled with his own judgment of the market, can easily get the number of profits we can currently make.”

"Today is February 20th. We have paid authors a month's royalties, and everything is on track. However, those websites have only settled a small amount of last month's money for me, which is not much at all. This month’s money is the bulk, and it can’t be fully settled until the 15th of next month. Only then will we be truly profitable. I estimate that Mr. Pu will talk to us about profitability again on the 15th of next month. That That’s when everything became clear.”

Meng Xingkong was enlightened.

"I see!"

"It has to be you, Xiaoxing. Although I can now master some of Mr. Pu's speaking skills, I still can't see through it."

Xiaoxing smiled and said: "I have been working with Mr. Pu for more than a year. I have witnessed the miracle of turning the tables in three books so that I can gradually understand some of Mr. Pu's methods. But I am still far behind. I will definitely learn more in the future."

"Indeed, we will make progress together and strive to catch up with Mr. Pu's ideas as soon as possible."

Meng Xingkong was just about to paddle away with a dragonfly.

Xiaoxing grabbed him.

"Brother Meng, Mr. Pu just told us something important."

"Oh, I understand! We won't recruit a large number of writers now. I'm going to take a break unless I encounter someone with particularly high-quality writing."

Xiaoxing nodded and shook his head.

"Brother Meng, you only understand the first level of Mr. Pu's meaning. There is a second level of meaning in this sentence."

Meng Xingkong didn't rush to ask Xiaoxing what the second level meant. Instead, he thought about what Mr. Pu once said.

After pondering for a moment, he clapped his hands suddenly.

Snapped!

"I get it! When Mr. Pu said not to recruit new writers, he actually told us that it's time to start the second phase! At present, the first phase of the company's large-scale recruitment of writers has passed, and the number is enough. Then... the next step is to Let’s screen out the unqualified ones, find those who share our spirit, and keep them.”

Xiaoxing showed a satisfied smile.

"Brother Meng, you have made progress."

Meng Xingkong scratched his head and said sheepishly: "Indeed, after following Mr. Pu for a long time, I feel that my thinking has been improving unconsciously. There is no way, I can't understand Mr. Pu's requirements without thinking."

Xiaoxing continued: "What Mr. Pu means is indeed true. We should filter down the authors. In fact, he already hinted at us in the question just now. Why did he ask us how much royalties we pay out every day? Then he said that the number of authors should be controlled. Because Mr. Pu has already seen that there are many unprofitable books in our contracts, so we need to cut the losses immediately!"

"Mr. Pu said that we should not have any psychological pressure, the company can afford to pay, which further emphasized his previous concept. Duoyu Company does not care about temporary losses, as long as it is operated properly, some unprofitable ones are cut off in time, and more capable people are cultivated. A good author who makes money will always produce hits and turn losses into profits!”

Meng Xingkong's eyes widened: "Hiss~~"

"Understood! In the past two days, we have started to check the 575 serialized books in our hands, and cut out some books that are messy, have poor word count, have poor plots, and have poor data. The strong man will cut off his wrist, and we will stop the loss this month!"

Xiaoxing added: "We will make a profit next month and give Mr. Pu a perfect answer."

"That's right!"

“With Mr. Pu’s step-by-step guidance, I feel much more at ease.”

The two office managers have already figured out the next step, and everyone is getting busy again.

This time, everyone's time was not spent on new manuscripts.

Instead, they started to clean up the 575 books and 619 contracted writers in their hands.

After Meng Xingkong arranged his editors to start working, he opened the WeChat group "Elite Writers Group of Duoyu Culture Company (Secret)".

Recently, there has been a happy atmosphere in it.

Everyone's books have performed well!

This time, Meng Xingkong chose the right subject matter and personally led them to set off a simulator trend at Qidian.

The simulator is popular!

This group of people who took the second bite of crabs, even if the writing was not so good, they still became popular.

Especially the three best books:

"My Goddess Strategy Simulator", "My Cultivation Simulator", and "Wu Dalang's Simulated Life".

These three are also recognized as the best writers in the group, and they are all college students.

Write books for 1~2 years.

It's always a failure.

Under Meng Xingkong's unremitting training, finally burst out his own small universe on the subject of simulators!

In the past, Meng Xingkong gave them 15 yuan for each book, and they could earn 3,000 yuan a month by updating 6,000 words a day.

For Lao Pujie, it was quite good.

This book was directly 30 yuan per thousand words, and everyone was excited.

The creative state was full, and the quality was greatly improved.

The more I wrote, the smoother it became.

These 30 books have been published for more than 30 days, with more than 6,000 words updated daily, all of which have exceeded the 150,000 words standard for listing on Qidian. There are also 7 books that have been published on Sanjiang, and they will all be published tomorrow.

The first three simulators that were published on Sanjiang were published last week.

The first orders are gratifying!

"My Goddess Simulator": 5,200 first orders.

"My Immortal Cultivation Simulator": 2,800 first orders.

"Wu Dalang's Simulated Life": 3,600 first orders.

A trio that is definitely taking off!

One of the best works in Sanjiang.

In the request, what is surprising is that the collection of "Wu Dalang's Sims" is more than 10,000 less than "My Xiuxian Simulator", but the first order is 800 higher!

It can only be said that this book is well written, and there are many people willing to spend money. In addition, the reading of historical categories is more stable.

The future is promising!

Meng Xingkong smiled: "When the remaining 27 books are put on the shelves tomorrow, the data will definitely not be bad. The manuscript fee next month will definitely give President Pu a surprise!"

There will be more updates later.