Rebirth 1975: Tore up the call-back order at the beginning

Xipo. Institute!

As soon as Zhou Yang came to the office, he saw Gu Chenghua push the door open and walk in.

"Old Gu, why are you here? What's the matter?"

"Well, an outside call came in just now, saying it was for you!" Gu Chenghua said immediately.

"Oh, who is the other party, have you asked clearly?"

"I made it clear. The other party reported that his family name is Xu Yonghua, and that he is the person in charge of the Provincial Xinhua Bookstore. He said that if you have time, you can call him back!" Gu Chenghua said.

Hearing this, Zhou Yang's eyes lit up immediately.

Lao Xu called him at this time, there should be news from the Mass Publishing House.

"Old Gu, sit down for a while, I'll call Lao Xu back, how about we talk after we're done?"

"Then how about I go back to the office first and come back later?"

"No, Lao Xu's looking for me should be a matter of work, you don't need to avoid it!"

With that said, Zhou Yang immediately dialed the provincial Xinhua Bookstore.

After a while of beeps, the phone was quickly picked up, and Lao Xu's voice came from the microphone: "Provincial Xinhua Bookstore, who is that?"

"Old Xu, it's me, Zhou Yang!"

"Oh, you are a busy person. I called you three times this morning, and they all said that you didn't come to work!" Old Xu said with a smile.

"No, something is delayed at home today!"

Then Zhou Yang asked again: "You called me in such a hurry, is there any news from the Mass Publishing House?"

"Well, after we parted that day, I hurriedly asked my friends at Mass Publishing House. They were really preparing for the publication of Mao Xuan Wu, and this matter has already been put on the agenda!" Xu Yonghua road.

In fact, the publication information of the five volumes of Selected Works of Mao Zedong is no secret within Mass Publishing House. Internal rumors are tentatively scheduled to be published at the end of January or early February. A secret internal meeting.

It is mainly to study the specific schedule of printing work, and consider the balance of printing numbers in various regions and the scheduling of printing of popular editions by provinces from a national perspective.

Some people also said that the ethnic language version has started to publish manuscripts for translation. All in all, this is true.

"Then it seems that the news I got is correct, but I don't know if they have found a printing factory?" Zhou Yang said.

"I also asked someone to ask about this matter. According to the plan above, the first edition of Mao Xuan 30 will be distributed in a large volume. They will find [-] printing factories across the country to assign printing tasks!"

Then, Xu Yonghua continued: "The internal information I got is that we have a task volume of 200 million volumes in Northern Saibei Province, of which 20 volumes are in Mongolian."

"So much?" Zhou Yang asked happily.

The province has a large amount of tasks, and the more likely they are to get the order.

"Two million volumes is not too much. As far as I know, the amount of tasks in the capital is large. There are a total of 200 million volumes!" Old Xu said.

"Then our side..."

Before Zhou Yang could finish speaking, Old Xu said, "I've talked to the comrades in the Provincial Xinhua Printing Factory about your printing factory, and they agreed to share the task of 20 copies among you..."

"Great, thank you so much, old Xu..."

"Don't be in a hurry to thank me, the comrades of the Provincial Xinhua Printing Factory also said that it is no problem to give you the order, but there are conditions!" Old Xu said.

"What conditions?"

"First of all, you need to solve the problem of printing paper yourself. Xinhua Printing Factory does not provide paper!"

"understand!"

In fact, Zhou Yang had expected this matter long ago. It is not a day or two that the country runs out of paper.

Of course, what is lacking in China is not ordinary paper, but 52g letterpress paper specially used for printing important books.

The reason why such a thing happened is that due to well-known reasons, the national paper production has been losing production for seven consecutive years, the national plan has not been completed, and the stock has been used up. In many provinces, even more than half of the reserve paper has been used up.

Furthermore, due to the lack of raw material liquid chlorine, the supply of pulp is not normal.

Coupled with the frequent occurrence of domestic disasters in the past year, the supply of pulp has become even more difficult.

Even the Ministry of Light Industry couldn't find a solution to this situation for a while, so that there was a shortage of printing paper across the country.

Fortunately, Zhou Yang made preparations for this matter some time ago. He ordered 300 tons of printing paper from the provincial paper mill through the relationship of the military, of which 15 tons have been shipped back to the printing factory.

Backed by the big tree of the military, it is good to enjoy the shade, which is not even comparable to large units such as the Provincial Xinhua Printing Factory.

At this time, Old Xu continued: "In addition to the paper, the comrades at the printing factory need to review your finished products. After the official documents are issued, you will try to print a batch first."

"If the comrades at the Provincial Xinhua Printing Factory check it and think it's okay, the rest can be printed on a large scale, but if they say it's unqualified, then there's nothing they can do!"

Zhou Yang nodded immediately and said: "It should be, after all, it is a political task, no one dares to be sloppy."

"It's good if you can understand it. When a work with such a major theme is published, even a single punctuation error is a big problem. I don't know how many people will be involved. Everyone should be more cautious!"

"Well, by the way, how much does it cost to print a volume?" Zhou Yang asked.

"Currently, the price of Mao Xuan Wuyi volume is about 1 yuan and 2 yuan. According to the price in previous years, the printing factory can get about 4 cents per volume."

Then Lao Xu continued: "I'm not sure about the exact amount, but I can assure you that you can get as much as the Provincial Xinhua Printing Factory can get!"

"Okay, let's settle this matter!"

"Well, I'll call you again when I have news!"

"Row!"

After finishing speaking, the two hung up the phone!

Seeing that Zhou Yang finally finished the phone call, Gu Chenghua asked in surprise, "Director, I just heard you chatting with that old Comrade Xu. It seems that you are talking about the publishing house again?"

"Well, I got the news that Mao Xuan Five was going to be published, so I found Lao Xu and asked him to contact us for some orders!" Zhou Yang said.

"One million copies?"

"Yes, they agreed to give us an order of 20 volumes, and we can get about 4 cents for each volume." Zhou Yang said.

"That is to say, we can get 20 yuan for the 8 volumes. After all costs are taken out, the net profit will be at least 5 yuan?"

"almost!"

In fact, what Zhou Yang valued was not just the mere tens of thousands of dollars!

More importantly, Zhou Yang knew that the circulation of Mao Xuan [-] was terrifying. According to incomplete statistics, there were hundreds of millions of copies.

As long as the quality of their printing can meet the standard, orders will definitely be indispensable in the future.

In addition, once it gets online with Provincial Xinhua Printing Factory, Provincial Xinhua Bookstore, and even State Publishing Bureau and Mass Publishing House, it will have a profound impact on the subsequent development of Babaoliang Printing Factory.

Apparently Gu Chenghua also realized this, and immediately said: "If this can be done, then our printing factory is no longer a grassroots team, and there must be a lot to do in the future!"

"Well, the top priority is that we not only need to hurry up to contact the paper, but also solve the workers' problems!" Zhou Yang said.

"For paper, I will go back and talk to the provincial paper mill to see if it can be given priority to us!"

Then Gu Chenghua changed his voice and said again: "But for the workers, this is indeed a bit difficult. Why don't we transfer some of the workers from the artillery radar assembly line?"

"No, the workers on the assembly line are not allowed to move. I already had a phone conversation with Mr. Jiang yesterday. He asked us to do our best to produce the artillery sighting radar. This is a hard task and we can't delay it!" Zhou Yang said.

"The printing factory over there?"

"Mr. Jiang promised to send us another batch of workers, but there is no guarantee of time!"

Then Zhou Yang said again: "In my opinion, let's make double preparations!"

"The two hands?"

"The first-hand preparation is to follow the previous plan, wait for the news from Mr. Jiang, and at the same time give priority to the family members of the staff of our research institute!"

Then Zhou Yang continued: "The second-hand preparation is to take advantage of the slack season, and temporarily draw some people from the educated youths in the village to come to the emergency!"

Zhou Yang had no choice but to use the educated youth.

After all, in a unit like a printing factory, most of the types of work have high requirements for the quality of employees. Literacy alone can wipe out most of the young people in the village.

"That's the only way to go!" Gu Chenghua said.

"Um..."

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PS: Chapter 2 is delivered!