Rise of the Argentine Empire

Rupert finished speaking and bid farewell to everyone, immediately turning and leaving the newspaper office without hesitation.

Saint Hesser, with a stern face, then gestured with both hands to quiet everyone. After all, Saint Hesser had been a soldier, giving people a sense of oppression, his expression very serious.

The conference room also quieted down, and everyone's mood was low, with a sense of panic and helplessness spreading throughout the room.

"Hello everyone, I am your future boss, Saint Hesser Cohen. I am very happy to meet you all. I hope everyone will work hard for me in the future, shining and generating heat."

The opening remarks were quite arrogant, leaving everyone somewhat stunned. 'Boss, you really are a capitalist.' Everyone's emotions began to turn somewhat angry. Someone wanted to raise their hand and curse him, 'You are the boss, but you can't insult my personality.'

Then, seeing that everyone was no longer listless, Saint Hesser seized the opportunity and continued,

"The first thing I want everyone to know is that I am very rich. So, rest assured about the issue of unpaid wages from the previous administration. Today, they will be paid in full. At the same time, I have prepared enough funds to maintain the operation of our newspaper. Everyone will receive a bonus next month."

Saint Hesser's second sentence was a bit silly, but very effective, allowing everyone's mood to relax. The person who had just raised their hand put it down. 'So, the boss is rich. Ah, working for the boss means getting money and bonuses. Then, it's fine. From now on, the newspaper is my home.'

"The second thing I want everyone to understand is that we are now on the same boat. Everyone is an old newspaper person.

If the newspaper really goes bankrupt, I believe everyone will really be unemployed. Note, it's completely unemployed."

Saint Hesser emphasized the word "unemployed."

will not only have morning newspapers, but also evening newspapers, weekly newspapers, various newspapers, comic newspapers, magazines, and digests.

Everyone may think this dream is too far away, but if people have no dreams, what is the difference between them and salted fish?"

Saint Hesser continued to fire cannons, adding some chicken soup to the people at the newspaper. His goal was simple: to get into the top three before the current Peron government was overthrown. He rarely set development goals; most of the time, he accumulated strength.

"Everyone's salary will remain the same this month. The newspaper will not go bankrupt, and future development will get better and better. If there are good editors, you can recommend them to be poached. The salary is negotiable. If the recommendation is hired, there is a reward of 2,000 pesos."

Once again, he assured everyone that poaching also represents the newspaper's continued expansion and development, further boosting everyone's morale. This boss seems to be serious.

"Starting next month, our newspaper will be profitable again, so everyone can rest assured."

"I have finished speaking. Who agrees? Who opposes?"

"… …"

"Okay, since no one objects, if everyone understands, the finance department is now responsible for issuing the owed wages. Andrew, go get a box of cash. Show me tomorrow's daily newspaper first. Everyone, work hard tonight and work overtime."

Saint Hesser's series of "reliable" remarks basically stabilized everyone's emotions, leaving the people at the meeting speechless. The panic had been dispelled by Saint Hesser's "brainless" remarks, and the chicken soup also allowed them to work with more passion.

At least, their jobs were saved, and the boss seemed to be quite rich. All right, the boss is silly and rich, come quickly. To be honest, although Saint Hesser's words were very simple, he really gave money.

Saint Hesser immediately began to arrange today's tasks.

The speed had to be fast; tomorrow's daily newspaper was about to start. In fact, 'The New Argentina Daily' also had many old customers, and there were also old advertising clients, but the sales were poor now, leading to many disappointments, a vicious circle. The competition among the newspapers in Buenos Aires was also quite fierce.

"Boss, our editorial department has already finalized tomorrow's morning newspaper. It will start printing at 10 p.m. tonight and be distributed to various outlets at 4 a.m. tomorrow. Will it be too late?" Rodriguez, the head of the editorial department, said worriedly. The new boss was messing around as soon as he came up.

"It's only 5 p.m. now, so it's still in time. Today, give everyone who works overtime three times their salary. Everyone, please work overtime. Finance department, take note, three times the daily salary."

Saint Hesser looked at the clock on the wall again.

A burst of cheers erupted from the crowd in the conference room, and their emotions began to be mobilized.

"Boss, this is today's original newspaper."

Saint Hesser picked up the newspaper and looked at it, frowning, very dissatisfied. Ordinary people simply wouldn't like to read it.

"Are you responsible for compiling today's edition?"

"Yes, boss, I am the head of the editorial department."

"Are there any previously published newspapers? Bring them all to me and let me take a look."

More than ten minutes later, Saint Hesser roughly went through two or three months' worth of newspapers. Almost all the news was exaggerated, empty, formulaic, and full of nonsense. The events were also not new, and not interesting at all. Occasionally, there were bright spots in the reports, but very few.

In two words, it was "awkward."

"Prepare to re-layout today's newspaper immediately. Take me to the editorial room. Everyone else, return to your posts and follow the arrangements," Saint Hesser said immediately.

"Bring out the original version of today's newspaper again."

"Boss, I'll get it done right away."

"Remove the news from these two pages first, and then use these two articles, along with this picture."

Saint Hesser once again optimized some of the articles from just now, writing in many anecdotes, especially some football knowledge and overseas news.

He had been prepared for this, taking out the articles and photos he had prepared yesterday, which came in handy.

"Yes, boss!"

The editor briefly went over the articles provided by Saint Hesser, immediately revoked the front-page file, and then re-laid it out.

"The third page, change it to these words, in the form of a serialized novel."

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much…"

The head of the editorial department couldn't help but read it all in one breath, and then found that the most exciting part was cut off…

"Boss, is that it?"

"Yes, that's right. Leave some suspense."

"Can you let me see it in advance? I can give up my overtime pay…" It seems that excellent novels are excellent everywhere.

"I haven't compiled the rest yet. You should work hard. As long as the newspaper sells well, you will be the first to see it… You should work harder in the future, and I'll give you a raise."

"Okay, I will continue to work hard."

"The advertisements on the fourth page, change the advertising slogans for me, change it like this, change it like this, change it like this."

In order to make advertisers more willing to advertise in 'The New Argentina Daily' and increase future advertising fees, they had to give them a taste of the sweetness first, using some brainwashing advertising slogans for the products, which were humorous and interesting.

I believe it will sell their products even better.

"By the way, boss, is the news you gave in the first edition just now true? Did the Americans really bow their heads? It can't be fake news, right? News needs to be rigorous."

The editor couldn't help but say. He had just been attracted by the story and realized that the news was big news.

"Absolutely true headline news," Saint Hesser nodded seriously. Anyway, it was just a matter of these few days, so it was good to do it in advance.

While the people in the editorial department were working hard, Saint Hesser went to the printing department to understand the situation.

"The printing department is on the night shift and has just arrived," said the person in charge of the printing department.

"Give me a brief introduction to the machine."

"Boss, this machine uses lead-type technology. After arranging the large format, it is proofed on a traditional letterpress printer, using a transparent film paper to print the ink, then coating the ink with a special toner, and then taking the film to the plate-making and printing on the machine."

"We mainly operate manually, which is very simple. After the entire white newspaper is cut, it is folded by hand, and then Master Terrence puts it on a six-degree flatbed printing machine for printing.

At that time, the printing speed of the printing machine was 2,000 revolutions per hour, but the manual operation, feeding the paper one by one, and double-folding the paper, often meant that the manual work could not keep up with the mechanical operation, so the printing volume was like this."

The head of the printing department quickly introduced, appearing very professional.

"How many copies are printed every day now?"

"Not much, only 200 copies a day."

"Okay, I understand,"

Right now, there aren't any typesetting software like computers. To mobilize the printing department's potential, consider that their printing press can print 1000 copies of the newspaper a day, making the machine very valuable.

Each newspaper from the printing department has 4 pages. The first three pages are for main news and information, while the 4th page is for advertisements.

Including the red ink for the masthead, it requires 5 print runs. Printing over a thousand copies takes more than 6 hours, so you can imagine how low the production is. Work starts at ten o'clock in the evening, and people come to the newspaper office to pick up the newspapers the next morning.

By eight o'clock in the evening, all the preparations were complete.

"Today, I need to trouble the printing department's masters to start the printing press ahead of schedule. Print 1500 copies without stopping.

If there's enough time, increase it to 3000 copies. The printing masters will also get a wage increase."

Saint-Herse finally decided to increase the print run. He didn't believe that the newspapers wouldn't sell.

"Also, starting today, the price of the newspaper will be reduced from 40 pesos to 20 pesos. Our long-term goal is 10 pesos per copy," Saint-Herse said confidently.

"Boss, we'll lose a lot of money that way."

"As long as the newspaper sales this month can double, we can maintain costs. If it increases to 3 times, we will start to profit. If it increases to 4 times, we will be a top ten newspaper."

"Boss, you're exaggerating. We haven't been in the national top twenty since the old gentleman's time."

Everyone wasn't as reserved as they were at the beginning. Not to mention, the news that Saint-Herse made up was very realistic and interesting.

Then Saint-Herse arranged the newspaper distribution, delivery tasks, and other matters. He found the people from the operations department to retrieve all the old customer lists and allocate them. Soon, tomorrow's battle plan was made.

In order to increase the delivery capacity, everyone proposed some simple and effective distribution methods. In addition to the individually subscribed newspapers, newspaper kiosks and shops were also the main force, and the operations department was arranged to transport them tomorrow morning.

They were adopted one by one, but the main force was still the newspaper delivery staff.

The newspaper employees then left work, and the time was already eight o'clock in the evening, a full two hours of overtime. However, everyone was in a good mood. In order to ensure the safety of the employees leaving the company, Saint-Herse also specially sent a Viper Squad security guard to escort them.

Saint-Herse breathed a sigh of relief after finishing everything.

This day was also Saint-Herse's first time staying up all night, and he was a little nervous about the situation of the first newspaper after taking over the newspaper office, after all, he didn't know how the sales would be.

.....

The next day, at four o'clock in the morning, the freshly printed 1500 copies of "New Argentine Daily" were picked up by 4 part-time newspaper delivery boys.

These part-time newspaper delivery boys generally came from the slums, usually between the ages of 16-18. They used bicycles provided by the newspaper to deliver newspapers. Most of them were middle school students, subsidizing their families and earning some pocket money.

The more newspapers they delivered, the more wages they could get. Recently, the delivery volume of the New Argentina newspaper office has been decreasing, and they were already preparing to resign and jump to another newspaper office.

"Old Cole, I didn't see it wrong, did I? Did you deliver the wrong thing today? There are so many newspapers, a full 10 times more than yesterday?" Little Leder, a part-time newspaper delivery boy, rubbed his eyes, suspecting that he hadn't woken up yet.

"You didn't see it wrong. Deliver according to this list. You can also find someone to deliver it. If you do a good job today, there will be a bonus. You can also take a copy to read today. This is an extra benefit. It's super interesting, hahaha. By the way, the boss is providing a free breakfast today. Take it yourself," he said, pointing to some packaged food next to him.

"By the way, let me tell you a piece of news. We have a new boss. I still have 1700 copies here, which will be printed soon. These are for everyone, not for people who subscribe to the newspaper," Cole was an old employee who joined when the newspaper was founded and had a deep affection for the newspaper office. He quickly went back to watch the machine and send paper.

"The new boss must be crazy, but it's okay as long as he pays," Little Leder's sleepiness disappeared instantly, munching on the slightly cold pancake and milk.

A tenfold increase in workload means that the salary can be increased tenfold compared to yesterday, and there is also a bonus, which is settled daily. What should I buy with the money later?

The four newspaper delivery boys, who had finished eating quickly, began to distribute the tasks. In the past, they could not reach the maximum delivery capacity. Fortunately, everyone was very familiar with the city and had unique newspaper delivery skills.

Dividing the work and cooperating, each person was responsible for 400 copies, and Little Leder was responsible for the extra 100 copies. Fortunately, the school had already started its winter vacation a few days ago, otherwise they would definitely not be able to finish delivering before they went to school at nine o'clock, and the speed had to be fast.

The newspapers packed in the bicycle basket and on the luggage rack weighed about fifteen kilograms, which was also a huge challenge to physical strength, and they definitely couldn't deliver them all at once, so they had to go back and forth several times. Fortunately, most of them were very concentrated.

One newspaper after another was quickly delivered to the mailboxes of old customers. Saint-Herse gave all the old customers who had subscribed to the "New Argentine Daily" a free copy, which was also a way he could think of, calling it activating old customers.

.....

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Saint-Herse was still thinking about how to continue to develop and expand the New Argentina Newspaper Office, and his mind was wandering.

It seems that gossip is also good. Saint-Herse plans to be a literary plagiarist, like famous novels such as "Harry Potter" and "Game of Thrones,"

As well as excellent New China Western novels such as "Best Friend Master" and "Panlong" to be serialized.

However, he only remembers the general story outline, and his memory is not particularly deep, so he can only rely on re-editing.

He also plans to transform these novels and make them more in line with the spiritual needs of Argentines, integrating some Argentine spirit.

Perhaps it can secretly improve the mental outlook of Argentines, after all, to be honest, Argentines are indeed a bit lazy, and the core of resistance and struggle is relatively scarce.

Sometimes when he is bored with studying, he recalls those online novels in his brain, relives the novels, and writes them down in his brain, which is now coming in handy.

"Serializing stories is a big killer. In the future, the third page will be used to serialize stories. Although these stories are classic, they are not written for the public after all.

Or, like "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Red and the Black", and "Wuthering Heights", although they are understandable and very enjoyable, most Argentines will not read them. If there are excellent online articles like those of later generations, it will be different. Popular and easy-to-understand works are indispensable."

This is also what the predecessors of the time-travelers often do, and Saint-Herse can just copy it directly.

"It is necessary to believe that the whole world will like that kind of striving upward, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, don't bully the young and poor feeling, which has also been proven by later generations, Saint-Herse himself is the kind of 'rich in experience', he is quite addicted to that kind of feeling, very charming."

Today's Argentina has also entered a pre-industrial society, and the spiritual field is monopolized by the church, which is also very empty, so it will be used and manipulated by many people.

Most of the newspapers currently published are also very boring. If you can give more vaccinations and integrate the fate of some later countries into the novel, creating a certain influence, perhaps it will promote some Argentines to think about what kind of future Argentina needs.

Saint-Herse plans to use his own way to impact these messy things.

This is a big killer, but it's just an idea of ​​his. It's definitely not easy to implement, and it's quite troublesome.

At the same time, in order to expand the influence of the newspaper, Saint-Herse formulated the newspaper's support for submitted novels, formulated bonuses, and various aspects of support for serialized novels.

After all, relying on the limited number of books that he remembers deeply, it will be gone after he finishes them. In the future, he still has to rely on the power of the Argentine people to continue to develop.

Another thing is chicken soup articles, which are also an indispensable seasoning. The market is very large, which has also been proven by later generations. Saint-Herse has been too influenced by chicken soup articles.

So an article like "If you bloom, the breeze will come" was freshly baked. Of course, the name was changed to the Argentine version, and it still looked very inspiring and motivational.

Saint-Herse wrote down the ideas in his mind with a swipe, and looked at the time, it was already half past two in the morning.

These articles will occasionally appear alternately on the second page of the newspaper to prevent aesthetic fatigue. Most of them will still serialize some celebrity gossip and football news.

The third page is a fixed novel serialization, and the fourth page is advertisements, and the first page is a serious news page.

A hotpot of random stews, it will be much better to publish an evening newspaper in the future. Now Saint-Herse plans to quickly increase the circulation of the newspaper, so he can only stimulate the market first, see the feedback, and then continue to adjust.

Saint-Herse, who had written dozens of pages of information and outlines of famous novels from his previous life, fell into a deep sleep.