Just as he was thinking about it, someone knocked on his door.
Pei Qian looked up and saw Ma Yiqun.
Ma Yiqun had been busy ever since he set up Zhongdian Chinese Network.
Although he had already arranged for administrative, finance, and legal staff, and the framework of the company had been set up, Ma Yiqun still had to decide how to run the website.
According to Pei Qian's request, Ma Yiqun went to the resource website and bought a ready-made website template and author platform. He also bought a domain name and spent more than three hundred thousand yuan.
Since there was no 'Qidian' in this world, the person who registered the domain name 'Zhongdian Chinese Network' could not raise the price too much. What's more, it was 2010 so the domain name was not that expensive. He had made a small profit.
On top of that, he found the website's maintenance staff, bought a cloud server, and applied for authorization from the relevant departments.
After a series of struggles and spending hundreds of thousands, the preliminary preparations were almost complete.
After that, Ma Yiqun started to get busy.
First, he gathered all the employees under him and assigned them their jobs.
These were all senior brothers and sisters that Guo Wei had recommended to Pei Qian. All of them were humanities graduates and had a good foundation in writing.
Ma Yiqun's first impression of them was that they were more autistic and more or less nerdy.
That was normal. After all, these people had not found a job.
If they were all eloquent, they would not have lost their jobs after graduation and waited until now.
Fortunately, these people's attitudes were not bad. Ma Yiqun was not too picky.
He knew very well that it did not matter whether online literature was suitable or not. It did not matter whether one's professional results were good. Once one entered this industry, one had to learn everything from scratch.
That was both good and bad.
At least to Ma Yiqun, these people's basic qualities were good enough.
After that, Ma Yiqun gave them some simple tasks.
Now that the website was set up, the first thing to do was to fill up the library.
Zhongdian Chinese Network was a content website. Without content, everything would be useless. Thus, he had to spend money to recruit a batch of authors.
If it was a rich website, they would definitely spend money to poach famous authors. They might even poach them in batches. That way, they might not even be able to spend a few million.
However, Pei Qian did not choose that path.
Although it would cost a lot of money and the chances of failure were not low, they were still famous authors. Poaching them would bring a lot of attention to the website.
Money … he could either poach a god or attract a loser. Pei Qian thought about it and decided that the latter was more likely.
After all, most of the Almighties who managed to make a name for themselves had real skills and knowledge, and the probability of Almighties being born from a lousy street was actually very low.
Any ambitious author, even if they were to fail temporarily, would definitely choose a big website like Limitless Chinese Network to pursue their dreams and aim to become a god with one book.
He wouldn't go to a small website with an uncertain future just for a few hundred yuan more.
Thus, after much consideration, Pei Qian decided not to poach gurus in the early stages. Instead, he would focus on attracting some lousy authors. That would be the safest way.
Ma Yiqun's initial task was mainly to train and filter manuscripts.
These people knew very little about online literature. Even if some of them had read online literature, they had not studied it in depth.
Ma Yiqun had to teach them the most basic concepts, such as the thrill, rhythm, and theme.
Once he had taught them enough, these people would become qualified editors. They would help Ma Yiqun choose manuscripts, guide authors, and so on.
Now, Ma Yiqun felt that it was time to report their current progress to Boss Pei.
"Boss Pei, the current situation is like this …"
After briefly introducing the current results, Ma Yiqun changed the topic. "We have two main problems now.
"The first problem is that our editors are not good enough at the moment. They don't have a good understanding of online literature.
"They always like to choose manuscripts based on the author's writing style. Many of the manuscripts they choose are not up to standard.
"I'm afraid it'll be very difficult to change this in the short term. I can only teach them slowly.
"The second problem is that the quality of the manuscripts we've received is on the low side. Many of the manuscripts might not even be recommended on Limitless Chinese Network, much less be on the shelves.
"An extremely small number of outstanding works might only get an average of five hundred subscriptions on Limitless Chinese Network at most.
"Of course, I'm not looking down on five hundred subscriptions. I'm just objectively stating this fact …"
Ma Yiqun was starting to feel guilty.
After all, he had written online literature before. As an author with thirty subscriptions, there was no reason for him to look down on others who had an average of five hundred subscriptions.
However, logically speaking, if the best author on a website only had an average of five hundred subscriptions, the website was basically dead.
After all, such authors could get five hundred subscriptions on a big website like Limitless Chinese Network because they had many readers. If they reached Zhongdian Chinese Network, their subscriptions would probably be ten times smaller.
The two points that Ma Yiqun mentioned were not conflicting. All in all, the authors were not good enough, and the editors were not good enough. The manuscripts they received were basically unreadable.
At the moment, the website had not been officially launched. Ma Yiqun mainly went to some forums to contact some lousy authors. The website would only be officially launched when the number of manuscripts they received was enough to support the website.
After listening to Ma Yiqun's explanation, Pei Qian's expression was very calm. He looked like everything was under control.
"Do you have manuscripts? Let me take a look. "
Ma Yiqun took out a thumb drive and handed it to Pei Qian.
There were manuscripts that had been received. Some were signed, but most were unsigned.
Pei Qian casually opened a few manuscripts and looked at them.
After reading them, he only had one feeling: it hurt his eyes!
For most manuscripts, he only skimmed through one chapter and could not continue reading.
There was no need to talk about cool points or rhythm. Many people even had problems with the most basic words and sentences. There were typos, wrong punctuation marks, wrong sentences. The first three chapters were logically messed up, and the main theme was vague.
All in all, there were all kinds of problems.
Pei Qian roughly looked through the manuscripts that Ma Yiqun had chosen to sign contracts with. They could barely be considered generals among dwarves. If they were placed on other websites, they would still fail.
It looked like Ma Yiqun still understood the basic rules of online literature even though he had thirty subscriptions.
This was also within Pei Qian's expectations. After all, Ma Yiqun's subscriptions were low. However, his public chapters were not bad. He had a group of readers.
Ma Yiqun could not help but feel emotional as he watched Pei Qian skim through these manuscripts.
Boss Pei was so patient. He could actually continue reading …
After randomly choosing a few manuscripts, Pei Qian relaxed.
If the manuscripts he received in the future were all of this standard, it would be strange if the website could survive!
Not bad, keep it up!
He calmly took out the thumb drive and handed it to Ma Yiqun.
"It's not a big problem.
"As for the two problems you mentioned …
"It's alright if our editors are not good enough. We can just relax the standards for reviewing manuscripts. In any case, our main goal now is to fill up our library. People are just trying to sign a contract so that they can work full time. There's no need to be so strict. "
Ma Yiqun looked hesitant. "But … Boss Pei, you set a standard of one thousand yuan for full time work.
"Infinite Chinese Language Network's standard of one thousand yuan for full time work is five hundred yuan. Some smaller websites pay one thousand yuan for full time work, but they have to write at least ten thousand words a day.
"Our standard is one thousand yuan for full time work for three thousand words a day.
"If we relax the standards, I'm afraid we would have to burn a lot of money every month just to pay for full time work."
Pei Qian shook his head. "It's alright. Supporting five hundred authors would only cost five hundred thousand yuan a month. That's not much money.
"We're a new website. If we don't set a higher standard for full time work, why would people come to us to write?
"What's more, writing three thousand words a day is not easy for many newbies.
"Don't worry. As long as we collect more manuscripts, there will definitely be great authors appearing."
Ma Yiqun pondered for a moment. It seemed like Boss Pei's words made sense.
However, the probability of that happening was too low.
Ma Yiqun pondered for a moment and then said, "Boss Pei, there's another problem. Most of our employees don't have enough work to do at the moment.
"That's because there aren't many authors submitting their manuscripts. That's why the task of reviewing manuscripts is not that heavy. Even if our editors take some time to guide the authors on their writing, there will still be times when they have nothing to do."
Pei Qian waved his hand. "That's even less of a problem.
"If they have nothing to do, let them develop some hobbies.
"Take you for example. If you have nothing to do, write some books to entertain yourself. Isn't that good?"
Pei Qian stood up and patted Ma Yiqun's shoulder.
"Yiqun, don't put so much pressure on yourself.
"Tengda's motto has always been to work happily. If you have work, get busy. If you don't have work, develop some hobbies. If you can't handle work, hire more people. It's not a big deal.
"Don't think about getting fat in one bite. Take it slow."
Ma Yiqun nodded. "Yes, Boss Pei. I understand!"
At first, he was a little impatient. He felt that Boss Pei had given him such an important job, but he had not made any progress. Instead, he was burning more and more money. He was a little impatient.
However, looking at Boss Pei's expression as if everything was under his control, Ma Yiqun felt strangely at ease.
Sure enough, following a good leader makes one's heart feel at ease!
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