Chapter 357: Making more money is always a good thing
The sudden three hundred thousand scared Lao Lin a lot. He considered himself to be clean-handed, so how could he have such an inexplicable income?

In fact, it was the royalties from the songs in Lin Heng's album "Singing Song Lyrics". The biggest sum of money he had ever earned before was the prize money from a painting competition - a total of 1000 yuan.

So after knowing this number, he went crazy towards Li Yan, and all kinds of gratitude were poured upon him, he was almost calling him daddy.

“Thanks to God Yan for taking me flying, God Yan and I will always be together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Li Yan's first reaction was: "What?"

Then he remembered that Lin Heng once said that his father had found him a copyright agent who specialized in helping to promote songs and he would get a share of the profits.

As a co-owner of the copyright, Li Yan had no objection, as it would be left there anyway.

No one expected it to explode.

Lin Heng resolutely rejected Li Yan's suggestion of a 50-50 split and insisted on a 3:1 ratio. He believed that Li Yan's contribution to this album far exceeded his and he would never be able to sleep or eat well for the rest of his life if the split was 50-50.

After a compromise, the final ratio was two to one.

At first, Lin Heng himself didn't understand why it went viral. He only knew that his friend who worked as a copyright agent told him about a surprise last month. He asked a few questions but didn't get any information so he didn't ask any more questions.

Now it is clear that the songs that Li Yan and he created just happened to take advantage of the cultural propaganda trend.

The late 00s and early 10s were a critical period for the rise of Chinese national self-confidence.

Although given the actual gap in development, the idea that "the moon is rounder in foreign countries" is still a mainstream trend to a certain extent in society.

Therefore, during this period, the government and the people have given particularly strong support to anything that can boost national self-confidence.

For example, Li Yan's Jiaolong concept phone launch conference took off right after the release of Pineapple Phone 4. The fact that he received such strong support and has not been blatantly targeted commercially so far is all thanks to the fact that he has become the "world's giants" in the mobile phone industry.

The people want him to succeed.

The current public opinion has reached the point where anyone who does not support Li Yan will be labeled a traitor, which has indeed caused a wave of dissatisfaction among people.

This kind of excessive praise and indiscriminate criticism of the diode is actually not good, especially the "fan" behavior of flattering certain groups. As the saying goes, everything will turn into the opposite when it reaches the extreme. Doing so can easily lead to a large number of people "turning to the black".

It can also easily give competitors a handle to criticize, allowing them to take the initiative in the war of public opinion.

But Li Yan was happy about it. What he needed most now was momentum. As long as more and more people believed that he could do it and hoped that he could do it, he would be more likely to break through the limits of his circle, gain more support and form a virtuous circle.

As for how to crush those doubts, it’s very simple. Just launch an awesome product at an extremely low price, and your enemies will immediately become your friends.

Li Yan has always wanted to take advantage of this favorable situation, and so far, he has succeeded.

But he didn't expect that this favorable wind would also bring prosperity to his songs.

In the past two years, cultural confidence has been a concept that has been frequently mentioned by the government. If you want to achieve this, there is basically only one method - "propaganda".

Promotion is not difficult, but it requires materials.

As we all know, it is difficult for the government to infiltrate the public with official propaganda alone. If you spend money to set a theme and let others do it, whether it is organizing a competition or bidding, for various reasons, the results are always "this is it?"

Apart from making people sigh about spending so much money on a piece of garbage and complaining online about the "waste of money and time", it is difficult to have any other effect.

Cultural bureaus in various places are under a lot of pressure. They get scolded if they don't spend money, and they get scolded if they spend money. Moreover, the scolding is really good, and if you dare to talk back, you'll be in big trouble.

Li Yan's songs are really nice to listen to and have appropriate ideas. Combined with the fact that they were created by a junior high school student and his name, Li Yan, they are very eye-catching and can be said to be the life-saving straw for New Taipei City's cultural publicity.

After a small wave of publicity on Weibo, the record gradually faded away due to its limited publicity.

Unexpectedly, when Director Li combined this record with other activities to make it into promotional materials and reported it to the province, the record became a life-saving straw for the province's cultural propaganda.

The Linjiang Provincial Department of Culture was frowning at the time as it was tasked with a bunch of tasks related to "enhancing cultural confidence". But when Li Yan's record came out, he was both a member of the public and a student, and his work was also about promoting traditional culture, and his methods were quite new and exciting.

It's invincible. The four major difficulties of "reaching the masses", "entering the campus", "focusing on inheritance" and "looking at innovation" were solved in one breath. Director Long, who had had contact with Li Yan, was so happy that he pulled Director Lin to express his feelings.

After praising Li Yan for five minutes, Director Lin told him that his son Lin Heng was also the creator of the record.

Fortunately, Director Lin is not the top leader. In terms of status in the department, his position is slightly lower than Director Long's. The two of them have a good relationship, so there is no awkwardness.

Director Lin said it’s better to keep a low profile.

Then the news quickly spread throughout the hall.

"How to maximize the value of the album "Singing Song Ci"" has even become a topic.

The meeting was originally planning to let Lin Heng's father lead this work, but he said he wanted to avoid suspicion, so he gave it to someone else.

He just casually recommended a copyright agency to Lin Heng, thinking that his son might have this need now that he has gained influence.

As soon as the Ministry of Culture advertised "Singing Song Ci", the influence gradually began.

From units related to the cultural line to those not related, from units to state-owned enterprises to private enterprises that work closely with the government.

This is also a life-saving straw for them to complete their tasks, and it can be used for posting videos, participating in competitions, and singing at evening parties.

Theirs is not just "friendly publicity" by the Linjiang Cultural Department and the New Taipei City Cultural Bureau, but actual copyright usage.

You have to pay.

When Lin Heng's copyright agent suddenly received many calls and messages, he anticipated that there would be a subsequent surge in income.

However, many units are following suit and it is not known whether it will be implemented in the end, so he did not say anything specific.

Now we know the numbers, nearly a million units sold in total.

The cost of each unit ranges from a few hundred to one or two thousand, depending on its purpose.

Some companies paid nearly 10,000 yuan for the background music used as promotional materials for video events.

Although the number of each company is not large, when the numbers are added together, the number is considerable.

Li Yan, who made his first fortune from online writing, naturally understands this point well. The number of users is always more important than price.

These are what Li Yangang talked about with Lin Heng.

"And my dad said that as your fame grows, more people will be interested in this record. The better the publicity, the more companies will be willing to pay for it. This 'one-time business' may be able to go on for several rounds!"

“Yes, there is a filter.”

In places that Li Yan didn't notice, his songs were being performed and played in various forms.

Lin Heng was silent for a while, and it looked like he was typing for a long time before he sent a message:

"Why aren't you excited?"

"Once the record is made, I have achieved my goal, and the subsequent gains are all unexpected surprises."

"I don't see you're happy at all."

"What a pleasant surprise." Lin Heng didn't understand and sighed slightly in front of the screen. Then he saw Li Yan suddenly sent a message:
"In fact, you are already happy."

"Ah? Are you also worried that what my dad said might be defined as collusion?"

"…What the hell is this? Even your dad knows how to avoid suspicion in meetings. It's not like anyone is forcing others to buy it. What's the problem?"

"That?"

"The point is, if these songs can be widely used by enterprises and officially spread to the masses, and become truly popular, then you will be excited about more than just the current 300,000."

Lin Heng was stunned. "That's impossible. Our songs are not about love, nor are they pop songs by celebrities."

"In terms of emotional expression alone, these Song poems are amazing and worthy of being accepted by the public. As for celebrities... you know that I am a bit famous now, and the effect is the same. Public opinion comes in waves, and when everyone has heard this song, it just needs an opportunity to explode. Whether the opportunity can be seized before it explodes depends on the level of the copyright agent."

Lin Heng immediately sent out: "God Yan, can you give me some advice?"

This was the moment Wang Zi saw Li Yan smile.

"It's not about giving advice, but maybe picking out the right paragraphs to make into ringtones and moving in this business direction can be considered a form of preparation."

"Okay! Who do you want to make the ringtone?"

"Of course it's Xiong Guojun. Let him help with it. I'll give him 10% of the ringtone revenue from now on. It's also a way of thanking him for his efforts on this record."

"I thought you were going to take some of the $600,000 as your service fee. [Laughs]"

"I've already paid you for making those songs."

"I'll research it right away!"

Li Yan was originally going to advise them not to affect their studies, but suddenly he realized that these roommates were just ordinary people to him, but in the eyes of other students, they were all geniuses.

It was really nosy, so he closed the chat box.

Anyway, an extra six hundred thousand or even an extra income channel would be a great thing for him.

Who would complain about having too much money?

"Is there anything else?" Li Yan asked after seeing Wang Zi standing next to him for a long time, seeming to want to say something but hesitated.

"I would like to ask you, regarding the establishment of internal positions in the company... do you have any ideas?"

“That’s my question to you.”

Wang Zi was stunned.

"Sister Wang should have much more experience than me in terms of company personnel composition and management. I want to hear your opinion." Li Yan finally stopped what she was doing and looked at Wang Zi with a smile, "Does a core technical employee of a startup company need a specific position?"

It’s really hard to answer…

Li Yan is the actual person in charge and has absolute say over future technology and the Jiaolong mobile phone project. Judging from his personality and attitude, he is the type of person who will never delegate power.

As far as Wang Zi knows, most of the ten new employees of Future Technology were recruited with the promise of high salary plus profit sharing - of course, the attractiveness of the project itself is also very important. Only Li Guangde and Zhou Yang actually received 2% of the shares, and Sun Miao only received dividends in proportion and did not actually hold any shares.

What’s interesting is that Zhou Yang thought that Li Yan found partners by giving them shares, and kindly reminded him that he had to hold the initiative in his own hands.

However, if the phone really sells well by then, his own profits will be drastically cut because Li Yan gives away too much of the share.

In other words, this boss wants control of the company rather than money, so his desire for control must be very strong.

Would he think that setting specific positions for other people at this time was a way of delegating power?
It’s hard to guess what a young boy is thinking.

"It's a different story, but I think it would be better to give them a clear division of labor on some simple administrative matters while giving them a specific division of labor on technical issues. For example, if you have something that is inconvenient for you to contact Professor Mai's team, who should you let contact them? After this clarification, I think it can also share some of your work pressure."

"Does anyone have a choice?" Li Yan asked with a smile.

"... Mr. Li, I'm not a technical person, so I really don't understand."

"In terms of character."

She must give an answer to this.

"Engineer Sun, at least from the name, he should be considered the most professional one. Engineer Shang is already the backbone of the Xin'an Gang. If there is no one to pressure him, it will easily lead to disunity among the Xin'an Gang. At least it will be easy for everyone to leave if one of them leaves. If he leaves with any research results..."

Seeing that Li Yan didn't say anything, Wang Zi changed the topic:

"Of course I have no doubts about Shang Gong or Xin'an Gang. It is very common to form such small teams within the company..."

"No need to explain anything unnecessary, just keep talking."

Wang Zi nodded. "As for Engineer Cao, I think it would be better to let him be in charge of a business that doesn't have much overlap with other people."

"He must be the person in charge, but he shouldn't be responsible for anyone else. He can only be directly responsible to me." Li Yan said.

Wang Zi breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the boss had the same idea as her.

However, she had heard before that Li Yan was a true almighty god of war who knew everything, and not just the basics.

He has already started his own company, so it's normal for him to have some great insights into personnel management.

"Then, where is Mr. Liu?" Wang Zi asked.

"Same thing. Although there are people in Xin'an Gang who are responsible for software development, they are just making templates according to my requirements. What the software can be made of has a lot to do with the results of Liwei's work outside."

"Then let him work with Engineer Cao? Will Engineer Cao guide him?"

"No." Li Yan refused categorically. "I just said that Cao Haibin cannot control anyone. Li Wei's business is relatively independent, and he is directly responsible to me. This will help suppress Cao Haibin's rage."

"Mr. Li, can I ask you a question?" Wang Zi said in a humble manner.

"As long as we are in Future Technology, we are friends and can chat casually."

"Why do you want to recruit Cao Haibin? A one-man army like him...isn't it of little significance to the current future technology? After all, you also said that you are the only one at the helm."

Because Li Yan was attracted by the resources behind him, he had the ability to make a Jiaolong mobile phone test machine by himself. Before Li Guangde and Zhou Yang officially joined - obviously, if they wanted to get deeply involved, they needed Li Yan to fix the system at least - Cao Haibin was the person in the team who knew the hardware best and had the most experience.

Li Yan didn't want to appear weak in hardware research when two industry giants, Li Zhou, joined the game.

Again, he must let everyone know who is at the helm and who is the collaborator.

No one has more say than him in a certain aspect. If there is, then the system will add points!
He was not going to tell Wang Zi these words, as the current group of people in the company had not gained his trust yet.

"Cao Haibin is not a one-man army."

He just replied.

(End of this chapter)