In the study, Chu Huan and Chen Haichao sat opposite each other.
It's not that Bao Tianming and the other three can't listen to Chen Haichao's affairs, the main reason is that this matter involves Chen Haichao's family situation, so it's better not to let too many people know about some things.
"Now that your reputation in Xiangjiang has spread along with what happened in Kyushu, you have two options now. The first is to make the relationship between me and Kyushu public, and the second is to solve your identity problem!"
With a calm expression on his face, Chen Haichao said with a smile, "Brother Huan, choose the second one. I know it is not the time to make the relationship between you and Jiuzhou public yet. If it is made public, I think neither the Hong Kong government nor the
HSBC will find ways to suppress your business!"
Although Chinese-funded consortiums have begun to emerge in Hong Kong, British-funded consortiums are still the leaders of Hong Kong's business community. Why Bao Yugang can become the richest man in Hong Kong without being suppressed? The reason is actually very simple, because Bao Yugang is behind
It's HSBC.
HSBC owns a number of shares in Global Shipping Lines.
It can be said that Bao Yugang truly became the richest man in Hong Kong only with the support of the British-funded consortium.
But Chu Huan is different. The achievements Chu Huan has now are all achieved by his own ability, rather than relying on the help of HSBC or a certain British-funded consortium in Xiangjiang.
That's why Shen Bi of HSBC spared no effort to suppress Chu Huan. Although Chu Huan has a good relationship with MacLehose and the Hong Kong government because of the Huaye City project, if Chu Huan really threatens the British consortium,
With the power, Chu Huan will definitely become the candidate to be suppressed immediately.
This is one of the reasons why Chu Huan chose to establish his own media group during this time period.
It is now April, and there are only five months left before Hehe International's financial crisis. Chu Huan must truly grasp the publicity throat of Xiangjiang within these five months.
Only by mastering the propaganda throat of Hong Kong, coupled with the 20,000 workers of Youth Toys and Endeavor Printing Factory, can Chu Huan have an influence that even the Hong Kong government must be afraid of.
Only in this way can Chu Huan acquire Hehe International. Otherwise, there is no telling what will happen when the time comes.
But if the relationship between Chu Huan and Jiuzhou is made public, even if there is no need to acquire Hehe International, the whole of Xiangjiang will definitely know that Chu Huan will be the well-deserved number one person in the whole of Xiangjiang.
A Chinese who received no help from the Hong Kong government or the British-funded consortium received such a title.
I'm afraid something will happen in England by then.
And Chu Huan is even less likely to get Hehe International.
Chu Huan knew about this, and so did Chen Haichao.
Chu Huan waved his hands and said, "You don't have to think about me. Although it will be a bit troublesome, it is not impossible to solve it. And with the 40,000 workers in the two factories of Jiuzhou Electronics, even if the Hong Kong government wants to do anything to me,
It all needs to be weighed and weighed.”
Chen Haichao smiled and shook his head and said, "Brother Huan, it's really not necessary. You know the situation of our family. In fact, before I went to Japan, I had already sent my mother, younger brothers and sisters to North America!"
Chu Huan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Where is your father?"
Chen Haichao was silent for a moment and said, "Sent to Thailand, where is his paradise. As long as he has money, he will not think so much."
Seeing that Chen Haichao had already made arrangements, Chu Huan did not continue to be pretentious about this matter, but began to talk about serious matters with Chen Haichao.
In fact, this is what Chen Haichao hopes for. He does not want his family affairs to be mentioned frequently.
"You can't stay in the markets in Europe and the United States for too long. In addition, you can't give up on the market in Hong Kong. Of course, there are also markets around the world. When the Walkman is launched in the future, I hope that Kyushu will have its own complete market."
sales channels.”
The popularity of Jiuzhou video recorders has given Chu Huan the confidence. With this product, Jiuzhou can establish its own sales channels for global electronic products. When the Walkman and other electronic products are launched later, Jiuzhou will not need
Let’s borrow the sales channels of Panasonic and Li & Fung again.
Of course, Li & Fung’s sales channels must be retained.
For Chu Huan, what is the best sales channel for Jiuzhou Electronics?
It’s a vertical sales model!
Manufacturing, wholesale and retail integrated.
In the future, Jiuzhou Electronics' products will be researched and invented by the R&D room, produced in its own factories, and finally uniformly deployed by the company and sold by Brother Audio and Video around the world.
Of course, when the time comes, Brother Audio and Video will definitely undergo sub-divisions, and the first one to be divided will definitely be the video tape rental business.
Only in this way will Jiuzhou Electronics not be threatened by people or countries at any stage.
The profits from the Jiuzhou video recorder series are used to meet the capital of Jiuzhou to establish its own vertical business model!
The first step for Jiuzhou Electronics is to establish its own global marketing points.
Chu Huan told Chen Haichao about this plan. Chen Haichao nodded seriously and said, "Brother Huan, don't worry, the company has a complete plan based on your request, and I have already reported this plan to John Qiao."
, the operation department of Jiaku Consulting Company also highly recommends this plan.”
Chu Huan nodded and said with a smile, "Of course I believe you. Regarding your identity, I have already solved it for you. You can take a good look at it while you are in Europe and the United States!"
Chen Haichao nodded.
Now that the business was over, Chu Huan and Chen Haichao walked out of the study, just as Cao Yunshang had returned.
"Has the matter at the construction site been resolved?" Chu Huan asked Cao Yunshang with a smile.
Cao Yunshang nodded with satisfaction and said, "It doesn't matter who takes action!"
Chu Huan laughed, and several people sat together, continuing to barbecue and drink.
The next day!
Gu Chengxi arrived at Jiahu Building and saw Chu Huan who had been waiting for her in Chu Huan's office.
"What's the matter? We can't wait until we get home to talk about it. Why did you call me to the company?"
Gu Chengxi sat opposite Chu Huan, with a somewhat panicked look in his eyes.
Chu Huan smiled and stood up on his office chair, walked to Gu Chengxi's side, put his hands on Gu Chengxi's shoulders, and said with a proud smile, "Have you forgotten what you promised me before?"
"What did you promise me?" Gu Chengxi panicked and tried to get up from his seat, but Chu Huan pushed him down hard on the chair.
"Haha, if you try to run away now, it's too late!"
Chu Huan's hands have begun to become dishonest.
An hour later, Chu Huan was sitting in his office chair refreshed, while Gu Chengxi was arranging his hair with a flushed face.
"You know how to bully me!" Gu Chengxi's peach blossom eyes revealed infinite charm.
Chu Huan said proudly, "You were very happy just now. Do you want me to learn what you just shouted?"
Gu Chengxi's face turned red. He stood up and started fighting with Chu Huan. After the two of them had a fight, Chu Huan told Gu Chengxi that he asked her to come to the company.
"I'm going to let Black and White Image acquire "True News"!"
When Gu Chengxi heard what Chu Huan said, his expression suddenly changed and he looked at Chu Huan in surprise.
"If this is the case, wouldn't others know that you are the boss behind "True News"?" Gu Chengxi couldn't help but say.
Chu Huan smiled and said, "Just know it if you know it. It doesn't matter anymore. Now I'm going to take the black and white image."
Chu Huan then told Gu Chengxi that he wanted to establish a media group.
Gu Chengxi was surprised by Chu Huan's plan and couldn't help but said, "If a media group is established, then "True News"
Chu Huan comforted him and said, "Don't worry, "True News" is still an independent entity. The idea of establishing a media group is to integrate the resources of these companies and also facilitate management!"
Gu Chengxi breathed a sigh of relief. When he founded "True News", Gu Chengxi watched him grow it from scratch, and the emotion he put into it was naturally incomprehensible to outsiders.
Now that he heard that Chu Huan was only integrating resources to facilitate management, and that "True News" was still an independent entity on weekdays, Gu Chengxi naturally had no idea.
His worries were gone. Gu Chengxi naturally immediately thought of how sensational this news was in Xiangjiang, and immediately said, "Let the "True News" report it exclusively?"
Chu Huan naturally had no objection to this, but still reminded Gu Chengxi, "But it can't be used as the front page tomorrow."
Chu Huan will go to see Sha Ya tomorrow with Li Xiaohe and Shao Yifu. Only after HSBC gets the shares of TVB, this matter will be truly settled.
Gu Chengxi nodded and said, "Of course I know this."
Later, Chu Huan asked Gu Chengxi, "Which newspapers in Xiangjiang can be acquired now?"
"Do you want to acquire other newspapers?" Gu Chengxi looked at Chu Huan in surprise.
Chu Huan nodded. According to the survey of Jiaku Consulting Company, the newspaper industry in Xiangjiang is really a mess!
Although "True News" has now firmly ranked second in the Hong Kong newspaper industry, there is still a big gap compared with the entire Hong Kong newspaper industry.
Although Xiangjiang is known as a cultural desert.
However, there are so many newsstands in Xiangjiang, and the colorful newspapers and magazines on the stalls are dizzying and dazzling. Visitors to Xiangjiang for the first time are all amazed.
According to statistics from this year's annual report of Xiangjiang, there are 56 newspapers and 536 journals in Xiangjiang, and more than 90 international news agencies, newspapers and broadcasting companies have set up offices (reporters' stations) in Xiangjiang.
As a city, Hong Kong has so many newspapers, periodicals and external reporting agencies, ranking first in the world.
There are 40 newspapers in Xiangjiang that mainly report general news, two financial daily newspapers, one children's daily newspaper, and the other 20 newspapers specialize in entertainment news.
Xiangjiang newspapers generally consist of three major parts: news, supplements, and advertisements. The supplements are often longer than the news. In many cases, the advertisements are both longer than the news and more than the supplements.
The highest sales volume of Chinese newspapers in Xiangjiang is "Oriental Daily News", with a daily sales of more than 250,000 copies; followed by "True News" and "Sing Pao", with a daily sales of more than 200,000 copies; and "Tian Tian Daily" with a daily sales of around 100,000 copies.
, "Ming Pao", "Xin Pao", "Sing Tao Daily", etc. The remaining newspapers only have sales of tens or thousands.
The oldest English-language newspapers in Hong Kong include the British-run South China Morning Post and the Chinese-run "The Tiger".
Daily sales have been hovering in the tens of thousands for a long time, and its readers are all members of the upper class, so it has had a great influence. New English-language newspapers include the Asian Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, etc.
The total daily sales volume of Xiangjiang newspapers in the 1970s was 1.5 million copies. Per capita, every four people owned one newspaper of the day.
In terms of newspaper stands, the daily sales of each newspaper are less than 30,000 copies, and several major newspapers account for most of the sales. If calculated this way, the daily sales of the remaining newspapers are only 10,000 copies.
Therefore, according to the current newspaper market in Xiangjiang, a "True News" cannot meet Chu Huan's requirements.
Gu Chengxi thought for a while and said, "If you really want to acquire a newspaper, I think "Tiantian Daily" is the easiest and most worthwhile one."
"Tian Tian Daily" was founded on July 1st. It is one of the few Chinese newspapers with a long history in Hong Kong. Its founders were the well-known Wei family at that time. Wei Jize, the second generation member of the Wei family, was the founder of "Tian Tian Daily".
people.
At that time, the Webster family was mainly engaged in the pharmaceutical industry and founded Ertian Pharmaceutical Factory. Since the drugs it produced were mainly sold to Southeast Asian countries, Hu Wenhu, who later studied "Sing Tao Daily", established Ertian Printing Co., Ltd. to be responsible for printing.
Drug advertising paper.
At that time, Wei Jize, a second-generation member of the Webster family, studied printing in England, which laid the foundation for later founding Tiantian Daily.
The registered capital of "Tian Tian Daily" was only HK$50,000 when it was launched. However, Wei Jize applied the printing technology he learned to newspaper printing and pioneered the history of the newspaper industry with color printing, making "Tian Tian Daily" the world's No. 1 newspaper at that time.
A newspaper printed in color became an instant hit.
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In particular, the supplements at that time were reformed to make them more relevant to the public, and the content was bold and innovative. As a result, "Tian Tian Daily" sold 40,000 copies a day not long after its launch.
One year after its founding, Wei Jize handed over the management of the newspaper to his younger brother Wei Jishun.
Chu Huan asked Gu Chengxi, "Why do you say that?"
"First of all, the news content of "Tian Tian Daily" can complement "Zhen Bao". "Zhen Bao" has the advantages of finance and entertainment. Although the entertainment section of "Tian Tian Daily" is also good, their reporting direction is more vulgar.
It's more fake, but the most successful thing about "Tian Tian Daily" is their horse racing reports. Almost every horse betting person in Hong Kong will buy a copy of "Tian Tian Daily".
Secondly, the business of Ertian Pharmaceutical Factory of the Webster family, the boss behind "Tiantian Daily", has been in crisis in the past two years. The Webster brothers have been trying to find ways to raise funds. If we take action at this time, we will basically spend 1.2 million
Then you can get the "Tiantian Daily"!"
Gu Chengxi analyzed it for Chu Huan.
In fact, Gu Chengxi's analysis is not wrong at all. If Chu Huan doesn't take action now, then two years later, the Webster brothers will sell "Tiantian Daily" to Liu Tianjie, the chairman of Miaoli Group, for 1.6 million.
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Liu Tian is not well-known in the business community of Xiangjiang, but he is the first person to invest in land in Pengcheng.
However, Liu Tian did not use this incident to become a wealthy man in Hong Kong, nor did he use this incident to catch up with the subsequent development of his hometown. In 1984, Liu Tian's Miaoli Group declared bankruptcy.
After auctioning most of the Miaoli Group's assets, Liu Tian immigrated to Maple Leaf Country.
At this time, "Tiantian Daily" naturally changed hands again, and the successor became the pillar of the welfare building.
Although Hezhu, like Liu Tian, has little fame among ordinary people in Xiangjiang, and few people mention him when talking about celebrities in Xiangjiang in later generations, this person is a prominent person in the business community of Xiangjiang in later generations.
Honorary forever president of the Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, director and general manager of Welfare Group Co., Ltd., managing director of Jian'an Insurance Co., Ltd., and chairman of the Bankruptcy and Wages Protection Fund Committee.
He has successively served as treasurer, vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, member of the Legislative Council, president of Tiantian Daily, member of the Provisional Legislative Council, member of the Legislative Council, member of the Labor Advisory Committee, employer representative, member of the Hong Kong Housing Committee, and honorary president of Hong Kong Kwong Yue Tong.
At the same time, in 1969, he had been awarded the title of Justice of the Peace in Hong Kong.
If Ji Zhu's uncle could survive until after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he would definitely be a very, very important person.
However, "Tiantian Daily" did not stay in the hands of Hezhu for too long. In 1987, Hezhu sold it to Huang Yulang.
But at that time, the market valuation of "Tiantian Daily" had reached HK$1.1 billion!
Counting from the time when the Wei family sold it to Liu Tian, the market valuation of "Tian Tian Daily" increased nearly a hundred times in ten years!
After hearing this, Chu Huan said, "If that's the case, then launch an acquisition from the Webster family in the name of "True News" and see what the other party's price is!"
Chu Huan was planning to leave this matter to Gu Chengxi himself.
Gu Chengxi nodded and said, "No problem. I will send an invitation to the Wei family when I get back to the newspaper office."
Chu Huan continued, "One more thing. Nowadays, the film industry in Hong Kong is booming, but there is no decent film magazine. This is a bit unreasonable. I think "True News" can also publish a film magazine."
Nowadays, there are no other film magazines in Hong Kong except "Southern Movies" published by Shaw Brothers. And "Southern Movies" only reports on the movies produced by Shaw Brothers and is not a real movie magazine in Hong Kong.
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What Chu Huan wants to do is publish a magazine that truly belongs to Hong Kong movies and can also promote black and white movies.
As for Xiangjiang's famous "Film Fortnightly", it would not be launched until 1979!
However, what Gu Chengxi said next made Chu Huan a little surprised, because now there is a newly launched film magazine "Close-Up" in Xiangjiang.
The founder of this magazine, Tang Shuxuan, is also a film director. The most interesting thing is that she is currently preparing to shoot a movie called "Thirteen Mismatches", starring the goblin father Guan San and the long-legged beauty Ye Feng.
Both of them are unimportant.
The important thing is that there are Qiuguan and Feifei
If Chu Huan were more familiar with Xiangjiang movies, he would know that "Big Close-up" founded by Tang Shuxuan was actually the predecessor of "Film Biweekly".
"Then ask if you can buy it. If you can buy it, that would be the best. If you can't buy it, tell Fang Jianhui to completely block this "Close-Up" and not allow any film actors and directors in Hong Kong to accept the magazine's
Interview.”
Chu Huan was preaching extremely domineeringly at this time.
At this time, Chu Huan did have this strength. Up to now, Chu Huan's status in the Hong Kong film industry has already reached the point where life or death can be determined by one word.
Gu Chengxi didn't feel anything was wrong and nodded.
"Also, you can also create a fashion magazine, a magazine specially prepared for those wealthy women in Xiangjiang!" Chu Huan continued to preach to Gu Chengxi.
Since a media group is now being established, Chu Huan naturally has to think of ways to fill all the gaps in the media group.
Not only Gu Chengxi's newspapers and magazines, but also Youyu Records, which Chen Haichao is responsible for, will be acquired by Black and White Video.
Now Chen Haichao's experience has been fully transferred to Jiuzhou and Brother Audio and Video. Before establishing Youyu Records, he thought that he would get the first-come-first-served. He had such a good sales channel, but if he didn't take advantage of it, he would really be at a disadvantage.
But things are different now. Chen Haichao has no time to manage Youyu Records, so he might as well sell Youyu Records to Black and White Records to fill the gap in the media group.
Moreover, when Chen Haichao founded Youyu Records, he was worried that the record companies in Xiangjiang would put pressure on Brothers Audio and Video, so Youyu Records was not under the name of Brothers Audio. In this case, Black and White Video would only acquire Youyu Records.
Brothers Audio and Video and Chen Haichao will not be involved.
The management and operation of Youyu Records have always been handled by professional managers. Except for Gu Xiaomei, no one in the company knew about the relationship between Chen Haichao and Youyu Records.
And to be honest, it doesn’t matter even if you know it. Isn’t it normal for companies to acquire and annex each other?
After the two discussed the matter, it was already noon. Chu Huan and Gu Chengxi walked out of Jiahu Building together and found a restaurant nearby. After lunch, Gu Chengxi returned to "True News". If they wanted to merge
If you add black and white images, then there will definitely be a lot of things to do on the "True News" side.
Chu Huan returned to Jiahu Building and came to Jiaku Consulting Company. Not only Chu Huan was here, but Fang Jianhui was also here at this time.
Not only does Gu Chengxi have a lot to do in "True News", but Chu Huan also has a lot of preparation work to do.
Just when Chu Huan was preparing to form a media group, no media in Xiangjiang had caught wind of it at this time, so naturally no one reported it. However, there is no shortage of news in Xiangjiang now.
During this time, the whole of Hong Kong is discussing that the 174 hectares of land created by the Tsim Sha Tsui reclamation project will be auctioned.
Among them, three real estate developers are paying the most attention to this matter.
The first thing is Lijiacheng’s long-term success.
Currently, Cheung Kong can only be ranked in the middle level among real estate companies in Xiangjiang, but at this time, no one dares to underestimate Li Jiacheng's energy, because the entire Xiangjiang business community already knows that the relationship between Li Jiacheng and HSBC General Manager Shen Bi is very close.
good.
This kind of relationship makes many people envious, and at the same time they can't understand what exactly Shen Bi likes about Li Jiacheng.
At this time, Li Jiacheng was also discussing this matter with Shen Bi at HSBC.
"Mr. Shen, I received news that Chu Huan has decided to represent Hang Lung Properties in the auction held by the Hong Kong government at the end of this month!"
When talking about Chu Huan, Li Jiacheng's heart was unavoidable. Li Jiacheng was very optimistic about the development of East Tsim Sha Tsui, and he also hoped that the land in Tsim Sha Tsui being auctioned this time would help push the development to a higher level.
Originally, Li Jiacheng had some interest in this piece of land in Tsim Sha Tsui, but it was not too big. What Li Jiacheng wanted most was the Chinese Row.
Unfortunately, in the competition for the Chinese Bank, even with Shen Bi's help, he ultimately lost to Chu Huan, so he could only set his sights on Tsim Sha Tsui.
But what Li Jiacheng didn't expect was that Chu Huan was now also thinking about this piece of land in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Shen Bi said nonchalantly, "Although Chu Huan has great ambitions, the entire Tsim Sha Tsui reclamation project covers 174 hectares, so Cheung Kong only needs to ensure that it buys the land it needs and gives it to Chu Huan's Hang Lung
Real estate can just add some trouble."
Nowadays, the most expensive land in Hong Kong is of course in Central. In the 1970s, Land purchased a new reclaimed land of 25.8 billion yuan from the Central District waterfront at a government land auction. The average land price was NT$25.8 billion.
The land price per square foot is NT$4,868, setting a record for the highest land price in the history of Hong Kong.
However, with the advent of the stock market crash and the oil crisis, land prices in Xiangjiang have begun to fall, and now they are just rising again.
Although Tsim Sha Tsui now has great development potential, it is still incomparable to Central. Take shops for example. At the peak of Tsim Sha Tsui in 1973, the price of a 2,400 square foot shop was only HK$280,000. After conversion, the price per square foot is only HK$117 per square foot.
Although housing prices in Xiangjiang have rebounded after 1975, the average price of the land provided by the Hong Kong government should be between 120 and 150.
If stamp duty is included, it will be even higher.
Although the land price is within an acceptable range, when the land is purchased for development, it is a sky-high price.
In addition, the Hong Kong government also deliberately divided this land into 29 parcels of land for auction in the hope that more real estate developers in Hong Kong would join in and thereby increase the land price in Hong Kong.
That's why Shen Bi told Li Jiacheng very firmly that he could only sell the piece of land he wanted and don't think about anything else.
Li Jiacheng thought about it and realized that this was indeed true, so he smiled and said to Shen Bi, "I thought too much before!"
Shen Bi laughed and said, "That's 174 hectares of land, don't worry!"
But then Shen Bi said to Li Jiacheng, "The Tsim Sha Tsui side is just a decoration. What you really need to do is to gain a foothold in Central!"
Li Jiacheng nodded slightly and said, "I understand, now I have started looking for a building in Central!"
Shen Bi showed a satisfied look, "I hope you can prove to everyone that I, Shen Bi, am not wrong about the person!"
In addition to Cheung Kong, the previously mentioned Sino Real Estate is naturally also paying attention to this land, as is another giant real estate company in Xiangjiang!