Chapter Forty-Nine: Partnering with Oriental Daily?

Wu Mengda covered his face in pain, he never expected that yesterday's incident in the bar actually caused Xu Ziming to fall into this turmoil. Yesterday, I was still happily enjoying a wave of benefits brought to me by Xu Ziming, but I didn't expect that today I dug a pit for Xu Ziming.

Skipping Wu Mengda's sad eyes, Zhou Runfa's heart began to be a little moved, mentioning this matter today, he really has an attitude of hating Wu Mengda, but making it look like this is not what he wants, Zhou Run's words to his mouth swallowed again, Wan Ziliang comforted: "Actually, this incident may not be a bad thing for Mr. Xu." ”

Recently, the Hong Kong media has not stopped Xu Ziming's affairs, not to mention that the popularity of Pan Disheng of the "South China Morning Post" to congratulate the happiness of Hong Kong citizens also involves Xu Ziming, which is enough to show that the current Xu Ziming is more popular than the popular superstar. Hong Kong media and newspapers have been talking about Xu Ziming since his 20th birthday party.

Compared with "Oriental Daily", "Ming Pao" can't get such exciting news, it's not that their strength is inferior to "Oriental Daily", it's the opposite. Among Hong Kong newspapers and periodicals, "Oriental Daily" has been in decline since its establishment in the 60s, and since the 80s, the newspaper sales have been declining. In order to increase the sales of the newspaper, the Oriental Daily sometimes had to go off the rails.

Wu Mengda blew his nose, his face was full of incredulity: "How can this not be a bad thing?" Hearing Wan Ziliang's words just now, the white face suddenly became a little rosy.

Wan Ziliang patted Zhou Yanfa on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It's a shame that you know Mr. Xu so well. He is a wealthy man, and he is not the same as us artists. We need a good reputation, we need good visibility. And Mr. Xu is a serious businessman, he relies on his own ability and means, not the popularity we like. “

Zhou Yunfa couldn't help but look at Wan Ziliang a few more times, he actually regarded Xu Ziming as a star, and Wan Ziliang analyzed it thoroughly.

Wu Mengda rarely laughed again, he couldn't help touching the vertebrae that were still cold not long ago, and sighed in his heart, "Fortunately, there is only Mr. Xu in the photo of this newspaper." Wu Mengda smiled a little silly, but when he found that the two of them looked at him strangely, he realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he simply ate the delicious lunch.

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Oriental Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Oriental Press Group, is said to have held the leading position in Hong Kong's newspaper scene for 31 consecutive years, selling more than 530,000 copies in a single day and reading more than 3.4 million people, far behind other newspapers and periodicals. However, Xu Ziming did not believe these so-called rumors.

In Xu Ziming's view, the content of the "Oriental Daily" report often "finds a new way", especially in this era when newspapers and periodicals are also relatively popular, and it is very beneficial to be able to control media speech. Ma Chengkun, as the boss of "Oriental Daily", is a partner that Xu Ziming can make friends with. Although "Oriental Daily" did make itself full of troubles, the schoolwork allowed Xu Ziming to see the advantages of "Oriental Daily".

Hui Ziming's stock agent in Kowloon Bus is Guan Du, and Guan Du was Hui Ziming's personal lawyer before, and Guan Du helped Xu Ziming in many aspects of business, and recently Guan Du also noticed the vacancy of Xu Ziming's personal lawyer and recommended his good friend, Sun Wugao, to Xu Ziming.

Regarding this Sun Wugao, Xu Ziming is really very interested. The name is so similar, the same as the name of my roommate at the university. However, this Sun Wugao's ability is really good, and his network resources are also relatively extensive. After meeting Zhang Bing yesterday, I asked Sun Wugao to discuss things with Ma Chengkun, and today I have eyebrows, and I will discuss the matter of meeting with Ma Chengkun without accident.

Ma Chengkun is the boss of "Oriental Daily", and he is familiar with Xu Ziming, and his newspapers and periodicals have been dealing with Xu Ziming every day recently. Xu Ziming asked him to meet, although Xu Ziming was a junior to him, but Xu Ziming's wealthy status, coupled with Xu Ziming's fact that he was by no means a thing in the pool, such a powerful person could make friends more wisely than refuse.

The place where the two met was not the Peninsula Hotel, which is known as the "Far Eastern Lady", but just an ordinary restaurant on the radio road in Shek Kip Mei, the milk tea in this restaurant is cheap and tastes good, and it is the place where many celebrities of wireless are frequented.

Xu Ziming sat in his position, the slightly hot milk tea was also much cooler, and after waiting for a few minutes, he rolled up his sleeves anxiously, opened his watch and took a look, only to see Sun Wugao walking towards Xu Ziming, saying that Ma Chengkun was coming.

I waited for some time, but Xu Ziming was still able to tolerate these shortcomings. Ma Chengkun's waiting time has not exceeded his expectations, but he has a bit of a rush to do his best. Accompanied by his assistant, Ma Chengkun slowly got out of the car and entered the restaurant.

"Mr. Ma, I am fortunate to be happy" Xu Ziming greeted politely out of his identity as a junior.

Ma Chengkun carefully looked at Xu Ziming's words, and then said with a smile: "I didn't expect Mr. Xu to be more delicate and handsome than the people in the newspaper." ”

Mr. Ma said and laughed", and then Xu Ziming waved one hand, "Sit here." ”

After the two men were seated, their assistant followed closely behind. Ma Chengkun is not very clear about Xu Ziming's intention to meet him, although his "Oriental Daily" has revealed Xu Ziming's troubles, but it also has some limitations, not to mention that these things are just made up by his own editors to increase newspaper sales, and they have little to do with himself.

Xu Ziming unhurriedly took out a copy of yesterday's "Oriental Daily", with a slight mockery, and handed it to Ma Chengkun on the other side, Ma Chengkun's eyes flickered casually, how could he not know that it was yesterday's "Oriental Daily", the title was so eye-catching.

Ma Chengkun explained with a smile: "Mr. Xu, it won't be to ask the teacher to ask for guilt, you also know that my newspapers and periodicals are all operated by the editors, and I can't ask about many of their things." “

Xu Ziming believed that he asked Ma Chengkun to come over, not because he planned to ask the teacher for guilt, but because he wanted to apply both soft and hard to make him soft.

After taking a sip of milk tea, Xu Ziming said: "Mr. Ma, since your Ma family founded the "Oriental Daily" in the late 60s, I don't know how much the market value of the "Oriental Daily" is now?"

Ma Chengkun looked at Xu Ziming suspiciously, thought for a few moments, and said: "The market value is naturally not worth much, compared to your Xu family's Zhou Sheng real estate is not worth mentioning." Could it be that Mr. Xu wants to invest in my Oriental Daily. “

Xu Ziming shook his head and said: "I'm thinking about whether I should also create a newspaper to share a piece of the pie with the Oriental Daily, and I believe that it should definitely be no worse than Mr. Ma's Oriental Daily." Mr. Ma, you also know that in my eyes I can't be a friend of the newspaper, my attitude is only to ban it, but if I can become a friend, I will try to help. ”

These words sounded a little rigid to Ma Chengkun's ears, and the arrogance in them made Ma Chengkun's heart a little surprised. Ma Chengkun's index finger moved back and forth on the nasal bone, the Xu family has a big business, and if they want to develop in newspapers and periodicals, it will indeed affect the business of their other newspapers, but from the development of the Xu family over the years, they have not reached out to the newspaper business, which does not mean that Xu Ziming in front of them will not.

With this concern, Ma Chengkun said embarrassedly: "The Xu family has a big business, if Mr. Xu wants to enter the newspaper industry, it will not be difficult, but Mr. Xu's real mind should not be in the development of the newspaper industry." Ma Chengkun had a guess in it, and Xu Ziming's words were too much, as if he was venting his previous dissatisfaction.

Xu Ziming rubbed his nose and smiled: "Boss Ma is worthy of being Boss Ma, what I said just now is indeed just an assumption, but the current news media also plays a great role in the development of business, I have a suggestion, I don't know if Boss Ma can agree." Xu Ziming didn't want to set up a newspaper, but making friends with one was a good idea.

Ma Chengkun began to dare not underestimate the younger generation in front of him, there are many media newspapers and periodicals in Hong Kong, in addition to his own "Oriental Daily", there are also "Ming Pao", "Sing Tao Daily", "South China Morning Post" and other newspapers and periodicals with a certain degree of brightness, whether Xu Ziming has looked for them, Ma Chengkun does not know, but today's Xu Ziming's combination of soft and hard practices makes him have to make a choice in his heart.

Ma Chengkun said indifferently: "I don't know what Mr. Xu thinks?"

Xu Ziming said briskly: "I want to reach a cooperative relationship with Boss Ma's "Oriental Daily". “

Ma Chengkun said with a wry smile: "Oriental Daily has caused a lot of trouble to Mr. Xu before, but it has always been restricted, Mr. Xu wants to cooperate with Oriental Daily, I think I still have to go back and think about it, after all, this family business is left by my father's generation." I, the successor, have to think about everything I do. Ma Chengkun always felt that Xu Ziming's words were a bit empty and white wolf, as a businessman, his vision was very picky, what so-called cooperation, if there were not enough benefits to exchange, on the contrary, it would be restricted everywhere.

Looking at the whole of Hong Kong, in addition to the Xu family, there are also many wealthy families who are stronger than the Xu family, and Ma Chengkun's vision is naturally higher.

Xu Ziming smiled very calmly. Sun Wugao had also reminded him of this result before, and he naturally had a way to deal with it. The most important thing for a businessman is his own interests.

Xu Ziming explained: "Boss Ma, don't be in a hurry to refuse, I have a few hot news in my hand now, and I can provide a lot of help to Oriental Daily." For example, now, as soon as these few pieces of news are published, you must know how much impact it will have on the newspaper. “

Ma Chengkun's eyes lit up a little, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but be a little moved, but he was still very careful to hide these expressions.