Months passed in the blink of an eye, and the time came to mid-July.

With the acquisition of The Sun and the New York Post, and the successful merger into the Universal Press Group, and a series of Evans reforms, after laying off a number of unqualified employees, it not only expanded the group's resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, but also improved the efficiency of news gathering.

After several months of development, newspapers in the United Kingdom, the United States and Hong Kong have initially integrated their resources and formed a channel network, so that news from the three places can be shared in real time.

This not only makes the "Hong Kong Observer" far surpass Ming Pao in international news, but also vaguely crushes the most influential newspaper report at this time.

Although the two newspapers "Oriental Daily" and "Huazi Daily" have been won by Huo Yaowen, they have been in a state of competition.

Because both newspapers began to aim to cover everything, involving news, entertainment, sports, Bojing, Ma Jing and other miscellaneous content.

It is even more slogan: readers can know the world without leaving home.

The slogan is quite loud, but in fact it is mainly gossip content, with all kinds of gimmick titles to attract readers.

This also led to the two newspapers starting to use various gimmick headlines to entice readers to buy for the sake of sales.

The day before yesterday, you were "shocked", and today I will talk to a "have to watch", the somewhat fierce harsh words of the two sides, you come and go, but let the reader feast his eyes.

Although the two newspapers are currently in a state of competition, because they both belong to the Huanyu Newspaper Group, they both have a big boss, Huo Yaowen, relatively speaking, they are relatively restrained, and there is no scolding war between newspapers, which can be regarded as healthy competition.

......

On the side of Phoenix TV, with the broadcast of "The Condor Heroes" in mid-May, the ratings climbed to a new high, and together with "Millionaire", it almost monopolized the 4-hour prime time from 6 to 10 o'clock in the evening for Hong Kong citizens.

Let TVB and Li's TV station each come up with strange tricks, and they have created two programs with a somewhat similar nature to answer questions and give bonuses, but they can't match the hegemony of Phoenix TV.

Mainly because of the wireless station and Li's station, the bonus amount given by these two prize answers is relatively small, and the popularity of the show "Millionaire" has started, so the ratings are always not very high, so they can only be adjusted to the afternoon file.

It is precisely because it was adjusted to the afternoon file and the docking time with "Millionaire" was staggered, and the ratings increased a lot.

Buck Campbell, who was previously interested in the "Millionaire" program, also communicated with the BBC TV headquarters and agreed to send some interns to the British headquarters to learn how to make documentaries.

And Buck Campbell also returned to the UK with the program planning plan of "Millionaire", and began to produce this very promising program in the UK, and in early June, it began to promote a wide range of activities, and at the same time broadcast non-stop advertising on TV stations, and also played auditions in major British newspapers.

Answering the question will earn you a huge prize of £1 million, which immediately attracts the attention of people all over the UK!

You must know that at this time, a million pounds is enough to buy a small single-family building in a prosperous area of London.

To be more precise, the impression of the British general public at this time is that the rich are millionaires, and there is no later concept of billionaires and billionaires!

So this has also led to the British side, and the expectations for this show have almost reached their peak.

This sense of expectation is like someone telling you that if you go on a TV show and answer fifteen questions correctly, you can become as rich as Boss Ma!

On the day of the official registration, more than 100,000 people across the UK wrote, called, or went to the BBC headquarters in London to register!

The show was a big surprise to the BBC TV leadership, but what was even more shocking was that since the first episode was broadcast at the end of June, BBC TV has accounted for more than 80% of the UK's ratings during the same period.

That's the equivalent of 40 million people out of 50 million people in the UK watching this show!

Of course, this naturally excludes those who don't have a TV at home, or who are at work.

And it is said that even the Queen of England is watching this interesting show.

This is enough to show how popular the show "Millionaire" is in the UK!

......

When the UK set off the same quiz frenzy as Hong Kong, Huo Yaowen put all his thoughts on Hutchison at the moment.

In just three months, since Hutchison & Co. split its assets and sold them to pay off its debts, Hutchison & Co. has sold several plots of land and properties in various districts of Kowloon in just three months.

Hong Kong Island, inside a café in Central.

Davide put the information collected in the past half a month in front of Huo Yaowen, and said: "BOSS, this is the current asset situation of Hutchison Foreign Bank that I have collected, you guessed right, their current debt ratio is very high, just yesterday, a debtor has come to Qi Dezun, I don't know what the specific conversation is, but I think it must be asking Hutchison Foreign Bank to repay the loan as soon as possible." ”

After reading the information in his hand and the astonishing debt ratio, Huo Yaowen said with a smile: "It seems that Hutchison Foreign Bank really can't stand it this time." ”

Davide took a sip of coffee, nodded and said: "Yes, some people on the board of Hutchison have begun to contact some people outside, and it seems that they are interested in selling their shares in Hutchison, and I heard that some shareholders have proposed to divest Whampoa from Hutchison and push all the debts onto Hutchison, so as to save Whampoa!"

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen frowned, he didn't want Huangpu to be stripped from Hutchison, you must know that Huangpu has a lot of high-quality real estate and companies, and couldn't help but ask: "They didn't consider foreign capital injection to alleviate Hutchison's current excessive debt?"

"I don't know, but I don't think anyone will choose to take over. "Since David returned from the United States with a large amount of money, he has been investigating the situation of Hutchison Foreign Bank, so he knows better than Huo Yaowen that the current predicament of Hutchison Foreign Bank cannot be solved by a few hundred million.

Debt is one thing, but the main thing is that there are problems in the operation of Hutchison & Co., and many of its subsidiaries have been in a state of loss, which is even more terrible than debt!

It's normal for a company to have debt, even if it's too high, as long as it doesn't exceed 60% of the company's value, then it's not much of a problem, but once it can't make a profit, it's not far from dead.

"Well, I see, you've been paying more attention to Hutchison lately. ”

Huo Yaowen also understands the recent predicament of Hutchison Foreign Bank, but Qi Dezun has always been holding on to it.

"Got the boss. Davide nodded in response.

......

Coming out of the café, Huo Yaowen drove to Yaowen Book Publishing Company, and he handed over "Harry Potter 3" and "Romance of the Dragon and Snake", which had only been written in the past two days, to Yao Wenjie.

Soon, when he arrived at the company, Huo Yaowen entered the office and said directly to Yao Wenjie: "Harry Potter 3, you have someone translate it, and then mail it to the UK to Lito, I have already told him, he will arrange it." ”

"General Manager, this dragon... What about the Romance of the Dragon and Snake?" Yao Wenjie looked at the strange title of the book and asked curiously.

"Find someone to typeset and prepare for publication. ”

Huo Yaowen doesn't know if the current people can accept the real martial arts and exaggerate them, but it shouldn't be a big deal, anyway.

"Okay. Yao Wenjie nodded.

After chatting about these, Huo Yaowen inspected and inquired about the recent situation of the company, and after a brief communication, he came out of the company and prepared to return to Kowloon.

Soon, Huo Yaowen drove to the mouth of the undersea tunnel, waiting to queue up to buy tickets to cross the tunnel.

Since the completion of the undersea tunnel, more than tens of thousands of cars have to go back and forth between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon every day, and there is no traffic jam under normal circumstances, but I don't know what is going on today, I have waited for more than ten minutes, and the car in front of me has no sign of moving.

With nothing to do, Huo Yaowen turned on the radio in the car and listened to the host inside: "Listeners and friends, please pay attention, if the listeners are driving and are near the undersea tunnel, please leave the place as soon as possible, and if there are listeners queuing up at the tunnel mouth to cross the sea, please get out of the car immediately and go to a safe place nearby." ”

"Boom ......"

When Huo Yaowen was still confused, he suddenly heard a huge explosion in front of him!

He subconsciously closed his eyes, put his hands forward, and shrank behind the seat.

When the explosion seemed to be over, Huo Yaowen slowly opened his eyes, and looked left and right, many car owners had already gotten out of the car and were looking ahead, and many people even ignored the car and ran to the nearby sidewalk.

Seeing this scene, Huo Yaowen opened the car door without saying a word, didn't even look at it, and ran directly towards the sidewalk.

Feeling a more stable place, he looked back at the entrance of the tunnel, only to see a bank escort truck burning, thick smoke billowing out, and in the thick smoke, several figures could be vaguely seen moving.

"Da Da Da ......"

Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire, which frightened the nearby citizens who were watching the play, and they dispersed in a hurry.

Huo Yaowen didn't dare to stay here any longer, for fear of being implicated, so he hurriedly ran to a safer place.

After crossing the street of the tunnel, Huo Yaowen breathed a sigh of relief, he is not the kind of person who likes to watch the excitement, you must know that there was a gunshot just now, and the excitement is not visible.

"What's going on? There's an explosion over there!"

"Someone is robbing at the mouth of the undersea tunnel!"

"Robbery? no, the toll booth at the mouth of the undersea tunnel can have a few dollars!"

"It wasn't a toll booth robbery, but a bank escort car!

Hearing that someone robbed the bank escort car with a gun, and even used explosives, Huo Yaowen couldn't help frowning.

waited for Huo Yaowen to cross the sea back to Kowloon by ferry, and learned some specific information from the TV news, it turned out that a gang of gangsters robbed the escort car of Hang Seng Bank at gunpoint, and the amount of money robbed was as high as 7 million Hong Kong dollars!

He even shot and killed three security guards and the driver of the escort vehicle.

Looking at the corpse covered with a white cloth in the TV screen, Huo Yaowen inexplicably remembered the well-known king of thieves more than ten years later.

It seems that it is time to strengthen its own security.

...

Remember the mobile version URL: