Forty-five percent!!

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen frowned and said, "Forty-five percent is fine, but do you agree that the publishing house will hand over full authority to me to operate?"

"I agreed to this, and I agreed to sign this on the contract. ”

"That's good. When Huo Yaowen heard that he agreed, he subconsciously breathed a long sigh of relief.

Fok Yaowen doesn't really care about whether the publishing house can make a lot of money for him, he still cares most about deepening his connection with the University of Hong Kong and improving his social status and popularity.

Although this era still admired literati and ink writers, the status of university teachers was no worse than that of some rich businessmen and celebrities.

However, if you want to really compare, the status of ordinary literati teachers is still one level lower than that of those celebrities and gentlemen, but this is also a matter of people.

To take the simplest example, among the four great talents in Hong Kong in the 80s, the most famous person was Jin Yong, and the person with the most status in the literary world was also Jin Yong.

In particular, among the two Hong Kong people who wrote the draft legislation of the Basic Law of Hong Kong on the eve of the handover, Jin Yong was the only literati who wrote the original text, and he was also one of the leaders of the group for the draft legislation of the Basic Law.

This kind of honor is not comparable to ordinary people!!

There are some writers in Hong Kong who are more famous than Jin Yong, and there are many writers who are more powerful than Jin Yong, but only Jin Yong, who writes martial arts, served as the drafter of the bill and was also one of the leaders of the five groups, the most critical of which is Jin Yong's social status in Hong Kong.

With the top three sales in Hong Kong, Jin Yong has gradually broken away from the boundaries of ordinary writers and literati, and slowly developed into Confucian businessmen. While his martial arts masterpieces brought him great fame, they also led to the development of Ming Pao step by step, and indirectly contributed to Jin Yong's unique social status in Hong Kong's literary scene in the next two decades.

This is like President Reagan of the United States, who was an ordinary actor before, and after serving as president, his social status has risen significantly, if he continues to be an actor after retirement, I believe that if he becomes a first-line superstar, at least he will be the pillar of the second and third lines.

As mentioned in the Hong Kong drama, there are three professions in Hong Kong that are the most respected and have a relatively high social status, one is a lawyer, the second is a doctor, and the third is a university teacher (professor)!

On the other hand, those well-known wealthy businessmen are arranged by some newspapers, and they are often scolded as "unscrupulous" and "bloodsuckers".

Of course, there is inevitably a hatred of the rich in this, but it can also be understood that Hong Kong's social status does not necessarily mean that people can be respected if they are rich.

There are many ways to make money, such as following the future development, in the current downturn of Hong Kong's real estate economy, buying a house at a low price, and waiting for a few years for Hong Kong's real estate economy to recover and prosper, and in a year and a half, it can be turned over.

Or wait until the establishment of the Far East Exchange next year and the Hong Kong stock market booms, buy a little stock, and wait until the 7 stock market crash to sell again, which is a big profit.

But these methods take time, and even if you make money, you don't actually make a lot of money when the principal is insufficient.

All this shows that Huo Yaowen has no shortage of means to make money, and what he lacks is an opportunity to improve his social status like Jin Yong's "Ming Pao".

Although Huo Yaowen has always wanted to make money, but to be honest, in his heart, money is never the most important and main direction, he has the memory of the next 40 years, he can do anything, but he chose a publishing company, and cooperated with the University of Hong Kong, just to improve his social status in Hong Kong at this time.

As long as the "compulsory six-year free compulsory education" formulated by the Hong Kong Governor's Government is implemented, the University of Hong Kong Press, which mainly focuses on textbooks and extracurricular tutorial books, will certainly be able to become a well-known educational book publishing house in Hong Kong in the shortest possible time, and Fok Yaowen, who holds the post of president, has accumulated a lot of fame invisibly.

After learning that the University of Hong Kong Press had closed down and the school was preparing to introduce textbooks from the University of London, Fok Yaowen had already made these small calculations in his heart.

Therefore, on the issue of the shares of the Hong Kong University Press, Fok Yaowen does not care very much about how many shares he owns, in his opinion, as long as it is between 40% and 50%, it is already very good, even if the lowest is 30, he can accept it.

is willing to bear it because Fok Yaowen cooperated with the University of Hong Kong, not to make money.

Naturally, I don't care if there are more or fewer shares.

Of course, Huo Yaowen must be happy with more shares, but a little less will not be uncomfortable because of this, especially forty-five percent, in his opinion, this is already very high, almost not far from the highest expectation in his heart, and there are many more.

Moreover, especially after obtaining the right to operate the publishing house and serving as the president, as long as the publishing house grows stronger and stronger, he, the person with the title of president, can take the route of Jin Yong, develop step by step, and improve Huo Yaowen's social status in Hong Kong.

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When Huo Yaowen was still thinking about things, Zhang Chengyi, who was standing face to face, saw that he didn't speak, and thought that he was not satisfied with the issue of shares, so he hurriedly said the concession of the school: "Although the school will not contribute, it also agrees to integrate the previous printing equipment into the new University of Hong Kong Press free of charge, and at the same time, the factory and land behind the school will also become the equity of the new University of Hong Kong Press." ”

"Is it the factory behind the school in Pokfulam?" Huo Yaowen was stunned.

"Yes. ”

Zhang Chengyi nodded and said: "The factory was built in the 40s, it was a private garment factory, and then the Japanese army invaded and the garment factory was suspended, and the boss had no choice but to sell the garment factory and land to Zhou Xinian, and later Zhou Xinian transferred the land and factory to the Department of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong for use in the new teaching building.

But then it was put on hold until the 60s for various reasons, when the newly appointed principal Le originally wanted to use the land to draft a new teaching building, but later he discussed with several deans, and the new teaching building was drafted on the east side, and the land in Pokfulam has been shelved to this day. ”

"That's good. Huo Yaowen's eyes were burning, and he didn't mention whether the printing machinery that might be some years old could be used, but the land and factory in the back were worth almost 50% of the shares.

You must know that although the land is not big, there is already a very large factory, Huo Yaowen has a memory of where to play with a few classmates in his mind, although the factory is a little in disrepair, but perhaps it was built very carefully at that time, except for the traces of wind and rain, the pillars inside are not damaged.

I think that if you just find a construction team to go over and have a look, you can basically repair it, and you can use it as a printing place for the publishing house.

lest he spend any more money to find a place.

Thinking of this, Huo Yaowen was quite satisfied with the school's arrangement, the printing house was solved, but he still needed a place for employees to work, he thought about the layout of the factory, and his memory was a little vague, but the factory was quite large, and the printing should not be so big, and it shouldn't be much of a problem to come from the next office.