After Lin Cheng's speech, the entire newspaper office no longer had the previous twilight, and all the employees were busy, working overtime desperately to complete the newspaper revision.

Lin Cheng injected 10 million funds into the newspaper, and not only did the "Daily Express" not lay off employees, but the company also added several departments such as the advertising department and the business department, and published a whole page of recruitment advertisements in the old newspaper, officially recruiting troops.

Just a week later, the staff of "Daily Express" has expanded to more than 300 people, covering all aspects of talents, Lin Cheng's salary is very sincere, generally about 10% higher than the average salary in the industry.

With everyone's desperate efforts, the 48-page hardcover layout of "Daily Allegro" has completed the template, and as long as the news content is filled in, you can go out on the street to sell newspapers.

The newspaper's team of reporters has also been working tirelessly to collect news materials, and the old newspapers that have been published have also published a hotline for breaking the news, and citizens can get a reward of 200 to 1,000 Hong Kong dollars if they break the truth.

Lin Cheng's layout for the newspaper is the popular layout of the "Southern Metropolis Daily", which has risen the fastest after the new century, and has long been verified by the market, and is at least five or six years ahead of the current newspaper.

Compared with the company's employees, Lin Cheng's confidence is more than theirs, and Lin Cheng feels that as long as the "Daily Express" completes the revision, it can beat other newspapers within a year and become the No. 1 paper media in Xiangjiang.

In addition, the writer's department of the newspaper is taking the novel ideas provided by Lin Cheng, working overtime desperately, regardless of the code words day and night, Lin Cheng completely abandoned the mode of writing himself this time, but from other newspapers to dig up five street writers, provide them with much higher salaries than ordinary authors, and require them to devote themselves to the work of code words, the writer industry appeared in 97 years in advance.

Lin Cheng's plagiarism this time was very frustrating, he provided the writers with the idea and outline of five novels, these five novels are "Zhu Xian", "Kunlun", "Dragon Clan", "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Breaking the Sky", these five novels in the previous life have already been verified by the market, and they are particularly popular commercial novels, Lin Cheng is ready to serialize them in the novel section of "Daily Express", in order to start the first shot after the revision of "Daily Express".

Of course, the copyright of Lin Cheng's novels must all be in his own hands, in order not to arouse people's suspicion of his changeable writing, except for "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", which use his real name, other novels have opened vests, among which "Dragon Family" and "Kunlun" use the pen name of Ye Jiangnan, and this pen name will be mainly used to publish traditional physical novels in the future.

As for the vest of "Zhu Xian", the pen name of the forgotten ear root is used, which represents the two high mountains of the later generations of online literary immortals, and "Breaking the Sky" uses the pen name of fried tomatoes with potatoes, I don't say you all know this pen name.

In addition, Lin Cheng also sent Paul Li and Huo Wenxi to acquire a literary publishing house in Xiangjiang and a comic book club in Baodao, the literary publishing house mainly publishes Lin Cheng's plagiarized novels from his previous life, and the comic club is responsible for caricaturing Lin Cheng's novels.

It's a pity that the domestic publishing industry is a state monopoly industry and private individuals are not allowed to enter, so Lin Cheng had to ask Li Muzhen to take the "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" he wrote to submit to major domestic publishing houses.

Although several publishing houses have agreed to publish, but because Lin Cheng is a newcomer, the royalties are very low by them, Lin Cheng feels that "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" will definitely be a big hit in the future, where is he willing to suffer from the exploitation of the publishing house, in a fit of anger he decided to temporarily give up domestic publishing, planning to save the country with a curve, and wait for "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" to be a best-selling writer in Hong Kong and Taiwan after the fire, and then return to China with the name of a best-selling writer in Hong Kong and Taiwan to wait for others to send him to ask him to publish.

All the subordinates of the newspaper have been busy like dogs, Lin Cheng is not idle, tomorrow is August 18, 1997, and it is also the first day of the issue of the "Daily Express" after the revision.

In order to keep the revised edition of the "Tian Tian Express" confidential, Paul Li did not invite the representatives of the publishers until this morning to show the publishers a sample of the newly revised newspaper, and all the publishers were full of praise for the newly revised newspaper, but they were very opinionated by the ultra-low price of the newspaper's two stewed chickens, believing that with such a low price, they would not make much profit as an intermediate publisher.

They demanded that the newspaper raise the retail price from two to five stewed chickens, and refused to publish the Daily Express if they did not comply with their demands.

The next day, the new edition of the newspaper was about to be sold on the street, and the situation was very urgent, and Paul Li couldn't make the decision himself, so he hurriedly invited Lin Cheng over to negotiate with the publisher.

Lin Cheng soon came to the newspaper conference room, in which sat anxiously waiting for Paul Li and the major publishers, after these days of media bombardment of Lin Cheng, everyone has become familiar with Lin Cheng's handsome and immature face, after Lin Cheng entered the door, everyone stood up one after another, and said respectfully: "Lin Sheng, hello!"

With Lin Cheng's fame in the financial industry of Hong Kong, even Chen Huiyi, an investment manager who is responsible for Lin Cheng's trading, has become an instant hit and has become a famous gold medal trader in Hong Kong.

Lin Cheng is now worth billions of billionaires, and the publishers are still very frightened when they see Lin Cheng, in the capitalist society of Xiangjiang, money is strength, and compared with Lin Cheng, these publishers are just ants.

However, Lin Cheng did not put up a stand with them, but listened to their opinions very approachably, and after everyone said their opinions on asking for the price increase of "Daily Express", Lin Cheng said kindly: "It is impossible to raise the price, the price of "Daily Express" is two stewed chickens." ”

Although Lin Cheng's tone was gentle, his voice was extremely firm, and as soon as these words came out, the issuing representatives were in an uproar, completely disagreeing with Lin Cheng's opinion that he would not accept the price increase.

"Lin Sheng, it's not interesting for you to say this, you must know how to compromise as a person, and people who don't know how to compromise at all are destined to run into heads. ”

"Yes, Lin Sheng, although you are a billionaire, we publishers are not easy to mess with, you know, we represent the interests of thousands of newsstands, convenience stores, and bookstore owners in Xiangjiang. ”

"That's right, as the saying goes, ants can bite elephants to death, without us publishers, can your newspaper be sold?

"Everyone be quiet! Everyone be quiet!" Lin Cheng pressed down with his hands and shouted continuously, finally stopping the commotion of the distribution representatives, he smiled and said: "I haven't finished my words yet, the "Daily Express" does not raise prices, but our newspaper is willing to give up half of the newspaper's retail revenue, and let half of the profits go to your publishers. ”

"What! You're giving up half of the newspaper's retail revenue?

Even Paul Li was stunned by Lin Cheng's decision, and he asked loudly: "Mr. Lin, are you kidding? Give up half of the retail income of the newspaper, then we will only have the revenue of one stewed chicken if we sell a newspaper? If we deduct the cost, we will even run the newspaper at a loss, and the more we sell, the more we will lose, no one in the world will play like this, I resolutely disagree!"

"I'm not kidding. Lin Cheng said lightly.

Li Paul couldn't sit still anymore when he heard this, although "Daily Express" had been acquired by Lin Cheng, but after all, it was his life's work, and he must not sit idly by and watch Lin Cheng defeat him.

Thinking of this, Paul Li stood up and said excitedly: "Mr. Lin, with such a fashionable and trendy layout of our "Daily Express", it will definitely sell well in Hong Kong, and even reach a circulation of 100,000 copies a day is just around the corner, if our newspaper also sells five or six stewed chickens per copy like other newspapers, the retail income will be five or six hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars a day, and the retail income will be nearly 200 million Hong Kong dollars a year!"

"That's right, Mr. Lin, your net worth of five or six billion, you can't look at the retail income of 200 million a year, but after all, these incomes are the brainchild of all our newspaper colleagues, you must not just give up so willfully, with this income, the newspaper does not need you to inject capital into it, it can even feed back to Mr. Lin and become a money-making machine in your hands!"

Lin Cheng has long been determined to be the No. 1 newspaper in Hong Kong, and he doesn't care even if he sells at a loss. To tell the truth, with the rise of the Internet in the new century, newspapers have gradually become a sunset industry, and it is very difficult for the media to make money at all, but how can the bosses who have the strength to run newspapers care about a small amount of money, what they really value is the role that newspapers can play as mouthpieces.

If Lin Cheng makes "Tian Tian Express" the first in Hong Kong, then he will have the identity of a Hong Kong media tycoon after returning to China, if some self-righteous jackals in China think that Lin Cheng is a pig to be slaughtered, then Lin Cheng's "Tian Tian Express" will be sprayed in the newspaper, and when the influence exerted by the newspaper is fed back to the central government, do you say those jackals will be jealous?

Lin Cheng thought that no one could afford to offend himself under the pressure of the first major newspaper in Xiangjiang, unless he was a madman. And now that Xiangjiang has just returned, it is a time when the whole world is paying attention to the pros and cons of "one country, two systems" with a magnifying glass.

Of course, Lin Cheng will never confide in public these selfish thoughts, and in the face of Li Paul's incomprehension, Lin Cheng had to say toughly: "Uncle Li, I am the boss of the newspaper, you understand this profit policy and implement it, if you don't understand it, you must implement it, this matter will end here, just do it!"