"General manager, I have sorted out the information of the newspaper that meets the requirements. Johansen called.

"Okay, I'll go to the company now. Xu Qing hung up the phone.

Half an hour later, Xu Qing appeared in front of the company's gate, opened the door, and saw two tall front desk ladies standing at the front desk with a smile.

One is the original front desk lady, and the other is recently recruited.

Now the scale of newspapers and publishing houses has expanded a lot, and there are more and more partners who come to the door, and two front desk ladies are needed to be responsible for hospitality and the company's appearance.

When the two front desk ladies saw Xu Qing coming in, they immediately said hello, and looked at Xu Qing with hot eyes, as if Xu Qing was a big piece of gold.

Maybe for them, Xu Qing is more valuable than a big piece of gold, young and handsome, billionaire, these are all labels attached to Xu Qing, like a magnet, tightly attracting them to the opposite sex who have ideas.

Xu Qing nodded at them, and instructed the original front desk lady to ask her to call Johansen to come to the general manager's office.

After a while, Johansen came to the general manager's office, sat on the sofa next to Xu Qing, and took out a document.

"General Manager, I have selected a total of 6 eligible newspapers, and this is their information. ”

Xu Qing carefully looked at the information of the six newspapers and selected the three newspapers that were more satisfactory.

"Johansen, I'm satisfied with these three newspapers, do you have more detailed information about them?"

Johansen looked at the names of the three newspapers selected by Xu Qing and immediately said:

"The information on the document is the most comprehensive information I have collected so far, if you want to know more about the newspaper, you can call them or go directly to their company. ”

"Call and talk to their person in charge first. ”

Xu Qing called the heads of the three newspapers one after another, chatted for a while, and had a rough judgment in his heart.

"I went to these two newspapers this afternoon. Xu Qing pointed to two newspapers with a strong willingness to sell.

With Xu Qing's current strength, he doesn't need to make an appointment a few days in advance to meet the heads of these two newspapers, and directly agreed with the heads of the two newspapers to meet this afternoon.

The addresses of the two newspapers are in the Bay Area, and Xu Qing soon came to the first newspaper.

Because it was an informal meeting, Xu Qing visited the first newspaper for a short time, looked at the mental state of the newspaper employees at work, and chatted with the management of the newspaper.

Then came to the second newspaper, the inspection process was the same as the first newspaper, and after the inspection of the two newspapers, Xu Qing and Johansen returned to the company.

"Johansen, the two newspapers we visited this afternoon are not suitable for acquisition. ”

Johansen hurriedly asked, "General Manager, can you tell me why?"

"You can also see that the mental state of the staff and management of these two newspapers is very poor, not much better than the staff of Carney Newspaper at the beginning, and they give me the feeling that they are messing around.

The main purpose of this acquisition of the newspaper is twofold, one is to expand the distribution network of Carney Newspaper, and the other is to obtain excellent talent from the acquired newspaper.

The second purpose is the most important, but it is clear that if we buy these two newspapers, not only will we not get many outstanding talents, but we will have to raise a large number of mediocre talents. Xu Qing explained.

"From my observation, these two newspapers still have some excellent talents. Johansen said his opinion.

"These two newspapers do have some outstanding talents, but it is not worth our nearly 10 million dollars to acquire, and tomorrow morning we will inspect the third newspaper. Xu Qing said.

……

The next morning, Xu Qing and Johansen showed up in a dilapidated office building.

"This office building is very shabby! It seems that the Bay Area Times is not in a good situation. ”

Xu Qing looked at the dilapidated office building, where the Bay Area Times, the newspaper he was about to inspect, was located.

"The Bay Area Times has a history of more than 70 years, and at its peak, the newspaper had a circulation of more than 100,000 copies, but unfortunately it is now declining, and the circulation of the newspaper is only 30,000 copies. Johansen sighed.

"The Bay Area Times is not in decline, so how can we have a chance to buy it. Xu Qing said with a smile.

Although the Bay Area Times now sells only 30,000 copies, less than Carney's newspaper, its gold content is much higher than that of Carney's.

The Bay Area Times relied on news content to attract users to buy, while Carney Newspaper relied on Angels and Demons to attract users to buy.

By the end of the series of "Angels and Demons," sales at Carney's newspaper will quickly drop to 10,000 copies.

There are still 2 months left, and the serialization of "Angels and Devils" is coming to an end, so Xu Qing wants to buy a newspaper at this time, and "Bay Area Times" is a suitable acquisition target.

Xu Qing and Johansen took the elevator to the front desk of the Bay Area Times, where two women with a poor image stood behind the front desk.

Xu Qing couldn't help frowning, the front desk lady of the "Bay Area Times" is this kind of image, and the situation inside them can be imagined, Johansen is collecting fake information.

Seeing Xu Qing's expression, Johansen said softly: "I am very sure that the current strength of the Bay Area Times is higher than that of the Carney Newspaper, and there are more talents than the Carney Newspaper, but their talent level is not up to the standard of the Los Angeles Times." ”

Xu Qing frowned, too, at the beginning, the sales volume of the Ni newspaper was only 6,000 copies, and there were still a few talents.

"Bay Area Times" has a deep heritage, and its sales far exceed that of the original Carney newspaper, and there must be more talents.

At present, the talents of the "Bay Area Times" are enough for him, and the talents of the level of the "Los Angeles Times" can be several, and he can't afford to raise more.

A slightly chubby middle-aged man came out to receive Xu Qing and his party, he was Brian Barker, president of the Bay Area Times.

"Mr. Xu's youth is beyond my expectations, he is really young and promising! I often see your reports in the newspapers, and my son loves Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," Buck praised.

Xu Qing skillfully responded to Buck's praise, he had heard too many praises like Buck in the past month or so, and he was already immune.

Buck took Xu Qing and his party around the newspaper office, and then the two sides sat in Buck's office.

"Mr. Xu, there is no idea of selling the Bay Area Times at the moment. Buck shook his head.

"Mr. Barker, if the Bay Area Times didn't have the idea of selling, you wouldn't have agreed to our visit. Xu Qing leaned back on the soft sofa with a relaxed expression.

"Mr. Xu is a great writer and a billionaire, and if he wants to come to the Bay Area Times for inspection, of course we can't refuse. Buck said with a smile of "sincerity".

"Mr. Barker, what do you think the price of the Bay Area Times is?" Xu Qing said directly, he didn't want to go around with this kind of old fox.

Buck put down the coffee cup in his hand, refilled it, and said word by word: "$40 million!"