Chapter 152: "Four-wheel Drive Brothers" serialized
However, after Wu Ming's investigation, he learned that Hu Xian, the owner of Xiangjiang Xingdao Newspaper Co., Ltd., was a wealthy man, and he was not short of money at all, so it was impossible to sell his family heirloom to him. Therefore, Wu Ming could only regrettably give up the idea of acquiring this company.
In contrast, South China Morning Post, New Paper, Hong Kong Economic Journal, and Sing Pao are relatively easy to acquire. Either these newspapers are already listed on the stock exchange, or the holders are not very wealthy.
Wu Ming first bought idle stocks in circulation on the stock market, and at the same time had private contacts with some small shareholders. When the shares were sufficient, he sent a formal request to the newspapers.
Under the temptation of Wu Ming's 3% premium acquisition, many shareholders sold their shares to Wu Ming. In the end, Wu Ming spent a total of 200 million US dollars (about 1.1 billion Hong Kong dollars) to acquire the four newspapers and periodicals, and after some integration, the Xinghuo Newspaper Company was established under the Xinghuo Group.
Immediately after the news broke, a violent earthquake was triggered in Xiangjiang.
"A few months ago, the acquisition of Li's TV station, and the current multi-billion Hong Kong dollar acquisition of four first-class newspapers in Hong Kong, to enter the newspaper media industry, the Wu family's ambition to control public opinion in Hong Kong has been revealed. —Oriental Daily News
"Under the generous pen of the Wu family, few people can resist the temptation of money after all, and the media industry in Hong Kong is about to usher in a major reshuffle. ——Ming Pao
When Wu Ming was busy acquiring the newspaper, "Four-wheel Drive Brothers" was also officially serialized in two magazines, "Weekly Youth Sun" and "Weekly Youth Star" on March 16.
Nie Shenghong, a 10-year-old elementary school student, has fallen in love with reading comics since he watched "Dragon and Tiger Gate" from his classmates two years ago.
It's just that the previous comics were all comics that were fighting, killing, and loving, and they were not suitable for primary school students to read, so his parents at home have always objected to his hobby. Therefore, he can only secretly read comics at school, and does not dare to bring comic books home.
Fortunately, Wu Ming was born later and created the healthy comic "Hulu Brothers". His parents, who had always opposed him reading comics, actually took the initiative to buy a copy of "Hulu Brothers" and gave it to him, and later relaxed the restrictions on him and allowed him to read the comics produced by Wu Ming.
Since then, Nie Shenghong has become a fan of Wu Ming's comics, as long as it is a comic created by Wu Ming, he has never been left behind. This time, Wu Ming's new comics are listed, for a sneak peek. Nie Shenghong, who usually likes to sleep lazy, got up early for the first time and rushed to a nearby Xinghuo bookstore.
"Store manager, a copy of Weekly Junior Star?" Nie Shenghong shouted as soon as he entered the store.
Because this Spark bookstore is in a wealthy area, there are fewer people and there is no need to wait in long lines with other places.
"Okay. The manager replied, handing him the magazine.
Spark Bookstore and Order of the Phoenix are both companies under the same group, so they will naturally take care of their own business, so the comic magazines of the Order of the Phoenix are arranged in the most prominent position.
Nie Shenghong took the magazine, and saw two little boys drawn in a large position in the center of the cover, one with blue hair and the other with red hair.
"Is this '4WD Brothers', it's really two protagonists!" he muttered.
He is well aware that the magazine of the Order of the Phoenix will always draw the protagonist in the center of the cover whenever there is a new comic.
Nie Shenghong handed the money to the boss and walked towards the school. On the way, he couldn't wait to open the magazine, and pressed his mind to immediately read the latest plot of "Football Player" and "Dragon Ball", Nie Shenghong turned to the page of "Four-wheel Drive Brothers" according to the catalog.
Seeing that the children were each holding a toy car in the comic, Nie Shenghong couldn't help muttering, "Four-wheel drive?!"
As early as last week, the mini four-wheel drive went on sale worldwide.
It's just that this kind of toy is more expensive, the cheap ones cost fifty or sixty Hong Kong dollars, and some of them even cost hundreds or thousands of Hong Kong dollars. And there is no anime publicity, no emotional bonus. So after the mini four-wheel drive car was launched, the response was very average, just like the Tamiya model in the previous life.
Nie Shenghong also knew about this kind of toy, but he didn't buy it because he heard others say that it wasn't very fun.
Looking at it, Nie Shenghong couldn't help but immerse himself in the plot of "Four-wheel Drive Brothers", and at the same time, he also understood the gameplay of this toy racing car. It's not like an ordinary RC car, running around the land according to your own ideas. It's about putting it on the track and driving the race.
When he saw that the venue for the Xiangjiang District Championship Preliminary Tournament was set in a mountain range, he was even more dumbfounded. I couldn't help but exclaim: "This is too exaggerated!"
Indeed, unlike the 4WD track in reality, which can be put down in a room, the track in the comics uses a mountain, a lake, and a ship as a race venue at every turn. There are also many high-tech technologies such as stereoscopic images.
It's a bit unrealistic, but that's the charm of this manga.
As the pages of the book are turned page by page, the plot has reached the point where Xiaohao and Xiaolie did not hesitate to roll off the cliff in order to protect their four-wheel drive, but fortunately, the two only suffered a slight bruise.
When Nie Shenghong saw this, the whole person was stunned, and said in astonishment: "Is it necessary to do this, it's just a toy car!"
In the eyes of people in reality, it is really not worth it to get hurt for the sake of a toy. But in the eyes of the characters in the comics, the 4WD is their companion.
Although he was a little unimpressed by the behavior of the two protagonists, a feeling of not knowing how to describe it welled up from his heart, which made Nie Shenghong immediately look behind.
When I saw Xiao Hao's charging God of War, half of the wheel could not continue the game because it was damaged. Nie Shenghong couldn't help but feel bad in his heart, and his hands holding the comic magazine slowly tightened unconsciously.
He kept scrolling down to see how it would end.
Unexpectedly, the plot took another turn in the later plot, Xiao Lie's sonic god of war actually drove together with Xiao Hao's charge god of war to continue the game, and the two won the championship and third place respectively.
Nie Shenghong suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and muttered in his mouth: "This comic is not bad, it really deserves to be Ming Shao's new comic!"
At the same time, I secretly made a decision in my heart that after I went home, I asked my parents to buy a mini four-wheel drive, and both the Charge God of War and the Sonic God of War would be bought.
There are many people like Nie Shenghong, and at the beginning, many people didn't know about the mini four-wheel drive car because they hadn't seen or understood it, so they were a little confused about the comic plot.
But after seeing the back, I couldn't help but feel moved by the persistence and brotherhood of the two brothers Ximenhao and Ximenlie in the comics.
And the mini four-wheel drive car of Dole Toys has also begun to become popular with the hot sales of comics. Mini four-wheel drive, which could only ship less than 10,000 units a day, rose to 50,000 or 60,000 units a day after a month. After the animation became a hit, the daily sales reached hundreds of thousands of units.