Chapter 122: The Media Empire
The stock market crash in 1987 caused many companies in Heung Kong to suffer heavy losses, and Yulang International Co., Ltd., which started with comics, did not escape.
Speaking of Huang Yulang, a genius in the publishing industry in Hong Kong, he was originally a poor boy with nothing, relying on his perseverance and a brilliant pen, after several setbacks, several struggles, never give up, and finally occupied a place in the publishing industry and established his own comic publishing kingdom. Huang Yulang's struggle is legendary, and he is known as the "national hero" and "Stallone" in the publishing industry. Huang Yulang's real name is Huang Zhenlong, born in Chaozhou in 1950, he went to Hong Kong at the age of 7, dropped out of school at the age of 13, helped people draw comics, and published a comic called "Superman's Son" under the pen name "Huang Yulang", which initially showed his talent. Huang Yulang, whose family environment is not very good, likes to draw and draw comics and his heroes since he was a child, and since the age of 9, he has tried to contribute to the comic pages or columns of newspapers and magazines, and it was not until he was 11 years old that his first "debut novel" was published. Due to his family's poverty, he had not yet finished secondary school, so he had to leave school to earn money to support his family. At the age of 13, he enlisted as a small worker at the Times Comics Daily, and also worked as an apprentice painter, with a monthly salary of HK$140 to HK$200. But the good times didn't last long, and soon he lost his job due to the depression of the comic industry.
In 1964, after being unemployed, Huang Yulang borrowed 1,000 yuan from his father as capital, opened a comic club, and started his own "publishing business", publishing a weekly magazine called "Joke World". This was Wong's first venture, and he painted, edited and printed on his own, collaborating with his older brother. There was no publisher willing to publish it, so he and his brother pedaled their bicycles and walked the streets and alleys to deliver "World of Jokes" to newspaper sales points. However, the release of "Joke World" did not improve, and after only 5 issues, it failed, and even the money borrowed to start a business was lost. The first time the business failed, Huang Yulang was not discouraged. On the contrary, Huang Yulang believes that "the biggest gain from doing "Joke World" is that I am very familiar with the streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon, because I have to deliver the goods myself. "It seems that it will be beneficial for him, a year later. He was eager to try it again, and co-founded the "Entertainment Comics Daily", which was prepared for three months, but unfortunately the life of this newspaper was only three months. Due to sluggish sales, the publication was discontinued after three months. Huang Yulang's second venture failed again, and because his savings were exhausted, he had to work for others. At that time, Cui Wei in the Hong Kong comic industry was eager to recruit comic talents, so he went to take the exam. In the Cui Wei Group, he creates 40 to 50 stories a month, with 210 paintings per story, and his salary plus manuscript fees is good. But Huang Yulang was not satisfied with the status quo, and only settled down for more than a year, and cooperated with the painter He Ke to publish a comic daily newspaper by himself. Started the third venture. After working in Cui Wei Group for more than a year, Huang Yulang is already familiar with the entire publishing industry, and his collaborator He Ke is also experienced. Therefore, the establishment of "Xinqi Comics Daily" was relatively successful, and soon after its publication, it sold more than 12,000 copies a day, and its sales became the first in the Hong Kong comic book market at that time. Then, they founded the "Music Sound Comics Daily", but due to the lack of manuscript sources, the production was shoddy. As a result, "Novelty Comics" was also affected, and its quality and sales declined. In 1967, half a year after Huang Yulang started his business for the third time, the "May Storm" swept through Hong Kong, and Hong Kong people were in turmoil and their consumption power was reduced. At the same time, Hong Kong's TVB was launched, and people's attention was focused on television, which had a great impact on comic books and newspapers, and sales fell to the bottom. Later, although Huang Yulang published the "Seiko" comics, he was already a dismal business.
In 1969, when Hong Kong's economy began to take off, the consumption power of citizens increased, and the comic market also showed vitality. This time, he set up a joint venture with a friend who was a printer, "Diamond Press". The "Diamond Press" was more successful than in the past, and as a result, he sold all his shares and books to the publishing house, and he himself worked for it, turning from a boss to a worker. Huang Yulang seems to have bad luck, but instead of being knocked down, he becomes more and more courageous. His tenacious spirit was finally fully rewarded in another venture.
At the end of 1971, an elderly friend who ran a bookstore took a fancy to Huang Yulang's dedication to the comic business and his perseverance, and co-founded Yulang Books Company, which specialized in publishing various comic publications. This time, Huang Yulang learned the lessons of the previous "entrepreneurship", and worked step by step, coupled with relatively strong financial resources, and tried to be cautious in financial management. In terms of publication, the response was good, and the sales volume soon exceeded 20,000 copies, and the profit was quite good.
During this period, Hong Kong's comic industry was different from previous years, and most of the original cartoonists had "changed careers", and there was a considerable shortage of talents. In addition to being still "prolific", Huang Yulang also recruited a group of young people who like comics and trained them to become active and creative backbones. At the same time, he absorbed the advantages of RB comics' high quality and good printing, and devoted himself to improving them. In this way, after three years of hard work, the sales of Yulang publications ranked first in the Hong Kong market, overpowering the "domineering" RB books.
After going through ups and downs, with strong perseverance, Huang Yulang finally won the favor of fate, achieved success, and became one of the celebrities who can enjoy wealth and have his own business group.
Taking advantage of the crisis of Yulang International, the company headed by Zheng Jinghan and the Sing Tao Group want to fully acquire the Yulang Group. As a result, in April this year, Yulang International Co., Ltd. was suspended, and in June it was charged with falsifying false accounts and facing the end of being auctioned.
Wang Jie took this opportunity to send Yulia Vladimirovna Tymoshenko to contact Huang Yulang, and after some bargaining, he finally acquired Yulang International at a price of 300 million Hong Kong dollars Later, Wang Jie let the old Jim visit the relevant personnel of the British government in Hong Kong, and the Xiangjiang court quickly launched a comprehensive investigation into Huang Yulang's accounts, and in the face of imprisonment, Huang Yulang finally relented, and finally the two sides completed the above transaction.
In fact, as early as after the stock market crash, Wang Jie's large-scale acquisition of shares included not only traditional industries and emerging high-tech industries, but also a large number of media shares, including 38% of the BBC's shares, ABC's 44% shares, NBC's 20% shares, and CBS's 26% shares In recent years, coupled with the continuous development of Fox TV, Xiangjiang's Jiayi TV and South Korea's Culture Broadcasting Company TV, Wang Jie has built a huge media empire at this time, Wang Jie was not interested in traditional paper media, with the upcoming Internet technology, traditional paper media will inevitably decline, but Ni Frame's slander of DreamWorks in the newspaper made Wang Jie uncomfortable, and the clay man still has three points of fire, in order to teach Ni Frame, Wang Jie acquired Yulang International, anyway, Yulang International is not expensive for him。 The day after the acquisition was completed, Wang Jie changed the name of Yulang International to DreamWorks Publishing Group, and on the same day, "Xiangjiang Daily", "Tiantian Daily", and "Tiantian Express" published the "stain" of Ni Frame and his son.