Chapter 106: Boasting
(Another chapter was sealed, and I didn't even know what to say about my frustration .......) Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 However, there is still a place to be happy that I received a reward from the *ggq* brothers and the fat and fortune brothers, which is a happy thing. )
Just before the press conference, the journalists who were invited to the press conference received a call from headquarters. Mediacorp spent nearly two minutes on the evening news, focusing on Zhou You's cooperation with the British side to find the battleship Victory, which has been missing for 267 years.
Of course, that's not the point, it's the wealth on the Victory. The discovery of more than 200,000 gold coins and hundreds of antiques, a fortune of more than one billion dollars at its current market value, shocked the world.
At present, the media around the world is attracted to this huge wealth and wants to know more about it in every possible way. These journalists were also asked by Headquarters to learn as much as possible about the inside story.
Therefore, today's press conference can be imagined and will become more lively. Zhou You wants to end this press conference in half an hour, I'm afraid everyone can't accept it.
Zhou You also got the news, and he was also very grateful for the arrangement of the young master. With the media courtesy, the British side will have little chance of doing anything about it, because they also need to protect their own face.
He arranged for Lin Wei to have a careful understanding of the data of the salvage of the Victory, and recorded it in detail in the press release.
In winter, it gets dark in the North Atlantic, and by four o'clock it was already dark, and by five o'clock it was almost completely dark.
However, almost everyone on the Ranger did not pay any attention to the change in the sky, and everyone's minds were attracted by the great wealth and the upcoming press conference.
Of the eleven media outlets, two are from the UK, one from the Middle East, three from the US, two from the mainland, one from Hong Kong, one from Singapore, and one from Spain.
The number of people in each family is five or six, including the host, the text reporter, the photo reporter, and the video reporter. Only Orti's team was the largest, with nine people and three cameras.
Therefore, she is also the most watched host on the scene, and almost everyone is speculating about her relationship with Zhou You. In the past year or so, she has almost become the official reporter of Zhou You, and no one will believe her to say that she has nothing to do with Zhou You.
The major hosts also came to talk to her from time to time, wanting to get more inside information from her. But Orti is not a newbie, so how could she leak her own blockbuster scoop!
Seeing that Orti didn't leak, everyone could only regret giving up, slandering her a hundred times in their hearts, cursing her for being abandoned after being tired of playing around.
There were only about 60 reporters in total, but with the original crew of the Ranger and the British and Spanish research team, the number was nearly 150.
There was a lot of space on the Ranger, but there was no suitable place to hold the press conference, the event room was too small, and the deck was too dark and cold, so under the arrangement of the tour, the warehouse was used as the site of the press conference.
The chairs on the ship were fixed to the deck, and there were not so many chairs, but the crew put more than 60 custom-made PVC boxes for gold coins for all the reporters to sit in.
Even the rostrum, several boxes were stacked and covered with a layer of red velvet cloth, and then the electronic team connected the speaker to the Ranger's broadcast system.
But no one thought it was shabby, because behind the podium, there were more than 200 boxes full of gold coins and antiques.
There are even text reporters who have already thought of the title of the follow-up news: the most extravagant press conference scene in history.
Indeed, there will be more than a billion dollars of wealth on the scene of any press conference, and this gimmick alone can attract everyone's attention.
The press conference was originally scheduled to start at 5 o'clock, but due to signal problems with the live broadcast, it was delayed until 5:30 a.m. But none of the reporters were dissatisfied, because it was their strong recommendation that Zhou You agreed to the live broadcast of the press conference.
At 5:30, Lin Wei and Demosa walked to the back of the rostrum one after the other, and the atmosphere at the scene became warm. Everyone talked about it, and they wanted to travel more to host the press conference, but it was obvious that Zhou You didn't want to be in the limelight.
However, he also came to the scene, but on the periphery, standing on the side with Stephen, staring at the scene of the press conference. If there is a situation that Lin Wei and Demossa can't handle, he will also come to the rescue.
Lin Wei stood still in front of the rostrum, thinking that this press conference was a global live broadcast, her heart was also extremely nervous, and she secretly cleared her throat.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the scene of the salvage of the Victory and witness this historic moment together. Two hundred and sixty-eight years ago, the Victory sailed from Southampton with a military mission, and since then, the British people have never seen this most advanced warship of the time, and have lost forever the 1,000 and twenty-three brave soldiers and sailors on board. With the memory of history and the memory of these fighters, please stand and pray for them for a minute of silence. ”
Although the people on the British side were quite dissatisfied with Zhou You's holding of this press conference, when they heard this, they all became serious and bowed their heads together. You even saw tears in the corners of Stanford's eyes.
After the silence, the press conference continued. Lin Wei followed the rhythm of the speech, from the Ranger through the voyage records, the discovery of ruins, and the confirmation of the identity of the Victory, to the contact with the British side, the decision to jointly salvage the Victory, and finally to the specific data of the salvage of the Victory.
Her speech lasted for ten minutes, but no one was impatient, especially some of the specific data that was leaked for the first time, which caused bursts of exclamations.
After speaking, Lin Wei's heart calmed down, took a sip of the mineral water in front of her, and then said: "Next, I will enter the reporter's Q&A session." Due to time constraints, each media outlet only has one opportunity to answer questions, and I think everyone should have received this notice and must have negotiated with each other the questions they want to ask. I hope everyone can follow the rules of the press conference, after all, we are now live...... Well, the first question ......"
Facing the raised arms on the stage, Lin Wei was of course the first to ask Orti a question. The reporters in the audience did not have any resentment, because they were used to the privileges that Orti enjoyed.
Hearing Lin Wei call Orty's name, a crew member named Huang Dacheng handed her the microphone.
She took the microphone, thanked her first, and asked her own questions. "It is known that the Nanyang Commercial Salvage Company discovered the sinking site of the Victory because of the salvage of the Royal Merchant. Because of the salvage of the Royal Merchant, the Nanyang Commercial Salvage Company also had a long negotiation with the British side, and when the negotiations were on the verge of breaking down and facing great difficulties, they had to throw out the bargaining chip of the Victory. What I want to ask is, if it weren't for the Royal Merchant, would Nanyang Commercial Salvage Company salvage the Victory privately? You know, this is a wealth of more than a billion dollars, and now it has to be divided into half of it to the British side. ”
This question is actually communicated by Orti and Zhou You, because this question is more sensitive, even if Orti doesn't ask, other media will ask it, so it's better for Orti to ask.
Other reporters have been unclear about the question Orti wants to ask because she is not involved in the series of reporters. So when we heard Orti ask this question at the beginning, everyone was in an uproar.
The ABC reporter had wanted to ask a question that was almost identical to this, but now that Orti had already asked, he had to cross it out with a pen. Before he could ask a question, he needed to think about a more energetic question again, and he couldn't overlap with anyone else.
Lin Wei pretended to think for a while before replying: "Although Nanyang Commercial Salvage Company has a short history, it is a responsible company. As we have strong support from the Singapore government, we need to consider the impact on Singapore and the impact on our reputation before making any decisions. Every year, governments around the world are evaluated in terms of efficiency, responsibility, and integrity. The Singapore government is in a top position in the evaluation of major media, which fully demonstrates the positive role of the Singapore government.
In such an environment, we at Nanyang Commercial Salvage Company have always regarded compliance with laws and regulations as an important core issue for the company's development. We respect the law, even if it is to the detriment of our interests. From our experience in cooperating with the Spanish government in salvaging the Mercedes last year, we can know that the Mercedes is also a warship belonging to Spain, and it was we who first proposed to cooperate with the Spanish government to salvage the Mercedes, rather than salvage it ourselves. Finally, it turns out that our cooperation with the Spanish government is a win-win one.
Although the company gave up half of its interests, it gained the favor of the Spanish government, and then we carried out a series of cooperation with the Spanish government, and in the course of this year, our company's founder, Mr. Zhou You, invested more than half of the money in Spain, which is far more than we got from salvaging the Mercedes. This collaboration also broadens our scope beyond commercial salvage and strengthens the company's foundation and strength.
Therefore, I can responsibly tell everyone that our company will strictly abide by the law of the sea and abide by the laws and regulations of various countries from the beginning to the end. Because only in this way is the long-term foundation for the development and growth of a company. We will not give up long-term interests for the sake of temporary small profits, which is not in the interests of our company's long-term development.
Even if there is no dispute with the Royal Merchant, we will cooperate with the British side once the identity of the Victory has been determined. Because the Victory not only had great wealth, but also the bones of one hundred and thirty-two British warriors, they had to return home, and this was their fate. ”
Her words drew bursts of applause, especially for Stephen, the old fellow was probably going to slap his hands swollen.
He also attracted the attention of many reporters, and many cameras pointed the camera at him, which made Zhou You, who was standing next to him, angry.
(To be continued.) )