Hong Kong.

March 1.

Li Hao lives in Kowloon Tong and works at the Bank of East Asia on Hong Kong Island, which is considered a white-collar class. He likes to watch movies very much, especially foreign art films, so he even joined the Firebird Film Club and participated in the movie appreciation held by the fire friends from time to time.

On this day, Li Hao got down from the apartment as usual and asked the boss Lao Xu Tou for a magazine at the newsstand on the street.

"Ouch, it's Li Shengyou, wait a minute, I'll get you the magazine."

When Lao Xu saw that it was Li Hao at first glance, he immediately greeted him warmly, and then rummaged through the hidden goods.

The reason why the word "hidden goods" is used is because some magazines are pre-ordered, and if they are placed outside, when the magazines are easy to sell, they will be bought. In addition, Chengren magazines such as "Dragon, Tiger and Leopard", "Fire Kirin", "Man", and "Tibetan Spring Pavilion" are also "hidden goods", which are very strictly managed, and need to obtain specific legal sales qualifications before they can be sold.

Taking advantage of the gap between Lao Xu's rummaging for magazines, Li Hao glanced at the newspapers on the newsstand, "Far Eastern Economic Review", "Asia Weekly" and "Hong Kong Economic News" directly skimmed over and did not read, these financial newspapers and periodicals, there is no shortage in the company. The newspapers he usually buys are usually "Ming Pao" and "Xingdao Bao", and "Dongfang Bao" is too grassroots, grandstanding, and fake, so he never reads it. But at this time, his eyes fell on the eye-catching headline of "Oriental Daily": "The legendary story of the young rich Zhang Shaoping, I have to say." ”

"Li Sheng, your magazine." Lao Xu Tou quickly found out the magazine and handed it to Li Hao.

Old Xu Tou's words interrupted Li Hao's reverie, he suddenly woke up, hurriedly thanked him, took the magazine, and opened it to see that it was the international edition of "Film Biweekly", "Film Times" and "TV Times". After putting the three magazines in the briefcase, Li Hao pointed to the "Oriental Daily" and said to Lao Xutou: "Let's have another copy of the Oriental Daily." ”

"Okay." Old Xu Tou said happily.

When he arrived at the company, taking advantage of the time before going to work, Li Hao looked at the newspaper carefully.

Who is Zhang Shaoping?

If it had been a month ago, 80% of Hong Kong people would have been at a loss, wondering why he was sacred, and the remaining 20% would have remembered him as a friend of Fok Zhenting, Wu Guangzheng and Liu Luanxiong. However, after a wild bombardment by various media around the Spring Festival, people who don't know Zhang Shaoping's name are either dying or decrepit, or they are staggering, and the rest know that this is a legendary figure who started from scratch and made a fortune quickly in less than a year.

How legendary is it?

Before his parents died, he was a good student with excellent academics; After the death of his parents, in less than half a month, he degenerated to the point of fighting and losing his family business. Then, he woke up, the prodigal son turned back, then sold the small tea restaurant, went north to Shenzhen alone, started as a small grocery store, and earned his first pot of gold. Then he started a foreign trade business, step by step, and took advantage of the hit of the TV series "Blood Suspicion" in the mainland, under the gimmick of "celebrity effect", to set off a clothing frenzy. Immediately after that, he registered a clothing company, built a factory, made a magazine, opened a fast food chain store, and set up an investment company...... This series and series of actions are dazzling to see and familiar to hear.

Seriously, such a character, the word "legend" can't describe his bull fork deeds, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is "magical" and turning stones into gold.

If you talk about the representative of the "Hong Kong Dream" in Hong Kong, the first choice is, of course, Li Ka-shing. But when it comes to the people who make their fortunes the fastest, there are only two recognized a month ago, one is Chen Songqing, the CEO of Jianing Group, who has earned 78 billion Hong Kong dollars in just six or seven years; The second is the "famous brand king" Pan Disheng, who has only been engaged in it for more than 3 years and has gathered more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars. However, at this time, there is another Zhang Shaoping, and it is estimated that he has assets of about 500 million.

In less than a year, I earned 500 million, and I didn't take the rocket so fast, it's fast enough, right? Not yet!

"A conservative estimate of a net worth of 1 billion? 1 billion?! Li Hao was shocked by this huge number.

"Oriental Daily" did not know where to get the information, and freely listed all the companies and real estate projects under Zhang Shaoping's name, and invited an asset appraiser who was said to be an expert to estimate it, and came to the conclusion that Zhang Shaoping had a net worth of at least 10 Hong Kong dollars, and finally specially noted that "the information is incomplete, and there may be omissions".

It's amazing!

Li Hao used to be quite satisfied with his current situation, high income and high security, but at this time, he was completely hit, and compared with Zhang Shaoping, he found that his life was simply living to shit!

"Hey, Li Hao, you also bought "Oriental News"?"

When Li Hao heard this, he glanced up at his colleague Xiaokang, and saw that he was also holding a copy of "Oriental Daily" in his hand, and he was also looking at Zhang Shaoping's special edition.

"You know, I've always been very interested in the deeds of these influential people, and Zhang Shaoping is so legendary, I want to know more." Li Hao patted the newspaper lightly, shrugged and said.

"Isn't it, this guy is too good!" Xiaokang praised it a few times, and then said very enviously, "Especially his glamorous fortune is not shallow, and he has ambiguous relationships with many actresses." ”

"I don't believe in this kind of chasing after the wind and shadows." Li Hao shook his head and said, he has never been interested in these gossip scandals.

Xiaokang retorted: "This time, the "Oriental Daily" is conclusive, although it is not named, but you look at this. As he spoke, he pointed to a line in the newspaper and said: "The actress surnamed Chen is a contracted artist of TVB, and her ex-boyfriend is a male star surnamed Zhou in the TV station, and the two broke up not long ago." People with a bit of brains, as soon as they heard it, they knew that the actress surnamed Chen was talking about Chen Yulian, do you still need to name names? ”

"Look at this again, I've been in TVB, Jiayi TV and Li's TV, and there is a certain actress whose sister is also the Y-prefix surname of TVB, this should be Mi Xue, right?"

"And ......"

Xiaokang pointed out who the actress in the newspaper was alluding to, but Li Hao didn't listen anymore, still thinking about what was published in the newspaper.

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The "Oriental Daily" reported on Zhang Shaoping's large-page special page, and some gossip was inserted in the plain, which caused a natural reaction.

The newspapers came and went, saying only two things.

Zhang Shaoping's net worth is very rich, at least more than 1 billion Hong Kong dollars, but most of his industries are almost in the mainland, and only a little in Hong Kong, very few. The newspaper listed Zhang Shaoping's industrial situation throughout the article, and only at the end, he came with this sentence lightly: "I have made a lot of money, but all the job opportunities have been left in the mainland, and the public welfare is stingy to do, the author has to shout for the Hong Kong people, Mr. Zhang, your roots are in Hong Kong and not in the mainland!" ”

In addition, Zhang Shaoping is not very old and romantic, so that a discerning person can know who the newspaper refers to, such as Mi Xue, Chen Yulian, Zhong Yihong, Zhao Yazhi, Yu An'an, Wang Mingquan, Zhang Aijia, Wei Qiuhua...... All actresses who have a relationship with one side or have cooperated with Zhang Shaoping's company are all on the list. The newspaper even teased: "This Mr. Zhang is looking at Prince Zhao, and he is bright for a while." ”

There is a word called "praise and killing", and there is also a saying called "words to punish the heart", and the report of "Oriental Daily" did just that.

How do people who read newspapers feel?

Hong Kong British political axe, Taiwan. If the authorities are not upset, they will directly treat Zhang Shaoping as a pro-communist leftist. At that time, Huo Yingdong offended the West in order to break the embargo policy of the United States to blockade the mainland. As a result, the U.S. government banned the sale of U.S. goods to tenants of Fok Yingdong's company, Xingguang Xing, and Hong Kong and Britain also implemented a policy of cutting off telephone lines and cutting off water and electricity, besieging Fok Daheng for several years. It's a thing like this, and it's chilling to think about.

Putting aside the political axe level, once the Hong Kong people's perception of Zhang Shaoping deteriorates, then he will be even more miserable.

Just as people in Europe and the United States are very interested in conspiracy theories and horror and bloody movies, Hong Kong people are also very concerned about gossip and the inheritance of the Lion Rock spirit. The inheritance of the Lion Rock spirit is the spirit of struggle of Hong Kong people to make a fortune and build their homeland.

In the past, Hong Kong people would look at Zhang Shaoping with an appreciative attitude when he made a fortune, and look! This is the pride of our Hong Kong people! This is the Hong Kong dream! As long as you are a Hong Kong person, no matter how old or young, you can rely on your own hard work to live a good life. But if everyone is unhappy with Zhang Shaoping, pride will turn into hostility, not to mention anything else, just the magazine, he will definitely not be able to do it.

At present, there are about 3.5 million people in Hong Kong who can read newspapers, of which about 2 million people have the ability to buy newspapers. There are 10 newspapers with more than 100,000 readers in Hong Kong, of which "Sing Tao Pao", "Oriental Pao", "Ming Pao" and "Sing Pao" have divided more than 80% of the city. In other words, the sales volume of "Oriental Daily" has maintained about 150,000 or 60,000 copies, with nearly 700,000 readers, accounting for one-third of the newspaper.

Therefore, as soon as this newspaper was put on the market, within half a day, Zhang Shaoping's deeds became known to everyone.

"Isn't it, how old is this guy, there are so many women? Really, is he busy? "People who like gossip.

"Haha, they are all mature female stars, it is said that the parents surnamed Zhang died early, he must be a mother lover!" The words of the people who are filthy in their hearts.

"He should have been bribed by the north and became a spy, and all this money was allocated to him by the north as a cover for espionage!" A conspiracy theory party swears.

"It can be seen from all signs that he is a complete communist!" Li Zhuming, who has always been a banana man, said.

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For a while, many cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods all jumped out.

When the matter of Zhang Shaoping reported by the "Oriental Daily" was very noisy, Liu Luanxiong flew directly to New York with the 100 million Hong Kong dollars raised. Zhang Shaoping had already received the news of Liu Luanxiong's flight and made a special trip to the airport to pick up the plane.

The two met and exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Liu Luanxiong asked: "You know about Hong Kong, right?" ”

Zhang Shaoping nodded and said, "I'm about to go back and deal with this matter." ”

"Who are you going to give the job to here?"

"You're not in a hurry here, are you?" Zhang Shaoping asked.

Liu Luanxiong thought for a while and said, "It's not in a hurry, just be able to arrive in the middle of this month." ”

"That's good, someone recommended a personal candidate to me, I'll go back this time and see if I can invite him!"

Since the end of last year, the two have been observing U.S. bonds, and when they found that more and more international hot money was running in to speculate, they knew it was time to enter the market.

Since the beginning of '79, the dollar has been appreciating, and so far, it has appreciated by about 35%, and looking at this trend, it will continue to appreciate as hot money increases. This is already terrifying enough, and in order to implement a tight monetary policy, the United States has raised interest rates year after year, and more hot money has poured in, becoming an unsolvable knot.

In other words, the appreciation of the US dollar and high interest rates are much like the internationalization of the renminbi in later generations, and huge dividends are beckoning to the outside world. It's just that the renminbi in later generations is not a circulating currency, the opening is very small, and the huge dividends cannot be blocked and robbed by the hot money from the outside world, but the dollar is different, it is the world currency, and everyone can run to take a bite.

The day after Liu Luanxiong settled in New York, Zhang Shaoping boarded a direct flight to Hong Kong.

In fact, even if the "Oriental News" incident did not happen, Zhang Shaoping would have gone back to Hong Kong because he had no money.

Tina. The $15 million investment in Brown's New York headquarters was not a one-phase investment, just like the huge republication fee for Vanity Fair. But the "villain" who bought out Roberts was different, and he had to pay off a sum of $5 million. With less than $5 million, his pocket is tight, and Zhang Shaoping can only find a way to raise money, and the best way is to borrow money from the bank.