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As soon as Lin Xiaozhi's several announcements came out, Chen Qi immediately felt his head dizzy and his eyes widened.

"Hair ...... Developed ......"

A man with glasses next to him roared excitedly, causing countless angry glances, but it also made Chen Qi wake up from his previous shocked state. Although he was still a little reluctant when he was arranged by his boss to attend the press conference before, at this time, he was just like the man with glasses who couldn't help but roar excitedly, his face was full of excitement and excitement.

Big news, really big news. Chen Qi began to rejoice that he was here at today's press conference, Hong Kong's media industry is developed, even if he has a nasty boss, but when he really gets big news, the bonus is like a red envelope. No one thinks they have too much money, which is why Chen Qi came to the press conference early in the morning.

However, he quickly reflected it with a turn of his head. Participating in a press conference and meeting a big news reporter can indeed get a red envelope from the newspaper, but because the press conference faces too many audience media, it is not exclusive news, so even if the newspaper gives a red envelope, the money will not be too much. Unless, like he did last time, he was lucky enough to get a chance to ask a question, so that the newspaper could openly mention its name when it was reported, and expand its influence.

Obviously, he is not the only smart person who has thought of this. Seeing that Lin Xiaozhi had put away the paper in his hand on the press table, he was about to announce that he was about to start accepting questions. Chen Qi was about to squeeze forward with all his strength, striving to get a chance to ask questions, but who expected that before he could make a move, he suddenly felt a hard push on his back, and he stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

"Lin Sheng, may I ask if the news of your acquisition of Debao came out a month ago, but why did you not confirm it until now?"

"With the acquisition of Cheng Pao Newspaper Group, are you preparing to enter the media?"

"How much money is involved in the three acquisitions you just mentioned in the announcement?"

"You mentioned cash acquisitions in a number of acquisitions, where did the funds for the acquisition come from, Kowloon Bank?

"Lin Sheng, may I ask you that all these acquisitions were made in the name of a private person, not in the name of New Asia Film Company, is this related to the fact that New Asia is not wholly owned by you?"

When Chen Qi stood firm, dozens of reporters surrounded the press release station, and pointed dozens of hundreds of recorders and microphones at Lin Xiaozhi from all directions.

Realizing that he had missed a good opportunity, Chen Qi was secretly annoyed in his heart. But for the bonus, he also squeezed desperately to Lin Xiaozhi's side like everyone else.

"Please don't be in a hurry...... Take your time......"

Although there were four or five strong hotel security guards around him to block him, Lin Xiaozhi on the press table was painful and happy, and he was good at doing a little while enjoying the popularity far beyond ordinary entertainment industry stars and business tycoons, but he was also trapped on the press table and squeezed so much that he couldn't move his feet, so he could only wave his hand again and again, and it took a while to finally see the venue slowly quieting down.

"I will answer some questions from your media friends in detail, so let's start with this friend...

Although there was a reporter from Cheng Pao standing there not far from him, looking at him with an eager face, out of some considerations, Lin Xiaozhi first called a reporter from Ming Pao and gave him the right to ask the first question.

The person whose name was called was a male reporter in his thirties, and when he found that Lin Xiaozhi pointed at him, he immediately looked happy, and squeezed forward regardless of the complaints around him, trying to reach his side with the microphone in his hand as much as possible.

"Lin Sheng, you are here, I am Liu Dexin, a reporter from Ming Pao, I would like to ask you whether your acquisition of Cheng Pao Newspaper Group is preparing to follow Murdoch's example and enter the media?"

Lin Xiaozhi's eyelids jumped slightly, he didn't want to answer this kind of question involving Murdoch. It's one thing to cooperate with other people's hype, and it's another thing to make a statement.

At the beginning of the year, when the Hong Kong media released a big gimmick and shouted the gimmick of 'Hong Kong Murdoch, he was good at publicity, and he did add fuel to the fire behind him and secretly fanned a lot of wind, but this does not mean that he is really arrogant and compares himself to Murdoch. Lao Mo debuted for decades, made his fortune in the Australian gambling industry, and now his News Corporation has become a global media giant, with assets of two or three billion US dollars, which is almost equivalent to nearly 200 billion Hong Kong dollars.

If he opens his mouth to this question, a bad answer will leave a false mouth. If you answer yes, you are fine when you are in power, but if something goes wrong, you will have to turn it out and scold others in the future for not being able to do it, which is really a tricky problem.

As soon as his head turned, he understood the trick of this "Ming Pao" reporter, how could he jump into it, and replied directly: "If you ask me about movies, I can talk to you for two days and three nights, but when I ask the media, I don't know anything about it." The reason for the acquisition of Cheng Pao Newspaper Group is mainly for the promotion of the film. This year, we have spent nearly HK$50 million on the promotion channels of the film, which is a lot of money, and having our own promotional media will undoubtedly reduce a lot of expenditure in this regard."

New Asia has indeed spent nearly 50 million on publicity this year, including the movie "Red Alert", and recently New Asia has spent nearly 14 million on its publicity. Most of the publicity is in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, especially in the United Kingdom, with the release of the market there approaching, nearly 6 million Hong Kong dollars have been smashed, but the effect has not been good so far.

Wisely avoiding the trouble that might be caused by being compared to Murdoch, Lin Xiaozhi did not wait for the "Ming Pao" reporter to speak again, and immediately gave the right to ask questions to another reporter.

"Next question, this young lady?"

The first question was symbolically given to "Ming Pao", and Lin Xiaozhi, of course, could not favor one over the other, and directly gave the second question to a female reporter sent by "Cheng Pao", which had been acquired by himself, to attend the press conference.

"Hello Lin Dong, I want to ask you, why did you acquire Debao a month ago, but you didn't confirm it until today?"

Even if Cheng Pao was not fully controlled by Lin Xiaozhi, he could still get first-hand information from him, a major shareholder. The female reporter apparently knew this too, so she just asked a casual question. However, the question she asked was probably the voice of many people present. Lin Xiaozhi smiled casually: "I believe many friends have this curiosity, as rumored, I have negotiated the acquisition agreement with Pan Sheng, the original boss of Debao, a month ago, and even the acquisition funds have been called." However, because we are a wholly owned acquisition of Debao, there are simply too many assets involved. As one of the three giants of Hong Kong films in the past, Debao Film Company and Debao Cinemas, as well as Debao's industries in Taiwan and overseas, etc., only took two weeks for financial liquidation and asset inventory. There are also thousands of employees, hundreds of signed artists, dozens of film copyrights, and tens of thousands of documents that need to be handed over after the acquisition is completed. It took us more than a month to complete the handover work, and if it weren't for the fact that your media is so powerful and received the news in advance, I would probably have to wait a while before announcing this news to the public."

He said it funny, and he didn't forget to praise the media a little, which made many people present feel good, and secretly said that this son of a wealthy family who still has a 'wealthy rebel and a title) is much easier to get along with than those Hong Kong wealthy families and rich people who look at the media like a flood of beasts.

A reporter from "Oriental Daily" was the third to be pointed out, "Lin Sheng, may I ask how much money is involved in Xinya's recent acquisitions?" Did the funds come from the Kowloon Bank? Why do you use your personal name to make acquisitions? After the acquisition of Debao, do you want to merge it with New Asia? ”

This is a bit of a clever reporter, but it's a pity that Lin Xiaozhi doesn't like this kind of cleverness, but he still maintains a smile on his face, "This media friend, you have asked four questions at once, don't take it as an example First of all, New Asia's several acquisitions involve almost 500 million Hong Kong dollars (about 1.8 billion Taiwan dollars), all of which come from my personal assets, not the Kowloon Bank." As for the use of personal names for the acquisition, this is for the convenience of future management. As for whether Debao will merge with New Asia, it will definitely be, but there are too many aspects involved, and it depends on the situation......"

He didn't care about the clever demeanor of the reporters of the "Oriental Daily", but instead made many media people present give a thumbs up, but they grabbed four questions at once, and many media people looked at the reporters of the "Oriental Daily" more and more unkindly.

"Lin Sheng, I heard that the movie Red Alert that you personally shot has recently exceeded 30 million Hong Kong dollars, and it has also been enthusiastically sought after in Taiwan, so it should not be difficult to break through 40 million. But this film, which is said to have invested 50 million yuan in New Asia, can it recover its cost? ”

"There is definitely no problem in recovering costs, our screening channels are not only Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, we have basically opened up the release channels in Japan and South Korea, in addition to "Red Alert" will soon be released in Europe, we are very confident in the quality of the film......

Because it was a follow-up question at the press conference, there was no media touching his brow and deliberately asking some difficult questions, basically to the point, some questions Lin Xiaozhi avoided the important and trivial, and the media tacitly did not get to the bottom of it.

After answering about thirty or forty questions, Lin Xiaozhi also felt that it was almost there. Then he had the meaning of the end, and waved his hand at the moment: "Everyone...... Thank you again for joining us today. But it's not too early, and I've already answered a lot of questions, so I'll answer the last question and end today's press conference."

He opened his mouth, and even if the media were unwilling, they could only give up. On the contrary, they all actively crowded around him, wishing that his last question was asked by himself.

Lin Xiaozhi's eyes swept over the reporters in turn, and every time his eyes fell on someone's body, he could see several people over there waving their hands one by one, eager to ask him questions immediately, but more people were worried that Lin Xiaozhi handed over the right to ask the last question to his "Cheng Pao".

However, he soon decided who to ask the last question, and that person was not from Sing Pao. It turned out that after Lin Xiaozhi's eyes turned around the venue, he suddenly found a young familiar face from the crowd, it was a reporter from "Sing Tao Daily", whose name was Chen Qi. If Lin Xiaozhi is not mistaken, a few months ago, at his press conference for the launch of the 40 million movie, he had been asked by this young reporter, so he had some impressions of him.

At that moment, he pointed his finger at the young man named Chen Qi, "The last question is asked by this media friend."

"What?" Chen Qi looked surprised, and felt the eyes around him stabbing at him like a sharp sword, he reacted, and pointed the recorder in his hand at Lin Xiaozhi with some nervousness, and after thinking about it, he asked, "...... Lin Sheng, you just said in response to a previous question that all the funds used for acquisitions came from your own private assets, not from the Kowloon Bank. Please forgive me for my curiosity, I also read the "Hong Kong Fortune" weekly issue at the beginning of this year, and Lin Sheng, your own assets do not seem to be enough to complete the acquisition......"

Has anyone finally asked this question?

Lin Xiaozhi raised his eyebrows, he was not angry, but now the funds that supported him for large-scale acquisitions are not easy to explain, and it is difficult for anyone to believe that he and Song Nianhui have made a lot of 200 million dollars in oil futures in the past two months.

But this matter can't be hidden, Song Nianhui told him before that some people in the international community noticed his movements, or openly or secretly tried a few times, to know which large financial institution in Hong Kong is doing oil futures, I believe that Hong Kong's financial circles should also be aware of it, at least Song Nianhui himself mentioned to him that there are British-funded and other foreign banks who have proposed high salaries to him, and it is obvious that someone has finally found out to the Kowloon Bank through the flow of funds.

Now that the matter has been exposed, someone asked Lin Xiaozhi and answered: "The data provided by "Hong Kong Fortune" Weekly can only be used for reference, after all, the statistics of assets, especially those of non-listed companies, have always been inaccurate, especially "Hong Kong Fortune" did not accurately evaluate me, and the data is not accurate. Although my main business is film investment, family banking and media, I also have real estate, securities and futures investment with others, and I can still get the funds needed to acquire Debao."

However, although he answered this question, he still did not say it in detail, and after the words fell, he did not give Chen Qi or other media reporters a chance to ask, pretended to glance at the time on his wrist, and after saying sorry, Lin Xiaozhi announced that the press conference was over. Under the protection of several elite hotel guards, Xuan Wei hurriedly walked out of the conference room with Zhou Huimin and others.