Chen Qiang hurriedly stepped out of the elevator and walked all the way to Lin Xiaozhi's office.

"Mr. Chen is good!"

"Hmm!"

I met a lot of people who greeted him along the way, and if he didn't usually have any fights, he would definitely reply seriously, at least give a smile. But today he was not in that mood, he walked all the way quickly, and immediately arrived in front of Lin Xiaozhi's office.

"Mr. Chen, Lin Dong should be meeting guests." A secretary walked over to him, Xu saw him standing in front of Lin Xiaozhi's office, and knew that he was looking for Lin Xiaozhi, so he immediately reminded him.

"Guest, do you know who Lu Dao is?"

The other party's reminder really made Chen Qiang's movements stop, although he had something to report to Lin Xiaozhi, but it was indeed a little rude to break in at the meeting time.

The secretary didn't hide it from him, and directly told him what he knew: "Director Sima just left, and now only Mr. Song should still be in his office!" ”

After a little tasting, Chen Qiang knew who the two people in the secretary's mouth were. Director Sima must be Sima Jie, and as for Mr. Song, he must be Song Nianhui, the president of the Bank of Kowloon, both of whom are Lin Xiaozhi's henchmen, and the two of them are indispensable to come to him if there is something to do.

However, he, who was also involved in Lin Xiaozhi's recent busy work, smiled and thanked the secretary who reminded him, and then knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

After an answer came from inside the office, he pushed the door open and walked in.

"It's Mr. Chen, sit down!"

As the secretary said, there were only Lin Xiaozhi and Song Nianhui in the office, and they were sitting on the sofa as if they were talking, Chen Qiang looked at the smiles on the faces of the two of them, and immediately understood that Lin Xiaozhi was in a good mood, and walked in immediately.

"Mr. Song is also there......"

He said hello to Song Nianhui, and Song Nianhui nodded at him with a smile: "Come over for something!" ”

Lin Xiaozhi motioned for him to sit down as well, "I hope you will also bring me good news, how about it, is it done?" ”

The day before yesterday, he gave Chen Qiang a task, which was still the task of the contact, but the contact was not an ordinary person, so it was delayed for some time.

Chen Qiang sat down next to Song Nianhui, and then said, "The person has been contacted, and I have also made an appointment with the two sides to meet in the evening." However, no verbal agreement was reached, neither Shen Baoxin nor Zha Liangyong revealed any attitude. ”

Zha Liangyong is Jin Yong's real name, as for who Shen Baoxin is, the Ming Pao Newspaper Group, which is famous in Hong Kong and even the entire Chinese world, was established by him and Jin Yong. As for why Lin Xiaozhi asked him to contact these two people, although Chen Qiang knew a little about it, he still felt incredible. He knew that his boss had just completed the acquisition of ATV, and as soon as he turned around, he personally contacted and bought forty percent of the shares of "Sing Tao Daily", and the contract was about to be signed. But no one thought that his ambition was not only that, because Lin Xiaozhi sent him to contact the two founders of Ming Pao Newspaper Group, preparing to forcibly acquire Ming Pao Newspaper Group.

"Unexpectedly, I heard that Old Man Jin is very satisfied with Pinhai, and thinks that Ming Pao can be carried forward in his hands, and it is naturally impossible to give an answer easily before we find out our intentions!" Lin Xiaozhi was not discouraged when he heard this, and the smile on his face still did not decrease in the slightest: "And Yu Pinhai has some means for capital operation, but there are still many places that rely on him in the operation of the newspaper group." Although he sold Sancheng shares to Yu Pinhai, he still held Sancheng firmly in his hands and was unwilling to let go, and still maintained an amazing influence on Ming Pao Newspaper Group! ”

"If I guess correctly, I'm afraid that soon Shen Baoxin and Jin Yong will meet, and they both know that we are contacting each other!"

After speaking, he looked at Song Nianhui on the side and asked, "How is the situation on your side, and how many shares have you got?" ”

As soon as this sentence came out, Chen Qiang next to him was stunned. Although he knew that Song Nianhui was his confidant, and many things of ordinary Lin Xiaozhi were asked to do it, he was not clear about the specific situation. After all, he was the person who Li Guoxing installed next to Lin Xiaozhi at the beginning, and it was also after the merger of Xinya and Meiya this year that Lin Xiaozhi saw that he had always been 'honest and duty', so he absorbed him into his henchmen.

Song Nianhui pushed his glasses, looked at Lin Xiaozhi's eyes full of admiration, and replied: "In the past week, I have acquired about 23 million shares of Oriental Press from the securities market, accounting for 13% of Oriental Press Group. 66% of the shares, a total of HK$123 million was spent. Due to the large number of institutional investors in Sing Tao Newspaper, I only received more than 19 million shares, accounting for about 6% of the total shares, and spent more than 94 million Hong Kong dollars. Ming Pao was a little less, only getting 9 million shares, about 4 of Ming Pao Newspaper Group. 2% of the shares, a total of 23.52 million. ”

Facing Lin Xiaozhi's gaze, he shrugged his shoulders: "There is no way more, although I have already ordered to use hundreds of accounts to disperse the acquisition, and try not to let the three of them notice." But the real predators in the stock market are afraid that they have already noticed something, and some people have followed to absorb some shares, raising the stock price and increasing the difficulty of our acquisition. Ming Pao is the most troublesome, they are far inferior to Oriental Newspaper and Sing Tao Newspaper, there are as many as four or five percent of the shares in circulation in the securities market, as far as I know, when Ming Pao was listed at the beginning of the year, Zha Liangyong and Shen Baoxin only made up 25% of the shares as tradable shares, excluding the shares in the hands of some institutions, we have almost eaten half of the shares of Ming Pao Newspaper Group in circulation in the market! ”

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange requires listed companies to ensure that at least 25% of their shares are circulated in the free market, at least except in exceptional circumstances. Some listed family businesses and some power-hungry companies are half stepping on the point to release about 25% of the shares, which is the case with Ming Pao. Otherwise, Lin Xiaozhi would not have gone directly to the door and asked Chen Qiang to contact the two founders who had heavy shares in their hands.

Chen Qiang's eyes widened when he heard this, and he was also taken aback in his heart.

He never expected that his boss would come to the real place and play a big trick that is destined to shake the whole of Hong Kong.

Even Lin Xiaozhi's henchmen like him did not expect that his boss would target several major media giants in Hong Kong after acquiring ATV. He already owns Cheng Pao Newspaper Group under his name, but he still keeps taking a stake in "Sing Tao Daily" and coveting Ming Pao Newspaper Group, and even the former media overlord in Hong Kong, Sing Tao Newspaper Group, and the now arrogant Oriental Press Group, have become his plate and meat.

It's just that he also has doubts in his heart, if it is just to take revenge on Oriental Newspaper, Ming Pao and Sing Tao Newspaper Group for smearing him some time ago, can he use so much financial resources just to fight for a breath?

Thinking that since he joined New Asia, although Lin Xiaozhi has given full delegation to the management of the company, when it comes to strategic arrangements, he has always personally checked and has always performed a good strategy, so that New Asia has become a large group with a market value of more than 10 billion yuan in less than four years. It can be seen that the wisdom of the boss is naturally impossible to fight for some trivial things!

Launching the acquisition of the three major newspaper groups at the same time, I am afraid it is not so simple!

It's really not that simple!

On January 5, 1984, Hong Kong Television Company Limited (TVB) was listed, and it took only one year for it to become a constituent stock of Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index.

However, in this context, Shao Yifu, the head of TVB, a well-known media giant in Hong Kong, said to the people around him, "It is really difficult in Hong Kong to make a lot of money by operating a TV station." Last year, TVB had a total turnover of 19. HK$7.5 billion, with a pre-tax surplus5. 6.4 billion, after paying taxes, there is only less than 400 million profits left, which is only slightly higher than the average income of the manufacturing industry. Compared with the financial, real estate and other industries, but the biggest reason why we still attract a large number of investors to invest in us is the other advantages of controlling the media. ”

He believes that "it may be more profitable to do other businesses, but the respect you receive is difficult to compare with that of media." Among the media, TV stations are the most respected. Even a TV station with poor ratings has a higher influence than other media outlets. As the owner of a TV station, his name will soon be known in the streets, and his every move will be more likely to attract the attention of all walks of life, and his relationship with the political and business circles will be closer. ”

Indeed, free-to-air television in Hong Kong has always been the most extensive and influential media platform, and whoever can get a piece of the pie here will not be the same.

Later data show that after Hong Kong's return to the motherland in 1997, the bosses or senior executives of most of the mainstream media in Hong Kong (17 Chinese and English paid and free newspapers, 6 free and pay television stations, and 3 radio stations) were appointed to domestic public posts, awarded the title of SAR government, or given a large number of preferential policies to enable them to run large-scale businesses on the mainland. Among them, Wu Guangzheng, chairman of the Wharf Group, the parent company of Hong Kong Cable TV (Wharf TV), is a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Medal by the SAR Government in 1998. Mr Shaw Yat-fu, Chairman of Television Broadcasts Hong Kong Limited (TVB), and Mr Raymond Wong, former Assistant General Manager, were awarded the Silver Bauhinia Medal in 1998. ATV's Chief Executive Officer, Chan Wing-kei, is also a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Medal in 2000.

After completing the acquisition of ATV, Lin Xiaozhi still did not stop, but looked at the three major media giants of Oriental Press, Ming Pao and Sing Tao Press, and was interested in acquiring one or two of them to strengthen his voice and influence in Hong Kong, and finally achieve the goal of controlling public opinion in Hong Kong.

The reason why he has this idea is because he ate a big piece of fat on the Soviet Union that was about to collapse not long ago, and it was too hot to hide the money in his hand, and he was most at ease by spending money to buy a few industries.

Second, the Hong Kong media giants in the early 90s were worth only a few hundred million or even billions of Hong Kong dollars, far less than those of later generations. The market value of the Oriental Press Group is only about one billion, and the newly listed Ming Pao is only five or six billion, which is the earliest listed Sing Tao Newspaper, and now the market value has already passed its peak, declining to only about 15.6 billion. With all his strength, it would be easy to complete the acquisition of one of them, and although the two would be a little more difficult, only the reborn would understand how big the return would be for him.

Moreover, he can also use this domineering counterattack method to warn and deter those who try to be his enemies, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone!

As for a little face, that's just an excuse for him.

Lin Xiaozhi rubbed his chin while thinking about various gains and losses, and only after a long time did he smile and said, "You pause the movements in your hands first, and wait for my press conference tomorrow, and then continue to absorb it." Oriental Press and Ming Pao have how much they receive, don't care about the cost. As for Sing Tao Newspaper Group, stop when it absorbs about 10% and go all out to absorb the remaining two! Tonight, I'm going to meet that martial arts master in person! ”