Chapter 487: Acquisition

"It is suspected that the four major media have sent threatening letters, and the battle of several major media giants may escalate!" β€”β€”Hong Kong Island Morning Post

"After receiving three threatening letters in a row, Lin Xiaozhi fought back angrily!" - Ta Kung Pao

"Denounce the bad competition methods of the bad media, and the wealthy will hold a press conference again, angrily saying that they will never compromise!" β€”β€”New Territories Times

"After receiving a threatening letter with a bullet threat, Lin Xiaozhi called the police and said that he was not afraid of the threat!" - South China Morning Post

The conflict between Lin Xiaozhi and the four major media is inextricable, seeing that he has just relied on the influence of the newly acquired ATV, he gradually regained the disadvantage and gained the upper hand, and he made two shots to beat Next Media and Ming Pao one after another.

At this time, he himself suddenly held a press conference, angrily exposing that someone had sent a threatening letter to his company, and even more viciously, he even sent a threatening threatening letter with bullets to his home.

As soon as this news was exposed, it quickly caused a huge sensation in all circles in Hong Kong.

Although the contradictions and conflicts between him and the four major media seem to be more like a battle between the media, don't forget that Lin Xiaozhi still holds Hong Kong's largest film group - Media Asia. Coupled with ATV, one of the two major free-to-air television stations in Hong Kong that he newly acquired, the battle between him and the four major media has long surpassed the media industry and deeply affected the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

The status of the entertainment industry in Hong Kong seems to be very high but not high, and their income far exceeds that of the middle class, but they are shamed by the high-income class in Hong Kong, especially the wealthy families. This embarrassing position has long made the entertainment industry breathe a sigh of relief. Although the relationship with the media is not bad, most of the time the two sides are just mutual benefit, although many media make a lot of money by reporting the news of the entertainment industry, but if there is a need, they never mind stepping on it, such as Chen Baiqiang, a king of the music industry will be deliberately smeared by the media just for the newspaper to sell, which can be seen.

In this case, seeing the appearance of Lin Xiaozhi, it gradually reversed the low status of the entertainment industry, and even gave them the ability to say no to the media, and many people in the entertainment industry also began to stand up in support of Lin Xiaozhi.

"Strongly condemn the bad competition methods, there are disputes can be resolved through mediation, but the use of inferior competition methods will only deepen conflicts and disputes!"

As the president of the Directors Association, Chen Xinjian actually has a personal relationship with Lin Xiaozhi, he needs to be busy with too many things, and rarely participates in the internal activities of the Directors Association, otherwise with Lin Xiaozhi's identity, he would not only hang up as an ordinary director in the Directors Association. However, although the personal relationship between the two is average, Chen Xinjian is a well-known bold character in the industry, and he was born in the police industry in the past, and he was the most shameful about the underworld invasion of the film industry and bad competition, so he took the brunt of standing up and shouting for Lin Xiaozhi, which attracted a lot of attention.

The big-mouthed Zeng Zhiwei has never been afraid of power, although he has some personal relations with the Ma family because of his family background, he still stands on the side of the entertainment industry and bombards: "The Hong Kong entertainment industry has always been weak, and it has always been a role that has been bullied. Some people put guns at our heads and forced us to make films, some people openly came to our doors to extort sky-high land fees, and even the media fabricated scandals at will to attack and smear us for the sake of newspaper sales. If the Hong Kong government doesn't care anymore, will it still have to play? ”

"Support Lin Sheng's rights protection!" Chen Baiqiang, the king of the music world, finally hardened, he just went north to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to hold three successful concerts in a row, this time he did not let Lin Xiaozhi contact him, but took the initiative to hold a press conference, openly declared: "I myself am the artist who has suffered the most from the soft violence of bad media in Hong Kong, if necessary, I can stand up at any time, cooperate with the judicial community to collect and fight, and sue those bad media!" ”

With Lin Xiaozhi with a tough attitude in front, the industry began to clear up when they saw that the situation was clear, either in order to protect their own interests and no longer be violated, or they had also been threatened with threatening letters, or they were simply to sell him Lin Xiaozhi's favor. In short, all of a sudden, popular and influential singers, stars, directors and even film company bosses in the Hong Kong entertainment industry frequently stood up, so that the four major media that had begun to decline were also panicked.

Hu Xian, the owner of Sing Tao Newspaper, was still hiding in Australia to avoid the disaster, but pushed her son-in-law Liang Qiuhao out, "Sing Tao Newspaper will never do such a thing, please don't speculate." Our Sing Tao Newspaper had some unhappiness with Lin Sheng in the past, but these frictions are not irreconcilable! ”

The implication has already implied that Sing Tao Newspaper has begun to contact Lin Xiaozhi and is ready to seek reconciliation.

Li Zhiying, the boss of Next Digital, heard that he recently went to Thailand to meet the White Dragon King in order to avoid the limelight, and the reputation of Yu Pinhai, the boss of Ming Pao, was deeply involved in the fraud case, and his reputation was damaged, and his business in the mainland did use the trick of a white wolf with empty gloves, and the misappropriation of shareholders and bank funds to subsidize his own other industries has been mastered by the judicial department. The 'Threatening Letter' incident is on the side.

Blocked by the media and having to be interviewed, he has been so busy recently that he categorically denied that he had anything to do with the threatening letter incident, "We will definitely not use such a bad competitive means, and I myself extremely doubt the authenticity of the whole thing, before the police find out, I hope you will not criticize yourself!" ”

Yan made no secret of his suspicion that Lin Xiaozhi directed and acted by himself, and made a question of a 'farce of intimidation letters', which shows how much resentment he has in his heart for Lin Xiaozhi, who made himself embarrassed.

It's just a pity that his remarks immediately aroused a lot of doubts from all walks of life.

"Yu Sheng should first give an explanation to the outside world about his reputation and the fraud of hundreds of millions of funds!" Chen Qiang, president of Media Asia, immediately counterattacked, "I heard that many shareholders have asked Cha Sheng to suspend the transfer of power, but unfortunately Cha Sheng is wise and wise, but he has encountered such a bad businessman when he retires." ”

Lin Xiaozhi's unexpectedly tough attitude also surprised Oriental Newspaper, Ma Chengkun walked around the office with his hands behind his back, Ma Tingqiang on the side frowned slightly, Ma Chengfa stared at him, but it didn't take long for him to walk around and panic a little dizzy, and said unhappily: "Big brother, why don't I find someone to do him directly!" ”

He was pure angry talk, Ma Tingqiang looked at him angrily and didn't bother to say anything about him, Ma Chengkun was even more angry when he heard the words: "Did him? How? Things are so big now, that wealthy man Kuo Shao directly reported to the police, his bodyguards in and out have doubled, and Lin Mansion now has police officers dispatched by the police to temporarily protect him, who do you want to do? ”

Lin Xiaozhi didn't play his cards according to their assumptions, and he was not afraid that it would end badly if it was a big mess, but directly exposed the matter. His reaction can be said to be completely unexpected by Ma Chengkun, so much so that his original assumption that the other party would soften his attitude after this threat, and the Oriental Press's plan to seek reconciliation or even take advantage of the victory to pursue it was completely shattered.

Now that things are getting bigger and bigger, it can be said that the whole of Hong Kong is paying attention to this matter. At this time, if you force yourself to make trouble, you will really find yourself dead.

Ma Cheng scolded him, and also rubbed his hair angrily, "Then what do you say to do?" ”

"Tell your people to take care of their mouths first, don't worry, wait and see the situation......"

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Since they all suspect that the Ma family brothers of Oriental Press are behind the scenes, it is naturally impossible for Lin Xiaozhi to have no movement. He has already cleaned up Next Media and Ming Pao, forcing Sing Tao Press to relent, and now he has begun to deal with the most hard-line Oriental Press Group. And to clean up the Oriental newspaper industry, the black history of the Ma family back then was undoubtedly a very useful weapon.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ The Oriental Press Group, which now owns the largest circulation newspaper in Hong Kong, the Oriental Daily, was founded by two brothers, Ma Xiru and Ma Xizhen, who were famous in Hong Kong's underworld in the past, and was originally established for money laundering. In 1973, the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption was established, and a number of high-ranking officials and underworld leaders were dismissed one after another, including the famous four Chinese detectives, lame hao, etc., and the Ma brothers fled to Taiwan for refuge in order to get rid of the ICAC and the police. Because there is no extradition agreement between Hong Kong and Taiwan, the two are still at large, but they are still wanted by the Hong Kong police. Today's Oriental Press Chairman Ma Chengkun, directors Ma Chengfa, Ma Tingqiang, Ma Chengcai, etc., are the sons of Ma Xiru and Ma Xizhen......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ According to people familiar with the matter, the Ma family had secret talks with Sir Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and was willing to contribute money to his mother's prime minister's campaign in exchange for London's amnesty for the two brothers, Ma Xiru and Ma Xizhen, to return to Hong Kong. Thatcher was very impressed by this, but when Thatcher was forced to resign, it ended in nothing. The insider also said that the Ma family is now in contact with the new British Prime Minister Ma Zhuoan, hoping to 'donate money' in exchange for Hong Kong's amnesty for the two people! ”

According to the industry, in the process of its rise, the Oriental Press has repeatedly used extremely bad competition methods to attack its opponents. Including bribing underworld thugs to force newsstands to order a specified number of their own newspapers, forcing competitors' writers to switch to themselves, maliciously creating scandals about many big stars in the entertainment industry to attract the public's desire to buy, and there are even indications that the arson case of the most famous Sing Tao Daily publishing house in the 70s is also related to the Oriental newspaper industry......"

The counterattack from Lin Xiaozhi was so fast that Oriental Newspaper and the Ma brothers really did not expect it.

As ATV and Sing Pao began to report on the black history of the Oriental newspaper industry in the past, even Ma Xiru and Ma Xizhen, the two former Hong Kong underworld bosses, moved out. The Ma family brothers, who were originally aggressive and had a very arrogant and domineering attitude, immediately panicked and messed up.

Without it, just because the two brothers Ma Xiru and Ma Xizhen and the black history of Oriental Newspaper have always been the impression that Ma Jia has been trying to dilute over the years. Originally, they were considered successful, but most Hong Kong people have begun to forget the past history of the Oriental newspaper industry, and only a few families and their relatives who have been poisoned by the Ma family's drugs will still remember to call the "Oriental Daily" "white/pink newspaper".

Due to insufficient evidence and some political reasons, the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Hong Kong police have not yet withdrawn the arrest warrants for the Ma brothers, and at the same time confiscated and frozen some of the Ma family's assets in Hong Kong, but they have never taken action against the Oriental Press Group, which is valued by the Ma family in Hong Kong.

But now that Lin Xiaozhi was poked out, relying on the huge influence of ATV and Chengbao, Dengshi completely destroyed their efforts and completely exposed the black history of the Oriental newspaper industry.

What made the Ma family even more angry was that they secretly contacted the British Prime Minister, trying to use secret political donations in exchange for the Hong Kong Governor's pardon for Ma Xiru and Ma Xizhen, and the two brothers Ma Xiru and Ma Xizhen returned to Hong Kong The matter was also exposed by Lin Xiaozhi. Once this news ferments, it will ruin the Ma family's years of hard work, which is not poisonous.

Sure enough, as soon as the report of ATV and Sing Pao came out, the whole of Hong Kong soon began to rumor about the Oriental Press and the Ma family.

"What, it turns out that the Oriental Newspaper was built by the white/pink horse for money laundering, why didn't the Independent Commission Against Corruption investigate it?"

"Is this really fake? Does Oriental Newspaper still have this black history? ”

"It should be true, you haven't experienced that era, you don't know how rampant the white/pink horses were in the fifties and sixties, that was the four major families of the underworld in the past!"

"The Ma family is so arrogant, it seems that it can't be wrong to send a threatening letter to the Lin family, it must be their Oriental Newspaper!"

"My God, the newspaper I have ordered for so many years is actually a newspaper for money laundering by the underworld, and I am still so disgusted with the underworld that I will never subscribe to the "Oriental Daily" again!"

Good things are difficult to go out, and bad things are spread thousands of miles, which is exactly what happened.

Although the four brothers of Oriental Press and Ma Chengkun are busy putting out fires everywhere, trying to suppress more and more negative news about them Oriental Press and the Ma family, it is obviously impossible, because there are also Lin Xiaozhi's ATV and Cheng Pao on the side who are constantly fanning the flames.

There was no time for the Ma family to be annoyed and angry, and just after pouring a few basins of dirty ink on the Oriental Press and the Ma family, a shocking news came out from the financial circles, which made Hong Kong, which was already not peaceful, even more lively.

"Or in order to end this war as soon as possible, Lin Xiaozhi has submitted an acquisition agreement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, officially launching the acquisition of three listed groups: Oriental Newspaper, Sing Tao Newspaper and Ming Pao Newspaper!"