In July, there was another very happy thing for Xu Guanwu.

After more than half a year of meticulous investigation and evidence collection, the Hong Kong police finally got hold of evidence of the Ma brothers' poisoning. and immediately took action to arrest Masiru.

However, Ma Xiru has been in Hong Kong for many years, and he has many friends in both black and white, so he received the news in advance and ran away by boat before the police operation, which made the police's arrest operation come to naught.

Although Ma Xiru has run away in a hurry, his younger brother Ma Xizhen is still in Hong Kong, relying on his previous criminal record, and the police have no substantive evidence, so he is not afraid of the police arrest at all. In fact, the evidence of the crime has been brought to Taiwan by the eldest brother.

Among the evidence of those crimes, there is evidence that parliamentarians, detectives, and superintendents have accepted bribes, and if Ma Xizhen has an accident in Hong Kong, Ma Xiru will release the evidence, and then drag these people to die together. Therefore, those detectives, parliamentarians, and superintendents did not dare to offend him, and let Ma Xizhen continue to live freely and happily in Hong Kong.

However, two days after Ma Xiru ran away, suddenly a car drove by in front of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. As the car passed, a punctured sack was dropped from the car.

The guards guarding the gate then untied the sack and found the tightly bound Masiru, along with a box full of evidence of the crime. Tapes, photographs, accounts, etc., are enough to convict the Ma brothers and his umbrellas.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption then took immediate action on the basis of the evidence. With the cooperation of the local garrison of the British army, in one night, not only all the stalls under the Ma brothers were cleared, but also the Ma family and their protective umbrella were also swept away.

The Ma brothers, who have been rampant in Hong Kong for a long time. It fell apart in an instant. Because the evidence of the crime is conclusive. And the umbrellas are all caught. Therefore, the Ma brothers can no longer stage the myth of a huge bail and then abandon the myth of bail and absconding.

Because the amount of drugs they smuggled was unusually huge, and the amount of opium reached 700 tons in only 68 to 74 years, so the two brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment, and other key elements, minions, and so on were also sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 20 to 2 years.

And they use the money they get from the poison to launder the properties, companies and so on they invest in. It has also been seized by the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Hong Kong's largest newspaper, Oriental Daily, was shut down as soon as it was involved too deeply. The court will then auction it off and the proceeds will be used for public use.

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The reason why Ma Xiru ran away was that he would be thrown back to the door of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and of course Xu Guanwu was behind it. Since last year, he began to lay out and arranged for people to sneak to the Ma brothers as undercover agents, and gradually won the trust of the Ma brothers.

And the fishing boat that Ma Xiru ran away was also arranged by Xu Guanwu in advance. Halfway through the run, Masiru's men defected, and several loyal men were thrown into the sea to feed the sharks. Ma Xiru was brought back to Hong Kong to stand trial.

Seeing that the Ma brothers' power was wiped out, Xu Guanwu breathed a long sigh of relief. It's been so long. Now it's finally revenge.

And those who served as undercover agents, Xu Guanwu did not treat them badly, and each of them was 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, and they were directly sent to Taiwan to enjoy happiness. For these people on the road, Xu Guanwu is both using and beware, although they helped him get rid of the Ma brothers this time, it is difficult to guarantee that the sky will not bite him again. And sending them to Taiwan happened to be taken care of by the Bamboo Union, and by the way, they could also be monitored, and they would not be allowed to have other attempts.

After settling all the tails, Xu Guanwu waited for the court to auction the Oriental Daily. His editors, reporters, distribution channels, news channels, printing machines, etc., are very good resources, especially distribution channels and news channels, which are the foundation on which a newspaper can stand.

As for editors and reporters, Xu Guanwu is not very lacking, but if they can stay, it will naturally be a good thing.

Xu Guanwu is not the only one who has taken a fancy to "Oriental Daily", this newspaper has a very large circulation, and was once the best-selling newspaper in Hong Kong, but unfortunately it was subsequently robbed of the title by "Tian Tian Daily". However, it is still the number one selling newspaper among paid newspapers, and it is a standout with Sing Tao Daily.

Such a newspaper with huge sales, a high reputation, a regular readership, and advertisers is naturally very worth the investment. There are so many wealthy people in Hong Kong, and most of them have realized how important it is to have their own media in this era of information explosion.

In fact, since the 80s, many Hong Kong tycoons have begun to get involved in the media industry, such as Lee Kar-shing and his son who founded Hong Kong Satellite TV, Cheng Yu-tung, Ho Hung-sun and the Lam family who got involved in Asia Television, and Nanyang tycoon Kwok He-nian who bought the South China Morning Post......

The reason why so many wealthy people have entered the media industry is that, on the one hand, it is to promote themselves and get to the bottom of their roots; On the other hand, they are aware of the importance of the media. Especially as an emerging wealthy man, it is very necessary to have his own media in order to pursue political rights and interests, fight for his own right to speak.

It's easy to just have your own media, but it's hard to run it well. Whether it is Li Ka-shing's father and son's satellite TV, or Zheng Yutong and Ho Hongshen's Asia TV, they all chose to quit one after another because of poor management.

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In August, Xu Guanwu released a video at the beginning of the year, and the convenience store "Easy to Get" was boycotted by two British-backed supermarket chains, Dalilian and Parknshop. They joined forces to put pressure on supermarket suppliers to stop supplying to Convenient.

The reason is that since the establishment of the convenience store chain, it has continued to take convenience and people-friendly, cheap and easy to obtain as the slogan, and the prices of the goods launched are 10% cheaper than those of large supermarkets such as Dalilian and Parknshop. The daily discount promotion products are two to three percent cheaper.

In addition, the location of the chain store is easy to choose, and it is a densely populated community, and all of them are prime locations for convenience stores. In addition, the 24-hour non-stop operation attracted a large number of customers to come to shop, while the turnover of supermarkets such as Da Lilian and Parknshop dropped sharply, causing them to be very dissatisfied.

The reason why Xu Guanwu's easy to get goods is cheap is because he didn't point out how much money it can make. It's good to be able to earn back labor costs, costs, etc. Unlike ParknSHOP and Dalilian, these are purely for the pursuit of profit.

Therefore, it is easy to get the price set at the beginning very low. It is claimed to be a profit of only one penny. And these big supermarkets such as Dalilian and Parknshop. If they do business according to Xu Guanwu's pricing, then they will lose a lot of money. The more you sell, the more you lose.

After all, their supermarket occupies a huge area, and the cost of utilities alone is hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, and with so many employees hired, the cost is ten or twenty times more than easy. Therefore, if it is easy to get the price of three cents, and you can earn one point, Da Lilian and Parknshop will have to lose more than one cent. So they're trying to stay in business. At least it has to be set at more than four cents, and usually in order to make a profit, they will set it at five cents.

The difference between before and after is two cents, in Hong Kong, where most civilians are commoners, and everyone saves their lives, so naturally which goods are cheap and cheap.

Those three aunts and six mothers-in-law also calculated clearly, if all daily necessities and daily groceries were easy to buy, they could spend a few hundred yuan less every month. A few hundred dollars a month, thousands a year. It was a lot of money at the time.

PARKnSHOP and Dali are not even easy to get by talking about price wars, and it is not easy to get by talking about propaganda wars. It is easy to get supermarket chains backed by "Daily Daily" and TVB. The original positioning of "Tiantian Daily" is to be close to the people, close to the people, free of charge for the people, and close to the people service, and with the half-page position, the daily publication of discount promotion news, naturally more convenient for the people, and also vigorously publicize it is easy to obtain.

Customers in Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and other places are located at their doorsteps because they are easy to get, so after reading the "Daily Daily" every day, they select the discounted goods they want to buy, and they will buy them before returning home.

People in the countryside in the New Territories even have advertisements for discounts, and it is easy to queue up at the door overnight, for fear that all the bargains will be snatched away.

Although the Hong Kong government began to develop the New Territories in the 70s, because the area of the New Territories is larger than that of Hong Kong and Kowloon combined, and most of them are rural areas, transportation is not very developed. So now it's just that some factories have been moved over, and it will be developed into a prosperous city like Hong Kong and Kowloon, and I don't know how long it will take to wait for the road.

The economic construction in the New Territories cannot be carried out, and the supporting facilities such as cinemas, supermarkets, bars, etc., naturally cannot keep up. Hui Guanwu's glorious cinema chain is now only set up in the prosperous area of Hong Kong and Kowloon, and the most remote cinema is still in the factory area of the New Territories.

Only the Art Art Cinema Line has four cinemas located in the countryside of the New Territories, but they are all cinemas leased by Hui's, and they have been built for many years, and the ragged seats are creaking when you sit on them, and the hardware facilities are aging and outdated. A dilapidated theater like this has another name, called the Rat House. It means that movie theater rats are scurrying, and you should be careful when watching movies barefoot, so as not to be bitten off your toes by mice.

This kind of dilapidated movie theater is basically closed down in Hong Kong and Kowloon, but it is very good in the countryside of the New Territories, and its monthly revenue is in the middle and upper reaches of many theaters in the Art and Art Cinema Line. It can be seen that the people in the New Territories actually have the need to watch movies, but the hardware facilities can't keep up.

Xu Guanwu also thought about opening cinemas and convenience stores to the New Territories. But then the cost was calculated, which scared him a lot. Not to mention anything else, just because the roads in the New Territories are not smooth, the transportation cost of Xu Guanwu is more than double that of Hong Kong and Kowloon.

Although land in the New Territories is cheap, it is also expensive to buy your own land to build a cinema chain. And with the average consumption level in the New Territories, it will take at least five years for the cinema chain to recover its costs. In Hong Kong and Kowloon, two years is usually enough.

Xu Guanwu invested in the construction of a brilliant cinema line, counting the purchase of buildings, decoration, etc., a total of more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars (just the theater), and after more than two years of operation, the cost of more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars has long been recovered, and it has made a lot of money. The convenience stores in the brilliant cinema chain alone have monthly sales of more than one million.

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PARKnSHOP and Dali even talked about the price war, but it was easy to get, and the propaganda war could not be easily obtained, so they had to take the next step, asking their suppliers to no longer give easy delivery, otherwise they would have to find another supplier.

Although the performance of PARKnSHOP and Da Lilian is declining, they are still the most influential supermarket chains in Hong Kong. After all, it is easy to get a small and limited storefront, and most of the daily groceries are sold, so similar to household appliances, clothing, shoes and socks, furniture and accessories, etc., you still need to go to a big supermarket like Parknshop to buy.

Because although the profits of PARKnSHOP and Dalilian have declined, they have not fallen down, and their status is still there. Suppliers do not dare to offend these two big customers, because although the volume of goods is also very large, but it only accounts for 30%, while PARKnSHOP and Dalilian account for more than 50%.

If you have to choose to give up one, the lesser of two evils, the supplier can only choose ParknSHOP and Dalilian. (To be continued......)