In the office of the China Hong Kong Newspaper in Yuen Long, Chen Bingzhong took a freshly printed Playboy magazine, flipped to the column page of Sweetheart Baby, and saw a color carcass photo of Marilyn Monroe at a glance.

"Wow! It turns out that full-color printing is so realistic! Looking at the photo of Monroe in the column, Chen Bingzhong's eyes were about to pop out.

Seeing his stunned appearance, Su Jingxian smiled slightly, after Zhong Qiang and Deng Zhipeng, Chen Bingzhong was already the third person to make such an exaggerated expression today.

In fact, strictly speaking, in Su Jingxian's eyes, there is no full-color printing technology in the real sense in the world, and the highest-quality color page in Playboy is still black and white in his opinion, and it cannot be compared with the colorful illustrations of later generations.

However, in the eyes of people in this era, because of the use of the most advanced high-quality bright screen printing technology, Marilyn Monroe's photo is particularly layered on the only coated paper in the magazine page, which is already considered to be the top quality of full-color lifelike.

At least under Su Jingxian's understanding, before this, no magazine had taken such a lot of effort to print portraits, and most of them were still printed in the form of traditional ink comics.

Therefore, on the cover of the Playboy magazine that Chen Bingzhong is holding at this time, next to the photo of Marilyn Monroe smiling and waving, there is a line of promise to readers: readers will find a photo of the actress on a certain page of this magazine, which will be the first full-color photo of her exposed in all magazines.

"Boss, our newspaper is also printed in color?" It took a long time for Chen Bingzhong to come back to his senses from the playboy color page, raised his head and looked at Su Jingxian with a look of hope.

Su Jingxian rolled his eyes when he heard this: "You want to make a color newspaper?" Well, this color page of this magazine, five cents of paper, eight cents of printing costs, with the size of the layout of the China and Hong Kong Daily, these costs will be six or seven times more. As long as you are willing to raise the price of each newspaper to one dollar in the future, you will also be responsible for the loss of sales, and I will immediately change the coated paper to print color newspapers. ”

Hearing Su Jingxian mention that the cost of just one color page of a magazine is as high as a dime and three cents, Chen Bingzhong waved his hand again and again while being speechless: "Now the newspaper is priced at a dime, and readers are too expensive, so raise the price by one piece?" I can't even think about it. ”

China and Hong Kong Daily Printing uses the cheapest newsprint, and the printing technology is also ink spraying, which is naturally inferior to the coated paper and screen printing of Playboy magazines in terms of cost.

"Boss, how much are you going to price this magazine?" Seeing that it was hopeless to print colorful newspapers, Chen Bingzhong paid attention to the magazine again, raised the playboy in his hand, and asked Su Jingxian.

Su Jingxian thought for a moment and said loudly: "At the beginning, it was still according to the market price in the United States, and the price of a copy was sixty cents, and some of the postage and customs duties may be lost, but there is still something to be gained." ”

"Sixty cents." Chen Bingzhong lowered his head and calculated, raised his head and said: "Even if it is about three dollars or four Hong Kong dollars, according to the cost you talked about, the price is indeed not high." ”

At present, the average price of a local magazine at the street newsstand in Hong Kong is no more than a dollar, but these magazines give people a shoddy feeling in terms of quality alone, regardless of quality or style, and are not at all comparable to well-made playboys.

Printing and ink aside, the Playboy magazine that Chen Bingzhong is holding now in his hand, except for the paper on the Sweetheart Baby's column page, which uses the most expensive coated paper, the rest of the pagination is also composed of calendered magazine paper, and the whole magazine is very weighty and textured in his hand, even in Hong Kong, where prices are relatively low, such a magazine is more than enough for two Hong Kong dollars.

"There is a lot of pumping in each link, but a magazine should still make a dollar and a half when it is sold, and it will not lose money." Su Jingxian sat on the chair and rubbed his eyebrows.

Chen Bingzhong rolled his eyes at the tired young boss, opened his mouth, and finally didn't say what he thought, only secretly prayed that the magazine in his hand would sell well in the United States, and quickly make up the money on the newspaper's books.

"Gentlemen, you can't go in!"

"Flash away, your mother wants to be beheaded!"

Just as Su Jingxian and Chen Bingzhong were sitting opposite each other in the office, a quarrel sounded outside the office.

Su Jingxian frowned and looked back at the door.

Bang –

The closed door was kicked open from the outside, and four or five sturdy men with arrogant and unruly faces stood outside the door, leading a man wearing a trench coat but not buttoning it, and the inside of the trench coat was empty and his chest was exposed, showing a hideous tattoo of a wolf's head on his chest.

After the tattooed man broke into the office, he waved his hand, and several other subordinates followed behind him immediately blocked the door with a fierce look, and a group of employees in the office outside the house were blocked from the door.

"You're the owner of this newspaper?" The man's gaze directly bypassed the young Su Jingxian and looked at Chen Bingzhong, who was sitting in the editor-in-chief's seat, with a cold and hard voice.

Looking at these uninvited guests, Su Jingxian's brows were already furrowed, and seeing that they all had watermelon knives pinned to their waists, Su Jingxian's brows furrowed even tighter.

Pounce on your mother's Lu Le! This is the field you hold me up?

Su Jingxian scolded in his heart, then handed Chen Bingzhong a reassuring look, stood up and looked directly at the other party and said, "Old friend, I am Su Jingxian, the boss of China and Hong Kong, tell me something." ”

"You're the boss?" The man glanced at Su Jingxian in surprise, and then his face became impatient, "Whoever you are, in short, my name is Chen Zhanwu, and in the future, this newspaper will pay 500 yuan a month for the land, otherwise I will burn it!" ”

Hearing this request, an anger flashed between Su Jingxian's eyebrows, and he greeted Lu Le again in his heart.

"Fifth brother, right?" Glancing at the watermelon knives on the waists of several people on the other side, Su Jingxian forcibly suppressed the fire in his heart and squeezed out a smile, "As far as I know, this piece of Yuen Long is a human cover with the word Guihe, which pillar of incense is the fifth brother burning at the head of the word?" ”

"And the prefix? Bah! Chen Zhanwu spat out, raised his head to look at Su Jingxian, and smiled disdainfully, "I am from the 14th, and the 14th in Hong Kong will have the final say in the future!" ”

Fourteen K, the remnants of the military command?

Su Jingxian opened his mouth and was about to speak, but another vicious voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"After the side talk, Hong Kong No. 14 has the final say? Pounce on your mother! Brave enough to step on Yuen Long? Do you think Erping and I are fake? ”

As this voice emerged, a burst of messy footsteps sounded, and the local prefix and Erping people, who were more than twice as many as Chen Zhanwu, appeared outside the office in unison.

Among the members of Heerping who came to the newspaper, the leader was a young man wearing a coarse cloth beat.

This young man, Su Jingxian, once met, was the red stick of the Yuen Long local community and Erping, and his nickname was Kuaidaozhe.

When the China Hong Kong Newspaper was just established, Kuaidaozhe also brought people to collect the land fee, but after being warned by the people sent by Lu Le, he has always been very obedient.

"Mr. Su, I have already sent someone to inform Brother Xi Jiu, he went to the gun room of the police station to get a gun, and he will come over soon." Kuaidaozhe came to the office and directly pushed away a few knife-wielding No. 14 members at the door, and let his subordinates confront each other, while he stepped into the office, greeted Su Jingxian first, and deliberately bit the two words "take the gun" a few points.

Su Jingxian nodded at the fast sword, glanced at him and the people he brought with him all bare-handed, and knew in his heart that the people of He Erping must have come in a hurry after receiving the report from the staff who slipped out of the newspaper hall, and they didn't even have time to bring the guys.

After greeting Su Jingxian, Kuai Dao Zhe turned his face and looked at Chen Zhanwu with a mocking expression: "Draw a local dog on your chest and dare to come to Yuen Long Shrimp and Shrimp Baba?" Fourteenth, right? Hand over your wind poems out! ”