Chapter 55: Magazines
"Big guy, I want to be a bad guy."
These were the first words that Su Jingxian said to his younger brother Su Jingliang after entering his room in the attic on the second floor a week after he left the police force.
Su Jingxian was writing and drawing on a piece of scratch paper, when he heard his brother's words, his hand shook, and a diagonal line appeared on the paper.
"What do you say?" Su Jingxian turned his head to look at his younger brother, "Didn't I ask you to help in the newspaper office?" ”
In the week since he left the Force, Su Jingxian has been to the China and Hong Kong newspaper office twice, once to inspect it routinely, and the other time was three days ago, when he put his younger brother Su Jingliang at the newspaper office and asked him to learn things from Chen Bingzhong.
Su Jingliang will be seventeen years old soon, and he can't always let him stay at home in the rice shop, not to mention that the rice shop already has two guys, and he can't be used, so Su Jingxian will make this decision.
Unexpectedly, in just three days, my younger brother found himself to resign and said that he wanted to be a policeman.
Seeing Su Jingxian ask, his younger brother Su Jingliang's face was slightly unnatural, and he hesitated for a moment before saying: "The newspaper is full of cultural people, I don't know much literacy, and it's very uncomfortable to stay inside." ”
Su Jingxian smiled dumbly: "It's because you don't know much that you let you learn!" ”
"I don't feel comfortable anyway, and I'm not going to do it." Su Jingliang frowned, "The people in the newspaper hall have something to do, and I don't fit in there, it's so difficult!" ”
Su Jingxian smiled when he heard this, knowing that Su Jingliang was old and had a good face, maybe he felt a little inferior among a bunch of cultural people in the newspaper, but it was not incomprehensible.
"If you don't like it, don't go, the whole newspaper is the Su family's business, and you are also the boss of it, what do you think?" Su Jingxian encouraged his younger brother, looked at him with interest and asked, "But then again, do you think of going to be a messenger?" ”
He knows his younger brother Su Jingliang quite well, knows his youthful nature, and is a little playful on weekdays, even if he used to run out of the rice shop. Now he offered to be a policeman, which was unexpected by Su Jingxian.
After all, to be a police officer without exception, you need to start from a military uniform, and patrol the streets in the wind and rain every day, enduring hardships and fatigue, which is not in line with Su Jingliang's casual style at all.
Younger brother Su Jingliang coughed when he heard this, and his face was a little red: "When Jin Yun chatted with me before, she said that she had a sister in the drama troupe who married a plainclothes woman, and she looked very envious of her sister, so ......"
The Jin Yun he mentioned in his mouth was Xiao Huadan's girlfriend who met in the theater some time ago, and Su Shoucai and Zheng Liru, who were parents, didn't know about it, but Su Jingliang had already told his brother Su Jingxian.
"So you also want to be a bad person, and then show your face in front of your little Huadan girlfriend, so that you can marry her in the future?" Su Jingxian looked at his younger brother Su Jingliang with a smile and teased.
Su Jingliang's face turned even redder when he heard this, and he said hesitantly: "It's not that far now, in short, you are my boss, you must support me." ”
"Hold!" Su Jingxian nodded with a smile, and said, "But it's not that I arranged for you to join the police force to support you, it's too chaotic outside now, and it's risky to be a bad person." ”
Even Su Jingxian himself withdrew from the police force, how could he let his younger brother wade into troubled waters again at this time, and he started from the lowest and most dangerous uniformed policeman.
Su Jingxian thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "It's better like this, I'll send you to the Bacui Men's Academy to study for a while...... You don't have to look at me with such an expression, reading is a must, and when you know more words, it will be much easier to go to the newspaper and find other jobs. ”
Diocesan Boys' School is a subsidized secondary school that receives government subsidies, because it is a school opened by British, so it is rumored to be an aristocratic school, in fact, Diocesan Boys' School has always implemented an enrollment plan for the middle and lower classes, and the school is also mostly Chinese.
Hearing that he was going to study, Su Jingliang's face fell, another reason why he wanted to be a policeman was that he didn't need a level of education, and sitting in the academy was equivalent to an ordeal for him.
"Why don't you teach me at home, I don't know anything when I go to school, will I be laughed at?" The younger brother Su Jingliang had a bitter face, and his words revealed nervousness and worry about the unknown.
Su Jingxian put down his pen, stood up and stretched: "I just don't know why I want to go to school!" Before I went to the University of Hong Kong, didn't you know nothing? When you come out of school, you can also do business and be a boss, and then you won't be too powerful to be an errand person? ”
His younger brother Su Jingliang knew that Su Jingxian had already made plans for himself, and he also knew that he was for his own good, so he could only nod with a pout.
Seeing him nodding, Su Jingxian grinned: "Come on!" I'll talk about it later, in short, there is a big guy here, you are the daughter of the Hong Kong governor, I will help you deal with her! ”
Anyway, Grantham has no children and no daughters in his life, and Su Jingxian is not afraid to talk a little bigger.
After his younger brother Su Jingliang left the attic, Su Jingxian lit a cigarette, then sat back in the chair, picked up the scratch paper he had just written, and reviewed it again.
On this piece of paper, he wrote down a lot of plans and directions for the future in the business field, which is also the main result of his week.
Originally, because of his relationship with Yang Meng, Su Jingxian had the idea of getting involved in the film industry in his mind, but in the end he put this idea on hold for the time being.
There is no other reason than a simple lack of money.
In this era when the film industry was just starting, silent films were replaced by sound films before they were brilliant, and a complete set of machines for shooting sound films was ten times more expensive than a complete set of printing equipment for China and Hong Kong Daily, and now film shooting is used, and wasting every shot is equivalent to throwing money into the fire, even if it is Shaw Brothers, which is known for its low-cost small pattern, a movie will cost at least about 200,000 Hong Kong dollars, and if it is some large-scale war films, the investment is even more millions.
So after calculating this account, Su Jingxian didn't even think about it, and directly crossed out the two words of movie written on the paper, this kind of money-burning business is not qualified for him to enter the market now.
In addition to movies, there are also a lot of words written on the piece of paper in his hand, all of which are businesses that he is optimistic about.
Plastics, smuggling shipping, gold, off-the-plan ...... According to the amount of money that needs to be invested, Su Jingxian arranged these businesses in order, and finally drew a circle on the magazine with the least investment.
The China Hong Kong Daily is now on the right track, and the equipment and personnel of the newspaper factory are very complete.
Therefore, Su Jingxian plans to publish another magazine in the name of the China Hong Kong Newspaper.
He is not a risk-taking person, and in today's international situation, magazines may not be called profiteering, but they are absolutely safe.
And because he understands the overall downturn in Hong Kong's newspaper industry, Su Jingxian does not plan to put the main battlefield of this magazine in Hong Kong, but exports and distributes it overseas.