Chapter Fifty-Nine: Please Come to China and Hong Kong

Perhaps it was the 10,000 dollars that Su Jingxian threw out that played a role, and Jane came to the news on the third day, saying that he had found a friend who lived in Torrance City, which is under the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County, USA.

According to Jane, he made fourteen phone calls, and it was only at the fifteenth hour that he found the American who was willing to help.

"Thompson is a young war correspondent who unfortunately was injured in the war and is not living well. I called his father, because we had known each other since we were in India, and although his father refused me, this young boy looked up the number from the switchboard, called directly to my office, and offered to help you solve the problem in the United States. ”

Recalling what Jian Lianshi said to himself not long ago, Su Jingxian felt a sense of relief, the problem that caused him the most headache these days was finally solved, and the next thing was undoubtedly much easier.

Under Chen Bingzhong's resentful gaze, Su Jingxian took the notarized materials of the China Hong Kong Daily and went straight to HSBC on Queen's Road in Central.

Compared with Standard Chartered and Advantage, although HSBC and these two banks are now listed as the three leading banks in Hong Kong's banking industry, in fact, since the British government issued the new Hong Kong dollar in 1935, HSBC's position has gradually begun to surpass the other two leading banks.

In addition to the five-dollar banknote, HSBC has also obtained the exclusive right to issue the Hong Kong government's one-dollar note and five-cent coin, and HSBC has exceeded 95 percent of the banks in Hong Kong that are qualified to issue Hong Kong dollars.

With the impartial materials of China Hong Kong Daily, and with the approval of a manager of HSBC, Su Jingxian used the newspaper as collateral to borrow 100,000 US dollars, equivalent to nearly 600,000 Hong Kong dollars, from the bank.

Running a magazine is different from running a newspaper, especially since the main market for which the magazine is to be distributed is in the United States, and the funds required are not like the establishment of the China and Hong Kong Daily, which can be handled by tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars.

"I remember that HSBC has a Chinese class named Shen Bi, is he here?" Holding the exchanged promissory note, Su Jingxian was politely sent to the door of the bank by the bank manager, and before going out, he glanced at the layout of the HSBC bank, and inadvertently asked the manager next to him.

Taipan is the name of the manager in Hong Kong at this time for foreign companies, banks and other institutions, HSBC has more than one manager, in Su Jingxian's impression, it seems that Shen Bi, the future HSBC bank's 'Taipan King' has not yet made a career, he is wondering if he can take advantage of this time to catch this line first.

The manager of the British bank who handled the loan business for him smiled politely: "Mr. Su, Mr. Shen Bi is now handling some business in the Singapore branch, if necessary, I will inform you when he returns to Hong Kong?" ”

"It's all good, I have a heart." Su Jingxian nodded, he had asked casually, and now he doesn't feel sorry to get such an answer.

With a cashier's check worth US$100,000 in his hand, Mr So drove back to Yuen Long, entered the newspaper office and closed the door after entering the editor-in-chief's office.

"100,000 dollars, I can't estimate how much our newspaper is worth." took out the promissory note in his arms and put it in front of Chen Bingzhong, Su Jingxian smiled at him.

Chen Bingzhong carefully picked up the promissory note, his fingers trembled slightly, and he stared at it for a minute, and then raised his head to look at Su Jingxian, with a pleading voice in his voice: "Boss, can you not go to the United States?" Although what you said is out of the blue, if you can't get it, wouldn't you watch the bank take away the newspaper? ”

"You have some confidence in me, okay?" Amused by Chen Bingzhong's unproductive appearance, Su Jingxian took back the promissory note from his hand and put it back into his arms, "Wow! I promise you that the money will be returned to the bank in half a year at most, and the newspaper will be moved to Central, and this is how to do business! ”

Chen Bingzhong rubbed his nose and said with a bitter face: "I am a cultural person, not a businessman, and now the newspaper has been mortgaged by you, is your guarantee still useful?" ”

"Bothering you!" Su Jingxian gave him a blank look and straightened his clothes, "I will leave for the United States the day after tomorrow at the latest, and you will transfer a photographer and a copy editor from the newspaper...... Forget it, just Zhong Qiang, send a photographer to join Zhong Qiang with me, and I will be back in about half a month. ”

Since the launch of the Haoqing Nightlife column, as the newspaper's economy is getting better and better, Zhong Qiang is now the head of the column, and he has also added two small editorial assistants, and most of the time he no longer needs to write salty and wet stories by himself.

Chen Bingzhong sighed, knowing that the boss had made up his mind, and his own employee would only annoy people if he said frustrating words, so he had to nod and said: "Okay, the photographer is Ah Peng, he is now a special correspondent in China and Hong Kong." ”

"Special correspondent?" Su Jingxian said curiously, "Why do we have special reporters in our newspaper now?" Which country to send? ”

Chen Bingzhong blinked: "Sent from Hong Kong, China, to Macau, China." ”

"Pick! An hour's waterway is also called a special commission? Su Jingxian waved his hand, turned around and was about to walk out.

Seeing that the boss was about to leave, Chen Bingzhong got up and was about to send him off, and as if he suddenly remembered something, he stopped Su Jingxian in a loud voice: "By the way, boss, there is another thing about the martial arts column, I almost don't remember to tell you." ”

Su Jingxian had already walked to the door, and when he heard him mention the martial arts column, he turned around, raised his eyebrows and asked, "I have already written an outline for twenty issues, you can just leave it to the editor of the serial column to polish, what are the questions?" ”

"It's not a serialization problem, it's that there are newspapers that follow our serialization columns, and the stories written are so good." As Chen Bingzhong spoke, he grabbed a newspaper on the table and came to Su Jingxian.

Hearing that someone followed the martial arts column, Su Jingxian frowned slightly.

In order to prevent being followed, Su Jingxian deliberately wrote the story a little plain at the beginning of the serialization, but he didn't expect that he still didn't escape the ending of being followed.

Forget about following the trend, the story is also very good? This made Su Jingxian fall in love.

After receiving the newspaper handed over by Chen Bingzhong, Su Jingxian directly set his eyes on a serial column called Arabian Nights, and he wanted to see what the story that Chen Bingzhong called brilliant looked like.

Starting from the text of the serial, Su Jingxian only read a few lines, and his face showed a strange look.

"Boss, how's it going?" Chen Bingzhong, who was on the side, knew that this boss had a deeper insight into martial arts novels than himself, and when he saw that his face was wrong, he couldn't help but ask.

Su Jingxian did not answer, but moved his gaze to the author's signature of the article, and after reading the three words clearly, he took a light breath.

Handing the newspaper back to Chen Bingzhong, in his puzzled eyes, Su Jingxian paused and said: "Let's see if I can invite the editor and author of this column to China and Hong Kong, if he is willing to come, I will give him 800 yuan for labor." ”

Chen Bingzhong, whose monthly salary has only been five hundred and twenty yuan so far, heard Su Jingxian's words, and his eyes suddenly bulged.