Chapter 11 Ambitions for the Newspaper

After getting to know everyone present, Jack took a seat and listened to the discussion of current affairs with relish.

Unlike women who like to talk about the length of the family, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, men get together to chat, and most of them like to talk about some social and political topics, because these topics are far away from life and close to life, everyone knows and has their own opinions, everyone can express their opinions, argue endlessly, and be happy.

"I heard news that a person named Sun Yat-sen in the Qing Kingdom of East Asia launched a revolution and overthrew the rule of the Aisin Jueluo family, and then established a ...... in imitation of our American political system."

A middle-aged man with red hair and obvious Scottish ancestry suddenly threw out a topic.

Thanks to his significantly enhanced memory after the time travel, Jack remembers that the middle-aged red-haired man was James Ferguson, who ran a small newspaper in San Francisco.

"Our American political system is the best, and I believe that the country established by Sun Yat-sen will soon be able to get rid of European colonization and develop rapidly, just like us in the United States!"

"There is one more democracy in the world!"

"As far as those people in East Asia are concerned, what do they build a country ...... with us, the United States?"

After James Ferguson told the news, the scene immediately buzzed, some praised, some disdained, and some were silent about the country established by Sun Yat-sen's revolution.

As for Jack, as a Chinese in his previous life, he had a very say in whether Huaxia could develop, and he was extremely speechless about the prejudice of those who were not optimistic.

However, in this era, China suffered two Opium Wars... Sino-Japanese War... ...... the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China, it has been ceding land and paying reparations to foreign countries, and has become a semi-colony, and it has long had no status in the international community.

As for arguing with the glorious history of China, Jack thought about it and gave up, after all, people live in the present, no matter how strong history is.

In this case, Jack knew in his heart that he couldn't justify these people at all, so he simply sank into it.

There is a good saying, facts speak louder than words, and when Huaxia develops, these people will naturally be speechless.

Oh...... No, at that time, these people were probably already in a box of ashes.

"Guys, our protagonist is coming."

I don't know how long it took, the sky outside was completely dark, and in the brightly lit living room, everyone who was chatting instantly quieted down.

Jack looked up the stairs on the second floor and saw a young woman about twenty-one or second grad walking down, surrounded by several women of the same age.

Without guessing, Jack knew the identity of the young woman, and it would be none other than Agnes Barry, the protagonist of this graduation party.

"It's pretty good-looking."

Jack watched back and forth between Hall Barry and Agnes Barry many times, and wondered how Hall Barry was so big and thick that he could give birth to such a beautiful daughter.

Could it be......

After banishing the jumbled thoughts in his mind, in the end, Jack can only give the credit to Mrs. Barry, who is still charming.

One thing to be clear, although Jack thinks Agnes Barry is good-looking, he really only admires her, and never thinks like that.

Because in his opinion, whoever compares to Ruth is a bunch of vulgar fans.

At this time, Ruth was by Agnes Barry's side, and it could be seen that she couldn't hide her heartfelt happiness when getting along with girls of the same age.

"Mr. Dawson, may we talk?"

Just when most people were attracted by the appearance of Agnes Barry and others, James Ferguson didn't know when he came to Jack and made an invitation to Jack.

"Okay."

After Jack and James Ferguson sat down in a remote corner, he looked at James Ferguson, wondering what James Ferguson was looking for him.

After all, James Ferguson's newspaper business doesn't seem to be able to beat him.

Under Jack's gaze, James Ferguson was silent for a moment, and then immediately asked, "Is Mr. Dawson interested in investing in the newspaper industry?" ”

Since the Boston Journal, America's first newspaper, was published in 1704, newspapers have transformed from a medium through which the elite learned information to a mass newspaper aimed at ordinary people.

Therefore, after a period of mixing dragons and snakes, the newspaper industry was quickly controlled and merged by the capitalists as the liberal capitalism in the United States turned to monopoly capitalism, and as a social instrument that played a role in supervising and guiding public opinion, and could also make money through advertising, it was quickly controlled and merged by the capitalists, and monopoly newspaper groups emerged one after another.

As the owner of the San Francisco Observer, which has a circulation of less than 30,000 copies in San Francisco, James Ferguson came from an ordinary background, working as a laborer and a hotel waiter as a young man, and later joined the Daily Chronicle as a reporter by chance.

During his time as a journalist, because of his hard-working and willingness to continue to learn to enrich himself, plus a little luck, within a few years, he was promoted to a senior reporter for the "Daily News Chronicle" and saved a lot of money.

Three years ago, he didn't want to work for someone else for the rest of his life, so he simply left the Daily News Chronicle and founded the San Francisco Observer with a few friends.

Due to capital reasons, although the San Francisco Observer was well-known in San Francisco, it was never able to grow bigger.

Coupled with the inability to find satisfactory investors, the relationship between the several founders has begun to crack, and the newspaper has begun to fall into a struggle for power and profit.

Just after listening to Hall Barry's introduction, after learning that Jack had acquired Cedric's company not long ago, he thought about finding a chance to talk to Jack to see if Jack was willing to invest.

"Investing in newspaper ......"

After listening to James Ferguson, Jack pretty much knew what he meant.

For the newspaper as a powerful weapon of public opinion, to say that there is no idea about it, Jack himself does not believe it.

Coming from the modern era, he knows the role of newspapers very well!

Therefore, the opportunity is in front of him, and Jack is eager to come up with the money to invest it right away.

But as soon as he thought of the $75,000 he had obtained from selling the cigarette filter patent, he had spent more than $50,000 on the acquisition of Cedric, and during the day he decided to inject another $20,000 into the renovation of Cedric's automobile production line and the mass production of Cedric II.

"Sorry, I'm ...... for now"

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ps: Brothers, it's not easy to write a book, ask for a monthly pass, ask for a collection, ask for investment, ask for a reward!