"Young man, do you want an empty glove white wolf?"

"No, Mr. Sandas, could you please take a look at my proposal?

As long as HSBC can provide me with a loan of 4 million, I can give the bank 10% interest, no, 20%.

And before that, I can mortgage the newspaper I want to buy to the bank, and in just one year, I can be sure that the newspaper will turn a profit, even with interest...... Xiao Tang wants to complete this acquisition in the form of a 'leveraged buyout'! ”

"No need, young man, I don't think you should come to HSBC, but go straight to a mental sanatorium!"

Xiao Tang's mouth twitched a few times, and finally he didn't have the face to continue.

He didn't want to lose the last dignity of a man, so he reluctantly nodded to Sandas and the other party's guests in the HSBC executive chair, and turned to leave.

I don't know how many times Xiao Tang has failed, his dream has been hidden by reality after all.

Although Hong Kong Island in 1975 was not as prosperous as later generations, it was also known as the Four Asian Tigers in this era.

Just half a year ago, Xiao Tang, who couldn't withstand the blow of bankruptcy, did not escape the tragic ending after all.

I thought I was going to end this unpretentious life, but I didn't want to be reborn in a place called Tiu Keng Ling on Hong Kong Island in 1974

The family is surrounded by walls, there is no one else in the family except the widowed mother, Xiao Tang in his previous life was a graduate of a famous school and proficient in six Chinese, but when he woke up, he was still confused by his mother's Cantonese

After Xiao Tang found out that he had not inherited the language ability of his predecessor, he was stunned and did not dare to speak for more than a month.

This frightened Xiao Tang's mother, when he was dumb, he secretly wiped his tears for several days, and Xiao Tang didn't feel good when he saw it.

In the end, he couldn't learn his mother's way of speaking, and stumbled to explain - when he was seriously injured, he found that his tongue was a little unstraight, so he didn't want to speak, so he prevaricated his mother.

In the next six months, he secretly learned Cantonese and practiced traditional Chinese characters, while trying his best to understand Hong Kong Island in the 70s.

Perhaps because of Xiao Tang's amazing language talent and super memory ability, Xiao Tang has an unusual advantage in learning languages and other things.

Not only did he make excellent progress in Cantonese and not fall behind when he was scolded,

And the practice of traditional Chinese characters has also been remarkable, with his hand speed of 5,500 words per hour, he forcibly copied the famous novel "Fairy Sword Trilogy" in his previous life.

But

Just when he was in a hurry to turn over the peasants and become a landlord, when he took the first manuscript of his novel to the famous Chinese newspaper "Ming Pao" in Hong Kong for submission, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper couldn't help but be amazed after reading it, and offered him a price of 5,000 yuan to buy out.

At that time, Xiao Tang's brain was "buzzing", and he turned his head and left.

Joke

A novel of millions of words, 5,000 yuan can pass the time?

Later, Xiao Tang also went to many newspapers, and the highest price was only a dime a word, this is still an unknown tabloid, the kind that has eaten the last meal but not the next.

Lady Luck did not favor Xiao Tang, although Xiao Tang believed that his book was on fire,

But although the editor-in-chief of those newspapers also thinks that Xiao Tang's "Fairy Sword" is a subversive novel,

But after all, it's a buyer's market,

Still no one is willing to give him a reasonable price, but keeps lowering the price.

In desperation, Xiao Tang could only find another way.

The 74th year happened to be the outbreak of the Middle East oil crisis, and the Xiangjiang stock market inevitably collapsed, until the end of 74, when the Xiangjiang Hang Seng fell below a record low of 150 points, and countless shareholders went bankrupt and wailed.

And in this chaos, Xiao Tang took a fancy to a newspaper in distress - "Star Daily".

It is different from the top Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong, such as Ming Pao and Sing Tao Daily.

But "Star Daily" can stand out among second-rate newspapers,

If there is a writer newspaper with Jin Daxia's five-point skills, it is also expected to break through the second-rate boundary.

On the whole, this is a relatively good newspaper company, although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs, not only a newspaper, but also a large printing house.

If it were a normal day, a newspaper like this well-run newspaper would definitely not be easy to sell, but who wants to be in a special situation now?

The owner of the newspaper is in debt because of serious losses in the stock market.

When Xiao Tang learned the news, he immediately made an appointment with the owner of the newspaper and promised to buy the newspaper for 3 million.

The newspaper owner was anxious to cash out, pinched his nose and agreed to the fracture price, and then Xiao Tang asked the newspaper owner Wu Dong to sign an exclusive agreement for half a month, so that he could raise funds for himself, and the newspaper would not be bought by others.

Because as soon as he got the newspaper's intention to make a move, Xiao Tang thought of a "leveraged buyout", hoping to get a debt financing, but it may also be because Xiao Tang himself has no principal.

Although he promised high interest and a pledge of the newspaper's shares, it still did not impress the bankers on Hong Kong Island, and even the double leverage made people think he was a madman.

Although Xiao Tang is very careful to do business planning, he also listed the way of the newspaper's next rectification, the core selling point and the direction of profit business enhancement.

But when he ran all the banks in Hong Kong, no one looked at his plan, and even HSBC's Taipan Sandas's words were already heartfelt.

……

The rain in February was pouring down, and the pedestrians on the road were in a hurry, but Xiao Tang was a little lost after leaving HSBC.

Walking aimlessly down Queen's Road.

The momentum of the whole person is a little sluggish, which is simply different from him half a year ago, and I vaguely remember that Xiao Tang at that time also arrogantly declared that he wanted to be a man who surpassed Li Chaoren, punched Yihe, and stepped on Taigu.

But now he knew that he was thinking too much, although the primitive accumulation of capital was the most difficult, but Xiao Tang also understood that if he missed this opportunity, his future life would only be more difficult.

The rain slid down the hair and fell the sideburns, making the originally handsome young man look a little lonely.

He is not afraid of failure, he is afraid that he will not even have the opportunity to fail.

Who doesn't have a dream at the age of seventeen, Xiao Tang has never been a person in a corner of the country, his goal is the sea of stars.

"Young man, you seem to need a chance".