Rebirth: The Era of Hong Kong Tycoon

Chapter 30 [Southern and Northern factions]

Oriental Daily.

Ma Xilong looked at the "Modern Daily" in his hand, the expression on his face changed, and it could be seen that his heart was fluctuating greatly.

It turns out that the sales volume of Oriental Daily has gradually increased since it hired famous writers to write dog classics at the beginning of the year. Now it has sold 2 copies, which greatly encouraged the Ma brothers.

Ma Xihu was half lying on the sofa in his brother's office. He was wearing a suit and leather shoes, but he couldn't hide his countryman's face. Although his name had the character 'tiger', his face turned into a 'dog' face.

Seeing that the expression on his brother Ma Xilong's face was not very good, Ma Xihu asked: "Big brother, what's the matter, that poor boy is making you angry? I will take someone to vent your anger and promise to let him kneel down and make amends!"

Ma Xilong slapped the newspaper, smashed it on the table, and said with hatred, "Can you stop fighting and killing all the time, we are now businessmen and cultural people who run newspapers!"

Ma Xihu whispered: "What's so good about running a newspaper, I can't make a lot of money, and there are a lot of things to worry about, then it's better to sell fans!"

Ma Xilong's ears were sharp, and he heard it clearly, and immediately said: "You know a P! Even if we don't make money from running a newspaper, we will continue to do it well. In the past, those people insinuated us in the newspaper, and now we also have a newspaper, you How dare you do this! He has a pen, we have dozens of pens, write him to death! Besides, the money from selling fans is black money, but if you walk around the company, it is legal property, Xiangjiang The government is not qualified to investigate legal assets.”

Ma Xihu also knew that what his brother said was very reasonable, and said quickly: "Then why is my brother frowning? Could it be that who is insinuating us in the newspaper?"

Ma Xilong tapped the "Modern Daily" on the table with his finger, and said with a grim expression: "There's another shit stirrer, and it's still a bad shit stirrer!"

Ma Xihu hurriedly got to the desk, picked up "Modern Daily", read the title for a long time, and then said confusedly: "There is no rumor about us!"

Ma Xilong's head suddenly became big, this younger brother was not in the company at all, thinking about fighting and drinking with those brothers every day.

"This is a new newspaper. The person who runs it is called Lin Rongheng. Do you have any impression of him?"

Ma Xihu thought for a moment and blurted out, "It's that sly boy who blackmailed the Peng family!"

Ma Xilong nodded and said, "Yes, that kid is really cunning and knows how to use the media to create momentum; I didn't expect that now he has become the media himself. It seems that he uses the newspaper as a weapon just like we think."

Ma Xihu said: "He runs his newspaper, we can't let him not do it; and even if he doesn't do it, there are others who won't do it; Brother, do you think this is the reason?"

Seeing that his younger brother didn't understand the business at all, Ma Xilong said helplessly: "Let me tell you this! Oriental Daily and Modern Daily are both new newspapers, and they are competitors. Besides, I read " Modern Daily, and found that they are still a very strong opponent for us.”

Ma Xihu frowned and said, "Then do you want to make trouble and cause them some trouble?"

Ma Xilong immediately said: "Confused! Look at the trouble that the association took the initiative to go to the newspapers. These newspapers are usually rivals. If such a thing happens, everyone will not be the enemy. If it exposes us at that time, how will the "Oriental Daily" be? It's not a waste of money. You don't need to worry about these things, if you have nothing to do, go back and visit your mother more!"

After sending his younger brother away, Ma Xilong thought about how to deal with the upcoming "Modern Daily".

6 month 3 day.

On the third day of the "Modern Daily" giving away for free, in the afternoon, the distribution department collected a rough figure from the newsstand, that is, the actual sales volume of "Modern Daily" has reached 2.2 copies.

Of course, this data has some moisture, because it is based on the vigorous promotion of the newsstand owner.

Lin Rongheng called the heads of various departments and held a meeting.

"How many newspapers will be printed tomorrow, let's talk about it!" Lin Rongheng had a relaxed smile on his face, and he also had an answer in his heart.

Zhang Jiancheng of the editorial department took the lead and said: "I have more right to speak, because I found a lot of friends to do research, and they have a high evaluation of our "Modern Daily". I predict that the real sales volume should reach 1.5 copies; if it continues to maintain Sales will continue to rise.”

Gong Wenxue of the distribution department said with a smile: "At present, after three days of serialization, the serialized novel "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" has attracted a large number of novel fans, and it has caused a great response in Hong Kong. Those novel fans are not buying "Ghost Blowing Lamp" now. Modern Daily is dead! I think 1.8 copies is also a very optimistic figure!"

Everyone expressed their opinions one after another. They were very optimistic about the sales of "Modern Daily", and they all gave a sales forecast of more than 1.5 copies.

In the end, Lin Rongheng decided to print 2 copies of "Modern Daily" directly tomorrow, which is already a very good result. After all, Lin Rongheng made a bet with Huang Renqi that the sales of "Modern Daily" would stabilize at more than 1 within a year.

Then, Lin Rongheng continued: "Modern Daily can be said to be a phenomenon. If you don't want to be a flash in the pan, you can only continue to increase your strength. The news editorial department will expand its recruitment, and we will reach 200 news editors within a year. Reporters; in this way, we can become the fastest and most complete team of news gathering and editing in Hong Kong.”

200 news editors and reporters, such a huge scale, is almost the peak of the "Oriental Daily" in the previous life in the 70s; the reason why Lin Rongheng dared to expand so frantically is that he hopes to squeeze the sales volume of "Modern Daily" into the top three in Xiangjiang. , or even first.

As the head of the news gathering and editing department, Sun Wangsheng immediately felt a lot of pressure. After all, this department will be the company's big spender in the future. If the sales of "Modern Daily" are not good, this department will be a burden and a scapegoat.

However, at this time, the modern newspaper was very aggressive, and everyone was not allowed to retreat.

Sun Wangsheng thought about it and suggested, "Boss, in order to increase the enthusiasm of reporters, I suggest that you can set certain rewards for collecting 'explosive' news."

Naturally, Lin Rongheng would not be stingy, and said directly: "Then set up a 'explosive' news hierarchy, which is divided into three levels, and the news rewards for each level are different. The higher the level of news, the higher the reward. "

Although it seems that the modern newspaper has increased its expenses, in fact, the wool comes out of the sheep, because if the sales of the "Modern Daily" increase, Lin Rongheng also wants to increase the wages for everyone; No need to add, those salted fish will receive their original wages if they don't work hard; those journalists who work hard will be able to collect 'explosive' news, and their income will be greatly increased.

Zhang Jiancheng of the editorial department then said: "The serialized novel is currently only one "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", should we also plan ahead and invite manuscripts to the market?"

Lin Rongheng waved his hand and said, "I recently compiled an outline for a novel. You can go to a ghostwriter later and write it out! So, don't rush to invite manuscripts for the time being, because we are not famous, and those who have real skills, It doesn't necessarily look like us."

Hearing that the boss has a novel outline, everyone is undoubtedly very excited. After all, there are masterpieces such as "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" ahead, and everyone is naturally looking forward to it.

After the meeting was over, Lin Rongheng called Zhang Jiancheng to his office and handed him the outline of the "Notes on Tomb Raiders".

After reading it, Zhang Jiancheng couldn't help but sigh: "The theme of "Notes on Tomb Raiders" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" are the same, but they seem to be different. This feeling is like Nanquan and Beizui."

Lin Rongheng said with a smile: "It seems that you can feel it too, they are originally a southern faction, a northern faction; "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" belongs to the story of Captain Mo Jin of the northern faction, and "Notes of Tomb Raiders" belongs to Xieling of the southern faction The story of the Lishi line. The northern school attaches great importance to the secrets of Feng Shui, and the southern school pays attention to the use of tools. The northern school calls the southern school a dirt dog and wastes cultural relics; the southern school calls the northern school a hypocrite, who is obviously a thief and pretends to be a thief.”

After listening to Zhang Jiancheng, he seemed to be caught in the dispute between the southern faction and the northern faction, and finally couldn't help clapping his hands and said, "Interesting! It seems that I have to let the two novels be serialized at the same time, which may cause more discussion, but increase their loyal readers."

Lin Rongheng also thinks this is a good idea. If the two novels are released together, the effect may be better!

"Okay, but since "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" has been serialized for three issues, there is no need to worry about "Tomb Raiders Notes", the quality must be guaranteed!"

"I see!"

(End of this chapter)