Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 747 The Benefits of Holding the Media

After two years of construction by Chu Xiangqian, the racecourse now has three outdoor training grounds.

One of them is an 800-meter medium-sized track and two are 2-meter small tracks. Not only are there more training tracks than the Jockey Club, but they are also more advanced.

Subsequently, four 4*35 meter indoor square circle training grounds were built, which can support 35 racehorses for intermittent training.

The hay room, tack room, office building, 2 dormitory buildings, delivery room, spa, indoor swimming training ground and observation room are all fully equipped.

It can be said that Kowloon Racecourse is now the most advanced racecourse in Southeast Asia.

No, even in Europe and the United States, the supporting facilities are not more complete than those in our own horse farms.

The only drawback is that the horse trainer hired by the farm is not as experienced as others.

But Chu Xiangqian didn't care much about it. After all, he knew the three-dimensional properties of the horses he kept at the stable when they left the Novice Village, and each of them was much better than ordinary horses.

To be honest, Chu Xiangqian was not surprised at all that some of the horses auctioned could win the top three or even the championship in horse racing competitions in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong Island and Japan.

A horse that can win the Triple Crown is one in a million that only appears once every ten, twenty or thirty years.

Most horses are only picked one out of a thousand.

As the construction of the horse farm becomes more and more comprehensive, the management and training results are also gradually improving.

Therefore, the valuation of the horse farm is also rising.

In addition, there were 20 Arabian horses, 10 purebred horses, 20 Arabian horses, 10 Andalusian horses and 10 Hanoverian horses that Chu Xiangqian had left in the farm as stallions.

And these horses, the 32 foals that have been bred in the past two years,
The value of the entire racecourse has exceeded 4500 million US dollars.

Converted into Hong Kong dollars, it would be 1.8 million.

This horse farm alone made Chu Xiangqian a billionaire envied by countless people.

If other industries are taken into account, according to some Hong Kong media, Chu Xiangqian's wealth would at least rank among the top ten in Hong Kong Island.

The most direct proof is that Chu Xiangqian auctioned racehorses three times, and after deducting the 3% commission to the Jockey Club, the total auction amount reached US$5 million.

Although the outside world does not know the exact profit, most people think that it is at least 30% net profit.

And a very obvious truth is that no matter how much money Chu Xiangqian spent on the horse, there is a 9% probability that the money had been paid off when the horse was shipped back to Hong Kong Island.

In other words, the 6800 million US dollars after the auction actually went into his hands, and this money alone was worth 2.72 million Hong Kong dollars.

Therefore, many people estimate that Chu Xiangqian’s assets and cash in Hong Kong Island alone are at least 600 to 700 million Hong Kong dollars, which exceeds the wealth accumulated by most of the old and prominent families over several generations.

Some people have already listed him as one of the top ten richest people in Hong Kong Island.

Moreover, most people think that if Chu Xiangqian is given ten years, he will definitely become the richest man in Hong Kong.

Chu Xiangqian was both angry and helpless about these reports.

My real net worth must be multiplied by 10, but this sudden turmoil must mean that someone is looking for trouble with me.

Fortunately, no news that was unfavorable to them came from either China or England.

Since those he couldn't afford to offend didn't even think of dealing with him, Chu Xiangqian was confident that he could deal with the remaining forces, whether they were consortiums or gangs.

If you piss him off, the worst that can happen is another mortar attack.

Some people want to use public opinion to target him, but Chu Xiangqian is not stupid enough to talk about morality and rules.

You want to harm me, so I will kill you without any hesitation.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian knew that he could not hide his wealth from the outside world. As long as no one revealed his hidden wealth, the situation would remain under control.

Moreover, the person who broke the news is not actually very powerful. He did not even include the ranch in Magnesium, shares in Universal Studios, and Downton Abbey in England in his apparent wealth.

It only took two or three hours to find out that the initial reports started in Kuala Lumpur.

After a night, early in the morning, Bridge, the executive director of the Jockey Club, Gobbler of the Police Department, Harder of the Secretary for Administration, and even Norton in London all called him and said something.

Before, after he blasted the Cao family in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian officials were forced by England to suppress the matter, but it was normal for them to feel unhappy.

Several months have passed since the incident, and although there is no evidence to prove that Chu Xiangqian did it, he is the most likely suspect.

Since legal means could not deal with Chu Xiangqian, assassination attempts would also worry about his retaliation.

The official forces in Kuala Lumpur allowed some families related to the Cao family to start exposing Chu Xiangqian's wealth. Their purpose was nothing more than venting their anger.

By the way, do it for outsiders to see, so that neighboring countries won’t say they are cowards.

Unfortunately, this method has actually shown that the people in Kuala Lumpur do not dare to confront Chu Xiangqian.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with Chu Xiangqian killing all of Cao's direct descendants.

Now that all the victims are dead, no one will fight with Chu Xiangqian.

After Chu Xiangqian knew the whole story, he cursed for a long time with great amusement.

This is really disgusting to myself.

After thinking it over for a while, he called Oriental Daily.

Unfortunately, Chu Xiangqian knew that even if he asked the Oriental Daily to collect the scandal and expose it in Hong Kong Island, it would not actually hurt the other party's foundation.

However, the revelations revealed that two families started out with flour and tobacco a hundred years ago, which caused the old accounts of those two families that had already been cleansed to be dug up again.

Even if the law can no longer cause them trouble, the loss of morality and reputation is actually more harmful than losing money.

Several other companies were revealed to be in conflict with each other, with companies evading taxes, projects having hidden dangers, and even selling stolen goods for pirates, which also made these people extremely worried.

This is the benefit of having the media in your hands. Chu Xiangqian also made up his mind that when he returned from London, he would push for the establishment of a wireless television station.

By the way, he opened a radio company under the name of a taxi company.

After three years in Chu Xiangqian's hands, the Oriental Daily had already developed into a large newspaper with a daily circulation of 3 copies.

Moreover, the number of magazines under the newspaper's name has expanded from one to three.

"Gossip Weekly", which focuses on entertainment, has a weekly sales volume of 12.

"Fashion" is very popular among women in Hong Kong Island, with weekly sales exceeding 10 copies.

"A Bite of China" was very popular in the beginning, but after more than two years as the earliest magazine, its content still seemed a bit weak.

Sales have been hovering around 5 copies, and Chu Xiangqian has no good solution for the problem.

In the past two years, all his memories of his past life had been emptied by He Yisheng, the general manager of the newspaper group.

After one and a half years of development, the newspaper's supplement "Horse Racing" has become a major newspaper with a daily circulation of 8 copies.

He Yisheng has recently reported to Chu Xiangqian that he plans to establish a new newspaper called "Financial News" this year.

It can be said that the Oriental Group alone accounts for 20% to 30% of the market share of Hong Kong Island media. It is a bit too much to call it a giant, but it is definitely a media giant.

At Chu Xiangqian's order, the newspaper collected a lot of information in just a few days, and then used half-truths and half-falsehoods in its own newspapers and magazines to vilify and discredit those families in Kuala Lumpur.

That’s not all, Chu Xiangqian’s revenge is not that simple.

After calling Fei Bo, Lan Gang, Lei Luo and Yan Tong and inviting them to eat seafood in Yau Ma Tei.

Any Malay businessman who has any connection with those companies and does business in Hong Kong Island will have the police come to check on him the next day.

The fire department, health department, and tax department came to the door, and even the water police and customs department came together to check for smuggled goods.

As a result, the Malay businessmen in Hong Kong could no longer just open for business, and several of them were actually found to have problems.

Even the boss was invited to have tea, or the police force's anti-corruption department to have coffee.

This can cost your life.

The police force actually established an anti-corruption department a long time ago, but when the British superintendent of this department was dragged into the matter, the people under him also followed suit to make money.

Once you enter this department, you can’t get out unless you bleed heavily.

Not to mention, Chu Xiangqian didn't even need to call the police boss Ge Bai. Linda just came forward and invited the anti-corruption police superintendent Ji Yingji to have a cup of coffee in his office.

Those who are sent to jail are destined to have no chance of getting out without hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In just three days, more than a dozen Malay families with businesses in Hong Kong Island used various connections to plead with Chu Xiangqian.

Chu Xiangqian’s reply was also very simple. If he wanted to do business in Hong Kong Island, he should cut off ties with those families in Kuala Lumpur.

Needless to say, only a few of them gave in, while most of the remaining Malay businessmen who were being bullied chose to give up their businesses in Hong Kong Island without much hesitation.

Of course, they did not withdraw their investment directly, but allowed Chu Xiangqian to cause trouble.

Chu Xiangqian also knew that these people made this choice because their families were in Malaysia, where they had more, bigger, and more deeply entangled businesses.

So although Chu Xiangqian did not blame them, it did not prevent Chu Xiangqian from cutting off these people's financial resources in Hong Kong Island.

Then, a banquet to attract investment was held in the name of the Secretary for Administration, and the guests were limited to businessmen from Southeast Asian countries who had considerable business in Hong Kong.

The shares of grain, various raw materials, rubber, daily necessities, and light industrial products were quickly filled by Southeast Asian businessmen attending the banquet.

Since it did not harm the interests of Hong Kong's business and official circles, Hader, the head of the Chief Secretary for Administration, became more determined to stand on Chu Xiangqian's side.

He even accepted interviews from a number of reporters and made it clear that he did not welcome the dozen or so businessmen from Kuala Lumpur to invest in Hong Kong.

They even revealed that the sources of funds for several companies were unclear, and they were just short of pointing fingers and saying that these people's money was dirty.

This really angered Kuala Lumpur and the Malay authorities. Unfortunately, London ignored the Malay protests.

After all, Chu Xiangqian's bombardment of the Cao family was related to rescuing the dozens of British crew members who were kidnapped by pirates.

If we don't support Chu Xiangqian at this time, Downing Street will be greatly embarrassed if he reveals the truth.

What’s more, a few months ago, London and Malaysia had clearly reached an agreement not to pursue the matter any further.

But Malaysia suddenly caused trouble for Chu Xiangqian, which was tantamount to going back on its word and ignoring England's face.

It would be strange if the officials in Downing Street didn't fight back.

Chu Xiangqian's move to win over businessmen from Southeast Asian countries also received official responses from these countries.

To put it bluntly, it was the merchants who got the orders who were rewarding Chu Xiangqian.

Chu Xiangqian also took the opportunity to consciously snatch away some business from South Korea and island countries in Hong Kong Island and handed it over to the Southeast Asian businessmen and local Hong Kong Island businessmen who were attending the banquet.

Now, no one cares about Malaysia’s dissatisfaction.

As for South Korea and Japan, these days, both countries are the younger brothers among the younger brothers, with their economy in a mess and many South Koreans cannot even get enough food to eat.

The per capita income is even lower than $100.

That means the annual income is less than HK$400, which is at least three times lower than the average income of Hong Kong Island.

Many South Koreans could not survive, so they ran to the outside of the Magnesium military base and picked up the leftovers of the Magnesium soldiers to survive.

They even came up with a 'army stew', which is not only disgraceful but also shameless, calling it a traditional South Korean food.

South Korea's economy truly entered its development period only after the Vietnam War broke out, when it sent more than 100,000 people into Vietnam to fight for the Chinese people.

It was only after earning more than 10 billion US dollars that the company was able to develop heavy industry.

As for Neon, the vast majority of ordinary people in Hong Kong Island still have very strong anti-Neon sentiment. After all, it has only been more than ten years since the days when they were occupied by ordinary people.

After Britain took over Hong Kong Island again, it also consciously eliminated Japan's influence in Hong Kong Island. Therefore, compared to Taiwan, basically no one in Hong Kong Island was pro-Japanese in the 1960s and 1970s.

Many Japanese products that want to enter Hong Kong Island will also be boycotted by British and local Hong Kong merchants.

With the support of Downing Street and the Hong Kong government, Chu Xiangqian's attitude became increasingly tough.

Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to use force, and the other party can only engage in verbal battles with him in the media this time.

The media in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong Island have been exchanging insults for a week, and the arguments are slowly dying down.

Although Chu Xiangqian was somewhat dissatisfied, he could only instruct the newspaper to continue keeping an eye on the families in Kuala Lumpur.

Keep digging up their scandals and keep an eye on all their future business activities.

Once a new hot spot is discovered, we will publish it in the newspaper and start criticizing.
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On this day, Chu Xiangqian, He Zanyuan, He Chaosheng, Zheng Yutong and Bridge just crossed the sea to Macau and signed a contract with the authorities to officially start construction of the new hotel.

The Portuguese guys were very polite to Chu Xiangqian, but did not stay to have a meal together.

Chu Xiangqian knew that his bad reputation had spread throughout Southeast Asia recently, and these Portuguese devils simply didn't dare to ask him for any benefits beyond the rules.

Moreover, Chu Xiangqian had originally sent Ichiro Matsuno's assassination team to kill Jin Yabing and dozens of his men, which had already made many Portuguese in Macau very dissatisfied with him.

Unfortunately, the same thing applies: without evidence, there is nothing we can do to Chu Xiangqian.

Of course, although most people would curse the foreigners, no one would really jump out to pay for the gold tooth handle.

Top pair is just for the sake of talking.

Chu Xiangqian doesn't care about these Portuguese ghosts at all.

To say that they are a third-rate country is a bit of an exaggeration.

After watching the Portuguese guys get on the car and leave, Chu Xiangqian turned around and said to He Zanyuan and He Chaosheng with a smile.

"You two will have to take the trouble to go to Lisbon and formally sign the gambling casino franchise contract with the officials there.

When things are settled, I will host a welcoming banquet for you in Hong Kong Island."

(End of this chapter)