Hong Kong Island's New Rich Era

Chapter 66 Goodbye 1975
Halfway through the meeting, Liu Zhicheng asked everyone to take a break. During the break, Zhang Jiancheng found him and reported on the newspaper company's affairs.

Zhang Jiancheng handed Liu Zhicheng a sample of a comic weekly and a comic story plan about protecting the earth.

The story of how the warriors successfully defended the Earth under the command of the Earth Alliance. Liu Zhicheng took a look and realized that this was a story about Contra.

He looked at the comic sample again and was quite satisfied with everything from typesetting to color printing. However, the only thing he was not satisfied with was the 32K size.

"Mr. Zhang, please publish a large 16K edition. The current size is too small."

"Mr. Liu, if we release the 16k version, the cost will increase a lot," said Zhang Jiancheng.

"What are you afraid of? Let Orange Technology develop an arcade game and let them pay you copyright fees. In the future, they will also need to pay you copyright fees when they make toy dolls. Isn't that the profit?"

Liu Zhicheng's purpose in making comics is to create a chain reaction among his industries and make the result of 1+1 greater than 2.

Liu Zhicheng is not afraid of comics generating losses. His goal is to use comics to promote arcade games and let arcade games support comics. Later on, he will follow up with toy and doll development to form an industrial chain.

After the meeting started again, Wang Xingfa continued to report on the sales of Snake to Liu Zhicheng.

"Mr. Liu, all 3000 units of the Hong Kong market have been shipped. Of the 2 units ordered in North America, 1.2 units have been shipped. Of the 1 units ordered in Europe, 5000 units have been shipped. Of the 1.5 units ordered in Southeast Asia, 5000 units have been shipped."

"The total number of orders is 4.8 units, and 2.5 units have been shipped. Next, we will digest the existing orders, which will be enough for us to produce for two months. The profit is more than million Hong Kong dollars."

The sales of a new game arcade machine only have a peak period of a few months. Wang Xingfa’s idea is correct, and the first priority is to digest the existing orders and production.

"Well, Mr. Wang, you must strictly control the product quality and don't create any quality problems for me." Liu Zhicheng was afraid that they would blindly pursue production capacity and ignore quality, thus affecting the growth of the orange brand.

"Don't worry, Mr. Liu, I will tell Liu Changhai." Wang Xingfa replied.

"Guoyuan, you also need to work on the research and development of other new products. I will talk to you alone after the Spring Festival." Liu Zhicheng turned around and said to He Guoyuan.

He Guoyuan nodded and said, "After the Spring Festival, Mr. Liu will definitely be satisfied."

During this period, He Guoyuan had become a frequent flyer in order to find suitable electronic components for his Walkman.

Finally, he made several models of walkman that his boss asked him to make, but Liu Zhicheng was never satisfied. Either they were too big or the shape was too ugly.

In order to satisfy his boss, He Guoyuan had to keep looking for new electronic components and even started to customize them to make the Walkman smaller.

In order to make his companies more closely connected, Liu Zhicheng decided to invest in each of them.

"Starting today, in order to maximize the interconnectedness between you, you will have to adjust your equity structure. Juzi Technology will hold 4% of the shares of Tiantian Newspaper, and Tiantian Newspaper and Juzi Technology will jointly invest to establish a new toy development company."

"Mr. Wang, Mr. Zhang, and Lawyer Wang, you will start to handle the formalities after you go down. You will have greater responsibilities in the future of Xingfa."

Several people who were called said they knew.

Now that Orange Technology is rich, and Huangpu Group is a poor family with no funds for the construction of Huangpu City, they must help each other.

Liu Zhicheng said, "Assistant Han, Mr. Wang, now that Juzi has money in its account, we can use the appropriate price to let Huangpu Group transfer the ownership of those Juzi electrical appliance stores to you, so that Huangpu Group will not be short of funds in the new year."

At the end of the meeting, Liu Zhicheng found several responsible persons and talked about some work matters before officially ending today's meeting.

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Liu Zhicheng spent the New Year's Day of 1976 in Macau. "Come on, it's time to eat..." Yin Huifen invited everyone to eat together. Now that Liu Zhicheng is busy with his career, it is difficult for the family to reunite.

Yin Huifen gave all the servants a day off and cooked a sumptuous dinner herself. Liu Zhicheng also helped out, and the family enjoyed themselves.

It is actually a pleasure to cook with the whole family. Today’s dishes are quite rich, but also very simple, all seafood, because they are relatively easy to make.

But the family also enjoyed the meal very much, because Liu Zhicheng acquired the Huangpu Group last year, which was an extremely glorious thing and reached a new height in the family history.

"Dad, what about the retirement you mentioned last time? I've got the Jockey Club membership card for you." After Liu Zhicheng finished speaking, he handed Liu Yanxin a Jockey Club membership card.

The last time Liu Yanxin mentioned retirement, Liu Zhicheng had always wanted to get him a Jockey Club membership card. After waiting in line for review, he finally got it a few days ago.

"It's almost there. I've already applied for it. It should be within the next two months." Liu Yanxin happily accepted the gift from his son and said.

"Then hurry up, raise a few foals when you have time, and I'll go over to watch the game next time."

Horse racing, with its exciting scenes and generous prize money, is a favorite activity for many Hong Kong people, and has become an indispensable part of their daily lives.

Most of the Hong Kong people come from Guangdong Province and have a gambling nature, so every Hong Kong citizen buys horse racing tickets, which are lottery tickets. People buy horses hoping to get rich overnight.

In fact, horse racing is a form of gambling, which is why there are horse racing tips published in the evening newspapers every day. Therefore, horse racing has become a part of Hong Kong culture.

For ordinary people, horse racing culture emphasizes gambling over horses. For horse owners in the Jockey Club, they emphasize horses over gambling.

So when Liu Zhicheng mentioned buying a foal, he said that only at the Hong Kong racecourse could one truly witness Hong Kong’s “horse culture”.

The Jockey Club is essentially a high-end private club with strict entry requirements. Only those who are not social elites can become members. Only those who are members can become horse owners.

Therefore, the Jockey Club has become the prominent circle and wealthy circle of Hong Kong society. Those who want to join the upper class try to find ways to get in.

Of course, it is relatively easy for Liu Zhicheng to apply for membership. After all, he is now a prominent Chinese figure in Hong Kong.

"That's no problem. After I retire, I will go and find out which horses are good and which trainers are capable. Then I can win several championships a year." Liu Yanxin became more and more excited as he spoke.

Liu Zhicheng rarely saw Liu Yanxin so happy, and said: "When the time comes, you can go to Huangpu Group and take the title of director, so that they won't dare to look down on you."

"Okay, come on, let's have a drink, son."

"Cheers to the Huangpu directors." Liu Zhicheng also said jokingly.

Dinner ended at about eight o'clock, and the family sat together and chatted for a while. Liu Zhicheng wanted to go out for a walk around Macau and relax.

In the past year, Liu Zhicheng seldom visited Macau for its night view, so he told his parents about it and went to see Macau’s night view surrounded by his bodyguards.

　Dear book lovers, tomorrow is Tuesday again, and another critical moment has arrived.

　　Because of the follow-up reading data of the last chapter tomorrow, it will determine whether it can be advanced to the fourth round of recommendations.

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(End of this chapter)