The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 356
In July, there was another very happy event for Xu Guanwu.

After more than half a year of careful investigation and evidence collection, the Hong Kong police finally grasped the evidence of the Ma brothers' poisoning.And immediately take action to arrest Ma Xiru.

But Ma Xiru has been in Hong Kong for many years, and has many friends in both black and white, so he received the news in advance, and ran away by boat before the police took action, which made the police's arrest operation come to nothing.

Although Ma Xiru has already fled in a hurry, his younger brother Ma Xizhen still stays in Hong Kong. Since he has no previous criminal record and the police have no real evidence, he is not afraid of being arrested by the police at all.In fact, those criminal evidences have already been taken to Taiwan by the eldest brother.

Among the criminal evidence, there are evidences of bribery received by congressmen, detectives, and police superintendents. If something happens to Ma Xizhen in Hong Kong, Ma Xiru will publish the evidence and drag these people to die together.So those detectives, congressmen, and superintendents dared not offend him, and let Ma Xizhen continue to live freely and happily in Hong Kong.

However, after two days of running, Ma Xiru suddenly drove past a car in front of the ICAC.When the car passed by, a tied sack was dropped from the car.

The guards guarding the gate then untied the sack and found Ma Xiru, who was tightly bound, and a box full of criminal evidence.Tapes, photos, accounts, etc., are enough to convict the Ma brothers and his umbrellas.

The ICAC then took immediate action based on the evidence.With the cooperation of the local British troops stationed there, not only were all the stalls owned by the Ma brothers cleared, but the Ma family and their protective umbrella were also wiped out within one night.

The Ma brothers, who had been rampant in Hong Kong for a long time, collapsed in an instant.Because the evidence of the crime is conclusive and all the umbrellas were arrested, the Ma brothers can no longer perform the myth of bailing a huge amount and then jumping the bail and absconding.

Because they smuggled a huge amount of opioids, the amount of opioids reached 20 tons between [-] and [-], so the two brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment, and other key elements, minions, etc. were also sentenced to [-] to [-] years. The fixed-term imprisonment ranging from two years is really very satisfying.

And the funds they obtained by using the drugs, and the properties and companies they invested in after laundering were also successively seized by the ICAC.Hong Kong's largest newspaper "Oriental Daily" was immediately shut down because of its deep involvement.The court will then auction it off, and the proceeds will go to the public.

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The reason why Ma Xiru was thrown back to the gate of the ICAC after running away was of course Xu Guanwu's fault.He started planning last year, arranging people to sneak into the Ma brothers as undercover agents, and gradually gained the trust of the Ma brothers.

And the fishing boat that Ma Xiru ran away was also arranged by Xu Guanwu in advance.Just halfway through the run, Ma Xiru's men rebelled. Several loyal men were thrown into the sea to feed the sharks, and Ma Xiru was taken back to Hong Kong for trial.

Xu Guanwu heaved a long sigh of relief seeing that the power of the Ma brothers was destroyed.After such a long time, it is finally revenge.

As for those who worked as undercover agents, Xu Guanwu did not treat them badly, and sent them directly to Taiwan for 50 Hong Kong dollars each.For these people on the road, Xu Guanwu used and guarded against them at the same time. Although they helped him get rid of the Ma brothers this time, there was no guarantee that they would come back to bite him.And when he was sent to Taiwan, Bamboo Union would help him take care of them. By the way, he could also monitor them and prevent them from having other plans.

After resolving all the disputes, Xu Guanwu waited quietly for the court to auction "Oriental Daily".His editors, reporters, distribution channels, news channels, printing machines, etc. are all very good resources, especially distribution channels and news channels, which are the foundation for a newspaper to stand on.

As for editors and reporters, Xu Guanwu didn't have much shortage, but it would be a great thing if they could stay.

Xu Guanwu was not the only one who took a fancy to "Oriental Daily". This newspaper had a very large circulation and was once the best-selling newspaper in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, it was later snatched away by "Daily Daily".However, it is still the best-selling newspaper among paid newspapers, and it can be said to be brighter than "Sing Tao Daily".

Such a newspaper with huge sales volume, high reputation, regular readers, and advertisers is naturally very worth investing in.There are so many rich people in Hong Kong, and most of them have already realized how important it is to have their own media in this era of information explosion.

In fact, since the 80s, many rich people in Hong Kong have started to set foot in the media industry. For example, Li Jiacheng and his son founded Hong Kong Satellite TV, Zheng Yutong, Ho Hongshen and the Lin family set foot in Asian TV, and Nanyang tycoon Guo Henian acquired the "South China Morning Post"...

The reason why so many tycoons have entered the media industry is, on the one hand, to promote themselves and get rid of their roots; on the other hand, they are all aware of the importance of the media.Especially as an emerging rich man, in order to pursue political interests and fight for his own right to speak, it is very necessary to have his own media.

It's easy to just own your own media, but it's hard to run it well.Whether it is the satellite TV of Li Jiacheng and his son, or the Asian TV of Zheng Yutong and He Hongshen, they all chose to quit one after another due to poor management.

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In August, the convenience store "Bianyide" created by Xu Guanwu for the release of the video at the beginning of the year was jointly boycotted by two large supermarket chains with British capital background, Dalian and ParknShop.They teamed up to put pressure on supermarket suppliers to stop supplying Bianyide.

The reason is that since the establishment of the Bianyide convenience store chain, it has been using the slogan of convenience, people-friendly, cheap and easy to get.And the daily discounted promotional products are [-]% to [-]% cheaper.

In addition, the location of Bianyide chain stores are all selected in densely populated communities, all of which are prime locations of convenience stores.Coupled with the 24-hour non-stop operation, it has attracted a large number of customers to come to shop. However, the turnover of supermarkets such as Dalian, ParknShop, etc. has dropped sharply, which has caused great dissatisfaction among them.

The reason why Xu Guanwu's Bianyide products are cheap is because he didn't point out how much money it can make, and he can probably earn back labor costs, costs, etc. as long as he can.Unlike Baijia and Dalian Lilian, which are purely for the pursuit of profit.

Therefore, it is easy to set a very low price at the beginning, claiming that the profit is only a penny.And big supermarkets such as Dalian Lian and ParknShop, if they do business according to Xu Guanwu's pricing, they will lose a lot of money.The more you sell, the more you lose.

After all, their supermarket occupies a huge area, and the water, electricity and miscellaneous bills alone cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. With so many employees hired, the cost is ten times, twenty times more.So if it is easy to get a price of [-] cents and still make a profit, Dalian Lian and ParknShop will lose more than [-] cents if they set a price of [-] cents.So in order to maintain their business, they have to set at least [-] cents, and usually if they want to make a profit, they will set it up to [-] cents.

The difference between before and after is only [-] cents. In Hong Kong, where most of the common people live frugally, it is natural to go to whichever one has the best and cheapest goods.

Those three aunts and six wives can also figure it out clearly that if they can easily buy daily necessities and daily groceries, they can save hundreds of dollars a month.Hundreds of dollars a month, thousands of dollars a year, this was saved in vain, which was considered a lot of money at the time.

ParknShop and Dalian Lian are easy to get when it comes to price wars, and they are easy to get when it comes to publicity wars.Bianyide supermarket chain is backed by "Daily Daily" and TVB. "Daily Daily" is originally positioned to be friendly to the people, with friendly content, friendly free services, and friendly services. It uses a half-page position to publish discount and promotion news every day. Naturally, it is more convenient for the public, and it is also easy to get after vigorously promoting it.

Customers in Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and other places are conveniently located at their doorsteps, so after reading the "Daily Daily" every day, they choose the discounted products they want to buy, and they will buy them on the way before going home.

The rural people in the New Territories even ran to the door of Bieyide overnight because of the advertisements for discounts and promotions, fearing that all the bargains would be snatched away.

Although the Hong Kong government started to develop the New Territories in the 70s, because the area of ​​the New Territories is larger than that of Hong Kong and Kowloon combined, and most of them are rural areas, the transportation is not very developed.So now we just moved some factories there, and we don't know how long it will take to develop into the prosperity of Hong Kong and Kowloon.

The economic development in the New Territories cannot be carried out, and the living facilities such as cinemas, supermarkets, bars, etc., naturally cannot keep up.Xu Guanwu's Brilliant Cinemas is now only set up in the prosperous areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon, and the most remote cinema is still in the factory area of ​​the New Territories.

There are only four cinemas located in the countryside of the New Territories, but they are all rented by the Xu family, and they have been built for many years. The dilapidated seats creak when sitting on them, and the hardware facilities are very old and outdated.There is another name for this kind of dilapidated theater, called the Mouse House.It means that the mice are running around in the cinema, so be careful when watching movies with bare feet, so as not to be bitten off your toes by the mice.

This kind of dilapidated movie theater is basically closed in Hong Kong and Kowloon, but it is doing very well in the countryside of the New Territories, and its monthly revenue ranks in the middle and upper reaches of many theaters on the Yimei Cinema Line.It can be seen that ordinary people in the New Territories actually have the need to watch movies, but the hardware facilities cannot keep up.

Xu Guanwu once thought about opening theaters and convenience stores to the New Territories.But after calculating the cost, he was taken aback.Among other things, just because of the poor roads in the New Territories, Xu Guanwu's transportation costs are more than double that of Hong Kong and Kowloon.

Although the land price in the New Territories is cheap, if you buy the land yourself to build a theater, it will cost a lot of money.Moreover, based on the average consumption level in the New Territories, it will take at least five years for the theater chain to recover its costs.In Hong Kong and Kowloon, two years is usually enough.

Xu Guanwu initially invested in the construction of Brilliant Cinemas, which cost more than 4000 million Hong Kong dollars (just for the theater) including the purchase of buildings and decoration, etc. After more than two years of operation, the cost of more than 4000 million Hong Kong dollars has long been recovered, and Also made a lot of money.The convenience stores in Brilliant Theaters alone have monthly sales of more than one million.

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ParknShop and Da Lilian could not win the price battle, nor could they fight the publicity war, so they had no choice but to take the next step, asking their suppliers not to deliver the goods, otherwise they would have to pay another price. Find a supplier.

Although the performance of Parknshop and Dalian is declining, they are still the most influential supermarket chains in Hong Kong.After all, the storefront of Yide is small and limited, and most of the products sold are daily groceries, so household appliances, clothing, shoes and socks, furniture and home decorations, etc., still need to be purchased in a large supermarket such as ParknShop.

Because although the profits of ParknShop and Dalian Lilian have declined, their status is still there.Suppliers did not dare to offend these two major customers, because although Yi Yi De had a large volume of shipments, they only accounted for [-]% of the total, while Parknshop and Dalian Lilian accounted for more than [-]%.

If you have to choose to give up one company, it is the lesser of two evils, and the suppliers can only choose Baijia and Dalian.

(End of this chapter)