We're building a super chaebol in Hong Kong

By the time Su Cheng and lawyer Wu and others had finalized the enterprise's business registration and name change, two hours had passed.

At this moment, the *Oriental Daily* belonged to Su, no longer to Ma.

Su Cheng's goal had been achieved.

It was lunchtime, so the four of them had a meal together at a restaurant outside.

After the meal, Su Cheng said goodbye to lawyer Wu. Next, lawyer Wu only needed to hand things over to Zhang Qizheng.

"Boss, I have other things to do, so I'll go and get busy." Seeing that the transfer had been completed, Zhang Qizheng also bid farewell to Su Cheng.

"Okay, Uncle Zhang, go ahead and get busy. Thank you for your hard work. I'll have to rely on you to handle the transaction with the Ma family next," Su Cheng said, nodding.

"This is my duty. I won't let the boss down," Zhang Qizheng said with a smile.

"Boss, it's still early. How about we go back to the company and chat?" Chen Zhibai said to Su Cheng with a smile, watching lawyer Wu and Zhang Qizheng leave one after another.

"Okay, let's go back then," Su Cheng agreed.

Today was practically their first meeting.

Previously, Su Cheng had only learned about Chen Zhibai's character through Brother Wu's intelligence, and had not personally met him.

It was now a little after two in the afternoon.

The two returned to the headquarters of the Oriental Press Company again. Seeing Su Cheng enter again, the employees were still somewhat surprised.

Wasn't this the second time that the richest man in Hong Kong had come to their company today?

What kind of cooperation were they discussing that required this super-rich tycoon to come in person?

Many employees were very curious and discussed it privately, but to no avail. They could only put their minds back to work.

As Hong Kong's largest news and media company, the Oriental Press Company was very busy every day.

The editorial department, typesetting and design department, planning department, advertising department, printing department, commentary department, cultural department, distribution department, liaison department, etc., the company's personnel structure was very complete.

These were things that small newspapers could not compare with.

Su Cheng nodded and said, "Let's go in and chat."

Chen Zhibai took the initiative to twist open the office door, and the two walked in.

"Mr. Ma Chengkun was attacked on the way back at noon that day, and he hasn't been back to the Oriental Press Company since. So the layout here is still the same as when he left that day," Chen Zhibai said, pointing to the desk in the office.

Su Cheng closed the office door behind him and said, "Let's sit down and talk."

Seeing that the two had actually entered Ma Chengkun's office, the employees working in the hall were even more surprised.

They also knew that Ma Chengkun had been attacked and was temporarily unable to come to the company.

But even if he was temporarily unable to come to the company, Vice General Manager Chen shouldn't have the right to enter the General Manager's office at will, right?

Until now, these ordinary employees still didn't know that their company had changed hands.

The senior management of the Oriental Press Company did a good job in terms of confidentiality.

As a media newspaper company, in order to be ahead of other media companies in terms of sales, in addition to having very attractive hot news, confidentiality must also be done very well.

Otherwise, as soon as they get a high-profile hot news topic, it will be spread out in a blink of an eye, letting other peers know about the news, and then there will be no advantage.

Therefore, whether it is senior management, or the editorial department, typesetting and design department, etc., they need to sign a very strict confidentiality agreement when they join the company to ensure the company's exclusivity of this news topic.

Su Cheng carefully looked at the office. The area was larger than Chen Zhibai's office that Su Cheng had entered before, but the layout was not luxurious and very ordinary.

On the wall hung a large group photo of Ma Xizhen, Ma Xiru and others when they founded the *Oriental Daily*.

"Director Chen, ask someone to help me take this photo down and dispose of it later," Su Cheng said to Chen Zhibai, pointing to the photo.

Now that the company belonged to Su, keeping the Ma brothers' photo here was upsetting to look at.

"Okay, boss, I'll take care of it," Chen Zhibai responded directly.

Although the Ma brothers were Chen Zhibai's former bosses, now that the company had changed hands, it was naturally not appropriate to be the same as before.

Chen Zhibai was a middle-aged man in his forties. According to the information provided by Brother Wu, after he joined the *Oriental Daily* in 1970, the *Oriental Daily* soon occupied the first place in Hong Kong newspaper sales for a long time.

The information provided by Brother Wu was very detailed, so Su Cheng knew Chen Zhibai's ability very well and approved of it very much.

Who wouldn't approve of the ability to turn the *Oriental Daily* from a newspaper with poor sales into the "No. 1 Newspaper in Hong Kong"?

"What do you think of my acquisition of the *Oriental Daily*?" Su Cheng asked with a smile, crossing his legs.

"Boss, I think your acquisition of the *Oriental Daily* is a good opportunity for the *Oriental Daily* to develop!" Chen Zhibai said with a smile.

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Su Cheng asked in surprise.

"Before you acquired the *Oriental Daily*, our newspaper was still in the position of a first-line newspaper in Hong Kong, and even in the news category, it could still maintain the first place, but since your *Chivalrous Literature News* rose, our *Oriental Daily* lost the title of Hong Kong's No. 1 newspaper. In terms of sales, it has fallen behind the *Chivalrous Literature News*. In the news category, the *Chivalrous News* has also begun to rise. If there is no better strategy, maybe one day our *Oriental Daily*'s No. 1 news newspaper will also be snatched by the *Chivalrous News*.

I joined the *Oriental Daily* in 1970, and this year is already the 10th year. When I joined the *Oriental Daily*, it was just a newspaper with poor sales. The entire newspaper had only more than 10 employees, and the newspaper only had one sheet. The content published was extremely small. I have studied the newspaper industry in Hong Kong, and I know that it is not difficult to change the situation of the *Oriental Daily*, so I hired famous people to write dog scriptures, sales rose, the newspaper increased to 1.5 sheets, and sales exceeded 80,000 copies after 1.5 years. In the autumn of 1972, after purifying the content of the supplement, it broke through 110,000 copies. The following year, sales continued to expand, with daily sales exceeding 300,000 copies, becoming Hong Kong's "No. 1 in Sales" newspaper.

The *Oriental Daily* has a short history of publication, and its record is indeed very brilliant, but in recent years, it has already encountered a bottleneck. Although it has always been able to maintain the first position, sales have basically only stabilized within a certain range. The ultimate reason is still limited by the population of Hong Kong. In recent years, I have always thought that the *Oriental Daily* might just be like this, unable to move forward. It was not until I saw the sales of the *Chivalrous Literature News* breaking new highs time and time again that I realized that the reason why the *Oriental Daily* could not break through the bottleneck was still because of the content.

Since the Chivalrous Media Company developed, I have specially studied the reasons why the Chivalrous Media Company was able to develop. I found that all of this was because of your appearance. If there was no you, the Chivalrous Media Company would be nothing more than a media company that has been losing money and is on the verge of bankruptcy. You also know that newspapers like the *Oriental Daily* must raise a lot of paparazzi to investigate various intelligence news. The investigation found that basically the content of the *Chivalrous Literature News* was provided by you, and the reason why another newspaper, the *Chivalrous News*, was able to rise, in addition to the large investment of funds, the more important reason was that some of your exclusive news was exclusively reported through the *Chivalrous News*.

You also know that you are a very eye-catching person in Hong Kong. The *Chivalrous News* often gets your exclusive news, as well as exclusive news from Hutchison Whampoa Group, Su's Group and other subsidiaries, and it also has the support of you, the world's richest man. It would be strange if the newspaper's sales were not high!

Now that the *Oriental Daily* belongs to your private enterprise, then the resources that the *Chivalrous News* and the *Chivalrous Literature News* should have, the *Oriental Daily* should also have, right? You have to be fair in this regard, so I say this is a good opportunity for the *Oriental Daily* to develop!

Chen Zhibai said a lot in one breath, giving a long speech.

"Of course, I have always adhered to a fair attitude to develop the following companies. You can rest assured about this, but Director Chen, I think you should not only focus on Hong Kong. Hong Kong is only a small place after all. The world is so big. Outside of Hong Kong, there is a broader market," Su Cheng said after thinking for a while.

"Boss, I certainly understand what you said. I have also mentioned these development strategies to Mr. Ma over the years, but Mr. Ma feels that it is already good enough for the *Oriental Daily* to maintain its ruling position in Hong Kong. He is not very interested in other markets, but under my efforts, the *Oriental Daily* has now established branches in countries such as the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. If you agree, boss, I want to continue to develop overseas markets for the *Oriental Daily* in the future. I hope that wherever there are Chinese people, there will be the *Oriental Daily*!" Chen Zhibai directly stated his ambition.