Chapter 15 Television
Shen Chong started the car, drove out of the parking lot, then looked at Qiu Siyu, who was sitting in the passenger seat and had a look of wanting to speak but stopping, and said, "What do you want to ask?"
"Mr. Chen, the magazine was reclaimed and destroyed, and there were reports and apologies. The loss was huge." Qiu Siyu was secretary to Shen Chong before he became famous. Naturally, she stood on his side. She said in discomfort: "Why don't you fire that George? He is the editor-in-chief. Without his consent, how could the article be published? He is the mastermind."
"What's the use of firing him?" After venting in the conference room, Chen Chong had already returned to his usual calm state. He sighed and said, "I just bought the magazine, but people's hearts are unstable. If George is fired, he will take away the capable editors and reporters. Wouldn't my investment be useless? Besides, if this matter is really mentioned, he was actually implicated by me."
"Ah? What does it have to do with Mr. Shen?" Qiu Siyu said in confusion: "It was clearly the articles he was the ones he was the one who posted."
"You, you, too simple." Chen Chong shook his head and smiled bitterly, saying, "You think, "Asia Weekly" was founded by George and O'Neal. When I acquired it, O'Neal took the money and ran back to Australia to spend time and drink. George was reluctant to leave and continued to stay in the magazine as the editor-in-chief, which shows that he loves this magazine very much and is not averse to the tiger. Do you think he is willing to ruin his reputation in the magazine?"
Qiu Siyu felt something when she heard this. She thought for a while and then asked, "Is it the main writer who did it secretly? George was also kept in the dark?"
"It's impossible. The magazine's affairs can be hidden from me as the new boss, but it can't be hidden from George, the old boss. He must have known about it in advance." Chen Chong turned the steering wheel and said: "Behind this, most of the Hong Kong government is making trouble. The editor of "Asia Weekly" is 70% British, and George is also an Indian British. If the Hong Kong government wants to make trouble, they must cooperate."
"Hong Kong Government?" Qiu Siyu was even more surprised and asked, "What is the Hong Kong government doing like this?"
"War me." Chen Chong sneered and said, "Because I have been too close to the mainland recently. Now it is a Cold War. Hong Kong is capitalism and the mainland is socialism. Everyone is irreconcilable across the iron curtain."
"Mr. Chen, I think you're thinking too much." Qiu Siyu said, "Now many Hong Kong people are back in Guangdong to visit relatives, but the government doesn't care much."
"So you are too simple. They are visiting relatives in the countryside. I am visiting relatives in Beijing. Can it be the same?" Chen Chong smiled and asked, "My business is basically in the United States. There are no commercial competitors in Hong Kong. Who would deliberately make trouble and harm me? And he also framed articles with such obvious political purposes."
"The Taiwan government may also be the case. There are many spies in Taiwan in Hong Kong, and they may want to defend the government."
"Asia Weekly is an English magazine." Chen Chong explained: "English magazines are in Taiwan and have no social influence. The Kuomintang is now in a state of great difficulty, so there is no leisure to come to Hong Kong to make trouble. Besides, I just fed them 100,000 yuan. Even if I want to hack me, I won't be so anxious. I know a lot of people in Taiwan, and no one informed me. They wouldn't have done it."
"But why does the Hong Kong government do such a thing?" Qiu Siyu still didn't believe it and said: "Hong Kong is a place where freedom of speech is concerned. How could the government interfere in the media? If we make a fuss, they will be in trouble."
Chen Chong laughed and said, "The government does not need to come forward for this matter. Just find an agent to operate it. Anyway, articles are very subjective. Even if they are caught, as long as they are bitten to death, no one can do anything."
After Chen Chong finished speaking, he parked his car at the door of a convenience store and ordered: "Xiaoyu, go buy me a bottle of Coke. After yelling for a long time, his throat was smoking. What do you want to drink, buy it yourself."
After a while, Qiu Siyu came back with two bottles of Coke, handed him a bottle, and asked, "Mr. Chen, I still don't believe it. If the Hong Kong government has any objections to you, it would be easier to ask you to have tea directly? With Mr. Chen, you are now famous and assets, the Governor of the Hong Kong government can see you."
"Do you think I haven't drunk it?" Chen Chong opened the can and said, "I've only been back from Beijing for more than ten days and have been going to the government building to drink coffee three or four times."
Qiu Siyu held the coke jar in both hands and asked in a low voice: "So, is it unpleasant to drink coffee?"
Qiu Siyu was thin and small, wearing a thick black-framed glasses. Her expression and movement at this time were like a frightened little rabbit, very cute. Chen Chong couldn't help but want to laugh and almost spit out the coke in his mouth.
I forced myself to swallow Coke, but it caused a violent cough.
"Mr. Chen, are you okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay." Chen Chong stroked his chest and placed the can on the storage compartment. After a while, after the cough subsided, he said, "I won't drink Coke again in the future."
"Mr. Chen, it is wrong to give up on food because of choking."
Chen Chong was not in a hurry to drive. He held his head with his hands and leaned on the back of the chair. Looking at Qiu Siyu's smiling face, she was rarely so lively and asked, "Xiaoyu, you have been the secretary for half a year, right?"
"I went to work on April 15th, and it's exactly 8 months to this day."
"Such coincidence?" Chen Chong laughed and said, "You are considered a veteran of the company. In ancient times, you were a hero who became a dragon and became rich and powerful in the future. It was no problem."
Qiu Siyu smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Chen, for yourselves."
"What are you going to do when you have money?"
"I don't have any ideals." Qiu Siyu sipped Coke in a small mouthful and said, "Life is pretty good now."
"Very good?" Chen Chong laughed a few times and said, "You have at least an hour every day, you have countless boring things to remember and be busy with. There are basically no weekends and holidays, and no personal living space. Do you think it's good?"
"I'm a little busy, but it's very fulfilling." Qiu Siyu said, "And I'm not doing these things alone, and there are people in the secretariat to help."
"You don't fall in love or find a boyfriend?"
"Love is boring." Qiu Siyu said with a tense face: "I will never find a boyfriend in my life. Why do people have to get married? It's great to be too many people, and do whatever they want."
Chen Chong was surprised and looked at her expression. He felt that there might be some knot or something unspeakable. However, he never liked to interfere in other people's relationships, so he stopped asking more questions, coughed gently, and then said, "Xiaoyu, I will be very busy around Christmas. Starting next Monday, you go to work in "Asia Weekly" and help me watch them, so don't make any troubles."
"Where to go to work?" Qiu Siyu was surprised. She put down Coke and said, "I don't know how to do magazines. What are you going to do? Mr. Chen, go and change someone, I can only be a secretary."
"You have been following me for so long and know my bottom line and ideas. No one else is as keen as your political sense." Chen Chong ignited the fire and started the car, saying: "If you hadn't discovered the problems of "Asia Weekly" first today and waited for others to come to question and actively become passive, my losses would be great."
"The main writer of "Asia Weekly" was fired, and the new one didn't know whether it was reliable or not. After you go to the magazine, you don't have to worry about daily operations and interviews. Just ensure that there is no problem with the political perspective of the final manuscript. In the rest of the time, you can just take whatever you want, just take a vacation and rest." Chen Chong ordered while driving: "I'll let Fei Xiaodie send a few more people to subscribe to the magazine's readers and report the information of the past years, grasp the distribution channels, and wait until everything is done, and they can't make trouble, you will come back."
"Who will be the secretary during this period?"
"You can choose any one from the Secretariat or the mailroom."
"Then let Gu Weili do it. She has been working in the Secretariat for more than three months. She is familiar with basic things and will not cause trouble when taking over them."
"Whatever." Chen Chong turned a corner and said, "I will go to the United States in two days, as long as I pass the English test, it's fine."
"Then let her, she came back from studying in the United States."
Chen Chong nodded, stopped talking, and focused on driving.
After a while, Qiu Siyu asked again: "Mr. Chen, I still haven't figured out why you must be the Hong Kong government's trouble this time?"
"I thought you wouldn't ask." Chen Chong smiled and said, "You are right. I drink government coffee and it's not very pleasant. And I'm planning to buy a TV station. The government is warning me that it's OK to be a media member in Hong Kong, but you have to be obedient and not cross the line. Otherwise, they can undermine me at any time.
"TV station?" Qiu Siyu asked in surprise when she heard this, "Mr. Chen is preparing to acquire Li's TV?"
"No, the British capital behind Li's TV is rich and not ready to sell it for the time being."
"So, Mr. Chen, you want to acquire it." Qiu Siyu has been secretary for Chen Chong for so long, so she is naturally very clear about the current situation of Hong Kong's TV stations. She was even more surprised and said: "H is very profitable. HSBC, Lijia, and Shaw Brothers, these major shareholders, will not sell it, right?"
"Of course they won't sell it." Shen Chong drove into the undersea tunnel and said, "So I plan to buy Jiayi TV."
"Mr. Chen." Qiu Siyu looked at his side face and reminded: "Jiayi TV went bankrupt last year."
"The bankruptcy is a bankruptcy, but Hong Kong commercial radio stations retained a TV license." Chen Chong said: "As long as there are money, there will be reopening soon. However, there are too many restrictions on this license, so I organized a group of people who are interested in television to negotiate with the government and prepare to modify the restrictions on the license."
"Really?"
"Of course it's true, otherwise why do you think I'm going to play golf frequently recently?" Chen Chong held the steering wheel with one hand and scratched his hair with the other, and said: "In order to get this TV license, Hong Kong Commercial Radio took the initiative to put forward many restrictions, such as only Chinese programs, educational programs were only held from 9:30 to 1:30 pm, and advertising cannot be inserted in the middle, all shareholders' equity cannot exceed 15%, etc. It's simply a dead end, so Jiayi TV went bankrupt after three years of operation."
"Since you will definitely lose money, Mr. Chen, why are you still going to reopen Jiayi TV?"
Chapter completed!