Chapter 137 Miss Xiangjiang
Hong Kong Financial Daily.

Wang Haifei stepped into the company gate on time and his colleagues greeted him warmly.

“Haifei, the photos you took at Sotheby’s are great, your bonus for this month is guaranteed!”

“What kind of bonus is this? He’s obviously a future Pulitzer Prize winner.”

“Well done, keep it up.”

Wang Haifei couldn’t help but smile. Although he knew that most of the compliments from his colleagues were polite and courteous, polite and courteous compliments are still compliments!

“Thank you all for your encouragement. I will keep working hard in the future.” Wang Haifei clasped his hands together.

“Wang Haifei!” Wang Haifei’s leader yelled. He looked at Wang Haifei calmly and said, “Withdraw the report and delete all the photos and negatives.”

“Ah, why?” Wang Haifei questioned his leader.

“Why?” The leader’s voice was filled with anger. He was terrified when he thought of the message in the mailbox. He shouted, “Because of your photo, the newspaper has been acquired by someone else. The protagonist in the photo is now your current boss. Is this reason enough?”

The leader was overwhelmed. If the new boss turned out to be narrow-minded and moody, he would also be implicated by Wang Haifei. He might even lose his job and the money for his child’s milk powder would be at risk. It was difficult for him to say to Wang Haifei in a friendly tone, “We are about to become jobless.”

The leader left with a worried look on his face.

The employees in the newspaper office looked at each other in shock, communicating silently with their eyes.

Wang Haifei’s face became increasingly ugly. There was no chance of getting a bonus, and his job was going to fail too?
The two colleagues close to Wang Haifei moved away from him, and the remaining colleagues also had avoidance expressions, looking at him with eyes that said, “Let you take pictures blindly.”

Wang Haifei was in tears. A few minutes ago he was regarded as an “excellent employee” by everyone, but now he has become a negative example. The change was too fast.

But he did not worry about his colleagues’ attitudes, but was more worried about his own future.

……

“cheers!”

In the presidential suite, the cups of three people clinked together with a crisp sound, and Li Li, Wang Sicong, and Jiang Mingkai celebrated the successful acquisition of more than 65% of Hong Kong’s media companies.

All three of them were very happy. Li Li was the vested interest, Wang Sicong was the plan maker, and although Jiang Mingkai did nothing, he was happy no matter what!

It took Li Li a month.

The attitude of Hong Kong media companies has changed from “conquerors from the mainland” to “ferocious cannibals are slaughtering”, then to “he has no chance of conquering Hong Kong’s media companies” and finally to “Hong Kong’s media industry has finally waited for its emperor.”

He successfully took control of the Hong Kong media.

“The next step is to integrate them into one company.” Li Li said with a smile after taking a sip of red wine.

“Don’t.” Wang Sicong shook his head and explained to Li Li’s confused look, “Don’t integrate them into one company and let it maintain the status quo, compete with each other, and maintain the existing model.”

“There are no unicorns in the media industry. When there are no competitors in the region, problems will arise internally and competitors will emerge externally.”

“Keep them competing against each other and keep them competitive.”

“You don’t want to be a media tycoon anyway.”

Wang Sicong gave Li Li a very logical analysis.

Li Li felt that what Wang Sicong said at the beginning was very correct, but his attention was still attracted by the last sentence: global media tycoon. He liked this title.

“Do you really want to be a media tycoon?” Wang Sicong saw through Li Li’s thoughts. “It is not easy to gain a foothold in the global media industry. It requires huge investment in funds, energy, and connections.”

“Just give it a try. If you fail, just pretend you never did it. Maybe you will succeed.” Li Li smiled.

Wang Sicong was silent for a long time, and then said: “If I had your mentality back then, I might have made a comeback a long time ago.”

“It’s not too late now, you can be my financial Zhuge Liang.” Li Li stared into Wang Sicong’s eyes and said, “Media executive sounds better than Wang Jianlin’s son.” Wang Sicong didn’t say anything. Li Li was not in a hurry and waited for Wang Sicong’s answer.

“Fuck, other people are giving me shares and money, but you just paint a rosy picture for me.” Wang Sicong agreed.

“You are not short of money. Money is just a number to you. What you are short of is honor!” Li Li said seriously, “I will give you honor.”

“I feel like you are trying to PUA me, but I fall for it.” Wang Sicong shook his head.

Li Li laughed loudly. He lacked high-end financial talents. The people he could trust didn’t know finance, but he couldn’t trust the people who knew finance.

Wang Sicong is not Li Li’s best choice, but he is his only choice now.

“Two future media tycoons, the Miss Asia beauty pageant of your media company is about to begin. To be honest, I’m quite anxious.” Jiang Mingkai acted anxious. “Last year’s election was full of shady dealings. It was really ugly. Boss Li must rectify the mess and restore mainstream aesthetics.”

“Maggie Cheung and Michelle Reis were both so beautiful in the past. We must recreate the glory of the 90s.”

Li Li and Wang Sicong smiled at each other. Jiang Mingkai is really obsessed with the entertainment industry.

As Miss Hong Kong becomes more and more ordinary, its influence and attention are gradually declining, and the really beautiful girls don’t want to participate anymore.

“You make it sound so lightly. The company’s workload has increased exponentially,” said Li Li.

“I will personally contribute 300 million as a bonus!” said Jiang Mingkai.

Li Li nodded and said “OK”.

Jiang Mingkai dissed Wang Sicong: “Some people don’t contribute at all?”

“Why should I spend money on something you created?” Wang Sicong laughed and scolded, but finally said: “I’ll give you one million, just to show my appreciation.”

Li Li paid an additional 600 million, and the prize money for Miss Hong Kong soared to 1000 million. The Miss Hong Kong crown is worth 300 million, so the girl’s net worth skyrocketed after winning it.

The activity was just a way for the three wealthy people to kill time.

……

Hong Kong Television.

Chen Kai, the person in charge of Miss Xiangjiang, was busy with the implementation of the project. The big boss naturally wanted better results by giving more funds. Since he failed to do so, he naturally had to bear full responsibility.

“Boss, you’re looking for me.” The publicity manager said as he walked in.

Chen Kai threw the project brochure to him and said, “Submit the advertisement so that all the ladies in Hong Kong can see it.”

“The bonus is 1000 million!” the manager raised his voice.

“The new boss has high expectations, so you need to work hard. You know the new boss has great power in the Hong Kong media industry.” Chen Kai reminded.

The manager was startled. Now everyone working in the Hong Kong media industry knows that things have changed in Hong Kong, while everything in the outside world seems calm.

But this also represents the horror of the big boss.

If I mess up, I might not be able to stay in the media industry… The manager became worried.

“I understand.”

Chen Kai went back and passed the pressure on to his subordinates.

Beauties from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and mainland China have all noticed the high prize money this year, and the media are also competing to report on it.

(End of this chapter)