Qi Haifan is a reporter for Oriental Daily, the best-selling newspaper in Hong Kong. His English name is Charles. Early in the morning, I was walking hurriedly on the busy street, and the tram passed by. Holding pineapple buns and cold drinks in hand. Eat while walking.
Hong Kong Island is a fast-paced city, and life is stressful. As an ordinary citizen, all we need for breakfast is to eat something.
When I arrived at the office, I saw my colleagues excitedly discussing an article. He joined in with his familiar colleagues.
The article was written by a writer here on Hong Kong Island. Vote in Economic Daily. The main title is: The reasons behind the discussion on whether Hong Kong Stock Exchange shares can be bought.
The subtitle is: A narrative about the grudges between Li Chaoren and Jing Gao, an upstart of the Phoenix Group.
"Wow, how dare you write this article! This directly highlights the conflict between Li Sheng and Jing Sheng in the media." Qi Haifan was speechless.
This article directly points out the insider information about whether Hong Kong Stock Exchange shares can be bought that have been making a fuss in the local media in Hong Kong in the past four or five days. It also analyzes the recent black material about Li Chaoren and hot economic topics, and concludes The inside story of the falling out between the Phoenix Group and the Li family! The two sides will continue to compete on Hong Kong Island. So, it remains to be seen whether the dragon crossing the river is more powerful or the tiger sitting on the ground will win.
As for this statement, he just read it online, and it seems to be supported by a lot of people.
In fact, Li Chaoren's black material is not that big. The people here on Hong Kong Island are very tolerant of wealthy people. Moreover, the pursuit of profit is not considered a shameful and condemnable thing.
"What's not to write about? The scarier the better! According to rough statistics, the Economic Daily's sales today are 10% higher than usual."
"Hey, it seems like we haven't joined the war in the newspaper yet, right?"
A colleague said: "Our Oriental Daily and the Sun News under the group are the top newspapers in Hong Kong Island. If this Jing Sheng is really so powerful, how could he not have contacted our newspaper? It is estimated that joining the group is not far away! It is so big How is that possible if the matter is not reported?”
"That's true. It is said that she is Li Sheng's beauty, and that Miss Zhou is probably the trader. I don't know if the Phoenix Group is the trader."
At this moment, the editor-in-chief came out of the conference room after the meeting, clapped his hands, and said encouragingly: "Let's start working. Ah Fan, go and collect the dirty information about Li Sheng in newspapers over the years. Write a series of reports for Me. Ah Sheng, please take someone to interview Li Sheng’s eldest son Li Zeju and younger son Li Zekai. As far as I know, both of them have been in Hong Kong Island recently..."
The editor-in-chief just held a meeting to set the tone for their Oriental Daily News. The funder is spending heavily on advertising again.
"Okay, editor-in-chief." Qi Haifan quickly agreed.
After this series of instructions, the young reporters in the newspaper suddenly understood the position of their newspaper.
Newspapers on Hong Kong Island can be roughly divided into three categories. First, it is clear that neutrality actually favors the establishment, and second, neutrality. Third, Mingzhong was anti-establishment. And Oriental Daily is the first category. Hong Kong Island’s Economic Daily is the second category. The third type of newspaper is known by its name, the name of a fruit.
Therefore, when Li Huanggua published his cucumber remarks in the future, he sent two different remarks to different newspapers.
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The competition between the Phoenix Group and the Li family is in full swing. Companies and executives from both parties have been at odds with each other on various occasions. The media is just watching the excitement and doesn't mind the big deal. Follow the booing and setting up rice seedlings.
Today, reporters tried to block Li Jiacheng at the entrance of the Yangtze River Group Center Building, but they did not block his son Li Zeju. Li Zeju said with a straight face in front of the media's video pens and cameras: "I express my indignation and condemnation of the smear articles against my father and the CK Hutchison and CK Land Group that appeared in the media today."
The next day, a group of reporters went to Stanley Jinggao's sea view villa to block him. Of course it wasn't blocked. However, Wu Jingshu, the president of Jiuge Capital, an important related financial and asset management company of the Phoenix Group, accepted a five-minute exclusive interview with the media orally in his office in Central.
"I understand Mr. Li's feelings. However, what Mr. Li has done in recent years is well documented. For example, building a tunnel in Shenzhen to collect tolls seriously affected people's livelihood and forced the government to build another tunnel.
For example, he vacated land in the mainland without developing it, violating relevant policies and reaping the dividends of rising land prices. He also claims that "I have no hometown." hehe. Li Sheng is a Canadian, right?
For example, there is a large amount of detailed information showing that Li Sheng was blocking the construction of the Zhuhai-Hong Kong-Macao Bridge for his own port interests.
All of the above are fair game! How can it be called smearing? If you dare to do it, dare to do it. Li Sheng has been the richest man in China and a wealth idol for so many years, so he is not afraid to admit it, right? "
As soon as this interview with Wu Jingshu was released, it immediately aroused public opinion! The number of voices criticizing the Phoenix Group is increasing at the same time.
The two sides fought fiercely in public opinion.
On September 24, an article signed by Jing Gao was published in Oriental Daily that day: A few things about Li Sheng and me.
"I have never met Li Sheng, and I grew up listening to the legendary stories of Li Sheng's wealth. Later I learned that Li Sheng's first pot of gold was because he married his cousin.
Later, I learned that Li Sheng only knew how to make money and was not a patriotic businessman at all. Later, I learned that Li Sheng’s youngest son had turned Hao Duanduan’s Cyberport project into a real estate project. He also calls him Superboy!
What kind of little superman is he? sinner!
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Li Sheng's various behaviors, in ancient times, would be regarded as minor if two sentences were written in the history books as "a shameless man without a king and a father"! Of course, we are now a new society, and it is not fashionable to blame others. But you can give an attributive.
A businessman with capital blood flowing from beginning to end!
I can personally assert here that based on what Li Sheng is currently doing, his historical evaluation will be very poor! His aura as the richest man will become nothing more than that in the face of rapid development and strong national strength. "
The night is deep and the waves are rolling. Jing Gao left Hong Kong Island by car with his assistant and bodyguards and came to Shenzhen. I had dinner with Xu Jiayin at Shenwan Club, a club at No. 1 Shenwan. Boss Xu also has a house here.
It is said that Ali's Ma Yun also has a house here. Jinggao has two houses here.
In the luxurious and bright banquet hall, Xu Jiayin was eating the food, put down his chopsticks, and said with a smile: "Mr. Jing, your real-name article was really brave. But it was really full of criticism! Haha."
Jing Gao smiled and raised his glass in greeting, took a sip of red wine and said, "The pen holder helped me write it. I just signed my name. I can't write such an elegant article!"
Xu Jiayin laughed and drank a glass of wine.
This is not a question of who wrote it. As long as Jing Gao's name is hanging on it, it represents an attitude. He didn't believe that Jinggao didn't understand this. And Jing Gao's attitude was either a joke or a cover-up. Well, it's obviously the former! The senior management team of Phoenix Group is constantly speaking out!
But what's interesting is that all of Jinggao's subordinates spoke to the Hong Kong media, and none of them spoke to the mainland media. All interviews have been declined. Talk about politics!
Xu Jiayin said: "Mr. Jing, are you interested in investing in Evergrande's stocks?" Evergrande's development model is destined to be a high-speed train. Evergrande's financing costs are very high, with interest rates on some bonds reaching 10%.
Evergrande has a very big need to obtain cheap funds. This is also the reason why Evergrande wants to be listed on A-shares and Hong Kong stocks at the same time. It is currently discussing merger and reorganization with Shenzhen Fang A, but the talks are not going very smoothly.
He had to leave a way out.
Jing Gao was a little strange, thought for a while, and agreed: "Okay. Evergrande's stock is a very good investment target. I didn't mention it on Hong Kong Island before, because I was afraid that Mr. Xu would misunderstand it."
He and Big D will be collaborating. Currently, the ones helping him in the media are Yang Shoucheng and He Chaoqiong. They all have connections in the industry, and as long as the money is spent, Jing Gao can publish whatever news he wants without worrying about being "muted" by Li.
As for social media on the Internet, Hong Kong Island uses Twitter and Facebook. There is nothing that Jing Gao can do. On the contrary, his identity will be deducted, and Li Huanggua may still be considered one of Angsa's own.
However, to put it bluntly, this war of public opinion is not a debate for ordinary people and young people. Instead, it caused waves in the celebrity, business, and cultural circles of Hong Kong Island and made targeted propaganda. In fact, many people in these circles still maintain the habit of reading newspapers.
The transaction between him and Xu Jiayin, who can be regarded as the "leader" of the current conference, only involves some investment agreements in electric vehicles. The core purpose is to avoid vicious competition. Because Boss Xu’s influence on Hong Kong Island is actually relatively weak. As for Jinggao's influence on the mainland, there is no need to rely on him.
Boss Xu offered an annual salary of 10 million and hired a chief economist. And this big brother’s transformation prescription for Evergrande is: new energy vehicles!
Therefore, the level of economists is just that. Especially those masters walking around in the market: Lang Xianping, Zhang Changwu, Zhang Weiyang. The level of these people is rubbish. Really awesome economists are all serving the country!
For example, Professor Lin Yifu, Professor Wen Tiejun, and Professor Zhai Dongsheng from Renmin University of China. These think tanks and professors are the ones who can truly see through the nature of economic laws and come up with solutions to problems.
New energy vehicles are the next trend. Who can’t see this? But the problem is, who knows when new energy vehicles will enter the market. Boss Jia, the "genius" who is one step ahead of the world, has now gone to the United States. His famous saying is: return to China next week.
Evergrande’s stock is growing rapidly. As a result, Boss Xu recently became the richest man in China.
One thing to say. It is indeed good to invest in Evergrande stocks. Of course, Jing Gao would not be stupid enough. For agreement transfers, or the issuance of new shares, or convertible bonds, the price will definitely be lower than the current price in the secondary market, that is, the stock market!
Xu Jiayin smiled and said: "Mr. Jing, thank you for your appreciation of Evergrande's development prospects. Let's have a drink!"
The two of them exchanged glasses, drank until they were half drunk, and then dispersed.
The situation on Hong Kong Island has become even more dangerous because Jing Gao published an article and attacked Li Jiacheng by name!
Wu Jingshu's car was splashed with red paint on the street. Retired Bank of East Asia Chairman and CEO Li Guobao called Jing Gao and persuaded him not to criticize Li Jiacheng, but to give some dignity to the business senior and the richest man in China.
There is no doubt that this is pressure!