Chapter 155: Gu Long's Change and Meeting with Jin Yong
Chapter 155: Gu Long's Change and Meeting with Jin Yong
"Is it true?" Although Yang Wendong knew that this kind of thing was unlikely to be false, he still asked subconsciously.
Zhao Chengguang said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, how can I joke with you about this? They have already decided internally. The radio station will give it to you. The relevant procedures will take about another week."
"That's great." Yang Wendong was really happy.
Before television became popular, radio and newspapers were the only two ways for most people to receive information from the outside world, with the former being costly and the latter being cheap.
But radio is very efficient, and can be said to be the same as television, except without the visual content.
With so many old players already in the newspaper industry, it is obviously difficult to make a breakthrough in a short period of time. But if you acquire a radio station, you can grab a corner of the media.
Zhao Chengguang said, "Mr. Yang, let me remind you that the Hong Kong government has given you a radio license, so you have to follow the plan you submitted and do everything one by one. If it's a little late or there are some minor problems, we can discuss it.
But if the deviation is too big, according to the contract, the Hong Kong government has the right to take back the radio station, so you need to execute it as soon as possible and open the radio station. Once the radio station is built, as long as you do not break the law, the Hong Kong government will basically not care about you anymore. "
"Okay, don't worry, I know what I'm doing." Yang Wendong agreed readily. Before the radio station was fully and officially built, he couldn't be absolutely reassured.
After hanging up the phone, Yang Wendong immediately contacted Zhang Hui. In the afternoon, he arrived;
Yang Wendong said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, the license has been issued. We succeeded."
"Really?" Zhang Hui's eyes lit up. Getting the license meant he had a new opportunity in life.
Yang Wendong took out an envelope and said, "This is the salary I'm giving you, which is twice your previous salary. You can resign now and come to my place as soon as possible to set up the radio company.
This is just the beginning. If the radio station develops well in the future, your treatment will be much better than this."
Zhang Hui took the envelope, but did not open it in front of the boss. Instead, he put it away, then took out a piece of paper, handed it to Yang Wendong and said, "Okay, Mr. Yang, but I need to recruit some people. Here is the list of various positions."
Yang Wendong took it and took a look. It was a simple hand-drawn table that described the positions of about 20 people, the number of each position and the approximate market salary. It also showed Zhang Hui's intentions.
He then returned the paper and said, "There is no problem with this configuration, you can recruit people according to this. However, there are not many people working in radio stations in Hong Kong, so you should not just poach people from public radio stations.
There should be some in the British radio stations, in Macau, or in Taiwan, or even in the future we can train our own, otherwise it will be hard to explain to Tian Yunjian. "
He also knew that Tian Yunjian had poached the "civil servants" of the Hong Kong government for him, and it would be a bit unreasonable for him to desperately poach people from his department afterwards;
Besides, when organizing a new company, it is taboo for all new employees to come from the same place. If they all know each other, it may not be good for the new company.
"Okay, I understand." Zhang Hui agreed.
"Wait a minute, I'll introduce someone to you, you will work together in the future." After Yang Wendong finished speaking, he dialed the internal phone and called Qin Zhiye. After introducing them to each other, he said: "You two, you will both be the heads of my media company in the future. You will also work in the same building and you can cooperate with each other."
"Mr. Qin, hello." Zhang Hui shook hands and said with a smile: "I work in a radio station. Although it belongs to the media, we don't do interviews. The content of news is generally to report the latest events in the newspaper."
Qin Zhiye said: "That's great, this way our journalists' work can be reused."
Yang Wendong said at the side: "Lao Qin, take Lao Zhang to our future building later. The top floor over there is almost completed, right?"
The new Hong Kong Chinese Daily News Building has only 12 floors in total. It is not difficult to build and there are no special requirements. Once Party A has the funds in place, Party B can naturally speed up the construction. According to the plan, the building will be completed by the end of January next year.
All employees will move in before 60 years, but only on the ground floor, because the lower buildings will be built and renovated in advance to dissipate the odor, so there will be enough time.
Now, it is already the end of November and the building should be almost finished.
Qin Zhiye nodded and said, "The upper floors are almost finished, and the three floors below have also been renovated. We don't have many people at the moment, so even if we add Zhang Sheng's people, two floors are enough.
We can wait until after next year to build the upper floors, but we will definitely have enough space for them in the short term.”
"Okay, it's almost done." Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Next, it's up to you."
He attaches great importance to media, but unlike industry, he cannot provide any strategic advantages in this field. The only thing he can do is to know the future and dare to make heavy investments.
Now that we have newspapers and radio stations, we have provided these two businesses with good office space and related equipment. The rest will be handed over to these professional managers. Qin and Zhang also quickly expressed their opinions: "Don't worry, Mr. Yang, we will definitely do our best."
"Yeah." Yang Wendong nodded, and then asked some simple questions. Zhang Hui then said goodbye and left. He needed to go back and deal with the problems at his current work immediately.
Qin Zhiye said after a while: "Mr. Yang, I have a few things to report to you recently."
"What's the matter? Tell me." Yang Wendong asked.
Qin Zhiye said: "Recently, the sales of our newspapers have been in a state of slow growth. Our news is actually no later than other newspapers. Xiong Sheng's novels have also been serialized, and they seem to be a bit sluggish.
So I want to publicly solicit some short articles, jokes, and anecdotes from the public, which may increase the appeal of our newspaper, but this will cost a little more in terms of budget. "
"Sure, as long as the content is good, we should pay for it." Yang Wendong naturally agreed: "Besides, since we are a high-end newspaper, we will pay a high price for the content.
As long as our price is right, the hundreds of thousands of educated people in Hong Kong will definitely give us priority. Maybe among these people there will be people like Jin Yong or Xiong Yaohua. If they can write another good novel, we will make a lot of money. "
As a media company that runs a newspaper, a radio station, or maybe even a television station in the future, it is bound to spend money to find high-quality content from the society. It is impossible for it to create so much content internally.
"Speaking of Xiong Sheng, an interesting thing happened recently." Qin Zhiye said with a smile in his eyes.
Yang Wendong asked curiously, "What's the matter?"
Qin Zhiye said, "Didn't we discuss this before? Xiong Sheng's alcoholism is quite serious. Didn't you ask me to see a psychiatrist at that time?"
"Yes." Yang Wendong nodded. He still had great expectations for Gu Long's future. First, his novels could stabilize his own newspaper, which would at least be of great help.
The second is that it would be as if he had not encountered the accident that happened in history and was able to live normally until the 21st century. Then, I would cooperate with him and use the power of capital to promote the filming of his novels into TV series. Then, maybe I could create a famous martial arts writer who is no worse than Jin Yong.
Now that Gu Long has come to Hong Kong, history has completely changed, but his alcoholism problem is still a huge hidden danger. One is that his health is prone to problems, and the other is that drinking too much will offend people.
Qin Zhiye said: "I arranged for a psychologist to counsel him. The doctor was quite good. After a few meetings, Xiong Sheng was completely changed. Then Xiong Sheng asked for leave and ran back to Taiwan to get married with his girlfriend."
"Get married? So soon? Is it that Zheng Yuexia?" Yang Wendong asked back.
With his memories of his previous life, it was impossible for him to know anything about Gu Long, but after coming into contact with him in this life, he learned that Gu Long's life was quite tragic.
He showed great talent for writing in his youth and thought he could live a comfortable life, but his father abandoned his wife and children for his mistress. His mother also became ill after that, and the whole family fell into difficulties.
In order to support his family, Gu Long joined a gang in Taiwan and met a dancer, Zheng Yuexia. It was this woman who made Gu Long give up the gang, find a proper job again, and start writing books.
Then Yang Wendong intervened and brought him to Hong Kong, and Gu Long returned to Taiwan from time to time just for Zheng Yuexia.
Qin Zhiye nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Xiong is already planning to rent a house in Hong Kong. They will both move here, and they just want to rent a place nearby. The price is very high, and he has asked me to find a suitable one."
"Well, how about this? You look around to see if there are any suitable residential houses. I'll buy one for them and let them live there." Yang Wendong paused and said, "The rent will be cheaper than the market price, and I'll deduct it from his royalties, so he can just write in Hong Kong with peace of mind."
If Gu Long could stop drinking and live a peaceful life, that would be good. It's okay to drink in moderation.
Of course, according to Yang Wendong's memory, Gu Long had several confidantes and illegitimate children in his previous life. Maybe when Yang Wendong became rich, they would follow in his footsteps and go out to have fun, but this was not something he could control now.
Qin Zhiye smiled and said, "Okay, if Mr. Xiong can concentrate on writing novels, then my work will be much easier."
"Well, congratulations to him." Yang Wendong smiled and asked, "Anything else?"
Qin Zhiye replied, "Yes, this morning, Shen Baoxin from Ming Pao called me and said that Mr. Jin Yong wanted to invite you to Ming Pao."
Seeking monthly ticket
(End of this chapter)