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Chapter 242: Four Major Newspaper Alliance
After leaving the Governor's Mansion, Lin Haoran did not go anywhere else, but asked Li Weiguo to drive back to Shixun Road.

The Hong Kong River in June is already extremely hot. In addition, with the blocking of Victoria Peak, the sea breeze from the south can hardly reach Central. There is only a slight breeze from the east to west of Victoria Harbour.

Lin Haoran returned home and immediately felt much cooler.

Shixun Road is located on Gofu Mountain in Taipingshan District. It is lushly wooded and has sea breezes from time to time. The temperature is several degrees lower than in the urban area.

After Lin Haoran returned to the villa, he swam in the swimming pool for more than ten minutes, then got up and lay on the beach chair, enjoying the breeze, feeling very comfortable.

There was a parasol above his head, so the sunlight couldn't reach him at all.

At this time, the young Filipino maid came over with a glass of cold orange juice and placed it on the round table beside her.

"Come here and massage my shoulders!" Lin Haoran said to the maid with a smile.

The maid just turned 20 this year. She is of Filipino Chinese descent and quite pretty. She has been working at the Shi Xundaolin family villa for three months.

"Okay, boss." The maid obediently walked behind Lin Haoran and massaged his shoulders.

The two brothers Li Weidong and Li Weiguo walked back and forth in the yard, fulfilling their duties faithfully.

There is even a security post outside the villa. The security guards are two of the fifty veterans who returned from the Philippines. They take turns to guard the place every day.

Although Shi Xun Road is extremely safe, even safer than Deep Water Bay, with patrol police cars whizzing by from time to time, the households here are too far apart after all, so it is definitely a good idea to improve defense capabilities.

The maid's strength was just right, neither too strong nor too weak, and she made Lin Haoran feel very comfortable.

I don’t know when Lin Haoran fell asleep.

Lin Haoran, who was deep in sleep, was suddenly awakened by a shout.

Only then did he open his eyes and saw that it was Li Weidong who called him.

At this time, it has unknowingly arrived in the evening. The sun is setting and the golden clouds are particularly beautiful.

The view from the Shixun Road Villa is excellent, overlooking the entire Hong Kong city area.

The afterglow of the sun shining on the glass windows of high-rise buildings is very beautiful.

"Boss, the phone is ringing." Li Weidong reported.

Lin Haoran then yawned, stood up, walked quickly to the hall and answered the phone.

"Hello, this is Lin Haoran." Lin Haoran said directly after picking up the phone.

"Boss, I'm Cui Zilong. I've got some clues about the intelligence information you asked me to check today." Cui Zilong said on the phone.

"Come over to Shi Xundao, bring the information over, and have dinner here." Lin Haoran said.

Now, it is almost dinner time, and the kitchen in the villa must be preparing dinner.

Cui Zilong was a general under his command, and he always valued him very much.

"Okay, boss. Please wait for me for 20 minutes. I'll be there now!" Cui Zilong agreed without hesitation.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Haoran went to the bathroom to wash his face to make himself feel more refreshed.

It is not far from Central to the villa on Sze Hoon Road. Ten minutes later, Lin Haoran heard the sound of an engine coming from outside the lobby on the first floor.

Li Weiguo walked out quickly and opened the door. Sure enough, it was Cui Zilong outside. He had already parked the car steadily in the parking space.

"Thank you for the trip." Lin Haoran also came out and said with a smile.

"It's not hard. I just happened to be off work. It's my honor to come here and have a meal with my boss." Cui Zilong laughed.

"Let's go in and sit down." Lin Haoran said, pointing inside the villa.

The two walked into the villa one after the other.

Lin Haoran took Cui Zilong into the study on the first floor. After both of them sat down, Cui Zilong opened the handbag in his hand and took out a few photos.

"We learned from an informant inside the Hong Kong Times that someone had indeed instructed them to hype this matter. However, the real mastermind behind this may only be known to the boss of the Hong Kong Times, and even their general manager of the newspaper was just following orders.

Since we were unable to find out the mastermind directly through the Hong Kong Times, we turned our attention to a Chinese middle-level manager of the Jardine Matheson Company. We successfully bribed him with money and learned from him that the Jardine Matheson Company had intended to defeat the Fortress Electric Company as early as the beginning of this year, because only in this way could their Jardine Electric City take advantage of the opportunity to seize the market share of the Fortress Electric chain store.

However, these clues are still not enough to prove that Jardine Matheson Company was the culprit of this incident.

Fortunately, at about five o'clock in the afternoon, our people accidentally bought a few photos, which are the ones I have in my hands now. These photos were taken by paparazzi from other newspapers in a cafe near the Jardine House two days ago. From the photos, it can be clearly seen that the general manager of the Jardine House and Mr. Hong, the owner of the Hong Kong Times, met in this cafe. "

This matter had been widely reported by the Hong Kong Times in the past few days. Paparazzi were everywhere in Hong Kong, and the owner of the Hong Kong Times was also a well-known figure. It was normal for paparazzi to take such photos. Lin Haoran took the photo. In the photo, the two people did not seem to have a strong awareness of preventing sneak shots, and their facial expressions and movements were completely captured.

From the photo, Lin Haoran had already guessed that the general manager of Jardine Electrical Appliance City must be plotting something with the other party.

In fact, even if Cui Zilong had not found out these things, Lin Haoran had already known from Governor MacLehose that this matter was definitely done by a company under Jardine Matheson.

Now, combined with what Cui Zilong has discovered during his investigation, this matter has basically been confirmed.

Photos are the best evidence.

"Later, we learned from the relatives and neighbors of those people who caused the trouble that strangers had frequently entered and exited their residence in recent nights. Judging from their attire, they were most likely reporters from the Hong Kong Times," Cui Zilong continued.

Lin Haoran nodded, looked at the photo and began to think.

It is obvious that the other party's move this time was targeted and they wanted to ruin the reputation of Fengze Electric Appliance Company.

If Fortress Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. was just a company selling electrical appliances of other brands, this situation would not have happened to Fortress Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.

However, all the electrical appliances produced by Fengze Electric Appliance Company nowadays are their own brand products.

In other words, all electrical appliances sold by Fortress Electrical Appliances Co., Ltd. are Fortress brand!
In the beginning, the electrical appliances sold by Fortress Electrical Appliances were actually all well-known brands in Hong Kong.

Later, when Chen Shoulin saw such high sales, he came up with the idea of ​​selling his own products, having other electrical appliance companies manufacture them and then putting his own brand on them.

In this way, the profits of Fortress Electric Company can be greatly improved.

However, doing so can be said to have both advantages and disadvantages.

The benefit is naturally that they make more money.

It is a drawback that the facts about Fortress Electrical Appliances Company have been fabricated so easily as they are now.

If there is a problem with the product, Fortress Electric Appliance Company cannot escape responsibility.

In fact, no matter what brand of product, even if it is a big brand, there will definitely be more or less quality issues among customers.

But those things won’t be reported much, so naturally nothing will happen.

However, the Hong Kong Times hyped up the incident with such a sensational news as electrocution, which naturally caused the reputation of Fortress Electrical Appliance Company to plummet.

If this matter is not handled well, the reputation that Fortress Electric Appliance Company has worked so hard to build up over the past few years will be lost.

"How is your communication with Mr. Chen Shoulin going?" Lin Haoran asked.

"Boss, after discussing with Mr. Chen, I have an idea. This afternoon, I invited the presidents of the Hong Kong Business Daily, the Overseas Chinese Daily, and the Sing Tao Daily, three newspapers with whom I have a good relationship.

I did not tell them that Jardine Matheson was behind this. Instead, I informed them of the plan to bring down the Hong Kong Times. As a result, the presidents of the three newspapers were very interested in this because they knew that it would be beneficial to everyone if the Hong Kong Times was brought down or its reputation was damaged.

The daily sales volume of Hong Kong Times is at least 20,000 to 30,000 copies. The newspaper market in Hong Kong is so small. Once the Hong Kong Times is brought down, the traffic will naturally be eaten up by newspapers and periodicals such as Oriental Daily News, Overseas Chinese Daily, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, Sing Tao Daily, etc.

Mr. Chen has evidence in his hands that proves that the Hong Kong Times is reporting fake news and manipulating public opinion. Once several of our newspapers unite, the Hong Kong Times will be in big trouble this time!

Tomorrow, our four major newspapers will unite to report that the Hong Kong Times manipulated public opinion to frame the company. Several articles have been published. The boss can take a look. "After Cui Zilong finished speaking, he smiled and took out a few more A4 papers from his bag.

Competition in the newspaper and magazine industry in Hong Kong is fierce. Despite being a small city like Hong Kong, there are more than 400 newspaper and magazine companies.

So, in this line it is very volatile.

As one of the top ten newspaper media, other newspapers are eager to share the traffic of Hong Kong Times, especially Oriental Daily News, Sing Tao Daily and other newspaper media which are also in the top ten.

If the reputation of Hong Kong Times is damaged this time, resulting in a sharp drop in their newspaper sales, it is not surprising that most of their users will be divided up by Hong Kong's top ten newspaper media.

Moreover, this kind of news can be considered as hot news.

This is also the reason why the presidents of the three newspapers, Hong Kong Business Daily, Overseas Chinese Daily and Sing Tao Daily, agreed to Cui Zilong's request so readily.

The owners of these newspapers had no idea that this matter was related to Jardine Matheson.

If they knew, they wouldn't have such thoughts.

After all, offending Jardine Matheson is not a good thing.

But Cui Zilong certainly would not tell them that this matter was related to Jardine Matheson.

The four major newspapers jointly published this news. If nothing unexpected happens, starting tomorrow, the Hong Kong Times will have a hard time.

(End of this chapter)