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Chapter 91: How did he become a newspaper tycoon without making a sound?

On High Street, when Cao Tai saw Liang Ziwei waiting by the roadside from afar, he directed Chen Jiaju to pull over and park the car.

Before getting out of the car, Cao Tai instructed Chen Jiaju to make sure that Attorney Jiang got home safely.

After all that fright, it seems that Attorney Jiang isn't in the mood to go back to work at the law firm.

Cao Tai had only taken a couple of steps after getting out of the car with his backpack when he suddenly turned back, bent down, and said to Jiang Chong'er in the back seat, "Attorney Jiang, don't forget to ask your second uncle for me. It would be even better if you could have a face-to-face meeting with him. Remember to get back to me."

As Cao Tai walked toward a beautiful woman waiting by the roadside, the woman bumped into Cao Tai as the car started to pass by.

Jiang Chong'er couldn't help but spit. This guy who only uses people and doesn't use them back had just given her a huge fright, yet he didn't even offer a word of comfort.

As the vehicle drove away, Ms. Liang Ziwei glanced at it, then turned back and looked up, asking, "Where's your car? Why did you come back in someone else's car?"

"There was a little accident on the way back, so I had it towed away for repairs," Cao Tai replied nonchalantly, casually giving the woman's red lips a light peck.

"Are you alright?" Hearing that something had happened, Liang Ziwei quickly released Cao Tai and looked him over.

"It's nothing, just a minor collision, only some paint chipped off the car body."

"That's good!" Ms. Liang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, by the way, I have some good news for you. I passed the selection process." Turning her head, Ms. Liang excitedly revealed another piece of news.

"Oh, so from now on I'll have to call you Madam Liang when we meet?"

"Hmm, you should call me Commander Liang!" Liang Ziwei said with her hands behind her back, pretending to be serious, as if she didn't understand the little joke in Cao Tai's words.

"Yes, Commander Liang!"

"Pfft... Hehehe..." Ms. Liang couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"When will you start school?"

"The Spring Festival is almost over. The notice is that we will start school on February 16th next year, which is the Lantern Festival."

"There are still more than two months left, why is it taking so long for classes to start?"

"There are too few applicants, and not enough people who pass the initial selection to start a class. I heard that they will issue another recruitment notice, and we will only start the school once we have enough people to form a class." Ms. Liang was still a little depressed. It was a bit difficult to have nothing to do for more than two months.

"Then memorize the regulations first. And didn't I give you a gym membership at Shangdong Club before? Remember to go there to work out every day. If crossing the sea is inconvenient, I have a small house near the club where you can stay temporarily."

Cao Tai has already bought the 300-square-foot safe house on Kimberley Street from the owner. Since the interior is still very new and clean, if Liang Ziwei wants to move in, she only needs to buy some new furniture to make it a cozy little home.

Cao Tai currently has at least several dozen people under his command with military experience. He can easily pick two of them to create a physical training plan. If Ms. Liang can complete the basic physical training plan of the military, she will definitely pass the physical fitness test of the police probationary inspector training class with ease.

"I'll think about it!" Ms. Liang blushed slightly, thinking that Mr. Cao wanted her to move out and live with him.

"Let's go eat to celebrate, it's on me today." A moment later, Liang Ziwei waved her hand again, looking very spirited.

"Alright, thank you, Commander Liang."

"Goose, goose, goose, goose..." This elicited another burst of goose-like laughter from Ms. Liang.

"Beep beep beep... beep beep..." The cell phone in the backpack was ringing.

He took out his phone and pressed the call button. A slightly distorted voice came through the receiver: "Hey kid, Director Wu from the Guangdong Paper Mill is looking for you. He's even calling me."

"Okay, I understand, thank you, Xiaoweng! Is everything alright at the newspaper office lately?"

"Can't you come and check on things more often? The hype surrounding the Cointreau Hotel robbery has basically died down, and the articles about the robbery gang are less appealing."

However, the novel sent by Pengcheng was excellent, which stabilized the sales that had been boosted by our firsthand reporting of the Jundu heist.

The Kowloon Daily now sells over 10 copies a day, while the highest sales volume of the other seven newspapers is over 3 copies, and the lowest is no less than 1 copies.

"You're already a media mogul in Hong Kong, which means you don't own a magazine or a television station; otherwise, you'd be one of Hong Kong's top media tycoons."

After hearing Liang's honest words, Cao Tai was also taken aback. He never expected that in less than a month, the total sales of his newspaper had almost doubled from 12 copies per day.

Currently, the main ways to disseminate information are television, radio, newspapers, and magazines. Among these, television is particularly important, but once newspapers achieve large sales volumes, they become a cultural force second only to television stations.

He now owns a first-class newspaper, "Kowloon Daily," and seven second-class newspapers. The total sales of these newspapers are 50,000 to 60,000 more than the current second-largest newspaper in Hong Kong Island, "Sing Pao."

Although Oriental Daily News is now the top-selling newspaper, once selling 30 copies a day, its actual sales figures are questionable as it is a money laundering organization used by the Ma brothers.

As the old man once said, if you don't occupy cultural strongholds, the enemy will.

In Hong Kong, it's almost impossible to grow a business without pandering to John Bull; and it's even more difficult without your own voice.

Now I've reached the top of the newspaper industry, albeit on equal footing, which at least means I can communicate what I want to say to the public.

But that wasn't enough. Thinking of the only two television stations on Hong Kong Island, Cao Tai felt a surge of excitement.

If only I had the chance to acquire one of the television stations. Although I don't know how to run a television station, there are plenty of elites in Hong Kong who do. If I could just provide some creative ideas that are suitable for this era, the television station would surely be a great success.

Even if it were to be made into a TV series, I would have seen quite a few highly-rated dramas in my future life. It would be no problem to simply recall and copy some of them. When the time comes, I would give the outline to the screenwriters, and they would fill in the complete plot themselves. It is possible that a huge hit drama could be made at any time.

If there were a thriving television station and a top-tier newspaper, even John Bull would never be able to brainwash the citizens of Hong Kong Island and make them target him.

There are precedents for this in his past life; Mr. Huo suffered in silence countless times!

However, Wen Yueting of TVB has devoted almost half his life to the TV station. It is said that he would even disregard the life and death of his own son for the sake of the TV station.

The Lee family, another major shareholder of TVB, had a close relationship with him. The Lee family gave all the voting rights of the TV station to Wen Yueting, and the two families' combined shares reached almost 70% or more.

In recent years, Lis has also sold its shares to Wen Yueting in small batches, making him the largest shareholder of TVB.

It seems there's little hope for terrestrial television.

Another Asian Television (ATV) is owned by Chiu Te-yin, who was originally the chairman of the board of directors of Yung Fung Group. Because he liked making films and television, he bought shares in the television station in multiple batches, and now he personally controls more than 80% of the television station's shares.

He has now resigned as chairman of the board of directors of Yung Fung Group, retaining only one board seat, and has devoted himself to the construction of the television station.

The robbery that occurred on King's Road was carried out by a cash-in-transit vehicle belonging to E.Sun Bank, a subsidiary of the E.Sun Group.

He enjoys running a television station and has a bank backing him. He even resigned from his position as chairman of a large corporation because of his hobby. He has both money and free time, so it seems that his hopes of buying Asia Television are slim.

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