We're building a super chaebol in Hong Kong

In the 1950s-1970s, Hong Kong was plagued by severe corruption and bribery, and the power of the triads was immense, resulting in social chaos. At that time, Hong Kong had three Chaozhou gang heroin tycoons: Ma Xiru, nicknamed "White Powder Ma"; his younger brother, "Golden Ma" Ma Xizhen; and Wu Xihao, nicknamed "Limping Ho."

The Ma brothers occupied two of these positions and were one of the four major triad families, demonstrating their strength.

Su Cheng needed to investigate Ma Xiru's background thoroughly before calling him.

Putting down the information, Su Cheng dialed Ma Xiru's number without hesitation.

Unfortunately, Ma Xiru was in Taiwan, and Su Cheng had no immediate plans to go there, so he could only communicate by phone.

"Beep, beep, beep ~"

The phone rang more than a dozen times before being answered.

However, the person who answered the phone was not a man, but a woman.

"I'm looking for Mr. Ma Xiru. Is Mr. Ma available?" Su Cheng asked directly.

The phone number should be correct. The information provided by Brother Wu had been strictly verified, and he wouldn't give him a wrong number.

"Who is this?" The other party didn't immediately answer Su Cheng's question but asked in return.

"I'm Su Cheng from Hong Kong, the taipan of Hutchison Whampoa Group," Su Cheng stated his identity directly.

"Oh, it's Mr. Su. Xiru went out early this morning and hasn't returned yet. When he gets back, I'll tell him you called," the woman's tone immediately became respectful upon hearing that it was Su Cheng.

After all, Su Cheng was famous worldwide, especially in the Chinese community, so the other party immediately recognized him after Su Cheng revealed his identity.

"Okay, thank you," Su Cheng said with a smile.

According to the information provided by Brother Wu, Su Cheng knew who was on the phone.

This lady was one of Ma Xiru's mistresses in Taiwan. After escaping to Taiwan, Ma Xiru had been living in her house and cohabitating with her.

The news that Ma Chengkun, the current head of Oriental Press Group, was ambushed by a group of masked criminals on his way home from the company this afternoon must have reached Ma Xiru.

Therefore, he must have gone out to deal with this matter.

Although Ma Xiru couldn't return to Hong Kong, he still had many connections in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Even though his power had diminished significantly, some people would still give him face and provide some assistance.

Ma Chengkun was, after all, Ma Xiru's junior. Although he wasn't his son, the Ma family didn't have many members, and Ma Chengkun was his nephew. Now that Ma Xizhen was in jail, Ma Xiru naturally took charge of the Ma family, so Ma Xiru would definitely take action.

After putting down the phone, Su Cheng picked up a Chinese version of "Twilight" and lay on the sofa to read.

When bored, he always liked to read some books to enrich himself.

In this world, although "Twilight" had become Su Cheng's work, he had hardly read the novel himself. It was entirely printed out by Little Ai.

In his study, there were hundreds of famous Chinese and foreign books. Whenever he had nothing to do, Su Cheng liked to lie on the sofa and read.

While reading, he could also wait for a reply from Ma Xiru.

Ma Chengkun's attack was a good boost for him, so Su Cheng intended to seize this opportunity.

The Ma family didn't lack money; what they lacked was a positive reputation. Over the years, the two brothers had made a lot of money through illegal businesses.

If the Ma brothers were still in Hong Kong, they probably wouldn't be willing to sell "Oriental Daily" no matter how much money they were offered.

But now it was different. Their illegal businesses in Hong Kong could no longer continue, and the younger generation of the family was under threat to their lives.

Times had changed, and he believed that Ma Xiru should carefully consider the pros and cons!

It is worth mentioning that Su Cheng had previously given four novels to Wesley, which were published and operated by Hutchison Publishing House.

These four novels were "Harry Potter", "A Song of Ice and Fire", "Percy Jackson", and "Twilight".

Hutchison Publishing House's strength was average. Previously, it mainly focused on publishing and operating English books in Hong Kong, and translating some Chinese works into English. Although it also had business in the UK, its business capabilities were naturally incomparable to those of traditional English publishing houses.

Hutchison Publishing House used to rely mainly on other publishers selling the Hong Kong region's publishing rights. Itself did not sign any powerful books with top authors, so the profit was also very average.

Although some writers in Hong Kong also submitted manuscripts to Hutchison Publishing House, in Hong Kong, mainly Chinese works were written, and few could write works suitable for Westerners.

Since obtaining the publishing and operating rights of these four novels, Hutchison Publishing House had attached great importance to them and mobilized all the resources of the publishing house.

To this end, Hutchison Whampoa Group, under the leadership of Wesley, also additionally increased its investment in Hutchison Publishing House by several million, in order to allow them to expand overseas channels.

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After several months of operation, the four novels had now appeared in some bookstores in the UK.

However, because Hutchison Publishing House's overseas channels were relatively average, and these four novels were not considered the works of famous writers by others.

Therefore, despite investing a lot of money, the promotion effect was not very satisfactory, after all, the time was still too short.

As the saying goes, even fragrant wine is afraid of deep alleys!

The four novels, "Harry Potter", "A Song of Ice and Fire", "Percy Jackson", and "Twilight", which were released, faced this situation.

Without good sales channels, coupled with the short publishing time, these four English novels had not caught fire.

However, all of this began to improve after the emergence of the Oracle brand experience store.

After the first Oracle brand experience store opened, the four published novels, "Harry Potter", "A Song of Ice and Fire", "Percy Jackson", and "Twilight", were placed in the store and became products sold in the store.

The influence of the four novels began to increase continuously around the world.

The more word-of-mouth, the more fans naturally.

At the same time, the name Su had also attracted everyone's attention.