Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

"Brother, someone is looking for your phone number."

This afternoon, Lin Baicheng was writing at home as usual, and the voice of his younger sister Lin Qin came from downstairs.

"coming!"

Lin Baicheng responded, got up and went downstairs.

"Little sister, who is calling?"

Lin Baicheng asked Lin Qin who was standing at the top of the stairs.

Lin Qin is fifteen years old, currently in Form Three, and is a little girl with an iconic appearance. Speaking of which, among the three children of the Lin family, two sisters, Lin Shufang and Lin Qin, are both beauties. Even Lin Baicheng is handsome and young, obviously inheriting the genes of his mother Zhao Huilan.

As for his father, Lin Haishan, let’s not talk about it. He is just an ordinary man.

"It's still the same Uncle Hu."

Lin Qin replied that today is the weekend, so she is resting at home.

"Hello, Chief Editor Hu."

After hearing this, Lin Baicheng knew what was going on and went over to answer the phone. At this time, the only person surnamed Hu who was looking for him was Hu Zhiwen, the owner of Star Daily.

"Lin Sheng, good afternoon."

Hu Zhiwen's cheerful voice rang from the phone.

After the two exchanged a few polite words, Hu Zhiwen got down to business. He asked Lin Baicheng to have afternoon tea at his newspaper office and talk about their cooperation. He also said that this was the last time they would talk. If they still couldn't come to an agreement, the cooperation would have to be abandoned.

Lin Baicheng naturally would not refuse and agreed to go.

"It seems that today is the last negotiation."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Baicheng went back upstairs with a solemn expression, preparing to change into a set of clothes and go out.

It seems that it has been nearly a week since he last went to Star Daily, and no agreement was reached that time. The two contacted twice more in the next two days, but still no agreement was reached.

Hu Zhiwen added three more points, that is, he was willing to give up 18% of the shares, while Lin Baicheng also lowered five points, asking for 25% of the shares, a gap of 7%, and the two did not reach an agreement.

In the following days, Hu Zhiwen did not contact Lin Baicheng again. Of course, Lin Baicheng would not take the initiative to contact Hu Zhiwen, so the two parties had no contact for the time being.

As for Lin Baicheng, he contacted small and medium-sized newspapers every day as usual. Unfortunately, after learning about his situation, few newspapers were willing to interview him and read his novels, which meant that there was still no progress.

Although there are many newspapers in Xiangjiang, they only number half a hundred. As of yesterday, Lin Baicheng had no newspaper to contact.

Now Lin Baicheng has only two choices, either to cooperate with Star Daily, or to wait until the book is completed before looking for two newspapers that are willing to give him a chance. Or, try to find a major newspaper, but the possibility that a major newspaper will be willing to serialize it is even lower.

But the problem is that the two newspapers only said they were willing to wait for his novel to be completed before reviewing it, but they did not say that they would definitely serialize the novel in the newspapers. There was no guarantee that the novel would be serialized by then.

Therefore, Lin Baicheng's bottom line has actually been lowered. Even if Hu Zhiwen doesn't contact him today, he will take the initiative to contact Hu Zhiwen in a day or two. The smaller the shares, the smaller the profit. Relatively speaking, it is more important to serialize the novel and earn the first pot of gold.

After changing his clothes, Lin Baicheng asked for some money from Mother Lin and went out.

Star Daily.

Different from the last time I came here, there was no employee this time. I don’t know if they didn’t work this weekend or if they were sent out by Hu Zhiwen.

"Editor Hu!" "Lin Sheng!"

It was really afternoon tea. Hu Zhiwen took out the tea set and made tea.

Lin Baicheng was not in a hurry when he saw this. Anyway, he had already made a decision. As long as Hu Zhiwen's conditions did not change from a few days ago, he would just make some money and agree to cooperate.

After drinking tea, it was already half an hour before we talked about anything else.

"Lin Sheng, let's talk about our cooperation."

Hu Zhiwen said solemnly: "Since you are still not satisfied with 18% of the shares, Lin Sheng, then I have a proposal. If this doesn't work, then I have no choice."

"Chief Editor Hu, tell me."

Lin Baicheng listened carefully.

Hu Zhiwen said: "The basis is still 18% of the shares, regardless of whether the novel can save the newspaper. After that, within half a month of the novel being serialized, the daily circulation must reach 3,000 copies. Only in this way can the newspaper not suffer losses. To save the newspaper, I will transfer 2% of the shares to you, Lin Sheng, and you will hold 20% of the shares."

"In the next month that the newspaper can survive, for every two thousand copies of the newspaper's average daily circulation, I will transfer 1% of my shares to you, Lin Sheng, with a cap of 5%. In other words, as long as the newspaper's average daily circulation increases by two thousand copies, If the daily circulation can reach 13,000 copies, then Lin Sheng, you can get 25% of the shares."

"This is the best condition I can give. If you still don't agree to cooperate, Lin Sheng, then I can only give up this cooperation and shut down the newspaper honestly."

Whenever possible, Hu Zhiwen did not want to close the newspaper and wanted to take a gamble. The conditions he proposed this time were actually beneficial to him. After all, if he really wanted to transfer 7% more shares to Lin Baicheng in the end, it would only mean that the daily circulation of the newspaper had reached 13,000 copies. Then he would have The 75% shares in the company will only be more valuable and earn more.

"Editor-in-chief Hu, happy to cooperate!"

After hearing this, Lin Baicheng reached out his hand happily and said nothing more.

“Happy to work with!”

Hu Zhiwen stretched out his hand and shook Lin Baicheng's hand, and his whole body relaxed.

Because it was related to the transfer of shares, although the two had reached a verbal agreement, they still had to sign a share transfer contract and go through relevant procedures.

The next morning, Lin Baicheng came to Star Daily again, but this time he didn't come alone, he also brought a lawyer.

Lin Baicheng is not stupid. He will not believe whatever Hu Zhiwen says. When it comes to his own interests, he cannot be too cautious.

In the contract drawn up by the two parties, the conditions given by Star Daily were the same as those discussed by the two yesterday, but with a few additional instructions drawn up by Lin Baicheng.

For example, Lin Baicheng only handed over the newspaper serialization rights of the "Wind and Cloud" novel, and it was only the first one. The subsequent novels have nothing to do with this cooperation. All other copyrights such as film and television adaptations are in Lin Baicheng's hands.

In addition, Star Daily must have no external debts, and its net assets after closing the newspaper must be more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, etc. These are all to protect Lin Baicheng's interests.

Lin Baicheng didn't dare to believe Hu Zhiwen's words 100%. Who knows if Star Daily's net worth was negative? Only if these prerequisites were stated on the contract could Lin Baicheng dare to sign.

Don't make any money at all, but owe a lot of Hong Kong dollars because you were cheated.

Hu Zhiwen was not dissatisfied. After all, he was not trying to trick anyone, so they all agreed.

Finally, after both lawyers determined that there were no problems, Lin Baicheng and Hu Zhiwen each signed the contract and formally reached cooperation.

(Seedlings are not easy, they need support and care!)