My Age of Investment

   Chapter 1133 The Hong Kong Island Reporter of Gossip (Liang Xiao Protector 12)

  Two days later, in the conference hall of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Connaught Road, Central, the audience was full, and the cameras flashed on the stage to take pictures one after another.

   On the stage, Xia Jingxing stood up, picked up the signed documents and exchanged documents with Guo Binglian who was also standing beside him. Then the two shook hands with smiles and turned to face the audience together.

   On the big screen behind the two, the words "Fuxing Mobile and SmarTone Strategic Cooperation Signing Ceremony" were also written.

   "Mr. Xia, is this scene still interesting today? We have invited all of the large media on Hong Kong Island." Guo Binglian looked at the audience with a smile, his lips moving slightly.

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "Mr. Guo has a heart, it should be so overwhelming propaganda, give Li Huangtai a little color."

   "You are the only one who dares to call him by his first name. Usually, those of us who are juniors still have to give him a little face for this senior."

   "That's right, respecting the old and loving the young is a traditional virtue."

  Xia Jingxing chuckled lightly, he would be a ghost if he believed what Guo Binglian said.

  This little old man is the third son of Guo Desheng, the founder of Xinhongji. After the old man passed away more than ten years ago, he managed the Xinhongji Group together with his two older brothers.

   SmarTone Group is the telecommunications business segment of Xinhongji, and it is the enemy of Lai Kee Telecom International of the Lai family.

   At this time, there were as many as a dozen telecommunications companies on Hong Kong Island, but only 5 had 3G licenses.

   Among them, Li Huangtai owns Li Kee Telecom International, Li Yikai owns Telecom Jinke, and SUNDAY was also acquired by Telecom Jinke. There are only two partners for Fuxing Mobile to choose from.

   One is SmarTone under New Hongji, and the other is CSL New Universe Telecom, a joint venture between New Universe Group under Zhu Dafu's family and Telstra.

  Mobile also has a subsidiary on Hong Kong Island called Wanzhong Phone. It was bought from China Resources a few years ago, but unfortunately it has not obtained a 3G license and can only provide 2G services.

  The FX1 launched by Fuxing Mobile last year was sold in cooperation with Wanzhong Phone in the Hong Kong Island market, and the sales were not bad.

   But now Wisdom Fruit has joined forces with Lai Kee Telecom International. In order to fight against this powerful business combination, Fuxing Mobile can only choose to change a partner.

   After investigation, Xia Jingxing felt that SmarTone was more sincere, and Guo Binglian, the chairman of the company's board of directors, went to the capital to have a deep talk with him, so there is today's signing ceremony.

   In terms of mobile, Xia Jingxing had communicated with Wang Jianyu, and the other party also expressed their understanding of Fuxing’s mobile phone replacement with the cooperative telecommunications company. After all, Fuxing FX2 supports 3G network, but Wanzhong Telephone cannot provide this service.

After    shook hands and took a group photo, Xia Jingxing and Guo Binglian took their seats and began to answer questions from reporters.

   A reporter from Ming Pao stood up and asked, "Mr. Xia, can I ask why Fuxing Mobile chose to cooperate with SmarTone?"

Xia Jingxing replied with a smile: "That's a good question, SmarTone has more than 1.1 million mobile phone users on Hong Kong Island, and it is not a telecommunications company with the largest number of customers, but their ARPU value (average revenue per user) is The highest telecommunications company in Hong Kong, this is what we value the most.”

Then, another reporter from "Oriental Daily" asked: "Mr. Xia, I heard that you and Mr. Li Yikai have a deep conflict, and Mr. Li Yikai even said: If you don't make money on Hong Kong Island A penny? Is this why you refused to cooperate with Telecom Jinke?"

  Xia Jingxing also did not expect that the grudge between him and Li Yikai had already spread to even the reporters, guessing that it might be that after the party that day, the related gossip news was spread again on a large scale.

Now that the reporters had asked, Xia Jingxing didn't intend to save face for Li Yikai, and answered very directly: "Yes, there are conflicts between us, but this is not the main reason for non-cooperation, the main reason is Telecom Kim Kobe. Not on digital."

  Guo Binglian watched this scene with a smile, almost applauding.

  The reporters were also stunned. They did not expect that Xia Jingxing would not hide the contradiction between him and Li Yikai, so how deep should the resentment be? It's like tearing the skin off!

   As a result, the reporters deviated from the theme one after another, and stopped asking questions about mobile phones, but digging deep into the grievances between Xia Jingxing and Li Yikai, and the gossip spirit of Hong Kong Island reporters was immediately reflected.

   It was rare that Xia Jingxing was in a better mood today. He was always ready to answer questions from reporters.

   "Li Yikai is a son of a big family. It's normal to look down on us farmers from the mainland."

   "No exaggeration at all! I'm really a child of a peasant family. My father's generation only entered the city. In my generation, the mud on my legs has not been washed."

   "What happened to the peasants? Counting back a few generations, almost all the ancestors of all of us here were peasants, and even if they weren't peasants, they were at most the poor in the city."

   "My grudge with Mr. Li Huangtai? To be honest, I've never met him, but I met Ms. Zou Xuan a few years ago..."

   "She looked like she wasn't bad for money, she almost threw the cheque in my face, and on the other hand, she asked me to see a discount on Mr. Li Huangtai's face..."

   "Why is this discount? Facebook is not my company alone, so I said that under the same conditions, Mr. Li Huangtai will be given priority to become a shareholder..."

   "The final outcome, as everyone knows, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley bought shares in Facebook at a higher price."

  …

   Listening to the little stories told by Xia Jingxing, the reporters' eyes were gleaming, and the spirit of gossip was burning. This is big news! The version told to Zou Xuan is completely reversed.

  Xia Jingxing's public image on Hong Kong Island is not very good, it is entirely thanks to the old woman Zou Xuan.

  Xia Jingxing was too lazy to have the same knowledge as Zou Xuan at first, but since today I met a reporter from Hong Kong Island, I would like to clarify for myself by the way.

   It is not a problem to be always regarded as a nouveau riche from the mainland.

  Guo Binglian watched quietly from the side, rather dumbfounded, this is the cooperation signing ceremony between Fuxing Mobile and SmarTone, it has become Xia Jingxing's personal one-man show, and the topic is completely irrelevant to today's theme.

  The reporters are really interested in the story of the grudge between the mainland business tycoon and the Hong Kong Island business tycoon! This simply scratched the itch of this group of people.

  Guo Binglian thought about it and asked the reporter to expose more about the grievances between Xia Jingxing and the Li family. In the future, the Fuxing mobile phone can be tied to the chariot of their SmarTone group.

   Recently, Lai Kee Telecom International has added a lot of switching users because of the sales of smart fruit mobile phones, which has put a lot of pressure on them.

   After a while, the reporter who got countless gossip news from Xia Jingxing stopped interviewing Xia Jingxing with satisfaction and began to ask Guo Binglian questions.

   "Fuxing Mobile is a well-known overseas Chinese brand, and SmarTone Group is happy to cooperate with it to jointly provide services for users on Hong Kong Island and Macau."

   "What's the deal? Of course!"

   "Next, SmarTone Group will launch a "retail price" package for users in Hong Kong and Macau. Fuxing FX28G version mobile phone will not charge a cent, and 16G version mobile phone will only charge 138 Hong Kong dollars.

  The condition is that the user must sign a two-year online contract with SmarTone, the monthly rental package is HK$498 per month, unlimited Internet access, and 2200 minutes of voice calls…”

  Guo Binglian advertised very diligently, and introduced several contract phone packages that SmarTone featured in detail.

   Take Fuxing FX2's "retail price" package as an example, multiplying 24 months by HK$498, the figure is nearly HK$12,000, far exceeding the bare metal price of RMB 3,999 and HK$ 4,599.

The    contract phone plan is equivalent to an agreement for a user to purchase a mobile phone in installments, except that the principal and interest deducted every month become phone bills.

   SmarTone itself did not actually make much money, because the way they pay for Fuxing Mobile is also instalments, but it is paid according to several quarters, such as 40%, 20%, 20%, 20%.

   In terms of accounts receivable, SmarTone's account period is longer than that of Fuxing Mobile, and it needs to advance funds for mobile phone users.

   However, SmarTone can bundle users for two whole years, and the gross profit is quite considerable after the payment for Fuxing Mobile is considered.

   Nowadays, the sales of Fuxing mobile phones in the international market are almost always based on the sales plan of cooperating with local telecom operators to launch contract phones.

   And the 40% down payment is enough to rejuvenate the mobile phone to pay the down payment of various mobile phone providers.

   This is a common model in the industry. One defaults on the other, and everyone likes to keep themselves more abundant cash flow, and at the same time, they can also lie in the bank to earn some interest money.

   After a while, the press conference was over. Guo Binglian invited Xia Jingxing to attend the celebration banquet held on other floors of the Cultural Oriental Hotel.

   After simply taking two bites and drinking a few more glasses of wine, Xia Jingxing declined Guo Binglian's retention and left.

  Guo Binglian, he felt that he could not make friends.

  Because Brother Hao felt that it was too refreshing to get money after tying eldest brother Li Yikai, and then tied Guo Binglian's eldest brother Guo Bingxiang, and went further and further on the road of making money.

   However, the Guo family was not as happy as Li Huangtai when they gave the money. Guo Binglian and his second brother Guo Bingjiang dawdled when they paid the money, arguing endlessly over who would bear the ransom.

   This directly caused the two's elder brother Guo Bingxiang to suffer a lot of torture. In the end, Guo Bingxiang's wife went to the meeting alone and redeemed her husband who had been imprisoned for six days with 600 million Hong Kong dollars.

Because of this incident, Guo Bingxiang's temperament changed greatly, he no longer trusts his family, and even his brothers broke up with each other. Later, he reported the bribery of the two younger brothers to the ICAC, causing the second child Guo Bingjiang to eat national meals for more than five years. He didn't live long before he died of illness.

  Guo Binglian, who was lucky to escape, was finally able to take charge of the new Hongji business empire with hundreds of billions of assets, but the price was that one of the two brothers died in depression, and the other was imprisoned for more than five years.

   This is how he treats his own brothers and sisters, so what should he do to outsiders?

   Therefore, Xia Jingxing had absolutely no intention of having a deep friendship with Guo Binglian, so he retreated after discussing the business.

   Sitting in the car, Xia Jingxing sighed with emotion, there are so many stories of grievances and grievances in this place on Hong Kong Island, and even he started to worry about how to pass on his business empire in the future.

   As a handsome 24-year-old boy, he suddenly felt that he was a little unfounded.

   dispelled the distracting thoughts in his mind, Xia Jingxing looked out the window.

   At this time, the car happened to pass by the Exchange Square.

   This reminded Xia Jingxing of Huang Shengguo, the Korean guy showed him a plan and persuaded him to join together.

  I don't know how that guy prepared.

   Just when Xia Jingxing was thinking, the phone that Liu Xiaoduo, who was sitting in the front row, was carrying rang.

   She picked up the phone and looked at it, then immediately turned her head to the back seat and said, "Mr. Xia, Bill Huang's phone number."

  Xia Jingxing's whole person's spirit was instantly lifted a lot, he held out his hand and said, "Give me the phone!"

   (end of this chapter)