"Old Guo, let me tell you something."

"A newspaper is something that needs to be operated step by step."

"Now is the best time to acquire it. If you wait two years, the price may not be the same."

Lin Yifeng did not explain it very clearly.

Because he understood better than anyone that in two or three years, when radios became widespread, the times would change.

Not to mention the MP3 craze before the millennium, which halved the price of semiconductor radios, and people relied more on things like newspapers.

It can be said that from 1994 onwards, the newspaper was thriving, with various national magazines and newspapers emerging one after another, until the advent of the Internet era brought an end to its momentum.

In the car, Guo Fengsheng was also introducing their destination to Lin Yifeng – the "Mountain City Life Daily".

...

In a dilapidated courtyard near the outskirts of Shanyang City.

Countless young men and women were busy in the yard. Some were sweeping the dust in the yard, while a few were carrying basins of water and trying to sprinkle water into the yard.

If it weren't for the six large characters "Shancheng Life Daily" on the sign at the entrance, passersby might have thought someone was having a wedding and was busy preparing for a spring cleaning.

However, for the people who work at the newspaper, today is undoubtedly a joyous day.

Beside the sign at the entrance, on a few simple chairs made of bluestone and wooden planks, a middle-aged man, who was a little older, was diligently rubbing his homemade pipe.

The marks of time were etched around the man's eyes, while the other man silently rubbed his tobacco, his face full of sorrow.

A girl with two braids, dressed simply, approached me carrying a stack of brown paper bags.

"Editor-in-chief, why do you think this person would take a liking to our newspaper?"

Liu Shengxing flicked his tobacco, pulled a crumpled box of matches from his pocket, and casually grumbled a couple of times.

"Who cares about his ball?"

"As long as he doesn't mess with labor and management, he can do whatever he wants."

Seeing that the editor-in-chief did not answer her question, the girl with the braided hair could only leave dejectedly.

Liu Shengsheng, however, was smoking a cigarette but looked like he had a headache.

Compared to other cities, the living environment of the Shanyang City Newspaper Office was completely different.

Generally speaking, in addition to national newspapers, a city will have three to four local newspapers competing with each other.

But Shanyang City is different; their city only has two newspapers.

One is the *Shancheng Daily*, and the other is the *Shancheng Life Daily*.

The former sells at least hundreds or thousands of newspapers in Shanyang City every day.

The latter can only be hoped for if they can sell 500 servings per week.

Sometimes, when they manage to sell a thousand copies a week, the entire newspaper office celebrates for two or three days.

If you ask where the other newspapers in Shanyang City went?

Given the overwhelming dominance of the Mountain City Daily, other newspapers either couldn't hold on and dissolved, or all their staff were reorganized and absorbed into the Mountain City Daily's ranks.

The fact that the Mountain City Life Daily has survived to this day is, to put it bluntly, only because the entire newspaper is working out of love for the people.

Everyone was gritting their teeth and persevering in keeping the newspaper running.

When I met Guo Fengsheng a few times, I learned from him that someone wanted to acquire their newspaper.

Liu Shengxing was both happy and worried.

The good news was that the newspaper finally saw a glimmer of hope, as the other party was the manager of Wallace and Mixue Ice Cream, which were currently very popular in Shanyang City.

Liu Shengxing's concern is that this might be another acquisition tactic employed by the Chongqing Daily.

After all, the Chongqing Daily had never used this method before, but Liu Shengxing saw through it, and the acquisition fell through.

The reason why Liu Shengxing wanted to fight the Mountain City Daily to the end.

It was just to prove myself.

Just as Liu Shengxing took a couple of puffs of his cigarette, he saw a crew-cut man waving happily at them from the dirt road not far away.

"They're here! They're here!"

"They drove a big Jinbei van!"

"They'll be here soon!"

Upon hearing this, everyone in the courtyard stopped what they were doing, their faces beaming with joy.

Liu Shengxing gradually got up, tidied his makeup, and was about to throw the cigarette he had only taken a couple of puffs of on the ground to extinguish it, but he hesitated for a moment, then just rubbed it out with his fingers and put the remaining half back in the cigarette case.

Not long after, a Jinbei minivan stopped in front of the courtyard.

All the newspaper staff members came to the door to greet them.

Guo Fengsheng got out of the car and greeted him with a smile.

"Editor-in-Chief Liu, this is the boss I told you about who wanted to acquire your company."

Let me introduce you.

"Lin Yifeng, Boss Lin."

Liu Shengxing looked up and sized up Lin Yifeng.

He was not tall to begin with, and being a bit old, his body was somewhat hunched from working day and night.

He was noticeably shorter than Lin Yifeng when standing in front of him.

However, as Liu Shengxing looked at the young face in front of him, his worries grew stronger.

On the contrary, many young women from newspapers behind him blushed when they saw Lin Yifeng and dared not meet his gaze.

Needless to say, Lin Yifeng's smiling, sunny, and handsome appearance is still very eye-catching.

For these girls who were oblivious to the world and buried themselves in writing newspapers every day, Lin Yifeng was a type of boy they had never seen before.

Not only that, before they even arrived, everyone had already assumed that Lin Yifeng was "rich".

After meeting him in person, Lin Yifeng truly embodied the phrase "tall, rich, and handsome."

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