Moreover, their reporters seemed to have known for a long time that the Asia Times would take such measures to deal with Jin Yong's poaching, and today's news was in cooperation with the Asia Times.
"The equity-sharing model of the Asia Daily may lead a new trend in the newspaper industry" - under the headline, this approach of allowing core authors to share the fruits of success was praised as a "very far-sighted strategic investment" that "truly puts people first and respects creativity," and is expected to inspire greater creative enthusiasm and create a new model for newspaper management.
The praise for Kobayashi Tenmo himself was unreserved, with him being called "a genius entrepreneur", "a cultural promoter with unique vision", and "a man who brought new vitality to the dull Hong Kong newspaper industry". Even "Dragon Jump" was praised as "an outstanding product of the intersection of multiple cultures".
This undisguised and even abrupt show of goodwill is like throwing a huge rock into a calm pond.
The well-informed Chinese business community in Hong Kong, especially those tycoons who had weathered numerous financial crises, sensed no kindness, but rather a chilling sense of foreboding. "Something's wrong...definitely not right."
In the tea room of a private club in Central, several Chinese tycoons looked solemn.
"British newspapers have always been arrogant, so why would they praise a journalist with a Japanese background so much?
And they chose to show their goodwill when he was clashing with local Chinese newspapers?"
"The storm is brewing... When will these foreigners do useless work?
How can this be considered as praising Kobayashi Tenbo?
It is clearly Xiang Zhuang dancing with a sword, aiming at Pei Gong!
Are they thinking that this troublemaker, Kobayashi Tenmo, can be used as a sharp blade to tear apart our Chinese capital's front line?"
A white-haired old man analyzed in a deep voice, with alarm bells ringing in his heart.
The deepest worries then arose in everyone's mind: this Kobayashi Tenwang, such a young Japanese visitor, even though he is essentially Chinese, has only been in Hong Kong Island for more than a month, and his influence has expanded like a balloon, from comics to newspaper media.
Now that the endorsement of British capital has been so blatantly offered, does it mean that this ambitious and eccentric young man is about to extend his tentacles to broader and more core areas beyond the print media industry - finance and industry?
This vague worry was ruthlessly confirmed by the explosive news from the exchange just a few hours later.
In the afternoon, the stock exchange market in Hong Kong was still rudimentary. At that time, the United Exchange had not yet been established and transactions were scattered across multiple exchanges.
There is a lot of turmoil in these trading markets.
The traders' shouts were more rapid and tense than usual, and the phones rang one after another.
All kinds of gossip and confirmed instructions were spread like wildfire among the brokerage seats like they had wings, and finally converged into a piece of news that shocked the entire market: Longteng Newspaper and its actual controller Kobayashi Tianwang were buying up stocks in the market on a large scale!
The targets are not blue chips, but stocks of several Chinese listed companies with mediocre performance and low market capitalization.
The businesses of these companies range from clothing manufacturing, plastic toys, small-scale real estate development and even an older food factory.
For a long time, their stock prices have been like salted fish, fluctuating at low levels, with few people interested in them, and they have been nicknamed "junk stocks" by the industry.
However, on this seemingly ordinary afternoon, with the massive entry of mysterious buyers, the price curves of these stocks suddenly became steeper, the trading volume increased sharply, the buying surged, and the stock prices began to rise against the trend as if injected with a shot of adrenaline!
Even more shocking news followed.
According to reliable sources, among several companies that were targeted for buying, the shareholding ratio of Longteng Press or Kobayashi Tenwang personally and his related parties has reached and exceeded the offer disclosure line of 5%!
Moreover, Kobayashi Tenmo's side was extremely high-profile and strong, and publicly stated through the spokesperson of Longteng Newspaper Group: it required the relevant listed companies to hold shareholders' meetings immediately and to allocate a board seat to them or their designated representatives according to their shareholding ratio.
The news was like boiling oil dropped into cold water, causing an instant uproar.
"Buzz!" In the study of the Huo family mansion, when the trusted subordinate on the other end of the phone anxiously and incredulously reported that Kobayashi Tianwang had successfully taken over the board of directors of the two companies, Huo Zhen stood up abruptly, and his handsome face turned ashen in an instant.
His fingers holding the microphone even trembled slightly with anger.
Yesterday evening, at a cocktail party, he casually used the words "nobody" and "director without real job" to ridicule the other party for having shallow roots in Hong Kong Island and lacking the "hard status" recognized by the real upper class.
The contemptuous words that came with the natural sense of superiority of a child from aristocratic family are still fresh in my mind.
However, after only one night and half a day, reality gave him such a loud slap in the face!
"Waste! All of you waste!
Why didn't any of you notice Xiaolin Tianwang's obvious stock market moves in advance? How could he quietly acquire shares in so many companies?
Huo Zhenting growled, suppressing the urge to smash the phone, his voice icy cold.
In addition to the huge humiliation of being slapped in the face on the spot, he also felt an uncontrollable shock: Kobayashi Tianwang's execution ability is too terrifying!
In one day, a large amount of shares were accumulated, the shareholding limit was broken, a demand for board seats was made, and the boards of directors of the two companies were quickly forced to give in and agree - how much capital was needed to mobilize this?
How many joints are opened?
This action is simply a blitzkrieg!
The other party seemed to have already prepared the funds and plans, just waiting for the moment when he made that sarcastic remark and would immediately launch a thundering attack!
After hanging up the phone, he walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window with a gloomy face.
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