Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Story of the Chaebol

"Boss, I've already reached an agreement with Mr. Chang."

"With Boss Chang's help, I'm not worried about whether our two weekly magazines can open up the market, but the question is, can you collect all the manuscripts?"

"There is no problem with Wuxia Weekly. Ever since Mr. Jin Gu Liang Wen appeared, the domestic martial arts novel market has been quite hot. The editorial department has already received dozens of martial arts novel manuscripts. On the contrary, there is still no clue about Chemistry Weekly!"

Hu Cheng scratched his head when he thought of "Chemical Weekly". When he first wanted to establish this weekly magazine, Hu Cheng had already considered the difficulties.

But now that he had really started to work on it, he realized that the difficulties he had thought of beforehand were nothing at all at the moment. The real headache was that the weekly magazine simply did not receive any papers suitable for publication in the magazine.

"There's no need to rush this matter for now. You can have people reprint foreign papers first. During this time, you can have the newspaper contact the experts who published these papers and pay them the appropriate amount of royalties. If they can submit special articles to our weekly magazine, we can also increase the amount of royalties. No matter what, let's keep this weekly magazine alive first."

"Boss, have you ever considered that this weekly magazine might not be able to make any money at all?"

"Do you think I'm short of money?"

Sun Tong looked at Hu Cheng unhappily. Others might not know how much Sun Tong is worth now.

But as one of the earliest people to follow Sun Tong, Hu Cheng still had a rough guess about Sun Tong's worth.

After hearing what Sun Tong said, Hu Cheng thought about it for a moment and realized that his boss really was not short of money.

"Boss, what do you mean?"

"I have plenty of money now, but what I lack right now is influence. If you can make this Chemistry journal famous, wouldn't it also give me more face when I communicate with those foreigners in the future? I think the magazine should just open two more journals and call them Physics. What do you think?"

"That's not necessary, is it?"

"Let's start the magazine first, and we'll see if it will be successful later!"

"Yes, I will go and gather the manpower later!"

"It's good that you know all this. I feel relieved to let you take care of the newspaper. Next, the company will start recruiting refugees from China to immigrate to Comoros. At that time, I will need to set up a newspaper there to publicize the policy, so you need to prepare a person in charge of the newspaper in advance."

"The Gauls agreed to sell Comoros to us?"

"Well, the news just came back yesterday, 10 million pounds!"

"Tsk tsk, you really do a good business."

"I don't care about the money. It's enough to successfully buy Comoros from the Gauls. It will become the company's base in Africa, so the company's main energy will be used to build Comoros. By then, I might have to go there to take charge, so domestic affairs can only rely on you and Zhihua to look after them."

"Boss, Africa is too dangerous. There's no need for you to go there in person, right?"

"It is necessary, but there is no rush. Let's increase the number of immigrants there first."

After finishing the conversation with Hu Cheng, Hu Cheng did not stay in Sun Tong's manor for long and returned directly to the company. At this time, Fang Zhihua had been waiting for Sun Tong outside for more than an hour.

"Zhihua, you must be impatient. Sit down first and try my tea."

"Boss, you really enjoy it. Is this Longjing before the rain? I must taste it today."

"If you like, take some with you when you leave. I have arranged for someone to buy quite a lot."

In this era, productivity is low and the scale of tea cultivation in Longguo has not been increased, so ordinary Longjing is not something that ordinary people can get on weekdays, let alone Longjing before the rain.

"That's great, thank you, boss."

Looking at Fang Zhihua sitting in front of him, Sun Tong felt complicated.

This guy is different from Hu Cheng. Hu Cheng not only has a high level of education but also has studied abroad. Compared with Hu Cheng, Fang Zhihua's academic qualifications are not impressive. Born in a traditional merchant family, he only studied in a private school for a few years in his early years. Later, his family fell into poverty. In order to take on the responsibility of supporting his family, this guy went straight to the Magic City and worked in a foreign company.

Compared with Hu Cheng, Fang Zhihua is smooth and mercenary. Also, because this guy has worked for foreigners, Sun Tong has always been wary of him.

But Sun Tong also knew that his idea was unfair to Fang Zhihua. Apart from his inferior background to Hu Cheng, the contributions he had made for Sun Tong over the years were no less than those of the other party, on the contrary, better than his.

As for loyalty, before the final result comes out, how can Sun Tong guarantee that Hu Cheng is definitely more loyal than Fang Zhihua?

"Mr. Fang, I have no problem with your proposal. As you said, the clothing industry does have great potential, but our factory follows the path of industrialization with small profits but quick turnover, so we should not compete with those high-end products for the market. Not to mention offending people, the key point is that the scale of the high-end market itself is so small that there is not much room for operation."

"What do you mean, boss?"

"Outsiders may not know the production cost of polyester, but don't we know how low it is? We can produce work clothes and military uniforms. These two markets alone are enough for Foxconn. In addition, we cannot relax in the research and development of nylon. Compared with polyester, nylon is the top priority."

"You can rest assured about this, boss. The factory's laboratory has never given up on researching several new materials. With the current research and development progress, we will be able to produce nylon in one to two years!"

"Just let those researchers do their best. There's no need to put such a tight ring on them."

"Yes!"

"It's getting late. Don't leave in a hurry. Stay and have lunch first."

Fang Zhihua has followed Sun Tong for almost two years. As the oldest person to follow Sun Tong, this is the first time that Sun Tong has invited Fang Zhihua to have dinner at his home. How could Fang Zhihua not be flattered?

In the past, there had always been an invisible and intangible gap between him and Sun Tong. Not only Sun Tong knew this, but Fang Zhihua also knew it very well. He originally thought that this gap would gradually disappear over time, but it turned out that he had to wait for more than two years.

Fortunately, this gap is slowly disappearing. Fang Zhihua is not sure why Sun Tong has changed like this, but this change is good for Fang Zhihua anyway.