Legend of Xiangjiang Tycoon

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The ancestral home of the Hu family is Zhongkeng Township, Yongding County, Fujian Province. Hu Ziqin, a native of the village, went to Nanyang alone to make a living in 1861. With his little knowledge of Chinese medicine, he opened a Chinese medicine shop in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar—Yongantang. There are three sons in Hu Ziqin's biography, all of whom are of the "Wen" character generation, and the characters are arranged in order of "Dragon, Tiger and Leopard".

The eldest son, Wenlong, died young, leaving two brothers, Hu Wenhu and Hu Wenbao.

When Hu Wenhu was 10 years old, his father sent him back to his hometown to study in a private school.

There are no recreational activities in the countryside, and the slaughter of cattle will surely attract a large number of villagers to stop and watch.

Among them must be Hu Wenhu, a Nanyang boy. Seeing the white knives entering and the red knives coming out, Hu Wenhu clapped his hands, jumped and laughed. In the eyes of "Tiger Cub" at that time, the butcher was the greatest figure in the world.

Impressed by his ears and eyes, Hu Wenhu began to play with a knife. If he caught a field mouse or a wild bird, he would use the knife to torture him alive.

When encountering pigs, dogs and big animals, they will either draw wicker or throw stones at them.

As its name suggests, tiger cubs are a bit aggressive in front of animals.

Hu Wenhu is active by nature and hates going to school, which makes his husband very troubled.

One day, Mr. taught children to recite the three-character scripture: "Horses, cattle and sheep, chickens, dogs and hogs, these six animals are fed by people." What do people eat? Hu Wenhu suddenly thought of the wonderful scene of slaughtering the animals and the delicious aroma of the animals after cooking, so he forgot to chant scriptures in response to the sound, and the animals ran in his mind, spilling blood on the ground.

Seeing that his mind was absent-minded, the gentleman yelled, raised his ruler abruptly, and struck at the top of his round head. Tiger Cub reacted quickly, and suddenly took a few steps back. When he landed, he was already holding a shiny knife in his hand.

Mr. Shu was angry with business, when he saw the knife, his face turned pale with fright, and he withdrew his ruler, hoping that the tiger cub would show mercy.

The next year when my father returned to his hometown, the husband complained: "Your tiger cub is so stubborn that he threatened the old man with a knife in front of all the children. The old man's dignity has been disgraced, and he has no face to be a teacher. He dare not teach him any more."

In the old days, it was only natural for teachers to beat students, and the dignity of teachers was paramount.

The father was so angry that he called his son an evil animal and transferred him to another private school. Hu Wenhu is still stubborn, if Mr. punishes him, he will resist it.

Hu Wenhu became a reporter, and he often talked with people about his stubbornness in childhood, saying that he did not have a good foundation in literature, and he felt very sorry.

Hu Ziqin returned to his hometown again, Huzai had been kicked out of the school by his husband, and he was transferred to two private schools in 4 years. The family members had no choice.

Hu Ziqin brought Hu Zai back to Yangon and asked him to be a helper in his shop.

Hu Ziqin is both a strict father and a loving father. After all, Tiger Cub is young. Apart from studying medicine, his father allows him to have fun. The principle is that he should not harm people or animals.

Yangon is not considered a bustling city, so it makes no sense to go back and forth a few more times.

Hu Wenhu's old addiction relapsed, and he abused animals for fun.

Hu Ziqin firmly believes that birds such as quail and white pigeons are the best nourishment, which opened the door for his son's hobby of cruelty to animals - Hu Wenhu took care of the slaughter.

He first plucked the feathers of the birds, the whole body of the birds was red, they had no wings to fly, they could only jump and jump on the ground, Wen Hu thought it was fun.

Tired of playing, Wenhu slaughtered it with a knife, cut the neck, or cut the abdomen. It was more enjoyable than eating animals.

Among the birds, You Shuiqi has the most tenacious vitality. He has been dead for a long time, but he can still come back to life.

The father found out that his son was abusing animals and reprimanded him. Wen Hu asked: "Why did Shui Qiu come back to life after a long time?"

My father couldn't answer for a while, so he had to use Yin-Yang and Five Elements to perfunctory. Since then, Wenhu abused animals without hindrance.

Some people imagined that Hu Wenhu's abusive words and deeds happened in today's Xiangjiang, which would definitely arouse public indignation, and be charged with "animal cruelty" by the Animal Love Association and be brought to justice.

In that era, human abusers abounded, and animal abuse was nothing.

Hu Wenhu's hobby of cruelty to animals persisted until he married a wife and started a family. Suddenly one day, he found out his conscience and changed his past.

Hu Wenhu often talked about this matter with his friends.

This year, Hu Wenhu suffered from boils and was in great pain. He lay on the bed and asked his apprentice to kill a quail and stew it with medicinal soup.

The apprentice is well versed in the eccentricity of the young boss. After plucking his hair, he puts it under the bed to please the young boss.

Hu Wenhu was drowsy and fell asleep. When he woke up, he suddenly found a bright thing slowly wriggling on the ground. Hu Wenhu was terrified. Dingqing saw that it was a quail that had shed its hair. The quail was pitiful and terrified.

Hu Wenhu was very sad for a while, he had a boil, and he was in great pain; a little animal spirit, with its hair pulled out, had nowhere to escape, waiting for people to torture and kill for fun, wouldn't it be even more painful! From then on, Hu Wenhu no longer abused animals.

Of course, it is not like a monk who does not kill and abstain from meat and fish. He kills and eats meat as usual, just in response to an old saying of the ancients: kill with a sharp knife, and die without regret.

Hu Wenhu's non-abuse of animals does not mean that he has completely lost his playfulness.

In the lively places of Chinatown in Yangon, you can often see the figure of Hu Wenhu in high spirits.

Hu Wenhu likes to show off, so he has a bad reputation among overseas Chinese from Fujian.

His father, Hu Ziqin, was old and sick, and the expatriates discussed privately: If Mount Tai fell, how would Hu Ziqin support the foundation established by his late father?

In 1908, Hu Ziqin passed away. Hu Wenhu was twenty-eight years old. As the elder brother, Ke Shao Jiqiu was in charge of the Yong'an Hall left by his late father.

One day, Hu Wenhu ransacked all the cash in the store, including thousands of kyats, and exchanged them for Hong Kong dollars, and then took a British liner to Xiangjiang.

The news spread like wildfire, and Chinatown was buzzing. It is said that the eldest son of the Hu family is not under the control of his father now, so he emptied his family and went to the feasting Xiangjiang to get drunk and die.

What's more, the Hu family has a second ancestor, and the foundation of the millennium is about to be wiped out.

Hu Wenhu is far away in Yangon, and his virtue of cruelty to animals and idleness has become famous overseas, and several medicinal materials shops in Xiangjiang are familiar with it.

But the son belongs to the son, and the father belongs to the father. No matter how ridiculous the son is, it will not affect the father's business.

The medicinal materials of Yongantang are all purchased by Xiangjiang. After a long time of trading, Xiangjiang medicinal materials often deliver the goods against the receipt, and then wait for the remittance of the money.

Hu Wenhu has now come to Xiangjiang to sell gold. He is not here to sprinkle silver paper and gold coins to satisfy his six desires, but to use money to buy back the reputation established by his late father.

Hu Wenhu repays the debt for his father, the bosses of the medicine shop are overjoyed, and all prejudice against Wenhu is wiped out.

They competed to give medicines to Hu Wenhu on credit in order to maintain the friendly relationship with Yong'an Church.

In the future, when Hu Wenhu buys medicines, he only needs a paper invoice, and the medicines will be sent from Xiangjiang to Yangon.

Hu Wenhu changed his mind, and Yong'an Hall also took on a new look, and the daily turnover rose to 100 dong.

Hu Wenhu later said: "When my father was there, Brother Leopard and I were able to enjoy the shade under the big tree and just pass by. Only after my father let go, I realized that I couldn't pass by just by passing by. The big family depends on the pharmacy for maintenance. So I secretly swore , we must do well. Let people see whether our Hubao brothers are ladzi (capable people) or the second generation ancestors."

The Tiger and Leopard Brothers worked together to develop Chinese patent medicines such as Panacea Oil, Bagua Dan, Qingkuaishui, and Touou San.

"Tiger" is the trademark, and Yong'an Tang is full of dragons and tigers, jumping out of Chinatown, and "tiger" down to Yangon Street - it is a pharmacy for Haw Pao. Tiger Balm is the best-selling brand of Panacea.

Panacea balm is more effective and less expensive, and it is very suitable for the diseases and consumption levels of residents in tropical regions. The full name of tiger balm is very special:

Many countries in Southeast Asia do not implement patent protection for drugs. When a new drug comes out, other manufacturers can copy it. Before long, there were several brands of balm on the market, competing with Tiger Balm.

Hu Wenhu was very annoyed, but there was nothing he could do. One day, Hu Wenhu was walking on the streets of Yangon when he suddenly felt urgent to urinate.

At that time, there were very few toilets on the streets of Yangon, and Burmese people carried "toilets" with them. Both men and women wore skirts, and they squatted down to form a small barrier.

The Chinese don't have this convenience. Hu Wenhu walked a few steps and saw no one around, so he released water to the corner. The water was so fierce that it rushed out of a small pit, revealing a baby.

This treasure is a glass medicine bottle discarded by the church hospital, small and exquisite, really cute. Hu Wenhu was so childlike, he picked it up, cleaned it, and played with it in his hands.

At that time, Yangon was still relatively backward, and glassware had not yet been popularized. Tiger Balm is bottled in porcelain, and other manufacturers do the same.

Hu Wenhu suddenly became enlightened and inspired: why not use this small glass bottle of panacea? He once inquired about the price of glassware in Xiangjiang, which was much cheaper than porcelain.

Soon, Tiger Balm came out in small glass bottles. Due to the small quantity and low price, the grassroots can afford it, and it is easy to carry, the sales of Tiger Balm have surged to the top again.

The current small metal box packaging was not invented by Hu Wenhu.

The inventors are said to be from Shanghai, and others are from Xiaobenzi. However, Hu Wenhu was one of the first adopters and sold the most.

Elderly readers will definitely remember Nanyang Tiger Balm. At that time, every family had this kind of medicine.

The Tiger and Leopard Brothers, Leopard Shouli, Tiger Master Wai—take care of procurement and sales, and are also the head of family affairs.

Tiger Balm is the best in Myanmar, and also has a certain reputation in Southeast Asian countries.

Yangon is not an important port on the South Seas, so Hu Wenhu decided to go to Xingzhou (Singapore).

Hu Wenbao is more conservative and opposes Brother Hu's idea. Hu Wenhu is optimistic about the "fat" piece of Xingzhou, and the tiger looks at it for a long time, turning a deaf ear to Brother Bao's advice.

The focus of the family business gradually moved to Xingzhou.

Hu Wenhu's awareness of advertising started from the establishment of Xingzhou.

Xingzhou is the thoroughfare of the sea, and merchants and tourists travel from south to north, affecting the entire East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the South Pacific.

Except for the permanent residents, time does not allow these sea visitors to slowly accept Tiger Balm's medicines.

It must impress them all at once. This is Hu Wenhu's original idea.

He printed Tiger Balm's promotional materials and brought them to Xingzhou. He was too embarrassed to post them during the day, for fear that people would laugh at him.

When it was getting dark, he asked a strong fellow from Fujian to be his helper.

Seeing a good location, the fellow squatted down, and the big brother Hu stepped on his shoulders. The fellow stood up slowly, and Brother Hu put on the promotional materials.

After a few nights, the streets and alleys of Xingzhou can be seen everywhere.

With a little capital, Hu Wenhu advertised in newspapers. He has no culture, but the advertisement is ingenious.

For example, in the advertisement of Panacea Oil, first there is a girl who is so enchanting and charming that all the men salivate when they see her; unfortunately, the girl is bitten by a poisonous mosquito, and a pimple the size of a goose egg grows on the girl's pretty face. The girl wiped Tiger Balm, the bullae disappeared, and her appearance was as beautiful as before; all the men stuck out their tongues several feet, and wanted to embrace the girl and kiss, shouting: "Miss Tiger Balm is beautiful!"

The comic style is extremely exaggerated, which makes people laugh, and the effect is naturally stronger than that of literary advertisements.

Hu Wenhu does not give up any opportunity to advertise. He is unwilling to be lonely and good at self-promotion. One day, he went to Yangcheng to sell Tiger Balm medicines. He passed by Xiguan in the evening, and saw the bustle in front of the theater.

A huge flower basket hangs on the gate of the theater, with the words "convenient for hospital performances and other funds" written on it.

Hu Wenhu knew it was a charity performance, and the box office proceeds were donated to charity. I thought to myself: This is great. I can do good deeds, feast my eyes, and show off.

Hu Wenhu went straight to the box office and asked in Cantonese, "How much is your most expensive seat (yuan)?"

The box office manager saw that this person was "speaking disrespectfully", he must have a lot of background, so he didn't dare to be negligent, first greeted Hu Wenhu for tea, and immediately sent someone to invite the leader of the fundraising committee.

Hu Wenhu bought a special seat at a record high price of 500 yuan, surrounded by members of the organizing committee, swaggered and sat in the special seat in the center of the front row. The members of the preparatory committee are all famous people in Yangcheng, and Hu Wenhu is worth a hundred times, like many stars.

The audience in the back row stood up and looked around, and the members of the organizing committee introduced Hu Wenhu to the audience, saying that this benevolent man is Yunyun, the famous king of panacea oil in Nanyang.

After the speech, there was thunderous applause, and even the famous Cantonese opera actors behind the scenes opened a corner to take a look.

Hu Wenhu didn't pay much attention to what plays were performed that day, he was too excited on the one hand, and was busy answering interviews from newspaper reporters on the other hand.

The next day, many newspapers in Yangcheng published Hu Wenhu's righteous deed.

It is said that he is a wealthy man in Nanyang, and he is a close friend with Mr. Chen from Nanyang. The Tiger Balm created by Tiger Balm has poured over Nanyang, and it is famous in Kyushu, China. , A mere five hundred yuan last night was Mr. Hu’s stingy ears, wet and broken (small meaning). They are all Spring and Autumn brushwork. Naturally, the reporters were quickly trained by Hu Wenhu overnight.

Hu Wenhu often mentioned this to people: "I donated 500 yuan, and I watched movies and did good deeds. I replaced my Tiger Balm with a big publicity, and it was worth (value)!"

Hu Wenhu will never forget the adventure of that night, and he narrates it clearly and logically.

The hateful thing is that the repertoires he listed are always wrong in the beginning and the end of the sentence, and there are innovations every time. At the end, he also pulls in the titles of Fujian operas and even movie titles, making the listeners spit rice when eating and water when drinking tea. .

From this incident, it can be seen that Hu Wenhu has hidden wisdom in his clumsiness and pushes himself. In Sin Chew, he was an active member of the Hokkien Chinese community.

Although Hu Wenhu is the king of panacea, panacea is a small business after all. No matter how big the business is, it will not be much bigger. How can it compare with the wealthy businessmen who deal in rubber, shipping, foreign goods, and domestic goods? Hu Wenhu's ability to win considerable fame and status is not unrelated to his carefree personality and fire-like enthusiasm.

Soon, Hu Wenhu made everyone awe-inspiring. He proposed to build a larger guild hall and donated 5,000 Singapore dollars for the first time.

Brother Hu is the owner of a small pharmacy, and even Mr. Chen, who donated so much to found Mindu University, admires this move.

Hu Wenhu makes many friends, he doesn't stick to trifles, and there are not too many gossips, so it's hard to know if it's true or not.

It is said that Brother Hu went to Yangcheng once, and his friends in Yangcheng greeted him in a restaurant, and offered him a dish—eat it alive

Monkey brain.

The monkey is tied to the shackles at the bottom of the table, and there is a circular gap on the table top, and the monkey's head just supports the gap. When eating, the waiter cuts a hole in the monkey's head, and the diners use a small silver spoon to scoop up the brains and eat it. Died in screams.

My friends in Yangcheng were afraid that the Fujianese and Hu Wenhu would not be used to eating them, and they were even more worried that they would lose their appetite when they heard the monkey's screams, so they tied the monkey's mouth in advance so that it could not scream.

When Hu Wenhu came to the table, he saw a piece of fur on the table, so he knew what it was. He volunteered to dig open the lid of the sky, and found that the monkey didn't bark, so he poked his head to look.

The friends from Yangcheng saw that the guests had no fear, so they felt relieved. In the sound of the monkey's exhaustion, everyone happily ate the monkey's marrow.

Afterwards, I asked Hu Wenhu: "Do you often eat this dish?" Hu Wenhu said: "This is the first time." Everyone was shocked, and said: "Looking at your familiarity, I can't believe that you are the first time to get started. You are indeed Brother Hu!" Hu said: "I have liked to abuse animals since I was a child..."

Before he finished speaking, Hu Wenhu remembered the oath he had made, and vomited, turning the world upside down. If you talk about cruelty to animals, eating the monkey head dish alive is the most cruel!

After that, Hu Wenhu never ate this dish again. He built the Tiger and Leopard Villa and sculpted many lovely animals. It is said that he felt guilty about the fault of cruelty to animals, and expressed his sincerity in loving animals.

According to the materials disclosed by Sing Tao Newspaper Co., Ltd. when it issued shares to the public in 1972, Hu Wenhu and Hu Wenbao brothers founded the newspaper, which began in Yangon, Myanmar in 1909.

Strictly speaking, the newspaper founded by the Hu brothers at that time was not a formal newsprint, but a printed matter of drug advertisements, which somewhat imitated the newspaper in form, and recorded a few local lace news in the gaps.

Hu Wenhu really wanted to run a newspaper in the mid-twenties. Yong'an Church has set up a branch in Shanghai. The scale of Shanghai is very large. It is unrealistic to use the traditional method of posting promotional materials, and the effect is not great. As early as when he set up branches in Xiangjiang and Yangcheng, Hu Wenhu had done newspaper advertisements, and this time he was even more generous in Shanghai.

The advertising is very effective and expensive, and Hu Wenhu, who has always had a lot of money, feels distressed.

He often thinks, if I have a newspaper, I can save this advertising fee, and the newspaper can still make money for me.

Hu Wenhu often goes to print publicity materials, and understands the cost of printing a newspaper; he has also contacted some people in the newspaper office, so he has a little idea of ​​the general cost and operation. Hu Wenhu's idea is: as long as the newspaper does not lose money, it will be considered profitable - because it saves amazing advertising costs.

Hu Wenhu returns to Xingzhou and talks with Baodi about his idea of ​​running a newspaper. Hu Wenbao has some concerns. As the saying goes, "if you don't know anything well, you can't do it." Being a businessman is a taboo in the business world.

Hu Wenhu put out his reasoning, and Brother Leopard was convinced. The two brothers re-divided labor, Brother Hu ran the newspaper, and Brother Leopard sold medicine.

Hu Wenhu's old friend was shocked when he heard about it. Brother Hu is a tiger merchant, and he writes letters without words. How can he do the delicate work of a scholar? Seeing Hu Wenhu, he joked with him, saying that he was "arty in sheep's clothing". Hu Wenhu said: "Don't forget, there is a word 'Wen' in my name."

Hu Wenhu has a capable partner, Deng Lisheng, a Confucian businessman from Jiangxi. The two operate as a partnership, with Hu Wenhu as the chairman and responsible for distribution; Deng Lisheng as the general manager and responsible for compiling the newspaper. There are only a few editors and reporters in the newspaper, a small amount of local news, and most of the manuscripts are excerpted from newspapers and periodicals in various places.

In addition, Tiger Balm's series of proprietary drug advertisements are essential, otherwise Hu Wenhu would not run the newspaper.

Half a year later, Deng Lisheng resigned and transferred the stock to Hu Wenhu. The reason is probably that the income of the newspaper is very small, and the real profit is the free advertising of the Hu family. so.

"Sin Chew Daily" became a newspaper solely owned by the Hu family.

The post of general manager was taken over by Lin Aimin, a fellow from Fujian Province. Lin is a pure literati who regards running a newspaper as a career. With Lin's unremitting efforts, the newspaper business is booming. Previously, there was a "Nanyang Siang Pau" in Sin Chew, which had a large number of readers in Singapore and Malaysia. "Sin Chew Daily" came out, breaking the pattern of "Nanyang Siang Pau" dominating the world. Therefore, the competition between the two newspapers is fierce, and they are irreconcilable.

In 1935, Hu Wenhu invested in the purchase of a new type of lithographic roll printing machine, and added the noon edition of "Xingzhong Daily", which greatly strengthened the local characteristics of the two newspapers. The Star and the Business Daily stand side by side, and neither can shake the other.

Hu Wenhu has made a great success in teaching, is full of interest, and is determined to become the king of the newspaper industry. Since the 1930s, the newly created newspapers include: "Star Daily" in Xingzhou, "Starlight Daily" in Xiamen, "Sing Tao Daily", "Sing Tao Evening News", "Sing Tao Morning News" in Xiangjiang, and "Sing Tao Morning News" in Penang Island. "Singpin Daily", "English Standard" in Xiangjiang and Singapore, "Singmin Daily" in Fuzhou, "Singsiam Daily" and "Kensiam Evening News" in Thailand, "Xingyue Daily" in Yangcheng, etc. In addition, Hu Wenhu took over the "General Report" in Sin Chew, and worked with Kuching and others to run the "Frontier Daily". There are as many as 15 in total.

In the history of Chinese journalism, Hu Wenhu is probably the only one who runs so many newspapers with sole proprietorship and joint venture.

On top of Hu Wenhu's title of King of All Gold Oil, he added another title—King of Newspaper Industry.

At that time, the vast majority of Chinese-language newspapers in the mainland and overseas used newspapers as their propaganda positions, either as the mouthpieces of parties, the country, the nation, or religion. Hu Wenhu regards running a newspaper purely as a commercial act, "Running a newspaper for medicine is to promote medicine by reporting, killing two birds with one stone, and reporting medicine wins."

Someone asked Hu Wenhu the secret of his success, and he replied: "Stay away from zz, don't talk about zy, talk about business in business, run a newspaper for profit."

At that time, when the country was in crisis and the people were in dire straits, Hu Wenhu's frankness and detachment were criticized by quite a few righteous people. Many journalists risked their lives and even shed their blood for propaganda and awakening the people. In comparison, Hu Wenhu seems too despicable and insignificant.

But Hu Wenhu's fist-fighting heart expressed otherwise. When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Hu Wenhu returned to his motherland and donated 10 million French currency to fund the school in exile during the war.

This ten million was a huge sum of money at the time, and those who accused Hu Wenhu no longer had anything to say.

Hu Wenhu said that he didn't understand zz, so he didn't take his family property (newspaper) into zz to take risks.

His newspaper is as objective and neutral as possible with regard to the situation of World War II, public sentiment, and social dynamics.

At the end of this century, the central newspapers in Xiangjiang generally followed this policy—take the commercial route and avoid bias as much as possible in the newspapers. In this way, readers from all walks of life can be won. This thing is unpredictable and catering, and it can be favored for a while, but it is difficult to maintain it for a long time.

Most of the newspapers in Xiangjiang with a large and stable circulation are like this.

When Hong Kong newspapermen talked about Hu Wenhu today, most of them said that he had a sharp eye and that he was the one who really ran the newspaper.

Hu Wenhu came to Xiangjiang to run a newspaper in 1938, and his family moved to Xiangjiang. When Xiangjiang fell in 1941, the Hu family moved back to Burma. The newspaper office and printing factory of "Sing Tao Daily" were taken over by the Japanese army and renamed "Xiang Tao Daily".

In 1942, the Japanese army captured Sin Chew, and "Sin Chew Daily" also suffered bad luck.

After the situation stabilized, Hu Wenhu made a comeback again. In the late 1940s, the "Galaxy News" was in full swing, winning amazing profits and great reputation for the Hu family.

On September 5, 1954, Hu Wenhu died while traveling to Honolulu. His career was taken over by his children.

Hu Wenhu's children are: Hu Jiao, Hu Shan, Hu Hao, Hu Xian, Lu Yihu, Hu Sihu, and Hu Sihu's sisters (name unknown).

Among them, Hu Shan was disliked by Hu Wenhu and was not listed as the heir to the inheritance

The list; Yihu, Sihu, and Sihu's sisters were born to Huwenhu's concubine, so they were not allowed to share the newspaper office, and it is estimated that they only got a small amount of inheritance.

Hu Wenhu's will has not been made public, but judging from the actual situation, Hu Wenhu has a deep traditional concept. What is puzzling is that the daughter Huxian inherited the newspaper industry. According to the biographies of the Hu family, Huxian is also the adopted daughter of Huwenhu. The second is that Huxian has a university degree.

The distribution of family newspapers is as follows: Hujiao assigned Xin Matai to manage "Sin Chew Daily", "Sing Bin Daily" and "Sing Siam Daily"; Hu Hao was killed in an air crash, and his son Hu Zhidong was assigned to Xiangjiang English "Tiger "Newspaper"; Hu Xiande "Sing Tao Daily" and "Sing Tao Evening News".

The content of the will is unknown, but Hu Wenhu's intentions are very obvious. He wants his children to inherit his newspaper and alienate him from the pharmaceutical business.

For example, Hu Wenbao's eldest son, Hu Qingcai, is nominally the chairman of Xingma Xixing Newspaper Co., Ltd., but the presidents of the three newspapers are Hu Wenhu's son, Hu Jiao. In this way, Hu Qingcai's actual authority is only in the pharmaceutical industry.

Looking at the front page of the Xiangjiang Sing Tao Daily in the 1980s and 1990s, there were a lot of advertisements, but there was no trace of Panacea.

This shows that the Hu family has divided the family property, at least the Sing Tao Newspaper no longer publishes the newspaper for the sale of medicines.

The legacy of the family has been broken, and experts believe that this is good, the newspaper should be independent.

When Hu Wenhu was alive, he often used an old saying to warn his children: "Stay away from zz, don't talk about zy, talk about business in business, and run newspapers for profit."

Hu Wenhu has indeed done these four scriptures, he has made money, and he is also famous. According to the test, he has not received any official honor from any country or region.

Can the children of Hu Wenhu do this?

As we all know, if you follow zz closely, newspapers and journalists can become famous relatively quickly.

Hu Wenhu's purpose is to seek profit without seeking fame. The eldest son, Hu Jiao, seems to be suspicious of his name.

Of course, the motivation for getting close may be many aspects: I don’t want to be named, but I want to make a name for the newspaper; I am out of commercial profit considerations; I am really driven by it.

Hu Jiao is in charge of the three newspapers of the Xingma Department, and he can abide by his father's teachings from the beginning.

A year later, Hu Jiao hired Li Xingke as the editor-in-chief of "Sin Chew Daily", with an editorial every day-evaluating current events and social issues in Singapore and Malaysia.

"Sin Chew Daily" put the purpose of the newspaper on the masthead: "The only one who can serve the Chinese society, the only one who can speak for the Chinese".

The newspaper's clear tendency is very popular with local Chinese, and its circulation has been increasing steadily, making it the largest local newspaper.

The criticism of "Sin Chew Daily" is not limited to the bottom of the society, and sometimes it is directed at Singapore and Malaysia.

In 1971, the "May Incident" occurred in Singapore. Hu Jiao was listed as a suspect in this political incident by the government, accusing him of being "a person from Xiangjiang who accepted a loan of HK$7.2 million with a weekly interest rate of 0.1% ", "criticism" and so on. Hu Jiao was unable to refute the government's allegations, and the "Oriental Sun" ceased publication on May 16.

Soon, "Sin Chew Daily" was taken over by outsiders.

Now let's talk about Ho Hoo's son Ho Ji Dong. He is in charge of Hongkong English-language "Tiger".

Because it is an English newspaper, it cannot affect the majority of Hong Kong's total population, and the small number of foreign readers and Chinese elites will not be easily affected by it. It doesn't matter if The Standard talks or not, the newspaper doesn't make much money because it has few readers.

The one who can really understand the teachings of his late father is Huxian. Hong Kong adheres to the Western-style freedom of speech, no matter which side it leans on, anything is allowed to exist—as long as the newspapers and periodicals do not violate the law.

Therefore, the risk of running a newspaper in Xiangjiang is not as great as that of ASEAN countries. However, if the newspaper tends to be obvious, readers may think it is not objective, which will inevitably affect sales.

The climate of Xiangjiang is most directly affected by the mainland and the bay.

Due to geographical and other reasons, Xiangjiang is particularly sensitive to the climate in the mainland. A reporter joked: "If you sneeze, Xiangjiang will catch a cold for three days."

It is precisely because Huxian has done this that Sing Tao Group has achieved such brilliant achievements today.

Hu Xian was born in 1932 in a wealthy family, and was deeply liked by Hu Wenhu. Hu Xian grew up with a golden key in his mouth.

Huxian started writing articles when he was a teenager, and often went to his father's newspaper office to play, so he was no stranger to newspapers.

In 1951, Huxian entered Xiangjiang St. Stephen's Girls' School to study. She is introverted and quiet, and likes literature, painting, and handicrafts. Her ideal is to be a writer or painter.

She was familiar with newspapers, but neither was she familiar with newspaper business nor was she interested in it.

If the third brother Hu Hao hadn't died in an air crash, the heavy responsibility of Xiangjiang Huawen Star News probably wouldn't have rested entirely on the weak shoulders of a young girl.

A reporter asked her, when she was studying at school, did she ever think about running a big company like The Star in the future.

Huxian said: "No, I didn't think about it at the time, and I wasn't interested. But then my father passed away, and I jumped into the sea for more than 20 years. At the beginning, I learned a few years before I figured out a little bit."

Huxian was ordered to be in distress, and she took over the Star Newspaper, just when the influence of the second crisis of Xiangjiang Star Newspaper was not exhausted.

The reason why Hu Wenhu was able to become China's newspaper king was largely due to the help of Lin Aimin who was behind the scenes.

Lin Aimin is the president of Sing Tao Daily and Evening News. He has great power and outstanding achievements, but he will always be a senior migrant worker. Hu Jiuhu is the absolute monarch of the newspaper industry kingdom. As the saying goes: "To accompany the emperor is like to accompany the tiger". The position of the president of the two newspapers is not so easy to sit.

It is difficult to judge which is right and which is wrong. They parted ways anyway. In 1951, Lin Aimin was dismissed for "misappropriating public funds to speculate in stocks". When he resigned, he took away more than 10 business backbones from the newspaper office and founded another "Circular Daily".

The guest-host relationship between Lin Aimin and Hu Wenhu for more than 20 years was severed overnight. This is the "Lin Aimin Incident" that caused a sensation in the Xiangjiang newspaper industry.

Hu Xian took office at the age of 22. She lives in Haw Par Villa with some members of her family. The sister-in-law was worried no matter what she saw, and said she would go to work with her. Hu Xian wryly smiled and said, "Look, the manager is still a child, does he need someone to accompany him to work?"

According to the memories of the people in the old newspaper office, Huxian was very simple that day, carrying a file bag, like an ordinary employee, came to the newspaper office. She was composed and calm, with a touch of melancholy.

She didn't sit in a chair in the manager's office, call in all levels of executives, and call the shots. Instead, I went to various departments to visit, and my speeches were brief and practical.

"It's so strange, a young girl, a few simple and simple words, actually made us want to vent our anger and didn't know when it slipped away. We felt that although she was tender, she was very solid, and her facial expression told us People need support, a trustworthy person, and that's enough." An old Star reporter recalled, and he went on to say: "Some people listened to her at the time and thought she was very self-cultivated and a city man. , seems like an unpredictable person."

Why is Huxian so calm? It was she who took her father's principles of running a newspaper as her confidence.

The purpose of her reconstruction of the newspaper is: "A newspaper that can make money is a good newspaper."

She implements the "Business Department System", responsible for each level, responsible for each level, indicators are implemented, and regular assessments are carried out. In the first year after implementation, the profits of each department doubled.

The employee's income increased, and they looked at Huxian with admiration. Everyone said: "This girl is better than her father."

She sold the newspaper to Wanwan at the same time, and issued additional European and American aviation editions.

Later, a method faster than airplanes was adopted, and communication satellites were used to transmit the papers, and they were printed in New York, London, Paris, Canberra and other places on the same day.

In terms of sales in Xiangjiang, Sing Tao is inferior to Dongfang and Tian Tian. In terms of total sales in the world, Sing Tao publishes twice a day and evening, with a sales volume of one million copies. In 1962, Huxian founded "Express" as a sole proprietorship.

The profit of Sing Tao has increased year by year. In 1973, the net profit after tax of the newspaper industry was 15 million Hong Kong dollars; in the 1980s, the annual profit of the newspaper industry exceeded 100 million Hong Kong dollars. Such a performance, even some major newspapers in Europe and the United States are ashamed.

In May 1972, Galaxy Newspaper Co., Ltd. changed its name to Sing Tao Newspaper Co., Ltd., and Hu Xian was still the chairman.

The company went public in June, and stocks with a face value of HK$2 per share were sold at a premium of HK$6, and there were many buyers.

Hu Xian holds 86.7% of the company's shares. Based on the peak market value, her shares are worth 430 million Hong Kong dollars.

The Sing Tao News Building, located in the north corner of Hong Kong Island, has a salable area of ​​191,000 square feet.

Huxian is high above (the office is on the top floor), manages a newspaper that sells millions of copies, and makes a big move into real estate.

Huxian has fulfilled her dream. She has a net worth of 2.5 billion Hong Kong dollars and was once known as "the richest woman in Asia".

Hu's father and daughter are successful examples of Xiangjiang businessmen running newspapers. Father and daughter are in the same line: Alienate the government and repay with business governance.

Xiangjiang's status and geographical location are unique, in the middle, it is impossible to stand aloof.

The Immortal Hu made a cameo appearance at Zzz's house, and then resigned. As far as her political actions are concerned, there are also commercial ones.

In Xiangjiang, such examples are not uncommon. If a newspaper is too extreme in terms of speech, it will often be interfered by a certain powerful force.

Star Island has never encountered such a thing. The larger the industry, the more cautious it is; those who are keen to discuss it are more likely to have nothing.

Hu Xian strictly abides by neutrality. Xingdao sells very well in Taiwan, but Huxian never comment on the pros and cons, good and evil of these things in public.

She has always grasped a certain degree-don't let people think that this is a newspaper for whom, but make people believe that this is a newspaper for both readers.

We have read the Star newspapers of various periods, but we have not found anyone that the Star newspapers have been pleasing.

The Star newspaper publishes both the good and the bad, but by comparison, it has much more content, and a lot of space is devoted to introducing its economic achievements.

The news itself is zz. Xingdao grabbing the news is very famous in Xiangjiang.

How did Huxian alienate Zzz? In the words she often urges editorial staff: "Report objectively, without emotion, let alone comment."

"Less talk about zz and make money first." Hu Xian said again on another occasion.

"zz, it's not that we don't want to touch it, but we hope to take a neutral route, we just hope so."

Do nothing and do nothing. Huxian is indifferent to fame and alienated from ZZ, but in the end, she has won the most honors.

She was appointed a justice of the peace by the Hong Kong government. The Chinese University of Hong Kong awarded her an honorary doctorate, praising her as an "extraordinary female social activist, writer, entrepreneur, activist, newspaperman, and economic powerhouse."

The United Kingdom awarded her the BOE title, and Queen Elizabeth called her a "hero among women".

Huxian has been the chairman of the World Chinese Press Association since its inception.

The International Press Association elected her as president, the first Asian to hold the post.

The association issued a statement when she was elected as the chairman: "Huxian is first of all a newspaperman, a person who really understands what a newspaper is. She is step by step in today's fierce competition in the newspaper industry, constantly pushing the newspaper to the peak of the times. , become a real mouthpiece, she is a great newspaperman and a female news heroine, and she is well-deserved to be elected as the chairman."

Huxian carried forward the family business. Father Hu Wenhu, under the nine springs, will definitely be very proud of his daughter.

In the 1980s, Xiangjiang's "capitalist road" was once rampant. As the boss of a large group, he will never remain indifferent.

In the deep night, the tourists at Haw Par Villa dispersed, and the garden under the moonlight was like a fairyland. "Go or stay?"

The lake fairy is wandering in the flowers under the moon~www.wuxiaspot.com~ hovering..

The total daily sales volume of Hong Kong newspapers in the 1980s was 1.5 million copies.

On a per capita basis, every 4 people have a newspaper of the day.

In terms of newspaper booths, the daily sales volume of each newspaper is less than 30,000 copies, among which a few major newspapers account for more than half of the sales volume.

The distribution of Xiangjiang newspapers is not through the mail distribution channel in the mainland, but self-distribution, so the daily sales volume is always fluctuating.

When a newspaper gets a scoop, sales for the day are bound to increase.

At the beginning of 1994, the well-known American popular magazine "MODE" ranked the top ten richest women in Hong Kong. Miss Hu Xian, the chairman of Sing Tao Group, ranked second, and the four daughters of Bao Yugang jointly won the championship.

The "Sing Tao Daily" led by Hu Xian is the world's first worldwide Chinese newspaper; the Sing Tao Group, the chairman of Hu Xian, is the largest newspaper group in Hong Kong; Hu Xian's personal assets are 2.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, among the peers The Ma brothers' family (Ma Xizhen, Ma Chengkun) and the He Wenfa family, which rank second in terms of assets, respectively hold major equity interests in Oriental Press and Sing Pao Press, with assets of 1.3 billion Hong Kong dollars, and Hu Xian's assets are theirs. nearly double.