Murdoch receives a call from Messer, the richest man in the world. Of course, I was surprised. When Messer briefly told him about the matter, he asked him to make a phone call to the British newspaper The Sun, to take down the news from the Internet, and to ban other news outlets from reprinting it.

After listening to Messer's request, Murdoch looked very surprised, saying that he did not know the news, and then he muttered for a while before he said: "Mr. Messer, please allow me to read this news first, and then give you an answer?"

Messer was stunned when he heard this, according to reason, although the two were not familiar with each other, they had met at several cocktail parties and had some friendship, this matter was a big deal in the eyes of Chen Feng and Karina, but in the hands of this media tycoon, it should be just a small matter, a problem that can be solved by a phone call, but I didn't expect him to hesitate.

Messer was slightly angry in his heart, but after all, he had to suppress his anger and said, "Mr. Murdoch." You should understand that the British "Sun" published a photo of her son in the newspaper without Karina herself's permission, this is a very serious and vicious invasion of personal privacy, if Karina hires a lawyer to take the "Sun" to court and demand huge compensation, I believe that the judge and jurors will be very sympathetic to her mother and son, what do you say?"

When Murdoch heard this, he smiled and said: "Mr. Messer, thank you for the reminder, I believe that the Sun has enough ability to deal with all kinds of lawsuits, and we as media must have the courage to expose the truth of the truth, Mr. Messer, if this matter is true, I am sorry, I cannot interfere with press freedom." ”

Hearing Murdoch say this, how could Messer not understand, if he can't interfere with the news media under his name, then it's strange, there is no figure of him in that international event? He deliberately targeted Karina, and then Messer also laughed and said: "Mr. Murdoch, it seems that you are not particularly concerned about the invasion of personal privacy by the Sun, so well, just because I didn't call you this time......

"Please wait a minute!" Messer was about to hang up the phone, but Murdoch suddenly stopped him, "I take the liberty of asking." What's your relationship with Karina?"

Messer replied without hesitation: "We are business partners and very good friends. Then he made a final effort, "Mr. Murdoch, you should understand that Karina represents the entire Huateng Group behind her, and she doesn't know this news yet, if she does, and you refuse my request now, it's hard for me to guarantee what she will do in the future, including the possibility that she will buy the shares of your group, hehe, so please think twice about this matter." ”

Murdoch was obviously told the main matter, and after a while, he said: "Thank you, Mr. Messer, for reminding me about this matter, and if it really violates Miss Karina's privacy, I think we should have the courage to admit our mistake and apologize to Miss Karina." ”

There was obviously some leeway for this to be said, and Messer breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "That's good. Mr. Murdoch, I am waiting for your good news, and please give me a reply as much as possible. ”

Murdoch hummed softly. Seeing this, Messer hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, the smile on Messer's face disappeared immediately, and there was anger in his eyes. He somewhat guessed the reason for Murdoch's prevarication in this matter, which is very simple, in the past one or two years, Huateng International Holding Investment Group has continued to expand to the world media, and has acquired the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Morning Post in the United States and several other influential newspaper shares, becoming one of the major shareholders of these newspapers and magazines, and before that, Murdoch's News Corp. had a strong control over these media, because of the sudden intervention of Hua Teng, which naturally greatly reduced Murdoch's influence. Germany and several other European countries have wantonly acquired newspapers and magazines with a certain degree of influence in the local area, and many news media have direct conflicts of interest with Murdoch's News Corporation, and in addition, Huateng Media has gone further and deeper than Murdoch's News Corporation, which naturally greatly affects the influence of Murdoch's News Corp. in the world and poses a considerable threat to his media empire.

Now that Karina has such news, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hit Huateng, of course Murdoch will not miss it, and even the news itself is secretly instructed by Murdoch and they made it themselves.

Thinking of this, Messer couldn't help but be a little angry. Putting aside Chen Feng, the boss, Karina herself is a successful woman he admires very much, and he uses such a despicable trick to target her. Of course, he was a little blind, not to mention that now he understood that Karina was Chen Feng's lover, and their son was the half-brother of his "son", with this relationship, Karina's mother and son were also equivalent to his own people in Messer. Now that his own people have been bullied, of course he is a little angry.

After thinking for a while, he immediately called Chen Feng.

After Chen Feng made a phone call with Messer before, he immediately contacted the presidents of the two major search engines Baidu and Google, asking them to block Karina's news. Then, Chen Feng called the CEOs of the four major domestic portals and asked them to prohibit the reprinting of any negative news about Karina. This is obviously not the first time they have done such a thing, and they readily agreed.

After making such arrangements, the mother downstairs had already begun to call him for dinner.

At this time, Chen Feng didn't have any intention of eating, but in order to avoid his mother's nagging, he still went downstairs and ate a little absent-mindedly.

The family soon found out that he was wrong, and his mother Zhao Xiaolan took the lead in asking, "Xiao Feng." What's wrong with you? Is there something wrong? It must have been your big brother's call, right? What did he tell you?"

Hearing this, Chen Feng hurriedly calmed down and said: "Mom is fine, my eldest brother called to talk about the company, and I hope I will act in a TV series again." ”

Zhao Xiaolan didn't think much about it when she heard it, and said in disbelief: "Tianming is true, why do you always let you be a free laborer, and you write scripts and shoot TV? No, after eating, my mother will call his eldest brother and tell him about it." ”

Chen Feng was startled when he heard this, and he hurriedly stopped: "Mom." The eldest brother did this for our company, besides, I was interested in filming before, and I volunteered to go, and I can't complain about him. Mom, don't worry, I've already rejected him. ”

"That's good, you can stay at home this summer, your grandfather's side, your mother has rejected for you, seeing that in another month, you and Hongye are going to Hong Kong, and you can't see each other often in the future, so you must accompany your mother and children at home more during this time. ”

"Got it, Mom. Chen Feng agreed, reluctantly adjusted his mentality, and finished eating as usual.

Not long after eating, when the family was watching TV together in the living room, Chen Feng received a call from Messer.

Chen Feng thought he had good news when he saw it, so he quickly got up from the sofa to answer.

"Messer, is it good news?" Chen Feng said with some impatience.

Messer was a little embarrassed when he heard Chen Feng's words, but he still said truthfully: "I'm sorry, boss, Murdoch doesn't seem to agree to this matter lightly." I want to have something to do with the grievances between their News Group and your Huateng Group, and now as far as I know, the Huateng Group has controlled a considerable number of news media in the world. ”

Chen Feng couldn't help frowning when he heard Messer say this. Chen Feng also knows about the conflict between Murdoch News Group and his own Huateng Group, for example, when he acquired the shares of the "New York Times", there was an inevitable conflict of interest with News Corporation, as well as the British "Times", originally he was the largest shareholder of this famous British newspaper, but because of the acquisition of Huateng Group, although he is still the largest shareholder, Huateng Group is the second largest shareholder, and Murdoch can no longer control 100% of the newspaper's news and opinions...... These are still secondary. The most important Huateng Group has shown the world its ambition to build a media empire, which must not be tolerated by Murdoch, the world's media tycoon, because this point directly touches his fundamental interests.

However, according to Chen Feng's previous plan, although he thought of this, if he asked Messer, the richest man in the world, to come forward, in his opinion, Murdoch would definitely agree to this small request, but he didn't expect Murdoch to even give Messer face, so it seems that this news report of the British "Sun" may not be exposed, but Murdoch's News Corp. Murdoch News Group's retaliation against Karina, the president of Huateng Group.

"Well, since he doesn't agree to our request, we can only put further pressure on him, Messer, how is the stock price of his News Corp now?"

"Boss, as far as I know, last year in 2002, News Corp. achieved double-digit growth in total revenue and operating income, and judging from the shape of this year, this growth rate should be about the same as last year, and now their News Corp. is moving forward very well. At this time, it is not an appropriate time to suppress his stock price. "Messer gave the building yì.

Mr. Chen also looked up information about News Murdoch in his mental database, one of the world's largest media conglomerates with extensive investments in satellite, cable and interactive television. News Corp. is also the world's leading pay-TV platform operator, with a portfolio of BSkyB, directTV and FOXTEL.

Among them, Sky Broadcasting UK is widely regarded as the world's most successful digital pay-TV operator, with 7.4 million live satellite subscribers by June 2004, while Live TV Group in the US has more than 12.2 million subscribers.

In Australia, Fox Australia has 800,000 satellite and cable subscribers. In Asia, Star Media occupies a leading position in the satellite TV market, from 5 channels when it was first established in 1991 to more than 40 channels in 7 languages, covering more than 300 million viewers in 53 countries and regions, and up to 25,000 hours of original programming per year.

In 1998, Fox successfully listed 18% of its shares in the United States, completing Murdoch's first step of goal. In late 2004, News Corp. was successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In this case, it is no longer necessary to keep two listed companies. If he can successfully recover all of Fox shares, it means that Murdoch has achieved a strategy of "moving into the United States" and still maintains the integrity of News Corp.

From this point of view, the best way to put pressure on Murdoch is to buy a full 18% stake in Fox listed in the United States.

"Messer, I think it's time to fully acquire the shares of American Fox. I remember Murdoch himself saying, 'As the most vertically integrated company in the world, we're able to produce movies in Hollywood, TV shows all over the world, and distribute them in the U.S., STAR in Asia, and BSkyB in the U.K.,' and all we have to do now is poke a hole in his FOX." ”

Messer was a little surprised when he heard Chen Feng say this, firstly, he was surprised that Chen Feng actually knew so much about News Corporation, and secondly, Chen Feng actually declared war with News Corp. for this matter. He had to explain further: "Boss, when I talked to Murdoch on the phone, he didn't completely reject me, saying that he wanted to read the news and then give me a reply, do you want to give him a little time?"

Chen Feng asked rhetorically: "Messer, do you think he will agree to this matter lightly? Moreover, this matter cannot be delayed, and it will be over when the whole world knows about it." So, today, as soon as the stock market opens, you will buy shares in Fox at any cost, and if necessary, you can suppress it. In this way, only let our Mr. Murdoch make the fastest decision. ”

"Boss, although I don't think this matter can be done rashly, since you have decided, I will do what you ask. Messer said helplessly.

"Then I'll trouble you, Messer, this matter must be grasped quickly, otherwise when my family knows, I will be in trouble, I believe you should know, don't you?" Chen Feng also knew at this time that Messer must have read the news, and he must have known the relationship between himself and Karina, so he explained it to him straightforwardly.

"Okay, I'll go get ready right away. Messer happily agreed.

After talking to Messer on the phone, Chen Feng didn't relax at all, thinking about whether this incident was a leak by the people around Karina, or the result of the paparazzi's candid photography. After thinking about it for a while, Chen Feng decided to call Karina and inform her of the incident. In Hong Kong, a world financial city with a free press, it is impossible to completely block the press, and Karina will know about it sooner or later, so it is better to inform her as much as possible so that she can be mentally prepared. Moreover, if you want to block this news as much as possible, you also need Karina's cooperation, and she will order all the media under Huateng to ban this news.

However, just when Chen Feng was about to call Karina, Hongye went back to the room, and asked with concern as soon as he opened his mouth: "Husband, what happened to you just now? Seeing that you don't belong, did something bad happen? Is there something wrong with the Hong Kong company?"

Chen Feng was stunned for a while, and then hurriedly replied: "Yes, Huateng Entertainment has been a little unbalanced in financial expenditure recently, and I want to allocate another special fund from Huateng headquarters." "This matter is not lying, recently Huateng Entertainment has been busy expanding, filming large-scale dramas, building TV cities, and drama colleges, all aspects need money, Chen Feng after understanding the situation, two days ago from the headquarters allocated 10 billion Hong Kong dollars. However, although Huateng Entertainment has spent a lot of money now, the huge benefits in the future can also be expected.

"Oh, that's the case, didn't you say that now Huateng Entertainment has to invest further and wait until the future to produce?" Momiji asked suspiciously.

"No, don't worry. Chen Feng smiled quite naturally, "I wasn't worried just now, I was just thinking about the plan for the further development of Huateng Entertainment, I plan to build a film and television base comparable to Hollywood in Hong Kong, and to achieve this goal, the current scale of our Huateng Entertainment is far from enough." ”

"I see, but, husband, isn't your goal a little too big, Hollywood, I know, their film industry has been developing for decades, but Hong Kong's film industry has only started in the last thirty or forty years, how can it surpass them?" said Momiji with some concern.

Chen Feng smiled and said: "Wife, do you know what it means to take it? As long as your husband and I are willing to spend the capital to dig up their technology, equipment, and personnel to Hong Kong, it will not be impossible for Hong Kong to catch up with Hollywood, or even catch up with Hollywood." Of course, it's not something that happens overnight, you have to take it slowly, maybe ten years, maybe twenty years, but as long as we keep going, we will one day catch up with them and surpass them. ”

Seeing her husband so confident, Hongye also showed a smile on her face, and made a cheering gesture towards Chen Feng: "Husband, since you are so confident, I will definitely support you, come on!"

Seeing the innocent and cute side of such a child as Red Leaves, Chen Feng felt a trace of bitterness in his heart. Momiji obviously doesn't have the self-consciousness of being a wife, she still feels more like a high school student.