034 [First appearance]
The next day, early morning---
Wanchai Street---
An Indian San who was on duty at night, was wearing a tall cloth wrapped around his head, wearing a big red uniform, carrying a long spear, and yawning at the door of the building to guard the post.
Two patrolmen were very bored to patrol the streets, occasionally finding a place to eat and have a cigarette, and being lazy.
On the deserted streets, only people from the morning market are selling vegetables and breakfast. In addition, they are cleaners who clean the streets and small vendors who set up stalls on the roadside to buy and sell morning newspapers.
In Hong Kong in this era, newspapers and magazines were definitely the main medium for people to receive external information. Therefore, both office workers and rich people like to read newspapers while eating breakfast, taking buses, and taking private cars.
By reading Morning News, you can learn the most exciting news of the day and the inside story of gossip that others don’t know. Therefore, Morning News has the best sales volume among all major newspapers and magazines.
In order to sell more newspapers and make more money, these small vendors selling newspapers will get up very early, first go to the printing factory that publishes newspapers to pick up the goods, and then take them to their own stalls for sale.
Don’t underestimate this kind of small transaction. A newspaper can be sold for two cents, and it can be sold for five cents, making a full double of its profit.
If the business is good, you can earn ten yuan by selling two hundred newspapers a day, and three hundred yuan a month, which makes more money than office workers!
If the newspapers cannot be sold out, you can also sell them to those who make rice noodles and fat intestines at a low price, and ask them to take them as packaging paper, or sell them directly to waste paper purchase points. This will take some money back.
It is precisely because selling newspapers is very profitable in this era, so the competition is fierce. In addition to having a good stall, you also have to pay money to the club and those messengers.
Those who give clubs are usually called "protection fees", those who give substitutes are called "public security management fees", and sometimes the name is "sanitation fees", etc.
In short, if you want to sell newspapers and set up newspaper stalls, you must do both black and white.
In addition, you must also be diligent, have a sense of competition, know which newspapers and books are easy to sell and which ones are easy to sell, and keep pace with the times. Before selling newspapers, you must first understand the content of the newspaper. Only in this way can you better sell to those customers who buy newspapers.
In other words, most people who set up stalls and sell newspapers in this era are literate and literate, and can understand newspapers. They are a well-educated type of people.
Uncle Wang is this kind of person.
Uncle Wang is fifty years old this year. He used to study in a private school in mainland China. In the 1940s, his whole family came to Hong Kong.
At that time, Uncle Wang worked in a construction site, carried sacks at the dock, and even served plates in a restaurant. It can be said that he had done all the lowest-level jobs in Hong Kong.
Finally, Uncle Wang discovered that selling newspapers was a very profitable business, so he relied on the tycoons he met while working at the dock to set up a stall here.
Now that the wind and rain have been blowing for more than ten years, Mr. Wang has figured out this business. Not only do he earn more money every day than his peers, but he also often helps his peers deal with their endless scraps of money.
now---
As usual, Uncle Wang dipped his fingers with his saliva, flipped through the newspaper, read the newspaper he got roughly and read it through to see which newspaper had exciting news so that he could place it in a conspicuous place to act as the "top brand" today.
Soon, Uncle Wang was attracted by a news in a newspaper.
He looked through it carefully, but it was the Sing Tao Daily, whose sales volume plummeted during this period.
Uncle Wang knew that the martial arts column of Sing Tao Daily was too delicious and was always interrupted. He was sneered by those martial arts fans as "eunuch Daily", so sales have now plummeted.
In the past, Uncle Wang was not optimistic about this newspaper with poor sales, but only bought about fifty copies to sell. But today, after reading the news published on it, Uncle Wang suddenly made a decision to add 300 copies of the newspaper!
When he learned that Uncle Wang was going to join another 300 more copies of the Sing Tao Daily, other colleagues who set up stalls couldn't help but laugh at him--
"Why do you want to get so much into it? Do you have to keep your intestines?"
"Yes, everyone knows that Sing Tao Daily cannot sell it!"
"Uncle Wang, it seems that you are going to smash your signature this time!"
Uncle Wang ignored these ridicule and mockery and just ordered his son to help him out, "Go, go and get in more than 300 more!"
...
over time---
There are more and more people working on the streets, and the markets are becoming lively.
"Give me a newspaper!"
“Is there any good introduction?”
The vendors who sell newspapers for a living also started the busiest work of the day.
Collect money, find money, fold the newspaper and hand it over.
But soon, other newsstand vendors discovered that Uncle Wang’s business was particularly good, especially the Sing Tao Daily, which purchased the largest volume, was the hottest.
how so?
Before these vendors could figure it out, they found that the Sing Tao Daily on their stalls also began to become popular.
"I'll give you a copy of Sing Tao Daily!"
"Where is a "Sing Tao Daily"? Let's get one!"
"Give me a copy of Sing Tao Daily!"
The vendors were busy and fussed, and soon found that the "Sing Tao Daily" on their stall had been sold out.
No more, nothing to sell!
Looking at Uncle Wang again, the business at this moment is "the tail of the scorpion--the only one!"
More than 300 copies of the "Sing Tao Daily" were sold continuously, and those who had not bought newspapers at these stalls went to Uncle Wang's stall to buy them.
"What's wrong with this? Could it be that there is any big news in this newspaper?" The vendors who had previously ridiculed Uncle Wang began to wonder, so they made a newspaper and studied it carefully.
"Nothing special, this serial martial arts novel is still being updated..."
But soon, these vendors were attracted by a news report in the newspaper, and the title of the report was--
"The rising star created the original "The Drunken Concubine", and the New Horse Master once sang a modern Peking opera!"
If the impact of this title is not strong enough, many people don’t know who is the “riser” and don’t understand what “modern Peking Opera” means, then the next title will be like a bomb--
"Nanyin Emperor Shisanlang is heartbroken on the street; the new reporter Su Dingxian speaks sharply like a sword!"
Then under the title, there was also a picture: an old beggar with a desolate back, staggering away at this moment; behind him was a tall young figure, as if watching him go away, stopping in the downtown, thinking about something.
Seeing this title and pictures, everyone couldn't help but take a breath.
Shisanlang of the South China Sea?
Isn’t it the King of Nanyin who has disappeared for a long time?
A good song was made by Xiangjiang paper expensive, and major newspapers and magazines rushed to write headlines, supporting many news media, and newspaper sellers like them.
It’s a pity that God is jealous of the talent. I heard that something happened later, and I had a brain problem. I was admitted to the hospital and there was no news.
Who would have thought that the old beggar who was wandering around the Lichi Grand Theater all day long and picked up garbage on the ground to fill his stomach was the legendary genius of "the man on the street is like a jade, and the young man is unparalleled in the world" - Shisanlang of the South China Sea?!
Instantly--
Everyone's hearts exploded.
I also understand why so many customers buy this newspaper--
There is no doubt that this news will soon start to ignite Hong Kong!
In addition, what everyone is even more curious about is---
Chapter completed!