Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

Of course, the reason why there are millions of characters in animation and hundreds of episodes of comics is actually determined by the market, not the author.

The decision maker of this market is actually a group of paying readers. They are no longer interested in short stories, and they are boring. Naturally, authors need to follow the trend of the times.

Unlike later e-books, novels and comics can be judged based on reader feedback.

In this era without mobile phones and the Internet, every novel and comic requires a certain cost.

Therefore, there are tens of thousands of future generations, and it is almost impossible for 10,000+ novel authors and cartoonists to appear in this era.

For the judgment of cartoonists, the first step is to start with the artist of the other party. A person who can't even pass the level of an artist is destined to be the first batch of eliminated.

As for the content inside, whether it is exciting or not, the editor will continue to look down after the first pass.

If the editor thinks it is good and you stay, you are considered a beginner. Yes, you are not mistaken, getting the approval of the editor is just a beginner. As for how many hurdles you will pass in the future, it is hard to say.

In this era, the novels and comics that can be published basically belong to people who are outstanding in both aspects.

It is not an exaggeration to say that any one of them belongs to the level of a great god in later generations.

Chapter 215 Four Great Ship Kings

At the dinner table, Yang Chen was chatting with Father Xue while wondering what happened today.

Father Xue should be very happy to say that the advertising of Xue's manufacturing industry is very successful, but now he looks very worried.

Although Father Xue didn't say anything, Yang Chen, Mother Xue and Xue Yufei who were familiar with him could all feel it clearly.

Seeing Xue Yufei winking at him vigorously, Yang Chen put a dish in a bowl for Father Xue, and asked, "Uncle, is something wrong with the company?"

"Press?" Father Xue moved his chopsticks, and looked at Yang Chen suspiciously, "Nothing happened, why do you ask?"

Yang Chen glanced at Xue Yufei and Xue's mother, looked at each other, and said puzzledly: "Then uncle, why do you still look so preoccupied?"

"Oh..." Seeing the expressions of concern on the faces of the three of them, Father Xue put down the chopsticks in his hand and sighed lightly: "I'm not thinking about the company, but I met someone today."

Yang Chen asked curiously: "Human? Uncle, who did you meet today?"

Father Xue hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The shipping industry has been in a downturn during this period, and today Ship King Zhao came to see me at the company and wanted to ask me for help.

During this period of time, you also know that Xue's manufacturing industry has been consolidated, and half of your uncle's life savings has been invested in it, so what money is left there. "

"However, Zhao Chuanwang helped me in the early years, but now he comes to the door in person, but I can't help much, and I always feel a little uncomfortable."

"Zhao Ship King?" Hearing this, Yang Chen learned who the Zhao Ship King that Father Xue was talking about was through his predecessor.

In the 70s, Xiangjiang was a world-renowned international shipping center, and its important shipping industry gave birth to the so-called Four Kings of Shipping in Xiangjiang.

They are Bao Yugang of Global Shipping, Dong Haojun of OOCL, Cao Wenjin of Wanbang Group and Zhao Congyan of Huaguang Aviation Industry.

And the ship king Zhao mentioned by Father Xue is Zhao Congyan from Huaguang Aviation.

Ship king Zhao Congyan was born in Jiangsu. He worked as a lawyer in Changhai in his early years. Later, he switched to a shipping company to help cargo owners charter ships and earn commissions.

In 1945, Zhao Congyan saw the shortage of inland supplies and keenly felt that the shipping industry had great potential. He immediately poured all his money into buying a second-hand cargo ship, and successfully earned the "first pot of gold" in his life.

Later, because of the turmoil in the current situation, Zhao Congyan had to leave Shanghi with his wife and children and moved to Xiangjiang.

The 70s and [-]s were the peak period of Xiangjiang's shipping industry, so Zhao Congyan caught up with the express traffic of this era, and the number of fleets increased in just a few years.

Finally, when it successfully owned more than 60 ships, its subsidiary "Hua Guang" was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1973, and since then it has truly entered the global waters.

Among the four major ship kings in Xiangjiang, charter ship king specializes in oil tankers, Dong Haoyun ship king focuses on container ships, and Zhao Congyan Zhao ship king specializes in bulk cargo ships.

As the saying goes, there is no flower in a hundred days, and any industry, once it reaches its peak, will eventually be hit by internal or external blows.

The same goes for the shipping industry.

In [-], the world situation was turbulent, the fourth Middle East war broke out, and the Arab oil-producing countries imposed an oil embargo on the pro-Israel Western countries.

At the same time, the OPEC oil-producing countries implemented a price alliance, which prompted a sharp rise in oil prices, and the worldwide oil crisis broke out.

The oil crisis produced two major events that directly affected the shipping industry.

One is that Western governments and oil tycoons are fully aware that relying on oil from the Middle East is undoubtedly weaving a noose for themselves.

As a result, they started the "self-production road" one after another. The North Sea oil fields in Europe, the Texas oil fields in the United States, and the Gulf of Mexico in North and South America, etc., have been exploited one after another.

This has greatly shortened the distance between oil production sites and land use, and the good news of oil production has greatly reduced the business of world shipping companies.

Second, the oil crisis has prompted the governments of oil-importing countries and oil companies to increase oil storage.

Japan is a big oil-consuming country, and most of the oil tankers of the four major ship kings in Xiangjiang are leased to Japanese shipping companies.

However, Japan has stepped up its oil reserves since the outbreak of the oil crisis. In the 70s, Japan, which was full of tanks and surplus, suddenly reduced its oil imports.

At the same time, in order to win business, Japan and South Korea, the two emerging big shipbuilding countries, not only set the cost much lower than the traditional big shipbuilding countries, but also provide preferential loans to subsidize those creditworthy shipowners who order new ships .

Although shipping business is decreasing day by day and freight rates are starting to drop, this seems to be enough to make up for it with the advantage of cheap new ships.

Shipowners are never tired of new ships. All the docks of Japanese and Korean shipbuilding companies have huge silhouettes of ship hulls, and the production and sales of new ships have begun to enter a state of frenzy.

While the world's shipping business is decreasing, new ships are continuously increasing, which directly increases the competition in the shipping industry.

At the beginning, everyone was delighted by the low-cost sales of ships in Japan and South Korea, and frantically bought them to expand their own shipping scale.

However, as the scale of ships is getting bigger and bigger, the business volume is getting smaller and smaller, and the winter of shipping is coming.

Like a car, even if the boat is not driving, the daily cost of parking at the dock is staggering.

At the same time, as time goes by, the value of new ships is also declining day by day. In addition, because the ships are parked in the sea, they are subjected to the corrosion of the sea every day, and the maintenance of the ships is also a big expense.

The income is getting lower and lower, but the expenses are unprecedentedly high. The entire shipping industry is mourning, and the Dong and Zhao families are the most affected.

As for why only the Dong and Zhao families were most affected?Here I have to mention a very visionary person.

That is our charter king. As early as the oil crisis broke out and Japan and South Korea were desperately building ships, the charter king realized the danger and began to abandon the ship and land.

Since the mid-70s, the charter king has invested the money he earned through shipping into the increasingly prosperous real estate industry, and his fleet has been sold out continuously.

The low price surprised and excited the shipowners who were still optimistic about the future of shipping.

While laughing at the foolishness of the charter king, they readily took out the money and bought the cheap goods that fell from the sky.

At that time, Zhao Congyan, who was also optimistic about the world shipping industry, believed that the impact of the oil crisis was only temporary.

Therefore, he learned to speculate and take risks, taking advantage of the low price of new ships to expand wildly.

Over the past few years, the Zhao family's fleet has become larger and larger, but the shipping industry has been sluggish, but there is no end in sight.