In anticipation, this year's Sony financial report came out.

Due to the impact of the financial crisis, the loss in fiscal 2008 was 98.9 billion yen (about 1 billion US dollars), a year-on-year decrease of 12.9%, and it is estimated that the loss will continue in fiscal 2009 and gradually expand, and it may reach 120 billion yen (about 1.2 billion US dollars).

In terms of external explanation, Sony said that it was due to the global economic slowdown, strong yen, and price competition, which led to continuous losses in the core electronics division.

These are external rhetoric, but internally, someone has to take responsibility for it, and the incumbent CEO, Howard Stringer, is the best person to take the blame.

Originally, with his means, at least in the past few years, even if the losses continue to expand, he will not step down, but if someone secretly instigates it, it is not necessarily.

The old forces, represented by Eiji Hirai, convened a board of directors to hold Stringer accountable.

"Could you please explain why you lost so much this year?"

At the board meeting, Eiji Hirai was the first to speak and challenged Stringer.

"It's because it happened to be a financial crisis, so there was a loss, and I don't think there's anything to explain. Responding to Eiji Hirai's attack with a blank face, Stringer sat calmly in his seat.

To his right is Kazuo Hirai, whom he has trusted for nearly two years. But at this moment, Kazuo Hirai's face was a little embarrassed.

As a member of the Stringer faction, it turned out that his nephew took the lead in opposing it, and the key is that he hasn't noticed it yet, no, it can't be said that he didn't notice it, at least he didn't find out the exact movement of Kazuo Hirai.

This is the case at both ends.

Takuhisa watched the struggle between Sony's two factions from the seat below, and as a director of Sony, he naturally had the right to sit on the board of directors.

"Who will win and who will lose?"

whispered, the thumbs of both hands touched, stirring non-stop.

Although it didn't affect him much, I was still curious about who would win in the end.

"At the end of the day, it's because you don't pay attention to our core electronics division at Sony, Your Excellency, that you're losing so much money this year. If you're only interested in investing your energy at Columbia Pictures, I don't think you're a good fit for us at Sony's headquarters. ”

Show one’s true colors in the end.

Eiji Hirai unveils his true face as vicious, like a wolf chasing food, bound to bite down in front of his prey.

"You mean you want me to step down?"

Having said that, Stringer naturally did not maintain a gentlemanly attitude, and his words became sharp unconsciously.

"Yes, I don't think Stringer's business philosophy is a good fit for us at Sony, so I propose at this board meeting that Stringer Howard be removed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He loudly expressed his opinion to the shareholders at the meeting, "As for the CEO who will take over, I personally recommend Mr. Kazuo Hirai, President and CEO of the electronic entertainment company. ”

The audience was silent, in addition to the old forces that Eiji Hirai had wooed, there were also many directors who were just eating melons, and these people were whispering.

"I remember that Eiji Hirai is the nephew of Kazuo Hirai, and isn't Kazuo Hirai also a person under the executive of Stringer, why does he dare to openly demand the removal of His Excellency Stringer?"

"Don't look at Eiji Hirai as a person who obeys Kazuo Hirai, but he is often dissatisfied with His Excellency Stringer's strategy in private, and he himself is considered a radical, so I think this one is exciting, but it is also expected. ”

"So who do you think will win and who will lose this time?"

"I don't know, but looking at it like this, it should be Eiji Hirai's winning rate, right?" The director who spoke glanced around, and half of the people looked on Eiji's side with their expressions, and the rest were either from Stringer's side or directors like them.

Eiji Hirai, who spoke, was full of confidence and heroism, and now he felt that he had won the battle, and Stringer had no power to resist, so he just waited for the decision of the board of directors.

The situation has become clearer.

"I think I have something to say. Stringer spoke at this time, "Admittedly, I have a great deal of responsibility for this loss. But I don't think that's something that a hairy kid who isn't even a director can say. ”

He began to exert his strength, and the situation that should have been clear suddenly became anxious.

"Your Excellency Stringer, I don't think there's anything left to say. We all see your contribution to Columbia Pictures, but your management style is too different from our Sony, Sony, from beginning to end, should still be responsible for the neon people who know. Eiji Hirai didn't give Stringer a chance to resist, and wanted to slap him to death without leaving a little suspense.

"For Kazuo's sake, I don't want to embarrass you, it's not just me who embarrass you with this set of combos. Stringer suddenly said to Eiji Hirai, "It's too late to stop now, I can act as if nothing happened." ”

Of course, Eiji Hirai, who feels that he has the chance to win, will not really give up because of Stringer's words, if he wants the rise of the electronics department, he must let Kazuo Hirai, who was born in the electronics department, come to power, and kicking out Stringer is the first step.

It's true that he is usually dissatisfied with Stringer, but that doesn't mean that he denies Stringer's management methods, but he is not satisfied with his addiction to Columbia Pictures.

This is the biggest difference between him and those old guards.

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency Stringer, I don't think there's anything to say, you have to be deposed today, Sony's core is the electronics department, there's nothing to talk about. After Eiji Hirai said this, he didn't plan to continue watching, and was ready to continue his recall plan, "Let's go on, let's start voting on whether to remove Sony's chairman and CEO, Howard Stringer?"

As soon as he said this, there was a commotion at the scene, but it immediately fell silent.

The youngest of the board members present is forty or fifty years old, and who has never seen the world still has the ability to calm down. Still, most people agree with Eiji Hirai's statement.

What's more, there is also a tradition in neon that deserves respect - the lower gram.

Since the Warring States period, the custom of following the rank has been popular, and no matter what the reason is, it is worthy of respect to dare to challenge the above-mentioned personnel with the status of the following.

"There are some things I want to say before we start voting. Since Eiji Hirai didn't listen to his dissuasion, then Stringer didn't show mercy anymore, and he had to use his killer move, "Originally, I didn't want to say it, but you insisted on not changing it, so let's make it public." Stringer said, clapping his hands, "Come in." ”

From the outside, a man of about twenty years old wearing glasses walked in, he was a little shrunken, and he looked extremely unconfident. But seeing this person, Eiji Hirai was taken aback.

"Shiraishi!"

Yaya Shiraishi, who is his subordinate, was born in Gunma Prefecture, and is timid and uncomfortable, but he also has his own unique opinions in the field he belongs to, so Eiji Hirai also included him in his banner.

Now that he's going to be here, what's going on?

And he was called here by the person Stringer, and Eiji Hirai suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Hello, Mr. Hirai. ”

Shiraishi, who walked in in a suit, first glanced at the people around him, first greeted Eiji Hirai, and then turned his head to Stringer's way and saluted Stringer with respect.

"Hello, Mr. Stringer. ”

"Well, Shiraishi, I didn't call you here today because of anything else, you can tell everyone here about Eiji Hirai, about what you reported to me last time. That matter was also said by Baishi, you took the initiative to come to my office, and there is no need to hide it. ”

"Shiraishi, you?!"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Hirai, but there are some things that I think I'm going to say anyway and I can't let you cover them up. Bai Shiya also suddenly burst with a sense of justice at this time, his face was expressionless, and the previous cringe disappeared completely.

This is the state that he will only have after working hard.

"What are you talking about?"

For some reason, Eiji Hirai suddenly panicked in his heart.

"Mr. Hirai, in the past, because of his personal actions, he had to give up the personal game project we were working on halfway and had a major loss, and he did not take responsibility at that time, but used Yamamoto, who was in the same group, as a scapegoat, to escape the company's sanctions, and then the matter was covered up until today. ”

Ya Shiraishi also calmly reported to the board of directors.

"What nonsense are you talking about?!"

The fists were exposed, and his voice was a little hurried, and Eiji Hirai looked a little angry, and he didn't admit it verbally.

"Shiraishi, I've never treated you badly, why would you help Stringer to slander me?" he asked.

"Mr. Hirai, I don't think I ever said I was part of your team, right?" Shiraishi Yaya suddenly showed a bright smile, "You know what happened to Yamamoto after he was kicked out of the company?"

"What happened?"

At the beginning, because of the mistake of drinking, he fell for the ploy of the enemy's competing company, and his project was forced to be terminated, and the company lost a lot of money in vain, in order to cover up this fact, he put all the blame on the team member Yama himself at the time, and the result was that Yamamoto was expelled from the company, which he had been concealing and did not mention to anyone.

And what happened to Yamamoto later, he didn't know anymore, but just gave him a lot of compensation, and the matter was written off.

"Because he was framed, he kept drinking to kill his sorrows after he was fired, and I listened to his complaints, and then one day, he jumped from the top of the twentieth floor and ended his life. After his death, I decided to uncover your ugly side, Mr. Hirai. Bai Shiya also smiled as if relieved, "I've been so well disguised over the years, I really deceived the rising star of the electronics department, and got the most critical evidence from his computer." That's it. ”

He pulled out the USB stick.

"This is all the process of Eiji Hirai leaking the company's information at that time and burying him afterwards, and I saved it all on this USB flash drive. With that, Shiraishi also put the USB flash drive on the table.

"Nonsense, bullshit!"

Eiji Hirai's face was pale, and he only said these two words.

"I've never done any of these things!"

Again, he stressed.

"Alas, this guy Eiji, this time it's planted. ”

Takuhisa, who had seen all this on the board of directors, sighed for him in his heart, no matter how Eiji Hirai denies it now, as long as the facts come forward, he will be punished internally by the company.

Leaking secrets because of wine and planting them to subordinates afterwards is not an ordinary punishment that can be solved.

There are many unscrupulous subordinates who will do this, but if it is exposed, it will also provoke public anger.

While Takuhisa was thinking so, Yaya Shiraishi's USB flash drive had already been shown on the screen, and it was indeed ironclad.

"Now that this is over, I'll go first, Mr. Stringer. ”

"Well, thank you very much this time, Shiraishi. Stringer waved him away.

At the end of the screening, Shiraishi also bowed and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, he walked over to Eiji Hirai.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Hirai, for your cultivation in the past, but I will definitely avenge Yamamoto's revenge, please understand. ”

Expressionless, indifferent to let the temperature around him drop a few degrees, Eiji Hirai didn't say anything.

"Now that the evidence is here, I'll announce the punishment of Eiji Hirai later, in my capacity as CEO. I have to say that I feel very sad that I have made such a big mistake, Mr. Hirai, I think you are the one who is not suitable for the head office. After Stringer said this, he stood up, "You can go and get ready to clean up the office, for the sake of your contribution to the electronics department, this time it will not kick you out of Sony, it will make you work hard in another company, that's it." ”

Stringer made it clear that Eiji Hirai would be exiled afterwards.

The situation was no longer in his control, and Eiji Hirai let go of his fist, and his whole expression relaxed. Shiraishi Yaya was not in his plan this time, and he really didn't expect that there would be a second or fifth boy under his subordinates.

Man is not as good as heaven, but his mission is not yet complete.

"I think we can wait until after the punishment of me, and now the focus of our discussion should be on the appointment and dismissal of His Excellency Stringer, and the future of Sony is more important than my personal trivial matter, right?"

Seeing Eiji Hirai say this, Takuhisa also nodded with satisfaction.

Even if he was attacked unexpectedly, Eiji did not forget his original purpose, did not lose his soul, and was determined to move forward. In this way, even if he encounters a big change, he will definitely succeed.

And this incident is not necessarily a bad thing for him, the sharpness will make the sword be targeted and cut off.

"Mr. Hirai, please get out of here, this is no longer a place for you to stay. ”

"I said, please start voting first!"

This sound, Eiji Hirai roared.

The face is hideous.