"This is just a preliminary acquisition, and we intend to acquire about 5% of the shares in the next five years, which should be enough for you to become a director of Sony Music Group... Kagawa wanted to say to Kiyoshi Sakamoto that this 0.5% is already a lot.

After all, that's Sony.

As one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers, one of the three giants of the world's video game industry, and one of the six major Hollywood studios in the United States, even if it has been at a low ebb in recent years, Sony's stock is still very valuable.

Moreover, there is such a thing as shares, which cannot be bought with money...

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto was a little unable to sit still when he heard the word "five years" spoken by Kagawa.

"Five years?!Too long!" Kiyoshi Sakamoto said categorically.

"Five years is not too long, at that time, you were only twenty-two years old, and five years later, you must have become Sony's first brother, and the huge prestige and lofty position within Sony Music are at the peak. ”

"If you had become a director of Sony Music at that time, the suspicions from the board of directors and the discussion within the company would have been much smaller, and even if you had proposed a plan to implement the Sony system, it would have been much less helpful. ”

"What's more, the process of acquiring shares, as the number of shares increases, will inevitably become slower and slower. After all, Sony's top management is not stupid, and will not let us buy shares in the hands of some retail investors and minority shareholders so casually... ”

Kagawa analyzes to Kiyoshi Sakamoto why it took five years for him to become a director of Sony Music.

Listening to Kagawa's analysis, Kiyoshi Sakamoto was silent.

After all, he is not a professional in finance, and it is precisely because he does not know much about these things that he will give Kagawa full responsibility.

However, the "five years" alone is not a long time, and it is not a short time, which makes it difficult for Sakamoto Kiyoshi to accept.

In the past five years, the Japanese entertainment industry has definitely undergone earth-shaking changes.

Five years later, in 2012.

In 2012, in the Japanese entertainment industry, AKB dominated the music scene, movies have slowly declined, and Japanese dramas have risen together, and it is no longer Takuya Kimura's world.

And Sony in 2012 is bound to be a new world.

"AKB's formula opponent" Nogizaka 46 has been established, and Kana Nishino has also begun, slowly showing the domineering spirit of her own source singer...

Even Nengnian Lingna and Guan Tian Jianghui are also 19 years old...

If it wasn't until that time that Kiyoshi Sakamoto was able to become the director of Sony Music and get the power to implement the Sony system, it would inevitably miss the control of Nogizaka 46, as well as the important growth period of Reina Nengian, Kanda Shohui as Haiyu...

This will inevitably have a significant impact on his "Sony Implementation Plan".

Because, in his opinion, the three groups of artists Nogizaka 46, Nengnian Rena and Guan Tian Shohui are all the core parts and key figures in his "Sony Department".

So, after a moment of silence, he said to his phone.

"Two years. ”

"Uh, what?" Kagawa was a little suspicious of his ears, so much so that he asked again in a rare way.

"No matter what method you use, in two years' time, I will be able to acquire the shares that will make me a director of Sony Music!" Sakamoto Kiyoshi said to Kagawa on the other end of the phone with an unquestioning tone.

“。。。 Kagawa was silent.

As an excellent employee, Kagawa is a right-hand man who will not say "can't say" even if it is a very difficult task when he receives instructions from his boss.

Therefore, he just said in a solemn tone after a moment of silence.

"I'll do my best, but it's going to be difficult... Unless it suddenly appears, an economic crisis or financial crisis that affects the whole world, the stock market may plummet, and shareholders are frantically selling their shares, so that it is possible to buy enough shares in a short period of time. ”

"It was possible that this would have happened, but now, with the US Treasury intervening, it should not be the case... ”

"Economic Crisis??!! Financial Crisis"

Kagawa didn't listen to all the words from the phone, but after hearing two of them, he thought of a big event that was about to happen, or something that was already happening...

Kiyoshi Sakamoto slapped his thigh hard and shouted loudly, "By the way, the financial crisis !!"

As a post-90s young man of the Celestial Empire, although he did not learn a lot of knowledge under the examination-oriented education, his four-year college career still greatly expanded the horizons of Kiyoshi Sakamoto in his previous life.

At the very least, he knows something about the financial crisis that occurred in 2008.

In fact, the financial crisis that broke out in the United States in 2008 and caused global damage was already beginning to take shape in 2007.

The U.S. financial crisis is ostensibly caused by problems in housing mortgage loan derivatives, but the deep-seated cause is the imbalance between the U.S. financial order and financial development, and problems with economic fundamentals.

The financial crisis of 2008 began with the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, and the development of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States evolved into an international financial crisis that swept the world.

The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States began to unfold in the spring of 2006.

This is a financial turmoil that occurred in the United States, caused by the bankruptcy of subprime mortgage lenders, the forced closure of investment funds, and the violent turmoil in the stock market.

In August 2007, it began to sweep the world's major financial markets such as the United States, the European Union, and Japan.

Later generations of experts generally believe that the financial crisis emerged in the second half of 2007, since the outbreak of the subprime housing credit crisis in the United States, investors began to lose confidence in the value of mortgage securities, triggering a liquidity crisis, leading to the outbreak of the financial crisis.

By 2008, the financial crisis was starting to spiral out of control and led to the collapse of a number of fairly large financial institutions or government takeovers.

With the further development of the financial crisis, it has evolved into a global real economic crisis.

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In fact, as early as April 2007, the bankruptcy of New Century Financial Corporation, the second largest subprime mortgage company in the United States, exposed the risk of subprime mortgage bonds;

However, since August 2007, the Fed has reacted by injecting liquidity into the financial system to increase market confidence, and the US stock market has been able to maintain its high levels, and the situation does not seem very bad.

While everyone is thinking so, the situation is constantly tilting for the worse ...

On August 8, 2007, Bear Stearns, the fifth-largest investment bank in the United States, announced the collapse of two of its funds, also due to the subprime mortgage crisis.

On August 9, 2007, BNP Paribas, France's largest bank, announced that it would freeze three of its funds, also suffering huge losses due to investment in U.S. subprime mortgage bonds.

The move also led to a heavy setback in European stock markets.

The subprime mortgage crisis that erupted in the United States had a serious impact on the global economy. As well as Japan, which maintains close relations with the United States, will not escape the fate of all strata of the United States.

As a small island country, Japan is short of resources, and Japan's rise depends on the United States' aid and purchase to drive the economy, and then Japan has successfully established its own high-quality and low-energy consumption, international transnational development strategy, which has become a typical representative and successful model of export-oriented economy.

However, it is precisely because of Japan's export-oriented economy that it is highly dependent on foreign countries, and when the financial crisis spreads around the world, its main purchasing power is greatly affected, and Japan itself is also dragged down.

In addition, in order for the United States and other countries to recover their economies as soon as possible, trade protectionism has become rampant, and protecting their own trade has become a measure for them, and it has become a tight spell for Japan. This has made the already battered export industry even worse.

For example, the automotive industry and the electrical industry, which are one of the pillars of Japan's economy, have been hit hard.

Even Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who doesn't pay much attention to news and newspapers, knows from other sources that the Japanese economy is very sluggish today.

In Japan, which was affected by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States from across the ocean, many companies have begun to lay off employees, even companies like Sony.

Moreover, the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis on the Japanese wage earners was already predating the financial crisis.

In Japan, salarymen's wages are generally negotiated when the employee signs a contract with the company.

At the beginning of each year, the company usually increases the "seniority salary" for employees.

This year, however, many wage earners received the news of a wage reduction when they received a notice of wage negotiation.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto was also on his way to the Sony headquarters building when he overheard Sony employees talking about it.

Although Kiyoshi Sakamoto does not know much about economics or finance, he feels that as a music business group under Sony, even a subsidiary of Sony Music, which is not very close to finance, has been affected, then how much damage should be done to Japan's major industries that are directly facing the subprime mortgage crisis!

Kiyoshi Sakamoto searched in his mind for the information and memory fragments he had seen from various places over the past few years, and slowly pieced together a complete puzzle piece in his mind.

And in the puzzle, Kiyoshi Sakamoto saw four words.

Financial crisis!

As soon as he thought of this, Kiyoshi Sakamoto quickly sat up straight, and said excitedly to Kagawa on the phone, "Kagawa, if the financial crisis is coming soon, or has already come, can we make a lot of money from this crisis?!"

"Or, can I get the Sony shares I want directly in this crisis?!"

"Uh, what do you mean? The financial crisis is coming? How could it be!" However, Kagawa, a professional who knows finance very well, scoffs at Sakamoto's assumptions.

"Kagawa!" Suddenly, Kiyoshi Sakamoto shouted loudly, the name of the president of his own investment company.

"Yes!" Kagawa replied reflexively.

"Trust me, the crisis is coming!"

"No, it's already here!"