Chapter 149: Acquisition of a Japanese entertainment company
Liang Jinling rushed back to the Hilton Hotel and received a notice from the hotel waiter that the Mitsui Consortium and a group of people had been waiting for him in the restaurant for a long time.
Under the leadership of the waiter, Liang Jinling walked into the French restaurant in the hotel and found that the entire restaurant had been wrapped, and several bodyguards in suits stood at the door, motionless. A few old men sat by the window of the restaurant, chatting and watching the scenery. A group of kimono maids kneeling around were pouring tea and handing water, waiting for these old men, so they would really enjoy it.
"Mr. Mitsui, Mr. Liang is already here." The waiter was also Japanese, and I saw him bowing very respectfully.
"Well, you go down, Mr. Liang, please take a seat." I saw an old man sitting in the middle of the dining table, stretching out his arm and signaling to Liang Jinling.
A maid who took off her shoes, wore socks, and wiped her face with powder, like a Japanese maiko, took a small stroll and helped Liang Jinling gently pull away the chair.
"Thank you."
"Mr. Liang, please taste this tea, this is my long-cherished West Lake Longjing, that is your famous tea in China." The old man lifted the tea and offered tea to Liang Jinling.
"You're welcome, Mr. Mitsui, I don't seem to know you, may I ask what your old man is looking for me." Liang Jinling looked at the old man like a big fish in water, only to see him smiling and leaning on a chair and reluctant to sit down.
"Mr. Liang, I'm very sorry, I was abrupt, please allow me, introduce myself, my name is Mitsui Hirao is the vice president of Mitsui Bank, this is the president of Toyota Motor Corporation, Eiji Toyoda, that is the president of Sony Electronics Corporation, Akio Morita, this is the president of Matsushita Electric Corporation, Konosuke Matsushita, and this is Tanaka Zhangmu of Toshiba Electronics and Electric Corporation."
Mitsui Pingfu pointed to several old men beside him and introduced Liang Jinling one by one. Mitsui Pingfu was very helpless, if it weren't for the loser in his own family, who lost so many shares to Liang Jinling, a branch person, Mitsui Pingfu would not have been in contact with Liang Jinling, an upstart, at all.
Last night happened to be the president of the Mitsui Foundation, and the president of the Mitsui Foundation, Jiichiro Mitsui, had just finished the meeting. I received a report from my subordinates that his nephew, Toyota, and Sony were almost fainted after losing tens of billions of dollars in the casino.
His first reaction was to find someone to kill Liang Jinling. snatched the shares back, but the gamble was public, and the whole Tokyo rich circle knew about it, and Liang Jinling was a big star public figure, if something happened to him as a foreign star in Japan. The Mitsui consortium is in trouble.
So Mitsui Jiichiro sent Mitsui Hirio to Tokyo by helicopter, wanting to find Liang Jinling to get back the shares of the Mitsui consortium. And when he heard that the shares of his own company had also fallen into the hands of outsiders, Eiji Toyoda, Akio Morita and others also followed.
"Hello seniors, it's a pleasure to meet you." Liang Jinling nodded and gestured, Damn, these old men are all the backbone veterans of the Mitsui Foundation.
"Mr. Liang, please come over this time, you must know what is going on. We're going to get your shares back when we come this time. Before Heio Mitsui could speak, the fiery Tanaka Zhangmu spoke first.
"Why do you want to go back?" Liang Jinling sneered. The name Tanaka Zhangmu has never been heard of by Liang Jinling in later generations, and it is estimated that he is also a second ancestor who has no ability, otherwise why would Toshiba be unlucky and almost acquired by an American consortium.
"Baga, you, the Zhina, don't you want to live anymore, dare me to speak like this." Tanaka Zhangmu is mad, this Shina person is in the land of the Japanese. It's all so arrogant.
Mitsui Heio watched Tanaka Zhangmu's performance very calmly, and they had already discussed that one should be white-faced and the other should be red-faced. He received a report in the morning that Liang Jinling showed his might at the Sakura Nightclub, and it was impossible to use force. That can only be negotiated to resolve the issue of shares.
Akio Morita, Konosuke Matsushita, and Eiji Toyoda, all three frowned, they were all authentic businessmen, and they all liked to use business methods to solve problems.
In particular, Akio Morita and Konosuke Matsushita are known as the four sages of management together with Soichiro Honda of the Mitsubishi Foundation Honda Motorcycle (Auto) Company and Kazuo Inamori of the Kyocera Company of the Mitsubishi Foundation, and in the 50s and 80s, they became rich from scratch with their advanced business philosophy. They had just joined the Mitsui Foundation.
Self-made people always look down on the second ancestor who gnawed at the old man, so he was very dissatisfied with the impulsive Tanaka Zhangmu saying such things.
"Oh, I want to see if your Toshiba company is covering the sky in Japan, so I'll leave Japan alive to show you." Liang Jinling directly ignored Tanaka Zhangmu, and with his sentence of "Zhina", Liang Jinling decided to play Tanaka Zhangmu and Toshiba to death. After speaking, Liang Jinling stood up and wanted to leave directly.
"Mr. Liang, don't be angry, Tanaka-kun is just angry for a while, don't be surprised." Mitsui Pingfu hurriedly stood up and pulled Liang Jinling to prevent him from leaving, it was his turn to be a good person. "Tanaka-kun, how did you speak, quickly apologize to Mr. Liang."
"Hmph." Tanaka Zhangmu won't apologize to the lowly Shina people.
"Mr. Mitsui, I don't think we have anything to talk about, I'm tired after a day of playing today, I'll take my leave first and go back to rest." Liang Jinling stretched his waist, patted his mouth, and pretended to be very tired.
"Mr. Liang, don't you want to hear our conditions?" Akio Toyoda's cousin and Eiji Toyoda, the nephew of Toyota Group founder Sakichi Toyoda, hit the nail on the head.
"Oh, I want to hear what conditions you can make to renew those shares." Hearing that the topic was coming, Liang Jinling went back to the chair.
"It's very simple, we will use 135 billion yen to renew the shares that Mitsui Mayi and they lost." Eiji Toyoda didn't want to talk nonsense anymore and offered the price directly.
"135 billion yen? What is the use of this yen in my hands, I can't buy anything in Japan, and it is like waste paper in my hands. "After laughing, more than 100 billion yen is just a pile of waste paper printed by starting the printing press, Liang Jinling wasted so much effort, how could he ask for a pile of waste paper.
"So what do you want?" Tanaka stood up angrily and interjected.
"Tanaka-kun, don't be angry, sit down first." Eiji Toyoda persuaded Tanaka Zhangmu down, frowned, and persuaded Liang Jinling: "Mr. Liang, what is the use of you as a Hong Kong person holding such a small share of our Mitsui consortium's major companies, you should know that our Mitsui consortium is very united, and we don't like to cooperate with outsiders." You can only get a little dividend every year with that little stake in your hand. ”
"Who said it was useless, I can sell these shares to the American consortium, the US economy is now at a low point, and those international investors on Wall Street have long been eyeing your Japanese companies. It's just that they can't buy enough shares of your company on the Tokyo stock market, and I'm sure that the shares in my hands will be very interesting to the international tour capital. ”
"You." Eiji Toyoda was so angry that he couldn't speak.
"Then what do you want?" Konosuke Matsushita asked with a frown.
"It's simple, $1 billion or the equivalent in gold." Liang Jinling lion opened his mouth.
"What can't be." Mitsui Heifu and others were taken aback, and now the US dollar can be directly exchanged for huàn gold. It's not like a waste of paper in later generations, and 1 billion US dollars is a very precious foreign exchange for Japan, and they can't come up with this foreign exchange. What's more, Liang Jinling directly doubled the price and asked them to recycle it, they are not fools.
"Yaga, why don't you grab it." Tanaka Zhangmu stood up angrily again and scolded Liang Jinling angrily.
"Aren't I robbing now?" Liang Jinling waved his hand and smiled evilly.
"You, you." Tanaka Zhangmu is mad.
"Mr. Liang, let's be practical. Those shares aren't worth that billion dollars. Akio Morita frowned, and couldn't help but speak.
"The shares are in my hands, I say it's worth as much as it is, you don't buy it, more people buy it, such as the top ten consortia in the United States." Liang Jinling looked like you like to buy it or not, bite me.
"Mr. Liang, $1 billion is impossible, why don't we pay $500 million and buy back the shares in your hands." Akio Morita now hates the loser in his own family. Leave that big ass for yourself to help rub.
In fact, Sony is a listed company with the largest number of shares issued in Japan, and the shares in the hands of Hiroshi Ibuka and Akio Morita together are not very large, and the Yankees have long been jealous of Sony Electronics Corporation, if suddenly 6 percent of the shares appear on the stock market. There is no guarantee that the Yankees will not launch a takeover war. Therefore, Akio Morita is the one with the most pressure, but Liang Jinling does not have many shares in Panasonic and Toshiba.
"500 million US dollars, I am not short of it." Liang Jinling is still very hanging, and the oil and water are not sticky.
Akio Morita remembered that this guy was a nouveau riche, and he was not short of money to spend, and Liang Jinling had such a big appetite. He had a headache. If you use Sony, which has a market value of more than $10 billion, to buy it with the company's money, $500 million is a small matter, but it is public money, and Akio Morita does not have much private wealth.
"Mr. Liang, $1 billion is impossible, change the conditions, I think you should have other requirements." The eldest brother who took the lead, Hirio Mitsui, spoke.
"Well, seniors, you see, I'm a big star, I like to play in the entertainment industry, I want to get involved in the Japanese entertainment industry, I don't know if you Mitsui Foundation can help." Liang Jinling revealed his true intentions. Hearing Liang Jinling's intentions, several old men present breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, I don't know if Mr. Liang has fallen in love with the Japanese entertainment company, our Mitsui Consortium still has some power in Japan, and we will help Mr. Liang deal with some problems." Mitsui Heifu also breathed a sigh of relief, they are the children of the family who look down on those dramas.
"I want the Nikkei Shimbun and TV Tokyo, and in addition to that, I want Toei Anime Films and Nintendo Games."
Liang Jinling wants to enter Japan's media industry, and it just so happens that the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper is the largest shareholder of TV Tokyo, and if he wins the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper, he can control TV Tokyo, which is the smallest of Japan's five major private TV stations.
Nintendo Games began to gain power in the 80s, dominating the world with red and white consoles, and classic games such as Mario, Pokémon, and The Legend of Zelda became famous all over the world. However, SCE, Sony Computer Entertainment, Koei and other famous Japanese game companies have not yet been established. Liang Jinling is ready to poach some talents from Nintendo and develop his own Rubik's Cube game company.
Toei Animation Film Co., Ltd. is one of the five largest manga and animation companies in Japan, and the famous anime "Smart Ikyu", "Flower Fairy", "Dr. IQ", "Saint Seiya", "Dragon Ball", "Sailor Moon", "ONEPIECE", "Hokuto God Fist", "Galaxy Railway 999", "Digital Tyrannosaurus", "Devilman", "Muscle Man", "Magnum Z", "Legend of Galaxy Heroes", "Slam Dunk" and so on are all works of this company.
In the 70s, Japanese film companies were at a low ebb, and Toei's market value was not high.
The above four companies are all Kansai enterprises, and it was easy for the Mitsui consortium to convince them to sell the company to Liang Jinling.
Mitsui Pingfu and the others bowed their heads and listened to them, discussed for a while, and then raised their heads again to respond to Liang Jinling: "Mr. Liang, the four companies you mentioned are worthless except for Nintendo Games, which can be bought for billions of yen, and the other three companies have a high market value, more than 100 billion yen, and you can't buy the shares in your hand." ”
"I can make up for the difference, except for Nintendo Games, which left Yamauchi's shares, the other three companies, I ask for 100% control." Pu Yamauchi is a video game giant who leads the trend in the game industry in Japan, the godfather of games, and Liang Jinling wants to retain this talent.
Liang Jinling remembered a strange law left by the Yankees to Japan, that is, the Japanese were not allowed to own more than 49% of the shares, but foreign-funded enterprises were allowed to control 100% of the Japanese enterprises.
"Hmm, deal." Mitsui thought about it and nodded in agreement.
"Mr. Akio Morita, I heard that you are going to enter the American film industry and want to open up the market for your video recorders, I wonder if you can bring me." Liang Jinling negotiated the issue of shares, and turned his head to ask Akio Morita.
"Oh, Mr. Liang, do you dare to be interested in the American film market?" Akio Morita also fought hard for his video recorder, and secretly bought some shares of Columbia Pictures on the Wall Street Exchange, but unfortunately it was later acquired by Coca-Cola.
Now because of the Paramount Monopoly Act, the Yankee film company has dismembered the monopoly of the film company, stripped the connection between film, television, radio, cinema, and distribution, and severely hit the seven major Hollywood film companies, and helped to revive a group of independent and independent paper companies, but also made the American film industry decline, knowing that President Reagan came to power, it revived Hollywood films.
"Well, Mr. Akio Morita, how about we join forces, I'm also interested in Columbia Pictures." Liang Jinling also wants to buy a Hollywood film company to play around, but the Yankees are very xenophobic, and they must let Sony be the charge and absorb the anger of the Yankees.
Later, Sony invested in blockbusters such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Big Shot", "Looking for Guns", "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", "Mobile Phone", "Ke Ke Xili", "Kung Fu", "Huo Yuanjia" and so on. Without Columbia Pictures' theatrical chain, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" would not have been able to make $200 million at the U.S. box office. (To be continued.) )