Chapter 174: The Beginning of War 1

The outbreak of the world economic crisis in August 35 led to a sharp change in the economic and political situation of the whole world, especially the rapid deterioration of social contradictions in individual regions. The changes in the situation in the Far East are closely related to world politics, and the countries of the Far East are all countries with great influence in the world, especially China and Japan, two neighbors with many contradictions, which make the governments of major countries worried. For politicians, the outbreak of war in the Far East is not terrible, but what is terrible is the impact of the war in the Far East on the world economy and the ensuing turmoil in the region. Whether the two powers of the Far East succumb to the pressure of the countries of the world, or whether they are powerless to each other, they are "peaceful" after all.

However, as soon as the economic and trade agreement in the Far East was signed, economic commentators around the world pointed out that the "Far East War" was about to break out, and its intensity was "no less than a military conflict" and it was a "national war" that was a matter of life and death. At the same time, although international companies cannot participate in this triangular melee, they are all extremely concerned about it, because whether the big companies in the Far East win or lose in this conflict, they will pose a great threat to international opponents. These large companies in the Far East may have one or the other, and they may make a profit together, or they may lose both, but China's huge market will make these companies earn a lot of money, enough to compete with their world peers for the world market. For European and American companies, the best outcome is that the big companies in the Far East lose both, "one peach kills three soldiers", and the three major economies of the Far East are finished together, and finally they sweep the Far East market with their capital and technological advantages, and together with the Indian market, that is the best thing. It's a pity that this is just a theoretical fantasy, the big companies that survived this big war are all strong, all of them are strong people who have made great progress, and even some large companies that are in a weak position are not something they can easily deal with! Of course, the fierce battle for the Far East has also consumed the energy and financial resources of major companies, weakened their sharp spirit in competing for the world market, and many large companies have been seriously weakened, accelerating the pace of being eliminated from the market.

The war for the Far East is also known as a war in which there are no winners and no losers, and it is so because the world-class giants that governments and large corporations care about are hardly seriously weakened. For the world market, there are too many large companies, but there are only a few industry giants, and almost all walks of life are divided by large companies in several major economies, so these companies are the focus of some people's attention.

In the world's major industries, there are some international top giants, electronics, new materials, biotechnology three high-tech industries, has always been the focus of people's attention, and other traditional industries, such as energy, aviation manufacturing, automobiles, machinery, transportation, textiles, food, finance, insurance, news and real estate and other industries, are also very concerned. Far Eastern companies in the energy industry are not strong, and aviation manufacturing is relatively weak, but they are not weak at all in other aspects, and there are world-class top giants in almost every industry. The economic strength of the three East Asian powers in the Far East is extremely strong, China is the world's second largest economic power, Japan is the world's third largest economic power, and even South Korea and North Korea are among the top 20 in the world; In terms of market capacity, North America is the second, Europe is the first, and China is the third, but in fact, the North American and European economies are not as big as the three economies of East Asia, and the world experts agree that once the three East Asian countries are fully regionalized, then the East Asian economy will definitely be the world's largest economy, surpassing Europe and being larger than North America, which can not let the world's major countries, especially international companies, pay attention. In fact, the Far East occupies an important position in traditional industries such as automobiles, machinery, transportation, textiles, food, finance, insurance, and journalism, especially in Japan, followed by China and South Korea. Among the three major high-tech industries with huge consumption in the world, the Far East has quite an advantage.

Of course, Europe and the United States are not at a disadvantage, for example, before the economic crisis, the top 20 companies in the electronics industry, the United States accounted for 6, Europe also has 5, accounting for more than half of the total, and China is only 3, even Japan is only 4 (South Korea and North Korea only have one); For example, in the top 10, Europe accounts for three, and China, Japan and the United States each account for two. Therefore, Europe and the United States are not inferior at all, but they are used to dominating the world, and they are reluctant to share the world with the Far East Company. Among the top 10 companies in the new materials industry, there is only one in China, and only two in Japan, while the United States occupies two, and Europe and the United States together occupy half of the seats, accounting for 47.6% of the total assets (top 10) of 14.42 trillion yuan (the electronics industry accounts for 50.6% of the 15.53 trillion yuan in assets); In the field of biotechnology, there is no major Chinese company in the top 10 in the world, and companies from Japan, the United States and Europe occupy at most nine of them! As for the top 100 or 50 companies, Europe and the United States occupy the majority, so to speak, the slightest carelessness, the Far East's world-class companies will be overtaken by the following divisions, which shows how bad the situation in the Far East, especially Chinese enterprises, is in the world!

However, the world situation is constantly changing, from a hundred years ago the world's large companies were occupied by Europe and the United States, to the rise of Japan, South Korea, China and India in recent decades, the world ranking of large companies has undergone subtle changes, and the situation of Europe and the United States dominating the rankings has gradually ceased to exist, and a large number of rising international companies have squeezed in, and the squeeze of each company marks the gloomy exit of another large company. The reason why this Far East War is so eye-catching is that, on the one hand, China and Japan are both world economic powers, and the antagonism between the two countries is also relatively serious, everyone wants to see whether China, a rising star, can be lower than Japan, an old economic power, and you must know that even if Europeans and Americans look down on China, they will definitely not underestimate Japan, and everyone wants to see the performance of this pair of sworn enemies in the Far East! On the other hand, people may not admit it, and large companies are reluctant to speak their minds, but no one can deny their attention to a Chinese company, and all major companies do not want to see how the fairy company that has become the world's top consortium after only 30 years has performed in this Far East war, whether it continues to write magically, or is vulnerable, or just barely protecting itself. Because the speed of the fairy's rise is too fast, in just 30 years, it occupies the 16th position in the world's major conglomerates in one fell swoop, and the economic crisis has made her rise to the seventh place in an instant, who knows how much surprise she will create for the world in this crisis!

The world's big companies are reluctant to admit the status of the fairy, especially her strength, but there is no doubt that everyone wants her to be weakened, and the Japanese may not be able to drag her down, but at least they should be able to seriously weaken her! The growing strength of China's economy is a matter of concern to governments, and large companies are unwilling to mix, as long as they can make profits in China's big market, but the strength of the fairy is something that major companies are unwilling to do, they are willing to see China full of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and they are never willing to fight against powerful opponents, especially upstart and terrible legendary companies like fairies. Not only do large corporations not want to see fairies strong, but even some governments oppose the power and expansion of fairies, and there has never been a private company that has so obviously embarrassed the political elite, who can like fairies? If you ask how strong the fairy is, before the economic crisis, perhaps most people don't think so, because the fairy is not very good, although she has 30 years of leapfrog development, but the real world influence is only a few aspects! The loose consortium of iron and steel enterprises can make the international steel consortium a headache, but now the share of the steel industry in the international consortium has become smaller and smaller, and their voice no longer belongs to the mainstream of society; As for the consortium of textile companies, it has nothing to do with large conglomerates, only some small large companies and governments. What really makes the big companies pay attention is the fairy's electronics company and the new material company, which are their toughest opponents in the Chinese market, but everyone is not afraid, and there is no need to worry, because the two companies of the fairy are just making trouble in China, and they are not worthy of everyone's real concern. However, we must not ignore the fact that few large companies can have two of the world's top five companies in the three major high-tech fields at once, and how can they not attract attention with the headquarters of such a large-scale company!

But the fairy also has a fatal shortcoming, she is a dragon in the Chinese market, but when it comes to foreign countries, she is just a small worm, not that she does not want to open up the international market, but by the major companies to block all its exports out of China. If the fairies can be trapped in China, then the big companies will be at least 60% successful, which can greatly reduce the pressure on this powerful consortium to them, and can obtain the lost benefits in China from the world market to maintain the balance of income with the fairies, and the fairies who can't leave the country are at most a Chinese company. In this way, even if you can't stop the fairy's strength and growth, you can stop her from advancing into the world, and even strangle her one day! But the outbreak of the economic crisis, especially the fairy's successful escape from the economic crisis, and because she has reserved funds that shocked the world, the large companies were saddened, from worrying to looking up to the sky and sighing, the fairy tiger was finally released from the cage! At the same time, because of the financial damage and the serious deterioration of the economic situation, they have to send a large number of "assets" to support the fairies trapped in the Indian market, which everyone thinks is hopeless and quagmire, as well as the Chinese market, which is already seriously unfavorable to them, and the ban on fairies has become the use and lure of fairies! The economic crisis has not only seriously damaged the high-tech industry, but also caused heavy losses to the traditional industries, such as real estate, automobiles, steel, transportation, news, food, insurance and other industries have entered a vicious state.

Almost out of strategic considerations, large companies in Japan, the United States and Europe sold her the industries that the fairies loved, especially those in Japan and the United States, and it is said that they were later called victims and victims of the fairies' acquisitions. What makes people helpless and even admirable is that the parent companies of the companies acquired by the fairy are almost all the world's top large companies, the first in the electronics industry, Matsumoto, the second and the fourth, Texas Electronics; Shijia, which ranks first in the world in the new materials industry, Simon, who ranks second, and Ji Ke, who ranks fifth; Yamazaki, who ranks first in the biotechnology industry, and Hughes, who ranks second, both transferred their industries to fairies, and from these giants, fairies paid a total of 925 billion yuan, and their income was unusually rich.

Before the economic crisis, the assets of the electronics industry boss Internet were more than 2.6 trillion yuan, but after being eaten by the fairies, the assets fell to more than 2 trillion yuan, and the actual assets were only about 860 billion yuan; Matsumoto's original assets of 2.2 trillion yuan fell to 1.8 trillion yuan and 1 trillion yuan after being stripped of Beichuan Electronics; and after Dezhou Electronics lost Dehe Electronics, it became a large company with only 650 billion yuan...... On the contrary, Fairy Electronics has not only not been seriously weakened, but has risen to the first place, and has risen from 1.73 trillion yuan of original assets to 3.14 trillion yuan of original assets and 1.88 trillion yuan of actual assets, occupying an absolute advantage. According to statistics, among the top ten companies, the proportion of fairy's original assets has risen from 11.3% to 20.5%, and the proportion of actual assets has reached 25% of the total 7.44 trillion yuan. In the new materials industry, Shijia Company, which ranks first, has stripped 550 billion yuan of assets to fairies. The original assets have dropped to less than 1.8 trillion yuan, and the actual assets are only 600 billion yuan; Simon, which ranks second, has been stripped of 160 billion yuan, and its assets before the economic crisis have reached 570 billion yuan, making her actual assets drop to about 440 billion yuan, and even the original assets are only 1.4 trillion yuan...... On the contrary, the assets of fairies, who were not seriously damaged, almost doubled from 1.47 trillion yuan before the crisis to 2.9 trillion yuan, and their share rose from 10.2% to 20.1%; The actual assets have reached 25.36% of the 5.62 trillion yuan, which is also a quarter of the world! What shocked people even more was her achievements in the field of biotechnology, before the economic crisis, Yamazaki Company ranked first on the list, with assets of more than 2 trillion yuan, and was stripped of more than 940 billion yuan by the fairy. There is less than 1.2 trillion yuan left, and the actual assets have also dropped from 500 billion yuan to more than 330 billion yuan, and according to the calculation of actual assets, it has even fallen behind the Delhi company in India; while the Hughes company in the United States has been stripped of more than 700 billion yuan by the fairy, and the actual assets have dropped from nearly 600 billion yuan to more than 300 billion yuan, and continue to rank behind the Yamazaki company. Although the fairy has not entered this industry for a long time, but when the time comes, it has been successfully established, not only acquiring many industries of domestic counterparts, forming its own industrial foundation, but also acquiring the related industries of international giants, and the actual assets have risen to more than 700 billion yuan, which can not shock the international giants!

Although the fairy's acquisition of these industries is not a one-time completion, but only a few acquisitions in the early stage, it is enough to make people look sideways, and each subsequent acquisition makes the opponents happy at the same time, but also makes them more vigilant, everyone knows that if the fairy does not die, it will become a fierce enemy in the future! It can be said that, on the one hand, the world's large corporations fattened the fairy and gave her a large amount of assets; On the other hand, fairies have also directly supported these large companies, enhancing the difficulty of their own market competition.

The battle for the Far East is an economic struggle between the three major economic powers in East Asia, and the fight for those products that still have a market, such as automobiles, electromechanicals, etc., is not wanted at all at this time, except for a few people, even some nouveau riche will not easily purchase. It is said that in the northern market, only 200 cars were sold in three years, and the sales volume in Shanghai was not as large as in Beijing, but in every aspect, the companies competed. Because at this time, the industries that are allowed to start production are still in demand, most of them are consumable products, such as electronics, new materials, biological drugs, electrical appliances and other products, of course, there are some basic products such as parts, not to mention food, there is almost no domestic food company that is not profitable. In almost every industry with a large market, the companies of the three countries have carried out a brutal competition, and the fairy company is the first to bear the brunt, especially the foreign companies regard the fairy as a priority and the focus of care. From the day of the signing of the Sino-Japanese trade agreement, some experts pointed out that the fairy's actions had the flavor of playing with fire, although she had abundant funds, but every time she bought one, she financed the production and operation of a company, so many people were both supportive and dissatisfied with the fairy's acquisition of foreign companies, especially Japanese companies. The acquisition of the subordinate industries of the US subsidiary can increase its asset strength and quickly attack the world market after the crisis, but the acquisition of Japanese companies not only feeds these companies, but also burdens domestic enterprises in the market competition. When the fairy acquired two Japanese companies in 36, it has already aroused everyone's criticism, because Shijia company and Yamazaki company in the Chinese market "selling" is very vigorous, many domestic companies can not raise their heads, and more and more people scold fairies, but at this time, the situation is relatively stable, because the fairy has a strong foundation, the company has no debt, and the reserve funds are as high as hundreds of billions of yuan, and Japan does not look like a big attack (mainly because the market is still relatively small). But by the beginning of 37, China's economy stopped declining, social consumption increased, the market showed a strong recovery momentum, and the products of Japanese and Korean companies began to enter China in large quantities, and fairies began to face various pressures.