Chapter 578: Defection
"I'll go to the bathroom, you go outside the courtroom and wait for a while." Yuan Heisuke pinched the note left by Pang Zhou in his pocket, and said calmly to Ruri Kyoka.
"Oh, good minister." Ruri Jingxiang didn't think much about it, nodded and walked out on her own.
The weather had begun to get cold in November, but there was air conditioning in the Tribunal's buildings. However, for some reason, watching Ruri Jingxiang go away, Yuan Heisuke inexplicably felt a burst of cold like the Nine Shadows Abyss.
Hara Heisuke watched Ruri Kyoka walk away, turned around and walked into the bathroom in the courthouse. found a compartment inside, locked the door, took out his mobile phone, and dialed the number on the note left by Pang Zhou. The waiting beeps on the phone didn't ring a few times, but this period of time seemed as difficult as a century for Hara Heisuke. Almost a million times, he wanted to hang up the call.
"Minister Yuanping."
Pang Zhou's voice came from the phone, and judging from his soothing tone, he had clearly expected that Hara Heisuke would make this call.
Sharp in 1996 was the most valuable time in its entire history. The world's top 500 ranked 205, and it almost entered the top 200. Even in Osaka, Japan's traditional commercial city, Sharp, with a total asset of $18 billion, can be regarded as an absolute giant.
But in just one morning, Sharp evaporated $1.8 billion. If the $1.8 billion falls on the heads of the president and president, the loss may be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and the loss may be in the tens of millions, or tens of millions, or tens of millions.
Hara Heisuke asked himself, his own little life. Is it worth $100,000? What about millions of dollars? What's more, it's $1.8 billion, enough for you to die and not die anymore.
Even if your personal safety is not threatened. There is no guarantee that he will not be sent to Kagoshima by a group of high-level executives who are embarrassed and angry for the rest of his life......
And people in order to protect themselves, in order to keep their luxurious life. Anything can be done.
"Pang Zhousang! What are you trying to do! Manipulating Sharp's stock price, are you trying to declare war on Sharp! Hara Heisuke lowered his throat and said through gritted teeth.
"Hehe, Minister Yuan Ping probably forgot, didn't our war start a long time ago?" The old god Pang Zhou smiled and said: "We manipulate Sharp's stock price, Sharp can also operate in reverse, and even manipulate our stock price." ”
“Baga!”
Yuan Pingzhu was born by Pang Zhou's rogue anger and the second Buddha ascended to heaven, if Sharp can still stabilize the stock price, will he not make a move?
Behind Sharp. It is Japan's Sanwa chaebol, and its core is Sanwa Bank. Since 1997, Sanhe Bank has been in an unstoppable recession almost like Sharp.
By 2014, Sharp was on the verge of bankruptcy and was delisted from the three major stock exchanges of Sapporo, Nagoya and Fukuoka, leaving only trading on the Tokyo and Osaka exchanges. The stock price, which used to be more than 400 per share, has plummeted to 180 yen per share.
And the fate of Sanhe Bank is also tragic, relying on the merger of the two banks of Rising Sun and Donghai, barely mixing the first echelon of the financial industry. However, since 2010, it has continued to grow negatively. Even at one point, the negative growth rate reached 17%, and the positive growth rate of China's GDP has never reached this figure......
The decline of Sanhe Bank began with the East Asian financial crisis. Sanhe Bank, which has huge interests in Southeast Asia, has suffered heavy losses in this round of financial turmoil, and now it has long been unable to take care of it. A sitting duck. How can you afford to pull Sharp? The fifth-generation LCD panel production line launched by Sharp, the investment of 1.5 billion US dollars has long tightened Sharp's own capital chain, and it is not able to save itself.
It's not that Sharp doesn't want to pull up the stock price. It's just that there's nothing you can do.
Even if it wants to attack against attack, Fanhan Group is not a listed company at all. The only listed ST computer is still a Hong Kong stock. Hong Kong stocks just cut the menacing Soros under the horse, and the Sharp couple dared to make waves?
So. This matter is really only Pang Zhou beating Sharp, but Sharp can only bear it.
"Pang Zhousang, we don't talk darkly, what do you want to do?"
"It's not what I want to do, but what Minister Harahei wants to do, right? Hehe. ”
Pang Zhou said with a smile: "Because Minister Yuanping's mistake caused a fatal blow to Sharp, I'm afraid you, the head of the LCD Division, won't be able to do it for long?" Now that the East Asian financial crisis is in full swing, it may be difficult to find a job. If the Shinjuku residence loses its job, it will definitely be repossessed by Sharp. If you leave Shinjuku, your son's school will probably persuade him to change schools, and your wife may have to pick up discounted vegetables at the supermarket to buy ......."
"Is this kind of life what Minister Harahira wants?"
Hara Heisuke clutched the phone tightly, and the power made Nokia's plastic shell crack slightly.
It wasn't until the middle of the morning that he opened his mouth to speak, but his voice was hoarse like a demon who had just crawled out of hell: "I don't know Pang Zhousang, what do you want to say?" Give me a good time. ”
"Okay, then I'll say it happily. Have you heard of DB Software in Japan? I can leave you a position there, and I can guarantee that the pay will certainly not be lower than that of your Sharp. ”
In the middle of the night, Hara Heisuke sat quietly on the toilet, but it felt like time had only passed for a moment.
He opened his mouth, and then asked, "Pang Zhousang, what do you want me to do?" ”
Hara stepped into the top floor of Sharp's headquarters in Osaka, a floor that was rarely accessible even by his class. At the highest level of the entire headquarters is the exclusive seat of the chairman of the board of directors to justice. And on the next floor of him is the real territory of the president Ruyue Qun. On weekdays, unless there is a high-level meeting, there are very few meetings between the two.
And now, Sharp's two giants have gathered in Xiang Zheng's office to wait for a quasi-high-level Hara Heisuke.
"President and President, I'm very sorry that I'm late."
Hara Heisuke greeted the two and stood quietly in the open space in the middle of the president's office. He lowered his head slightly, looking humbly at his toes, but without much nervousness.
There were only two people in the office, Xiang Zhengyi and Ruyue Qunzhen, one sitting behind a large desk, while the other sat on the leather plush sofa next to it. An invisible depression began to permeate the office, even giving the illusion of thunder coming from afar before the rain was about to come.
"Hara Heisuke, do you know how much trouble you've caused to the company!"
Xiang Zhengyi, who was sitting in the right seat, snorted coldly, and the voice came from the front, so cold that it seemed to fill the air with frost.
"President, I'm ......"
As soon as Hara Heisuke wanted to defend himself, Xiang Zheng rudely interrupted him and severely reprimanded: "Don't you still admit your guilt?" By now, Sharp's assets have shrunk by more than 20 billion, and it's all because of your mistakes! ”
Xiang Zhengyi didn't care what the reason or what the hardships were for Heisuke Hara, all he saw was that his assets had shrunk by nearly 15%, and Sharp suffered the biggest one-day decline since the establishment of the child.
Regardless of Hara's justifications, he did something wrong. No reason, no excuse.
"Yes, because of my work mistakes, I caused a serious loss to the company, and I am very sorry." Yuan Heisuke snorted and said in a deep and sincere voice.
"The question now is, how do you recover the damage you have done to Sharp!" President Ruyue Qunzhen knocked on the coffee table in front of the sofa and said angrily: "What's the use of apologizing? The key is to come up with a feasible solution as soon as possible! ”
"This ......" Hara Heisuke thought for a while and said hesitantly: "If the Osaka District Court can declare that the patents for IPS screens and high-voltage driver ICs are not established, without the support of negative news, the stock price will definitely recover quickly." ”
"And how are you prepared to respond to the lawsuit? How sure are you going to win? ”
"President, there's no way we're going to win the lawsuit." Yuan Pingsuke shook his head and said: "Pan Han Group has the undoubted ownership of these two patents, and we have no chance of winning this lawsuit. ”
"My original intention was to delay as much as I could. Our alternative technology can be developed soon, and when the time comes, it can be attacked and defended, and the Chinese's prosecution can be ignored. Even if the final judgment is really punitive damages, they will not be able to enforce it with $100 million. But now that this situation has appeared, it has completely broken my original plan. ”
"Now if you want to get Sharp's share price up again, unless you let the Chinese announce the withdrawal of the lawsuit."
"Are you sure of withdrawing the lawsuit?" Ruyue Qun is really the president, and he has more say in this specific transactional issue than the president to justice.
Hara Heisuke swallowed his saliva and nodded, "If Sharp can agree to his request." ”
"What conditions did the other party put forward?"
"We have two Gen 4.5 production lines and one Gen 5 line under construction......"
"It can't be!" Xiang Zheng did not wait for Ruyue Qunzhen to oppose, and when he heard this, he first shouted: "The LCD industry is Sharp's established strategy, how can you sell the production line to the Chinese?" ”
Liquid crystal display technology, Sharp can be said to be from the calculator that small strip, step by step to the level of 15-inch display. This path of technological development is the result of the persistence of several generations of Sharp Council presidents, and it is certainly impossible for Justice to agree to such a change.
It's a tragedy to be ostracized on the eve of the harvest! How did Xiang Zheng have the face to meet Sharp's ancestors? How to explain to the majority of shareholders?
"President, I'm afraid we'll have to agree to their conditions." Hara Heisuke gritted his teeth and made up his mind to say- (To be continued......)