On April 10, 1990, Japan's Sankei Shimbun suddenly disclosed the news that a number of subsidiaries of China Longteng Entertainment and Game Company were shrinking their funds and suspended all new investment projects.

The content of the news is vague, but the general situation is fairly accurate, and it lists six or seven pieces of information from various sources, all of which are inferred from some clues, and Zuihou makes this bold inference.

First, Park Brothers suddenly settled in advance at its global sales outlets, requiring dealers around the country to quickly collect payments. Sankei News believes that this is a manifestation of Longteng Toys' urgent need for cash, otherwise it would not rather bear the liquidated damages caused by the forced settlement, and be anxious to withdraw the funds before the settlement date.

Second, the establishment of Longteng France branch is also gone, according to the speculation of relevant people in Europe, it should be that the capital chain is not in supply, and there is not enough financial support.

According to people familiar with the matter, all employees in the R&D center no longer take the initiative to work overtime, commuting to and from work on time every day, and there are no new projects to do in their hands.

Fourth, as the global economy has entered a stage of slow contraction, after half a year, China has also been affected, and the Chinese government has issued a number of decrees to maintain stability, and banks have begun to shrink the monetary base and reduce the credit line of loans.

Others, such as the interruption of training at Longteng Comic Magazine, which dismissed nearly half of the trainees, bought a piece of land in the capital and invested in a medium-sized real estate company. Preparing to change to focus on the real estate industry, there is also an open letter sent by the company's president's office to Longteng Global. All branches, departments and project teams are required. Do not be extravagant and wasteful, minimize unnecessary wear and tear, etc.

The reporter of the Sankei Shimbun summarized, processed, and assumed a number of pieces of news, and came to a conclusion - because of entering the huge capital black hole of real estate, there is a problem in the capital chain of Longteng Entertainment Game Company, and I am afraid that it will go bankrupt!

Longteng is going bankrupt?

Did you hear that right? Sankei Shimbun said that Longteng Company is indeed going bankrupt!

Which Dragon Company? That Sega's strategic partner?

The news spread quickly, and as soon as this news came out, it caused an uproar in the Japanese game and animation industry!

The fastest responders are, of course, the journalists. rushed to Fengyun Company as soon as possible, blocked the door, and asked for an interview with the company's senior management, but unfortunately the security guards of Fengyun Company stopped everyone outside, and all employees were given gag orders, and they didn't know what to ask.

The second most anxious is Sega Corporation, Hayao Nakayama couldn't sit still, called Fengyun Company, and the secretary said that he had nothing to say. Calling the headquarters of China Longteng, the secretary said that the president was not in the company and was in a meeting with government officials.

"A meeting with government officials?" Hayabusa Nakayama was stunned and flipped through the news in the newspaper. Thinking of the decree issued by the Chinese government written above, a cold sweat broke out all of a sudden: "Could it be that Longteng Company is really restricted by the government?" ”

The production line of the GameGear handheld has been moved to the Longteng factory in China, and the development of the console is almost complete. Sega is doing Zuihou testing internally, as well as handheld port modifications for 20 games.

The production of MD was also licensed to Longteng. Z80 chips, which are restricted from Batumi, are also under pressure and are shipped to China in batches as a guarantee company.

If something goes wrong with the dragon. The first to suffer was Sega!

Zhongshan Hayabusa couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly called the driver and rushed to the direction of Fengyun Game Software Company, he wanted to ask Wang Zhe for an understanding, and at the same time book the fastest ticket to China, he couldn't wait!

There were also other people who couldn't sit still, George Parker was harassed by a group of inexplicable reporters on the phone, and was told that there was a problem with Longteng's capital chain and was ready to change careers to real estate, he immediately left Salem, Massachusetts, and went to New York to find Jiang Shaoyun as soon as possible.

It's just that in the office of Longteng Toys, George also met Alexey and Larry, one is the president of KTT and the other is the president of EA company, surrounding Jiang Shaoyun and asking questions non-stop.

Jiang Shaoyun sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, and after the three of them took turns to question, he smiled and said, "I said three presidents, what are you worried about?" Does Longteng owe you money? Do you owe you money for the goods? ”

Alexey didn't owe money, he just received an ominous phone call from Yang Yun and came to inquire about the details.

Larry doesn't owe money either, there are 20 engineers who help EA all year round, and EA doesn't have to pay a salary, Larry can't find such a free labor force with a lantern.

George doesn't owe any money, the accounts of the Bang! cards have long been settled, and the new Three Kingdoms Kill cards are also selling millions of dollars a day, and he is making a lot of money.

George smiled dryly: "Mr. Jiang, we are just concerned, come and ask about the situation." If Longteng is short of money, we can help, as long as there is collateral collateral, we can still take out hundreds of millions of dollars in cash. ”

This old fox!

Jiang Shaoyun scolded secretly, needless to say, he just took a fancy to the copyright of Three Kingdoms Kill and Bang!, and mortgaged the ownership of the card, and if he pretended to send some dollars, I am afraid that he would like Longteng to go bankrupt!

In addition, there is a 30% interest in EA-Sports, and KTT doesn't know how much, these are Longteng's assets, at this sensitive time, several presidents came over in person, and were even willing to fly thousands of miles from the West Coast of the United States, what kind of idea these people played, Jiang Shaoyun knew very well in his heart!

Jiang Shaoyun said: "I don't know the specific situation, quickly collect funds, eliminate waste and reduce expenditure, these are all orders issued from the office of the president of China Longteng, I just do it." ”

The three of them returned in vain, and the reporters couldn't find any news here at Longteng Toy Company, all of which became a mystery!

At the headquarters of Longteng in China, it was calm and calm, as if nothing was a big deal.

Employees should go to work, travel when they should go on a business trip, and those project teams who take the initiative to work overtime, as if nothing major has changed.

Longteng Comics Magazine did dismiss a lot of employees, but those were eliminated and some students who were not suitable to enter the animation industry as painters.

Longteng company has indeed entered the real estate industry, just invest a sum of money, backdoor operation, only one plot, at most 1000 suites, ready to make a high greening rate, low floor area ratio, beautiful environment, complete functions, comfortable to live, every household has a parking space of the company's welfare community.

Except for Yang Yun and a few other core figures, no one knows what happened, the outside news is boiling, but the internal turmoil of Longteng Company is calm, all the employees are calm, and there is no sign that the company is going bankrupt.

The media could not contact Yang Yun, and other senior managers disappeared one by one, and no one clarified the rumors, and no one denied the information listed by the Sankei Shimbun.

Because of Longteng's non-response, the rumors of Sankei News spread even more outrageous, what Yang Yun was isolated by the government to investigate, Xinhua Bookstore canceled all Longteng promotion points in all county-level cities, indicating that the Chinese government has been dissatisfied with Longteng Company, and is ready to completely rectify the learning machine and game machine market, and standardize books, audio-visual and newspaper products.

At this time, companies such as Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami have come forward to fall into the ground, while pro-China media such as NHK, which is trying to save the dragon, can only be in a hurry.

This time, it directly affected the stock price of Sega on the Tokyo stock exchange, and after waiting for Longteng's statement, retail investors chose to leave the market pessimistically, quite optimistic about Sega's prospects, believing that after leaving Longteng, Sega will definitely not be Nintendo's opponent.

Zhongshan Hayabusa personally came to the Longteng headquarters in Zhongguancun, at this time, it was already the 12th, and the rumors had been spreading for three days, and he really had no way to contact Yang Yun, so he could only come to China to try his luck.

Yongye accompanied him, sitting in the distinguished lounge, watching Fang Huimin send all kinds of tea and snacks, anxious.

Yongye stopped Fang Huimin, who was carrying a bag of old capital specialties, and asked difficultly: "Miss Fang, don't be busy, we can't eat or drink, where is Mr. Yang?" We want to know what's going on! ”

Fang Huimin was puzzled: "Mr. Yang went to the State Administration of Press and Publication for a meeting the day before yesterday and never came back, but he called us yesterday and only said one word. ”

"What?" Nagano was a little nervous.

"I may not be able to come back for a few days, and the company is temporarily in charge of Manager Zhao." Fang Huimin blinked and added: "That's what I said!" ”

Nagano and Hayao Nakayama looked at each other, what the hell was going on?

I can't come back for a few days, is it really that I was restricted from being quarantined and lectured?

After asking, the two learned that Zhao Yongping is still in Taiwan, as for the contact information, maybe Taiwan Shiya Yule Branch will know, but after contacting, the two were disappointed again, and no one could find Zhao Yongping.

A car can't run without an engine, but the behemoth of Longteng Company has no core brain, Yang Yun, and it still runs very smoothly.

The closed environment in China made it impossible for a lot of news and news to come out, and gradually, suspicion became the main voice in the whirlpool of the storm.

On April 17th, the media, who had been waiting for a week, finally heard the only official news released by Longteng Company: "Longteng Entertainment Game Company's factory in Zhaozhuang has suspended production, and all production related to MD consoles has been transferred to the Sega factory in Japan for production, because all losses caused by the change will be borne by Longteng Company." ”

Coincidentally, the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry recently passed a resolution at a regular report meeting that China should vigorously develop the computer industry and speed up the research and development of high-precision chips such as CPU chips, internal memory components, and graphics processing chips.

For a while, everyone seemed to understand something, and it seems that the Chinese government should make a big move! (To be continued......)