Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

News headlines such as "The Neon People Are Coming" and "The Neon People Want to Peacefully Occupy North America" ​​began to spread wildly in North America.

As early as the 1980s, 1990s and the period around 2000, Neon experienced a boom in mergers and acquisitions in the United States. Between 1985 and 1989, 17 of the top 20 M&A transactions took place.

in North America.

Mitsubishi Estate acquired Rockefeller Center, a national historic landmark in North America, for US$1.3 billion. Sony Corporation successfully purchased North American entertainment giant Columbia Corporation for US$3.4 billion. Neon Life Insurance merged with North American Shayson Lehmann Brothers, and the Bank of Tokyo

It acquired Union Bank of North America, and mergers and acquisitions like this are endless.

It can be said that it was a normal thing for neon people to go to North America to buy and buy in the 1980s. After all, at that time, neon people had so much money that they could no longer spend it all. The stock market was soaring and goods were sold all over the world.

There is no need to worry about not having money, but what these neon people don’t know is that such good days are about to come to an end.

However, it seems that North America has just noticed this problem at this time, and has only begun to have a sense of crisis.

Some people even wrote to the above specifically because of this, asking to stop Neon people from buying, buying, buying.

But later the people above gave them the reply that as long as Hollywood was not bought by the Neon People, it would be fine.

"Using public opinion to suppress Sony or Panasonic and make them withdraw from the acquisition of Columbia Pictures or MCA? Do you think it will be useful?"

Lin Daoqiu's proposal puzzled Longmeyer because he felt that it simply didn't work.

"It depends on when it is. You must know that neon capital is now vigorously invading North America. Many things have been swept away by them. The media is only issuing a slight warning. If someone adds fuel and vinegar at this time to help add a handful of firewood to start the fire,

, then the situation will be completely different.”

If it were the pressure of public opinion elsewhere, Lin Daoqiu believed that Neon might still be able to control it, but North America was a place of great significance to Neon, and they could not and dare not ignore each other's ideas.

"What are you going to do?"

Longmeyer nodded while listening. Although he didn't know whether what Lin Daoqiu said was really useful, it seemed that there was no other way to prevent the other party from acquiring Universal.

"Use the power of the media to warn the public and let the people above know how destructive it will be to Hollywood once Columbia and Universal are bought by the Neon Man."

"In that case, leave this matter to me."

Langmeyer took over the matter directly because he knew that if he did it himself, it would have a completely different meaning than if Lin Daoqiu did it.

Even if everyone discovers that it was him who promoted this matter, Longmeyer is not afraid, because he originally did not want Universal to fall into the hands of the Neon People. If he can do something to prevent the other party from acquiring Universal Pictures, he will naturally

Very happy.

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"Welcome to "Talk Show Tonight", I am the host Deli, I will tell you how many kids you have, @##$..."

Deli said a lot of words that no one could understand, which made the audience burst into laughter.

"Everyone must be curious about what I just said. In fact, I just said hello to everyone in very standard Japanese. Hello, good evening. How about my pronunciation."

Almost no one present knew Japanese, and everyone thought Deli was just messing around.

But then Deli suddenly put on a serious expression and said.

"To tell you the truth, I have started to learn Japanese now, because this TV station will be bought by the Neon People in the near future, just like their many acquisitions in North America in recent years. It is said that the two Neon super

Big companies are negotiating to acquire Columbia Pictures and MCA. I can't say too much. I can only tell you that one starts with S and the other starts with P."

If what Deli said before was just a joke, then his last words shocked the audience present and in front of the TV.

Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures are the seven major film companies in Hollywood at this time. If they are all bought by the Neon Man, wouldn't they be able to watch Neon movies in theaters in the future?

"So I'm starting to learn Japanese now to avoid being expelled later. Okay, let's officially start today's program. I specially hired a senior linguist to teach you Japanese."

"Talk Show Tonight" has very high ratings in North America, and its influence will naturally not be that low.

When Deli revealed on the show that Columbia Pictures and Universal were about to be bought by Neon Man, the next day newspapers, magazines and other news media went crazy to find Columbia Pictures and Universal for confirmation.

The responses from Columbia Pictures and Universal were naturally formulaic, neither denying nor admitting, but sometimes this is an attitude.

"I can't imagine Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures being bought by the Neon People. They are too greedy. They have already bought so much and are still not satisfied. Do they really have to buy all of North America before they are willing to accept it?"

"It's really unbelievable. I call for legislation to prohibit Neon people from continuing to acquire our large companies, because then we will become their slaves. I don't want to work for Neon people. I don't want Neon people to

People become my bosses.”

If the previous reports such as "The Neon People Are Coming" and "The Neon People Want to Peacefully Occupy North America" ​​are just isolated cases, then the news this time broke by "The Tonight Talk Show" directly intensified everyone's

Fear of neon.

"Is there no room for maneuver? Can we find a way to calm public opinion, or make an acquisition quietly without letting everyone know about it?"

The news from North America quickly reached the ears of Akio Morita. He took this matter very seriously and immediately summoned his think tank to discuss countermeasures.

"If we were just a company acquiring Hollywood, then this matter would be easy to resolve, but the problem is that Panasonic is also acquiring MCA at the same time, which can easily cause panic there and is normal.

"

"Unless one company chooses to withdraw at this time, this may calm the pressure of public opinion. If we and Panasonic buy both Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures by then, I am afraid it will trigger a wave of criticism."

After listening to the think tank's analysis, Morita Akio immediately showed a worried expression on his face.

Provoking people from other places is not a big problem for Morita Akio, it can be settled by spending some money.

But when it comes to people in North America, this is not something that can be simply ignored. It involves more than just a business acquisition.