Chapter 360 Help Mitsui Consortium

Hosokawa Morihi is dead.

This is the breaking news that has dominated all media recently.

The former Prime Minister has a close relationship with the Mitsui Consortium. Not only does he receive a large amount of money, he is also preparing to sell the only surviving Naganobu Bank among the three major long-term credit banks to Sanwa Bank!

Various inside stories were exposed by Fuji TV.

Nissho Iwai belongs to the Sanwa Consortium, while Fuji TV belongs to the Fuji Consortium. When the two powers join forces, the Mitsui Consortium, which was in a passive situation for a moment, is unable to succeed and can only retreat steadily and withdraw from the battlefield in a way that eliminates the pressure of public opinion as much as possible.

Faced with their approaching step by step, the Mitsui Consortium found it difficult, and finally had to find Kitahara Investment, which was in a neutral position.

The current power of Beiyuan Investment is far from being comparable to these large consortiums, and they will not really take this rising star seriously.

After all, these consortiums have emerged since the war years and have been deeply rooted in Japan for decades. No matter how powerful Kitahara's investment is, it will be difficult to keep pace with them in just a few years, let alone surpass them.

The reason why the Mitsui Foundation came to Kitahara Sosuke was because they unknowingly discovered that Japanese media public opinion was gradually controlled by Kitahara Media, owned by Kitahara Sosuke.

In this era, consortiums were still competing in the political arena and many old industrial resources. During the bubble economy, they focused on real estate and finance. As the bubble burst and the Gulf War failed, they suffered heavy losses one after another.

Kitahara Investment, which has always been on the edge, avoided all minefields and focused on his three new pillar industries. Then it acquired Nippon TV Station under the Yomiuri Shimbun. After several major news events, Kitahara Investment was willing to burn. Money is here, and there are no particularly powerful competitors. In less than half a year, Beiyuan Media has become a leader among mainstream media.

The Mitsui Foundation immediately approached Kitahara Sosuke, hoping that he could help relieve the pressure of public opinion, at least not to allow Fuji TV to dominate and attack them wantonly.

Tosan Kyoto Branch, President's Office.

The middle-aged man sitting on the sofa, Managing Director Himura from Taiyo Sakura Bank Head Office, stood up, bowed to Kitahara Sosuke, picked up his briefcase, and left with satisfaction.

The last time the Mitsui Consortium annexed Taiyo Kobe Bank, it was Kitahara Sosuke who came to their aid. Now that Mitsui Bank is facing a major crisis, Kitahara Investment is the only ally that can be found with the ability to guide public opinion.

The manager of Feicun Village came to Kitahara Sosuke under pressure. He was prepared to fail, but he did not expect that Kitahara Sosuke was as talkative as ever and did not take advantage of this moment to add insult to injury.

The Mitsui Foundation is willing to show great sincerity in exchange for Kitahara Sosuke's friendship, and Kitahara Sosuke, who has never participated in the internal government affairs of the Socialist Party, naturally does not need to consider the impact of his actions on the Socialist Party.

He is just a businessman and a banker, and will never become a politician. When he distributed the cake with Hata Tsubasa and the others, he also refused his share of the parliamentary seats. Now he is just helping the Mitsui Foundation. It won’t completely break your skin.

But there is no airtight wall in the world, and news will always get out. When it reaches Hata Zi's ears, it may change.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

Kitahara Sosuke is not optimistic about the Socialist Party and will not accompany him to rectify the Mitsui Consortium, which is impossible to bring down, just to please Hata Tsutomu.

Looking at the brand new contract on the table, Kitahara Sosuke picked it up and looked at it carefully for a while.

Prior to this, he had obtained three commercial plazas and seven shopping streets in Osaka's Chuo District from Mitsui Fudosan, and based on this, he completely monopolized the business in Chuo District, and finally successfully radiated the influence of Kitahara Investment to all of Osaka.

In the process of supporting the new party to come to power, Kitahara Sosuke reached an agreement with Tsubasa Hijikata, the president of Mitsui Bank, to give up all political cakes in exchange for 25% of Sony, 18% of Toshiba and 10% of Toyota Motor, becoming three companies One of the major shareholders of the future top giants.

Mitsui Bank is the birth bank of the Mitsui Consortium, while Taiyo Sakura Bank is more like a son-in-law and adopted son. There are always frictions and disputes between the two.

This time the New Party collapsed, Mitsui Banking Corporation, which was involved in bribery scandals and unfair competition, became the target of public criticism. It was already difficult to survive in the economic crisis, and now it had to make an important choice.

Managing Director Himura also informed Kitahara Sosuke that the Mitsui Foundation Yueyaokai decided to merge Mitsui Bank and Taiyo Sakura Bank to form a new super bank called Mitsui Sakura Bank.

This is a secret decision they made internally and has not yet been made public.

When Kitahara Media in the hands of Kitahara Sosuke successfully completes the control of public opinion and the situation calms down, they will officially announce this decision.

The name of the new bank no longer contains the word Taiyo, which also means that the Mitsui Consortium has completely eaten up the Taiyo Kobe Group and grown even stronger.

Compared with the slight loss this time, they gained more benefits.

Kitahara Sosuke, who worked hard for this, also received a new cooperation contract with the Mitsui Foundation.

His stake in Sony will increase from 25% to 36%, making him the largest shareholder of Sony.

Sony was already in business cooperation with Nintendo, and was not very optimistic about itself. After this battle, the Mitsui Foundation shifted its focus back to the banking industry, which was regarded as a tacit agreement to completely abandon this subsidiary company.

The Toshiba shares held by Kitahara Sosuke will also increase from 18% to 22%. For this high-tech industry, seeing Kitahara Investment doing it with great fanfare, other consortiums are not fools and have begun to follow suit.

Just like Kitahara Tourism, which opened a new market in Kyoto, before Kitahara Sosuke had time to promote it to the whole of Japan, the six major consortiums established their own tourism companies, burning money, entering the market, and dividing the cake.

This is the game of big capitalists.

No matter what you innovate or accomplish, as long as I have the capital, I can enter the market at any time to get a share of the pie.

This is inevitable.

Kitahara Sosuke didn't care. Anyway, the market was formed by competition. He had a business philosophy that they didn't have. It was enough that he took the first bite of every piece of cake.

If you try to eat alone, you will definitely die miserably.

On the Toyota side, Kitahara Sosuke wanted to get more shares, but was resolutely rejected by the Mitsui Consortium. They only provided some key technologies to Kitahara Motors free of charge to assist the latter's development.

If you want to take Toyota away from the hands of the Mitsui Consortium, it is a no-brainer.

Kitahara Sosuke has never had such an idea. Anyway, with the foundation of Mazda and the automobile-related industry clubs he laid out in the early stage, he just started from the low-end market.

The first car of the Kitahara series has been put on the market, and the response has been good. Although it is not a hit, it has been steady and has brought him profits.

In the end, what completely impressed Kitahara Sosuke was actually another condition——

He will own 5% of the newly established Mitsui Sakura Bank!

This means that he can participate in the internal board of directors of Mitsui Sakura Bank as a free person!

This is the first time in history that a non-consortium member has entered the senior management of the main bank of the consortium.

5% of the shares can't accomplish anything. Unless Sosuke Kitahara is as disgusting as the head office and opposes the internal decision-making of the bank, otherwise, he is just a bank director with nothing but money and reputation.

But they don't know that Mitsui Sakura Bank will merge with Sumitomo Bank to form a super financial holding group in the future. At that time, the value of 5% of the shares will be astonishingly huge.

Moreover, in the future, several financial holding groups will oppose each other and will never cross-holding, allowing the other party to invade their own bodies. These 5% shares will always disgust the two conglomerates Mitsui and Sumitomo like a stick in their throats.

After Kitahara Sosuke's Kitahara Investment reaches that level, it may become a fatal blow.

This is what Kithara Sosuke values ​​most.

Now Mitsui Sakura Bank is willing to give him 5%, but even if the sale is good, it will also save Kitahara Investment in the future when it is in trouble, and the Mitsui Consortium has the first-hand intention to annex them.

The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and these old foxes are very deep-minded. It's just that they don't have the ability to predict the future without Kitahara Sosuke.