Chapter 287: Anjiu Jin Gangyi's

In Jingfan-sha's monopoly plan, Anjiu Bookstore is a link that cannot be avoided.

And for Akiwara Yuto himself, the importance of Anjiu Bookstore is also beyond doubt.

Although he successfully avoided the copyright fraud trap of 95-05, before 95, his copyright was still in the hands of Anjiu Bookstore.

Once Anjiu Bookstore is directly acquired or goes bankrupt by Jingfan-sha, in this year and a half or so, the issuance of his works will still be controlled by Jingfan-sha.

Besides that, besides Anjiu Bookstore, he also has to find a medium-sized publishing house that can accept Akiwara Yuto's royalty sharing agreement and has rich channels, which undoubtedly will take quite a bit of time.

Therefore, in the consultation between Shan Zhu Li Hui and Akiwara Yuto, they believed they should skip Jingfan-sha first and see if they could acquire Anjiu Bookstore first, to thoroughly realize the safety of the issuance channels.

One week later, Akiwara Yuto invited Anjiu Jin Gangyi to his home in the name of signing a contract.

After exchanging pleasantries with the other party, Akiwara Yuto asked with the tone of recalling the past: "Anjiu-san, how long have we known each other?"

Anjiu Jin Gangyi was brought into this topic, thought carefully, and said: "About a year and a half."

Akiwara Yuto looked at him with an inexplicable gaze and asked: "Then do you think... are we friends?"

In Japan, the standard of friends is different from acquaintances. Many times, two people who have known each other for many years can only count as acquaintances, maintaining the most basic social interaction and not disturbing each other.

However, this question of Akiwara Yuto was just for another purpose.

Anjiu Jin Gangyi's face stiffened for a moment, and then he replied: "Akiwara-sensei, I have always regarded you as my friend."

Akiwara Yuto showed an inexplicable expression.

"As a friend, I want to ask, does Anjiu Bookstore have any business cooperation with Jingfan-sha?"

Anjiu Jin Gangyi opened his mouth slightly but didn't say anything for a while.

He held it in for half a day before stammering: "You know, we are Jingfan-sha's biggest competitor, so they proposed to acquire Anjiu Bookstore before, but I refused directly."

He had been president for so long after all, so as he spoke, his voice also stabilized.

"Then why didn't you tell me before?"

"Sorry, I was just planning to tell you clearly about this."

Akiwara Yuto stared into his eyes, discovering that he couldn't see any problems, just sighed and said: "Anjiu-san, I hope you can be honest with me."

Anjiu Jin Gangyi said at this time: "Akiwara-sensei, everything I said is true."

If he had said this a week ago, Akiwara Yuto might have believed it.

But his hands now had quite a few other pieces of evidence.

He stared at Anjiu Jin Gangyi for half a day, then took out a stack of photos from his bag and handed them to Anjiu Jin Gangyi.

"Anjiu-san, if it was just refusing acquisition, why meet so many times?"

Anjiu Jin Gangyi took the photos and discovered that they were meetings between him and various figures of Jingfan-sha, including some middle and high-level people of Jingfan-sha.

"My meeting with them was just for business matters," he still didn't intend to admit it.

Akiwara Yuto sighed, took a tape recorder, put in a cassette, and pressed the play button. Immediately after, Anjiu Jin Gangyi's blurred voice came out from the tape recorder.

"Shimoku-san, Akiwara Yuto has already agreed to sign the exclusive authorization agreement. As long as I get the agreement, I will..."

Watching Anjiu Jin Gangyi's increasingly pale face, Akiwara Yuto sighed. 【287

After discussing it with the consulting firm, he sought out Sota Nishijima and had him cooperate with a detective agency to investigate Goichi Akutsu.

With the help of an insider and a wiretap, every word Goichi Akutsu said was recorded.

In fact, had Goichi Akutsu not stubbornly refused to admit it, he had not intended to go this far.

After hearing everything, Goichi Akutsu knew his scheme had been exposed, and in a fit of shame and anger, he threw caution to the wind.

"Akiwara, since you already know, why are you still asking me?!"

Akiwara Yuto was silent for a moment, then asked: "Why?"

Goichi Akutsu, on the contrary, laughed out loud.

"Why!? Why do you ask! You take the lion's share of the royalties for every book, and Akutsu Bookstore only gets a meager profit.

Not only am I looked down upon every time I go out to communicate with peers, but there are even people inside the company who jokingly call me the acting president!

Do you still not understand the meaning of this nickname?! It means I can only be your agent! Akiwara!"

Akiwara Yuto had not expected him to say this.

In his view, he had handed over the copyrights to all his works to the other party and paid a reasonable profit higher than self-publishing services.

No matter how you look at it, he had done everything he could.

Without him, Akutsu Bookstore might have already gone bankrupt by this morning.

However, since things had reached this point, there was no point in harping on about kindness.

He had no defense to offer, but continued to ask: "How much is Keihan Publishing paying you?"

Goichi Akutsu sneered.

"More than five years of working with you."

Akiwara Yuto evaluated the amount and said: "I will give you the same amount; hand over Akutsu Bookstore to me."

Goichi Akutsu replied: "Double it."

In his view, although he hadn't obtained the 10-year exclusive copyright agreement, the copyrights currently in his hands could still be sold for another year and a half.

If Akiwara Yuto didn't want to be unable to sell books for that year and a half, he had to show greater sincerity.

Hearing his "threat," Akiwara Yuto instead became disdainful.

"Akutsu-san, is there no problem with your finances?"

Goichi Akutsu had not expected the topic to turn to finances and was momentarily confused.

Although he had the intention of using "bankruptcy" to mortgage the "copyrights" and thereby betray Akiwara Yuto's interests.

But in their previous cooperation, he had never falsified his finances.

He was momentarily at a loss, even thinking that Akiwara Yuto was at his wit's end.

Seeing his puzzled expression, Akiwara Yuto continued.

"Although I haven't checked the financial news regarding Akutsu Bookstore, the money Keihan Publishing gave you can only be transferred to you through other channels, right? But can you reasonably pay taxes on these assets?

Akutsu-san, judging by the amount of your cooperation with Keihan Publishing, you might be sentenced to more than 10 years."

This tactic was taught to him by Rie Sugitake of the consulting firm.

The other party believed that if Keihan Publishing didn't want outsiders to think their behavior was too ugly, they would hand the assets to Goichi Akutsu or his family through private or overseas channels.

But such transaction behavior undoubtedly had not gone through reasonable procedures.

In other words, it involved tax evasion.

As his business partner, I only need to find a reason to sue Goichi Akutsu in court and let the court examine the accounts of him and his family and friends.

Once huge assets of unknown origin appear, the National Tax Agency of Japan will inevitably notice this point.

However, from a legal perspective, even if he is investigated and imprisoned, Goichi Akutsu can still let Akutsu Bookstore go bankrupt after paying back the taxes.

So Akiwara Yuto is gambling, gambling that he won't do that!

Even if there are some conflicts between the two, it shouldn't make him go that far!

On the other side, Goichi Akutsu fell into a long silence.

It wasn't until half an hour later that he gave his reply.

Upon hearing this reply, Akiwara Yuto revealed a satisfied smile...