Chapter 2221: They Have No Choice

Zhou Andong spoke for nearly an hour, from how the private detective bribed Sony's financial staff to obtain key evidence of Sony's financial fraud.

At that time, the private detective also learned from the mouth of the bribed Sony financial staff that a large number of Japanese manufacturing giants, including Mitsubishi and Hitachi, also existed in fraudulent behavior.

After mastering this important intelligence, the private detective immediately launched an investigation and grasped the relevant evidence of their fraud, and then Qiudongfang immediately cooperated with Huaerjie.

Relying on Huaerjie's powerful information dissemination ability and influence, they began to spread relevant news in a planned way, creating public opinion momentum and causing market panic.

When the timing was ripe, they began to short the Japanese stock market on a large scale. Facing financial capital led by Huaerjie, carrying hundreds of billions of hot money, rushing in aggressively, the Japanese government realized the seriousness of the situation and naturally would not sit idly by.

Thus, the Japanese government decisively invested huge funds to stabilize the stock market. After the short sellers pulled with the Japanese government for a few days, they suddenly turned their direction and aimed their spearhead at the foreign exchange market.

Because at the critical moment, a scandal about the fraud of the Japanese Ministry of Finance was exposed. This news was like a deep-water bomb, setting off a huge wave in the Japanese financial world.

After investigation and research, it was found that the seemingly prosperous Japanese financial industry was actually riddled with holes and full of scars, and the huge fiscal deficit accumulated by the Japanese government over a long period was even more shocking. The entire national economic system was like a building with its foundation dug out, which could collapse at any time.

Therefore, the foreign exchange market became the key to determining Japan's fate, because once there was a problem in the foreign exchange market, the Japanese government would definitely go bankrupt.

Due to the chain reaction triggered by the stock market crash, the foreign exchange market had begun to vibrate violently, and any small fluctuation could become the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Therefore, the short sellers aimed their spearhead at the foreign exchange market, which was to force the Japanese government to abandon the stock market. But for the Japanese government, abandoning the foreign exchange market would cost lives, but abandoning the stock market would also cause serious injury and vomiting blood.

But except for the good debt of the Bank of Japan, other banks were hovering on the verge of bankruptcy and couldn't come up with money at all, which put the Japanese government in a dilemma.

If they continued to protect the stock market, then the foreign exchange market would inevitably face collapse. And if they wanted to protect the foreign exchange market, they could only abandon the stock market. Finally, after a fierce weighing and struggle, the Japanese government chose to concentrate its strength to protect the foreign exchange market.

After all, serious injury and vomiting blood was better than death.

Just like that, the Japanese stock market lost the support of rescue funds and plummeted all the way, like a kite with a broken string, falling straight into the bottomless abyss...

Gu Haibui listened with excitement and boiling blood. Brother-in-law was really too powerful. His story was simply more gripping and thrilling than the Hong Kong TV series "The Greed of Man" that was popular last year.

And the TV series was fake, with fictional plots, but everything brother-in-law experienced was real, without any falsehood or exaggeration.

What was even more amazing was that the Japanese financial crisis that had just passed was planned and implemented by brother-in-law. He was like a god who controlled everything in the world, turning his hands to clouds and covering them with rain, killing in all directions, showing unparalleled wisdom and courage.

Gu Haibui stared unblinkingly at Zhou Andong, the light of worship flashing in her beautiful eyes, as if they were bright stars in the night sky.

"Brother-in-law!" Gu Haibui blinked her watery big eyes and asked full of curiosity: "Have you already been to Sony's headquarters in Japan?"

Zhou Andong nodded slightly, opened his mouth, and exhaled a puff of smoke: "I went, just came back a few days ago, and plan to use the Sony shares I hold to swap for Sony Music and Sony Pictures."

"Ah?"

Gu Haibui was very surprised upon hearing this. In her limited cognition, Sony Music and Pictures were both behemoths in the industry.

Because many Hong Kong and Taiwan stars she knew were under these two companies, and Zhou Andong only wanted to swap for Sony Music and Pictures with the ten-plus percent of Sony shares in his hands, how could this be possible? And it wasn't just Gu Haibui who thought so; others also had this idea.

"Will Sony agree?"

However, facing Gu Haibui's question, Zhou Andong laughed heartily and retorted: "Do you think I am friends with Sony?"

Gu Haibui couldn't help but smile, and two small dimples instantly appeared on her fair cheeks.

"Whether it's the failure of Sony's acquisition of Yuzhou Technology, or the series of events where you planned to short the Japanese stock market and successfully acquired Sony shares, it's impossible for you and Sony to become friends."

"Not to mention that you are competitors in VCD, which doomed you to be unable to become friends, but instead become mortal enemies."

Zhou Andong nodded appreciatively: "Might as well think about it carefully. A mortal enemy like me, who they hate to the bone, has turned into Sony's fourth-largest shareholder. Tell me, can they eat or sleep well?"

"I don't know!" Gu Haibui shook her head gently, and her two braids swayed along: "If it were me, I would definitely be restless and unable to eat or sleep well."

"So!" Zhou Andong continued with a smile, "They don't want to swap, but they have no choice."

At this moment, Mo Dong, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked: "Brother-in-law, since the VCD patent is in your hands, and Sony VCD has long been on the market for sale, do they need to pay you patent fees?"

"That's natural!" Zhou Andong said: "This time I went to Japan, besides negotiating with Sony about Sony Music and Sony Pictures, the other thing was to ask Sony for patent usage fees."

"Will Sony give it?" Mo Dong frowned and asked the question everyone was concerned about. In their view, Sony was a behemoth in the electronics industry.

With abundant funds, advanced technology, and huge market influence. Especially the Japanese spirit of shamelessness, which was so powerful that there were no opponents. Wanting to make them obediently pay patent fees, the difficulty could be imagined. And others had the same idea, feeling that making Sony pay patent fees was a fantasy.

However, if Zhou Andong could really successfully get patent fees from Sony, then for all Chinese people, it would undoubtedly be an extremely shocking and inspiring thing.

After all, that was Sony, a globally renowned electronics industry behemoth. And Zhou Andong, this Chinese person, could actually force Sony to pay patent fees. Just thinking about it made people feel their blood boil.

"It's still the same sentence I said to your sister just now." Zhou Andong looked at Mo Dong: "They don't want to pay, but they have no choice." ===== CHAPTER 2222 =====