Reborn in the Tokyo Bubble Era

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After Hashimoto Taro and Itoyama Eitaro left, Tao Zhiming has been sitting in the tea room here.

Xi Shui, whose name was changed to Tao Fang, sat beside him, silently brewing tea for him and letting him think.

There is also a deer Wei in the courtyard, knocking from time to time.

What Tao Zhiming is not sure now is whether this rhythm is the rhythm in his memory?

From the end of February in 86 to now, it will be three years soon.

The development of major events has not deviated from his own memory.

But now, I have truly become a person who has cut into many major events.At least the plan for Tokyo’s Odaiba Rinkai Sub-City Center began after the bubble burst; the original Tokyo did not have a Mogami Gokurakucho.

Now, even the construction of Roppongi Hills, which was also started after the bubble burst in my memory, has started. Tao Zhiming can't help but think deeply as long as he thinks about the scale of the capital flow generated by him.

These things can only be pondered by him alone.

Fortunately, more than a year ago, after finalizing the big plan with Prince Hassar in the United States at the end of November, Tao Zhiming did not develop any new ideas in the past year, but only tried his best to implement the layout at that time.

This time in Kyoto during the New Year’s Eve, Kinoshita Hidekaze asked him about the capital chain after he came back, and the momentum created last year also spread.

Citibank's Jamie Dimon actually asked if he had any idea to buy Columbia Pictures together with Citibank, which Tao Zhiming didn't say clearly.

In my impression, Sony bought Columbia Pictures this year, and it has been losing money for more than ten years.

Combined with the building that Mitsui bought before, and the Rockefeller Building that Mitsubishi was going to buy this year, it was finally sold at half price... In memory of the crazy overseas asset allocation of Neon people in the bubble era, combined with Taro Hashimoto’s visit today, he got a little more Enlightenment.

Even if you have too much money in your hands, why should you pay such a premium to buy assets in the United States?

It's not that you can't buy it. After all, Hongsu is struggling now, and the United States is about to dominate. In the long run, it will certainly be profitable.The question is, why is there such a premium at the moment?

Ordinary people may still spend impulsively. Is a large consortium with a top financial team so generous?

That's why he tried it out, and Taro Hashimoto's reaction confirmed his idea: this is a tribute from Neon's side!

Although Tao Zhiming no longer regards the collapse of the neon stock market on December 12 as the exact harvesting time in his memory, it seems that he has to be more conservative in his strategy.

Regardless of whether it is advanced or postponed, it is always safer.

In addition, it is time to start now and consider how to cash out.

He thought for a while and started calling.

Tao Fang listened silently, knowing that this was a special time, breathing and moving lightly.

Hearing that he hung up the phone, Tao Yifang said softly, "I'll tell the store manager and send someone over to tidy up and prepare the dishes."

Tao Zhiming nodded, and continued to call Yoshiaki Tsutsumi and Kitaro Watanabe to make an appointment to meet.

Afterwards, he began to contact Prince Hassar, who had already arrived at Xiangdao.

"Bravo, it's so late, I'm playing!"

Listening to the woman's humming on the phone, Tao Zhiming said speechlessly: "Then don't answer it for now, isn't it more exciting now?"

He actually wanted to know who that woman was, but he probably could ask Zhao Yuanxi later.

Hassar smiled strangely and hung up the phone first.

After a year of messing around, the relationship between the two is not what it used to be.

So after he called again after a while, Tao Zhiming joked, "You have to increase your exercise."

"What do you know? It's been a long time since just now!" Hassar replied unwillingly, and then asked, "Is there anything I can't talk about until I arrive in Tokyo the day after tomorrow?"

Tao Zhiming said succinctly: "In order to meet your needs, I signed such an agreement. But now I have so many places to spend money, so I want you to help me. I want to sell some neon I don’t know if Prince Waleed is interested.”

"Neon property? What?"

"real estate."

Hassar shook his head: "Then he won't want it. Uncle Walid said that his investment strategy is to only buy big companies that are struggling on the verge of difficulty, and he is not interested in real estate."

Tao Zhiming simply asked: "What about the royal family? An entire golf course that has already been built."

"...Then I have to ask my father."

Tao Zhiming continued: "If Prince Waleed has time, let's see if he can come to Tokyo as well. You tell him that there is a good prey, which is Columbia Pictures in the United States."

"Columbia Pictures?" Hassar, who was also young, of course knew this, and his tone became a little excited, and the woman beside him also let out a soft cry of surprise, which made Tao Zhiming confirm which actor it was probably.

Tao Zhiming cursed secretly, and then said, "That's right, Columbia Pictures. I want to get involved too."

"...Brother Walid has become more and more successful in the past three years, but if Columbia Pictures... he must not have enough funds!"

"As long as he is interested, please invite him to discuss it together."

Tao Zhiming also met Alwaleed when he went to Oyert in December last year. He was the richest man in the Middle East known as Buffett of Arabia.

Although this guy will be a lot of arrogant in the future, and even told "Forbes" that others have lowered his ranking, he is still not convinced, but now he is only developing within Ouyert, and now he has the most profitable domestic company in Oyert. Good commercial bank.

If you want to sell things to cash out, you must have a suitable partner, and Gou Dahu is the right partner now.

Although this Prince Walid is also very shrewd, Tao Zhiming does not place his hopes on him to buy it.Maybe he would be happy to ask him to find money from the other princes of Ouyert to buy some assets owned by Tao Zhiming, and then take him to reach out to Columbia Pictures.

That way, when Citibank itself gets into trouble next year, Waleed won't be able to reach out.

Get more in one fell swoop.

Tao Zhiming and Hasar chatted a few more words, and Tatsuo Nojima came here.

After sitting down and exchanging a few words about today's "Beng Yu", Tao Zhiming asked straight to the point: "Brother Nojima, Minister Hashimoto just came here. Sony wants to acquire Columbia Pictures, what other intentions are behind it?"

Tatsuo Nojima froze for a moment.

The reason why he came with just one phone call was because the consortium was going to change the president this year.In Tatsuo Nojima's view, Tao Zhiming is a very important person.

So he said suspiciously: "I thought you wanted to talk to me about the order to supply the royal family of Oyert..."

"Of course I need your help in this matter." Tao Zhiming reassured him first.

Tatsuo Nojima was overjoyed: "You are doing me a favor!"

"But in order for their royal family to break this rule and entrust it to me to do it, even if Prince Hassar helped a lot, the final agreement signed is... I will supply the goods first this year, and settle the bill at the end of the year."

Tatsuo Nojima was stunned: "...how much is the total order?"

"Currently confirmed, in addition to the two super yachts, other goods and services have signed an order of 8 million yuan."

"8 million yuan?" Nojima Tatsuo couldn't help but exclaimed, "As expected of the Ouyert royal family... that is to say, you will first bear the financial pressure of 8 million yuan this year?"

He hesitated for a moment: "The part we supply to you...doesn't it take the end of the year to settle the bill?"

Tao Zhiming pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled.

Tatsuo Nojima was a little distressed.

"I won't make things difficult for you." Tao Zhiming gave him a promise, and then sighed, "Compared to the Oyert royal family's business, I plan to shrink some other industries and return some of the funds."

Tatsuo Nojima is a good person, his eyes moved when he heard this, and he immediately asked: "You just said about Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures...Did Hashimoto-san chat with you about something?"

"You all know it well, so I won't hide it." Tao Zhiming said frankly, "I invested a lot of money in the development plan of the deputy capital, and your consortium has benefited from it. Now, it's up to you to let me Get rid of it a little bit, and get back part of the funds. And because of the order from the royal family of Ouyert, and the semiconductor foundry we cooperated with on Xiangdao and the R&D centers on both sides, my capital chain has already begun to be tight. Or Mitsui Bank can recognize my order and give me a loan, or help me find a buyer."

Tatsuo Nojima pondered for a moment and asked, "What do you want to sell?"

"I have to shrink a little bit. I have invested a lot in Hokkaido, and it has become popular. I contacted President Tsutsumi. For the industry in Kansai, I contacted Kitaro Watanabe. In Tokyo... I will play again. The ballroom is no longer necessary. Wander Dance, I can sell it."

As for the scattered real estate that Tao Zhiming has already purchased, he can release it this year through a real estate agency.

The few he mentioned are the big ones.

"Are you going to sell the property in Kansai?" Nojima Tatsuo was taken aback, "Ueda-kun has already transferred the focus of development there, you..."

"The so-called selling, you can sell all of them, or you can cooperate." Tao Zhiming smiled, "In short, my energy has shrunk a little. This year, there are orders of 8 million meters, which is beyond my expectation. It is worth my concentrating on managing this future big client. The business with the royal family can last for a long time.”

"That's true..." Tatsuo Nojima asked after thinking about it, "Here in Tokyo, you only want to sell Wander Dance?"

"It's not just the club." Tao Zhiming said frankly, "It also includes... that piece of land!"

Tatsuo Nojima was really moved: "What about President Takeda?"

"He told me last year that he gave up."

With the current neon land price, how can Takeda Takanao afford it?

Although the land is not big, only more than 3000 square meters.However, after the announcement of the Odaiba Linhai sub-center plan, how exaggerated is the land price around Tokyo Bay in Minato-ku?

A piece of land in Ginza 5-chome is about to be sold now.Now the price of one square meter has been reported at 1 million yen, almost 80 yuan.

A square meter.

Although Takeda Takanao's land is not as good as the land in Ginza, every inch of land is expensive.But if Tao Zhiming said he wanted to make a move... there would still be people rushing to ask for it.

So now even a consortium boss like Tatsuo Nojima, knowing that Neon's real estate bubble will burst, is still tempted.

It's just that none of them expected that Neon's local economy would collapse so completely.They probably thought, at most, the drop would be one to two percent, two to three percent, right?

In fact, real estate has to drop by [-] to [-]%.

"Tao Jun... Are you already making plans?" Tatsuo Nojima asked seriously.

Nojima Tatsuo and others no longer doubt Tao Zhiming's power.When he has any abnormal movements, he has to pay attention.

Tao Zhiming smiled wryly and said: "Yes, it's too early. If you don't believe me, I can tell you today that real estate will continue to rise in 2 to 3 years. If I don't have too much financial pressure this year, now Why are you willing to sell it? And Wander Dance is definitely not my top priority. According to the current price, as long as I sell it, I can get more than 15 billion yuan. After repaying the loan mortgaged by the land, The remaining more than 4 million yuan will be just so-so to solve the problem of capital turnover this year."

This is why Tao Zhiming was included in the Forbes Rich List last year and his ranking has risen greatly.

Even at his request, Forbes calculated his wealth only based on the real estate statistics from the previous year, but as soon as the Fuduxin plan was announced, Tao Zhiming's net worth immediately soared to more than 30 billion yuan.

Seeing how he was thinking about it, Tao Zhiming simply said: "You must be planning to buy real estate after the price of real estate falls, so why don't you help me find other powerful sellers first. Let them buy After you come down, you can buy it again in the future.”

"Unless he continues to operate the dance hall." Tatsuo Nojima's eyes were bright.

"It just so happens that my dance hall is also very profitable now." Tao Zhiming said with a smile.

The dance hall is now easy to disassemble, and the price of the ground building is low.If someone buys it, such as Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, and builds a hotel, the price will be expensive.

In fact, Tao Zhiming just played up his impression of financial difficulties to him, and his main purpose was something else: "So, Sony wants to acquire Columbia Pictures. I know there is a reason for wanting to promote the video tape industry, and it has been done before. Bought Columbia Records. But Hashimoto-san said, their current stock price is only 21 million yuan, why did they pay 27 million yuan? The premium is close to 30%, and they have to bear their debt of more than 15 billion yuan.”

For a loss-making, debt-ridden listed company, its current stock price itself is already the result of taking into account profit expectations.Sony has taken over Columbia Pictures. Why can it be expected that it will rise by more than 30% as soon as the news is released?

Only if it can rise by more than 30%, can Sony make a profit.

If Columbia Pictures is doing well right now and its stock is booming, your premium is justified.

For Columbia Pictures today, a negative premium acquisition is only normal if someone else takes on the debt.Others bought it at a 20% premium, which is already considered a heroic merger.The premium is close to 30% all of a sudden, it can only be said that there is no problem.

As expected, Tatsuo Nojima was silent for a while, and then said: "This is in exchange for the current capital power of Columbia Pictures to help lobby the United States to release sanctions on industries such as Neon Semiconductor."

"Are you ready to admit it?" Tao Zhiming asked, "The consortium is well-funded now?"

"...waiting for a special loan from the central bank."

Tao Zhiming came to a sudden, got it!The sticking point is back.

The consortium bears part, and the state bears most of it.Anyway, it is the taxes and national debt collected, or the money printed by the central bank.

Financial markets boomed because of loose financial restrictions and a massive influx of foreign capital.Therefore, the savings of ordinary people continue to be invested in the financial market, resulting in a scene of flooding without printing money.

The Sanzhong Yefu has not yet come to power, and the central bank will continue to raise interest rates despite not printing money, so it will continue to draw money from the people.He did not print money, but he could turn a blind eye to the central bank's subscription of national debt.The central bank has a large amount of national debt assets in its hands, and of course it can expand credit loans to commercial banks.

Reserves can also be reduced.

But it's time for Sane Yefu to take office at the end of the year, so it's starting to tighten up now.

So Tao Zhiming sighed: "Hashimoto-san is very worried about the confrontation between Sane Ye-san and the Ministry of Finance... Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures may be very difficult."

Since Sanchong Yefu wanted to cut harder with one sword, and cut down the consortium as soon as he cut it, and cut out the gaps in the old system, I am afraid that he is also very clear about the current situation and will not give too much support to the consortium.

Otherwise, it would be embarrassing for Takegami to embarrass them. These things that can get the support of the big money in the United States have already been promoted.

"You asked about Columbia Pictures, are you interested?" Nojima Tatsuo suddenly asked.

Tao Zhiming laughed: "Citibank also asked me if I was interested. They are actually interested."

"They? Hehe..." Nojima Tatsuo sneered, "They are the ones who raised the price."

Chapter 412, The Strongest and Fattest Pig

After Nojima Tatsuo finished chatting with him, he also left first.

Tao Zhiming knew what Tatsuo Nojima said.

Using the current low-quality assets to catch the big guy, since you can cash out at a premium, of course you have to have a support, pretending that it is not ugly.

But the master behind Tao Yaren dragged him to the table, probably not to invite him to eat meat, but to treat him as a dish.