The Kyoto Bubble Era: Starting from the Sale of Hundreds of Millions of Properties

Chapter 360 Helping the Mitsui Foundation
Hosokawa Morohei died.

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

The former prime minister had a close relationship with the Mitsui consortium. Not only did he collect a lot of money, but he also planned to sell Changxin Bank, the only one of the three long-term credit banks, to Sanhe Bank!
All kinds of inside stories were exposed by Fuji TV.

Nissho Iwai belongs to the Mitsui Foundation, while Fuji TV belongs to the Fuji Foundation. The combination of the two powerhouses put the Mitsui Foundation, which was in a passive situation for a moment, weak, and could only retreat steadily, withdrawing from the battlefield by trying to eliminate the pressure of public opinion.

Faced with their approaching step by step, the Mitsui consortium felt quite difficult, and finally had to find Beiyuan Investment, which was in a neutral position.

The power of Beiyuan Investment at this stage is far from being comparable to these big consortiums, and they will not really pay attention to this rising star.

After all, these consortiums have emerged since the war years and have been deeply rooted in Japan for decades. No matter how powerful Beiyuan'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 consortium approached Sosuke Kitahara was because unknowingly, they discovered that Japanese media public opinion was gradually being controlled by Kitahara Media under Sosuke Kitahara.

In this era, consortiums were still wrestling with the political arena and many old industrial resources. During the bubble economy period, they valued real estate and finance. With the burst of the bubble and the defeat of the Gulf War, they suffered heavy losses one after another.

And Beiyuan Investment, which has been on the edge, avoided all the minefields, focused on his new three pillar industries, and then acquired the Japanese TV station under the Yomiuri Shimbun. After several major news events, Beiyuan Investment was willing to burn Money is here, and there is no particularly strong competitor. In less than half a year, Beiyuan Media has become a leader among mainstream media.

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

Tosan Kyoto Branch, President's Office.

The middle-aged man sitting on the sofa, Himura executive from Taiyo Sakura Bank head office got up and bowed to Kitahara Sosuke, picked up his briefcase, and left contentedly.

The last time the Mitsui consortium annexed Taiyo Kobe Bank, it was Sosuke Kitahara who helped them. Now that Mitsui Bank is facing a major crisis, the only ally that can guide public opinion is Kitahara Investment.

The executive of Feicun came to Kitahara Sosuke under pressure. He was ready to fail, but he didn't expect Kitahara Sosuke to be as easy-talking as ever, and he didn't take advantage of this time to make trouble.

The Mitsui Foundation is willing to show great sincerity in exchange for Kitahara Sosuke's friendship, and Kitahara Sosuke, who has not participated in the internal government affairs of the Socialist Party, naturally does not have to consider the impact of his actions on the Socialist Party.

He is just a businessman, a banker, and he will never be a politician. When sharing the cake with Tsutomu Haneda and the others, he also refused his own share of congressmen. Now he is just helping the Mitsui consortium. Not to tear the skin off completely.

But there is no impenetrable wall in the world, the news will always spread, and when it reaches the ears of Yu Tianzi, it may change the flavor.

But this is also impossible.

Kitahara Sosuke is not optimistic about the Socialist Party, and will not accompany him to rectify the impossible Mitsui consortium in order 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 acquired three commercial plazas and seven shopping streets in the Chuo District of Osaka from Mitsui Fudosan, and based on this, he completely monopolized the business in the Chuo District, and finally successfully radiated the influence of Kitahara Investment to the whole of Osaka.

In the process of supporting the new party, Sosuke Kitahara 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 One of the major shareholders of the future top giants.

Mitsui Bank is the main bank of the Mitsui consortium, while Sun Sakura Bank is more like the adopted son-in-law, and there are always frictions and disputes between the two.

This time the new party fell, and Mitsui Bank, 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.

The village executive also informed Kitahara Sosuke that the Mitsui Foundation Tsukiyokai decided to merge Mitsui Bank and Taiyo Sakura Bank into a new super bank named Mitsui Sakura Bank.

This is a secret decision within them and has not been made public.

After Kitahara Sosuke's Beiyuan Media has successfully completed the control of public opinion and the situation subsides, they will officially announce this decision.

The name of the new bank no longer has the word "Taiwan", which also means that the Mitsui consortium has completely eaten the Taiyo Kobe Group and has grown a little bit.

Compared with a little loss this time, they have gained more benefits.

Kitahara Sosuke, who contributed to this, also received a new cooperation contract with the Mitsui Foundation.

His shareholding in Sony will increase from 25% to 36%, completely becoming Sony's largest shareholder.

Sony was already in business cooperation with Nintendo, and was not favored by the Yueyao Club itself. After this incident, the Mitsui Consortium shifted its focus back to the banking industry, and it was tacitly agreed to completely abandon this subsidiary club.

Kitahara Sosuke's stake in Toshiba will also increase from 18% to 22%. For this high-tech industry, seeing that Kitahara Investment is 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, Kitahara Sosuke had not had time to promote it to the whole of Japan. The six major consortiums established their own tourism companies to burn money, enter the market, and share the cake.

This is the game of the 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.

This is unavoidable.

Kitahara Sosuke didn't care, anyway, the market is formed by competition, he has a business philosophy that they don't have, every piece of cake is enough for him to eat the first bite.

If you want to eat alone, you will definitely die a very miserable death.

For Toyota Motor, Kitahara Sosuke wanted to get more shares, but was resolutely rejected by the Mitsui consortium. They only provided some key technologies to Kitahara Motor for free to help the latter develop.

If you want to take Toyota away from the Mitsui consortium, you don't even have to think about it.

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

The first car of the Beiyuan series has been launched for sale, and the response has been good. Although it is not a hit model, it is also steady and steady, bringing him profits.

In the end, what completely moved Sosuke Kitahara 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 man!
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 do much, unless Kitahara Sosuke is as disgusting as Soiya and opposes the bank's internal decision-making, otherwise, he is a bank director with nothing but money and name.

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

Moreover, in the future, several financial holding groups will oppose each other and will never cross holdings, allowing the other party to have the possibility of invading their own body. The 5% of the shares will always be disgusting to the two major conglomerates, Mitsui and Sumitomo.

After Kitahara Sosuke's Beiyuan Investment is also promoted to that level, it may be a fatal blow.

This is what Kitahara Sosuke values ​​most.

Now Mitsui Sakura Bank is willing to share 5% with him, but just to sell it well, and save it in case Beiyuan Investment will be in trouble in the future, and the Mitsui consortium has the intention of annexing them first-hand.

Shopping malls are like battlefields, and these old foxes have deep thoughts, but they don't have the ability to predict the future without Kitahara Sosuke.

(End of this chapter)