China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 701 699. Cultivation idols, a weapon for the black-hearted capitalists to harvest
"Thank you, Mr. Hirai. I'll be polite then."

Since Sony agreed to give Nogizaka 46 to him, Cao Yu accepted it without hesitation.

More than thirty beautiful girls, don’t miss them.

He also remembered that Sony TV declined around 2015, and was probably marginalized by Sony.

Now Boss Cao uses this upcoming event to not only get an office building at a low price, but also a very good girl group.

More importantly, through this girl group, it is very likely that he can bring Akimoto Yasushi over as well.

Sony President Kazuo Hirai did not know Cao Yu's real plan. Instead, he expressed his gratitude to Cao Yu and said, "In the future, our two companies should strengthen cooperation."

Cao Yu smiled and said, "No problem. Our company's video website will need a lot of your photography and music equipment in the future. Please give me a discount."

"Haha, no problem."

Hirai Kazuo laughed and said to Muramatsu Shunsuke, "Take Mr. Cao to see Nogizaka46 and meet the members of the group first. After signing the contract this afternoon, hand over as soon as possible."

Muramatsu Shunryo stepped forward and said respectfully: "Mr. Cao, please follow me."

Cao Yu looked at the guy who had just opposed him and said with a smile: "I still like your rebellious look just now. You should recover a little."

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Everyone present almost fell to the ground.

It turns out that this wealthy Chinese man is both bad and humorous.

After leaving the house, Gao Yala immediately sent a message to Jin Yingmin: "According to the plan."

……

Akimoto Yasushi is a fat old man with an ugly appearance, but he has great influence in Japan.

Especially in the idol industry, he can be regarded as a figure who can change the situation at any time. He has successfully created beautiful girl groups such as AKB48, SKE48, and Nogizaka46. He is considered a master in subverting the business model of the Japanese entertainment industry.

At this time, Yasushi Akimoto was at home, drinking tea and composing a new song for Nogizaka46.

Suddenly, a sweet-looking girl came to report: "Akimoto-kun, a gentleman named Jin Yingmin is here to visit and is waiting in the living room."

"Kim Young-min?"

Akimoto Yasushi naturally knew this president who created two popular Asian groups, TVXQ and Super Junior.

"What is he doing here now?"

Akimoto Yasushi was very surprised, but he still said, "I'll go and meet him."

The girl immediately helped him up his fat body, then knelt down to help him put his clogs in order.

This girl once participated in the audition of Nogizaka46. Although she was unsuccessful, she became a maid in Akimoto Yasushi's house.

Akimoto Yasushi came to the living room and saw Jin Yingmin sitting on the cushion. He sat opposite and said, "President Jin, how come you have time to come to my place?"

"I came to catch up with Mr. Akimoto."

Kim Young-min has received news from Go Ara that Chairman Cho has successfully acquired Nogizaka 46.

So, according to Cao Yu’s plan, he tried to poach this music producer.

"Reminiscing about the past? Haha."

Akimoto Yasushi laughed and said, "Could it be that the development of DREAM GIRLS is not good, and President Jin wants to change jobs? Then I welcome you to join us."

Akimoto Yasushi's words were a mockery of Kim Young Min for losing SM and now working for its rival.

"Mr. Akimoto is joking."

Jin Yingmin was not angry at the other party's ridicule, and said: "We met before at the Red and White Song Festival. I have always admired Mr. Akimoto's talent. Although you have cooperated with Sony Music for seven or eight years, they don't value you at all. Mr. Akimoto's future is worrying."

After hearing this, Akimoto Yasushi said disdainfully: "President Jin, you are not reading the music score, but are starting to read the art of war? Are you planning to use a counter-espionage strategy?"

Although his intention was seen through, Jin Yingmin still said calmly: "Mr. Akimoto, you don't believe me? Do you know that Nogizaka46 has been sold?"

"Nogizaka46 was sold? What a joke! This is an important part of Sony Music's development in the next few years. How could it be sold?"

Akimoto Yasushi didn't believe it at all and thought that Kim Young-min came today just to sow discord between him and Sony.

Unfortunately, the other party's wishful thinking was of no use to him.

He smiled contemptuously and said, "If this is what President Jin is thinking, you might as well go back and stop wasting time here."

As soon as he finished speaking, another girl who was in charge of her daily life here walked in in a panic.

"what happened?"

Kang Yuanqiu looked unhappy when he saw the girl's panic.

The girl had no choice but to whisper in Kang Yuanqiu's ear.

When Jin Yingmin saw this situation, he immediately felt that the chairman’s chance might be successful.

Sure enough, after hearing what the girl said, Akimoto Yasushi's face changed drastically: "How is it possible? Why? Why is this? Why did Mr. Hirai do this? Why didn't Muramatsu Shunsuke stop it?"

The girl said carefully: "I don't know either. I just got the news from the company. Muramatsu-kun asked me to tell Akimoto-kun. I hope you can understand."

"understand."

Akimoto Yasushi gave a bitter smile. He had just said in front of Kim Young-min that Sony would never sell Nogizaka46, but he was slapped in the face.

Seeing that the fat old man was already angry, Jin Yingmin knew that the best opportunity had come.

He pretended to empathize and said, "Mr. Akimoto, I understand your feelings, but Sony has to put profits first, not art."

As he spoke, he shook his head deliberately: "If this continues, Mr. Akimoto and Sony's ideas will conflict sooner or later. And our Chairman Cao is a songwriter. He has won the Oscar for Best Screenplay and Best Original Score several times, and has written many good works."

As he spoke, he observed Akimoto Yasushi's expression. Seeing that he was not angry, he finally said something about poaching: "Our Chairman Cao has always admired you. Now that Nogizaka46 has been bought by us, he sincerely invites you to cooperate with us FNC and continue to build this girl group."

Akimoto Yasushi did not answer.

In fact, this fat old man feels very upset. AKB48 ran away and Nogizaka46 is being sold now. These are all his hard work.

Although he could create a new group, his philosophy and that of Sony Music seemed to be incompatible.

I just want to create a girl group that is popular throughout East Asia, why is it so difficult?

The Chinese man named Cao Yu is indeed very talented and has created Chinese and Korean girl groups such as Seven Flowers and T-ARA.
But after all, I have been working with Sony for so long, so I just leave like this.
At this time, Jin Yingmin smiled and said: "Our president also said that if you are worried about Sony Music's explanation after cooperating with us, he suggested that you can take advantage of the sale of Nogizaka46 to take a break and create at home with peace of mind.

As for Nogizaka46, you will first help them with music planning and production behind the scenes, and when the opportunity arises, we will officially cooperate. As for the salary, our president will increase it by 50% for you."

After hearing what Kim Young-min said, Akimoto Yasushi was indeed shaken.

He didn't expect that the Chinese man had already planned how to separate himself and Sony.

Such a boss is indeed much better than a boss like Sony who only cares about profits.

And President Cao also has the world's number one video website...

He pondered for a while, nodded and agreed: "Thank President Cao for me, I accept his advice."

"Great, Mr. Akimoto. It's my honor to work with you. I hope you will take good care of me in the future."

Kim Young-min was overjoyed and immediately stood up and bowed to Akimoto Yasushi.

"You're welcome, Mr. Jin."

Akimoto Yasushi was very pleased, and suddenly felt that leaving Sony might be a blessing in disguise for him.

After coming out of Akimoto Yasushi's house, Kim Youngmin breathed a sigh of relief.

After completing this task, my position in the president's heart should be secure, and I will probably get a considerable bonus.

He immediately sent a message to Gao Yala, informing her that he had done what he wanted.

At this time, Cao Yu was looking at beautiful women at Sony Music.

In front of him, thirty-six beauties ranging in age from thirteen to eighteen were neatly lined up.

These girls were all selected from nearly 40,000 people, and each of them looks good.

The girls also knew their situation. The young and handsome Chinese man in front of them would be their new boss.

At the same time, he is the one who decides their fate.

Fortunately, the new boss is not only young but also handsome, much better than the original fat old man.

In the Japanese entertainment industry, unspoken rules are almost the norm. It would be difficult to get good resources without sleeping with others. Rather than being seduced by others, they would rather be seduced by this handsome guy.

Among these girls, Cao Yu immediately saw the girl named Saito Asuka.

"She is indeed very beautiful, a very nice girl."

Cao Yu nodded in his heart, and then said to Muramatsu Shunsuke: "Your company does have something worth learning in creating a girl group. It's very good."

"Hehe." Muramatsu Toshiaki did not respond. He did not want to tell the secrets of the girl group's operation to his competitors.

Besides, I have already returned to my previous rebellious state as requested.

At this time, Gao Yala came over and whispered a few words in Cao Yu's ear.

"Kim Young-min did a good job this time."

Cao Yu smiled and said, "Let's go back and sign the contract with Sony."

Muramatsu Shunryo was confused. What did Jin Yingmin do well? Did they start to manipulate these girls?

FNC is quite anxious.

It’s a pity that the second batch of trainees for Nogizaka46 will be selected soon, so your plan may be in vain.

On the same day, Feiyu Group signed a contract with Sony to acquire the office building of Sony's Tokyo headquarters for US$130 million.

As for the specific amount that FNC paid for the acquisition of all members of the Nogizaka46 girl group, it has not been announced.

When this news came out, both Chinese and Japanese media were shocked.

Feiyu Group is so awesome that it actually bought the 70-year-old Sony office building?
But the fans of Nogizaka46 felt sad because the girl they liked was sold out.

A few days later, Muramatsu Toshiaki went to Akimoto Yasushi's house and asked him to go to the company to be responsible for the selection of the second generation members of Nogizaka46, but the reply he got was that he needed to take a break so that he could concentrate on his creation.

Muramatsu Toshiaki didn't think much about it, thinking that old man Akimoto was just unhappy and it would probably be fine after some time.

But just in these few days, FNC Tokyo branch stopped selling DREAM GIRLS' album and posted all the MVs of the new album on Fei'e Video.

Originally, DREAM GIRLS was quite popular in Japan. Unfortunately, this girl group followed the K-POP idol type, not the small theater debut type in Japan. Therefore, the audience felt that there was a certain distance between them and they were unwilling to pay for them.

In addition, the album itself is relatively expensive, so it is understandable that the album sales did not exceed 100,000.

Now the MV has been uploaded to the Internet and can be viewed for free. In just a few days, with the promotion from all sides, the number of views and playbacks has exceeded one million.

DREAM GIRLS is actually very popular in Japan.

Sony Music was relieved when they saw Cao Yujian's unconventional approach and made the girl group famous, but found that the group had not learned the training methods.

After a winter snow, Akimoto Yasushi's manor was covered in silver.

In the hot spring pool in the backyard, Cao Yu and Akimoto Yasushi were sitting naked in the spring water, enjoying the service of several beautiful girls while chatting.

Cao Yu looked at the old man and said, "Mr. Akimoto really knows how to enjoy life. He actually has a hot spring at home."

“If you don’t enjoy it now, you will be powerless to enjoy it in the future.”

Akimoto Yasushi looked at Cao Yu's strong and youthful body and was so envious that he almost cried.

He didn't want to talk about this topic, so he asked, "President Cao took a different approach and made DG popular on the Internet. Are you planning to let Hinatazaka46 follow this path as well?"

Hinatazaka46 is the new name given to Nogizaka46 by Akimoto Yasugano.

"It's not decided yet. I wonder if Mr. Akimoto has any suggestions?"

"President Cao, do you know what a training idol is?"

"I have a rough understanding of it. It's the process of fans watching their favorite idols grow up and building a close relationship."

"President Cao, what you said is just the tip of the iceberg. It's not the essence of training idols at all."

Yasushi Akimoto has decided to cooperate with FNC, and both sides have been frank with each other. He then proudly began to introduce his secret to success.

"A true idol development system is actually the same as a development game. There should be interaction between idols and fans, such as meeting, shaking hands, playing games, and constantly instilling the idol's personality into fans, so that fans can have a deep emotional connection with one or more girls in the group. This is why fans fall in love with them."

"I have a small offline theater, and I will let my girl groups perform in these theaters frequently. The tickets are very cheap, just to let fans get close to their favorite girls and get to know them."

"For fans, this is a realistic game, a development game that turns ordinary girls into idols."

"Are my girl group members good at singing? Are they good at dancing? No, they are far behind those real singers and dancers, but do fans care? They care about the process."

"For idols, they just sell their personas, stories, and various materials so that fans can immerse themselves in the game and become unable to extricate themselves. That's enough."

"As such, as long as the idols have some kind of request, the fans will unconditionally satisfy it. They are willing to spend money on them, vote for them, and devote their time to them."

"As for the profit model, to put it bluntly, it is to fatten up the fans and then rip them off. I never make a profit from the tickets of small theaters, but through small theaters, I can fatten up the fans and then rip them off at will."

"Therefore, I rely on fans to buy records and peripheral products, participate in internal competitions and hit the charts. For the sake of their idols, for the opportunity to vote, and for the opportunity to meet and interact with them, fans are willing to spend any amount of money, even borrowing money!"

"Why is it that DG's albums are not selling well? On the one hand, the songs are too K-POP-style, and on the other hand, can these girls sing better than Utada Hikaru, Hamasaki Ayumi, and Kuraki Mai?"

"In the Internet age, the reason why our girl group's albums sell well is because fans want to support their idols, not just to listen to the songs."

"The idols in the Korean entertainment industry rely on various music shows and hard training, so their strength is quite good; while the idols in Japan rely on training, and as for the idols in your Chinese entertainment industry, I only know a little bit about them, they are completely different."

Akimoto Yasushi talked so eloquently that Cao Yu almost sweated profusely.

It turns out that all capitalists have evil hearts.

Their so-called development group is just for the purpose of gaining fans.

Fatten them up before slaughtering them, or slaughter them at will and reap them at will. Some fans would rather take out loans in order to make the charts. Isn't this the chaos in the fan circle?
Fortunately, I recruited this fat old man, otherwise if he went to China to run that Siba, he would definitely bring bad influence to the Chinese entertainment industry.

Are you saying that our Chinese entertainment industry is a mess?
Haha, I really don’t want to learn this from you!
Seeing Cao Yu was silent, Akimoto Yasushi smiled and said, "Chairman Cao, do you want to promote DG and Hinatazaka46 in this way, or do you want to introduce this model to China? There is a company in China that has already started cooperation with AKS, and they asked me to help build a 48 girl group."

He believes that his model is very profitable and believes that Chairman Cao will definitely be willing to invest in this area.

Unexpectedly, Cao Yu said, "Hinatazaka 46 can continue to promote it according to Mr. Akimoto's method, and DG should still use Kim Youngmin's original method. As for Huaxia, I have to think about it."

"In fact, President Cao, you have Fei'e Video. If you can combine the online website with the offline theater, the effect will definitely be twice the result with half the effort."

Akimoto Yasushi suggested to Cao Yu: "In fact, the Chinese market is bigger than Japan's. This is one of the reasons why I am willing to cooperate with you."

"The situations in China and Japan are different. Let me think about this carefully."

Cao Yu didn't want to bring this model to China, otherwise, he didn't know how many young people would be poisoned.

This old man is extremely bad. This kind of idol training must not be allowed to develop in China!

Akimoto Yasushi didn't know what Cao Yu was thinking, so he nodded and said, "Okay, President Cao, take your time to think about it. I just wrote a few songs these days. Tomorrow I will ask Hinatazaka46 to start practicing, and release a new single in early December, and then officially meet the fans."

……

In mid-November, Feiyu Group had already begun renovating the Sony Building it had purchased.

Cao Yu also watched the final film of the "Slam Dunk" animated film in the past few days and began to promote it in various East Asian countries.

This movie, which carries the youth of countless people born in the 80s and 90s, caused an immediate sensation as soon as its trailer was released.

For many years, countless people have been looking forward to Toei filming the national competition.

Now, twenty years have passed, and many young people have married and had children. I didn’t expect that the national competition is finally here!

This is all thanks to Boss Cao. Without his efforts, I probably wouldn’t have been able to see the national competition in my lifetime.

On the other hand, although DG did not enter the small theater, it increased the number of Japanese members of Feiye Video by more than two million.

At the same time, Kim Young Min also held fan meetings in major cities in Japan, which still made FNC a lot of money.

Although Akimoto Yasushi was very disdainful of this method, he felt that it was a waste of the "four thousand year old beauty" Kanna Hashimoto.

In early December, after finishing his work in Japan, Cao Yu prepared to make a trip to the United States and then return to China.

On this day, Toshiaki Muramatsu, head of Sony Music, was in a meeting in the office.

It has been more than 46 days, and he doesn't know why Akimoto Yasushi hasn't had enough rest. The members of the second term of Nogizaka have not been determined yet, and he is really anxious.

Suddenly, his secretary came in.

"Muramatsu-kun, something terrible has happened!"

"what happened?"

Seeing the secretary's embarrassed expression, Muramatsu Shunsuke quickly asked.

The secretary murmured, "Mr. Akimoto Yasushi, he...he went to FNC, and yesterday he brought more than 46 people who changed their name to Hinatazaka to the Akihabara small theater."

"What? Mr. Akimoto went to FNC? This is impossible!"

Muramatsu Shunsuke totally couldn't believe it. How could Akimoto Yasushi suddenly join FNC when he was writing songs at home during this period?

"it is true."

As the secretary spoke, he opened a few photos on his phone and found that they were indeed Saito Asuka and the others.

Seeing these photos, Muramatsu Shunsuke stood up and said, "Could it be that Akimoto Yasushi has been poached? And we have all been fooled by that Chinese guy named Cao Yu!"

I was against selling Nogizaka46 in the first place, but the president ignored my advice. Now without Yasushi Akimoto, Sony Music will probably suffer a big loss this time.

That Chinese guy is so cunning!
(End of this chapter)