Chapter 520: With a Population of One Million as a Bargaining Chip, How Will the Island Country Elect?

Saitoi hung up the phone with Chen Xing. He did not immediately respond, but closed his eyes and thought about the seriousness of the matter.

In the phone call just now, Chen Xing's statement was very straightforward, focusing on the attitude of destroying it if you don't get it.

Can the Toyota Group be destroyed?

Not for a short time.

Because once the Toyota Group goes bankrupt, it will not be a problem for the 300,000 employees, but the entire related interest chain.

For example, if you are the person in charge of a certain vegetable market and the market needs to be closed for three months due to force majeure, how many groups will be affected in these three months?

1. Market merchants.

With the closure of the wet market, the merchants who settle in may be able to reduce their rent for three months, but it is impossible for them to say that they will not do business for three months. If they choose to settle in other wet markets, they will need to pay an expensive stall fee.

2. Consumers.

As we all know, vegetable markets are generally close to residential areas. If a vegetable market is closed, it will definitely have an impact on nearby residents shopping for food and cooking. They may spend more time, or need to drive or use shared bicycles to buy food.

3. Wholesaler.

Whether it is chicken, duck, fish or meat, it all needs to go through the hands of wholesalers. It does not mean that the wet market merchants go to the breeding base to buy it themselves.

From the breeding base to agricultural wholesalers, agricultural wholesalers to distributors, distributors to merchants in various markets, and finally sold to consumers by merchants in various markets, this forms a complete production and sales chain.

Assuming that a large wet market is temporarily closed, the interests of corresponding merchants, distributors, wholesalers, and even breeding bases will be affected.

Because the wet market close to home is closed, many families find it too far and too troublesome to eat outside, or make do with a few meals, and consumption subsequently drops.

It can be seen that the closure of a wet market can affect so many groups. If the trillion-dollar Toyota Group goes bankrupt, how many people will be affected?

Three hundred thousand people?

Half a million people?

One million people?

It can only be said that it is far more than that!

Controlling the jobs of millions of people in island countries is Chen Xing's bargaining chip.

No matter which country it is, it will pay special attention to the growing trend of the unemployed population.

In a country where the unemployed population is growing rapidly, the corresponding instability will also increase, and there is a risk of social unrest.

For example, after the end of the S1 season in Germany, the unemployed population increased rapidly, and the gap between rich and poor also reached its peak level.

The rich not only have bread and milk, but also a variety of meat and fruit supplies.

As for the unemployed people at the bottom, they not only have to face inflation, but also face severe challenges to survive.

In the end, the price of 500,000 bread detonated the sentiments of the people at the bottom, allowing social wealth to be evenly distributed once again.

Don’t look at modern times and look at ancient times. Looking at the countless peasant uprisings in the ancient Dragon Kingdom, they all started out to fill their stomachs before choosing to risk their lives.

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Saitoi thought for ten minutes. The chain of interests involved in the Toyota Group was too huge, and Chen Xing did have the bargaining chip to talk to the island country's top officials.

Thinking of this, he did not dare to neglect and immediately dialed the phone number of Cabinet Speaker Hideki Ueoka and briefly explained the situation.

"What!"

Ueoka Hideki was shocked.

He didn't expect that Chen Xing was so brilliant that he wanted to destroy a trillion-yuan group that was related to the livelihood of millions of families.

Chen Xing's determination was beyond his imagination.

Originally, he and Miguo wanted to start a tug-of-war, thinking that Chen Xing would not do anything to the Toyota Group. After all, they had tried every means and effort to get it, and it was impossible to destroy it directly.

But now?

If you can't control it, it will be destroyed directly.

He calculated that Longxing Group spent at least 300 billion Longguo currency to collect stocks. If it didn't make a profit and destroyed it directly, it was conservatively estimated that it would directly lose hundreds of billions of yuan.

"What should we do? Chen Xing's tone doesn't sound like a joke."

Saitoi asked quickly.

Hideki Ueoka's eyes flashed with admiration, and he murmured to himself: "In ancient times, Cao Cao used the emperor to control the princes, and now Chen Xing uses Toyota Group to make us express our stance. It's really clever."

The culture of the Three Kingdoms has spread widely around the world, especially the island countries, which have developed countless films and games based on the Three Kingdoms theme.

Even Hideki Ueoka didn't expect that history would repeat itself.

Chen Xing actually thought of using the unemployment problem to force them to make a choice.

Can the island nation give up Toyota Group?

cannot!

This is not only about employment issues, but also economic issues.

If the Toyota Group goes bankrupt, the business card of Japanese cars will be shredded, which will affect the entire Japanese auto industry.

Imagine that all the leading players in an industry have declared bankruptcy. Will you still remain optimistic about this industry?

Under the dual pressure of unemployment and economy, Hideki Ueoka also fell into deep thought.

At this time, Saitoi spoke again: "Chen Xing also said that as long as they can successfully take over the Toyota Group, he will support the transformation and provide lithium battery-related technology."

"Is this a stick and a sweet date?" Hideki Ueoka smiled helplessly.

"Almost."

Saitoi was equally helpless.

Now all favorable conditions point to cooperation with Longxing Group. Only by cooperation with Longxing Group can we get out of the predicament.

But here comes the question, can the United States agree?

Saitoi and Hideki Ueoka both thought about this issue in unison.

You must know that the United States has troops stationed in Japan and South Korea. If it cooperates with the Longxing Group, nothing will happen.

"It's a big deal, it's a big deal, I have to ask for permission."

Hideki Ueoka said solemnly.

He originally thought that his authority was very high, but at present, his authority could not decide this matter at all.

After hearing this, Saitoi asked again: "Then I'll call Chen Xing back now?"

"If you ask him to wait for a day, we may have to hold a multi-department discussion meeting, and the result may not be released so quickly."

"Then Nishikawa Guida..."

"You tell him not to act rashly. If Longxing Group comes to take over, let them take over. Everything will wait until the final meeting results are released."

"Then I'll call him."

"Go ahead."

After hanging up the phone, Saitoi immediately called Nishikawa Takada, hoping to ask him to restrain himself and not affect the overall situation.

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And on the other side.

Toyota Group headquarters base.

What Saitoi didn't know was that Takadai Nishikawa hesitated for a long time and was about to compromise and call him to discuss. Unexpectedly, Saitoi called him first.

Nishikawa Takada felt guilty, thinking that Saitoi had other instructions.

Yao Nana and others came to take over the Toyota Group, and it is impossible for the island country's senior officials not to know about it.

"Excuse me."

Nishikawa Takahiro stood up, bowed slightly to apologize, and walked quickly to the door of the conference room.

As soon as he opened the door of the conference room, three strong men, Yan Hai, Zhang Yang and Xu Guoqiang, locked eyes with him instantly. Immediately, Xichuan Guida felt a sense of suffocation, so he decided to leave.

The other board members didn't leave, they were all waiting for answers.

"President Nishikawa, how did the conversation go?"

"Are we really fired?"

"Is it really irreversible?"

Faced with everyone's inquiries, Nishikawa Takada waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Go back first. I will inform you of any new situations."

He didn't answer directly, but his attitude was clear to everyone.

Compared to not giving in at the beginning, he seems to have been taken care of now and only needs the final kick.

Nishikawa Takahiro's reaction and attitude immediately made some people furious.

"You want to sell out the Toyota Group???"

"How much money did the Longxing Group give you? You want to betray the Toyota Group and our Japanese Empire. You deserve to die!"

"Bagaya road!!!"

"Nishikawa Takahiro, you will have your retribution!"

The crowd became restless. Yan Hai looked at Zhang Yang and Xu Guoqiang and began to drive away the original board members.

As they took a step forward in the corridor, the board members took a step back.

Faced with absolute power suppression, no one wants to stand out.

Besides, they are not young guys. By the time they reach their thirties or forties, their body functions and healing abilities will decline.

If you are a teenager, even if you are severely beaten, the cuts and injuries will gradually heal over time, and you will not even need to go to the hospital for treatment.

"Everyone go in."

Yan Hai opened the elevator and let these board members in.

These people also understood that they no longer had any right to speak, and it was useless to stay here any longer. In order not to be beaten, they could only walk into the elevator obediently and be sent to the first floor.

After dealing with the former board members, Yan Hai couldn't help but joked: "No wonder the islanders are called Japanese, they are indeed quite short."

"Feel it."

"Is the air in the island country too humid?"

Zhang Yang and Xu Guoqiang answered.

They had come into contact with soldiers from the northern military region, and they were generally taller than those from the south. According to Yan Hai's squad leaders, the south has heavy moisture, which affects appetite and leads to insufficient nutritional intake. The north is dry, so people eat more and eat less. It is relatively complex and nutritionally balanced, so naturally there will be regional height differences.

However, with the full normalization of meat, eggs, and milk, the nutritional intake of young people in both the north and the south has reached a balance. They no longer need to rely on eating a lot of food to obtain nutrition for their long bodies. In recent years, the height of young people in the south has also increased by leaps and bounds.

But the island country is obviously a developed country, and meat, eggs, and milk have long been normalized in families, but the heights of their people are gradually decreasing, which has become an unsolved mystery in the world.

"Maybe, who knows." Yan Hai smiled, and then warned: "You guys stay here, I will go back to the door of the conference room."

"Okay, go ahead."

"receive."

The three of them split up.

…

Nishikawa Takahiro walked into the cubicle next to the conference room, closed the door and pressed the answer button on his mobile phone.

"President Saito."

He said hello.

"Did Longxing Group send people to your side?" Saitoi got straight to the point.

"Yes, I just arrived not long ago." Nishikawa Takada just finished speaking and then asked: "Are there any new instructions from above?"

"Longxing Group's forced acquisition of Toyota Group involves a big chain of interests, so you just have to stand still for now. You will pay what you need to hand over, and you won't hand over what you shouldn't. Do you understand?"

Saitoi gave a hint.

It was said to be a hint, but in fact it was equivalent to an explicit statement, because his previous attitude was to use all available means to make the takeover team of Longxing Group return without success.

But now?

You pay when you need to, and you don't pay when you shouldn't, and you obviously let go.

"What happened?"

Nishikawa Takada is not stupid, so he can naturally hear the changes in his attitude before and after.

For him, who has been involved in business for so many years, being able to listen to subtext is already a basic skill and is not worth mentioning.

Not only in business, official career, or upper-level circles, people tend to speak euphemistically, and there are hints in their words. If your brain cannot react, you may fall into a trap.

"There must be something happening, but it involves too much. Just do as I say first. I will notify you immediately if there is any follow-up."

Saitoi chose to keep it secret.

Chen Xing used the unemployment of millions of people as a bargaining chip to force them to peacefully hand over the Toyota Group. If he revealed this, he was afraid of scaring Saikawa Takahiro, and he was also afraid that the latter would ventilate Wall Street in the United States.

To ensure that the matter would not be affected, he decided to hide it temporarily.

However, what he didn't know was that Yao Nana also mentioned the "Dismemberment Plan".

Nishikawa Takashi's brain was spinning very fast. He vaguely guessed something, but he did not say it out loud. Instead, he nodded and responded: "Okay, I will hand over the official seal and account book first. As for the veto power, I will use it as conservatively as possible."

"Well, you play it by ear."

Saitoi nodded.

The two chatted for a few more words and then hung up the phone.

Saitoi put down his cell phone and called Chen Xing back, saying that he would need a day to hold a meeting to discuss the final decision.

Chen Xing felt happy when he heard the answer. You must know that in the adult world, if something is not explicitly rejected, it means there is room for negotiation.

For example, if you pick up a conversation on the street, if the other party is unwilling to join in, no matter how hard you pester, even if you join in the end, you will only get a red exclamation mark when you get home.

But if you add it naturally and the other person responds to your message, even if the other person clearly states that they don’t want to talk about boyfriend and girlfriend, there is still room for further imagination.

Saitoi did not explicitly refuse, and his superiors also did not explicitly refuse. Instead, they decided to hold a meeting to discuss. No matter what the outcome was, there was already a group of high-level officials from the island countries supporting the Longxing Group to take over the Toyota Group to stabilize the current situation.

Although he was happy in his heart, Chen Xing did not show it, but responded calmly: "Then I will wait for the good news from President Saito."

"You're welcome."

The two exchanged a few polite words and hung up the phone without continuing their chat.

Saitoi looked at Chen Xing's number and silently saved it in his address book.

The same was true for Chen Xing. After saving the number, he placed his mobile phone beside his desk, then held the mouse and opened the computer's encrypted mailbox.

This time we were able to forcibly acquire the Toyota Group, strike first and then act, and gain the initiative in negotiations, and the help of the Miyazaki family was indispensable.

Chen Xing is not an ungrateful person who only knows how to make cakes for others.

The Miyazaki family made a desperate move and came for profit.

After learning that the island country's top officials might relent and that Longxing Group's lithium battery automobile technology would have the opportunity to enter the island country's market, he immediately shared this important information with Miyazaki Sumie through an encrypted email.

For top companies, giving real money is worse than giving important news, because news is equal to real money.

As long as you master the information gap, the money will come into your wallet on its own.

Take the stock market, for example. If you know a company's future performance in advance, do you still think the news is worthless?

However, the returns from pure stock trading are too low for a business.

Even Buffett, the stock god, runs an investment company himself.

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The island nation of Tokyo.

The Miyazaki family's luxurious estate.

Miyazaki Sumie has also been waiting for news. When she saw a new email popping up in her mailbox, she immediately clicked on it.

"Both Saitoi and his superiors have wavered, and Toyota Group will likely shift towards electric vehicles."

She mentally read the contents of the email.

Although the email is short, the amount of information given is explosive.

The attitude of Saitoi and the senior officials of the island country has changed, which shows that the island country may backstab the United States, just like the last time the yen raised interest rates.

Toyota Group is likely to shift towards electric vehicles, indicating that the island country’s traditional automobile industry will undergo a major reshuffle.

It is no exaggeration to say that if everything Chen Xing said is true, the value of this email is no less than one trillion!

Plan ahead and be one step ahead. How do you catch up with your opponents?

Sumie Miyazaki immediately called Miyazaki Yu and asked him to come to her room.

Not a moment.

Miyazaki Yu walked in.

"how's it going?"

"Chen Xing didn't know what method he used to make Saitoi and his superiors waver. Chen Xing also said that Toyota Group may transform into electric vehicles."

Sumie Miyazaki revealed the content of the email.

"Great." Miyazaki Yu looked excited and looked at Miyazaki June and said: "If it is true as Chen Xing said, the wealth of the entire automobile manufacturing industry will be redistributed."

"But, can new energy vehicles really come in?" Miyazaki Sumie expressed concern.

You must know that the automobile manufacturing industry has always been the economic pillar of the island country. It is precisely through the export of automobiles and the export trade of industrial products that the barren island country can become a developed country.

Without a strong industrial base, it would be impossible for an island country with poor land resources to feed hundreds of millions of people.

New energy vehicles impact traditional automobiles, and the technical reserves of Japanese car companies are all in the traditional automobile manufacturing field.

"Electric vehicles are a global trend. Compared with traditional cars, they are more intelligent and environmentally friendly. We don't bet ten thousand, but just a chance." Miyazaki Miyazaki is already planning to go big.

Although it is impossible for him to enter the manufacturing industry directly, and the Miyazaki family does not have the foundation, they still have a say in the field of communications.

Since it is a smart car, the Miyazaki family can focus on this aspect, eat as much share as possible, and then think about other things.

In fact, Miyazaki also thought of an extremely important reason, that is, the island country's oil reserves are too small, or the proven amount of oil fields is too small.

All the local oil fields in the island country combined are not as large as the single reserves of Longguo's Daqing Oilfield. For strategic needs, the island country can only build strategic oil reserve bases overseas to ensure that there will not be an instant oil shortage.

If electric vehicles are promoted, oil demand will drop instantly.

Compared with oil, the problem of electricity is quite easy to solve.

Building nuclear power plants, wind power, and solar power are all solutions.

"Then what's the next step?"

Miyazaki Sumie asked.

"Don't worry, let the bullets fly for a while. With this cooperative relationship between us and Chen Xing, our share will never be small."

Miyazaki's ambition already has a plan in mind, and he can clearly feel that the Miyazaki family's revival plan is about to be realized.

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other side.

Toyota Group headquarters base.

After Nishikawa Takada hung up the phone, he returned to the conference room.

He glanced at Yao Nana and Lan Junyi, and said in a deep voice: "This matter needs further discussion. I can hand over the official seal and account books of the group first. I hope you can give me more time."

Yao Nana and Lan Junyi looked at each other. Taking over the Toyota Group was much easier than they thought. At least Saikawa Takada relented and did not stalk them.

However, what they didn't know was that behind the ease, it was Chen Xing who was carrying a heavy burden.

"No problem, how long will it take to reply?"

Yao Nana asked.

"Within seven days." Nishikawa Takadai didn't know when Saitoi would reply, so he said a relatively loose time.

"Too long."

Lan Junyi frowned slightly and cut it in half: "Three days, we will give you three days. The future of Toyota Group will depend on your stance in three days."

"That's right, only three days." Yao Nana couldn't wait any longer and quickly agreed.

Nishikawa Takada hesitated for a while, but finally agreed: "Three days is all. Those of you, please follow me to the top floor."

"Well, let's go."

"Let's go."

Several people moved forward and followed Nishikawa Guida in the elevator to the chairman's office on the top floor.

Nishikawa Takada came to the safe. As an active soldier, Yan Hai immediately smelled danger.

The instructor of their unit once said that the safe is the most dangerous thing.

There may be bombs, grenades, firearms and sharp weapons inside, so you need to be very alert when dealing with safes.

Zhang Yang and Xu Guoqiang were also alert and whispered: "You guys go a little further. If something happens, get down immediately and take cover."

Yao Nana and Lan Junyi were both nervous, especially Yao Nana. She had seen firearms even in Chen Xing's safe, let alone Xi Chuangui's safe.

Although she didn't know how it came about or whether it was legal, she chose to keep it a secret for Chen Xing.

Nishikawa Takahiro hadn't noticed the change in the atmosphere in the office. As usual, he first unlocked the first layer of the lock with his fingerprint, and then entered the password of the safe.

"Click——"

The safe popped open slightly.

Just when Nishikawa Takahiro was about to open it, Yan Hai grabbed his wrist and said, "Let me do it."

Nishikawa Takahiro was stunned for a moment, and the two looked at each other. Then he looked at the alert people and understood what was going on.

"Then open it."

He also gave up his position.

Yan Hai didn't let him go. If there was a bomb in the safe, he could take someone with him to go with him.

Fortunately, there was no bomb inside, but there was a pistol pressed against the document, and the official seal was placed in the compartment.

Seeing this, Nishikawa Takahiro explained: "Island countries can legally hold guns, and this gun is not loaded, so don't worry."

Yan Hai did not listen to him, but took out the pistol. As soon as he got it, the weight was wrong. Nishikawa Takahiro was not lying. The bullet was indeed not loaded.

For safety reasons, he carefully checked the safe again to make sure there was no problem before giving Yao Nana, Lan Junyi and others a "safe" look.

Although it was just a small episode, it also made Yao Nana and Lan Junyi feel scared, and also served as a reminder for them in the future.

When abroad, you must always understand that everyone may be carrying a firearm, and if you are not careful, your life may be in danger.