20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3345

The invitation from Sharp and Zhao Chang'an's decision mean that the journey of the OneNanometer team and the elderly friends accompanying Zhao Chang'an back to China will be postponed by one day.

The journey from the Tokyo mobile phone factory to Kameyama is nearly 400 kilometers, and even with the highway, it still takes four hours or more one way.

I expect to be able to return to Tokyo tomorrow afternoon, and then go back to China the day after tomorrow, which is the Lunar New Year's Eve, a traditional Chinese holiday.

After lunch, Zhao Chang'an and the others rested and drank tea in the tea room on the first floor of the mobile phone factory's office building. It was already 1 p.m., and they decided to drive away at 1:40 p.m. so that everyone could rest for a while and also go to the restroom.

Yamakawa Yuki and the other three did not leave, but instead went to the Guishan factory with Zhao Chang'an and the others.

Kozo Takahashi, Takashi Okuda, and Yukihiko Nakata were nowhere near as enthusiastic about Yuki Yamakawa as the driver and female translator had been.

This is, of course, a case of self-interest influencing one's perspective. Although he didn't know how the driver and the female translator, Satomi Takase, knew Yuki Yamakawa's identity, as an ordinary employee in his early thirties at Sharp, he hoped to make a good impression on Yuki Yamakawa through this opportunity.

As for the three of them, even the youngest, Yukihiko Nakata, is already thirty-six or thirty-seven years old. Even if Sharp continues to uphold the culture of adopting sons and daughters to take over in the future, for the first ten years or so, Yuki Yamakawa's position will basically not be higher than theirs. By the time Yuki Yamakawa begins to take full control, the three of them will have already retired or be close to retirement.

However, even if it were just a few years later, when Yamakawa Yuki joined Sharp as a mid-level manager, she would still be someone the driver and the female translator needed to curry favor with.

There were too many people trying to curry favor back then, so it was definitely not enough. But now it is clearly a rare opportunity.

Kozo Takahashi and his group left one of the mobile phone factory's logistics managers to see them off, while the others politely took their leave.

Even when he left, he didn't say much to Yamakawa Yuki.

The next leg of the journey will take place in the same air-conditioned bus that everyone had previously traveled in, driven and led by the female translator, Satomi Takase, to Sharp's Kameyama TFT-LCD TV integrated factory.

Their reception duties were completed.

This also reflects the arrogance and confidence of high-level executives within major Japanese high-tech companies like Kozo Takahashi. In their view, the message has been clearly conveyed to the 1nm team: Sharp will not participate in the 1nm mobile phone miniature camera collaboration, not even in the supply of the most basic components.

Now it's up to Zhao Chang'an to decide whether to leave empty-handed or buy the company's secondhand new production line.

Yang was greatly impressed by the Guishan factory and sought cooperation in importing TFT-LCD panels and core components for LCD TVs.

Previously, because of the failure of the J-SH04 product, someone had to take responsibility, which led to the dismissal of three senior executives within the company. These three were the beneficiaries of this incident, and of course, they had to be even more careful to hold onto their hard-won positions.

So they'd be crazy to ask for a collaboration on a one-nanometer miniature mobile phone camera again.

Although the group scorned Zhao Chang'an for getting lucky and amassing a huge fortune through gambling on BlackBerry.

However, the value of the assets controlled by Zhao Chang'an is a fact. Zhao Chang'an dares to gamble with hundreds of millions of dollars, and even if he loses, he won't be seriously injured.

But if Takahashi Kozo and his friends lose their bet, it will absolutely be the end of their entire careers. Furthermore, due to their dismissive attitude and underestimation of Zhao Chang'an, the three of them still haven't figured out that Zhao Chang'an's current net worth is definitely not the three or four billion US dollars they thought.

However, with BlackBerry's total market capitalization now exceeding $300 billion, Zhao Chang'an's 29.86% stake is worth over $90 billion.

Including all his other assets, not counting the potential premium of Cretaceous as it is not yet listed, and subtracting his liabilities, Zhao Chang'an's personal net worth exceeds $60 billion, nearly 500 billion RMB.

He is undoubtedly number one on the Forbes China list of personal wealth, and his total assets also make him a figure of considerable stature on the global personal wealth list.

Of course, compared to Walmart founder Robertson Walton with $65 billion in assets, Bill Gates with $587 billion, and Warren Buffett with $323 billion, Zhao Chang'an's net worth is certainly not enough. However, Zhao Chang'an's wealth has actually entered the top 60 of the world's richest people.

However, when the 01 awards were announced, BlackBerry's stock price hovered around $230 billion, and one nanometer involved too many complex financial matters. Zhao Chang'an himself did not disclose them, and it was difficult for outsiders to understand them.

Before the selection process, when Forbes sent a letter to YiNan seeking and inquiring about the matter, Zhao Chang'an simply compiled some basic bank liability data and sent it over.

Just like the 1 billion RMB investment made by the White Dragon King, Zhao Chang'an would never disclose it.

Ultimately, Forbes estimated Zhao Chang'an's assets at RMB 1 billion based on the approximate value of one nanometer before September. Using this as collateral, and then continuously mortgaging the acquired BlackBerry shares, they assessed Zhao Chang'an's personal assets at approximately USD 3 billion, ranking him 159th on the global rich list.

This is also the basis for Takahashi Kozo and his team's estimate of 'three to four billion US dollars'.

Even if it's three or four billion US dollars, it's still something they can't even imagine or reach. Besides, Zhao Chang'an is so young, handsome, and dashing. As a man in his thirties or forties, seeing a young and beautiful female college student would definitely make him itch with desire. This is a man's nature and a common flaw.

But Yamakawa Yuki and the others wouldn't even dare to dream of it, while Xuehan and Ryoko were girls they had a lot of feelings for.

However, Ryoko's eyes were filled with Zhao Chang'an's image, which was obvious to everyone present. As a developed economy, Japan naturally had its own pride and a sense of superiority and condescension towards China, which was economically backward.

However, the three old men couldn't look down on Zhao Chang'an; in fact, they knew they had to look up to him, so their disappointment was palpable.

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Therefore, they did not show much enthusiasm for Zhao Chang'an, and in fact, if it weren't for the president's phone call earlier, Nakata Yukihiko would not have shown up at all.

Meanwhile, Kozo Takahashi would briefly inquire at the company headquarters whether Zhao Chang'an was willing to purchase the J-SH04 miniature camera production line from the mobile phone factory. If he was willing, he would bring them over to see it for themselves. If Zhao refused, he would pass the buck to Takashi Okuda.

As for how Takashi Okuda played, Kozo Takahashi didn't care.

Anyway, this J-SH04 miniature camera production line is a mess left by our predecessors.

Selling it is their achievement, and leaving it as a fixed asset won't be used against them by anyone. So why insist on making yourself unhappy and troubled?