Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 2220 The Neon Man Comes

"The Neon Man is Coming", "The Neon Man Wants to Occupy North America Peacefully", headlines like these began to spread wildly in North America.

早在二十世纪八90s和2000年前后的这段时间，霓虹就曾出现过在美并购热潮，在1985到1989年之间，并购规模前20名的交易中有17宗都发生在北美。

Mitsubishi Estate acquired Rockefeller Center, a national historical landmark in North America for US$13 billion, Sony Corporation successfully purchased North American entertainment giant Columbia Corporation for US$34 billion, Neon Life Insurance merged North American Chasson Lehman Brothers, and Bank of Tokyo acquired North American Union Bank, such mergers and acquisitions emerge in endlessly.

It was a normal thing for Neon people to go to North America to buy, buy, buy and buy in the 80s. After all, at that time, Neon people had so much money that they could not spend it all, and the stock market kept soaring. Worry has no money, and what these neon people don't know is that such a good time is about to come to an end.

However, it seems that North America has just noticed this problem at this time, and only then began to have a sense of crisis.

Some people even wrote to the above specifically because of this, requesting to stop the neon people from buying, buying, and buying.

But then the people above gave them the answer that as long as Hollywood is not bought by the neon people, then it will be fine.

"Using public opinion to suppress one of Sony or Panasonic to withdraw from the acquisition of Columbia Pictures or MCA? Do you think it is useful?"

Lin Daoqiu's proposal puzzled Langmeyer, because he felt that it would not work at all.

"It depends on when, you must know that Neon Capital is aggressively invading North America right now, and many things have been swept away by them, and the media is only giving a little warning now. If someone adds fuel and vinegar to help add a firewood to start the fire at this time , then things will be completely different.”

If it is the pressure of public opinion in other places, Lin Daoqiu believes that Neon may still be able to control it, but North America is of great significance to Neon, and they cannot and dare not ignore each other's ideas.

"What are you going to do?"

Langmeyer nodded as he listened. Although he didn't know whether what Lin Daoqiu said was really useful, it seemed that there was no other way to prevent the other party from acquiring Universal.

"Mobilizing the power of the media allows them to issue a warning to the public and let the people above know how destructive it will be to Hollywood if Columbia and Universal are bought by the Neon people."

"If that's the case, leave this matter to me."

Langmeyer directly took over this matter, because he knew that if he did it himself, it would have a completely different meaning from Lin Daoqiu's.

Even if everyone finds out that he is the one who promoted this matter, Lang Mayer is not afraid, because he did not want Universal to fall into the hands of the Neon people. If he can do something to prevent the other party from acquiring Universal Pictures, he will naturally pleasure.

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"Welcome to Tonight's Talk Show, I'm the host Deli, I'm talking about your baby, my baby, @#[email protected]#$…”

Deli then said a bunch of things that everyone didn't understand, which made the audience laugh out loud.

"Everyone must be curious about what I just said. In fact, I just said hello to everyone in very standard Japanese. Hello, good evening. How about my standard pronunciation?"

Almost none of the people present knew Japanese, and everyone felt that Deli was messing around and talking nonsense.

But at this moment Deli suddenly put on a serious expression and said.

"To tell you the truth, I have started to learn Japanese now, because this TV station will be bought by Neon people in the near future, just like their many acquisitions in North America in the past few years. It is said that two Neon super Big corporations are negotiating the acquisition of Columbia Pictures and MCA, I can't say much, I can only tell you that one starts with an S and the other starts with a P."

If it is said that what Deli said before was just a joke, then his last sentence scared the audience present and in front of the TV.

Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures are the seven largest film companies in Hollywood at this time. If they are all bought by the Neon people, wouldn't they want to watch Neon movies in theaters in the future?

"So I'm starting to learn Japanese now, so as not to be expelled in time. Okay, let's start today's program officially. I specially invited a senior linguist to teach everyone how to learn Japanese."

"Tonight's Talk Show" has very high ratings in North America, and its influence will naturally not be low.

When Deli revealed on the show that Columbia Pictures and Universal were about to be bought by Neon People, the next day newspapers and magazines and other news media went crazy to Columbia Pictures and Universal for verification.

The replies from Columbia Pictures and Universal are naturally very formulaic, neither denying nor admitting, but sometimes this is an attitude.

"I can't imagine Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures being bought by the Neon people. They are too greedy. They have already bought so many and are not satisfied. Do they really have to buy all of North America to be reconciled?"

"It's unbelievable. I call for legislation to prohibit the Neon people from continuing to buy our big companies, because then we will become their slaves. I don't want to work for the Neon people. I don't want to let the Neon people Man becomes my boss."

If the previous reports such as "The Neon Man is Coming" and "The Neon Man Wants to Occupy North America Peacefully" were just exceptions, then this time the news from "Talk Tonight" directly aggravated everyone's concerns. Fear of neon.

"Is there no room for maneuver? Can you find a way to calm public opinion, or quietly make an acquisition without letting everyone know?"

The news from North America quickly reached Akio Morita's ears. He took this matter very seriously and immediately called his think tank to discuss countermeasures.

"If it was just our company acquiring Hollywood, then this matter would be easy to resolve, but the problem is that Panasonic is also acquiring MCA at the same time, which can easily cause panic there and is normal."

"Unless one company chooses to withdraw at this time, this may calm the pressure of public opinion. If we and Panasonic buy both Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures at that time, I am afraid it will trigger a wave of condemnation."

After Akio Morita listened to the think tank's analysis, a worried expression immediately appeared on his face.

It is not a big problem for Akio Morita to provoke people from other places, and it can be settled with some money.

But in the face of the people in North America, this is not something that can be simply ignored. This is not just a commercial acquisition.

(End of this chapter)