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Chapter 186 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Sumitomo Takahiro, who had been silent until now, suddenly stretched out his right hand, picked up the wine glass and stood up.He faced Masao Ishihara and said: "Congratulations to Chairman Ishihara for successfully acquiring 10% of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' shares."

Masao Ishihara first smiled and said "thank you", and then he raised his right hand in a leisurely manner, pointing down to motion for the other party to sit down and talk.

Sumitomo Takahiro, who sat down again, said with a serious attitude of asking for advice and learning: "President Ishihara must have profound meaning in this move! I hope you can explain it to me, a junior."

Masao Ishihara said bluntly: “If the H3, a disposable liquid-fuel rocket developed by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, had not failed to launch, it would not have caused Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ stock to plummet.

For me, this is a good opportunity to take advantage of low prices in the secondary market.Before this, I wanted to directly invest in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, but was rejected. "

He paused intentionally when he said this, looked at his younger son with an unchanging smile, and then said: "Yushu, guess what I am going to do?"

Ishihara Yushu replied seriously: "We do not have a heavy industry project in the entire Karuizawa Group's business. Heavy industry is the most typical project with large investment, high risk and long return cycle.

Generally speaking, private companies are reluctant to engage in such an area.Even the top five chaebols in South Korea today were forced by Park Chung-hee to engage in heavy industry in their early years.

Even Japan's heavy industries were only started with the previous Japanese government's strong support for the major chaebols.Otherwise, heavy industry often has to be carried out by the state itself.

It is not impossible for Karuizawa Group to start from scratch and engage in heavy industry alone.In terms of funds, we are not short of money.However, the biggest problem is time.

If you directly participate in ready-made things like this, you can greatly reduce your time.Dad, I guess you are preparing to enter heavy industry in a big way. "

Masao Ishihara looked at his second son again and said, "Hideki, what do you think?"

Ishihara Hideki smiled slightly and said: "I think dad, you are not so much interested in heavy industry as you are interested in future commercial rocket launches.

Commercial rocket launch is a big business in the future, with a market worth over one trillion yuan.If this can be planned successfully in advance, it will reap huge rewards in the future.

As for the companies in Japan that can actually afford commercial rocket launches, there are only a few.Relatively speaking, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is not only well-known, but also has a lot of business.

In addition to developing commercial rocket launches, it can also produce fighter jets, ships, tanks, missiles, artillery, combat vehicles, etc.

My guess is that dad, the reason why you favor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is mainly because it can make a comeback from many other aspects.

After all, launching a rocket is not only risky, but also costly.As far as I know, the pre-production of the H3 rocket cost 2000 billion yen.

目标是要把H3火箭未来的发射成本砍到50亿日元。这一次日本H3火箭的失败，可不止赔进去了一个最低的50亿日元，而且还赔进去了一个282亿日元的大地三号卫星。

Adding the two together, at least 332 billion yen was lost.Including the 2000 billion yen invested in the early stage, that is 2332 billion yen invested.

当然，H3火箭要是发射成功了，那么商业火箭发射的订单就会源源不断。首先就是成本优势。H3火箭50亿日元的成本换算成美元，大概是3800万美元。这比马斯克那一家美国太空探索技术公司的猎鹰9火箭5800万美元是要便宜了整整2000万美元。

In addition, in human history, the time of war is far longer than the time of peace.There is currently a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a civil war in Sudan, a civil war in Yemen... In short, there is no shortage of places to sell weapons.

The various clauses restricting Japan's export of weapons have long existed in name only.Regardless of morality, the arms business is also a business.

Not only Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan is doing it, but Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ishikawashima Harima Heavy Industries, etc. are also doing it.

The most famous arms company in Germany is Krupp, and the most famous arms company in the United States is General Electric.Even if our Ishihara family ends up sitting on that table, it won't matter.

I just don’t understand one thing. Why did Mitsubishi Heavy Industries agree to your joining, dad?It stands to reason that they will not be short of money. "

Masao Ishihara explained: "It is not an easy task to quietly acquire a stock in the secondary market. No matter how cautious you are, there is no guarantee that the news will not leak out.

In particular, stocks like Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will be closely watched. After all, they not only have civilian products, but also military products.

If it weren't for my hard and soft tactics, how could those old guys agree to let me sit at that table.I have made up my mind.

If they don't let me get what I want, then I will invest in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' old rival.This includes Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries... Otherwise, I will increase investment in Musk's Space Exploration Technology Company.

Anyway, the other party and I have had quite a lot of in-depth cooperation a long time ago.Whether it is Tesla cars or the research and development of lithium batteries, there is investment in the important ores required for lithium batteries. "

Sumitomo Takahiro listened clearly and asked tentatively: "President Ishihara, if you want to invest in Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and our family does not allow you to invest, will you also use carrot and stick? Instead of taking Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as a bargaining chip for threats?”

Masao Ishihara smiled and said: "It can only be understood, not expressed in words. With my joining, none of you will suffer. I am just a pure business operation.

What's more, cross-shareholdings between companies are quite normal.Relevant daily operations, research and development, etc. are not just how to do it.

Even cooperation between enterprises is still a common thing in business operations.Besides, I really like space exploration, not just to make money. "

Sumitomo Takahiro knows that whatever he says will do.He knows very well that once Masao Ishihara misses him, sooner or later he will become the other person's possession.Unless he changes his mind.

Maybe, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will be cannibalized bit by bit in the future, and it is unknown whether it will be forced to change its name to Karuizawa Heavy Industries.But as long as he doesn't miss going to Sumitomo's house, that's fine.

He then thought again, if Takumi Iwasaki of the Iwasaki family of the Mitsubishi Group could successfully marry Nao Ishihara back home, he would be able to win back a victory for the Iwasaki family.

(End of this chapter)