Technology company, I will become the light of China!

Saito I did not think of it as a hostile takeover because he had already investigated the shareholding situation of all high-quality Japanese manufacturing companies, and the shares were in a "highly concentrated state."

Take the Honda Group for example. Its actual controller, Kazuki Otaki, holds 31% of the shares. Of the remaining 69% of the group's shares, 40% are in the hands of various Wall Street tycoons. In other words, only 29% of the Honda Group's shares are actually in circulation, or even less.

Assuming someone bought all 29% of the outstanding shares in the stock market, it would still not reach the 30% veto power exercise line. Moreover, large groups all have poison pill plans, so Saito Ii and all members of the FSA did not think of a hostile takeover.

"Baka! International capital really treats our stock market as an ATM. If they need money, they can come to us!"

"This is too much!"

"Is there no way to counter it?"

All members of the FSA Financial Services Agency were filled with indignation and wished they could tear the short sellers to pieces.

But do they have the ability to do so?

Apparently not.

Whether it is the capital markets of Japan, South Korea, Europe, the United States or other countries, they all have one characteristic, that is, they are too open and believe in the market's ability to regulate.

For example, when the Internet bubble of the US stock market burst, the US stock market fell by as much as 80% in three years. If this happened in a market like China, which has strong monitoring and regulation, and the market fell by about 30%, the national team would step in to support the market and protect the interests of investors.

If you choose openness and high risk, you must give up the ability to control and regulate, but in return, your investment returns will be higher.

If you choose strong monitoring and strong regulation and strengthen your own regulatory capabilities, the corresponding investment returns will also decrease.

This is also why, when the Asian financial crisis hit in 1997, you heard about the Japanese and Korean stock markets being attacked, the Hong Kong stock market being attacked, and the Southeast Asian stock markets being attacked, but you have never heard of the A-share market being attacked. This is the advantage of strong supervision.

As the backbone of the FSA, Saito Ii did not worry about who would short sell, but asked his secretary:
“How much has it fallen?”

"2%!"

"Turn on the projection."

Following Saito Ii's order, the projector in the conference room turned on.

Not a moment.

The Nikkei 225 Index page appears.

"Why did it drop so fast? I just saw it was 2%, how come it suddenly reached 5%? What on earth happened?"

The secretary was confused.

Less than ten minutes had passed since he discovered the change from rising to falling, and the decline had widened to 5%. Would this trigger another circuit breaker?
Saito Ii looked at the stock market that was about to be halted, and suppressed his anger and said, "The automobile sector led the decline, and Toyota Group fell the most. Something must have happened in the automotive field. Investigate immediately."

"I'll check right away."

The secretary responded timidly.

……

And at the same time.

the other side.

Toyota Group Headquarters Building.

The boss, Takahiro Nishikawa, stared at the computer screen in front of him with hatred in his eyes that seemed to be overflowing, as if what was in front of him was not a computer screen, but the enemy who murdered his father.

He didn't expect that just when the "Hydrogen Energy Battery" had shown some improvement, Longxing Group's "Thor Solid-State Lithium Battery" had a new breakthrough, which disrupted his entire deployment.

You know, Japanese cars were forced to withdraw from the Longguo market, and Japanese car companies such as Honda and Toyota faced a serious supply and marketing crisis.

The emergence of a supply and marketing crisis means that the group’s cash flow is at risk of being interrupted.

Anyone who has run a company knows that once the cash flow is broken and there is no way to replenish it in time, no matter how large the group is, it will collapse.

Since business operations are often accompanied by high debt, once your cash flow is discovered to be broken, banks and other creditors will come to your door immediately. If they determine that you are unable to replenish your cash flow, they will apply to freeze your existing assets and use them to repay your debts.

This is also the reason why Evergrande Group and Country Garden were still able to operate before their debts were exposed.

The moment the trillion-dollar debt came out, even a fool would know that they would not be able to pay it back.

What will the bank do if it knows that you cannot pay it back?
Four words: seize and freeze!

From the bank's perspective, if a company owes trillions of dollars in debt, it basically means that its capital chain has been broken, and it can only seize and freeze existing assets to make up for the bank's loans.

"Chen Xing, do you really want to kill them all?"

Takahiro Nishikawa asks a soul-searching question.

He had been raising money everywhere and even sold 17% of his shares. His only hope was to complete the layout of hydrogen-powered vehicles as soon as possible and regain his position.

But now?

Lithium battery technology has made another breakthrough!
If lithium battery technology continues to maintain its leading position, then even if hydrogen energy batteries are successfully developed, they will not replace lithium batteries and become the new darling of the new energy vehicle market.

When Nishikawa Takashi was furious, his phone suddenly rang.

The moment he pressed the answer button, his pupils contracted sharply, his vision went dark, and he felt the whole world spinning. If he hadn't been sitting on a chair, he would have fallen down.

After an unknown amount of time, Nishikawa Takahiro gradually regained his eyesight, but his expression was extremely listless, like a wilted eggplant.

He didn't say anything and hung up the phone silently.

He suppressed his anger, sat up straight again, and then quickly clicked the mouse to open the island country's largest social media platform.

At this time, the term "Safety Hazards of Hydrogen Energy Batteries" appeared at the top of the hot search list of the media platform.

When you click on the hot search term, what comes into view is a test video.

The video is only five minutes long, but the title is extremely eye-catching: "Revealing the Safety of Hydrogen Energy Batteries."

The first second after opening the video, Takahiro Saikawa recognized that the background of the video was their Toyota Group's automobile research and development base.

As the video began to play, it entered the collision test of the hydrogen-powered car. At the moment the two cars rear-ended each other, a mushroom cloud appeared in front of everyone.

"hateful!!!"

“Who leaked the video!!!”

Nishikawa Takahiro gritted his teeth.

When talking about the safety of hydrogen energy batteries, he always chooses to avoid the topic.

Even if an investor asked him about it, he would deliberately avoid the topic because the explosion of hydrogen energy batteries is indeed quite powerful.

It is called a hydrogen energy battery, but in fact it is no different from a hydrogen bomb.

The video not only demonstrated the power and instability of hydrogen energy batteries, but also leaked internal test data.

After hundreds of thousands of people watched the video, countless netizens from the island countries expressed their concerns and began to boycott spontaneously.

[Takai Yokohisa]: "Damn you, this is the hydrogen-powered car that our car companies have been promoting? This is a fucking Syrian tank!"

[Keisuke Numata]: "Who can guarantee that they won't get into a car accident while driving? Driving on the road is risky in the first place, and now you can go out with a hydrogen-powered bomb. I'll kill anyone who buys a hydrogen-powered car. I'm not kidding!"

[Yajima Kohei]: "Boycott hydrogen-powered cars. Everyone, boycott hydrogen-powered cars!"

[Tetsuji Hirabayashi]: "I would rather drive a fuel car all my life than buy a hydrogen car. Damn Toyota Group, go to hell!"

If a fuel vehicle is rear-ended, at most it will break down.

If a lithium battery car is rear-ended, the worst that can happen is spontaneous combustion.

But if a hydrogen-powered car is rear-ended, it is not as simple as breaking down and spontaneously combusting. Instead, it will be a major event that will require the car owner and the rear-end driver to leave the biosphere!

Even if you dare to drive it, no one will dare to sit in it, let alone buy it.

The sudden leak of the internal test video and the overwhelming online public opinion made Takahiro Nishikawa exhausted both physically and mentally.

With the technological breakthrough of "Thor Solid-State Battery" outside and the safety issue of "Hydrogen Energy Battery" inside, he really cannot cope with it.

He also never expected that Chen Xing could actually instigate Toyota Group's R&D personnel to leak internal test videos thousands of miles away.

When he was feeling depressed, Takahiro Nishikawa quietly turned off his cell phone. He knew very well that an investor would call and question the situation soon, and he didn't have the energy to respond.

Things turned out just as he expected. After seeing the one-sided public opinion on the Internet and netizens boycotting hydrogen-powered vehicles, Toyota Group's investors became restless and wanted to call Takahiro Nishikawa to find out the details.

[Hello, the number you dialed is turned off, please call again later...]
Not responding is the best response.

After it was confirmed that hydrogen-powered vehicles posed an explosion risk and there was no way to resolve it, Toyota Group's stock price fell rapidly.

Even though Toyota Group's public relations team immediately issued a statement to clarify, saying that the group has "collision energy discharge technology" that can instantly discharge the energy of hydrogen energy batteries at the first moment of a vehicle collision to avoid explosion.

However, netizens did not buy it at all, and instead the public opinion became more and more intense.

This is like depositing money in a bank in the Middle East. You want interest, but they want the principal. Is the little money saved by hydrogen-powered cars more important than your life?
The Toyota Group's plunge carried the Nikkei 225 index downward, and it soon hit the first circuit breaker line of 7%.

The stock market circuit breaker hit, investors lost money, and another large wave of investors from the island countries "took over" and began to curse the Toyota Group on the Internet.

[Yamagata Yuichi]: “The market was going up today, but the damn Toyota Group dragged the entire auto sector down!”

[Suzuki Sadahisa]: "No, I want to ask, which genius came up with the idea of ​​a hydrogen-powered car, and what's the difference between it and a suicide car?"

[Kitada Yuki]: "Go to hell, Toyota Group, I was blind to buy this crappy stock. I just bought it yesterday and I lost 9% today. I can't keep it!"

The stock investors in the island country are now gritting their teeth at the Toyota Group. They were making a profit half an hour after the opening, but suddenly there was a market crash and a circuit breaker. Can you bear this?

After the ten-minute circuit breaker cooling-off period, stocks of Toyota Group and even the entire automotive sector were sold off.

Toyota Group's stock price started a second round of decline, from 689 yen at the opening to 514 yen, equivalent to 32 yuan per share.

As public opinion intensified, Toyota Group's stock price continued to fall.

471 yen.

442 yen.

407 yen.

Not only did Toyota Group's stock price plummet, but Japanese companies such as Honda Group and Mitsubishi Group also saw their stock prices plummet. The market seemed to have abandoned the automotive sector, and a stampede occurred to cash out.

What is stampede cashing out?

To put it bluntly, there is a lack of follow-up.

When stocks are panic-sold, you want to sell at 420, others want to leave the market at 419, but some people end up selling at 418.

Scramble.

Run on each other.

Before the bid is made below, a lower price is refreshed. No one is stupid. In this situation, everyone will think about waiting and buying the same number of stocks with less money.

……

Dragon Kingdom Deep City.

Longxing Group Bantian Base.

Li Daxiao looked at the collapsing Nikkei 225 index and shouted excitedly: "Panic! The little bastards are panic selling!"

"Mr. Chen is awesome! I didn't expect you to have the internal testing video of hydrogen-powered vehicles!"

"Hit the snake at its most vulnerable part, Toyota is finished!"

"Collect the chips quietly. We are not in a hurry. But we must not be discovered!"

On the securities trading floor, Yang Delong, Liu Jipeng, and all the speculators could not help but admire Chen Xing.

They didn't expect that Chen Xing had a deadly move up his sleeve.

Hydrogen-powered vehicles pose safety risks, which is the most deadly news.

why would you say so?

Cars are a means of transportation, safety is the first priority, and saving money can only be the second. Looking back at the recall incidents of major car companies, most of them are related to the safety of the car itself. If there is only a problem of high fuel consumption, they will not be taken care of.

Take Luxgen for example. The official fuel consumption data is 8.4 liters per kilometers. However, when it was actually tested on the car, it was twice as much. The doubled fuel consumption also made Luxgen be ridiculed by netizens, who said that it was a strategic partner of Long Petroleum.

Faced with the doubled fuel consumption, even a fool would know that there is something wrong with Luxgen's fuel consumption system, but because it does not involve safety, Luxgen did not choose to recall the vehicles.

This also reflects that saving fuel is second, and saving lives is first!

Chen Xing asked people to release the internal testing video of the hydrogen-powered vehicle in order to address the safety issue.

If nothing unexpected happens, even if hydrogen-powered vehicles solve the safety problem in the future, not many car owners will buy them.

Why is it that even if the safety issues of hydrogen-powered vehicles are resolved, not many car owners will buy them?

Very simple.

This involves stereotypes.

For example, the Iveco Golden Cup, a van that once topped the national sales charts, was even more popular than the Wuling Hongguang.

In the Young and Dangerous movie series, it can often be seen transporting younger brothers, and is called Chen Haonan's mobile office.

But the result?

The rival manufacturer resorted to a dishonest move, buying 200 Iveco Jinbei vehicles and selling them to major funeral homes at half price.

Not only that, the rival manufacturer also asked people to compose a song called "Bless the Children on Qingming Festival". The first sentence of the lyrics is "Iveco Big Golden Cup, after pulling the dead, it pulls the ashes", which directly brought the sales of Iveco Big Golden Cup to the bottom.

After this set of business warfare tactics, people will immediately stay away from the Iveco Golden Cup whenever they see it, thinking that there is a dead person or ashes on it, and they want to avoid being contaminated by bad luck.

Even though Iveco has tried to clarify several times that it is not a special vehicle for funeral homes, the effect has been mediocre. The brainwashing song "Iveco's big Golden Cup, after transporting the dead, it transports ashes" has made it a special vehicle for funeral homes.

To this day, people still believe that the Iveco Golden Cup is a vehicle specially used for funeral homes. This is the horror of stereotypes, which directly turns the sales champion into a vehicle specially used for funeral homes.

Chen Xing was already very good at manipulating public opinion. Facing the admiration of Li Daxiao, Yang Delong and others, he asked:

“How many votes are left?”

"According to Toyota Group's total share capital, we have taken another 4%. Panic buying is still going on. We cannot let the island's retail investors feel the bottom at this time."

Li Daxiao responded.

No matter what you buy, it’s best not to make the other party feel that you are in a hurry.

For example, when bargaining for clothes, the more you show that you like the product, the easier it will be for the boss to control you and make you pay.

But if you act casually and just put it down and walk away after being rejected, the clothing store owner may accept your bargaining.

Chen Xing nodded slightly to show his agreement.

……

The continued decline of Nikkei 225 also made many retail investors in the island countries see this market clearly, and another wave of account closures occurred.

Account closure is accompanied by liquidation of positions, which means that there are more chips in the market. With limited capacity to take over, the island country's stock market ushered in a second circuit breaker and trading was suspended for another ten minutes.

Faced with such a drop, everyone at the FSA could no longer sit still. Saito I called the island country's central bank again, hoping to mobilize another batch of funds to save the market.

The island nation's central bank was also very forthright and quickly allocated 1600 billion yen, equivalent to 100 billion yuan in Dragon currency, in the hope of stabilizing the stock market.

As the circuit breaker period ended, the entire Nikkei 225 market plummeted.

"What to save first?"

the island nation’s national team trader asked.

"First save the financial sector, then save the healthcare sector, and pull these two main lines together."

Saitoi responded quickly.

It is obviously impossible to save the manufacturing industry because the automobile sector is now affected by negative news. We can only save other sectors first, pull up the overall market and then think about other things.

"I understand. Save the financial sector first!"

"Pull up the financial sector, quickly!"

“Save finance, save finance!”

The island nation's national team began to exert its strength to pull up stocks in the financial sector, trying to stabilize the market and prevent it from falling further.

However, due to the panic selling, 1600 billion yen was quickly consumed and a large number of retail investors chose to leave.

Some of their accounts lost 50%, some lost 60%, and some even lost 70%. In less than two years, they lost 70%, and the market has not shown any signs of bottoming out. How can they play in this market?
All the suppressed emotions and investors who were trying to make money in the stock market exploded during the two circuit breakers. They all chose to liquidate their positions and close their accounts, refusing to play in this shitty market.

"Give me another 1600 billion, and I can definitely save the market!"

"There's no time, hurry up!"

"Market sentiment must be stabilized, otherwise today will be the end of the island nation's economy!"

"I only want 1600 billion!"

Saito Ii kept making phone calls, frantically raising funds for a bailout.

However, what he didn't know was that while he was pulling up the finance, the traders of Longxing Group were continuously buying Toyota Group shares.

“I bought another 300 million!”

"Switch account and continue buying!"

"The stocks were immediately transferred to an international fund account for holding, to prevent the other party from cutting off the power!"

"600 million, another big order has come in!"

"These little bastards are panicking. Big orders come in one after another. It seems like they are scared by the circuit breaker. Hahaha!"

Amidst laughter, Toyota Group's stocks began to gather.

However, due to the operation of multiple securities accounts, the warning of hostile takeover was never triggered, which also left the top leaders of the island country completely unaware.

When it was afternoon and the market was about to close, Li Daxiao's breathing became rapid and he said in a deep voice: "The last 4000 million shares, raise the price for me!"

"Crack!"

The keyboard sounds are flying.

There is no need to hide the last 4000 million shares anymore. The important thing is to get them as quickly as possible.

327 yen.

349 yen.

370 yen.

The ruthless buying spree caused Toyota Group's stock price to start rising.

The sudden and blatant capital intervention attracted the attention of the FSA. The moment Saito I learned the news, he suddenly felt a chill running from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

Raytheon solid-state battery technology breakthrough.

Hydrogen energy batteries have been exposed to safety hazards.

The automobile sector led the decline.

Mysterious funds are involved in a high-profile manner.

When these pieces of information were connected together, a terrible idea emerged in Saito's mind. He quickly looked at the trading team and shouted, "Quick, buy Toyota Group stocks!"

"Hurry up!!!"

Upon hearing this, the FSA Financial Services Agency's trading team quickly tapped on the keyboard and entered the Toyota Group's stock code.

When they went out to buy stocks, the trading team of Longxing Group used the quantitative trading software designed by Jiang Ce, which was faster and more rapid than them.

The two trading teams swept up the stock, pushing Toyota Group's stock price higher and higher.

"what happened?"

“What happened to Toyota Group?”

“400 yuan!”

“It’s still rising!”

"It's 410 yuan now. I have to run. The national team may be pulling me!"

"Then I'm leaving too!"

"If you all leave, I'll leave too!"

While investors in the island country were commenting and exchanging ideas on the trading software, they were selling their stocks one after another, hoping to make a profit from the price difference by doing T.

Those who are familiar with the financial market know that if the national team steps in to support the market, the market will surely fall again after a while.

This is because the national team cannot hold on to the stocks forever; it needs to return the stocks to the market when the time is right.

……

At this time, all the traders on the securities trading floor of Longxing Group were extremely excited. They were about to complete a hostile takeover of a trillion-level listed company!

"Two million shares, the last two million shares!"

"Isn't that little bastard going crazy? He's offering a 3% premium to buy it!"

“Buy ETFs!”

"Yes, scan all ETF stock funds that include Toyota Group!"

"I completed another big transaction, a full 60 shares!"

"pretty!!!"

“Awesome!!!”

With only ten minutes left until closing, more and more retail investors on the island are choosing to sell their stocks, fearing that there will be another limit down tomorrow.

Due to the competition between the two groups, Toyota Group's share price reached 700 yen, an increase of 19%. This made many investors think that this might be the price today, and they immediately sold their stocks.

The moment they click to sell, the quantitative trading software identifies the price and eats them all up!
180 million shares.

130 million shares.

90 million shares.

Chen Xing, who witnessed the whole process, held his breath and his heartbeat began to accelerate. Taking over the Toyota Group was the most important and crucial step in his strategic layout.

As long as the equipment problem is solved, the rest of the problems can be solved.

"One hundred thousand. I bought one hundred thousand shares!"

"We're almost at the acquisition line!"

"There's a big order! There's a big order of 40 shares. Retail investors are starting to get scared of a plunge!"

"I got them all!"

"Ness!!!"

Amid the cheers of everyone, Li Daxiao, who had been calculating silently, blushed and stood up and shouted, "That's enough. Counting the holdings of ETF stock funds, we have bought enough!"

The moment the words fell, Chen Xing's heart finally settled down. Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately opened his mouth to direct the overall situation:
"All overseas funds holding Toyota Group shares immediately issued a joint statement to transfer the rights to Toyota Group shares to Longxing International Investment Fund."

"in addition!"

Chen Xing looked at Yao Nana and said in a deep voice: "Issue a global announcement in the name of Longxing International Investment Fund to immediately dissolve the original board of directors of Toyota Group and remove all the original board members from their positions. In three hours, hold an online meeting of the Toyota Group's board of directors." (End of this chapter)