Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 314 Everything Goes as Wish

"Mr. Guan Ben means that he wants our PHS base station order?"

Although with the wisdom of his previous life, Masato Takeshita directly turned the Xiaolingtong into a mobile phone that supplemented the fixed-line phone, base stations similar to later mobile phones still had to be built.

But in terms of price, it will not be as expensive as a mobile phone base station.

"Yes, I wonder if Takeshita-san can help me?"

As personal computers and mobile phones become more and more popular, major companies are paying more and more attention to the communications market.

Kyocera, Mitsubishi, Panasonic and other giants are targeting the telecommunications business, that is, competing with NTT in the network broadband fiber optic market and the mobile phone digital communications market, taking the basic water, electricity and coal route.

Semiconductor companies such as NEC and Hitachi focused on the field of communication equipment, similar to Huawei in later generations, selling mobile phone base stations, various components, and one-stop software services.

NEC originally did not take the PHS technology seriously, but seeing that Xinghai Group attached so much importance to it, it also wanted to join in the fun and get a piece of the pie.

"No problem. We are very confident in NEC's services. As for the specific negotiations, we will arrange for our subordinates to discuss them when the time comes."

The young man had not yet invested in Huawei or ZTE, and even if Tadahiro Sekimoto hadn't said anything, he wouldn't have dared to hand over the business to foreigners.

Japanese youth today are very patriotic, and he doesn't want to cause rejection by the people.

Besides, this can be considered as repaying a favor.

During the recent operating system dispute, many citizens directly paid real money to purchase the Xinghai operating system.

According to statistics, more than 270 million units have been sold in the Japanese market alone, accounting for 70% of the total.

Now that it has completely lost the European and American markets, it is estimated that its share will increase next year.

"Thank you, thank you Takeshita Junjun."

"It's all small things, as they should be."

As soon as the two of them finished their conversation, Hitachi President Kanai Tsutomu tried to ask in a joking tone.

"Do you have one from Hitachi? We have a great discount too."

"Don't worry, everyone has a share."

After hearing what Takeshita Masato said, Yamamoto Takuma and others were surprised and followed suit to express their gratitude verbally.

"Thank you, President Takeshita."

"As expected of Takeshita-kun, you always do things in a magnanimous way."

"Thank you so much. I hope the PHS service will get better and better."

After talking about Xiaolingtong, everyone started to focus on fiber optic technology and mobile communication technology.

After all, these two businesses represent the real future.

The technology of Xiaolingtong is too backward. Even if we believe that Masato Takeshita will not waste his efforts, it will be eliminated sooner or later.

The young man was also well aware of this. He just wanted to make some money in the short term. The main target of the entire communication project team was still CDMA technology.

Listening to everyone flattering him, Takeshita Masato began to have more ideas in his mind.

"Well, Xiaolingtong technology is almost mature and no longer needs the help of Xinghai Technology."

"We will arrange a new president tomorrow to avoid further disputes with Xinghai Technology and cause misunderstandings among Hitachi and other small shareholders over the years."

Xinghai Communications is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xinghai Group. He does not want to be confused with Xinghai Technology and end up offending people.

It is better to separate officially early. Maybe you will have the opportunity to enter the most basic field of communications in the future and enjoy making money by relying on phone bills or Internet fees.

As for the upstream base station field, the plan is to rely on ZTE and Huawei.

Among them, Huawei is easier to deal with. Ren Zhengfei has repeatedly wanted to sell shares to others.

Apart from the Motorola deal where all shares were sold outright, there were other instances where 30% of the shares were sold.

He was not planning to make a full acquisition and destroy the employee stock ownership model that made Huawei famous in the future, but there would be no problem in getting 30%.

This will not only not disrupt Huawei's overall momentum, but also allow it to make a lot of money.

Of course, the most important thing is to have semi-control of a communication base station manufacturing company.

If there are any troubles in the future, we will have our own people available.

As they were chatting, Fujitsu President Takuma Yamamoto suddenly made a suggestion.

"Should the six of us cooperate and set up a dedicated telecommunications company?"

Masato Takeshita rejected it immediately, "Sorry, our company has not considered this aspect."

Now is the honeymoon period for Xinghai Group and NTT, and the relationship between the two sides is very good. There is no need to offend the partners for a temporary trifle.

If there is a real need, he will only complete it in the 21st century.

Anyone with a bit of skill can see the prospects of the communications market and have thought about developing in this direction.

But most attempts, before the advent of the mobile era, faced huge losses.

The communications sector is a waste of money, and I don’t know how many companies have gone bankrupt because of it.

The most typical example is Vodafone, which originally developed quite well, but became too confident in the communications field and eventually had to sell off everything it had acquired one by one.

In the past, the reason why Google's Internet broadband costs were not high was that it took advantage of the sluggishness of telecommunications companies to acquire dark optical fibers.

YouTube, which is controlled by Google, also benefits from its own broadband access and exchange, greatly reducing operating costs.

"Our company is not planning to enter the market either. If you need any service, you can contact us."

NEC and NTT have a lot of economic and technological exchanges, and Tadahiro Sekimoto will not destroy his own Great Wall.

In the end, the number of supporters failed to exceed half, and the proposal was tacitly scrapped.

After discussing the most important topics, Toshiba President Fumio Sato approached the young man.

"Now South Korea is also aggressive in the field of flash memory chips. I wonder if there is any chance for us to cooperate?"

Masato Takeshita agreed straightforwardly, "Sure, no problem. South Korea is indeed our biggest enemy. Even if we can't defeat it, we must weaken it."

The situation in the previous life where the world's memory and flash memory had to act according to the wishes of the Koreans will never happen again in this life.

Xinghai Group will become a pioneer in the fight against South Korea and win a larger proportion of chip orders.

As for Toshiba, it has the ability to help Xinghai Technology with flash memory, and then the two companies will grow together.

I just don't know if there will be a chance to acquire Toshiba's flash memory business in this life.

In the previous life, this business was independent, but the essence remained the same.

Sony is not deeply involved in semiconductor research and development and is basically just joining in the fun, so Norio Ohga has remained silent.

Seeing this, Masato Takeshita took the initiative to talk to him about DVDs.

"Ohga-san, what does your company think about the DVD format?"

Ohga Norio didn't expect the young man to suddenly mention him. He calmly put down the coffee in his hand and asked as if he didn't care.

"Oh, could it be that Xinghai Group is thinking of getting involved in the DVD format?"

The young man quickly shook his head in denial.

"Not yet. We are just stockpiling some technology and hope that the patents will be cheaper."

Xinghai Group will definitely get involved in the game console industry, but it must be fully prepared before entering.

For example, in terms of DVD technology, the price can be slightly higher than Sony, but not much higher than Sony.

Sega's last console, the DC, did not choose this playback mode because much of the DVD technology was controlled by Sony and the console would be more expensive to produce.

You have to know that the reason why Sony PS2 sold so well in the past was largely due to DVD technology.

In addition, the total sales of games are not very good, but the sales of PS2 game consoles have repeatedly broken various records, which is also due to DVD technology. A DVD player costs at least three or four hundred US dollars, while a PS2 that has both DVD playback function and game function only costs 199 US dollars.

With such a low price, everyone naturally bought it immediately.

Many people who don't play games also buy it and use it as a DVD player.

"Don't worry, as long as Xinghai Group supports us, the patent fees will be easy to negotiate."

Just as Masato Takeshita was about to respond, Toshiba's Sato Fumio interrupted and said, "We at Toshiba can also offer the same conditions. The price of the patent and other things are negotiable."

DVD format standards have not yet been unified, and various conflicts have broken out between the Toshiba and Panasonic parties and the Sony party.

The young man didn't want to get involved, so he laughed and said, "Well, our company will wait for you two to reach an agreement."

Format competition will only be brutal at the beginning, and compromises will basically be required afterwards. There is no need for Xinghai Group to play the bad guy in this process.

Ohga Norio nodded, then changed the subject and asked, "I wonder if your company can help sell the mobile phones produced by our company?"

"I'm not sure about that. I can discuss it with Chambers in detail later."

Masato Takeshita was inclined to refuse in order to avoid the possibility of aiding the enemy.

After all, Sony mobile phones were once glorious in the past, and even formed the Sony Ericsson Mobile Phone Alliance.

But if Sony offers conditions that cannot be refused, Xinghai Group will have no choice but to agree.

We talked about a lot of topics, but not much about today's topic, the chip industry.

There are various restrictions on selling Japanese chips to the United States, so no matter how good the plan is, it cannot be realized.

As for other markets, together they are less than half of the United States.

If Japan wants to find a suitable opportunity, it can only wait for the rise of third world countries led by China.

Of course, it's not the most dangerous moment yet, so we are not in a hurry. We are just having a brief discussion right now, and everything needs to wait.

However, it won’t take a few years for several major companies to change their minds.

Either they gather together for warmth, or simply give up.

Xinghai Group needs to wait, waiting for the most appropriate opportunity to intervene.

The discussion lasted until almost 12 o'clock, and then a few people left reluctantly.

Basically we have talked about everything we need to talk about, so there is no need to delay everyone's rest.

The next morning, as soon as Masato Takeshita arrived at the president's office, he received a somewhat unexpected phone call.

"Yes, I am. Please go ahead, Senior Tanaka."

"Okay, of course no problem, please give me your guidance in the future."

After a brief greeting, senior Tanaka Makiko asked with a choked voice: "I wonder if Takeshita-san is free today?"

"I'm fine now, Senior, tell me, what happened?"

The young man was full of doubts. He couldn't understand why such a strong person like the senior sister spoke with a tearful tone.

"My father wants to see you."

"No problem, where is the location? I'll be there right away."

When the young man heard the location reported by Tanaka Makiko, he instinctively felt something was wrong. After hanging up the phone, he couldn't help but guess in his heart.

"No way, could it be true?"

After quickly taking a car to the hospital, Masato Takeshita, led by Makiko Tanaka, came to a luxurious ward.

"Hello, Prime Minister Tanaka. I am Masato Takeshita."

Kakuei Tanaka pulled the corners of his mouth with difficulty, and then said in a gentle tone: "I know that Takeshita-kun has been frequently appearing in newspapers and TV stations recently, and has greatly promoted the spirit of us Japanese."

"No, the Prime Minister is too kind."

The names used by newspapers and TV stations for him are too immature, so Masato Takeshita rarely mentions them on his own initiative.

The two exchanged simple pleasantries for a while, and Kakuei Tanaka suddenly said to his daughter, "Makiko, can you please go out for a while?"

"Well, I'll be outside first. You can call me anytime."

"Go."

After Tanaka Makiko left, the two chatted about family matters for a while.

Almost ten minutes later, Kakuei Tanaka told him the purpose of calling him here.

"My daughter is too strong-willed and too upright to handle politics."

"I hope you can help her. This is a father's request."

Kakuei Tanaka knew that his daughter was not suitable for politics at all, but out of his doting on Tanaka Makiko, he finally decided to hand over all the political resources in his hands to her.

However, even so, he still felt unsafe and wanted to find a wealthy and largely friendly force to cooperate and develop together.

Kakuei Tanaka's premonition was very accurate. If it weren't for Masato Takeshita's help, Makiko Tanaka would most likely have lost the seat of councilor that the Tanaka family had held for many years.

Niigata people are very grateful to Kakuei Tanaka because he brought the Shinkansen, which changed the face of Niigata. However, this gratitude will decrease over time and needs to be cultivated constantly.

And Makiko Tanaka is the kind of person who doesn't know how to run a business.

She was unable to bring benefits to her fellow villagers, and when her gratitude towards Kakuei Tanaka faded, she naturally lost her seat as a member of parliament.

But in this life, I have Masato Takeshita, so it doesn’t matter even if my senior doesn’t know how to run a business.

After filming several large factories, the workers and people affected alone were enough to make Makiko Tanaka fearless.

"Don't worry, Prime Minister. Ms. Tanaka is my senior."

Making friends with Tanaka Makiko has always been the young man's principle.

There are too few politicians who are relatively friendly to China and have influence, and we cannot lose them easily.

"Well, then I'm relieved."

Only with the support of Xinghai Group and his own hard work over the years could his daughter's seat in parliament be as secure as a rock.

I just hope that I didn’t make a mistake in choosing the right person, and that my daughter didn’t make a mistake in choosing the right person either.

After entrusting his daughter with the matter, Kakuei Tanaka felt a lot more relaxed.

He began to introduce the deep factions of the Liberal Democratic Party to young people to prevent him from accidentally offending anyone.

The two chatted for more than half an hour until Prime Minister Tanaka became a little tired and left reluctantly.

He now understands the deeper logic of the Japanese government better.

"Senior, the Prime Minister wants you in."

"Oh, okay, I'll be there right away."

Makiko Tanaka quickly walked to her father's side and held his right hand tightly with both hands.

Kakuei Tanaka looked at his daughter lovingly, enjoying the father-daughter relationship for a while, and then gave positive encouragement.

"Just do it boldly, Xinghai Group will fully support you."

"Thank you, thank you, Dad."

Makiko Tanaka didn't think she would fail, but since her father said so, she had no choice but to obey.

He wanted his father to leave happily instead of living in worry every day.

(End of this chapter)