Three days later, the patent cooperation between Shinhwa Technology Company and Royal Philips Electronic Technology Company of the Netherlands officially began.
In order to highlight the importance of this cooperation, Philips made an appointment with Shi Zhijian to hold the signing ceremony at the largest Hilton Hotel in Kyoto.
On the day of the signing, Shi Zhijian brought the senior executives of Shinhwa Technology, as well as the female president of Jinlong Company, Guangzi, and others to the Hilton Hotel early in the morning.
William and others waiting at the door of the hotel were even more dressed in straight suits, and some media reporters were also arranged. The whole scene was much more formal.
“A pleasure to work with!”
“A pleasure to work with!”
Shi Zhijian represented Shinhwa Technology and William represented Philips. The two shook hands deeply, then turned to look at the crowd and started taking photos.
The reporters from the media who had been invited were already prepared. Seeing this, they all raised their cameras to take pictures of Shi Zhijian and William.
Immediately, everyone came forward to take a group photo, and the atmosphere was lively for a while.
After the signing ceremony, near noon, the celebration banquet was held directly in the Western restaurant of the Hilton Hotel.
Although it is a Western restaurant, for this guest, a Western buffet was prepared, as well as high-end Japanese cuisine. The wine supply was also generous, including French champagne and Bordeaux red wine.
After the banquet, William and others bid farewell to Shi Zhijian.
Shi Zhijian returned to Shinhwa Technology Company as soon as possible. He picked up the newspaper and saw that the Japanese media people were very efficient. The news of their signing today had been published on the front page of the newspaper.
Shi Zhijian was flipping through the newspaper when Daisuke Inoue suddenly came in and reported that the "people poaching strategy" ordered by Shi Zhijian had once again yielded results.
As a veteran, Shi Zhijian has always known the importance of technological talents, so he asked the company to increase its efforts to poach talents from major Japanese technology companies.
Among them, Daisuke Inoue did the most outstanding job.
This young man, who was born as a drummer, has now been completely brainwashed by Shi Zhijian. From a musician who is obsessed with music, he has become a technological talent who is obsessed with technology and likes to invent and create.
Not only that, Daisuke Inoue relied on his "teaching by words and deeds" and "example" to personally recruit many people from many large companies, such as Panasonic and Toshiba.
But this time Inoue Daisuke created a miracle, and for the first time he found an ally from Sony! That is Shueisha, the famous manga publishing company in Japan!
Shi Zhijian clearly remembers that Shueisha and Sony in the previous life had a strategic alliance.
To be precise, Sony has helped Shueisha invest a lot of money in the production of animation works adapted from their comics, the most famous of which are "Demon Slayer", "Gintama", and the famous "One Punch Man"!
It can be said that Sony and Shueisha are super complementary in terms of future animation and entertainment.
One is rich, the other has copyright, they work together perfectly.
But now, Inoue Daisuke has persuaded Shueisha boss Shinichi Hirono to give up cooperation with Sony and join Shinhwa Technology!
When Shi Zhijian asked Inoue Daisuke how he did it, Inoue Daisuke's answer made Shi Zhijian stunned.
Inoue said: "I promised Shinichi Hirono that our Shinhwa Technology Company would invest one million US dollars in Shueisha!"
In a word, I spent money on it!
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Kyoto, Sony headquarters.
Shueisha boss Hirono Shinichi was sitting in the waiting area, scratching his head with his hands, completely distracted.
Today he came to meet Sony boss Akio Morita.
As one of the top manga publishing houses in Japan, Shueisha has encountered great difficulties recently, which is the brain drain.
Especially those outstanding cartoon talents, seeing that the great cartoonist "Tezuka Osamu" made a fortune by setting up "Mushi Production Co., Ltd." based on a book "Astro Boy", after the contract expired, they all chose not to do it anymore.
I have renewed my contract with Shueisha and want to set up an independent company to publish comics.
In this era, Japan strongly supports private companies because the government can collect more business taxes.
But for a publishing house like Shueisha, the cartoonists who contracted with it are running away one after another, and the future of the company is in doubt.
The only way to solve this talent crisis is to give these comic writers better salaries and benefits.
But now the entire Japanese animation market is fiercely competitive. Several comics previously invested by Shueisha were boycotted by readers because of their subject matter, so that profits plummeted by 30% in the past three months!
Coupled with the fact that their old rivals Shogakukan and Hakusensha are closing in on them and poaching people from them, the entire Shueisha is already in danger.
Thinking of this, Shinichi Hirono couldn't help but sigh, and thought of Shinhwa Technology's promise to him. As long as Shinhwa Technology is willing to join Shueisha, it will provide Shueisha with one million US dollars in financial support!
One million!
Still in U.S. dollars!
That's enough to help Shueisha reverse the situation and come back to life!
Just as Shinichi Hirono was thinking about it, Akio Morita's female assistant Soeko came over and said: "Mr. Hirono, President Morita, please come in!"
Hirono Shinichi raised his head and took a deep breath and said, "Thank you! We may never see each other again in the future, Miss Edako! I wish you a happy day!"
Eko was a little surprised, but I heard that Shueisha has encountered great difficulties in the past few days. As the president, it is inevitable for him to be so sad.
Hirono Shinichi leaned on the chair and rubbed his temples with his hands. His mind was no longer here. He stood up and took a deep breath. He prepared the terms for terminating the contract with Sony, knocked on the door of the president's office, and then walked in.
The contract termination letter was placed on Akio Morita's desk.
"Mr. Morita, you also know that my comic club is encountering difficulties now. Either you can show some sincerity to support me through the difficulties, or we can get together and break up, or we can terminate the alliance and I will no longer implicate you!" Shinichi Hirono!
said in a deep voice.
"Hirono, what are you talking about? It's not that I don't support you, it's that we at Sony are also encountering difficulties now. The TV sets we sold have huge faults and we are trying to recall them! Also, I myself have been implicated in some recent scandals.
, Sony’s stock price plummeted! I am also surrounded by enemies on all sides now, what do you want me to do? How can I help you?" Morita took off his glasses and rubbed his face.
"If you are really my friend, then just try to endure it a little longer. When I get better, I will definitely help you! Believe me, old friend, after all, we have cooperated for so many years, and we will work together even more in the future.
Fight side by side!"
"Waiting for you to calm down? My comic book club may have gone bankrupt by then!" Shinichi Hirono laughed at himself.
"Did someone promise to help you?" Akio Morita realized something alertly. He looked at Hirono with sharp eyes, took a sip of tea, raised his eyes and said, "You must pay attention! The water is very deep outside, and there are water everywhere.
He’s a liar! He said he wanted to invest in you, but his ultimate goal is to swallow up your company!”
