Without standing on ceremony with Mitsui Tousaburo, they set out a small wine glass and began drinking.

“Mr. Nantian, a wise man knows when to yield. It’s very difficult for you to get out of this predicament now. Chairman Xing’s idea is to buy your shares at 30% of the price and give you a way out to go to South America.”

Mitsui Tousaburo smiled as he looked at Minamida Kazuo, who seemed somewhat dejected, across from him.

"He really dares to dream! Thirty percent, that's more interesting than outright robbery," said Kazuo Minamida with a disdainful tone.

"Or you could call it robbery. You know the law of the jungle, right? You can try selling it to someone else at a high price. Maybe you won't even find your home in South America after you get out."

Why did Mitsui Tousaburo treat his own people this way? Xing Baohua promised him that as long as he obtained Nikon's shares from Nantian Kazuo, he would allow Mitsui Tousaburo to receive 10% of those shares.

Profit can drive anyone; no one in business is soft-hearted. Their goal is to take money from other people's pockets and put it into their own.

The process... takes many forms, some well-intentioned and some malicious, but in the end, it still ends up with other people's money in one's own hands.

Mitsui Tousaburo was willing to abandon some principles for a tiny share of Nikon, just to persuade someone. Does that make him a bad person?

They didn't do anything heinous.

threaten!

Whether he was relaying a message or making a threatening statement, especially since it came from his own people, Minami Kazuo believed it.

If you want to live a good life and be able to take a small amount of money overseas, then you can only sell to Xing Baohua.

Even if it's just a symbolic transfer of one yuan, I still have to give it.

It is said that Xing Baohua's guards were all veterans of the battlefield. They protected Xing Baohua and could also help him eliminate all troubles.

But he guessed wrong this time; every job has its own kind of people.

The people Xing Baohua hired to do the illegal work were actually Japanese.

In fact, Xing Baohua was quite envious of Zhao Shanhai for being able to recruit such a capable person. He was exceptionally good at doing shady work.

When the two were half-drunk, Mitsui Tousaburo gave Minamida Kazuo a contract, which he simply signed.

As for the seven million US dollars, it will be transferred to an overseas account provided by him through Mitsui Bank.

Once the share transfer agreement is officially completed, he will take the money and leave. Xing Baohua will also drop the charges against him for job-related offenses and will no longer pursue the matter.

Xing Baohua's controlling stake in Nikon is just a tiny bit short of complete control.

There's no need to rush into taking control now; it's too obvious and would reveal Xing Baohua's intentions.

Nikon probably knew that Nantian Kazuo was forced to transfer his shares; the accountability pursued by Xing Baohua alone was unbearable for him.

As for how much Xing Baohua acquired the shares, that remains unknown. It's believed the details will be announced soon, given the changes in Xing Baohua's shareholding and shareholders. The stock exchange will issue an announcement; we'll find out what happened then.

Nikon's shareholders or outsiders didn't want to lose money on Kazuo Nanda's shares, but Xing Baohua was too powerful, and the internal shareholders didn't dare to make any moves.

They were afraid that Xing Baohua would increase their capital and expand their shares. This guy had said at the shareholders' meeting that he had recently made a lot of money in Daying.

Everyone knows he's rich, and Nikon needs money for its development, mostly through the stock market. If Xing Baohua, the major shareholder, were to provide the funds, the shares would become an expanded share capital.

To follow or not to follow?

If you don't follow the trend, your shareholding will shrink.

Kazuo Minamida has been completely removed from Nikon's shareholder list. This is the tragedy of minority shareholders. Who would be willing to sell unless they had no other choice?

Xing Baohua asked Chen Shuoyue to leave the game company and go directly to IBM to help build the database.

He also has another identity: an engineer at the Minicon Labs.

His job was to enable information sharing between Nikon's headquarters labs, R&D departments, and MINikon labs.

It's basically just about connecting the servers of two companies. It sounds simple, but there are actually quite a few complexities involved.

Although the servers at the Minicon Labs were built by IBM, and were built quite early, the servers here are small servers, and the database is just a few hard drive enclosures.

If you want to connect the two sides to achieve data sharing, the hard drive enclosure on his side needs to be formatted, and the backup hard drive enclosure needs to be started to transfer the data.

Moreover, the systems are different, so the system needs to be modified.

Chen Shuoyue also had a hidden task: to use the database connection to search for documents about violet light materials and photoresists using search software.

A complete list of everything directly related to lithography machines should be compiled.

After this incident, no other information was found, but a photoresist purchase order was discovered.

Some of the raw materials listed in the photoresist purchase order are supplied by JSR Chemical, while others are supplied by Sumitomo Chemical and Fuji Chemical.

When Xing Baohua saw the list, he realized that these companies were the source of photoresist. Later, they and several other large chemical companies became global suppliers, and the Japanese controlled 90% of the market.

Nikon produces its own photoresist to save costs, as the products Nikon imports are all semi-finished products.

Photoresist is synthesized using semi-finished materials from various manufacturers.

Nikon must be hiding this formula. No worries, we can find it slowly when we have time.

With this channel, we can bring some of the imported semi-finished products back to China so that domestic researchers can start developing them first.

They are using pharmaceutical companies in Singapore to import a batch of goods from JSR Chemical, Fuji Chemical, and Sumitomo Chemical to stockpile.

Then, a pharmaceutical research and development company in Singapore acted as a middleman for chemical materials, which were then transported to the mainland.

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