Chapter 157 This time it's really hot

When people mention Japanese women, the image that immediately comes to mind is of a gentle woman wearing a kimono, with her hair tied up in a bun, taking small steps, or kneeling on her knees and sipping a cup of tea.

This is the success of Japanese propaganda, but in a sense it is also a true portrayal of Japanese women.

The phenomenon of "male superiority and female inferiority" is absolutely "deeply rooted" in Japan.

Milo now truly understands this.

This is different from the two neighboring countries.

The University of Tokyo truly broke the shackles, and there was an era when women held half the sky.

The small sticks are small and weak, and have been led astray, so the confrontation is more serious than anyone else.

What about Japan? A few years ago, or even ten years ago, Japan did experience the social trend of "six wallets".

But it is still conservative and retains too many feudal dregs.

This is why some behaviors of men, which might be condemned in other countries, can be faced calmly by Japanese women.

So much so that men from other countries, after coming into contact with Japanese women, will believe that the daily behavior of Japanese women is a manifestation of "tolerance."

This leads many men to feel that being with Japanese women gives them enough freedom.

Perhaps this so-called "freedom" is what many men really desire.

Let me give you a typical example.

Things like celebrity couples getting married and then the men cheating on their spouses have happened in all three East Asian countries.

However, the direction is completely different.

If it happens in Xiaobang, it is likely that a new conflict will begin, and the couple will divorce.

If it happened in Seris, men would definitely be severely criticized and even banned.

If it's in Japan, most of the time it's the wives of the stars who come out to apologize, saying that they didn't do their duty well and that's why their husbands did such a mistake, it's all their fault...

Thinking back to last night because of my insignificant little promise.

And became more positive and enthusiastic with the performance of five popular Japanese actresses.

Milo really feels that being a star in Japan is a bit pitiful.

I have to say that the Japanese entertainment industry is really a very poor entertainment industry.

The remunerations paid to actors by various TV stations are very low, and print media have been hit hard and sales are difficult.

In Japan's entertainment industry, the rule that "women can get money if they take off their clothes" is even more popular. In Japan, the entertainment industry and the media are all considered to have entered a sunset stage.

According to Takako Tokiwa, even at her most popular, her annual income was only four to five million US dollars.

This is the income before the company takes commission. After paying taxes, it is less than one-third.

There is absolutely no comparison between her and the top actresses in Europe and the United States.

She shares the same problem with the female celebrity from next door.

Matsu Takako is now considered famous, and the offer for each episode of the TV series is only 700,000 yen, which is less than 6,000 US dollars. It is really hard to imagine.

You have to know that if she were in Hollywood today, she would be...

It is probably equivalent to Zeta-Jones' ecological niche in the United States at this time.

It is a stage where the second-tier cities have surpassed the first-tier cities, but the first-tier cities are still unstable.

How much is Zeta-Jones paid?

The starting salary for a movie is $3 million! The salary for a TV series is even higher, with a minimum of $500,000 per episode for a guest appearance.

The lead actor will get cheaper, but the lowest price will never be less than $350,000.

And generally they are unwilling to accept it.

In other words, the ecological niches are similar.

But the income that Zeta-Jones earned from one episode of a TV series in the United States would require Matsu Takako to star in 110 episodes in Japan.

These are the popular Japanese female stars, serious female artists who can appear on TV and make movies.

Those idol artists are even more pitiful.

You know Akina Nakamori, right? One of the three great singers, whose influence is even greater than that of Takako Tokiwa and the others.

However, her annual income is only about 50 million yen, and at her peak it was only 200 to 300 million yen.

Probably $400,000 to $2 million, again not counting taxes and commissions.

There are not many that can be obtained seriously.

This is still an idol of a transcendent level.

Ordinary first-tier vase idols are even worse off, with annual income of only around $100,000.

Faced with this situation, Milo could only use pity to express his inner feelings.

It has to be said that the entertainment industry in a small country controlled by chaebols is really a tragedy for the stars.

This leads to the fact that in Japan, being a star is really regarded as just a profession.

Not only do the public think so, but the celebrities themselves also think so.

There are also many celebrities who live on the fixed salary from the agency, which makes Milo laugh and cry.

Such a delicious and tasty five course meal.

Milo certainly wouldn't get tired of it so quickly, even if he didn't want to collect it for the time being.

What he has the most is the world-class resources that these people are flocking to.

Especially the American resources that are most recognized by the Japanese.

Believe it or not, just give them any supporting role and their screen time does not exceed one minute.

Can it allow them to reach the top of the Japanese entertainment industry? In their eyes, this is an invaluable opportunity, but in Milo's hands, it is undoubtedly just some dispensable chips.

Since it is so useful, Milo doesn't mind making good use of it, allowing him to live a more shameless and happy life in Neon.

Early in the morning, Milo washed up and sat in the chair in the study.

After taking a sip of the coffee that had been prepared on the table, he smiled with satisfaction and shook his head, muttering to himself.

As for Milo, he was having more and more fun and becoming more and more unscrupulous.

Monica, the life assistant who had adjusted to the time difference, put the printed emails and group briefings in front of him and persuaded him:

"Boss, maybe you should make some reasonable arrangements? This is the first time I see a tired look on your face."

Fighting one against five for two consecutive nights, even though Milo is extremely talented.

There was a hint of fatigue on his face at this moment.

"Haha, I'll listen to you. Don't worry, I'll just indulge myself once in a while. I won't let you starve."

Milo couldn't help but laugh and patted it casually, teasing. Under Monica's charming eyes, he picked up the documents and flipped through them, smiling, "Go and tell them to make a rich lunch. I need a big meal to make up for the lost energy."

"Okay, I'll give the order right away."

Today is his third day in Neon.

According to the schedule, he will meet with Akio Tanii, chairman of the Japanese Panasonic Corporation, in the afternoon to discuss the ownership and price of the MCA Group.

Looking at the business brief in front of me, MCA has become even bigger under the Panasonic Group.

Milo was almost drooling.

Yes, MCA did indeed screw Panasonic Group badly.

Panasonic lost more than 10 billion US dollars in five years and almost had to pawn its underwear.

But in order to continue to get money from Panasonic, MCA's group of unruly American executives have also made some achievements.

Except for the worst and most deceptive Universal Studios.

Although MCA Group's other project groups are also making losses and have no prospect of profitability, they have all grown in size.

After all, not all of Panasonic's more than 10 billion US dollars will be wasted.

So if we can buy MCA Group for US$6.5-7 billion and make it profitable within two to three years.

This is definitely a super profitable deal.

This would happen if an American media company of the same size were to do so twenty years later.

If those people in China had the qualifications to purchase, they would probably be willing to purchase the MCA Group of its current size even if it cost them 30 to 40 billion US dollars.

In that case, Milo thought, then I can’t blame myself for wanting both.

He chuckled as he thought of his plan.

Then I started to process other business briefs faxed from the United States.

First is the arrangement on Wall Street.

Those who stayed at Nelson were all familiar with dealing with banks.

This will ensure that there are sufficient ammunition reserves when robbing Southeast Asian countries later.

Then there is Yahoo, which he values ​​most at the moment.

Yahoo has already taken the US Internet world by storm.

The daily active users are 20 million, and the daily clicks are over 100 million.

This means that at least half of all American Internet users will visit Yahoo's website once a day and click on links more than five times.

What does this mean? This means that the total of the other nine companies and websites at the bottom of the list is only about 20% more than that of Yahoo alone.

The key point is that Yahoo is still profitable, even though it is only a pitiful less than one million dollars.

This happened in Silicon Valley, where almost everyone was suffering from heavy losses.

Yahoo is a breath of fresh air.

Therefore, the calls for Yahoo to go public have been growing louder and louder.

It wasn't just Morgan who asked Milo to take Yahoo public as soon as possible.

Now it includes the White House and all the leeks around the world who are crying out for mercy.

Everyone wanted Yahoo to go public, or wanted to see Yahoo go public.

Everyone wanted to know what kind of miracle Yahoo could create! However, Milo just smiled, thinking that the time had not come yet.

Just like his motto -

If you want to drink, drink the strongest whiskey; if you want to play, play with the most beautiful women; if you want to reap, reap the most luxuriant leeks!

If Yahoo were to go public now, the maximum issue price would be around 4 billion.

The market value should exceed 10 billion US dollars within two or three months, and should exceed 15 billion by the end of the year.

But if you put some pressure on it.

What about other Internet companies that are ten times inferior to Yahoo but whose market value can exceed 10 billion US dollars after listing? Not to mention the peak value of breaking 100 billion US dollars directly.

At least once it goes public, it should be no problem to have a market value of 40 to 50 billion US dollars, right? And this only takes a year at most.

When everyone has robbed Southeast Asia and their wallets are full of money and they have no place to put it.

Wait until all the international hot money is driven out from other regions.

When you look around, the only place in the world you can go is America.

That was the day Yahoo went public.

Put down the Yahoo briefing.

Milo picked up the media group's business brief.

Paladin Media actually only has one big thing going on right now.

That is to acquire MCA Group and become one of the top five media groups in the United States.

For this important event, Milo even came to Neon in person.

But apart from this major event, Paladin Media certainly has other work that needs Milo's review.

For example, in addition to "The Da Vinci Code", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "Rivals", the film company is preparing the fourth and fifth films.

The fourth film also used the script "created" by Milo.

It's called Pirates of the Caribbean.

Yes, that's Pirates of the Caribbean!

The five films in that decade grossed a total of $4.528 billion at the global box office, creating a super IP worth tens of billions of dollars, "Pirates of the Caribbean."

And this time Milo doesn't plan to cooperate with other film companies.

Because according to his calculations, by the time "Pirates of the Caribbean" is officially invested and filmed.

He should have also taken over MCA Group and acquired the Hollywood giant Universal Pictures Group.

By then, everyone should have their own distribution channels, so there would be no need to give it to others at a lower price.

The latest novel is published first on Liu9shuba!

Paladin Films is preparing a fifth film, which will be similar to Pirates of the Caribbean.

Will not cooperate with other media giants again.

The script of this movie was finally not written by Milo.

Instead, it is adapted from a long fantasy novel written by John Ronald R. Tolkien, a British writer and professor at Oxford University.

Yes, it is The Lord of the Rings series.

It has officially gained power and is about to take over the MCA Group.

Milo finally got Paladin Media to start doing big things and making blockbuster movies.

This is Paladin Films' main work for the next one to two years.

Apart from the film company, the only thing that Milo is paying attention to from the media group is the upcoming "How to Be a Millionaire" on TBS.

The program is under preparation and is currently in the advertising stage.

Filming is expected to begin next month and the film will be released in August.

Everything is in order now, one year after his rebirth.

His career is on the right track.

By the time Milo finished dealing with all the business briefings, it was already eleven o'clock in the morning.

He called Kenny and David back and confirmed the afternoon's arrangements with them.

This was followed by a sumptuous lunch prepared by the chefs he brought with him.

Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Panasonic Corporation, the headquarters building located on Gobancho-dori, Chiyoda-ku.

Due to its proximity to the Imperial Palace, most of the commercial buildings in Chiyoda Ward are short, fat and square.

This will prevent the Imperial Palace from being easily spied on by outsiders.

To put it simply, all commercial buildings built around the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward are subject to height restrictions.

As a result, they can only develop horizontally, which results in the buildings appearing short and fat.

The Panasonic Building of Panasonic Corporation is also unable to avoid the same short and fat fate.

At the entrance of the building, Milo brought a team of dozens of people.

By Akio Tanii, the chairman of Panasonic Corporation, and Masaharu Matsushita, the former chairman.

We were welcomed into the building with an extremely enthusiastic and even humble attitude.

But when everyone got into the conference room, they started to see the real situation.

The Japanese are not so humble.

Instead, it showed their other side, the side that dared to bomb Pearl Harbor.

"...Three billion dollars? That's impossible! Mr. Blackburn, are you kidding me?"

Akio Tanii was simply stunned.

He couldn't believe that these American devils actually offered 3 billion US dollars for Panasonic's 80% of MCA Group's shares! You know, when Panasonic bought it five years ago, it spent 6.6 billion US dollars.

You know, the last time the Canadians came.

The lowest price offered at the beginning for bargaining was US$5.5 billion.

Now the Americans have offered a price of three billion US dollars right away, which shocked the Japanese people.

This is too outrageous.

Shabote and Andre, who were responsible for giving the price and negotiating with the Japanese, were a little helpless.

They really couldn't understand why the boss gave this price.

This is indeed outrageous.

Even for bargaining it was still outrageous.

Is it to humiliate the Japanese? I haven't heard that the boss has any grudge against the Japanese.

The boss was having a lot of fun with those Japanese girls.

Both of them looked at Lao Shenzai without saying a word.

Milo just smiled and watched his men negotiate with Masaharu Matsushita.

But Milo was laughing, but Masaharu Matsushita couldn't laugh.

Apparently, the price of three billion dollars also shocked Masaharu Matsushita...

Chabote and Andre were a little speechless.

However, I thought about what my boss told me before I came here.

Shabote, who didn't understand what was going on, had no choice but to continue speaking. "Mr. Tanii, we all know that the MCA Group has lost $15 billion in the past five years. It is still $3 billion in debt, so the price of $3 billion..."

“…”

The negotiations ultimately failed because Paladin Media insisted on only offering $3 billion.

However, although the Japanese are angry, they can still hold it in.

After all, it was the first negotiation.

Negotiations involving such a huge amount of money will never produce results the first time.

It always takes more talks, and sometimes some acquisition negotiations may take several years.

And this is Milo Blackburn, a rising superstar in the United States.

During the negotiations, the Japanese only dared to confront Shabote and Andre at most.

They treated Milo with respect and humility from beginning to end.

The Japanese are also thankful.

Fortunately, Milo didn't say a word from beginning to end, just smiled and drank water.

If he intervened and spoke, Akio Tanii and a group of Panasonic executives would probably not know how to respond.

At that time, someone like Masaharu Matsushita, whose last name is Matsushita, was needed to come out and maintain the situation.

Fortunately, Milo didn't say anything, so the acquisition negotiations ended unpleasantly at around four o'clock.

Masaharu Matsushita, Akio Tanii, and a group of Panasonic Group executives followed closely.

They helped Milo into the car with respect and humility, and then watched the convoy go away.

Wait until we return to the building when there are no outsiders around.

After laughing for more than two hours and maintaining a humble attitude throughout the whole process, Matsushita Masaharu angrily yelled: "くそくらえ"

The translation is dirty.

Akio Tanii followed with a few curses, then comforted Masaharu Matsushita.

"Mr. Matsushita, this is what the rice beasts are like. They are so unscrupulous all over the world, especially when facing us, they are always more outrageous."

As for the reason, Akio Tani didn't say.

Masaharu Matsushita and the people around him also knew the reason.

This is undoubtedly also a concern for the business elites around them at the end of the Showa era.

Or it should be said that this is the heartache of their generation of Japanese elites who have witnessed the resurgence of Japan.

That is the mentality of wanting to get rid of the Americans but failing.

"call……"

Matsushita Masaharu: "It has come to this, Tanii-kun. I can only trouble you to continue talking to Michu."

"Hi." Akio Tanii bowed his head and called out, "I will definitely live up to Master Matsushita's trust."

Masaharu Matsushita nodded, feeling quite sleepy. He was also a man in his seventies.

After encountering this incident today, I cannot get angry and can only pretend to be accommodating throughout the whole process.

I am tired physically and mentally.

Masaharu Matsushita was about to tell Akio Tanii that he was going back.

Suddenly, a young man ran in hurriedly with a panicked look on his face.

"Oh no! It's not good, very bad!"

He ran up to Masaharu Matsushita, Akio Tanii, and a group of Panasonic Group executives.

He stopped panting and shouted, "This is very bad, Mr. Matsushita, Mr. Tanii, and all the presidents!"

"Shinichiro, what's worrying you so much?"

The young man who came in was Akio Tanii's nephew, who was also a senior executive at Panasonic.

Tanii Akio couldn't help but frown, "Don't be rude in front of Master Matsushita!"

"Yes, yes, hi, private Marseille!" Shinichiro Tani quickly apologized.

Akio Tanii is highly trusted by the head of the family, Tomojun Sumitomo.

As he is the son-in-law and adopted son, Masaharu Matsushita's authority in Matsushita is not as great as imagined.

Facing Akio Tani's nephew, the tired Matsushita Masaharu could only smile, "What happened, Shinichiro?"

"It's like this." Shinichiro took a few breaths, then spoke quickly, "Just now our people received news that an explosion occurred at the junction of Gobancho and Yotsubancho!"

"An explosion?" Matsushita Masaharu was puzzled. He looked at Shinichiro, "Some of our people were injured? What does this have to do with us?"

Shinichiro smiled bitterly, feeling like tears were about to fall, "Our people were not injured. The explosion was caused by the convoy of the American media group that just came to negotiate with us. They said, they said that the car that the American big shot was riding in exploded!"

"ah?"

Matsushita Masaharu was stunned for a moment, and didn't react, "If the rice animal explodes, it will explode..."

"What?!"

After all, Akio Tanii was younger and more responsive. He was shocked and asked, "You said that the car that Milo Blackburn was riding in exploded?"

"Yes, yes, that's what our witness said." Shinichiro said.

At this time, Masaharu Matsushita finally reacted, and then he immediately felt dizzy.

"B-Bageyalu, how, how, how is this possible?"

(End of this chapter)