Whether it's Nikon shareholders or multiple institutions, they are all inquiring about why Xing Baohua would hand over the auctioned shares to First Commercial Bank.
It was later learned that as early as six months ago, Xing Baohua had mortgaged his shares to First Commercial Bank and borrowed more than 10 billion yuan. Considering the timing, Nikon was at its lowest point at that time, and Xing Baohua only mortgaged his shares when the stock price was just rising.
The First Trading Company didn't explain much before asking individuals and organizations participating in the auction to pay a 10% deposit.
Furthermore, Nikon's shares were divided into twenty lots, with individuals and institutions only allowed to bid on one lot and not multiple lots. Each lot had a starting bid of $800 million, a price based on the current market capitalization.
Often, the buyer will also offer a premium, which is equivalent to raising the price during the auction.
First Commercial's ideal price is around one billion US dollars per share.
They all felt sorry for Xing Baohua, thinking how much better it would have been if he hadn't chosen to die; he could have earned an extra seven or eight billion US dollars.
This time, the First Trading Company got the best deal.
Xing Baohua's partner banks were also envious; this money was practically free. Back then, Xing Baohua could casually ask for tens of billions, which was nothing; he could even give him 15 billion US dollars if he wanted.
They're all just armchair critics, and some even suggest that if you don't like it and want to back out, you might as well sell it yourself. They should send a legal team to sue that damn First Trading Company.
Xing Baohua kept quiet because he didn't want to get entangled in these messy affairs. He didn't meet with any of the bank executives or Nikon shareholders. He was hiding and would only appear after the share auction was over.
Mitsui Fujisaburo was also entrusted by Mitsui Bank to tell Xing Baohua that if there are any good opportunities like this in the future, Mitsui Bank should be considered first.
But Mitsui Teng is no longer the same Mitsui Teng. He has been very successful and made a fortune under Xing Baohua's guidance.
Xing Baohua has projects, and he not only takes him along but also gives him shares. He has already made hundreds of millions of yuan, something he never dared to dream of before.
No one knew what Xing Baohua would do with the more than 10 billion yuan he had mortgaged. But considering the timing of Pi Payment's rise to prominence, they had a clue. They knew how much money Pi was worth.
Regardless of who becomes Nikon's major shareholder, it has nothing to do with Xing Baohua anymore.
Nikon even packed up and delivered his office, including his personal belongings and furniture.
Kawaguchi Kanae, who had already resigned from Nikon, was also escorting the furniture.
When Xing Baohua saw her, he was both surprised and unsurprised.
It no longer matters whose side Kawaguchi Kanae is on; what matters is that she still wants to stay by his side, meaning she intends to continue playing the role of the mole.
PiPay in Europe and America is short-staffed, so I'll go there as a junior manager to familiarize myself with PiPay's business, so I don't discover any secrets I shouldn't have.
Sending someone overseas is also a test; how can someone obtain important intelligence if the mole isn't by their side?
Xing Baohua had initially thought that Kawaguchi Kanae would make excuses about not being able to be sent abroad. To his surprise, she agreed. That patience alone is admirable.
This guy often treats outsiders like dirt, discarding them after they've served their purpose, like toilet paper—used and thrown away without a second thought.
The thought of killing him arose briefly, but he suppressed it.
Kawaguchi Kanae is quite capable, so let's put her out there to work. There are so many countries in the world, let her work in rotation, and just don't transfer her back to headquarters.
This was also meant for some of the Japanese soldiers; Mitsui Fujisaburo knew her. Many people also knew that Kanae was his right-hand woman during his Nikon days, and if something were to happen to her, many would be wary of Xing Baohua's ruthlessness.
Kawaguchi Kanae has gone to take up a new post in the European and American branch, and she left without any hesitation.
Time flies, and it's November in the blink of an eye.
This guy brought over 30 billion US dollars back to China from an offshore bank. This money will be invested in various major research and development projects. The speed at which he burns money on superconducting chips can keep up with the speed of π payments.
Moreover, these 30 billion US dollars may not be enough. There is a lot of data from Nikon that can be used, and expanding research and development outwards from that foundation will cost a lot of money.
After settling things in Japan, Xing Baohua returned to central Shandong.
Accompanying Xing Baohua back were Chinese employees from the MINICON laboratory.
During the three-month hiatus, this group of people continued to research upgrades to digital lenses, which they could only do secretly so that the Japanese engineers wouldn't find out.
They have a task assigned by Xing Baohua, and so far they haven't figured out how to enter the civilian version of air purifiers.
With Xing Baohua's departure from Nikon, the MINikon laboratory was also split up, and the air purifier project was halted.
I haven't written a single decent paper in the past three months.
It's okay, Xing Baohua is also coming to this project, it just took a bit of a detour.
After Chen Shuoyue and her small team returned to central Shandong, they began to improve the miniature lens as instructed by Xing Baohua.
Image stabilization chip, enhanced image quality, increased cache font library, etc.
The small motherboard has been fitted with a number of electronic components. This change has made the motherboard slightly larger, but the image quality has improved. As for the ghosting caused by jitter, it is still there, but much better than before.
For the next generation of mobile phones under preliminary research, Xing Baohua decided to add this annoying little camera to the phone and sell it as a flagship and selling point of a groundbreaking phone.
Because the camera's motherboard module is too large to be installed inside the phone, it can only be sold as an accessory.
External cameras are something many mobile phone manufacturers have done, such as Samsung, Sony, and I think there was also Bird.
In theory, this external camera can take ten photos, which can be imported into a computer via a data cable for printing or saving on a hard drive.
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