How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 630

Little Panasonic dares to threaten me? What’s wrong with a Didi driver having some money?

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries?

This reward is pretty good.

In its early years, Mitsubishi’s position in Japan was equivalent to Samsung’s in South Korea, or even stronger.

However, because the Mitsubishi zaibatsu [a large Japanese business conglomerate] was too powerful, so powerful that it could affect the national fortune of Japan, the Japanese government later formulated an anti-monopoly law stipulating that the private shareholding ratio of any company should not exceed 50%, and family shareholding should not exceed 5%.

Affected by this law, the Mitsubishi zaibatsu had to disintegrate and had to get rid of the control of the Iwasaki family.

The current Mitsubishi Group is actually a loose entity jointly formed by many companies after the disintegration of the Mitsubishi zaibatsu. It only has its name.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Motors, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Bank, Mitsubishi Steel, etc. are all Mitsubishi-affiliated companies.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ business and status are very hardcore. Japan’s F-2, F-15J and other fighter jets, more than half of the submarines, and more than one-third of the destroyers are all built by this company. It is the well-deserved military industry leader of Japan.

Thanks to its business and status, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is also the leader among Mitsubishi-affiliated companies. It has a strong voice in the loose entity of Mitsubishi Group, which means that this company also has a very strong voice in Japan.

Yang Chen whistled happily, in a great mood.

“I’m not going to drive today. I’m going to find a hotel to sleep in.

I’m not going to the Peninsula Hotel to avoid being harassed by Ge Xia again.”

Yang Chen found a Marriott Hotel nearby and checked in.

After Yang Chen took a shower and lay on the bed, he started browsing his phone. Before long, Liu Xueying sent a message.

“Mr. Yang, have you seen the photos? Give me some feedback.”

Yang Chen replied with a smile: “Very good, Miss Liu has excellent looks and figure.”

Liu Xueying: “So, why did you want my photos? Is it so you can see them anytime in the future?”

Yang Chen: “I’ll tell you separately after I visit your company tomorrow. However, I have to explain first, you can reject me, but don’t think of me as a hooligan or a pervert.”

Liu Xueying was stunned, thinking: “What does he mean by this? Don’t think of him as a hooligan or a pervert? Oh no, does he want to sleep with me? That won’t do. Although he meets my aesthetic standards, it’s too fast. At least we have to date more than three times before making such an excessive request, right? But he is Yang Chen. He must be surrounded by girls. If I don’t seize the opportunity, what if he doesn’t have the patience to date three times?”

Women are just dramatic and love to fantasize. An ordinary sentence can make them fantasize about a large-scale ethical drama.

Liu Xueying quickly replied: “Don’t worry, I won’t think of you as a bad person.”

Yang Chen replied: “That’s good. Go to bed early, see you tomorrow.”

Liu Xueying replied: “OK! Good night.”

Liu Xueying quickly put down her phone, got up and started matching the clothes she would wear tomorrow.

She had to decide on the clothes first, so that she could put them on directly after doing her makeup tomorrow, without wasting time on matching clothes and delaying her meeting with Yang Chen.

Yang Chen yawned, put down his phone and went to sleep.

A new day arrived.

Yang Chen was eating breakfast when the waiter delivered a package.

Yang Chen opened it and saw that it contained the relevant certification materials for the acquisition of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

At this time, it was 9:30 AM in Japan.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Is holding a morning meeting.

Koizumi Kiyotsugu, the president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, said excitedly: “Yang Chen of the Star Group has acquired 20% of our company’s shares. I don’t know what those shareholders were thinking. How could they sell their shares to a Chinese person? If he uses his shareholder rights to check the company’s finances and business, wouldn’t all our sensitive information be known to him?”

Others echoed Koizumi Kiyotsugu’s words and cursed those shareholders who sold their shares to Yang Chen.

“They are all fools!”

“I asked, and it seems that Yang Chen offered too high a price, so high that they couldn’t earn that much money in 10 or even 20 years with their shares, so they couldn’t find a reason to refuse.”

“They are all sinners! They only care about making money and completely disregard company secrets and national security.”

“It’s useless to say these things now! We have to quickly find out what Yang Chen’s purpose is in acquiring our company’s shares. President, you’d better call him personally to find out.”

“Yes, yes, yes! President, you should try to find out yourself.”

…

Koizumi Kiyotsugu nodded and immediately called Yang Chen.

At this time, Yang Chen was driving. Seeing a call from Japan, he naturally didn’t want to answer it and hung up directly.

Koizumi Kiyotsugu: “He didn’t answer the phone. It’s a little after 8 o’clock in China, he might be eating breakfast. I’ll call again later.”

On the other side, Panasonic Investment has reported to headquarters about Yang Chen’s refusal to allocate Jianghuai Group shares to them, requesting headquarters to join forces with TEPCO [Tokyo Electric Power Company] to target Yang Chen’s TEPCO shares, give him some pressure, and force him to agree to allocate a portion of Jianghuai Group’s shares to Panasonic Investment.

After receiving the report, Tsuga Kazuhiro, the president of Panasonic Group, immediately called Yoshino Junichiro, the chairman of TEPCO.

Yoshino: “Haha… President Tsuga, why are you calling me suddenly?”

Tsuga: “I have something I want to cooperate with Mr. Yoshino on.”

Yoshino: “Oh? What is it? President Tsuga, please tell me.”

Tsuga Kazuhiro briefly told Yoshino about his situation, and then put forward his idea: Panasonic Group would participate in TEPCO’s private placement to dilute Yang Chen’s TEPCO shares.

As long as Yang Chen’s shares are diluted to the point where they cannot affect TEPCO’s decision-making, TEPCO’s ocean discharge plan can be smoothly implemented.

Yoshino immediately said excitedly: “Okay! This is a great idea. We are willing to cooperate with President Tsuga!”

Tsuga Kazuhiro immediately explained: “My intention is that we jointly announce this to the public, just to scare Yang Chen into compromising. We don’t really want to do this.”

The smile on Yoshino’s face disappeared instantly. What a waste of expression. It turned out that they were just acting together, and Panasonic was not going to invest in TEPCO.

Yoshino: “President Tsuga’s intention is to ask me to help you act for Yang Chen, and we won’t get any benefits. Is that what you mean?”

Tsuga Kazuhiro: “You can understand it that way if you have to.”

Yoshino: “This is not a question of whether I have to understand it that way, but that’s exactly what it means. If we can’t get any benefits, why should we accompany you in this play?”

Tsuga Kazuhiro: “Can’t you just do me a favor, Mr. Yoshino?”

Yoshino Junichiro hesitated for a moment, then said with a smile: “Of course, I can. President Tsuga has already spoken, so how can I say no?”

Tsuga Kazuhiro: “Mr. Yoshino, don’t be unhappy. You have to take one step at a time, and eat one bite at a time. We are not investing in TEPCO now, how do you know we won’t invest in the future?”

Yoshino: “Haha… President Tsuga is right. Okay, let’s do as you said. I’ll call Yang Chen now and see what he says first.”

China, Hefei.

Yang Chen arrived at iFlytek Technology. At this time, Liu Congren was waiting at the company gate with the company’s senior executives and technical backbone.

Seeing Yang Chen’s car arrive, Liu Congren quickly stepped forward to greet him.

“Mr. Yang, welcome, welcome,” Liu Congren said with a smile.

Yang Chen got out of the car, shook hands with Liu Congren and others, greeted everyone, and then got back into the car and drove in.

Yang Chen parked the car, got out of the car and greeted everyone again.

At this time, Liu Xueying, who was carefully dressed, walked over.

“Mr. Yang, hello, welcome to iFlytek Technology,” Liu Xueying said with a smile.

Yang Chen: “Oh, Miss Liu, you look really beautiful today.”

Liu Congren: “Haha… She got up before dawn to dress up. She really put in a lot of effort.”

“Is Miss Liu going on a blind date today?” Yang Chen deliberately joked.

Liu Xueying: “What blind date am I going on? Isn’t this specially dressed up to see you, Mr. Yang?”

Yang Chen: “Wow, that’s a great honor for me.”

Liu Congren: “Haha… Mr. Yang, let’s go, let’s go, I’ll take you around.”

Yang Chen: “Thank you, Chairman Liu. All the other comrades should go back to work. I’ll just take a look around, no need to follow me.”

Liu Congren nodded and asked the employees to go to work, leaving only two technical backbones to accompany him, so that they could answer some professional technical questions for Yang Chen at any time.

At this time, the windows of the office building were crowded with people.

“Is that Mr. Yang? He looks so young!”

“I thought Mr. Yang would be at least as old as Brother Ma [likely referring to Jack Ma] or Little Ma [likely referring to Pony Ma], but I didn’t expect him to be so young. How did he become so rich at such a young age?”

“This is fate, you can’t envy it. I heard that Mr. Yang is going to invest in our company. Does this mean that our research and development funds will be sufficient?”

“Haha… That’s great. As long as the research and development funds are sufficient, we will definitely have more scientific research results.”

…

Accompanied by Liu Congren, Yang Chen visited the company and came to the chairman’s office.

Liu Congren asked with a smile: “Mr. Yang, what do you think of our company?”

Yang Chen: “Not bad.”

Liu Congren: “Then can your investment be finalized?”

Yang Chen: “Yes. Someone will come to discuss the details with you later. Now I have a few professional questions that I would like to ask Chairman Liu and the two engineers. Can your voice technology be customized? For example, can I use my voice to broadcast on my mobile phone?”

Liu Congren: “Let the professionals answer you. Manager Zhang, please answer Mr. Yang.”

Manager Zhang nodded and said: “This is definitely no problem for us.”

Yang Chen: “Suppose I want to make a Liu Xueying version of a humanoid robot, what technologies can you provide?”

Everyone looked at Liu Xueying, who was playing with her mobile phone.

Liu Xueying asked with a look of surprise: “Why make me?”

Yang Chen: “Haha… I’m just giving an example.”

Manager Zhang: “We can provide voice and simple action programs. If Mr. Yang requires the robot to look like a real person, that may not be possible for the time being. With the current technology, the robot made will definitely look like a robot, and it is impossible to make a product with a high degree of similarity.”

Originally, Yang Chen wanted to rely on iFlytek Technology to solve most of the problems, but now it seems that he will be disappointed.

But this is also normal. iFlytek Technology cannot be regarded as the top level in the industry. If this company can make a humanoid robot with a high degree of similarity, there must be many more powerful companies that have already developed it.

Yang Chen: “Okay, I understand. Then let’s talk about it here today. I’ll leave first. I’ll have someone come over to discuss the details of the investment with you later, and then we’ll sign the contract after we agree on it.”

Liu Congren: “It’s almost lunchtime, let’s have a meal together.”

Yang Chen: “No, I want to treat Miss Liu to a meal alone.”

Liu Xueying immediately happily put away her phone and stood up, saying: “Okay! Let’s go!”

Liu Congren nodded happily and sent the two downstairs.

If his daughter can be friends with Yang Chen, even if they are not in a romantic relationship, it will be of great benefit to her, so Liu Congren is so happy.

Liu Xueying was wearing high heels and it was inconvenient to drive, so she sat in Yang Chen’s car.

“Miss Liu, what do you want to eat?” Yang Chen asked with a smile.

Liu Xueying: “Hee hee… I got a coupon for the Fushan Kaiseki Restaurant [a traditional multi-course Japanese dinner]. If Mr. Yang doesn’t mind, let’s go eat Japanese food.”

Yang Chen: “Okay! Then let’s go eat Japanese food.”

More than half an hour later, the two arrived at the Japanese restaurant.

Coincidentally, they met Matsushita Shinzo and his group at the door.

Matsushita Shinzo said with a smile: “Mr. Yang, what a coincidence. It seems that our Japanese cuisine is indeed the most delicious food in the world. Mr. Yang also likes to come here to eat.”

His grandma’s little devils are really disgusting. He instantly lost his appetite.

Yang Chen: “It’s not because it’s delicious, but because you Japanese people are too inhumane and insist on discharging sewage into the sea. If you don’t eat it now, you won’t be able to eat seafood in a while. If I were you, I would commit seppuku [ritual suicide by samurai] to apologize to the people of the world.”

Matsushita Shinzo: “Hehe… Why does Mr. Yang have to make such wild remarks? However, I heard that TEPCO is preparing to issue additional shares to our group to dilute your shares. In this way, you will not be able to interfere with the ocean discharge plan. How is Mr. Yang going to deal with it?”

Yang Chen: “Is that so? Is there such a thing? Why don’t I know?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Yoshino Junichiro’s phone call came.

Yang Chen said with a smile: “Yoshino is like a dog, he has good ears. I’m talking here, and he heard it in Japan and immediately called me.”

Matsushita Shinzo: “Haha… Mr. Yang, please answer the phone quickly and listen to what Mr. Yoshino has to say to you.”

Yang Chen answered the phone. As Matsushita Shinzo said, Yoshino officially notified Yang Chen that the company was preparing to issue additional shares to Panasonic Group through private placement.

Yang Chen: “What, you really want to dilute my shares?”

Yoshino Junichiro: “Mr. Yang, don’t think too much. This is just a simple capital operation and does not involve any other intentions.”

Yang Chen: “Hehe… I don’t agree!”

Yoshino Junichiro: “This is not up to Mr. Yang.”

Yang Chen: “Is that so? Then we’ll see.”

Yang Chen hung up the phone, and Matsushita Shinzo immediately said with a smug look: “How is it? Did Mr. Yoshino tell you that TEPCO is going to issue additional shares to our company through private placement?”

Yang Chen nodded with a smile.

Matsushita Shinzo: “Actually, the problem is not unsolvable now. The key depends on whether Mr. Yang is on the right track.”

Yang Chen couldn’t help but laugh and said: “So, you guys are doing so many things just to force me to give you a share of Jianghuai Group’s private placement. Is that what you mean?”

Matsushita Shinzo: “No, no, no, Mr. Yang, don’t misunderstand. This matter has nothing to do with us. It’s an investment plan that headquarters has already formulated.”

Yang Chen: “You don’t dare to admit what you’ve done. That’s not the behavior of a man.”

Matsushita Shinzo: “Okay! Let’s say we’re manipulating it behind the scenes. As long as Mr. Yang gives us half of the private placement shares, I’ll immediately call headquarters and request to cancel the plan to invest in TEPCO. And I can also ask our president to use his connections to make TEPCO promise not to do any more private placements, or dilute the shares in Mr. Yang’s hands in other forms. How about that?”

Yang Chen: “No need to bother, I have ways to make them not dare to dilute my shares.”

Matsushita Shinzo: “Oh? What can Mr. Yang do? Tell me about it.”

At this time, Yang Chen’s phone rang again. It was Koizumi Kiyotsugu, the president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Yang Chen said with a smile: “If I’m not mistaken, this call should be from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. What Panasonic can do, Mitsubishi can do the same, right?”

Matsushita Shinzo’s face changed drastically and said: “You acquired Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ shares? Impossible! That’s the number one military industry company in Japan. How could the shareholders sell their shares to a Chinese person? That’s absolutely impossible!”

Yang Chen was too lazy to say so much to him, so he answered the phone and walked away while talking.

Matsushita Shinzo was unwilling to believe the fact that Yang Chen could acquire Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, so he quickly called the group president, Tsuga Kazuhiro.

Matsushita Shinzo: “President Tsuga, please check quickly whether Yang Chen has acquired Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ shares.”

Tsuga Kazuhiro: “What, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries? How is that possible? Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is a military industry company, how could it be acquired by a Chinese person?”

Matsushita Shinzo: “But Yang Chen just said that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries called him. If he didn’t acquire Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ shares, why would Mitsubishi Heavy Industries call him?”

Tsuga Kazuhiro: “Wait, I’ll ask.”

Tsuga Kazuhiro quickly contacted his friends at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and soon confirmed that Yang Chen had acquired 20% of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ shares.

Tsuga Kazuhiro was stunned for a few seconds, then said to Matsushita Shinzo: “Matsushita, you should come back. Cancel the plan to invest in Jianghuai Group.”

Matsushita Shinzo: “Ah? Why?”

Tsuga Kazuhiro: “I just confirmed that Yang Chen has indeed acquired 20% of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ shares. If he uses these shares to ask Koizumi Kiyotsugu to help him threaten TEPCO not to do a private placement, TEPCO will definitely give Koizumi Kiyotsugu this face. In this way, we will have no hope of threatening Yang Chen at all.”

Matsushita Shinzo: “I really don’t understand how he bought so many shares?”

Tsuga Kazuhiro: “These are not important. What’s important is that he now holds 20% of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ shares.”

Matsushita Shinzo: “Alas… I’m really unwilling! President, why don’t you talk to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries President Koizumi?”

Tsuga Kazuhiro: “Okay! I’ll try.”

At this time, in the private room.

Yang Chen was chatting happily with Koizumi Kiyotsugu, the president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Yang Chen: “As long as President Koizumi doesn’t deliberately do bad things, my 20% of the voting rights will definitely be consistent with you.”

Koizumi Kiyotsugu: “Haha… As long as Mr. Yang guarantees not to check our accounts and business, everything will be easy to say.”

Yang Chen: “Okay! Then it’s settled, happy cooperation!”

Koizumi Kiyotsugu: “Happy cooperation! I’ll take care of Panasonic Group and TEPCO. I’ll help Mr. Yang take care of them as a cooperation gift for Mr. Yang.”

Yang Chen: “OK! Then it’s settled, I’m eating, I’m hanging up.”

Liu Xueying was fascinated by what she heard.

Yang Chen hung up the phone and asked with a smile: “Miss Liu, what do you want to eat? Order.”

Liu Xueying: “Is this Mr. Yang’s daily life? Even international brands like Mitsubishi and Panasonic have to listen to your orders.”

Yang Chen: “I can’t talk about orders, but it’s just competition and cooperation. Order quickly, I’m hungry.”

Liu Xueying nodded and picked up the menu to order.

After the food was served, the two ate and chatted.

Liu Xueying: “Didn’t Mr. Yang say he had something to tell me? And you told me not to misunderstand you as a pervert. What is it? It’s so exaggerated.”

Yang Chen: “Haha… I almost forgot this important thing. Is Miss Liu willing to be a model? I can give you a reward of 10 million.”

Although Liu Xueying’s family is not short of 10 million, she is still very excited to be able to earn 10 million with her own ability.

Liu Xueying: “What kind of model can give so much money? I have to make it clear first, I don’t do things that violate morality and the law. I don’t do that kind of private shooting.”

Yang Chen joked: “It seems that Miss Liu knows a lot! Have you been in contact with the private shooting industry?”

Liu Xueying immediately denied: “How is that possible? With my family background, do I need to do this? It’s just that a few girls who work out with me do this, and they say the income is very high. You offered 10 million, I don’t think it’s a serious modeling job.”

Yang Chen: “Haha… Miss Liu is thinking too much. If I really want to do something improper to Miss Liu, I will definitely date you seriously and will not use money to tarnish our relationship. I want to make a humanoid robot, targeting customers who can’t afford to get married or are unwilling to get married. I think Miss Liu can be said to be the best among women in terms of appearance, figure, and temperament. So, I want to make the first humanoid robot according to your appearance. In the future, once it is successfully made, consumers who buy the robot made in your image may do some things between men and women, which requires Miss Liu to overcome the psychological barrier. If Miss Liu thinks that a reward of 10 million is too little, you can propose a price yourself, and I will definitely consider it carefully.”

Liu Xueying was immediately stunned. After carefully digesting Yang Chen’s words, Liu Xueying immediately said: “You mean to make a robot according to my appearance for those men to hehe haha?”

Haha…

Her “hehe haha” was so funny that Yang Chen couldn’t help but laugh.

“I’m sorry, I couldn’t help it. That’s exactly what you said, so I said you need to overcome the psychological barrier. I can compensate you in other ways, such as money, investment, help, etc. As long as you make a request, I will definitely consider it carefully.”