Chapter 1318 Lobbyist

The next day, in the same mansion and pavilion, Yin Jun entertained another guest.

This customer looks to be in his thirties.

Although his suit is straight, he is full of energy and exudes an enterprising temperament. It is obvious that he is at the peak of his life and career.

However, he is not very tall, and his face is also a typical island country face.

His name is Honda Makoto, president of the Hong Kong Branch of Sumitomo Bank Co., Ltd.

Since the ban on Hong Kong's financial industry was lifted three years ago, many foreign banks have settled in, including Japan's Sumitomo Bank.

People who work in banks must be one of the smartest people.

Apart from anything else, the people on Wall Street dare not say that they can defeat the whole world, and they have no pressure at all to defeat most of the world.

Financial instruments worth hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars have harmed countless people through their various methods.

Attention.

The people they preyed on were not just poor people, but all rich people. ——People without money cannot afford those financial derivatives.

To become a rich man, you are definitely not stupid or stupid, but you are deceived by them and lose your fortune. Can you say that these people are not devils?

Therefore, the hundreds of banks and financial institutions in Xiangjiang are certainly not just there to take advantage of Xiangjiang.

On the one hand, they are relying on Xiangjiang's influence in the financial industry in Southeast Asia to expand their sphere of influence. More importantly, they want to use Xiangjiang as a springboard to look north to China and enter the coveted mainland Chinese market.

Mainland China is developing very rapidly, and it is hard to overstate how rapid it is.

Think about the 1.3 billion people here, such a huge market, which bank is willing to miss it?

The financial layout is not to wait until you are developed, but we must make the layout in advance, so as to catch up with the good times.

However, Yin Jun couldn't help but laugh when he saw them entering Xiangjiang in a crowd, dreaming of entering the mainland's financial market from Xiangjiang.

Facts have proved that they all thought too much.

Until 2020, even local banks in Hong Kong, such as Hang Seng Bank and Hong Kong Commercial Bank, will not be able to successfully conduct business in the mainland, let alone these foreign banks.

So it’s no wonder that Trump is furious and wants to use $600 billion in trade sanctions to intimidate China into opening up its financial market.

However, if China is just fed up by the United States, they will no longer deserve to be called the world's second largest economy.

Even the United States cannot handle China and let China open up its financial market. Japan, a country that has been in decline since the era of intelligence, has no qualifications.

Let’s talk about Honda Makoto.

He just joined Sumitomo Bank ten years ago and was transferred to Xiangjiang, where he stayed for ten years.

In the past ten years, after experiencing countless hardships and tribulations, Honda Makoto finally survived until Sumitomo Bank opened a branch in Xiangjiang. With his familiarity with Xiangjiang, he was promoted to branch president within two years and became the president of the branch. became a dazzling new star of Sumitomo Bank.

Although Sumitomo Bank has not merged with Mitsui Banking Corporation, they are still one of the top three super banks in Japan.

The first place is definitely Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, followed by Mitsui Bank and Sumitomo Bank in second and third place. The gap is not big. They are also famous big banks in Asia.

After becoming the president of Xiangjiang Branch, Honda felt that his most successful achievement was to come to Kirin Group in person and sign a loan order worth US$1.5 billion in one go.

Although the interest rate is only about 5%, which is far lower than the current market interest rate, and the mortgage is only a Saint Seiya doll, this loan has received high praise from the headquarters.

The Japanese are still very smart.

Loaning 1.5 billion US dollars to Yin Jun is indeed a great help in today's Xiangjiang and gives Yin Jun a big favor.

But this isn’t Yin Jun’s only source of funding.

If Yin Jun is willing, including Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, etc., they are willing to provide him with sufficient funds.

Why?

Because in Xiangjiang now, the person with the healthiest and huge assets is Yin Jun.

His main business is not the real estate and financial industries that have strict geographical and economic environment requirements, but the cultural industries that are in demand anytime and anywhere.

No matter how poor people are, they still need to study.

No matter how miserable a family is, they will never ignore the needs of their children or not buy them even a single toy.

Therefore, Kirin Group’s pillar industry, Kirin Culture, operates comics, as well as comics peripheral industries such as toys, cartoons, stickers, and various authorizations. It is now the most stable and profitable industry in the world.

Financiers who open banks are willing to lend money to the most stable people, so that they can earn interest income and keep their own funds safe.

There is no doubt that Yin Jun is such a top-quality customer.

But what Sumitomo Bank values ​​most is actually not Yin Jun's current industry, including his industry in the United States. Sumitomo Bank doesn't think there is anything special about it.

Compared with the super-large banks with assets of more than 300 billion U.S. dollars, Yin Jun's enterprise value of only 10 billion U.S. dollars - including an industry of 3 billion U.S. dollars in loans, is nothing at all.

What they value more is the extremely close relationship between Yin Jun and the current Mainland China.

The Japanese were the first to see China's mainland market. Even 40 years later, the relationship between Japan and China has reached an extreme level. They still invest the most in China and hold the largest proportion of interests in China. of foreign capital.

They know China best.

Therefore, we know that once such a superpower with a population of 1.3 billion takes off its shackles and begins to develop at full strength, how powerful it will be and how much economic benefits it will bring.

Japan is a small country and lacks resources, which means they must rely on foreign markets in order to develop.

China, a country with only a strip of water, has so many connections with Japan, and is certainly one of the places they are most willing to develop.

If the relationship between Sumitomo Bank and Yin Jun is good, then if Yin Jun can involve Sumitomo Bank in his future investments in mainland China, they will definitely make a lot of money.

Even if Yin Jun cannot bring Sumitomo Bank with him, through Yin Jun's development in the mainland, they can indirectly maintain their economic influence on mainland China by directly investing in Yin Jun, thereby expanding their business territory.

Don't doubt it.

The Japanese can think of so much.

So they dared to make heavy moves and gamble like this.

1.5 billion US dollars!

Some time ago, nine companies in the Hang Lung Consortium asked for a HK$1.5 billion loan from Japan, but none of them got it.

Yin Jun got 1.5 billion US dollars with this opening. In comparison, the treatment is really embarrassing.

The person who facilitated all of this was Honda Makoto.

So today Honda came to Yin Jun's house and received a very solemn reception.

Not everyone can visit Yin Jun's home, and not everyone can let Yin Jun put aside the heavy public life and drink tea and chat with him.

Honda understood this, so he had a little more expectation for the purpose of his visit today.

"I heard that recently in Japan, Mr. Jun, your Disney Company and our Oriental Paradise Co., Ltd. are having an entanglement?" Honda Makoto spoke in Chinese and in Mandarin. He knew that Yin Jun was secretly Prefer to speak Mandarin rather than Cantonese.

Coincidentally, Honda has practiced both Cantonese and Mandarin very well over the past ten years.

"Yes." Yin Jun smiled, "This is a dispute of commercial interests. After several years of research and introspection, Disney's new management feels that the Japan Disneyland project signed with Oriental Park is too unfavorable. The conditions on our side. So they applied, my sister and I discussed it and agreed."

Honda sincerely thinks that you guys are really direct and are not afraid of triggering moral discussions.

But then I thought about it, this time it was all American Disney who came forward, and the Kirin Group did not make any statement. Of course, the responsibility can be passed on to the Americans.

From this point of view, Yin Jun is very honest with himself.

"Actually, we also have business ties with Oriental Paradise." Honda said after considering, "This time, Chairman Takahashi found us through connections and wanted to talk to Mr. Jun... Disney, It’s really a bit aggressive. Disneyland is about to open in more than a month. If it fails to open smoothly, Japan as a whole will become a laughing stock!”

"So, reaching a settlement agreement as soon as possible is the best way." Yin Jun also said thoughtfully, "Mr. Honda is my friend, and I will not hide it from you. Although Disney is an industry under our Kirin Group, they With their own operating methods, European and American companies have always done anything for money.

Recently, countries including the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Singapore are applying to open new Disney parks. The conditions they compared were those of Disney Japan. And if you think about it, you also know that the return Disney Japan gives to Disney headquarters is only 7% of their total operating income. If everyone does this, Disney will not be able to make money at all, so the faces of their professional managers will There is no glory in business, and the dividend profits earned will also be greatly reduced. "

Honda nodded.

He didn't know what Yin Jun was thinking, but what Yin Jun said was indeed true.

Disneyland is like a product. Once the price is reduced, it is difficult to tell the second customer to increase the price. Everyone wants to buy at the low price.

Even if it is not for the previous mistakes, just for the benefit of Disneyland in the future, they will not allow this.

One percentage point represents millions or tens of millions of dollars in benefits!

To say too much, if ten more Disney parks are built in the world in the future, and if they cannot break down the hard bone of Japanese Disney today, the loss will probably be billions of dollars!

At that time, Disney was the laughingstock of the world!

Especially now that Disney's life is getting better and better, and with such a big backer as the Kirin Group behind it, with sufficient confidence, it will not be weak at all.

But no one could have imagined that Disney would use such an extreme method to force Oriental Paradise to submit.

And everyone has now seen that if Oriental Park really refuses to give in, then Disneyland will lose both sides and stop the Disneyland project in Japan.

As for reputation, it doesn't matter at all.

Between making money and not making money, Americans have always chosen to make money.

It's just like 50 years ago. American farmers would rather cry and pour all the milk into the river than give it to the poor who can't afford milk.

Not to mention the past, even fifty years from now, if there is the same economic crisis, farmers will do the same thing.

Although times are changing, the truth never changes!