Traveling through the Tokyo bubble era

Chapter 952 The Great Battle Ends, the Gulf Incident Occurs

The change of ownership of Fuji Television was completely unexpected by the outside world.

Even after the incident, the president of Fuji Television, who was suddenly dismissed, expressed his dissatisfaction, protested strongly in front of the media, and resigned along with several other senior executives.

Even Fuji Sankei Group publicly opposed the move, stating that it would file a complaint with the securities regulatory authorities, alleging that Hanyu Investment and other investment institutions were engaging in illegal transactions and had applied to issue new shares to dilute the equity of others in an attempt to regain control of Fuji Television.

But all of this was destined to be in vain, and could not change the established fact that Fuji Television had changed hands.

Hideki Hanyu has been planning this for so long precisely to avoid repeating the mistakes of another time-traveling Vitality Gate and to "honorably" take control of Fuji Television.

Whether it's the power struggle behind the scenes or the tactics of commercial acquisition, the change of ownership of Fuji Television this time is flawless.

Most importantly, Hideki Hanyu is not an outsider to the television industry. As long as Fuji Television changes hands, he can quickly take control of Fuji Television even without the help of the original management.

When Koichi Minato returned to Fuji Television, he wasn't parachuted in alone to assume the position of president; instead, he brought with him the entire team from Cloud Satellite Television.

Therefore, although this incident caused a short-term upheaval at the top of Fuji Television, which had a certain impact on the station's operations.

However, thanks to his own skills, the help of the team he brought, and the connections he had built up at Fuji Television in his early years, Koichi Minato quickly gained control of the overall situation at Fuji Television.

Then, Fuji Television, now the number one free-to-air terrestrial television station in Japan in terms of market share and viewership, completely fell into the hands of Hideki Hanyu.

Following Koichi Hong's announcement that he was ending his cooperation with Dentsu, Fuji Television immediately terminated its advertising contract with Dentsu, preferring to pay damages for breach of contract and even confront Dentsu in court in order to forcibly remove all Dentsu advertisements from its schedule.

Then, unsurprisingly, the Storm Ads began airing on Fuji TV throughout the day.

Following this, all programs and artists from the Yunshang Group resumed their collaboration with Fuji Television, returning to the public eye.

Thus, when Dentsu blocked Storm Advertising and Cloud Group's encirclement of civilian television networks, Fuji Television became the biggest gap.

In addition, there was the support from TV Tokyo, which had never given up on the collaboration.

Dentsu's attempt to contain them was thus a complete failure.

After all, they could disregard TV Tokyo, which was ranked at the bottom, but they simply couldn't ignore Fuji TV.

Moreover, the change of ownership of Fuji Television directly put other television stations in a passive position.

In the minds of these television stations, although cloud entertainment is powerful today, its importance is ultimately not comparable to that of the television stations at the top of the industry.

Cloud Entertainment's open confrontation with them may cause short-term pain, but ultimately it is Cloud Entertainment that will decline.

Now that Fuji Television has changed hands and chosen to cooperate with Cloud Entertainment again, Fuji Television, which already has a leading market share and viewership, will have exclusive access to Cloud Entertainment's vast resources, which is like adding wings to a tiger.

In this situation, it remains to be seen whether Yunshang Entertainment, which has been banned by them, will decline in the future, but in the short term they will definitely lose viewers who like Yunshang Entertainment programs and artists.

The most crucial point is that with Fuji Television's support, advertisers will no longer completely side with Dentsu.

In this situation, Dentsu, which was boycotted by a large number of companies and brands, lost high-quality advertising clients, which is equivalent to these TV stations losing their profitable advertising clients.

If there's no profit to be made and it will cause them losses, their internal investors will probably object even before external pressure is applied.

It can be said that the change of ownership of Fuji Television completely broke the deadlock between Cloud Group and Storm Advertising, and also put the entire Japanese commercial television network in a dilemma.

In this situation, unsurprisingly, changes will soon occur.

as predicted!

First, TV Tokyo suddenly announced that it had signed a full-time advertising contract with Storm Advertising, completely abandoning its neutrality and siding with Storm Advertising.

Following closely behind was the opportunistic Japanese television station, which hesitantly expressed its desire to re-establish a cooperative relationship with Cloud Entertainment.

However, after making its statement, when the Japanese television station found that Cloud Entertainment was completely ignoring it, it immediately went on to negotiate with Storm Ads and signed an advertising contract for some time slots, stating that it would not renew the contract after the cooperation with Dentsu ended.

Clearly, the fickle Japanese television station ultimately opted for Storm Advertising.

By this time, the outside world had come to understand that once the top three and fifth-ranked commercial television stations in Japan all chose to cooperate with Storm Advertising, even if Storm Advertising did not win the advertising war, Dentsu would be powerless to stop Storm Advertising from gaining a foothold in the Japanese market.

Most importantly, with the support of cloud computing, if TBS and TV Asahi don't want to be left behind by their competitors and don't want to give up the huge advertising pie held by Storm Advertising, then it's only a matter of time before they compromise with Storm Advertising.

As for when the two television stations will compromise, that depends on when Dentsu's lobbying and the internal opposition within the two stations will gain the upper hand.

But to everyone's surprise, the two television stations reached a compromise much faster than expected.

The reason for this is that yet another jaw-dropping piece of news has been announced.

This news prompted TV Asahi and TBS to change their stance and attitude.

In late July, Storm Advertising, which had already gained a decisive advantage in the advertising war, suddenly announced that after a series of successful negotiations, it had completed its acquisition of a controlling stake in Hakuhodo, a long-established Japanese advertising company.

Storm Advertising stated that the acquisition of Hakuhodo was intended to complement the businesses of both companies, and therefore Hakuhodo would not be absorbed but would continue to operate independently.

This news caused a major upheaval in the entire Japanese advertising and media industry.

Storm Advertising, which just won an advertising war against Dentsu and gained a foothold in Japan, now seems to be on par with Dentsu, but in fact there is still a gap in business scale.

Hakuhodo, as the second-largest advertising company in Japan, has been able to stand firm despite Dentsu's long-standing monopoly, which naturally stems from its unique advantages, as well as its stable customer base and market.

Storm Advertising's acquisition of Hakuhodo at this time directly bridged the last remaining gap in business with Dentsu, allowing it to become an equal partner with Dentsu.

Even if TV Asahi, TBS and Dentsu have a very good relationship, they would never give up the benefits of cooperating with Storm Advertising.

Even if some of the factions within them who are inclined towards Dentsu disagree, they cannot expect other investors to follow suit and turn down money that is offered to them.

Besides, even these people wouldn't necessarily sacrifice their own interests for Dentsu.

So shortly after Storm Advertising announced its news, TV Asahi and TBS announced that they had signed exclusive advertising slot agreements with Storm Advertising.

Although neither television station abandoned Dentsu, by now everyone can see that this advertising war, which lasted for more than a month, has finally ended with Storm Advertising's resounding victory.

On the surface, Dentsu remains the advertising giant with a huge business volume.

Dentsu, having completely lost its advertising slot contracts with Fuji TV, TVNippon, and TV Tokyo, is destined to be gradually surpassed by Storm Advertising in the days to come.

Those long-established Japanese companies that originally supported Dentsu will eventually have to compromise for the sake of the market and will have to start cooperating with Storm Advertising.

At this point, everyone realized that an unprecedented behemoth spanning the entertainment, media, and advertising industries had been born in Japan.

The suddenly emerging cloud entertainment has reached unprecedented heights with an unimaginable speed of development.

In the near future, everyone in Japan's entertainment and media industry will have to submit to this behemoth.

Of course, this is a powerful external manifestation of the cloud computing system.

Hideki Hanyu naturally knew the principle that a tree that stands out in the forest will be felled by the wind.

When he ascended to the throne of Cloud Entertainment, he also began to plan ahead with internal reforms.

For example, unnoticed, the second son of the old man Murayama, who was originally in charge of Dentsu's Osaka branch, suddenly resigned and became the new president of Hakuhodo.

Yutaro Hatoyama, the former managing director of Dentsu, also left Dentsu to become the vice president of Storm Advertising.

Cloud Entertainment, which was originally used to support its cronies, underwent a massive expansion, recruiting a large number of people who had nothing to do with the entertainment and media industry to work for them, receiving huge salaries and just loafing around.

Even the board of directors of Cloud Entertainment Group secretly carried out a series of equity changes.

Representatives from several traditional Japanese financial institutions and conglomerates, as well as high-ranking figures, have joined the board of directors of Cloud Entertainment.

While firmly controlling power, Hideki Hanyu also "generously" shared the profits.

Of course, he didn't share it for nothing; he also gained various benefits in return.

As for the specific benefits gained, they were things that money couldn't buy.

……

The idea that Yunshang Group used an advertising war to propel itself to the throne of the Japanese entertainment and media industry sounds simple, but it will take time to implement.

So let's turn our attention to the domestic market, where the advertising war is far from over.

The events in Japan did not affect Hideki Hanyu's inspection tour.

Because of his focus on domestic industries, Hideki Hanyu spent a relatively long time in Shenzhen.

Besides work, a scumbag is naturally accompanied by beautiful women.

Although Lizhi had a great figure, after two or three days the scumbag man got tired of her and sent her away under the pretext of work.

After Lizhi left, Hideki Yuzuru intended to focus on his work.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Wenqiong, the sister-in-law who was using the name of Zhujiang Film Studio to invest in film and television in the south, came looking for her.

Then, she naturally moved into the scumbag's room.

He stayed there until the end of Hideki Hanyu's trip to Shenzhen.

Next stop, Hideki Hanyu will travel to Shanghai to attend the topping-out ceremony specially reserved for him at the Yunhua Plaza.

Because the "Jinghong" dance troupe was invited to perform, he couldn't bring his sister-in-law along, which made Zhou Wenqiong think that her scumbag boyfriend was going to dump her.

In order to keep the scumbag, Zhou Wenqiong not only served him in a "humble" way, but also willingly introduced him to beautiful actresses she had worked with.

Seeing the photos of beautiful women that Zhou Wenqiong pulled out, the scumbag almost lost control and kept them.

Fortunately, he knew what was important and resisted Zhou Wenqiong's temptation, resolutely heading to Shanghai.

Upon arriving in Shanghai, I was naturally greeted with a grand welcome.

As the first person to lease land, Hideki Hanyu has also actively invested in the experimental development of Pudong, promising to build the Fairy Industrial Park in Pudong, the headquarters of many of his companies, and considering building the first "Universal Fairy Park" after the cooperation between Universal Studios and Fairy Entertainment.

These plans alone are expected to involve an investment of no less than three billion US dollars.

Shanghai could never be too enthusiastic about Hideki Hanyu.

After completing the full official welcome process and taking a tour of Pudong, by the time Hideki Hanyu returned to the foreign guests' hotel, the sky was already dyed red by the setting sun.

Before he could even enter his room, he received a message from the front desk that someone had already arrived at the hotel to wait for him.

Led by a waiter, Hideki Hanyu saw the people who had come to wait for him in a corner of the hotel lobby.

That exotic and stunningly beautiful appearance could only belong to Selna, the vice-leader of the Jinghong Dance Troupe.

Upon seeing the scumbag, Selna's beautiful eyes instantly revealed her longing and emotions, but because there were outsiders present, she tried her best to suppress them.

Facing Sylna, Hideki Hanyu asked calmly.

"Why did you come alone? Where is your commander?"

When Hideki Yuzuru asked about Liu Xiaoli, Selna's eyes dimmed slightly, but she still answered truthfully, "The dance troupe has some procedural issues to deal with in Jiangcheng, so the troupe leader will be able to come in a few days."

Hideki Hanyu asked, "What about the performance for tomorrow's topping-out ceremony?"

"I'll be in charge of tomorrow's performance," Selna said.

Hideki Hanyu then asked, "I see. So where are you staying tonight?" "We're staying at...a hotel," Selna said, giving a name.

"It's not far. If you're not in a hurry to go back, let's talk about the preparations for tomorrow's performance. After all, many leaders will be attending the topping-out ceremony."

After finishing his sentence, Hideki Yuzuru took Selna and left.

And so, Sylna quickly entered Hideki Hanyu's room.

The moment the door closed, the woman rushed into the scumbag's arms and gave him an eager kiss. Her unbridled madness and passion seemed to have poured out all her longing.

When faced with a beautiful woman who takes the initiative, the scumbag's choice is naturally to accept her.

After an indescribable long time.

The night was deep outside the window, with stars and the moon filling the sky. Sylna nestled in Hideki Hanyu's arms, expressing her girlish feelings.

"How about I quit my job with the dance troupe and stay with you forever?"

The scumbag decisively refused, saying, "No."

Selna said coquettishly, "Are you afraid the commander will find out?"

Hideki Yuzuru chuckled lightly, "Heh, do you think she doesn't know?"

Selna exclaimed in surprise, "When did the commander find out?!"

Hideki Hanyu said nonchalantly, "Of course I told her. I never hide these things from her."

"Then...then...what should I do?" Sylna asked, somewhat flustered.

She no longer knew how to face the leader.

Hideki Hanyu said, "Of course, we'll do what we did before, and I won't force anyone who can't accept it."

Sylna asked, "Are you willing to leave the commander and your daughter for me?"

Hideki Hanyu got up from the bed and said while putting on his pajamas.

"You shouldn't ask me whether I'm willing to give up or not, and I would never abandon one woman for another."

As for my daughter, that's a different matter; I never discuss it in the context of personal feelings.

Looking at the seemingly perfect man before her, Selna said teasingly, "You really are a good man!"

Hideki Hanyu replied shamelessly, "That's right, and I'm also very loyal."

……

Hideki Hanyu's itinerary in Shanghai was actually very simple.

I inspected the construction plan, attended the topping-out ceremony of Yunhua Plaza, tasted exotic beauties, and learned that Yunhua Plaza will be completed by the end of the year.

After three busy days, when Liu Xiaoli arrived from Jiangcheng with her eldest daughter, Yu Sheng Hideki spent two days with the mother and daughter in Shanghai before heading north on his inspection tour.

During the visit, in addition to meeting with Yosuke Yasui, the person in charge of Master Kong, he also met Tetsuya Araki, the president of E·T Computer, who came to China for an inspection.

Tetsuya Aragaki, in particular, gave Hideki Hanyu a very big surprise.

During his inspection tour in Guangdong Province, this guy somehow got to know Duan Yongping, a future bigwig who had just made a name for himself with the "Little Tyrant" game console and had joined a certain factory.

Tetsuya Aragaki got along very well with this person and then took him directly to meet Hideki Habu.

Duan Yongping, who was still a nobody at the time, was naturally very excited to meet Hideki Hanyu, the world's video game king and the creator of Elf Entertainment.

When Hideki Yuzuru learned that Duan Yongping was still helping the factory produce counterfeit Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System) consoles, he directly offered his advice.

“After launching the PS2, Elf Entertainment has gradually abandoned the PS1. Since you want to imitate and remake, why imitate the outdated Nintendo Famicom? Why not consider the PS1 with better specifications, since the PS1 has richer game content?”

Duan Yongping was somewhat surprised to hear Hideki Yuzuru suggest that he copy his own products, but after the initial surprise, he told him the truth.

"We have certainly considered what you said, but as a 16-bit console, the PS1 costs far more than the FC console, and replicating it would leave us with too little profit margin."

After hearing the explanation, Hideki Hanyu offered another suggestion.

"Since that's the case, how about we cooperate?"

Elf Entertainment has fully authorized the production of the PS1 console in mainland China and will provide technical support and cooperation. In addition, our existing production lines in mainland China are more than enough to help you reduce the cost of the PS1 console to an acceptable level.

Furthermore, with the support of Elf Entertainment, the original PS1 game library will be made available to you, making your products even more competitive.

Duan Yongping was naturally very interested in Hideki Yuzuru's suggestion and said that he would apply to the group for cooperation as soon as he returned.

However, when Hideki Yuzuru's inspection team arrived in Jiangcheng, he received a somewhat annoyed phone call from Duan Yongping.

"After I informed the group about Mr.'s cooperation proposal, they rejected it outright, citing this regulation and that consideration!"

I think they're just complacent. They think that since Subor is making money now, they don't consider future development at all, and they don't want to share their profits with others!

Short-sighted, narrow-minded...

Hearing Duan Yongping's furious words on the phone, Hideki Yuzuru feigned regret.

"In that case, the cooperation will have to be called off."

Duan Yongping sighed and said, "I'm sorry, I can't make decisions about the group's affairs either."

Hideki Hanyu smiled and said, "You can't decide the group's affairs, but you can decide your own future. If you want to cooperate, we still have a chance."

Duan Yongping asked, "What are your thoughts, sir?"

Hideki Hanyu said, "I'm going to the capital tomorrow. If you're interested, why don't we talk again when you come to the capital?"

Thus, while on his way to the capital to inspect the construction of "Yunhuali" and discuss artist performances with CCTV, Hideki Hanyu also took the time to meet with Duan Yongping.

Hideki Hanyu didn't mince words and got straight to the point.

"Since your current company is unwilling to cooperate, why don't you break away and develop independently? That way you won't be held back by others anymore."

Duan Yongping humbly replied, "I'm just an ordinary person who has only recently achieved some success in my current company. What right do I have to be independent?"

"Your talent is your greatest asset, so Mr. Duan, there's no need to be modest."

Of course, the most important thing is that I have faith in you. As long as you are willing to develop independently, I can invest in you.

Faced with Hideki Hanyu's appreciation, Duan Yongping asked in confusion, "I'm very curious, why does Mr. Hanyu think so highly of me?"

"It's an intuition, and I trust my intuition."

As Hideki Yuzuru spoke, he began to paint a rosy picture for Duan Yongping.

"As long as Mr. Duan is willing, the cooperation conditions I mentioned before will remain unchanged, including the production and cooperation of the PS1 console, as well as the entire game library."

You don't need to worry about the initial business. Although Elf Entertainment is gradually abandoning the PS1 market, the PS1 console still has a huge market share.

So before the domestic market opens up, you can definitely produce the international version of PS1. There aren't many companies in China that can earn foreign exchange these days.

And if you know me, you'd know that my help to you goes far beyond the gaming industry.

Duan Yongping was deeply moved by what Yu Sheng Hideki said, and the ambitious young man impulsively agreed on the spot.

Next, after returning to Guangdong Province, Duan Yongping resigned from the factory and went to the special economic zone to establish "BBK Electronics Co., Ltd."

Soon, Duan Yongping understood what Hideki Yuzuru meant when he said that help was not limited to the gaming industry.

When "BBK Electronics Co., Ltd." was first established, in addition to receiving ample funding and technical support, production cooperation was also implemented immediately.

Before the domestic market could even be developed, international orders flooded in, leaving Duan Yongping dizzy and forcing "BBK Electronics Co., Ltd." to operate at full capacity.

By the time Duan Yongping had sorted things out and was preparing to use the completely domestically produced PS1 console "Little Elf" to compete with his former employer, Subor, prime-time advertising slots on CCTV and celebrity endorsements from all over the world were already being offered to him.

In an instant, Duan Yongping understood what "winning without effort" meant.

As for what came later, such as support for mobile communication patents, sharing of PC technology, and licensing of VCD and MP3 patent technologies, helping "BBK Electronics Co., Ltd." to develop from a knock-off game console company into a comprehensive technology group spanning mobile phones, computers, and other intelligent audio-visual entertainment service terminals for individuals and families, that's all in the future.

Hideki Yuzuru, who had met Duan Yongping, also did a lot of things before leaving the capital.

For example, he secretly met with Xu Qing, who was filming "Life on the Go".

For example, visiting the set of a Three Kingdoms drama that was still in preparation, and incidentally flirting with a certain beauty.

Of course, besides beautiful women, Hideki Hanyu also conveniently donated a building to each of the twenty universities across the country in the name of the "Myoshu Foundation".

In short, by the time I finished dealing with domestic matters and concluded my Southeast Asia tour, it was already the end of July.

By this time, the advertising war in Japan had come to an end. Storm Advertising not only won, but also helped Cloud Media ascend to the throne of the Japanese entertainment and media industry.

Hideki Hanyu returned to Japan to wrap up the whole incident and make adjustments to Cloud Group, Storm Advertising, and the newly acquired Hakuhodo.

What appeared to outsiders as a thrilling and dramatic advertising war was, in fact, something that Hideki Hanyu had been in complete control of from beginning to end.

Therefore, compared to the advertising war, what Hideki Hanyu values ​​more is how to bring this matter to a close and how to balance the distribution of profits after the rise of Storm Advertising.

Moreover, Cloud Entertainment's ascension to the throne is not just a simple statement.

Only Hideki Yuzuru possesses the ability to handle this complex and intertwined situation, navigating between various forces and interest groups within the entire Cloud System.

Therefore, after returning to Japan, Hideki Hanyu immediately immersed himself in the headquarters of Hanyu Investment, handling work, meeting with representatives from all sides, and working non-stop.

Time flies, and it's already August 2nd.

After finishing his last task of the day, Hideki Hanyu found it was already late afternoon.

Inside the office, as soon as Hideki Hanyu finished his work, two young and beautiful girls in OL uniforms came over and massaged his shoulders to relax him.

These two young and beautiful girls were temporary "secretaries" that Koichi Minato specially selected for Hideki Hanyu from among the intern anchors after he became president of Fuji Television.

Given Koichi Minato's kind intentions and the earnest expectations of Fuji Television's executives, Hideki Hanyu couldn't refuse at this stage, so he simply stayed.

After all, Fuji Sankei Group was still protesting, and in order to win over Fuji Television and prevent outsiders from coveting it, he naturally had to act like "one of their own".

As for the two beautiful women, the scumbag naturally wouldn't be polite when food was served to him.

Given Yunshang Group's current status in the Japanese entertainment and media industry, let alone having affairs with two beauties, even if he does something outrageous, it would all be considered perfectly reasonable by others.

He reached out and pulled one beauty into his arms, then casually played with another. Hideki Yuzuru was preparing for his next move, wanting to relax a bit.

But then the dedicated satellite phone on the table rang.

He answered the phone and heard what was being said on the other end.

“Seraphim, this is Karl Map, something has happened in the Gulf.”

(End of this chapter)