Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Previously, GameStar Entertainment's game development was relatively stable, and the investment was not so large all at once, but this time the investment is terrifying. Does this mean that the competition has reached a fever pitch?

Zhu Youxing seemed rather evasive about this question.

His original goal was to force Nagaoyu to follow suit and invest heavily in its development, and then wear the guy down.

YOO's ambitions are enormous. If it succeeds, it will undoubtedly become a top-tier media giant, possibly even rivaling Disney.

If it were someone else, calling him a media tycoon like Zhu Youxing wouldn't matter, but this Long Tail Rain is always bothering me like a ghost. What if this guy grows even stronger in the future? Wouldn't it be even more annoying if he bothered me?

To ensure his own peace of mind in the future and to let more people know the consequences of competing with him in an unorthodox way, Zhu Youxing decided to invest heavily in developing multiple games.

If it weren't for the long tail rain, his original plan was to release these games gradually, so that he could play the long game and catch the big fish.

Chapter 571 Interested in killing YOO together?

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Kitada Kase and Takeyusei established a good relationship. For his family, Takeyusei's savings were nothing, but for his performance, it was a different story. Therefore, as the bank president, he had to treat Takeyusei very well.

Moreover, Zhu Youxing is clearly a person with a promising future, and such a person is worth befriending.

He then invited Takeyusei to dinner, but Takeyusei had no interest in having dinner with an older man. If it were a beautiful lady, that would be a different story. He could have dinner with Tsukino Aya, so he declined Kitada Kase's invitation, saying that he had other things to do.

Kitada Kase felt a little regretful, but didn't take it too seriously. Takeyusei was indeed a very busy person. He had many projects to do, and these projects were very energy-consuming, so it was normal for him to refuse.

“Mr. Zhuyou is truly a promising young man with a bright future ahead of him. At my age, I no longer have the same potential as you. Now I'm just waiting to increase my performance further before I start thinking about retirement.”

Before Takeyusei left, Kitada Kase said something with a touch of emotion.

Kitada Kase is not young, but in a family he is still considered young and strong. He can usually hold real power until he is around eighty years old before he can step down. So what he said was just a humble way of putting it.

Zhu Youxing didn't consider himself very good at socializing, but he could understand the meaning behind the man's words after a little thought. He then smiled and said, "President Kitada, you still have a long time to work hard. I remember there is a Chinese saying that goes, 'One is never too old to learn,' and the spirit of hard work is the same—one is never too old to work hard."

Kitada Kase was quite pleased with this statement and smiled sincerely, saying, "You're right, that's how it should be. Your deposit business with our bank is now part of my performance, which is why I was a little worried when you made a large withdrawal. But now I really have nothing to worry about. The rest are the other performance metrics I'm focused on."

Kitada Kase was being completely honest with Takeyusei, who asked with slight curiosity, "Are the other results also related to savings?"

"Not entirely. We also have some of our own investment businesses. Mr. Zhuyou, you should be aware of the previous financial turmoil, right?"

Financial turmoil?

Zhu Youxing wasn't very interested in finance. Although he had a general understanding of financial trends, he didn't have anyone around him who was familiar with the subject, and he was also afraid that the parallel world's historical trajectory was too different from his previous life, which might lead to him going bankrupt instantly if he went all in. So he didn't want to risk getting involved in the financial industry, which he wasn't good at.

However, after thinking about it carefully, he did remember something.

He said, "Are you referring to the mass withdrawals of deposits by the public caused by the collapse of most banks?"

This kind of thing has a more academic name: a bank run. People panic and rush to withdraw their money, which causes headaches for banks. Eventually, the Prime Minister's Office had to issue a new decree to waive all interest on loans and deposits in hopes of calming the bank run. However, the effect was minimal, and it caused the banks a lot of trouble for a while.

Kitada Kase nodded, then revealed a hint of lingering fear: "That period was truly a time of despair for our banking industry, but thankfully it's all over now. However, it still left us with a lot of messes to deal with, such as some of our bad investments and various loans that we can't recover at all."

Hearing Kitada Kase's words, Takeyusei for some reason immediately thought of the plot of Sakai Masato's TV series Hanzawa Naoki, which also involved trying to find someone to ask for a loan.

Kitada Kase continued, "On the one hand, stabilizing the deposits is my achievement, and getting back as much money as possible is also my achievement. I think I've done a pretty good job of stabilizing the deposits now, and with someone like you, Mr. Takeyu, backing me up, I'm really grateful."

I never imagined that my habit of saving money would make me a safety net for others?

Because internet transactions are not yet fully developed, people are still used to using cash and other methods to conduct transactions. This results in a large amount of cash being deposited into banks every day for Youxing Electronic Entertainment. As a partner, Kitada Bank is naturally overjoyed, as having cash deposited into the bank is truly a great thing.

While Zhu Youxing alone couldn't reverse the dire economic situation, he did significantly alleviate the bank run that some branches were experiencing at the time.

You could say the bank owes Zhu Youxing a favor.

Then Kitada Kase showed a look of disgust and said, "In contrast, companies like YOO are more annoying. They don't like deposits and always try to borrow money. After they realized they couldn't borrow money from us, they completely gave up on Japanese banks and even occasionally cursed us. These kinds of people are really despicable."

YOO, this guy really does criticize everyone he meets, which is quite in line with Nagao Amane's personality. He'll criticize anyone who doesn't meet his expectations.

Zhu Youxing strongly agrees with this point, saying, "YOO is indeed very annoying. One of the reasons I want to invest heavily in game development is that I want to bankrupt YOO."

"Go bankrupt?" Kitada Kase suddenly became interested. "How do you make him go bankrupt?"

Zhu Youxing roughly explained his idea: to take advantage of Changweiyu's unwillingness to admit defeat to force him to make a large investment with him, and eventually drag him down.

"Great, Zhuyou, you did a good job. If it really succeeds, I will definitely treat you to a meal. Don't refuse. I will invite a few of the heads of our family to come together."

Zhu Youxing was taken aback, then said, "This is a bit too much. I just want to get rid of Yoo, but it seems like you guys also want to get rid of Yoo?"

Kitada Kase nodded: "Of course, our family... no, not just our family, several other major families in Japan hate this guy YOO very much, because he is not only annoying, he is also actively encroaching on the territory that originally belonged to us and seizing our interests. We have been trying to find a way to get rid of him."

This is truly unexpected.

Takeyusei never expected that this long-tailed rain would become so annoying that even several major Japanese families wanted to kill YOO.

However, with a little thought, it becomes clear that the internet development of Changweiyu has been extremely rapid, and its news portals, video websites, online shopping websites, and other businesses have all had a certain impact on the current physical industries.

And since it affects the interests of the conglomerates, they definitely hate Nagae Aqua.

Takeyusei suddenly had a thought. He remembered something and said, "In that case, Kitada, would you be interested in joining me to deal with YOO?"

At this moment, neither Takeyusei nor Kitada Kase addressed each other with honorifics, which was a sign that they were trying to get closer to each other.

Chapter 572 The Different Treatment of Trendsetters in Two Eras

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Suddenly, Zhu Youxing remembered some very obscure historical knowledge that he had seen in his previous life.

For someone who was still Chinese at the time, this story was definitely very obscure.

Around the 1990s to the early 21st century, an internet conglomerate like YOO also emerged.

At that time, the internet was rising very rapidly and quickly encroached on the established territory of the old financial magnates.

In Japanese society, unless you yourself have become a zaibatsu (conglomerate), you don't have the right to challenge other zaibatsu.

In other words, you need to enter this circle first and then compete against someone in the circle, so that others have nothing to say.

However, at that time, Japanese internet companies, relying on their mastery of the latest technology and their unlimited future, naively believed that they could fight against the zaibatsu without joining their ranks.

However, the old financial tycoons are not to be trifled with. Once they encounter such an attack, they suddenly unite very closely to deal with the new internet giants.

The deeply entrenched old zaibatsu naturally and quickly gained an absolute advantage. Relying on their influence in the political and business circles, and even in the dark side of society, they soon drove the internet upstarts out of Japan.

For a time, Japan genuinely had the potential to develop a massive internet conglomerate. If it weren't for the suppression by the zaibatsu (financial conglomerates), it's hard to say what the global internet landscape would be like.

Originally, Zhu Youxing had almost forgotten this little-known historical fact, since he was no longer in the original world, but in a parallel world.

The general course of history hasn't changed much, but most of it has changed beyond recognition, so there's no need for him to keep clinging to the history of the original world.

But at this moment, he suddenly remembered this matter and realized that there seemed to be some kind of inevitability in history.

It seems that some of the original historical trajectories of the world still have some uses.

Upon hearing Takeyusei's words, Kitada Kase also showed interest: "Dealing with YOO? Mr. Takeyu, you want us to develop a game with you? That's something I'm really interested in."

"No, no, no, I didn't mean for you to develop games with me. Of course, you can join the industry if you're interested, but not now," Zhu Youxing quickly denied.

"So what do you mean..." Kitada Kase felt that Takeyusei was someone who really enjoyed working hard in his own industry. It seemed that he had almost no experience in things outside the entertainment industry. So what did he want to say?

“I suddenly remembered something, a method to deal with YOO that your family might be able to initiate, but I am not suitable to do so.”

Kitada Kase immediately became serious: "Takeyu, you speak."

Zhu Youxing vaguely recalled some obscure historical facts from his past life that he had kept buried for a long time, and then said, "I remember that YOO seems to have acquired a portion of a television station's shares a couple of years ago?"

"That's true," Kitada Kase nodded.

"Have you investigated how much foreign capital is behind YOO? Have they crossed the line regarding foreign capital involvement in the Japanese television media industry?"

Kitada Kase was stunned: "You mean..."

“YOO’s investment in the TV station is probably not just his own money; there must be a lot of foreign capital involved. A foreign company coming to Japan and gaining a foothold in the broadcasting and television industry is bound to be a hot topic, isn’t it?”

Kitada Kase's eyes lit up instantly.

At this point, Zhu Youxing had made himself perfectly clear: if he still couldn't understand, he didn't deserve this position.

It was obvious that Zhu Youxing was proactively handing them the knife, and it was an extremely useful one at that.

Normally, the zaibatsu (financial conglomerate) would have discovered this problem sooner or later, but Takeyusei's early mention of it was a timely reminder to Kitada Kase, which meant that Kitada Kase had thought of this matter in advance, which would further enhance his reputation within the family.

“Zhuyou, your idea is really valuable. I had never thought about this kind of thing before.”

The old forces actually have many ways to deal with YOO, this emerging force. Their long-standing foundation in Japan is something that new forces cannot match.

However, there are different ways to deal with it, and how to do so in a more reasonable and legitimate manner.

If there are legitimate reasons and conclusions to eliminate the new forces, they would be more than happy to do so.

YOO hasn't had many issues to criticize so far, perhaps because it's developed so quickly that it hasn't had time to create much of a negative history.

However, it's almost certain that they'll label it as foreign capital involvement in the domestic broadcasting and television sector.

Kitada Kase immediately became restless; he wanted to return to his family and discuss the matter with the others right away.

YOO has already begun to have a real impact on their interests, and if they don't find a way to deal with it sooner or later, it will become even more troublesome.

Now we can follow the trail and find out more. Besides the involvement of foreign capital, there must be a lot of dirt on you that we can dig up. Let's take this opportunity to raid your house.

Seeing that the other party was already impatient, Takeyusei decided not to waste any more of their time. He also had his own things to do, so they said their goodbyes. Kitada Kase then extended a warm invitation to meet at their family's manor in a few days.

This would be a gathering for the upper class, and it would be too impolite for Zhu Youxing to refuse again, so he nodded in agreement.

Both Takeyusei and Nagaoyu are trendsetters of this era, and they have made significant achievements in their respective fields. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, their future prospects are undoubtedly limitless.

But now it seems that the long tail of rain probably won't last much longer.

The zaibatsu's attitudes toward Takeyusei and Nagao Amane are also clearly different.

After all, the long-tailed rain has threatened their interests, dug up their roots, and desecrated their ancestral graves. It's no wonder that the chaebols are anxious.

However, Zhuyouxing only expands within its own domain. The video game industry is a completely unknown pure entertainment field for conglomerates. At most, it might shake the ratings of television media, but it is not even the culprit affecting the ratings. The real culprit should be the Internet itself.

The Zaibatsu's inherent territory, Bamboo Star, received almost no interference, posing a significantly smaller threat than Longtail Rain.

Moreover, Zhu Youxing himself had no scandals, his identity was pure, and his development had always been proactive in reaching out to the outside world.

Having conquered the United States and South Korea, and now preparing to conquer Europe, Zhu Youxing is seen by the public as a hero who conquers cities and territories, using his sword called video games to pierce through the enemy's defensive barriers.

At the same time, Zhu Youxing is still a guest of honor at the Prime Minister's Office, and the tycoons are very willing to accept such a person.

Chapter 573 The Football Battle (1)