Chicago 1990

"Mr. Idei, how long have you worked at Sony?"

"Forty-three years."

"Wow, really?"

"Of course, I am a veteran here."

"I do not believe……"

Chicago, the mansion of R Kelly, the king of rhythm and blues, Jesse Jackson and Quincy Jones and a group of black old men are watching TV. The back room vaguely heard the arguing of R Kelly, his personal lawyer and members of the Dream Lawyers, but the old guys Turn a deaf ear, help uproar and shout, let professional people worry about legal affairs.

The TV station is broadcasting a face-to-face interview with Sony’s chairman in Tokyo. Quincy Jones was so relieved that he smiled and narrowed his eyes.

"Rashida is really promising." Jesse Jackson also praised it sincerely. "By the way, where is her sister Kiddada? I haven't seen it for a long time."

"I don't know, I care about her." Quincy Jones concentrated on watching TV.

Rashida's dress, typhoon, and the content of the questions were all fairly conservative and conservative, but it was already very prosperous to be able to chat and laugh with Sony's chairman. The old black men smiled and saw that the interview was over, and once again complimented Quincy Jones for having a good daughter.

"I remember she posted some photos yesterday..."

Quincy Jones proudly asked his assistant to bring the laptop to continue showing off, and by the way recommended Rashida's photo to the editor-in-chief of VIBE magazine, which he shares.

In fact, I just read Rashida's blog homepage. She has been taking pictures since she boarded the plane in Los Angeles.

‘Let’s go to Tokyo Lu. ’

The picture is a picture of her boarding the plane with a big smile, APLUS 757 as the background.

‘Me and APLUS. ’’ Me and Linda McCall, Donna Dubinski, and Ms. Sloan. ’‘Me and Mr. Amelio. ’

‘Thanks to the crew for their hard service...’

Then she took a photo with Song Ya, the big bosses, and the captain and crew in the magnificent cabin, and even took a photo with the pillows with the A+ emblem, the top wine bottle, and the five-clawed golden dragon.

"The night view of Tokyo is so beautiful..."

It is she who is holding red wine and enjoying the night view of Tokyo through the floor-to-ceiling windows in the super-large hotel room.

‘Visit Sony headquarters. ’

She showed up under the Sony headquarters building with a visitor card, and then took a photo with the executives of the receptionist, visited Sony's exhibition area, and took photos with historical classic Sony electronic products, exclusive game character sculptures and other meaningful exhibits.

Surrounded by a group of East Asian male engineers, Zhongxing Pengyue, happily took a group photo.

‘Work! ’

There are photos of her sitting at the side of a long conference table with APLUS, Amelio, Sloan and others, smiling at the camera. There are also photos of her sitting with APLUS, holding chopsticks and holding sushi in the Sony’s corporate cafeteria. In the smiling photo, her head tilted slightly towards APLUS, and her smile was particularly brilliant.

The last one is that she lowered her head to concentrate on writing on the meeting minutes, with coffee and a watch next to her. The time on the watch is already two o'clock in the morning local time.

‘Don’t fight your wife too hard, work is important but you must also pay attention to your body. ’

'Oh oh oh! What a cool job that can fly around the world. ’

‘Have you left the hip-hop contest, Rashida? ’

'Wow! Is the inside of APLUS 757 like this? It's so beautiful, and the life of the rich is really enviable. ’

‘Amelio? Is that the most incompetent CEO in history? ’

The comments below are various and very enthusiastic.

"You can find a clearer picture. They have a news station and a filming team there." Quincy Jones asked the editor-in-chief.

"Oh! God!"

At this time, Chicago's top lawyer Diane angrily pushed open the door of the back room, cursing and left straight away.

"What's wrong?"

The other lawyers who came out of the back room afterwards looked very demoralized. Jesse Jackson and Quincy Jones exchanged glances, and the two went in and asked R Kelly.

R Kelly held his head in a daze, ignoring him.

"October's court appearance may change." R Kelly's personal lawyer closed the door and whispered.

"How is it possible? We are done with the victim's family." Jesse Jackson was anxious. In order to buy and prevent the victim and her uncle from going to court to testify, the son of the House of Representatives coordinated, and R Kelly also spent a lot of money.

"She's not the only one..." The private lawyer glanced at R Kelly and said, "The Cook County prosecutor may have found other witnesses, and..."

"And what?" Quincy Jones asked.

"And he lost some videotapes..." the private lawyer gestured to the frustrated R Kelly. "It's probably also in the hands of the dead woman Alicia."

"Also underage?"

Private lawyers acquiesced.

The two old men are speechless, it's really mud that can't support the wall! Jesse Jackson knew why Diane was angry just now, "You only told the lawyers now?"

"No way, he won't let me say." The private lawyer shrugged.

"OMG..."

Jesse Jackson also put his head in his hands, and left the mansion in frustration with Quincy Jones, "Seriously, Quincy, it seems that only APLUS is more reliable..."

R Kelly has this kind of disgusting vice, and he only likes girls of his own ethnicity.

Kobe's Eagle County incident, the appearance of the photo of the blonde white waiter girl looking straight into the camera with tears in her eyes basically ruined her good reputation.

Not to mention MJ, the trouble is even greater.

"I think he likes Rashida, doesn't it?" Jesse Jackson urged, "Can Rashida tie his heart?"

"Don't talk nonsense about Jesse, APLUS has a girlfriend." Quincy Jones knows his family affairs and lacks confidence.

"Amy Adams? No, it's not a good marriage partner. Didn't Linda say that APLUS will choose the chief in the future? He'd better marry a black girl." Jesse Jackson said.

At the same time, Sloan looked back worriedly when he stepped out of the hotel door, "Isn't it bad?"

"No." Song Ya smiled and gently closed the door.

The two walked briskly all the way, talking and laughing, and went to find other people for a meeting.

"It seems that Nobuyuki Idei paid no attention to our visit and music store business. The reception and meeting arrangements were all courtesy."

Amelio saw it from the first day of the meeting. He put down the minutes of the meeting and said, "They avoided talking about any substantive content. The current situation is clear. Based on personal interests, Idei must continue to support Howard Stringer. , Otherwise you will lose the checks and balances against Kutaragi Ken."

"Sony has been so miserable, and our political relations and trade methods in the United States can't play a big role."

Sloan said: "Because of the competition between XBOX and PS2, Microsoft has already used all the tricks we can use. We can't be more influential than Microsoft. Sony also has the help of IBM, the blue giant."

"Yes." Song Ya nodded.

As a multinational giant, Sony has just made management adjustments. At this time, a competitor came to take the eye drops of the head of the entertainment department. Will not react in any way.

"It's time for us to find Ken Kutaragi." Donna Dubinsky said.

"No, it's not time yet."

Sloan disagreed, "After all, Idei is the chairman of the board. We rushed to find Ken Kutaragi to completely turn the relationship between the two parties into irreversible. Moreover, we rashly participated in the high-level battle of a multinational giant for the copyright authorization of the music store. It's too impulsive and arrogant."

"It is the management system of this book that determines the attitude of the out-of-the-well. The interests of the company must give way to the power of individuals and even departments." Amelio has dealt with this subsidiary.

"Kutaragi just became CEO. In the context of East Asian culture, there is absolutely no time to start challenging Idei's authority. It is impossible for a technical madman to rise to this position without knowing anything about power."

Song Ya said: "Moreover, he doesn't know much about the entertainment industry in Beimi. He has no foundation and no interest. Even if he chooses to cooperate with us, he will not be able to deal with the alliance between Idei and Howard Stringer within Sony. At least in the entertainment business. We can’t figure it out, we may be evil people."

"Maybe not necessarily. He is currently engaged in internal layoffs. Even if it is from Sony Electronics, as long as it is not part of the game console gang, it is possible to get a knife. He will not have no idea about the huge independent entertainment kingdom within the company. "

Ryutaro Yamamoto said: "Moreover, his CEO has to face financial pressure, and his attitude towards us to subscribe for convertible bonds will be more positive than Idei."

"Can you give it a try?"

Everyone agreed with this statement and looked at the big young boss. “It’s better than staying in a hotel in Tokyo and nothing can be done?” Amelio said, “And I don’t believe that Sony is not excited about our willingness to subscribe for convertible bonds. Tens of thousands of layoffs...extremely short of money."

"Um……"

This was a tough battle. There were still cards in his hand that some people didn't know about. Song Ya pondered and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

The others waited quietly.

"Okay, but before that, arrange to meet with Idei alone." Song Ya made a decision.

"Welcome, APLUS."

"Mr. Idei."

Nobuyuki Idei left him for two more days before hosting a banquet in a kaiseki restaurant.

He took off his shoes and entered the house, shook hands and sat down cross-legged, Song Ya immediately picked up the hip flask and leaned forward to pour the wine for everyone.

"Shoichiro Nikkei said that you know how to pretend to be yourself. You can turn around and turn your face ruthless as soon as you are still crying." Nobuyuki Idei raised his neck and drank the glass of wine. Song Ya was already holding a hip flask and waiting. He had to hang in the air waiting to be filled again.

"I respect him very much. We have some misunderstandings." Song Ya asked, "Is he okay now?"

"I returned to the auto industry after leaving Sega." Idei replied.

Even in high-intensity competition, the friendship between these senior managers is not necessarily bad. For example, Hideki Sato, who succeeded Shoichiro Shinko as the president of Sega, has a good personal relationship with Sony’s current CEO Ken Kutaragi. It is said that Ken Kutaragi every quarter Will meet with Hideki Sato, brainwash him by the way, persuade Sega to withdraw from the game console competition and concentrate on making exclusive games for PS...

It seems that Shoichiro, who is in the acquaintance, has not complained about himself with Idei less. Song Ya laughed, "Business is business, but I am a person of the rules."

"I hope so, I heard you have something to tell me alone today?" Idei asked.

"Yes."

"Then no time wasting."

"Can."

The two of them held off the entourage at the same time, and waited for the sliding door to be closed, "I respect you." The two pushed their cups and changed, and after a few bites of food, Song Ya said, "Maybe you don't know, I have already praised Haikou in the United States. This trip to Tokyo has to get the license of your company’s music copyright library for the Beats Music Store."

"It turned out to be like this." Idei nodded, "It just so happened. Before coming today, I talked about this with Kutaragi Ken. He said that he was very interested in some 3D chip patents of your 3DFX company."

"Haha, I can't do that..."

This is an impossible condition. 3DFX, as XBOX's display chip provider, cannot pass the test of Microsoft alone. "Convertible debt..."

"Sony's convertible bonds really don't worry about no one to subscribe." Idei interrupted.

"What if I buy 200 million knives?" Song Ya stared at him, "I was willing to pay the money because of you. I remember when I saw you in Washington that year, you gave me a DV machine. , I like it very much, I can't put it down, I admire you Mr. Idei very much."

Idei narrowed his eyes, "This is not a question of specific numbers, APLUS, and for what authorization, is the money worth it? 200 million, and Beats's sales for a year is not 200 million, right?"

"Maybe, after Apple released the third-generation iPod, our Walkman sales situation has been declining."

Song Ya did not shy away from this, "This matter is mainly related to my personal prestige. Mr. Idei, who wants to save face in the United States, is one of the six major music libraries in the Beats music store, which is a bit ugly."

"Haha..." Idei reached out and touched one on the initiative.

‘Hiss...’ The two were inhaled so hot at the same time, they were eating.

Idei became silent. Song Ya took the opportunity to look at him while eating and drinking. Howard Stringer participated in the MJ incident, and the headquarters must have also participated. Even during the financial difficulties, he kept lending huge amounts of money to MJ, and has been silently watching MJ’s debt. Maintaining half of the shares in Sony/Copyright Library, without the support of Idei from the headquarters, Howard Stringer has absolutely no power.

In addition to the Motula incident, Idei was actually an insider, at least acquiesced.

It’s just not clear whether Howard Stringer knew that he had been pulled into the "Injury League" by David Geffen and Harvey Weinstein, and if he knew, did he tell him.

There are also shootings...

"Actually... If it's not for MJ's reputation, I will find him to cooperate, I know that he has half of the Sony/copyright library." Song Ya said according to the original plan.

"MJ doesn't have track management rights."

Sure enough, Idei didn't completely ignore Beimi's entertainment industry, and gave everything to Howard Stringer.

"Yes!?"

Song Ya began to show off his acting skills and behaved very surprised, "He has no chance to get back this power at all?"

"I don't think it should be?" Idei showed a look of memory, "It's too long, I was not responsible for this at the time, I need to go back and check."

"Haha, don't bother Mr. Idei, I'll just ask casually."

Right? Biao's acting skills, right? Song Ya laughed and stopped, "By the way, MJ seems to have some misunderstanding with Mr. Stringer, what if I'm willing to help?"

"No need, if MJ is convicted, it will be bad for you and me." Idei rebuffed.

"Too……"

The wine is hot, Idei's ears are red, but I don't eat much. The food in the exquisite container is basically Song Ya's chopsticks. Both seem to be a little impatient, "Then, Mr. Idei, is it convenient for you to express your considerations?" Simply let the other party make terms.

"APLUS." Idei put down his glass, "We just appointed Howard as the head of the global entertainment business. I need to maintain his authority."

Song Ya's eyes turned cold, and she lay back, putting her elbows on the Pingji, "There is always a way? I can't count on him."

"I'm sorry to let you run for nothing." Idei sat down and bowed, then stood up.

"Idei-san!"

Song Ya's tone prolonged and became a bit tired and lazy. "For so many years, I think your company will not be clear about my character. If I get nothing in Tokyo and return to the United States, I will retaliate even if I fight Sony. Especially Howard, this will also hinder your prestige in the company, right?"

He took out a document from his pocket and photographed it on the table.

Idei sneered and picked it up and glanced, then raised his eyebrows, "Universal?"

"Yes, if Universal and Sony refuse to authorize the Beats music store at the same time, then I can initiate a lawsuit against you for a joint monopoly." Song Ya said.

"It's impossible." Idei sat down, "It will not do any good for Universal Music. They are committing suicide by doing so."

"If I promise to join GE to buy the Global Department, they would of course be willing to do so, even Mr. Bronfman would be happy to see him." Song Ya replied.

Of course, the old Bronfman would like to see him. He is a cool and good chess player. This transaction is a great opportunity for the Bronfman family to get out of the **** pit of the world with cash. It may even be the only chance in the past ten years.

"So you didn't complete the contract with Universal before you came..." Idei frowned.

"It seems that you don't pay attention to the trend of the recording industry, Idei-san, then you also know what Howard Stringer is doing. His motive for rejecting me is very unfounded and runs counter to Sony's corporate interests." Song Ya said: "He is kidnapping you."

"Ha ha."

Idei laughed again, "Is this illogical, right? APLUS, you would rather spend a billion, billions to take over the world in order to get a small business in music licensing?"

"I said before I sat down, I must get this done when I come to Tokyo this time! Otherwise, I will go to Tokyo Bay!"

Song Ya straightened her back and said word by word: "So you have to bet whether I am a pure profit animal? I don't think I am!"

"This trick is beautiful, but..."

The chairman of Sony was not intimidated by the young billionaire's casual dominance. Idei cocked his mouth, "With regard to the lawsuit, I think there is plenty of time, and Howard should also handle it."

"He can't protect himself. MJ's case starts in November, and MJ will not let go and continue to attack him by then."

Song Ya was prepared: "Sony's global reputation will be dragged down by him alone."

"MJ listens to you?" Idei asked back.

"I haven't contacted him yet, but I think it shouldn't be difficult. We Afro-Americans are naturally on the same front."

Song Ya replied: "It happens that many people ask me to help him, and R Kelly... Kobe... If my news station is fully fired, believe me, this matter will progress very quickly. And Idei-san, I am out of I respected you and didn't go to Mr. Kutaragi. I am a person with a bottom line."

"Yo West."

This is Nilin, Idei also sat upright, "It seems that there are many African American stars who have had an accident this year!"

"Are you threatening me!?"

"Need no one to send you to Tokyo Bay, bastard!"

The old and the young held their hands on the edge of the table, glaring at each other.

"Ha ha!"

A minute later, Song Ya suddenly smiled and relaxed, "So the question is back to the original point, is it worth it? Idei-san."

"Humph..."

Idei snorted twice~www.NovelMTL.com~ and his face improved slightly, "You are too young and full of APLUS, it's always bad."

"Are you still called a young man if you are not angry?" Song Ya raised his hand, spread his five fingers and flipped inside and out. For the company’s convertible bonds, we are friends Idei-san."

"asshole!"

Idei smiled and cursed this time, "The Internet industry in the United States is really enviable..." He touched the empty glass.

Song Ya's heart eased instantly, and he didn't need to look for Kutaragi's last option! Quickly fill him and himself.

The two touched another, and then drank their necks at the same time.

"Sigh...ha! Eat food, eat food!"

(End of this chapter)