After hosts Liu Zhirong and Ng Junru came on stage, they began to invite today's beauties to appear.

Weng Meixue, Xu Xiaohe, Li Liru, Feng Xiaoxiao... a group of beauties appeared one after another in costumes, showing their charming charm to the judges and the audience in front of the TV.

"I invite Beautiful Li Jiaxin No. 97!" Ng Junru said then.

"Ah, we Jiaxin are coming out." Sister Wu said excitedly.

"Yes!" Wang Qixian nodded and said with anticipation, "I wonder how she performed today?"

She was originally indifferent to Li Jiaxin, and even felt a sense of rejection of "I have given birth to Yu, and I have given birth to Liang". However, she couldn't resist the fact that there was a sister Wu at home who recommended her every day, which made her begin to feel good about this beautiful girl.

Speaking of which, although Li Jiaxin is beautiful, her life is much worse than her. She has lost her father since she was a child, and she depends on each other for life. She has to be a model to supplement her family income when she was a teenager. It is really pitiful.

Xia Tian also opened her eyes wide in curiosity, wanting to see Li Jiaxin's style. I wonder if she has achieved the effect of rebirth after studying with her teacher for the past few months.

Seeing that Li Jiaxin was about to come out, at this moment, Xia Tian’s elder brother suddenly rang, which suddenly disturbed everyone’s attention.

"Hey, who is calling so late?" Xia Tian was stunned, frowned, and then picked up the phone.

"Boss, it's me, Michelle, things are a little bad. I just received the news that Sony has proposed an acquisition of Columbia Pictures." Michelle said anxiously to Xia Tian.

"It's really here!" Xia Tian's heart suddenly stumbled when he heard this.

What he was most worried about was that Cheng Yaojin would appear halfway, and someone would bid for Columbia Pictures with him. Especially a company like Sony, which is rich and ambitious about the entertainment industry, is the one he was most worried about and worried about the most.

Because if ordinary people only invest for investment, like Kirk Kerkorian, a casino tycoon who acquired MGM Pictures, as long as they raise the acquisition price themselves, they may give up.

But Sony is different. Its acquisition of Columbia-Samsung Pictures is not just for temporary gain, but it has taken a fancy to Hollywood's intellectual property rights and its strategic significance in the future business battle.

Sony's foundation is "audio-visual entertainment". The walkman, video player, TV, game console, camcorder, etc. it produces are all designed to give the public a better audio-visual entertainment.

Hollywood's film and television resources are unique and most valuable audio-visual entertainment resources in the world. Therefore, Shaofu Morita has a keen eye for his eyes and has gone against the public's objections, and is determined to buy it.

In this way, even if he raised the price himself, Shaofu Morita would not give up easily.

In his previous life, he spent nearly 5 billion US dollars to acquire Columbia Pictures. And even though he suffered a huge loss of 3 billion US dollars later, he still did not give up. It can be seen that the value of Columbia Pictures in Morita's heart is definitely more than 8 billion US dollars.

If Xia Tian had a price war, he would probably not be able to fight him. Not only because Sony is richer than him, but more importantly, Morita Shoufu's determination to acquire Colombia is greater than him.

This is a big trouble!

...

Xia Tian was depressed, but Wang Qixian shouted crisply, "Brother Tian, ​​come and see, Miss Li is here."

"You guys can check it out for yourself first, I'm going to call." Xia Tian waved his hand and said angrily. He was not in the mood to see the beauty now.

Seeing that his tone was wrong, Wang Qixian was stunned. Then he quickly turned down the volume of the TV, then raised his ears and eavesdropped on Xia Tian's phone call.

I heard Xia Tian say, "Then do you have any emergency plans?"

"English?! Sister Wu, can you understand what Brother Tian said?" Wang Qixian was stunned and asked Sister Wu in confusion.

Although she accompanied Xia Tian to play abroad many times, she still knew nothing about English.

Sister Wu nodded. Her ex-husband is from Portuguese. In addition to speaking Mandarin and Portuguese, she can also speak English, so she can also speak some foreign languages. At that moment, she translated what Xia Tian said to Wang Qixian.

"Emergency plan?!What emergency plan?" Wang Qixian was still confused after listening to Sister Wu's translation and couldn't figure out what was going on. But it shouldn't be talking about women. Since that's the case, there's nothing to worry about.

"Okay, don't worry, let's watch TV." Wang Qixian waved his hand and said.

"Boss, we have done wargame deductions before. If a third party participates in the bidding, we recommend raising the acquisition price to $3.6 billion to force the third party to withdraw." Michelle replied, "If the third party bids higher than this price, I recommend giving up the acquisition. Because the price of $3.6 billion is far beyond the actual value of Colombia."

"Can you only have a price war?" Xia Tian frowned when he heard this.

He knew that the price of 3.6 billion US dollars would definitely not scare Morita Shaofu. Even if it was 4 billion or 5 billion US dollars, it would not be possible to scare him away. Therefore, it was useless to fight a price war, so he could only give up Colombia to Sony.

"Boss, price war is the most effective way. According to our inference, Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures should not be too much capital.

They are still acquiring Columbia Records. Although the specific price is not clear, it is rumored to have exceeded $1.5 billion, which is equivalent to Sony's three years of profit.

If Columbia Pictures acquires it again, it may be burdened with a heavy debt burden. Even if Shaofu Morita is determined, shareholders will probably oppose it strongly.

So as long as we raise the price, I believe Sony will definitely give up." Michelle analyzed.

...

Although Sony has revenue of nearly $50 billion and is the world's most well-known electronics manufacturer, it does not mean that it is not short of money. In fact, Sony is very short of money.

In order to avoid trade frictions, it invests in and sets up factories around the world. This way, it can bypass import restrictions, increase product sales, and expand the market.

Furthermore, its product line is too long, from cameras to recorders, from TVs to game consoles... There are so many products that need to be developed and improved, and every new product is produced requires a large investment.

Therefore, although Sony makes more money, it actually spends more. Although it earns nearly $50 billion per year, its net profit is only $600 million.

It will take three years of net profit to acquire Columbia Records. If it acquires Columbia Pictures, it will take six or even seven years of net profit. It will be not easy for Sony to bear such a big burden.

"You don't understand the corporate culture of Japan. Japanese companies are popular with family management. The president is the parent and has extremely high authority. It is a perfect choice. If Shaofu Morita insists on acquiring Colombia, it will be difficult for other shareholders of their company to convince him." Xia Tian waved his hand.

He has traveled to Japan many times in recent years and has a certain understanding of Japanese culture. He knows Morita's status in Sony very well.

In his previous life, when Morita Shaofu acquired Columbia Pictures, he went against the crowd and insisted on his own initiative, acquiring Columbia Pictures for a sky-high price of 5 billion US dollars. So it is not easy to count on Sony's shareholders to stop him.

"If this is the case, boss, please give us more time and we will draw up a plan as soon as possible." Michelle had to say again after seeing Xia Tian rejecting her proposal for a price war.

"This is how you go and talk to Shaofu Morita and suggest that our two companies jointly acquire it." Xia Tian thought for a while.

His purpose is different from Morita Shoufu's acquisition of Colombia. He hopes to use Hollywood distribution channels to expand the Hong Kong film market. Morita Shoufu hopes to use Hollywood film and television resources to sell his electronic products. Therefore, the two did not have a major conflict of interest, and they could join forces to acquire and make a fortune together!

Moreover, he had already done a lot of effort in advance to settle the American political parties, trade unions, and media. If Sony united with him, he would do much less.

Furthermore, if the two companies jointly acquire each other, they will save money for each other.

One kills multiple goals. If Morita Shaoo was wise, he would have chosen this path.

"Okay, boss." Michelle nodded and heard Xia Tian say this.

...

Xia Tian then told Michelle about the conditions and minimum bottom line of the joint acquisition, and when she asked her to talk to Shaofu Morita, she also knew how to make a choice.

After talking about the phone call, an hour and a half later, the tenth game of the Asian Sister Beauty Pageant semi-finals had ended.

"Brother Tian, ​​drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat." Wang Qixian poured him a cup of tea ceremony, "What's wrong? What's wrong? Who's calling you? Say it's been so long?"

"We just talked to Michelle from the United States and we are in trouble with our acquisition." Xia Tian happened to be thirsty, so Gudong Gudong finished drinking tea and then explained to her.

"But don't worry, I have a way." Xia Tian waved his hand and smiled, "By the way, the game is over? Who finally reached the final?"

"Yes, it just ended, but unfortunately you didn't see it." Wang Qixian nodded, "Miss Li and Miss Qiu entered the final. Actually, I think Weng Meixue is more beautiful and I don't understand why she lost to Qiu Shuzhen."

"Hey, aesthetics is very subjective. There is a Hamlet in a thousand people's hearts. It's good that you can like one." Xia Tian comforted with a smile, "Okay, it's getting late, let's take a break."

When he learned that Li Jiaxin and Qiu Shuzhen had successfully entered the finals, his mood suddenly became clear, and the haze that had just enveloped his heart was wiped out.

...

The next day, when I got up in summer for dinner, I saw the newspaper reporting on the twenty beauties who entered the Asian Sister finals in a large number of articles. Among them, Li Jiaxin and Qiu Shuzhen were very popular.

Just as I was happy to see it, my elder brother suddenly rang again.

Xia Tian picked it up and heard it, but Zhou Liang Shuyi said anxiously, "Mr. Xia, it's not good. Someone broke the scandal of Qiu Shuzhen's plastic surgery to the media!"
Chapter completed!