Today, the weather in Tokyo is cloudless and clear, and the gentle breeze is like a girl's veil, gently caressing people's faces. This article was first published by... In this bustling area of ​​the world's top city, people are constantly rushing into it at Nikon's headquarters.

Compared with the clear weather, these real big men of Nikon Company were covered with clouds. They walked in a hurry, not even nodding to each other, but just walking their own way. The low pressure made everyone entering Nikon feel uncomfortable, so that there was no extra person in the entire hall except these big men.

In the large conference room on the top floor of Nikon headquarters, as the participants arrived gradually, President Kimura stood up in a rare sight.

This was the first time he had stood up to preside over a meeting since he became president. He did not pretend to be the other person's hands, and slapped the table hard, focusing everyone's eyes on himself.

"I think everyone should have understood the specific situation. Now it can be said that it is the biggest crisis that Nikon has faced in the past decade." President Kimura said heavily: "The lithography machine industry is an industry that Nikon is proud of, it is a product that represents Nikon's highest technical level, and it is an indispensable part of the entire group's strategy."

He looked around these shareholders who were usually difficult to obtain, and said slowly: "However, due to our mistakes, lithography machine production is likely to face huge losses, and even drag our entire Nikon into the depth of bankruptcy. Today we are gathering everyone here to ask you to come up with an idea to see if you can successfully overcome this crisis."

As President Kimura finished speaking, a shareholder representative raised his hand and asked: "President Kimura, I would like to ask why we signed such an inappropriate contract with Intel at the beginning? A monthly liquidated damages of 500 million US dollars, I'm afraid that as long as we are not blind, we can see that there is a problem? We handed over Nikon, a century-old brand, to your hands, and this is how we repay our trust?"

"This... is the mistake of our board of directors and the company's senior management. I am very sorry for this!" Kimura did not defend himself, but just bowed deeply to the end. Japanese culture attaches great importance to the theory of success and defeat. Failure is failure. At this time, we will find the interface and the reason. We will only be regarded as a coward who dares not take responsibility.

However, no one knows. At that time, everyone was already confused by the bright future that was about to dominate the global lithography machine market, and would not care about this little uncertainty at all.

At that time, not no one paid attention to Intel's super high liquidity damages. As a direct party, Shiraishi Morina raised her own concerns to Tsuruta. Intel explained that this was an insurance that Nikon could maintain its attention after monopolizing the market.

Tsuruta and a group of senior executives actually met this explanation when reviewing the contract. Anyway, even if they face the risk of default, senior executives who have become old in the mall will never believe that Intel will dare to ask Nikon, which monopolizes the supply of lithography machines.

Apart from privately mocking Intel for being ignorant of current affairs and naively believing in the validity of the contract, no one raised any doubts about this.

I can only say one thing. The profit is a dizzy. In that state, the entire Nikon upper class had already been confused and completely lost in his beautiful fantasy of the future. Even if Zhou Shuo stood up and raised this question, he would only be considered as trying to gain more benefits from the contract.

To put it bluntly, the Japanese have never imagined the current situation, because they do not believe that Zhou Shuo can continue to surpass the 0.25 micron process after losing the advantages of immersive lithography technology.

"If it's just apologizing, what's the use of the Metropolitan Police Department?" Another young-looking shareholder representative stood up and slapped the table and yelled: "Nikon's current senior management and board of directors must apologize for the current situation! Resign from blame, deprive equity, or even pursue losses. Don't just get away with it easily!"

"Yes, we must have a deep reflection!" President Kimura still bowed deeply. He knew that he could still sit in the president's position, purely because someone needed an idea.

Regardless of whether the crisis can be successfully overcome in the end, the president of Nikon Co., Ltd. must have come to an end. It can even be said that his entire shopping mall life has ended early.

"Where is Tsuruta? Where is Tsuruta?" The shareholder representatives shouted one after another, and they shouted indignantly: "Let the main responsible person Tsuruta come out to apologize to us. I want him to regret doing such a thing in the next life!"

Facing the crisis of losing Nikon, the performance of these shareholders of all sizes is not surprising. You should know that many people present even want to regard Nikon's shares as a family heirloom. No matter how unfilial the descendants of future generations are, they can live a life of superiors by relying on their annual dividends.

These large Japanese companies have a tight circle and most people cannot get in. There are naturally special places where they can occupy shares in Nikon. In addition, the Japanese economy and enterprises are extremely stable, such a large enterprise of alliance nature has the capital to pass on.

"Everyone, everyone, Tsuruda specialist is studying countermeasures and will come soon." President Kimura tried his best to maintain order and raised his hand and shouted: "Now is not the time to hold people accountable. Don't forget that every minute here, we may have to pay a liquidated damages to Intel in the future!"

President Kimura's words really work. Time is not enough to describe the preciousness of Nikon's time at this time. A group of people fell silent and sat around the meeting for three rounds.

The inner circle is of course the major shareholders. Some of them are representatives of banks, consortiums, affiliated enterprises, etc., and they hold a lot of Nikon shares. Going further to the outer circle, you may invest in funds, shareholder representatives elected by small legal persons, long-term strategic investors and other ordinary shareholding holders. On the outer circle, you are middle and senior executives who have distributed equity in Nikon in the past. Basically, except for the small retail shareholders who do not have to appear, this lineup can make any decision on Nikon's assets.

"Okay, then we'll have a meeting now." President Kimura finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that everyone below had sat down.

The small door in the rest room behind him was then clattered, and the door handle was rotated open. With a creak, the door was pulled open from the inside. Shiraishi's Morina pale face, barely cheered up and walked out.

As she appeared, there was a little noise in the conference room, but it did not cause any serious storm. It was not until she sat down in her own position that Tsuruda walked out in the lounge with fear.

Hetian hasn't rested for a long time. Not only does he have a pair of dark circles and heavy bags of eyes, his hair is as messy as a grass nest, his face is pale as wallpaper, and he looks like a frightened domestic cat.

"Bastard Tsurum, you really dare to show up!" Seeing Tsuruma's appearance, a shareholder couldn't help but stand up again, pointed at him and cursed: "You incompetent waste, you can only create human-shaped cesspools that can produce carbon dioxide, an arrogance who has accomplished nothing. If you had been to yourself, you would have apologized! You even asked a woman to come out for you to test your reaction, which would have been a shame to our big Japanese men!"

The cries and curses scared Tsuruda, who was already a frightened bird, almost jumped three feet high, and turned around and wanted to hide back into the lounge. It was President Kimura who stood up at this time, and the urgency of time and the situation appeared to suppress everyone's evil fire.

"Okay, who can do anything good to survive this crisis? I hope everyone can speak freely." President Kimura held his aging body and barely controlled the situation.

"Since we have mastered immersive lithography technology, can we reassemble a production line?" asked a shareholder representative.

President Kimura glanced at Tsuruta who was sitting beside him, sighed and said, "Tsuruta, you can answer this question."

"This is!" Tsuruta hesitated for a moment, stood up and said, "It will take at least two months to reassemble the production line from now on. During this period, we need to prepare at least one billion US dollars in liquidated damages. Even so, one of the more dangerous problems is that Fanhan Group may cooperate with Asmay at any time. At that time, Intel terminates the contract on the grounds of our breach of contract, and all this effort will be in vain."

“Why put pressure on the Chinese government to hand over our production lines?”

"This, if Fanhan Group does not come up with new technology, our pressure may be successful." Tsuruta wiped the sweat from his forehead and said nervously: "However, now the Chinese government has seen hope of making a difference in the electronics industry, so their diplomatic ministry has suddenly become tough, and we have cut off the official influence channels..."

"What about prosecutions in China or Japan's courts? If you file a complaint for the Chinese government's practice of sealing production lines, just ask the government to come forward."

“…”

Tsuruda looked at the CEO Hatano who was already ashamed in the crowd, sighed and shook his head, "This is not possible, because our Nikon lithography machine subsidiary does have accounting problems."

A shareholder representative stood up angrily, pointed at Tsuruta and shouted loudly: "This is not OK, that is not OK. What should I do? Should I really sell our lithography machine production line to Chinese people like this!"
Chapter completed!