Chapter 1249: Closing the Net

"I understand, you may go now.'

Yoshio Ishida dismissed his subordinate with a stern face, and as he looked down at the company stock price monitoring report submitted by his subordinate, his brows slowly furrowed.

His identity is the secretary of the board of directors and the head of the Nippon Steel Securities Department. His main responsibilities are monitoring the company's stock information, communicating with securities regulatory authorities and stock exchanges, disclosing information, maintaining investor relations, arranging board meetings and shareholders' meetings, taking meeting minutes, etc.

The trading volume, transaction amount and turnover rate in the monitoring report in his hands were abnormal at a glance.

The recent data increase is too obvious, especially in recent days, it's been rapid!

If it's just once or twice, it's fine, it's inevitable that large institutions will buy or sell.

But if it happens for several days in a row, then it can't be ignored.

What's more, the main buyer identified is still the notorious Jiuding Securities Company from some time ago, so he has to be more careful.

'I have to report this to the president as soon as possible. Although the company's market value is high, it's hard to guarantee that it won't be targeted maliciously...'

Thinking this, Yoshio Ishida could not sit still, and with the report in hand, he went straight to the office of the company president, Ichiro Fujiwara.

...

The weekend was a two-day holiday, but there were surging currents in the capital market.

Many institutions had already learned that Jiuding Securities was planning to buy a large amount of Nippon Steel stock, but the intention was unknown.

As for where the news came from, no one knew for the time being.

However, this did not prevent the management of these institutions from having strange thoughts.

The two days passed in a flash, and it was Monday in the blink of an eye.

After the stock market opened, Nippon Steel's stock price continued to strengthen, and the number of buy orders of all sizes more than doubled compared to last week.

The water is even more muddy!

But this is exactly what Matsumoto Yu wants, and the muddy water is even more conducive to his actions.

Just as he continued to arrange for his subordinates to invest capital to buy Nippon Steel stock.

On Monday morning, the Suntory stock price rose again to 1688.4 yen per share due to the 'fierce' competition, although the rise was relatively more moderate.

Matsumoto Yu understood and judged that, firstly, Mitsui Securities had used up most of the funds, and secondly, there were very few shares in circulation on the stock market, which had put Mitsui Securities in a dilemma.

Being understanding, he intended to help Haneda Yohei dispel his worries and help him make a choice as soon as possible.

The fish has entered the net, it's time to close it!

He made a phone call to Suntory's Keizo Torii's office...

After a short lunch break, the stock market opened again in the afternoon.

Haneda Yohei went to the operations room, with full enthusiasm and a smile, he inspected the work, but the moment he left the room, his face fell.

After returning to his office, Haneda Yohei took a pen and paper, did some calculations, and his brow furrowed.

The situation is not good!

Since that day, he has spent a total of 38.5 billion yen to acquire 25.7 million shares, increasing his shareholding to 25.81%.

But now the stock price has hit 1,700 yen per share.

Not only is the amount of capital consumption out of his control, but the stock trading volume has also exceeded his expectations.

At the current rate of stock purchases, he really couldn't calculate how long it would take to acquire a 33.4% stake.

Thinking about this, his face turned pale.

It seemed that once again, he would not be able to complete the acquisition task, and just when Yosuke Yamaguchi had given up, he had approached him, full of confidence, saying that there was still hope for success.

And the result was the current situation.

He had completely moved the stone and smashed his own feet, embarrassing himself!

'What should I do? I have to find a way to break the deadlock, otherwise I won't be able to hold my head up...'

'Knock, knock!'

Just as Hada Yohei was feeling irritated, he suddenly remembered the sound of a hurried knock on the door, which made Hada Yohei, who was already in a bad mood, rise in anger.

'Come in, what is it?'

He shouted angrily towards the door.

The person outside seemed to be startled and stopped knocking, but after a few seconds, the door opened and his subordinate walked in with a panicked look on his face, and blurted out, 'President Hada, something's happened, something big!'

Hada Yohei's heart lurched, and he didn't care about the shipment. His tone was a bit urgent, and he asked hurriedly with a frown, 'What's wrong? What's happened?'

'President Hada, Suntory has called a press conference,'

his subordinate replied hurriedly.

'A press conference?'

'What was announced?'

Hada Yohei's bad feeling grew stronger.

'At the press conference, Matsumoto Yuya of Jiuding Securities was also present. Torii Keizo announced on the spot that the Torii family would transfer all their shares to Jiuding Securities and withdraw completely from Suntory.

'And Matsumoto Yuya announced to the outside world that he had become the absolute controlling shareholder of Suntory and would, with the cooperation of the Torii family, complete the transfer of all rights to Suntory within the next half month.'

The subordinate finished speaking in one breath, his heart in a flutter, head bowed, not daring to look at Haneda Yohei at all.

'What?'

'Absolute controlling shareholder?'

'Is Torii Keizo an idiot? How could he transfer his shares?'

Haneda Yohei was stunned, unable to believe what his subordinate had said. He looked a few questions on his face.

And he got up from his seat, walked up to his subordinate, grabbed him by the collar, and stared at him, as if to make sure what he said was not true.

'President Haneda, I don't know what the reason is, but that's what the press conference said, and Keizo Torii personally admitted it,'

The subordinate's voice trembled as he said this.

He had rarely seen Hada Yohei angry, and suddenly being left alone, he could not help but feel nervous and scared.

'Ring ring ring...'

Just then, the urgent ringing of the phone saved him.

Hada Yohei took a deep breath and answered the phone. When he heard the voice on the other end, his face first looked unpleasant, and then became more and more shocked, until his gaze became dull.

'Hada-kun! Hada-kun...'

At this point, the raised voice on the other end of the receiver pulled Haneda Yohei's thoughts back to reality, and he kept nodding his head to indicate that he understood.

After hanging up the phone, he directly replaced someone to investigate the situation, while he himself sat in his chair without moving, his mind like paste.

Jiuding Securities Company probably knew that Mitsui Securities Company would investigate the situation, so in order to facilitate their investigation, after attending the Suntory press conference, Matsumoto Yu ordered someone to disclose the shareholding at the stock exchange.

The 71.29% stake alarmed the entire capital market and also shocked the staff at Mitsui Securities.

When the data was brought back to the company and reported to Yohei Hada, he dismissed all his subordinates, went to the operations room, then returned to the office again. He slumped into a chair, his face full of bitterness and remorse.

'I lost...'

'I lost completely...'

A total of more than 200 billion yen had been spent, and a great deal of effort had been expended, only to return such a miserable result.

He had just checked, and Suntory's stock price had indeed plummeted.

Before he left the operations room, the stock price had fallen to 1,425 yen per share, and the decline was still rapid.

The more than 100 million shares currently held by Mitsui Securities could now be declared temporarily trapped. It would be difficult to completely liquidate the position, and the losses would also be great.

Based on the current situation, the loss will be at least 100 billion yen!

This will be a huge blow to him, both in terms of his confidence and prestige!

'Ring, ring...'

Just then, the annoying phone rang like a death knell.

Haneda Yohei looked at the caller ID (in 1956, landline phones already had caller ID), and he felt as if the receiver in his hand was weighing a thousand pounds, and he just couldn't lift it.