During the tryst with Kyoko Koizumi, although Cao Zhiqiang told a lot of lies, some of the content was true.
For example, the matter of writing new songs is real, but it does not require him to work hard and think hard as Cao Zhiqiang said.
In fact, this matter is ultimately the result of Cao Zhiqiang's excessive pretense.
Because the reason why Cao Zhiqiang was able to get connected with Warner Pioneer was thanks to Minoru Endo's recommendation, and the reason why Minoru Endo recommended Cao Zhiqiang was because when Minoru Endo was working at the Music Copyright Association, she accidentally learned that someone had registered continuously in one go. I couldn’t help but be curious and went over to take a look at the copyrights for hundreds of new songs. After I found out that they were all of good quality, I went to meet with Cao Zhiqiang.
And because Minoru Endo saw that Cao Zhiqiang could write and sing very well, he became interested in talent, so he recommended him to the president of Warner Pioneer, and told him what was special about Cao Zhiqiang.
Therefore, at least President Yamamoto of Warner Pioneer knows that Cao Zhiqiang has the copyright to at least hundreds of new songs.
But in this case, it doesn't matter. After all, although there are not many prolific singers, there are also many.
However, Cao Zhiqiang's first song became such a hit, breaking the Oricon Weekly Newcomer Chart record, and making Warner Pioneer a huge profit. Therefore, President Tokumoto Yamamoto also started thinking about taking advantage of this big event. The hot momentum continues and Cao Zhiqiang continues to release a new song.
For this reason, President Yamamoto even met with Cao Zhiqiang and had a good talk with Cao Zhiqiang.
This is because Cao Zhiqiang and Warner Japan have not signed a relatively solid exclusive contract. The two parties only have a loose temporary cooperative relationship, so they need to have such a serious negotiation.
Since it was President Yamamoto who came to talk to Cao Zhiqiang in person, Cao Zhiqiang took the opportunity to offer conditions.
In addition to the increase in the share of new songs by two percentage points to 12%, Cao Zhiqiang also asked President Yamamoto to help contact Japanese film companies, hoping to introduce people from China, to be precise, from China's Hongguang Film Factory. Movie - "Love in Guting"!
Yes, by this time, Cao Zhiqiang had decided to promote the movies he shot in Japan.
To this, Yamamoto Tokuhara agreed, but decided to watch the finished film before recommending it.
Later, Cao Zhiqiang showed the Japanese version of "Love in the Ancient Pavilion" that he had edited to Yamamoto Tokuhara. After reading it, Yamamoto Tokuhara burst into tears and decided to help Cao Zhiqiang distribute the film.
That's right, Warner Pioneer wants to help distribute the film in Japan, rather than letting it be distributed by other film companies.
It was at this time that Cao Zhiqiang learned that Japan's Warner Pioneer Company was not only a record company, but also engaged in the film and video tape business.
It's just that currently, Warner Pioneer's record business is more prominent, while its film and video tape business is relatively weak. It mainly introduces American movies and cartoons. This is why Warner Pioneer is considered a record company.
In fact, Warner Pioneer is a film and television company that also has its own theater channels.
It's just that Warner Pioneer's theater channel is more of a share-sharing model with other theater chains, and it doesn't have its own theater chain yet.
But Warner Pioneer's video tape business is doing better and it has its own video tape channel.
In short, although Warner Pioneer is not very eye-catching in the film industry, its strength cannot be underestimated with the two giants Warner America and Pioneer Japan as backstage.
Warner Pioneer helps introduce foreign films to Japan, which is very reliable compared to other film companies.
Of course, even if Warner Pioneer plans to introduce Cao Zhiqiang's "Love in the Ancient Pavilion", it will have to be submitted for review first.
To put it simply, even if Warner Pioneer thinks the film is good, it must first be reviewed by Yinglun, which is the Film Ethics Management Committee.
Only after "Ying Lun" has passed the review can it be officially released.
Another point is that the procedures Cao Zhiqiang used this time are unreasonable.
Because "Love in the Ancient Pavilion" is a foreign film, it must go through customs first.
However, when Cao Zhiqiang came to Japan this time, because he did not take the initiative to declare customs, and the Japanese airport did not take the initiative to ask or check this matter, Cao Zhiqiang brought in all the master tapes of the movie, and the Japanese customs did not know about it.
Therefore, strictly speaking, Cao Zhiqiang’s behavior is illegal.
Of course, if Cao Zhiqiang does not show the contents of the master tape for public screening, there will be no problem. But if he wants to come to Japan for public screening, he still has to go through customs first. After passing customs, he will take it to Yinglun for review. , Ying Lun passed the review, and then it was the Japanese film distribution company's turn to help distribute it.
However, this kind of thing is trivial to people like Yamamoto Tokuhara.
As long as Cao Zhiqiang agrees to let Warner Pioneer distribute the film, he can help with customs clearance and sending it to Yinglun for review.
There is no way, don't think that Japan is a rule of law society that does not care about relationships and everything is implemented in accordance with the law. That is for ordinary people.
For a big boss like Yamamoto Tokugen, anything illegal is trivial.
But to be on the safe side, you still need to go through the basic process.
To put it simply, Yamamoto Tokuhara will first say hello to Japanese customs, and then Cao Zhiqiang will have the master film taken back home, then come to Japan again, and then just declare it normally when he comes to Japan.
Because Yamamoto Tokuhara sent someone to say hello in advance, the customs will basically release it quickly. After all, Cao Zhiqiang's movie is a pure love story, there is no excessive plot, and it is easy to pass the normal review and approval, but it will be wasteful. some time.
And by having Yamamoto Tokugen find someone to greet you, you can save a lot of customs review time.
Also, if Cao Zhiqiang still wants to get Chinese movies for distribution in Japan in the future, he can also call Yamamoto Tokuyuan in advance to confirm. At that time, Yamamoto Tokuyuan will also ask someone to say hello to the customs, so that Cao Zhiqiang can get it later. Once the film has been reviewed by Japanese customs, it can also go through the fast track.
Therefore, even in a modernized and legalized Japan, relationships are still very important.
In fact, even if you don't go through this procedure, Yamamoto Tokuhara can completely ask Japanese customs to issue a customs clearance document. He only needs to change the date, just a few days in advance.
It's just that in this way, it will cost more favors, and some traces will eventually be left, so it is better to let Cao Zhiqiang bother a little more and send someone to go through the normal procedures for customs declaration. In this way, if someone wants to find trouble afterwards, Can't find the gap.
For this reason, Cao Zhiqiang has decided to send Anping to take the Japanese version of "Love in the Ancient Pavilion" back to the country, and then come to Japan in the name of business to declare the film normally.
It takes some time to go back and forth, and during this time, Cao Zhiqiang can do many things that he doesn't want Anping to know.
For example, if you secretly set up an offshore company in Japan and then transfer the US$500 million provided by the country in batches, Anping cannot know about these things.
Due to the huge sales of the previous song "Kun no Tsuki" and the subsequent collaborations, although Cao Zhiqiang proposed to pay the remuneration in advance, Warner Pioneer still agreed.
In this way, Warner Pioneer first sent the money to Sada Office, and then Sada Office issued a bearer check to Cao Zhiqiang, plus some Japanese yen cash.
After Cao Zhiqiang received the check and cash, he asked Masashi Sada's younger brother, Nori Sada, to help him find an intermediary that specialized in offshore companies.
In this way, Cao Zhiqiang consulted the financial intermediary and finally chose to purchase an offshore company registered in the Cayman Islands.
That's right, it's just a purchase, not a new registration.
Because registering a new company will be troublesome, requiring a lot of personal information to be filled in, and it will take a certain amount of time.
Purchasing an existing offshore company is simple. You only need to pay money. The processing time is very fast, and you don’t need to fill in real information. You can also fill in false information.
However, it costs a little more to buy this kind of existing offshore company, because there is usually a higher premium than a normally registered company.
The advantage is that this method of purchasing offshore companies anonymously is more secretive and difficult to trace.
Of course, there are no real secrets in the world, and you can find them if you insist on looking.
For example, if you find the intermediary who handles this business for Cao Zhiqiang, you can know the relationship between Cao Zhiqiang and this offshore company.
However, as long as Cao Zhiqiang goes back to other countries and regions and modifies his offshore company, such as changing the company name and changing the company account, he can dive again. In this way, Cao Zhiqiang will be given It is also difficult for the intermediary handling this business to find the connection with Cao Zhiqiang through the original company name and account number.
In the final analysis, the key point of this kind of offshore company and account is to keep it secret.
In other words, it is the name of this offshore company, as well as the account number and password. The fewer people know about it, the better.
Especially the account number and password should only be known by everyone.
As for establishing a few more offshore company accounts and then transferring them back and forth, the method is good, but it is not necessary yet.
The reason is that China's current financial system is a relatively independent system and does not belong to the British or American financial systems. It is difficult or even impossible to trace each other.
Relatively speaking, the British financial system is currently more secretive. Even the British government cannot check it casually. The reason why the Cayman Islands are so popular is that it belongs to the financial system of the British Empire and has better privacy and confidentiality. Stronger sex.
In short, after purchasing an offshore company in the Cayman Islands in Japan and re-establishing his own secret account and new password, Cao Zhiqiang finally had a place to hide secret funds.
In this way, the so-called "fog" organization will become more presentable.
At least the domestic cash check given to Cao Zhiqiang can be put to use.
Five hundred million U.S. dollars may seem like a large amount, but that is only for China.
In fact, in the European and American financial systems, US$500 million is just a small splash and cannot make waves at all.
Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang only divided the money twice and transferred all the US$500 million to his newly established offshore company account, completely settling down.
It was possible to get it done so quickly, thanks to the awesomeness of HSBC.
That's right, domestic cash checks made to Cao Zhiqiang are from HSBC, so as long as there is an HSBC bank, you can see the check and withdraw the money.
In addition, HSBC has business dealings with the Cayman Islands. You can transfer money directly and anonymously to the offshore company account in the Cayman Islands, and you only need to pay a small handling fee.
The so-called anonymity does not mean that HSBC staff will help you transfer money, but that they will give you a small room with a computer and tell you how to operate it. Then you enter the bank account number and password to which you want to transfer money, and then transfer the money yourself.
The bank account number of the offshore company purchased by Cao Zhiqiang belongs to Cayman Bank, so as long as you enter the anonymous account number of Cayman Bank, you can transfer the money yourself.
During the whole process, HSBC staff were not on site to watch. Even the account to which the money was transferred was a temporary account that you created yourself, and you can destroy it after you transfer the money.
In this way, absolute confidentiality can be achieved.
Of course, there is a more secret way, which is to take the cash check directly to a bank in the Cayman Islands, such as Cayman Bank and Cayman International Bank, and pay directly with the check locally.
Cao Zhiqiang does not need to go to the Cayman Islands in person yet. He only needs to transfer the money to the secret account in the Cayman Islands through HSBC.
Anyway, with China's current capabilities, even if Cao Zhiqiang only has that anonymous account and doesn't move around in different offshore accounts, there will be no trace at all.
Let alone now, even if China's comprehensive strength and economic power rank second in the world in 2023, it will not be able to achieve this.
For the financial system dominated by the Western order, if you can't do it, you can't do it, unless you break the old order and establish a new one.
In fact, Cao Zhiqiang's request for the money from the country is really not because Cao Zhiqiang is greedy.
To put it bluntly, this is just Cao Zhiqiang's self-protection strategy.
Because it requires money, it can make the big guys in the country feel more at ease. If it doesn’t require money, it will easily make the big guys wary and make them think too much.
There is no way, the free ones are always the most expensive. Unless it is national-level aid, such as the aid from the Soviet Union, otherwise this kind of behavior of asking for nothing, just giving it for free, is not reliable no matter how you look at it, let alone this time It's even more impossible to give it a proper Western taste for free.
Because everyone knows that the current leader of the Western world is the Yankees, and the Yankees are not Soviets, and they will never give good things for free, unless the Yankees change their gender.
Don't say it's free. If the Yankees can ask you for less money and deceive you less, then you should pay more attention to it.
But the things Cao Zhiqiang gave, although they were not given for free, were all things that could not be bought internationally.
Let’s not talk about the F110 aviation engine, but let’s talk about the actual Tu-160 bomber with full bombs and technical information. Where can you buy these things?
Even if China has money now, knows that the Soviet Union has it, and begs the Soviet Union to buy it, the Soviet Union will not sell it.
In the same way, even if China and the United States are in the honeymoon period now, and China is begging the United States to sell B52 bombers with money, the United States will not sell them.
The reason is very simple. Strategic bombers that can carry cruise missiles are different from fighter jets. They are real weapons that can kill a country and no country will sell them easily.
Because a strategic bomber that can carry cruise missiles is basically equivalent to being able to carry nuclear bombs and is part of the nuclear triad.
Therefore, no nuclear power will sell this kind of strategic bomber.
Not to mention, the Tu-160 bomber is so advanced that, at least so far, no bomber can surpass this one.
Unless the U.S. B2 bombers and Lancer bombers are in service, the Tu160 bomber will be a perfect match.
And with this kind of bomber, it will make up for China's shortcomings in strategic aerial nuclear strike, allowing China to instantly join the ranks of the three major nuclear strike powers. This in itself is of extraordinary significance, so even if the country thinks that the price of 2 billion US dollars for these aircraft is too expensive, He gritted his teeth and accepted it with a smile.
In short, if such a powerful weapon is given to China in advance, and no money is required, everyone will be afraid, thinking that there is some conspiracy.
Now that Cao Zhiqiang is willing to ask for money, the big bosses in the country can feel more at ease, at least half assured.
As for the future, Cao Zhiqiang can wait until he is stronger and invest the money in the country in the form of overseas secret investments. By then, whether it is construction or charity, it will be great.
This is where the real wool comes from the sheep.
If I am not a patriot, then there are no real patriots!
(End of chapter)
