The letter said: "The current management team has been making meaningless investments and neglecting its duty to reward shareholders. We should force the current management team to step down, transform the company from the ground up, cut unnecessary expenses, and give more back to the shareholders."
It was extremely difficult to ensure that shareholders correctly understood the company's actual operations.
Hideyoshi Ushiromiya had worked himself to the bone for the company, yet his achievements were maliciously distorted. He lost the shareholders' trust, and the shares controlled by this hostile force had begun to approach half of the total.
By this point, Hideyoshi Ushiromiya had also realized something was wrong and started buying back shares. But once the shareholders learned that someone was aggressively acquiring the company's stock, they put sky-high prices on both the shares Hideyoshi wanted to purchase and the proxies for the shareholders' meeting, leaving Hideyoshi, who had no room to negotiate, at a loss.
When both sides wanted the same thing, its value rose. That was the inevitability of capitalism.
And the side that won the majority vote could control everything. That was the inevitability of democracy.
In the end, whoever acquired more shares would be the winner.
In other words, whoever could raise more money would win everything.
Hideyoshi Ushiromiya had already been driven to the edge of a cliff. If he could not obtain a large sum of money, there was no guarantee he would not lose the company he had painstakingly built from the ground up—
So he desperately needed a large amount of cash immediately.
He had no time to slowly wait for Kinzo, who had no idea when he would die, to pass away. He had no time to wait for his inheritance.
"I heard things have been rather troublesome on your