Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 1029 End of Overseas Trip
On a road within the campus of Pengcheng University.

Hideki Hanyu, accompanied by official reception staff from Pengcheng and a group of leaders from Pengcheng University, is visiting Pengcheng University to see the changes that have taken place over the years.

I still remember the last time he came here, he was invited as a guest to attend the founding ceremony and opening ceremony of Pengcheng University.

Seven years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Pengcheng University is about to send off its fourth graduating class.

The once somewhat haphazard campus has now become exquisite and beautiful.

When the group followed the road, they arrived at a construction site.

A school leader standing next to Hideki Hanyu then took the initiative to introduce him, saying, "Mr. Hanyu, the construction site you are seeing now is the Mingxiu Building, which you donated."

Once completed, this building will serve as the most important research and teaching building in our university.

Pengcheng University will never forget Mr. [Name]'s support over the years.

"President, you're too kind. Pengcheng has provided tremendous help to my career development, and Pengcheng University was established under my own eyes. Both are of great significance to me. This small bit of help is just what I should do."

Hideki Hanyu spoke modestly, making polite remarks.

Of course, for him, this wasn't really just polite talk.

After all, since deciding to invest in Shenzhen, the city has indeed played an immeasurable role in his business development.

Putting aside everything else, Pengcheng has become an extremely important link in the current supply chain of Pokémon.

It is precisely because of this, coupled with Hideki Yuzuru's foresight regarding domestic development, that he has never stopped investing in China, particularly in Shenzhen, regardless of the external environment over the years.

Some are just more high-profile, while others are relatively unknown.

As for Pengcheng University, the university he personally witnessed being established, his donations of funds and equipment have never stopped over the years.

Therefore, the Mingxiu Tower in front of us is not the only one; it is just his latest donation.

Because of this, in the school's cultural corridor today, you can not only see photos of him attending the founding ceremony, but also a separate photo hanging in the honorary alumni section.

After visiting the construction site of Meishuro, Hideki Hanyu and the others visited other places.

Along the way, Hideki Hanyu gave interviews, took photos, and left messages; these procedures were naturally indispensable for his public outings.

After finishing all their tasks, the group headed to the conference room in the school's administration building to discuss the true purpose of their trip to Shenzhen.

Before entering the conference room, Hideki Hanyu saw two people.

One is Duan Yongping, who, with his support, helped Yu Pengcheng establish BBK Electronics and embark on a large-scale business venture, keeping him extremely busy.

The other is Ms. Zhou, an old friend of Hideki Hanyu, who comes from the Shenzhen government. Many years ago, she was just a junior employee, but now she has been promoted to a department leader.

Upon seeing the two, Hideki Yuzuru first politely said to Ms. Zhou, "Thank you for your support, Ms. Zhou."

Ms. Zhou quickly replied, "Mr. Yuzuru, you are too kind. If this matter is accomplished, it will be of great help to the development of Shenzhen. Of course, we will give it our full support."

Hideki Yuzuru then looked at Duan Yongping, “President Duan, in the plan we are pushing forward, although BBK is only playing a supporting role for now, it will soon play an important role, and I even hope it will be a major role, so President Duan must pay attention to it.”

Duan Yongping said with a wry smile, "Mr. Yuzuru, I still hope this can be extended a little longer. With the Elf game console about to be released, I really don't have time to pay attention to other things."

Hideki Yuzuru laughed and said, "When running a business, you can't take on everything yourself. You need to cultivate talent and learn to delegate. This way, you can relax and achieve twice the results with half the effort."

Furthermore, our next plan is to cultivate more talent, giving us more assistants.

At this point, Hideki Yuzuru felt that it was about time, so he called out to the two of them, "Everyone is waiting, we should go in too."

After saying this, Hideki Yuzuru, Ms. Zhou, and Duan Yongping walked into the conference room.

Inside the meeting room, the official leaders of Pengcheng, the school leaders of Pengcheng University, and other relevant personnel were all seated.

After the three entered, Ms. Zhou and Duan Yongping sat down according to their name tags, while Hideki Yuzuru walked to the front of the conference room.

Beside him was something covered by a red cloth.

He started by greeting everyone, and then pointed to something covered by a red cloth next to him and said something to everyone.

"I invited everyone to this meeting today specifically to introduce my company's latest strategic investment plan in Shenzhen."

At Hideki Hanyu's prompting, his assistant stepped forward and lifted the red cloth.

The next moment, a huge bird's-eye view appeared before everyone's eyes.

The renderings show all sorts of buildings, beautiful greenery, and roads, but those aren't the main point. The main point is the name of the rendering.

Pengcheng Elf Electronic Information Industrial Park

Decades from now, this will definitely be a very common name.

It all sounds like a grandiose, empty project using the gimmick of high-tech electronics and information to swindle land and investment from local authorities.

However, in 1990, this name sounded incredibly sophisticated, and many people present didn't even understand what it meant.

Seeing the different expressions on the faces of everyone present, Hideki Yuzuru spoke slowly and deliberately.

Before explaining the Pengcheng Elf Electronic Information Industrial Park in detail, I would like to tell you something else first.

If you know me, you should know that I founded a company called Elf Entertainment in the early 1980s.

Elf Entertainment's main business includes electronic pets, home game consoles, handheld game consoles, arcade games, game development, game publishing, copyright derivative products, as well as production, investment, publishing and retail businesses.

I'd say I've been quite lucky. Thanks to the years of hard work from everyone at Elf Entertainment, it's now the company with the largest market share in the global gaming industry, bar none.

When Hideki Hanyu said this, his tone seemed relaxed, as if he were joking, but the confidence in his tone and the domineering air of saying "there is none" were clearly evident in his words.

After sensing Hideki Hanyu's attitude, no one at the scene thought he was bragging; in fact, they thought he was being modest.

After all, most of the people who are here today know something about Hideki Hanyu.

Furthermore, the higher-ups had specially prepared a lot of information about Hideki Hanyu for today's meeting.

The data tells everyone that the global video game industry is now a huge market worth tens of billions of dollars.

And this only includes the video game itself, not the much larger number of peripheral merchandise.

In this vast industry, regardless of the specific segment, Hideki Hanyu's Elf Entertainment is undoubtedly the dominant force.

The name of Elf Supply Chain is well-known even in China.

So Hideki Hanyu, let alone being confident, even if he were to act arrogantly, would certainly have the right to be arrogant.

When talking about this, Hideki Hanyu did not go further by presenting data, talking about scale, or going into detail about the achievements of Elf Entertainment.

Because he was also very clear that everyone present knew him very well.

They might even know that he has two sons and three daughters.

He continued speaking in a firm and resolute tone.

"In the eyes of many, Elf Entertainment has achieved remarkable success. Whether it is hardware products or software games, it has reached the top of the industry and become a success model in the minds of many people."

However, what I want to tell you today is that Elf Entertainment's so-called "success" is actually just the beginning.

Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, and technological progress is changing rapidly. The gaming industry will certainly not remain at the stage of home consoles and handheld game consoles.

These are merely the current manifestations of the industry, not its final stage.

That's why I've always maintained a progressive and forward-looking perspective when observing and thinking about the entire gaming industry, and even the cutting-edge technologies that are subtly changing it.

For example, the PC platform, which is not yet highly valued in the overall gaming industry, is what we usually call computer games.

With the rapid advancements in graphics processing, computing power, and network environment, will it one day surpass mainframes and become the new mainstream?

For example, will America's cutting-edge internet technology, once mature, reshape the way games are released, the social models, and even the gameplay itself?

Looking further into the future, with the continued breakthroughs in mobile communication technology, will the form and experience of games undergo fundamental changes?

These possibilities are neither certain nor negligible.

All I know is that the future will never remain unchanged.

Therefore, Elf Entertainment's choice is not to wait, but to actively embrace this era of technological change.

We must innovate ourselves amidst change, constantly reshaping the industry while also constantly reinventing ourselves.

However, achieving these goals certainly cannot be accomplished simply by talking and shouting slogans.

For Elf Entertainment to avoid being left behind by the times, it needs substantial financial investment, solid industrial development, and a continuous stream of talent.

At this point, Hideki Hanyu pointed to the bird's-eye view rendering beside him.

"That's why the Elf Electronic Information Industrial Park plan came about."

In my plan, the main role of the industrial park is to promote industrial upgrading and regional economic development through professional services.

Its core function is mainly reflected in cultivating emerging industries, relying on resource integration and collaboration, combining talent and technological advantages, and then, with policy support, ultimately incubating a complete and systematic industrial chain.

Therefore, please do not assume that this industrial park is only for serving Elf Entertainment or belongs to Elf Entertainment.

Its greatest role is actually to help Pengcheng develop a brand-new gaming industry around Elf Entertainment, thereby promoting the development of the entire industry in China.

Even after Hideki Yuzuru said this, some people still didn't understand.

To put it more bluntly, "To put it simply, the development of Elf Entertainment requires the support of a large number of partners and downstream companies."

On the hardware front, we welcome more creative and innovative companies to collaborate with us.

In terms of software, Elf Entertainment's game platform always lacks better and more popular games.

Overseas, the relevant industries and markets are already very mature, and there is no need for Elf Entertainment to do anything extra.

However, the industry and market are still immature in China, so Elf Entertainment is willing to be a pioneer and actively cultivate the industry and market.

With this explanation, even those unfamiliar with the gaming industry can somewhat understand what Hideki Hanyu meant.

On the one hand, like many other overseas companies, Elf Entertainment actively invests in China and cultivates the market in order to seize the domestic market first. On the other hand, because China lacks the relevant industrial base, Elf Entertainment has had to develop an industrial park plan to cultivate the software and hardware industries itself.

Everyone seemed to be deep in thought, and Hideki Yuzuru also breathed a sigh of relief.

Unlike in the future, when it comes to investing in China, the obstacles often lie not in the market, but in one's mindset.

The reason he wanted to promote this industrial park in Shenzhen was not as lofty as he claimed; it was simply a "three-pronged approach" to prepare for the future of Elf Entertainment.

Because he knew the future well, Elf Entertainment was aware that if it relied solely on its Japanese business model, it would inevitably suffer the same fate as Japanese companies like Nintendo and Sega, and would gradually be eliminated from the mainstream.

Looking at Japan's continued use of floppy disks and fax machines decades later, it's clear that no single company can reverse the traditional and conservative nature of society as a whole.

Do you really think that Japan didn't want to embrace the internet revolution and then failed to transform in the mobile internet era?

To a large extent, the scale and influence of traditional industries are too great, and conservative and traditional social consciousness dominates, directly affecting the cultivation of relevant talents, making it difficult for Japan to embrace new technologies.

Hideki Hanyu had absolutely no intention of playing the savior in this regard.

If neon isn't working, then he'll invest elsewhere.

As for betting entirely on Europe and America, Hideki Hanyu would not consider that either.

Relying on it for a short time is fine, but you can't put all your eggs in one basket.

Elf Entertainment is constantly building software and hardware R&D branches around the world, and the industrial park in Pengcheng is no exception.

Moreover, in Hideki Hanyu's view, China's training of technical talents and the research and application of new technologies are far superior to those abroad.

Most importantly, domestically, we are less susceptible to the influence of many inexplicable ideologies, which is especially important in game development.

If nurtured properly, Elf Entertainment will soon have a huge and endless supply of creative content.

Of course, all of this is predicated on a large number of professional talents.

This is why he held this meeting at Pengcheng University after finalizing the industrial park plan with Pengcheng officials.

That was what he wanted to promote: a school-enterprise joint targeted talent training model that would be common in later generations but rare in China today.

In this day and age, the only institution in China that could do this is Pengcheng University, located in the special economic zone of Shenzhen, which has a relatively short history and no historical baggage.

After everyone had finished processing what he had just said, Hideki Yuzuru told the leaders of Pengcheng University about his idea.

Even with all these preparations, even with Hideki Yuzuru's good "personal relationship" with Pengcheng University, and even with Pengcheng University having no historical baggage and being located in the special economic zone of Pengcheng.

School leaders still had serious disagreements regarding the school-enterprise joint talent training model proposed by Hideki Yuzuru.

It's not just about the school itself; we also need to consider the opinions of higher authorities and the social impact of such cooperation with foreign companies.

The result was that the meeting was held in the morning, but it lasted all day without any results.

The next day, November 8th.

As scheduled, Hideki Hanyu visited Pengcheng University in the morning, but not to discuss cooperation; instead, he gave a speech to students in the auditorium.

Hideki Hanyu naturally handled this kind of small-scale situation with ease.

Throughout the entire event, whether it was his speech or answering students' questions, he handled everything with ease and humor.

Of course, because of his good looks and his status as a writer, the students didn't try to make things difficult for him with their questions.

After concluding his campus visit, Hideki Hanyu still hadn't received a response from the school regarding the collaboration.

And so, Hideki Hanyu could only attend to his own business for the time being.

Besides handling his domestic business, he also had to deal with beautiful women.

For example, Ms. Yang, who had already started preparing her first album, came to Shenzhen in person to thank Hideki Yuzuru for his help to her family.

As for how to express gratitude, those who know, know.

After Miss Yang arrived, Zhou Wenqiong stayed with her for two days.

Ning Jing, who was studying at school, secretly contacted Yuzuru Hideki, but was politely rejected by the scumbag.

After all, if it weren't for the accident, Hideki Yuzuru wouldn't have been really interested in Ning Jing.

Once the initial novelty wore off, there was no longer any desire to maintain the relationship.

By November 12th, Hideki Hanyu had spent a week in Shenzhen, bringing his domestic trip to a close.

After Zhou Wenqiong left with Miss Yang, Yu Sheng Hideki waited in Pengcheng for someone who had been carefully brought from Jiangcheng.

That was the pregnant Sylna.

Upon meeting, Hideki Hanyu asked directly, "Why didn't you tell me you were pregnant?"

With her belly already showing slightly, Selna clearly wasn't planning on playing the typical "domineering CEO falls in love with me, and I'm going to run away with the baby" scenario.

With teary eyes and a pitiful look on my face, I replied, "I'm sorry, I'm just a little scared."

The next moment, the scumbag pulled the Xinjiang beauty into his arms, saying, "Don't be afraid now. I've already arranged a place for you to stay in Hong Kong. You can just go to Hong Kong to prepare for childbirth."

Sylna hugged Hideki Hanyu tightly, "I'll do whatever you say."

However, at that moment, his assistant came to inform Hideki Yuzuru that Pengcheng University had responded.

Hideki Yuzuru went to Pengcheng University immediately and finally heard the result from the university's leaders.

Pengcheng University agreed to the cooperation on targeted talent training, but did not want to cooperate directly under its own name. Instead, it wanted to jointly establish a new college with Hideki Hanyu.

The college is nominally independent, but in reality it shares school resources.

Of course, in order to cooperate, Hideki Hanyu also had to invest in the new academy.

In order to facilitate the fastest possible application for this cooperation to higher authorities, the school decided to merge the new college with the Mingxiu Building project.

Therefore, the new academy was ultimately named "Myeongsoo Academy".

Hideki Yuzuru had no objection to Pengcheng University's considerations and arrangements.

In his view, all he wanted was talent, and it didn't matter what name these talents were trained under.

Moreover, Hideki Yuzuru firmly believes that no matter how secretive and furtive Pengcheng University is in dealing with "Mingxiu College" now, it is all for naught.

But in the near future, the treatment at 'Mingxiu Academy' will definitely undergo a dramatic change.

After all, Hideki Hanyu's ambitions extend far beyond video games.

Moreover, the seemingly simple gaming industry can drive a wide range of related industries that are hard for many people to imagine.

Perhaps in the future domestic business world, "Mingxiu Academy" will become the Whampoa Military Academy for many industries.

After receiving a definite answer, Hideki Hanyu did not stay in Japan for long. After arranging the follow-up work, he took Selna by land to Hong Kong.

After arriving in Hong Kong, Hideki Hanyu settled Selna in a luxury mansion he had purchased in Mid-Levels East, stayed with her for a few more days, and finally returned to Japan on November 18.

Arriving at Haneda International Airport aboard the "Cloud Flight," Hideki Hanyu, who had been away from home for so long, almost forgot he was a time traveler the moment he stepped off the plane and onto the ground.

Fortunately, the overseas business layout is now almost complete, and it is estimated that there will be no more overseas trips for such a long time in the future.

As Hideki Hanyu left the airport through the dedicated passage, he saw his assistant, Tomoe Ishihara, holding a kitten named Nakoruru, waiting to pick him up by the roadside.

Although the little female cat was initially a bit resentful after being abandoned by her owner, Hideki Hanyu, she couldn't help but snuggle into his arms and cuddle affectionately after they got into the car together.

While "cuddling" the cat, Hideki Hanyu gave instructions to Tomoe Ishihara.

"Unless the sky falls, don't report any work to me. I just want to relax right now."

"Yes, Mr. Yuzuru."

Upon hearing this, Ishihara Chie closed the notebook that she had already opened.

Immediately afterwards, Hideki Hanyu spoke to Marco, who was driving.

"Go to Jiyugaoka to pick up the person first, and then go back to Yorozuya."

When going to Jiyugaoka, of course, it's to pick up Hiromi Takigawa and Yuko Kotegawa. As for why it's them, the scumbag can only say that he likes them.

Being with the pregnant woman, Selna, had been keeping him celibate for a while, and suddenly he started to crave the mature beauties of Japan.

“Yes, boss,” Marco replied.

And so, Hideki Hanyu's Rolls-Royce drove all the way to Jiyugaoka, picked up the two beauties, and then returned to Yorozuya.

After getting off the bus, Hideki Hanyu handed Nakoruru to the maid and housekeeper Machiko, then put his arm around one of them and went straight to the backyard to soak in the hot spring.

After a three-person game that went beyond just soaking in a hot spring, Hideki Hanyu was enjoying the tenderness of the two beauties when Asako came over with her mobile phone.

When I answered the phone, I heard the voice of Ishihara Chie, who had left not long ago.

"Mr. Yuzuru, there is something that is not work-related, but I must report it to you immediately."

Hideki Hanyu asked lazily, "What is it?"

Chie Ishihara said, "Shinsuke Ito's wife was just taken to the hospital; she's probably about to give birth."

"What? Which hospital were they taken to?"

If you do the math, Shinsuke Ito's second child is indeed due soon.

Now that he knows, he certainly can't just ignore it.

After Ishihara Chie mentioned the name of the hospital, Hanyu Hideki immediately patted the two beauties beside him.

"Get dressed and come with me to the hospital."

(End of this chapter)