I am a literary giant in Japan

After listening to Kaoru's retelling, Kitagawa Hide was silent for a moment, then smiled and said to her: "I know. Thank you for your hard work, Kaoru-chan.

The director's last name is Fengjian, right? I will deal with this matter right away.

By the way, don’t take the bullshit he said to heart.”

"Teacher Kitagawa, I'm fine. I just feel like I embarrassed you in the company. I'm really sorry!"

Xunzi held the phone and bowed 90 degrees, feeling a little guilty.

She thought that this was a task that Teacher Beichuan had specifically instructed her to do, but she messed it up out of anger. Looking back now, she felt that this was really wrong.

I am indeed still too young and far from being able to become the successor of Mr. Kitagawa.

Kitagawa Hidetoshi comforted her softly and then turned the topic back to her studies.

Kyoto University, the University of Tokyo, Osaka University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology are collectively known as the "National Four", which are equivalent to the "Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University and Jiaotong University" next door. They are the dream schools of countless Japanese high school students.

Kitagawa Hide has always regarded Kaoruko as his own sister. Now that his sister has been admitted to such a prestigious school, he inexplicably feels a sense of relief like an old father who has finally made it.

“.After you arrive at school, remember to participate in more club activities to broaden your horizons and knowledge.

If you don’t have enough money, just ask your sister Mengzi for it.

Oh, by the way, before you go to school, you can find some time to get your driver’s license in Tokyo, and then I’ll buy you a car.”

"Ah, thank you, Mr. Beichuan! I, I have enough pocket money! I have saved a lot of money from working in the editorial department of Beichuan these days, and from filming before."

Kaoru quickly took out her small wallet from the drawer, which was filled with 100 yen bills and two bank cards with million yen in each.

All her savings added up are estimated to be close to 300 million yen.

Among Japanese female high school students in 1999, even those who engaged in compensated dating and "daddy work" probably did not have as much savings as her.

To some extent, Xunzi can be considered a small rich woman.

"Haha, it's no big deal. Just treat me and Sister Yumeko as your real brothers and sisters. If you have any difficulties, just call me directly, or you can find your sister Saito Reina.

Anyway, if something similar happens again in the future, don’t keep it to yourself, just come and tell us directly.”

In fact, Kitagawa Hide was more worried that the nonsense of Director Kazama would cause some psychological trauma to the innocent Kaoru, making her pure and innocent heart no longer as clear as a blank sheet of paper.

"Yes! I understand! I will study hard and create well in college, and I will never let Brother Beichuan and Sister Yumeko down!"

Xunzi is not a pretentious person. In her heart, she has long regarded Kitagawa Hide as a close relative who is both her teacher and brother. It's just that girls are shy and are embarrassed to say it to his face.

Now that Kitagawa Hide had given her a direct answer, she took the opportunity to replace the "Teacher Kitagawa" that she had always been talking about with "Brother Kitagawa".

After talking about academic issues, Kitagawa Hide told Kaoru some special things that need to be paid attention to when studying in college.

Feeling that the time was almost up, Kitagawa Hide hung up the phone and called Senhara Masato, who was worried about the listing of Kitagawa Finance.

Today, Kitagawa Hide is no longer alone. He has many loyal fans around him, covering all walks of life in Japan, so he can find the right person no matter what he wants to do.

When Masato Senhara heard that Mr. Kitagawa suddenly wanted to investigate a consortium family far away in Sapporo, he was a little confused, but he still did as he was told.

After a while, Masato Senhara called him back.

"Teacher Kitagawa, my people have already sent all the information about the Kazama Group.

I just looked carefully. The Kazama Group is one of the largest groups in Sapporo. Its industries are mainly industrial. It controls about 15% of the companies in Sapporo. The actual controller is the Kazama family.

Kitagawa Financial also responded, saying that the total assets of the Kazama family are now about 1500 billion yen, and the backer behind them is the current Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, His Excellency Naoto Kan. "

From the tone of Mr. Kitagawa's voice, Masato Senhara knew that this Kazama Group had most likely offended Mr. Kitagawa, and that it was the kind of conflict that worthy of Mr. Kitagawa's personal attention and intervention.

I don't know which blind guy had the bad luck to provoke Mr. Kitagawa who has such a good temper. How stupid!
The total assets of 1500 billion yen are similar to those of the Kawaide family a few years ago.

If it weren't for the trip to Thailand and the subsequent harvesting trip to Southeast Asia, Masato Senhara might still be somewhat wary of this kind of lower-level consortium.

After all, even Kitagawa, the number one figure in the Japanese literary world, has a total income of less than 100 billion yen in more than three years just from literary income, which is far from comparable to a consortium of this level.

If they have to confront them head-on, the Beichuan family will have to suffer a lot.

But these days are different.

The total assets of the Kitagawa Group have now exceeded 1 trillion yen. In terms of size alone, it is more than six times that of the Kazama Group!

Even if Kitagawa Entertainment is taken out alone, its total assets exceed 3000 billion yen, which is twice that of the Kazama Group.

Therefore, Masato Senhara only mourned for the Kazama Group in his heart for a few seconds, and then changed the topic back to the confidential information.

Kitagawa Hide doesn't know much about business and doesn't like to deal with these trivial matters.

It is precisely because of this that the internal situation of Beichuan is filled with factions and chaos due to the executive directors.

This was something he had never imagined.

Fortunately, the incident with Kaoru made Kitagawa Hide realize in advance that the operation of the company also needs to be managed by professionals, and cannot be simply delegated to some messy people.

After listening to Senhara Masato's report, Kitagawa Hide simply and directly stated his needs, and then asked him to go to the high-end talent market to help find management talents who are good at running a company.

In fact, even if Kitagawa Hide didn't mention this matter, he has been very busy recently and accidentally discovered that there was also serious corruption within Kitagawa Finance, and Senhara Masato was also ready to talk to him about the issue of holding management positions.

After the two reached an agreement on the matter, Senhara Masato still mentioned before going to work: "Teacher Kitagawa, Mr. Kan Naoto..."

"I will talk to Minister Naoto Kan in person, so you don't have to worry about it." Kitagawa Hide hung up the phone and then made an urgent call to Naoto Kan's secretary.

At this time, Naoto Kan, who was in the office recalling the plot of "The Crucible", suddenly changed his face after listening to his secretary's retelling of this ridiculous thing, and he directly criticized the Kazama Group in his heart!

Because of the stupid behavior of that idiot Maehara Seiji, the New Democratic Party and Mr. Kitagawa inexplicably became enemies. Although I have a good personal relationship with Mr. Kitagawa, we can be considered close friends.

But personal relationships are personal relationships, and political stance and party issues are still difficult to avoid, which is why Naoto Kan has always been reluctant to visit Mr. Kitagawa frequently.

As the current leader of the New Democratic Party, his external identity is exactly the opposite of the current Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, and he is a complete enemy.

If he frequently visited Kitagawa Hide, it would easily damage his prestige within the party and make people doubt Kitagawa's political stance.

Choosing the lesser of two evils, Naoto Kan finally decided to have as little contact with Mr. Kitagawa as possible in public, which would be better for both of them.

However, this also meant that Naoto Kan was unable to establish the deepest friendship with Mr. Kitagawa like Nobutaka Machimura did.

Many people in Japanese politics now regard Mr. Kitagawa as a dazzling "lucky star", even though he has repeatedly stated that he will not participate in politics or discuss state affairs, and even as a member of parliament he basically does not show up or attend meetings.

But no one wants to have an enemy relationship with such a "lucky star".

After all, who wouldn’t be afraid and in awe of something so mysterious?
It was under such circumstances that Naoto Kan racked his brains to establish diplomatic relations with Mr. Kitagawa. For this purpose, he did not hesitate to lower his status and invited Toshiyuki Karasawa to dinner and chat many times to ensure that he could often gain favor with Mr. Kitagawa.

then!

All the efforts he had made these days were ruined by a stupid teammate who he didn't even think of for a moment!
How infuriating!
Not long after "The Crucible" was released, it caused quite a stir in Japan and around the world.

Especially those special groups, who are now hanging out with the young people from the volunteer association all day long. Recently, they are either marching outside the Parliament building or distributing leaflets and writing petitions in various busy areas of Tokyo.

The issue of welfare and social recognition for the deaf and mute will obviously become one of the important topics in the next stage.

As the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare and one of the strong contenders for the next few prime ministers, Naoto Kan has already contacted the Japan Deaf Mutual Aid Association and is preparing to use the influence of Mr. Kitagawa to do some public welfare and charity activities!
It's better now.

Before any charity activities were held, the consortium under his control had somehow offended Mr. Kitagawa.

It's still a situation that looks like it will end to the death.

Regardless of what the actual relationship between Naoto Kan and the Kazama Group is, he believes that in the eyes of Mr. Kitagawa, he is now most likely not much different from Seiji Maehara, who is in cahoots with the Ci Ai Group.

This is really like yellow mud falling into the crotch - it's shit if it's not!

"call--"

Naoto Kan held the copy of "Mass" in his hand, glanced at the small poster of "Children in the Dark" which was already being pre-heated, and he let out a long breath, his face looking gloomy and ugly.

The secretary standing by was also feeling a headache.

"Sir, I have already sent someone to notify the Kazama Group. I expect to hear back in the evening."

He hesitated, then considered his words and whispered to Kan Naoto,

"Sapporo is an important election city for the New Democratic Party, and the voters there are more willing to support you than Senator Maehara. If you punish the Kazama Foundation as Mr. Kitagawa said, it may be bad for you."

"so what?"

Naoto Kan interrupted him impatiently, and then slammed the poster in his hand on the desk.
“They are just voters in one city. Even if all of them choose to support me, they cannot be my biggest help.

Besides, it’s hard to say whether they favor the Kazama Group or Mr. Kitagawa more.

It is true that the Kazama Group is the local boss of Sapporo City.

But don’t forget that Mr. Kitagawa is a top writer loved by the whole nation!

A low-level financial group that only knows how to suck the blood of the people, and a top-notch writer who can serve as a weathervane for the nation's thoughts, and you actually asked me to choose the former?"

"No, no, sir, that's not what I meant!" The secretary didn't expect Naoto Kan to react so strongly, and he didn't expect his boss to value Mr. Kitagawa more than a consortium with total assets exceeding 1500 billion yen!
This is really sensational!
"I know you don't mean that, but in the future when it comes to matters related to Mr. Beichuan, you should understand my attitude and position."

Kan glared at him and made his point very clear.

In this regard, he had already learned the essence from his senior Nobutaka Machimura.

As long as you follow Mr. Kitagawa's steps, the light of "lucky star" will always shine on your head.

On the contrary, the fate of Ryutaro Hashimoto is the best example.

"Yes, sir! I understand what you mean!" The secretary almost put his head on his leather shoes.

"Well, I understand. Let's do it right away."

Naoto Kan picked up the "Mass" and flipped through a few pages, then stopped him before he left.
"Oh, right. You can ask someone to report the illegal cases of the Charity School for the Deaf and Mute revealed in The Crucible to the Ministry of Justice a few times.

I can also use my connections at the National Police Agency and the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office to smooth things over.

Since the actual controller of the Ci Ai Group is Seiji Maehara, it should not be difficult to obtain some substantial evidence from the party. You can do it.

Also, isn't there going to be a rating system for the book Children of the Dark? You should immediately send someone to the Ministry of Education to smooth things over and say it was my idea.

This is the most important thing, so go do it first!"

"Yes, sir!" The secretary now completely understood Naoto Kan's thoughts, and immediately ran to the floor where the officials from the Ministry of Education gathered.

He rushed there with a pile of information, and was shocked to find that the Ministry of Education's office area, which was previously deserted and completely unpopular, has now become a popular government building.

After getting off the internal elevator, he found that civil servants heading to the Ministry of Education were almost lining up at the elevator entrance.

Is there any important meeting coming up?
The secretary was stunned. He didn’t remember!

He squeezed into the crowd with the pile of information in his arms, and was about to ask a colleague when he looked up and was surprised to find a large sign outside the Ministry of Education's office area. It read: "Colleagues participating in the discussion meeting on the proposal for a literary rating system proposed by "Children in the Dark", please go to the right."

The secretary was stunned again, and then saw a large wave of civil servants heading towards the large conference room on the right like a wave. Few people went to the left.
Is this what everyone came for?

He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Has someone come to the Ministry of Education to speak up for Mr. Kitagawa?" (End of this chapter)