I am a literary giant in Japan

The next morning.

With the first draft of "A Wonderful Journey" that he had just written last night, Kitagawa Hide got into the special car driven by driver Kinoshita and rushed to the headquarters building of Kitagawa Entertainment.

After the last ribbon-cutting ceremony, Kitagawa Hide basically never came here again.

He was really not interested in doing business and running a company. In the beginning, when the company was busy with affairs and many things needed the final say from him as the big boss behind the scenes, he would occasionally run around and work on the two magazines, "Beichuan" and "Dazhong".

After everything was on track, Kitagawa Hide quickly became a hands-off boss and devoted himself to studying the literary theory and writing techniques of this world.

Did not expect ah.

While I was fighting and making progress on the front line, someone took advantage of the situation in the rear and almost stepped on my head!
Kitagawa Hide is recognized for his good temper, and he never treats his employees as coldly and ruthlessly as the big capitalists.

Even during the worst period of the Great Depression, countless Japanese people were proud to get a job at Kitagawa-affiliated companies.

But his good temper depends on the person.

Director Kazama angrily scolded Kaoruko and stepped on his head in an attempt to control "Kitagawa", which touched his sore spot.

The driver, Kinoshita, could also feel the aura of Mr. Kitagawa, which was completely different from usual.

He had smelled this familiar smell before on President Lao Hechu, who was very ruthless and highly respected.

That is the murderous aura that only top business tycoons have!
Driver Kinoshita mourned for Director Kazama for a few seconds in his heart, then turned the steering wheel and skillfully parked the car in Kitagawa Hide's exclusive parking space.

All other parking spaces next to this exclusive parking space are full of Japanese and German luxury cars, and the owners are all senior management of Beichuan Entertainment.

In other words, even if Mr. Kitagawa didn't mention anything, but just released the news that he would come to the company today, all the senior executives put down their work and rushed back to the company to be on standby.

Driver Kinoshita had only seen this kind of cohesion and popularity in Shizuko Kawaide.

But that was because Shizuko Kawaide relied on the prestige and popularity accumulated by the Kawaide family over a hundred years, and she had repeatedly broken the perceptions of the company's top executives and proved herself with many examples, which earned her this recognition.

It seems that Mr. Beichuan has never paid much attention to Beichuan Entertainment.
After getting off the car, Kitagawa Hide walked into the headquarters building with driver Kinoshita with a serious expression.

The receptionist and the female receptionist at the door were already prepared. They almost vomited while reciting the welcome speech that their superiors asked them to give last night.

Seeing Kitagawa Hide coming, several people lined up and bowed 90 degrees. But before they could say any words of welcome, they heard a warm "Thank you for your hard work". Then they looked up again, but Kitagawa Hide was no longer there.

"So handsome."

"So young"

“So majestic”

These are their various impressions of Mr. Kitagawa when they first met him.

Kitagawa Hideichi went upstairs, then got into the elevator and went straight to the large conference room on the 23rd floor.

Along the way, all the employees he met admired and respected him. Their bows and greetings were sincere and without any pretense.

The longer they stayed in the Kitagawa Entertainment headquarters building, the more driver Kinoshita, who followed Kitagawa Hide, could feel the cohesion among the middle and lower levels of Kitagawa Entertainment.

It is highly likely that these employees are all on Mr. Beichuan's side.

If it were the Warring States Period, I guess if Mr. Kitagawa waved the flag and shouted, this group of people would turn into soldiers and rush towards his enemies without any hesitation.

The reason why Kitagawa Hide has such high prestige and popularity in the company is nothing but money!
He paid the employees of Beichuan Entertainment 1 to 1.5 times the salary of their peers. Not to mention the welfare benefits, all were at the highest level and not at all harsh.

Moreover, Hechu Shufang's operating philosophy that the company is a big family and the employees are all family members was also completely replicated by him.

He pays his employees enough money, treats them as human beings, and lets them see the future, giving them hope during an economic depression. Who wouldn't be happy and who wouldn't love him?

It’s just that this approach doesn’t work well for senior management.

Senior management is a bunch of financially free guys. They want more and are more greedy. To satisfy them, they have to exploit the lower levels.

This is why the top management betrayed Kawaide Shobo when it encountered a big problem and Kawaide Shizuko was unable to make ends meet.

You can only choose between the elite class and the ordinary class.

However, this problem does not apply to Beichuan Entertainment.

Hide Kitagawa has plenty of money to run the company.

Unless he suddenly falls ill one day and invests all his money in some junk, and refuses to listen to advice and commits suicide, he may squander his family fortune in his lifetime and encounter the same problem that Shizuko Kawaide encountered.

Therefore, senior executives who have some understanding of the Beichuan family, even if they are dissatisfied with the current operating model of the company, would never dare to show any disloyalty at this time.

On the contrary, the more Mr. Kitagawa takes action, the more loyal and reliable they have to show!

Here, Kitagawa Hide was leading everyone to the conference room, while over there, Director Kazama, who had not slept all night, was huddled in his seat. There was no one around him for several meters, and he looked like a death row prisoner who was about to be shot.

He thought about it all night but couldn't figure out why the family gave him an ultimatum just after he "instructed" an intern.

Forget it!
Looking back at the company, although he is one of the major shareholders with real power, he is like a plague god. Everyone avoids him for fear of having anything to do with him.
Shouldn't the one who should be despised be the guy who used his power to help a mere intern and his little female lover? !

How come I, who only care about the company, the board of directors and shareholders, have become the target of public criticism?
Director Kazama couldn't figure it out, and he didn't have time to think about it anymore.

Because Kitagawa Hide had already led people to push open the door of the conference room.

"President Kitagawa! Good afternoon!"

The huge crowd stood up and bowed 90 degrees to the young man at the door to express their respect and fear.

Outside, they are all well-known figures in the publishing industry, but here, I am afraid that young man cannot even call out all their names.

Kitagawa Hide nodded slightly and walked straight to the first seat, but he did not sit down. Instead, he waited for everyone to take their seats. After calming down, he scanned the area with his eyes.

Director Fengjian lowered his head and felt a sharp gaze directed at him, and he didn't dare to look up.

It was like a student who was caught doing bad things while slacking off in class by the head teacher. He wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into, but the crack didn't open, and all his classmates' eyes were looking over at him.

"What mistake did she make?" Kitagawa Hide's face was cold and he threw the proposal documents on the literary magazine rating system on the table in front of Director Kazama.

"She...sacrificed the interests of the company." When Director Fengjian was reprimanded in person, he still did not dare to raise his head or look directly into the young man's eyes.

He hesitated and couldn't explain what he meant.

In fact, Kaoru did nothing. She just acted as a messenger, handed over a manuscript, and stated Kitagawa Hide's needs.

The person he really wanted to intimidate was Kitagawa Hide.

But he knew that he would never be able to give Kitagawa Hide any respect in his life, so he caught Kaoru and had a good and seemingly tenable reason, so he put all his efforts into it.

"Ignoring the interests of the company?"

Beichuan Xiu did not push him, but glanced at the document on the table calmly and said slowly,
“If this is the case, there is nothing wrong with superiors teaching subordinates a lesson.

But Kaoru was only making requests to the board of directors on my behalf; she didn't have any personal thoughts or opinions.

Director Kazama, do you mean that I have disregarded the interests of the company?"

"I... I didn't." Director Fengjian was overwhelmed. What a joke.

Everyone knows that Beichuan Xiu holds more than 80% of Beichuan Entertainment.

Compared with him, the so-called major shareholders like Fengjian are no different from small shrimps.

The so-called interests of the company, to put it bluntly, are the interests of Hide Kitagawa.

Even if Kitagawa Hide really doesn't care about his own interests, others have nothing to refute.

He said this just to find an excuse to save face.

I didn't expect that Kitagawa Hideki, who is well-mannered and famous for his literature, would be so violent in business events and not give people a chance to breathe.

He was stunned, unable to say anything back.

“First, a literary magazine classification system is imperative, which is something the Ministry of Education and the Diet has mentioned in the past few years.

Otherwise, a mixed literary market will cause people to lose their judgment, especially mentally immature minors. It is definitely not a good thing for them to be exposed to things that are not suitable for their age group too early.

Second, this classification is a pilot project for "Children in the Dark". I believe everyone here has read the manuscript of this novel to some extent.

I want to ask, does anyone think that it does not need to be classified and can be sold to the general public? "

Kitagawa Hide looked at everyone.

The conference room was completely silent, and no one dared to respond to him.

In order to keep up with today's meeting, these senior executives did a lot of cramming on Children of the Dark.

The novel was very short and more like a movie script, making them feel that it was written by Mr. Kitagawa specifically for adaptation.

The description of the Thai welfare home for deaf and mute children in the first few chapters alone made them feel extremely physically uncomfortable.

If "The Crucible" is the reality under a beautiful fantasy, then "Children in the Dark" is the completely dark real world.

Mr. Kitagawa's sharp brushstrokes directly depict a bloody picture, which makes people feel angry and sad for the protagonist of the story and everything in the novel.

This opening sentence.

"How cruel and brutal can the harm to children be?
Some of the bestiality that humans commit is beyond our imagination.”

This is the best description of the whole book.

There are even executive directors who think that it should not be graded as R18, and perhaps R20 or even R22 would be better.

Because this novel is so cruel and depressing.

"Since there is no objection, why are you trying so hard to stop it, Director Kazama?"

Kitagawa Hide looked back at the middle-aged bald man.

I guess at least half of the Kazama family want to hack this idiot to death.

There are countless members of such consortiums who just sit there doing nothing and rely on their family influence to climb up to senior management positions in certain companies.

Maybe there are some in "Beichuan", and maybe there are quite a few in "Mass" and "Literature and Art" as well.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

Japan is a country where the power of the conglomerate is higher than that of the government. Small places are controlled by small conglomerates, large places are controlled by medium-sized conglomerates, and the country is manipulated by six large conglomerates.

It is normal that the vast number of companies are filled with people with connections.

But although these people have poor abilities and are useless just sitting there every day, few of them are as stupid as Director Fengjian, who would become arrogant and intend to fight against the company's owners.

Director Kazama had no way of replying and could only blush as a man who was a dozen years younger than him pointed at his nose and scolded him.

"The rating system is good for the market, good for readers, and good for publishers. Otherwise, if it continues to develop, sooner or later the Ministry of Education will interfere with and control the content of literature. At that time, it will not be a question of whether to rate or not, but a question of whether you can write and whether you are allowed to write."

Kitagawa Hide came from next door, and some countries, just like the one next door, have implemented a one-size-fits-all system for the entertainment industry.

The system itself is neither good nor bad, it’s just the view of those in power on the industry.

However, different systems will create completely different soil and environment for the industry.

If we adopt a one-size-fits-all approach, there will inevitably be a large amount of content that cannot be written. The soil and environment will shrink, making it easy for a Gu King to emerge, but it will also easily kill off many interesting topics and content.

The grading system can allow a hundred schools of thought to contend and a hundred flowers to bloom, while preserving the diversity of subject matter to a greater extent.

Both methods have their pros and cons, but for publishing houses, a grading system is definitely better than a one-size-fits-all approach.

As for whether being a guinea pig might lead to the sudden death of this issue of "Beichuan", Beichuan Xiu never cared about it or thought about it.

"Children in the Dark" is of high enough quality and topical popularity, plus it was written by him. Instead of trying to attract some unsuitable audiences, it is better to classify it early and target the audience more closely.

Being able to read graded books can also give some readers a certain sense of superiority.

The key point is that this is the first time that Kitagawa has made such a decision, and this issue of the magazine will inevitably be recorded in the history of Japanese literature.

This is not an honor that can be made up for by sales volume.

Once the truth is explained, everyone is smart and can figure it out.

Director Kazama just never thought that the matter would become so serious, nor did he think that there would be so many people supporting the grading system. He also never thought that Teacher Kitagawa was no longer the little security guard who only knew how to write.

He is not Noma Sawako or Noma Airi, who still have some fighting power to fight against Mr. Kitagawa.

He is just a street kid.

"Director Kazama, it is precisely because your Kazama family and I, as well as Kitagawa Entertainment, have a lot of cooperation that I, the president with an hourly salary of 100 million yen, would have so much to say to you, the executive director with an hourly salary of only 5113 yen!
The reason why I am willing to establish Beichuan is not to support a piece of trash like you who has no great value in existence!

It is to allow more young people who love literature to join in, shine and find a home of their own!"

Beichuan Xiu picked up the information on the table, and did not intend to let him continue to read it. After saying this, he turned around and added,
"But it's also true that it's normal for a loser who only makes 5113 yen an hour and whose mind is full of money to not understand literature. If you could understand this, you wouldn't spew so much shit.

We at Beichuan don't need a manager like you, so go to the Human Resources Department to settle the remaining salary."

"I am Kitagawa Hide! I still hold about 3% of the company's shares." Director Fengjian's eyes were red and he spoke without thinking.

"Oh, I have bought back all those shares from your family." Beichuan Xiu didn't expect that his final counterattack would be to use the confidence given by his family to threaten him. The slight displeasure that had arisen in his heart disappeared in an instant.

A mere 3% of the shares, worth only about 100 billion yen, was dealt with by Senhara Masato before he came.

These shares were even sold at a low price to Beichuan Finance by the Kazama family in order to ease the relationship between them and him.

Director Fengjian's eyes widened, unable to believe that within just one meeting, he had become a pauper with nothing.

At this moment, he finally realized the humiliation of going to the Human Resources Department to settle his salary. (End of this chapter)