Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 136: Cutting the Gordian knot

As soon as the two parties reached a cooperation agreement, Masato Takeshita immediately called partners including Tokyo Law Firm, Deloitte, and Yamaichi Securities.

He is not good at bargaining, so it is better to leave this matter to professionals.

Masato Takeshita had only one request, which was to obtain at least 1000 acres of land to prepare for the construction of office buildings, employee dormitories, and future expansion.

Yuriko Kagawa looked at the conditions of the plan written by her president and reminded him softly, "President, this is going to be a disadvantage for us."

"It doesn't matter. Many times when doing business with a country, you can't be too shrewd."

Matsumoto Manufacturing is indeed the loser in investing 5000 million US dollars in exchange for a central luggage factory with less than 500 employees and 2000 acres of industrial land.

You should know that in 1988, the commercial land auctioned by the Shanghai government was only more than 100 million US dollars per mu. An investment of 5000 million US dollars can buy more than 30 mu of commercial land in Shanghai.

Generally speaking, the price ratio between industrial land and commercial land in core areas of large cities is at least 100 times different.

In other words, converted into industrial land, Matsumoto Manufacturing should get at least 4000 acres.

But don't be too calculating in everything. If you keep calculating, you will end up suffering more losses.

"Yes, President."

Yuriko Kagawa still couldn't understand, but since the president had already given the order, she naturally chose to do as he ordered.

When it comes to ability to obey, nothing can surpass the Japanese.

Seeing this, Masato Takeshita shook his head helplessly.

This assistant is good in every way except that he is a little too stingy sometimes.

This kind of personality is not suitable for doing business, but is more suitable for supervisory work.

However, since he was his assistant, Masato Takeshita was still willing to waste his time and give him some advice.

"Mr. Kagawa, you have to remember this. Whether it's a company or an individual, you should be generous when necessary. A company that is too shrewd and never allows itself to suffer a loss will easily be deserted by its friends and family."

"Yes, President."

Yuriko Kagawa still couldn't understand, but since it was the president's request, she would do it 100% in the future.

"Well, go and do your work."

"Hi!"

Masato Takeshita watched his assistant leave and couldn't help shaking his head again.

"Woman, woman."

He knew that the girl still didn't understand what he meant, but this was something she could only figure out on her own.

The position of Marketing Director that she took up soon after was a test for her.

If you do well, you can be promoted to a higher position in the future.

If that doesn't work, then you can only take the supervisory route, and you are destined not to be the head of the company.

Currently, Xinghai Semiconductor has basically no business in flash memory, which is a good opportunity to test the marketing capabilities of its employees.

The Shanghai in 1987 always gave Masato Takeshita a magical feeling of time and space distortion.

The Huating Hotel is full of lights and nights. Although its decoration is full of contemporary characteristics, it is generally very modern.

Whether it is a wardrobe, sofa, desk or bed, it has a 21st century fashion sense.

But looking out through the hotel window, you can clearly see a lot of farmland.

The farmer was driving buffaloes to work in the fields, and you could even hear the mooing of the cows.

Masato Takeshita held a cup of tea and looked at everything outside the window, his mind full of daydreams.

Then he couldn't help but say with pride: "China is still the best!"

He was thinking about the differences between China and India.

The Shanghai government built the Huating Hotel next to farmland simply because the cost was low and construction was convenient there.

It is different in India, where the rich deliberately build their houses next to slums, just to enjoy the feeling of being superior to others and looking down on others.

So the farmlands near Huating Hotel were later turned into high-rise buildings.

However, the mansions of the rich Indians are still surrounded by slums that represent misery.

After dinner, Takeshita Masato looked at Li Jianguo, who was in charge of receiving him. "Mr. Li, can I go around for a walk?"

"Of course, where do you want to go, Mr. Takeshita?"

Li Jianguo has received instructions that except for some sensitive places, Masato Takeshita can wander around Shanghai freely.

"The Bund, I have longed for the Bund in Shanghai for a long time."

Masato Takeshita was very curious about what the Bund looked like now, whether it was slightly gray as he saw in the camera.

"Okay, please follow me."

The Shanghai government attached great importance to Masato Takeshita and prepared an Audi official car for him early on, which was on standby 24 hours a day.

"It is worthy of being the largest city in the Far East in the past. It is so beautiful."

The Bund is indeed not as grand and elegant as it will be in the future, mainly because of the lack of electricity and the lack of the charm of neon lights.

However, simplicity also has its advantages, which is that you can better appreciate the Huangpu River itself.

"Is this small western-style building open to external trade?"

Masato Takeshita pointed to the Western-style houses next to the Bund.

He really wanted to buy a house here, which would allow him to fulfill his extravagant wish of settling down in Shencheng in his previous life.

"I'll tell you the answer tomorrow, okay?"

Masato Takeshita smiled and waved his hand: "Forget it, don't bother the leader with such a small matter."

Shanghai will open up further soon, and it won’t be too late to buy it then.

"understand!"

The next morning, after a delicious breakfast, Takeshita Masato first met up with the leadership team of Shencheng, and then drove to the Shencheng luggage factory together.

"The factory is a little old, please forgive me."

"No, it's pretty good. When I took over Matsumoto Manufacturing last year, it was not much different from here."

This is a lie.

Matsumoto Manufacturing's business was indeed not very good in the beginning, but the working environment in the factory was much better than that of the Shanghai Luggage Factory.

After Matsumoto Manufacturing took over, perhaps the most important thing was to change the management system.

If you can remove the rat droppings directly, do so. If you can't, learn from the Japanese companies' methods.

Transfer the bad guys among the crowd to a very remote workplace.

The Shencheng Luggage Factory also has a factory in the suburbs, which is just right for accommodating these people.

Of course, there should be fewer rat droppings in the Shencheng luggage factory, which can be clearly felt from the mental outlook of the workers.

Although everyone was dressed simply, everyone had a smile on their face.

This may be related to the fact that the factory is still relatively profitable, or it may be because they know that their own factory is going to be a Sino-foreign joint venture.

After a brief inspection, the group decided to have lunch in the cafeteria.

"This is Shencheng's local chicken, so tender and delicious."

"Well, if you like, eat more. We don't have anything else, but we definitely have plenty of free-range chicken."

Secretary Jiang really likes Masato Takeshita's sincere style and feels that he is not like a Japanese at all.

Of course, not like the Chinese either.

Because at this point in time, China was not confident at all.

There is no way, the economic gap is too big.

Today's China cannot even compare with Japan, South Korea or Taiwan.

The economies of South Korea and Taiwan are currently just a fraction of Japan's and are not worth mentioning at all.

"Forget it then. Food is something you can't eat too often. If you eat too much at once, you'll get bored."

No matter how delicious something is, it will become tasteless after being eaten for a month.

(End of this chapter)