Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 187 The absurdity will eventually end
"Oh, NTT agreed to meet me?"

"Thanks, Kishida-senpai."

"Okay, I understand."

"Okay, bye then."

Masato Takeshita quickly stood up from his chair and turned to look at his young assistant Lin Qingqian, who was wearing a black OL uniform.

"Qing Qian, let's go to the NTT headquarters now."

"Yes, President."

The girl looked like an urban female elite, and she conveyed the notice to the logistics department in an orderly manner.

The president is going out, so quickly prepare the car and security personnel.

"Let's go."

After getting into the specially made bulletproof Toyota car, Masato Takeshita gave instructions to the driver in a very normal manner.

"Yes, President!"

The driver was very professional and drove the car very steadily, and we soon arrived at NTT headquarters in Otemachi.

If he wasn't representing the face of NTT at this moment, he would have wanted to go there in person.

His development speed is really fast. If a seventh large zaibatsu could emerge in Japan after the war, Masato Takeshita would definitely be the one with the best chance.

Both the financial and industrial fields are flourishing, and even semiconductors, which represent the future, have bright prospects.

It's really dazzling.

"Thank you for your hard work, Secretary Hasegawa. It's a pleasure to have you visit NTT."

The NTT headquarters building covers a very large area and is very stylish.

Not only is its exterior much more imposing than the Xinghai Group's office building, its interior decoration and design are far superior to those of the Xinghai Group.

Masato Takeshita decided to rent a luxurious office building in Meguro Ward when he returned.

The headquarters of Xinghai Group has been established. We can’t continue to work near the factory.

In addition to the relocation of Xinghai Group's headquarters, Xinghai Semiconductor will also relocate, and the office location will be divided into three.

Part I, Disaster Emergency Radio Division.

It was scheduled to be located at the company's largest radio production plant in Japan, the Kawasaki Factory in Kanagawa Prefecture.

The second part is the chip R&D department.

It is mainly placed in the newly established laboratory of Masato Takeshita in his hometown and the laboratory rented by the company in Tokyo Minato Ward.

In fact, Masato Takeshita wanted to buy the laboratory in the port area, but the current price is too expensive, so he can only choose to rent it first.

In fact, the fact that Young People was able to rent a semiconductor laboratory in Minato Ward that took no more than five years to build was entirely due to the emergence of Japan's bubble economy.

The company currently invests most of its money in the stock market and real estate market, and has basically cut all its research and development.

But the laboratory had already been built, so it naturally could not be left empty, which is why Masato Takeshita rented it.

The bubble economy was a disaster for many R&D personnel, but for Masato Takeshita, a latecomer who was catching up, it was a paradise.

The only thing that is a bit annoying is,

Because of the shortage of labor in the market, even if many researchers' projects are cancelled, they will be quickly assigned to other jobs by the company.

As for the third part, it is the headquarters staff of Xinghai Semiconductor.

Their office is located together with the Xinghai Group headquarters.

There aren't many people at the Xinghai Group headquarters right now, so even if they rent a building, it wouldn't be of much use.

According to Masato Takeshita's idea, not only the headquarters of Xinghai Group and Xinghai Semiconductor will be moved to the upcoming Xinghai Building.

The entire Xinghai Game Company and Xinghai Investment Company will also move here.

Although the number is still small, it can barely fill an office building.

Xinghai Group is rich and has many secrets that are not suitable for outsiders to know, so it is natural for it to choose to rent a building.

Then we just have to wait for the Japanese real estate market to collapse.

At that time, Xinghai Group will take the initiative to purchase land and build a new headquarters.

While spending less money, it can also help banks solve some of their bad debt problems and help the country solve some of its employment problems.

In this way, Xinghai Group can establish closer ties with banks and the government.

The elevator quickly arrived at the 21st floor.

"this way please."

Hasegawa Akio bowed respectfully and pointed the way.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Please come in."

Following a majestic middle-aged male voice, Hasegawa Akio respectfully opened the office door again.

Very Japanese, with a strict hierarchy.

"Welcome to President Takeshita's visit. It really makes my humble place shine."

"Hi!"

In large companies, there is a dedicated person in charge of tea and water.

Soon, Hasegawa Akio returned to the office with a cup of the highest quality black tea.

"It's really good. I wonder where this black tea comes from."

After taking a sip, Masato Takeshita praised NTT's tea highly.

The black tea is full of fragrance and is of top quality.

"This is the highest quality black tea that the company bought across the street. If President Takeshita likes it, you can take some with you when you leave."

After showing an expression of "I see," Masato Takeshita waved his hands to refuse.

"No, a gentleman does not take away what others love. Our company's black tea is also produced across the street. Although the taste is slightly different, they are both products of the same quality."

The two of them chatted while drinking tea for about 10 minutes before they finally started talking about business.

"I heard that NTT is studying the mobile phone project started by Motorola?"

"Yes, but the progress is slow and it may take some time."

Rather than making money from selling mobile phones, NTT prefers to collect tolls, that is, earn money from phone calls.

If there were no domestic companies that had developed mobile phones, NTT would have no intention of investing in this area.

The massive entry of Masato Takeshita is a scene that NTT's senior management is very happy to see.

"That's it."

Masato Takeshita nodded as if he understood something, then asked directly with a serious look on his face.

“I don’t know if NTT will support our company’s entry into the mobile phone industry.”

"Sure." Kishida Shunsuke agreed decisively: "Whether it is personnel and technical support or sales channel support, we at NTT are willing to help."

"Really? Thank you!"

Masato Takeshita didn't expect the surprise to be so big.

He had never expected that in addition to support in sales channels, NTT would also provide technical and personnel support.

I believe that with the help of NTT, Xinghai Semiconductor will be able to quickly build a very combat-ready mobile phone R&D team.

Although the harvest exceeded his expectations, Masato Takeshita still tried to ask the most open question.

“I don’t know if our mobile phones can get an exclusive period in NTT’s sales channels?”

"The exclusivity period, um, requires a meeting to discuss."

Mobile phones in Japan are still a thing, and even if they are developed, according to the estimation of NTT's strategic development department, they will not have a large sales volume in the first few years.

NTT supports mobile phones only as a reserve for the future.

Shunsuke Kishida really wanted to agree, but considering his situation in the company, he finally decided to submit it to the board of directors for discussion.

This way, even if something goes wrong, you won't be blamed.

"Even the mobile phone business in the United States is very weak. We want an exclusivity period to recover some of the costs."

Mobile phones were destined to lose money in the past few years.
Masato Takeshita hopes to use this exclusive period to reduce some of the losses and then make them all back in the next few years.

"Understood. I will convey that at the board meeting."

"Thank you, thank you Director Kishida."

"This is what I should do. You are Wenxiong's friend."

Kishida Shunsuke made no secret of the reasons why he did this.

He is almost at retirement age, and many things he is doing are paving the way for the development of his family.

He is very optimistic about his nephew.

Although he is not very smart, he has a good vision, is patient enough, and can drink and play mahjong.

In Japanese politics, patience and vision are extremely important.

Similarly, being able to drink and play mahjong are also big pluses.

Because most of the senior leaders of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party like to play mahjong.

The current Prime Minister Takeshita Noboru is very obsessed with this.

Now is also the most glorious period of Mahjong in Japan, and it can be said that basically everyone plays it.

Of course, as the video game industry grows, mahjong will soon go downhill.

Not so many young people playing anymore.

This is also the scariest thing in an industry.

The reason why Japanese Go declined so quickly is because it was abandoned by most young people.

Although the movie "Hikaru no Go" once again sparked a wave of learning Go, the trend soon passed and Go became increasingly unpopular.

On the contrary, it was Japanese Mahjong that successfully rebounded from the bottom in the previous life.

The emergence of professional mahjong leagues has brought about a new round of rise in Japanese mahjong, and the mahjong population has also continued to increase.

Maybe one day in the future, the scene envisioned in The Genius of Mahjong will really appear.

As for being a little stupid, it also has its advantages.

This way everyone will feel at ease and have a better chance of reaching a higher position.

If Masato Takeshita knew what Shunsuke Kishida was thinking, he would definitely have a lot of things he wanted to complain about but couldn't say them out loud.

However, in the political field, intelligence is not the most important plus point.

This was most evident after the war.

The reason why the number of prime ministers from the Waseda faction surpassed that of the University of Tokyo after the war.

This is largely due to the fact that Waseda students are not as smart as Tokyo University students, and they also do not have the arrogance of being the best in the world.

Takeshita Noboru even bluntly stated that the most important thing in his job as prime minister was to handle the relations between various factions.

"Well, we are friends."

The two chatted for the whole morning and got along better and better.

Both Masato Takeshita and Shunsuke Kishida believe that the mobile phone industry will replace the fixed-line industry.

It's like a horse and a carriage and a train.

The earliest trains were far less convenient than horse-drawn carriages, but trains soon replaced horse-drawn carriages.

Landline phones are much better than horse-drawn carriages and will not disappear.

But the large-scale erosion of market share is an inevitable result.

"It's noon. I've already reserved a table outside. Let's go have a meal together?"

Guests are welcome, so as the host, Shunsuke Kishida naturally chose the restaurant early.

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."

NTT is a large company, and it is now at the peak of the bubble, so NTT's restaurant hospitality is very luxurious.

This was also a common feature of Japan during this period.

Whether it is a large company or a small company, there are countless entertainment expenses.

If you spend less, you may even be scolded by your boss.

"Are you so stingy that you want us to be looked down upon by other companies?"

All I can say is that everything in Japan during the bubble era was too absurd.

But the situation in China during this period was actually similar.

First is the real estate industry in Qiongzhou.

During the heyday of Qiongzhou real estate, land bought at 1000 yuan per square meter in the morning would be sold at 2000 yuan per square meter in the afternoon.

Then when we sell it at night, the price becomes 3000 yuan per square meter.

You have to know that in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, the price of land is only a few hundred yuan per square meter.

The tiny Qiongzhou can actually surpass the two strongest cities in China.

The degree of speculation here is very crazy.

Land speculation has objectively led to the development of the catering and entertainment industries.

People don't treat money as money at all. They buy all kinds of expensive ingredients and organize all kinds of jaw-dropping activities.

At about the same time, there were similar absurd phenomena in Wenzhou, but not as crazy as that in Qiongzhou.

Unlike the land speculation in Qiongzhou, people in Wenzhou mainly speculate on the chair tomb project.

In order to show off their wealth, the wealthy people in Wenzhou are frantically building luxurious tombs on the mountains.

Some chair tombs even cover several acres.

As for food and drink, we also play activities like Smooth Sailing.

When eating, make a small boat out of hundred-dollar bills and put it in the soup.

What's even more exaggerated is to put a Rolex watch on it.

Masato Takeshita can only say that people of that era had a very poor imagination and could only play such nouveau riche projects.

If it were the 21st century, there would definitely be better ways to do it.

Of course, if it were the 21st century, there wouldn’t be so many people stupid enough to lose their money.

Because at that time, Wenzhou was basically synonymous with fake goods.

The people of Yuhang angrily burned the leather shoes made in Wenzhou because they were made of paper and would fall apart as soon as they were worn.

This not only makes people lose money, but what is even more infuriating is that

Wenzhou produced countless substandard components, which then flowed into the market.

A coal mine in the northernmost part of my country caused a large number of casualties due to a gas explosion caused by components in Wenzhou.

The people of Wenzhou are now causing great harm to the Chinese people.

If we are so arrogant in the 21st century, we will definitely be put behind bars.

(End of this chapter)