Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 60 Gradually Building a Small Circle

Just as Izumi Sakai hung up the phone, Masato Takeshita's phone rang again.

He was still doubtful.

Haven't we finished talking? Why are you calling again?
But when I saw the phone number, I realized that I had misunderstood. It was Ichiro Haneda, my senior from Industrial Bank, calling.

"Brother, why did you think of calling me today?"

The two people were already very familiar with each other, and Masato Takeshita was too lazy to be polite. He lay lazily on the sofa and asked what was the matter.

"I'm going to have a small gathering with some of my senior brothers at 6pm. Would you like to come?"

"Oh, who are they?"

Masato Takeshita heard the seriousness in his senior brother's words, and his words became serious as well, and he sat up straight without realizing it.

.

He was not sure about the remaining few, but they must be extraordinary people. They might be the sons of political bigwigs or the descendants of famous entrepreneurs.

"Ginza Yakizi BBQ, Box 206."

"OK, I'll be there on time."

Ichiro Haneda knew that his junior fellow student didn't like sushi, so he simply chose a barbecue restaurant. After all, they were all young people who liked to eat meat.

At 5:40 p.m., Masato Takeshita arrived at the barbecue restaurant 20 minutes early, but he found that he was the last one.

Kind of outrageous!

The moment he saw Masato Takeshita, Ichiro Haneda's eyes lit up.

"Oh, here you are. Let me introduce you to everyone. This is the inventor of the recently popular trolley suitcases and the president of Matsumoto Manufacturing, my junior Masato Takeshita."

"Hello everyone, I am Masato Takeshita, please take care of me in the future."

After Ichiro Haneda finished his introduction, Masato Takeshita bowed respectfully and introduced himself again.

He didn't want to give everyone the impression of being arrogant and rude.

"Hello, Masato Takeshita. I'm the president of Uniqlo. I've heard for a long time that there's a junior in our school who has successfully started a business before he even graduated. This time I finally get to meet him in person."

Yanai Tadashi was very polite and was the first to come over and greet him. Then the rest of the seniors also left their seats.

After a brief greeting, Haneda Ichiro said straightforwardly: "OK, now that everyone is here, how about we get the meat straight away?"

"What, are you hungry?"

"Yes, I'm really hungry. I didn't eat anything at noon just for this big dinner tonight." Ichiro Haneda patted his stomach and pretended to be enduring humiliation.

"Good man, you are so real."

Ichiro Haneda's deliberate clown role had a very obvious effect. The atmosphere on the field became much more relaxed, and the strangeness at the beginning was gone.

"Speaking of which, Junior Takeshita is well-known in our Changxin Bank."

"Oh, what happened?"

"If it had only come to this, it would have been just a small topic of conversation within the company and everyone would have forgotten about it very quickly."

"As a result, you all know what happened next. With his invention of the trolley suitcase, Takeshita became a representative figure of self-made men in Japan."

"The bank is in chaos now."

"After the president learned about this, he held a meeting to re-establish the company's employment principles. If there are particularly outstanding talents, they cannot just go back and wait for notification, but must stay immediately."

"He also said that even if you resign after inventing the suitcase, Changxin will be able to find a new profit point and an excellent company to lend money to, just like Industrial Bank did."

Banks are a typical industry that puts out umbrellas when the weather is sunny and puts them away when the weather is rainy.

The less money a company has, the more willing the bank will be to lend it money. Bank employees will even stay in outstanding companies to encourage them to borrow more money.

Especially those bank employees who are under pressure to lend money, they wish they could kneel in the office of the president of an outstanding company every day.

Masato Takeshita smiled and responded, "I see. I'm a little flattered. He's the president of Nagashin Bank. He's far more capable than a president of a small company like me."

Ichiro Haneda put his arm on Masato Takeshita's shoulder and said, "Junior, you must not underestimate yourself. Matsumoto Manufacturing is indeed not as good as Changxin Bank, but no president dares to look down on you. Youth is capital."

Although the idea of "Don't bully the young and poor" is not popular in Japan, Japan also has the same way of thinking - bully the old but not the young.

With such a young president, who knows how big he can expand the company.

"Yes, youth is capital."

Suzuki Shunichi is the oldest among them and currently the furthest along in terms of official career. In addition, he is the son of a former prime minister.

So his summary immediately made everyone agree.

It really proves the saying just now, things change over time.

More than two hours later, everyone had almost finished eating. At this time, Haneda Ichiro smiled and suggested, "Let's go to the roadside stall and have some oden."

(End of this chapter)