Chapter 3, Kenji Kitagawa and Soyuki Uesugi
In the spacious office, huge desks occupy nearly half of the office. Sony Music Ceo Kitano Naoki sat behind the tall boss's chair. When he heard someone knocking on the door, he put down the documents in his hand and said in a deep voice: "Please come in!"
Uesugi Soyuki pushed the door open and said hello, and without Kitagawa Naoki's consent, he sat down directly opposite him: "What's the matter with me, the chairman?"
Facing the actions of this young man, Kitagawa Naoki didn't care. From the perspective of the RB people, it would be strange if a genius did not have some arrogance and quirks.
As a young and famous investment genius and a junior who returned from studying abroad, Uesugi Soyuki has done a very good job in this area. He is polite to everyone and is not very polite to himself now, but it means that the two are already very familiar with each other. This young man thinks that these polite things are no longer needed.
"A few days ago, when Kenji's child came home, he mentioned you. Did you two go to Ginza together?" Kitagawa Naoki naoki nagled some trivial matters.
Uesugi Soyuki nodded. A few days ago, at the invitation of Kitagawa Kenji, the two went to the high-end nightclub in Ginza for a while.
"Uesugi, you are already twenty-two years old this year, right?" Kitagawa Naoki continued.
"This year is exactly twenty-two years old, chairman."
"Yes, in a blink of an eye, the child Kenji is also thirty years old. He has already gotten married last year and has started a family and a career." Kitagawa Naoki said with a sigh, and the mustache on his lips shook slightly with his master's movements.
Uesugi Soyuki was also very patient. The two of them slowly chatted about some family matters. Since he returned to China, Kitagawa Kenji has been interested in interacting with him. Although they have reservations between each other, they can be regarded as friends.
After chatting for a while, Kitagawa Naoki saw that the young man was not impatient at all, but seemed to be getting more and more excited as he spoke, and sighed in his heart: This is really an anomaly.
At the age of twenty-two, his qi cultivation skills are nothing worse than those of him, an elderly person in his sixties. I don’t know how the Yonezawa Uesugi family cultivated such a freak.
If Uesugi Soxue knew what the Sony Music ceo in front of him was thinking, he would definitely sneer: his heart is not younger than this old man, and he inherited more than 30 years of life experience from the genius technician.
"So, Director Uesugi, what do you think of the slippery fish?" Seeing that the topic was getting worse and worse, Uesugi Soyuki was already talking about the ramen in Sapporo, Naoki Kitagawa had to take the initiative to speak and bring this topic back to the main topic.
"The fish has grown up and found a larger lake. It will never go back to its original place for help, not to mention that it is a place that has abandoned it." The young man said slowly, stroked his fingers over the silver ring on his index finger.
"..." Kitagawa Naoki didn't say anything, but his dry palm was slowly exerting force, pinching the pen in his hand very tightly!
Who would have expected that the female idol group that lost 200 million yen in two years would become such a money-making artifact today!
Especially in the context of Sony's continuous losses and shrinkage in recent years, it has missed such a huge project, and as the head of Sony Music, Naoki Kitagawa, is to blame.
Even if he has found a scapegoat and kicked him out of the board of directors, it won’t work!
Because Sony is about to usher in huge changes, the original Sony leader, Howard Stringer, is about to retire, and the new Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai is about to take office!
What he needs to do to save this defeat!
And the breakthrough of everything may be in this young man.
The reason is very simple. According to his investigation, when he was in a desperate situation, Akimoto Yasushi found RB Dentsu under the help of this young man who returned to China urgently, and was able to turn the tide.
Thinking about Uesugi Soyuki's social networking business and Dentsu's global business expansion over the years, Kitagawa Naoki can easily draw a conclusion: this young man has a deep shadow of RB Dentsu behind him.
So why did he still need to obtain shares in Sony Music from the Chinese and join our Sony board of directors? This is something that Kitagawa Naoki has never figured out.
However, these are not the key now. How to use this young man’s special identity to get a share of a pie from akB48 is the top priority.
It is initially estimated that akB's revenue this year will exceed 100 million yen, which is 100 million yen!
This is not a small number.
Seeing that Kitagawa Naoki was a little tragic, Uesugi Soyuki did not interrupt him. He just waited quietly, waiting for the head of Sony Music to come up with a plan. In RB's workplace culture, subordinates must absolutely obey superiors and superiors, and even if they are only nominal superiors and subordinates, this form cannot be changed.
"It's all Akimoto Yasushi! His attitude was so firm at the beginning. We agreed to his request for termination because of our years of cooperation with him and in the past." Kitagawa Naoki was very excited at first, but then his voice gradually calmed down, and obviously he had an idea.
"Keikawa Sang means that we are going to ask Teacher Akimoto for this favor now?" Uesugi Soxue was slightly stunned, and immediately understood what Kitagawa Naoki meant.
The tech otakus in his previous life was a loyal fan of the 48th Series. As long as the cute girls from the 48th Series are all called Akimoto Yasuki, and Uesugi Soyuki also inherited this habit. When he first met Akimoto Yasuki, he was shocked by this call.
"Uesugi, you have a good relationship with Akimoto Yasuhiro. In this way, you can contact Kenji first, explore Akimoto Yasuhiro's bottom in private, listen to his conditions, as long as it is not too much, we can talk about everything." Kitagawa Naoki took a document, signed his name on it, and handed it to Uesugi Soyuki.
"I'll do my best, but Kitagawa Sang also knows that it's not the time when akB48 was first launched, and Akimoto Yasuki is the only one who decides big and small things." After putting away the documents, Uesugi Soyuki got up, bowed, turned around and left. He added this sentence before leaving.
Kitagawa Naoki nodded dejectedly, his half-white head swaying slightly. After seeing the young man close the door and leave, he leaned on the comfortable boss' chair as if he had lost all his strength.
Since last year, it has been profitable to see this girl group, and many major forces have relied on it, including Kyora, Yoshimoto, several major offices, and even RB Dentsu. As a late entry, Sony has a share of the pie.
What's more, Sony's market has been shrinking over the years and has been deficit every year. This famous multinational group company now relies more on its past glory to maintain its face. Sony Music has been pretty good under its management over the years and has been in a profitable state. But who knows when the huge deficits in other departments will affect Sony Music?
No one knows.
Uesugi Soxue walked out of the Sony building, sat on his Mercedes-Benz S6oo, and said to the driver with a blank expression: "Akihabara, Don Kikoto Building."
The black Mercedes-Benz slowly left.
RB Akihabara.
Akihabara is located in Chiyoda area in the northeast of Tokyo, and is located on the Yamanote Line, a high-tram Yamanote Line surrounding the center of Tokyo. Yamanote Line is a tram line that surrounds the entire Tokyo city. As one of the few electrical streets in the world, Akihabara is now undergoing ever-changing changes. In addition to electrical appliance stores, business, food and other service functions are also becoming a prosperous area with comprehensive colors.
Since the rise of otaku culture in the 1990s, the place has always given people the impression that it is a holy place for otaku, with various shops typifying the prevalence of the second-dimensional culture. However, Akihabara is actually famous for its electrical appliances and frivolous goods markets, and there are many hypermarkets shuttled through it.
With the rise of the Internet era, Akihabara has fully utilized its compatibility features. From computers, electrical appliances, to electronic products, model toy stores, animation product stores and theme cafes, to the recently emerging office and retail store complex, this RB famous tourist shopping street is constantly undergoing changes in a new historical environment, in order to conform to the objective exhibition rules and obtain more profits.
The akB Theater is located on the eighth floor of the Don Gilleshode Store Building. On the display screen outside the building, the akB48 mV is playing continuously. There are crowds of people on the street, and some pedestrians are sharing leaflets and promoting some small idol groups.
"Since akB48, as an underground idol, came out of the small theater with hundreds of people and successfully climbed into the red and white, these underground idol groups have emerged like bamboo shoots after a rain." In the coffee shop on the street, a man with a middle-parted head, a thin figure and two beards said to the young man sitting opposite him.
The young man sitting opposite him was Uesugi Soxue who had just arrived from Sony.
The identity of this man is obvious. He is the son of Sony Music and Kenji Kitagawa, who is currently an assistant producer at the akB Theater.
Kenji Kitagawa is already thirty years old this year, but he looks like a young man of twenty-seven or eight years old. He is dressed very well. Logically speaking, he is not tall and has a very thin figure. Ordinary suits should not fit well when worn on his body. So Soyuki Uesugi judged that the very exquisite suit he was wearing was probably customized.
"Have you gained anything in recent times?" Without extra politeness, Uesugi Soyuki went straight to the point as soon as he got up.
The waiter brought two cappuccinos, and Zongxue politely said thank you, but Kitagawa Kenji frowned, nodded first, and then shook his head: "What aspect are you talking about?"
"Every aspect." Zong Xue stirred the hot drink in the cup with a silver spoon.
"Some are very good, some are not very good. I am alone, and in operation, I am still too weak." Kitagawa Kenji's appearance is not outstanding, with short and thick eyebrows, small eyes, and big nose, and a bit of a stingy look.
His appearance gave him a good disguise.
"That's useless. I'll take you up and have a look."
Chapter completed!