Chapter 191: The Family Man
Friday morning, as soon as Masayoshi Kishimoto walked into his office, he was told by his secretary, Mirai Yamada, that there were people from his hometown in Kochi Prefecture. They were waiting inside the small conference room, to see or not to see?
Although Masayoshi Kishimoto left Kochi Prefecture at a very young age, he was born there and is a native of there. Since they had all found their way to the company, it was time to meet.
Masayoshi Kishimoto walked into the small conference room accompanied by Mirai Yamada. He met two men and one woman, three people in total. They were all dressed in professional attire.
Without waiting for introductions, the middle-aged man in the lead took the initiative to greet them with a smiling face, and handed Masayoshi Kishimoto the business card he had prepared with both hands.
Masayoshi Kishimoto took the card and saw that it was an official from the Kochi Prefectural Government. He already understood what they came to find himself, certainly not come all the way to see himself just to catch up on the love of fellow countrymen.
The five people split into two parties and took their seats one after another facing each other. The middle-aged man said with a smile on his face, “Chairman Kishimoto is the pride of Kochi Prefecture.
When we were still in Kochi Prefecture, we had heard a lot about your Hard Gold Group. Kyoko Fukada, as the face of your group, has even made you and your Hard Gold Group a household name in our area.”
Masayoshi Kishimoto for him this kind of flattery opening, although I think it is very cheesy, but not disgusting, after all, people who have never met sitting together to talk about things, always have to find a comfortable opening and entry point.
Not to mention that one party also has a request for the other party. Who is up and who is down, always have to be divided, it is not possible that the king of the air open, head with a protagonist halo on the encounter Buddha to kill Buddha, encounter the devil to subdue the devil, killing the four sides.
“Shame. I have some personal relationship with Kyoko Fukada, so I looked for her as the face of our group. Logically, I should have looked for Hiroshima Ryoko, who is also from Kochi Prefecture, to be the group’s image spokesperson.”
Masayoshi Kishimoto’s purpose in being polite was to show that he had not forgotten his roots. He recognized the objective fact that his own was indeed of Kochi Prefecture origin.
The middle-aged uncle pondered for a moment and cut to the chase, “We in Kochi Prefecture also need to develop our economy and increase employment. We have some good projects, but we are suffering from a lack of funds to invest in them.
This time I came to bother you, not for anything else, I sincerely hope that you can support the economic and developmental construction of my hometown.”
“For the economic construction of my hometown is definitely supported. As you all know, I am an investor, naturally it is impossible for me not to pay attention to a return on investment.” Justice Kishimoto said plainly.
“Understood, understood. We have brought some plans over, that is, we hope that after you have studied them, you will be able to select one or two of the projects to invest in.” The middle-aged uncle said seriously.
“As long as any of your projects are in line with the direction of our group’s future development. Not only will we not refuse to invest, but we will also invest in more of them.” Masayoshi Kishimoto spoke in a rather official manner.
“Although the Asian financial turmoil has already passed, the economy of Kochi Prefecture has suffered a significant loss. In addition to the inherent tourist attractions, we have to actively revitalize other economies.
The people of Kochi Prefecture are looking forward to the return of a capable man like Mr. Kishimoto to their hometown to help them get out of the economic doldrums.” The middle-aged older man said in a tone of complete anticipation of rain from a long drought.
Even if Kishimoto knew that investing in the projects they offered was definitely not as good as some of the investments he was about to make to enter the mainland China market, he could not turn down the offer and make the other party lose face.
He certainly understands that supporting the economic construction and development of his hometown and giving back to the community is also shaping and establishing a good image of a company in the public’s mind.
At the same time, he also understands that the reason why the other side is so positive, not necessarily in order to eat from the project kickbacks.
Which is not guaranteed on the one hand for personal performance, on the other hand is in order to be able to establish a friendship with himself, and in the future when he wants to progress again, there will be someone to pay to support him, after all, connections are important.
“I’m a person not just to make money, but also have feelings in my heart. The natural spiced fish from our Kochi Prefecture’s Shimanjukawa River is first class. I still can’t get enough of it.”
Masayoshi Kishimoto had no intention of talking about anything substantial at their first meeting, after all, he hadn’t gotten anyone to look at the project proposal they had brought. If there really was a good investment project, it would be good to put some money into it.
“Your prospective father-in-law Masao Sakai and I have been good friends for decades.” The middle-aged uncle intentionally ventured out this sentence to say.
Masayoshi Kishimoto couldn’t tell whether his words were true or not for a moment. However, he recalled a phone call from his prospective father-in-law, Masao Sakai, to himself personally three days ago saying that someone from his hometown would be visiting Tokyo.
At that time, he did not take it as a big deal, just thinking that some of his family’s aunts and uncles would be coming to Tokyo for a visit. Even if he didn’t accompany them, he would ask Rie Sakai to make arrangements for them.
At this time, Masayoshi Kishimoto didn’t believe that the other party would just make a casual remark without a purpose. Instead, he could see the other party’s eagerness to actively befriend him.
“Yamada, take these two on a tour of our company, and by the way, collect the project plans they brought and send them downstairs to Hard Gold Capital.
If they have a project description presentation, then have the relevant colleagues come back and give me a detailed report on their work after they’ve heard it.
By the way, you should make a call to the Hi-Lo Japanese Restaurant to book a private room to entertain my hometown people who have traveled a long way from home.” Masayoshi Kishimoto instructed.
Yamada Mirai responded with a “yes” as she began to put away the Parker gold pen and notepad she had been using to take notes.
Masayoshi Kishimoto looked at the middle-aged man and added, “At noon, I have other important matters to attend to, so I cannot accompany you. I’ll have to let Secretary Yamada of our group take over for me.”
The middle-aged uncle saw that he was treating them with such a high level of courtesy, and only then did he believe that the four words “Sakai Masao” still worked very well with him.
If you don’t look at the face of the monk, look at the face of the Buddha. Even if he and Masayoshi Kishimoto don’t have any friendship at the moment, it doesn’t prevent the two of them from establishing a relationship.
From this, it can be seen that Sakai Masao did not brag in front of himself, this prospective son-in-law of his is not only extremely strong, but also loves Sakai Rie very much. This love of the house also benefited his mother’s family.
“I know that you are a busy man, Chairman Kishimoto, and it is we who have come too abruptly. You are busy with your business, there is no need to take care of us.” The middle-aged uncle didn’t feel like he was being neglected.
It wasn’t like he didn’t know that if the other party really didn’t care about their party, he would have just asked his secretary to come out and deal with them.
Why would the other party need to come out personally? He wouldn’t have arranged for his secretary, Mirai Yamada, to accompany him and a high-class Japanese restaurant for them to dine at.