Chapter 561: The Split

Natsume Ryosuke held a press conference on behalf of the Hard Gold Group to officially announce the successful acquisition of Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing. He was completely unafraid to face the reporters’ “long guns” and questions, and was able to handle them with ease.

Meanwhile, Inoue was sitting in the president’s office. He was also one of the major contributors to the acquisition.

He didn’t feel that the limelight had been stolen by Natsume Ryosuke, after all, it had always been the tradition for the publicity department or the news department of each company to make announcements to the outside world, blowing the whistle…….

In addition to him, there were five other people, President Masayoshi Kishimoto, Personnel Minister Takayuki Minamino, Legal Affairs Minister Kazuya Takahashi, Hard Gold Construction’s President Katsuhei Yamaguchi, and Hard Gold Media’s President Shingo Oda.

“Although the Hard Gold Group’s acquisition of Literary Spring Publishing has been completed, it doesn’t mean it’s over. This follow-up is going to be a spin-off of Literary Arts Spring and Autumn Publishing.

My conception is to transfer the real estate of Literary Spring and Autumn to Hard Gold Construction. Its financial assets go to Hard Gold Bank. The rest of the assets go to Hard Gold Media.

The name of Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House will not be changed. This name is also an intangible asset. Not to mention the fact that I made a relevant promise in the first place.” Masayoshi Kishimoto faced these executives of his in a serious manner.

Nanno Takayuki and the others were coincidentally caught up in their own thoughts. The president only said that the general direction was to split the Literature and Arts Spring and Autumn Publishing House and divide it into three main categories.

However, the specific operation of the above is who as a hand to take the knife to divide the current cake? Nanno Takayuki understands, called himself to, must be to ask him to deal with personnel problems.

Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House so many people, can not all stay and continue to work, should be cut off will be cut off. The department responsible for dealing with this kind of thing is naturally the non-personnel department.

Once the overlap of the company’s functional departments, there will be people overworked, their functions are not clear, shirking responsibilities, and so on.

Overstaffing in this organization is certainly not conducive to the operation of the company, but also raises the cost of manpower, as hiring more people means paying more salaries every month, as well as having to pay the corresponding benefits and various insurance for them.

The Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Takahashi, is taking advantage of all the loopholes in the current Japanese law, whether it is a variation of the law or not. The purpose is to provide them with a legal rationale.

There is no guarantee that there will not be organized collective protests or even lawsuits against the company in the course of the spin-off and layoffs. In such a case, it was only natural that the Legal Affairs Department would have to step in to resolve the matter.

Kamiji Iida, Katsuhei Yamaguchi, and Shingo Oda were not simply waiting to receive their share, but were all thinking of taking more.

The ranking of the presidents of direct subsidiaries like them in the group companies was based on the size of the assets they managed.

Kamiji Iida, who was at the bottom of the ranking, was ambitious to get to the top. The plan for the future of Hard Gold Bank that he had submitted to Masayoshi Kishimoto, the chairman, was not only to have at least one branch in each ward and city in the Tokyo metropolitan area, but also to expand to all of Japan and even abroad.

Hard Gold Bank is no longer just a regional bank located in Nakano Ward, like Genmitsuba Bank, but is going to become a major international bank, like Mitsubishi Bank, Fuji Bank, Mitsui Bank, and so on.

His top priority, besides needing time to develop, was to expand the Hard Gold Bank’s capital strength. As long as there was money, things would be much easier.

Katsuhei Yamaguchi was the highest ranked of the three, and within the group was second only to President Kiyoshi Kobayashi of Hard Gold Construction. He certainly had his own ambitions.

He would not be satisfied with the achievements of the moment. He wanted to develop Hard Gold Construction into Japan’s largest general construction company, with the goal of surpassing Japan’s Taisei Construction Group.

As long as this one ideal could be realized for him, then it was a death without regret. Of course, he needed a large number of specialized technical personnel.

The best way to recruit talents was money. With money, it’s easy to do things. In addition to that, it was to provide them with a broad stage to utilize their abilities.

Shingo Oda also had similar ambitions as Katsuhei Yamaguchi and Kamiji Inoue. He naturally wanted to make Hard Gold Media the number one in Japan, Asia, and even the world.

Realize the ideal step by step forward is bound to be inseparable from the money. No money, then everything is the source of water, no wood, all empty.

“I was involved in the acquisition of this one project of Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House from beginning to end, so here, I am the one who is most familiar with it.”

Although Inoue Kamiji put his words euphemistically, his goal was clear in wanting to take that knife of cake-sharing from the chairman’s hand. Only by holding that knife in his hand was he able to share more according to his intentions.

“Acquisition is one thing, spin-off is another. In terms of spinning off this one business, I am the one with the most experience.

When we, the Hard Gold Group, acquired Hori Production Corporation, we also did some spinning off and integration.” Shingo Oda was arguing.

Yamaguchi Katsuhei said after his seniors, “I haven’t even said anything, so what are you one and all in a hurry for. In terms of work experience, which one of the two of you can be richer than me. You young people may not think things through, it’s still people like me who are the most prudent.”

“The Chairman is also young, so you’re saying that the Chairman is just as unstable. There are also Minister Nanno and Minister Takahashi here, who are also young.” Inuyasha Kamijii seized a loophole in his words and nonchalantly retaliated.

Yamaguchi Katsuhei hurriedly explained, “I’m not talking about the Chairman, nor am I talking about Minister Nanno or Minister Takahashi. I was talking about you two young men, especially you.”

“How am I not secure? If I was not solid in my work, the Chairman would not have assigned me to be in charge of the acquisition plan for the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House in the first place.

When fighting a war, there were no people in sight. When it’s time to share the fruits of victory, people pop up. It’s too unreasonable to share without contributing.” Inuyasha Kamiji retorted.

Yamaguchi Katsuhei was a straightforward man who never beat around the bush, “I admit that I didn’t contribute on top of this one acquisition, but the decision to split was the Chairman’s intention.

The Chairman’s strategic intent is for the future development of the entire Hard Gold Group, not just for the future development of Hard Gold Bank. You’re having a problem with the president.”

“I don’t have any problem with the President. I have always been the most resolute and supportive of any of the Chairman’s decisions. Just like when he asked me to be Natsume Ryousuke’s second-in-command, I did as I was told.

Therefore, there is absolutely no such nonsense as you just said.” Inuyasha Kamiji and the other party were in a war of words.