Chapter 698: The Joy of the Crowd

The news that Rie Sakai had gotten a man in one fell swoop quickly reached the outside of the maternity ward, and the crowd couldn’t help but be cheering towards Aiko Sakai and Meiling Sakai to congratulate them.

One was promoted to grandmother and the other to aunt. Aiko Sakai gladly accepted everyone’s congratulations.

Sakai Meiling was the only one whose heart was filled with mixed feelings. She really didn’t know if she should be happy with everyone else, or if she should be sad.

On the other end of the phone, Sakai Masao, who only heard the cheering but did not know the final result, anxiously said, “What’s the situation, what’s the situation? Rie, did she give birth to a son or a daughter?”

Sakai Aiko didn’t even hear him talking, happy for her eldest daughter Rie on the one hand, and herself on the other.

Masao Sakai hung up the phone. He rummaged inside the phone book to find Sakai Mirei’s cell phone number, and pressed the green dial button was called.

A few moments later, the call was answered. Sakai Masao busily asked his youngest daughter, “Did your sister give birth, or not?”

Sakai Meiling held the cell phone in her right hand next to her right ear and walked out towards the crowd, saying, “She gave birth.”

“A son, or a daughter?” Sakai Masao suddenly became even more nervous, rather like a position where his heart was jumping into his throat, and asked anxiously.

“Son.” Sakai Meiling said in a breathless, matter-of-fact manner.

Sakai Masao was instantly energized. His own grandson, not only was he the first heir of the Kishimoto family, but he had also further strengthened the relationship between the Sakai family and the Kishimoto family.

Even in the unlikely event that Rie Sakai and Masayoshi Kishimoto divorced, there would still be the grandson, a person in the Kishimoto family. The grandson’s last name would not be Sakai, it would definitely be Kishimoto.

The husband and wife relationship between the two of them could be dissolved through legal means, while the father and son relationship could only be severed in name, but not the objective blood and gene relationship.

The existence of his grandson was an additional layer of assurance for the Sakai family as well as for himself. Ever since he had stepped into the position of branch chief of the Hard Gold Bank’s branch in Kochi City, his entire life had been turned upside down.

In the past, the president of the local bank where he used to work belonged to didn’t even look at himself, a small man, in the eye.

Now, the other party took the initiative to call over to make friends, but also invited to drink together, not only to say brother, but also want to immediately and his own righteousness to become a brother of the opposite sex.

Sakai Masao is not stupid, is not not clear that the bank also has a lack of money with the time. The thing that small banks feared the most was experiencing a wave of runs.

Even if it was just a rumor in the streets, it would make it suffer. Peers encounter cash flow difficulties, overnight borrowing funds are available.

Banks with small capital will naturally gravitate towards banks with large capital, but with a kind of fear of dancing with the wolves.

Both afraid of being eaten and needing each other. In the banking industry, whoever has the most capital has the most say in local financial affairs.

If a big bank really wants to kill a small local bank, it’s easy. Lending rates lower than those of their rivals can make many local companies lean toward them.

Friendships are friendships, interests are interests, who would still have a problem with money? The loan rate is small, then it means that the repayment of interest is small, undoubtedly from the side is also a kind of money.

This can also slightly pull up the deposit interest rate, immediately able to make a lot of ordinary national deposits from one bank to another bank to move.

Even if Masao Sakai was just a branch chief, he was still a branch chief affiliated with a national bank. Not to mention the fact that it was backed by the big tree of the Hard Gold Group.

Furthermore, there was not a single person in Kochi City, or even Kochi Prefecture, who did not know that he was the father-in-law of Hard Gold plutocrat Masayoshi Kishimoto.

Sakai Masao felt that it was better to be happy alone than to be happy together. He left the office with the wind in his veins and met his subordinates downstairs, saying, “Tonight, I’ll treat everyone to dinner, drinks, and karaoke.”

When the bank employees heard this sudden news, they were first stunned and then clapped their hands. They had absolutely no idea why the branch chief was so happy?

If he had really negotiated some good project, he would have been able to hear a little bit of news from the credit division a long time ago, after all, they all worked together.

The vice president walked over to Masao Sakai’s side, his face full of smiles, wanting to know what was going on, “President, what good thing makes you so happy?”

Sakai Masao straightened his back and said, “My eldest daughter, the wife of the Hard Gold Group’s president, just earlier, she gave birth to a son.”

“Congratulations, what a great event.” The vice president applauded vigorously.

The moment these words came out, everyone in the management was followed by a rise in energy. They scrambled to come to Sakai Masao’s front to congratulate him in various ways.

“Governor Sakai, in the near future, you should not just be the branch chief of a branch in Kochi City, but the governor of our entire Kochi Prefecture, or even the entire Shikoku.”

The vice-governor was not only kissing the other party’s ass, but he was also eager to see him rise high in the ranks. At that time, this vacated position of branch president, then there was a high possibility that it would be his turn to take over.

If Sakai Masao can take the initiative to put in a good word for himself at the Tokyo head office and strongly recommend it, in all probability it will be his.

I do not have any acquaintances in the Tokyo head office, not to mention a good friendship with someone. As the saying goes, “Don’t look at the face of the monk, look at the face of the Buddha”.

Sakai Masao is Kishimoto Masayoshi’s father-in-law, the future crown prince’s grandfather, then the head office side of the person, how face must also give him, after all, can follow the normal procedure, usually by the deputy to replace the main post.

Kochi City, this place is not like Osaka, Yokohama and other economically developed cities, there will not be too many people coveted the position of a branch head.

Instead, it was often either from within the Tokyo head office, or someone who had been demoted or sent from the Tokyo head office to take up a management position in a remote area of the city.

The management crowd rushed to give Masao Sakai high hats and sing his praises, while at the same time, one by one, they expressed their loyalty to him and swore to follow him to the death.

This kind of face is a true reflection of the hierarchical relationship in Japanese society. Especially in a good company, it is a profound study.

In the current situation where the local economy is not doing well, no one wants to be demoted or even lose their job. This is with the right person, with the wrong person, will be two different results.

They all had an unspoken agreement that leaning on the tree of Masao Sakai would do no harm. There was no one within the Hard Gold Bank who would take the initiative to cross him, after all, it was even the head governor, Inoue Uenji, who had to yield to him three times.