Chapter 811: Personal Matters
That morning, Takahashi Kazuya walked into the chairman’s office. Before he had a chance to sit down, the first thing he said when he saw Masayoshi Kishimoto came out of his mouth, “As your subordinate, I naturally shouldn’t be asking about your personal matters. However, as your best friend, I feel like I can still.”
Kishimoto Masayoshi knew by looking at him that he had come here specifically for the matter of his messy divorce from Sakai Rie. He himself was not the least bit surprised that Takahashi Kazuya was the first to receive the news.
Who let the other party’s fianc茅e, Yuki Mizuhara, be Rie Sakai’s best friend? Sakai Rie to talk to Mizuhara snow, the words into the ears of Mizuhara snow. Mizuhara Yuki would have also sent words into Takahashi Kazuya’s ears.
“It’s not that I have to divorce her, it’s that she’s making a fuss about divorcing me.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said as he raised his left hand and gestured for him to sit down.
Takahashi Kazuya sat down across from him and said, “Nowadays, you are not an ordinary Japanese national. Your every move is very likely to affect the rise and fall of the stocks of our affiliated companies, directly affecting the interests of large and small investors, as well as the outside world’s perception of you and the Hard Gold Group.
Not only that, but it will also involve the internal winds of the company. It is rumored that the reason why you got divorced was so that you could marry Maki Iwasaki.
I’m not saying anything good or bad about Rie Sakai, nor am I saying anything good or bad about Maki Iwasaki. Who you want to marry is really your own business.
However, your personal matter is not your own, but will directly affect the power pattern within the whole group.
My attitude is that if you want to marry Maki Iwasaki, then she can’t continue to work in the group as the Finance Director. Our Hard Gold Group is completely independent, absolutely not subordinate to the Mitsubishi Group.
If Iwasaki Maki and you still want to continue to serve in the Hard Gold Group’s Finance Minister position after the marriage, I hope that she will be able to publicly sign and release a statement agreement is to detach herself from the Mitsubishi Group’s Iwasaki family.”
Kishimoto Masayoshi has a little surprise is Takahashi Kazuya specially come not to persuade himself and Sakai Rie between can change back or try to salvage the words. His main concern was still on the company’s side.
“I’m afraid it’s unrealistic for you to ask Iwasaki Maki to sever her ties with her mother’s family!” Justice Kishimoto said bluntly.
“If Maki Iwasaki doesn’t make her stance and attitude clear, then it will give the wrong signals and orientation to quite a few people within and outside the company. Does she represent the Kishimoto family or the Iwasaki family?
After Maki Iwasaki marries you, you, Masayoshi Kishimoto, will be the son-in-law of the Iwasaki family. Doesn’t it also mean that from now on, our Hard Gold Group will have to look up to the Mitsubishi Group?
Nowadays, the number of people who kiss Iwasaki Maki’s ass and fall on her side has increased, not decreased. If she doesn’t leave the Hard Gold Group after you get married, this phenomenon will only increase.
Justice, none of us are children anymore. The first thing to consider is profit, not personal feelings. You must never be able to make a mistake!” Takahashi Kazuya said in a serious manner.
“Are you the only one who thinks this way, or have you guys already started contacting each other in private?” Masayoshi Kishimoto said with a sense of purpose.
“Isn’t it baldly obvious? Once you divorce Rie Sakai and marry Maki Iwasaki, you’ll stir up an otherwise calm pool of water for good.
Not only within our Hard Gold Group, but the entire Japanese financial world. When the time comes, are we going to be the pawns of the Mitsubishi Group?
Although the words are business each do each, friends each make each, but the fact is not so simple ever. The Mitsubishi Group’s hostile forces will naturally become our hostile forces.
Even if we do not think so, does not mean that others think so. The friends of the Mitsubishi Group are not necessarily our friends.
We have been in business for less than ten years. In the eyes of some of the more than 100 years old Zaibatsu families, we don’t look like a new generation that has emerged, but more like we are being plucked from the ashes.
The position of Finance Director is one of the centerpieces of the group. It’s not like you’ve created a Group Vice President, a Specialty, or a Managing Director.
It’s logical that Takayuki Nanno’s HR department is the number two person in the group company, but it will turn out that Maki Iwasaki has become the undisputed number two person within the company.
It’s not that I’m cursing you. If something were to happen to you, then there would be a chaotic situation within the group. The head of each headquarters at the same level, and the presidents of the subsidiaries, would be in an uproar.
In addition, the attitudes of the Japanese pachinko industry leaders, who have close ties with you and the Hard Gold Group, will change.
Furthermore, the forces and powers of Kazuhiko Inoue, who are in the shadows, will also change their perception of the Hard Gold Group.”
Takahashi Kazuya was making peace with what he had been worrying about. He didn’t care if he could become the number two person of the Hard Gold Group, but he cared about the interests of the group companies.
Masayoshi Kishimoto was well aware that Kazuhiko Inoue’s existence was of considerable significance. Not only could he be used to deal with things that were inconvenient to come forward, but he was also able to maintain a balance.
The construction industry in Japan, especially in some localities, was controlled and monopolized by violent Japanese groups, thus forming a complete chain of black money.
A part of the black money not only flows into the financial sector, but also into a number of politicians. Some Japanese politicians receive the money, and rightly so, they make a well-deserved statement on their behalf.
Violent groups in modern Japan can rely not just on hard violence, but mostly on soft violence, in the form of various corporations set up for profit.
The reason why Yamaguchi Katsuhei’s hard gold construction has not been bitten by the industry again for exposing the truth within this industry in the past, as well as the fact that the projects that he presided over and was responsible for in this country did not suffer from blackmail, extortion, and disruption by any of the violent teams …… was mainly due to Inoue Kazuhiko’s help in the shadows and his appearances for negotiations, and even direct to smooth things over.
What’s the use of relying on the law and reasoning alone. The hooligans have their own set of hooligan logic and code of conduct.
The Japanese government will never openly admit such a thing. It can admit that some of the country’s large and small violent team’s objective existence, has been considered a precedent, after all, any country in the world has the existence of gangster organization.
As for the entire Japanese pachinko industry bigwigs, absolutely not trust outsiders. They have another set of code of conduct, after all, it is a third party force in the middle of the yakuza and the white road, belonging to a gray area.