Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City, Shimokyo Ward, Tokyo Industrial Bank Kyoto Branch.
A majestic and huge office building rises from the ground, overlooking other modern buildings around it. Men and women in formal suits are coming and going in a hurry.
This is the core commercial area of Shimokyo District and the financial center of Kyoto City. This street alone is home to four large banks, Tosan, Sumitomo, Sakura, and Tokyo External link, as well as other financial institutions such as Pianpin Securities nearby.
, and at the far corner of the street, a new financial institution has just been built. The huge direwolf shape on the top is particularly eye-catching, frequently attracting the attention of countless pedestrians.
Kitahara Shenlang Credit Bank.
This is the first financial institution under Kitahara Investment. Now it has been officially settled, and its headquarters is located in Shimokyo District, Kyoto City, where land is extremely valuable.
On December 1, 1990, the weather gradually turned colder. Every winter, Kyoto Prefecture, surrounded by mountains and beautiful scenery, would begin to have light snowflakes. The first snow of winter this year has not yet fallen, but the cold wave is accompanying it.
The Great Depression quietly invaded this century-old capital.
At the branch's regular meeting, branch president Tao Taro, who is over 55 years old, took the lead in applauding and warmly welcomed the new vice president assigned by the head office, Kitahara Sosuke.
Only 26-year-old Sosuke Kitahara is tall and handsome. He captured the hearts of countless female employees as soon as he appeared on the scene. They had only seen him on TV before, but how could the distorted image compare with the real person?
"Vice President Kitahara will be in charge of all the business of the business hall on the first floor, and will also serve as the chairman of the supervisory committee of the six branches in Kita District, Higashiyama District, Minami District, Fushimi District, Yamashina District and Xijing District," said.
At this point, Tao Taro squinted his eyes and looked at Kitahara Sosuke with a helpless smile on his face, "I'm really sorry that Vice President Kitahara assigned you so many tasks when he first came here. There are frequent staff transfers in the branch, and now the management positions are vacant.
It’s serious, I can only humiliate you first.”
"This is my duty." Kitahara Sosuke leaned forward slightly and looked at the smiling man with squinted eyes.
This guy is completely different from Naoto Asano and others. He is a real veteran in the workplace. He has been in Kyoto for a long time and has dealt with Tao Taro several times. He does not rely on his old age to show off his skills, nor is he arrogant. He always looks kind and gentle.
, There is a needle hidden in cotton wool, and a knife hidden in smile.
Yin Ren's skills were much stronger than those of Oshima Mitsuo at that time.
When he first arrived at the Kyoto Branch, Tao Taro introduced him to all the management staff of the branch, and tried his best to praise Kitahara Sosuke's abilities and talents. What is intriguing is that he always mentioned that the Osaka Branch surpassed the Kyoto Branch at the last moment and won the first prize this year.
A matter of branch honor.
It was indeed Sosuke Kitahara who had caused this incident, but in the eyes of everyone in the Kyoto branch, it was an eternal pain.
The turbulence of last year and the first half of the year left the Osaka branch in pieces. The Kyoto branch was about to win the title of No. 1 branch twice in a row. At that time, the entire management would benefit, but it was overthrown by Kitahara Investment, a mid-level investment by Sosuke Kitahara.
everything.
They must be dissatisfied with Kitahara Sosuke. Showing off in circles like this is undoubtedly deliberately putting Kitahara Sosuke on the fire.
But he was just flattering himself, and Kitahara Sosuke really didn't want to fall out with him.
Tao Taro also strongly supported the new business plan brought by Kitahara Sosuke this time. He was the first to raise his hand in favor. But attitude is attitude and action is action. He did not take any action. When he went to Chino's house to negotiate, Tao Taro was only symbolic.
I asked about the results, and then sighed with emotion.
If you ask him, he will say that he has no say in the Chino family. As for the industry, he is old and lacks energy, so he can only try his best to assist Kitahara Sosuke, as if he is giving up power.
But the fact is, Kitahara Sosuke observed around and found that without this old fox's decision, his business would not be able to develop at all. He looked for other departments to cooperate, but the other party's tone was gentle, but there was no substantive action!
Tao Taro is deliberately arrogating himself!
First, he was mindlessly flattering, inciting hatred, and making people isolate him. Then he vigorously promoted his new project but secretly did not cooperate with him. After a few months, when the project made no progress, he probably should have people start ridiculing him.
What a financial idol from the East, what a new financial giant!
Kitahara Sosuke had seen many workplace PUAs like boiling frogs in lukewarm water in his previous life, and Taotaro was really good at playing them.
At the beginning of this month, power was finally assigned to him. After listening to his words, Kitahara Sosuke sneered in his heart.
He is in charge of the business hall downstairs, which is basic financial business and has nothing to do with financing. It is equivalent to completely cutting him off from the business line!
As for the so-called Chairman of the Supervisory Committee, the branches he is in charge of are all the most remote branches and are not at all in the core five districts of Shangjing, Xiajing, Zuojing, Zhongjing, and Ukyo.
None of the two management rights he needed most, namely personnel and business, were given to him!
"Then the economic development of these six districts will be entrusted to you, Vice President Kitahara!" Tao Taro looked serious and bowed in greeting, "These six districts have always been disadvantaged areas in the Kyoto region. The board of directors of the head office has emphasized this many times this year.
We hope that we can support them and entrust you with this arduous task. This is the wish of our entire bank. Please be sure to save them from hell!"
After the regular meeting, Kitahara Sosuke came to his office. Looking at the brand-new but empty new office, he suddenly missed the president's office in the Osaka Chuo District branch that he had completely transformed into a private residence. The weather
When it got cold, he would have people bring in the kotatsu, where he would eat hot pot, chat and laugh with Fujiwara Norika, Kobayashi Kyoko and the others.
Now, when he looked around, there was no Saeko Sakurai who was always waiting by his side in a professional suit, nor Norika Fujiwara who was in a hurry and doing things in a hurry.
Kitahara Sosuke subconsciously shouted "Ji Xiang", but no one answered.
Only then did he realize that he already had deep feelings for these girls, the past, and Osaka.
He breathed a sigh of relief and was about to start reviewing business documents when there was a knock on the door outside the office. Kitahara Sosuke was stunned for a moment and said, "Come in."
A young girl wearing a brand-new professional suit with a rather immature demeanor walked over. She gently pulled the tight black stockings with her hands, as if she was not used to this feeling.
"Miss Itowan? Why are you here?"
Kitahara Sosuke looked carefully and was quite shocked after confirming that it was Marika Ito.
This little girl is only 17 years old after her birthday!
"Kita, President Kitahara, I, I...I am your personal assistant." Marihua Ito's face turned red and he hesitated.
Kitahara Sosuke was greatly shocked. After some questioning, he found out that the Ito Man family collapsed, Ito Manpei was imprisoned, and Ito Manzaburo was transferred to the Middle East. All his future income will slowly fill the loan deficit at that time, and
Before leaving, Ito Manzaburo and Ito Marihua severed their father-daughter relationship.
After losing her father, her home, and her mother, Ito Marika had no one to rely on. She had no money to go to Vienna to study music. Finally, she used her little savings to buy a diploma from a junior college and relied on Owada.
With Kenji's help, I successfully entered the Dongsan internship.
Owada Kenji is now the executive in charge of human resources and has great power. With a stroke of his pen, Ito Marika was transferred to the Kyoto branch for an internship, and was directly assigned to Kitahara Sosuke as a personal assistant.
No one dared to question the personnel appointments of Owada Executive Director, and Totaro, who was not aware of the dispute between Ito Marika and Kitahara Sosuke, did not pay much attention.
He was even happier like this.
A vice president whose power has been emptied out, and a little girl who just did an internship and knows nothing, what can they do in the branch if they work together?
Otherwise, it would be inappropriate to choose anyone to be Sosuke Kitahara's assistant.
"President Owada... I see, sit down, Rika-chan, do you mind if I call you that?" Kitahara Sosuke pointed to the mahogany chair in front of him.
"Hai Yi!" Marihua Ito sat down nervously, holding the hem of her short skirt.
She decided to give up music and engage in finance, just to see what kind of tempting thing could make her father so intoxicated.
Before this, she never thought that she would see Kitahara Sosuke again.
Having heard many workplace secrets, she was actually very worried about meeting a terrible boss. After seeing that it was Kitahara Sosuke, she didn't know why, but she felt a little more at ease.
"We're going to go out for business later. Can you drive?" Kitahara Sosuke picked up a stack of documents and gave them to her, "I need to read these."
"I, I don't know how...but I can learn!" Ito Marika blushed with embarrassment. The life of a well-dressed young lady did make it difficult for her to take care of herself, but these are unavoidable.
She lowered her head and did not dare to look at Kitahara Sosuke.
"...I know, let's learn from the beginning. By the way, where do you live?" Kitahara Sosuke sighed, this is a girl who is even more naive than Fujiwara Norika.
Ito Marihua coyly, it took a long time to pop out of the South District.
Minami Ward has deviated from the city center, but you can still get to the city center relatively quickly by relying on the subway Karasuma Line and various bus lines.
Kitahara Sosuke sighed again. She didn't have a car. It was quite hard to commute to get off work. I wonder if a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old could bear it?