Chapter 150: The iron-clad Beiyuan, the flowing governor
After the cleaning in the morning, Kitahara Sosuke rushed to the Kyoto headquarters building of Kitahara Shoji without stopping.
On the last day of 1991, although the economic situation throughout the year was sluggish and countless people encountered a series of the most difficult changes in their lives, at the end of the year, the streets were still filled with a festive atmosphere of the New Year.
However, compared with previous years, there are more light signs on the streets praying for blessings, and the wishing trees in shrines and temples in various places are also covered with red wishing paper, in which people's expectations, longings and hopes for life in the new year are written.
There are still many people working overtime in the Kitahara Shoji Kyoto headquarters building. The security guard at the door stood straight. When the beautiful front desk lady saw Kitahara Sosuke and Yamada Kazuma walking from a distance, her little mouth opened slightly with a look of astonishment on her face.
After Kitahara Sosuke made a gesture to silence, she immediately covered her mouth with both hands and forced the sound back into her throat.
"Thank you for your hard work. Happy New Year." Kitahara Sosuke took a red envelope from Yamada Kazuma and handed it to the receptionist with a smile.
The lady at the front desk was so flattered that she didn't dare to take it for a moment: "Hey, President, is this for me?"
"Yes, keep working hard." Kitahara Sosuke nodded lightly, rubbed her head and walked towards the second floor.
Soon, a shocking shout came from the second floor, as if the earth was shaking.
Sending red envelopes and offering New Year greetings is a tradition of Kitahara Club over the years. However, for other branches, the branch presidents usually lead the personnel department directors to do this. As for the headquarters...
They originally thought it would be the executive director of the board of directors, but they didn't expect Kitahara Sosuke to come in person to give them blessings!
After leaving Kyoto, Kitahara Sosuke and Yamada Kazuma went to Tokyo again. Now the headquarters of several of the largest clubs in the Kitahara clan are gathered in Chiyoda Ward, Kitahara Shoji, Kitahara Bank, Kitahara Technology, Kitahara Entertainment, etc. They traveled around.
Circle, send red envelopes and blessings to employees who work overtime, and ask employees in the human resources department to distribute other red envelopes to all officially established employees within today.
During this period, Kitahara Sosuke took the time to visit Studio Ghibli. This year, due to differences in production concepts, Toru Hara of Studio Ghibli left the studio. Now the general manager is taken over by Toshio Suzuki, while Hayao Miyazaki concentrates on animation.
In terms of creation.
Gainax, Tatsunoko Studio is now in the same office building as Studio Ghibli. It is the core team of Kitahara Animation. The three companies are working together to prepare a concept animation that Kitahara Sosuke mentioned before, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
At the end of the year, "My Neighbor Yamada-kun" will be released.
Because Kithara Sosuke hoped that they would speed up the progress in the middle of the year, four works were actually released this year: "Hear the Sound of the Waves", "The Changing Tanuki", "Listen Ear" and "Princess Mononoke", and the box office of the latter two works was pretty good.
good.
Anyway, Kitahara Sosuke doesn't have any requirements for the box office. He doesn't even care about profits and losses. He just hopes that the three major studios can distract themselves and prepare for the hit animated movie in 1992——
"Spirited Away".
That's right, Kitahara Sosuke is planning to release this century-old masterpiece 9 years ahead of schedule.
After the bubble economy, it encountered the old ruble crisis, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the crisis of necessities, and Japan's business was crumbling. As the founder of the emerging consortium, Kitahara Sosuke must stimulate the market and then reap the rewards.
Otherwise, in this era, his start would be much worse than other consortiums.
They all became prosperous before and after the war. They rose up due to the economic crisis, but they must not seek development in the economic crisis.
After leaving Tokyo, Kitahara Sosuke returned to Osaka alone.
Here are his first memories and a group of subordinates.
Kitahara Human Resources and Kitahara Service, controlled by Onoe Orihime, are also located here and have become two iconic super clubs in Osaka.
Onoe Orihime, who had not seen Kitahara Sosuke for more than half a year, accompanied him to express condolences to the employees in Osaka. The little girl finally grew up and is now a slim and relaxed female president.
However, in front of Kitahara Sosuke, she was still the gentle and cute little sister wearing a kimono. She always loved to hold his arm and act coquettishly. She did not have the courage of a female CEO at all.
The two kissed in downtown Osaka and parted reluctantly in the end.
After everything was arranged, it was already 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and he hadn't eaten yet. Irie, who was waiting in the car, asked for leave with his wife Korei Komura and came here to accompany him around.
Irie Masaru, who has now joined the Tokyo Prefectural Police Department, is handsome and handsome in a neat suit. No one would have thought that this man was once a low-level gangster.
"Mr. Kitahara, Miss Kitano has arranged the dinner. Everyone is waiting for you in the hotel. Shall we go there now?" Irie was sitting in the driver's seat and looked at Kitahara Sosuke who got into the car to smoke. "The people on the list
Everyone has been notified."
"Okay," Kitahara Sosuke took one last puff, put out the cigarette, and asked softly, "Let's go."
The Rolls-Royce roared and flew towards the most luxurious shopping street in Osaka's Chuo District under the gaze of many people on the street.
Before leaving Osaka at that time, Kitahara Sosuke successfully acquired a lot of land in the downtown area of Chuo District. Nowadays, Kitahara business district buildings have been built here, deepening the people's dependence on Kitahara clan organizations.
There is a saying among the people now.
The iron-clad Kitahara Sosuke and the smooth-talking Governor of Osaka Prefecture.
Tomiichi Murayama, and the prime ministers such as Miyazawa Kiichi and Hata Tsutomu, have not failed to consider Kitahara Sosuke's influence and terror control power in Osaka.
They tried to use political pressure to curb Kitahara Sosuke's development.
The Governor of Osaka Prefecture and the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the Osaka region have nothing to do with the Kitahara Clan. They came here by air and have great power and very high freedom of control. Unfortunately, none of them can restrict the Kitahara Clique.
Even Kitahara Sosuke has not come back once. Just having Orihime Onoe and Ran Kitano who have taken root here is enough to give them a headache. In addition, Yamada Kazuma's Kitahara manpower has already penetrated into important positions in all walks of life. They are powerless and can only watch silently.
The Kitahara clan club continues to grow and develop.
For those who are willing to cooperate with him, Kitahara Sosuke will not be stingy about sharing the benefits.
But he doesn't mind punishing those who insist on obeying the Prime Minister's cabinet and opposing him to death.
In just one year, there were six different governors of Osaka Prefecture.
The new governor who came here has not been on the job for a month, and he resigned today.
Unfortunately, Osaka, which is so deformed, is the only metropolis that did not report a deficit at the end of the year.
Now if we want to drive Kitahara Sosuke out of Osaka, I'm afraid the people won't agree.
Here, he really lived up to his original rhetoric.
"There are three things people can't escape in Osaka."