Conan: I'm a zaibatsu in Tokyo

Chapter 13 I Want to Start a Business
Early the next morning.

After helplessly crawling out of Masakazu's arms, Ai pushed him away, despising her own cowardice and incompetence from the previous night, and once again volunteered to be Masakazu's body pillow.

Then, without any hesitation, he crawled out of bed and severed ties with Zheng Yi.

Last night was just a stopgap measure.

Now, she's very assertive.

Masaichi blinked and reached out to touch Ai's head.

Ai is still enduring it.

Although she did not resist, her expression clearly showed that she was still fighting.

Ai Haibara has not lost her fighting spirit.

Zheng Yi was very pleased.

He placed his hand on Ai's head and stroked it repeatedly, conducting a compliance test.

Although Ai didn't act aggressively, she clearly hadn't been properly trained by Shoichi.

After breakfast, feeling refreshed, Zheng Yi didn't go to work. Instead, he went to a special villa complex to visit his father in prison.

Saburo Sumitomo was leisurely watching TV.

Upon seeing Zheng Yi enter, he simply instructed the butler to pour him a glass of juice.

"How's it going at the bank?" Sumitomo Saburo asked.

"It's so boring. All I do all day is either help other people clean up their assets or help some companies with their IPO plans. It's so pointless." Zheng Yi shook his head.

It's so boring.

Just drifting through life can be really boring.

Saburo Sumitomo nudged the kitten in his arms.

Didn't you used to really enjoy this leisurely lifestyle?

"I'm planning to start my own business," Zheng Yi said.

“Starting a business is great,” Sumitomo Saburo said with a smile.

The kitten in Sumitomo Saburo's arms glanced at Masakazu, then nestled in Sumitomo Saburo's arms and licked its fur.

“I’m planning to start a construction company,” Zheng Yi said again.

"A construction company?" Sumitomo Saburo said with a smile, "A construction company is good."

With the Japanese real estate market in such a terrible state right now, going to start a construction company really shows a complete lack of entrepreneurial spirit.

Even if I had a lot of money, I wouldn't let you squander it like that.

"Aren't you going to invest some money in me?" Zheng Yi said.

"Investing is good, investing is good." Sumitomo Saburo continued to feign dementia.

Zheng Yi glanced at him with his nostrils, knowing that his biological father simply didn't support him venturing out into the world.

Zheng Yi arrogantly said, "I don't want your money, I need your support. The construction company needs a lot of cement and steel, and I need the family business to sell to me at a low price."

"And those family construction machines, it would be even better if you could rent them to me at a low price."

Saburo Sumitomo glanced at him and said, "Now the family businesses are managed like corporations, with clearly defined functional departments. It's not like I can do whatever I want."

I don't hold any position in the company, so contacting me is useless.

"Besides, do you have the money to set up a construction company?"

Zheng Yi said with a smile, "Isn't that because Sumitomo Bank is also giving me a loan?"

"Don't even think about it!" Sumitomo Saburo shouted.

Trying to start a business with nothing but bare hands, or even starting a business on a dead end, isn't that crazy?
"Dad!" Masaichi said earnestly to Sumitomo Saburo, "Now is the perfect time to buy at the bottom!"

“The real estate market won’t recover in less than a decade,” said Saburo Sumitomo.

If the real estate market is failing, the construction industry is even worse.

Saburo Sumitomo took out a bank card and handed it to Masakazu, saying seriously, "If you want money, just say so. Don't try to scare me with the idea of ​​starting a business."

This biological father, does he really think I care about this little bit of money?
"I don't want it, I'll have money soon," Zheng Yi said, pouting.

"You'll have money soon?"

Sumitomo Saburo looked at Masakazu with suspicion.

Lifting the cat from his arms, Sumitomo Saburo said seriously, "You're not going to be shorting copper mines with outsiders, are you?"

"How could that be!" Zheng Yi retorted.
“How could I do such a thing? My uncle has been driving up copper prices, how could I go against him?” “It’s hard to say.”

Saburo Sumitomo shook his head.

Everyone knows that when you reminded your uncle, he gave you a lecture.

You've always been petty and narrow-minded, how can you not retaliate?

Besides, he already had other conflicts with our family.

"Really not?"

"No, I shorted it myself," Zheng Yi said in a low voice.

He did not contact any outsiders.

Anyway, copper prices are bound to collapse sooner or later; he just wanted to sneak a sip of the soup.

Saburo Sumitomo nodded.

Fortunately, they didn't contact outsiders, so they can't be considered disgraceful members of the family.

"Why don't you try a different startup project?" Sumitomo Saburo said.

Let's find Zheng Yi something to do; it's better than letting him harm his own family.

However, a construction company is absolutely out of the question.

Zheng Yi slammed his fist on the table and said, "You have to believe me, okay? I'm a one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial genius!"

At last.

Zheng Yi's father still agreed to help Zheng Yi start his business.

Since you have your own money, the family will not invest in you, but those construction-related companies will establish close cooperation with Zheng Yi.

However, don't even think about borrowing money from Sumitomo Bank.

Don't even think about lending a single penny if the company has no results.

You can harm your uncle, but you can't harm your own business.

As soon as Shoichi left the villa, Sumitomo Saburo saw a news report on television.

A former employee of Sumitomo Corporation revealed that Yasuo Naka, the head of the company's non-ferrous metals trading department, engaged in large-scale illegal trading in the international copper futures market.

Leveraging Sumitomo Corporation's significant influence in the copper market, he attempted to manipulate copper prices for enormous profits. He influenced market prices through methods such as hoarding large quantities of physical copper and establishing massive long positions in the futures market.

It's obvious that copper prices will continue to decline.

Those international short-selling groups will definitely follow suit immediately.

Sumitomo Saburo's lips twitched. This little novice saint.

……

Zheng Yi was heartbroken when his uncle was going to lose money, so he bought a firework to celebrate at home.

"Bang~"

Ai, who was doing her homework, jumped up and bristled like a cat in a state of stress when she heard the sound of fireworks exploding.

Seeing that Zheng Yi was holding a firework tube, she breathed a sigh of relief and took the firework off her head one by one.

"Ai, I'm so sad."

Ai looked at Shoichi silently. The smile on your face didn't look like you were sad.

“My uncle’s company is in trouble and is going to lose a lot of money.”

This is truly delightful news.

It's incredibly satisfying to see a member of a chaebol family's organization lose money.

"I resigned, so I won't be able to work anymore."

People are in high spirits when they have good news; this is truly wonderful news.

Zheng Yi patted Xiao Ai's head and continued, "I have another bad news for you. My uncle lost money, but I'm going to make a lot of money."

This is truly disheartening news.

"The other bad news is that I'm going to start my own business."

When it rains, it pours; bad news just keeps piling up.

(End of this chapter)