In Tokyo, even the most fierce dragon is afraid of the hatchet

"Everyone, I like Miss Sawaguchi as much as you do, but please be rational! We urgently need to do our job well!"

There was a hint of severity in these words.

Shinno Kikkawa and Jiichi Omura were startled and quickly hid the excitement on their faces.

"What you said is right, Section Chief. But you just came to the company and you don't know that Ms. Sawaguchi Yasuko is affiliated with Toho Entertainment. Entertainment agencies like this are very eager to have a good relationship with big companies like us."

"Before this, the business department has invited actresses from Toho Entertainment many times."

"Even so, if you want to invite a big-name actress like Ms. Sawaguchi Yasuko, you need a real big shot to come forward, right?"

"The Section Chief is such a big shot!"

"..."

Am I a big shot?

I'm just a small section chief, and an acting intern at that!

What kind of big shot is that?

But looking at the serious expressions of his subordinates, Nagano Nao's heart stopped for a moment.

Could it be possible that I could actually invite a star of this level? !

Knowing that the acting section chief was still unfamiliar with the resources he could allocate, several people talked to him about many things.

It sounds like both Toho Entertainment and other star management companies are very willing to have good relations with big companies like Nippon Seibo.

In other words, it is entirely because large companies have a strong relationship in the buyer's market, and brokerage companies often feel honored to be cared for by large companies.

This made Nagano Nao fall into deep thought.

He suddenly realized that he might be wrong.

And it's so wrong.

All along, he still held on to the old ideas, thinking that top stars were all high and mighty and arrogant.

Just like what a certain second-rate actress once said—one of my movies is worth 80 million!

Or, some stars directly ask the police to block the road and clear the way, with a pomp and circumstance comparable to that of the leaders of a certain country, making people have no choice but to look up to them.

But this is not the case in Japan.

In the Japanese entertainment industry, whether it is male or female actors, their status can only be described as average.

The entire society seems to have a kind of psychological discrimination and suppression towards the entertainment industry, an industry that does not bring progress and contribution to society.

It is somewhat similar to the ancient Chinese view of actors, and Japan still retains such a tradition.

Moreover, those working in the entertainment industry are on a lifetime employment system just like company employees. No matter how great their personal influence is, it is nothing more than more bonuses. So not only is their social status not high, but they are also often not very rich.

Even for an agency, because they are engaged in the low-level industry of performing arts, even if they have many popular artists, they still need to work hard to maintain good relationships with the real big companies.

Of course, on the one hand, society suppresses the entertainment industry itself, and on the other hand, big companies like Nippon Seibo are too strong.

A company like Nippon Life Insurance is no longer a company in the conventional sense.

It can do things that the government is not convenient to do, and in some sense it also shoulders the responsibilities that the government needs to assume.

Moreover, this kind of relationship is very delicate. For example, there are precedents of the chairman or president of Japan's bio-life entering politics and directly entering the cabinet or serving as a minister at the Ministry of Finance or Ministry of Health and Welfare.

It is no exaggeration to say that any minister of Japan's Seiin Insurance or the five major conglomerates can easily bankrupt a brokerage company that has many popular stars.

Even if he is just a section chief, the resources he can mobilize are enough to make some brokerage companies try their best to please him.

"In other words, can we invite Ms. Yasuko Sawaguchi to help?" Nagano Nao said with a calm expression but deep excitement in his heart.

Omura Jiichi immediately responded, "When a strong person like you asks, Toho Entertainment has absolutely no reason to refuse."

Good guy!

Is this the power that a section chief has?

I'm just an intern section chief!

Nagano Nao's blood boiled and he felt what power felt like.

He can easily mobilize billions of funds and even get stars like Yasuko Sawaguchi to cooperate with him.

This is just the acting section chief.

If you become a section chief, manager, department head, or company president, what great power you will have!

Nao Nagano suddenly felt that in a society like Japan, how much money a person has is not very meaningful.

He thought of the oppression he had suffered, the humiliation and despair he had felt because of his lack of money and power, and the great humiliation he had felt at the hands of Kitaharakawa that day.

An ambition is burning in my chest!

People live forever.

Just live a life of passion.

In the past, I had no chance and could only be a salted fish.

Now that I have the opportunity, why can't I have power over the world!

With such an impulse, Nagano Nao took a deep breath and said, "Kikukawa-kun, please count the number of big customers we need to entertain this time. Omura-kun and Kikukawa-kun, please work together to calculate how much money we need to prepare the lucky bags according to the current gold price."

Kikukawa and Omura breathed a sigh of relief when they were assigned the task first.

In the Japanese workplace, work ability is the best resume for promotion. It is the only chance for ordinary universities to stand out. The more overtime you work and the more work you do, the more it means that your boss values ​​you.

What the two were most worried about was that the six girls were too pretty, and Nagano Nao was a pervert and gave all the opportunities to them.

Now it seems that this gentleman is indeed a peerless dragon and does not favor beauties at all. With this thought in mind, the two of them put on their clothes and went to work with boiling blood.

The remaining six girls were anxious and hoped that they could be assigned some tasks.

"Ms. Igarashi and Ms. Kai, please contact Toho Entertainment. I'll leave the arrangements for inviting Miss Sawaguchi Yasuko to you."

"..."

Chapter 46: The Realm of Pretending

Night falls.

The city lights are on.

Naoto Nagano pretended to look serious and listened to the statistical reports made by his subordinates.

"The number of customers with assets exceeding 400 billion yen is 50 and . Based on the current gold price of $ per ounce, a -gram gold Fuka costs about $ million."

"What about Toho Entertainment?"

"Ms. Sawaguchi Yasuko happens to be available. Toho Entertainment has offered 10 million yen. We can prepare it anytime."

Ten million yen.

It was only about $70,000.

This amount of money is not even a fraction of what Angola gets, right?!

Igarashi Koori was very good at reading people's expressions. She noticed that Nagano Manao seemed puzzled, so she immediately said, "Our company's responsibility is to guarantee retirement benefits for all Japanese people, so Toho Entertainment is very eager to cooperate with us. This is a good opportunity for Toho Entertainment and Ms. Sawaguchi Yasuko to showcase their image."

Nagano nodded: "So how much is the total budget?"

"According to our cooperation with Hyogo Bank, we asked them to make the blessing cards. The usual practice is to charge them a 20% processing fee. After calculation, plus some small gifts, packaging, and radio promotion, the investment will be about 1.2 billion."

This means that the remaining money is all customer entertainment expenses!

Nagano Nao's heart began to throb.

He knew about entertainment expenses. The employees of the sales and planning departments of Japan Life Insurance had about $200,000 in client entertainment expenses every year.

At the section manager level, there are $500,000 in client entertainment expenses each year.

This money is mainly used to find big customers to go to brothels to have fun, eat and drink, etc. In this case, usually you can negotiate with the consumption place, issue more invoices and get a kickback of about 50%.

However, activities held by the company will incur additional entertainment expenses. As the project leader, you have the power to decide where to entertain clients.

Oh shit!

If I find a place to negotiate, wouldn't it be easy for me to pocket a million or two dollars?

Eat, drink, go to a brothel and have fun, and you can actually make money!

Love it!

Love it!

I'm a little drunk!

Can't do it?

No, I want to become the most powerful tiger in the empire, how can I care about such a small amount of money!

With this thought in mind, Nagano Nao thought about it and came to the minister's office.

It's already eight o'clock.

According to the company's working hours, everyone should have left work long ago.

However, at this time, the lights in the minister's office were still on, and Yuan Guangrong seemed to be reviewing something.

After hearing the knock on the door, he looked up and said, "It's Nagano-kun! It's already eight o'clock, why haven't you finished get off work yet?"

"Minister, you are so busy and you are still working. If Nagano doesn't work harder, how can you achieve the small goal of buying the United States under the leadership of the Minister?"

Nagano Naoio said seriously.

I was vomiting in my heart, feeling that such words = flattery were so hypocritical and disgusting.

But now he has come to understand that a company like Nippon Life Insurance is more like a civil service system than a business.

Here, flattery is more effective than work ability.

really.

Yuan Guangrong seemed to benefit a lot, especially when he heard about the small goal of buying the United States. His slightly tired spirit was lifted.

He has always felt that the goal of buying the United States is a long and arduous journey, and he has been working hard for it, but when he speaks out this huge task of buying the United States, he always feels a little bit sorry for the strength of Japan.

Small goals, it sounds really good.