Chapter 1421 Times Have Changed

Life is really amazing.

Ning Weimin and the Guo family, who were enemies who had already torn their faces apart, could become friendly partners in an instant because they found common interests. Who could have thought of this?

But then again, it is better to resolve a feud than to make one.

As the saying goes, the world is not about fighting and killing, but also about human relationships.

The biggest difference between little Karami and the real boss lies in this.

In the business world, conflicts are normal, but no one can continue to magnify and continue the hostility that does not involve fundamental interests.

This is real life, not Long Aotian's main world.

As Guo Kefeng said, conflicts are good for no one.

Only fools will hurt each other for worthless disputes, and endlessly expand contradictions and conflicts.

You have to make the other party bow their heads and earn enough face for yourself, just to prove that you are a stupid person with a bad temper, unreasonable, and impossible to communicate.

As for the best way to resolve differences and conflicts, it is undoubtedly to find common interests.

So once such a thing is found, it will be as easy as a matter of course for the two sides to reach a settlement.

And in the future, as long as both of them can continue to obtain enough benefits from the agreement they have reached, they will be the most inseparable allies.

Specifically for Ning Weimin, he certainly knows what scale Shangri-La, owned by the Guo family, will develop to in the future.

He is interested in the rapid growth of Shangri-La, a future listed hotel group, and its five-star brand and luxurious high-end positioning.

If he can obtain certain privileges in advance, open the Tan Palace restaurant in every Shangri-La hotel, and sell LVMH's wine and beverages through the channels of Shangri-La Hotel, it is equivalent to him borrowing chickens to lay eggs and share the dividends of the other party's growth.

Apart from anything else, at least one day when the China World Trade Center is completed and opened in Beijing, he will have a place.

The huge benefits have made him forgive the other party. Isn't it better to get such a powerful helper than a powerful enemy?

In fact, the other party had no intention of obstructing the film he made, and he took the initiative to come to the door with Huo Yanping's letter to ask for peace, which was a disguised surrender.

Since he had both the inside and the outside, he would only pretend and be unyielding unless his brain was broken.

And what Guo Kefeng wanted from him was nothing more than a relatively decent negotiation result for Singapore.

After all, the face of the Sugar King is more valuable, and the reputation of the Guo family is very important, so it is nothing to bleed a little for this.

As for Guo Kefeng personally, what he cares most about is the investment project of refined oil in mainland China.

As long as this thing is done, he will have a better future, and he doesn't care so much about other things.

Therefore, the settlement conditions given by Ning Weimin just meet his needs. Not only did he not have any dissatisfaction, but his evaluation and goodwill towards Ning Weimin rose sharply.

Basically, these things are finalized.

As for the unlucky people in this matter, in the end, it seems that apart from the victim Yusuo Suho, the deceived Yasuko Sawaguchi, and the unknown representative of the Guo family, there are only two wine companies left, Martell and Remy Martin.

To be honest, these two companies are the real unlucky ones, and they suffered completely unprovoked disasters.

As high-end wine brands, they have always been strong competitors of Hennessy under LVMH.

However, they could never have imagined that the small friction between Ning Weimin and the Guo family in Southeast Asia would eventually make them, who had nothing to do with this matter, become victims, and they will be completely excluded from the Shangri-La Hotel from now on.

LVMH, on the other hand, relied on its support for Ning Weimin to reap the benefits.

Without spending a penny, it has since monopolized the supply of wine for the Shangri-La Hotel and became the exclusive supplier of the future largest hotel chain in Southeast Asia.

What is the meaning of "the gods fight, and the little devils suffer".

Where is the reason?

This kind of thing can only be attributed to a "black swan event".

Like the fate of life, time is also a very wonderful thing.

Its power lies in its subtle influence. As long as time passes, it can often wipe out everything and change everything.

Although it has only been forty days since Suho Ikuo's death, this person has been almost completely forgotten by the Japanese entertainment industry with the collapse of the Burning System.

No media will mention his name again.

And what he did at the beginning has become a history that no one wants to mention again. The only thing he can leave a mark on is his inglorious way of death.

Even the business he founded at the beginning has been divided up by the big sharks in the Japanese entertainment industry, and no one is willing to leave any traces of him.

The most incredible thing is that even though his Burning Art Institute was swallowed up, it did not produce any resistance or rebound in the process of integrating into Matsumoto Keiko's personal affairs and Taurus Palace.

On the contrary, the newcomers and the old people get along very well with each other, and the integration process is simply smooth.

This happy ending can be attributed to Keiko Matsumoto's generosity.

In terms of personnel arrangements, Keiko Matsumoto adopted a relatively trusting attitude and arranged Higuchi Norio, the former executive director of Burning Entertainment Agency, to take over the position vacated by Akira Okamoto and make him the president of Matsumoto Entertainment Agency.

She herself was no longer responsible for the specific management of the agency, but only held the title of president.

At the same time, Matsumoto Keiko also promoted Akira Okamoto, who was originally responsible for the management of the agency, so that he could concentrate on being the president of Mist Production.

In addition, she also sent Kawanishi Shigeo, the former publicity director of Burning Entertainment Agency, to Taurus Palace as vice president.

This promotion can not only allow Kawanishi Shigeo to play his strengths and realize the advantages of the singers and music copyrights of the former Burning Department through Taurus Palace, but also allow Kawanishi Shigeo and Funaki Minoru to have a mutual restraint.

This is undoubtedly more conducive to Matsumoto Keiko's control over the subsidiary Taurus Palace.

As for the grassroots staff, she is even more generous and friendly.

Whether it is the grassroots staff of Matsumoto Agency or Burning Entertainment Agency, after the merger into one family, Matsumoto Keiko gave them all a 10% salary increase.

Moreover, regarding the division of responsibilities in terms of work scope and business, she did not intend to intervene randomly, but tried to keep the well water from interfering with the river water.

For example, the people from the original Matsumoto Office will only be responsible for the work and related arrangements of Matsumoto Keiko, Miura Tomokazu, and Utsui Ken in the future.

And the people from the Burning Arts Office will of course be responsible for the stars who originally belonged to the Burning Department.

In this way, Matsumoto Keiko not only successfully dispelled the vigilance of the Burning Department staff, but also increased their trust in the new company and herself.

The key is to quickly make these people familiar with the new environment and get into work as soon as possible.

So if someone who doesn't know the inside story, if only based on the harmonious working scene in Matsumoto Office.

It is absolutely impossible to think that this entertainment company, which has been upgraded to a medium-sized scale and has as many as 84 staff members, was originally not a single company.

As for the problem of doubling the operating costs brought about by the increase in new employees after the company's scale has expanded, it is not a burden at all.

Because the Burning Entertainment and Taurus Palace that Matsumoto Keiko bought with money are both high-quality companies with their own foundation and hematopoietic function.

So "strength in numbers" has become a fact.

In fact, from the first day that they belonged to Matsumoto Keiko, the music copyrights of the two companies she acquired have begun to make money for Matsumoto Keiko.

In November, the music copyright fees alone were nearly 30 million yen.

And many costs for making records and music albums were saved because of the professional production company Taurus Palace.

This seamless merger in business is a completely virtuous self-circulation.

Especially this time point is good, just in time for the end of the year.

Because Japanese big companies gather together once a year, the season of the joyful year-end party has arrived, and the stars that Matsumoto Keiko has newly acquired have almost become money printing machines for her every day.

Because as long as these artists are invited to participate in a commercial performance at a year-end party, 60% of the commission income will fall into Matsumoto Keiko's hands and become the book profit of her agency.

Among these burning artists, there are not many big-name stars who can reach the standard of charging 3 million yen per performance, only three or four.

But there are other artists after all. There are eight or nine artists with medium fame who charge more than one million yen.

There are dozens of people with little fame, and they can also earn hundreds of thousands of yen for each performance.

So in the last two months of the year, almost 160 to 170 million yen can be generated from commercial performances every month.

This does not include the income from Keiko Matsumoto herself, Tomokazu Miura, and Ken Utsui's participation in commercial performances.

Keiko Matsumoto is now the most valuable female star in Japan, and her appearance fee starts at about 10 million yen.

And she only accepts invitations from large companies.

Tomokazu Miura is considered to be a male star with a lower first-class and higher second-class position, and his appearance fee is about 5 million yen.

Ken Utsui barely makes 3 million yen.

So if you count them all together, the income from this aspect may have to be increased by about 50 million yen.

It can be seen that the bubble economy period was really prosperous and consumption was developed.

Therefore, the end of each year has become the most profitable season for Japanese artists.

I have to say that from this perspective, Suho Ikuo's death is really a bit of a loss.

Otherwise, if he could survive, with the upcoming good season for making money, he might not be able to get a respite financially by squeezing his artists to perform everywhere.

At least he would not be so completely bankrupt, and he should be able to keep the assets and life of a rich man at the minimum level.

This is probably called "time, luck, and fate".

However, Suho Ikuo is dead after all. If you want to talk about the person who understands this sentence most thoroughly, I'm afraid we have to look at Nomura Securities' stockbroker Kenichi Sagawa.

Because since November 12, Kenichi Sagawa invested the huge sum of 44 billion yen given to him by Ning Weimin with a leverage of one times in the stock market to buy the bottom.

His life situation is like crossing a clear dividing line, and the Nikkei index is rising day by day as it takes the lead in carrying the banner of global rebound.

Now he has become the most special person in Nomura Securities' Central District Sales Department.

Although his position is just a small section chief, he doesn't have to compromise even in front of Goto Kanji, the general manager of the sales department.

On the contrary, he currently holds hundreds of billions of yen in capital and has become a high-ranking figure in the sales department as he replaces Ning Weimin.

Not only can he not participate in the morning meeting every day and sleep until the market opens, he can also not work overtime every day and leave when the market closes.

Even from top to bottom, no one in the entire Central District Sales Department dared to disobey him, and they had to facilitate his trading operations.

What information he wanted, what information he wanted, what data he wanted.

He even had the right to monopolize the VIP room of the sales department to trade, and he enjoyed more privileges than ordinary big investors.

And he got the lion's share of the bonus, and all his personal expenses could be reimbursed by Nomura Securities.

Who made him complete the turnover and performance of a group of people?

This is the treatment of the sales champion.

Let alone other things, just say that this month, because he completed the bottom-fishing task for Ning Weimin, the commission he received personally was an astronomical figure that was enough to break the record for people in this industry - more than 80 million yen.

So let alone in the sales department, he was looked up to by everyone, and no one did not envy him.

Even at home, he has regained his former dignity and status.

His wife, who loves to compare with others, no longer complains about him angering his boss at work.

After all, this wife is not a fool, and she can do the math.

Even if she can coax her boss well, she won't get an extra yen in commission, so what's the point?

As for not having a good relationship with her boss and having no hope of promotion, what's the point?

Is the sales manager that great?

In terms of income alone, a sales manager only makes more than 5 million yen a month.

But Kenichi Sagawa's commission income in November alone has already exceeded the annual income of the sales manager Kanji Goto.

He earned two years' income for others in one month.

With such benefits, why would she care about whether she gets promoted or not?

Now in the eyes of Kenichi Sagawa's wife, there is nothing wrong with her husband.

Kanji Goto, the loser, didn't give her husband a promotion, thinking that he was jealous of his talent.

And the Nomura Securities headquarters allowed this situation to exist, which was also a chaotic management and a lack of vision.

So Kenichi Sagawa is now very prosperous, and he is energetic every day at work, completely unlike the sluggishness and decadence of the previous period.

Of course, he also knew where everything he had now came from, so in front of Ning Weimin, he had completely regarded himself as a loyal dog.

After calling Ning Weimin and knowing that he had returned to Tokyo, he eagerly asked for a meeting, and wanted to show off his recent achievements in person on the pretext of introducing investment returns.

So Ning Weimin also arranged the meeting with him after meeting Guo Kefeng.

After entertaining Guo Kefeng that day, Ning Weimin walked to the Chixia Club at around 8 o'clock in the evening and met with Sagawa Kenichi as agreed.

As expected, when he arrived at the store, Sagawa Kenichi had already arrived early and was sitting in the most secluded corner waiting for him.