Traveling through the Tokyo bubble era

Chapter 694 October Trivia
Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York.

Ten o'clock in the morning.

Inside the first Starbucks coffee shop on the East Coast, at a table in the corner, Hideki Hanyu was chatting happily with a white man wearing glasses.

The man was none other than Larry Fink, the general manager of Blackstone Financial Management.

Today is October 20th, and originally, there was no schedule for him to meet with Larry Fink.

Even if the other party has a great future, it is impossible for Hanyu Hideki to take the initiative to invite the other party now, and there is no need to show too much enthusiasm, which will only make the relationship between them excessive.

But things in this world are so coincidental. He came here today to inspect the first Starbucks store on the East Coast, and happened to meet Larry Fink who came to buy coffee.

The other party expressed his desire to talk to him, so Hideki Hanyu did not refuse.

Then the two of them have been chatting since around nine o'clock until now.

As for the specific content, it is nothing more than about investment, future market prospects, etc.

Of course, Larry Fink would not forget to introduce the performance of Blackstone Financial Management in recent months, and said how wise it was for Hideki Hanyu to give him $20 million to manage.

The hidden meaning is to let Hideki Hanyu invest a little more money.

It can be seen that although Larry Fink keeps saying that Blackstone Financial Management's performance is very good, the actual situation is obviously not as good as he said.

Even if the performance is really good, Larry Fink's steady, low-risk, low-return operating style is obviously not in line with the characteristics of this era.

After all, if Hideki Hanyu was willing to invest 20 million US dollars in the Japanese stock market, the money he would earn in the next few months would definitely be several times more than if he handed it over to Larry Fink for management.

With money-making opportunities everywhere, it's understandable that people are reluctant to work with Larry Fink.

So when he heard this, he first stirred the coffee in front of him with a spoon, and then said casually.

"Now, most of the funds I have on hand have been invested in the neon financial market."

He was rejecting Larry Fink.

If what we want is too easy to obtain, people will not cherish it.

The key to providing timely assistance is not providing timely assistance, but providing timely assistance.

And you have to stop at the right time, otherwise you will be taken advantage of.

It’s been less than half a year since I last paid the other party 20 million US dollars. Obviously, the time is not right yet.

After hearing what Hideki Hanyu said, Larry Fink didn't have any other thoughts.

After all, the richer a person is, the more cautious they are in investing. He has worked on Wall Street for so many years and he knows this well.

This time he met Hideki Hanyu, he was just trying his luck.

After all, Hanyu Hideki was so generous last time. Although Blackstone Financial Management's performance has been good recently, it has not had many new clients.

Moreover, a super-rich person like Hideki Hanyu must maintain a long-term relationship and it is impossible for the relationship to be damaged because of a failure to reach an agreement.

Taking this into consideration, Larry Fink even kindly reminded, "Mr. Hanyu, you must be cautious when investing in the Japanese financial market."

Hearing Larry Fink's words, Hanyu Hideki couldn't help but be surprised, wondering if this famous Wall Street godfather in later generations really had such a keen business sense?

It's only 1988, and you've already noticed the problems with the neon economy?

He deliberately pretended to be puzzled and asked in a low voice, "The neon market is booming now. Did Mr. Larry hear any inside information?"

In response to Hideki Hanyu's question, Larry Fink just shook his head.

"I don't have any inside information. There is no inside information in this world that can target a country. I just feel that Japan's current financial market is a little abnormal based on my many years of work experience."

Hanyu Hideki couldn't tell whether Larry Fink's words were true or false, so he pretended to be curious and asked again, "Do you think the neon market will not continue like this?"

Larry Fink confirmed, "That is not what a normal market should be like. It is doomed to not last long, but how long it can last depends on the strategy of the Japanese government."

"Okay, thank you Mr. Larry for the reminder. I will pay attention to the news in this regard."

Hideki Hanyu thought that Larry Fink's words could be considered as an excuse for him to do things in the future.

At this time, Larry Fink said, "Mr. Hanyu, as you are an important client of mine, it is my duty to remind you."

The two of them talked till here, and the conversation was almost coming to an end.

Just when Hideki Hanyu was trying to find a reason to leave, a woman walked into Starbucks, saw Hanyu Hideki's seat, and walked straight towards him.

"Didn't you say you were just coming to this coffee shop to take a look? I've already finished all the paperwork at the company, but in the end, I didn't even wait for you to show up."

The woman who was speaking had fiery red lips and a mature temperament. She was wearing a black OL skirt suit. Her figure was voluptuous and graceful, especially her chest, which made her top look as if she had bought a size too small.

The woman was none other than Lizhi, who worked in New York.

The last time Reiji told Hanyu Hideki that she wanted to leave New York and return to Asia to develop, the relevant work handover and transfer procedures have only now been completed.

Hideki Hanyu arrived in New York in the middle of the night and went to see Reiji in the morning. He had originally agreed to accompany her to handle the formalities, but he was delayed when he met Larry Fink in Starbucks.

When Larry Fink saw Lizhi appear, he was about to say goodbye, but he immediately took the opportunity to say, "Since Mr. Hanyu's friend is here, I won't bother you any more. I'll leave now."

"See you."

Hideki Hanyu stood up to see Larry Fink off.

Li Zhi, who was standing nearby, waited for Larry Fink to leave Starbucks and asked Hanyu Hideki curiously, "Who is this?"

"The head of a Wall Street asset management company."

Hanyu Hideki answered casually and had no intention of telling Li Zhiduo about Larry Fink.

The main reason is that there is no point in talking about it because this is not the level that Li Intelligence is involved in.

After answering, he put his arm around Lizhi's waist and asked, "Have you finished the formalities?"

Li Zhi leaned into the scumbag's arms and said in a relaxed tone, "Okay, I can finally take a good vacation, and then I can report to the Asian branch."

Hanyu Hideki said, "If I remember correctly, you originally wanted to go to Xiangjiang."

"Yes, but in addition to the headquarters in Japan, Storm Advertising's overseas headquarters in Asia is in Singapore, so I can only go to Singapore."

Lizhi's tone was helpless.

In fact, if she insists on going to Hong Kong, it's fine, after all, Storm Advertising also has a branch in Hong Kong.

But the Hong Kong branch was too small, which was not conducive to her career development, so she had no choice but to go to Singapore.

Yoshioka Shouta was very considerate of her because of Hanyu Hideki. He was directly assigned to the head of the marketing department of the Asian division when he went to Singapore. Therefore, she had no reason to go to Hong Kong for convenience.

"Singapore is not bad either. At least it's closer than America."

Hanyu Hideki said, looking at the time, "It's almost time to change places."

"Honey, what else are you going to do today?" Lizhi asked.

Hanyu Hideki said, "I promised others that I would take a good look at my properties. This is only the first one I have seen. I will definitely continue to look at other ones next."

The "other" he was referring to was naturally Starbucks' CEO Howard Schultz.

Although the Starbucks he works for now is the first store on the East Coast, it is not the only one in New York.

Howard Schultz has wished several times that he could come to New York and give Starbucks some advice on its development.

Hideki Hanyu attached great importance to Starbucks, a golden rooster that could help him make a lot of money in the future, so after coming to New York, he immediately agreed to Howard Schultz's request.

In addition to Starbucks, he naturally had other things to do during his visit to the East Coast.

Of course, meeting Lizhi was not among them. After all, a scumbag would not mobilize his subordinates for a woman.

For example, Elf Entertainment is holding an East Coast distributor conference in New York tomorrow, and Michael Katz, head of Elf Entertainment's North American branch, will arrive in the afternoon.

For example, Karl Map, who is already working in Washington, also hopes that Hideki Hanyu can go to Washington to have a good talk with him about the future development of the company.

He also planned to take a look at Marvel Comics. Although Genie Entertainment's management of Marvel Comics was very successful, his experience at PBS TV station told him that sometimes one cannot trust employees too much.

In this way, Hideki Hanyu was busy on the East Coast, running back and forth between New York and Washington for a week, and finally boarded the "Cloud" on the 25th and set off for San Jose.

Ten thousand meters above the sky, the "Yunshang" is flying steadily.

Hideki Hanyu is in his office study, looking through some of the latest news sent from Asia.

There is really not much to say about Japan because of its self-discipline.

If there is something worthy of Hideki Hanyu's attention, it is that two days ago, "Band's Heaven" was finally broadcast online after some bumps and bruises.

As he expected, this program carefully prepared by Yunshang Entertainment immediately attracted huge attention after it was broadcast.

Today, Cloud Satellite TV has more than five million paying subscribers, which has successfully helped the program become a hot topic of public opinion. For a while, it seemed as if everyone was talking about the band.

According to real-time feedback from the "Fiery" LIVE HOUSE under Hanyu Real Estate, as the popularity of the first episode of "Band's Heaven" began to spread, the LIVE HOUSE audience became obviously more interested in the band performances.

It felt like the band suddenly became mainstream in the Japanese music scene.

And in Yunshang Entertainment, there is another thing related to the band.

That is, after a long period of contact and negotiation, after careful consideration, the XJ band finally chose to sign with Cloud Music among a number of record companies.

In order to win over the XJ band, Cloud Music also agreed to many conditions from the other party, such as sharing music copyrights, helping the other party establish an independent label, etc.

But in Hanyu Hideki's view, it's all worth it.

The biggest benefit that signing with XJ, a neon-classic visual band, can bring to Cloud Music is definitely not as simple as making money by selling records.

Of course, XJ will not help Cloud Music make less money.

But compared to making money, what Hanyu Hideki values ​​more is the indirect improvement of the reputation and status of Cloud Music in the underground music scene after signing with the XJ band.

This reputation advantage is enough to give Cloud Music a natural initial advantage when signing other bands in the future.

Besides, XJ band's decision to abandon other record companies and sign with Cloud Music is invisibly weakening other competitors.

Knowing that "Band's Heaven" has begun to help the band go mainstream, Hanyu Hideki, who only needs to wait quietly for the harvest, turned to look at other news.

In South Korea, the investigation teams of Yunshang Entertainment Group and Yunshang Satellite TV have completed their previous investigations into content issues.

Yunshang Entertainment also punished the relevant employees for this matter.

After reading the penalty list and penalty details, Hideki Hanyu found that there was nothing he needed to modify, so he stopped paying attention to the matter.

If he is required to take care of every detail from beginning to end, then why should he pay the management salary?
What's more, the total number of employees in all his companies is tens of thousands. If he wants to take care of everything and manage every detail, he can't do it even if he works himself to death.

Putting aside the news from South Korea, let’s look at the report sent from Hong Kong.

The investment of Elf Publishing House in Yulang International has also been completed. Elf Entertainment bought 125% of Yulang International's shares at the market price, becoming the second largest shareholder of Yulang International.

After the investment in Elf Entertainment was completed, it immediately held a press conference and announced a series of cooperation plans, including financial investment, technical support, personnel training and other cooperation terms.

As soon as the news came out, the share price of Yulang International began to rise sharply, which not only helped Huang Yulang out of the predicament, but also made the Elf Publishing House, which he had just invested in, make a fortune.

Hideki Hanyu looked at the latest stock price and did a rough calculation, and felt that he could easily buy a few luxury houses in Hong Kong.

Of course, along with the stock price, there were also some problems discovered during the investment investigation, all of which were evidence of Huang Yulang's previous accounting fraud.

However, due to Hideki Hanyu's instructions, Elf Publishing House pretended that it had discovered nothing and just quietly collected the evidence.

In addition to these materials, what was also sent to him this time were the latest investment status of Northeast Energy in Singapore, the operation status of Keystone Bank after its establishment, the cooperation between Hanyu Real Estate and Zhuoneng, the land leasing procedures and design bidding progress in Shanghai, the progress of Oki Madou's work in China and other trivial matters.

As the business grows bigger, no matter how hands-off he is, there will always be a lot of things waiting for him to deal with.

After finally finishing his work, Hideki Hanyu just felt dizzy.

When he was about to reach out and press it, he felt two soft lumps directly wrapping the back of his head, and then a pair of soft hands touched his temples and gently massaged him.

It’s no wonder that the one with such capital is Lizhi.

During the recent few days on the East Coast, Li Zhi, who had suspended work, stayed by his side, allowing the scumbag to enjoy the long-lost big thunder.

However, this time Hanyu Hideki took a plane to San Jose, and Lizhi's vacation came to an end.

She will not stay in San Jose with Hideki Hanyu, but will continue to fly to Singapore on the "Cloud" to report to Storm Advertising's headquarters in Singapore.

Thinking that he would have to say goodbye to Lizhi in a few hours, the scumbag immediately hugged the beauty tightly in his arms, hooked her chin and said.

"Time is tight, stop pressing your head and help me relax other parts."

When the beauty heard this, she immediately rolled her eyes at the scumbag.

But his actions were quite submissive, and his hands had already begun to unbutton his shirt.

Having known Hanyu Hideki for such a long time, she has already figured out the scumbag's preferences and knows exactly what Hanyu Hideki likes most about her.

(End of this chapter)