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While Hiroto Akihara was thinking about his competitors, Kefansha's intelligence department held a meeting on the latest developments of Tsutaya Bookstore.

A thin man in a loose suit stood up and said, holding a document.

"Specialist, as far as we know, Hiroto Akihara seems to be looking for a suitable bookstore operator recently."

Reiko Minome frowned upon hearing the contents of this information.

bookstore?What is Hiroto Akihara going to do?

Is it because the dealer's purchases have decreased, so you plan to be the terminal sales channel yourself?

But he bought the publishing house from Goichi Akutsu, so he must have spent all his savings, right?

She was a little puzzled, so she asked her subordinate: "How much money does Tsutaya Bookstore have in its account now?"

The thin man replied: "According to the market sales statistics of the past two months, their current income should be around 1.4 million yen."

Reiko Hoshime thought about it, and was even more confused.

1.4 million yen?Only this little money?

If you only calculate the rent and labor in Tokyo, it costs at least 1000 million yen to run a medium-sized bookstore.

And the biggest cost is undoubtedly the cost of purchasing books.

The thin man seemed to have seen her thoughts, and added: "Specialist, the movie "Memories of Murder" has brought a lot of money to the other party, and it is enough to open more than 50 bookstores."

Reiko Hoseme shook her head: "The other party probably won't open a bookstore."

Now the bookstore industry is in a cold winter, and news of closures can be heard every day.

Going to open a store at this time is undoubtedly asking for trouble.

But it's really strange, what exactly does Hiroto Akihara want to do?

Perhaps, I should send someone to take a look?

[Chapter 308.3 Changes of Uemura Award]

In the neon society, business operators attach great importance to intelligence, and often set up special intelligence classes and intelligence rooms.

Some companies even cooperate with some universities to set up special "industrial espionage" courses to train industrial espionage and counter-espionage talents.

Therefore, some people even call the neon society an "information society".

But it has to be said that a large amount of business intelligence provided crucial help for the rapid rise of Neon after the end of World War II.

In 2002, Nihong had a retired intelligence expert who pointed out in an interview with the media: "After the war, Japanese manufacturing was able to quickly occupy the European and American markets, and our intelligence personnel contributed a lot."

At that time, the media even quoted a statistic from the intelligence department when writing the article: 54% of Japan's gross national product comes from the contribution of competitive intelligence.

This figure sounds exaggerated, but if it is only an indirect impact, it may not be true.

In the publishing industry where Akihara Hiroto is now, there is a similar practice.

For example, Kejiaoguan sent a large number of business spies to the other three major publishing houses to obtain first-hand business information.

Some of these commercial spies even climbed to middle-level positions over a long period of time.

As for the ever-rising TSUTAYA BOOKS, which is the former Yasujiu Publishing House, Minite Reiko, who is a high-level intelligence officer at Kagefansha, naturally cannot miss the opportunity to dispatch commercial spies.

When she learned that Hiroto Akihara might need talents in bookstore management, she had already arranged for two suitable college graduates to participate in related recruitment.

With the resume packaging and the recommendation of the intermediary, she didn't think Akihara Yuto or Nishijima Sota could see any flaws.

On the other hand, after signing Sugihara Aisa, Akihara Hiroto began to formally implement his plan.

In name, this plan is to build a chain of second-hand bookstores all over the country, but in fact, it uses the attached warehouses and manpower to form a logistics network system suitable for the existing books of the publishing house.

Under this system, books published in the future can bypass the distributors and be distributed directly outside Tokyo, so as to achieve the goal of breaking the monopoly of the two major distributors, Tokyo Sales and Neon Sales.

In terms of specific operations, he still comprehensively referred to the opinions of Sota Nishijima and Aisa Sugihara.

Inject capital into the current enterprise account, and then start direct-sale stores in several key cities. As for other counties with a population of less than 500 million, they will be invited to join by means of loans.

However, although the funds and executive manpower are in place, it will take a certain amount of time whether it is the decoration of numerous shops or the training of manpower.

At present, it will take at least half a year.

While he and the others were busy, the time soon came to October.

And at this time, he took himself out of the heavy work and started to get busy with another matter—the second half of the Uemura Awards finalists.

The Uemura Award in this world is similar to the Akutagawa Award in the previous life, and selection activities are held twice a year.

The awards in the first half of the year have passed. At that time, Hiroto Akihara successfully made "Suspect X" shortlisted through the relationship of Shinta Kawai.

However, at that time, because of the poor relationship with the diehards of Benge, he was only a "tourist" in the end and did not win the award.

But the shortlist for the second half of the year will be announced in about a month.

So on a specific weekend, Hiroto Akihara made a special trip to Shinta Kawai's home.

After meeting the new Empress Dowager Kawai, Hiroto Akihara respectfully handed over the gift to her.

"President Kawai, excuse me, this is Fukuoka's Gyokuro tea, please accept it."

The so-called Gyokuro tea, the highest grade of Japanese tea, has an extremely complicated cultivation process.It has even been claimed that one in a hundred tea trees may not be able to produce yulu.

Shinta Kawai accepted the gift with a smile, without saying "thank you".

The relationship between the two has gone beyond the level of politeness.

In fact, he also knew the purpose of Akihara Yuto's visit today.

"Akihara, you're here for Uemura Sho, right?"

"Yes," Hiroto Akihara said frankly, "Please tell me how likely it is that I will be shortlisted this time."

Although he verbally said that he was shortlisted, he actually meant winning.

After all, most factions of reasoning literature can be regarded as convinced of themselves.

Under such circumstances, as long as they are shortlisted, there is a high probability of winning an award.

But to his surprise, Kawai Shinta shook his head, "Akihara, you may have to wait until next year to be shortlisted."

Hearing these words, Akihara Hiroto became puzzled.