Chapter 106: People are different from people!

In the blink of an eye, another week passed, and Fuji TV broadcast the second episode of *Tokyo Love Story*.

After this drama was broadcast last week, it had already attracted a large group of loyal drama fans, all of whom were looking forward to the continued broadcast this week.

At this moment, seeing the love triangle between Kanji Nagao, Rika Akana, and Satomi Sekiguchi, while satisfying their curiosity, they also complained more...

"Naoki-san, Kanji Nagao is a scumbag!"

Akina, sitting on the sofa, complained about the male lead in the TV like an emotional judge.

"If you like, you like! You're slow and hesitant... and you let Rika wait bitterly late at night!"

"..."

With his own wife angry at a scumbag, Naoki Nagayama carefully didn't express his opinion, and even Eitaro, who was acting as a footstool, kept his head on the blanket, trying not to make a sound~

Only the big-hearted Nyataro looked at the three people in the living room, yawned, and then curled up in the cat nest to sleep comfortably~

"Naoki-san, don't you think so?!"

Akina's eyes turned away from the TV screen and stared at Naoki Nagayama, asking,

"Obviously Rika is the best choice!"

"Mm-hmm, absolutely!"

Naoki Nagayama nodded immediately.

Speaking of which, Akina's personality is a bit like Rika Akana's. To put it nicely, she is daring to love and hate. If it's low emotional intelligence, it's a love brain...

When it comes to feelings, she is straightforward. If she falls in love, she will invest all her feelings.

With such a personality, if she meets a bad guy, it will definitely be very hard~

"That's more like it~"

After agreeing with Akina and criticizing a lot, Akina nodded satisfied, and then looked at the time. It was almost time, so she dragged her heavy body upstairs to rest.

Naoki Nagayama hurriedly helped Akina. As the pregnancy time increased, the baby got bigger and bigger, and Akina's belly got bigger and bigger, like a thin-skinned wonton. Sometimes when the baby moved, you could even see the shape of the baby's feet...

It made people worry if the belly would break if they were not careful, and then the baby would fall out...

After arriving at the bedroom on the second floor, as usual, he applied olive oil, massaged, and did a little prenatal education before lying on the bed relaxedly.

Now Akina generally slept on her side, lying on the pillow on her side, looking at Naoki Nagayama's face, which was like a knife-cut axe, and said with a smile:

"I'm going out tomorrow~"

"Oh? Where to?"

"Yukiko-chan is wearing the clothes I designed to shoot the cover, so I'm going to see the actual effect at Burning."

Akina had indeed drawn a lot of clothes these days, and she had also made a lot according to the characteristics of Yukiko Okada's new album. Now she finally had a chance to practice.

"Is that so~" Naoki Nagayama hugged his wife into his arms. "Then do you want me to send you over?"

"No~" Akina said in a low voice, "Fusa-san will come to pick me up..."

"Fusa-san, huh~ It feels like a long time ago~"

"Haha, it's only been a few months..."

The bedroom left a dim night light, and a little faint light shone from the window. The occasional night wind blew, and the bamboo leaves surrounding the courtyard made a rustling sound, making Sanying-in look even quieter in the dim night.

The cherry blossom branches in the courtyard originally had a few petals hanging loosely, and at this time, they also drifted down silently. The petals fell gently on the white sand of the dry landscape, without making a sound.

Tokyo, in this silent and soundless way, crossed March and welcomed the most beautiful April of the year~

In the season of cherry blossoms flying, the skyscrapers in Ginza were still busy, and no one looked up at the pink petals flying in the street below~

Tree Friend Capital Co., Ltd. in Ginza was even more bustling. Bold investment strategies and high rates of return made many big shots in the capital circle notice this investment institution that had only been open for a year or two.

More and more people came to Tree Friend Capital to open investment accounts. The meeting room on the 12th floor didn't have much free time, which kept Tree Friend Capital in a high-intensity work state since the beginning of the year...

So in this year's graduation season, Tree Friend Capital also started expansion work.

University students waiting for interviews at the front desk, investment clients opening accounts in the meeting room, traders constantly making phone calls and shouting in the work area... made Tree Friend Capital look full of vitality!

"Naoki-san..."

Genta Nakai seemed to have lost a circle, and dark circles hung on his face. In Naoki Nagayama's office, he took out a stack of resumes,

"These are the resumes submitted to our company, all of them are university students in the finance department..."

"Mm..."

Naoki Nagayama flipped through them casually. He came to Tree Friend Capital mainly to care about his own capital account. In fact, he didn't care much about the capital accounts of Tree Friend Capital's clients...

They didn't even have half of his combined. If you count the funds in the United States, it was less than a quarter.

There was naturally no need to know about ordinary employees~

"These people can be handled by Nakai-san. Whether to hire them or not is fine."

"No, no!"

Genta Nakai shook his head,

"Our company is not that big yet, and it is in a rapid expansion period... The initial employees still need Naoki-san to take a look..."

"By next year, ordinary employees can basically be decided by the personnel department..."

"Uh... but I don't have time to interview!" Naoki Nagayama said, "Coming here today is already taking time out~"

"Only a few particularly excellent ones need Naoki-san to know them. They will all be at the level of team leader or above in the future."

Genta Nakai was very persistent about this point. Although he also knew that as long as he wanted, these people would basically only know his name, Genta Nakai, in the future, and could completely bypass Naoki Nagayama.

But he didn't want to do that at all!

After experiencing so much, especially the explosion of wealth in the past year, he had already regarded Naoki Nagayama as a god of wealth in his heart!

After all, within a year, funds directly soared from the 10-billion level to the 100-billion level. Thinking about such money-making ability, it couldn't be something that ordinary humans could do!

Not to mention listening to Naoki Nagayama's various little stories, judging the merger of big companies from the words of taxi drivers, predicting the exchange rate change between the US dollar and the Japanese yen before the Plaza Accord was signed, buying forest rights, and supporting councilors...

Now Genta Nakai only knew that as long as he hugged Naoki Nagayama's thigh in this life, he would definitely become one of the small group of people at the peak of the pyramid in Japan or even the world!

In other words, Genta Nakai's loyalty to Naoki Nagayama was now full!

"Naoki-san, you must let the future backbone know that Tree Friend Capital is your company!"

Genta Nakai persuaded earnestly.

"Mm..." Naoki Nagayama saw that Genta Nakai was so persistent, so he had to nod, "Okay, I'll meet these few people~"

"Mm!" Genta Nakai showed a smile, "Then I'll go arrange it immediately!"

However, at this moment, Naoki Nagayama suddenly thought of one thing:

"Chotto matte~ Nakai-san..."

"?" Genta Nakai looked at Naoki Nagayama suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

"I remember... when you graduated and looked for a job, interviews at other companies all had travel expenses..." Naoki Nagayama said with a smile, "You even said that as long as you interviewed a few more companies a year, you could live comfortably..."

Genta Nakai also remembered a few years ago, when the two of them still lived in the Nakano house!

"Haha, that really happened!"

"Then does our Tree Friend Capital have travel expenses for these interviewees?" Naoki Nagayama asked curiously, "Is it generous?"

Hearing this, Genta Nakai smiled mysteriously:

"Naoki-san... good jobs are like STDs, they are only transmitted through blood, mother-to-child, and sex..."

"Now the positions at our Tree Friend Capital... except for our company's internal recommendations, bringing capital to enter, and resource exchange, only the most excellent people want to squeeze in..."

"We didn't ask them for red envelopes, so it's already good. How could we still give them red envelopes!"

"???"

Looking at Genta Nakai's leaving figure, Naoki Nagayama fell into deep thought... Why did it feel different from his impression of Japan's bubble era?

But thinking about it, it was right. The job positions in the most profitable investment banks and tobacco companies in the future were also the same. Ordinary people couldn't squeeze in even if they broke their heads~

"Perhaps it's just some companies that are neither up nor down, in order to attract excellent talents, they will give employees travel expenses?"

Naoki Nagayama shook his head and continued to look at the financial report of his account...

The 100 billion yen returned to Japan had already been spent quite a bit, buying forest rights in Shizuoka, and land in various cities... However, until now, there was no way for resources such as minerals and metals...

Looking at the more than 60 billion left in the account, although it maintained a considerable profit in the stock market, no matter how you looked at it, it was floating wealth.

"Why don't I invest in companies that haven't risen yet? Be an angel investor?"

The first person Naoki Nagayama thought of was Masayoshi Son, who invested in Alibaba, which could be said to be a huge profit...

"However, the internet hasn't appeared yet!"

Looking at Japan locally, it seemed that there were no future unicorns...

As for the United States, his funds in the United States had already begun to slowly acquire shares of technology companies such as IBM!

"What can this money be used to buy? Mountains have already been bought. Should I buy a lake?"

"... Eh? Which lake can be bought and sold?"

Eiju Iwata, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, was sitting nervously in the meeting room waiting, along with several other candidates, five in total.

Unlike those newcomers with capital and connections, they were university graduates who had received offers from Tree Friend Capital, high-achieving students from the finance departments of top institutions such as the University of Tokyo and Hitotsubashi University...

Talents who were interviewed and entered with their own strength! The real cattle and horses that would work in the future!

There were many investment institutions in Japan, but those were the private lands of major financial groups. It was as difficult as ascending to heaven for ordinary people to want to enter.

And this Tree Friend Capital could be said to be a new star in the capital market, and since its opening, its performance had even directly defeated Nomura Holdings... and it recruited ordinary graduates~

Just now, Department Head Nakai, who had interviewed them, notified several people to see the company's founder and president... Naoki Nagayama.

"Is it really Naoki Nagayama?"

Einaga Hattori, who was beside him, whispered,

"I mean, although I heard that behind Tree Friend Capital is that Naoki Nagayama... but, is it really that Naoki Nagayama?!"

This sentence was neither fish nor fowl, but everyone understood the meaning.

The Naoki Nagayama who was famous in the entertainment industry, genius director, well-known writer, well-known musician, tycoon... various titles were simply too many to read in one breath, but founding an investment bank? Was it really the same person?!

Tree Friend Capital was not a listed company and had no obligation to announce shareholders, so the fact that the president was Naoki Nagayama was only known to some people in the capital circle.

"There should be no mistake!"

Eiju Iwata said,

"In those circulating stories, it's all one person! Most importantly, even the company's name is Tree Friend!"

"But... he's only 24 years old... about the same age as us..."

Another person interrupted,

"Actually able to establish a company?"

"... People are different from people!" Eiju Iwata sighed and said lightly, "The heir to the Sumitomo financial group is four years old, and it doesn't affect his future mastery of a trillion-level financial group..."

"..."

One sentence made everyone else silent!

Lies don't hurt people, the truth is the sharp knife...

In Japan, some people are born into another class!

Just at this time, Choka Kanai pushed open the door of the meeting room:

"Everyone, follow me... Naoki-san is waiting for you in the office!"

"Hai~"

Eiju Iwata stood up immediately, tidied his clothes, and then followed Choka Kanai out... The others also hurriedly followed~

Walking outside the glass sliding door of the office, everyone could already see a young man sitting inside wearing a simple casual shirt, looking at the documents in his hand.

The sunlight coming in from the large window made the whole office bright, outlining the well-defined curves of the young man's face inside. Just from this point, he was a handsome guy...

And after everyone walked in, they saw this handsome guy who was familiar to everyone reveal a smile:

"Everyone, good morning~"

"..."

Damn it!!!

It really was that Naoki Nagayama who always appeared in newspapers and on TV!

And... he was even more handsome than on TV!!!

Perhaps it was because there were too many halos on his body, coupled with the inequality of status, which made Naoki Nagayama in Eiju Iwata's eyes appear to have something similar to an aura.

Under such a powerful aura, several young people who had just graduated didn't dare to be presumptuous at all towards this Naoki Nagayama who was about the same age... they didn't even speak for a while~

But fortunately, they were all elite talents, and they reacted quickly...

"President Nagayama!"

Eiju Iwata bowed ninety degrees immediately,

"I am Eiju Iwata..."

Einaga Hattori also reacted and immediately followed: "I am Einaga Hattori!"

"I am XXXX" X3

After a group of people introduced themselves, they bowed again and said in unison:

"Nice to meet you, please take care of me!"

The graduates didn't even communicate and made a joint choice directly, bowing together as if they had rehearsed it.

"Haha..."

Nodding, Naoki Nagayama waved his hand and didn't stand up to return the bow,

"Don't be so restrained... everyone sit down!"

Then he saw several people sitting upright on the sofa, their upper bodies straight, like troops waiting for inspection...

The sofa in the office was the kind of low soft sofa, specially used for lying and leaning. It was very difficult to sit like this!

Naoki Nagayama silently gave a thumbs up to the few people... they were all talents!

"Relax, don't tense up..." Naoki Nagayama walked to the empty single sofa and sat down, "You have all probably heard my name... I won't introduce myself too much..."

"This Tree Friend Capital is actually a company I established because I wanted to manage my own property... I didn't expect it to grow bigger and bigger later... Haha, now it's reached the point of recruiting people~"

"..."

Eiju Iwata remained silent. Is this showing off? Or what?

In short, listening to these ordinary people, there was a feeling of wanting to hit someone in their hearts...

"This should be attributed to the market situation..." Naoki Nagayama continued, "Japan's economy has developed rapidly in recent years, coupled with the Plaza Accord..."

"I think the market can continue to improve in the short term... However, the world economic trend... US stocks..."

Men usually talk nonsense when they talk about the economic situation, and Naoki Nagayama was no exception, but most of what he said was accurate!

If these few people today remembered his words, they would definitely be smooth sailing in the capital market in the next five years!

"Ah, I didn't mean to go too far..."

Naoki Nagayama had been talking, and the few people below didn't dare to interrupt. They thought it was a regular meeting ceremony of Tree Friend Capital...

Looking at the few people who were too nervous to speak, Naoki Nagayama shook his head, knowing that they couldn't say anything:

"Anyway, I've met everyone today. There will be opportunities to continue getting along in the future! Everyone will also know that I am a very easy-going person~"

"I hope our friendship can last a long time..."

"That's it for today! That's all!"

So a few people walked out of the office in a daze, and returned to the meeting room in a daze... Everyone looked at each other, breathed a sigh of relief, and started talking to each other...

"Naoki Nagayama... what a strong aura!""Yeah, yeah, I was so nervous that I was sweating just now!"

"Is he really the same age as us?"

In fact, people with low status will add a filter when looking at people with high status. The distance between these university graduates who had just graduated and Naoki Nagayama was indeed large enough to make people feel desperate.

And he was the superior of their superiors, holding their workplace future in his hands...

Under such pressure, a group of people didn't even listen carefully to what Naoki Nagayama just said!

"Did you understand his lecture just now?"

Einaga Hattori drank a glass of water, but thought of what happened in the office just now,

"It seems to be about Japan's economic development, international financial changes, technological development, etc..."

Eiju Iwata nodded. As a high-achieving student, shorthand was one of the essential talents:

"I heard it clearly... But why did Naoki Nagayama say those things?"

Others also spoke one after another:

"Maybe he wanted to give the newcomers a shock? Let us understand our own insignificance?"

"Perhaps it's the standard onboarding talk for Naoki Capital?"

"It's probably just hoping that we will work according to this policy in the future..."

No one suggested that Naoki Nagayama was just chatting casually... ===== CHAPTER 107 =====