Chapter 590: Banks are indeed the greediest capital~

It was the most beautiful time when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom.

In the small park next to the studio, there grew a very tall Edo Higan cherry tree, whose thick trunk required an adult to embrace.

Pure white cherry blossoms covered the thin branches, actually drooping down like willow branches, arranged neatly in a row. It looked like a beaded curtain made of cherry blossoms, swaying gently with the wind, occasionally scattering a few petals~

When the studio staff had lunch, they liked to gather together to eat the bento they brought, or eat the bread and work meals they bought.

Naoki Nagayama also came here at noon today, eating a work bento while chatting with Dayou Fangcun and Shuichi Ito beside him... It was mainly because in the Japanese workplace, which emphasizes the relationship between superiors and subordinates, others in the Tree Friend group didn't dare to chat with Naoki Nagayama casually~

"The speed at which cherry blossoms fall is five centimeters per second~"

A cherry blossom petal floated into Naoki Nagayama's lunch box, making him say such words subconsciously, and then he looked up to admire the beautiful scenery, "What a beautiful scenery!"

"Naoki-san, don't believe in cold knowledge that comes from nowhere!" Shuichi Ito complained, "It makes people feel frivolous!"

"Shuichi-san can measure it and try!"

The two started to pull away on this topic, and soon pulled to statistical concepts such as the fallacy of the mean, the size of the sample, etc.

Making Dayou Fangcun, who was eating silently beside him, couldn't help but sigh... Can't you just eat quietly! And you are talking about such boring topics...

"Naoki-san, how is the movie editing going?" Dayou Fangcun interrupted the argument between the two.

"Ah, the editing is going very smoothly!" Naoki Nagayama said, "Because the pictures are already in my mind, all I need is to process the filmed materials to the best."

"Oh? Then how long will it take to edit?"

"It will take about a week, and it will definitely be released in early April." Naoki Nagayama said.

"Then, we can start promoting it now!" Dayou Fangcun reminded, "The release of 'Love Letter' was too rushed. If there was a warm-up before, maybe we could try to hit a box office of 10 billion."

The release period of "Love Letter" has ended for almost a month. Because the attendance rate was very high, the theater's screening ratio was actually extended for more than half a month compared to other movies.

In the end, the accumulated box office reached nearly 7 billion, which was already a very remarkable box office achievement.

"Hahaha, 'Love Letter' will be re-released this winter!" Naoki Nagayama was very confident about this, "Such a long-lived movie will definitely break 10 billion!"

"But speaking of warm-up promotion..." Naoki Nagayama thought of Momoko Kikuchi, "Although the 'sakura' I gave to Momoko-chan before is not applicable to the movie, it seems it can be used as a promotional song..."

"Dayou-san, should we let Momoko-chan record it as soon as possible, and Kijima-kun and I will work harder to make a trailer?"

Dayou Fangcun pushed the problem back directly: "This point should be decided by Naoki-san!"

"..."

"Since that's the case, let's do it! By the way, we can let Momoko-chan take some promotional poster photos! We can't use all the pictures from the movie!"

"Dayou-san, it shouldn't conflict with the debut plan you arranged, right?"

"Hmm, Momoko-chan is still in the training period during this time anyway... Recording the debut song in advance doesn't affect anything!"

Seeing that Dayou Fangcun and Shuichi Ito had no objections, this matter was decided. Momoko Kikuchi, who knew nothing, was on vacation, and was arranged just like that!

Several bentos were finished quickly, and the Tree Friend people returned to the studio to continue their working life.

Just when Naoki Nagayama was about to continue working in the editing room, Shuichi Ito followed:

"Naoki-san, since we are talking about recording songs... should we record the theme song of the same name for 'Love Like' together?"

"Kaoru-chan? Hai, no problem, two sheep are driven together!" Naoki Nagayama had almost forgotten this idol, "I remember Kaoru-chan has practiced for quite a long time~ When notifying Momoko-chan, do it together!"

Regarding the recording of songs, Naoki Nagayama already had deep experience. Anyway, there is the best reference in his mind, just lean toward that.

"That's fine!"

Shuichi Ito followed Naoki Nagayama into the editing room, seemingly wanting to help edit together, which made Naoki Nagayama very surprised:

"Shuichi-san, don't you still have to interview those juniors? Why are you here?"

"Sigh~~~" This guy showed a vicissitudes expression, "They are all acquaintances, and it's hard to refuse any of them. And those beautiful juniors calling 'Shuichi-senpai, Shuichi-senpai' one by one... If I stay any longer, I'm afraid I'll make a mistake!"

"..."

Not only Naoki Nagayama, but even Xu Mudao beside him cast a look of contempt.

Just when Naoki Nagayama was focused on editing, at the Tree Friend Capital Company in Ginza, everyone was working nervously.

Since Naoki Nagayama set the strategy of buying the bottom of Fujitsu General's stock, everyone in the company used various methods to quietly buy Fujitsu General's stock.

Overseas accounts, offshore companies, meat chickens... controlling different accounts to build positions, quietly buying Fujitsu General's stock one by one, and then starting to suppress or even smash the market when the stock price rose slightly. In short, let this stock be in an awkward situation of neither rising nor falling.

The specific operation is naturally handled by experienced traders. Anyway, according to Naoki Nagayama, the formal union of Fujitsu and General is at the end of the year, and they have enough time!

However, before the final surge, it is still necessary to prepare sufficient funds.

Genta Nakai, relying on the relationship of Ito Masayuki, a senior at Mitsubishi Bank, has already talked about the loan, but even with so many physical assets of Naoki-san, Ito Masayuki still wants another guarantee...

No one answered the phone at home, so he called Naoki Nagayama at the studio:

"Naoki-san... Mitsubishi Bank still thinks the risk is very high, they want to increase the mortgage..."

"Eh?" Naoki Nagayama was a bit strange, "My properties add up to more than 3 billion... Does Mitsubishi Bank still think there is a risk?"

"After all, this is the first cooperation with our Tree Friend Capital... and there are mortgages on several properties."

"Still have a mortgage?"

Naoki Nagayama just remembered that his first few properties, the land in Takadanobaba, and the apartments in Waseda and Bunkyo-ku, were all bought with loans, and he is still paying them off!

That is to say, he is still a house slave... although his assets could have been paid off long ago.

"Is that so... Then what suggestions did they put forward?" Mitsubishi Bank naturally investigated Tree Friend Capital and Naoki Nagayama, and he wanted to hear what the bank had to suggest.

"Ito Masayuki said that Mitsubishi Bank wants Naoki-san to also use the shares of Tree Friend Co., Ltd. as collateral for the guarantee..." Genta Nakai said cautiously.

"Shares of Tree Friend Group?"

Naoki Nagayama clicked his tongue. Banks are indeed the greediest capital... Although there is no formal valuation, since the reorganization, the market value of the Tree Friend Group has exceeded at least 10 billion... In the long run, the valuation will be even higher.

And Mitsubishi Bank actually wants to use a loan of 5 billion to let Naoki Nagayama put it up... It is clearly thinking of taking the Tree Friend Group into its pocket after the stock market loses money!

This point... Naoki Nagayama naturally agrees!

After all, he knows that after borrowing this money, it is a steady profit!

"Shares of Tree Friend!" However, when replying, he naturally has to be cautious, and he also has to hold the bank: "... It is not impossible to mortgage the shares of Tree Friend... However, other real estate must be reduced... And Mitsubishi Bank needs to be the lowest in terms of interest rates! The quota must also be increased!"

"Is Naoki-san sure?" Genta Nakai's voice raised a bit, "The senior management of Mitsubishi Bank actually values the shares of Tree Friend Group... They think the investment risk of Tree Friend Capital in the stock market is very large."

"It doesn't matter, whether the risk is large or not, we know it ourselves, don't we?"

Naoki Nagayama comforted, "By next year, they will find that they lent us a large sum of money for free!"

"In that case, I will contact senior Ito Masayuki." Genta Nakai nodded, "It should enter the signing stage very soon."

"Hai, just notify me when the time comes!"

Naoki Nagayama hung up the phone, thinking about the gains and losses of stock speculation...

"I was targeted by the bank with such a small capital... It's so troublesome... After this time, I won't make quick money in the stock market anymore!"

Naoki Nagayama felt that there was not much stock market information in his mind, and decided to hold some potential stocks like Microsoft and Apple for a long time in the future.

It's better to invest in real estate! Buy land in Tokyo without thinking... Just sell it before the bubble bursts in 1990! The profit is not necessarily lower than the stock market!

Before getting off work, Xu Mudao's eyes in the editing room were wandering, and he had been struggling for an afternoon.

"It just so happens that Shuichi-san and Naoki-san are both in the editing room, and there are no others, such opportunities are rare!" Xu Mudao thought about the determination he made earlier, "It's almost time to get off work, if I don't remind them about the red envelope on the set, they might really forget it!"

"Cough cough!" Xu Mudao coughed twice, attracting the attention of the other two.

"Eh, Kijima-kun, are you actually still here?" Shuichi Ito said subconsciously, "I thought you asked for leave this afternoon!"

Xu Mudao was speechless: "... Shuichi-san, the material just now was handed to you by me..."

"Ah... haha, is that so!" Shuichi Ito also laughed, "I didn't notice, I thought it was Naoki-san!"

Then he turned his head to look at the clock: "Ah, it's this time, it's time to get off work!"

Xu Mudao was used to it, but he didn't remain silent as usual. Today he had gathered his courage:

"Naoki-san, Shuichi-san, actually I have something I want to ask you!"

"Oh?" Shuichi Ito and Naoki Nagayama both looked over.

Speaking in front of the two bosses for the first time, Xu Mudao was still a bit nervous. He steadied himself:

"Naoki-san, Shuichi-san, do you still remember when we were filming in Musashino? I followed a wedding procession and filmed for most of the day!"

"Ah! That one!" Naoki Nagayama remembered, "That day was really lucky, there happened to be newlyweds getting married!"

Shuichi Ito also nodded: "Yes, yes, I thought it would be delayed for two days, but I didn't expect it to be filmed all at once!"

Then Naoki Nagayama looked at Xu Mudao:

"Kijima-kun, what's wrong?"

"Ano..." Xu Mudao's tone became inexplicably smaller, "Didn't I follow them and film all the way that time? The crew also said they would help make a wedding commemorative short film!"

Shuichi Ito nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, the bride also said this is the reward for their appearance!"

Then he also looked at Xu Mudao: "The short film is done, right?"

"Eh?... Ah!... It's done."

He originally wanted to take the opportunity to mention the red envelope, but the boss suddenly asked about work, so Xu Mudao subconsciously looked for the work results. He found a videotape on the table and handed it to Shuichi Ito, "This is their commemorative short film, I also used some shots from the movie."

After taking it, Shuichi Ito and Naoki Nagayama put the short film on the projector and watched it with relish.

"The short film is edited very well!" "The photos are very good." "The bride is smiling very happily!" "This wedding looks like a very happy wedding." "Do you have a commemorative video when you get married, Shuichi-san?" "..."

Xu Mudao watched the two bosses start chatting one after another, and he didn't find a chance to interrupt several times... The attention of these two people turned entirely to the short film, and perhaps to their past memories...

In short, Xu Mudao disappeared from them again!

He sighed helplessly, it seems there is no result in reminding them about the red envelope!

Forget it... anyway, it was like this before, haven't I survived until now?!

When I was a child, the teacher said I would get a little red flower, but I was the only one in the class who didn't; the girl I liked in high school promised to wait for me behind the teaching building to confess, but she disappeared after school; when I grew up, the bonus and promotion promised by the boss always disappeared without a trace...

Xu Mudao's life is always spent in the disregard of others... Only a few sensitive guys can notice him and become friends...

Maybe it will take more than ten years for someone to find out after he passes away!

Xu Mudao sighed, stood up silently, and opened the door of the editing room. Even if he left now, they wouldn't notice, right!

Just when he wanted to leave~

"Kijima-kun!" Naoki Nagayama suddenly called him!

Xu Mudao turned his head and saw Naoki Nagayama looking at him intently and saying:

"Kijima-kun worked hard for a whole day that time!"

"Ah... that should be..."

"How can that be, I said I would give Kijima-kun a big red envelope at that time! Wait a moment~"

Saying that, Naoki Nagayama quickly ran to the finance room, withdrew 200,000 yen from Beicun Guanglian, and put it in an envelope.

After returning to the editing room, he handed it directly to Xu Mudao:

"Kijima-kun, come! This is your red envelope!"

"..."

Xu Mudao took the thick envelope, and just by the feel, he knew there was a lot of yen inside.

Looking at Naoki Nagayama's sincere eyes, Xu Mudao felt a warm current flowing through his chest.

In this shaky real world, there is finally someone who can remember him! ===== CHAPTER 591 =====