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Chapter 711: General Air Conditioning came to the door!

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The whole day seemed to be busy~

Naoki Nagayama buried his head in editing "Kikujiro" with Kijima Xu and others in the studio, and only came out to relax during lunch and when his waist and back hurt.

Such hard work actually gave Naoki Nagayama a feeling of 007 day and night reversal when he was rushing the schedule before. Stretching, looking at the completed work, he even had a faint sense of satisfaction... It's really hopeless!!!

Clearly agreed not to be a wage earner!!!

After the editing of "Kikujiro" is completed, there will absolutely, absolutely, absolutely be no such behavior as overtime!!!

Naoki Nagayama made up his mind in his heart!

Walking into the office, he greeted Otomo Yoshimura: "Otomo-san, I'm going back~~ You are so old, don't work overtime either!"

"..." Why does Naoki-san's concern always sound so harsh?" Japanese people don't admit they are old. If they are not close, being told they are old will be considered looking down on them.

"Hahaha~"

Naoki Nagayama laughed and wanted to mix it up, but Otomo Yoshimura didn't continue to stare at this point, but said:

"Naoki-san, you said before that you wanted to contact the media to render the harm of yakuza violence?"

"Hai, the main focus should be on Ota Ward, after all, our movie filming base is there." Naoki Nagayama said, "Exposed in newspapers such as 'Yomiuri Shimbun', 'Sankei Shimbun', 'Tokyo Shimbun', etc., so that the upper level of the police station can pay attention..."

"This is not a problem, after all, it is a public affair, and it does not involve advertising and other publicity." Otomo Yoshimura said, "I will contact relevant reporters and freelance writers, etc., and publish a few articles in the near future."

With Tree Friend's current influence, of course, there are some connections in the media. Manipulating public opinion may be an exaggeration, but publishing a few articles is no problem.

"Mm, that's good~ In the near future, let Masataka-kun go to the Ota Ward police station to report the case more, and have a good relationship with the police there." Naoki Nagayama continued to arrange, "Later, someone will introduce a member of the Ota Ward assembly, and will also name the safety issues of the Ota Ward filming base in public at the movie release conference, attracting public attention..."

"In short, if our movie base is in Ota Ward in the future, we must make the local yakuza and bad guys never dare to come to the door at will."

Otomo Yoshimura nodded. After all, yakuza are guys in the dark, and it is best to be able to do it once and for all.

Driving home from the studio, he didn't want to cook any dinner after being tired all day, so he found a high-end restaurant he often went to for dinner.

Looking at the well-dressed diners in the restaurant, Naoki Nagayama, who was dressed casually, seemed a bit out of place, making many people seem to recognize this man at the center of public opinion!

But who cares about them, they can't post him online without a mobile phone... Naoki Nagayama enjoyed his big meal very comfortably and returned to the villa before the paparazzi came.

"Eitaro, I'm back!"

Naoki Nagayama rubbed the big dog's head angrily, making the originally excited dog make "ying-ying-ying" sounds, and then ran to Miaotaro, who was lying on the sofa, and rubbed the big orange cat again, which made him feel that the fatigue of the whole day disappeared.

Taking a bottle of soda from the refrigerator and drinking it, Naoki Nagayama turned on the TV.

The evening news hadn't started yet, and the TV was playing a variety show for the evening transition.

These two days, every program either started with "A big news broke out in the entertainment industry during this period," or used "Have you heard? Akina Nakamori and Naoki Nagayama are dating!" as the middle discussion...

However, Naoki Nagayama didn't think this was the end. The entertainment industry had obtained such an event that attracted attention, and there would definitely be bigger moves later~

For example...

"Ding-ling-ling!"

Naoki Nagayama was startled. It turned out that the phone by the sofa rang! It was too scary when thinking about this~

"Moshi moshi, this is the villa~" Naoki Nagayama still answered the phone.

"Naoki-san, it's me!" The voice in the receiver was Nakai Genta's, "Yugata! Finally contacted you, Naoki-san~"

"Genta-san, I'm fine now, so I'll basically be at the villa!" Naoki Nagayama said a bit strangely, "What's wrong?"

"This afternoon, people from General Air Conditioning came to the company, looking aggressive, but it was a meeting invitation..." Nakai Genta said, "It was Yasuyuki Nakano, the assistant to the chairman, who came."

"Meeting invitation?"

"Hai, General Air Conditioning invited Naoki-san to attend the board meeting, saying that the company has major matters to announce, and as a new major shareholder, it is necessary to attend... Need someone with decision-making power to be present." Nakai Genta said.

"Ha, actually just want to probe our bottom line."

Naoki Nagayama laughed, "Saying someone with decision-making power is just wanting to see who is behind Tree Friend."

As an unlisted company, Tree Friend's shareholding has not been announced. If others want to investigate, they can only know from the hands of a few people who have shares.

"Then... is Naoki-san going?"

"Go! Why not go!" Naoki Nagayama said, "Now we are the major shareholder! We are the masters of General Air Conditioning!"

"Hai, the time is 10:00 AM the day after tomorrow, and the location is the headquarters of General Air Conditioning..." Nakai Genta said, "Naoki-san, do you want to send a car to pick you up?"

"No, we will meet in Ginza and go together." Naoki Nagayama thought for a while and said.

"Hai!"

Communicated with Nakai Genta about the attitude after going there, and Naoki Nagayama hung up the phone.

Now it is late September, I guess the merger of Fujitsu and General Air Conditioning has reached the final stage... Then how should I communicate with those people on the board of directors?

They definitely won't believe it if I say it's a coincidence, they are all sophisticated... If it causes a storm of merger, I will also lose more than I gain.

Must think of a way to fool the motivation of my investment...

Just thinking about it, a "di-di" sound came from his pocket, it was the newly bought pager... Taking it out and looking, only a string of numbers was written on the small screen. After translating with the codebook, it was: "Working tonight, not coming back~"

"..."

Such a simple sentence actually took five minutes to translate!

When will it be possible to display text directly? Seems like the late 80s?

Naoki Nagayama even raised the idea of inventing the subsequent pager in advance... However, after thinking about the difficulty and workload of technical upgrades, Naoki Nagayama decisively flinched:

"Forget it, forget it, don't worry! Seems like there will be big brother phones next year, then it will be fine! For now, temporarily set some secret codes with Akina, such as 520 means I love you, etc..."

After doing some psychological counseling for a while, Naoki Nagayama breathed a sigh of relief and continued to watch TV.

At this moment, in the preparation room of "Twilight Meow Meow" at Fuji TV, Yasushi Akimoto was writing furiously.

He had already enriched the previous rough love variety show idea, divided it into three directions: celebrity love, amateur love, and love expert, and was currently preaching his ideas to Tai Sugiura and Xi Liumi.

"Celebrity love, this point is the most obvious, it is the love between our famous artists, and we can adopt methods such as following, interviews, reality shows, etc... If we can shoot it, their own fame can bring huge exposure to the program.

Love experts and various amateur loves can only be used as alternatives. Although they can make gimmicks in identity, such as rich people, doctors, red people in wind shops, etc... But in the end, they can't reach the level of stars..."

Yasushi Akimoto looked at Xi Liumi,

"If it is the love process between Naoki-san and Akina Nakamori, if they have their current heat, maybe the ratings can break through 40% or more!"

"Xi Liumi-san, how is the attitude you probed?"

Xi Liumi scratched her cheek: "Regarding this... although Akina-chan doesn't mean to disagree, it still needs to be decided by the agency and Naoki Nagayama..."

Tai Sugiura said from the side: "Regarding celebrity love, the most topical idols are the hardest... It is too difficult to let the agency agree to let them participate in love variety shows at the risk of popularity decline!"

No matter when, whether it is male idols or female idols, there will be a clause in the agency's requirements: no dating... at least not public dating, otherwise they will either retire or be frozen...

"Unless it is officially announced like Naoki Nagayama and Akina Nakamori..." Tai Sugiura continued, "... or celebrities in the declining period, or idols with no hope, who take this as the last chance to fight."

"Mm... indeed." Yasushi Akimoto also nodded.

How to convince stars in the peak period to participate in this program? As long as it is compared to the loss, this program can bring them more!

So it returned to the original question:

"How to convince Naoki Nagayama and Akina Nakamori to shoot?"

Xi Liumi interjected at this time: "Akimoto-san, Sugiura-san, regarding this, I have some ideas."

"?" Both looked over.

"Actually, according to my communication with Akina, this little girl and Naoki Nagayama are clearly in the honeymoon period, but because of work, the two don't have much time to get along, so she is very much looking forward to getting along with Naoki Nagayama more."

"And Akina Nakamori has a great influence on the agency... So as long as we explain to the agency that this love variety show will bring positive and active exposure to Akina Nakamori, it is very likely to pass."

Xi Liumi paused, "As for Naoki Nagayama, judging from our previous impressions, he doesn't really care about the size of fame. If his girlfriend in love agrees, he has no reason to refuse!"

Both were silent for a while, and then Tai Sugiura said to Xi Liumi:

"Xi Liumi-san... do you have any misunderstanding about men's honeymoon period?"

"??" Xi Liumi was puzzled.

"Ahem~" Yasushi Akimoto coughed beside him, "Xi Liumi-san, the honeymoon period generally only lasts for about half a year... If it is first love, it can probably last longer... But a man like Naoki Nagayama..."

He looked at Tai Sugiura, "Tai-san, how long do you think it can last?"

"Why look at me?!" Tai Sugiura rolled his eyes, but still gave an answer, "I estimate it can last half, three months is not bad!"

"You mean, Naoki Nagayama and Akina Nakamori are no longer in the honeymoon period?!" Xi Liumi was surprised, and then looked at Tai Sugiura with strange eyes, "No wonder Tai-san changes a girlfriend every half a year or so!"

"Ahem~"

Tai Sugiura turned his head unnaturally. After all, as the person in charge of the popular program on the TV station, it is inevitable to be unable to resist the temptation of the outside world.

"They must have been dating for a long time!" Yasushi Akimoto said, "I think it should have started when filming 'Love Letter'!"

"Mm, almost more than half a year, definitely past the honeymoon period!" Tai Sugiura confirmed.

Xi Liumi nodded: "In other words, Naoki-san is likely not to agree to participate in the love variety show because he wants to get along with Akina Nakamori more?"

"Mm! Definitely!" Tai Sugiura nodded to confirm, "Men are all animals that pull out and are ruthless!"

"..."

The preparation room fell into a short silence, Yasushi Akimoto moved away from Tai Sugiura silently, as if he didn't want to be the same kind as him.

For a long time, a voice sounded:

"In short, to move Naoki-san, we must use other methods!"

"For example?"

"According to the previous beauty trap?... Peh... " Yasushi Akimoto shook his head, "Find a potential female idol as a temptation?"

"Should not be enough!"

Xi Liumi's IQ returned to the high ground, a flash of inspiration: "Tai-san, didn't Naoki-san not get the department head's consent because he wanted to film a TV series before? This time... why not use this as a breakthrough point?!"

The more she said, the more she felt it was feasible: "On the one hand, Naoki-san can participate in the love variety show, and on the other hand, he can repair the relationship between Naoki-san and Fuji TV! After all, after TV Asahi had 'Music Station', the ratings have risen greatly!"

"This is a win-win!"

"..." "It's a win-win for Fuji TV!" Tai Sugiura said, "If you want to apologize, you have to have the appearance of an apology! We need other ways..."

"..."

The preparation room fell into silence again~

Naoki Nagayama naturally didn't know that the people at Fuji TV had already set their sights on him. Too many people mentioned him these few days, and he had to sneeze several times a day~

"Did I catch a cold~"

Naoki Nagayama, who got up in the morning, sniffed, feeling that it was indeed a bit blocked.

"Sure enough, I shouldn't have committed the lust commandment as soon as I woke up... After all, the body has just experienced damage..."

Naoki Nagayama muttered, but thought that if Akina was by his side,

"Should still be unable to resist..."

After all, the current Akina is really pure and lustful, better looking than before, full of temptation...

Shaking his head violently, he threw his girlfriend's image out~~ "Don't try to disturb my Dao heart!"

While eating breakfast and reading the newspaper, the entertainment section had other fresh news, but the news about him and Akina Nakamori still occupied a small half of the page.

The clever reporters found the previous airship news and various photos of the shooting locations, and arranged them in a timeline. They wanted to sort out the love process between Akina Nakamori and Naoki Nagayama.

Naoki Nagayama bit the crispy bread slice and looked at it curiously, then laughed:

"The photos of 'Love Letter' are out... Unfortunately, that's not when we started dating! When we really confessed... I won't tell you!"

After eating breakfast leisurely, his body seemed to be fine, so Naoki Nagayama said goodbye to Eitaro and Miaotaro, and then drove to the studio.

"Morning, Hua-chan, Xingxia-chan..." As usual, he greeted the two receptionists.

"Morning, Naoki-san..." Xing Jiahua greeted, and then called Naoki Nagayama, who was about to walk inside, "Wait, Naoki-san, there is a guest visiting you today, already in the conference room."

"Guest?"

"Seems to be from General Air Conditioning... Otomo-san is already receiving them in the conference room." Xing Jiahua said.

"General Air Conditioning?"

Naoki Nagayama was a bit strange this time. In Japan, if you want to visit a company or someone, you generally make an appointment by phone in advance, and those who are rigid and traditional need to formally send a visiting card.

If you come rashly, you will be considered very impolite.

Didn't the people from General Air Conditioning send an invitation to Nakai Genta yesterday? Why did they run to this side again today? Naoki Nagayama walked toward the conference room in doubt, and various thoughts popped up in his heart.

Opening the door of the conference room, Naoki Nagayama saw two middle-aged men in suits and leather shoes pulling skin with Otomo Yoshimura. After seeing him come in, Otomo Yoshimura felt like he breathed a sigh of relief:

"Naoki-san, these two are senior executives of General Air Conditioning, here to see you~"

"I am Yasuyuki Nakano, the assistant to the chairman of General Air Conditioning; next to me is Investment Department Head Yasuyuki Tamura." Yasuyuki Nakano had a peaceful smile on his face and introduced himself calmly, "Nice to meet you, please give me more advice."

After glancing at Otomo Yoshimura, Naoki Nagayama knew that these two were old foxes!

And for old foxes, you can't follow their process!

"Ah, I am Naoki Nagayama, you should know the rest~" Naoki Nagayama said with a smile, relying on his youth and not following etiquette at all, "Please sit down~ Standing and talking is too tiring!"

"..."

Yasuyuki Nakano was stunned for a moment, but still sat down, but the investment department head Yasuyuki Tamura looked at Naoki Nagayama with great curiosity.

Before they opened their mouths, Naoki Nagayama didn't go around in circles:

"Didn't you go to Genta-san's side to send an invitation yesterday? Why did you come to find me here today?"

Of course it's because I didn't find you yesterday! We went there to catch you off guard and wanted to find out who was behind you!

Although the chairman looked calm at the board meeting, he was full of vigilance toward Tree Friend Capital!

"This..." Yasuyuki Nakano prepared his language, "Didn't see Naoki-san in person yesterday, didn't get a reply, so I came to disturb you rashly today."

"Oh..."

Naoki Nagayama laughed silently in his heart. It seemed that the people from General Air Conditioning were more anxious than himself! These two in front were just probing the way...

"Then you saw me... and, I agreed to participate!"

"!"

Yasuyuki Nakano was stunned again. Why doesn't this guy follow the order of moves?

Can we chat well?! You pointed out the purpose as soon as you came up, how can we continue to probe each other and pull skin later? How to find the power behind you?!

Naoki Nagayama looked at the two and continued to ask:

"Anything else? If not, I have very important things here..."

"!!!"

Actually sent the guest away? Yasuyuki Nakano felt that he had experienced more than ten years of business negotiations and had never met such a person!

"This..."

However, at this time, Investment Department Head Yasuyuki Tamura wanted to ease the atmosphere:

"Naoki-san, actually we came here this time, and we want to understand some matters from you..."

"Oh? Are you interrogating me?" Naoki Nagayama joked, "Can I not answer?"

"..." "No, no, no"

Hearing Naoki Nagayama suddenly raise the matter, Yasuyuki Tamura hurriedly denied, "I just want to know if you need us to send a car to pick you up tomorrow..."

"Hahaha~ No need, Genta-san and I will go there ourselves!" Naoki Nagayama laughed.

Then he said directly: "I'm not in the mood to continue pulling skin with you. I will explain the questions you want at the board meeting tomorrow. There is nothing else to say~ That's it for today!"

After speaking, Naoki Nagayama got up and left, leaving Otomo Yoshimura and the two in the conference room staring at each other...

After Otomo Yoshimura respectfully sent the two away and returned to the office, he saw Naoki Nagayama frowning.

"Naoki-san... how did you just..."

"Acting unreasonable and arrogant... can't figure out the personality, right?" Naoki Nagayama said.

"Yeah, after all, the opposite is the senior management of a listed company..." Otomo Yoshimura said, "Did something happen to Naoki-san?"

Naoki Nagayama didn't hide it: "Mm, I was acquiring their company's shares before... It has reached 10%!"

"?!!"

Even if he didn't involve much in the stock market, Otomo Yoshimura knew that such behavior was a declaration of war on the original company.

"Then them?"

"They are reconnaissance troops... specifically here to probe my intelligence." Naoki Nagayama explained, "So I didn't want to say much to them, otherwise when they go back, there will be a bunch of think tanks analyzing my personality, my words... to use at tomorrow's meeting."

"Naoki-san, are you really going to acquire them?" Otomo Yoshimura asked.

"I don't have that much money..." Naoki Nagayama shook his head, "Now it's already the largest, so I'm bluffing... otherwise they might take some action tomorrow!"

If General Air Conditioning knew that Naoki Nagayama had no money and was still carrying bank loans, then as long as they insisted on not announcing the merger news for a period of time, Naoki Nagayama would be forced to sell the shares because of insolvency...

So Naoki Nagayama had to make them confused.

"Then tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow has tomorrow's battle... Today has today's things." Naoki Nagayama patted Otomo Yoshimura's shoulder and walked toward the editing room, "Daijobu, I already have a plan!"

"... Naoki-san..."

Otomo Yoshimura looked at his back worriedly, and finally chose to believe it.

And at this time, Yasuyuki Nakano and Yasuyuki Tamura, who left the studio, were sitting in the car frowning and thinking...

"Naoki Nagayama, this guy, could it be that he has a hole card we don't know? More funds?"

"I checked through relationships, the Nagayama Holdings behind Tree Friend is Naoki Nagayama's independent company... But Naoki Nagayama seems to have some relationship with the Yamaguchi-gumi..." Yasuyuki Tamura said.

"Yamaguchi-gumi, now leaderless, is in chaos." Yasuyuki Nakano said, "They can't come up with so much money..."

Yasuyuki Tamura continued:

"There is one point very suspicious... I asked someone to secretly probe from the bank and Nakai Genta's friends, and found that Naoki Nagayama and Nakai Genta had been to the United States once."

"It is said that Nakai Genta made a lot of money~" He continued: "After that, Nakai Genta resigned from the bank, and then set up this company, Tree Friend Capital."

"United States? Could it be a consortium in the United States?" Yasuyuki Nakano closed his eyes, thinking about Naoki Nagayama's actions just now, "In short, this Naoki Nagayama is not right."

"It will be revealed tomorrow!" ===== CHAPTER 712 =====

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