The pretty witch widened her eyes at Boss Huang, intending to immediately launch into a fierce rebuttal the moment he tried to explain.
Instead, Boss Huang merely shrugged and said, "You're right, these are all my marketing strategies. As expected, things rushed out like this are easily seen through by intelligent people!"
"You rushed this out?" The pretty witch blinked in surprise, then retorted, "Is that so!"
"Yes, it took a total of only three days!" Huang He said.
"You're bluffing!" The pretty witch didn't say it aloud, but her eyes conveyed it. However, Boss Huang didn't care. This woman wouldn't change anything. She was a character he wouldn't see again after today, as he only needed to demonstrate how to operate things to his subordinates on the first day. Afterward, the responsibility for this operation would be handed over to the Japanese branch.
However, this pretty witch clearly didn't think so. She sized up Boss Huang several times before asking, "Do you have money?"
"What for?" Boss Huang blinked, then asked, "Are you trying to extort hush money from me?"
"Why would I want hush money from you?" The pretty witch's expression froze, then she said with annoyance, "On the contrary, I'm asking if you're short on money. Alright, I'll be direct. I'm actually very optimistic about your plan, and your capabilities have greatly satisfied me. I can give you some investment!"
"..." Boss Huang was speechless again. This plot development was a bit off. Wasn't the normal plot for this pretty woman to ask him for money? Or to become one of his harem members? Why was she instead proactively offering him investment?
"I don't need it!" Boss Huang said decisively, then added, "I have money, I don't need your money."
"Perhaps," the pretty witch said, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear with a nonchalant expression. "Perhaps in your plan, you've already allocated a considerable sum of funds, and with that money, you'll open a store in Akihabara. Simultaneously, leveraging the hype generated within the Yu-Gi-Oh! fan community, you'll begin selling your 'Blind Box Imperial Awards' one after another. Then, in a year, you'll expand one store to ten, and in three years, you'll have stores in all major cities in Japan. Finally, in twenty to thirty years, you'll build a company worth hundreds of billions of yen!" She continued, "This is a very idealistic, very arrogant, and very foolish business plan, but you probably believe that with your innate talent, this plan can be realized."
"But even if your plan is truly realized, it will still take twenty to thirty years. However, if you accept my investment, I can tell you that you can achieve your twenty to thirty-year goal in at most three years!"
"But I can give you money, a lot of money. I can let you open new stores all over Tokyo within a month, and within a year, have your stores in all cities in Japan. I can let you achieve your twenty to thirty-year plan all within three years!" The pretty witch said, looking at Huang He with a smug and condescending expression. "So, are you still going to refuse my investment?"
"..." Boss Huang fell silent. This plot development and conversation were indeed unexpected.
"I don't want your stinking money!" Boss Huang adjusted his expression and then feigned anger, saying, "Do you think you can do whatever you want just because you have money?"
"I'm sorry, but with money, you really can do whatever you want!" Unfortunately, the other party didn't respond to this classic line. Instead, she said with a smile, "I'll let you know the benefits of agreeing to me!"
Then, this pretty witch swaggered away, followed closely by a small maid guarding the door, who nervously followed her mistress out.
"Alas, what a shame!" Boss Huang shook his head and continued to have people pack things. He still had many things to do in Japan!
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"Father! I found an interesting man today!" Upon returning home, the pretty witch pounced into her father's arms. Hearing his daughter's words, her father's face immediately lit up with ecstatic joy. "Which man? Is he very capable, and is he willing to marry into our family?"
"Father, what are you talking about?" The pretty witch's face immediately turned serious. "Although this man is indeed very capable, the matter of marrying into our family still needs observation. While it's true that our Nishiyou family doesn't have a qualified male heir, not just any capable man can marry into our family. He also needs to be sufficiently loyal to our Nishiyou family!"
"Yes, you're right. But it's been several years now, and you haven't liked any of the thirty-odd blind dates. How can that be?" Her father said helplessly. "Wen Nai, you're almost 28. If you don't find a suitable heir for the Nishiyou family soon, the main business of the Nishiyou family will have to be handed over to your distant cousins."
"Father, please rest assured. With my daughter's beauty and her ability to recognize talent, I will surely find the most suitable son-in-law soon. Now, I need to prepare a plan to continue assessing this man's abilities and see if he is qualified to become our Nishiyou family's son-in-law!" Nishiyou Wen Nai, the pretty witch, said with great determination, then ran back to her room to do something unknown.
"I know about today's events. What do you think of that man?" After his beloved daughter left, Nishiyou Zujian put away his smile and asked his daughter's personal maid calmly.
"Replying to master, I think that man is just a bit clever, not particularly brilliant!" the maid said.
"Is that so?" Nishiyou Zujian closed his eyes.
Nishiyou Zujian, the president of Nishiyou Trading Company in Japan, and Nishiyou Trading Company is also the second-largest retail group in the world.
Many Chinese people may not have heard of or seen the name Nishiyou, but if I mention a few of its affiliated companies, everyone will probably understand the capabilities of Nishiyou Trading Company.
These companies include, but are not limited to, Nishiyou Department Store, Nishida Department Store, Muji, FamilyMart, Nishiyou Securities, and Hongji Real Estate.
Oh, and at this time, Nishiyou Group is also the largest shareholder of Walmart.
Although Nishiyou Group is still a considerable distance from Japan's six major *zaibatsu*, it has inextricable ties with the four major *zaibatsu* and has firmly secured a position among the top ten *zaibatsu* in Japan.
However, Nishiyou *Zaibatsu* has a problem: the current president, and thus the controller of the entire *zaibatsu*, Nishiyou Zujian, has no sons, only one daughter. This is the biggest problem for Nishiyou *Zaibatsu*.
In fact, large companies worldwide face a rather tricky problem: the successor is incompetent and cannot smoothly take over the company.
This problem is quite common. If being born into the right family is the most unfair thing in the world, then having children is the most fair thing in the world.
No matter how heroic the father is, there is a high probability that the child will be a good-for-nothing. The downfall of countless dynasties throughout history fully illustrates this problem. This problem is the same for businesses; many large enterprises face the issue of incompetent successors.
China does not currently need to face this problem because the first generation of entrepreneurs started in the 1970s and 1980s. They are now in their prime and capable of managing their businesses, so there is no immediate need to consider successors.
However, many century-old businesses in Europe, America, and Japan are genuinely troubled by this issue and have made corresponding countermeasures.
The approach of European and American companies is to become fund-based, equity-based, and professionally managed.
They select outstanding professionals from the market to manage the company, while the family itself establishes various funds, such as charitable foundations, to control its subsidiaries. The heirs do not need to be responsible for the actual operations; they only need to receive pocket money from the funds annually.
However, this method is not commonly used in Japan. Japanese people are always deeply wary of outsiders; they always prefer to keep companies firmly within their family's control rather than handing over company power to outsiders.
But the talent of one's son cannot be chosen. Thus, Japanese entrepreneurs had a sudden inspiration.
Although their own sons cannot be chosen, their sons-in-law can be chosen!
As long as they have a daughter, they can select a desired man from the vast pool of men in the labor market who come from ordinary backgrounds but are very capable, marry their daughter to him, and at the same time hand over the entire company to this capable son-in-law for management.
The price for this is that the son-in-law must marry into the woman's family, and the children born thereafter must also follow the woman's surname.
This method is very perfect. For the sake of a better future, most poor but capable "phoenix men" will choose to agree to marry into the family.
At the same time, the wife's parents usually understand how to respect the son-in-law, giving them the proper status and treatment. Some parents-in-law even disregard the son-in-law's extramarital affairs, as long as he is capable and his descendants are their bloodline, and he does not sell the company to outsiders.
Of course, for the son-in-law, there is one bottom line that cannot be crossed: absolutely not allowing other women to get pregnant and have children.
Because if this happens, the son-in-law will have other bloodline inheritances, and because the son-in-law is often in a dominant position when interacting with other women, which is different from his status at home.
This might lead them to feel that the children born to their mistresses are more like their own flesh and blood and inheritors of their bloodline, potentially transferring the family's interests that originally belonged to the wife to this illegitimate child, which would be a great problem.
Therefore, it is not a problem for a son-in-law to have other women, but he absolutely cannot have children, otherwise, it is a dead end.
Nishiyou Trading Company currently faces the same problem, and even more so. Nishiyou Zujian has no sons, only one daughter. He can only select a qualified son-in-law to inherit Nishiyou Trading Company.
His daughter, Nishiyou Wen Nai, doesn't mind recruiting a son-in-law for the family. After all, many of her classmates and close friends have gone through this. She is even actively promoting this plan.
However, Nishiyou Wen Nai insists that she must be the one to decide on this son-in-law. If she is not satisfied, she will not agree no matter what.
This is a very normal requirement, as countless tragic examples have proven that valuing only the son-in-law's ability and neglecting the relationship between the son-in-law and the daughter can lead to a complete breakdown between the two. If, at this point, the son-in-law also holds significant power in the company, the company will essentially be ruined.
Therefore, Nishiyou Zujian has tolerated his daughter's actions, but it's just that after searching for so long, she is already 28 years old and still hasn't found a man who satisfies her.
"Let her be!" Nishiyou Zujian said helplessly in the end. After all, the history of the past eight years has proven that his daughter's judgment of people is not low, or rather, it is too high. He basically doesn't have to worry about his daughter being deceived.
The most important thing right now is not to interfere in any way, but rather to actively help them cultivate their relationship. He really can't wait any longer.