Chapter 122 An Unexpected Encounter

Zhuang Wei, Su Yehao’s former personal assistant, had recently been running around with the roadshow team, acting as his representative.

This kind of work sounds high-end, but it's actually extremely busy.

Just arranging venues and coordinating guests is enough to make people run around in circles. If Goldman Sachs hadn't arranged professionals to help and solved the task of inviting guests, Su Yehao's own team would probably have messed things up.

Tokyo was the fifth roadshow stop.

Miss Zhuang Wei, who had been busy for Su Yehao, fell ill and was hospitalized as soon as she arrived in Tokyo, with a fever of 39.5 degrees Celsius and a mild lung infection.

After learning about this, he felt it necessary to visit her in the hospital, so he drove to St. Luke's Hospital not far from Ginza with Nong Qingying.

At that moment.

Nong Qingying fiddled with the flowers and said,

"I have a bit of an impression of Zhuang Wei. She helped cover for us a lot back then. She's a pretty smart and capable woman. You must have been using her a lot. Now she's sick. I wonder if she likes this bouquet of baby's breath."

Su Yehao smiled awkwardly.

He usually threw work to the assistant's office whenever he had something to do. As the business scale continued to expand, he had to recruit a new batch of people a few days ago.

Realizing he was in the wrong, he said,

"Zhuang Wei has a bit of savant syndrome. She's not very good at socializing, but she has a very strong learning ability and is very serious when dealing with things. She's a bit of a perfectionist. It's rare to see such a competitive woman. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been strongly recommended to me by the headhunter in the first place."

"Then why was Linda Yun chosen later?" Nong Qingying asked.

Su Yehao calmly answered her, "Letting Zhuang Wei go to the assistant's office is kind of a promotion, right? Linda Yun's job is easier. Zhuang Wei takes care of my personal affairs, and her position is basically equivalent to a senior executive in a Fortune 500 company. I didn't treat her badly. Of course, the position of life secretary is also very important."

Sitting in the passenger seat.

Linda Yun turned her head and stared at Su Yehao silently for a while, but in the end, she didn't say anything.

Mainly because she also admitted in her heart that she, a half-baked former English teacher, was far inferior to her "predecessor" Zhuang Wei in terms of ability.

Since she knew she was inferior, of course, she didn't have the confidence to argue with Su Yehao. Linda Yun usually conveyed messages from above and below, and she believed that an ordinary college graduate with an annual salary of 100,000 yuan could do her job as a life secretary well.

Nong Qingying was amused by Linda Yun's expression and reached out to pat her on the shoulder, changing the subject.

After arriving at St. Luke's Hospital.

They were surprised to find that Zhuang Wei was staying in a six-person ward, and the nurse was helping her with an IV drip.

Thinking that he couldn't mistreat talent, Su Yehao secretly sized up the familiar pink nurse uniforms around him and asked Nong Qingying,

"You've been in Tokyo for so long. Do you know any of the hospital's executives? I'm going to get Zhuang Wei a private room. I'm not familiar with this place. It would be more convenient if we were back in Hong Kong."

Nong Qingying rolled her eyes and whispered, "What do you think? I can't even speak Japanese. My social circle is very narrow."

Su Yehao sarcastically teased, "Tsk, speaking of which, you're still the president of a company worth tens of billions of yen."

Hearing this.

She felt a bit humiliated.

Gritting her teeth, Nong Qingying endured it in public...

Seeing that Zhuang Wei was dizzy and sleeping in bed.

Su Yehao didn't disturb her rest. He directly took out his phone, thought about it, and searched for a number in his address book, calling a local acquaintance in Tokyo.

The other party's name was Kinjo Kento. He was previously the president of the Hong Kong branch of the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, and was later transferred to the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Securities department, serving as vice president. He would still send Su Yehao messages and gifts to Deep Water Bay during festivals.

Whether working in a bank or a financial department, having super-large customers backing you makes a huge difference, directly determining the breadth and depth of your career.

When working in these types of companies, ability alone is not enough. Being able to find large customers who can make money for the company is the key to promotion and salary increase.

For example, Kinjo Kento.

Originally transferred to the Hong Kong branch, he didn't achieve much due to the late start and intense competition.

However, because he knew some wealthy people in Hong Kong, had some large customer resources in his hands, and had someone backing him at headquarters, the former president Kinjo Kento, who was in his early forties, still successfully became the vice president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Securities.

It was considered a step up, and still in his prime, he still had the opportunity to unlock new career peaks.

When Kinjo Kento received Su Yehao's call... he suddenly stood up and carefully put the phone to his ear.

This scene made many employees in the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Securities headquarters in Tokyo subconsciously think that a senior executive, such as a managing director or chairman, from the parent company's bank headquarters was calling him, so they all lowered their voices.

In an open-plan office area, employees without any sense of propriety would have long been transferred to Africa to develop new markets. No one dared to disturb Kinjo Kento.

Japanese corporate culture was like this.

Wasn't Nong Qingying similar to a queen when she was at the SK-II headquarters, with all the employees bowing their heads to greet her when they saw her?

As one of his largest customers, Kinjo Kento had always valued Su Yehao, so even after leaving his position, he would often send gifts and greetings to avoid being completely forgotten.

In the second quarter of last year, Su Yehao had tried to borrow money from Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank to acquire ICQ.

Kinjo Kento immediately completed the approval procedures for the transaction, but when it was sent to the Tokyo head office, it was blocked by a superior, who reasoned that the risk was too high.

At that time, more than 300 million US dollars was a large sum of money compared to Su Yehao's personal net worth.

The head office's reason for blocking the approval was also quite reasonable. They believed that ICQ could not really generate profits, and that Su Yehao's strength was insufficient to continue injecting funds into ICQ to allow the Silicon Valley internet company to go further. Therefore, the risk control department decided to refuse the loan.

What happened later was obvious.

Su Yehao's wealth skyrocketed, Yahoo's stock price rose more than tenfold, and his self-created TVT was also popular in the international market.

The Bank of China, which paid for Su Yehao to buy ICQ at that time, also jumped to become his largest cooperative bank. Now, the Yanwenzi Group, which has been restructured and merged, is preparing to go public, and many large customers have approached Kinjo Kento to inquire about the situation of this emerging hot company.

This incident left a deep impression on Kinjo Kento, and he was more than once annoyed that the decision-makers at the head office were blind.

Therefore.

It's no wonder that Kinjo Kento attached so much importance to receiving a call from Su Yehao at this moment, fearing that he would miss the opportunity to repair their relationship... even if it was just to change someone to a private hospital room.

As soon as he hung up the phone.

Kinjo Kento quickly took out a small black book, which contained thousands of contact methods, including old classmates, colleagues, friends, relatives, and customer information.

At Su Yehao's level, he found managing a network of contacts troublesome, but for salarymen like Kinjo Kento, the importance of contacts was beyond doubt.

For example, at this moment.

Quickly finding a customer related to St. Luke's Hospital, Kinjo Kento's tone was full of smiles. After greeting them, he asked them to help change the room to a private one.

For this, he did not hesitate to reduce the fund management fee for this customer, and promised to owe them a small favor.

After finishing all this, Kinjo Kento was very happy. For a super VIP with a net worth of billions of US dollars, no amount of enthusiasm was too much...