Chapter 11: Yasuda and Li Jie
Location: Osaka, inside the Osborne Toyo Branch Building. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Chairman Yasuda's life has not been easy in recent months. As the de facto leader of the Osborne Group, the Toyo Division. The man, who was in his sixties, was already starting to feel a little tired.
Although he has a dynamism that is completely out of proportion to his age (dynamism is a weapon that guarantees him in business and workplace battles), the rapidly changing world is too overwhelming.
There is a law that exists in electronic goods that is held up by many as the golden rule. That's Moore's Law, which basically states that when the price is the same, the number of components that can fit on an integrated circuit doubles about every 18-24 months, and the performance doubles.
This formula reveals the explosive development of modern society. Whenever technology accumulates to a certain level, it only takes a flashpoint to appear, which will bring about a huge change in the entire social class.
And this kind of change is enough to change the structure of human life and the way society operates.
In the late 70s of the last century, Eiji Yasuda (Chairman Yasuda) had just joined the company. Business documents do not need to be delivered the same day or the next day. In those days, a cross-border business negotiation was an arduous tug-of-war.
Submitting and revising various documents, especially those that are invalid and must be signed in their original pen and cannot be faxed, consumes a lot of time.
The advent of FedEx has raised the bar for express delivery. That's because the company pioneered the guidelines for ultra-fast delivery of business documents that arrive the next day.
And with the advent of the Internet age, if an email does not receive an effective response for more than 30 minutes, it will make people wonder if they have delivered the wrong mailbox.
To put it simply: the human world is getting faster and faster for this.
The two examples will not be repeated here, but it is not difficult for those who are interested to find that the appearance of some things, whether intentional or unintentional.
They are all changing the world, changing the rules of this world and the social and living habits of human beings.
And this kind of technological explosion point that can change the world pattern is also called the turning point of human society. There have been many inflection points in human history, because the existence of these inflection points has introduced the human world into new bifurcated fields and shaped modern society.
Whether it's papermaking, gunpowder, the discovery of atoms, or anything like that.
As mentioned in the two examples mentioned above, the federal express delivery speed has been suppressed from three to five days to one day. The advent of the Internet has reduced this time to seconds.
Sending an email from the U.S. to China, after countless reconnections and lengthy undersea fiber transmissions, and finally receiving it to this side, it takes a few tens of seconds at most, and that's when your network latency is very, very high.
To sum up, while the technology of the human world has developed explosively, human beings have also begun to infinitely amplify the speed. This is true for any job.
Eiji Yasuda began to feel that he could not keep up with the pace of this era. Especially now the company he works for, the Osborne Group. The company itself is also beginning to push the inflection point of the human world.
The work here is not the way it was more than a decade ago, and Yasuda is indeed a little old. But he refused to give up his rights.
The Toyo Osborne division controls not only the Osborne Group's business in Toyo, but also the entire Asian region. It is not an exaggeration to say that Chairman Yasuda is below one person and above 10,000 people.
As the leader of the Toyo Division, he is bound to be welcomed and warmly received wherever he goes. There is a place for him in any occasion. Even the prime minister of the East needs to seek his advice when formulating economic policies.
Because as one of the largest capitalists in the country, some of the decisions of Eiji Yasuda were enough to cause shocks in the Oriental economy. It is precisely because he is endowed with such a powerful right that Eiji Yasuda is so fascinated by his current position. His strong desire to stay in this position has always been.
That's why he took the risk of arranging a meeting between Mariko and Harry, because in his opinion, Mariko's request was almost impossible to refuse. Think of a gene that heals any wound quickly and is able to fight all kinds of diseases.
As long as the Osborne Group masters this technology, then the whole world will go crazy for Harry. However, the news from Mariko was not very good, and it seems that her persuasion failed.
Chairman Yasuda, who was standing in front of the dressing mirror, straightened up his somewhat gray hair, maybe it was time to dye it black, he thought.
Now he needs to get his groomed and go see Harry Osborne. He needed to speak hard to make young Harry understand how precious this opportunity Mariko had offered.
"Excuse me, Chairman. Mr. Harry would like to ask you to come over. "Just as Chairman Yasuda was getting dressed in his office, ready to go looking for Harry. He was informed of the news by his private secretary.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, nodded and said. "Got it. ”
In Harry's office, Harry fiddled with Newton's swing ball on his desk. Peter followed a few fellow technicians to the Toyo Branch's research room, where Harry was the only one with Harry.
"It seems that the Toyo branch has been very busy lately. Li Jie said with a tablet in his hand and swiping the screen with his hand.
"What have you discovered? My secretary has just begun to audit the Toyo Branch, and I haven't found anything yet. Harry fiddled with Newton and swung back to Richjack.
"Well, sometimes you get less information in a legitimate relationship. And at this time we need some special channels. Li Jie raised the tablet in his hand.
Regarding the news that there is a child who looks like Wolverine, Li Jie has passed it on to the Innocence Society through the pipeline, asking them to look for Logan who is still here in the Toyo and inform him of the news.
On the other hand, through Matt Murdoch (Daredevil), Innocence will find some clues about the Oriental branch of the Osborne Group.
And some of the news that Matt got was transmitted to the tablet in Li Jie's hand in a special encrypted way through Zeng Chu, who was far away in the United States.
"Well, a lot, a lot. I am afraid that there are problems in both the weapons sector and the biological research sector. It looks like they did quite a bit while Mr. Norman died and you just came to power. Li Jie hadn't finished reading the documents in his hand, so he didn't give Harry a complete answer.
But news like that alone was enough for Harry to frown.
"Chairman Yasuda has arrived. While the two were talking, Eiji Yasuda had arrived at Harry's office.
"Mr. Harry, what do you command? "This man is always respectful in front of people, so that people can't find anything wrong with etiquette.
But behind the scenes, I don't like to talk about it.
Harry glanced at Li Jie and motioned for him to speak first. Li Jie understood what Harry meant, so he put down the tablet and said. "Hello Mr. Yasuda, I'm Jason Lee, Mr. Harry's personal advisor. ”
Li Jie stepped forward and shook hands with Chairman Yasuda and said. "On our last trip to Kyoto, it didn't seem like we had planned to meet Mariko Shishida. ”
Chairman Yasuda looked at Li Jie and said in a tone that was not arrogant, but very official. "It was a very meaningful meeting. Because Mr. Harry had rejected all the invitations to meet with the Shida Foundation before, he was forced to use the next strategy. Apologize to Mr. Harry. ”
"Some overstepped the way to Mr. Yasuda. "Li Jie didn't sell his face too much to Eiji Yasuda. "Who Mr. Harry wants to meet should be up to him, not his subordinates. ”
Harry sat at the back of the executive desk, watching the confrontation with a blank face, but he smiled slightly.
That's why I said it was a bad move. Chairman Yasuda bowed to Harry. "And I'm doing it out of the right of heart. ”
"Miss Mariko has enough leverage for the Osborne Group to treat her as a guest. I don't understand at all that we have to refuse to accept her. The cooperation with the Shishida Foundation is beneficial and harmless. ”
"The Shida Foundation is unclear about the underworld background of the East. Li Jie emphasized this point, which was not mentioned in Yasuda's report to Harry's Shishida Foundation.
"The country of the East itself has a special character. In this country, big businessmen, especially local businessmen, cannot avoid the problems of the underworld if they do not have a certain relevant background. Chairman Yasuda said-for-tat.
And this kind of problem, the former Mr. Norman was also very clear. ”
"So you're trying to remind us in this way?" said Li Jie, laughing a little.
"It's not any malice. I don't understand why you, Mr. Lee, as Mr. Harry's senior personal advisor, have repeatedly interfered in the actual operation of the company, and have interfered excessively with Mr. Harry. Chairman Yasuda said such a sentence very heartily.
"You're just a private consultant, and you're not even eighteen years old and haven't graduated from high school. I've been through financial crises in business more times than you've read about books. And why do you repeatedly block the correct decisions of experienced businessmen?"