Chapter 50: Painting Cakes
"Police, the construction of Toshima looks very lively here! Could it be that something big is happening again?"
Urashima sat in the driver's seat and looked at the crowd gathered outside the car window, and couldn't help but say with some curiosity. ”
"Hmm...... Sure enough, something happened, and there seemed to be a report on the morning news that the Kingdom of Najd had detained the current president of Toshima Construction on charges of subverting state power! No wonder there are so many reporters here?"
"Wait a minute!"
Just as Lin Xiuyi and the others were sitting in the car quietly watching the crowd gathered in front of the Toshima Construction Headquarters, a middle-aged man who looked quite promisingly strode out of the building, and the reporters who were originally waiting outside immediately surrounded him as soon as they saw this man.
"Will the Central Bank of Tokyo continue to maintain a cooperative relationship with Toshima Construction?"
"Did you visit Toshima Construction in person to show that the Bank of Tokyo will stand firmly behind Toshima Construction?"
"Special Minister, how will the Bank of Tokyo deal with the damage caused by this Najd high-speed rail incident?"
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Just as the man known as Shirakawa's special agent was about to get into the car, he suddenly stopped in front of the car door, and he took a deep breath with a frosty face, and then suddenly said:
"On behalf of the Central Bank of Tokyo, I would like to formally announce that we will immediately terminate all cooperation with Toshima Construction and will immediately begin the process of recovering the loan. Until we get all the loans back from Toshima Construction, the Central Bank of Tokyo will not lend another yen to Toshima Construction. ”
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As soon as Special Manager Shirakawa said this, the group of reporters at the scene suddenly boiled.
"Vice President Shirakawa, is the Central Bank of Tokyo going to completely abandon the construction of Toshima?"
"Mr. Shirakawa, what happened after you went in just now......
"Senior Vice-Managing Officer, how sure is the Central Bank of Tokyo about recovering the loan?"
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Special Manager Shirakawa, who got into the car, did not continue to pay attention to the reporter's entanglement, and his car drove away from the front of Toshima Construction at a speed.
Lin Shuichi and his subordinates stood in front of the Toshima Construction Headquarters and heard the news of the break between Toshima Construction and the Central Bank of the Eastern Economic Circle. Seeing that the reporters present were all excited about the explosive news just now, Lin Xiuyi looked up at the towering Toshima Construction Headquarters Building, but he couldn't help but feel a sense of regret in his heart.
"That...... Please come in, friends from the media, we are going to hold a press conference soon!"
"Oh...... You're not going to just declare bankruptcy, are you?"
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Perhaps because everyone was wondering how Toshima Construction, which had been abandoned by the Bank of Tokyo, planned to respond to the current crisis, the Toshima Construction staff led the people into the Toshima Construction Headquarters building.
"Let's go in and have a look, maybe we can find some clues that will help the case!"
Lin Xiuyi whispered a word to his subordinates, and then everyone quietly followed the crowd of reporters into the headquarters building of Toshima Construction.
The members of the special search department were easily taken to a venue on the second floor after the reporters, which had been set up as the scene for a media conference. Lin Xiuyi and the others found a seat in front and sat down. It didn't take long for a group of company executives who looked to be extraordinary to come to the venue, only to see one of them, a man in his fifties suddenly striding up to the stage, bowing deeply to the media in the audience, and then introducing himself and saying:
"I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of you on behalf of all of you for your interest in the construction of Toshima these days. The contempt is the newly appointed president of Toshima Construction, Kiyofumi Hosokawa......"
"What, the new president, did Toshima Kendo elect a new president so quickly?"
"Isn't the former president still being held captive by the people of the Najd Kingdom?"
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"Excuse me, since you have taken over the position of president, what do you plan to do with President Mikami?"
"We are negotiating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this point, and we will do everything possible to cooperate with the Najd government to find out the truth and bring President Mikami and the members who were detained back to Japan safely!"
"I'm sorry, but the central bank of Tokyo's Shirakawa has announced that he will terminate all cooperation with Toshima Construction and will immediately start the loan recovery work, how will Toshima Construction deal with the current crisis?"
"This ...... We will continue to communicate with the Bank of Tokyo, and we will also consult with other banks, and I am confident that Toshima Construction will soon be able to resolve ......the current financial crisis."
"Che, do you really think that there will be other banks willing to take over the company that has been abandoned by the Central Bank of Tokyo?"
"On this point, I believe that it is man-made!"
"That...... President Hosokawa, how do you plan to get rid of the huge losses caused by the Najd high-speed rail incident? In addition, will Toshima Construction file for bankruptcy protection with the court in order to stop the Bank of Tokyo from recovering its loans?"
"No, Toshima Construction has absolutely no intention of filing for bankruptcy. In fact, we've shifted the focus of our work to new projects. I hereby announce that Toshima Construction will participate in the upcoming bidding exercise for the Chuo Shinkansen......"
"Nani, you can't be crazy, are you!"
"Foolish dreams!"
"A club that could collapse at any time and was abandoned by major correspondent banks was still thinking about bidding for the Chuo Shinkansen. I'm not dreaming!"
"Hahaha, is this president drunk and talking nonsense on it?"
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Hearing the cynicism of the reporters in the audience, Hosokawa Kiyofumi only thought that all this was just a deaf ear. In fact, when Shirakawa blurted out in front of him about participating in the bidding for the Chuo Shinkansen, Hosokawa was just angry at the moment. Not to mention the reporters in the audience, even he himself thinks that the current Toshima construction participation in the central new trunk plan is simply a fantasy. However, Hosokawa, as the president, actually knew better that only by continuing to maintain the apparent calm of Toshima Construction could he temporarily stabilize his position. At the very least, don't let Toshima Construction's customers and employees lose confidence in this company.
"Although Toshima Construction has been in a predicament for a while, we believe that we still have an irreplaceable position in maglev rail transit, and I firmly believe that Toshima Construction will smoothly get the project contract for the Chuo Shinkansen!"