The shamisen, the shamisen, was passed down from the Song Dynasty during the Muromachi Shogunate, and it was not until the Tokugawa Shogunate that it really flourished in the Toei and became one of the quintessences of the Toei.

To the strange tune of the shamisen and the strange singing voice of the luthier who plays the harp, two geisha dressed in elaborate kimonos dance on tiptoe each holding two fans.

"Miss Fumiko is Miss Haruka's most valued disciple, and she is the most prestigious geisha in Tokyo today, even if she is not inferior to the best of the Gion headquarters in Kyoto. Junichi Arimura whispered beside Zhang Chen.

The dinner arranged by Yoshihiko Shimizu for Junichi Arimura and Zhang Chen is in a courtyard on Mukaijima, Tokyo, that is inconspicuous from the outside and does not have any signboards. It is said to be the oldest geisha house in Gion, Kyoto, and is called Gion Seisha.

To this day, the geisha house maintains the ancient tradition of not accepting new customers, and all new customers must be introduced and vouched for by old customers to ensure its high-end positioning.

Before World War II, there were more than 80,000 geisha in Toei. However, as the times have changed, there are less than 1,000 geisha who are actually performing, and more than 80% of them are old geisha who are nearing the end of their careers and are over 40 years old.

The low-end geisha have been eliminated from the market, but the traditional Gion Seisha has been retained. They did not follow the explosion of the geisha industry during the Restoration, and always insisted on taking the high-end route, which proved to be the right choice.

Zhang Chen nodded slightly: "The village president has bothered, and today's performance has opened my eyes." ”

When Junichi Arimura heard this, he also smiled and said: "It's good that Zhang Sang can be satisfied, Nikko has a lot of cooperation with Salomon Smith Bang in business, and I am grateful for the care I have always received." ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "Salomon Smith Barney is willing to cooperate with any financial institution with strength and credibility, since the Plaza Agreement, Dongying has opened up the financial market, and we can sit together today to discuss the future of Nikko." Now that the Asian financial crisis is intensifying, Xiangjiang, one of the international financial centers, has also been attacked. Under these circumstances, Nikko was able to maintain such a good performance, which is impressive, and the leadership of the village president is well deserved. ”

Junichi Arimura's eyes flashed, and a little bead of sweat appeared on the corner of his forehead: "Zhang Sang has won the award, Nikko's recent performance has mainly benefited from the control of costs and the excellent performance of partners, and my role is not worth mentioning." ”

Zhang Chen smiled and was noncommittal: "I see." ”

Junichi Arimura winked at Hirobumi Hirano, who clapped his hands, and the two geisha stopped dancing and bowed out of the room with Mama-san, an old geisha sitting next to Arimura.

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "What does it mean to have a village president?"

Jun Youmura turned to one side, sat in front of Zhang Chen, and suddenly held the tatami with both hands, and bowed down, "I'm very sorry!

Hirano Hirofumi also bowed down and bowed down.

Zhang Chen pretended to be surprised: "There is a village president, what is this for?"

Junichi Arimura raised his head from the ground and said seriously: "After Zhang Sang's reminder today, we suddenly found that due to the error of the entry personnel, there were some problems in the cost entry, and the cost of bringcom was not correctly reflected in the financial report. Zhang Sang, thank you very much! Without your reminder, the consequences would be unimaginable. I'm sorry for your trouble!"

Zhang Chenxin said, "Let's cheat the ghosts, how can there be such a mistake?" Are the auditors all blind? This is obviously a deliberate financial fraud.

Nikko Securities did manipulate the financial report after the acquisition of Bringcom, and the means were indeed not clever, but there are reasons for this.

In Dongying, companies like Nikko Securities are essentially political and business, that is, private state-owned enterprises.

Although Dongying's gate valve monopoly is not as absolute as that of Goryeo, it is still the most serious level in developed countries.

The son of a minister is still a minister, the son of a parliamentarian is still a councillor, the son of a merchant is still a merchant, and the son of a peasant is still a peasant.

In such a social reality, both big politicians and big capitalists have a considerable degree of extrajudicial power, and this privilege permeates all aspects of their work and life.

Similarly, the Toei government is highly tolerant of big business. It is impossible for a third-party auditor not to see such a clumsy fraud, but the audit report issued by the "Central Aoyama Supervision Corporation", which provides third-party audit services to Nikko three months ago, is actually "no problem".

Nikko's behavior is not the most daring and stupid, Kobe Steel's blatant tampering with product parameters and Canon's behavior of wantonly modifying the certificate of origin of components are much more stupid than Nikko's, and they do not stand up to scrutiny.

But that's what these companies do.

At the time of doing this, Junichi Arimura was not worried about the scandal caused by the leakage of deeds, almost every securities company in Toei had done something similar to that to a greater or lesser extent, and the supervisory agencies turned a blind eye, and the media did not dare to report it, even if an employee inside the company leaked the matter, there would be no problem.

But who would have thought that an independent director would suddenly come?

The appearance of Zhang Chen broke the tacit understanding of the board of directors of Nikko and added variables. It's hard to say what would happen if the directors were to discover the financial fraud and report it to the board of directors, which is also the world's largest financial institution.

Maybe Nikko and the Mitsubishi Bank behind Nikko can get out of the way, but they will definitely have to bear the responsibility. Maybe it's the end of my career.

Zhang Chen was silent for a long time: "This acquisition was three months ago, if so, the transaction of Salomon Smith Barney's acquisition of 4.9% of Nikko's equity is a completely unfair transaction, and the price at the time of acquisition deviates from the actual price, which undoubtedly infringes on the interests of Salomon Smith Barney." As a director of Salomon Smith Barney, I am disappointed and regretful about Nikko's poor performance in this transaction. Salomon Smith Barney will not sit idly by and watch this kind of stealing of the company's interests, and will use all means to protect its own interests. ”

Hirano Hirofumi raised his head: "I'm sorry, Zhang Sang, it's rude, but please think carefully, with all due respect, if Solomon Smith Bond insists on pursuing it, the final result may be detrimental to Solomon Smith's interests." Moreover," Hirano paused, "Moreover, it is not in your personal interests. ”

Seeing that Zhang Chen did not refute, Hirano Hirofumi continued: "Today, Zhang Sang did not point out the problems of Bringcom on the spot, at least it shows that Zhang Sang also has some concerns. If this matter expands, it will not only affect Nikko, but also Salomon Smith Barney's CDO business expansion in Japan will also be affected. And if Zhang Sang can not be pursued, I can guarantee with my reputation that there will be no risk in this acquisition, and we will amortize the cost in this financial year to reduce the business risk. ”

Junichi Arimura also raised his head, "Yes, I can also vouch for my reputation!" Zhang Sang, please think carefully!"

Zhang Chen was a little embarrassed: "What you said has some truth, but since I already know about this matter, I can't pretend to be deaf and dumb, and I ask you two to forgive me." ”

Seeing this, Junichi Arimura sighed secretly in his heart, and glanced at Hirano Hirobumi, who got up and picked up a package wrapped in Japanese-style furoshiki from the corner of the wall and placed it in the low table.

Hirano unraveled the furoshiki, revealing a 40-centimeter-square black lacquer box with several red stripes on the corners.

Toei's lacquerware is very famous, and at a glance, you can tell that this lacquer box was not made by an ordinary craftsman.

Hirano Bowen gently opened the lacquer box, the movement was very gentle, Zhang Chen glanced at it, in the lacquer box, there was a blue-green porcelain plate, the shape was complete, due to the long time, the glaze had already opened.

"Ru kiln celadon?" Zhang Chen was quite surprised, the characteristics of Ru kiln are very easy to distinguish, and it is still very surprising to see Ru kiln here.

A smile appeared on Junichi Arimura's face: "Zhang Sang is very discerning, it is Ruyao, the imperial article of the early Song Dynasty in China." This porcelain plate, previously collected by the great writer Yasunari Kawabata, is worth more than two million dollars. Mr. Kawabata has no direct descendants, and in order to obtain this beautiful work of art, we even used the resources of the Metropolitan Police Department to determine who owns this artifact and who owns it. ”

Zhang Chen carefully looked at this porcelain plate, the diameter was about 20 centimeters, the depth of the plate was shallow, and the glazed pieces were cracked, combining more magnificent lines.

When Junichi Arimura saw Zhang Chen's expression, the smile on his face was even bigger: "Zhang Sang is a native of China, and there are very few Ru kilns in the world, and less than ten of the works that have come out have been collected by private collectors. And this azure glazed ice crack disk is one of them, and its value is immeasurable. ”

"As long as Zhang Sang doesn't continue to investigate, this box and the things in the box will be at Zhang Sang's disposal. "Junichi Arimura sat cross-legged after releasing the big killing weapon.

Zhang Chen circled around this Ru kiln porcelain plate twice, and he believed that Junichi Arimura would not dare to lie to himself, this porcelain should be Ru kiln.

The Japanese army has been entrenched in China for many years, and has robbed and forcibly bought a large number of Chinese cultural relics from the private and official sectors. According to Dongying's own statistics, there are as many as 3.6 million pieces, which is the largest overseas distribution of Chinese cultural relics. This Ru kiln porcelain plate should have been brought to Dongying in that era.

Whether in the domestic auction market or the international auction market, Ru kiln is a priceless legendary cultural relics that can be encountered but not sought. Junichi Arimura and Masako Kaneko were able to take out this porcelain plate as a bargaining chip, which undoubtedly cost a lot of money.

But this porcelain is completely humiliating for Zhang Chen!

In the enemy's house, he suddenly saw the things he used to use in his house, and it turned out that these things had been snatched away for a long time. The most infuriating thing is that the enemy is still pretending to tell himself, who is already stronger than him, that as long as he doesn't pursue the previous matter, then the rest of the things can be returned to you.

This TM is a complete insult!

Zhang Chen's heart was on fire, but he didn't make any noise on the surface.

Originally, there was still a bit of a burden on the people of Kengdongying, but now this last bit of burden was also shattered by the Ru kiln porcelain plate taken out by Junichi Arimura.

Zhang Chen showed an embarrassed expression: "There is a village president, you really gave me a problem." ”

Junichi Youmura was happy in his heart, seeing that there was something to do, he was even more tongue-in-cheek: "Zhang Sang, this is just a little caution on our part, and I hope Zhang Sang will not shirk." ”

Zhang Chen smiled slightly, "Okay, I'll thank you for the kindness of the village president." ”

Junichi Arimura nodded frantically: "Zhang Sang is polite! Thank you very much!"

Junichi Arimura secretly glanced at Hirano Hirofumi approvingly, in the end, it was the origin of family learning.

This idea came up with Hirofumi Hirano, who had a big idea, but this time it still scared Junichi Arimura and Masashi Kaneko.

250 million yen, equivalent to more than 2 million US dollars, to buy the Ru kiln ice cracked celadon plate that has been collected by Yasunari Kawabata and give it to Zhang Chen. If Zhang Chen still disagrees, more than two million US dollars will be wasted, and he will definitely be held accountable afterwards.

But Hirano Hirofumi was sure that Zhang Chen would definitely agree, and this was just a superficial arithmetic problem. Although Zhang Chen is a shareholder of Salomon Smith Barney, he only has 3.75 percent of the shares, and if there was no financial fraud before the acquisition, the stock price should be 90 percent at the time of acquisition, that is, the acquisition of this 4.9% stake cost Salomon Smith Barney about $30 million more.

Of the $30 million, Zhang Chen's interests only accounted for about $1 million.

Moreover, if there is a scandal in Nikko now and the stock price plummets, Salomon Milbank and Zhang Chen will suffer secondary losses, and even if they can get compensation from Nikko, the gains outweigh the losses.

As long as the appropriate benefit compensation is given, there is no problem that cannot be solved.

A hint of pride flashed in Hirano's expression, the youngest billionaire?

Seeing Zhang Chen's gaze sweeping towards him, Hirano Hirofumi hurriedly lowered his chin with a smile on his face and hid his expression.

Now that the two sides have reached a tacit understanding, Hirano Hirofumi wrapped the lacquer box again for Zhang Chen, clapped his hands again, and the two geisha and the luthier and his mother Sang walked in with small steps.

With the previous events, everyone was not in the mood to continue watching the performance, and the geisha and Mama-san were very sensible, so they switched to eating and drinking together.

There were only three guests at the banquet from beginning to end, Zhang Chen, President Junichi Arimura of Nikko Securities, and Hirofumi Hirano, Special Manager.

Zhang Chen was accompanied by Fumiko in the mouth of Kishihiko Shimizu before, the most famous geisha in Tokyo at present.

You know, it's not a geisha who wears a kimono and has a white powder on their face. Most of the geisha that people have the impression of being fancy are actually maiko.

Maiko training takes more than a year, during which they train in various courses such as etiquette, appearance, and dance, and then they can make their debut as a maiko after a year.

After five or six years as a maiko, it is possible to become a geisha when you are recognized.

It wasn't until Wenzi sat next to Zhang Chen that Zhang Chen understood why his face was so terrifying, and there were still many men who were fascinated by geisha.

Judging from the appearance, well, the face is painted so white, you can't see anything, but looking at the age, at most, you are twenty-three or four-year-old, which is relatively young among geisha.

Looking at the figure, Wenzi is not thin and boneless, nor plump, with a height of about five to five or eight meters, he actually gives people a feeling of swaying when he walks.

The most attractive thing is the only peek out of the geisha's thick kimono decoration, the back of the neck.

Tell me an interesting fact about the people of Dongying.

There is a Dongying company, a central enterprise often purchases their things, is one of the big customers of the company, and it is precisely because of this central enterprise that the company has been recognized by the market, so it is doing well in China.

The central enterprises also recognize Dongying Company, after all, Dongying people are a must to serve people, and they are very satisfied in all aspects. At this time, the central enterprise was ready to do a big project, but due to various reasons, it could not purchase from Dongying Company this time, and had to purchase products from another supplier.

The Huaxia president of Dongying Company personally came to the door and persuaded the CEO of the central enterprise to ask why they were not satisfied with them. The CEO of the central enterprise had to say, there is nothing dissatisfied, we just want to try other suppliers.

Dongying's persuasion was fruitless, and he suddenly knelt on the ground, bowed down and made a big salute. said that if this big project is lost in his hands, he will have to cut his stomach after returning to China, and he must reconsider it carefully.

Of course, in the end, the CEO of the central enterprise still chose another one.

(End of chapter)