The First Arrival: Chapter 422: The Dawn of Inuyama Shiba (Part I)

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"I plan to choose the three oldest and most profound printing houses, newspapers, and bookstores among the 95 percent, and then acquire some smaller factories around these three main bodies, merge and reorganize them into these three, and become three large printing houses, newspapers, and bookstores. △↗，”

After finishing speaking, Chi Shang Zhenyi took a sip of tea from the teacup in front of him, and then continued to Kojima Masa, who was the next head: "Just do what I just said, complete the acquisition as much as possible, and then give you two months to integrate and publicize it, and I will officially hold the competition on September 1st." ”

"Hey, my lord, please rest assured, my subordinates will do their best. ”

After receiving instructions from his own lord, Kojima quickly gathered his subordinates after leaving the castle, and asked them to conduct further investigations on the 95% of the factories with poor performance on the information, and strive to find the best acquisition target.

After a week of many inspections by these business personnel, Kojima finally set his sights on the acquisition of Yeli Printing House, Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper, and Shichikachi Publishing and Books.

These three goals are very much in line with the requirements of the adults of the family, because each of these three has been in business for more than 25 years.

Among them, the Seven Days Publishing Company has been in business for nearly half a century, and has now reached 48 years of operation.

Seven Days Book Company was opened at the end of the last century, a **9 year, is a publishing book company with historical heritage, this time if it were not for the encounter with Japan, a once-in-a-century catastrophe, plus this generation of heirs is a gambling prodigal, this bookstore is said that it will not be sold.

Although the price of this seven-day publishing book company was very high, Kojima Masashi still decided to take it down, and immediately sent his subordinates to follow up and communicate, and finally after many negotiations between the two sides, Kojima spent 6.9 million yen on behalf of the Sakura Group to acquire this cross-century publishing book company under the Sakura Group.

After taking over Shichikachi Publishing Co., Ltd., the oldest publishing company, Kojima spent another 5.5 million yen. The 33-year-old Yeli Printing Factory was harvested.

Then, it spent 9.2 million yen to buy the Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun, and the reason why this newspaper is so expensive is mainly because it has a rare national distribution qualification in Japan.

There are very few newspapers and periodicals that are qualified for national distribution. And the other party also has its own fixed distribution channel, which is why Kojima spent so much money to acquire it.

After acquiring these three core companies, Kojima Masashi acquired 12 smaller printing houses, newspapers, and bookstores, merging them into three main companies.

After some integration, these three printing houses, newspapers, and bookstores. The scale has become quite large, and it has reached the scale of the same industry in Japan, and this is exactly what Chi Shang Zhenyi requires.

After a short period of integration, the printing house, newspaper, and bookstore were finally integrated on July 1, and then a piece of news appeared in the new Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun.

Inuyama Shiba Nan put down the cable in his hand with difficulty, picked up the towel around his neck and carefully wiped the sweat on his forehead.

"Gollum~Gollum~"

After pouring a few mouthfuls of water, Shiba Inuyama finally felt that his stomach was no longer so empty.

In order to feed the wives and children at home. Inuyama Shiba eats only one meal a day, and when he is hungry, he usually uses water to satisfy his hunger.

Looking at the people working on the docks, Inuyama Shiba couldn't help but sigh lightly, he didn't dare to imagine that he would come to such a place to beg for a living more than a month ago.

A month ago, he was a contributing writer for a bookstore, although the manuscript fee offered to him by the bookstore has been getting lower and lower in the past two years.

But for those outside who sell coolies all day long, Inuyama Shibao's job is still quite decent, and when it comes to talking about it in front of the outside day, everyone has to look up to him, after all, this is not an ordinary profession as a writer.

But this qiē beauty ended a month ago, and Shiba Inuyama still remembers that afternoon. Tatsuo Hoshino, the owner of the bookstore, summons the writers into his office.

"Gentlemen, this is the manuscript fee owed to you by the bookstore in the past year, and now it will be reissued to you, so come and get it. ”

"Boss Hoshino actually repaid all the arrears in the past. Could it be that our bookstore's business has changed for the better recently?"

"It shouldn't be.,Yesterday I saw that a lot of Kobayashi's new work was returned.,How can you do business at once?"

"We care about what we do, the boss naturally has his own way, we writers just need to write with our hearts, and the rest is not what we should care. ”

At that time, Inuyama Shiba was also like other writers. Happily took the salary envelope with his name written on it in his hand, and he didn't think too much about it in his heart, and like all writers, he put all his thoughts on this repaid salary.

However, these writers didn't be happy for long, because the next words of the bookstore owner Tatsuo Hoshino directly made them writers stunned.

"Ladies and gentlemen, due to business problems, our bookstore will be officially closed at the end of this month, and it is my honor to be able to work with you all these years at the end of this month, and I wish you all the best way out in the future. ”

The words of Tatsuo Hoshino, the owner of the bookstore, directly stunned all the writers in the house, they did not expect that the bookstore would actually go out of business, and they would immediately become unemployed.

This news made a group of writers unacceptable for a while, and everyone immediately asked the boss Tatsuo Hoshino, hoping that the boss would change his mind and not close the bookstore.

However, writers such as Shiba Inuyama were destined to be disappointed, and their requests did not change the decision of the bookstore owner Tatsuo Hoshino at all.

"I'm really sorry, I really can't agree to your request, now the bookstore is not profitable at all every month, all the printed books are only less than 10% of the sales quantity, sometimes even this amount can not be guaranteed, and now our bookstore has owed the printing house a lot of money, and also owed money to the downstream booksellers. ”

"Now the situation of our bookstore is that as long as it starts work, it will lose money, and if I continue to persevere, I am afraid that it will not be long before I can even pay your manuscript fees, so after some careful consideration, I decided to close the bookstore. Please understand my difficulties, please. ”

The words of the bookstore boss made the authors stop, and they actually knew what the boss said, but they had never paid attention to it before. I didn't know until today that the bookstore had become like this.

After learning about the boss's difficulties, the writers stopped talking, and everyone knew that the result could not be changed, and then the group left the room one after another.

Inuyama Shiba didn't know how he got back to his home that day, the little widow he liked to peek at secretly. He didn't have the heart to look at it anymore, and he wasn't in the mood to despise those who worked hard all day long.

Inuyama Shibao, who came home like sleepwalking, ignored his wife and four children and went straight into the house and collapsed on the tatami mats, looking at the roof with empty eyes, his mind was completely chaotic, and he didn't know how he should live in the future.

Inuyama Shiba is very familiar with domestic facts, and he often reads newspapers, and he understands that there is a famine everywhere in Japan, and many industries have been impacted, and the only industry that is popular in the country is probably the food industry. But now is the time when food is most scarce.

As for workers like Shiba Inuyama, they are the most useless at this time, and those who work for the government can be better, at most they will be paid less salary, but they will rarely be dismissed on a large scale. And independent workers like him, once they are dismissed, it will be difficult to find them.

In the circle of writers, Inuyama Shiba knows the current situation of these writers, and they are also more beautiful on the outside, but the situation is very embarrassing, except for a few famous artists who have been famous for a long time. All the writers left were having a hard time.

Nowadays, due to social reasons, the domestic economy is very chaotic, and the money that people earn every day is not enough to buy food, so how can they spend money to buy their books.

So writers with low qualifications like Shiba Inuyama. It's usually hard to get along with it, and once you're fired from your current newspaper, it's hard to find a job at another newspaper.

Nowadays, all newspapers are overcrowded, and no newspaper society is willing to recruit these writers as regular contractors, at most cooperative manuscripts, and they come to them temporarily when needed.

In the worried eyes of his wife and children, Inuyama Shiba was dull for three days. In the end, for the sake of the family's life, he put down his man's dignity, spent some money to buy two catties of pork meat, and gave it to the dock worker next door who he used to despise, and asked the other party to take him to the dock to work for a certain job, so as to support the family.

The next day, Inuyama Shiba took up the dock labor under the leadership of this neighbor, and since he was a newcomer, he usually worked as the most tired tractor, that is, the slender man.

This kind of tractor is the least oil and water on the dock, but for the sake of the family's life, Inu Sanshiba still does it, and this work is more than a month.

"Alas~"

Thinking of the past month or so, Inuyama Shiba sighed deeply.

His current appearance is a little bit of a worker's appearance, working every day with stinky sweat, his skin is black from the sea breeze, his shoulders are red and swollen by cables, and his hands are all calluses, this look is completely different from the previous writer's appearance, looking in the mirror, Inuyama Shiao can't believe that this is him.

Although he was tired from working every day, Inuyama Shiba had to continue to work, and even work hard, because there were too many people on this dock who came to look for work every day, and if he hadn't joined a group with his neighbors to rely on, then he wouldn't have wanted to make a living here.

Inuyama Shibao, who has been working here for more than a month, has seen several land grabbings, and every time those who come out to beg for a living will be beaten out by all the organizations at the dock, and on several occasions they have even directly beaten people into cripples.

This qiē Inuyama Shiba Nan saw it in his eyes, and at the same time, it also made him cherish his current job even more, even though it was a job that he had despised in the past.

What touched Inuyama Shiao even more was that he once saw an author who used to write together in the bookstore on the way home, and the other party has changed more than him in the past month or so.

At that time, the writer was crowded in the middle of the government infrastructure construction team, pushing a wheelbarrow full of bricks, and his body was dirtier than him, and he couldn't even tell that the other party was a worker.

You must know that the other party used to be the best writer in their bookstore, but now it has fallen to this point, which makes Inuyama Shiba Nan sigh in his heart.

What is the place of this government infrastructure project, Inuyama Shiao knows very well, working in these projects, the government does not pay wages at all, except for two meals a day, only two taels of coarse grain as a reward for work, and nothing else, but even so this job is very rare.

It's a good job to work on a government infrastructure project, but for those who used to be workers, it's too tiring to persevere.

For this former colleague, it was too difficult for Inuyama Shiba to guess that the other party should be at home, otherwise he would not have come to this point.

Although he really wants to help each other, but Inuyama Shiba is powerless to help at all, he himself is barely living now, and it is already very difficult to feed a family, and there is no energy left to help others.

In the end, Inuyama Shiba could only silently bless this former colleague in his heart, and then walked over silently, and the right to be a passerby.

Inuyama Shiao feels that he doesn't want to be seen by the other party as he is now, and he also believes that the other party doesn't want to let him see it, which can be regarded as the last bit of pride in his heart as a worker.

The past is like smoke, pulling back the thoughts of the memories in his mind, feeling his stomach rumbling again, he gently rubbed it twice with his hand, picked up the water cup next to him, and Inuyama Shiba Nan poured a few sips of cold water into his mouth to satisfy his hunger.

Putting down the water glass, Inuyama Shiba just wanted to close his eyes and rest for a while, but when he turned his head, he saw a newspaper blowing over with a gust of wind.

Seeing the newspaper flying up and down in the wind, Inuyama Shiba didn't care about resting, jumped up directly from the ground, and then ran over in three steps and two steps, and grabbed the newspaper flying up and down in the wind in his hand.

Returning to the place where he used to be in the shade, Inu Sanshiba Nan, who had just sat down, immediately unfolded the newspaper and read it.

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