In the private room of a Kaiseki restaurant in Karuizawa, Masaya Nakagawa, the deputy president of Karuizawa Group, and Seiji Hirokawa, the person in the personnel department, ate and drank face to face.

This supper was invited by Masaya Nakagawa, who was invited by Shiji Hirokawa. After three rounds of wine and five flavors, the two of them started to warm up the scene through chatting and narrow the distance between them, and then entered a topic.

Shiji Hirokawa said in a masato voice: "In your opinion, in the president's mind, are you inclined to place your headquarters in Karuizawa or move away?"

After drinking the wine in the wine glass on his right hand, Masashi Nakagawa replied slowly: "Actually, it's really not important for me whether to move to the headquarters or not.

Next year, I will retire at the right time. Even if the president decides to move the headquarters elsewhere, there will be a process and a series of things.

This includes whether to build the headquarters building of Karuizawa Group or buy a building directly. As for leasing, the possibility is not that it is not that it is, it just tends to be zero.

The president has already stated at the regular meeting this morning that this is related to the Karuizawa Group's future great cause ranging from decades to hundreds of years.

From this we can see his determination, naturally, to build Karuizawa Group into a century-old enterprise. How could a century-old enterprise rent a place to build a headquarters? Moreover, the accounts of our entire group are not lacking in money, but too much money."

Shiji Hirokawa got two important news points from the other party's words. One is that the vice president will retire next year. I have not heard of the person who can replace the other party in the future.

Another thing is that if the other party is rehired by the group company, there is a possibility. However, all this depends on President Ishihara Masao.

Shiji Hirokawa's thoughts suddenly became lively and said, "Since you are not concerned about the relocation of headquarters, why did you insist that Karuizawa's headquarters not be relocated at this morning's meeting?"

Masato Nakagawa just smiled and said, "It's all right that I can do something for us middle-aged and elderly people before retirement!"

Shiji Hirokawa asked tentatively: "Don't retire one by one! The president will definitely keep you."

As soon as Masashi Nakagawa heard what he said, he understood, and looked at him with a smile and said, "Are you particularly interested in the position of vice president?"

Shikihirokawa was seen through by the other party, but he was not panicked and said in a bad mood: "No, absolutely nothing."

Masato Nakagawa also said bluntly: "Whether there is or not, no one will be the vice president after me. What kind of man is the president? He is a man who likes to be arbitrary.

The main contribution of our Karuizawa Group to have the scale and strength today is to rely on our brainstorming or the president’s arbitrary decision?

It is obviously the latter! The president has made those major decisions that have been against the public many times, which we have almost always opposed.

Of course, if there was no president, you and I would not be able to stay here with good food and drink now, but would have long become middle-aged and elderly unemployed people who went bankrupt.

If I guessed correctly, the president would never try to keep me. He would only see me off in a glorious way, and then say some polite words on the scene."

Shiji Hirokawa said skeptically: "No! If you hadn't urged the president to inherit his father's business, we wouldn't have been like our Karuizawa Group today! After all, you are the one who has made great contributions."

Masato Nakagawa said slowly: "Our current president is not only completely different from his father, but also completely two different people from his grandfather.

The former president's personality lies in being kind. He is lenient to others whether it is to his subordinates or to others. Every decision he makes follows the opinions of most people. To put it bluntly, he belongs to a typical good old man.

As for the old president, Masao Ishihara's grandfather, he is very stubborn and believes in the truth. If he decides about something, he has to do it. Even ten cows can't get it back.

At the beginning, he dared to sell his ancestral arts Karuizawa Sauce House to build Karuizawa Whisky Distillery. Just in terms of courage, it is somewhat similar to our current president.

However, the old president is more of a simple gamble that ignores and does not care about the consequences. Our current president has calculated all aspects and has a far-sighted and forward-looking investment and layout vision that is far-sighted.

Whether it is the old president or the former president, compared with our current president, it is also because of the business ability.

Although the first two presidents have some small talents, they do not have the kind of talent that the current president is born with. It is not an exaggeration to be praised by some business journals as a rare wizard in Japan in a century."

Shiji Hirokawa suddenly felt a "knock" in his heart. As a personnel department, it is logical that he can be considered accurate in judging people.

Only then did he realize that Masao Nakagawa was more accurate than he looked at people. It was indeed extraordinary that the other party could continue to be the vice president. Otherwise, he would have been taken down by Masao Ishihara long ago.

Shiji Hirokawa asked humbly: "In your opinion, will there be any major changes within our group in the future?"

Masato Nakagawa also talked: "The big change? The biggest change is probably because the younger cadres will be implemented by the president to the end.

Those who can be used among the old ministers will naturally not feel any sense of crisis. They can work safely until retirement like me.

As long as you don’t make a big mistake, you won’t be fired directly. Taro Watanabe is a living example. As for the period before and after retirement, a younger successor will naturally be arranged to be replaced.

If there is any major change, I might not be in the world. This will happen only after about twenty or thirty years, the president's children will grow up and enter the Karuizawa Group.

Although you can see that day, you have retired and can only be a bystander. At that time, who will be trained as the fourth generation of Karuizawa Group, which is still unknown?"

Shiji Hirokawa nodded and smiled, "Our current president is such a romantic person. This suddenly reminds me of an old senior from Japan's political and business circles, Yasujiro Tsuki. Our president is really similar to the other party."
Chapter completed!