Asakusa is the name of the restaurant opened by the Yamaguchi group.
After strolling around Akihabara for a while and buying a bunch of game cards and comic books, Nan Wuwei and the other two sat in the restaurant.
Coincidentally, as soon as Nan Yi sat down, he saw Bokou Kenanzi, with whom he had spent a night together before. The other party also saw him, but the past between them was not a good memory, especially for Bokou Kenanzi.
Even though the dishes had not been served yet, Nan Zi immediately paid the bill and left. She didn't want to stay in the same space with Nan Yi for even a moment longer.
"Tsk, who are you showing your disdain to? It was clearly me who suffered the loss back then."
Nan Yi still remembered that not only was he slept with by the other party, but the compensation for the car was also ultimately left unresolved. In fact, he was the one who suffered the loss.
Sayuri Hagiwara, who saw everything, asked, "Nagao-kun, do you know Tomoko Kananko?"
"It's not an acquaintance, it's just a bad misunderstanding." Nan Yi said, pointing to the TV hanging high in the restaurant, "Is there a football game today?"
"It looks like there's a J-League match." Sayuri Hagiwara turned her head and stared at the TV for a while, then said, "It's been a long time since Akina Nakamori appeared on the screen, but her songs are still so beautiful."
Nan Yi glanced at the TV screen again. "She used to have a smile on her face, so it was ok for her to sing cheerful songs. But now she looks so unhappy. It's unlucky to listen to her songs."
"You can't blame her. Both relationships didn't end well and she was hit too hard."
"Oh, no matter what the reason is, she looks unpleasant anyway. Look, these two are very comfortable to look at." Nan Yi pointed at the MANISH group that appeared on the screen.
"I've never heard of this group. Why are they listed together with Nakamori Akina?" said Sayuri Hagiwara.
Nan Wuwei, who was reading a comic book at the side, suddenly raised the comic book in his hand, looked at Nan Yi, then looked at the comic book again, and exclaimed: "Dad, this comic character looks like you."
Nan Yi glanced at the cover of the comic book and found it was "SLAM DUNK", so he said casually: "It's nothing strange. The author of the comic book met my father before drawing this comic. I had a drink with him and he said at the time that he wanted to draw a comic character based on my image."
"Oh, that's what I thought. How could it be such a coincidence?" Nan Wuwei nodded and continued flipping through his comics.
The next day.
Nan Yi took Nan Wuwei to the signing ceremony between SoftBank and the richest man Wei Ye.
In order to create momentum, SoftBank invited a number of news media. Amid the sound of cameras clicking, a beaming Masayoshi Son and Chen Wenchen, vice president of SoftBank and president of Asia Pacific, signed the documents with each other, then held hands for the reporters to take pictures.
Chen Wenchen is now very well-known and often appears in various business and financial magazines, especially magazines in Asia, where he often appears on the cover.
After his first investment in TSMC in Taiwan, Chen Wen-chen made several more investments, including UMC, Acer, and Asus. He also invested in Orbotech in Israel, as well as several emerging companies engaged in chip design and production. The richest man, Wei Ye, spent a lot of money in Israel and integrated into Israel's semiconductor incubation.
The reason why the richest man Wei Ye is optimistic about the future of Israeli semiconductors has little to do with Scarlett's Jewish identity. It is purely because he is optimistic about Israel's basic conditions.
First of all, education in Israel is not about competing to see which student has the highest scores, but about teaching children to think independently. Israeli children challenge authority and ask questions constantly from an early age. When they grow up, they are even more full of the spirit of challenging authority. This kind of thinking that disobeys authority is commonly known as "two Jews have three opinions."
Secondly, Israel’s culture is suitable for innovation. People in this country do not take failure too seriously. If one company fails, they can just start another one. The society is very tolerant of failure.
Thirdly, Israel has formed a sound social environment that encourages entrepreneurship. Venture capital provides financial support, and the government provides assistance in terms of policies and regulations, such as setting up incubators.
Israel is a small country, so it is easy to find friends through friends to get the help you need, which is also good news for innovation. In addition, Israel respects intellectual property rights, and scientists can hold 25% of the shares of patents, so they don't have to worry about their achievements being stolen.
There is another special reason that cannot be ignored, that is, Israel has a system of universal military service. According to Israeli law, all men, regardless of gender, must join the army when they turn 18, for three years for boys and two years for girls. This has trained many officers with management capabilities.
All these factors will naturally attract the richest man Wei Ye to invest deeply in Israel.
Looking at Chen Wenchen and the other person under the flash lights, Nan Yi was very pleased. No matter in the development process of Pan American Investment Holdings or the richest man's business, he only played the role of a "prophet" in the initial stage of establishment. After completing the initial accumulation of resources, his contribution value began to dilute and fade. Without him, Nan Yi, Pan American Investment Holdings will still move forward steadily in the direction of growth.
As long as Pan American Investment Holdings does not gamble everything on a huge investment that will cause serious consequences in the future and continues to follow its current investment philosophy, Nan Yi can foresee that his grandson will be able to take over a giant Pan American Investment Holdings.
Nan Yi would bet tens of billions of dollars on a new field with equally high risks and returns, but he would not bet hundreds of billions of dollars on a new field with even higher risks and returns. The former is within a controllable range, but the latter would be a huge loss. Even if the reward after success is a hundred or a thousand times, he still would not gamble.
Successful person is a noun that comes after the result appears. Before the result appears, there are too many bones left after struggling and unwillingly.
Back then, speculation and profiteering meant risking one's freedom, stealing corpses in Sham Cun Wan meant risking one's life, and buying Wharf shares meant risking one's entire fortune. Step by step, now, the spirit of adventure is no longer in line with Nan Yi's current positioning. He demands stability, and the Nan family demands stability.
After leaving the signing ceremony, Nan Yi told Nan Wuwei about the actions that Snow Mountain Trust would take in the next few years. The reason why Nan Yi mentioned Snow Mountain Trust was simply to comfort Nan Wuwei's possibly touched heart.
"In the next few years, Snow Mountain Trust will start to invest in the tourism industry, including France, Italy, Spain, Greece in Europe, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, etc. in Asia. Wherever there is a promising tourism industry, Snow Mountain Trust will make some investments.
In addition, there is the 700,000-ton ethylene project that Nanji Industrial is already carrying out in Southeast Asia, which is also a large investment project. This project also involves the merger of gas stations in Southeast Asia. Whether people in Southeast Asia can get gasoline in the future depends on you. "
Nan Wuwei pouted and said, "Dad, you are fooling me. I don't even know where the office of Snow Mountain Trust is. How can I have the final say?"
"Look at my face. I am your father and the head of Snow Mountain Trust. Just tell me what you want to do."
Nan Wuwei thought for a moment and said, "Don't do anything. I just want Dad to pay the dividends on time this year and not freeze my account again."
"Whether it's frozen or not, it won't prevent you from buying the things you want. You spend more than me in a year. Dad doesn't expect you to be frugal, but he just hopes that you can learn to keep accounts and know where you spend your money."
"I didn't spend a lot." Nan Wuwei counted on his fingers and said, "I just bought a computer and game cards. It seems that there is not much else to spend."
"Plane flying back and forth needs to be refueled and airport parking fees need to be paid; you surf the Internet for hours at a time, so phone bills are inevitable; you skateboard and skydive, and your dad has to do a lot of preparation behind the scenes, which costs a lot of money. You, don't take advantage of others, because any family with a little financial resources can't support you."
"I know my dad treats me the best." Nan Wuwei hugged Nan Yi's waist and said obediently.
"Your little mouth is so sweet, sweeter than a woman's. It frightened your father so much that he was willing to do anything for you."
“Hehehe.”
"giggle."
Then, Nan Yi took Nan Wuwei to visit the Tokyo National Museum. After lunch, Nan Yi took Nan Wuwei to a pachinko shop.
He bought two 3,000 yen and one 5,000 yen magnetic cards (Tamura cards for punched consumption. Some book friends may have used punched phone cards. It is the same technology invented by the Tamura Company in Japan) at the counter. Nan Yi gave two of them to Nan Wuwei and helped him find a cleaner seat - where no one was smoking nearby.
Nan Yi found an empty seat and sat down. After inserting the magnetic card into the game machine, he placed his bets casually and looked around, trying to identify the "person who punched the card".
The technology behind the Tamura card is not very advanced, as it was cracked soon after it was released. Today's pachinko industry has given rise to the clock-in industry, with the card makers at the source. They collect used waste cards, restore the cards (fill holes) through technical means, and then supply the cards to distributors for sale; the distributors sell the cards to clock-in card holders; and the clock-in card holders take the cards to pachinko parlors to play.
The card puncher usually gets the fake card at a price of one twentieth of the card's face value. If they put in a card with a face value of 100,000 yen, they can break even as long as they punch out steel balls worth 5,000 yen. If they exceed this number, they will make a profit.
Yesterday, Nan Yi saw a report about “punching clock-ins” in the newspaper, and also read about several Chinese people being sent back to their country for punching clocks. Today, Nan Yi, who was about to conduct a “relaxation” education on Nan Wuwei, came over to take a look.
Unconsciously, Nan Wuwei has come into contact with mahjong machines, and it is only natural for him to come into contact with Apple machines and horse racing machines. Some things cannot be strictly guarded against and not allowed to be touched. Nan Yi simply let go of everything and let Nan Wuwei get in touch with all gambling methods, then let him experience the miserable world of gamblers and erase the gambling nature hidden in him.
As Nan Yi's son, Nan Wuwei doesn't need to gamble no matter which path he takes in the future, let alone become addicted to gambling, which should not happen to him.
Nan Yi looked around for a while and soon found a suspected target - a man with middle-parted hair, who looked two or three years older than him. While playing the game, he kept an eye on the security guards in the store. At this time, there were three baskets of steel balls under his feet.
After staring for a while, Nan Yi turned around to look for the security guards in the store and found that one of them had noticed the "clock-in person" and was staring at his movements. He estimated that as long as he could find any flaws, he would catch him red-handed and then beat him up or call the police.
Pachinko is legal in Japan, and since it is a legal business, the police naturally have an obligation to maintain its safety.
Nan Yi Chong waved his hand behind him and said to the school beauty who was close to him, "Go over and remind that person that it's time to run away. Remember to speak in Chinese."
The school beauty responded and walked behind the person punching the clock in. Due to the noisy environment and the school beauty's back to him, he couldn't hear what she said. But after seeing the school beauty passing by, the person punching the clock in immediately ejected his magnetic card and pushed the steel ball to the counter.
When Nan Yi took his eyes off the person punching the clock in, he heard Nan Wuwei's cheers. Turning around, he saw that the other party's machine showed "777" and the bead-spitting mouth below was spitting out steel balls.
"Fuck, this broken machine is against me, right?" Nan Yi couldn't help but curse.
According to Nan Yi's idea, it would be best if Nan Wuwei quickly lost all the 8,000 yen. Who would have known that he would win the jackpot? This would clearly increase the difficulty of his education.
After spending an hour in the pachinko parlor, Nan Yi lost all his 3,000 yen, but Nan Wuwei exchanged his steel balls for an exchange card worth 60,000 yen at the counter.
Nan Yi was very unhappy and took the arrogant Nan Wuwei to a nearby exchange point to exchange 60,000 yen, and then took him to the rowing meeting.
After taking a seat in the audience seats of the rowing competition, Nan Yi threw the brochure he had just picked up at the door to Nan Wuwei, "You are so lucky, go ahead and buy it, just buy a single win, 3 to 1, 60,000 will become 180,000, win five times in a row, and you will immediately reach the peak of your life."
"Dad, don't fool me. Winning five games in a row only gets 14.58 million yen. What's the current exchange rate?"
"Over a hundred, less than a hundred and eleven."
"Converted into US dollars, it's less than 140,000, not even enough for the gas to fly to Tokyo." Nan Wuwei said with disdain.
Nan Yi patted Nan Wuwei on the forehead and said, "Wow, you remember it very clearly now. Your little brain has a switch. You remember it when you should remember it, and pretend you don't know it when you shouldn't remember it."
"Dad, please don't take pictures. You'll be silly if you take pictures of me." Nan Wuwei said innocently.
"Stop pretending and decide which number to buy quickly, because the competition is about to start."
Nan Wuwei shook his head. "No, this is my first time here and I don't know much about rowing. If I buy now, I can only gamble on my luck. There is no room for calculation."
"Don't be too clever. A player can never rely on calculations, especially when it is not a face-to-face bet. The amount of bets is relatively large. You can't get the data of all the bets, and you can't calculate which number has fewer bets.
Statistics and calculations do not mean much to a player. It is okay to let you win a little money occasionally, but if you want to win big money, the black will break your legs and the white will accuse you of fraud.
My father worked with others in India to run lottery, and they were interested in statistics and advertising and marketing. They would do statistics before each draw, and would try to draw the numbers with the least or no buyers.
The winners will be widely reported. After winning the lottery, their lives will change dramatically, they will eat and drink the best food, marry five, six, seven or eight wives, etc. In any case, they will try their best to trick people into buying lottery tickets.
Once there is too much money in the prize pool, they will arrange for one of their own to place a heavy bet to drain the prize pool, and the cycle will continue. There are still many low-caste fools in India. At present, it seems that the lottery can operate for another 20 to 30 years without any problems. "
"Try your best? Why are you not sure?" Nan Wuwei asked back.
"In order to give lottery buyers a false sense of fairness and authenticity, there is only a five-minute gap between purchase and draw. The computer calculation speed is not fast enough, so it can only start with the data with a larger number of bets, which does not have enough time to produce accurate data statistics."
"Oh, so there's still a lucky winner?"
"Of course, not everyone is capable of acting out the madness of winning a big prize. It's not good for publicity if it's too fake. Besides, we need real winners to spread the word. Well, there's one more thing. If there's no real winner, Dad's conscience will be hurt."
"Tsk, Dad, you still have a conscience."
Nan Yi hit Nan Wuwei on the back of his head and said viciously, "You eat my food, drink my drinks, and you take all the benefits. Is it your turn to torture and analyze me?"
"It hurts. You didn't keep your word and said you wouldn't hit me." Nan Wuwei said with a pout.
Nan Yi laughed and scolded: "Don't give me that, this is called a loving caress."
"Dad, let me love you for once?"
"No need, I hope you don't cause any trouble. Hurry up and choose your numbers. We won't leave until we lose all the 60,000 yuan."
At Nan Yi's urging, Nan Wuwei chose the number "7" that had brought him profits before, and bet all 60,000 yen. The result made Nan Yi very satisfied. The goddess of luck was not on Nan Wuwei's side.
There were five games in total. Nan Yi asked Nan Wuwei to bet on the last four games in each game, with the same stake of 60,000 yen. Nan Wuwei won the fifth game. Nan Yi lost a total of 71,000 yen, or it should be said that it was 68,000 yen. After all, he lost 3,000 yen with the mentality of spending money for entertainment.
After leaving the rowing meeting, Nan Yi took Nan Wuwei to a 996 convenience store, ate some cold food, and bought a few boxes of cigarettes and cans of coffee. Then, the two went to Mitake Park in Shibuya.
Since 1991, homeless people have settled in Mitake Park. As time goes by, the number of homeless people here increases, and it has become a famous homeless park in Tokyo. Considering the time point, there is no doubt that most of the homeless people here are losers of the real estate bubble and the stock market bubble.
After entering the park, Nan Yi gave Nan Wuwei cigarettes and coffee, "You can go talk to them yourself and listen to their stories about how they got to where they are today. By the way, ask them how much they spent in Kabukicho and Ginza in one night a few years ago."
"Dad, are you sure I won't get beaten?"
"You said it yourself, you are better than your teacher. Dad can take advantage of the situation. When it comes to you, you have to be able to turn unfavorable factors into favorable factors. Don't worry, they are all walking corpses hollowed out by alcohol and sex. You can avoid them even if you can't beat them. If you really get beaten, Dad will do this..."
Nan Yi took out a pen and wrote the two words "revenge" on the palm of his left hand.
"Uh, Dad, these two words of yours gave me a bad feeling. Are you going to say, Lord Wei, yes, it was me who betrayed you again?"
"Go, go, go, show off your ability. Watch less indecent videotapes in the future."
Nan Wuwei took the coffee and cigarettes from Nan Yi and muttered, "You're still blaming me, Dad, you hid so many dodgy videotapes under the bed."
After hearing what Nan Wuwei said, Nan Yi knew that his secret was exposed, and he thought to himself that he must buy a few safes to store the videotapes next time.
"Stop whining, it's getting late, hurry up."
Driving Nan Wuwei towards a homeless man, Nan Yi found a chair and sat down, watching Nan Wuwei talking to the homeless man from a distance.
He spent the whole daytime accompanying Nan Wuwei. When night fell, Nan Yi, who sent Nan Wuwei back to Lake Kawaguchi, started to act alone.
Ginza, Jieyuhua, a nightclub that is more like a nightclub .
The services that general nightclubs can provide are available here, as are the services that cannot be provided here, such as the brokerage and intermediary services provided by brokerage firms, which can be realized here.
As a female public relations officer, it is necessary to have a pretty face, but if you want to work in Jieyuhua, this is not enough. Most of the public relations officers in Jieyuhua have good academic qualifications, and those from the University of Tokyo and Waseda University are not uncommon. If you meet someone with a low academic qualification, then her emotional intelligence and EQ must be very high.
About two years ago, Ikeda Company started a new business, which is to provide financing services to entertainment shops and nightclubs.
When the Japanese economy just began to decline, many similar stores that had just undergone renovations, upgrades or expansions saw their business suddenly plummet. Many stores were unable to repay their debts to banks or other financial institutions on time and urgently needed someone to provide them with funds to tide them over the difficulties.
Ikeda Company appeared at the right time and played the role of an angel, providing financing to the store, occupying a certain share of the store, and providing the store owner with a share redemption agreement.
Compared with the agreement that Nan Yi gave to Liuzi, the agreement provided to the store owner is more complicated. Every clause and redemption condition has been carefully considered by lawyers and actuaries to maximize the benefits without breaking off relations.
The owner of Jieyuhua was not very lucky. He started to renovate the shop on the eve of the collapse of the Japanese stock market. When the renovation was completed, some of his previous old customers could not withstand the two consecutive blows and the business became very bleak. After an evaluation, Ikeda Company acquired 30% of Jieyuhua's shares and Ikeda Karikyo became one of its shareholders.
Nan Yi, Ikeda Karikyo, and Kikuchi Takayuki were sitting in a private room, talking about the Japanese chaebols.
"Chairman, at present Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Fuyo (Fuji), Nissan, Furukawa and Nomura have not shown any obvious signs of decline. Especially Mitsubishi and Mitsui, there is a trend of further growth. The situation of Okura being the only zaibatsu still existing after the war is not optimistic," said Karikyo Ikeda.
"Okura Trading Company?"
"Yes."
When the word "spy" first appeared, it was not a derogatory word or a neutral word, but a commendatory word. There are many theories about its origin, and one of them is that it was invented by Nobuzumi Aoki.
Nobuzumi Aoki was the intelligence chief of the Aoki Agency during the Beiyang period, and also one of the giants of the Taiping Group. Because he died early, he is not very well-known and has not appeared many times in well-known literary and film and television works.
A relatively recent film and television work is "Farewell My Concubine", which won an award at Cannes not long ago. There is a character named Saburo Aoki in the film, and half of his prototype is probably Nobuzumi Aoki.
The Taiping Group was an organization established by Japanese Army Minister Terauchi Masayoshi in 1908. It sold arms to China with Mitsui & Co. and Okura Group as its core to satisfy Japan's political and economic interests.
Under its leadership, the Mitsui Zaibatsu issued a subsidy of 1 million yen to the Beiyang Army in Zhili, the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu provided funds for the purchase of warships for the Republic of China Navy, and Duan Qirui had his own frontier defense force. This organization was behind many major events during the Republic of China period.
According to the division of labor, Mitsui & Co. sold arms to the Pearl River Basin. During the Tongmenghui Revolution, it sold a lot of arms. During the Protection of Law Movement, the Guangzhou government also relied on its arms to fight against the Beiyang Army. The Okura Group was divided into the Yangtze River Basin, and the Zhili and Anhui warlords were its major customers.
The head of the Okura Group was Okura Kihachiro, a Japanese tycoon who loved Chinese culture and had a huge influence on modern Chinese Go and Peking Opera. He once spent a lot of money to invite Mei Lanfang to perform in Japan, and also discovered Wu Qingyuan, who was probably the prototype of Aoki Saburo's other half.
Okura Group is the predecessor of the Okura Zaibatsu. After it was dismantled in 1946, only Okura Shoji was left in the hands of the Okura family. It mainly engaged in chemical trade, whether it was petrochemicals or food chemicals, as long as it was related to the word "chemicals", they would almost always get involved. About 70% of the market for Japanese beer raw materials was occupied by Okura Shoji.
“Why is the situation of Okura Trading not optimistic? Is it because of the overall environment or something else?”
"President, the general environment has had a certain impact on it, but the most important thing is that the current president of Okura Trading, Okura Kishichiro, is in poor health and can no longer manage the business affairs. The work has been handed over to his son Okura Kirokuro, and Okura Kirokuro's business talent is very ordinary."
Nan Yi nodded, "I see, the Okura family doesn't have its own hospital, right?"
"No."
"Ikeda-kun, have someone find out who Okura Kishichiro's attending physician is. I want to know the most optimistic and pessimistic scenarios."
"Hayi."
"Also, investigate the composition of the Okura family, especially the unmarried young female members."
Ikeda Karikyo thought for a moment and said, "President, do you want to send Minami Ieyasu to form an alliance with the Okura family?"
Hearing this, Nan Yi said sternly, "Ikeda-kun, you can call Ieyasu affectionately or Nandian respectfully. Please pay attention next time."
"President, I'm sorry, I will pay attention." Ikeda Karikyo bowed.
"If the Okura family has a suitable female member, marriage is not out of the question. We can investigate first and discuss it after the results come out."
"Hayi."
"Ikeda-kun, call in a few female PRs with good performance. It's a rare opportunity for them to come here, so give them some support and help boost their performance. Ah, if they are entertaining guests, forget it, don't disturb them while they are doing business."
Ikeda Karikyo responded, left the private room and quickly returned, accompanied by the mama-san and store owner Maya Miki, and three female hostesses.
Although Jie Yuhua has never recovered to its former glory, its daily turnover can reach about 5 million yen. Excluding the impact of holidays and the female public relations' physical discomfort, the number of days with full performance in a year can be calculated to be 280 days, which means an annual turnover of more than 1.4 billion yen, more than 12 million US dollars.
With such revenue, it is worth Nan Yi's effort to remember the name Mayamiki.
Perhaps because Ikeda Karikyo had already greeted them in advance, Maya Miki did not take the opportunity to ask for Nan Yi's name during the greeting. She just introduced the names of the three female public relations staff and then walked out of the private room.
Shirasaka Aki, Zhang Ze Rie, and Nagano Kyoko, three female public relations. Nan Yi feels that Shirasaka Aki's name sounds familiar, as if he has heard it somewhere; Zhang Rie makes him feel that she looks familiar, but at the same time, her name feels a bit weird. There is no surname Zhang Ze in Japan, but there is a surname Zhang, but Zhang Ze Rie does not quite fit the Japanese naming style.
After looking at Zhang Ze Lihui a few more times with curiosity, Nan Yi discovered something. Not only was the name wrong, but the person was also wrong. He was not Japanese at all.
"Ms. Zhang, please come and sit down." Nan Yi waved to Zhang Ze Lihui and spoke in Chinese.
When Zhang Ze Lihui heard the Chinese words from Nan Yi's mouth, her face changed instantly. She stepped back with her right foot, as if to rush out of the door.
"Okay, I'm not an international student and I have no intersection with the international student group here." Seeing the other party acting like this, Nan Yi followed up.