Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1060 In-depth Cooperation
With two claps from Yasuo Takei, the shoji door on the side of the Japanese-style room was opened, and a middle-aged man in his early fifties walked in from next door.
He has a buzz cut, sparse beard, and a determined look with a hint of ferocity. His temperament is a bit like Chiba Shinichi, or it should be said that Chiba Shinichi when he played Kazuo Kusakari is a bit like the middle-aged man in front of him. One is playing the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi, and the other is probably the real leader.
I just don't know which department he belongs to, whether it's the Botu, the Dewu, or the Foolish Company. The photo of the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Watanabe Yoshinori, can be seen frequently in newspapers, and it's definitely not the middle-aged man in front of me.
The middle-aged man walked to the table and stopped half a meter away. He nodded slightly to Takei Yasuo, then bowed slightly to Nan Yi, "Hello, Nan-san . I am Kenichi Shinoda, the president of the Yamaguchi-gumi Hirodokai."
Nan Yi nodded in return, "Hello, Shinoda-san."
"Shinoda-san, please come and sit down."
Yasuo Takei called out and invited Kenichi Shinoda to sit next to him.
As soon as Shinoda Kenichi sat down, he picked up Takei Yasuo's words about puffer fish liver, pointed at the puffer fish liver on the plate, and said excitedly: "Nan-san, the Ishihara family has a secret method to remove the toxins from puffer fish liver. Master Ishihara has used the secret method to remove most of the toxins in this puffer fish liver. The remaining toxin content is very mild. Just cut a small piece from it to taste, it is not fatal.
I wonder if Nan Sang is interested in accompanying me to taste this rare delicacy?"
Nan Yi looked at the excitement on Xiaotian Jianshi's face calmly, cursing in his heart, "Little devil, you dwarf mule whose life is worth less than a dog, who are you to let me risk my life with you, what kind of bullshit secret method can remove the toxins, it's strange that it can be completely removed, you are trying to show off your power with me, you... fuck, you really found my weakness.
Takei Yasuo, you son of a bitch, you are not a good guy either. You set a trap for me and made me lose face, right? I..."
Nan Yi was arguing with the scholars in his mind, and cursed the ancestors of the two people in front of him.
He smiled kindly at Shinoda Kenichi and said in a solemn tone: "Shinoda-san, acting prudently is my motto. I never take unnecessary risks. Even though pufferfish liver is a delicacy, it can only satisfy my appetite and cannot bring me big profits. It is not worth the risk. So, Shinoda-san, I am really sorry. I can only decline your kindness."
Nan Yi nodded to Ishihara and said, "Master Ishihara, please don't misunderstand me. I am not questioning your family's secret method."
Shinoda Kenichi laughed out loud, with an admiring look on his face, "Nan Sang, you are such an honest person. It is really a great pleasure in life to be able to drink at the same table with someone like Nan Sang tonight."
Shinoda Jianshi raised his wine glass and gestured to Nan Yi, "Nan Sang, please."
"Shinoda-san, Do-Zo."
After a glass of wine, Shinoda Kenichi asked Ishihara to cut a small piece of liver from a large piece and put it on a plate. After dipping it in the sauce, he put the liver into his mouth and chewed it while explaining it to Nan Yi and the others live: "The first bite is like biting into fatty pork; chewing it carefully, a smooth and sweet taste spreads from the taste buds to the entire mouth and extends to the nasal cavity;
Now, the sweet taste fades away, and a tingling sensation rises from the root of the tongue. Slowly, slowly, the entire tongue and the inner wall of the mouth are occupied by this tingling sensation. It's really stimulating! "
A fanatical look appeared on Shinoda Kenichi's face , and he continued incoherently: "My tongue became stiff, and the inner wall of my mouth felt like it was on fire. The stinging pain reminded me of the time when someone pierced my chest with a wakizashi in Nagoya."
As he spoke, Shinoda Kenichi picked up the wine jug from the desk, opened the lid, tilted his head back and poured it into his mouth. After the whole jug of wine went down his throat, Shinoda Kenichi let out a strange and creepy laugh and waved at Ishihara.
Ishihara walked up to Kenichi Shinoda and handed him a five-finger-high porcelain bottle. Kenichi Shinoda took it, pulled out the cork and took two gulps.
Nan Yi guessed that the porcelain bottle should contain one of the secret detoxification ingredients, used to neutralize the toxins in the mouth. However, how could the poison be completely neutralized once it has entered the mouth? There will definitely be some residue left, which will definitely cause damage to the body, the only difference being the severity.
After taking the antidote, Shinoda Kenichi kept silent. The poison had corroded his entire mouth, making him unable to speak. It would take some time for the antidote to take effect.
Nan Yi withdrew his gaze from him, picked up the rice bowl, picked up some pickled food, and chewed slowly.
Nothing special happened inside the room afterwards. The pufferfish scene ended without any result. Everyone drank and tasted delicious food in harmony.
After having their fill of food and drink, the group went to the tea room in the southeast corner of the guild hall - a standard four-and-a-half-square-foot tea room with simple and plain decoration. Apart from a scroll with the words "harmony, respect, purity and tranquility" on the wall, there was only a cherry blossom vase placed in the corner.
In the tea room, besides Nan Yi, Takei Yasuo and Shinoda Kenichi, there was also Ito Maimi kneeling beside them, in charge of the tea ceremony.
The fairy did not enter the tea room, but just waited outside.
As Ito Maimi poured tea for everyone, Takei Baoxiong said, "Nan-san, I think you have guessed why I invited you today."
Nan Yi stroked the rim of the cup and looked at Shinoda Kenichi, "I guessed that Takei-san wanted to invite me to invest in Takefuji, and I also roughly guessed that Takei-san wanted to arrange a way out for himself. Takefuji's unmanned borrowing machine is an innovation. For the Japanese who love face, the unmanned borrowing machine perfectly solves their pain points; for Takefuji, it greatly reduces operating costs.
In addition to hardware innovation, Takefuji has also been continuously improving its soft services. Borrowers’ borrowing experience has become better and better, and Takefuji’s business has grown. However, drawbacks have also begun to emerge.”
"Nan Sang, please give me some advice."
Nan Yi turned to look at Takei Yasuo, then returned his gaze to Shinoda Kenichi's face, "Takei-san, there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor in Japanese society, but ordinary Japanese people don't feel that it is too unfair.
Because Japan has made sophisticated designs in resource allocation and has invested sufficient resources in education, medical care, and elderly care, which are the areas that ordinary people care about most. With these guarantees, ordinary people will not have too much pressure to survive.
In terms of work and rigid needs, as long as ordinary people have healthy limbs and are willing to work hard, they can easily earn 3 million yen a year, buy a house and a car within ten years, and have enough holidays for them to relax and entertain themselves.
If Japanese society had always operated in this way, there would not be any major problems. However, since the stock market and land prices began to soar ten years ago, ordinary Japanese have been given the opportunity to get rich quickly, and the blocked channel for upward mobility has been torn open.
For nearly seven years, the upward channel was very chaotic. Fortunately, the Ministry of Finance took advantage of external pressure to correct the disorder, and Japanese society returned to normal order.
But in the chaos, the consumption desires of many ordinary Japanese people were infinitely magnified, and the Japanese consumer finance market was also expanding. Takei-san's Takefuji ushered in a period of rapid growth. Takei-san, you seized the good opportunity, but Takefuji moved too fast and too hastily.
Under the prosperity of Japanese consumer finance, a huge crisis is hidden. In order to expand business volume, the review standards for borrowers are getting lower and lower. Some customers are known to be unable to repay the loan on time, but Takefuji still lends money to them. "
Nan Yi's gaze shifted again between Shinoda Kenichi and Takei Yasuo, "Because Takei-san has many partners, some of them violently collect debts for Takei-san from clients who cannot repay on time, intimidate and threaten relatives, and force clients or their relatives to enter the sex industry to make money to repay debts.
Under violent debt collection, tragedies such as running away from home and committing suicide often occur. Although Takei-san has good partners to protect you and cover up some of the truth for you, it is a pity that it is not only Takefuji that is engaged in consumer finance. There are three other companies with equally huge businesses, as well as small companies scattered across the streets.
In a sense, consumer finance has become a cancer that hinders the normal operation of Japanese society.”
Nan Yi's gaze turned to Takei Yasuo's face again, "Takei-san, your last name is Takei, not Mitsui. When the convenience brought by a chamber pot is far less than the stench it emits, it is inevitable that you will be abandoned."
"Shinoda-san." Nan Yi looked at Shinoda Kenichi, "As far as I know, the Hongdaokai is the core organization of the Yamaguchi-gumi. In recent years, the Yamaguchi-gumi has been seeking transformation. What do you think of the name Yamaguchi Group?"
Shinoda Kenichi's eyes fixed, piercing deep into Nan Yi's skin, "Nan Sang, I am a Bo Tu."
The first generation leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi was called Yamaguchi Harukichi. He was the founder of the Yamaguchi-gumi, a fisherman from Kobe. After he had some savings, he wanted to enter the shipping and containerization industries.
As we all know, coastal areas involve a lot of import and export trade, and are most likely to produce various exchanges of interests and abuse of power for personal gain. If you want to make a living in such a place, you have to deal with both the black and white worlds. It was in such an environment that Yamaguchi Haruyoshi established his own network of power and became the boss of the local inland waterway transportation industry.
It can be said that Yamaguchi Harukichi established the Yamaguchi-gumi for the purpose of facilitating business. Both the first and second generations of the Yamaguchi-gumi can be classified as mat weaving and shoe selling people.
After World War II, Kazuo Taoka, who was not a member of the Yamaguchi faction, became the third generation leader, bringing a great integration of talents to the Yamaguchi-gumi: educated business experts, shrewd and ruthless thugs, and political puppets sent by higher-ups gradually filled this newly mature organization.
After several years of development, the Yamaguchi-gumi officially broke away from family and regional restrictions and became something similar to a group enterprise. Its business projects began to diversify, including completely legal businesses, businesses in the gray area, and completely illegal businesses.
Regardless of the type of business, the Yamaguchi-gumi has extended an olive branch to European and American capital, actively invited capital to settle in, and cooperated with multinational financial groups, showing a trend of development from the real to the virtual.
In the process, the organizational structure of the Yamaguchi-gumi became increasingly loose, and was divided into three major factions based on industry.
The first faction is the Gambling Company, which is responsible for managing the gambling industry throughout Japan. After the postwar economic boom in Japan, this faction became the richest among the Yamaguchi-gumi members. Its members not only run their traditional businesses such as gambling, but also operate industries such as the sex service industry and the financial industry that have deep cooperation with enterprises and the government, so they make a lot of money.
The second group is the house system, which originated from the open-air vendors who sold incense next to temples during sacrificial ceremonies. After World War II, these people mainly managed the members of the gangs, or continued to act as black market vendors selling illegal items.
The third faction is the youngest and most violent faction among the Yamaguchi-gumi members, namely the Illusionary Company, which is also the thugs group that the Yamaguchi-gumi uses to control and threaten other gangs. In modern society, members of this faction must abide by legal restrictions, so they train the boys who fight on the battlefield to become lawyers who speak for them in the mall or court.
As a result, the Yamaguchi-gumi has influence in the political, business and legal circles, and its external behavior is almost legal, which is also a major reason why the Yamaguchi-gumi can gain a foothold in Japan.
Nan Yi tried to probe with the "Sankouchi Group", and Shinoda Kenichi replied with the "Botu Group". His purpose was to tell Nan Yi that the Hongdao Society wanted to cooperate with Nan Yi in the legitimate business field.
Nan Yi knew that as the cultural level of the Japanese people improved, they gradually became tired of the violence in gang confrontations. The Yamaguchi-gumi kept pace with the times and was already laying the groundwork for legalization.
At the beginning of this year, the Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred in Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi. Members of the Yamaguchi-gumi actively participated in private disaster relief and other activities, frequently appeared on the front line of earthquake relief, and worked with the government's disaster relief teams to rescue victims, providing free accommodation and food to the rescued.
This behavior is no worse than that of a certain association with similar functions. Not only did it not sell the relief supplies donated by others, it also generously donated a large sum of money. Its intention to launder the money and get away with it is obvious.
Nan Yi is not opposed to cooperating with the Yamaguchi-gumi or the Hongdao-kai, as long as the money is high and the trouble is small without getting anything dirty.
After nodding to Shinoda Kenichi, Nan Yi turned his gaze to Takei Yasuo. When the latter met his gaze, he said, "Nan Sang, let's get straight to the point?"
“I couldn’t ask for more.”
Kenichi Shinoda waved his hand and asked Maimi Ito to leave.
After a while, a conversation with a very clear meaning was heard in the tea room, which did not require any guessing or pondering.
Takei Yasuo: "Nan-san, I need to use your channels to mobilize funds to Europe, North America, and Australia."
Nan Yi: "One-time, or long-term behavior?"
Yasuo Takei: "In the long run, I need to slowly withdraw my personal funds from Takefuji."
Nan Yi: "Just borrowing the road or full service?"
Takei Yasuo: “Please be specific.”
Nan Yi: "If you simply borrow 8%, you are responsible for receiving it yourself; if you provide full service for 15%, I will be responsible for the operation of your funds, ensure that it exceeds inflation, and give the proceeds to the person you designate. I swear on my last name that I will never breach the contract."
Takei Yasuo thought for a while and said, "I want full service."
"No problem. I will send other people to discuss the details with Mr. Takei. I will not show up myself." Nan Yi said as he stretched out his right palm towards Takei Yasuo.
Yasuo Takei followed suit, and the two put their palms together and clapped three times, thus sealing the deal.
For a moment, the entire tea room fell silent. The only sound that could be heard was the bubbling of boiling water in the kettle on the floor stove, and the gurgling sound of water flowing in the pool outside the window that startled the deer.
After a while, the frightened deer, which was filled with water, fell down and hit the stone bowl below, making a crisp hollow sound. This sound broke the silence of the tea room, like a starting gun, pushing the topic to another starting point.
"Shinoda-san, are you speaking to me on behalf of the Yamaguchi-gumi or the Hiromichi-kai?"
"Hongdao Society."
"In what field would you like to collaborate with me?"
