The Kyoto Bubble Era: It started with selling off hundreds of millions of property - Chapter 612

c587 Have I been reported?

On January 5, 1992, at 8:30 pm, the much-anticipated first annual meeting of all employees of Beiyuan Financial Holdings Group came to a successful conclusion.

The meeting went very smoothly. People from all walks of life were amazed by the terrifying dominance and surging vitality of the Kitahara Consortium. The only variable was that Kitahara Sosuke suddenly announced at the end of the meeting that in the next five years plan, he would shift his investment focus to areas he had never touched before. On the foreign exchange currency field.

This business is rare in Japan.

After the successive defeats in the Gulf War and the Copper Futures War, Japanese consortiums seldom touched overseas business. Only Sosuke Kitahara played hard. He went to Russia and flew to the United States, negotiated with many parties, and even Kitahara Bank opened overseas.

Nowadays, a large amount of foreign exchange currencies are controlled by the Bank of Japan. In order to impact Japan’s finance, overseas hot money speculated wildly, causing the Japanese yen to appreciate indefinitely. The valuable Japanese yen became a popular currency, and then a large amount of consumption emerged one after another. But after the bubble burst, the Japanese yen The yuan continued to appreciate, causing those who invested overseas to lose all their money.

For example, a property originally purchased for 100 million yen is now only worth 50 million yen. If converted into yen and returned to the country, these investors will go bankrupt.

Except for those who are preparing to settle overseas and have completed immigration procedures, most domestic investors, especially those investment clubs under consortiums, have basically lost nearly 50%.

Against this background, the Bank of Japan is worried that no one will take over the foreign exchange currency in its hands.

Could it be that Kitahara Sosuke would really risk his life to take over this mess?

Sumitomo Shigeki didn’t believe it, and neither did the top executives of the other five major consortiums.

Most of their judgments are consistent. Kitahara Sosuke is setting off smoke bombs, and then quietly swallowing up the big cake of Japan’s financial industry through the power of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet.

After that night, although the six major consortiums did not have any high-level meetings, their funding operations became extremely consistent, and they began to vaguely join forces with each other.

Mitsubishi Group and Sanwa Group.

Mitsui Foundation and Sumitomo Foundation.

Fuji Foundation and Daiichi Banking Foundation.

The six major financial groups and the three major forces came to besiege Kitahara Sosuke in an encirclement manner.

January 6, 1992.

Not long after the New Year holiday, less than ten days after Murayama Tomiichi’s cabinet stepped down, Hashimoto Ryutaro had just moved into the Prime Minister’s official residence.

As the First Secretary to the Prime Minister and Director of the Land and Resources Agency, Kazumi Suzuki, who was only 30 years old, received a report call from the House of Representatives.

Thirty-two seats in the House of Representatives are controlled by their cabinet, and more than half of the say is in the hands of the cabinet.

How dare someone dare to report the Prime Minister to the cabinet at this time?

Simply unbelievable.

After listening carefully to the content of the call, the smile gradually disappeared from Suzuki Kazumi’s beautiful face.

“What’s going on, Suzuki-san? You have a sad face on your first day at the Prime Minister’s Residence. This is not your style.”

Ryutaro Hashimoto smiled and wiped the bamboo sword in his hand. He had just returned from practicing swordsmanship at the kendo hall. This was a hobby he had never given up after entering politics. Whenever there was a day of great joy or sorrow, he would go to the kendo hall alone to practice swordplay to calm down. .

Kitahara Sosuke’s speech last night made him unable to calm down for a long time. He went to the kendo gym near the official residence alone early this morning and didn’t come back until now.

As soon as he walked into the office door, he saw his secretary looking melancholy.

Kazumi Suzuki is the leader of the younger generation that the Suzuki family strongly supports. The Suzuki family is also a wealthy family in Tokyo’s political circles. However, in this generation, men cannot be used in important roles, so she can only be allowed to enter politics as a woman.

Fortunately, Suzuki Kazumi is capable enough. He graduated from the Tokyo University School of Law and started from a marginalized position. He has excellent vision. When the previous prime ministers and cabinets were in turmoil, he led the Suzuki family to live in seclusion behind the scenes and did not participate in any struggles. Gradually, She was only twenty-nine when she reached the top position of the National Land Agency.

This year, she decisively took the line of Ryutaro Hashimoto.

In January, when she just turned 30, she successfully joined the Prime Minister’s Cabinet as secretary and director of the Department of Land and Resources.

She is the youngest member of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet in Japanese history and the seventh female member of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet.

In fact, Ryutaro Hashimoto originally hoped that his eldest son would marry Suzuki Kazumi, but unfortunately the Suzuki family only accepted the marriage, and the matter ended in nothing.

Suzuki Kazumi’s current husband is an outsider, he seems to be a middle-level manager at the head office of Sumitomo Bank.

There are countless family structures like this in Tokyo, Japan. The six major consortiums and many wealthy families have various nepotisms.

This is also the main reason why they strongly reject Kitahara Sosuke and why it is difficult for them to completely collapse.

Suzuki Kazumi is a main member of the Hashimoto faction, but her husband is from the Sumitomo Consortium. The Suzuki family also has many interactions with both parties, which is a mess.

If the two sides fight, the Suzuki family will most likely stay away.

Without sorting out these intricate political relationships, it would be impossible to truly disrupt the six major financial groups.

This is also the reason why Ryutaro Hashimoto is very reluctant to make enemies of the six major consortiums.

Kitahara Sosuke offended many people along the way. He was able to destroy the Takeshita family, but he actually relied on the general trend, including other people to get a share of the pie, and he was lucky enough to succeed.

The Takeshita family collapsed, and the majority of this profit pie was actually swallowed up by these seemingly unknown wealthy families. Kitahara Sosuke looked beautiful, but what he got was nothing compared to them.

Hey, we have to find an opportunity for Beihara and the Suzuki family to meet, and take the opportunity to persuade him, and let the fight continue like this.

The Kitahara Consortium will eventually become the target of public criticism.

He, Kitahara Sosuke, cannot win in his lifetime.

Once you lose, you will be in a situation of no return.

“Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I just received a report call from the House of Representatives.” Suzuki Kazumi hooked back her beautiful legs in black stockings and bent down to straighten her high heels with her hands. “Members of Congress asked us to handle the matter immediately.”

“Report hotline? Who to report? Why are you calling our cabinet?” Ryutaro Hashimoto laughed angrily, “This should be handled by people from the Ministry of Justice.”

“The Ministry of Justice cannot handle this problem. Because the person being reported is you.” Suzuki Kazumi spread her hands, shaking them heavily up and down under the deep v-neckline, “The follow-up to the ‘housing professional issue’, those agricultural and forestry companies The president also has a large number of employees who want to report you.”

“Report me?” Ryutaro Hashimoto then faced the problem seriously, “You mean a large number of people reported me to Congress?”

“That’s right, because you were the one who took the lead in solving the housing issue, but failed. Now, prosecutors from the Nagoya Special Investigation Department have successively intervened in the investigation and found that the housing association is controlled by the original Ministry of Finance, and the real beneficiary is You and a group of officials under you.”

“To be precise, the people who were reported include you and a large number of our current officials.”