The Kyoto Bubble Era: It started with selling off hundreds of millions of property - Chapter 618

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January 15, 1992.

Ever since Kitahara Sosuke led his men to break into Tokyo Prison and swaggeringly took Fujiwara Norika out, the topic of “whether the Zaibatsu have ruled Japan” has quietly been promoted to the most popular position in some news media.

It is a pity that Kitahara Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Kitahara Consortium, has already become a giant in this industry. Let alone shake its position, there are no clubs that can compete with it.

The entertainment and media circles are already Sosuke Kitahara’s back garden.

Kitahara TV is also the most mainstream TV station in Japan at the moment, far surpassing the other four competitors and has the highest popularity among the citizens.

Kitahara Sosuke asked Ishida Tadashi to vigorously promote cable pay TV projects, which is also a very advanced concept and approach nowadays. TV programs have always been free, but suddenly they have to be charged. Many people did not accept it at first, but after effective guidance, they discovered Pay-per-view programs have more “fun” and they gradually convert into paying viewers.

And once something makes you start consuming it, you will naturally become a fan of it.

After all, no one wants to admit that their vision is not good enough.

This is also the evolution of idol wars and fan fights after the millennium.

Therefore, this little bit of pressure from public opinion is not a crisis for Kitahara Sosuke.

With Ran Kitano sitting in charge of Kithara Entertainment, it would undoubtedly be a fantasy for the Sumitomo Foundation to use this direction as a breakthrough point to deal with Kithara Sosuke.

However, Sumitomo Shigeki is indeed tougher and smarter than his previous opponents.

He knew that all his little tricks could not cause any substantial harm to Kitahara Sosuke, so from the very beginning, he had only used these things to disgust Kitahara Sosuke and the people around him.

As long as it plays this role, the thing is successful. As for whether there are any additional gains, it doesn’t matter.

He devoted all his resources to putting pressure on the Hashimoto cabinet, and at the same time recruited a large number of giants in the financial and economic industries to fundamentally shake up Kitahara Sosuke’s foundation.

Japan’s economic crisis has lasted for nearly a year. The Bank of Japan and the Ministry of Finance failed to stop this wave. The new Financial Services Agency and the Ministry of Finance also fell apart in their struggle. Now Japan’s financial and economic industry is completely uncontrollable. virgin land.

The Sumitomo Foundation expanded its financial power aggressively, and the money lost by Ichiro Katita was forcibly replenished by Sumitomo Shigeki through various relationships. His position became more stable. Everyone thought that Sumitomo Bank would restrain itself after experiencing this major change. Unexpectedly, it didn’t take long for them to move into the financial industry in six major metropolitan areas including Tokyo after a major change of leadership.

Prime Minister’s Cabinet.

The anxious Ryutaro Hashimoto was constantly on the phone. Since the housing issue was raised again, he had to face doubts from all walks of life. However, the financial crisis has become more severe, and his position as prime minister is on the verge of collapse.

He didn’t want to end up like the other people before him and end up with a miserable end.

“Did Aosuke say anything about these things after he left Japan?” Ryutaro Hashimoto looked at the secretary.

The secretary shook his head, then smiled bitterly and said: “Your Excellency Prime Minister, Mr. Kitahara only gave one instruction before leaving, saying that no matter what offensive the other side has, we will give in with all our strength, do not argue with them, and do not confront them head-on.”

“Are we just going to watch them pull away all the allies they can win over, and then eat up everything we have?” Ryutaro Hashimoto’s voice was trembling, “Did he really say that?”

“Yes, Uncle Hashimoto, Aosuke was afraid that you wouldn’t be able to bear it anymore, so he asked me to come over and emphasize a few more words with you.”

After the knock on the door, a pretty figure came from behind the door.

Surprisingly, it was the most famous widow in Japan, Nagano Shizuko. She married into the Nagano family. Later, Nagano Nobu and his son died suddenly. Nagano Shizuko got all the inheritance and turned around and fell into the arms of Kitahara Sosuke.

Her sister Ryoko Uchida married Hashimoto Shota, son of Hashimoto Ryutaro, and had a close relationship with the Hashimoto family.

Seeing that it was her, Hashimoto Ryutaro quickly motioned to the secretary to close the door.

“Jingzi, why are you here?”

“As I just said, Brother Aosuke specifically asked me to come to you and emphasize a few words not to cause any conflict with the Sumitomo Foundation at this stage.”

Nagano Shizuko was wearing a bright red dress, looking like an elegant young woman. She looked at Ryutaro Hashimoto with a smile, took the teacup handed by the secretary, and nodded slightly.

“He can’t get away from London, England, but he is always paying attention to the war situation here. He expected the aggressiveness of the Sumitomo Foundation, and it was Sosuke’s intention to hand over the financial industry to them.”

“Just give up? There are so many banks and financial institutions. Cang Jie has been working hard before. Doesn’t he just want to take advantage of this opportunity to hollow out this industry? Are they all given up now?”

Ryutaro Hashimoto couldn’t understand.

The financial industry has been a fertile virgin land that Kitahara Sosuke has always coveted from the very beginning.

He did everything possible to establish Kitahara Bank so that he could have his own financial empire and be able to compete with giants like Mitsubishi Bank and Sumitomo Bank.

But now, just give them all away?

Is this an admission of defeat?

“Yes, because he thinks it’s not the time to attack yet. Compared with the domestic financial industry, foreign affairs are more important, but he is also worried that you will not be able to bear these and attack rashly.” Nagano Jingzi nodded and said with a solemn expression. , “No matter what, I will trust Sosuke-nii’s judgment, not only me, but others as well, so I hope you can trust him too.”

“other people?”

“Well, as you know, I inherited the Nagano family’s property, and then Sister Miyazawa Kaoru and Sister Chida Sonoko will also take out part of the property, replace it with rice gold, and give it to Brother Aosuke as quickly as possible. Send it over.”

The other two are also famous super socialites in Tokyo. They have an unusual relationship with Kitahara Sosuke, and Hashimoto Ryutaro knows it very well.

But the relationship between men and women actually allows them to resolutely liquidate part of their family property and use it to support Kitahara Sosuke!

“Is it foreign exchange?” Ryutaro Hashimoto was stunned for a moment.

He still remembers Kitahara Sosuke’s impassioned speech at the annual meeting.

He told everyone that he was going to enter this new field. Many people thought it was a smoke bomb he deliberately threw in order to compete for Japanese finance.

Unexpectedly, this is actually true!

“That’s right, Brother Sosuke said he wants a lot of money, the more the better.” Nagano Shizuko smiled, “I’m penniless now.”

Ryutaro Hashimoto was ashamed.

This girl actually gambled all her belongings on a request from Kitahara Sosuke?

This is young people’s love, and it’s still crazy.

“In short, on your side, just continue to maintain a defensive posture. Brother Aosuke said that as long as you don’t have any substantive problems, the Sumitomo Foundation will not be able to force you to step down before the next election.”

“As long as the position of prime minister is still in our hands, there will be no worries at the rear.”

Kitahara Sosuke, who was far away in London, said this to Fujiwara Norika beside him.