From June 1st to today, 40 days and 500,000 words, this is the entire process of the second volume of "Tokyo Land War".

It can be said to be the most complex and carefully laid out chapter I have ever written.

Many clues have been buried since the middle and late stages of the first volume.

Let’s first talk about the reasons for designing this plot.

When reborn in the context of Japan, we must take into account the social structure of Japan. Japan is a country with very serious class solidification and a very strong circle culture.

Since the protagonist is set to engage in business, it is impossible not to go through this process.

In fact, under the background of the 1980s, many industries were not as fully "market-oriented" as they are now.

What's more, the protagonist, who is alone and has no foundation, must go through this process if he wants to have a higher status in the future. Kinoshita Hidekaze's 1.5 billion yen loan was initially aimed at the Takeda manufacturing land.

Tao Dalang actually turned his passivity into initiative. He could only choose to actively participate in the Tokyo land war under the situation at that time, trying to complete the victory in one battle and truly have his own high-level circle and power.

Otherwise, if you make money in Japan by virtue of your ability, you will be easily targeted by all parties. There are various ways for you to be co-opted and become a pawn.

This is the reason for designing this plot.

I won’t talk about the writing method and rhythm. For the serial book, I wrote 500,000 words in 40 days while I was working. I tried my best.

Now let’s sort out this plot.

The reason was that during the interview process to save living expenses, Tao Zhiming revealed the idea of ​​a new real estate development model to both Kinoshita Hidefeng and Omiya Hiroshi.

I won’t go into details about this process, but fast forward to the point where Tao Zhiming has made some money by taking advantage of the interest rate cut in March and is preparing to start his own business.

His idea was to buy land to open a bookstore and dance hall, and then use the land to loan money and invest in finance to continue making money. Naturally, he wanted to buy land with greater potential for appreciation, so he began to think about buying land based on Kinoshita Hidefeng's layout, and he explored the country

Tie Minying reform is a core event.

In the process of dealing with Tao Zhiming, Kinoshita Hidekaze felt that his ability was very good, so he told Takeda about the role of the land and asked Tao Zhiming to help him get it secretly.

This is the first stage of the second volume of the plot: the fight for the land where Takeda was manufactured.

This part should be okay, although the previous part is not exciting, because Tao Zhiming is not known to outsiders at this time. He is poking behind the scenes and waiting for all parties to take action, and then when Takeda Takanao is desperate, he relies on what is most beneficial to Takeda Takanao.

The plan was to use the incident of Hiroshi Omiya killing Goro Takeda, and work with Suzuki Daiki to solve the matter.

The reason why Omiya Hiroshi is so dangerous is because it was shown in the first volume that he likes to use this method. Tao Zhiming, with mental arithmetic and unintentional calculations, locked onto Omiya Hiroshi the fastest among all, and then used the third volume to

The undercover Yusuke Kohata, who was collected in one volume, completed the killing blow.

At this point, the plot of the second volume has entered the second stage: Tao Zhiming holds the Takeda Manufacturing land and becomes an uncertain small bargaining chip in the private reform of the National Railways.

When he first went to Suying Shrine, Tao Zhiming was actually ready to give up profits to Kinoshita Hidefeng. But Kinoshita Hidefeng, who knew Tao Zhiming best, chose to form a real alliance with him, because Kinoshita Hidefeng also knew very well that now

All the major consortiums believe that Kinoshita Hidefeng has got it, and then it’s time for him to face the pressure of the consortium. He needs Tao Zhiming as a helper, and others still don’t know much about Tao Zhiming, which will have miraculous effects.

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Around the time of the trip to Izu, the game between Sumitomo and Mitsubishi began after Tao Chiming proposed the possibility of joining forces through Masahiro Ueda.

In Sumitomo's view, Kinoshita Hidekaze is on Sumitomo's side. Now Sumitomo has more chips. If Mitsubishi agrees to join forces, then giving up some benefits will allow Sumitomo to make more profits in the national railway reform. This comprehensive cost

Lower, higher income. In order to ensure that Kinoshita Hidefaze is on Sumitomo's side, Anzai Zenwei sent Hoshino Suzu.

At the same time, Mitsubishi had already secretly made a plan. Because the proposal was made by Tao Zhiming, Mitsubishi initially mistakenly thought that Kinoshita Hidefeng was waiting for a price, and Mitsubishi still had a chance to fight for it. At the same time, Mitsubishi was in the country

One of the bargaining chips in the iron and steel reform is Mori Group's Roppongi Hills, but Mori Group is only a little away from being controlled by Mitsubishi, and Mori Taiyoshiro himself seems to be too ambitious.

Therefore, there was a proposal to make Tao Chiming the adopted son of Masahiro Ueda. At this point, the plot of the second volume has entered the second stage: Mitsubishi's alienation plan.

At this stage, I actually went through the various characters’ mouths and psychological descriptions many times in the book.

At this stage, the main positions are those of five parties: Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, the Mori family, the Ueda family, and Tao Zhiming.

Mitsubishi originally proposed this proposal to achieve three purposes: suppress the Mori family, control the Ueda family in a curve, and divide Sumitomo and Mogami Tsunesan.

Because the Mori family was reluctant and necessary to join forces with the Ueda family to fight against Mitsubishi, they fell into Mitsubishi's conspiracy and chose to make this matter a big deal. In the beginning, it did serve the purpose of dividing the relationship between Sumitomo and Kinoshita Hidekaze.

But because of the strange attitude of the Riddler Ueda Masahiro, Tao Zhiming began to explore the secrets of the Ueda family. Finally, after learning about the Ueda family's past events, Tao Zhiming and Ueda Masahiro learned many secrets and made a bold plan: move to Iwasaki.

Home.

The background of this plan is this: the Mori family absolutely wants to keep the Mori Group independent. In the situation at that time, it must rely on the Ueda family. If Mitsubishi wants to secure this bargaining chip, it will definitely become more and more oppressive. Mitsubishi is in

The bargaining chip in the private reform of National Railways is not as solid as that of Sumitomo, so I will definitely look forward to Kinoshita Hidefuge's defection and be easily tempted. Sumitomo is in Kinoshita

Xiufeng and Tao Zhiming were very frank at the beginning and took out the letter written by Ueda Masahiro, hoping that Tao Zhiming could get this done, so that they would have an absolute dominant position in the negotiations on the national railway reform. Ueda Masahiro was

After Tao Zhiming's persuasion, he gave up the idea that he would be happy because of the big vote. For the future of his wife and children, he chose to bring down the Iwasaki family and avenge his son.

Then, there was the secondary plot: Proposal Battle.

The main purpose of this operation is, first, to cooperate with Mitsubishi in suppressing the Mori family, second, to convey to Mitsubishi the illusion that it is under great pressure from Sumitomo, and third, to make Mitsubishi misunderstand that Masahiro Ueda is a thief, hates Tao Dalang, and continues to strengthen Masahiro Ueda, who cares about the family reputation.

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Under this situation, Tao Zhiming directly contacted Chairman Mitsubishi through that phone call, allowing Mitsubishi to complete the first step in suppressing the Mori family, while retaining the possibility of continuing to cooperate with Hidekaze Kinoshita.

Before this stage, Mitsubishi and the Mori family had always thought that Tao Zhiming was acting under orders and was just a pawn.

After the Mori family was forced to put more money into a trust charity fund, Masahiro Ueda publicly asked Tokyo University to expel Tao Chimei, while at the same time he had close contact with Taiyoshiro Mori, making Mitsubishi nervous. Sumitomo pretended to be dissatisfied with Mitsubishi's actions and began to take the initiative

After contacting the Mori Group, he started to spread negative information about Tao Zhiming to create pressure.

In this situation, Mitsubishi was worried that a closer alliance between the Mori family and the Ueda family would hinder Mitsubishi's plan to completely control the Mori Group, so it followed Sumitomo's actions to promote cross-shareholding between the two parties. However, the Mori family could no longer do so again in a short period of time.

To take out more money, and if you want a loan, you can only go to Mitsubishi Bank, the main bank. At this time, Mitsubishi put pressure on the Mori family, which made Taiyoshiro Mori very difficult to deal with.

Therefore, Taiyoshiro Mori took the risk to meet with Kinoshita Hidefaze and Tao Zhiming, hoping to get more information and understand his situation. At this time, Tao Zhiming directly told him that Ueda Masahiro was on his side. If the Mori family did not

cooperation, then if Tao Chi-Ming supported Mitsubishi, it would be difficult for the Mori family to stand up. But on the contrary, Tao Chi-Ming gave him a better plan. Mori Yasukichiro came to the throne and joined Tao Chi-Ming's plan: to overthrow the Iwasaki family and split up the Mori family at the same time.

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The Mori Group was split into Mori Building and Mori Trust, and Masahiro Ueda was ostensibly bound more closely to the Mori family. Therefore, Mitsubishi had to find a way for the Ueda family at this time to complete its control of Mori Building.

At the same time, Masahiro Ueda and Sumitomo continued to put pressure on Tao Dalang's dismissal, and Sumitomo also seemed very uneasy about the contact between Kinoshita Hidefaze and Mori Taiyoshiro. In this context, Tao Chiming met Iwasaki Kuranosuke,

He revealed his plan for Iwasaki Kuranosuke to take action.

The details of this plan are very clear, so I won’t go into details. In short, Iwasaki Kuranosuke is very excited, because if the plan really succeeds, Mitsubishi can control Mori Group and Mogami Industrial in one fell swoop, and Sumitomo will lose everything. At the same time,

Tao Zhiming specifically borrowed money from him so that Iwasaki Kuranosuke could personally hold many shares, which would help the Iwasaki family continue to control Mitsubishi.

At this time, time was already very tight, so Iwasaki Kuranosuke used strong medicine: he used rough methods to sort out the relationship between all parties, leaving no room for turning back.

The specific method was to let him lurk in Sumitomo's directors to blow up Tao Chiming and Kinoshita Hidekaze. Of course, he specifically said something like escaping, because Tao Chiming was on guard when he went to see him, and Iwasaki Kurayuki

Jie Ye still wanted to keep them, so as to see if the plan they mentioned was reliable and whether there was any possibility of success.

The second is to let her daughter seduce Morijiro, call Kawashima Zizi together, and then ask the financial deputy director of Mogami Tsunesan to call a killer to kill Morijiro. Since Mitsubishi wants to deal with the Mori family, it must destroy the alliance between the Mori family and the Ueda family.

, a lot of work has been done for Morijiro. The plot also named the two finance deputy elders’ wives whose backgrounds are similar to Hoshino Suzu.

The third is to let Furukawa Tani Shinobu take action to crush Tao Chiming and Kinoshita Hidefeng's desire to resist in one fell swoop. This is to show off their muscles, and Maekawa Taiji's action is actually to create a situation where Sumitomo shows his fierceness towards them.

But as soon as this incident came out, the plan had been known for a long time, and all parties had communicated closely in private. On the contrary, it was very clear that Kuranosuke Iwasaki took the initiative to provide a clue.

Therefore, this second volume enters the final stage: the decisive battle.

In this part of the plot, there is a hidden thread that has not been explained in detail before, and that is Reiko Ishibashi. In fact, it has been repeatedly hinted in the previous plot that Mitsui is behind Reiko Ishibashi. In this private reform of national railways, Mitsui

There are fewer chips in it. In Tao Zhiming’s plan, instead of joining forces with Mitsubishi, it is better to join forces with Mitsui. Mitsui has few chips, so help them get some chips. This is a public welfare organization established by Reiko Ishibashi around the trust charity fund.

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Therefore, at this point in the decisive battle, due to the urgency of the matter, Iwasaki Kuranosuke made one last request: to use 100 billion in cash to purchase 1% of the shares first and become a director of Mitsubishi Bank.

This move was firstly to give money to Hidefeng Kinoshita to join Mitsubishi Yifang, and secondly, to protect the 25 billion yen loan, which Hidefeng Kinoshita was unable to repay within a short period of time, resulting in changes in the pledged shares.

And Masahiro Ueda had been held up for so long, and he was actually riding a tiger with difficulty. Iwasaki Kuranosuke used that request, and Masahiro Ueda pretended to be persuaded, which also made Iwasaki Kuranosuke a little paralyzed. And the 100 billion yen in cash that night was indeed able to withstand

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In Iwasaki Kuranosuke's view, thanks to both kindness and power, Tao Chiming became the Ueda family's son-in-law and adopted son as he wished, and Kinoshita Hidekaze became Mitsubishi's director as he wished. This was treatment that Kinoshita Hidekaze had never received at Sumitomo.

There is no need for them to retaliate. Iwasaki Kuranosuke can also use Maekawa Taiji to stir up civil strife in Sumitomo and at least get through the most critical period before the hearing.

However, as he paid close attention only to Sumitomo's capital flow, Iwasaki Kuranosuke ignored Mitsui, who had always been the most low-key.

Therefore, when Mitsubishi's opinion letter on the private reform of national railways was submitted based on this situation, Tao Chiming and Kinoshita Hidefeng finally fell out.

There is no need to say more about what follows.

As for why this situation can be a decisive blow to Iwasaki Kuranosuke, it is actually written very clearly in the ending plot.

He has done too many things and there is a lot of evidence. As long as we can really get rid of him, we will definitely get him killed.

Besides, there are indeed many people who want to mess with him.

Sumitomo and Mitsui will use this trap to cause serious harm to Mitsubishi. There are also people within Mitsubishi who want to seize power. Even big figures in the political arena who relied on Kuranosuke Iwasaki in the past wanted to eliminate a hidden danger first when they heard about this opportunity.

Therefore, the conditions given by all parties were to let him take the blame decently, so that both Mitsubishi and the Iwasaki family could be saved.

And if he is not honorable, the entire Iwasaki family may become the object of Mitsubishi's peace talks. If Iwasaki Kuranosuke struggles desperately, other families will join forces to frame him, making the Iwasaki family take all the blame for the blame.

Tao Zhiming used these things to achieve this ultimate victory.

Therefore, when Kitagawa Atsushi first saw Ueda Masahiro's letter, he praised Taozhi's vision. Because Ueda Masahiro's letter hinted at Ueda Kenta's death that year, Kitagawa Atsushi made clear Ueda Masahiro's firm stance.
To be continued...