In December 1987, as the Japanese stock market continued to rebound and returned to its upward trend, Japanese society regained its confidence and optimism and restored the prosperity before "Black Monday."
Whether it is the national level or small businessmen and hawkers, whether they are wealthy businessmen and powerful people or ordinary people, they have all begun racing in the capital market.
First, the government completed the second sale of NTT as expected, successfully selling 1.95 million shares of NTT to Japanese "leeks" at a high price of 2.55 million yen.
However, those Japanese leeks bought such a "trap" stock, but they still cheered for joy, fully imagining that NTT could make rapid progress and break through the previous high as it did when it was first listed.
As everyone knows, it would be good if NTT's stock price did not fall after that. Even when the Nikkei Index reached the peak of the bubble economy two years later, NTT's stock price still failed to break through the previous high.
This is probably the most cruel side of the stock market. Retail investors are always the meat that is cut and eaten at will by multiple interest groups.
They thought that they could move forward together with the strong national economy and enjoy the dividends of the times. However, in the end, they could only become a stepping stone, which is the worst kind.
Secondly, Japan also has no shortage of activist investors.
Since Japanese society entered the bubble economy stage, the take-off of stock prices and housing prices has spawned various large and small speculative groups that are different from traditional chaebols.
Many of these speculative groups are headed by relatively young people.
They are driven, adventurous, and especially fond of financial games. They are very different from traditional businessmen like Kawamoto Genshiro who are steady and steady.
However, precisely because they are in line with the characteristics of this era, these young people who are brave enough to challenge have quickly become famous in a very short period of time.
Just like this "Black Monday" happened.
Although these leveraged speculative groups were caught off guard, they all suffered heavy losses.
However, their aggressive style of risking everything, the financing facilities provided by Japan's loose fiscal policy, and the profit-seeking behavior of securities firms have provided opportunities for them to increase investment in the stock market to save themselves at the bottom.
Therefore, Ning Weimin was not the only speculator to re-enter the Japanese stock market at the right time after "Black Monday".
He may be the person who earns the most comfortably, easily, and with the most certainty, but he is not the one who earns the most or the most ruthlessly.
At this time, based in Tokyo, almost everyone among the few people most enthusiastically pursued by the financial media was a rapidly rising young upstart who controlled equity worth more than five billion US dollars.
Compared with the "Tokyo Six Ghosts" in the early days of the bubble economy, as a new generation of get-rich-quicks, their ferocity of speculation and moral bottom line are only greater.
Among them, the most famous and powerful person is Mitsuhiro Kotani.
This guy started from scratch by running a hotel, and later became the head of the Guangxin Investment Group.
Especially in the past two years, Mitsuhiro Kotani has launched a lot of bold stock market speculations, driving up stock prices, hoarding stocks, blackmailing with green votes, and doing everything in between, earning more than 500 billion yen in capital.
Not only does he have an unusually shrewd mind, but his network of connections is also very strong.
Including many politicians, company directors, Yakuza and bank executives.
Like this time when the stock market crash happened, in order to make up for the losses, Mitsuhiro Kotani simply found a bank to use loan financing to buy a listed company that makes ham, and before raising the stock price, he told some related households the news.
Then he used the news that a prostitute in Kobe died of AIDS at the beginning of this year to spread rumors that the Nippon Ham company he bought had extracted anti-AIDS factors from chicken bile.
Soon, as the market began to rebound, the ham company's stock price soared, and its market value increased fivefold to as high as 230 billion yen.
At the same time, it actually promoted the sales of this company's ham and became a popular product among Japanese people.
In this way, the left foot is simply stepping on the right foot, and there is a high probability that it can further support the stock price to continue to rise.
It can be said that Mitsuhiro Kotani has most vividly demonstrated how easy it is to adapt Japan's traditional interpersonal network to speculation.
Especially the way he speculates in theme stocks, even the four major securities firms that always engage in insider trading have to be defeated.
In addition to Mitsuhiro Kotani of Guangxin Group, there is another increasingly famous investment star, Morishita Yasumi, who is from Aichi Prefecture and started his money lending business.
Unsatisfied with staying in a corner, Morishita Yasumi not only invested in finding political agents after developing his lending business in Tokyo, but also became obsessed with golf and developed golf courses in the United States.
As for his most well-known achievement in the early days of the bubble economy, he probably invented the golf membership system and introduced this membership system to Japan.
Also because he successfully promoted the golf craze and hyped up golf membership cards during the bubble economy, he became a millionaire.
Not only that, he also acquired Trump Tower in New York some time ago. After the transaction was completed, he was invited to have lunch at Trump's home, and the newly crowned heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson also joined him.
Unfortunately, even this could not help Trump escape the fate of bankruptcy.
In short, compared to Mitsuhiro Kotani, he is better at using tidbits to hype himself up and add value to himself.
This time when the stock market crash happened, it was because he had many golf courses under his name that could be mortgaged and his good reputation was reliable that he was able to raise a large amount of cash through various financing channels and successfully bargained for the bottom.
The result was also very satisfactory. Not only did he make back the money he lost in the stock market through bargain hunting, but his profits doubled.
Recently, he is promoting his more ambitious plan in the media - he intends to invite boxing champion Mike Tyson and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to perform boxing matches and concerts at the Tokyo Dome, which is expected to open next year.
It can be seen from this that this guy's confidence may come from the improvement of his financial situation.
After all, as soon as people have money, they want to do big things. The richer they are, the more they want to do things that will shock the world. This is human nature.
There is another person who can rival them, and that is Harunori Takahashi, whom Ning Weimin happened to pass by at the Chixia Club on December 1.
Takahashi Haru is a top student who graduated from Keio University. Although neither he nor Ning Weimin left any memory of their first meeting, it has to be said that they are quite similar in some traits and belong to the same kind of people.
For example, they are all born speculators.
It's like Ning Weimin's life experience of being expelled from the hotel after secretly trading his goods with the guests at the Chongwenmen Hotel.
Similar things happened in Takahashi Harunori's life.
The Keio High School party ticket fraud incident was one of the stains in his life.
It turned out that when he was in Keio High School, he started planning parties proactively because he found that students were keen to attend various parties and party tickets were chargeable.
With the reputation of a prestigious school like Keying, it was easy for him to invite many beautiful girls from outside the school to attend.
Therefore, party tickets are very popular.
It's just that he attaches too much importance to ticket sales, and sometimes he sells party tickets in advance without even confirming the venue.
Occasionally, the venue of a few gatherings changed, and Takahashi did not take it seriously. However, the school received reports from dissatisfied students and determined this to be fraud.
So as the mastermind, Takahashi Harunori was ordered to drop out of school.
But even so, Harunori Takahashi, who endured the humiliation at Setagaya Gakuin High School three years later, still relied on hard study and passed the entrance exam to return to Keio University's Department of Economics.
And he showed his unique values as soon as he graduated.
He can't go to work peacefully and only likes to study investments and stocks.
As early as the second half of the 1970s, Harunori Takahashi was keen on speculative wars in the stock market. In order to obtain funds and financial support, he even married the daughter of the Iwasawa family, known as the "Emperor of Hokkaido" against his will.
But it is a pity that this marriage speculation has not yielded much benefit.
Because that was the time when the Tanaka faction of the Liberal Democratic Party was at its strongest.
The Iwasawa family in Hokkaido was a businessman close to Fukuda Takeo, and they were just local tycoons.
As the target of Tanaka faction's suppression, not only did he not have any chance to come forward, but he lost almost all his chips in an insider trading of political speculation.
Haru Takahashi, as the leader of the Iwasawa family, had only had a few days of great prestige before he began to deal with the aftermath of his father-in-law's failure, as he was burdened with debts and fines of 32.9 billion yen and was riddled with lawsuits.
The collapse of the Iwasawa "empire" was complete.
The Hokkaido TV station that originally belonged to the Iwasawa family, the Toyota car store in Sapporo, and the Venus car store were all confiscated or their debts were offset.
Fortunately, a emaciated camel is bigger than a horse. When his angry father-in-law passed away, he left his daughter and son-in-law an electronic peripheral equipment trading company with a small piece of land and a three-story building as a small inheritance.
Haru Takahashi started his career highlight by serving as the vice president of this company.
Gao Ze caught up with the economic bubble, which was a very lucky thing.
Originally he was not satisfied with promoting the trade of electronic peripheral equipment. After taking over the company bequeathed by his father-in-law, he changed its name to "EIE" and began to shift his main business direction to real estate investment and stock investment.
What's more coincidental is that at this time, Japan's Long-term Credit Bank also started an active marketing strategy targeting small and medium-sized enterprises.
You must know that "Changyin" is an excellent financial institution with a credit rating of 3A, and once Takahashi's courage is combined with "Changyin", it bursts out with amazing power.
In fact, with the initial loan of one billion yen from "Nangyin", the land purchased by Haru Takahashi quickly appreciated tenfold. At that time, it was just the eve of the bubble economy.
At the same time, Harunori Takahashi, who had a certain amount of money and capital, also began to use the connections he had built in the Keio system, through close contacts and multiple gatherings, and hinted that he could introduce connections and provide considerable financial returns.
More and more Keio boys are surrounding him, including people who work in Dentsu Company and the credit department of Changyin.
In this way, "EIE", which has no achievements in this industry at all, is invincible in the real estate market and stock market investment, and has entered a glorious era where anyone who wants to borrow money can borrow no matter how much it is.
After that, his company began to launch a fierce attack on the stock market in the bubble economy.
In 1986, Harunori Takahashi successfully promoted the listing of "EIE".
Later, in the name of "establishing a mobile phone company", he increased capital and expanded shares in the market, earning 50 billion yen.
Then he used the 3.2 billion yen he raised to purchase the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Saipan.
In 1987, Haru Takahashi began to build the Bilton Crystal Golf Club, operate the Royal Fields Golf Club, and invested 13 billion yen to purchase the Sydney Regent Hotel in Australia.
It also invested 2.2 billion yen to establish the private Bond University.
The Black Monday raid did wipe out half of his company's stock market value, but it didn't matter. He had Keying's network and the backend of "Chang Yin" to meet his financing needs.
So after the disaster, when the stock market ended its turbulence and entered a relatively stable period, he began to raise his company's stock price in the market through the 100 billion yen anchor raised from "Nangegin".
In return, he also speculated in a wave of related companies of "Chang Yin". As a result, he caught up with the sharp rebound of the Nikkei Index and made huge profits.
Now not only has the market value of his "EIE" company reached a high of 258 billion yen.
Moreover, he has personally made a fortune of 60 billion yen, and is already planning to buy a building in Tokyo for his company and a private jet for himself.
Speaking of which, he is more of an expert than Ning Weimin when it comes to his arrogant style and personal enjoyment.
But then again, there is one thing in his life that he is not as good as Ning Weimin.
That is, regarding his personal marriage, he made compromises for the sake of his career and lacked a wife for whom he could feel love.
Although he and his wife now have two children, he personally has always felt that the relationship aspect may be his lifelong regret. He is only grateful to his wife, but has never had love.
Therefore, in order to make up for this shortcoming, he began to miss Ginza's nightclubs and clubs.
Relying on the generosity of spending a lot of money, seeking comfort and compensation from the service of the hostesses.
So it can be said to be accidental or inevitable.
It was just an accidental visit to the Chixia Club, but after meeting Maria, he became deeply obsessed with it.
Takahashi Harunori is certainly not an innocent boy, nor is he a loser who has never seen a woman.
But sometimes there is a special case in this world.
Some people are born with a preference for a certain kind of style and appearance, and cannot resist that kind of attraction at all.
It's okay if you haven't seen it before. Once you see it, you will never forget it and you will think of it from time to time.
So from then on, Takahashi Harunori became a regular customer of the Akaka Club, spending at least one million yen on Akaka every night just to talk to Maria.
After even discovering that Maria was looking for a way to sell Hennessy Cognac, he immediately bought all the drinks and spent tens of millions of yen to buy them all as a New Year's gift for his company.
Maria's promise to Ning Weimin was fulfilled in just a few days.
But even so, Maria did not show any more intimacy to Harunori Takahashi.
Maria also understood very well that her income was enough to meet her needs.
After all, Takahashi Harunori is a married man, and it is impossible for him to give up his first wife.
And if she has worked hard until now, is it just to find a man to depend on and just be someone else's lover?
Will you give birth to an illegitimate child for someone else in the future?
Of course not.
Besides, Takahashi is not Ning Weimin, otherwise, she might give it some thought...
Maybe this is called bad luck, but because Maria is so cold and cold, Haru Takahashi is even more attracted to her.
In this way, the leader in the eyes of Keio University graduates, the head of a listed company, turned into a licking dog without even realizing it.