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 very rare in Japan.
After the successive defeats in the Gulf War and the Copper Futures War, Japanese consortiums seldom touched overseas business. Only Kitahara Sosuke 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 hot commodity, and subsequent large-scale consumption emerged in endlessly. However, 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 bought for 100 million yen is now only worth 50 million yen. If it is converted into Japanese 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 doesn’t believe it, and neither do 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 using the power of the Prime Minister's Cabinet to devour the big cake of Japan's financial industry.
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 Foundation and Sanwa Foundation.
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 Tomiichi Murayama's cabinet stepped down, Ryutaro Hashimoto had just moved into the Prime Minister's residence.
As 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 the majority 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."
Hashimoto Ryutaro 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 he was happy or sad, he would go to the kendo hall alone to practice swordplay to calm down his mood.
.
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 did not come back until now.
As soon as I walked into the office door, I saw my secretary looking melancholy.
Kazumi Suzuki is the leader of the younger generation that the Suzuki family strongly supports, and 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 29 years old 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 Minister 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, Hashimoto Ryutaro initially 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. Six major consortiums and many wealthy families have various nepotistic relationships.
This is also the main reason why they strongly reject Kitahara Sosuke and why it is difficult for them to completely collapse.
Kazumi Suzuki is a main member of the Hashimoto faction, but her husband is from the Sumitomo Foundation. 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 have to stay away.
Without sorting out these intricate political relationships, it is impossible to really hurt the six major financial groups.
This is also the reason why Hashimoto Ryutaro is very reluctant to make enemies of the six major financial groups.
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.
With the fall of the Takeshita family, the bulk of the profit pie was actually swallowed up by these seemingly unknown wealthy families. Kitahara Sosuke looked great, 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 Foundation 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." Kazumi Suzuki, wearing black stockings, hooked her beautiful legs back and bent over to straighten her high heels with her hands. "The 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 and shook them heavily up and down under her deep V neckline. "In the follow-up to the 'housing professional issue', those agricultural and forestry companies will
The president also has a large number of employees who want to report you."
"Report me?" Ryutaro Hashimoto then faced the issue 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."