Kitahara Shuji looked up and found that it was a four-story building. At first glance, it looked ordinary. You couldn't tell it was a bank without looking at the signboard - Kuppongi Investment Bank. Except for the fact that the steps were high enough, there were people lying on both sides of the door.
Except for the stone lions, there is nothing surprising about it.
It was still early, and it was obviously not working time yet, but Kaguraji led Hideji Kitahara up the steps and pushed the door directly in. There were actually people in the bank, and there were quite a lot of them.
Kagura Haruzuna smiled and explained to Kitahara Hideji: "When I get up in the morning, I will first go to the cemetery to take a look, and then come directly here. Sometimes these people will wait here if they want to ask something."
Kitahara Shuji suddenly realized, it turns out that it is a daily behavior for you to wander here alone early in the morning. No wonder you can't see the security personnel. I'm afraid there are people on duty along the way, right?
He immediately began to hesitate whether it was time to leave, but Kagura Jitsuna turned to the group of people and said, "I have important guests now. I'll talk about it later if I have anything to do."
Those people were surprised, and their eyes fell on Kitahara Shuji, but no one had any objections - it was not an urgent matter. If it was urgent, just contact Kagura Jitsuna's secretary directly. Most of them have future plans in hand now, so come here.
I want to communicate in advance and ask Kagura Haruzuna to nod, so as not to stop in the middle of the work and waste my efforts.
Kitahara Xiuji was also a little surprised. He didn't think he was very important.
He now shamelessly dares to boast that he does have potential, but potential is not strength after all. His current strength is probably not even 1% of Kagura Jitsuna's, so what's worth paying attention to?
He quickly said: "Mr. Kagura, if you have something to do, just go and do it. You're welcome."
Kagura Jitsuna smiled at him and said meaningfully: "This is not polite, Kitahara-kun, you are indeed very important."
Kitahara Shuci was startled for a moment, but Kagura Haretsuna didn't explain any more and led him to the corner of the hall, where there was a floor-length clock with a simple appearance and excellent maintenance.
The people around were about to disperse, but when they saw Kagura Jitsuna leading Kitahara Hideji in front of the grandfather clock, most people slowed down their steps and could no longer hide their surprises. Some even looked serious suddenly.
As if he had thought of something, he began to look at Kitahara Hideji's back carefully, as if he was ready to carve him into his heart.
Kitahara Shuji stared at the grandfather clock in a daze, not quite understanding what Tsuna Kagura meant when he asked him to see this thing. After a moment, a label appeared in his eyes: [Ordinary mechanical grandfather clock].
There is nothing unusual about this thing at all. It is sold in ordinary shopping malls for about 100,000 yen. It is unlikely to be put in the eyes of people like Kagura Jitsuna - this kind of thing is just a decoration, and its effect on beautifying the environment is greater than telling the time.
.
Maybe a feng shui clock?
Kitahara Shuji was not sure, but Kagurazuna stroked the wooden shell of the grandfather clock and asked with a smile: "I made this clock, how do you feel?"
Huh? Do you still have this hobby? Kitahara Shuji was even more surprised. After taking a closer look at the clock, it was still very ordinary, but he smiled and replied: "It looks pretty good."
Kagura Jitsuna smiled and said: "I worked as a watch apprentice for five years, and then opened my first factory. It was very small, with only seven employees, but it closed down in eight months... This was produced at that time
The first grandfather clock, look, the number is here. At that time, I also imagined that when the production reached 100,000 units, I would hold a celebration ceremony and display this clock. It turned out that this was the only souvenir left after the factory closed down.
"
It turned out to be a souvenir. Kitahara Shuji smiled and asked: "Did something special happen at that time?"
"Are you asking why it closed down?" Kagura Jiuzuna glanced at him and said with a smile: "It's a very common thing. I have ambitions, but that's just ambition. I just did it without thinking carefully. For anyone
The difficulties were not anticipated, and no escape route was left for myself. It was natural that I failed in the end."
Kitahara Shuji nodded. He remembered. Yesterday Yoko mentioned that it seemed that Kagura Jizuna had a bad start. He knelt down in his first attempt at running a business. He also wrote a banner and hung it in the quiet room as a daily reflection.
, and I put this clock in the first bank I owned. I think it was similar in nature, to remind myself not to make the same mistakes again.
Kagura Haruzuna stroked the grandfather clock a few more times and led Hideji Kitahara towards the stairs. It seemed that he planned to let Hideji Kitahara visit the place where he had struggled. He said with a smile: "Let's continue the topic just now...Kitahara-kun
, you also have an understanding of that period of history, what would you have done if it were you?"
Kitahara Shuji did not dare to answer for a while. This question was not about how to make money. As long as you know the timing, even a pig can make money. Not to mention anything else, the stock market crash that was triggered at that time was first, and it fell by a cliff of 40% that day.
, coupled with reasonable leverage, it can be a huge profit in an instant. It is similar in other situations. There are many places where you can take action, such as the exchange rate, futures market, and bond market, which all have the same nature.
It is not difficult to use it, but the difficulty is to know in advance...
He thought about it for a while and then slowly answered:
"I still don't have a deep understanding of the economic situation, but I recently heard a saying in Eastern Union that I think makes sense - market price performance is the result of common cognition."
"Just like the tulip ball trade a long time ago, a tulip ball can be worth dozens of houses. That is, the public's awareness of the cost of tulip balls is getting less and less, and the optimistic expectations for the demand for tulip balls are becoming more and more important.
The result was a price that now seems extremely outrageous."
"The real estate bubble that formed in 1991 was probably similar to this. At first, not everyone believed that buying a house was profitable, but soon it was proven that buying a house was indeed profitable, and then we came to the conclusion that there is a reason for high housing prices, as long as
This has become the result of mainstream cognition, so the rise in housing prices is inevitable. The greater the proportion of this cognition, the faster the rise. But under the circumstances at that time, how to judge where the peak is and when it will collapse?
…A lot of information is needed to make a judgment.”
He was not sure, but Kagura Jitsuna picked up the conversation and said with a smile: "It's good to have this understanding. You did learn a lot at Donglian."
Kitahara Shuji immediately humbly asked for advice: "How did Mr. Kagura make a judgment at that time?" You don't need to ask, you know that Kagura Harutsuna must have benefited a lot from that catastrophe, but others may not be willing to teach you about this kind of thing.
He - maybe it's just a layer of window paper, but if you can't break it, you won't understand it for the rest of your life, and it's worth a thousand pieces of gold.
Kagura Jiuzuna had no intention of hiding anything, and said with a smile: "To be honest, it's not surprising. I failed once, and it taught me a profound lesson. I spent half a year decadently, reflecting day and night, and finally found out where the problem was...
I lack channels for receiving information, which results in my inability to see through the fog of the future."
"Then how did you improve this situation?" Kitahara Hideji did not expect to go back to the failure of the watch factory, but he was very patient and continued to ask.
Kagura Jitsuna smiled calmly: "I found a good wife!"
Kitahara Shuji stopped and looked at Kagura Harutsuna speechlessly, and Kagura Harutsuna smiled and said: "Don't believe in the myth of starting from scratch at the grassroots level. It's too difficult. Good education, immersed in personal experience, accumulated experience.
The network of people under the network and the access to precious information are all important links that the grassroots class is completely lacking... For example, the Yanai family, the current richest man in Japan, has been making clothes since his grandfather's generation, and only in his generation did he have the advantage.
Y Ku, completed the class leap, I just followed a similar path to him."
"The wife you mentioned is Yoko's..."
"That's right, she is Yoko's grandma." Kagura Jiuzuna said with a smile: "She is the person who has helped me the most in my life. She is the only woman in my life."
This... Kitahara Shuji met two powerful people when he studied in Japan, and they both gave him advice. One was Fukuzawa Naotaka, who was born in a reckless way and turned into a scholar, cook and alcoholic, and the other was the super-rich Bai Qishou family.
Kagura Jitsuna is gone, and both of them are dedicated lovers. Now he has two girlfriends. As long as there are no big changes, he will have two wives in the future...
It was no longer possible for him to have anything to do with Zhuanqing. Facing a dedicated person, he would naturally fall into a psychological disadvantage. He could not help feeling extremely guilty and blushing.
Kagura Haruzuna didn't notice anything strange about him, and smiled: "She is from Tokyo, and she has many relatives in her family. Most of them are factory owners, and the other half are bureaucrats. Through her, I began to expand my contacts and restarted the factory operation.
I started from a small processing factory and successfully rode the economic revitalization train. By around 1985, I had a small fortune and even owned a few good pieces of land in Tokyo."
"Then what?"
"Then I faced a choice, whether to continue to engage in manufacturing or to fully invest in the real estate industry... At that time, the profits of the manufacturing industry could not be compared with that of the real estate industry. But when I was about to fully invest in the real estate industry, I suddenly remembered my first
The reason for a failure...I asked myself, did I understand the information comprehensively enough? Have I considered the risk of failure? Do I have a way out?"
"Then later..."
"Later, I calmed down and didn't rush to do it just to make money like I failed the first time. Instead, I collected information through various channels. In early 1986, there was a nationwide currency tension in Japan, and I noticed a large number of factories.
I took the news of the capital liquidity problem more seriously, conducted a second investigation, spent a lot of money, and thought about it for a long time before I made up my mind to leave the real estate industry."
Kitahara Hideji understood and said with a smile: "You avoided that catastrophe and took advantage of it by the way."
Kagura Jitsuna smiled and said: "Yes, that's pretty much it. I have better luck."
Kitahara Shuji smiled and nodded, but he didn't believe it at all - he would be a fool to believe that he was just lucky! Fate is always an excuse for losers, and good luck is always a humble word for the strong and wise!
Kagura Jiuzuna said it in an understatement, but he could tell with his own butt that he didn't know how entangled he was at that time. He didn't know how many times he hid and tortured his heart, and he didn't know how many times he watched the collected information dry up.
Judgment, let alone how he made that kind of determination - there is a manufacturing industry with dwindling profits, and here is a house land that is rising every day. What kind of determination does it take to slowly withdraw from a project that can make a lot of money?
Re-gather funds to maintain the factory while waiting to launch a fatal blow.
Thinking about the kind of mental torture and pressure, Kitahara Shuji could even see Kagura Jitsuna himself sitting in a quiet room, with his stunning eagle eyes when he decided to plan ahead.
Dare to go against everyone else's ideas, this is courage, and the facts prove his wisdom - he has indeed seen through the fog of the future, which is amazing.
Kaguraji guided Kitahara Hideji to continue wandering around, and then continued: "After the economic collapse, I established this bank to absorb funds."
"That's all?"
"Acquiring bankrupt factories, research institutes that lost their source of funds, and also purchased a large amount of land, real estate, and stocks at low prices. During the most chaotic period, everyone went crazy and only wanted to reduce losses. You can buy anything as long as you are willing to pay for it.
I am willing to sell. Everything I bought at that time has increased in value dozens of times now. After all, Tokyo is still the world's leading big city." Kagura Haruzuna led Kitahara Shuji to the president's room and showed him a map.
——This small investment bank has a large amount of assets buried in it, which is equivalent to the Kagura family's reserve. On the map, the land belonging to the Kagura family is densely packed with factories, and even an entire street in a prime location belongs to the Kagura family.
This is a huge fortune. In the first half of his life, Kagura Haruzuna completed primitive accumulation through manufacturing, took advantage of the economic collapse to earn a lot of money, and then took advantage of the chaotic situation at that time to start snowballing. It has been rolling for more than ten years.
I feel like I can't stop.
It is indeed a legendary life... But why do you want me to know his family history and assets in such detail? Although it is certainly not all of his assets, but he revealed part of his family fortune after two meetings. Isn't this too trustworthy?
But he didn't ask, he just listened and looked attentively. Kagura Jiuzuna briefly explained to him for a while, then led him down the stairs and said with a smile: "Others say I am a banker, but my purpose of setting up a bank is just
It is to closely connect factories and trading companies involved in multiple industries and facilitate capital exchanges with each other."
After he finished speaking, he laughed at himself, "I didn't expect that an investment bank could develop to such a scale, and finally joined the Imperial Bank. It can only be said to be a gift of the times."
Kitahara Shuji nodded clearly. This was actually the prototype of a huge consortium, integrating manufacturing and sales, with the bank as the core for coordination. Unexpectedly, Kagura Harutsuna was already over seventy years old, and his ambitions had not been fully satisfied.
A watch apprentice who came to Tokyo from the countryside established a business empire in Tokyo. The next step is to start extending his tentacles to the whole of Japan, right? It only took more than ten years for Kagura Jitsuna's assets to make a qualitative leap. This is just digested
over?
Kagura Jiuzuna looked at Kitahara Hideji nodding and asked with a smile: "Do you know what I am going to do next?"
"I know, this is amazing." Kitahara Shuji told the truth. Japan's large consortiums have been accumulated for hundreds of years, and their history can be traced back to the shogunate period. However, Kagura Harutsuna is planning to build one by himself.
This is really awesome.
Kagura Jiuzuna nodded with satisfaction: "I also think it's amazing. My life has not been in vain, but I don't have much time..."
Kitahara Hideji looked at him in surprise, and he immediately smiled and said: "Don't get me wrong, Kitahara-kun, I won't die for a while, but my energy is getting less and less."
Kitahara Shuji felt that it was similar. No matter how rich you are, your body will age. No one can avoid this, but he still comforted him with false words: "No, you are still in good spirits!"
Kagura Jitsuna didn't pay attention to his words and said helplessly: "Management is actually very simple. It means seeing through the fog of the future. It's like playing chess. Whoever sees further will win. If you want to win against everyone, you have to be better than everyone else.
Everyone can see far away, but I am faced with more and more information, and have less and less energy to think... I heard that you and Yoko played chess for a long time last night. What do you think about her?
How was it?"
Kitahara Shuji didn't expect that he would change the topic in the middle of his lament. He pondered for a moment before laughing and said: "She is still young." Yoko is a bad chess player, but not many little girls like to play chess, so he can understand.
Kagura Jitsuna laughed: "I asked her to teach her how to play chess, but she is not interested, and I am afraid she will not be interested in business in the future. Are you interested in this aspect?"
Kitahara Shuji answered honestly: "Yes, I will probably try it in a few years." No matter which direction he develops in the future, he will be inseparable from money, and he plans to start it when he gets to university!
"That's good!" Kagura Haretsuna immediately agreed: "Forget about small things, if you have ambitions to make it big, how do you think you can see through the fog of the future?"
"Get as much information as possible, analyze it carefully, and think about it repeatedly, that is, in terms of information acquisition..." Hideji Kitahara believes that this is the case. Most people have similar intelligence, and it is never difficult to make judgments. The difficulty is how to obtain comprehensive information.
"It seems you understand, that's good. The grassroots want to start from scratch, but they can't do much. Most of them are stuck in the information channels, and it's difficult to clearly judge the situation. Do you have any thoughts on this?" Kagura Haruzuna
He returned to the grandfather clock, opened the dial, and took out a big key from his pocket, "This is also the reason why many current rich people are the second and third generations of the family. The previous generation accumulates and the next generation uses it."
Kitahara Shuci thought for a while and said: "I can only say now that I will pay attention to this aspect in the future. I haven't decided how to do it yet."
He has no accumulation at all. The original owner's parents cannot count on him, and the two wives he will marry in the future cannot provide much help in this regard. However, everything has inherent laws. With enough information, we can summarize this law, or at least judge it.
The general trend is the general trend, and if you are mentally prepared, you can take advantage of the opportunities that follow the general trend, so that you can take the first step and step first.
Kagura Haruzuna smiled and said no more. Instead, he inserted the big key into the dial and began to wind the grandfather clock. This grandfather clock seemed to need to be wound three times, with the string openings at 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock.
, he finished twisting the first one with great effort, and then went to twist the second one, but he seemed a little tired halfway through.
Kitahara Shuji felt that it was very ceremonial and did not dare to say anything to help him twist it. He suspected that the clock could only be wound by Kagura Harutsuna, but Kagura Harutsuna slowly stopped and handed the big key to him.
He asked meaningfully: "Kitahara-kun, I have no strength anymore. Do you want to help me wind this clock in the future?"
Kitahara Shuji was surprised. He didn't dare to pick up the big key for a while, but just asked: "Is this appropriate?"
"There is nothing inappropriate. You are of good character, talented, smart enough, and young. The most important thing is... Yoko chose you." Tsunade was very steady, so she put the big key in the palm of her hand and waited for Kitahara Hideji.
Come and get it, "Of course you can go through my path again if you want, but you may not be as lucky as me, so why not walk it for me. I have a complete network of contacts and enough channels for obtaining information, so you can save money."
A lot of time, building the future on my foundation...how does it feel?"
Kitahara Shuji looked at the key and then at Kagura Haruzuna, a little confused about what was going on... It sounded like he was planning to become the second generation of the Kagura family and turn the Kagura family into a large-scale
A consortium, and this key represents... represents the qualification to control hundreds of billions or even trillions of funds?
This kind of qualification is all you need to reach out?