Chapter 819 This is an order, not a negotiation
On the streets of the port area in winter, a black Rolls-Royce is driving through traffic.

In the back seat, Hideki Hanyu was holding a piece of letter with a faint scent of cherry blossoms.

The smell is very familiar. It seems to be a perfume customized by LV for the Japanese market. It was once sent to Hideki Hanyu for tasting.

Nowadays, this has become the favorite luxury perfume product of Japanese girls.

However, Hanyu Hideki’s attention at this time was focused on the letter paper and the beautiful handwriting.

“When I first saw you, you seemed like the shadow of the moon falling into a wine cup. Even though the moon has gone with the night, I still weave your shadow with my thoughts.

The moth powder of the plum rain season fell on the unsent short book, and the ink turned into moss.

The secret of the navy blue belt will eventually be buried deep in the old growth rings of the five-needle pine.

The old ink in the inkstone has turned into a thin layer of ice, secretly hiding the sandalwood that brushed past your sleeve.

In the cracks of the Kintsugi tea bowl, I swallowed the unrevealed sixth year.

Tonight the moon is full in the sky. Please allow me to touch your outline on the paper door with my shadow for the last time across the dusk.

“Deep in the cherry blossoms, the unspoken thoughts turn into thicker ink.”

……

The letter was not signed, but Hideki Hanyu knew who it was from.

The only person sent away by this car this morning was Naito Haruko. After he got in, he found the letter lying quietly on the seat.

“Ugh……”

Hanyu Hideki sighed softly and put the letter back into the envelope.

What an affectionate young lady.

What a touching story of unrequited love.

Unfortunately–

The other party’s feelings are not directed at the right person.

He, Hideki Hanyu, a scumbag with indifference engraved in his bones, is destined to be unable to respond to the same love as the other party.

It can even be said that he never really loved Haruko Naito.

The recent intimate behavior with the other party and the slight false appearance of affection are just lust for beauty and pretense for the sake of cooperation benefits.

However, he had to admit that after reading the letter, he thought of the woman who was obviously weak but tried hard to please him last night.

Even the scumbag’s heart was slightly stirred.

“Teacher Hanyu.”

In the front row, a soft cry from Ishihara Tomoe in the co-pilot seat disturbed the waves in Hanyu Hideki’s heart and brought his thoughts back to reality.

Hanyu Hideki folded the envelope he had collected in half and put it in the inside pocket of his suit.

Although it is not based on love, he can treasure this love.

Those who are loved have nothing to fear.

Those who are loved enjoy the feeling of being loved more.

“Is there anything wrong?” asked Hanyu Hideki.

Ishihara Chie asked, “We will be arriving at the Prince Hotel soon. Do you need to make any preparations, Mr. Hanyu?”

Hanyu Hideki sat up straight, “Is there anything wrong with my appearance?”

Ishihara Chie looked at it carefully and said, “There is no problem.”

“That’s good. You don’t have to guess. Yoshiaki Tsutsumi held the press conference at the Prince Hotel. He must have informed many reporters in advance. How could he miss the opportunity to use me to hype himself up?”

Hanyu Hideki sounded as if he had already seen through Yoshiaki Tsutsumi.

As soon as he finished speaking, the car began to slow down.

Marco then reminded, “Boss, we’re here.”

As the vehicle came to a complete stop, a bodyguard from the rear quickly stepped forward and helped Hanyu Hideki open the door.

Wearing a slim blue suit and looking handsome, Hanyu Hideki had just stepped out of the car when flash lights started to light up one after another around him.

Glancing around, I saw that, as expected, reporters had already surrounded the entrance of the Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa in Minato.

As Hideki Hanyu expected, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi intends to make good use of this cooperation to create momentum in the media.

Faced with the scene in front of him, Hideki Hanyu immediately put on a formal smile and walked into the hotel calmly.

However, just as he started, he saw Yoshiaki Tsutsumi coming out from inside.

“President Hanyu, I’m really sorry to trouble you this time.”

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was very enthusiastic.

Hanyu Hideki smiled and said, “Happy New Year, Tsutsumi-san!”

“Haha, Happy New Year. Please come in, President Hanyu.”

At the invitation of Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, Hideki Hanyu followed him into the hall where the press conference was held.

There is no need to explain in detail the following process, it is similar to any other company holding a press conference.

The spokesperson introduced all the cooperation contents between Hanyu Investment and Seibu Group, as well as the scale of cooperation between the two parties, specific projects and approximate investment, etc.

It has to be said that in today’s period of stock market collapse and widespread panic, the cooperation between Hanyu Investment and Seibu Group can truly be regarded as a shot in the arm for the Japanese business community.

In particular, the two partners who attended the press conference today on behalf of both companies are ranked first and second on the Forbes World’s Billionaires List.

Therefore, the collaboration between Hideki Hanyu and Yoshiaki Tsutsumi is worth reporting not only in Japan but also around the world.

It goes without saying that the Japanese media will definitely report on this cooperation on a large scale.

Of course, when Hideki Hanyu and Yoshiaki Tsutsumi attended the press conference and signed the cooperation agreement in a pretentious manner, the reason they gave for the cooperation when they were interviewed by the media was naturally not that they encountered financial difficulties.

“The tourism, hotel and commercial real estate projects of Dizang can form a good complement to my content advantages in the cultural and entertainment industry. This investment is only to deepen the complementarity and strengthen the cooperative relationship…”

On his part, Hideki Hanyu spoke a lot, talked about the advantages of both sides in industrial complementarity, and explained to the media the reasons for the cooperation.

When Yoshiaki Tsutsumi answered questions in the interview, apart from briefly mentioning these reasons, he mostly used Hideki Hanyu’s investment to express the glory and strength of the Seibu Group to the outside world.

However, the more Yoshiaki Tsutsumi said this, the more Hanyu Hideki, as a partner, could see clearly the current crisis of Yoshiaki Tsutsumi and the Seibu Group.

As the saying goes, say what you lack.

After Yasushi Mieno took office, he raised the benchmark interest rate and tightened monetary policy, which was definitely bad news for those companies that expanded wildly by relying on loans.

Coupled with the collapse of the Japanese stock market, financing in the financial market has become more difficult than obtaining loans.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi must help the Seibu Group boost its momentum and increase its confidence with banks so that his previous expansion model can continue.

Hideki Hanyu is happy to see this happen.

This is also the reason why he agreed to cooperate and was willing to come forward in person to help build momentum for Yoshiaki Tsutsumi.

In the short term, his help will indeed give Yoshiaki Tsutsumi and the Seibu Group some breathing space.

But in the long run, the collapse of the neon bubble economy, the current stock market crash, and the collapse of the real estate bubble in the future are all inevitable.

The Seibu Group, which can no longer stop expanding and has huge assets, will definitely not be able to escape the impact of this series of storms.

Therefore, regardless of whether Hanyu Hideki helps or not, the fate of Yoshiaki Tsutsumi and the Seibu Group is doomed.

Because that is also the ending of Neon.

And as the saying goes, the higher you praise someone, the harder they fall.

With Hideki Hanyu’s help now, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi may have to pay a more painful price in the future.

As Hideki Hanyu and Yoshiaki Tsutsumi finished accepting photos from reporters while holding the cooperation agreement in their hands, the press conference finally came to an end.

After the press conference, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, in a good mood, invited Hideki Hanyu to his old place upstairs for lunch.

In his joy, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi drank a few more glasses, and when he was tipsy, his words started to become less “rigorous”.

“Hanyu-san, it seems that you are very satisfied with my last gift.”

Hanyu Hideki naturally knew that the gift that Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was talking about was the “old A8” that he had driven, Sayuri Yoshinaga.

However, he did not directly answer Yoshiaki Tsutsumi’s question, but asked back with a smile.

“I also didn’t expect that Tisang would give away the love of his life for so many years.”

“What do you mean by beloved for many years? She is nothing but a plaything. Even her marriage to her husband was arranged by me to cover up the truth.”

At this point, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi laughed strangely, “Hehe, Hanyu-san, don’t you think she’s more attractive after getting married?”

When Yoshiaki Tsutsumi said this, Hideki Hanyu couldn’t help but curse in his heart, “You bastard!”
But at the same time, I inexplicably felt that what the old guy said made some sense. Thinking of my last experience, my body couldn’t help but become “excited”.

This feeling made Hanyu Hideki feel a little strange. He had just enjoyed the service of the “baby-faced and powerful” Miss Naito last night. Logically, he shouldn’t be excited so quickly.

Thinking about how Naito Haruko was unsatisfied last night no matter how she begged for mercy.

Think again about your current impulse.

Has his evil physique evolved passively again?

But he had only been exercising for a few days after the New Year, so he shouldn’t be doing it so quickly. Could it be…

Hanyu Hideki thought of a reason. Maybe the sleepless “battles” with ten beauties from New Year’s Eve to the following three days have strengthened his physique?
If he could become stronger in this way, then he would have to organize more New Year “activities” in the future.

The scumbag was thinking about whether to verify the last time, but the drunk Yoshiaki Tsutsumi next to him spoke up.

“In fact, I didn’t expect that Hanyu-san would actually be willing to cooperate with me.”

When Hanyu Hideki heard this, he immediately smiled and said meaningfully.

“Tisang, although there have been frictions between us, we are not enemies.”

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi seemed to be awakened by Hanyu Hideki’s words and immediately replied, “That’s right, we are not enemies.”

Both of them had something else in their words.

They are not enemies, but they are not friends either.

The relationship between the two people is more based on interests.

The most important reason why the two are most confident in cooperating is that there is no essential conflict between their business scopes.

Although the Seibu Group’s roots are in the railway and transportation industries, it was the real estate industry that enabled it to grow to its current size.

On the other hand, although Hideki Hanyu has invested in many industries covering almost all aspects, real estate is not his main business.

Although Hideki Hanyu made a fortune from real estate, he never treated it as a core business.

It is also because of this that he can remain unscathed in the current stock market crisis.

The impact of a future real estate crash on him can be said to be almost non-existent.

Under the influence of the lipstick effect, the more depressed Japan’s economy is, the better his career develops.

After Yoshiaki Tsutsumi sobered up a little, he was thinking about what to talk about with Hideki Hanyu when he suddenly heard a loud noise coming from outside.

“what happens?”

Out of curiosity, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi stood up and walked towards the window.

Hideki Hanyu followed closely behind.

Then the two of them saw that at noon, a parade with banners and slogans was passing by on the streets of the port area.

Looking at the words written on the banners and the sounds they vaguely heard after opening the window, the two immediately understood what those people were doing.

In mid-1989, after research, Neon officials announced that they would trial a three percent consumption tax in Neon.

Three percent may not seem like a lot, but it will ultimately be borne by consumers, directly increasing the cost of living for Japanese people.

However, when it was being tried out, it was at the peak of Japan’s bubble economy. How could the Japanese, who didn’t care about spending a lot of money, care about this little bit of consumption tax?

So even though there were objections in the media and the public complained for a while, in the end these voices were drowned out by the bubble of decadence and debauchery.

But no one expected that at the end of the year, when the Japanese government announced the end of the trial period of consumption tax and began to formally collect it, the bubble economy was punctured and the stock market began to plummet.

The Japanese, who originally lived a happy life, immediately felt what pressure was.

A consumption tax of just three percent is beginning to become glaring.

Then, the opposition to the consumption tax, which had already disappeared, began to revive and gradually evolved into various protests.

The current march is a protest against consumption tax.

This is the first time Hideki Hanyu has seen it.

This made him laugh, “Only 3% protested, it’s really…”

He didn’t finish the rest of his words, but when Yoshiaki Tsutsumi heard them nearby, he misunderstood what Hanyu Hideki meant.

I only heard Yoshiaki Tsutsumi say with disdain, “Yes, it’s only 3% of consumption tax, how can it be too much? These poor bastards only know how to complain!”
They should reflect on whether they have worked hard and whether their salaries have increased in recent years when Japan’s economy was booming, and look for the reasons in themselves. “

Next to him, Hideki Hanyu was stunned after hearing Yoshiaki Tsutsumi’s words.

This is similar but different from the remarks made by someone in later generations, and the meaning is exactly the same.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, from the bottom of his heart, has never regarded ordinary people in Japan as…

No, it should be said that ordinary people without money are treated as the same kind.

That kind of contempt and disdain is simply taken for granted.

In response, Hideki Hanyu did not say anything.

In later generations, anyone in China who said something similar was condemned by almost the entire nation.

But in a country like Japan where feudal remnants are serious, this attitude is actually a normal phenomenon.

And it is even more impossible for him to explain that he said those words before because he knew that the 3% consumption tax was just the beginning for the Japanese people.

Next, Neon will make three adjustments to the consumption tax, raising it from 3% to 10% in one fell swoop.

If 3 percent are protesting, what about the 10 percent?

Regarding the consumption tax, Hideki Hanyu didn’t think too much. Looking at the parade outside, he changed the subject.

“I think instead of worrying about the consumption tax, we should worry more about the property tax that Congress is considering.”

When saying this, Hanyu Hideki looked carefully at Yoshiaki Tsutsumi’s reaction.

After all, one of the most critical causes of the collapse of the real estate bubble, which will have the greatest impact on the Seibu Group in the future, is Japan’s nationwide implementation of the fixed asset tax.

Who would have thought that upon hearing this, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi said firmly, “When we first tried the fixed asset tax in some places, we encountered strong opposition, so it is impossible to implement it across the board.”

Hanyu Hideki did not say much about Yoshiaki Tsutsumi’s confident attitude.

Just at this moment, the parade disappeared from their sight.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi then asked Hideki Hanyu to return to his seat.

But now, it’s time for this lunch to end.

Hideki Hanyu stood up and said goodbye.

But Yoshiaki Tsutsumi mysteriously pulled Hanyu Hideki and asked, “Hanyu-san, don’t you want to sober up?”

Hideki Hanyu’s expression froze, and he immediately thought of something.

At this time, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi followed up with another statement.

“Please rest assured, President Hanyu. Since the toy has been given to you, I will never touch it again. Although she is a little older, she can still be played with for a few more years.”

At that moment, Hideki Hanyu was disgusted by this old guy’s attitude of treating people as playthings.

But the next moment, Hideki Hanyu took the room card from the old man and walked into the same suite.

Sure enough, Sayuri Yoshinaga, wearing an exquisite kimono, was there.

Hideki Hanyu stepped forward and lifted the chin of the big Neon actor.

“Tisan said he gave you to me.”

The woman’s eyes looked sad and aggrieved, and the answer was self-evident.

The scumbag remained indifferent and chuckled, “Your acting is really good.”

The woman still didn’t say anything, but just quietly untied the belt of her kimono.

But Hideki Hanyu directly stopped the opponent’s action.

“Not here today, accompany me to another place.”

This request was also the reason why Hideki Hanyu took the room card and was willing to meet Sayuri Yoshinaga.

Otherwise, no matter how good the “old A8” is, his interest in it will naturally fade after he drives it.

Unless, this “old A8” has other uses.

Sayuri Yoshinaga did not ask where they were going, but instead said, “If I agree, can President Hanyu also agree to one thing for me?”

Hanyu Hideki sneered, “Haha, I’m not negotiating with you, I’m giving you an order.”

After saying that, he pinched Sayuri Yoshinaga’s neck hard.

“Do you understand?”

“I understand…”

The woman’s face turned red from being pinched, and she struggled to answer.

“Humph!”

Hanyu Hideki snorted coldly, let go of his hand, stood up and walked outside.

The woman behind him hurriedly stood up and followed Hanyu Hideki in small steps.

But what surprised the woman was that Hanyu Hideki did not go downstairs to take the car, but took the elevator and went to the top floor.

Finally, when she followed Hanyu Hideki and saw a huge black helicopter on the roof, she realized what they were about to call the means of transportation.

After getting on the plane, as the helicopter took off, a young assistant put headphones on Sayuri Yoshinaga’s head, and Hideki Hanyu’s voice also sounded in the headphones.

“Next, we are going to Karuizawa. If you behave well enough and make me happy, I am willing to give you a chance and listen to what you want me to do.”

(End of this chapter)