National Tide 1980.

Chapter 1352 Carnival

If we look at Japanese society in 1987 from Ning Weimin's perspective, this period can only be described by the word "carnival".

In the abundant and relaxed economic environment, most industries in Japan have entered an exceptionally prosperous bonus period.

This is true in the entertainment industry, the publishing industry, and even more so in the emerging video game industry.

It’s just that the cultural industry in the 1980s became increasingly tacky.

The rise of idol culture and adult images, adult magazines and adult comics.

Late-night entertainment variety shows, the craze for comedians, the "tunnel duo" movement, and the bosozoku phenomenon.

All this speaks volumes.

This is true in the clothing industry, the catering industry, the electronics and automobile manufacturing industry, and the retail department store industry.

It’s just that due to the appreciation of the yen, imported products have suddenly become cheaper and more diverse, making them more popular, further squeezing the domestic share of Japan’s manufacturing industry.

For Ning Weimin, even businesses under his control, such as Huiwentang Bookstore, which originally did not have much hope, began to become important and started to make money.

Then you can imagine how prosperous other industries are.

For example, although trolley suitcases have been sold to Japanese companies for patent licensing, they are no longer a completely monopolistic business.

However, due to the alliance between Daito Trading Company and Yamato Kanko, with the strong demand for travel and the favorable historical background that the number of Japanese traveling abroad this year increased from 5.5 million to 9.6 million.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Daito Trading Company shipped goods directly from the sales department of Yamato Kanko, and sales continued to increase.

Nowadays, there are many repeat customers who order directly through Yamato Kanko.

In particular, in order to compete for customers, Yamato Kanko’s advertisements have recently appeared frequently on television screens, and the image of Keiko Matsumoto enjoying a relaxing trip pulling a trolley suitcase has also spread to thousands of households.

The three brands exported to Japan, Pierre Catton, Goldlion and E-Road, are already quite famous, and these trolley cases are becoming more and more popular among customers.

It’s a pity that domestic production capacity cannot be taken advantage of and effectively expanded.

Although the OEM factory that Ning Weimin found is already expanding vigorously, it will take time to increase production while ensuring quality.

Ning Weimin, who had no experience in industrial production, was helpless in the face of this situation.

To put it bluntly, he only knows how to market, but can't help much in improving production capacity and efficiency in physical manufacturing. So he can only watch the opportunity slip away and let other Japanese companies produce trolley suitcases to share the market dividend.

In this case, talking about market share is of course meaningless.

The only advantage is that it saves you a lot of trouble.

Ning Weimin doesn't have to worry about anything. The Dadao Trading Company can run in an orderly manner and make him a fortune every day.

Although he also knew that such good days were only temporary and would not last long.

But then again, every profession has its specialties.

He was not a person engaged in industrial production, and he never intended to make this his main business.

Since there are more opportunities to make easier money in Japan, why is he still so hesitant?

When it's time to let go, let go and do something you like.

It's okay to suffer a little loss. One person can't take advantage of all the advantages in the world.

Yes, if you look at the status of Ning Weimin’s other industries.

Anyone would have to say that it would be purely hypocritical for him to be unhappy about such a small thing.

It is inevitable that Tangong Restaurant's business is booming.

Nowadays, Tan Palace Restaurant no longer has to worry about a lack of customers, but instead is worried about being overwhelmed.

If not for this, Ning Weimin would not have thought about opening a branch.

Even Chixia Club's profits have doubled today.

Those Japanese who have enough money in their pockets frequently go to bustling restaurants, bars and entertainment venues at night, and are particularly generous when spending tens of thousands of yuan in bills.

It was as casual as throwing away napkins that had been used to wipe one's nose.

Maria has now increased the Chixia Club's net profit from less than 30 million yen per month to 60 million yen.

Ning Weimin hasn't been back for more than two months, and as soon as he came back he got a dividend of 20 million yen. How wonderful is that?

What Maria is worried about now is that the original business area of ​​Chixia Club is too small.

He was wondering which of the two shops around him had the worst business and whether it was possible for her to acquire it.

But to be honest, the industry that currently brings Ning Weimin the greatest benefits is the parking lot business that he is optimistic about.

You know, compared to when Ning Weimin and Axia just established Chixia Parking Lot Co., Ltd. last year, this company has now become a pig in the wind.

Both operating income and the number and scale of real estate owned are no longer what they used to be, and their value is rising.

First of all, it is well known that real estate in Tokyo, Japan has skyrocketed this year. The average increase of 85% has set a historical record.

When Ning Weimin purchased the parking lot from the very beginning, he not only invested a large amount of money decisively and bought it at a relatively low price, but also used full leverage and used the model of loan-on-loan to buy properties crazily.

As a result, he became a fat man after eating it all in one bite.

He invested more than 18 billion yen, including principal and loan. Now, with the skyrocketing land prices in Tokyo this year and the increasingly tight land resources in Tokyo, the originally undervalued parking lot land has almost reached the same price as ordinary land.

For Ning Weimin, that is an average increase of 120%, so the current value of his real estate is as high as about 40 billion.

Their joint venture owns more than 40 parking lots of various sizes, with a total area of ​​86,000 square meters and a total of 3,011 parking spaces.

No matter how you look at it, this is a considerable fortune.

Moreover, the value is increasing in tandem with the continuous appreciation of the land. Ning Weimin optimistically predicts that the asset value of these real estates may exceed 100 billion yen next year.

For this reason, both his partner Axia and Maria, who had a small stake in the company, were ecstatic.

I am particularly grateful that Ning Weimin made the decision at the beginning, fully grasped the best investment opportunity, and bought at a relatively low point.

Secondly, the high parking fees in Tokyo, Japan is caused by its high population density, developed transportation, and extremely limited land resources.

Nowadays, coupled with the economic bubble, many people have made money easily.

Not only are more and more people buying luxury cars every day, but the parking fees that were once unaffordable for ordinary people now seem not so unacceptable.

Especially as more and more people wave 10,000 yen bills to hail taxis every night, driving a private car has now become an economical behavior. Japanese people now will not feel bad about spending high parking fees.

After all, no matter how expensive the parking fee is, it is not as expensive as taking a taxi. The key is that there are many people returning taxis and few cars, and it is not convenient to call a taxi. You don’t know how long you have to wait before you can get one.

To put it bluntly, the economic constraints that have limited private car travel and ensured that Tokyo's roads are not congested no longer exist.

And with the arrival of summer vacation, many families also need to travel together, so the number of private cars on the streets of Tokyo has skyrocketed.

Not only did the traffic situation deteriorate rapidly, but the already limited parking space also became even more scarce.

In this situation, even the rich no longer feel superior, so how can parking fees not increase?

In Tokyo, renting a parking space in the city center only costs 60,000 to 70,000 yen per month.

In the city's fringe areas, it costs 20,000 to 30,000 yen per month.

In central Tokyo, the average price for one-hour parking in a popular parking lot is 2,500 yen.

In the outskirts of the city, the cheapest one hour costs 200 yen.

But the price is no longer like that now. A monthly parking space in the city center can cost as much as 100,000 to 150,000 yen.

The price in marginal areas has also risen to 40,000 to 50,000 yen, which is at least one-fifth of a white-collar worker's monthly income. Parking fees are even more expensive, with the hourly parking fee in popular parking lots in the city center rising to 3,300 yen.

On the edge of the city, 200 yen an hour became 400 yen.

The key point is that the parking rate is still high. Even the parking lot with the worst business has a parking rate of up to 70 percent.

Parking lots in the city center are almost 100% occupied, and some are even overloaded.

So Axia played a cruel trick again.

She simply canceled all monthly parking spaces and overnight parking discounts in parking lots in popular areas of the city center, and switched to time-based charging.

It’s just that the time periods are divided into popular and unpopular time periods, and different pricing bases are adopted.

This is considered a good deal, considering that Maria also invested 300 million yen in the Shinjuku parking lot.

The current charge is 1,200 yen per hour from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m.

7am to 7pm, 3,300 yen per hour.

From 7pm to 2am, it’s 2,800 yen per hour.

Although the parking rate has decreased as a result, it has dropped sharply from 98% to around 80%.

But the unit price is high, and there are only fewer cars parked at night, and there is basically no impact during the day.

Therefore, on average, one parking space can earn 30,000 to 40,000 yen per day, and the operating income is rising rapidly.

Now, every month, the parking fee income from the 180 parking spaces here alone can reach 180 million yen. Is this a small business?

The profit is enough to match that of three Chixia Clubs.

And the value of this parking lot has been further increased.

It was originally purchased for 1.5 billion yen, but is now worth 4 billion yen.

In other words, from Maria's personal perspective, the investment that she had desperately participated in has achieved an asset appreciation of 500 million yuan, and she also receives a lot of cash profit every month.

It was perfect for her.

This is why she can continue to take care of the Chixia Club with peace of mind and happily hand over the profits every month, but does not open her own store.

This is nothing. If you look at the entire Chixia Parking Lot Co., Ltd., you will find that there are four other parking lots that can meet such a level of charging standards, with a total of 622 parking spaces.

The revenue from these core areas alone is 600 million yen per month.

In addition, the company also owns 893 non-core area parking spaces with an average income of 18,000 yen per parking space, generating a total revenue of 450 million yen.

In addition, there are 23 remote suburban parking spaces with an average revenue of 5,000 yen per parking space, generating revenue of 180 million yen.

In other words, the net profit of Akaka Parking Lot Co., Ltd. has reached 1.2 billion yen every month.

The only drawback is that the tax rate in the parking lot industry is also high, so the more you earn, the more taxes you have to pay to the Japanese government.

This 1.2 billion yen income does not have any tax rate preferences or preferential treatment. If you pay taxes honestly, the Japanese government can take away at least half of it.

Otherwise, the parking lot business would be almost perfect, with profits far higher than other types of properties.

As a result, Axia had to find ways to transfer profits by declaring social costs and creating fictitious temporary workers in order to offset part of the tax.

Fortunately, Ning Weimin manages many industries, so he can come up with many solutions.

This time when I came back, it was very simple after I understood Axia’s tax problems.

He immediately signed several short contracts with Axia, and offset the profits in the name of gift expenses by "purchasing" the products represented by Dadao Trading Company and the "short transactions" of Chinese handicrafts from Huiwentang Bookstore.

Those are all imported from China.

Ning Weimin has always had the final say on quantity and cost, and the Japanese could not find any fault with it.

That’s not all. Ning Weimin also asked Axia and Maria to “sponsor” Keiko Matsumoto’s soon-to-be-filmed TV series “The Black Leather Notebook” and to “invest” in the movie “Crazy Rich Asians.” Of course, these were all “unequal treaties” signed.

This is more reasonable and legal, and has long been proven to be a safe "money laundering method" in Europe and the United States.

In this way, the profit of up to 600 million yen was easily offset.

In this way, Ning Weimin and Axia finally succeeded in this way.

They only gave up after successfully lowering the tax rate of Chixia Parking Lot Co., Ltd. to 15%.

Does the Japanese government at this time still want to exploit them?

Just a bunch of good-for-nothings who are drunkards, corrupt and have corrupt practices.

Grandma, you’re dreaming.

If it wasn't for safety reasons and not wanting to go too far, I wouldn't have given them even a yen.

But then again, even in the best of times and the best of societies, there will always be industries that survive on coarse food and dark corners where the sun never shines.

Today, in addition to the struggling physical manufacturing industry in Japan, banks are also experiencing tough times, with each year getting worse.

Financial marketization reforms have greatly boosted Japan's financial industry, and securities companies, insurance companies, and trust companies have all made a fortune.

However, the open bond market and the policy of continued interest rate cuts on the Japanese yen have dealt a double blow to the traditional financial hegemon, the banking industry.

It is now much more cost-effective for large Japanese companies to raise funds through issuing bonds rather than seeking bank loans. This operation has immediately made life difficult for banks.

However, the Bank of Japan also provided window guidance and gave rigid loan targets to major banks, forcing them to complete their loan tasks.

As a result, banks are now forced into a corner and have no choice but to proactively lower their lending standards.

In this way, a strange phenomenon that is rare in the history of finance occurred in Japan.

Just to find loan targets, the executives of the banks that were once high and mighty and belonged to large conglomerates have become shameless and are willing to kneel down and kowtow to thank those who took money from them.

This not only led to excessive expansion of credit, but also further inflated the already exaggerated economic bubble.

But there is no way. Bank employees cannot consider so many things. They just want to complete their tasks and not be criticized by their superiors.

Just like in Osaka now, every afternoon, the house of a restaurant owner named Onoue Sou is filled with black luxury cars.

The people who got out of the car were wearing black suits and carrying briefcases. They were all elites in Japan's financial industry.

Once he enters the mansion, he often doesn't come out until two or three in the morning.

They come to participate in the toad worship ceremony, and then use this opportunity to establish a relationship with the proprietress who is said to be able to predict the stock market, or to ask about stock trends, or to facilitate financing transactions.

The people at Industrial Bank even treated the boss’s wife as their living ancestor.

Because this lady boss never reads the contract when borrowing money, never cares about the interest, and never says "no" to acquaintances who ask for help.

Whenever Industrial Bank asked her to obtain financing from the bank, she would sign without even looking at the amount and interest.

Where can I find such a good customer?

This is something that the financing department of Industrial Bank’s headquarters has always been proud of.

They were the ones who created the Bubble Lady, who later manipulated amounts amounting to trillions of yen and became famous in history.

Perhaps in the whole of Japan, the only person who can be compared with him is Minister Yoshimo at the Sumitomo Bank headquarters in Tokyo and his son Yoshimo Sho?

At least, that's what they think.