National Tide 1980.

Chapter 1358 Getting deeper and deeper

When Kenichi Sagawa walked out of the general manager's office, he was shaking with excitement.

Although the people outside had no idea what was going on inside except for hearing a few angry curses coming from inside.

And those colleagues looked at him as if he were a dead man.

Even Sagawa Kenichi himself knew that Gobe Kanji's submissiveness and compromise in front of him just now was a misunderstanding and he would let it go.

It was just because he didn't expect that his subordinate, who used to let him do whatever he wanted, would dare to resist directly and was not used to his brilliant turn. It was just an emergency risk avoidance measure in the face of an out-of-control situation under sudden circumstances.

He will probably find a chance to take revenge in the future. This bastard is definitely going to turn against us.

  But it feels so damn good to be willful!

He was finally able to stand up straight and speak loudly to his boss.

Moreover, he spoke harshly to his boss' face and scolded him so badly that he didn't even dare to talk back.

Such highlight moments are very refreshing, just like letting out a long fart.

The pleasure gained through brutal verbal attacks was addictive; if he had never experienced it, he would never understand the joy of it.

Recalling the fear and confusion on Gobe Kanji's face just now, even after Sagawa Kenichi sat back in his seat, he was still immersed in that intoxicating feeling of satisfaction.

This fat guy finally learned to respect others.

  What a shitty boss! Turns out he's a coward too, I don't even dare to fire him!

It seems that his past toughness was all pretended, and he was just a coward at heart.

However, despite this, Kenichi Sagawa was not completely overwhelmed by the sudden happiness.

He still knows how to distinguish between the big and small kings and remembers what he should do.

So after he calmed down, he quickly contacted Ning Weimin on his mobile phone and explained today's situation in detail.

He also apologized for his momentary impulse and promised that everything that happened today would definitely not affect Ning Weimin's arrangements.

Ning Weimin’s response was also reassuring enough.

Ning Weimin told Kenichi Sagawa that he understood his emotions were out of control and that his promise to him had not changed.

He told him not to worry about anything, and said that if his boss really wanted to make things difficult for him, then he should do as he said and clear out all his stocks.

But in order to leave some room for this matter and avoid unnecessary trouble, I hope he can stop at the right time.

Pay special attention to not challenging your boss in public, and at least give Gobu Kanci some face.

To avoid further escalation of conflicts and putting things in a dead end.

Naturally, Kenichi Sagawa had no reason to refuse this. He felt that meeting a reasonable client like Ning Weimin was the greatest luck in his life.

To be honest, when he was in this situation, I felt that it was really not worth it to spend so much time worrying about this and that.

  In the past, he attached too much importance to the interests of the company and the relationship between superiors and subordinates. He spent a lot of time and energy making money for the company and currying favor with his superiors, but what was the use?

The nature of a company is its insatiable greed, and the purpose of a boss's existence is to squeeze all his subordinates to death.

In turn, only customers can give these originally humble people a dignified and decent life.

A salesperson's career is sustained by the trust of his customers.

With customers, you have everything; without customers, you are nothing.

So there is no need to say what we should do in the future, right?

Just like him now, as long as he has Ning Weimin's support, he can live a lazy life and the Five Departments Kuanci can't do anything to him.

He now even had a sense of liberation, freedom and fulfillment, and his only regret was that he realized this too late.

So from this moment on, he has to change the way he lives and start a life that is completely different from the past.

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Opportunities are sometimes hard to describe.

It seems that no matter how hard I try to find someone, I can never find him.

Looking back after the passage of time, I find that the opportunities I had at the time seemed to be everywhere.

That’s why people always regret why they were so blind in the first place.

It's such a good opportunity but I just can't see it.

Worse still, some people will regret why they mistook the trap for an opportunity and grabbed it happily, only to end up grabbing shit.

In fact, this kind of thing was common even during the bubble economy, when it was easiest to make money.

Not everyone is as lucky as Ning Weimin, who is blessed by God and has a cheat that allows him to travel through time.

Not everyone has enough self-awareness like Kenichi Sagawa to distinguish between the big and small kings.

They can't even be as content as Director Taniguchi, who is able to listen to advice and stop at the right time and restrain his unnecessary greed.

The more these people are in this economic bubble environment, the faster they will become unlucky and the more miserable their death will be.

Just like those who bought NTT.

At first, they were lucky.

NTT, a stock that the Japanese liken to as "God descending to earth."

Boosted by Japan's bubble economy, a nationwide rush to buy was triggered.

Because there were too many people applying, the total number of applications finally reached 1050 million. The Japanese government had no choice but to use the old method of lottery.

As a result, after just two months of listing, the stock price increased by 200%, reaching 3 million yen per share.

The market value of this stock even exceeded 1987 billion US dollars in 3500, making it the most valuable company in the world at that time.

Everyone agrees that it is a blue chip stock and that buying it will make money.

However, few people have seriously considered whether its performance can support such a huge stock price.

In fact, if we calculate based on NTT's huge market value, NTT would need to earn more than 2500 billion yen every year for at least two hundred years to support this stock price.

  So, when Ning Weimin warned Director Taniguchi about the risk at the wedding of Zuo Hai Yujiro and Kagawa Miyoko, hoping that he would sell it immediately,

Then, as if he was a fortune teller, he accurately predicted the subsequent trend of NTT.

NTT's stock price quickly surged to a high of 3.18 million yen in a short period of time, reaching its peak.

Soon, within a week, the price dropped to 2.8 million yen.

Then it took another week to rise back to 3.15 million yen.

After that, the stock never reached a new high in price.

Almost at the same time as Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko started their trip to France, this "first blue chip stock" that attracted the attention of all Japanese citizens began a long bear market.

By the time Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko returned to China, the stock had fallen to 2.25 million yen. In the two months between, it only went sideways twice, and never had a decent rise again.

Perhaps it is because the market has been oversold in the short term, and only in recent days has a decent big positive line appeared, and the price has returned to around 2.5 million yen.

This is how the stock has been performing over time.

Even though this stock has only fallen by 20% from its high, it doesn't seem too high.

But such a trend can completely break people's defenses.

Especially the big players who have bet heavily on this stock.

If for no other reason, this is a period of general rise in the Japanese stock market.

In the current Japanese stock market, probably no one is more unlucky than those who hold shares of Toshiba, a company sanctioned by the United States.

From their point of view, they see most stocks rising every day, but NTT, which they hold, is falling instead of rising. How do investors who own NTT stocks feel?

So at the wedding of Zuo Haiyoujiro, there were two young boys who dared to challenge Ning Weimin face to face - Ninomiya Hideo and Nagase Yasuo.

They have been in a very bad mood recently and no longer have the arrogance they once had.

They work in the investment department of Taisho Insurance, and because they are extremely optimistic about NTT stocks, their recent investment returns have been dismal.

Several additional purchases that were intended to make up for the losses were of no avail, but instead resulted in even greater losses.

So recently they have been scolded by their superiors almost every day, and have been keeping their tails between their legs almost every day in the company.

I can no longer hold my head up in front of my boss and colleagues. I don’t know how to deal with myself.

In particular, they always recalled the scene when they laughed at Ning Weimin for advising Director Taniguchi to sell NTT stocks.

  Now they realize that they are the real fools who failed to recognize the great man. How embarrassed are they?

There is nothing else they can do now is to pray to God every day to let the NTT stock rise again.

As long as the price rises by another 10% to around 2.8 million, they can close their positions safely.

As for them, of course they don’t know that even the big positive lines in the past two days are just a last hurdle in the stock price performance of NTT stock.

The wishes in their hearts are purely unrealistic hopes and will never come true.

You have to know that NTT, a monopoly stock released by the Japanese government, was not sold to the people in order to provide welfare and money to the people, but to let the Japanese people take over for the country.

Although the Japanese government still has a lot of NTT shares to issue, in order to keep stock investors interested in this stock, they will try every means to stimulate the stock price and prevent NTT stock from falling sharply.

Whether it is leaking news or splitting up a subsidiary for listing, they will use every possible means.

But after all, this stock is a huge money-eating beast and requires too much capital.

In the following two years, the Japanese government tried its best to maintain the stock price at an average of around 2 million yen.

In fact, even when the Nikkei index hit an all-time high two years later, NTT stock never had any decent performance again. It kept going up and down, fluctuating in a stock price range of around 700,000 to 800,000 yen.

So unless these two guys can get the rhythm right and buy high and sell low.

Otherwise, no matter what, NTT will be destined to become one of the marks of shame in their investment career and will always be ridiculed by colleagues and peers who know the situation.

But then again, even so, they are not the most unlucky.

Because those who are even more unlucky than the two of them are those who borrow money to invest in stocks, or even secretly embezzle public funds to invest in stocks.

For example, Supervisor Ishikawa and Vice President Takata of Pierre Caton Co., Ltd. of Japan, these two people are currently in very bad shape.

Although they still sit together in a high-end restaurant and drink, there is no happy atmosphere at all. There is only complaints and blame on each other.

"I really regret it. Why did I believe you in the first place? I was so obsessed that I intercepted the payment from the mall and gave the money to you to speculate on NTT."

"What are you talking about? When you bought this stock, it went up 15% in a few days. Weren't you very happy? And it wasn't just my opinion that I chose this stock. The securities company recommended three stocks, and you liked NTT the most. You also said, 'NTT controls all of Japan's telephone and communications. Our Japanese economy will be extremely prosperous in the future, so the most important stock in Japan is of course the pillar. The stock price of such a stock will never end.' Have you forgotten?"

With just a few words, Ishikawa left Takata speechless.

Even the redness on his face got worse, as if he had drunk one more bottle of sake.

Although he knew that he couldn't put all the blame on Ishikawa, he was also wrong.

But the problem is that the loss amount is too big. He waited for more than two months and got only this result. He couldn't help but complain.

"Well, there's no point in trying to figure out who's right and who's wrong now. Let's discuss what to do next. The market has been pretty good these past two days, and it's finally going up a bit. I just want to know, if we sell NTT now, how much of a loss will we suffer?"

"You want to sell it? What nonsense are you talking about! If we sell it now, we will lose 250,000 yen per share, a total loss of 20 million yen, not counting the handling fee. Add it all up, it will be almost 26,720,000 yen."

"I'm not talking nonsense. I just want to withdraw. Let's sell it before things get worse. You split the loss in half and I split it in half..."

President Takada's words stunned Ishikawa for a moment, and then he flatly opposed it.

"No! Absolutely not! My President Takada, think about it carefully. The current losses are only paper losses. If we sell them, it will become actual losses. Are you really willing to just give up and leave? Even if each of us bears half, it will be more than 10 million yen. For you, it will be at least half a year's salary, right? My monthly salary is 800,000 yen less than yours. I can't afford such a loss."

"What do you mean? Are you still going to be stubborn and continue gambling?"

"Why not? We finally took out our money and invested it in the stock market, but we just had bad luck. You only saw that NTT lost money, why didn't you see that other stocks rose? Think about it, if we didn't put all our money on this one stock, but instead invested in every stock recommended by the securities company, we wouldn't have the result we have now, right? We could have made at least 20 million yen. What's happening now only proves that there are no foolproof stocks. It doesn't prove anything else."

"So what you mean is that we should buy two-thirds of NTT now and exchange it for other stocks?"

"No, I mean, we increase our investment. We use the additional funds to buy other stocks and then win them back."

"Where is the money?" Ishikawa's radical suggestion shocked Takata.

"You're crazy. Where does the new money come from? Do you want me to withhold funds again? I won't do that."

"Don't be so quick to refuse." Ishikawa said slowly, "You don't need to do as much as last time, just get another 100 million yen. I have already agreed with the securities company that if we raise funds, they can give us 70% of the funds. In this way, we can mortgage the market value and get another 200 million yen in financing loans. We can use 500 million yen to invest in stocks. As long as it rises by another 5%, we can break even. If it rises by another 10%, we will make 20 million yen."

President Takada thought about it seriously for a while, but still kept shaking his head.

"No, that's impossible. If you do this, what if something unexpected happens? What if the market goes down? You are just wishful thinking."

However, Ishikawa still had something to say, "There won't be any surprises. Take a good look at the overall trend of the Japanese stock market. It has been rising for more than two years, and I don't know how many stocks have risen several times. There are only occasional small adjustments, and they will rise again soon. We are not greedy, we just want to make 20% or 30% profit on our investment, is that too much? Besides, we have learned a lesson this time, and I suggest buying multiple stocks just in case. It's impossible that all of them will fall. From a probability perspective, there is no possibility of failure. I can also assure you that as long as we make 100 million, we will take out the principal and return it to the company. With a fund of 500 million yen, it only takes a 20% increase, so the chances of winning are not small."

Having said this, Ishikawa put his face close to Takata and spoke in a seductive manner.

"We are all smart people. There is no need to play tricks with words. I know you feel unbalanced in this matter. Because the funds are all provided by you. Then how about this, let's adjust the distribution ratio. From now on, you take 60% of the profits and I take 40%. Is this okay?"

Because the light was projected onto the lenses of the glasses, from Takata's perspective, it seemed as if Ishikawa's pupils had a faint glow.

Takada was finally overwhelmed by the light, and with his greed swelling, he gritted his teeth and said, "I will bear all the risks now. If you insist on doing this, I want 70%. And you have to help me find an excuse to appease Chairman Hasegawa's inquiry. If you refuse, forget it."

Ishikawa was silent for a while, then nodded. "Okay, but I have a request. You must try to get more funds. At least another 200 million yen. Otherwise, I will lose a lot."

After looking at each other for a moment, the two people finally held hands together again.

Their hearts are once again filled with the belief that they will pursue wealth at all costs.