National Tide 1980.

In December 1987, as the Japanese stock market continued to rebound and returned to an upward trend, Japanese society regained its confidence and optimism and restored the prosperity before "Black Monday".

Whether at the national level or among small traders, whether among the wealthy and powerful or among the common people, they have all begun a frantic race in the capital market.

First, the government successfully completed the second sale of NTT as it wished, and sold 1.95 million shares of NTT to Japanese "leeks" at a high price of 2.55 million yen.

However, those Japanese investors who bought such a "scam" stock were still cheering, fantasizing that NTT could continue to thrive like it did when it was first listed and break through its previous highs.

Little did people know that it was good enough that NTT’s stock did not fall after that. Even when the Nikkei index reached the peak of the bubble economy two years later, NTT’s stock price still failed to break through its previous high.

This is probably the cruelest aspect of the stock market. Retail investors are always the meat that is cut and eaten at will by various interest groups.

They thought they could move forward together with the strong national economy and enjoy the dividends of the times, but the final result was that they could only be reduced to stepping stones, and the worst kind at that.

Secondly, there is no shortage of aggressive investors in Japan.

Since Japanese society entered the bubble economy stage, the soaring stock and housing prices have given rise to large and small speculative groups that are different from traditional chaebols.

Many of these speculative groups are led by relatively young people.

They are aggressive, like to take risks, and especially enjoy financial games, which is very different from traditional businessmen like Kawamoto Genshiro who take a steady and cautious approach.

However, precisely because they conform to the characteristics of this era, these young people who dare to challenge themselves have quickly achieved success in a very short period of time.

Just like what happened on Black Monday.

Although these leveraged speculative groups were caught off guard, they all suffered heavy losses without exception.

However, their radical style of risking everything, the financing facilities granted by Japan's loose fiscal policy, and the profit-seeking nature of securities firms have provided them with opportunities to increase investment in the stock market and save themselves.

Therefore, Ning Weimin was not the only speculator who rushed back into the Japanese stock market at the right time after "Black Monday".

He may be the person who earns money most comfortably, easily and surely, but he is not the one who earns the most or the most.

At this time, the few people based in Tokyo and most sought after by the financial media are almost all rapidly rising young upstarts who control shares worth more than US$5 billion.

Compared with the "Tokyo Six Devils" in the early days of the bubble economy, they, as a new generation of people who got rich quickly, are even more ferocious in speculation and have even worse moral bottom lines.

The most famous and powerful person among them is Mitsuhiro Odani.

This guy initially started from scratch by running a hotel, and later became the head of the Guangxin Speculation Group.

Especially in the past one or two years, Mitsuhiro Odani has launched a lot of bold stock market speculation, pushing up stock prices, hoarding stocks, blackmailing with green tickets, and doing everything else, earning more than 500 billion yen in capital.

Not only does he have an unusually shrewd mind, he also has a strong network of connections.

It includes many politicians, company directors, yakuza and bank executives.

Like this time when the stock market crashed, in order to make up for the losses, Mitsuhiro Otani simply went to the bank to use loan financing to buy a listed ham-making company, and before raising the stock price, he told the news to some of his connections.

Then he took advantage of the news that a prostitute in Kobe died of AIDS earlier this year and spread the rumor that the Nippon Ham Company he bought had extracted anti-AIDS factors from chicken bile.

Soon, as the market began to rebound, the ham company's stock price soared, and its market value increased fivefold to 230 billion yen.

At the same time, it actually promoted the sales of the company's ham, making it a popular product loved by the Japanese people.

In this way, it is like stepping on the left foot with the right foot, and it is likely to further support the stock price to continue to rise.

It can be said that Mitsuhiro Kotani is the most vivid demonstration of how easy it is to turn Japan's traditional interpersonal network into a speculative form.

Especially the way he trades theme stocks is so good that even the four major brokerage firms that always engage in insider trading have to admit defeat.

In addition to Mitsuhiro Odani of Guangxin Group, there is another investment star who is becoming more and more famous, Taimichi Morishita, who is from Aichi Prefecture and started his business in the money lending business.

Not content with living in a remote corner, after expanding his lending business to Tokyo, Morishita Yasumichi not only invested money in finding political agents, but also became obsessed with golf and developed golf courses in the United States.

As for his most well-known achievement in the early days of the bubble economy, it was probably the invention of the golf membership system and his introduction of this membership system to Japan.

He also became a wealthy man because he successfully promoted the golf craze and hyped golf membership cards during the bubble economy.

Not only that, he also acquired Trump Tower in New York some time ago, and after the deal was completed, he was invited to Trump's home for lunch, and the newly crowned heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson also joined him.

Unfortunately, even so, it could not help Trump escape the fate of bankruptcy.

In short, compared to Mitsuhiro Otani, he is better at using gossip to hype himself and increase his own value.

This time when the stock market crashed, he was able to raise a large amount of cash through various financing channels and successfully buy at the bottom because he had several golf courses that could be mortgaged and his reputation was reliable.

The result was very satisfactory. Not only did he make back the money he lost in the stock market by buying at the bottom, but he also doubled his profits.

Recently he has been promoting his more ambitious plan in the media - he intends to invite boxing champion Mike Tyson and Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger to hold a boxing match and a concert respectively at the Tokyo Dome, which is expected to open next year.

From this we can see that this guy's confidence probably comes from the improvement in his financial situation.

After all, once people have money, they want to do big things. The richer they are, the more they want to do things that make a world-shaking impression. This is human nature.

There is another person who can be compared with them, that is Takahashi Oshinori, whom Ning Weimin accidentally passed by at the Chixia Club on December 12.

Takahashi Oshinari was a top student who graduated from Keio University. Although neither he nor Ning Weimin had any memory of their first meeting, it had to be said that they were quite similar in certain traits and belonged to the same type of people.

For example, they are all born speculators.

It was just like Ning Weimin's life experience, who was fired from the Chongwenmen Hotel for secretly trading expensive goods with guests staying there.

Similar things happened in Takahashi Osaka's life.

The Keio High School party ticket fraud incident was one of the stains on his life.

It turned out that when he was studying at Keio High School, he found that students were keen on attending various parties, and party tickets could be charged, so he began to take the initiative to plan parties.

With the reputation of a prestigious school like Keio, it was easy for him to invite many beautiful girls from outside the school to participate.

Tickets for the party are therefore in great demand.

It’s just that he attaches so much importance to ticket sales that sometimes he sells party tickets in advance even before the venue is confirmed.

Occasionally, the venue of a gathering would be changed, but Takahashi Oshinori did not take it seriously. However, the school received reports from dissatisfied students and considered it a fraudulent act.

As the mastermind, Takahashi Oshinori was expelled from school.

However, despite this, Takahashi Oshinori, who endured humiliation at Setagaya Gakuin High School three years later, still returned to Keio University's Department of Economics by passing the entrance exam through hard work, and he showed his unique values ​​as soon as he graduated.

He cannot stay at work and only likes to study investment and stocks.

As early as the second half of the 1970s, Takahashi Oshinori had been keen on stock market speculation. In order to obtain funds and financial support, he even married the daughter of the Iwasawa family, who was known as the "Emperor of Hokkaido", against his will.

But unfortunately, this marriage speculation did not bring much benefit.

Because that was the time when the Tanaka faction of the Liberal Democratic Party was at its strongest.

The Iwasawa family in Hokkaido belonged to merchants who were close to Fukuda Keio and were just local tycoons.

As the target of suppression by the Tanaka faction, he not only had no chance to stand out, but also lost almost all his chips in an insider trading of political speculation.

Takahashi Oshinori did not enjoy a few days of glory as the headmistress of the Iwasawa family before he began to deal with the aftermath of a miserable defeat for his father-in-law who was burdened with debts and fines of 32.9 billion yen and was embroiled in lawsuits.

The collapse of Iwasawa's "empire" was complete.

The Hokkaido TV station that originally belonged to the Iwasawa family, the Toyota car dealership in Sapporo, and the Venus car dealership were all confiscated or used to offset debts.

Fortunately, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. When the resentful father-in-law passed away, he left his daughter and son-in-law an electronic peripheral equipment trading company with a small piece of land and a three-story building as a small inheritance.

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Takahashi Osunori started his career highlight by becoming the vice president of this company.

Gao Ze was very lucky to have caught the peak of the economic bubble.

Originally, he was not satisfied with promoting the trade of electronic peripheral equipment. After taking over the company left by his father-in-law, he changed its name to "EIE" and began to shift the main business direction to real estate investment and stock investment.

What's even more coincidental is that at this time, the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan also began an active marketing strategy targeting small and medium-sized enterprises.

You know, "Chang Yin" is an excellent financial institution with a credit risk rating of 3A, and once Takahashi's courage is combined with "Chang Yin", it will burst out with amazing power.

In fact, with the initial 1 billion yen loan from Long-Term Credit Bank, the land that Takahashi Oshinori bought with the money quickly appreciated tenfold, and it was just the eve of the bubble economy.

At the same time, Takahashi Oshinori, who had a certain amount of financial capital, also began to use the connections he had built in the Keio system. Through close contact and frequent gatherings, he hinted that he could introduce connections and provide considerable financial rewards.

More and more Keio boys surrounded him, including those who worked at Dentsu and the credit department of Long-Term Credit Bank.

In this way, "EIE", which has no achievements in this industry, is invincible in real estate and stock market investments. It seems to have entered a glorious era where anyone can borrow money, no matter how much, as long as they want.

After that, his company began to launch a fierce attack on the stock market during the bubble economy.

In 1986, Takahashi Osunori successfully promoted the listing of "EIE".

Afterwards, under the name of "establishing a mobile phone company", it increased capital and expanded shares in the market and raised 50 billion yen.

Then he used the 3.2 billion yen raised to purchase the Hyatt Hotel in Saipan.

In 1987, Takahashi Osunori started to build the Bilton Crystal Golf Club, operated the Royal Playground Golf Club, and invested billion yen to purchase the Sydney Regent Hotel in Australia.

He also invested 2.2 billion yen to establish the private Bond University.

The Black Monday raid did cause his company's stock market value to evaporate by half, but that didn't matter. He had Qingying's network of connections and the backing of "Changyin" to meet his financing needs.

So after the disaster, when the stock market ended its volatility and entered a relatively stable period, he began to use the 100 billion yen he borrowed from Long-Term Credit Bank to raise his company's stock price in the market.

In return, he also took the opportunity to speculate on a number of "Changyin" affiliated companies, and as a result, the Nikkei index rebounded sharply and made a huge profit.

Now, not only has the market value of his "EIE" company reached a high of 258 billion yen.

Moreover, he personally made a huge profit of 60 billion yen and was ready to buy a building for his company in Tokyo and a private jet for himself.

In fact, when it comes to smugness and personal enjoyment, he is more of an expert than Ning Weimin.

But then again, there is one thing in his life that is not as good as Ning Weimin's.

That is, in terms of his personal marriage, he compromised for the sake of his career and lacked a wife whom he could fall in love with.

Although he and his wife already have two children, he has always felt that his emotional life may be his lifelong regret. He only feels grateful to his wife, but never has love for her.

So in order to make up for this shortcoming, he began to relish the nightclubs and clubs in Ginza.

He sought comfort and compensation from the services of hostesses by spending money lavishly.

So it can be said to be accidental, but also inevitable.

He originally visited the Chixia Club by chance, but after meeting Maria, he became deeply infatuated with her.

Takahashi Oshinori is certainly not a boy with a head full of innocence, nor is he a loser who has never seen a woman.

But sometimes there are exceptions in this world.

Some people are born with a preference for people with a certain style and appearance, and cannot resist that attraction at all.

It’s okay if you haven’t seen it, but once you have seen it, you will never forget it and will think of it from time to time.

From then on, Takahashi Oshinori became a regular customer of the Akaka Club, and he had to spend at least one million yen at the Akaka Club every night just to talk to Maria.

Even after he discovered that Maria was looking for ways to sell Hennessy Cognac, he immediately took the initiative and spent tens of millions of yen to buy all the liquor to use as New Year gifts for his own company.

Maria's promise to Ning Weimin was fulfilled just a few days later.

But even so, Maria did not show any more intimacy to Takahashi Oshinori.

Maria also thought clearly that in terms of wealth, her income was enough to meet her needs.

After all, Takahashi Oshinori is a married man and it is impossible for him to give up his original wife.

And has she worked so hard until now, is it just to find a man to depend on and be someone else's lover?

Will you give birth to an illegitimate child for someone else in the future?
of course not.

Besides, Gao Qiao is not Ning Weimin, otherwise, she might have considered it a little...

Perhaps this is what is called a bad fate. The more Maria is so aloof, the more Takahashi Oshinori flocks to her.

Just like that, this leader in the eyes of Keio University graduates, the head of a listed company, unknowingly became a bootlicker. (End of this chapter)