Counterattack 1988

Chapter 767 Bubble
Tokyo International Airport.

Autumn is crisp and sunny, with white clouds floating in the blue sky.

The temperature is around 20 degrees, not too hot or too cold.

An international flight from Shanghai landed slowly, slid over the long runway, and stopped.

Passengers walked out of the airport one after another.

Among the crowd of various skin tones, there were two Chinese faces, a man and a woman, who were particularly eye-catching. The man was tall and handsome, and his hairstyle was neatly combed.He was wearing a white shirt, navy blue trousers, shiny black leather shoes, and a dark blue windbreaker.The woman was wearing a long white floral dress with a thin knitted cardigan over it. She had bright eyes and white teeth, exquisite and embossed, pure and lustful.

The woman flicked her waist-length hair. Her hair volume was astonishing, black and shiny, long and smooth.

She tilted her head and looked at the handsome man beside her: "Brother-in-law, where do we live?"

Wang Lin smiled and said, "Wenjuan, isn't it too late for you to ask now? There are a lot of tourists in Tokyo. If you don't make a reservation, the hotel rooms are usually full."

"No way? Brother-in-law, then we are going to sleep in the underground passage?" Li Wenjuan laughed like a silver bell.

"Haha!" Wang Lin laughed, "Sleeping in the bridge hole with brother-in-law, don't you feel wronged?"

"No, as long as I'm with my brother-in-law, I'm happy. It doesn't matter if I eat vegetables or live in a hut."

"Wenjuan, don't worry, follow brother-in-law, I will only make you popular and spicy. Before going out, we must make a travel strategy, because the earth is very big, and the customs and weather of each country and city are different. Same. I already booked the hotel."

"Oh, I knew it. It's right to follow my brother-in-law."

The two of them didn't have much luggage. They didn't bring a suitcase. Each of them only had a change of clothes, a camera, and some necessary daily necessities. Each had a backpack.

In Wang Lin's words, when we arrive at the world's second largest economy, we only need to bring money, and we can buy everything there.

The last time Li Wenjuan and Wang Lin came to Tokyo, but it was mainly for inspection, and they just took a quick look at the various scenic spots, and didn't take a closer look.

This time, Wang Lin and Li Wenjuan came here purely for sightseeing, and their entire itinerary was also a famous scenic spot in the East.

So this time Wang Lin didn't bring a vice president or a secretary.

The two walked out of the airport.

Li Wenjuan suddenly pointed at a person: "Brother-in-law, isn't that your driver, Uncle Zhong? Why is he in Tokyo?"

That person is Uncle Zhong.

When Uncle Zhong was with Tang Jixian before, because he often went abroad with Boss Tang, he had already obtained a Xiangjiang passport.

Wang Lin first arranged for Uncle Zhong to go to Tokyo.

He took Li Wenjuan out for a trip, of course he had a bodyguard by his side.

When Uncle Zhong arrived in Tokyo, he first got in touch with Sachiko and arranged the hotel room properly.

Xingzi arranged a car and a driver for Wang Lin.

Uncle Zhong brought the driver over to pick up Wang Lin's plane.

Li Wenjuan smiled and said, "Uncle Zhong, how are you!"

"Mr. Wang, Ms. Li." Uncle Zhong said respectfully, "The car is ready. Miss Xingzi was unable to come to greet her because of an emergency, and asked me to say sorry to Mr. Wang."

Wang Lin smiled and said, "She has arranged everything for us, thank her. Let's go."

The driver is a middle-aged man who doesn't speak much and can speak some simple Chinese.

Wang Lin and the others came to Xingzi's hotel in Ginza.

Xingzi really had nothing to say about Wang Lin as a friend, and arranged for him a large suite, which had two separate rooms, a living room, and each room had its own balcony.

Uncle Zhong's room was arranged across from Wang Lin and the others. As long as he opened the door, he could keep an eye on what was going on in Wang Lin's room.

Wang Lin and Li Wenjuan checked into the hotel and put their luggage away.

"Brother-in-law, this room is really nice." Li Wenjuan put down her luggage and ran to Wang Lin's room.

"What's the good thing? I think it's just average."

"It's a good thing we live together!" Li Wenjuan smiled sweetly. She thought she would live in two different rooms with Wang Lin, but she didn't expect them to live together. She was so happy.

Wang Lin couldn't understand her feeling at all.

He went out to the balcony.

Just outside is the bustling business center Ginza.

The early 90s was the peak period of Toyo's development, but it has stagnated since then.This is generally the case in the old developed countries in the West. When the industrial civilization develops to a certain level, it will stagnate or even regress.I don't know if it is because of the constraints of the system?Or has industrial civilization itself reached its limits?This social problem is too big for Wang Lin to discuss.

Ginza used to be a symbol of Oriental wealth.Before the real estate bubble burst, Ginza was the icon of high society shopping in the East.A piece of the most common clothes often costs a month's salary of an ordinary employee.The wages of ordinary employees in Toyo were considered high wages in the world at that time.

And 1990 was the last madness of Toyo.

In 1980, Toyo entered the golden age of economy, also known as the era of bubble or prosperity, and it was an era of high economic growth.Orientals who consume like crazy feel that they have made a fortune, and firmly believe that tomorrow will be better and richer.But by the end of 1990, everything came to a screeching halt.

In 1990, 10000 yen was about 300 yuan.This year, the average monthly salary of Chinese employees was 178 yuan, while the average monthly salary of Japanese employees was 1 yuan. Here are the figures converted into RMB.For the convenience of understanding, there is no special explanation below, and all calculations are in RMB.

During the prosperous period of the whole society, all behaviors are trying to cater to and stimulate consumption.For young people who are constantly comparing and consuming, merchants continue to encourage them to enjoy the current life to the fullest, artificially turning every festival into a Valentine's Day or a dating day.Whether it is the traditional Qixi Festival or the foreign Christmas, it is a highlight of consumption. In addition, there are membership days, shopping days, various activities and so on launched by various department stores.

In the brand-name store on Fifth Avenue in New York, it was crowded with people who went overseas to shop from Japan.Orientals consumed 70% of the world's luxury goods that year.There are even department stores in France and other countries that impose purchase restrictions on tourists holding Oriental passports.

Orientals are hysterical in pursuit of delicious food and fun. Some businesses even wrap gold leaf on the surface of the food. An ordinary chocolate that was originally more than 100 yuan was sold for 5000 yuan, which is still in short supply.

Every festival has become a good time for carnival, and every festival couple needs to prepare gifts for each other.At that time, an ordinary employee's monthly salary was around 1 RMB.If it is a wedding, it is normal to buy a wedding dress or dress worth more than one million yuan, and fly to Australia, Bali, Fiji and other tourist destinations for honeymoon. It is normal for a wedding to cost 30 to 50 or more.On the beaches of resorts all over the world, there are all kinds of yellow-skinned and black-haired Orientals.Even black Fijians who work as waiters in hotels have learned to speak Japanese.

On TV or in various magazines, materialism is advocated, and all kinds of clothing, bags, cosmetics, etc. have formed a huge impact on ordinary people.Female high school students followed the example of adults and began to find ways to get money to buy brand-name bags.This trend is becoming more and more popular and younger.Issey Miyake and other brands that are still popular in later generations were born at that time.The bar was crowded with various bosses and young employees, and various foreign wines such as Louis XIII from France became their favorite.If the customer orders sake, even the waiter doesn't bother to talk to you.

Late at night, the roads in Tokyo are full of drunk men and women, taxis have become the most popular business, and asking for fares without using the meter has become the norm.In order to take a taxi, some people waved hundreds of dollars and stood on the side of the road to stop the taxi.In order to show that they are rich, many bosses often tip piles of tips when they arrive at the destination, and sometimes the bank seal has not been broken.According to Dongyang media reports, once a boss only needed to pay more than 100 yuan for the fare, but ended up tipping more than 1990 yuan.This was in 3, and the average house price was more than [-].

The whole society is permeated with an atmosphere of extreme encouragement and worship of material things.As the saying goes, when you are full, you are full of warmth.Young people think of ways to make money, including their bodies.In the era of prosperity in the East, a new way of making money appeared, that is, gambling. The crowd included housewives, female college students, and female middle school students.Girls who have not yet grown up even began to appear.

In their view, selling one's body is not a shame, but without a new handbag, one loses the bottom line of dignity in the circle of classmates and friends.When girls get together, the hottest topic is "gifts from other people's boyfriends", including bundles of cash, popular imported new Mercedes-Benz or BMW cars, and various handbags starting with letters such as H.

In Toyo at that time, if you wanted to pick up girls, material things were the biggest prerequisite.Did you buy a house?Is it in downtown Tokyo or outskirts?Did you buy a car?Is it a domestic car or a luxury car imported from Europe and America?Should the date go to Roppongi, the most western part of Tokyo, or to the ski resorts of Niseko?If you don't have any of these, it's absolutely useless. In the 80s and 90s, housing prices in Japan continued to rise, and the land price of a city in Tokyo could buy the entire United States.But if you want to get married, buying a house and a car becomes a rigid necessity.

Housing prices in Tokyo skyrocketed as a result!
Even then, spending money probably won't buy it.Because there are too many people and few rooms, what should I do?Lottery, the one who gets the lottery is the one. Toyo TV, referred to as Nippon TV, filmed a scene where a young man who had drawn lots many times failed to fulfill his wish and the scene collapsed at a real estate lottery in Tokyo.Tens of millions of viewers saw this young man who was waiting for a new house to get married, collapsed and twitched due to excessive grief.It's like a weak chicken, shot through the chest by the invisible arrow of the house price.This is a true portrayal of countless oriental young people who are struggling to find a house.

Young people without money can only buy houses in the counties around Tokyo or in the outer suburbs. In Ibaraki County, the Tokyo area, housing prices are only one-third of the capital city, but it takes 4 hours to go to work every day.If you can’t afford a house or live far away, then buy a car. Generally, a car costs 4 to 6, so car sales have skyrocketed.

At that time, the stock market and real estate market in Japan were in full swing. The stock market was even hotter than the stock market in my country in 2007, with a price-earnings ratio of 100 times. Some economists in Japan and the world said that traditional economic theory was not applicable to Japan, and Japan was creating new economic laws.Dongyang Real Estate is even more powerful. The land price of one Tokyo city can buy one and a half meters.Oriental merchants are famous all over the world. They look like rich men visiting the vegetable market wherever they go, buying whatever they want.Therefore, the Orientals bought the symbol of the American financial empire - the Rockefeller Building, bought the symbol of the American film - Columbia Pictures, bought the forests in Canada, the iron mines in Australia, and bought the most expensive house in Xiangjiang. After buying 70% of the LV handbags produced in France, Toyo men flew to Thailand to play golf in groups!
Does everything feel so familiar?
Does all this resemble us twenty years from now?

"A bubble is hard to pinpoint until it bursts," Greenspan said.

Everything looks so beautiful.

Until 1990, when the crystal ball hit, stocks began to plummet, and in 1991, house prices began to fall.

Since then, Toyo has entered into a long 30-year economic winter.

When Wang Lin and the others came to Dongyang, it was the time when the crystal ball of Dongyang landed.

The stock market in Toyo was devastated.

The reason why Sachiko returned home urgently was also because of the changes in the domestic economic structure.

Of course Wang Lin and Li Wenjuan were unaware of all this.

The two of them sat comfortably on the balcony of the hotel, drinking drinks, and looking at the bustling market outside.

The street market here will stay at this moment, and there will be no greater development in the next thirty years.

"Brother-in-law, where are we going to play?" Li Wenjuan sat next to Wang Lin, with a hand on his shoulder naturally, like a brother.

Wang Lin asked her, "Where do you want to go?"

Li Wenjuan said: "Disneyland! The last time we came, the time was too tight, and we didn't have time to play there. I heard that the Disneyland in Dongyang is bigger than the headquarters in the United States? Is it true?"

Wang Lindao: "It should be! I haven't been there either. I only know that the construction of this park cost 1500 billion yen, and it was in 1983. If you want to play, then our first stop is to go to Disneyland paradise."

"Okay, brother-in-law. Let's go shopping first? It's so lively outside!" Li Wenjuan looked downstairs, "Eat something delicious by the way?"

"Okay." Wang Lin said with a smile, "I'll accompany you when we come out to play this time. Everything depends on your happiness."

"Brother-in-law, it's great to have you by my side, and this is our two-person world! I think I'm the happiest woman in the world!"

"A world of two, if you are the happiest woman, then I will be the happiest man. Anyway, there is no one else!"

"Huh?" Li Wenjuan chuckled, "Brother-in-law, you are so humorous."

Wang Lin laughed out loud.

The two went downstairs to go shopping, and Uncle Zhong followed him not far or near. When he was free, he was just a shadow, and he would try not to appear if he could.

In the afternoon, the sun in Tokyo made people feel warm.

Walking on the street, a piece of background music sounded in Wang Lin's mind inexplicably: "Sudden Love", this is the theme song of "Tokyo Love Story", which is Wang Lin's favorite Oriental drama, but It won't be released until next year.

It was precisely after watching this drama that Wang Lin thought of taking a walk on the streets of Tokyo. Last time he was in a hurry, but this time he can watch it slowly.

"Brother-in-law, look quickly! The trapeze!" Li Wenjuan suddenly grabbed Wang Lin's arm and pointed forward excitedly.

Wang Lindao: "What kind of trapeze man? How can a person fly-I handcuff you! This is jumping off a building!"

(End of this chapter)