Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 557 Refusal to Cooperate and Hanyu Hideki’s Purpose
It was obvious that even though the Hatoyama family was powerful in both black and white, they still looked down upon people like Takei Yasuo.

Of course, let alone the brothers of the Hatoyama family.

Even Hanyu Hideki himself has a hard time liking people like Takei Yasuo.

This man came from a poor background. When he was young, he worked as a handyman and sold vegetables. Because he was in the market, he once devoted himself to the extreme and did some buying and selling business in the underground black market.

But other people who have experienced the darkness of society and seen the plight of those at the bottom will not go back and continue to do evil once they get rich, not to mention giving back to society.

But Yasuo Takei has an inherent "evil" in his heart.

I made my first pot of gold in the 1960s. After I came into contact with the personal consumer credit business while traveling overseas, I immediately became enlightened and decided to return to Neon to engage in this business.

And it is naturally impossible for such a person to engage in any formal personal credit business.

However, Takei Yasuo can become the richest man in Neon in the future.

One's own abilities naturally have merit.

He initially chose housewives who lacked money to spend but were timid and prone to threats and control as loan targets.

However, when it comes to lending, it is natural that if you borrow something, you must repay it.

Takei Yasuo relied on the extremely powerful connections he had made when he was in the black market. He often used these connections to collect debts and used violent means to collect debts.

Precise customer targeting, interest rates comparable to loan sharks, and explosive collection of repayments.

Under the combination of these conditions, Takei Yasuo's personal credit club 'Takefuji' developed rapidly.

However, along with the development of his career, Takei Yasuo's personal and company's poor reputation came.

Use unscrupulous means, abuse of violence, bullying of the weak, defrauding loans, inducing consumption, ultra-high interest rates, violent debt collection...

Since the 1970s, Takei Yasuo can be described as infamous.

Violent loan collection has even led to homicides.

Perhaps due to his background or past experiences, Takei Yasuo's character flaws are extremely obvious.

Controlling, selfish, stingy, authoritarian, superstitious and other problems can all be seen in Takei Yasuo.

For the company, Takei Yasuo requires absolute control. All matters, large and small, must be handled by him and can only be carried out with his consent.

Takei Yasuo is also extremely harsh on his employees. In many cases, he does not even receive wages and can only make money based on performance.

In addition to working hours that could cause death from overwork, employees are also required to recite what Yasuo Takei himself calls "famous sayings." Yasuo Takei even likes his employees to call him "Dad."

And this guy is extremely superstitious about the auspicious days of the zodiac. He usually puts an almanac on his desk and does everything according to the instructions of the almanac.

There is a saying that "good people don't live long, but bad people live for a thousand years."

Although Takei Yasuo did all the bad things, the other party's career grew bigger and bigger.

The rapid development of the neon economy in the 1960s and 1970s, and the bubble economy period in the 1980s helped Takei Yasuo's personal credit business to develop on the fast track.

Even if Neon's economic bubble burst, because Neon society fell into the inertia trap of consumerism, personal consumer credit business not only did not fall into a downturn because of the bursting of the bubble, but became even higher because everyone was short of money.

Takei Yasuo's "Takefuji" eventually became one of Neon's four major credit companies, and was able to compete with the established consortiums in the financial field.

Takei Yasuo himself also successfully sat on the position of Neon's richest man.

Just like his predecessor, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, who was once the richest man.

The ending for Takei Yasuo, the richest man, was not so good either.

Neon official legislation announced that the interest rate on personal consumer credit shall not exceed 20%, and the excess amount must be returned to the lender.

For "Takefuji" whose starting interest rate is 30%, this is definitely a disaster.

After the legislation was passed, the consumer loan empire of "Takefuji" collapsed and was completely divided by other forces.

The "legendary" story of Takei Yasuo also ended here.

After briefly reviewing Takei Yasuo's life in his mind, Hanyu Hideki actually wanted to say that he did not hate Takei Yasuo as a person, but just hated his bottomless way of doing things.

After the other party makes a fortune, or even after the company goes public, it is obvious that he can choose a more "civilized" way to make money.

After all, many famous bosses in later generations made their fortunes in somewhat less than honorable ways.

But in the end, these people did not go all out, and finally chose to go ashore with their names clean.

As for Takei Yasuo, the more wealth he has, the more evil he does.

To be frank, although Japan's future legislation may have some powerful forces targeting Takei Yasuo.

But the problem is that if Takei Yasuo had not continued to use violent methods and maintained ultra-high lending rates to squeeze customers after he became rich, then his "Takefuji" would not have closed down.

So, the final "result".

It's all caused by past "causes".

Takei Yasuo, this is purely his own fault.

"Why, Hanyu-san is interested in him?"

Just when Hanyu Hideki was watching Takei Yasuo sinking into memories, the brother of the Hatoyama family next to him suddenly asked.

"No, I just remembered that it seems that Yunshang Entertainment has cooperated with the other party."

Hideki Hanyu replied.

He did not lie, because Takei Yasuo did cooperate with Yunshang Entertainment.

Yunshang Entertainment has undertaken the "Takefuji" advertising project sent by Dentsu, and the agency's artists have also shot advertisements for "Takefuji".

Last year, the F4 group had not suspended activities and was invited to participate in the year-end party of "Takefuji".

Although Takei Yasuo is tone deaf, he loves singing very much and likes to invite popular stars to sing with him.

The F4 group was the unlucky guy who had to endure Yasuo Takei's magical voice.

However, although Takei Yasuo was stingy with his subordinates, he was very generous with his own money.

The appearance fee for the F4 group alone is as high as million yen.

"It turns out that cooperation in normal business is fine, but Hanyu-san had better not get too involved with this guy.

After all, even among my friends, there are many people who dislike this guy. If he hadn't been useful, the criminal records on his butt would have been enough to make him unlucky. "

The Hatoyama family brother gave kind advice.

Hanyu Hideki nodded in agreement, "Thank you sir for reminding me, I will remember it."

"Okay, the event has started. I still have things to do, so I won't talk to Hanyu-san anymore."

"Mr. Hatoyama, please."

When the two of them said this, today's meeting was completely over.

However, after the event started, Hanyu Hideki took some time off.

Apart from receiving an award from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as a representative of the Hanyu Education Foundation, he basically has nothing else to do.

After dealing with the guests who came to talk to him, he found a place to hang out, ready to wait for the award event to begin.

But when he had just found a good place and hadn't stayed for a long time, he saw a person walking towards him.

"President Hanyu, it's our first time meeting you. I'm very happy to meet you."

The person who came up to say hello was none other than Takei Yasuo, whom he had just discussed with the Hatoyama family brother.

"Excuse me, your Excellency?"

Hideki Hanyu didn't bring an assistant with him today, so no one reminded him.

On the surface, he did not know Takei Yasuo.

So there is no problem in asking the other party this way.

"This is Takei Yasuo, the president of Takefuji. This is my business card."

Takei Yasuo said, handing a business card to Hanyu Hideki with both hands.

The appearance of the other party at this time was inconsistent with the cruel and cruel image in the rumors.

Of course, this is also because the opponent is facing Hideki Hanyu.

Although Hanyu Hideki is more than thirty years younger than Takei Yasuo, in terms of personal strength, he is much stronger than Takei Yasuo.

Takei Yasuo is proud of two things.

The first is of course wealth, but even Takei Yasuo at his peak is far from the current Hideki Hanyu.

The second nature is the power in the Yakuza. By collecting loans, Takei Yasuo cooperates closely with many associations.

But if he wanted to use such despicable methods to deal with Hideki Hanyu, that would be a real joke.

Even Hideki Hanyu didn't need to use his own strength.

Neon officials alone cannot allow a super-rich Hideki Hanyu, a world-renowned figure, to be harassed by trash from the dark side.

"It turns out to be President Takei. Nice to meet you."

Hideki Hanyu took the business card and returned it with his own.

Although he didn't think much of Takei Yasuo, he didn't reach out to hit the smiling man.

In public, it is better to maintain your grace.

But it seemed that he was too polite. After Takei Yasuo received the business card, he immediately slapped the snake on the stick and said this to Hanyu Hideki.

"President Hanyu, I wonder if we can make an appointment so that we can talk about cooperation between our companies."

Hanyu Hideki asked doubtfully, "Cooperation? There seems to be no area of ​​cooperation between our two families."

Takei Yasuo said eagerly, "How could it not be! There is a lot of room for cooperation between my Takefuji and Chairman Hanyu's Elf Entertainment."

"Oh?" Hanyu Hideki looked puzzled.

"The products of Elf Entertainment are so popular in Neon, and the direct-operated stores are all over Neon. If Takefuji can set up a special consumer credit service for Elf Entertainment products in the store, it will not only help those cash-strapped consumers get the products they want. Elf Entertainment’s products can also help Elf Entertainment increase its revenue.”

Speaking of this, Takei Yasuo said expectantly, "This is definitely a win-win situation for Takefuji and Elf Entertainment."

However, after listening to Takei Yasuo's words, Hanyu Hideki couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Takei Yasuo thought he was a fool.

What can help consumers and increase Genie Entertainment’s revenue?

It's just a pie drawn by Takei Yasuo.

What Takei Yasuo really likes is Elf Entertainment’s sales outlets all over Neon and the consumer groups that Elf Entertainment can potentially drive.

This ferocious-looking guy really had a good plan.

He obviously planned to use Elf Entertainment's channels as the "traffic" entrance for his credit customers.

To put it bluntly, it is the same routine as later generations of domestic 4S stores handling car loans on their behalf.

I have to say, this idea is very good.

The feasibility of what can be achieved is also very high.

If Hanyu Hideki is willing, he can discuss it in detail with Takei Yasuo and get a share of it. I believe this will be a huge profit.

But the problem is, Hanyu Hideki is unwilling.

Because he knows that although there are adults who like Elf entertainment products, the main group is still dominated by minors.

Compared with adults, these minors are also a group of people who are relatively poor economically.

The prices of Elf Entertainment's products are definitely not cheap. It will definitely be very difficult for these minors to buy Elf Entertainment's products.

So you don’t need to do any research to know that once this kind of consumer loan is promoted through Elf Entertainment’s product sales channels, it will be the minors who will suffer in the end.

Although Hanyu Hideki is not a moral gentleman.

There is no talk of being a conscientious capitalist.

But in his previous life, he hated those bastards who made campus loans the most, and he didn't want to be such a person in this life.

Of course, there is one more important point.

No matter what credit model consumers use to buy Elf Entertainment's products, he has no control over it and doesn't bother to care about it.

But for the sake of Elf Entertainment's reputation, he would never do such a thing.

After all, in Hanyu Hideki's view, a long-term good reputation is far more important than any short-term gains.

Once Elf Entertainment sells its reputation for immediate short-term gains, it will definitely pay a price for it in the future.

Reputation is something that cannot be seen or touched, and its value cannot be measured specifically.

But the accumulation of reputation cannot be achieved by spending money.

Once damaged, money cannot make up for it.

Thinking of this, Hanyu Hideki said without hesitation, "Sorry, Elf Entertainment will not consider this aspect of business and cannot reach any cooperation with Takefuji."

"President Hanyu, do you want to think about it again?" Takei Yasuo didn't want to give up yet.

After all, since the establishment of Elf Entertainment, it has spent many years, as well as countless energy and wealth, laying out a dragnet of sales channels in Neon. There are hundreds of direct-operated stores Elf Show alone.

Therefore, once cooperation with Elf Entertainment can be reached, the resources that Elf Entertainment's channels can bring to Takefuji are unimaginable.

"There is nothing to consider." Hanyu Hideki was too lazy to argue with Takei Yasuo, "President Takei, we are not from the same group, so there is no possibility of cooperation. I will leave now."

After saying that, Hanyu Hideki ignored the ugly Takei Yasuo and turned around and left.

"It's really unlucky. I want to find a quiet place to have some quiet time, but there are always evil pens coming to harass me."

When leaving, Hideki Hanyu couldn't help but think in his heart. As for Takei Yasuo, looking at Hanyu Hideki leaving, his cold and unhappy emotions seemed to overflow.

But even so, in the end Takei Yasuo just forced to swallow this breath.

With his current strength, if he wants to deal with Hanyu Hideki, he will undoubtedly hit an egg against a stone.

Although he is very well connected in the Yakuza.

But he is not stupid enough to think that Hanyu Hideki is completely blank in this regard.

Not to mention that Hanyu Hideki is extremely powerful in the Tohoku region, the Inagawa Association all depends on Hanyu Hideki's face.

In fact, even earlier, Elf Entertainment had commercial cooperation with Yakuza forces from various places through pachinko bidding and licensing.

Although the credit collection business can make money, for the neon gangsters, pachinko playing pinball is the most stable and steady business.

What's more, some entertainment agencies run by Ji Dao have many business cooperation with Yunshang Entertainment.

If he really had any random ideas, those people would be the first to refuse.

……

After dealing with Takei Yasuo consciously that he was unlucky, Hanyu Hideki didn't wait long before the award ceremony began.

After the official speech, Hanyu Hideki stood on the stage and was awarded a certificate of commendation, a trophy and a series of other things by the brothers of the Hatoyama family.

Then, he and other recipients of awards were photographed and interviewed by reporters.

He said a lot of eloquent and falsely polite words.

After that, it was time for the lunch meeting.

But not everyone can participate.

At the neon restaurant that had been booked, the bosses were sitting at two rows of low tables, exchanging glasses with each other, chatting and laughing.

Beside the crowd, there was also a specially invited enka singer to perform.

I can only say that this scene, this style, this atmosphere is very neon.

Hanyu Hideki and Hatoyama Yutaro sat together and talked about many things during the meal.

What happened today, Yutaro Hatoyama came here to help his clan brother.

But he also has his own business at Dentsu.

In the past few years, Dentsu's business has been developing well, and it has even successfully gone overseas through Storm Advertising.

And Yutaro Hatoyama's position has been promoted again and again.

Now he is the executive director of the board of directors.

At the end of the day, Yutaro Hatoyama mentioned another thing.

That is this year's Neon Film Academy Awards, where he will once again serve as the head of Dentsu.

He originally met Hanyu Hideki at the Neon Film Academy Awards ceremony a few years ago.

So when he returned to his old job this time, Yutaro Hatoyama asked, "I remember Hanyu-san is a member of the Film Academy."

"Yes." Hanyu Hideki replied.

"The Academy will announce the list of nomination judges after the New Year. How about I recommend you to be the nomination judge? Then we will participate in the Academy Awards together and you will support me."

Yutaro Hatoyama suggested matter-of-factly.

"Me? Be the judge?" Hanyu Hideki pointed at himself and said.

"Is there any problem?" Yutaro Hatoyama said.

"Of course there is a problem. I've been so busy this year that I haven't even watched a few neon movies. How can I be nominated for a movie?" Hideki Hanyu said helplessly.

Yutaro Hatoyama said nonchalantly, "What does that matter? Hanyu-san is a cultural celebrity. Who dares to question you as a judge?"

Hanyu Hideki curled his lips, "Even if I am not a cultural celebrity, no one would dare to question me as a judge."

As the boss of the Yunshang Department and the most powerful man in the neon entertainment industry, who without eyesight would dare to question him?

So he followed up by explaining.

"Hatoyama-san, that's not what I meant. What I mean is that I am a judge and I have no idea which film to select for finalist."

Who would have thought that when Yutaro Hatoyama heard this, he looked at Hideki Hanyu with a puzzled expression, "Which movie should I choose to be shortlisted? Isn't it better to vote for Yunshang Entertainment's movie with your eyes closed?"

"Hey?"

Hanyu Hideki's mind was a little down.

Inexplicably, Yutaro Hatoyama's words seem to make sense.

The Neon Film Academy Awards, as anyone in the industry doesn’t know, isn’t it just a game of dividing the cake among several major studios?
It is only natural that he invests in his own movies.

After all, the simplest way for several major forces to divide up the Academy Awards is to prevent films that are not from their forces from being shortlisted.

In that case, even if all members of the Academy vote for the best winner in the end, they can only choose from the list provided by them.

This method of operation is not like the general election in America.

Thinking of this, he could only say, "Hatoyama-san, I have a lot of work arrangements now. I don't know if I will have time to serve as a judge next year and participate in the Academy Awards, so I really can't agree to you."

"I can understand that. All the partners in your Yunshang department are very busy. However, you can serve as a judge first, and you can find a representative to vote. As for whether to attend the award ceremony in the end, it depends on your schedule."

Yutaro Hatoyama finally said this.

Hideki Hanyu thought for a while and replied, "That's all it can do."

If possible, he would of course be willing to participate.

After all, Yutaro Hatoyama has always taken good care of him. Even if he reciprocates, he should go and support Yutaro Hatoyama.

To be honest, the Neon Film Academy Awards are of little value to people like them.

But things in the entertainment industry are like this. The matter is not important, but the repercussions are huge.

Best used to gain reputation.

Sometimes the benefits of accomplishing ten things in other places are not as great as accomplishing one thing in the entertainment industry.

The Neon Film Academy Awards was originally promoted by Dentsu, and it is an important sponsorship event of Dentsu. Therefore, Dentsu still attaches great importance to the Academy Awards.

This is why Yutaro Hatoyama attaches so much importance to the Film Academy Awards.

After discussing this matter with Yutaro Hatoyama, the rest of the luncheon was mainly about small talk and did not talk about anything serious.

However, although it is said to be a lunch meeting.

But by the time the lunch meeting ended, it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon.

Hanyu Hideki originally wanted to go back directly and enjoy the service of the pretty widow before going to America.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped through the door of the restaurant, Yutaro Hatoyama grabbed him again.

"Let's go, clan brother invites you and his friends to continue sharing."

Then Hideki Hanyu could only follow Yutaro Hatoyama and continue the stall in another place.

After eating and drinking, the friends of the Hatoyama family brother were almost gone, but they still had no skills in activities.

Because the two of them invited Hideki Hanyu to have a drink again.

It was obvious that the Hatoyama brothers regarded him as one of their own.

After all, the longer you leave things like renewal to the end, the closer the relationship will be.

At this time, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.

After eating and drinking twice in a row, I naturally wouldn’t choose a restaurant for my last extension.

The nightclubs in Roppongi are undoubtedly a good choice.

This time, Hanyu Hideki decided on a place, a quite high-end private club.

The service here is not accompanied by a beautiful waitress drinking and singing, but a comfortable massage service.

In the massage private room, Hanyu Hideki and the Hatoyama brothers lay on the massage bed and let the masseur help them relax.

Such a scene made Yutaro Hatoyama couldn't help but say.

"This is the first time in my life that I have extended my business like this."

Hanyu Hideki said with a smile, "To continue the stall, the important thing is to continue. As for what we do, of course we do what we feel comfortable with. No one stipulates that we have to drink."

The brother of the Hatoyama family said, "Hanyu-san is right. After a busy day, pressing it like this really makes it much more comfortable."

Hanyu Hideki said, "If Mr. Hatoyama likes it, you can enjoy it often in the future. The massage techniques here are quite good."

The brother of the Hatoyama family said, "With my status, I can come here once in a while. If I come here too often, I will definitely attract the attention of interested people."

"No need to worry about this. They provide door-to-door service of private masseurs. Just call if you need it."

"Sounds good."

As the Hatoyama family brother spoke, he suddenly turned his head and said to Hanyu Hideki, "Hanyu-san, do you know why I kept you here to continue my business?"

Hanyu Hideki replied, "I don't know. I would like to ask Mr. Hatoyama for advice."

The elder brother of the Hatoyama family did not answer immediately. Instead, he looked at Hanyu Hideki and praised him, "What a smart boy. This may be why Yutaro likes you."

In response to this, Hideki Hanyu did not express his opinion, but just listened to the other party quietly.

The brother of the Hatoyama family did not intend to let Hanyu Hideki answer, but said to himself, "I want to thank you. You helped me last year. I couldn't thank you at the time. I only said thank you now, and I still can't thank you." I hope you don’t mind.”

"With a little effort, Mr. Hatoyama is too polite." Hanyu Hideki said.

The help the other party said was actually last year when the other party ran for election for the first time.

The fund affiliated with Hideki Hanyu provided the other party with the donations required for the activities within the rules of Neon Law.

And in the process, the media channels of the cloud series also provided certain support.

And this kind of topic is just a matter of time.

Brother Hatoyama thanked him, Hideki Hanyu said modestly, and then it was over.

Immediately afterwards, the other party told Hanyu Hideki another thing.

"In the Neon Council, there are some people who have trouble with the local forces in Tokyo and are involved in some secret transactions. I have a vague feeling that these people have a bad attitude towards Hanyu-san."

This can be regarded as the Hatoyama family brother reciprocating the favor. Thanks to Hanyu Hideki for his help, he specifically revealed the news to Hanyu Hideki.

Who would have thought that after hearing this, Hideki Hanyu said calmly, "I know."

"You know?" Now it was the Hatoyama family brother's turn to be surprised.

"Some of the people I worked with before may have been jealous of me for profit reasons and just saw that I was uncomfortable, so they used some means involving stock transactions."

Before Hanyu Hideki finished speaking, the eyes of the Hatoyama family brother became inexplicably deep.

Then he asked, "Is it the same as the method used by Vice President Jiang Haozheng of the Likult Group?"

"What happened to the Rikult Group?" Hanyu Hideki looked confused, with an expression of confusion and curiosity.

In this way, he was naturally pretending.

Moreover, he was a little surprised.

It was still nearly five months before the Likult Group's Kawasaki Intelligence Building was completed when the Likult Group bribery case broke out.

Unexpectedly, the Hatoyama family brothers knew about this so early.

It can only be said that the energy of political figures like Neon is really extraordinary.

"You don't know the best. Try to stay away from these things. It will definitely not be good for you." The Hatoyama family brother just warned Hanyu Hideki and fell silent again.

Hanyu Hideki was not the kind of person who would break a casserole and get to the bottom of things. Seeing that the brother of the Hatoyama family didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, he turned to chat with Yutaro Hatoyama.

After all, he has achieved his goal of letting the other party know about this, hasn't he?

Next, as the three of them chatted, the final continuation also ended with the end of the massage.

In the parking lot of the private club, after Hanyu Hideki sent the two Hatoyama brothers away, he also took the car back to the Master House.

By the time he got home, it was already half past twelve in the evening.

But at this time, when he took the elevator from the underground garage to the living room, he saw that the house was still brightly lit.

Before he could ask the maid Machiko.

Then he saw Ono Chiharu, who was wearing a kimono, walking quickly with slippers in hand, and took the initiative to help him change his shoes and take off his clothes.

While serving, he said, "I have prepared the sukiyaki pot that Hanyu-san wants to eat. Do you need to make it now?"

Everything he saw in front of him reminded the scumbag that later generations would condense Mr. Lin Yutang's words into the three major enjoyments of life.

[Marry a neon wife, live in America's house, and hire a Chinese cook. 】

Neon women's attitude of serving men as God can indeed bring indescribable satisfaction to men.

So after Ono Chiharu helped him change into slippers and take off his coat, Hanyu Hideki hugged the pretty widow.

He looked at the beauty with burning eyes and said.

"Of course we have to eat, but before that, I want to eat something else."

After saying that, the scumbag picked up the pretty widow and strode towards the bedroom.

(End of this chapter)