Standalone Tokyo

Chapter 114: Cheap Sister’s Kindness

PS: This chapter contains some of the author’s original settings. Any similarities are purely fictitious.

Japanese university tuition fees are very expensive. Similar to top public schools like the University of Tokyo, tuition fees are even more expensive. If you just mention the numbers, most people will be deceived and subconsciously think that it is not much.

In fact, when the tuition fees, book fees, materials fees, and various miscellaneous fees are added up, the number is very large. It is so large that it requires the full support of an ordinary Japanese family and appropriate external borrowings to barely support one student. finish education.

Are there no university student loans in Japan?
Yes, but you should not apply the situation of a large Eastern country to Japan. According to the reactions of Japanese students who have graduated and started working, the so-called student loans are actually slightly different from loan sharks in details.

Japan's student loans originally had good intentions, but over time, due to some irresistible resistance and the hands of some Japanese bureaucrats, student loans turned into student loans.

Therefore, after Uehara Yui learned that Fujiwara Masato was admitted to the University of Tokyo, she was very worried about whether he would seek out scholarships.

If he really carries this debt, even if he successfully graduates from the University of Tokyo and finds a good job, it will probably take his brother nearly ten years to pay it off with compound interest. this debt.

"I can pay for your tuition, brother." Uehara Yui emphasized.

"You don't need to borrow student loans. Whether it's a first-class or second-class student loan, there are traps in the contract."

"Don't worry, I have enough money to pay for tuition, and I don't need a student loan." Fujiwara Masato was slightly moved. Although judging from her appearance, her half-sister is very rich, and college tuition is not a big deal for her. Said it might not be a problem.

Even so, she is willing to pay for her own tuition, which shows that she really regards herself as a relative.

We have to be careful about this!
If you are an ordinary person, fighting for family property is nonsense. What property do you have that can be divided? Even if you have some fixed assets, there is no need to go to the point of killing people.

Shintaro Uehara's son is called Uehara Kazuki. He passed away about two years ago. Now he has another son, Uehara Kazuto, who is Uehara Kazuki's younger brother.

As we chatted, time passed quickly, and before we knew it, the sky outside became dim.

"I have to investigate the general situation of the Uehara family..."

There is only one daughter under Kazuto Uehara's knees, named Uehara Ruri, and his younger brother Uehara Kazuto also has a daughter, named Uehara Mai.

Seeing Masato Fujiwara's sworn expression, Uehara Rui temporarily believed him, and her expression softened. She sat on the sofa and started chatting with Masato Fujiwara about his life over the years.

The chat between the siblings was generally warm. Fujiwara Masato talked about the things he encountered during work and the strange customers, while Uehara Yui talked about all kinds of interesting things when she was in college.

The situation of the Uehara family is obviously different.

How should I put it, when seeing this, Fujiwara Masato already had a lot of palace fighting dramas in his mind. The sense of crisis suddenly came up.

There are traps in student loans. After taking it, if you get one hundred yuan for tuition, you will most likely have to pay back three hundred yuan, or even more, after you work. What's more terrible, you will be unemployed after graduation. This happens a lot in Japan.

After realizing that it was very late, Uehara Rui said goodbye to Fujiwara Masato, got up and walked out.

And when Huang Mao started his activities in Chiba City and first inquired about the Uehara family, he was surprised to find that Uehara was a very famous surname in Chiba County.

The eldest brother is gone, but the younger brother is still alive and kicking. According to the mainstream succession order in Japanese society, it is obvious that the younger brother will inherit the family business. And if at this time, the illegitimate son of the eldest brother jumps out, what will happen?
sizzle!
After Fujiwara Masato thought of this, he suddenly took a breath of air.

How famous?
The president of the Chiba Prefecture Agricultural Cooperative has been the head of the Uehara family for generations. The current president of the Chiba Prefectural Agricultural Cooperative is a man named Uehara Shintaro, who is now about sixty-five years old.

Fujiwara Masato didn't know how much fixed assets the Uehara family had, but just knowing that Shintaro Uehara, a member of the Uehara family, was the president of the Chiba Prefecture Agricultural Cooperative, he could guess that the Uehara family were not only extremely wealthy, but also probably local dignitaries. person.

Two bodyguards in suits and a Rolls-Royce were still waiting on the roadside downstairs. When they saw Uehara Yui coming down, they opened the car door and let him get in. After that, they also sat in the car one after another. The car slowly drove away from this commercial street.

Because it is so close to Tokyo, it was particularly convenient when Masato Fujiwara sent people to Chiba City to investigate the Uehara family. It only takes one hour to drive from Tokyo to Chiba City, the capital of Chiba Prefecture.

Masato Fujiwara stood by the window on the second floor with a faint gaze, looking at the back of the luxury car slowly leaving.

Chiba Prefecture is a Japanese county-level administrative region just next to Tokyo. It is located on the east side of Tokyo, facing the Pacific Ocean in the southeast and Tokyo Bay in the west. It is a protruding peninsula.

Why such judgment?
Just because the Japanese Agricultural Cooperative is a somewhat unusual organization.

If you just look at the name, Japan Agricultural Cooperative (Japan Agricultural Cooperative Federation), do you subconsciously think that it is similar to a production cooperative in a large Eastern country, a collective organization of farmers?

However, this is not the case. When the Japanese Agricultural Cooperative was first established, it was actually an organization established by administrative orders in modern Japan in order to monopolize and control agriculture. At that time, the only members who could join were Japanese landowners.

Even if an ordinary farmer wants to enter, you should first check whether the land in your home belongs to you?
No, then why did you go in?
Its organizational structure is a three-level organizational system, which is divided into central agricultural cooperatives, county-level agricultural cooperatives and grassroots agricultural cooperatives. Grassroots agricultural cooperatives are generally organized in administrative areas such as cities, towns, and villages.

In other words, this is a landowners' alliance composed of landowners from all over Japan. The group that unites large and small landowners is called the Japan Agricultural Cooperative.

The Agricultural Cooperative has developed into a monopoly monster, ranging from agricultural management and life guidance, sales of agricultural products, agricultural supplies supply services, credit and insurance services...

In other words, the Agricultural Cooperative is a giant that spans Japan's agriculture, processing industry, banking and insurance industries, and even intervenes in the medical and burial industries.

From the purchase of seeds and agricultural production tools, the planting of farmland, the sale of agricultural products, and the turnover of agricultural funds, Japanese farmers' all means of production and living are controlled by the Agricultural Cooperative.

This scene looks very familiar, doesn’t it? ?
That's right, in the ancient feudal society of a large Eastern country, how big landowners controlled their farm laborers was how the Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives operated, but it was just covered in a modern cloak.

Ordinary Japanese farmers must join the Agricultural Cooperative if they want to farm. If you want to withdraw from the Agricultural Cooperative, you will not be able to farm. Not only are production tools such as seeds and machines controlled by others, even if you want to You can’t sell or transport your own crops.

What, you have a solution to all of this?
Then there is one last problem that ordinary Japanese farmers certainly cannot solve... safety. It has been said that the Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives are the feudal landowners of the ancient eastern countries. So, do you think they still exist today as the thugs of the ancient landowners?
Of course, the above are all personal guesses and conjectures of Masato Fujiwara, and the reality is definitely not like this!
For example, the chairmanships of the Japan Agricultural Cooperative at the city, county, and central levels are actually elected by ordinary farmers.

The entire voting process and results are 100% democratic and free. Japanese farmers can rely on the votes in their hands to choose candidates that suit their interests.

Therefore, the high prices of agricultural products in Japan are also the result of liberal democracy.

Based on the above, the assets and connections of the Uehara family are really very rich.

If you still can't understand it at this point, then Fujiwara Masato has another more vivid metaphor... The Uehara family was a local powerful in ancient times in a large eastern country, and the local magistrates had to look at their faces to act.

disobedient? It's okay. Most of the local farmers are farm laborers who rent my land. If you want to collect agricultural taxes, you must ask me for my opinion. At the same time, the officials and servants of the government are also my people. If you don't obey, I can Ignore you.

Therefore, if the Uehara family really had a dispute over inheritance of family property, it would be completely normal for someone to die.

If this matter had nothing to do with him, Fujiwara Masato could sit and watch with a smile while eating watermelon, but when this matter happened to him, he couldn't laugh at all.

No, I have to strengthen the security around me!

Thinking of this, Fujiwara Masato quickly opened the system's barracks and hired himself a team of armed bodyguards and a team of self-defense female soldiers.

After equipping them with submachine guns, shotguns, and heavy body armor, they were allowed to appear in the cafe downstairs. After ordering Fujiwara No. 1 and No. 2 to lead them and strengthen the protection of the commercial street, Masato Fujiwara felt safe.

Feeling safe, Fujiwara Masato also began to think about the impact of such a thing on himself.

Crisis, crisis, there are dangers, but there are also opportunities. The danger may be an attack from my second uncle, so what are the opportunities?
Identity, an opportunity to transform yourself into a powerful person!
This opportunity does not necessarily mean that he can inherit the Uehara family's property and name. In fact, Fujiwara Masato is not willing to change his name to Uehara Masato.

But is it necessary to change your name to gain powerful status?
Not necessarily.

Masato Fujiwara lay on the sofa in his living room with his eyes squinted. He began to think and trace some things.

That half-sister seems to have a good attitude towards me. Can I support her and give her more say in the Uehara family?
Compared to fighting for the inheritance rights of the Uehara family, it seems easier to let Uehara Rui, a cheap sister, take a step forward in the status of the family, and it does not require too much involvement in some messy things.

However, it is easy to say that it is easy to improve Rui Uehara's voice. However, Masato Fujiwara has no idea how to do it.

I had almost no internal information about the Uehara family and could come up with something, so I just let it take its course.

Come on, arrange the security forces and go to sleep.

After clarifying the matter, Fujiwara Masato stood up, stretched, then took out his mobile phone and found Inoshita Keiko's number.

"Moxi Moxi, Sister Huizi..."

……

At noon on the third day after meeting a sister, Uehara Rui came over again. She skillfully went upstairs and knocked on the door. After Masato Fujiwara opened the door, she walked in naturally.

On this day, Uehara Rui took Fujiwara Masato out and went shopping at the mall.

On the first day he arrived, Uehara Rui actually noticed that his younger brother was not well dressed. It was not that his clothes were dirty, but that they were old and too small.

In fact, the reason for not wearing new clothes is not that Fujiwara Masato has no money to buy clothes, but that he has never thought of buying himself new clothes and has always been wearing his old clothes.

Old clothes are so comfortable to wear. As long as they are not tattered, why change them?

As Fujiwara Masato's current girlfriend, Keiko Inoshita has a carefree personality and has never noticed her boyfriend's clothing problem.

On the contrary, the new sister who had just met noticed this situation on the first day, but considering her brother's self-esteem, she said nothing.

It wasn't until Uehara Rui came to visit for the second time that she took Fujiwara Masato out on the grounds that she wanted to go shopping.

Fujiwara Masato didn't feel anything was wrong at first. When Uehara Yui said he wanted to go out for a walk, he immediately agreed and then went out wearing his most comfortable casual clothes.

In order to ensure his own safety, Fujiwara Masato also asked two armed bodyguards to replace the security directors of Fujiwara No. 1 and No. 2, and asked the latter two to follow them from a distance with five armed bodyguards.

When Fujiwara Masato followed Uehara Rui to the mall, the latter kept weighing the clothes on him and asked him to change clothes. When the clothes were suitable, he paid for them without hesitation.

After buying five or six items of clothing in a row, all of which were men's clothing, Fujiwara Masato discovered at this time that Uehara Yui had specially taken him out for shopping.

After buying two large bags of clothes, Uehara Rui took Fujiwara Masato to buy shoes, ranging from ordinary casual shoes to sports shoes, and then went to buy men's perfume, and...

This kind of buying behavior made the clerks in the luxury store in the mall start to look at Masato Fujiwara strangely.

"Wow, this guy is so lucky to have such a rich girlfriend..."

"Bah, I think that the rich woman is lucky. She can also pick up such a handsome boy!"

(End of this chapter)