Standalone Tokyo

Chapter 219 The Benefits of Uniting the Majority
When Jun Tsukino chatted with Minako Nakazaki in person and received the commission, the former was very happy to serve the poker organization. In addition to the high investigation fee offered by Minako Nakazaki, he also wanted to establish a relationship with the poker organization.

Jun Tsukino and his father have been to the VIP floor of the Red Heart J Hotel. Although the services provided here seem to be not many, if you look closely at each of them, you will find that there are hot weapons sales, assassination commissions, generic drug wholesale, and security services.

In terms of hot weapons, the Tsukino Group, to which Jun Tsukino belongs, is a medium-sized yakuza group under the Sumiyoshi-kai. Most of the annual gunfights are carried out with samurai swords, and a small part with pistols. There is not much demand for hot weapons, and submachine guns and assault rifles are not used.

On weekdays, the Tsukino Group would not stockpile weapons, equipment and ammunition. After all, they were just a gang, not a rebel or terrorist organization, and had to deal with daily raids by the Japanese police.

However, if something big happens, the Red Heart J Hotel is a crucial weapons supply point. You can get automatic weapons by bringing money here, go shopping in the afternoon, and go for a gunfight at night. After the fight, throw the gun into the sea, and the police will definitely not be able to find it.

As for the assassination business, needless to say, those who are involved in gangs will always have a few enemies.

The same reason applies to the security business. When you have many enemies, sometimes you really need reliable outsiders to protect yourself, because some dangers do not necessarily come from the front, the knife behind is the most deadly.

Overall, it seems that Taro Tsukino really wants to have a good relationship with poker. Their interests do not overlap, and they can definitely be friends.

In Tokyo's underground world, the Inagawa-kai is the boss, and the second-in-command, the Sumiyoshi-kai, is also powerful and should not be underestimated. They can be considered one of the local bosses in Tokyo and have many well-informed friends.

The poker organization was unaware of the fact that the Seyard Group bribed Tokyo council members, but this was no secret to the Tsukino Group, a gang affiliated with the Sumiyoshi-kai.

Taro Tsukino just said hello to a few good friends with whom he had common interests, and then these friends talked to their congressman friends, and they were able to find out roughly who had received money from the Shiad Group.

Outsiders don’t know which congressman has a good relationship with Shiyad, but as people in the congressman’s circle, they can easily learn about this semi-public information.

Through the inquiries of the Tsukino Group, Fujiwara Masato successfully found out that about half of the 127 members of parliament may have had contact with lobbyists from the Seyard Group and received public relations fees from them.

In most cases, the public relations fee is not paid directly in cash. It may be the votes promised by the World Bank Group, or a high-paying job with little work for the family of the congressman, or reimbursement of expenses from a high-end consumption venue.

In short, even if you know about these "benefits", it is difficult to obtain evidence that the congressman has accepted bribes, and it is difficult to report the fact that he is corrupt.

When Fujiwara Masato heard this number, he knew that he couldn't use physical means to make them change their words... No, why should he let the poker organization take over?

Fujiwara Masato fell into deep thought. He found that he seemed to have fallen into a misunderstanding. With a hammer in his hand, he always wanted to kill everyone... In terms of the problem, this action of the Shiyad Group was a map cannon.

The poker organization is not the only one selling generic drugs in Tokyo. Whether legal or illegal, there are people making money in this industry. It’s just that their costs are not as low as those of poker, so their profit margins are not as high.

So, why did the Shiyad Group insist on fighting this time alone?
How could you forget the principle of uniting with the majority and striking at the small handful?
Fujiwara Masato fell into self-reflection. Increasing taxes on generic drug sales would only reduce the proportion of money laundering by poker organizations, but for other generic drug companies, this would be a matter of life and death.

After sorting out his thoughts, Fujiwara Masato began to act. He first appointed Taniguchi Kotaro as the president of Joker Pharmaceuticals, and then asked him to contact other Japanese companies that made generic drugs and share the information obtained by the poker organization with them.

Some bosses believed it, some were skeptical, and some thought it was nonsense.

But no matter what, when the news gets out, the bosses of these generic drug companies will always ask their friends, and when they get a glimpse of the situation, they are forced to take action because it concerns their own wallets.

The boss of a generic drug company alone is nothing, because the Sealed Group with 5,000 Japanese employees can crush him.

However, when generic drug companies, sellers throughout Tokyo, and even industry stakeholders outside Tokyo pay attention to this matter, the pressure exerted on the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly will make it impossible for the members to ignore it.

The five thousand employees behind the Shiyad Group have votes in their hands, but behind those generic drug bosses and distributors, there are also many employees, and the votes in their hands are also votes!

The generic drug dealers in the open are getting anxious, and the illegal generic drug dealers in the underground black market are naturally also affected, because the relationship between the two is very close, just like the practices of the Joker Pharmaceutical Company in playing cards, which are basically learned by Fujiwara Masato from his predecessors, and are not original.

Unlike the bosses who make legal generic drugs, these underground black market drug dealers are not so particular in what they do.

Those members of parliament who secretly accepted bribes from the Seayard Group and were preparing to vote in favor in parliament began to receive threatening letters from unknown sources. Some of these letters were sent with razor blades, and some were sent in blood.

The general content is that if you dare to agree to this proposal, I will kill your entire family.

Most of these threatening letters are just for scaremongering. After all, drug dealers who sell generic drugs on the underground black market are not white powder drug dealers, and the profits are not enough for them to actually kill the congressmen.

But would the MPs who received the threatening letters dare to completely ignore such letters?
Some congressmen with powerful backgrounds were dismissive, while others from commoner backgrounds were trembling with fear. They went to call the police seriously. It was hard to say whether the police could find the culprit, but the congressmen who called the police secretly began to regret helping the Shiyad Group.

The kickbacks given by the Shiyad Group are not worth risking your life for.

Under the direct and indirect influences, many congressmen had to seriously consider the pros and cons of the generic drug proposal for the sake of their own political future and life safety, and the success rate of the Shiad Group's plan began to plummet.

These are the advantages and disadvantages of the democratic voting system... The advantage is that it is easy for powerful and wealthy people to manipulate it, but it is also easily influenced by other external forces.

(End of this chapter)