National Tide 1980

If we look at Japanese society in 1987 from Ning Weimin's perspective, this period can only be described with the word "carnival."

In the affluent and relaxed economic environment, most industries in Japan have entered a period of extraordinary prosperity and dividends.

The entertainment industry is like this, the publishing industry is like this, and the emerging video game industry is even more like this.

It’s just that the cultural industry in the 1980s became increasingly tacky.

Idol culture and the rise of adult images, adult magazines and adult comics.

Late-night entertainment variety shows, the craze of comedians, "tunnel duo"ism, and the bosozoku phenomenon.

This all speaks volumes.

The clothing industry is like this, the catering industry is like this, electronic products and automobile manufacturing are like this, and the retail department store industry is like this.

It's just that because of the appreciation of the yen, imported products have suddenly become cheaper and more diverse, making them more popular, further squeezing the local share of Japan's manufacturing industry.

For Ning Weimin, his businesses, even stores like Huiwentang Bookstore, which he originally had no high expectations for, have become important and profitable.

So you can imagine how other industries are booming.

For example, although trolley suitcases have been sold to Japanese companies for patent licensing, they are no longer a completely monopolized business.

However, due to the alliance between Daito Trading Co., Ltd. and Yamato Kanko, and the strong demand for travel, the number of Japanese traveling abroad this year has increased from 5.5 million to 9.6 million.

Taito Trading Co., which took advantage of the company, shipped directly from Yamato GG's sales department, and its sales continued to increase.

There are already many repeat customers who order directly through Yamato Kanko.

Especially in order to compete for customers, Yamato Kanko has frequently appeared on TV screens recently, and the image of Keiko Matsumoto enjoying a relaxing trip with a trolley suitcase has been spread to thousands of households.

The three brands of Pierre Cardon, Goldlion and Easy Ladder exported to Japan are already quite famous, and these trolley cases are becoming more and more popular among customers.

It is a pity that domestic production capacity cannot take advantage of the victory and effectively expand it.

Although the foundry factory Ning Weimin found was already expanding, it would take time to increase output while ensuring quality.

Ning Weimin, who had no experience in industrial production, was helpless in the face of this situation.

To put it bluntly, he only knows how to run the market and cannot help much with how to improve production capacity and efficiency in physical manufacturing. Therefore, we can only watch and miss the opportunity and let the trolley suitcases produced by other Japanese companies share the market dividends.

In this case, it is of course meaningless to talk about market share.

The only advantage is peace of mind.

Ning Weimin doesn't have to worry about anything at all, Dadao Trading Company can operate in an orderly manner and make money for the future.

Although he also knew that this kind of good life was only temporary and could not last forever.

But then again, after all, there are specialties in the art industry.

He was not a person engaged in industrial production, and he never intended to make this his main business.

Since there are more opportunities to make easier money in Japan, why is he still struggling?

When it's time to let go, let it go and do something you like.

If you suffer a little loss, just suffer a little loss. One person cannot take advantage of all the advantages in the world.

Yes, if we look at the situation of Ning Weimin's other industries.

Anyone could say that it would be pure hypocrisy for him to be unhappy about such a small thing.

It is inevitable that Tan Gong Restaurant's business will be booming.

Now Tan Gong Restaurant not only no longer has to worry about not having enough guests, but also has to worry about being overwhelmed.

If this were not the case, Ning Weimin would not even think about opening a branch.

Even Chixia Club’s profits have doubled now.

Those Japanese who have enough money in their pockets frequently visit bustling restaurants, bars and entertainment venues at night, and they are particularly generous when spending tens of thousands of yuan in bills.

As casually as throwing away the napkins you wiped your nose with.

Maria has now expanded the net profit of Akaka Club from less than 30 million yen to 60 million yen every month.

Ning Weimin didn't come back for more than two months, but when he came back, he got a dividend of 20 million yen. How beautiful is this?

What Maria is worried about right now is that the original business area of ​​Chixia Club is too small.

She was thinking about which of the two shops around her had the worst business, and whether it might be swallowed up by her.

But to be honest, among all the industries currently, the one that brings the most benefits to Ning Weimin is the parking lot business that he is optimistic about.

You know, compared with when Ning Weimin and Axia first established Chixia Parking Lot Co., Ltd. last year, this company has now become a pig in the spotlight.

Both business income and the number and scale of real estate owned are no longer what they used to be, and the value is rising with the wind.

First of all, it is well known that real estate in Tokyo, Japan, has skyrocketed this year, and the economic data with an average increase of 85% has set a historical record.

Ning Weimin not only invested a lot of money decisively in purchasing the parking lot from the beginning, but also bought it at a relatively low price. He also used full leverage and used the loan arbitrage model to buy properties like crazy.

As a result, he became a fat man in one bite.

He invested more than 18 billion yen, including principal and loan. Now, with the skyrocketing land prices in Tokyo this year, Tokyo's land resources are becoming increasingly scarce, and the originally underestimated parking lot land has almost equalized with the price of ordinary land.

For Ning Weimin, that is an average increase of 120%, so the current value of his real estate is as high as 40 billion.

Under the name of their joint venture, there are more than 40 parking lots of various sizes, with a total area of ​​86,000 square meters and a total of 3,011 parking spaces.

No matter how you look at it, this is a considerable fortune.

Moreover, the value is increasing synchronously with the continuous appreciation of the land. Ning Weimin is very optimistic and predicts that the asset value of these real estates may exceed 100 billion yen next year.

For this reason, both his partner Axia and Maria, who participated in a small share, were ecstatic.

Especially fortunate that Ning Weimin made the decision at the beginning, fully grasped the best investment opportunity, and bought at a relatively low point.

Secondly, the high parking fees in Tokyo, Japan, are caused by the high population density, developed transportation, and extremely limited land resources.

Now, many people have made money easily under the economic bubble.

Not only are the number of people buying luxury cars increasing day by day, but the parking fees that were originally unaffordable for ordinary people now seem to be less unacceptable.

Especially with more and more people waving 10,000 yen bills to take taxis every night, driving a private car has now become an economical behavior, and the Japanese now will not feel bad for spending high parking fees.

After all, no matter how expensive the parking fee is, it is not as expensive as taking a taxi. The key is that there are few people returning taxis, and it is not convenient to call a taxi. It is uncertain how long you have to wait before you can get one.

To put it bluntly, the economic constraints that have always restricted private car travel and ensured that Tokyo’s roads are not congested no longer exist.

And with the arrival of summer vacation, many families also need to travel together, so the number of private cars on the streets of Tokyo has skyrocketed.

Not only has the traffic situation deteriorated rapidly, but the originally limited parking space has also further revealed its scarcity.

In this situation, even the rich have no sense of superiority. How can parking fees not increase?

In Tokyo, renting a parking space in the city center only costs 60,000 to 70,000 yen per month.

In the city fringe, it costs 20,000 to 30,000 yen per month.

In the center of Tokyo, the high price for temporary parking in popular parking lots is basically 2,500 yen per hour.

In the city fringe, the cheapest one-hour costs 200 yen.

But now there is no such price. The monthly parking space in the city center can be as high as 100,000 to 150,000 yen.

The fringe has also risen to 40,000 to 50,000 yen, which is at least one-fifth of the monthly income of a white-collar worker.

The parking fee is even more expensive. The hourly parking fee in the popular parking lot in the city center has risen to 3,300 yen.

In the city fringe, 200 yen per hour has become 400 yen.

The key is that the parking rate is still high. Now the parking rate of the parking lot with the worst business is as high as 70%.

The parking lot in the city center is almost 100% parked, and some are even overloaded.

So Axia played a ruthless hand again.

She simply cancelled the monthly parking spaces and overnight parking discounts in the popular parking lots in the city center, and changed them to time-based charges.

It's just that they still divide the popular and unpopular time periods into different pricing bases.

This is a good deal, considering that Maria also invested 300 million yen in the Shinjuku parking lot.

The current charging standard is 1,200 yen per hour from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m.

3,300 yen per hour from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

2,800 yen per hour from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Although the parking rate has decreased as a result, it has suddenly dropped from 98% to about 80%.

But the unit price is high, and there are fewer cars parked at night, and it is basically unaffected during the day.

So on average, one parking space can get 30,000 to 40,000 yen per day, and the operating income is completely rising.

Now, every month, the parking fee income from the 180 parking spaces here can reach 180 million yen. Is this a small business?

It can even equal the profit of three Chixia Clubs.

And the value of this parking lot has also increased.

The original total price of 1.5 billion yen is now worth 4 billion.

In other words, from Maria's personal perspective, the investment she participated in at the beginning has achieved an asset appreciation of 500 million, and there is still a lot of cash profit every month.

For her, it is simply perfect.

This is why she can continue to take care of the Chixia Club with peace of mind, and happily hand over the profits every month, but she doesn't open a store herself.

This is nothing. If you look at the entire Chixia Parking Lot Co., Ltd., you will find that there are four parking lots that can meet such a level of charging standards, with a total of 622 parking spaces.

The income from these core areas alone is 600 million yen per month.

In addition, the company also has 18 non-core area parking spaces with an average income of 893 parking spaces of 18,000 yen per parking space, generating a revenue of 450 million yen.

In addition, there are 23 remote suburban parking spaces with an average income of 1,396 parking spaces of 5,000 yen per parking space, generating a revenue of 180 million yen.

That is to say, the net income of Chixia Parking Lot Co., Ltd. has reached 1.2 billion yen every month.

The only drawback is that the tax rate of the parking lot industry is also high, and the more you earn, the more taxes you pay to the Japanese government.

There is no tax rate discount or care for this 1.2 billion yen income. If you pay taxes honestly, the Japanese government can take away less than half of it.

Otherwise, the parking lot business is almost perfect, and the income is much higher than other types of properties.

As a result, Axia had to find ways to transfer profits by declaring social costs and fictitious temporary workers in order to offset part of the tax.

Fortunately, Ning Weimin manages many industries, so he can think of many ways.

This time when he came back, it was also very simple when he understood Axia's tax problem.

He immediately signed several empty contracts with Axia, and offset the profits in the name of gift expenses through the "empty transaction" of "purchasing" the products of Dadao Trading Company and the Chinese handicrafts of Huiwentang Bookstore.

Those are all imported from China.

Ning Weimin has always had the final say on the quantity and cost, and the Japanese could not find any fault with it.

That’s not all. Ning Weimin also asked Axia and Maria to “sponsor” Matsumoto Keiko’s upcoming TV series “The Black Leather Notebook” and to “invest” in the movie “Crazy Rich Asians”. Of course, they signed “unequal treaties”.

This is even more reasonable and legal, and has long been proven to be a “money laundering routine” by European and American countries.

In this way, the profit of up to 600 million yen was easily offset.

In this way, Ning Weimin and Axia finally used this method.

They successfully reduced the tax rate of Chixia Parking Lot Co., Ltd. to 15%, and then they stopped.

Does the Japanese government of this era still want to exploit them?

Just because they are a bunch of drunkards who are living a life of drunkenness, private transactions, and corruption.

Grandma, you want nothing.

If it weren’t for safety reasons and not wanting to go too far, they wouldn’t even give them a yen.

But then again, even in the best times and the best society, there are always industries that are struggling and dark corners that are not exposed to the sun.

In addition to the physical manufacturing industry in Japan today, the days of banks are also getting worse and worse.

The financial marketization reform has greatly boosted the financial industry in Japan, and securities companies, insurance companies, and trust companies have all made a fortune.

However, the open bond market and the policy of continued interest rate cuts in the yen have dealt a double blow to the traditional financial hegemon, the banking industry.

It is now much more cost-effective for large Japanese companies to raise funds by issuing bonds than to seek bank loans. This operation immediately makes life difficult for banks.

The Bank of Japan also has window guidance, giving major banks rigid loan indicators, forcing banks to complete loan tasks.

So now the banks are forced to do nothing but actively lower their loan standards.

In this way, a rare and strange phenomenon in financial history has appeared in Japan.

In order to find loan targets, the high-ranking bank executives who were originally affiliated with large conglomerates have become gray grandsons, kneeling and kowtowing to thank those who took money from them.

This not only led to excessive credit expansion, but also caused the already exaggerated economic bubble to be further inflated.

But there is no way, bank employees can't think so much, they just want to complete the task and not be criticized by their superiors.

Just like in Osaka now, every afternoon, the house of a restaurant owner named Onoue is full of black luxury cars.

The people who got off the car were wearing black suits and carrying briefcases, all of them were elites in the Japanese financial industry.

Once they entered the house, they often didn't come out until two or three in the morning.

They came to participate in the toad worship ceremony, and then they could use this opportunity to get in touch with the owner who was said to be able to predict the stock market, or ask about the stock market, or facilitate financing transactions.

The people of Industrial Bank even regarded the owner as their living ancestor.

Because this lady boss never reads the contract when borrowing money, nor does she care about the interest, and she will never say "no" to acquaintances.

Whenever Industrial Bank asks her to get financing from the bank, she signs without even looking at the amount and interest.

Where can you find such a good customer?

This is something that the financing department of the Industrial Bank headquarters is always proud of.

Perhaps in the whole of Japan, only Minister Yoshimo and his son Yoshimosuke, who are at the headquarters of Sumitomo Bank in Tokyo, can find another person who can match him?

At least, they think so.