Chapter 495: Black Heart
Japan's Ministry of Finance is discussing raising interest rates, but this does not affect the outside world's still booming financial and real estate investments.
As housing prices continue to rise, some companies operating in a gray area regarding land demolition are becoming more radical in their practices.
Most of these companies are of an intermediary nature. They do not own the land themselves, but they do the work of the demolition team.
To put it bluntly, this is an alternative demolition company composed of a group of yakuza. People in Japan call it "地地げ屋".
If we regard them as serious companies, it would be a compliment to them.
In theory, when land developers cannot resolve disputes, these people will come forward to negotiate with homeowners or landlords, or tenants of the land, to get them to sell their properties or land.
Finally, for each completed commission, these demolition organizations will charge the real estate developers a commission of 200 to 300 million yen.
In addition, these agents will continue to follow up on the subsequent development of the real estate project and then share the profits.
So even though these gangsters are doing the work of urban management, the benefits they reap afterwards are not small.
In the past, when land prices were not so outrageous, these gangsters would also wear suits and ties and visit every household in an orderly manner.
Those families with poor economic conditions, more than five people, widows and widowers, and elderly people who intend to relocate will be given priority.
The price we charge for them is usually 1.2 to 2 times higher than the market price, and we are sincere and attentive in our visits.
In order to reach a peace agreement as quickly as possible, they would even bring some small gifts from time to time and try their best to win the favor of the homeowner.
It can be said that in order to persuade land owners to relocate as soon as possible, these gangsters are surprisingly polite.
At this time, the famous Mogami Tsunesaki in Tokyo was the best among them. In addition to the Yakuza, he also hired a large number of field personnel.
These field workers are mainly women, and all of them are married women aged 30 to 35.
They only do one thing, which is to visit each household to persuade them to sign the demolition agreement.
In the words of Taikichi Hayasaka, the president of Mogami Tsunesang, "The flexibility and patience unique to housewives are an indispensable combat capability for our company!"
Most of the housewives he selected came from families with average financial conditions or were temporarily experiencing difficulties.
As long as these housewives take action, many tough problems can finally be solved by signing the contract.
After completing the order, the housewives will also receive a commission. In a sense, they can also be regarded as a kind of sales staff.
As for whether anyone has made some additional transactions with the homeowner in order to reach a signing date, that is not something Zui Shang Heng Chuang is concerned about.
They only care about the contract. If a homeowner eats all the money and refuses to acknowledge it, that's when the gangsters take action.
They took off their suits, rolled up their sleeves, and knocked on the homeowner's door at night with iron bars, shouting at the same time.
When greeting people like "Good evening!" or "Good night~!", your voice must be loud enough and bright enough for the people whose houses are to be demolished nearby to hear it.
As for things like “Please sell the land to me!”, these clear words will never be shouted out. Anyone who shouts out such words is an idiot.
If the homeowner records the conversation and gets evidence, then I'll have to wait and feed the fish in Tokyo Bay later.
Therefore, etiquette is something that must be strictly followed in any industry in Japan.
However, such gentle measures were only available in the past. Now it is 1989 and housing prices have reached a new peak.
In order to get the increasingly generous commissions, the gangsters started to work in a rougher way.
The protagonist of the violent demolition case that has been hotly discussed in the media recently is Haruko Maru, one of the "NHK Three Ladies" who was very popular in the second half of the 1950s.
The house where she lives in Akasaka district has recently been frequently subjected to a series of brutal activities by yakuza, including power outages, loudspeaker blasts, and dead cats left at the door.
Because of this incident, Ma Liuqingzi, who could not bear the harassment, ignored the opposition of the agency and directly led the residents of the residential building to file a lawsuit against the real estate company behind the Yakuza.
This person is a public figure with a certain influence. The fact that these gangsters dare to do this shows how crazy the property market is at that time.
Money and wealth are so tempting. Even artists are treated like this, let alone the general public.
Yuzawa Town, located at the southern tip of Niigata Prefecture, became famous because of Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country".
During the bubble era, this place also became a gathering place for skiing and high-end residences.
The land price in Yuzawa Town has soared from being worthless to a point where even the locals cannot afford it.
An apartment with an area of less than 55 square meters costs around 30 million yen.
This is remote Niigata, not Tokyo.
Due to the influx of tourists, land developers have also been building various apartments and resort hotels.
This frenetic investment atmosphere has undoubtedly also damaged the local ecological environment. The Niigata Daily News wrote about this phenomenon.
"After passing through the long border tunnel, there is a forest of steel and concrete!"
This sentence is adapted from the beginning of "Snow Country", "Through the long border tunnel, there is the Snow Country."
Irony, naked irony.
What’s even more ironic is that more than half of these completed apartments have been bought by Tokyo residents.
According to the 725 reports surveyed, the mainstream purchasing group is the 40-50 year old group, accounting for 43.6% of the total.
Among all the surveyed people, the lowest annual income is over 5 million yen, the highest is over 200 million, and the majority in the middle are around 20 million.
The Niigata Shimbun even proposed in its newspaper that Yuzawa-machi be renamed "Tokyo Yuzawa-machi".
In order to seize the bamboo shoots, they started to blackmail their own town without any mercy.
All kinds of magic are the daily life of Neon at this time. People are crazy about the land and mad about the land.
But these have nothing to do with Baichuan Feng, as he doesn't do land business.
No, to be precise, he was not doing land business at that time.
While the newspapers were abuzz with news about demolitions and high housing prices, Shirakawa Kaede was busy with his own "new 3-digit development plan".
Tsk, I have to say, the vanity of the Japanese people has also inflated to the extreme.
In the past, I could only watch rich people driving around with license plates starting with 3, but I never thought that there would be a day when I would be able to get one.
The deluxe version of Legacy is tailor-made for the "3-digit" segment. The commodity tax is gone, but a negligible consumption tax has been added.
This not only brings great discounts in price, but Subaru also cooperates with dealers to provide customers with thoughtful 3-digit license plate services.
As long as the customer has ordered a car, they can choose the license plate on the spot. All the remaining procedures will be handled by the 4S store.
Two working days later, when the customer came to pick up the car, all the cars leaving the 4S store had numbers starting with 3.
Look, what is this? This is the appearance!
In preparation for this day, Subaru has been busy expanding its production capacity some time ago.
Originally 300 vehicles rolled off the production line every day, but now that number has increased to 400, and some factories are also undergoing full automation upgrades.
Even so, with a monthly production of more than 10,000 Legacy cars, there is still a shortage of supply.
The temptation of numbers starting with 3 and the abolition of commodity taxes have brought in more traffic than expected.
The 10,000 vehicles that Takao Nakamura originally predicted were easily surpassed. Shirakawa Kaede doesn’t know whether there will be higher peaks in the future, but he has to catch the current wave of traffic.
Just when Shirakawa Kaede was counting his money happily, a call from Torataro called him back to Akita.
"You called me back just for this?" Baichuan Feng picked up the strange-looking golf club in front of him, his expression indescribable.
"Xiao Feng, this is a specially customized version from our Bailu Company, it's very valuable~
Let's go and try it on the golf course." Kotaro couldn't wait to pull Shirakawa Kaede and head to the golf course in Shikaku.
It was early May, the spring breeze was warm, the grass was green, and the birds were singing.
The weather in Tokyo may be a little hot, but in Akita the temperature is only around 20 degrees Celsius, which is simply paradise on earth.
Shirakawa Kaede, who was wearing a polo shirt and casual clothes, couldn't persuade Kotaro, so he could only follow the latter to the golf course not far away.
Skiing and hot springs in winter, golf in spring, Lake Towada in summer, and ten miles of red maple leaves in autumn.
It can be said that there are irresistible reasons to visit Lujiao all year round, and it is still crowded with tourists at this time.
The huge golf course was occupied by people in almost most areas.
However, Baichuan Feng and his team have a special venue, where two other people have already arrived in advance.
"Nagata-san and Ogawa-san, why are you here?"
At this moment, the person wearing sunglasses and lying on a sun lounger at the edge of the court is none other than someone else.
They were the presidents of Keio and Tokyu, Masaru Nagata and Kazuo Ogawa.
Hearing the voice, they took off their glasses and greeted Baichuan Feng with a smile.
"I heard that you have the best golf clubs here, so of course we have to see them."
Both of them have their own villas in Kazuno, and Keio and Tokyu are building railway lines in Akita one after another.
This place has become another major financial revenue area for these two companies besides Tokyo.
Therefore, Nagata Masaru and Ogawa Kazuo often came to Akita on business trips, and naturally became familiar with Kotaro and the others.
After hearing their words, Baichuan Feng looked at the extremely exaggerated golf club in his hand, shook his head and laughed.
The high-strength golf club made of tungsten alloy is light and has a good feel.
But compared to the club head, these are child's play.
The golden light of the club head in the sunlight almost blinded Baichuan Feng's eyes.
This is real gold, not gold-plated. Not only that, there are diamonds embedded on the shaft!
Facing the light, Baichuan Feng's whole hand was shining.
Can you really see where the ball is when playing golf with it ?
"What a good stuff~" Nagata Masaru and Ogawa Kazuo's eyes lit up and they quickly stood up and walked over.
They took the golf club, which exuded the smell of money, with great reluctance to let it go, and their eyes lit up.
"Is this the custom-made golf club your company is going to launch? It's really beautiful."
Unlike Shirakawa Kaede, Nagata Masaru and his friends felt that this club was just what they wanted.
"Is this pure gold?"
"Of course." There was no need for Shirakawa Kaede to answer, as Kotaro had already greeted him in advance.
"In addition to the pure gold club head, the shaft is also made of tungsten alloy and is inlaid with natural diamonds from Africa."
"Okay!" The more they listened, the brighter the eyes of Nagata Masaru and others became.
"When will it be released? How much is one?"
"Now accepting pre-orders, delivery within a week, 100 million yen per piece~"
Kotaro skillfully quoted a price that almost made Shirakawa Kaede lose his balance.
Why didn’t I know before that this guy had such a dark heart?
