"It's normal that I haven't heard of him. I went home and asked my grandfather about it, and he also said he had never heard of this man. He was a street patrolman back then."
"Since your grandfather doesn't know, how did you find out?"
Patrolmen walk around the streets every day, dealing with all kinds of people, and various sources of information are intertwined. If Huang Lihan is really a remarkable person, there is no reason why Huang Saner's grandfather has never heard of this person.
"There was a man following Mrs. Huang. I took the opportunity to get close to him and got the news from him."
"Wow, you really know how to ask questions. Why don't you find a cat and ask if it eats mice?"
"Master Nan, are you saying that I've fallen into someone's trap?" Huang Saner asked suspiciously.
"I don't know. It's hard to judge with too little information. But you also said that the people you inquired about were those close to Old Lady Huang. What kind of close person would easily tell others about their master's family? How can you keep someone who is so careless with his mouth around you?"
"That seems to be the case. Is that old lady Huang a liar?"
"Who knows, maybe Guan Guiman's enemy came back to seek revenge on him." Nan Yi pondered for a while and said, "Forget it, let your men continue to follow him, and you don't need to get involved anymore, just focus on your training class."
"Don't you need me to follow you?"
"Well, don't do this kind of dirty work in person in the future." Nan Yi reached out and patted Huang Saner's arm. "Don't let people call you Huang Saner if you can. From now on, you have to get used to being called Boss Huang."
"Master Nan, you won't need me anymore in the future?" Huang Saner said in surprise.
"What do you mean I don't need you? You're the boss now, so you should act like a boss. Stop thinking about being on the front line. From now on, you should get used to telling others what to do."
Huang Saner said embarrassedly: "This is just what Miangua and the others said."
"Okay, Master Huang is a good name, don't waste your time here, go and do your thing."
"Master Nan, I'm so tired. Call me if you need anything."
"Go ahead."
In the following days, Nan Yi kept watching Japanese TV news, including NHK's "Midday News", ANN's "News Station", etc. When he saw the news report that Japan's per capita GDP reached 20,000 US dollars, Nan Yi took Nan Wuwei to fly to Tokyo.
After arriving in Tokyo, Nan Yi sent Nan Wuwei to the Japanese garden in Lake Kawaguchi at the foot of Mount Fuji, and he went to Ikeda Company alone.
As soon as he arrived at Ikeda Company, Nan Yi went into Ikeda Karikyo's office and listened to his report on the real estate holdings of Ikeda Company.
“President, the company owns 3-cho land in Chiyoda-ku [9,917 square meters is 1 cho], with an average purchase cost of 2.5 million yen per square meter, and the current price is 13.26 million yen per square meter, with a book profit of 320.1 billion yen;
The company holds 2.7-cho of land in Shibuya-ku, with an average purchase cost of 5.4 million yen per square meter and a current price of 9.7 million yen per square meter, with a book profit of 115.1 billion yen.
The company holds 1.6 cho of land in Chuo-ku, with an average purchase cost of 7.93 million yen per square meter and a current price of 18.6 million yen per square meter, with a book profit of 169.3 billion yen.
The company holds 2.4-machi of land in Minato-ku, with an average purchase cost of 7.1 million yen per square meter and a current price of 10.89 million yen per square meter, with a book profit of 90.2 billion yen.
The company holds 5.2-cho land in Shinjuku District, with an average purchase cost of 3.05 million yen per square meter and a current price of 11.94 million yen per square meter, with a book profit of 458.4 billion yen.
The company holds 1.1-machi of land in Toshima-ku, with an average purchase cost of 3.82 million yen per square meter and a current price of 9.08 million yen per square meter, with a book profit of 57.37 billion yen.
It holds 17.2 cho of land in Shinagawa Ward, with an average purchase cost of 520,000 yen per square meter. The current price is 3.62 million yen per square meter, with a book profit of 528.77 billion yen.
…
Chairman, as of yesterday, the total book profit of all the land held by the company in the Tokyo and Osaka areas was 3.274 trillion yen;
As of yesterday, the total book profit of the company's residential, commercial and factory buildings was 4.619 trillion yen;
Adding the two together, the total book profit is 7.893 trillion yen. Chairman, my report is complete. "
Ikeda Karikyo bowed to Nan Yi and ended his report.
"Ikeda-kun, after deducting the loan interest and taxes, how much will the company have left?"
Ikeda Karikyo replied: "About 5.8 trillion yen."
Nan Yi converted it in his mind and found that according to the current exchange rate, it was approximately 40.1 billion US dollars.
"Ikeda-kun, what do you think about the trend of real estate and land prices in Japan over the next two years ?"
The reason why Nan Yi was in a hurry to fly to Tokyo was that at the beginning of this year, Japan first lowered the housing purchase interest rate from 5.5% to 2.5%, more than doubling the interest rate. This further stimulated the enthusiasm of Japanese citizens to buy houses, and the land and housing prices in the Tokyo area soared.
This is not enough. In order to encourage citizens to buy houses, the Ministry of Finance then released the "White Paper on Land Use", which claimed that current housing prices are in line with the trend of my country's economic development and that the rise in land prices centered around Tokyo is caused by actual demand.
This statement directly endorses the rationality of high housing prices. From January to date, the average land price in Tokyo has increased by 66.4%. The increase in housing prices is even more exaggerated than the land price, almost turning around.
Ikeda Karikyo thought for a moment and said, "Chairman, in the short term, Japan's real estate prices still have a lot of room to rise, and they should continue to grow rapidly next year; but in the long run, the upward momentum of Japan's real estate will soon be exhausted, and it will take a sharp turn downward in the next two to three years. In my personal judgment, this turning point will be the year after next."
"Very good, Ikeda-kun is indeed a top student of the University of Tokyo. Your analysis coincides with that of the Information and Policy Committee. I personally agree with your analysis. I am optimistic that real estate prices in Japan will continue to rise next year. That is why, Ikeda-kun, it is time for Ikeda Company to withdraw.
Whether it is the interest rate cut or the White Paper on Land Use, these are bad signals. Why did the Ministry of Finance do this? Is it for all Japanese citizens or for certain people? "
Ikeda Karikyo's pupils shrank sharply, and he cried out in shock: "Chairman, could it be that the chaebol is behind this?"
“It’s hard to say. We have no connection with the chaebols, and there is no direct evidence to prove this speculation. However, as you said, the upward momentum of Japanese real estate prices has been exhausted.
From now on, Ikeda Company will adjust its strategy and sell off all of its real estate holdings. We will pay attention to the pace and make sure that all of them are sold out before the end of this year."
"President, there is no need to rush. We still have a lot of time. I think it would be more reasonable to wait until the beginning of next year to sell it. That way, the company can make a few hundred billion yen more."
“No, no, no.” Nan Yi stretched out his index finger and shook it, saying, “Ikeda-kun, we can’t hold all the profits in our hands. We must leave enough profit margins for the buyers. In this way, the buyers will only thank us, and will not curse us when they lose all their money.
The reason they suffered losses was not because of our trap, but because of their own greed.
When you contact the buyers, you can tell them honestly that the reason we are selling is because we are not optimistic about the future . How will the buyers view you if you do this? "
"The buyer will definitely think I'm an idiot," said Karikyo Ikeda.
Nan Yi smiled and said, "Ikeda-kun, congratulations, you idiot are about to receive a cash reward of 50 billion yen. In addition, when the housing prices in Tokyo drop, you can go to Shibuya District to look for a Japanese-style garden. The society will bear half of the purchase price, and I will bear the remaining half personally."
The price of a Japanese garden is not outrageously expensive, and it is not even among the top 5 housing prices in Tokyo. However, not everyone is qualified to buy a Japanese garden, especially a Japanese garden in Shibuya district. The landlords are either members of the chaebol or senior politicians.
If you want to buy a house here, you not only have to be able to afford it, but also have to have enough status and identity. Nan Yi wants to buy a house for Ikeda Karikyo, but it is not as simple as just paying the money. He also has to help Ikeda Karikyo build enough status and identity, which involves huge amounts of money and other investments.
The value of the reward that ultimately fell on Ikeda Karikyo was at least 100 billion yen.
When Ikeda Karikyo heard Nan Yi's words, he stood up and bowed deeply, "President, thank you very much for your cultivation of me. I will do my best for the Nan Group."
"Ikeda-kun, please sit down. You deserve the rewards." Nan Yi waited for Ikeda Karikyo to sit down stiffly before continuing, "After all the funds are recovered, can our final profit reach 6 trillion yen?"
After a brief thought, Ikeda Karikyo said, "President, this number should be fine."
"Okay, then I will make a plan based on this number. Someone from Nankoku Bank will contact you for the 4.5 trillion yen. This money will be exchanged for US dollars with capital outside of Japan at an exchange rate slightly higher than the current exchange rate. It is estimated that 31 billion US dollars can be exchanged. This part of the funds will no longer belong to Ikeda Company."
The reason why Nan Yi explained the number so clearly was because the size of the number would affect Ikeda Karikyo's "merit accumulation", and he had to make it clear to Ikeda Karikyo.
"After deducting your bonus, the remaining 1.6 trillion yen will be invested in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A professional trading team will take over the stock trading. Ikeda-kun, your most important task in the next five years will be to invest and acquire shares."
Nan Yi said as he took out a piece of paper from his briefcase and placed it on the table. On the paper was a table listing the names of the companies:
Asahi Kasei, Toppan Printing, Synthetic Rubber, Nichia Chemical, Ohara Optics, Horiba, Kobayashi Kengyo, A-one Precision, Yamazaki Mazak, Disco, Toray, Shimadzu Corporation, Shibaura, Keyence, Nagase Industry, Sekisui Chemical...
Ikeda Karikyo picked up the paper and took a look at it. "Chairman, according to Hermann Simon's theory, all the companies listed above are hidden champions. Many of them have been developed for hundreds of years and are large in scale. They are also supported by chaebols, such as Shimadzu Corporation.
Some are small, but the value of the company mainly depends on the chairman of the company. As long as the chairman does not agree to our investment, we will never have the possibility of investing, such as Kobayashi Kengyo. "
“I know it’s not easy to get shares, so I won’t force you to complete all the work of getting shares in the company. I just hope you can do your best.
Ikeda-kun, set up a new division under the company, with two employees in each company. Their task is to gain the favor of the top management of the target company.
Whether it's buying cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, entertaining guests at dinner parties, entertaining guests at Kabukicho, giving gifts on key people's birthdays and holidays, helping them solve problems at home, walking the dog, feeding the cat, etc.;
I don't care what our employees do or how much they have to pay. I only look at the results and don't care about the process. As long as they can achieve the goal of investing, they will get promotions, huge rewards and everything.
Each company will be allocated 500 million yen as the first activity fund, and once the funds are exhausted, the budget for the second fund will be determined based on the progress of the completion. "
"Hai!" Ikeda Karikyo bowed, raised his head and asked, "President, may I know the purpose of your investment in these companies?"
"Ikeda-kun, don't worry. Don't think too much. My purpose is very simple. I bought shares just to make it easier to order products from these companies in the future. In addition, it is also to make it easier to send people over to learn in the future.
Nanshi needs to have its own hidden champion companies, and not just one or two;
My minimum requirement is that within 20 years, Nanshi builds at least ten hidden champions from scratch. In order to achieve this goal, Nanshi can invest tens of billions of dollars or even more.
There is no distant future for real estate. The future belongs only to finance and high technology.”
…
After Nan Yi left Ikeda Company, he began to take Nan Wuwei to conduct social observation among the citizens of Tokyo.
Compared to a few years ago, Tokyo citizens now live a more "luxurious" life.
High housing prices have doubled the wealth of citizens instantly, rising into the air like an inflated balloon. Through demolition and trading of original housing for capital, a large number of Tokyo residents whose ancestors had been poor for generations have become rich.
There are many single-family houses in Tokyo. As long as the house and the land are sold together, a penniless person can instantly become a billionaire, changing from "ancestors were rich" to "I am a rich man".
Various myths are played out in Kabukicho. It is not uncommon for a gigolo to earn tens of millions of yen in one night, and it is common for him to spend several million yen in one night.
Nan Yi took Nan Wuwei to Kabukicho Ichibangai, first took him to eat some roadside food, and then took him to a small barber shop.
The barber shop is really small, with a narrow staircase and a business area of ​​less than 10 square meters.
Although the shop is small, it does good business. People who work in Kabukicho will most likely get their hair done between work, and they frequent this kind of small barber shop. From 3pm to 8pm every day, the barbers in the shop work around the clock.
Nan Yi asked the barber to give Nan Wuwei a hairstyle and chatted with the barber for a while. He heard a piece of gossip from the barber - the most powerful female public relations officer in Kabukicho has earned over 500 million yen this year and is heading towards 1 billion yen.
After leaving the barber shop, Nan Yi took Nan Wuwei to a high-end Japanese restaurant, ordered a lot of food, and then pricked up his ears in a very tasteless manner to eavesdrop on what people at other tables were talking about.
He sat in the Japanese restaurant for several hours. The other tables had already been turned over three times, but Nan Yi still didn't touch the food on the table and was still holding a book and pretending to read.
When the other tables started to turn over for the fourth time, the old lady at the Japanese restaurant finally breathed a sigh of relief and silently praised Nan Yi for his dining etiquette: "Baga, the damn deer finally left, delaying my making money."
After eating, Nan Yi took Nan Wuwei to a bank, where they enjoyed the air-conditioning in the lobby and the squatting and kneeling service of the female bank clerks. They sat there for an hour or so, drank two cups of iced coffee, and left without doing any business.
For three consecutive days, the father and son went to various representative places in Tokyo together. When night fell, the father coaxed his son to sleep, and went alone to places that were more representative of wealth, enjoying the benefit of "all consumption paid by President Watanabe."
On the fourth day, Nan Yi started holding hands with one child in each hand when he went out, and the places he went to became more serious, including the imperial palace, scenic spots, Disney, children's toy stores, children's clothing stores, etc. He also visited three representative kindergartens in the name of school selection.
In a blink of an eye, a week passed and Nan Yi's social observation came to an end.
On the morning of the eighth day, Nan Yi sent his two sons to go boating in Lake Kawaguchi. He sat in the pavilion in the courtyard and read the report given to him by Ueto Masami with his own observations. Ueto Masami was also explaining and supplementing the report.
The report includes various economic policies and regulations issued by the Ministry of Finance in recent years; the development trends of representative large, medium and small companies; and expenditure surveys collected from employees of Kokumi Hub, Ikeda Company and street questionnaires, such as annual income, monthly expenses, where the money is spent, whether they have traveled abroad, and where they went.
In addition, there are investigations into the "protection fee" income of pachinko and Kabukicho owners, as well as various associations; the business conditions of real estate agencies; and the financial reports of airlines, etc.
"President, starting from the beginning of February, the frequency of land transfers in Tokyo has increased rapidly. Some land will change owners seven or eight times within a month. From the first owner to the last owner at the end of the month, the land price will increase by at least 20%."
Nan Yi looked at the report and asked without raising his head, "Are you talking about a small single-family plot?"
"Yes, plots of land below 80 square meters are located in the middle of residential areas and have no possibility of external expansion. They are only suitable for building small single-family houses."
"The work of the Housewives Investment Group?"
"The main force is family units, and the auxiliary ones are small companies, which are engaged in various businesses. More than 95% of these companies have nothing to do with real estate."
"Oh." Nan Yi nodded, "Speculate and make quick money. Everyone knows that real estate can make money."
Ueto Masami smiled and continued, "When everyone knows that a business is profitable, it means that it will soon become less profitable, or even lose money."
"Heh, how much did you invest yourself?"
"It was 1.5 billion yen in total, and leverage was used."
“When are you going to cash out?”
“We will start cashing out in batches in the middle of next year.”
"It's quite conservative. The danger shouldn't be great."
Masami Ueto's personal investment is different from Ikeda's investment in the company. Her amount is not large and she can hold it for a longer period of time.
"There is one thing I want to make clear. If anyone in the South Office goes bankrupt because of this, please say goodbye to him for me. See you in the next life."
Apart from stock futures, Nan Yi doesn't mind the senior executives of the Nan Group's departments following suit in other speculative investments, but he cannot tolerate it if their greed leads to their own bankruptcy.
People in positions like the South Office know too many secrets, so there is no possibility of leaving the job. If they want to leave the South Office, there are only two ways: internal transfer or retirement, or they can just say goodbye loudly.
Of course, the more you give, the more you get. The treatment of the members of the South Office is rare in the comment section of Douyin.
“President…” Ueto Masami dragged out the words, “You should believe in my management ability. There is no way such a person would appear in the South Office.”
"That's great." Nan Yi nodded, pointed to a paragraph in the report and said, "This woman spends 30 million yen on bags a year, but her annual income is only 5.4 million yen. Has this been verified?"
Ueto Masami glanced at the report and said, "President, this woman is very beautiful. She has nine 'wallets'. You can see below that her total clothing expenses for the year exceed 80 million yen."
"Oh, that's a lot of wallets."
Nan Yi continued to read and found in the description at the end that in addition to clothing expenses, this woman also spent a lot on beauty, travel, food, transportation, and accommodation. All added up, her annual expenses exceeded 170 million yen, equivalent to more than 1 million US dollars.
Excluding the airplane expenses, even Nan Yi wouldn't spend that much in a year. Even if you add the money he spends on women, it still wouldn't reach this number.
For example, Ruan Mei's biggest expense is buying three houses. Her daily expenses for food and clothing are not much, and the money for buying the houses can be spread over N years.
Nan Yi had no plan to buy her a fourth house. From now on, he would have to let Ruan Mei make money on her own. Whether she could become a landlady depended on herself.
Even if he is a celestial being, Nan Yi might be able to climb dozens of floors to offer him a bowl of porridge to show his courtesy, but expecting him to spend more money is simply a dream.
There is a saying, "If a rich boyfriend spends money on you, it is an insult to your personality. If he is willing to lower himself and offer his courtesy to you, that is true love."
Nan Yi likes this idea very much and has a very positive outlook on life.
After looking at the statistics of women's expenditures for a year, Nan Yi couldn't help but complain: "Damn, it's gold-rimmed, what kind of licking dogs are these nine? The average income per person is more than 18 million yen. Those who can have this income should not be so stupid."
Nan Yi's mind was wandering and he was stunned for a long time before he continued reading the report.
It took Nan Yi almost four hours, including a lunch break, to finish reading the report.
After closing the report, Nan Yi asked, "How much international hot money entered Tokyo last month?"
"About 7.8 billion US dollars came in through formal channels. Other funds came in through replacement and underground channels that cannot be counted, but the number is definitely not less than 7.8 billion. 60% of the funds that flowed in went into the stock market, and the remaining 40% went into real estate and other fields.
As for the untraceable part, most of the funds should have entered the real estate industry. This can be judged from the further prosperity of the real estate market. The amount of funds in the market has obviously increased, especially in the Osaka area. "
"Did Henri Monet give you the client list of Dabifan?"
"Yes, 67.2% of the famous and non-famous oil paintings sold by Dabifan were sold to Japanese buyers. Currently, the Japanese are the main consumer force in the world's famous painting market." Ueto Masami said, frowned and continued: "The people of Yamato have been blinded by money and are carrying out retaliatory consumption around the world."
"It is understandable that most people are poor people who have just become rich and have not learned how to manage money. As long as they suffer a little loss, they will learn their lesson and become rational and mature."
After the Plaza Accord, Japan entered a complete economic golden age. For the Japanese, the most important thing is consumption. Most people firmly believe that "tomorrow will be richer" because housing prices and stock markets will never fall.
Japan in the 1980s was truly the world's factory. The whole country was shrouded in an aura of prosperity. A popular term even emerged in Japanese society - momentaryism, which means to enjoy life while you can.
The Japanese have reached a consensus that "consumption is a virtue". They buy 70% of LV bags and photograph most of the world's famous oil paintings.
Nan Yi read the report and combined it with his own observations. Typical representatives of Tokyo citizens enjoy high-end Japanese or French cuisine for dinner in high-end restaurants and taste gold foil chocolates worth five or six thousand yen.
At night, serious people will go to discotheques to have fun. High-end foreign liquors such as Remy Martin and Louis XIII are the favorites of Tokyo residents nowadays. Local sake is despised. If someone wants to order sake in a discotheque, the waiter may not be happy to answer.
Particularly serious people will talk to strangers or familiar people of the opposite sex about life and ideals, and when they leave, they will leave a lot of money to sponsor the other person to pursue their dreams.
After enough of the fun, it’s time to go home. I don’t care about the subway at all. Uh, it seems that there is no way to take it. The last train stopped eight hundred years ago...
The prodigals who want to go home can only take a taxi. It is difficult to find a taxi in the discos and near Ichibangai at midnight. There will be a dozen or even dozens of people competing for one taxi at the same time. Smart people will often wave 10,000 yen bills in their hands to try to attract the driver's attention.
However, taxi drivers usually look down upon 10,000 yen bills. This was a good time for Tokyo taxi drivers. Just three days ago, Nan Yi saw with his own eyes in Ginza a man who was suspected to be a middle-level manager of a company who directly took out 1 million yen in order to rob a taxi.
The car appeared at the starting point in less than ten minutes, which means it was less than a five-minute drive, and the taxi driver earned 1 million yen, and the fuel and other expenses were almost negligible.
At that time, Nan Yi quickly calculated in his mind, which was equivalent to 6915.62 US dollars. He took a taxi and the ride was less than five minutes.
Nan Yi, who has always had a "good impression" of Japan, was deeply saddened by its wasteful behavior. He gritted his teeth and secretly vowed to properly keep the wealth for the person he loved.
He hopes that decades later, when the person he loves suddenly wonders where his money has gone, he can walk up to her with a smile and gently say, "Hey, honey, they're all here with me, not a single cent is missing."
Nan Yi also learned that Nomura Securities currently gives its ordinary employees a transportation allowance of three to four million yen a year, middle-level managers receive as much as more than 30 million yen a year, and higher-level managers even receive over 100 million yen.
Under the influence of the culture that consumption is justice, young men in Tokyo have nothing to do and are not interested in their studies. The girls are not bad. Although they like brand-name bags and clothes, they know how to be self-reliant and work for money.
There is a song that goes like this: "Who left a phone number in a phone booth waiting to be called..."
Most of the recent college graduates receive several job offers, and eighteen months' salary a year plus two overseas trips a year are the basic conditions. If you can't afford such conditions, you'd be embarrassed to extend an olive branch to the graduates, and you can just wait to bow and beg the graduates, trying to awaken their feelings.
The high salary is not enough. If the graduate is from a prestigious university, there are also good hidden benefits. As long as they go to the recruitment sites of various companies for interviews, they can get a considerable "travel expenses" every time, which could be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.
In order to attract talent, Japanese companies begin competing on benefits during the recruitment process, with each company offering higher travel expenses than the other.
If a graduate from the University of Tokyo, regardless of the consequences, visits every company he can in Japan before being blacklisted, he will definitely be able to get hundreds of millions of dollars in travel expenses.
Of course, this is just an assumption. In reality, there is no need to do so. Tokyo University graduates are the pride of Japan. If they enter a good company, their starting annual salary will have the opportunity to exceed 10 million yen. If they have good abilities, it is not difficult to earn tens of millions of yen a year.
It has to be said that Japanese entrepreneurs are still conscientious. While they make huge profits themselves, they will not mistreat those who work hard for them.
The current trend in Japan is so simple and unpretentious, with a hint of cuteness in its eccentricity.
Moreover, it is not just ordinary people who are crazy. Entrepreneurs and politicians are also full of confidence and dare to deny everything.
A politician once made a confident statement in public: "The Chinese are an inferior race. They failed to conquer China through force in World War II. Now Japan has the ability to buy the entire country."
Rich people in Japan are rushing to China, Japanese yen grenades are flying everywhere, and they are buying all kinds of things.
A Japanese company has already made inquiries to Wonderful about the price of the Times Building. Nan Yi feels that it is not the best time to sell it yet and he can wait and see. He still hopes to sell it for US$1.5 billion to US$1.6 billion.
The cover of one issue of Time magazine once showed a Nakajima G8N Renzan heavy bomber with its bomb bay door open, and cars and household appliances were smashing into Rockefeller Plaza.
There is also a big red headline on the cover - Tiger, Tiger, Tiger!
You have the Pacific Fleet, I have money; you have garrisons, I have money; you have M16s, I have money; no matter what you have, I have money, I will buy all your fucking land and drive you to the sea.
Nan Yi thought for a while and said, "Yamei, register a Hachiko Recycling Co., Ltd. and find someone with a social organization background to be the president. The company will mainly engage in the second-hand recycling and exclusive sales of high-end goods. The office should be located in a remote suburban area, and it would be best if the roads for coming and going can be separated."
"President, are you going to start planning and plotting against the citizens of Tokyo now?"
"What do you mean by calculating? I am creating a way out for people who have nowhere else to go. What's the point of keeping luxury goods when they have no money in their pockets? I provide a place for people to cash in, and I also take care of their face. I am sacrificing my small self for the greater self."
Nan Yi said, sighing heavily, "Alas, I am just too kind. I can't sell all the luxury goods I have taken back. Forget it. Just think of it as giving back to the citizens of Tokyo."
"President, this joke is not funny at all. Don't forget, I am also Japanese."
Nan Yi teased, "Hmm? Do you remember now that you are Japanese? Why didn't I see you being a step behind others when you were robbing money?"
“Cluck, cluck, cluck!”
Ueto Masami covered her mouth and laughed secretly.