Chapter 558 – Kantzenen

Inside the cabin, air-conditioned Masayoshi Kishimoto, Rie Sakai, Takayuki Nanno, and TV Tokyo news anchorwoman Kana Oshima were enjoying a glass of red wine together.

Oshima Kana first exchanged pleasantries in a very polite manner, “It is indeed an honor for me to be able to meet President and Mrs. Kishimoto of our Hard Gold Group today.”

“Since you are a part of the Hard Gold Group amongst others, you are one of our own. Not to mention that you are Takayuki’s girlfriend. Don’t be so polite. Be casual.” Masayoshi Kishimoto spoke bluntly.

Oshima Kana wouldn’t really be casual just because he said so. When the other party said that, he was being polite. If he really did that himself, he was not understanding the rules.

“Recently, Tokyo’s housing prices have risen quite a bit again. That apartment you’re renting in Minato Ward has also had its rent increased!” Takayuki Nanno looked sideways at his girlfriend and casually said.

“Isn’t that so? The rent went up 10% straight away. That’s much faster than my salary increase.” After Oshima Kana responded to her boyfriend’s words offhandedly, she instantly realized that she seemed to have slipped up.

Thus, she held the palm of her right hand in front of her mouth and took the initiative to bow a bit towards Masayoshi Kishimoto and Rie Sakai is, “Chairman and Madam don’t be amused.”

“The way capital makes money, that is, the way money makes money is always faster than labor makes money. It is a normal economic law that the Tokyo real estate market rises faster than wages.

Although the 9.11 terrorist attacks occurred on the American side, the entire Japanese economy has begun to show some signs of rebound.

Japan’s domestic economy has turned a little better, the national pockets have money, then there will inevitably be more consumption, thus stimulating the growth of domestic demand.

Landlords see more money in your pockets, then they will want to increase rent as a means to increase part of their income. The people who really suffer from this are still the people at the bottom.

Instead of sharing the benefits of the economic rebound, they have been subjected to rising rents and prices that are not conducive to the improvement of their quality of life.

It is widely believed that it is more comfortable to be a poor person in a rich country than in a poor country. In fact, being a poor person in a rich country is much more difficult than being a poor person in a poor country.

In a poor country, it feels like everyone is more or less the same, except for the privileged class that is extremely few people, it seems that the rich are not rich there. At the very least, people’s hearts are balanced.

Surviving in a rich country is not like that at all. Tokyo’s paper and red wine and green have nothing to do with the poor, completely is to them to completely abandoned outside.

Whenever they see this in real life and compare it to their own real life, there is never a single ripple in their hearts. Upper middle class people cannot understand why poor people would rather go hungry than buy TVs and VCRs.

That’s because having those things would make their day a little bit better. They briefly immerse themselves in the good life fictionalized by movies and TV dramas, and don’t feel particularly bored on top of their spirits.” Justice Kishimoto said calmly.

Not only Oshima Kana, but also Takahashi Kazuya and Sakai Rie couldn’t help but feel that these words were particularly hilarious and hypocritical coming out of his mouth.

In this situation, they were still sitting inside a private cruise ship that had been counterfeited for 100 million dollars. The owner of this Lunar God ship was him, Masayoshi Kishimoto.

Even if Kishimoto justice said is the truth, there are no few see him not to carry out an exploitation, profit earning and participate in which “share the cake”, after all, hard gold construction but specializes in real estate aspects of the business.

“President Kishimoto, some people say that Japan after World War II there is no Zaibatsu or Zaibatsu was the Americans to get broken up.

Personally, do you agree with this kind of statement?” Oshima Kanae didn’t want to miss an opportunity to talk face-to-face with a real Zaibatsu said.

“Disagree. A tomato is called a tomato, is it, like, different? It’s still not the same thing. Japan in the Second World War before the existence of various large and small Zaibatsu forced to lose the war to be limited by the U.S. to develop a variety of terms, is to carry out a facelift in the form of the Konzern Group.

Konzern is the German translation of Konzern, the original meaning is a variety of business groups. This is a large-scale and complex capitalist monopoly organization.

It takes the most powerful big monopoly enterprise or bank as the core, and consists of many enterprises in different economic sectors, ranging from ten to hundreds of enterprises in mining, industry, trade, banking, insurance, transportation, etc. It is the highest form of organization for the financial oligarchy to realize its economic domination.

The financial oligarchy, through big banks or big industrial enterprises, adopts the participatory system to hold the stock control quota and make other participants subordinate to itself, so that it can control capital several times or even dozens of times bigger than its own capital, occupy a more powerful position in the economy, and seize high monopoly profits.

It clearly shows the characteristics of the fusion of bank monopoly capital and industrial monopoly capital in the imperialist period. It arose later than cartels, syndicates and trusts.

Each member enterprise in the Konzern still maintains its legal independence and does not lose its legal personality. The big enterprises or big banks in the core position, as shareholding companies, put the other member enterprises participating in the Konzern under their control by buying shares, participating in the boards of directors and controlling the finances of each member enterprise.

The zaibatsu, with the family capital-controlled head office at its core, controls the direct and collateral enterprises in each economic sector through the shareholding relationships of the family head office – direct companies – quasi-direct companies that make up the huge Konzern.

With their left hand controlling the most important capital in capitalism and their right hand controlling the means of production, plutocrats are very powerful and usually operate government-chartered industries as well.

In the hands of a single family, the business program covers almost the entire industry and commerce, and even crosses over to the media and politics as well, with all the resources of society in their hands.

On the surface, a capitalist society looks better than a slave society or a feudal society, but in reality, it is also old wine in a new bottle. To put it bluntly, it is still similar to the ancient Japanese daimyo who managed their own turf.

Only, the form of the administrative area of the land (Shi) has been weakened and replaced by some new words in the fields of industry, politics, commerce, finance, and so on.

The construction of my ship was undertaken by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of the Iwasaki family. On top of that, it builds almost half of Japan’s submarines, a third of its destroyers, F-2 and F-15J fighters, and Type 90 tanks, among other things.

Of course, there is also the argument that the financial capital groups in post-World War II Japan are generally no longer referred to as zaibatsu, but rather as zaibatsu like in other capitalist countries.” Masayoshi Kishimoto spoke eloquently in a serious manner.