Chapter 395

Suzuki Saburo’s wish was to build his own commercial kingdom in China, such a big China, so many Chinese people, if the Chinese people all work for him, all buy their own goods, then how much money he can make, his commercial kingdom should be how huge ah.

This dream was soon shattered in front of the American businessmen introduced by Su Chunjun.

Suzuki Saburo soon realized that China is now very poor, although there are many Chinese people, but they are all poor, to wait for the Chinese people can afford to buy his goods, may have to wait for many, many years.

But the American businessman told him that he could go to the United States to open a company, and could do business all over the world with the help of the United States! There are so many rich people in the United States, he just need to produce the product, immediately can make money! He didn’t even have to wait!

Saburo Suzuki decided to change his dream almost without thinking.

In the future, he would be the one to take his business to the whole world.

With the example of the American businessmen, he soon contacted German businessmen, French businessmen, Italian businessmen …… and so on.

Of course, all that help came at a price, but Saburo Suzuki didn’t hesitate long to give up the pride of being Japanese – he could be an American!

What a big world, why should he be confined to a tiny island nation.

When he became an American, he could be the greatest businessman in the world.

Almost immediately he decided to turn his advantage in Japan into his motivation to become an American; everything he had in Japan could help him become an American.

Su Chunjun may have been just a leader, may have been just pointing him in the right direction, may have had his own personal agenda, but all of that Suzuki Saburo didn’t care about.

He only cared about what he could get.

With the help of Suzuki Saburo, it is much easier to get information from Japan.

Su Chunjun had to spend a lot of time organizing the information, identifying its authenticity, and sending it to the right place.

Zhu Yuyan’s friendship with Suzuki Yoshiko has become solid again. Suzuki Yoshiko was learning English and French, among other languages, as this was a new assignment given to her by Suzuki Saburo.

Zhu Yuyan seriously suspected that it was to stall Suzuki Yoshiko.

She realized that while Suzuki Yoshiko might not have much ability, she had developed the habit of being a workaholic in her previous interactions.

It wasn’t that Suzuki Yoshiko loved work, but she was keen on holding important positions, being the center of attention, being respected, and so on.

It would be perfect if she could get into the papers and be enthusiastically touted.

She suspected that it was during that time that she had frequently put Yoshiko Suzuki in the newspapers, and that she had gone around telling stories about Yoshiko Suzuki’s accomplishments in the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, such as the successful establishment of the night market, the Ichio store, helping other Japanese merchants open their own stores, and so on.

Regardless of how much work Yoshiko Suzuki actually accomplished, she did fall in love with the feeling of being an important person.

During the time she was locked up in the Suzuki household and pregnant, Suzuki Yoshiko became passionate about lecturing the servants, setting house rules, and corresponding with the Japanese side of the family, which ranged from her mother’s family to her mother-in-law’s family to her elementary school classmates’ families. She was not only interested in other people’s family affairs, but also interfered in them on many occasions, which caused a lot of anger, but some people were grateful to her for her righteousness and straight-forwardness.

Zhu Yuyan had heard of many of her feats once she had resumed her friendship with Suzuki Yoshiko, such as her support for the second and third brothers of her mother’s family in their challenge to her elder brother, her encouragement of the women of the family to trip up her sister-in-law, and her spreading of gossip outside the family to discredit her elder brother, who had refused to give the smuggling ship to her in the first place.

But after learning of Suzuki Saburo’s new friend, Zhu Yuyan realizes that she may have underestimated Suzuki Saburo’s “conscience”. It seems that he has no intention of abandoning Suzuki Yoshiko. Although it is not clear how much love he has for her.

Zhu Yuyan accompanies Suzuki Yoshiko to practice her foreign language. Suzuki Yoshiko had learned foreign languages before when she attended a girls’ school, but they were all Japanese foreign languages, and she would need to change her accent now, which was tantamount to learning all over again.

Within a few days, Suzuki Yoshiko began to hate Zhu Yuyan, she began to be jealous of her accent, and even more so when she heard about her history of learning languages effortlessly.

Zhu Yuyan barely held back from irritating her further.

This also gave her the opportunity.

She said to Suzuki Yoshiko, “Do you know Ms. Yamamoto Takako?”

Suzuki Yoshiko really did know, and she nodded her head with a few moments of disdain, but she didn’t dare to show it excessively.

She said, “I know, she is Mr. Yamamoto’s adopted daughter from China. Mr. Yamamoto thinks very highly of her, it’s said that she’s a Chinese aristocrat, that is, a girl from a noble family sealed by your emperor, but her family was all defeated, her parents both died, or Mr. Yamamoto saw her as pitiful before adopting her. She’s really lucky, Mr. Yamamoto is a very famous big family in Japan.”

Zhu Yuyan raised her chin and rubbed her chest with one hand, lightly exasperated, “I happen to be very good friends with Ms. Guizi.”

Suzuki Yoshiko’s face instantly became unsightly, “You’re all Chinese.”

Zhu Yuyan smiled slightly and said softly, “You once complimented me on my excellent English and French speaking, but I have to be honest, Miss Guizi’s English and French are the best. She lived in the castle of an English duke when she was a young girl, and was taught by a governess from France, and if you had heard Miss Takako read poetry aloud, you would know why the most wonderful language is French.”

Suzuki Yoshiko was instantly impressed.

The main thing was that Zhu Yuyan had been able to meet Miss Guizi and become friends with her, so why should she lag behind! Why couldn’t she become Miss Guizi’s friend!

Zhu Yuyan once again lightly said, “If you wish, I can introduce you to Ms. Guizi, she is a very elegant woman, meeting her would be very beneficial.”

Even if Suzuki Yoshiko hated Zhu Yuyan’s attitude when she said this, she still wanted to get acquainted with Yamamoto Guizi.

Gentlemen had their gentlemen’s circle of friends, and the most enviable thing about a respected wife was how many wives in the families of prominent officials and dignitaries she knew.

Yoshiko Suzuki decided at once that she could not let Takako Yamamoto go!

She must become a friend of Yamamoto Guizi! And a better friend than Zhu Yuyan!

When Suzuki Yoshiko went home, she told Suzuki Saburo about Zhu Yuyan’s plan to take her to visit Yamamoto Guizi and make friends with Yamamoto Guizi.

Because Suzuki Saburo often praises Zhu Yuyan in front of her and asks her to learn more, no matter how much resentment Suzuki Yoshiko has in her heart, she shows the loyalty of a virtuous woman.

She tenderly said to Suzuki Saburo: “I will study Yanji well and strive to become Ms. Yamamoto’s friend soon.”

Suzuki Saburo: “……” So, you’re going to be fooled by Yanji again.

Speaking of Yamamoto, Suzukisaburo is not too willing to go directly against Yamamoto.

Although he had already been on the path of betraying Japan, he had always hit on the idea of quiet betrayal, he had only betrayed some information, the real attack on Japan was all foreigners, what had he, a Japanese, got to do with it.

So his first reaction was to forbid Yoshiko Suzuki to meet Takako Yamamoto.

But then he thought, Zhu Yuyan is a person who will not stop until she achieves her goal, since she wants to bring Suzuki Yoshiko here, if she can’t do it this time, she will still do it next time.

This was not something that could be solved by locking Suzuki Yoshiko up. He couldn’t keep Suzuki Yoshiko from going out all the time, he still wanted to take her to meet Americans and French people.

Who told those countries to be all about couples dating.

It wasn’t practical to improvise another wife now.

Suzuki Saburo thought twice and turned his head to ask Zhu Yuyan.

Suzuki Saburo bowed his head in front of Zhu Yuyan and asked, “Please help Yoshiko, please make her a powerful woman like you, as a successful wife, I hope Yoshiko can learn some of your strengths from you.”

Zhu Yuyan said with slight sarcasm, “That really surprised me, it seems that I have looked away in the past, Mr. Suzuki is a good husband then.”

Suzuki Saburo said bluntly, “Yoshiko is a foolish woman, and I very much regret marrying her. But as a wife, she will bear me heirs. In that regard, she is a qualified wife.”

Zhu Yuyan smiled frankly, “I understand. Please rest assured that I will not harm Mrs. Suzuki. Just being a friend, I want to bring her to meet a few new friends.”

Suzuki Saburo nodded and said, “I also hope that Jiazi can meet a few new friends, especially beneficial ones.”