Chapter 1693 1695 [Things are not people]
In 1998, the Asian financial crisis.
Xiang Nan's wealth has not decreased but increased. Because he transferred a large amount of money to the US stock market.
Nowadays, the Internet is booming in the United States. The stocks of Yahoo, America Online, eBay, Amazon...these Internet companies have skyrocketed after their listing.
Xiang Nan just hit this free ride, and his capital climbed exponentially. Coupled with the fact that U disks and MP3s are selling more and more popular, and the business is getting better and better, Xiang Nan's net worth naturally swells greatly.
In a capitalist society, with money, there is influence.
Xiang Nan not only has many partners in the business world, but even district councilors, city councilors, and congressmen have become his friends. As a result, Lili's naturalization application was successfully passed without passing the three-year review period.
Even though the Triad Society is still the largest gang in Japan, they dare not trouble Xiang Nan any more. After all, it bullies ordinary people, and ordinary people are gone. If it bullies Xiang Nan, it will be gone.
This is the power of capital, which cannot be compared by gangs.
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Life after having money is naturally very cool.
Xiannan bought a top-notch mansion in Minato-ku, Tokyo at a cost of 5 billion yen.
Minato District is one of the core areas of Tokyo, and it is also a luxury residential area in the traditional sense. Everyone who lives here is either rich or expensive.
They will not marry people outside the constituency, because their wealth, status, and status are completely different. Similar to the traditional Chinese matchmaking.
In addition to luxury houses, famous cars such as Ferrari, Porsche, Maybach, Rolls-Royce, Bugatti Veyron, and top yachts nearly 100 meters long are also must-haves.
The port area is right next to Tokyo Bay. In your free time, it is also a great enjoyment to drive a yacht to go out for a stroll, enjoy the breeze, fish and swim.
In addition, in terms of food and clothing, it is natural to enjoy luxury. Not famous brands, not custom-made clothing, shoes and hats.
TOGL has many internationally renowned designers, such as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, etc., who have considerable influence in the fashion and trend industries.
Help them design custom clothing, which can cost a fortune. But for rich people, they not only need to dress beautifully, but also want to be unique in the world, so it doesn't matter if they spend money.
Actually, no matter how much you pay attention to food, clothing, housing and transportation, it is nothing to the rich. Rich people go bankrupt, mostly because their investments fail.
For example, Huang Yulang, a cartoon genius, once made hundreds of millions of net worth with a single paintbrush, but because of the August 7th stock market crash, the hundreds of millions of funds invested in the stock market disappeared overnight;
Another example is Nicolas Cage, who originally accumulated hundreds of millions of net worth by relying on his salary. However, due to poor investment vision, real estate investment was purchased all over the world, and they caught up with the subprime mortgage crisis, housing prices plummeted, and they became heavily in debt.
However, Xiang Nan's investment rarely fails, so even if he makes such a move, his net worth will not decrease but increase.
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In early 1998, Lili was still pregnant.
At the end of 1998, a cute baby boy was born, and Xiang Nan named him Tie Nan.
Family of five, life is very comfortable.
Ajie, after he and Shizuko got married, they lived happily.
Jingzi followed him, so naturally she enjoyed the blessings.
The two also gave birth to a girl in 1999. In terms of appearance, she perfectly inherited the characteristics of her father and mother. The pink carved jade bracelet is crystal and lovely.
Xiang Nan has already pre-booked her to be his daughter-in-law in the future.
Two years later, Hiroshi Nakajima was released from prison. But at this moment, he was no longer a threat to Xiang Nan.
Don't say he wants to trouble Xiang Nan, if Xiang Nan doesn't trouble him, he will already be Amitabha.
After so many years, the strength comparison between them has already been reversed.
Xiang Nan is a super rich man with a net worth of nearly one trillion yuan, and Hiromasa Nakajima is just an unemployed man who has just been released from prison.
Coupled with the sluggish economy in Japan, the gang's business is not easy to do. After all, life is difficult for merchants, so there is no extra money to pay fees.
Without money, it is naturally impossible to maintain so many gangs. Therefore, in recent years, the gang power in Japan is gradually shrinking.
In 1990, there were as many as 190,000 gang members recorded in Dongying, but in 2001 it dropped to only about 70,000. Most of the remaining people were forced to quit because they couldn't live on.
Although Hiromasa Nakajima was once the eldest brother of the Nakajima group, he is considered a respectable figure in society. But now the Nakajima group is gone, and after he was injured internally by Xiang Nan, even after a period of treatment, he still hasn't recovered. Whenever it is windy, rainy and cloudy, he will have a dull pain.
Don't say that he would be like a few years ago, carrying a knife to cut people, even if he was asked to walk a few more steps, he would still be panting badly. Triads don't accept such people.
In addition, Nakajima has a criminal record, and he didn't even want to find a serious job. In the end, he could only live on the streets. He makes a living by picking up mineral water bottles, cardboard boxes, and expired food from supermarkets.
Ajie had met him on the streets of Shinjuku. But it was no longer the fierce and tyrannical Yakuza who was always fighting and killing, but a tramp who had completely lost his fighting spirit and lived in a daze all day long. He dared not resist when others scolded him or beat him.
Xiang Nan sighed with emotion when he heard about it.
It is difficult to break the earthen pot from the mouth of the well, so the general will not be killed in battle. This is the case for those who join gangs. If you do well, you are the big brother. If you do not do well, you will end up like this.
As Da Fei said in "The Bewitched Boy", when he was young, he brought labor and drove a babysitter, what a scene. When I get old, I will look like him, lying on the side of the road...
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In 2005, Ikeda Hiroji, who was arrested and imprisoned for illegal possession of weapons, was finally about to be released.
In the first half year of his release, a series of infighting broke out among the Triads.
The internal fighting is mainly for power and power, to grab a good position before Ikeda Hiroji is released from prison. After all, Hiroji Ikeda has no strength anymore, and he is also the president of the triad society in name.
The infighting among the triads has further aroused public resentment.
After all, they usually do good things and are disgusting. Now that the fight is restarted, fighting and killing, harming the innocent and frightening passers-by, it is naturally more annoying.
In addition, in 2005, the Internet has begun to spread, and ordinary people can also use it to make a voice, so that ordinary people in Shengdou also have the right to speak.
They condemned and protested unanimously on the Internet, and public opinion was surging for a while, making the triads once again the target of public criticism.
Seeing this, the Dongying police and prosecutors acted immediately, and then sentenced Hiroji Ikeda to another five years on suspicion of wounding. Since this fight was started by him, it's just right now, so just lock him up for a few more years.
This made Ikeda Hiroji very depressed. As the nominal president, he has no binding force on those branches. They fight among themselves, why should he be locked up.
What bad luck!
(end of this chapter)