Chapter 1213: Chaotic Island Politics

After all, Sunshine Credit Company's lending profit is too high, and it is also aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises and ordinary people, so there will always be overdue situations, and it is inevitable to use special means to collect money at this time.

Therefore, in island countries, if the consumer credit industry wants to develop smoothly, it must have a certain connection with the community.

It is very common for any of the six major consortia in the island country to have dogs.

In terms of associations, Xia Yu has no shortage of strength, and the island country does not mention the behind-the-scenes support of Luo Net and Aegis Security, Xia Lei alone has a lot of strength.

Now Xia Lei is going to become the godfather of the island's literary and artistic sports films, and Tokyo is a little hot with him.

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Regarding his layout in the island country, Xia Yu has many considerations.

There is no doubt that the consortium is fundamental, like the community is just a supplement to the margins.

But there is another aspect that needs to be strongly supported, and that is the power of politics.

Each of the six major consortia in the island nation has a spokesperson and a supported faction in the political arena.

When it comes to island politics, it's called a complicated one.

The Diet of the island country is the highest organ of power and the only legislative body of the island country, which is established in accordance with the Constitution of the island country and is composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate of Japan.

Among them, there are 465 members of the House of Representatives, each serving a term of four years, and the Prime Minister has the power to dissolve the House of Representatives and hold a general election. There are 242 members of the Senate, who are elected for a term of six years, half of whom are re-elected every three years, and may not be dissolved in the middle of the term.

In terms of power, the House of Representatives is superior to the Senate. The Ordinary Diet is held from January to June every year and lasts for 150 days. At other times, an extraordinary and extraordinary National Assembly may be convened as needed.

Members of the Parliament of an island country can also serve as cabinet members, and the prime minister (prime minister) is also elected by the National Assembly, nominated by political parties and elected by members of the Senate and House of Representatives, so whichever majority party controls more than half of the seats, the president of that party can become prime minister.

At present, there are many political parties in the island countries, the most famous ones are the Liberal Democratic Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Japanese Communist Party, the Civic Party, the Democratic Socialist Party, and so on, and then there are a bunch of small parties.

The vast majority of these parties have split away from the Liberal Democrats over the years.

Since the merger of the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party in 1955, all the prime ministers of the island countries have come from the Liberal Democratic Party, and the current prime minister of the island country, Yasuhiro Nakasone, is from the Liberal Democratic Party.

The LDP represents the interests of the monopoly bourgeoisie in the island countries, advocates liberalism, opposes radicalism and socialism, and maintains and develops the existing capitalist political, economic, and social system.

After the LDP was founded in 1955, it controlled the majority of seats in the House of Councillors and the House of Representatives until the 60s, but in the second half of the 70s, there was a confrontation between conservatives and reforms, and the LDP in the House of Councillors and the House of Representatives declined.

Especially now, after the resignation of former Prime Minister Yoshiyuki Suzuki in November last year due to the global economic downturn and the setback of the fiscal policy for reconstruction, Yasuhiro Nakasone took over, and he has not been able to stabilize the political circles of the island nation.

The LDP's influence and reputation among the people have declined considerably.

In December of this year, the House of Representatives of the island countries will hold a general election, and the current situation of the Liberal Democratic Party is very dangerous.

In the previous life, in this House of Representatives election, the Liberal Democratic Party also suffered a defeat, did not win half of the seats, and was forced to govern in coalition with the New Freedom Club, which was also the first time that the situation of one-party rule since the establishment of the Liberal Democratic Party was broken.

However, in the next term, the New Freedom Club only won six seats, so it was dissolved and reincorporated into the Liberal Democratic Party.

The situation of the Liberal Democratic Party of the island country is very bad now, and it is Xia Yu's best chance to get down.

Of course, it is not that Xia Yu intends to support other parties to seize power, this idea is not realistic, and he does not have this idea.

Not to mention that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is the largest party in the island country, with the largest number of people.

The point is that other parties are not in the interests of Xia Yu, a capitalist.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is a conservative party that invests in economic freedom, maintains and develops the existing capitalist political, economic, and social system, and represents the interests of capitalists and big business.

The Socialist Party of the Island Country and the Japanese Communist Party, on the other hand, are reform parties that are in opposition to the Liberal Democratic Party and advocate breaking with the status quo and carrying out changes in the political, economic, and social systems. However, there are ideological differences between the Socialist Party and the Japanese Communist Party, and there are great differences in policy and propositions. The social base of the reform party is mainly the trade union group, intellectuals, employees and some small and medium-sized business owners.

Then there is the Centrists, also known as the Middle Way Party, and the political parties that advocate the establishment of Middle Way politics mainly include the Komeito Party and the Democratic Socialist Party. They have very different terms on middle-way politics, but they share the same goal of breaking the "five-five-year system" centered on the Liberal Democratic Party and the Socialist Party and ending the one-party rule of the Liberal Democratic Party.

It can be said that the enemies of the Liberal Democratic Party are all political parties in the island country, and Rao can still dominate all the time, which shows the strength of the party.

The LDP has many external enemies, and there are also many internal factions and contradictions, and because of its interests and political views, the struggle has never stopped, and every few years some people lead the factions to form independent small parties.

Xia Yu's main purpose is to support one or more factions within the Liberal Democratic Party in order to gain a firm foothold in the island country.

In fact, the factions within the LDP can also be divided into three major factions in the general direction: left, right, and centrists.

Among them, the centrists are the least powerful, and the strength of the left and right wings is not comparable, but because Prime Minister Suzuki, who funded the left-wing faction last year, was forced to step down, and Yasuhiro Nakasone, who came to power at this time, is a right-winger, so now the morale of the right-wing wing of the Liberal Democratic Party is booming, and the left wing is relatively low-key.

Among the neutral faction, the most typical is the Miki faction, which is the smallest faction, headed by former Prime Minister Takeo Miki, with 20 seats.

The Nakasone faction, which was originally the Kono faction and later split off after the death of Ichiro Kono, led by Yasuhiro Nakasone, is now gaining momentum and is a typical right-wing faction, backed by the Mitsubishi Foundation.

The main factions on the right also include the Kishi Nobusuke faction and the Fukuda Toshio faction, which are supported by the Fuji Foundation.

Among the leftists, the forces are not small, and the most powerful is the Tanaka faction.

Unfortunately, Kakuei Tanaka resigned as prime minister due to internal party struggles, and then was arrested in 1976 for the Lockheed corruption and bribery case, and then quit the Liberal Democratic Party and was elected to the House of Representatives as a non-partisan member after being released on bail.

Although he did not have an LDP identity, most of his original subordinates rallied around him.

It's just that he has come down after all, and he is not a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, so his influence has decreased a lot.

Xia Yu is not interested in the Tanaka faction, the Tanaka faction is too powerful, even if he sticks it, he may not be able to do anything good.

However, the Tanaka faction is also very complicated, and what Xia Yu values is the mainstay of the Tanaka faction today, the current Minister of Finance (Finance Minister) within Yasuhiro Nakasone - Noboru Takekami.

Although Noboru Takegami was a member of the Tanaka faction and belonged to the left, he was also a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, and he was very capable and had a unique view of financial work, so Yasuhiro Nakasone gave the position of Minister of Finance to Noboru Takegami in order to stabilize his position.

According to the historical trajectory, after Yasuhiro Nakasone stepped down in 1987, Noboru Takegami successfully ascended to the prime minister's throne.

Yasuhiro Nakasone gave the position to Noboru Takekami, not because he had a conscience to find or train a successor, but because he had to do it so that the LDP would not split.

The reason for this is because Noboru Takegami wanted to be prime minister and reach the pinnacle of politics, but he was restricted by Kakuei Tanaka.

Now Noboru Takegami has the desire to run for the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party, but Kakuei Tanaka has always restricted Noboru Takekami.

Kakuei Tanaka disagreed, and the power of his faction naturally did not give Noboru Takegami a vote within the party.

Therefore, he forced Noboru Takegami to set up a founding council in early 1985, with more than 40 members, and took advantage of Tanaka Kakuei's illness in February of the same year to step up the expansion of his own power.

Then, in July 1987, he formally established the Takeshita faction Jingseikai, poached all the people of the Tanaka faction, and co-opted others, forming the largest faction in the party in one fell swoop.

The strongest and chose to split and become independent from the Liberal Democratic Party if he was not elected, Yasuhiro Nakasone could only appoint him as the twelfth president of the Liberal Democratic Party, and finally won the support of the Liberal Democratic Party and successfully took office.

So at this time, Noboru Takekami's ambition is there, but there is still a lot of heat. He still has Tanaka Kakuei on his head, and he doesn't have enough resources to cultivate his lineage and win over allies.

Without the support of big conglomerates and big capital, even if Noboru Takegami is now the Minister of Finance, the accumulation of resources is still time-consuming and laborious, and there are huge political risks, and the risk of corruption in the future is even greater.

So at this time, Xia Yu's think tank judged that Noboru Takegami was also waiting for someone who gave him strong support, but he couldn't wait.

If Xia Yu jumps out to support him, it will be difficult for Noboru Takegami to refuse!

Unless he has no ambitions!

But how can a person without ambition become the prime minister of an island country?

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However, although Xia Yu made up his mind to support Takegami Noboru, he didn't plan to show up at the beginning, which made Takegami wary and didn't even dare to bite the hook.

Moreover, now that his island consortium has not yet taken shape, it cannot give Takegami enough deterrence, and the effect of gaining the initiative is relatively poor.

So at this time, it can only be someone else who comes forward.

And the most suitable is undoubtedly Yu Matsumoto, the president of Nomura Securities!

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According to the plan, in order to conceal himself, Yu Matsumoto did not contact Noboru Takekami, who is the prime minister of the Great Collection, at the beginning, but contacted the current Keizo Obuchi.

Keizo Obuchi is a disciple of Noboru Takekami, and Noboru Takegami has a relationship with him as a master and a father.

Keizo Obuchi's father, Kohei Obuchi, and Noboru Takegami were friends who were born on the same day and month in the same year, and even the house of Keizo Obuchi's family was built next to Noboru Takekami's house by Lake Kawagumi according to Noboru Takekami's persuasion, and the two families have been neighbors for decades!

Before Noboru Takekami's son grew up, Noboru Takegami spent a lot of resources on Keizo Obuchi and was very attentive to him, and Keizo Obuchi was also Noboru Takekami's hardcore confidant.

That night, in the quiet private room of a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo, Yu Matsumoto and Keizo Obuchi sat face to face, enjoying an exquisite dinner to the music of singers and dancers.

After listening to the music and dancing for half an hour, Matsumoto Yu waved his hand to signal these people to go down, and the look in Keizo Obuchi's eyes cleared, and he secretly said in his heart, and he cheered up the spirit of twelve.

"Xiao Yuan-kun, I want you to come out tonight because I want to tell you something good. ”

"More precisely, I want to tell you, and it's up to you to tell the Mahakami. ”

Yu Matsumoto said with his hands on his lap and a solemn face.

Keizo Obuchi's pupils shrank, and he was surprised.

As a very young member of the Liberal Democratic Party, there are many people looking for him, and he thought that Matsumoto Yu was looking for him, but he didn't expect that it was his master Noboru Takekami.

The details of Nomura Securities Company that he had seen in his mind flashed through his mind, and then he contacted Master Takekami's position, and he was very cautious in his heart.

Nomura Securities Company was caught in a turmoil before, and now although it has subsided for most of it, there must be internal problems, is it because you want to use the relationship of Noboru Takekami's position to do something?

Keizo Obuchi asked cautiously: "Matsumoto-kun, although I am familiar with Daizo, I have no right to interfere with any of his decisions, and I am not qualified to do so, so I can only pass it on my behalf." ”

Matsumoto Yu said with a light smile: "Obuchi-kun is too worried, for Takekami-kun, it is indeed a very good thing. ”

Megumi Obuchi's heartstrings were still tense, and he said concisely, "Please speak!"

Yu Matsumoto said slowly: "There is no problem with Nomura Securities, what the outside world sees is only the appearance, in fact, our company is very healthy. ”

"Takekami-kun has served in the cabinets of many prime ministers for 16 years since he first entered the cabinet in 1964 as deputy chief cabinet secretary!"

"Although I am now the Minister of Finance, I have been in this position for more than three years, and the space for further progress is very narrow. ”

Keizo Obuchi had already realized the problem at this time, Yu Matsumoto was actually talking about Noboru Takekami's political career, could it be ......

At this moment, his breathing couldn't help but be slightly short, and his mind was highly concentrated, for fear of missing something.

Observing the change in Keizo Obuchi's expression, Yu Matsumoto was sure in his heart, and his speed of speech slowed down again.

"I also know that Takekami-kun is very constrained in the LDP, he is a very capable person, but he is bound by chains. ”

"It takes a lot of strength to break free from this chain. ”

"After breaking free from the chains, without greater support, it will have a huge impact on the present and the future. ”

"We at Nomura Securities and some companies happen to have a lot of resources that are not available, and we are hesitating now. ”

Speaking of which, Yu Matsumoto didn't say anything, and deliberately hung Keizo Obuchi's appetite.

Keizo Obuchi knew Matsumoto's intentions, but when it came to Noboru Takekami's future, it involved his future, so after pondering for a while, he took the initiative to ask, "Matsumoto-kun, I don't know what other companies besides your company?"

Matsumoto Yu smiled mysteriously, shook his head and said, "I can't say this. ”

"All I can say is that we have more resources than you can imagine. ”

"There will be a quadrennial election to the House of Representatives at the end of the year, and if this opportunity is missed, it will have to wait until 1987......

"Four years, how many four years ...... life"

At this time, Keizo Obuchi's thoughts were in a state of confusion.

PS: The political scene of the island country is in a mess, all kinds of relationships are complicated, and the head of the information check is about to explode.

In addition, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, November 14, the first batch of Gannan navel orange lottery will be held.