Hideo Kagawa is a young journalist with a sense of distress, born in post-Plaza Japan and experiencing first-hand Japan's "lost decade" and then twenty years. When he was very young, the concept of Made in Japan was a very good one, and there were legends in Japanese society about how the Yamato people persevered and forged ahead, and he was a staunch nationalist since he was a child.

However, as he gets older, he finds that there are fewer and fewer hot-blooded things around him, and his friends only focus on pay slips and anime, and the innate talent of the Japanese has created countless beautiful appliances and daily necessities, and now, these imaginations are completely applied to the design of the ghost animal plot in the tokyo_hot.

The will of the Japanese also dissipated with the stagnation of the economy. Hideo Kagawa saw that in the face of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, people showed terrible calmness, or even indifference, and few heroes who dared to die generously. He had seen a science fiction movie in which, when the Earth was about to crash into Jupiter and be destroyed, the Chinese were working together for a rescue plan with zero probability of success, while the Japanese chose to kill themselves before the Earth was destroyed.

This society is swollen!

This is Hideo Kagawa's question and cry from the heart.

As a reporter specializing in Sankei Shimbun, he felt it was his duty to expose Japan's decline and use such reports to wake up the Japanese people. Over the past few years, he has interviewed bankrupt entrepreneurs and unemployed workers, and has written a number of socially critical articles on social media. It's a pity that Japanese society is so decadent, everyone is pretending to be asleep, and his cries are like singing to a black hole, and they can't even arouse a little echo.

Yesterday, he received a phone call from a caller who identified himself as "Mr. Moto", saying that he was a Chinese who had lived in Japan for many years and had collected a lot of shady information about large Japanese companies and wanted to sell them to Hideo Kagawa. Hideo Kagawa is keenly aware that this is a good opportunity to uncover the scars of the Japanese economy, and his past coverage has only been about small and medium-sized enterprises, which have not attracted much attention, and if he can find a few large Japanese companies to expose them fiercely, it may be able to cause social repercussions.

"I have shoddy materials in my hands that the Sendo Steel Institute has tampered with with steel inspection records. If I'm not mistaken, the steel produced by Sendo Steel is also used at many nuclear power plants in Japan, which means that Fukushima will not be the last, and if these nuclear power plants have an accident due to the quality of the steel, the whole of Japan will sink into the Pacific Ocean. ”

After seeing Kagawa Hideo sitting down in front of him, Guo Peiyuan didn't go around in circles, and threw out the fierce material bluntly.

"What? Sendo Steel!" Rao is Kagawa Hideo was fully mentally prepared, and he was also frightened at this moment. Xiando Steel, which is simply a symbol of Japanese quality, how could such a company tamper with steel inspection records?

It is not that there have been product quality problems in Japan, but all the product quality problems that have been disclosed are caused by the mistakes of the factory, not intentionally. However, what Guo Peiyuan said to Kagawa Hideo was that Xiando Steel deliberately tampered with the inspection records, which is a subjective fraud, and its nature is 10,000 times more serious than other product quality problems.

"Mr. Yuan, do you know how serious this matter is? If you can't provide conclusive evidence, then this is a crime to frame and damage the reputation of the enterprise. Kagawa Hideo said solemnly to Guo Peiyuan.

Guo Peiyuan took out a file bag from his bag, pushed it in front of Kagawa Hideo, and said: "I have some evidence here, but because I am not a journalist and have no investigative power, my evidence may not be very accurate." However, I think you will believe me after reading it, because the evidence I have provided is corroborating with each other. ”

Hideo Kagawa opened the file bag, and there were several pages of printer paper inside, on which were the clues sorted out by Guo Peiyuan, and the rest of the information were copies of some newspapers and periodicals, as well as copies of order orders and inspection records that I didn't know where I got them. Kagawa Hideo simply looked at the copies and knew that these things should be real, if it was false evidence made by Guo Peiyuan, then the amount of work for this fraud was too large.

Then he began to read the contents of the sheets of paper, which told him a story like this:

In order to obtain higher profits, Xiando Steel has artificially reduced the proportion of precious alloys in alloy steel, and deceived thousands of users by modifying the inspection records, so that these inferior alloy steels with less standard alloy ratios are used in various occasions. This incident did not start today, but continued for nearly 20 years, and the earliest records of fraud date back to the early 90s of the last century.

The evidence provided by Guo Peiyuan includes some quality accidents disclosed in the media and academic journals, in which Xianhu Steel appeared. The analysis report of the accident did not mention the quality of the steel, but attributed the cause of the accident to welding defects, operating errors, improper design, etc. If a quality incident is viewed in isolation, the explanations in the analysis report may be convincing. But if you put these accidents together, plus a little hint, people with a little bit of thinking will associate whether there are defects in steel, because if the causes of these accidents are attributed to steel defects, it is undoubtedly a more reasonable explanation.

Hideo Kagawa also saw several test reports, which were of course also copies. These reports were issued by some authoritative testing agencies in Japan, and they had their stamps on them, which Kagawa Hideo did not believe. The test samples in the test report are all steel, but the origin of the steel is not stated. On the photocopy, there is a handwritten note claiming that the steel came from the scene of several quality accidents, and that the steel submitted to the testing agency was not an official Japanese investigative agency, but an anonymous social group.

"You sent these tests to do?" Kagawa Hideo asked, looking at Guo Peiyuan.

Guo Peiyuan smiled slightly and said, "This is what my group did. ”

"Why haven't these results been made public?"

"Why should we make it public?"

"But if it's not made public, why are you doing such a test?"

Guo Peiyuan laughed: "Young people, we are not philanthropists, and the public interest has nothing to do with us. The purpose of this test is just to get a little money from Sendo Steel. You know, big business is more generous in order to hide something. ”

"I see...... "Hideo Kagawa really understood. Obviously, Guo Peiyuan's group had already grasped the fraud of Xianhu Steel, so they collected steel samples at the scene of the accident, anonymously sent them to an authoritative organization for testing, and then used these test reports to blackmail Xianhu and ask for hush money.

If this story is true, it means that Xiando Steel deliberately falsified, and after the accident caused by the fake and shoddy products, it still adopted the method of sealing up to deceive the public. Such a story is so dark that it almost suffocates Hideo Kagawa, and it is precisely this suffocating feeling that tells Hideo Kagawa that this is big news, a big news that is enough to cause a major earthquake in Japanese society.

"I want these materials!" Hideo Kagawa made a decision in an instant.

"Our asking price is not low. Guo Peiyuan said sadly. Practice shows that Bao Chengming's invitation to Guo Peiyuan to do this is very discerning. If it were someone else, I am afraid it would be difficult to play a mercenary agent of a dark group in such a true way.

Guo Peiyuan is not actually acting, and when Bao Chengming submitted the materials to him, he told him that although he opened his mouth to the reporter Lion, the higher the reward he demanded, the more the reporter would believe in the authenticity of the materials. And no matter how much money he wants, it will all belong to him, and Bao Chengming doesn't want a penny.

"Tell me, how much?" asked Hideo Kagawa.

Guo Peiyuan stretched out a finger and said, "100 million yen." ”

"100 million!" Kagawa Hideo's eyes widened, "Mr. Yuan, this price is too high, right?"

Guo Peiyuan shrugged his shoulders and said, "Mr. Kagawa, do you know how much money our group has spent to collect these materials? Once these materials are handed over to you, they will have no value to us, and we will not be able to do such business in the future. If it weren't for the fact that our group was tired of the business, we wouldn't have put this material out for sale. ”

Hideo Kagawa was speechless, of course he could see the value of this stack of materials. If Guo Peiyuan's group really made a living by blackmailing enterprises, then once this matter was discovered, their business would come to an end, and maybe the immortals would go crazy to hunt them down. From this point of view, Guo Peiyuan's request for a reward of 100 million yen is really not a black heart.

"I personally can't come up with the money. Hideo Kagawa said.

"What about your newspaper?" asked Guo Peiyuan.

Hideo Kagawa shook his head: "The newspaper will not be willing to pay such money." And if I report it to the newspaper, it won't be me reporting the news in the end. Mr. Yuan, I would also like to remind you that you should not hope to sell such news leads to newspapers, which may leak this matter to the enterprise in order to get more benefits from the enterprise. In the whole of Japan, the only one who can report this news is Hideo Kagawa. Because...... I am a journalist with a conscience. ”

As he said this, he straightened his thin chest and felt the souls of countless Showa seniors attached to him.