"Since the year before, I have been working as a secretary in my father's foreign minister's staff, which can be regarded as a formal political career, and my qualifications are still very shallow."

In front of Tang Huan, Shinzo Abe looked very humble, and respectfully guided him to Komoto Ki Hikozaburo, Shintaro Abe, and Noboru Takeshita.

There are many factions within the LDP, and these three people belong to different small groups: Komoto Hikozaburo is the Watanabe faction; Shintaro Abe is a member of the Seiwa Policy Research Society, which began as a faction of his father-in-law, former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi; Noboru Takeshita formed a faction of his own.

In Japan, an island country with obvious consciousness and instinctive xenophobia, it is not good to mix around, and it is not good to know the heels of real power figures. Tang Huan greeted them skillfully and reservedly, and representatives of other consortia also saw the opportunity to come over and get acquainted, so that they could register their numbers.

Don't look at these political dignitaries who are well-dressed and sanctimonious, but they have no aura in Tang Huan's eyes, because the other party has received benefits from him, and the relationship between them is practical and clear.

Speaking of which, the politics of gold power is another feature of Japanese politics that can only be understood and cannot be spoken, and the most recent big scandal is the "Lockheed incident."

Although it is the leading aircraft manufacturing company and arms supplier in the United States, under the fierce competition of Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10, Lockheed's commercial wide-body jet business is not going well, and its L-1011 three-star airliner is facing a dilemma of sluggish sales.

At that time, ANA procured an aircraft and selected McDonnell Douglas' DC-10 passenger aircraft. In order to snatch orders from rivals, Lockheed stuffed 500 million yen in cash to then-Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, while also taking care of other important politicians. This, in turn, forced ANA to revise the order. Purchased the Lockheed L-1011 three-star airliner.

Originally, this kind of accustomed and tacit inside story of Jin Quan. In the Japanese political arena, they have dealt with the past in a veiled way, and outsiders who have no position are too lazy to care about this kind of bad thing.

But let's not forget that the big American conglomerates are doing global business, and the pattern of interests is focused on the world. Lockheed uses small means to get competitors out, which naturally attracts retaliation from the other party.

As a result, as soon as the matter was exposed, Lockheed Chairman Daniel Haughton-Daniel Haughton. Hofton and President Carl Kotchian-Carl Kotchian. Cochin resigned, and orders for the L-1011 Samsung airliner were lost, with a total loss of more than $1 billion.

Originally, Lockheed needed to sell at least 500 L-1011 three-star airliners. But under the influence of this incident, Lockheed announced in 1981 that it would close its production line after the end of production of the 250th aircraft, and the delivery of the last L-1011 Samsung airliner was due this year.

As a result of this painful commercial failure, Lockheed completely withdrew from the civil aviation market.

On the Japanese side, a major political earthquake will inevitably occur. Kakuei Tanaka was eventually charged with violating the Foreign Trade Control Act and accepting bribes, and was imprisoned along with several other officials.

On October 12 last year, after seven years of trials and hundreds of court sessions, the court found that Kakuei Tanaka had violated the foreign exchange law and had been entrusted with bribes. He was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 500 million yen.

But. Big shots will naturally have ways to deal with it, not to mention a far-reaching political bigwig like Kakuei Tanaka. After paying 200 million yen bail and being released on bail pending trial, he immediately organized a strong team of lawyers to appeal and defend himself from multiple angles.

Therefore, this verdict last year is only the beginning of a new battle.

Japan implements a four-tiered three-instance system, so in the original time and space, after the second trial, and then the third trial, it was not until 1995 that the Supreme Court of Japan made a final judgment, rejecting Kakuei Tanaka's second-instance appeal in accordance with the law and upholding the original judgment. At that time, Kakuei Tanaka had been traveling west for nearly two years.

In Tang Huan's view, the reason why Kakuei Tanaka was able to drag on and on in this lawsuit is largely due to the shrewd habits that Japanese politicians have cultivated for a long time.

On the other hand, Lockheed has found a way to dredge relations, but the means are really not clever, and gift-giving is also a broad and profound knowledge, how can you give cash with straight eyebrows and grab pigtails.

Tang Huan's interests in Japan are inevitably looking for a way, but he thinks that he has done something invisible.

At this stage, it is not popular to give gifts in Japan with cash, but stocks, after all, Japan's economy is entering a golden age, and Tang Huan went one step further and gave investment opportunities for stocks to rise.

Sometimes when I meet those politicians who do have two brushes of cultural cultivation, they will send his ink treasures to the auction house.

In all of this, there are countless ways to convey benefits to the target. The three smiling old men on the other side quietly got the benefits.

In the midst of the staggering, Tang Huan's eyes found Shinzo Abe, and then raised his glass and said, "Abe, let's have a drink." ”

Shinzo Abe said with a look of embarrassment: "Mr. Tang, I'm sorry, I'm not good at drinking. ”

"Nonsense, I know you can't drink." Tang Huan smiled secretly in his heart, and persuaded on his lips: "A drink, soothing menstruation and invigorating blood, is beneficial to the body and mind." ”

"Bastard, Tang Sang toasted you, what are you hesitating about." Shintaro Abe was a little angry when he saw his son being so cowardly, "I told you a long time ago, how can a man not exercise and drink." ”

"Your Excellency Foreign Minister, don't be angry, since Abe really can't drink, then forget it." Tang Huan hurriedly persuaded, and then added, "It's just that I feel a little regretful." ”

Shinzo Abe hurriedly said: "Mr. Tang is full of enthusiasm, how can I not know how to lift." ”

After drinking a glass with Shinzo Abe, Tang Huan looked very happy and raised his glass again, "Abe is famous." Family Roots. The future in Japan is limitless. We're going to have to move around a lot in the future. ”

Seeing that the meaning of the richest man's friendship was so obvious, how dare Shinzo Abe not give face, so he drank the second cup head-on. Everyone is in a cultural and traditional circle, and he has already expected that the other party is likely to have a third drink with him.

Sure enough, Tang Huan raised his glass again with great interest, "I didn't expect to meet Abe as soon as I got out of the car today, fortunately!" Come. We drank the third cup together. ”

Shinzo Abe, who was out of the way, endured the discomfort, closed his eyes, tilted his neck, and drank the third cup.

What comforted Shinzo Abe was that others gave this heroic applause, and his father, Shintaro Abe, praised him in a teachable tone, "Yo Xi Yo Xi." ”

After this round of seemingly cheerful drinks, the topic of the banquet began to turn to the main topic.

Shinzo Abe, who was dizzy above and turned over the river below, held on for a while. In the end, taking advantage of everyone's inattention, he staggered straight to the bathroom.

After noticing Shinzo Abe's embarrassment. Tang Huan smiled secretly, and then turned his mind to the proposal that these cunning Japanese lobbied.

It turned out that in the face of the increasingly strong rebound of the U.S. semiconductor industry, Japanese semiconductor manufacturers and relevant institutions responsible for trade friction negotiations put their brains on the head of Tang Huan, the world's largest memory buyer, hoping to reach a private deal with each other, that is, let him do a trick in international trade, and reduce the memory of Japanese semiconductor suppliers imported by the United States on the surface, so that the trade deficit in this field of the United States will not be so ugly, and the benefit of Japan is a lower ex-factory price of memory.

"These mercenary grandsons are planning to let me carry the thunder." After quickly calculating the gains and losses, Tang Huan came to this conclusion.

Is Lockheed enough in the United States? But after its hands crossed the line, it was not forced to completely withdraw from the civil aviation market.

At present, semiconductor manufacturers in the United States, which are struggling on the line of life and death, are forming an alliance to put pressure on the federal government and counter their Japanese counterparts. If he is really bought, he can't contain the fire in the paper, and maybe one day after it is exposed, it will become a big scandal.

After thinking of this, Tang Huan slowly said in the midst of everyone's attention: "This proposal is indeed a good win-win plan. However, I have always had a sense of reverence for the rules, and I dare not offend the many colleagues in the United States who are waiting to be fed. ”

Seeing that Tang Huan said so frankly, several people who took the lead in promoting this matter looked at each other and thought in unison: "Bullshit's awe, this is disgusted that the price we offered is not high enough." ”

Tang Huan, who had a full view of everyone's reactions, didn't wait for them to speak, made a gesture, and continued: "Actually, I also helped you think of a solution. You might as well transfer some of your production capacity outward, such as to Baodao and Chinese mainland. When the time comes, won't Japan be able to divert part of its trade surplus with the United States? ”

Hearing this idea, the representatives of Japanese semiconductor manufacturers attending the meeting began to discuss.

"Thanks to your kind invitation, I may wish to disclose a few pieces of information here." Tang Huan raised his voice and began to break the news sonorously.

"First of all, Fangyuan Computer will launch a fully 32-bit PC next year, as well as a new operating system."

"At that time, the basic capacity requirement of the main memory used by Fangyuan personal computers will be increased by 4 times from the current 256KB to 1MB, and the mainstream configuration will increase from 512KB to about 2MB."

"As for higher-end workstations, servers and other products, the capacity of the main memory will also be doubled."

"With Fangyuan Computer's ability to sell more than 2 million personal computers a year, you should be able to imagine what kind of pull effect it will have on the memory market."

"Secondly, with the advent of a fully 32-bit PC platform, this year will be an important milestone for the Zheru product line. The memory-pull effect of all 16-bit software upgrades to more powerful versions should be evident in the second half of the year, if not surprisingly. ”

"The memory market is only going to get bigger and bigger, and since you are bothered by the trade friction between Japan and the United States, it is better to transfer production capacity to nearby areas, and at the same time divert the trade surplus, it can also significantly reduce costs, so why not."

Tang Huan's words really moved many people's minds, and they immediately threw out their own questions, "Mr. Tang, I heard that you have a factory in Chinese mainland, are your interests guaranteed?" ”

"Chinese mainland has now opened up a lot of special economic zones, and the investment conditions are extremely favorable, and I have indeed received a lot of benefits from this." Tang Huan smiled slightly, "As for the so-called guarantee, you have to rely on the foreign minister and other ministers of state to help you understand." ”

Since 1970, the Japanese government's foreign policy has begun to move closer to Chinese mainland, official relations with Treasure Island have become increasingly cold, and the pattern of Treasure Island is limited, so Japanese businessmen are more interested in Chinese mainland than others.

However, Tang Huan only wanted to lead the way, but did not want to endorse it, and the political relationship between China and Japan was very complicated even in the 1980s. The water was too deep for him to mix.

Everyone said at the banquet that this step can come to an end, as for whether to continue to lead Tang Huan to the bait, the Japanese business community will have to wait for the next opportunity.

Next, Tang Huan plans to enjoy the Japanese tea ceremony with Hikozaburo Komochi, Shintaro Abe, and Noboru Takeshita, so that he can talk about some topics that are inconvenient to discuss publicly in a relatively private place, which is also the biggest purpose of his coming to this banquet.

……

Before entering the tea room, Tang Huan went to the bathroom and happened to see the pale Shinzo Abe retching at the sink.

"Abe, are you not feeling well?" Tang Huan, who was funny in his heart, asked casually.

Shinzo Abe didn't dare to say that he was drunk by Tang Huan's three glasses of wine, so he had to answer vaguely, "Yes, the stomach and intestines are not very comfortable." ”

"The stomach must be nourished." Tang Huan made a very concerned look, took out a stomach diet tablet from his pocket and handed it over, "It's better to eat two of this, the effect is very good." ”

"This ......" Shinzo Abe looked at the blue stomach diet tablets with a strange expression, and hesitated not to take it.

"What's wrong?" After Tang Huan asked, he suddenly realized, "Didn't you mistake this thing for Viagra, this is a stomach digesting tablet." ”

Seeing that Tang Huan took a piece and put it in his mouth, chewed it in a big gulp, and swallowed it, Shinzo Abe blushed, and hurriedly took the stomach digesting tablets, hiding his embarrassment, and quipped: "This is a good thing, not only can it nourish the stomach, but it can also be used for cover." Hey, hey, hey......"

"Abe is very smart, and he is really talented." Tang Huan picked his thumb, and then added: "Since Abe likes this kind of stomach and diet tablets, I will ask my assistant to send a few boxes tomorrow, it has just been launched in the United States, and it is difficult to see a shadow in Japan." ”

"Thank you, thank you......" Shinzo Abe said with a smile on his face. (To be continued.) )