Chapter 6: The Boiling Ocean

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Once on the ground, the three realized that they were not familiar with the city, which was home to more than 20 million people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Mobei Wolf has not been back for more than 20 years, let alone here, he is blind everywhere. When Liu Wei and Zhou Yulong were still K1 members, they spent most of their time on missions, and when they didn't have missions, they also moved around the base, and they didn't have the opportunity to wander around the metropolis, let alone come to Yanjing.

The three of them walked around the neighborhood and found that it was all shopping mall office buildings.

Shopping in the mall is a woman's hobby, and she has nothing to do with three big men.

The three had to expand the scope of their "search", and half an hour later they found a very inconspicuous bar in a small alley that did not even have a signboard.

As long as there is wine to drink, it is the same everywhere.

After entering, the three of them found that the light in the bar was very dim, and it was full of men, mostly in pairs, hooked shoulders and arms.

", I crashed into this place." Mobei wolf can see at a glance that this is the "glass house".

"Let's change places." Zhou Yulong is also very unhappy, he is not glass.

"For what? It's all here, and no one knows us anyway. Liu Wei didn't want to waste time, so he called a very thin waiter over. Do you have private rooms? ”

The waiter looked at the three of them and took them to the private room.

Fortunately, it was daytime, not many people came, and the private room was empty.

"Let's have a box of two pots, and then call a few girls."

"Sir......" The waiter was stunned for a moment and said, "We don't have a second pot head here, and we don't have a sister, and my brother has a lot of them, but it's just ......."

"Fart, Lao Tzu......"

As soon as the Mobei wolf was about to get angry, Liu Wei stopped him and said to the waiter who was scared like a chicken: "If you don't have it, go buy it, forget it, sister, you have to manage enough wine." Also, get a snack for each. ”

Zhou Yulong didn't say much and threw a stack of banknotes onto the plate in the waiter's hand.

If you have money, you will naturally be able to do things.

Ten minutes later, the waiter delivered a box of two pots, one catty, a total of six bottles. Just looking at the packaging, it's definitely not expensive.

Mobei Wolf didn't care so much, picked up a bottle and bit the cap.

Zhou Yulong turned on the TV in the past, sat next to Liu Wei, and said, "Do you know what happened recently?" ”

"What's the matter?" Liu Wei picked up a bottle of Erguotou. Some time ago, Yuan Changqing didn't allow him to drink, so he wanted to sneak out and have a good drink.

"You don't know?"

"Big bullshit, is it necessary to know?" Mobei Wolf interjected, and said, "It has something to do with the book, the little devil was not hurt, and he came to smoke again." ”

Liu Wei frowned.

"Over there in the East China Sea, it's quite a big commotion." Zhou Yulong didn't have an appetite anymore and told what happened a few days ago.

After returning to Tokyo, Naoto Kanno first mobilized the resources of the political axe to stabilize the financial turmoil caused by the Iwasaki family scandal, and then lobbied members of the Diet to pass an emergency bill with the guarantee provided by the political axe to help the five major consortiums of Mitsui, Sumitomo, Fuji, Miwa and Daiichi Koyoya to invest in the acquisition of 28 large companies under the Mitsubishi Foundation.

As you can imagine, the Mitsubishi Foundation is about to become history.

In this turmoil, the biggest winner was none other than the Fuji Foundation, headed by the Yasuda family.

According to outside estimates, after the completion of the acquisition of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, the Fuji Foundation will still have enough funds to acquire Mitsubishi Corporation and Honda Motor Co., surpassing Sumitomo and Mitsui in one fell swoop, becoming the largest consortium in Tokyo.

In addition to the Mitsubishi Foundation, the biggest loser is Daiichi Koshi.

The reason is very simple, Dai-ichi Quanye Bank and the Kawasaki Foundation have long formed a strategic partnership, and they have not yet recovered from the influence of Kawasaki Okami.

What the outside world doesn't know is that the real winner is not in Yueben, but the Li family in Hong Kong.

The Yasuda family fulfilled its promise, and after acquiring the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, it absorbed the "Hashimoto-Ogata Industrial Group" and made it the 30th member of the "Hibiscus Society" (Mt. Fuji is also known as the Hibiscus Peak, and the Fuji Foundation is also known as the Hibiscus Foundation, so the board of directors of the foundation has this nickname), and received 5% of the care, becoming the fifth largest shareholder.

The benefits that the Li family has gained are far more than that.

With the stock prices of the major companies under the Mitsubishi consortium suffering repeated setbacks, Old Man Li finally let go of his hands and let Li Zhenxing go all out to enter the capital, using the tens of billions of dollars obtained by the Li fund to acquire 8 percent of the outstanding shares of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, 7.4 percent of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, 7.1 percent of the outstanding shares of Mitsubishi Electric, 6.6 percent of Mitsubishi Corporation, and 5.2 percent of the outstanding shares of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., becoming the third largest shareholder of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, and also gaining board seats in other companies within three days.

If the Li family is regarded as a consortium, the scale at this time has surpassed the First Quanye Bank and become the fifth largest consortium in this area.

Even Li Tingxuan didn't expect this result.

What happened next was beyond Li Tingxuan's imagination.

In order to acquire the outstanding shares of the Mitsubishi consortium company, the Li family pledged almost the entire family fund to the bank, facing a serious financial crisis. Just when the outside world generally believed that the Li family would be supported to death and finally let the bank choose a bargain, the mainland political axe reached out and handed over several large-scale projects in the Bohai Rim region to the Li family, and provided the Li family with a huge loan in the form of a political axe guarantee.

Now, the problem arises.

After the intervention of the mainland authorities, it was equivalent to the Li family coming forward to buy the company for the political axe.

What makes the authorities even more annoyed is that this is completely in line with WTO regulations and does not involve a state monopoly, so there is no reason to fight back through formal channels.

In any case, Hong Kong's market economy status has long been recognized, and the Li family is a private enterprise.

It's just that the impact of this incident on the top level of the company is far greater than those intelligence incidents. In the eyes of some extreme politicians, this is tantamount to another Pacific War. The company lost very badly, and the chain reaction triggered by it will make the company completely lose the domestic market.

In the words of some nationalists, decades later, the book is no longer the book of the person himself!

Although this statement is a bit exaggerated, as mainland enterprises take advantage of the breakthrough opened by the Li family, they will face unprecedented challenges.

If it is not checked, it will face the tragic end of "economic collapse".

The United States is only occupying the capital militarily, and if even the economy is finished, it will never be able to come out.

Although the consequences caused by this will not be apparent in a short period of time, everyone knows that there is only one way out, that is, to speed up the speed of enterprise mergers and acquisitions to meet the upcoming challenges.

If we really want to go this far, we will not be far from militarism.

Don't forget, before World War II, it was not the young Zhuang soldiers who pushed the book onto the road of militarism, but the insatiable big conglomerates.

Can Naoto Kanno turn the tide?

As it turned out, he did not have this ability.

The collapse of the Mitsubishi consortium, the violent turmoil in the financial markets, and the aggressive entry of Chinese-funded companies have fueled the nationalist sentiment of the company and stimulated the revenge of the company himself.

A week after Kanno returned to Tokyo, the Ministry of Defense announced that it would hold joint exercises with the U.S. military in the waters off Okinawa.

The exercise area is west of Okinawa, not east.

That is, in the eastern waters of the East China Sea!

This is a very sensitive area, and the United States has never held a military exercise in this area before this.

The mainland authorities reacted immediately, declaring that they were paying close attention to the US-China joint exercises, while sending more warships and patrol ships to the East China Sea.

The temperature in the East China Sea has risen sharply.

Three days later, a fishing boat carrying a group of people approached the islands, where the far right planned to build a second lighthouse.

The mainland authorities immediately took action and dispatched a 3,000-ton maritime patrol vessel.

Not far behind, the Metropolitan Police Department immediately dispatched a patrol ship of similar tonnage.

Although neither side dispatched warships, only patrol ships with police surnames, everyone knew that if the confrontation continued, something serious would happen sooner or later.

It is a pity that the wheel of history is rolling forward, and no one can stop it.

After the confrontation with the patrol ship, the mainland failed to prevent the far-right group from landing on the Diaoyu Islands, nor did it prevent the Yue himself from raising the plaster flag on the island.

What the mainland can do is to raise the level of confrontation.

The next day, the mainland's Ministry of National Defense officially announced that it would hold a joint naval and air exercise in the waters of the East China Sea. When asked by a reporter whether an aircraft carrier battle group would be sent to participate in the exercise, the spokesman did not give any answer.

It was only at this time that the aircraft carrier battle group, which had left the Yulin military port a few days earlier, had already left the patrol area for the aircraft carrier battle group that was operating in the northern waters of the South China Sea. According to information released by the United States, the aircraft carrier battle group is heading for the Taiwan Strait and is expected to enter the East China Sea in two days.

At this time, the Taiwan authorities have also been involved.

Block, or release?

Although the United States has put pressure on the Taiwan authorities to blockade the strait and prevent mainland aircraft carriers from passing through, the ultra-right-wing groups have landed on the Diaoyu Islands and raised the national flag on the islands, which has aroused the indignation of the people on the island. Even if the Taiwan Navy does not act, it will not make sense to prevent the mainland aircraft carrier from passing by.

The problem is that if they do not stop it, the Taiwan authorities will inevitably offend the United States.

At a time when the Taiwan authorities were in a dilemma, the situation took a dramatic turn. Two days later, instead of passing through the Taiwan Strait, the aircraft carrier entered the port of Guangzhou. Subsequently, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense of the mainland announced that the aircraft carrier battle group had completed the first round of deployment operations after its service and would undergo a comprehensive overhaul at the port of Guangzhou.

In other words, in the short term, the aircraft carrier that made me tremble will not go to sea.

However, the situation in the East China Sea has not been eased.

The aircraft carrier entered the port, but all the warships of the North Sea Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet of the mainland navy rushed over and assembled in the waters south of the Zhoushan Islands to prepare to participate in the joint exercise.

Mei said's movements were also very fast, and the second day was completed at sea.

Because both sides have set up the exercise area in the northern waters of the Diaoyu Islands, there is a large overlapping sea area, so it seems inevitable that a conflict will break out.

Although everyone believes that this is at most a conflict and will never turn into a war, because neither of the three countries has any intention of starting a war, a conflict involving the three major powers is enough to change the strategic balance in the western Pacific and the entire international situation.

(To be continued)