Chapter 23: Mitsubishi
The man's name was Yuta Matsumoto, and he met Tangning by chance. The origin of the matter is still related to Han Xuewei, a family doctor in the Downing Mansion and a Chinese girl.
Originally, Han Xuewei was assigned a very small room on the second floor, and after a while, she applied to Tang Ning, and it was not good to change to a room on the first floor for decoration and warmth, but a much larger room, Tang Ning was very puzzled by this, but when Han Xuewei took him to her room to take a look, Tang Ning immediately understood, because this stupid girl's room was almost full of all kinds of antiques and crafts.
Han Xuewei is a very interesting girl, she prefers antiques such as ceramics and bronzes to beautiful clothes and jewelry, according to her, she was influenced by her late grandfather, and at that time the conditions in her family were still very good.
Now she is alone in Japan, she can't go back if she wants to go home, and she doesn't like the local Japanese clothing style very much, so when she was shopping, she accidentally bought a Jingdezhen porcelain vase in the Ming Dynasty at a low price beyond her imagination, and she pinned her homesickness on these very Chinese-style bottles and cans, although Tang Ning said that the salary for Han Xuewei was not high, but in fact, at that time, it was still very high, especially Han Xuewei stayed in Tangning's mansion all day long, and there was no place to consume, So she has a lot of spare money to buy antiques, but she doesn't know much about antiques, she only knows two principles, one is cheap, and the other is that the bigger the thing, the better, so, slowly, her room was piled up.
Tang Ning happily agreed to her request, because Tang Ning felt that although Han Xuewei's approach was a little naïve, the idea was still very creative, although he didn't understand antiques, but he felt that it was a very good idea to take advantage of the current cheap to charge a little more real antiques.
First of all, the folk have always had the saying of prosperous antiques and troubled gold, which shows that in troubled times, antiques are not worth much at all, which is particularly obvious in Japan now, because many people are about to starve to death, so what is the use of keeping these antiques that cannot be eaten or worn? Therefore, now, especially on the black market, the price of antiques is extremely low, and even Han Xuewei can accept the price, so Tang Ning, her boss, is naturally very relaxed. And Tang Ning is not worried that someone dares to lie to him, if someone really dares to do this, he just has an excuse to be mad, and he will also hire two antique experts to help him identify, anyway, almost all the masters in this industry are unemployed now, so it is easy to hire.
Second, Tangning's reason for buying antiques is not just to make a fortune, but he wants to keep some of the treasures of Chinese culture, although he is now an American, but he has just accepted this identity for half a year, and he has lived as a Chinese for nearly thirty years, so at this moment in his heart, he is just a Chinese mixed into the US military, seeing so many Chinese good things being savagely snatched by Japanese soldiers, his heart is very uncomfortable, and these treasures fall into the hands of little Japan, It's better to keep it yourself, whether it's to make money or do something else in the future, as long as you can save these treasures, it's a public morality.
Speaking of which, Tang Ning despises and puzzles the protagonists who immediately accept new identities and ways of thinking in the novel as soon as they travel through the past, and he feels that this is extremely unrealistic, how can it be possible that the experience of just a few months can replace the memories and three views of the past decades, unless these protagonists have lived extremely failed in their previous lives, and there is nothing to be nostalgic for. If you say it reluctantly, it's still a bit reasonable for babies to wear, but how can the protagonist in the novel have the time and patience to wait until he grows up, basically he dares to steal the poems of later generations as soon as he can speak, and recruits younger brothers everywhere, and he behaves more like a demon than Nezha.
Based on the above ideas, Tang Ning asked Mitsuhiko to find two antique experts, who were responsible for buying Chinese antiques at low prices on the black market every day, especially those calligraphy, paintings, murals and other items that were not easy to preserve. At first, there was a guy who bullied Tang Ning and colluded with a vendor to coax him, but to his surprise, Tang Ning secretly hired two more experts, and after seeing through the tricks of the liar, Tang Ning directly ordered Shimada to break this guy's limbs and throw them into the market to fend for himself, which shocked everyone at once.
This Matsumoto Yuta was met by Tang Ning when he was buying antiques, and he is one of the high-level descendants of Mitsubishi Group, one of Japan's four famous chaebols, but the Mitsubishi Group at this time is no longer in the limelight. After the occupation of Japan, the U.S. military implemented a series of occupation policies, such as disbanding the Japanese military headquarters, designating war criminals, forming labor unions, and dismantling the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The two most far-reaching events were the opening of land and the dissolution of the chaebol, and the other chaebols were somewhat cooperative, but the Mitsubishi Group refused to dissolve, insisting that everything the Mitsubishi Group did was "we just follow the national policy and do our best to fulfill our obligations to the country, and there is nothing shameful (the original words of Mitsubishi President Koyata Iwasaki)
However, his struggle was useless, not only did the US military believe that the existence of the zaibatsu would affect the process of democratization in Japan, but even the ordinary people of Japan believed that the war was initiated because of the excessive pursuit of profit by these zaibatsu, and that the zaibatsu were the culprits of the war crimes and must bear the responsibility for the war.
Therefore, at the beginning of 1947, Mitsubishi Corporation was dissolved and split into 139 independent companies, and no company in Japan could exist at the same time as two former Mitsubishi Group chief-level officials, until after 1950, the United States policy towards Japan changed, and the Mitsubishi Group was rebuilt, and finally formed the current pattern of Japan's six major chaebols.
Although Matsumoto Yuta is a rich second generation, his determination to revive Mitsubishi and the Japanese empire has never diminished, but in his current form, it is difficult to fulfill his wishes, so he can only waste his time and energy on women and antiques.
It is precisely for this reason that he met Tony Downing, the owner of the cola factory that has recently become popular in Japan, for the children of a business family like him, Downing's cola factory has no merit, the only bright spot is that the boss Downing is very smart, grabbing the maximum profit with the smallest cost, and achieving a monopoly market.
But after he learned that Downing had won the appreciation of the US military top brass and obtained more permission to produce munitions because he had publicly destroyed the poisoned Coke, a wonderful idea of saving the country formed in his mind.
PS: Don't worry, the protagonist won't cooperate with Mitsubishi.