National Tide 1980

Ning Weimin gained a lot in France this time.

Even he himself did not expect that this time, in addition to making double profits by speculating and short selling on the "Black Monday" that he had predicted in advance, he would also get so many extra benefits after helping Henri Lacamier regain the company.

Now his personal wealth in France includes:

Pierre Cardin gave him 5% of the head office shares.

Henri Lacamier gave him three very high-quality and difficult-to-buy real estates for free out of gratitude and compensation.

He also held 10% of LVMH shares publicly in the French stock market, and later bought 8% of L'Oreal shares and 4% of Hermès shares at a low price.

In the next 20 years, although the stocks of these companies will not double dramatically, they will rise year by year and eventually become the top three with the largest market value in the French capital market.

In addition, he has about 1.32 billion francs in cash, which can be used to maintain the operation of these real estates in France and to build luxury hotels.

During the few days he stayed at the winery, he actually reached a preliminary agreement with Romanee through the winery steward and successfully obtained a quota. This is the benefit of his winery being close to the place of origin.

The two parties agreed that starting from this year, Ning Weimin can purchase at least 140 boxes of wine produced by Romanee every year.

The approximate proportion of the quota is as follows: this batch of goods worth 5 million francs includes 15 boxes of Romanee-Conti, the most famous "wine king" of Romanee, and the rest include other famous wines of the winery, including 15 boxes of La Tâche, 20 boxes of Romanée-Saint-Vivant, 45 boxes of Echezeaux, Grands-Echezeaux and 30 boxes of Richebourg.

Don't underestimate the small number. Even if all these wines are added together, there are only about 1,700 bottles of wine each year, which is barely enough for one or two restaurants.

But as the saying goes, there is a long way to go. Since we have established a preliminary cooperative relationship, there are endless possibilities in the future.

And who can blame the Romanee wines that are always in short supply?

Ning Weimin is already very satisfied with the fact that he can get so many wines now, all thanks to the fact that Jinpo was once a "cousin" of Romanee winery.

The key is that there are no middlemen to take the difference in price. These wines are all bought at the lowest price, and the current purchase price is less than 4 million francs.

Even if he doesn't leave France, he can find a few cars to take these wines to Paris, and Ning Weimin can make at least one-third of the profit by just reselling them.

If he takes them to Japan or stays in Saint-Tropez, and waits to sell them to the rich people in Europe during the tourist peak season next year, it will be amazing.

He is kind-hearted to make a double profit.

It is not excessive to sell them two or three times more.

Five or six times, or even better prices, can also be sold if they meet people who really appreciate them.

If he could bear the loneliness and slowly hoard them, the added value of these wines in 20 years would be much greater than that of Moutai.

According to the information Ning Weimin knew, in 2016, someone in Hong Kong bought a bottle of Romanee-Conti for 1.34 million Hong Kong dollars, and it was a 1988 vintage.

If we calculate it based on the current franc exchange rate, which is slightly lower than the Hong Kong dollar, the average annual increase is more than five times?

It is a worthwhile deal.

So for this matter, Ning Weimin also generously raised the salary of the staff in the winery to boost morale and reassure people.

The salary of each of the six ordinary workers in the winery increased from 14,000 francs to 16,000 francs.

The income of the two winemakers increased by 6,000 francs and 5,000 francs respectively.

After the change, their monthly salary is basically around 30,000 francs.

The most suitable one is of course the winery butler.

As the key figure who helped Ning Weimin connect with Romanee Winery, not only did his salary increase by 10,000 francs, but his monthly salary reached 40,000 francs.

Even his wife, who was originally responsible for cooking for everyone every day, was officially employed by the winery and has a fixed income every month since then.

Needless to say, under such a big economic stimulus, the whole winery was smiling and everyone was happy.

Obviously, everyone's uneasiness and worries about the change of the owner of the winery have disappeared.

On the contrary, they think that Ning Weimin, the new boss, is quite good, generous and kind, and has a big star like Alain Delon as a friend, but he is not unkind at all, and is not the arrogant person they imagined.

Although he intervened in the business, it was limited to sales. He did not interfere with the work of winemaking.

In order to improve the quality of wine, he even announced that he would implement an incentive policy of an encouraging nature.

Promise them that if the wine produced by Jinpo Winery wins an award in the future wine selection competition, the winery staff will be rewarded and everyone will get extra bonuses.

Who doesn't like such a generous, enterprising boss who is willing to listen to opinions and not blindly command?

So even though Ning Weimin is a foreigner who knows nothing about wine and can't speak a few words of French, and he only stayed in the winery for three or four days, he went to Saint-Tropez to see his castle again.

But even this short stay allowed him to gain the recognition of the winery without any effort, and unknowingly brought a hope to Jinpo Winery, allowing the winery staff to have hope for the future. more eager expectations.

However, Ning Weimin had to change his original plan and stay in France for a few more days due to the needs of inspecting the territory and a new business plan.

Japan, which he has no time to take care of for the time being, has undergone many new changes due to the dimensionality reduction attack of "Black Monday".

As far as the entire Japanese society is concerned, this sudden financial disaster has also caused heavy losses to all speculators in the Japanese stock market, which is heartbreaking.

In just one or two weeks, the originally prosperous Japanese stock market dropped from the previous average stock price of 26,646 yen to 21,036 yen, and the Nikkei Index adjusted by as much as 22%.

The adjustment of individual stocks is more serious.

There are many stocks that have fallen by 30 to 40 percent, and there are also some that have adjusted as much as 50 to 70 percent.

With this sharp decline, a huge amount of wealth was evaporated, and almost everyone involved in stock speculation was frightened and stunned.

Most people have no time to react and are killed in the stock market.

And those who respond promptly may be worse off.

Although it was not a pure decline in the past two weeks, there was also a rebound. Many stocks fluctuated around 20% in a single day.

But you must know that in this era of closed information, most speculators lack sufficient understanding of the stock market.

Even if you are an economics professor, financial expert, or official of the Ministry of Finance.

Not many people know how to read K-line charts, but those who know that shrinkage and decline are signals of a short-term bottom are already considered experts.

Not many people have truly experienced extreme market conditions, and they don’t know how to handle them correctly.

Most people were able to make money before just because the market itself was good, and they caught up with a trend that was not seen in a century.

So under the amplification of emotions, how many people can really seize the opportunity of shock and make correct transactions?

Once you do the opposite, you will double your losses.

As the saying goes, the faster you move and the more frequent your transactions, the more you lose and the more miserable you are.

As a result, sales of luxury goods began to decline immediately, the business of high-end restaurants and nightclubs suddenly froze, and the demand for luxury cars stopped like a sudden brake.

This has even affected the property market.

Due to the sharp drop in stock prices, all kinds of leveraged speculators have been hit hardest. Those speculators who use financing to speculate in stocks need more funds to cover their positions or increase their margins.

Otherwise, their positions will be forcibly liquidated—a “liquidation” in stock market jargon.

So many people are in a hurry and can only borrow high-interest loans to cover their holes. People who own houses can either choose to take out mortgage loans at low prices or simply sell them at low prices.

This naturally caused the rising Japanese property market to slow down the price increase.

And those people in securities companies, those who rely on the stock market to make a living, are doing what they are doing now.

Apart from lamenting in private, there is currently no positive support in sight, and we can only see the stock price continuing to plummet.

They are left to continue to deceive the public for the sake of performance, "There is not much room for the index to fall, and there is support below. You can buy it."

Unfortunately, the Japanese government cannot count on it at this time, because the Japanese political arena is busy with the general election.

In 1987, as Prime Minister Nakasone's term was about to expire, and as public opinion circles continued to expose him as suspected of bribery and adultery, Nakasone planned to retire.

In order for the Liberal Democratic Party to continue to be in power and avoid the split of the party, he appointed Noboru Takeshita, the most powerful person in the party, as the 12th president of the Liberal Democratic Party. He also promoted Noboru Takeshita as a reward for following him for many years.

Therefore, Noboru Takeshita was approved as president within the Liberal Democratic Party, and approved by both houses of Congress, he became the 74th Prime Minister of the Japanese government.

In early November 1987, Noboru Takeshita officially took office and was ordered by Congress to form a cabinet. Takeshita Noboru finally ascended to the throne of Prime Minister and realized his long-cherished wish.

But the problem is that Noboru Takeshita has been serving as the Tibetan Prime Minister before, and all matters related to the Japanese economy are under his control.

Under such circumstances, this old boy's thoughts are all on reaching the top of power, so how can he care about the suffering of the people?

Moreover, Takeshita Noboru attaches great importance to interpersonal relationships and believes that the quality of interpersonal relationships is directly related to the stability of the regime.

Even after he came to power, he did not focus on solving practical problems.

Instead, he pursues a set of so-called Takeshita politics in order to consolidate his power.

Internally, he used the slogan "Everyone is a friend" to strengthen his network of contacts and find ways to control bureaucrats through his faction's backbones and alumni.

At the same time, seize the time to visit powerful people in the financial world and all walks of life.

He is like a big spider in a large spider web. He only wants to use interpersonal relationships as a medium to control the top and bottom of Japan.

Externally, he tried his best to curry favor with his American father and carried out frequent visits to the "free world" in Europe and the United States.

The first is to go to the United States and wag his tail to the President of the United States to show his loyalty.

Why does such a person care about the life and death of Japanese stock investors? Where can I do anything practical?

After "Black Monday" in October 1987, major Western countries raised interest rates in response.

Bank of Japan Vice President Mie Noyasu also repeatedly emphasized that "Japan's economic situation is in crisis" and suggested to the Ministry of Finance that "in order to prevent inflation, legal interest rates should be increased appropriately."

But Takeshita ignored it completely, and he basically turned a blind eye to his own responsibilities.

In the face of the stock market crash, he only "expressed concern" about the situation on the surface, but he could not come up with a practical solution to the problem.

In front of the media, he even used diplomatic rhetoric to cover up his incompetence and shirk responsibility.

"As a former finance minister, I have assumed the responsibilities of the prime minister at this time, and I am no longer responsible for making decisions on financial policies. This should be the job of the next finance minister."

And after he, the prime minister, finally appointed the finance minister, the only practical measure he took was to ask the finance minister to summon several major Japanese securities firms and ask them to make markets, find ways to fool their big customers to continue to invest in the stock market, and rely on the power of the people to artificially raise stock prices.

But at the same time, he also asked several major Japanese securities firms to continue to sell NTT stocks, brainwash the people, advocate the imminent rebound, advocate the myth of NTT, and help the government complete the planned money-making plan.

Such an inappropriate but contradictory instruction made even several major securities firms look embarrassed.

It has to be said that the Japanese people are really blessed to have such a prime minister.

In just two weeks, the plunge has led to a rapid increase in the number of people suffering from mental illness in Japanese society.

Some medical experts pointed out that "the general anxiety, abnormal excitement, and depression symptoms of the people are increasing sharply, and most of the symptoms can be attributed to the pressure caused by the stock market."

That's not all. The most serious thing is that suicides are also increasing at the same time, and the suicide rate in Japanese society has greatly increased.

The Japanese don't seem to like jumping into the air as much as Europeans and Americans, but there are many people who cut their wrists, touch the electric switch, hang themselves, take poison, and run to the sea.

As a result, the Japanese funeral industry has prospered a little bit due to this wave of stock market crash, and it is one of the few industries that benefited.

However, even so, the news about a person who has created profits for this industry recently has surprised the Japanese people and caused quite a stir at the social level.

For no other reason, first of all, this person is a topic figure who has been at the forefront of the storm for a while.

It was the leader of the Burning School, Suho Ikuo, who was called out by everyone in Japanese society after the entertainment bullying scandal was exposed.

Secondly, it was also because the way this guy died was rather strange.

On November 9, 1987, the 45-year-old Suho Ikuo died naked in a high-end hotel in Nihonbashi, Chuo District. The cause of death was an overdose of "banned drugs".

Especially at the time of the incident, there was a woman in the same room with him. This woman's identity was also unusual. She was the newly popular actress Sawaguchi Yasuko.

And because Sawaguchi Yasuko had left the scene before the emergency personnel arrived, the police discovered this through the testimony of the hotel staff.

Then, as a major suspect, she was taken back to the police station for questioning that night.

Later, the police not only learned from Sawaguchi Yasuko that Suho Ikuo was depressed because of his failed stock trading, so he used banned drugs to numb himself.

And they also knew that Suho Ikuo had lost all his property and became penniless because of leverage explosion.

Even Sawaguchi Yasuko lost all her personal savings because of her bewitching.

And considering that after Suoh Yukio showed signs of poisoning, Sawaguchi Yasuko called the emergency number, but left the scene hastily because of fear.

Her behavior not only led to a certain degree of negligence in the death of Suoh Yukio, but also detected illegal drugs in her body.

So she was unlucky. Not only did she lose her money, but she also had to go through legal proceedings to see how the court determined the charges against her.

She would have to spend a few days in jail.

Needless to say, Ning Weimin probably would not have thought that this stock market crash would actually give Suoh Yukio such a final result.

This leader who once dominated the Japanese entertainment industry and looked down on everyone died so silently and so cowardly.

This is probably the best interpretation of the saying "If you don't do it, you won't die."