After Becoming a Little |

The wedding should be the best, the honeymoon should be the most expensive, and even the food materials are priced up to sky-high prices, and the consumption tends to be abnormally luxurious.

Traveling abroad is the norm, and crazy consumption abroad is also the norm.

The current gold-buying auntie group is far less arrogant than the original Japanese Obasan Brigade. When the boss first arrived in Millikin in the 80s, when buying souvenirs, the auntie of the Japanese sightseeing group next to him began to look at the whole building. Want to buy it.

If these social conditions are just carnivals after the people have money, then construction investment can best prove Japan's madness.

Hiroshi Mikami, who was unknown at the time, made a movie "Take Me to Ski", which ignited the consumption concept of the younger generation in Japan.

If you want to pick up a girl, you have to go to Roppongi, you have to ask her to go skiing, you have to drive a Toyota Celica four-wheel drive sedan, and you have to take a Canon waterproof portable camera to take pictures of sweet moments.

it's called romance...

Girls with small eyes have learned to dress up in snow hats and ski goggles, and are keen to find skiing sites and beaches.

So Miyazaki County made the most stupid move in the world. They built the world's largest indoor summer resort center that can imitate Hawaii, with the world's largest indoor beach and sea bathing beach - although from this indoor resort Three kilometers away from the center is the real sea next to Miyazaki Prefecture...

Chiba County spent [-] billion to build the world's largest indoor ski resort, just because of the popularity of that movie - there are real snow mountains in Niigata and Aomori nearby, but Chiba County has no snow, There are no mountains either.

Other infrastructures have sprung up like bamboo shoots after the spring rain. There are good ones, but there are also many bad ones. Many of them have become laughing stock later.

"Can I smoke?" Mr. Yanqi looked at Ai Rulong.

"It's up to you." Ai Rulong flipped through the information halfway through, showing no expression on the surface, but a turmoil in his heart.

Mr. Yanqi lit a cigarette and talked about the past: "Back then we took advantage of the second oil crisis to bring our cheap and fuel-efficient vehicles into the Millikin market. That was the most beautiful time for our Mitsubishi..."

A car city like Detroit was really overthrown by Japan. In the early 80s, Japan bombarded Millikin indiscriminately in many industries, making the whole of Millikin at a loss. The auto industry is the most obvious of them. one item.

The semiconductor mentioned before is also one of them. Japan's success has inevitably led to a dilemma for Millikin.

But Ai Rulong just replied lightly: "That's Toyota, not your Mitsubishi. Toyota belongs to the Mitsui Zaibatsu."

"What's the difference? They're all Japanese cars."

Mr. Yan Qi looked at the night scene outside the window, with a bit of regret: "At that time, we were able to make domestic companies in the United States complain, factories closed down, workers lost their jobs, and formed a rust belt in the Northeast that is almost exactly the same as today—Mr. Ai , you should know how similar that scene is to today, right?"

Of course Ai Rulong knows that history is always surprisingly similar, and it is the same in the 80s and now.

The rust belt in Millikin has produced a group of extremely angry voters. They are either industrial workers or their relatives and friends. Let the Oval Office impose official sanctions on Benzi.

And the Oval Office has indeed done this. They use various actions to restrict Benzi's enterprises shamelessly, and use administrative means to restrict the entire semiconductor industry, saying that Benzi's semiconductor development threatens their national security. die quickly.

familiar?

It's just that the book's response is different.

At that time, Millikin was very murderous towards Japan. Japan trusted Lao Mai, not President Reagan at the time, so they felt that Reagan was really good at using knives.

Compared to everyone beating each other to death, it's better to just accept your counsel obediently.

More importantly, apart from the economy, Japan at that time was powerless to resist Millikin.

"At that time, we were the same as you." Mr. Yanqi said with a heavy tone.

"But the Republic is different..." Ai Rulong looked through the information again from the beginning.

He looked very carefully and seriously.

But this time when he flipped through it, he brought a firm and confident gaze, and even looked down a little bit.

It's like a teacher checking a student's homework—and this student is not yet a top student who can overwhelm the teacher.

The Republic is the same as Japan?

Reagan became president at 70, and now Donald is 71.

At that time, Reagan pursued a tax cut policy and massively strengthened national defense.

Now Donald also pursues a tax cut policy and massively strengthens national defense

At that time, Reagan shouted the slogan, Make Millikin great again.

Now Donald is also shouting the slogan, make Millikin great again.

Donald is an admirer of Reagan, and it is even obvious that he is learning from Reagan.

— But the problem is that the Republic is not Japan.

How can he, Donald, learn from Reagan?

"It's interesting to say that our foreign minister at that time was Ahn Jintaro, who is now Prime Minister An Jin's biological father."

Mr. Yanqi finished smoking, looked away from the window, and looked at Ai Rulong in front of him: "Japan is facing the same predicament as it was back then, and your Republic is facing the same bubble economy as we did back then... we There is no way to counter America, so we need allies."

The Plaza Accord was actually favored by the Japanese people at the very beginning.

Because the Plaza Accord promoted the appreciation of the yen on a large scale, for the public, the money in their hands is more valuable, which is a good thing.

But on the other hand, the value of the yen means that the prices of Japanese goods abroad will increase.

Japan, which originally relied on trade to get to that point, faced a sharp drop in sales and exports after commodity prices rose, which eventually led to a decline in trade.

A trade recession was an economic recession for Japan, which relied on manufacturing to prosper at the time.

Therefore, after the crisis gradually broke out, Prime Minister Nakasone, who signed the Plaza Accord back then, changed from a "courageous politician" in the public's mouth to a "traitor who ruined Japan's manufacturing industry."

how ridiculous...

At that time, Japan cut interest rates five times a year in a row, hoping to reduce the financing costs of enterprises and expand investment.

At the same time, this self-stabbing practice can also reduce the attractiveness of the yen, leading to a fall in the exchange rate and depreciation of the yen.

Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.

The yen is still desperately appreciating, and it cannot be suppressed at all.

Because at that time, Millikin unswervingly implemented the "weak dollar policy" to enhance the export attractiveness of Millikin's products.

Only when the U.S. dollar depreciates, can Miliken’s products become cheaper with the same product quality, thus defeating the same high-quality and cheap Japanese products.

Japan can't do the huge Millikin - because in addition to the policy itself, there is another group of people entering the market.

That is the capital speculators in the financial world, all kinds of financial predators.

They are Ai Rulong from Millikin and the current Sorokin. They have speculated on the yen and traded foreign exchange frantically.

In one year, the scale of Japan's foreign exchange market increased by 300%, forming the final madness.

At that time, Japan had not completely collapsed, and the high-level officials were worried, but the folks were still singing and dancing, showing a scene of extreme prosperity.

Everyone even thinks that the US dollar is finished, and the weak Millikin is about to bow down before the great yen.

Not long after the Plaza Accord, the high-level Japanese government modified some domestic financial restrictions and opened up the financial market in order to cooperate with Millikin's depreciation policy, leading to financial liberalization.

The whole people speculate in foreign exchange, frantically speculate in foreign exchange.

Industry?what is that?Do you make money by speculating in foreign exchange?

Tough trade?what is that?Can't you just turn it back after speculating in foreign exchange?

Hey, this is simply lying down and making money, so happy——

"I have seen the power of you financial predators, Mr. Ai, I have seen..."

After smoking one cigarette, Mr. Yanqi lit another cigarette, his hands trembling slightly, as if recalling the almost crazy era: "In 1987, Prime Minister Nakasone issued the "Prosperity Policy", which is your greatest weapon. "

Ai Rulong didn't speak, he quickly browsed through the document for the second time.

Hearing Mr. Yanqi's words, he raised his head from the document, leaned back and leaned on the back of the chair.

At this moment, his gaze is as domineering as his title of 'Far Eastern Dragon', like a giant dragon looking at his food.

"That was your wrong decision." He said this, understated, not mocking, but absolutely merciless.

"...Maybe so."

While the economic policy cut taxes for residents by one trillion yen, the government invested five trillion yen in an attempt to stimulate the Japanese economy and drive development.

Six trillion yen, an invisible financial nuclear bomb, just smashed into the eastern capital of Japan.

The government will give you tax cuts, the government will send you money, and the government hopes that you will develop your business.

But when you look at the stocks and foreign exchange peers next door who can make money while lying down, and see yourself working hard for a year, no one makes more money lying down for three months, what do you think?

So far, the industry has been hollowed out, and a wave of hype among the people has formed.

The Plaza Accord was the trigger, the road to the trap, but not the trap itself.

All the prosperous scenes of the bubble economy came out during this period of time-Mr. Yanqi knew it very well, and even Mitsubishi contributed to the flames at that time.

The Japanese were obsessed with the noble golf game at that time, so Mitsubishi Metals made a limited edition of three-piece golf sets, priced at 650 million yen, a total of [-] sets.

——It sold out in just three days.

"We had a dream at that time, a dream that we didn't want to wake up from." Mr. Yan Qi looked at Ai Rulong with a look of despair in his eyes: "In the dream, every one of our citizens became a rich man. , Our money can buy Millikin, or even the whole world... But in the end, the dream woke up."

"At that time, someone actually predicted the economic bubble, but you didn't think so."

"...Yeah, I know who you're talking about, Professor Yukio Noguchi, right?"

Mr. Yan Qi said and shook his head: "It's different, he was only pessimistic at the time, and he was not sure - at the time, we didn't think it was a dream that would collapse, and even some of the later reductions in popularity The policies are all just trying to stabilize the economy.”

Even on the eve of the collapse of the bubble economy, officials still felt that there was hope.

But who knew that their bubbles would be so big, so beautiful, yet so fragile and easily broken?

Snapped--

nothing more...

After that, Nanbang rose and replaced Japan to some extent.

The Republic of China reformed and opened up and became the factory of the world, and the manufacturing industry flourished.

Since then, he has lost Japan for 30 years.

Banks fail, businesses fail, and development stagnates.

I really answered a word - come out to mess around, you have to pay back after all...

Ai Rulong lit the document and put it on the glass table, watching the ashes of the sparks dance in the air.

"The Republic is not like you." He repeated this sentence again.

The subtext is very clear, Millikin can harvest you Japan, but thinking that you can use this method to deal with the Republic?

Who gave them confidence?