"Mikhail, I remember you told me that you once helped Japan's current Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita deal with some shady political donations" Seryosha used an Iridium phone at home to communicate with Mikhail, who was far away in the United States, to understand some problems in Japanese politics.
Seryosha had been waiting for the collapse of the Japanese economy, because it would mean that the Gorky Brotherhood could wait for a new level.
However, the deterioration of the actual environment forced Seryosha to have a head-to-head battle with the Japanese government in advance, and he had to find a way to burst the Japanese bubble, and take this opportunity to make a big profit and raise enough funds to solve the employment and housing problems for the million-strong army that had withdrawn from the Soviet Union from the drastic changes in Eastern Europe.
"Yes, Seryosha, there was a real estate developer at that time, Deputy Hiromasa Jiang of Likulut Co., Ltd., this person had a good relationship with Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, the richest man in Japan, and you don't need to say that you also know that in real estate in Japan, if there is no political and business relationship, then many things can't be done.
So Yoshiaki Tsutsumi relied on Vice Hiroshi Jiang to catch up with the then Minister of Finance, who is now Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.
At that time, in order to avoid the accounts being discovered by political enemies and the media in Japan, they wanted to find a foreign bank, and our Columbia Bank happened to have a good relationship with Yoshiaki Tsutsumi's Seibu Group, so I helped Minister Takeshita deal with the financial matters, and the money was finally accepted by Minister Takeshita's secretary" Mikhail tried his best to recall the situation at that time, and reported to Seryosha in as much detail as possible about the transactions between Minister Takeshita, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, and Deputy Hiromasa Jiang.
Seryosha listened attentively, and at the same time his head kept thinking, he was thinking about how to burst the bubble of the Japanese economy.
Although Seryosha knows that this big bubble will burst sooner or later, when all investors are still full of confidence in the Japanese economy, Seryosha will not be able to compete with the general trend.
Seryosha tried to learn as much as possible about the collusion and clandestine dealings between Japanese politicians, real estate developers, and the banking system.
Seryosha found this information helpful.
When Seryosha and Mikhail ended the call, Seryosha already had a rough plan.
According to what Seryosha has mastered, there are two entry points to deal with Japan, one is the Seibu Group under the richest man Yoshiaki Tsutsumi.
The other is the current Prime Minister of Japan, Noboru Takeshita.
Noboru Takeshita has always been an advocate of the yen appreciation policy, and it was he who took the initiative to propose to the United States to sign the Plaza Accord.
This man has served as Japan's finance minister for many years, and many of the key decisions of the Ministry of Finance have been made by this man.
If Noboru Takeshita becomes prime minister, Seryosha is not sure that he wants to go toe-to-toe with Japan.
Noboru Takeshita is said by his political opponents to be Japan's most power-wielding prime minister, and if he occupies the position of prime minister, it would be a fool's dream to get the Bank of Japan to change its current loose fiscal policy.
All of Seryosha's possessions together are about the size of Japan's gross national product, and it would be wishful thinking to bring the world's second-largest economy to collapse directly.
However, if Japan's banking system is to be plunged into crisis in the first place, Seryosha will suddenly have a much clearer idea when he considers the problem from this perspective.
Japan's banking system has been running an accommodative monetary policy for several years, and most of their loans have gone into equities and real estate.
And the stock and real estate market is hot, so many companies are desperate to borrow and then put money into it.
The entire Japanese economy is developing in a deformed manner under the auspices of financial leverage.
If you want to put the banking system in crisis, you can simply let one of the Japanese stock markets or property market fall.
And now the Seibu Group is a key point in Japan's financial stability.
Although Seryosha and Tytsu have only met once in the United States, it is impossible to be a stranger to him, because this man is now the richest man in the world, and he has been on the Forbes list of the world's richest people for several years.
Just last year, Tytsu Yoshiaki and Seryosha's beloved wife Eva competed for the world's richest man, Eva once occupied the throne of the world's richest man, but in the end was squeezed out by Tyke Yoshiaki, Tyke Yoshiaki ranked first on the list of the world's richest people with assets of $130 billion, and Eva temporarily ranked second with assets of $120 billion, but the media is more optimistic about Eva, because her Yota communication has not yet been listed, as the world's leading mobile communications and network solution service provider, once listedYota's stock is sure to be sought after by investors.
At that time, the market value may be even higher than that of AT&T today.
Seryosha has no interest in the race for the richest man in the world, but he remembers from reports about the two men, and that is that the Seibu Group has bought one-seventh of Japan's territory.
In addition, luxury hotels, resorts and other projects are being built in the United States and Europe.
Behind this, Japan's big banks are providing ample capital and ammunition.
The Japanese are frantically investing abroad because of the strong yen, and the Seibu Group is fighting on both domestic and foreign fronts, and its core competitiveness is low borrowing costs and rising Japanese real estate prices.
What would happen to a real estate company that owns one-seventh of Japan's real estate if it went bankrupt, how much would the banks that lent money to the company lose, and what could Japan's real estate market support?
Seryosha was really curious.
With this line of thought, Seryosha finally had a perfect plan.
After figuring out the general direction, Seryosha picked up the red encrypted phone on his desk and went directly to the KGB.
The operator quickly took the call to the office of Shebarshin, the first deputy chairman of the KGB and head of the first head of the KGB Bureau.
Seryosha is now a popular man among Soviet ministers, and the KGB has long lost Gorbachev's trust and has long since lost its former pomp.
Seryosha found Shebalshin's purpose was simple: he wanted to find a spy who understood economics and had mixed in European financial circles to serve as a puppet in front of the Japanese operation.
"Comrade Seryosha, although such a person is not easy to find, I just know a suitable candidate.
Comrade Alexander Lebedev, a doctor of economics who graduated from the International Institute of Economics of the Socialist System, who is now the head of the treasury department at the Rothschild Bank in London, will be ready to listen to the call of the Motherland at the slightest command.
Balshin replied earnestly. t1706231537: