Traveling through the Tokyo bubble era

Chapter 659 The upcoming tour
August 2, morning.

After sending the Sekimoto sisters to Cloud Satellite TV in the morning, Hanyu Hideki returned to the Yorozuya and met Kampo Eiichi, who he had called.

"Boss, what's the matter with calling me here all of a sudden?"

Hanyu Hideki asked, "Have you seen the recent news about the ceasefire between Camel and Persian Lion?"

Jin Baoying shook his head and said, "No, I have been dealing with the funds from my boss's real estate sales recently. It is not easy to enter the market properly with so much money coming in all at once."

At this point, Jinbao Eiichi added, "Although I haven't watched the news, it seems that the boss is unlikely to contact me for anything else related to that place except oil futures.

After all, crude oil trading has been hot since the launch of the Brent crude oil futures contract in the UK in June.”

Hanyu Hideki said, "Yes, if they cease fire, oil production will steadily increase in the future, and international oil prices should fall in the short term."

"That's possible. Does the boss want me to enter the market and operate? But the war between these two companies has lasted too long. Even if we want to restore production capacity, it cannot be done in a short period of time. It's difficult for us to enter the market and make a profit in a short period of time at this time." said Kamibo Eiichi.

"There's no rush to do this. The end of the month is your deadline. You can discuss with Honda Takeshi now and form a special team. I will allow you to use 20 million US dollars to train the team. I will have great use for this team in the future."

The slight drop in international crude oil prices after the end of the Iran-Iraq War was certainly not a good opportunity for Hideki Hanyu to make a fortune.

What he was really targeting, of course, was the period in the early 1990s when international crude oil prices skyrocketed. After all, it was hard for him to forget the world-renowned war in America.

The reason for making arrangements in advance was that he had to find a source of investment for the funds. After all, the bubble economy was about to burst.

Although there are markets in other parts of Asia, such as the Four Asian Tigers and the Four Little Dragons, in terms of size, they are still far behind Japan, which now occupies almost half of the world's securities market.

Besides, it is very likely that the funds he controls in the future will not only be his own.

Jinbao Yingyi quickly agreed, "Yes, boss, I will discuss this matter with Honda Takeshi next."

At this time, Hanyu Hideki reminded again, "Pay more attention to the share price of Tohoku Energy, and stabilize it when necessary. I don't want Tohoku Energy to fluctuate too much for the time being."

The reason why we mention Northeast Energy is that Northeast Energy today is different from before.

In the past, Northeast Energy was rooted in the local area, and although the rise and fall of international oil prices would have an impact on its operations, the market's reaction would not be so sensitive.

But now Northeast Energy is listed.

This means that any changes that affect Northeast Energy's operations will be directly reflected in the stock market.

Of course, the most important thing is that Northeast Energy is now pursuing an overseas expansion strategy.

For example, Northeast Energy could only hold a controlling stake in Canada's Husky Energy before it went public. But now, using the financing from the listing, it has basically completed the acquisition of Husky Energy, with a shareholding ratio of more than 91%.

In addition, with the help of the Australian Renewable Energy Company as a springboard, it successfully entered the Australian energy market and invested in a number of Australian natural gas and oil-related companies.

More recently, the New Zealand North Sea Energy Group has successfully acquired a controlling stake in a company that has oil and gas exploration rights in Australia, New Zealand and surrounding waters through a series of investments.

In addition to these, Northeast Energy continued to try to invest in other overseas companies, taking advantage of the period of continued sluggish international energy prices in the late 1980s.

It is precisely these investments that have made Northeast Energy gradually sensitive to changes in international crude oil prices.

Of course, Hanyu Hideki knew that Tokura Shunichi and some other "rats" in Honma had been hiding in dark corners, silently waiting for the opportunity to plot against him.

The reason why he turned a blind eye was because the time to deal with these guys was not yet right. If he took action too early, not only would he alert the enemy, but it would also be difficult to defeat these guys in one blow.

Therefore, in addition to controlling himself from taking action, Hanyu Hideki must also be careful that these people may take action prematurely, so he asked Kamiho Eiichi to keep an eye on Tohoku Energy.

With the funds he has now, he is fully capable of protecting Northeast Energy for a short period of time during the stable period.

As long as there are no unexpected events that have not occurred in history, I believe that with his plan, he can definitely drag those guys into the "ambush" battlefield he has planned.

When Hideki Hanyu plotted against a person, he was never after the gain or loss of a city or a place.

Those who want to find an opportunity to deal with him should be prepared to be cut off from the bottom of his fire.

"Yes, boss." Kamiya Eiichi agreed again.

Hanyu Hideki looked at the time and said, "Okay, I've explained everything I need to say. It's lunch time now, so let's get back to work after lunch."

Finally, Hideki Hanyu invited Eiichi Kamibo to have lunch at the Yorozuya before personally seeing him off.

After Kamibo Hideichi left, Hanyu Hideki dialed a phone number in Sendai, and the person who answered the call was Nakano Shigemasa, the president of Tohoku Energy.

The reason why Hideki Hanyu made this call was naturally to remind the other party to pay more attention to the latest situation after the end of the war.

Northeast Energy certainly has no right to interfere with the interests over there, but it must at least ensure that it is affected as little as possible.

When faced with the same thing, sometimes the reaction you present to the outside world will be completely different if you are prepared or not.

The sense of reliability shown by being on high alert will naturally help stabilize the market better.

On the contrary, if you are unprepared and caught off guard, the market will give you the most direct negative feedback.

"Nakano-san, no matter if we are prepared or not, or if we have confidence or not, once what I guess happens, we must act like we are 'prepared'."

Hearing Hanyu Hideki's advice, Nakano Shigemasa replied calmly, "I'll remember that, President."

……

After seeing the news last night, Hanyu Hideki thought that everything he could do had been dealt with, and all he had to do now was wait for the situation to develop.

Compared with the repercussions caused by the war in the future, this little ripple is just an appetizer, so Hanyu Hideki naturally doesn't take it too seriously.

So after finishing his call with Shigemasa Nakano, Hideki Hanyu went to Kamiyamacho in Shibuya in the afternoon.

The new house given to Kuroki Hitomi and her daughter has officially completed the garden landscaping and the purchase of interior furniture. Kuroki Hitomi hopes that he can accompany her to look at houses. Since he has no work recently, he naturally will not refuse.

This time when he came to Kamiyama Town, Mr. Hanyu did not receive any invitations from new neighbors because he drove directly into the parking lot inside the house.

Of course, recently, because of the Recruit bribery case, he himself didn't want to have too much contact with certain people.

Even after the busiest period in the recent period, Hideki Hanyu is still planning to find something to do and leave Tokyo, the center of the storm.

It seems that Jackie Chan’s personal studio is almost ready, so he can go to Hong Kong to witness the establishment ceremony with his own eyes.

Mr. Shao also called to invite him to be a judge in the Miss Hong Kong finals on August 8. Although he had already seduced the original Miss Hong Kong, Li Jiaxin, the girl is now busy fighting with a group of "socialites" in Taiwan and has no time to care about Miss Hong Kong.

But Hideki Hanyu feels that even if he doesn't serve as a judge, it would be nice to go and watch the fun.

It seems that he has not participated in activities in the Japanese literary circle for a long time. Ishihara Tomoe had previously told him that the Osaka Prefectural International Children's Literature Museum would hold a children's literature award when it opened, and invited him to serve as the chairman of the jury.

It seemed like a week later. He had originally planned to refuse, but now it seemed he could agree.

Of course, he doesn't care about being the chairman of the jury or anything like that. He is too lazy to do such laborious work. Just being a judge is enough for him.

At the end of the month, it seems that there will be the Venice Film Festival to participate in. At that time, I will follow the Yunshang Film and Television team and go there for a tour.

After all, he had never been to Water City, either in his previous life or in this life.

Just like that, while Hanyu Hideki was thinking about the next arrangements in his mind, he had already met up with Kuroki Hitomi who had arrived.

Seeing that the woman was wearing a business suit and skirt and was not with her daughter Yuma Hanyu, he asked, "Did Tong come directly from the office?"

"Yes, I've been busy with work lately." Kuroki Hitomi replied.

Hanyu Hideki asked, “Is it still because of the dispute with Yoshimoto Kogyo?”

The fight between Uesugi Office and Yoshimoto Kogyo will definitely not end in a short time.

Even if the two sides will eventually define a business scope, a "territory" belonging to each other, it is achieved through struggle, not determined by just talking.

However, this time, Hideki Hanyu guessed wrong.

As Kuroki Hitomi and Hanyu Hideki toured the green garden, they answered, "The affairs with Yoshimoto Kogyo have always been handled by President Uesugi Miki, and I am mainly responsible for the sports business."

"Oh, is there anything new in the sports business?" asked Hideki Hanyu.

“Two months ago, I cooperated with Hanyu-kun’s Elf Communication and signed contracts to promote several e-sports players, but the results were not very good.

In recent times, the Neon Football Association has been discussing with teams in the professional football league to establish an independent professional football league that will no longer use the old system and will not be named after commercial sponsorship.

I think once this new professional football league is established, it will definitely further expand the influence of football in Japan and make football more professional, so I plan to sign some potential football players in advance.”

As soon as Kuroki Hitomi said this, Hanyu Hideki immediately understood that the new professional football league the other party was talking about was the predecessor of the future Neon J League.

Even though the Neon Football Association has started preparations now, the J League will not be truly established until four years later in 1993.

Moreover, after its establishment, the various rules and systems were not perfect. It was not until 1999 that the J League gradually matured and was further divided into two levels of leagues, J1 and J2.

As for the later J3 level, it is too far away now. However, thinking of this, Hanyu Hideki suddenly remembered that the football stadium that the Sendai City Councilman Yuichi Kanaya helped him to raise investment from the local bank to build seemed to be completed by the end of the year.

By then, he will take advantage of the opportunity to build a team and join the current Japanese Professional Football League, and after four years he will be able to become a veteran of the J League.

After these plans came to his mind, Hideki Hanyu immediately told Hitomi Kuroki.

At the end, he smiled.

"Since Tong-chan is signing potential players, why not sign a service contract with my team first? Help me find the right candidates and build the team framework before the start of the professional football league next year."

Hitomi Kuroki said with a smile, "Hanyu-kun is really good at ordering people around. He asked me to build a team from scratch. I am not the chairman of the agency. I might as well just be the team manager."

Upon hearing this, Hanyu Hideki said nonchalantly, "If Hitomi-chan is willing, it's no problem for you to also serve as the manager of the football team. It's all my business anyway. As long as you're happy, you can do whatever you want."

The love words mixed in by the scumbag immediately made Kuroki Hitomi feel sweet in her heart.

She wanted to ask her man to share her worries, but she finally nodded and said, "I can help in the early stage, but I am not a professional after all. If I find a suitable candidate, I will hand the work over to professionals."

"There are no such things as professionals in this world. They just have more experience."

At this point, the two have finished looking at the design results of the exterior of the house. In addition to the European-style courtyard greening design, there is also a small indoor gymnasium among the green trees.

There are tennis courts and basketball courts cleverly combined together, as well as a small bowling entertainment room and other facilities.

Next, the two of them entered the room together and looked at the interior furniture design and layout.

After telling the accompanying designer about some details, today's trip to view the house came to an end.

On the way back to Kuroki Hitomi's residence in Shinjuku, Hanyu Hideki said, "It looks like you and Yumai will be able to move into your new home in a week at most."

"Yes..." Kuroki Hitomi seemed to have something to say here, but she hesitated.

Seeing this, Hanyu Hideki gently squeezed the woman's hand and said, "What are you thinking about? Are you hiding a secret between you and me?"

"No." Kuroki Hitomi quickly denied, and then said carefully, "I want to invite my family to live in Tokyo for a while after moving into the new house. They have always wanted to meet Xiwu."

No wonder Kuroki Hitomi is so cautious when saying such things.

If this kind of thing happened in an ordinary family, it would be so normal that it couldn't be more normal.

But when the target is a big figure like Hanyu Hideki who plays an important role in Japan, Hanyu Hideki's attitude must be taken into consideration in everything.

After all, in a cold-hearted society like Japan, even relatives sometimes hate to disturb and trouble each other.

"Then come on. If I'm not here, I'll arrange for my assistant studio to receive them and make sure they have a good time in Tokyo."

Seeing that Hanyu Hideki agreed so readily, Kuroki Hitomi immediately leaned over and said, "Hanyu-kun, you are so nice."

"It's just a small matter. If others hear you saying this, they will think I'm some kind of heartless devil."

"sorry."

"Is that all? What you just said made me very uncomfortable. I must make amends."

"How do you want me to compensate you, Hanyu-kun?"

"Such as this...such as this."

When the scumbag smiled evilly and told her how to make up for it, even the old couple, Hitomi Kuroki, blushed.

As for the specific content of the compensation, it is not something that can be told to outsiders.

……

On August 2nd, Hideki Hanyu accompanied Hitomi Kuroki to look at a house.

Next, he stayed at Kuroki Hitomi's place for five days.

He was oblivious to what was happening outside and was solely focused on accompanying Kuroki Hitomi and her daughter.

When the time came to August 7th.

He received a call from Hirohashi Asako, informing him that Akina Nakamori's "Last Stop: Queen" tour would begin tomorrow.

The tour starts at Tokyo Dome, and then from August to November, Akina Nakamori will tour throughout Japan and even Asia, performing a total of twenty-four concerts.

As the tour enters its final stage in mid-November, Akina Nakamori will return to Tokyo Dome for her last performance before retiring.

At the same time, Akina Nakamori's farewell album "Never Say Goodbye" will also be released simultaneously.

This series of operations can be regarded as the last wave for the Yunshang Group and related stakeholders to extract profits from Akina Nakamori.

Of course, record companies can still release various commemorative albums in the future, but that has nothing to do with Akina Nakamori herself.

And tonight is the last rehearsal of Akina Nakamori's tour at Tokyo Dome.

After learning all this, Hideki Hanyu went straight to Bunkyo Ward.

In the performance control room of Tokyo Dome, Hideki Hanyu was just brought in by the staff of Cloud Music, and he saw Hirohashi Asako, Iijima Michi, and Cloud Music President Katsuhito Matsushita standing together, discussing something with tour supervisor Ikatani.

Ima Ichitani is a direct descendant of Yunshang Films, who was originally a luxury advertising supervisor. Although he supervised the highly successful "Boys Over Flowers" series, in recent years he has been busy supervising various evening parties, concerts of big-name singers, and TGC fashion shows.

Compared with supervising film and television dramas and advertisements, this director seems to be better at supervising various large-scale events, so the Yunshang system also intends to train him in this direction.

Therefore, the important task of supervising Akina Nakamori's retirement tour was handed over to the other party.

After Hideki Hanyu appeared, several people who were discussing stopped immediately and greeted those who needed to be greeted.

After the greetings were done, Hanyu Hideki asked curiously, "What are you guys discussing together?"

Hirohashi Asako replied, "We were just discussing what kind of curtain call we should use when Akina returns here for her last performance. This would be more interesting than leaving the microphone on the stage after Yamaguchi Momoe announced her retirement."

Hanyu Hideki said, "Huh? The tour hasn't even started yet, and you're already discussing what to do for the final curtain call."

Hirohashi Asako replied, "We didn't discuss it specifically. We were just chatting at the beginning and comparing who is more popular, Akina now or Yamaguchi Momoe back then, and that's when we mentioned the curtain call."

Hanyu Hideki said, "Who is more popular? Actually, there is no comparison between these two.

As the times change, the meaning of idols also changes. If Yamaguchi Momoe is still in the category of idol, then Akina is now more than just an idol.

Of course, they are all people who lead an era, and they all made the same correct choice. "

"What did Mr. Hanyu say about the right choice?" asked Michiko Iijima curiously.

“Of course I retired.

Beautiful things cannot remain beautiful forever, just like fireworks can never stay at their brightest moment. No matter how perfect an idol is, there will come a day when he or she will be abandoned by the trend of the times.

For artists like Mingcai, it is better for them to retire at the peak of their careers and leave their best side in the hearts of their fans forever, rather than disappearing helplessly when they are abandoned by the times.

After all, the market has begun to warn that the era of kingly idols is coming to an end.

And in my opinion, there will be no such era for a long time in the future, and people will no longer like such idols. "

Everyone present was their own people, and they were all the core members of the Yunshang system. Hanyu Hideki had nothing to hide and directly stated his judgment on the future.

"Hey……"

After hearing what Hanyu Hideki said, Hirohashi Asako sighed.

"Although I have always believed in Hanyu-san's judgment, I still can't imagine what the future will be like. If fans don't like idols like Akina, what kind of idols will they like?"

"Just let nature take its course."

Hanyu Hideki didn't want to continue being a prophet, so he changed the subject and said, "Let's talk about how Meicai will bid farewell in her last game here."

"What? Do you have any good ideas, Hanyu-san?"

Hirohashi Asako has always had extraordinary confidence in Hanyu Hideki.

"Um……"

Hideki Hanyu held his chin with his hand and looked towards the stage, where Akina Nakamori, wearing a white dress, was talking to Kyoko Koizumi, the guest performer of the first concert.

"I actually thought of an interesting curtain call."

(End of this chapter)