Manhattan Reborn 1978

Island country, Tokyo.

Setagaya Ward is a high-end residential area lined up along the Odakyu Line.

Afternoon~

In the restaurant.

After having lunch, David found two bottles of milk from the refrigerator in the kitchen, handed one of them to Canes, and smiled.

"Gensuke Sawakawa just turned around and walked away without saying anything. Is it hard for you to understand?"

"Yeah~" Kanes glanced at the steak bottle in his hand, tilted his head and looked at David and asked.

"The last time he went to Xiangjiang to find us, his attitude was almost the same as today~"

"Aren't you curious?"

"of course not."

David raised his neck and took a sip of milk, leaned against the cabinet, shrugged and smiled.

"Most people in this world spend several years or more than ten years learning how to speak."

"But when they do mature, they spend the rest of their lives learning how to hold back."

"Do you understand this truth?"

"Hold back and say nothing?" Kanes nodded with a sense of gain, gently weighed the milk bottle in his hand, thought for a while, and asked again.

"That Toshiki Wada, his attitude is obviously different today."

"Do you think he will be a problem for us?"

"Maybe~"

"But we have only one goal, to make money!"

"The rest...when you have trouble, solve the trouble."

“There are always more solutions than difficulties.”

"Haha~ You are really optimistic."

"Haha~ It's not that I'm optimistic, but I don't think there will be any major differences of opinion between us and him."

"Don't forget, his teacher Sawagawa Gensuke still needs help with our plan!"

"If he wants to do something small and ruin our plan, the first person to settle the score with him will be Gensuke Sawagawa."

When David said this, he suddenly stopped and rubbed his chin with his hand, recalling the details of his recent meeting and interaction with the master and apprentice, frowning and whispering.

"I first met Toshiki Wada in New York. He was with the island country business group at the time..."

"Sony?"

"It's Walk Man!"

"Recently, Hoichiro Yasuda has been absent from the public. He is probably with his teacher Akio Morita and is busy preparing for the full launch of the Walk Man in the United States."

"Walk Man...?"

"what is that?"

“It’s a Walkman recorder that you can keep with you and listen to music at any time.”

"Um..." Kanes raised his eyebrows feeling a little strange when he heard David's explanation.

"The tape recorder is so big, why can I keep it with me at all times to listen to it?"

"Could it be...?"

"Yes!" David felt that some of the doubts he had in his mind before seemed to be slowly being solved.

He scraped the hairpin on his chin with his fingertips and said: "When the Japanese business group went to New York last year, I heard that Sony submitted a new product import application to the relevant departments of the US government."

"What new product?" Karnes asked.

"Walk Man."

"At that time, I was busy preparing for the engagement ceremony with Lilith, and I didn't take time to pay attention to them."

"Nothing~"

"I guess Sony will launch the Walk Man in the United States at the latest this summer, and it will quickly become the best-selling product in the electronics consumer market."

"You think so highly of it?"

"Yes."

David knew that since Carnes had never experienced the "magic" of the Walk Man, it was difficult to understand how attractive it would be to young people. .

So he simply skipped the topic and continued following his train of thought.

"Mr. Pierre Tenali, the head of Citibank's Asia division, should not reject the plan I gave."

"However, it is difficult to say when it will obtain permission from banking regulatory authorities in various Asian countries."

"Maybe it's weeks, maybe it's months or years."

"A few months, it'll be better."

"If it takes a few years, then we will have to make some temporary adjustments to our plans."

"Yeah." Kanes walked to David and sat directly on the kitchen counter, swinging his feet from side to side and said.

"Foreign Exchange!"

"I was very curious before, how did you come up with this thing?"

"What now? Have you figured it out?" David drank all the milk in his hand and asked with a tilted head and a smile.

"Now, I almost understand a little bit." Kanes understood that David was deliberately testing himself, and looked at him with clear eyes and replied.

"Currently in the world, only the Chicago Foreign Exchange Exchange in the United States can openly conduct foreign exchange futures trading."

"But countries around the world have implemented floating interest rate policies for several years, and even ordinary people have now fully experienced that drastic exchange rate fluctuations will bring about the devaluation of their own currencies, which will lead to severe inflation."

"Purchasing power has declined, the prices of imported goods have continued to rise, and daily living bills have also continued to rise with the depreciation of the domestic currency."

"These experiences have left deep memories for people in the past few years. If they are allowed to experience them again now..."

"Haha~" David gave Karnes a thumbs up and continued.

“The island country’s control over foreign investment and foreign exchange is the strictest among Asian countries.”

“That’s why I suggested to Mr. Pierre Tenali that Citibank’s Foreign Exchange Tong financial products should be sold at the Xiangjiang branch for a period of time.”

"When its reputation and recognition gradually spread, someone will naturally find Citibank to cooperate, or they will create a similar financial product in their own country based on Foreign Exchange Connect."

"Oh?"

"Then you're not afraid that they will steal our customers?"

"What are you afraid of?"

"If you stand in the way of people's wealth, you will definitely become enemies!"

"We can make money, why shouldn't others make it?"

"But.."

"I know." David raised his hand to block Karnes' unspoken worry, held the empty milk bottle in front of him and smiled.

"The human heart is unpredictable!"

"Not everyone can see clearly like this transparent bottle."

"That's why I contacted Mr. Pierre Tenelli and Uncle Julie in New York to discuss with them the feasibility of promoting foreign exchange in Citibank in various Asian countries."

David put down the bottle in his hand and squinted at the sunshine outside the window: "The story I told today about dividing the apples is actually to express a value that most people now adhere to~"

"Because not everyone has the sentiment and consciousness of putting the country first."

“Only when people can protect their own interests from being infringed will they have the ability and mentality to share with others.”

"It is consistent with human nature and explains the development trends of the world we are in now."