Chapter 991 Seibu Group
Wearing pale pink silk pajamas, the triangular neckline is inlaid with white lace, revealing white snow and a deep ravine.
The long black hair falls behind her shoulders, and with her oval face and delicate facial features, she looks gentle and graceful.
"Is your son asleep?"
"After making trouble for a while, he has already fallen asleep. ... This guy is really just like you, has a stubborn temper and loves to eat."
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"My son, of course he looks like me."
I rolled my eyes at him, "What are you looking at?"
Xu Liang handed over the document in his hand.
Jiang Xiaoyang took it and took a look.
The brows furrowed slightly.
"Seibu Group? Are you interested in it?"
"To be precise, I am interested in some of its assets. And now is also a good opportunity." Xu Liangdao.
Of course Jiang Xiaoyang knew about the bankruptcy case of Seibu Group last year.
The bankruptcy of an organization as large as Seibu is very complicated and involves various legal lawsuits.
Often after one or two years, when the debt relationship has been clarified, the debt will be repaid through judicial auction.
The bankruptcy case of the Seibu Group, which has more than 170 large-scale enterprises with more than 100,000 employees and operates businesses involving various industries such as railways, transportation, department stores, real estate, restaurants, schools, and research institutes, will be more complicated.
From his arrest in March 2005 to now, the Seibu Group, which helped Yoshiaki Tsutsumi become the world's richest man in the 1980s, has not yet figured out its clues.
“When I was studying, Professor Harris from Columbia University admired Yoshiaki Tsutsumi very much and praised him as a better professional manager in Japan than Konosuke Matsushita and Akio Morita.
No To think that in less than ten years, he would be in jail," Jiang Xiaoyang said with emotion.
Xu Liang nodded. In his last life, he had read Yoshiaki Tsutsumi's autobiography, but he couldn't feel it clearly because of the age.
Far from as thorough as I understand now.
Speaking of which, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi is also a rich second generation.
His father is Yasujiro Tsutsumi, the founder of Seibu Group.
According to the custom of childhood, Jiro is the second eldest child in the family.
But Tsutsumi Yasujiro is not bad at all, in fact he is very shrewd.
He seized the opportunity when the world fell into recession after World War I and purchased land on a large scale in cities such as Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kobe, completing the first wave of primitive accumulation.
After one success, everyone will subconsciously look for the same opportunity.
This is called path dependence.
The same is true for Tsutsumi Yasujiro.
Later, he seized the two opportunities of the Great Kanto Earthquake and World War II to buy real estate at low prices and acquire railways on a large scale.
By the early 1950s, Seibu had developed into a large-scale enterprise covering real estate, railways, hotels, department stores and other fields, and had played a decisive role in the Japanese business community.
What’s even more special is that Tsutsumi Yasujiro was not only successful in business, but also passionate about politics. He served as the Speaker of the House of Commons in the 1950s and was a veteran of the Liberal Democratic Party.
In a sense, the success and influence of political politics are also the key reasons why Tsutsumi Yasujiro is so good in the business world.
No matter which country you are in.
What real estate management needs most is government support.
Yasujiro Tsutsumi, who combines politics and business and knows how to play tricks, is naturally rich.
No matter what man, he only pursues three things in his life.
Career, women and inheritance.
Tsemi Yasujiro’s family is extremely wealthy, and of course he has no shortage of women, and he is also top-notch in his career.
So the issue of the inheritance of the Tikan family was put on the table.
man.
Especially for a successful man, he naturally has more than one woman.
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was born from an outside wife, so both mother and son have little status in the family.
As a concubine, of course, it is impossible to become the heir to the family business.
But compared to his two brothers, he has one advantage.
From an early age, he learned to obey his father's words absolutely.
And this guy is definitely a ruthless person.
Once he made a mistake and was punished by his father by kneeling down.
When Kojiro Tsutsumi saw him kneeling down, he turned around and went to another place.
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi actually knelt in his father's office for three days and two nights until Kojiro Tsutsumi came back!
Most people can't sit still for three days and two nights, let alone kneel.
Even if there is some water in the middle, it shows that Yoshiaki Tsutsumi's willpower is far beyond ordinary people.
So, Tsutsumi Yasujiro was somewhat impressed by this concubine giving birth to a son.
But if it were just that, the Seibu Group would not be able to get into his hands.
In Japan, which is deeply influenced by Confucianism, the eldest son inheritance system is also deeply rooted.
But the eldest son Tiqing is very dissatisfied with his father's tyrannical and authoritarian family style, and even more dissatisfied with his father's dissolute and carefree life style.
He took my mother and left the family directly, giving up the inheritance rights.
Seeing this, Xu Liang was a little worried about his future.
The second son Tsutsumi Seiji was also dissatisfied with his father's unscrupulous way of managing the country and making it difficult for him to make money, so he became a follower of Ma Zhe.
Although he was hit all over his head later, he had to give in to his father.
But the tide is over. With the two legitimate sons running away, Tikanjiro had no other choice but to raise his third son.
That is Yoshiaki Tsutsumi.
Since middle school, Tsutsumi Yasujiro began to focus on training Tsutsumi Yoshiaki. The most distinctive thing was to teach him the "Emperor Study".
If you want to be an heir, you cannot equate yourself with ordinary people.
You must have a strong character, learn to tolerate loneliness, and think independently.
But don’t make any friends, because no one is trustworthy. Once you become dependent on others, you will be ruthlessly calculated.
It feels like the ‘emperor’s mind’ often mentioned in Chinese history is exactly the same.
Father's advice influenced Yoshiaki Tsutsumi's life.
After Tsutsumi Yoshiaki was admitted to Waseda University, Tsutsumi Yasujiro began to provide him with more pragmatic training: he arranged for him to intern at the Land Planning Company of the Seibu Group, which is responsible for the real estate business.
In order to see how capable his son was, Tsutsumi Yasujiro also purchased a large amount of cheap land in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, and posed a question to Tsutsumi Yoshiaki.
Ask him to think about what projects should be developed and attract tourists there in winter.
As the old saying goes, a dragon begets a dragon, a phoenix begets a phoenix, and a mouse's son can dig holes.
In most cases, this sentence is still correct.
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi is indeed a business genius with a unique vision.
At that time, Japan was on the eve of its economic boom, and leisure sports such as skiing and ice hockey became fashionable.
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi has been paying attention to the tourism industry for a long time, and because of his father’s unique knowledge of ‘increasing land prices through development’, he quickly came up with an idea.
He first built a large ice skating rink, a multi-functional swimming pool and an alpine ski resort in Karuizawa, turning it into an entertainment city for winter skiing, giving his father a satisfactory answer.
Then he took a further challenge and built an indoor project that can be used for skiing and recreation during non-skiing seasons, making the business hot all year round.
With his flexible business acumen, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi gradually gained recognition from his father and began to take charge of the group's real estate business.
In 1965, Tsutsumi Yasujiro passed away due to illness. At that time, Tsutsumi Yoshiaki was only 29 years old. He took over the Seibu Group founded by his father and became the most powerful person.
Tsutsumi Yoshimei is unspectacular and very young. He has a more senior brother, Tsutsumi Seiji, and there are many senior employees in the group. His power was really unconvincing at the time.
The seemingly calm Seibu Group is actually experiencing an undercurrent.
If it were someone else, they might be eager to do something big to prove themselves.
But Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, who was as steady as an old dog, unexpectedly calmed down and began a ten-year hibernation.
Seiji Tsutsumi, who held opposite views to Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, was far less thoughtful and patient than him. Out of his strong desire for expansion, Seiji Tsutsumi proposed to split the Seibu Group into two.
I won’t play with you anymore, I want to separate the family!
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi didn’t refuse either.
In 1970, he split the Seibu Group into two and gave one-third of the Seibu Department Store business to his brother Tsutsumi Seiji, resolving the issue of inheritance among the brothers.
From here, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi is still very shrewd and decisive.
I would rather separate the family, but also ensure my absolute leadership.
But just to appease the second child, no, Tsutsumi Seiji is not enough.
There are so many old ministers within the group who have worked hard with their father all their lives and have great power.
They also need comfort.
In order to stabilize the ‘Chao Gang’.
He placed his father's eight favorite generals in important positions in the group and asked them to help him oversee hundreds of businesses, large and small.
Four of them were assigned to hold important positions in the land planning company responsible for real estate business.
No one dislikes the generous ‘Emperor’.
The 'courtiers' who had received the benefits no longer opposed Tsutsumi Yoshiaki's decision.
But just when everyone thought that the Seibu Group would invest heavily in real estate, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi made an important decision: to withdraw from Tokyo real estate.
This decision shocked entrepreneurs across Japan and caused huge controversy within the group.
At that time, Japan's economy was in its heyday after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and its domestic industrial, commercial and real estate markets were experiencing a major explosion.
Almost everyone thinks that investing in Tokyo real estate is equivalent to printing money, and Seibu Group owns the most land in Tokyo.
At this time, instead of going in to grab the meat, you give the meat to others.
Is there something wrong with you?
Tsutsumi Yoshiaki is of course a smart man. The reason why he retreated was due to an important piece of information.
During an interaction with Tanaka Kakuei, a big political figure at the time, he learned that the Japanese government would reform the tax system to prevent land prices from skyrocketing.
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, who has a keen sense of smell, immediately realized that the good days of real estate were over.
Sure enough.
With the tightening of policies, the real estate market in Japan has begun to be turbulent.
The oil crisis in 1973 became the straw that broke the camel's back, causing housing prices in Japan to plummet from their high levels. Countless investors lost their money, but the Seibu Group, which retreated early, was unscathed.
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi also became famous in one battle and became famous all over the world.
Matsushita Konosuke praised him as the most amazing entrepreneur in Japan.
Akio Morita, the founder of Sony Corporation, said with emotion: How can there be a bright future when there is such a thing as Yu.
At this time, Boss Di’s status in Japan is equivalent to Boss Liu before the subprime mortgage crisis, Papa Ma before the character collapse, and Boss Wang with a small target of 100 million.
In short, it’s just two words: ‘awesome’.
In 1975, the 10-year contract between Boss Di and his father expired.
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi can finally let go and put his long-planned real estate business into practice.
(End of this chapter)