money player

Xian Yaowen nodded. "I heard that Kumagai Hisatora is Setsuko Hara's brother-in-law and has a great influence on her?"

"As far as I know, yes. Setsuko Hara's entry into the film industry and her progress to where she is today are all inseparable from the support of Hisatora Kumagai."

"Oh, I see." Xian Yaowen tapped the table twice, "Yamamoto-kun, I am very interested in Hara Setsuko and I must invite her to sign a contract with Fujiyama Entertainment, but not now.

You first invited Kumagai Hisatora to join Fujisan Geino and supported him in making the film he wanted to make. At the same time, you gave him a task to write a script about Hosokawa Karasa, and you had to give the female lead enough room to perform.

"Hay."

Yamamoto Shiro already knew how much interest Xian Yaowen had in Setsuko Hara. Setsuko Hara had mentioned more than once in interviews that she wanted to play Hosokawa Karasaku, and also hoped that Kumagai Hisatora would be the director. Xian Yaowen had delivered both the pillow and the quilt all at once.

As for why Setsuko Hara was not invited now, it may have something to do with MacArthur.

Xian Yaowen leaned back in his chair, exuding an obvious sense of relaxation, and smiled faintly, "Mr. Yamamoto, the reason why I asked you to be here today is because I heard from a friend of the Alliance President that there is a secret space here that makes people linger. After dinner, let's take a bath and explore it."

"Hay."

Instantly, Yamamoto Shiro was overjoyed and fascinated by the secret space. He was not looking forward to exploring the secret space, but was excited about who to go with. The four irons of life were also like fish in water in the East.

We moved to the canteen to eat and talked about things in the film industry, tending towards gossip, such as how Yasujiro Ozu had a prejudice against the newly-famous Akira Kurosawa, and how he sharply criticized the movie "The Idiot" that Kurosawa was currently filming, from the script to the actors, even though the leading actress was his Venus goddess Setsuko Hara.

The reason why Yasujiro Ozu was unhappy with Kurosawa Akira was, firstly, that "Rashomon" stole his limelight, and secondly, he complained about the unfairness of his fate. He was conscripted twice during the war, fought in Nanjing, went to Singapore, and was repatriated as a war criminal after the war. In contrast, Kurosawa Akira was directly exempted from military service. Comparing the two, it is no wonder that he felt unbalanced.

Xian Yaowen stood on the side of Kurosawa Akira and prepared to arrange two big jobs for Ozu Yasujiro, one was "Tokyo Trial" and the other was a two-part series "Nanyang Sister" and "Pan Pan". It would be best if they could shoot them happily, otherwise he would be put in a sack and have his legs broken, making him run so far.

Kenji Mizoguchi is good at depicting women and gained his proficiency through experience gained through practice. He likes antiques, but nine out of ten times he buys fakes. He has a poor alcohol tolerance and even worse drinking habits, and he can do anything when he is drunk.

In addition, they also talked about directors such as Naruse Mikio and Kurosawa Akira, as well as some well-known actors, mainly actresses, who has an underground lover, who is a couple in the crew, and Yamamoto Shiro. They talked about everything from eating to taking a bath, and talked nonstop.

Until the two of them separated and entered a secret space with only one single room.

The charge for the secret space was as high as 3 yen, which was equivalent to four or five months' income of an ordinary office worker. However, Xian Yaowen dismissed several service staff as soon as he entered and just borrowed the room for a short rest. When the time was almost up, he left a note at the counter, paid the bill and left.

Half an hour later, he appeared in Ikebukuro, at Pan Ruifa's Gouzi Baozi Shop.

After a brief greeting, get straight to the point.

"Dafaer, you don't make much money running a bun shop, right?"

"Enough food and drink." Pan Ruifa said with a lewd smile on his face, "I can go to a brothel every three to five days. The prostitutes in Japan are quite hot."

"Look at you, you are useless. You are so beautiful just by playing with a prostitute. I won't brag to you. Last night I slept with the daughter of the Japanese Navy Vice Admiral. Today, even in front of you, I don't want to hug Japanese women who are prettier than Zhou Xuan. I just want to come to your place to eat two buns."

Pan Ruifa laughed and said, "We've sold out all the buns today. Would you like a bowl of dumplings, Mr. Xian?"

Xian Yaowen waved his hand, "Come on, you've got food in your stomach. I won't beat around the bush. I came to you today to help you do some business. It's not a serious business, but it won't cause any trouble. It will take a year to a year and a half. After closing the business, even if your leg is broken, it will be enough for you to eat and drink for the rest of your life."

Hearing this, Pan Ruifa's face turned serious, "Why would Mr. Xian think of taking care of me for such a good thing?"

"Want to hear the truth?" Xian Yaowen said with a smile.

"Want to hear it."

"To be honest, it's hard to say whether the business you want to do is good or not. I am a respectable person, and I have a business in Japan, so I have to keep it looking good. And you, you just run a bun shop in Jie'er, barely making ends meet, and you have no worries in Japan. You don't have to live here. If you make a lot of money and leave Japan for Southeast Asia, you can also be a respectable person."

Xian Yaowen waved his hand, interrupting Pan Ruifa who was about to interrupt, and continued: "You don't have to think too much. The matter is not as serious as you think. There is no need to kill people to silence them. You just need to do three things: keep your mouth shut, do your job well, and take the money and leave."

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper with a phone number written on it and put it on the table. "I'm leaving Japan the day after tomorrow morning, and I've decided to call this number. I'm leaving now, and you can think about it slowly."

……

Kaiseiken is a coffee shop located in Ningyocho.

Zhang Guowen, president of Shiye Foods, and Kunitaro Arimoto, director of the National Institute of Nutrition, were sitting opposite each other in the store.

Zhang Guowen handed Kunitarou Arimoto a stack of documents and said, "Director Arimoto, these are the nutrition information reports issued by well-known testing laboratories in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands, and France after testing Shiya Ramen. Please have a look."

Kunitaro Arimoto took the file bag, threw it on the table, looked at Zhang Guowen's face and said, "President Nanbu, Shiya Ramen was launched in Tokyo half a month ago and it caused a rush to buy. Our office has already purchased samples for testing."

Arimoto Kunitaro patted the file bag with his right hand and said, "I don't need to read these reports. I know that Shiya Ramen contains a variety of nutrients. It is exactly the food that the people of the Great East Ocean Empire need."

Zhang Guowen was delighted and bowed slightly, saying, "I beg you to promote Shiye Ramen to the public."

In 1884, Takahashi Yoshio proposed in his book "Theory of Human Race Improvement" that "Oriental men should divorce their wives, marry Western women and have children with them, in order to improve the human race."

He believed that Orientals were physically inferior to Caucasians, and that the only way for Orientals to become Caucasians was to intermarry with Caucasians, mixing blood again and again...

In 1885, Fukuzawa Yukichi published an article entitled "On Oriental Women", in which he directly discussed "racial improvement" and advocated the use of "intermarriage between domestic and foreign people" to improve the human race. He also said that this was "the beginning of a country's century-long plan", that is, a century-long plan.

Takahashi Yoshio was a student of Fukuzawa Yukichi, and the preface to his "Theory of Racial Improvement" was written by Fukuzawa Yukichi.

He wrote the preface first and then liked it. It is entirely reasonable to suspect that Takahashi Yoshio's ideas were influenced by Fukuzawa Yukichi, or even that he was just playing the role of a parrot.

Inoue Takeshi was appointed Minister of Education in 1893. Having studied in France in his early years, Inoue Takeshi participated in the drafting of the Meiji Constitution, the Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Soldiers, and the Imperial Rescript on Education, and he can be regarded as one of the founders of the Oriental Emperor system.

Inoue Tsuyoshi attached great importance to the role of education in realizing the Meiji constitutional system. He believed that national education was a means to unify the nation's thoughts and cultivate the characteristics of the nation, so that people could "know the great way of being a human being and distinguish the duties of citizens."

As soon as he took office, Inoue Tsuyoshi abolished the History Compilation Bureau under the Ministry of Education, ostensibly because compiling national history in Chinese was not suitable for today's practical use.

The real reason was that he hated textbooks that promoted civilization and enlightenment, and thought that the Oriental history textbooks that "the ancestors of the imperial family were Indians, or of the same race as Koreans were absurd. This is a major issue concerning the national system, and I plan to wipe out such textbooks."

In response to this, many scholars turned to retelling history with Oriental nationalism. In terms of ethnography, Taguchi Ukichi, who was famous for writing the first history of Oriental civilization, "A Short History of Oriental Enlightenment", bid farewell to civilization history and devoted himself to writing biographies of emperors and nobles.

In 1904, Taguchi Ukichi stated that judging from their language, Orientals were not of the yellow race, but rather white races belonging to the Indo-Aryan language family.

At the end of the Meiji period, there were many similar remarks. The translator of "The Complete Works of Plato", Takataro Kimura, created a "new historiography" and publicly stated that Oriental mythology was similar to Greek mythology, and that Greeks and Orientals had the same origin.

Be it sophistry or constructive ideas, over the past few decades, the upper class in Japan has reached a consensus on the idea of ​​improving the human race and has been constantly exploring practical methods. Two of these methods are generally recognized as feasible: one is sports and the other is nutrition.

Koshien and the National Institute of Nutrition emerged in this context. The publicly stated purpose of the latter is to "improve and enhance public health by conducting surveys and research on the maintenance and promotion of national health, as well as surveys and research on national nutrition and other national dietary habits."

To put it bluntly, the main purpose of establishing the National Institute of Nutrition is to research and promote the dietary structure that is most suitable for improving the physical fitness of Japanese citizens under limited realistic conditions.

For example, at the beginning of the defeat in the war, Japan was short of food, and the US aid was mainly in the form of wheat. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare encouraged the people to eat bread, which was the advice provided by the National Institute of Nutrition.

Kunitarou Arimoto said with a wry smile: "President Nanbu, promoting this to the public is a very serious matter. It is not something I can do alone..."

Before Kunitaro Aribo could finish his suggestive words, Xian Yaowen came to the table and nodded at him, saying, "Director Aribo, hello. I am Takano Sadayoshi, the president of Shiya Food Co., Ltd."

Aribo Kunitaro was unhappy with Xian Yaowen's sudden appearance and said expressionlessly, "President Takano, nice to meet you. President Nanbu never mentioned that you would come."

Xian Yaowen smiled and said, "I'm really sorry. I had an appointment with a friend of the alliance to go to Inagaya in Nagano Prefecture to pick matsutake mushrooms. I thought I would not be able to make it back to Tokyo in time, but the trip went smoothly and I came back early.

As an apology, I have prepared a basket of matsutake mushrooms for Director Arimoto. Please follow me to the car to get it. "

Kunitaro Arimoto's job is to study food ingredients and nutrition, so he must be aware of the season for picking matsutake mushrooms. He completely understood Xian Yaowen's subtext, smiled, and said, "President Takano, you're welcome. I don't like eating matsutake mushrooms. I only prefer French black truffles."

"What a coincidence." Xian Yaowen smiled, "Director Ben and I actually have the same hobby. I happen to have some black truffles airlifted from Provence in my car. Director Ben, please come with me to taste them."

Kunitaro Arimoto chuckled and said, "Since President Takano has sincerely invited me, I would like to see the black truffles that President Takano eats."

"please."

The two of them walked out of the store together and walked in silence from the 1st chome to a corner of the 3rd chome.

Xian Yaowen got straight to the point. "Director Arimoto, you are the second director of the National Institute of Nutrition after it became independent from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. But your predecessor, Kintaro Yanagi, was only a transitional director. Strictly speaking, you are the first director. According to past traditions, I believe Director Arimoto will serve as director until retirement, just like Director Saeki Noriyuki."

"Being the director requires worrying about too many things, so I still hope to retire early and let young people like you, President Takano, lead the National Institute of Nutrition forward and research better nutrition intake methods for the people." Kunitaro Arimoto spoke in an official tone with a serious face.

Xian Yaowen didn't buy into Aribo Bangtaro's tricks. Before entering Kuaishengxuan, he watched from the window for a while. He saw Aribo Bangtaro's performance and he had already identified what kind of person he was. (End of this chapter)