1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 449 Stage
10 month 10 day,
Just after the Cold Dew Festival, the exchange rate of the US dollar to the Japanese yen fell to a historical low of 1:160;
(I’m sorry, I just found out when I was reviewing the data the day before yesterday that the original bottom was on May 5th, but I got confused and wrote it down as October 10th, so I have been writing according to this timeline, but this is not important. What is important is the exchange rate).

The Australian dollar to Japanese yen exchange rate also quickly fell below the psychological price of 1:105;
As the exchange rate of the Japanese yen fell to the bottom, the import costs of a series of commodities such as oil and iron ore climbed to the highest level. Investors' expectations for the island country's future exports became increasingly negative. The Nikkei index also fell to 23849 points, and there was no hope of stopping the market from continuing to decline... Compared with last year's historical high of 38916 points, the island country's stock market has suffered a severe blow.

On the contrary, the island nation's long-term government bonds, especially the price of ten-year government bonds, rose by 2.5% against the trend, which undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to the little remaining confidence of investors in the island nation (the interest rate curve of long-term government bonds is inverted with the short-term economy. The higher the price of long-term government bonds, the less confidence investors have in the future).

The exchange rate plummeted, the stock market plummeted, and the price of long-term government bonds rose. In this process, the asset bubbles of the island countries were punctured one after another, and a large number of companies that were actually poorly managed were heavily in debt, and then they were bought up one after another at super low prices;

As a country that advocates lifetime employment and seniority-based systems, the island nation certainly cannot ignore the fact that so many companies have gone bankrupt or been bought out right under its noses, and watch so many employees who have worked for half their lives become unemployed... Besides, the island nation's banks, which have serious over-lending problems, cannot watch their "good brothers" in the consortium being eliminated and then detonate the explosives on their bodies.

As a result, the island government, which had been hesitant, finally took action, but the strategy it adopted surprised everyone... The government issued low-interest loans to banks, and then provided low-interest loans to poorly managed companies through the banks to maintain their livelihoods and overcome difficulties.

Ok!

This kind of "saving all living beings" approach is equivalent to telling people that even if you are a zombie enterprise, burdened with countless zombie loans, you can still survive through transfusions from the state?

Why are you so polite?
As a result, the European and American giants, who were eyeing the market with eager eyes, made a lot of money in the stock market where investors still lost confidence by relying on the "Nikkei Index Put Option" which was a betting warrant.
On the other hand, they began to concentrate their efforts on pushing for the appreciation of the yen, using the island countries' companies that had purchased shares as a weapon, and in a way that was essentially cashing out on the exchange rate, they continuously took the money that the island countries had voluntarily given to them, and then carried out the next round of harvesting and tug-of-war.

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Of course, as I said before, the collapse of the stock market does not mean that all stocks will collapse; the overall future export expectations are bearish, but it does not mean that all industries and companies have bearish export expectations;
In a fully open market model, the essence of the stock market is an amplifier of the real economy; therefore, compared with those "cracked eggs" that are targeted by flies, pharmaceutical companies such as Sankyo Co., Ltd., Tsumura Co., Ltd., and Daiichi Pharmaceutical, have shown unusually strong stock prices, some of which have even risen instead of falling, due to their own industry characteristics and various favorable news... This is a great spectacle in the island country's stock market, which is full of wailing.

what?
You said that in this environment full of negative factors, the stock price cannot be maintained for a long time just by relying on the concept of "artificial mulberry mushroom" and a mulberry mushroom cultivation base of more than 100,000 acres that has no actual output?

Well, you are right. In the pessimistic market environment, relying on just one concept can at most make the share price of Sankyo Pharmaceutical not fall so sharply. As for rising against the trend...if you only have such one good news, even if your share price rises, those investors will not dare to follow up. In the past year, haven't there been many cases of stocks rising first and then falling?
But the problem is...

What if Sankyo Pharmaceutical has more benefits than just the concept of artificial mulberry fungus?

What if Sankyo Pharmaceutical produced solid evidence to prove that the transition metal chiral catalysts they jointly researched with Hua Xia have made a breakthrough, and can produce chiral drugs with higher purity and better effects through large-scale EPC synthesis?

An important research result that could even win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with large-scale commercialization just around the corner, is this a big news that is not enough to make investors chase after you?
As the most popular stock in the stock market, Sankyo Co., Ltd. has been in the spotlight for a long time. Various media have been covering this pharmaceutical company in an all-round way, and they have been flattering it to the extreme, as if they want to make it a "star of the island nation";

Therefore, the "Island Pharmaceutical Company Quasi-Alliance" led by Sankyo Co., Ltd., including Daiichi Pharmaceutical, Tsumura Co., Ltd., Otsuka Pharmaceutical, etc., put in the highest standards and greatest sincerity, and co-organized this Sino-Japanese Cultural Festival with the Chinese Cultural Exchange Group, which naturally entered the attention of the island media and the public.

In an island country with a strict hierarchy and with major chaebols and large companies holding extremely strong influence, a cultural exchange activity of a more civilian nature would have nearly ten large companies, including six presidents, 6 executive directors of various types, and over a hundred ministerial-level executives attending... This was only the attendance of large companies, not counting the cultural celebrities of the island country and the presidents and ministers of small and medium-sized enterprises who were invited for various reasons;

This is absolutely first-class, super-standard treatment, and its actual standard is only slightly lower than that of the national-level business follow-up group.

Therefore, the island media, whose writing style has become more and more exaggerated in recent years, have given this cultural exchange event a bunch of extremely naive and awkward eye-catching headlines such as "A Collision of a Thousand Years", "The Arrival of Imperial Culture", "The Flash Attack of the Far East Mysterious Group", and "The Colorful Dance of God".

In fact, the reason why nearly a hundred media outlets of all kinds on the island have focused their attention on this cultural festival and even fought tooth and nail for the broadcasting rights is not only because the actual scale of this cultural festival is rare in recent years; it is also because the word "China" has once again become a hot word in the hearts of the people of the island after more than a decade.

The China-Japan ice-breaking trip, which has been a huge success and is talked about by the island nation;

The 11th Asian Games is more and more popular around the world even though the competition is more than halfway through;

The high-profile entry directly became the hope of countless Japanese people for fitness and anti-cancer, and the artificial cultivation technology of mulberry linterus that imitates wild plants;
Suddenly, beyond everyone's expectation, he made a technological breakthrough in the frontier field of pharmaceuticals, and his chiral catalyst technology made Sankyo Co., Ltd. a success.
The high-end Chinese restaurant Moya Zhai, which has become famous in just one year and is hard to find, and the song "Forbidden Garden", which made countless audiences dream just by lifting a corner of the mysterious veil a few days ago;
All these factors combined, coupled with the early hype, instantly made this large-scale Sino-Japanese cultural festival the most curious and anticipated focus of countless island audiences. Even if there were no large corporate factors involved, various media would report it as top news on par with the Asian Games.

Besides, in this special period when the stock market is in mourning, we always need something to divert people's attention. Apart from the Asian Games, what other social material can be more suitable than this large-scale Sino-Japanese cultural festival?

Since the Sino-Japanese Cultural Festival was held in Chiyoda Ward, it was impossible for the event to be held at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan in Ueno Park (in Taito Ward) or the famous NHK Music Hall, as in previous Sino-Japanese cultural exchange events.
Of course, as a gathering place for large enterprises in Tokyo, Chiyoda Ward is naturally indispensable for large halls. However, the main venue of this Sino-Japanese Cultural Festival was not chosen at the most famous Tokyo Takarazuka Theater in Chiyoda Ward, the base camp of the drama troupe known as the "national treasure" in the island country. Instead, the main venue was chosen at the Nippon Budokan in Kitanomaru Park, which was originally built for the judo competition venue for the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. This is quite puzzling.

Regarding the choice of this location, the media of the island country can only explain that the Chinese cultural exchange group intends to let the people of the island country experience the crushing power of Chinese traditional culture in this building with a name that has a strong island cultural flavor and is of great historical significance.

But in fact, the media in the island country are just guessing blindly. Yang Mo is an extremely utilitarian person. The reason why he chose the Nippon Budokan as the main venue is purely because he has his eyes on the Kitanomaru Park... He came here for commercial purposes. In Tokyo, where every inch of land is valuable, no matter how high the level of your hall is or how professional your radio facilities are, how can it be more cost-effective to have a large piece of open space for your own performance?
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Kitanomaru Park.

Outside a huge building that looks like a light yellow octagonal hat.

Yang Mo, with his hands behind his back, walked slowly like an old man, inspecting the promotional booths and the densely packed crowds in front of the booths.

Since it is called a cultural festival, then in accordance with the tradition of the island country, it is naturally impossible to just have a performance... Those who have watched the anime of the island country know that this thing is similar to the Chinese market in a sense. Of course, a cultural festival of this level is naturally not a simple market.

To be precise, it is a combination of a fair and an exhibition, but with the name of "Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchange", the stalls will be set up more beautifully and have a more cultural atmosphere.

Some of the products advertised and displayed on these stalls are local specialties of the island country; but more of them are various products selected by Dahua Company and the foreign trade companies under Miss Mu, and have undergone more than half a year of meticulous polishing and packaging upgrades... As for the people responsible for promoting and marketing these products, they naturally come from those trading companies and satellite companies.

After waiting in line for a few minutes, Yang Mo took out a thousand-yen Japanese bill and bought a portion so small that it would make Chinese people cry. However, the cardboard packaging depicted the Three Kingdoms elements in a comic book style, and its exquisiteness and charm were not inferior to the sugar-reduced matcha mung bean crisps of later cultural and creative products.

After squeezing out of the crowd, Yang Mo glanced at the surprised Japanese who were reluctant to speak after opening the box. He smiled with satisfaction, then pinched out a piece of cake that looked like a seal, with red seal characters printed on the bottom with pure plant dye, and handed it to the side: "Girl, you're going to perform on stage tonight. Are you nervous for such a big occasion?"

Tugou took the piece of matcha green bean crispy cake that was half the size of a mahjong and was covered with a thin layer of cassava ice skin that was recently developed by a food factory in Lanling. He weighed it with disdain and then swallowed it in one mouthful: "What's there to be nervous about? When I was in Texas, didn't I often perform in the square? There were only about a thousand spectators... It's nothing serious!"

Tsk tsk, this matcha mung bean pastry from Shu Kingdom is not very sweet. Yang Shidan, that idiot, should have bought the taro paste pastry from Wei Kingdom. Not only is the purple-black inscription dyed with mulberry juice more majestic, but the taro paste pastry also tastes much sweeter... If that doesn't work, the red bean pastry from Dongwu is better than this!
A local dog who prefers sweets is very dissatisfied with the practice of reducing the sugar content in mung bean crisps. In her simple value system, if it is not sweet, can it still be called mung bean crisps!
amount……

Oh, I forgot to look carefully at the representative image on the side. Which famous general of Shu did I just eat? Liao Hua or Zhang Bao?
Forget it, it doesn’t matter, as long as what I eat is not Guan Erye. The mixture ratio of Guan Erye and Zhao Zilong is the lowest. If you draw it, you must keep it and show off!
Tsk tsk, what was this guy Yangshidan thinking? Why did he use the same tricks he used in taking foreign paintings? How childish!
Obviously, Yang Mo didn't know that he had just been complained about by someone again. Seeing that this girl was still so heartless, he immediately smiled and nodded: "It's good that you are not nervous. You used to sing operas frequently. If you were only going to sing two bangzi operas on stage today, I wouldn't worry. But you are going to perform on stage today. In addition to two pure music pieces, you also have to practice two new ancient style songs... Actually, seriously speaking, I only gave you two months of practice time, which was indeed a bit tight. I was afraid that you would not have confidence and would be nervous when you thought about going on stage to face so many cameras, but now it seems that I was worrying too much."

Yang Mo encouraged her, "Don't be nervous. Even if you make some mistakes in singing, don't worry. Most Japanese people don't understand Chinese. Just ask NHK to adjust the subtitles later."

After actually getting in touch with them, I realized that NHK was worthy of its reputation as a "Japanese traitor", and was also worthy of being a pro-China TV station that took the initiative to request co-production of large-scale historical documentaries such as "The Forbidden City" a few years later. Its attitude towards Yang Mo and other Chinese representatives was much more enthusiastic and proactive than they had previously thought. Therefore, Yang Mo is now very confident that small matters such as slightly correcting the post-production subtitles would not be difficult at all.

It cannot be said that Yang Mo's worries were unnecessary. Any students who have listened to one or two ancient style songs know that the tune and singing style are not difficult, but the lyrics are so complicated that it makes singers who are used to pop songs feel numb. Singing a song is not much different from reciting a text. Therefore, even the original singer often looks at the lyrics on his mobile phone during the live performance.

Tugou was not happy: "Who are you looking down on? Even if I'm a poor student and I could only practice after get off work, I've been practicing for two months. You don't think I can't even memorize the lyrics of two songs, do you? "

Considering that he represented the image of China and that Kitanomaru Park was full of Japanese people, Tugou didn't raise his fist. He just glared at Yang Mo fiercely and then became depressed again: "I'm not an artist, and I have a lot of work to do. There are so many respected artists in the exchange group, why do you have to arrange so many programs for me at once? I'm so tired!"

Yang Mo glanced at her with a half-smile: "Why, is there anyone in the group gossiping?"

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Although the artists of this era are more pure than the entertainment stars of later generations, their purity is limited. In fact, everyone knows what the background of this industry is like... There are quite a few famous people in this cultural exchange group. Seeing an unknown girl in her early twenties participating in four programs in one breath on such an important occasion, two of which are solo performances, it doesn't matter whether they have direct contact with Dahua Company or not, and they don't have any big concerns. It would be strange if they didn't rely on their qualifications to say something behind the scenes.

As for the excuses like "I'm so tired" mentioned by Tugou, just listen to it. Yang Mo knows this girl's character very well. Although she looks fierce and sometimes even seems to be full of violence, she is actually a pure Qilu girl. Respecting the elderly and loving the young is engraved in her bones. If you want her to report those seniors or say a few bad words about them, she will never do that.

Hearing Yang Mo's direct criticism, Tugou felt a little uncomfortable. He scratched the ground with his feet a few times, but his expression was a little angry and embarrassed: "That's right, I'm not an artist. There are a lot of people who are better than me in acting or singing... It doesn't matter who you ask to sing, why do you have to arrange so many programs for me?"

Seeing the girl's face full of grievance as if she was under some invisible moral pressure, Yang Mo felt a little pity for her. After thinking for a while, he took a green bean crisp from the pitiful paper box and handed it to her: "Girl, do you remember what I promised you before the New Year?"

Years ago?
The words you promised me?

The local dog classmate, who had always lived a heartless life, was suddenly dumbfounded.

Seeing this, Yang Mo laughed and gestured with his hands: "It was the time when you wore a costume and sang for a long time in front of me."

Tugou's mind suddenly flashed the costume in the box that he had not tried on since the New Year, as well as his own face without ink at that time.

There was an inexplicable emotion rolling in my heart, but my face was blank and indifferent: "What did you say at that time? I don't remember!"

Yang Mo shook his head speechlessly, but his expression was very serious. He said word by word: "Girl, I promised you that since you like singing and performing so much, I will definitely give you a big stage to show your talents... and tonight's Sino-Japanese Cultural Festival is my fulfillment of that promise to you!"

stage……?
The eyes seem to pass through the eye-catching cement stage in the leisure square at the entrance of Commercial Street 1.

Lu Yingying was a little confused.
It turns out that the stage you promised me is here...huh?

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PS: May Day is approaching, and a poor student also wants to go out and play, so I am working hard on typing and preparing the manuscript. The number of words in these few days will not be large, please understand!

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