I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 321 The first issue of Beichuan is a big hit! (There will be another update this afternoon)
As we all know, the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of South Korea are known as the two most dangerous political professions in the world.

There have been 53 Japanese prime ministers so far, 10 of whom were assassinated and 8 were killed.

So far, there have been 12 South Korean presidents, 3 of whom were assassinated and 3 were imprisoned. The failure rate is as high as 50%!

The fundamental reason why the heads of state of these two countries always get into trouble lies in their political systems and economic problems.

In the original history, neither Japan nor South Korea could escape from the financial storm carefully woven by Western countries.

The former had just experienced the bubble economy era and had finally recovered through various measures. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto had even given the national economy several drastic measures, and the economy was on the verge of achieving a full recovery.

Unexpectedly, a financial crisis brought Japan back to the period before liberation.

Since the end of 97, Japan has officially entered the period of "lost twenty years".

The latter is even worse.

When the financial crisis hit South Korea in early October, companies under the major chaebols went bankrupt one after another, and the average debt ratio of all chaebols exceeded 400%.

The Bank of Korea has submitted reports on "Korea's potential financial crisis" to the Korea Institute of Finance and Economics and the Presidential Office many times, but unfortunately they have not been taken seriously.

Concerned about not being able to recover the funds, Japan's financial sector recently recovered more than 130 billion in short-term loans invested in South Korea.

The most terrifying thing is that the first people to be affected were the Korean people.

High unemployment rates, deflation, financial credit crisis, etc. have made it difficult for ordinary people to make ends meet, but those capitalists who hold large amounts of assets can make a fortune by simply pouring money into the stock market and housing market at the right time and then waiting for the Korean economy to recover!

Faced with such a crisis, the Korean people began to think about saving themselves.

The president took the lead in calling on everyone to donate money to save the country, and then during that period, South Korea saw a series of very bizarre scenes -

Mainly the president's wife and women from major chaebol groups, they donated their hidden gold and silver to the national treasury in the form of public donations.

The people at the top set an example, and the people below also took the initiative to go to the bank and donated all the gold and silver jewelry in their homes without reservation.

By March next year, South Korea will have donated more than $20 billion in gold and silver.

But what's funny is that South Korea's chaebols secretly staged a classic "return all the gentry's money and split the people's money 30-70" trick, which resulted in donations being completely unable to save South Korea's financial crisis.

So while the people were still actively donating money for the patriotic cause, the South Korean government held a special meeting and made it clear that it would request financial assistance from the IMF (International Monetary Fund).

The IMF is not a true international official monetary organization, but an institution supported by the US government to maintain the international economic order.

It was well stated when it was established that as long as the allies were in trouble, the IMF would provide various economic assistance.

But when the Koreans really asked for help, the IMF immediately changed its attitude and made various harsh demands on them:
1. South Korea is required to reduce its economic growth rate to around 3% next year and reduce the rate of increase in consumption and prices to below 5%. This means tightening fiscal policy, raising tax rates, and making the people suffer.

2. Bankruptcy of domestic banks that have experienced credit collapse and insolvency, and merger or resale.

Banks are the lifeblood of the chaebol groups, and naturally the only ones who can take over them now are American financial groups.

The IMF's wolfish ambitions are evident from this.

3. Require South Korea to reduce imports of foreign high-end luxury goods in terms of trade, restrict overseas travel as much as possible, and in the process of promoting financial reform, reorganize enterprises and give priority to high economic benefits.

To put it in common terms, from now on, you Korean people have to work like oxen and horses to pay off your debts. Don't even think about anything else. Traveling, spending and enjoying yourself are not allowed!
4. Further open up the capital market, allow foreigners to increase their shareholding in Korean companies to more than 50%, and allow foreign banks to purchase more than 4% of Korean bank shares.

People who have studied history will be very familiar with this thing.

During the Qing Dynasty, when China was being pinned down by Western countries and seeking peace, one of the conditions put forward by Westerners was "opening ports for trade and free trade."

Beichuan Xiu, who is familiar with the development of this period of history, will naturally become one of the nightmares of Koreans.

However, all this work has now been handed over to Masato Senhara, while Kitagawa Hide himself is concentrating on writing books and taking care of his children and his wife.

1997 11 Month 15 Day.

The latest issue of Shinchosha's "Shincho" was quietly released, with sales of only 8000 copies on the first day of printing.

The current "New Trend" inevitably reminds readers of the former "Group Portrait".

But the current "Group Portrait" is completely different from what it used to be.

A few months ago, Kodansha sold the entire package of "Gunzo" to Kitagawa Entertainment at a very low price.

Subsequently, "Qun Xiang" was officially renamed "Beichuan", and its first issue was also released today.

Kitagawa Hide's Norwegian Wood is still being serialized in Literature and Art, and he has no plans to transfer his new book to Kitagawa for the time being.

If he were allowed to serialize novels in it now, "Beichuan" would probably just become the second "Wenyi".

Instead of building Beichuan into his own personal brand, he thought it would be better to make it the largest literary brand other than his own, and not be limited to pure literature.

In the eyes of Kawaide Shizuko, Kitagawa Hide's "righteous act" was an unconditional concession to Kawaide Shobo.

When the company was in the most difficult time, he extended a helping hand and allowed her to keep her status as the head of the family and the boss. Now he is sacrificing the interests of Beichuan to allow Wenyi to continue to advance rapidly.

Shizuko Kawaide really wanted to "commit herself to him".

But she can't!
So she waved her hand and promised Kitagawa Hide that as long as "Kitagawa" needed it, all the writers under Kawade Shobo would provide unconditional support! Kitagawa Hide was not polite to her.

Therefore, in the inaugural issue of "Kitagawa" in November 1997, the main novel was "The Devotion of Suspect X" which had just been written by Keigo Higashino.

". Misato got up from him tremblingly, her school uniform becoming wrinkled.

She fell to the ground, leaned against the wall, and looked at Togashi.

The mother and daughter were silent for a long time, both of them looking at the person who was no longer moving, with only the flickering of the fluorescent lights.

"What should I do?" Jingzi muttered to himself, his mind was blank, "I killed him?"

'mom'

Jingzi turned her gaze to her daughter."

"Teacher Higashino's novels are still as attractive as ever!"

In the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Nako Hikigaya placed the huge fruit on her chest on the desk and couldn't help but sigh in a low voice while flipping through the "Literature and Art" she had just bought.

"This is an incredible mystery novel! The first two chapters reveal who the murderer is, how the crime happened, and the consequences of the crime!

Isn’t this just revealing all the mysteries?”

The older police officer standing by also exclaimed in amazement.

If it were written this way, it would be a pure bad book.

But as they watched, they soon discovered that the mystery presented at the beginning of the story was not the whole story, and there were obviously deeper things hidden behind it.

This book "The Devotion of Suspect X" was also written under the guidance of Hide Kitagawa. Keigo Higashino thought about it for a long time at the time but couldn't find a suitable story theme.

He felt that simple reasoning and puzzles could not satisfy readers.

Since its development, detective novels have always been scraps in the literary market, because its theme is not profound enough, its literary quality is not strong, and it is far different from pure literary novels.

Kitagawa Hideo suggested that he add an extremely sincere and pure love to the terrifying puzzle tricks.

Just like "The Secret" which helped him make a comeback, don't limit the novel to the level of reasoning.

To give readers a series of humanistic senses.

[How deep can you love someone? ]

[What kind of encounter can make you die for it? 】

[The end of logic is not the utopia of reason and order, but love dedicated to one's life.]

Kitagawa Hide's words made Keigo Higashino suddenly enlightened, and then there was this new version of "The Devotion of Suspect X" that was closer to the original history.

In addition to this amazing mystery novel, the inaugural issue of Kitagawa also includes new books by Mayumi Aso and Shiro Dango.

The three disciples of Kitagawa gathered together, plus a large number of newcomers who had just joined the Japanese Literature Society.

"Beichuan", which was not optimistic about the future due to the bad reputation of "Group Portrait", became a huge hit on the first day of its release!
As the year draws to a close, Japan's major literary awards are being prepared in full swing, and everyone has almost decided on this year's shortlist and winners.

Now that "Beichuan" has come out, many of the novels in it have become extremely popular, even surpassing many famous works by famous authors.

The judges of these awards had to reconvene and prepare to put novels by Keigo Higashino and others on the shortlist.

11 month 16 day.

Oricon announced the first print data of the first issue of "Kitagawa" yesterday.

A total of 21.3 copies were sold in Japan.

A total of 11.7 copies were sold overseas (in the United States, France, the six civet countries, and the United Kingdom).

These figures are still slightly insufficient compared to the big players in the literary market, but as a newly released inaugural issue, they are already very good.

Especially since most of the works in "Kitagawa" are popular literature with a strong Japanese literary flavor, overseas, it is only slightly better than Japanese pure literature.

But it is really shocking that its overseas version has sold so many copies.

The success of the overseas version of "Kitagawa" is actually mainly due to Kitagawa Hide.

His novels have set off a wave of Japanese literature overseas. Now, when readers in these countries hear news related to Kitagawa Hide, they will rush over to pay attention.

"Beichuan" carries the name of Beichuan Entertainment, so it is easy to attract fans even if there are no books written by him.

Kitagawa Hidema is single-handedly carrying the Japanese literary world forward.

And in this trend, on November 11, the latest issue of "Wenyi" finally ushered in the grand finale of "Norwegian Wood"!

(End of this chapter)