I am a literary giant in Japan

No matter what the occasion is, no matter what is happening at the moment, as long as Mr. Kitagawa is present, as long as he talks about the new book he is about to write, everyone's eyes will inevitably be drawn to him.

Just this simple response, after it landed, immediately attracted the attention of countless celebrities.

The reporters who were taking photos of Kitagawa Hide and members of the royal family also looked up, stopped their cameras, took out pens and paper, and waited curiously and expectantly for Kitagawa Hide's next words.

"You mean, are you going to try your hand at popular literature?"

Akihito rarely came into contact with popular literature. From childhood to adulthood, the royal education and life in Gakushuin made him strive to move towards the "upper class".

The word "popular" is extremely "vulgar", so this type of literature was excluded from the curriculum by the Gakushuin Institute early on.

But history taught him a profound lesson.

If people start to be complacent, no matter how much wealth the ancestors have accumulated, it will eventually be squandered.

Since the bubble era, Akihito has led a group of royal family members out of the unattainable imperial residence. He has allowed his children to make friends with common people and even marry them, so that they can open their eyes to the new Japan today and learn more about the "underclass society".

Popular literature is one of the things that we need to understand.

Kitagawa Hide nodded slightly and replied with a smile: "Yes. The creation of writers is based on the masses. In my eyes, pure literature and popular literature are just different tools of expression. There is no difference in essence."

"I see."

Akihito felt that if the topic continued in this direction, it would involve the concept of literary creation.

This was an area he was not good at or familiar with, so he skillfully changed the topic to another direction.

"If the series starts next month, has Kitagawa-sensei already decided on the content and topic?"

"Yes. I have been collecting materials from professionals recently. If nothing goes wrong, I will write a novel related to finance and banking."

A while ago, Kitagawa Hide had several long talks all night long with Senhara Masato, who had just returned from Southeast Asia.

Masato Senhara initially helped him purely because Sensei Kitagawa was both his idol and a big client in the industry.

He didn't think from the bottom of his heart that Teacher Beichuan had any insights into the field of economics and finance - Teacher Beichuan was indeed a genius, but financial economics was an industry that required a lot of knowledge and experience, and it was an industry that could not be succeeded in by talent alone.

Before the Asian financial crisis in 97, Masato Senhara repeatedly reminded Kitagawa Hide not to put all his eggs in one basket. Even if he wanted to play venture capital, the rotten domestic stock market was better than the cruel foreign exchange market outside.

But Kitagawa Hide insisted on having his own way and spent so much money on this.

Masato Senhara entered Thailand with the determination to die, and was mentally prepared to lose all his money and then be sued by Mr. Kitagawa.

then
Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea.
Kitagawa's investment footprints spread throughout Southeast Asia, and the initial 100 billion yen exaggeratedly increased to more than 1000 billion yen.

After leaving the Industrial Central Bank, Masato Senhara, who admired Kitagawa Hide very much, immediately joined Kitagawa Investment and took up the position of managing director.

Today, Beichuan Investment has become the economic pillar of other Beichuan-related companies, which is a bit like a consortium using the main bank system to control other branches.

Accompanying Mr. Kitagawa step by step in establishing this mini youth version of the small consortium, Masato Senhara's vision and pattern gradually expanded.

During this period, he also saw the end of industrial central banking.

Many of his former colleagues encountered similar predicaments as he did; some were fired, some had their salaries cut, and some were exiled.

The banking industry is no longer the popular industry it once was.

Bank employees who were wandering around and had nowhere to go came to join Beichuan Investment.

In the past, this kind of private financial investment company was not comparable to banks or even securities companies. It was at the bottom of the financial industry and was only qualified to recruit people who graduated from short-term colleges.

But now, batch after batch of graduates from prestigious universities and elites with many years of banking experience are flocking in, which indirectly proves Kitagawa Hide's forward-looking vision.

When talking about these things, Masato Senhara was full of admiration and gratitude.

If it weren't for Mr. Kitagawa, he would probably be a member of the rooftop now.

Things don’t end after you take the leap.

In the future, a wild man will come and sleep with your wife, take over your house, drive your car, beat your children, and use your posthumous pension!
Whenever Senhara Masato thought of these unimaginable consequences in the dead of night, he felt scared.

After several long talks, Kitagawa Hide gained a deeper understanding of Japan's financial and economic status quo and the difficulties of the banking industry.

I had previously planned to write some popular literature that would be a national phenomenon - something that would be a hit, have a certain depth, and could become a huge success after being adapted.

Obviously, the works that can match these points are nothing more than "Hanzawa Naoki", "White Tower" and "The Winner is Justice". The legal profession is now hated by everyone, and anyone who touches it will die, but Kitagawa Hide doesn't know much about the medical profession, so he set his sights on the banking industry.

The original novel of "Hanzawa Naoki" is titled "We are the Bubble Entry Group" and "We are the Flower Entry Group".

The author of the original novel, Jun Ikeido, once worked at Mitsubishi Bank, so he is very knowledgeable about the banking industry.

Kitagawa Hide has always adhered to the principle that no matter what book he plagiarizes, he must have a better understanding of the source of the book and not plagiarize just for the sake of plagiarizing.

Therefore, after deciding to use "Hanzawa Naoki" to support the newly launched "Dazhong", he went directly to Masato Senhara to learn about the current situation of the banking industry in Japan in this world.

When Akihito heard that it was a popular literature novel related to finance and economics, he instantly became interested.

The reporters who were originally more interested in Mr. Kitagawa's pure literary novels when they heard that it was popular literature suddenly changed their attitude.

Most popular literature is entertainment product. No matter how interesting it is, its upper limit is only "Suspect" and "Love Letter".

But Mr. Kitagawa suddenly said it was a financial and banking topic, which coincided with the bursting of the bubble and the 97 Asian financial crisis. In addition, there were rumors that Mr. Kitagawa made a fortune from this turmoil, which immediately attracted a large group of people to gather around out of curiosity.

"Bank? That's a very rare subject."

Akihito sighed as he followed through on his words.

Japan's banking industry is basically controlled by major conglomerates. Writing about banks is equivalent to indirectly writing about the conglomerates.

Given the nature of those consortiums, they probably wouldn't be very willing to let Mr. Kitagawa write this kind of thing.

After all, there are precedents in war literature.

At the beginning, Ryutaro Hashimoto strongly supported Hide Kitagawa to reach the top of the Japanese literary world. But when he went to visit a shrine, Hide Kitagawa wrote "The Strange-Bird Shape Record" and "Killing Commendatore" to satirize him.

In the end, Ryutaro Hashimoto and cabinet members had to make public apologies.

Now the people who are getting restless are the big bosses of the consortium.

"Banking? Does Mr. Kitagawa have any deeper intentions?"

Kuroda Keiki frowned, totally unable to understand Kitagawa Hide's thoughts.

Fortunately, the Kuroda family has little connection with the banking industry, and their size is not enough to support a bank that belongs to their own family.

The reporters were feeling very frustrated and kept asking Kitagawa Hide questions, hoping to pry some more useful information out of him.

However, after Kitagawa Hide finished talking about the subject matter and his ideas, he became silent.

Even Akihito couldn't get any new information from him.

The novel "Hanzawa Naoki" not only criticizes the current banking and financial situation in Japan, but also touches on the issue of "the inferior overthrowing the superior" that the Japanese are most concerned about at this stage.

If everything is revealed at this time, the society might be shaken.

To expose this kind of sharp social contradictions, we have to learn from what we did when we wrote "Paradise Lost" and "Border" before, boiling the frog in warm water and slowly instilling the concept into the hearts of ordinary people.

After finding that they could not get any more information, the reporters tactfully left and continued to interview the besieged Agatsuma Yumeko to see if there was any big news to be dug up from Beichuan Entertainment and Dazhong.

Anyway, getting information about a new book is enough for them to write front-page news for a month!

The popularity of Mr. Beichuan is very high now. When they have nothing to write, even if they just mention Mr. Beichuan, it can greatly boost the sales rate of newspapers and news.

Akihito did not dwell on this matter too much. After all, everything would be revealed when the second issue of "Mass Magazine" was released on May 5.

After Akihito left with a group of royal family members, Norihito Kyoko and Kuroda Keiki who stayed behind immediately became much more active.

Kiyomiya Kiyoko happily expressed her hope that Mr. Kitagawa could attend their wedding - originally they wanted to postpone it to the second half of the year, but now the public opinion environment of the Hashimoto Cabinet is so bad that they have to use some entertainment news to divert attention.

After negotiations among several forces, the news that Princess Nori Kyoko married a commoner became the "sacrifice" to cover up the decline of the Hashimoto Cabinet.

"Congratulations to both of you. I will definitely be there at that time." Kitagawa Hide nodded with a smile.

Looking at the marriages of the Japanese royal family, in fact, most of these marriages or marriages with commoner women have a complete beginning and an end. Those royal family members who are trapped in political marriages are pitiful.

"Sister Yumeko is coming too!" Kiyomiya Kiyoko said with a sweet smile.

Beichuan Xiu nodded: "Sure!" (End of this chapter)