I am a literary giant in Japan

"So, do the stars have to obey your orders?" the little prince asked the king who claimed to rule over everything.

"Of course!" the king said to him with a smile, "As long as I give an order, they must obey immediately. I will never allow the things under my control to be undisciplined."

Such power amazed the little prince.

If he had such power, he would see more than forty-three sunsets a day.

He can command the sun to set more often, just like a king.

He could therefore see that beautiful sunset seventy-two times, or even a hundred times, or even two hundred times!
There is no need to keep moving your chair to watch the sunset!
The little prince thought of his abandoned little planet and felt sad. He boldly asked the king: "I want to watch the sunset here. Please order the sun to set now."

"The king did not agree to the little prince's request." Jabami Rei smiled mysteriously at Mengzi.

Mengzi tilted her head and asked subconsciously, "Is it because he doesn't have this ability? Is he lying?"

"Haha, it turns out that adults think the same way." Jabami Rei smiled contentedly and shook her head, saying, "That's not the case."

"This is what the king answered the little prince.

The king said: 'If I order a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or order him to write a tragic play or turn into a seabird.

And if the general receives an order and does not carry it out, then is he wrong or am I wrong? '"

Holding "MOE" in her hands, Jabami Rei read out word for word the last sentence of the last chapter of the serialization of "The Little Prince", that is, Chapter 10 "The Story on the First Planet".

The plot of the novel ends here.

It is obvious that Hide Kitagawa hopes to make children and parents think through this story.

The king who has the power to rule everything is like the young parents, and the little prince who says he wants to watch the sunset is the cute and innocent children.

Children's thinking is very simple. When they want something, they will directly ask their parents for it without considering the scarcity of that thing, or their parents' ability and willingness.

Many parents do not know how to control themselves when it comes to satisfying their children's desires.

Some of them are omnipotent kings, and some are just ordinary civilians, but no matter who they are, when faced with the requests of children, most of them are willing to give up everything to satisfy them.

Excessive pampering and incorrect value education will ruin children.

The right thing to do is to be like the king in the story.

He did not immediately meet the little prince's unreasonable request, but asked the little prince whether it was right or wrong to do so.

This rhetorical question gave Mengzi a feeling of enlightenment.

Ever since giving birth to Toru and Midori, Yumeko's excessive maternal instinct has made her demanding of the two little ones.

In two or three months, they will officially be one year old.

But the two little ones still stick to their mother all day long, and when things don’t go their way they express their dissatisfaction by crying, and they won’t stop until they are satisfied.

Beichuan Xiu mentioned this to her. In his previous life, he was born in a very traditional family next door. He received a painful education with sticks from childhood to adulthood.

This made his childhood full of pain, but when he grew up, he was very grateful for his parents' strict education, which enabled him, who had a bad personality, to grow into a useful person.

Although beating and scolding children is irrational and incorrect behavior, over-indulgence and never criticizing them will cause greater harm to children.

Sometimes when educating children, one has to play the good cop and the other has to play the bad cop.

However, Yumeko dotes on Acher and Midori too much, and she rarely has a disagreement with Kitagawa Hide on this point.

At this time, after listening to Jabami Rei reading a passage from the story of "The Little Prince", Yumeko woke up as if from a dream and fell into deep thought.

There are many parents like Yumeko across Japan who were awakened by "The Little Prince".

While parents were getting to know pure literature and Mr. Kitagawa more in depth because of The Little Prince, on August 1998, 8, the August issue of Dazhong, a magazine with general readers as its core target audience, was officially released!
This issue of "Mass" became a national hit as soon as it was released. It did not seem like a niche literary magazine that had just been launched and was still in the adjustment period from top to bottom.

As the editor-in-chief of "Hanzawa Naoki", Yasujun Ishida, who joined the Popular Editorial Department right after graduation and worked hard, is the man who witnessed this book take the imperfect "Popular" to the pinnacle of popular literature magazines.

He was promoted and given a raise, rising steadily in the editorial department. He was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief just after his internship. Seeing that the final chapter of "Hanzawa Naoki" was about to achieve phenomenal sales, he would most likely be promoted to editor-in-chief again.

This is the ironic reality of the Japanese workplace.

In the novel, the banking industry reflects the bad roots of the Japanese workplace.

The boss’s fault is the subordinate’s fault, but the subordinate’s merit is the boss’ merit.

Japanese companies are extremely committed to the lifetime employment system and seniority-based system, and the only way to climb up in the industry is to increase the number of years you have worked there.

This unhealthy corporate system and work system is the ultimate big boss that people like "Hanzawa Naoki" are struggling against.

As the editor-in-chief of this book, Yasushi Ishida quickly became famous in the industry and was widely praised by readers and authors.

Although he did not actually provide much substantive help in the writing of this book, outsiders do not see it that way.

The editor-in-chief specifically requested by Mr. Kitagawa joined Dazhong right after graduating from the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo, and achieved such brilliant professional achievements during his internship. I heard that he also participated in the writing of the setting collection of "Hanzawa Naoki".

The above points alone are enough to make outsiders feel that he is also an indispensable part of Kitagawa's creation of "Hanzawa Naoki".

However, despite this halo, he benefited from the Japanese workplace system and climbed up to a high position step by step amid the envious and jealous eyes of his colleagues.

Whenever Ishida Yasujun thought of the extremely explosive plots in the final chapter, he would feel sad.

"He who slays a dragon will eventually become a dragon." He sighed, feeling powerless and not daring to really fight against the Japanese workplace system like Hanzawa Naoki did.

So this is what it feels like to be a vested interest.

As he thought about this, he became even more anxious when he heard his colleagues calling him "Editor-in-Chief Ishida" half-jokingly.

The governor and deputy governor of the Industrial Central Bank are also equally worried.

The plot twist in "Hanzawa Naoki" caused their bank to suffer heavy losses, and the entire banking industry was accelerating its collapse.

The Asian financial crisis in 1997 was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Now the Japanese economy is in a complete downturn, and the credibility of the banking industry has also hit rock bottom. Just as it is written in "Hanzawa Naoki".

The board of directors and senior executives of another giant bank, Tokyo Foreign Bank, have begun contacting senior executives of the Industrial Central Bank.

If nothing unexpected happens, Japan's two top banks will really have to consider mergers and reorganizations to keep each other warm!

Such a large merger project obviously cannot be completed overnight, and the final implementation of the plan may have to be delayed until after the millennium.

Looking at it this way, I feel more and more that the world view background of "Hanzawa Naoki" is not written randomly, but Kitagawa Hide really understood the ecology of the banking industry and simulated what might happen in the future.

So, was the book's description of the current state of Japanese society in the millennium also written after some investigation and deduction?
“It’s really scary when you think about it.”

The Prime Minister's official residence and office.

Obuchi Keizo, who had just settled here and became the biggest political winner in the post-bubble era, couldn't help but sigh again and again as he flipped through the magazine "Massive".

The Obuchi family has been operating in Gunma Prefecture for generations, similar to the local daimyo in the ancient Warring States Period. They seem to have tremendous power and rule over a region, but in fact they are madly excluded by the "daimyo" in the central region and it is difficult for them to really squeeze into the center of power in Japanese politics.

In order to help the most promising politician in the family to step onto the throne, the family spent no idea how much money and established countless connections.

Among all these serial designs, the most shocking, dramatic and luck-driven step was that his grandfather, who was on his deathbed, suddenly told him to ignore everything, openly oppose Prime Minister Hashimoto, and promote the then-freshly released "Hanzawa Naoki" like a fanatical fan.

Keizo Obuchi himself is also a loyal fan of Hide Kitagawa. From "Youth Trilogy" to "Tokyo People", he has read all the pure literary novels written by Mr. Kitagawa.

However, "Hanzawa Naoki", which is contrary to universal values, especially the values ​​advocated by politicians, challenges his cognition and thinking.

It's a good story. It makes people's blood boil and they want to uppercut their boss as soon as they stand up.

But as a member of parliament and foreign minister, Obuchi Keizo's position represents the position of the Liberal Democratic Party's Takeshita faction, and he cannot change or express it at will.

The suggestion my grandfather made was like a gambler's last-ditch effort before death, and it was completely different from Obuchi Keizo's usual prudent style in politics.

To this day, he still clearly remembers what his grandfather told him at his bedside that day.

".Eisan, this is the only thing you must listen to me for once.

You have been cautious all your life, isn't it just for such an opportunity? "

At that time, Xiao Yuan Keisan, who was holding his grandfather's wrinkled hands tightly, made up his mind. Facing everyone's astonished eyes, he jumped out to cheer for "Hanzawa Naoki" and the concept of "the lower class overthrowing the upper class".

The foreign minister sang a different tune from the head of the cabinet at a time of turbulent political change, which shocked politicians from other parties.

Ryutaro Hashimoto was surprised and thought that Obuchi Keizo had lost his mind due to being suppressed for too long and actually turned against him at the last moment.

Among all the candidates for prime minister, Obuchi Keizo has the lowest support rate and is just the one who is there to make up the numbers.

No one expected that the person who would eventually step into the Prime Minister's residence would be him, the foreign minister who "would either remain silent or make a stunning debut"!

The fruits of victory were so fragrant and sweet that Obuchi Keizo began to truly pay attention to the young "number one in the world" in the literary world.

Since he has everything he has today thanks to "Hanzawa Naoki", Keizo Obuchi naturally studied the novel very seriously.

I heard from many descendants of the nobility that many aristocratic families like the Kuroda family began to study Kitagawa Hide along with the imperial family.

Many of them are crazy about this young writer, and think that his novels are not only beautiful, profound and literary, but also contemporary and forward-looking.

The head of the Kuroda family even forced the young people of the third and fourth generations to read Kitagawa Hide's novels every day, and asked them to write their reviews after reading them, so as to understand some life philosophies and the laws of the development of the times.

This sounds simply unbelievable.

But if you think about it carefully, isn’t this a microcosm of a country’s upper class?
The higher one stands at the top, the more likely he is to believe in supernatural things.

Some people are fanatical about Shintoism, some keep various Buddha statues in their homes, and some worship certain artists as gods.
In general, these people who may have stood at the top of the mountain by relying on their own strength or the tide of the times, as they get older and lose their fighting spirit, become more and more superstitious about unnatural authority.

They even attributed their achievements to gifts from unnatural authorities.

Keizo Obuchi was a very pragmatic person. His family did believe in Buddhism and Shintoism and were very fond of top artists.

But deep down, he never believed that these things could affect real society.

Only this time.

After carefully reading "Hanzawa Naoki", Keizo Obuchi truly appreciated Mr. Kitagawa's in-depth research on various things and society.

Everyone said that in order to write a book, he was willing to go to the library to look up information on hundreds of books.

This sounds both funny and scary. It's hard to imagine that someone could be so paranoid.

Looking back now, apart from those exciting stories, the world view of "Hanzawa Naoki" is not "science fiction" at all. It is clearly a rigorous speculation and prediction of the future state of Japanese society!

"Novels are secondary. If I can verify this from Mr. Beichuan, it may be of great help to my future political career!"

Keizo Obuchi made this judgment immediately and asked his secretary to call Mr. Kitagawa's home.

After all, the merger and reorganization of the Industrial Central Bank and the Tokyo Foreign Bank actually took place gradually after the novel was written.

These two major banks are backed by the two top financial groups, Mitsubishi and UFJ. In terms of economic strength, ten Kitagawa Hide put together are not enough to compare with them. It is absolutely impossible for them to change their development strategy because of a novel.

Then there is only one truth.

These two major banks have had the idea of ​​merging and restructuring for a long time, but this wave of momentum has given it a push, forcing the plan to be announced to the public in advance.

This is terrible.

After waiting for a while, the secretary finally ran back from the telephone room.

"What did Mr. Kitagawa say?" Obuchi Keisan closed the magazine and asked quickly.

The secretary looked a little unhappy. After hesitating for a while, he stammered, "Teacher Beichuan seems to be a little grumpy after waking up. He said he is busy writing a new book, so..."

"So you rejected my invitation?" Obuchi Keisan looked stunned.

The first request he made after becoming Prime Minister was rejected? (End of this chapter)