I am a literary giant in Japan

"So what do we do next?"

The same doubts also lingered in the minds of Seiji Maehara and others.

Looking at the iced American coffee in the glass, the suspended ice cubes are just like Shiroyama Saburo’s mood at the moment - cold and chilly.

When Hara Seiji was determined to save the Ci Ai Group and even went to Sweden for reinforcements, he had a bad feeling.

But when he thought that his opponent was the nearly omnipotent Kitagawa Hide, Shiroyama Saburo thought that it was a false sense of uneasiness caused by the opponent being too strong and his own side being too weak.

Later, Seiji Maehara brought back Evind Johnson from Sweden, and he had to take the risk and give it his all.

This feeling of uneasiness did not dissipate as time went on, but instead became more and more intense.

It wasn't until the release of "Children of the Dark" that the accumulated sense of uneasiness instantly turned into fear.

The result was just as he expected.

Evindt's "City in Darkness" held strong for an afternoon, and then, like its "predecessors", it was instantly defeated by the massive attack of "Children in the Dark" and became a new background board.

Evind Johnson himself was even more confused. He came all the way from Stockholm with full confidence to support Seiji Maehara, and was also shouldering the heavy responsibility of helping Arnault and the Nobel Prize officials to avenge their previous shame.

His opponent is Kitagawa Hide, which is admittedly a bit tricky, but competition content is his strong point, and with the full support of the New Wenxiang Publishing House and the New Democratic Party, he believes that he will not lose to a young man in his twenties.

However, the outcome slapped him in the face.

In Japan, his new novel was instantly crushed by Children in the Dark;

In overseas markets where he has more advantages, only the white people and the middle class who have been supporting him for many years are firmly supporting him.

Other places, such as Southeast Asian countries, the United States with the largest literary market, France with the longest history, and Britain, the former overlord, did not welcome his new book very much.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was a total defeat.

Today, the revised January issue of "Wenyi" has published "A Wonderful Journey", the last part of Kitagawa Hide's trilogy "We Are Disabled but Determined".

Evind Johnson, who had just finished reading all the serialized content of this new novel, now felt empty and frustrated.

Why is he so strong?

The books he wrote are so good!

If he had known this, Evint Johnson would never have risked his reputation in his later years by coming to Tokyo to engage in a literary battle with Kitagawa Hide!

Kitagawa Hide's literary legend in Japan has traveled across the ocean to Sweden many times.

When "The Dancing Girl of Izu" was first recommended to the Swedish Academy by the French Academy, Evindt also took a few curious glances at it.

Of course, like most overseas writers at that time, he neither liked the "mono no aware" tone of Japanese literature nor could he understand the gentle and gentle emotions contained in it.

Westerners prefer a passionate love that's just you and me.

For example, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and Cameron's "Titanic".

Since then, all Evindt knew about Hide Kitagawa was that he missed the Nobel Prize in Literature twice and was banned for five years for leaking the list and misconduct.

At this moment, after watching "A Wonderful Journey", he finally took this young opponent seriously.

It's a pity it's too late.

Soon after "A Wonderful Journey" was released on the 18th, it shattered the reputation and popularity that "New Literature" had worked so hard to accumulate with unimaginable force.

If readers have also read "The Crucible" and "Children of the Dark" in the trilogy, they will be more deeply touched by the progressive emotions in "The Good Journey".

Literary works are like other entertainment products. We are not afraid of your poor performance, but we are afraid of comparison.

In comparison, Evindt's "Children of the Dark" appears particularly weak and thin.

Whether in terms of conception, writing techniques, story content or character design, he is far inferior to Kitagawa Hide.

This is something that all readers can see with their naked eyes.

Therefore, when Evint received urgent information from Xinwenxiang that a large number of readers had left for Kawade Shobo and Kitagawa Entertainment, he was not surprised at all.

If it weren't for his new book, Xinwenxiang might have remained strong in this slow death for another three to five years.

Now he helped to complete the finishing touch.

Xin Wenxiang's request for help was directly ignored by Maehara Seiji and others.

They are now in a situation where they can't even protect themselves, so how can they have the time to care about the life and death of a publishing house?

The three of us squeezed on the big sofa in the living room just like we did at the beginning. You looked at me, I looked at him, and he looked at you. We just stared at each other for dozens of minutes, but couldn't come up with any solution.

Just ten minutes ago, new news came from Stockholm.

The Swedish Academy, which had been closely following the situation, discovered that Ewindt was likely to be stepped on by someone to get promoted, so it decisively made a move.

Just like they immediately completed the cut of ties with the Arnault Club after Arnault got into trouble, after Ewendt's failure, the Swedish Academy issued a statement at lightning speed, implicitly stating that "any words or deeds of the Nobel Prize winner in Literature have nothing to do with the Academy."

The Nobel Prize officials have always played dead, neither responding to outside doubts and questions, nor coming out to explain anything.

They were really forced into a headache, so they asked the chairman of the board of directors to come out and give an irrelevant reply, saying that the board of directors and the jury were still investigating the "Arnault couple incident" and had no time or energy to deal with other things.

The strongest supporters left his camp one after another, and Evint Johnson knew that the game was over.

After the Thai authorities took action, even the die-hard white people and the middle class were a little shaken.

It is possible that in a month or two, Children in the Dark will completely surpass City in the Dark and become another monument in the history of world literature.

It not only takes into account sales, literary quality and social influence, but also brings a grading system to the literary world.

The best way to avoid becoming a complete laughing stock and background board is to escape quickly before the monkeys scatter when the tree falls.

“Mr. Maehara, Mr. Shiroyama, I have booked a flight back home this afternoon.

If nothing unexpected happens, after returning to Stockholm, I will travel around the world for a while.
If you cannot contact me by then, please do not worry or be anxious. ”

Evint Johnson changed his previous arrogance and confidence, calmly stated his decision to "defect", and walked out of the room without looking back.

"This bastard is such a jerk! When something happens, his feet are like greased and he runs faster than anyone else! Let me see if I will give him the royalties!"

After he left, Seiji Maehara uttered several angry words in Japanese. He was obviously extremely unhappy, but he didn't dare to really do anything to Evind Johnson.

Looking at the incompetent and furious Maehara Seiji, Shiroyama Saburo sighed deeply again. He had spent his entire life trying to educate and manipulate three generations of the Maehara family, but in the end, it was all in vain.

After this battle, the political persona that he had painstakingly designed for Seiji Maehara, as well as the external image that the Maehara family had cultivated over the years, will completely collapse.

There is no need to talk about the election within the New Democratic Party. As long as Naoto Kan is still in power, Seiji Maehara, the eternal second-in-command, has to sit still and do his job.

Other political resources may also change their stance because of these things and choose not to support them temporarily.

Now, the only thing left in Shiroyama Saburo's mind is to try his best to preserve Maehara Seiji's position and influence in the party. At worst, he can kowtow to the people and admit his mistakes, and then go back to a remote place to recuperate as soon as possible.

He is only thirty-six years old. As long as Japanese politicians are under fifty, they have the potential to climb to the throne of supreme power.

But the problem that Seiji Maehara is facing now is actually much more serious than what Saburo Shiroyama imagined!

For his own benefit and the dark profit chain that cannot be disclosed to others, Seiji Maehara resolutely chooses to protect the Ci Ai Group at all costs.

Everyone thought that he was too proud to swallow that humiliation, but the real reason was that he simply could not give up the interests and huge profits behind the Ci Ai Group.

This is the main source of his political donations, which far exceeds that of other competitors, and is the foundation of his livelihood!
Giving up this would be equivalent to asking him to give up a lot of power and status, which Seiji Maehara simply cannot do.

Moreover, as more and more illegal activities involving gangs were carried out, Seiji Maehara and his related interest groups could no longer extricate themselves from such matters.

To the outside world, and even internally, he claimed that the money mainly came from successful financial investments, company stocks and book dividends.

It is not surprising that the second-in-command of a political party, a powerful member of Congress and a young politician, has so many profit channels.

From the beginning to the end, Saburo Shiroyama and others never doubted the proportion of his financial sources.

Realizing that New Wenxiang Publishing House would be completely defeated by Kawade Shobo, Evindt Johnson would also retreat back to Stockholm.

By then, I will be isolated and helpless in Japan and will inevitably be liquidated.

Seiji Maehara finally couldn't hold it anymore.

He raised his head suddenly, and then suddenly with a "thump", he knelt down in front of Shiroyama Saburo.

"Seiji. You." Saburo Shiroyama was shocked. Since he became an adult, Seiji Maehara had never treated him so humbly.

Having become the second-in-command of the New Democratic Party in his thirties, Seiji Maehara has basically acted on his own in recent years and is not very willing to follow the advice of Saburo Shiroyama.

The sudden abdication made Shiroyama Saburo feel even more uneasy and fearful.

Things seem to be far from as simple as I imagined.

"Please save me! Teacher! Teacher Shiroyama! You don't want to see the Maehara family that you worked so hard to support destroyed in my hands!

Please! Mr. Shiroyama! Please save me from being stuck in the quagmire!"

"What are you talking about, Seiji?"

Shiroyama Saburo stared at him with wide eyes.

"Isn't it just a failure? The path of a politician is full of thorns and sharp blades. One failure means nothing."

"No, it's not." Maehara Seiji lowered his head and told the whole story about the problems behind the Ci Ai Group.

Shiroyama Saburo knew all about the illegal activities of the Ci Ai Group, and many core members of the Maehara family and the New Democratic Party were also among the beneficiaries.

But how much profit can a group company that focuses on the deaf and mute people make?
The illegal organ trade does make huge profits, but due to various problems, they only operate quietly in places like Thailand. How big can their scale be?

Saburo Shiroyama never thought that these things would be the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Until now, Maehara Seiji got down from his seat and knelt down, telling him everything in detail.

He was stunned.

The scale of the Charity Group's involvement, the depth of its interest chain, and the terrifying number of people and funds involved behind it were far beyond his imagination!

"Mr. Shiroyama, the amount of money I spend on political networking every year is basically no less than 10 billion yen.

In addition, elections within the New Democratic Party, maintaining support, various government expenses, and interactions with those financial groups also cost me nearly 20 billion yen each year.

The political funds my family can give me are only 200-300 million yen a year, and sometimes I have to give back some. Even if I have a lot of extra income, it is impossible to fill such a big hole. "

It was only at this moment that Seiji Maehara showed the full picture of the Ci Ai Group to Saburo Shiroyama.

The "truth" unearthed by Kitagawa Hide and others is actually just the tip of the iceberg, and the mountain hidden under the huge iceberg is big enough to destroy him, a rising political star!

After hearing his story, Shiroyama Saburo's hands began to tremble.

Now he understood.

No wonder after learning about "Children in the Dark", the Thai officials would rather risk damaging the country's image than eradicate those cancers and fully support Hide Kitagawa's novel and film adaptation!

Because the little things exposed by the Charity Group are just the tip of the iceberg!

If we dig deep into the root of the problem, Thailand's foundations must be loosened!
No one in power would want such a huge source of instability to exist under their noses.

No matter how great the benefits are, it won’t work!
"You... you really are..." Shiroyama Saburo's eyes went dark, and as soon as he raised his finger, he fell backwards!

".The above is a summary of the recent sales of the three magazines Dazhong, Beichuan, and Wenyi."

In the small office, Saito Reina said excitedly to the projection on the wall,
"If things go as expected, we will take the top three spots in January this year! Congratulations! It's a great start!"

The battle-hardened Reina Saito hasn't been so excited for a long time.

The success of the trilogy “Disabled but Determined Us” has further elevated her reputation in the industry.

Of course, today she no longer cares so much about her status and influence in the industry.

What makes her happy is that, thanks to the influence of the trilogy, countless gathering places for disabled children, such as the welfare home in Nerima Ward and various schools for the deaf and mute in Yamanashi Prefecture, finally have the approval and care of the country!

What they worked together to bring down was not only a charity group and a top politician who was just sitting in office doing nothing, but also one dark interest chain after another lurking beneath the iceberg!

From now on, various new policies and welfare systems will be implemented one by one, and these cancers will be completely eradicated one by one!

"It is God's business to forgive you, and my mission is to send you to see God!"

Kitagawa Hide's words were suggested by Kawaide Shizuko to be printed on the title page of the physical book of the trilogy.

At this time, Kitagawa Hide, who was holding three physical book samples, also smiled slightly. He was rarely modest and accepted the praise from Saito Reina so generously. (End of this chapter)