Chapter 716 Please don’t insult my moral bottom line!

"So, you are Xiao Baihe's lover, right?"

As soon as Sachiko Fujita said these words, what followed immediately was her look at Cao Zhiqiang.

It seemed that the other party wanted to observe Cao Zhiqiang's reaction at close range to confirm his guess.

That's right, Sachiko Fujita has no evidence at all, and her words are just a test.

Cao Zhiqiang had already realized this, so when he heard Sachiko Fujita say this and looked at him at the same time, he showed just the right expression of surprise, which then turned into amusement.

After shaking his head, Cao Zhiqiang smiled with a speechless expression: "No, Lawyer Fujita, I can't pretend I didn't hear what you said, you are slandering me for no reason!

What kind of lover is not a lover? Your words not only insulted me, but also insulted Yoshinaga-senpai.

Fortunately there is no one else here, otherwise it would be a big deal if word got out."

"What, you don't admit it?" Sachiko Fujita narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Of course I won't admit it." Cao Zhiqiang said immediately, "Why should I admit it if it doesn't happen?"

Sachiko Fujita looked at Cao Zhiqiang, and then smiled softly: "Don't be nervous, actually it doesn't matter even if it is, I don't care about the matter itself.

On the contrary, as a good friend of Xiao Baihe, I very much hope that she can live a happy life.

If you can make Xiao Baihe happy, I would like to thank you and will help you more carefully in the future."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head: "I'm really sorry. Don't say that Senior Jiyong doesn't mean that at all. Even if she does, I can't agree."

After a short pause, Cao Zhiqiang said again: "As you can see, my relationship with Mingcai is extraordinary. Mingcai is young and beautiful, and has a sweet voice. Why should I leave the young unmarried girl alone and go find...right?

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Sachiko Fujita smiled, no longer looking at Cao Zhiqiang, but continued to look forward and said: "Maybe you like this kind of young lady. It's not like I haven't seen this kind of boy before."

Cao Zhiqiang continued to shake his head, then suddenly became serious and said:

“It’s getting more and more outrageous the more you talk about it.

Maybe there are people who like older people, but I definitely don't.

So, unless you have solid proof, don't make this joke!

This kind of joke is bad and not funny at all!

Please don't insult my moral bottom line!

Don’t even insult Yoshinaga-senpai’s innocence!”

Seeing that Cao Zhiqiang was serious, Fujita Yukiko curled her lips slightly: "Well, since you don't admit it, just treat me as a random guess.

So, since it is my fault, I will help you with the review of the house sales contract this time for free, can you still get it?"

"Oh, that's a good feeling." Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "Thank you very much."

Sachiko Fujita smiled faintly and did not reply.

After that, Sachiko Fujita and Cao Zhiqiang had nothing to say anymore, and they just arrived at the headquarters of Nishimura Real Estate.

Although Nishimura Real Estate is a real estate company, its real headquarters building is in the suburbs.

The Nishimura Real Estate in downtown Tokyo is just an agency that rents a few office buildings.

In other words, the so-called West Village Real Estate is actually a township enterprise in domestic terms.

But precisely because it is a township enterprise, and thanks to the Tokyo government's policy of strongly supporting small businesses, it is able to obtain preferential loans and several pieces of land in the port area for development at low prices.

Yes, the Japanese government in the 1980s, at least in the Tokyo area, actually maintained a suppressive policy towards large real estate companies. On the contrary, it generally adopted a supportive attitude towards small and medium-sized real estate companies.

Not only real estate companies, but also some manufacturing factories also focus on supporting small and medium-sized enterprises.

For example, Taiyo Yuden was originally a small enterprise. Thanks to the government's support, it later became bigger and stronger.

Of course, this so-called suppression of large companies and support for small businesses is just superficial.

The main reason is that large companies have begun to make joint efforts under the guidance of the government and then collectively enter overseas markets.

In this case, the thankless part of the domestic work is handed over to small and medium-sized enterprises, thereby expanding employment and reducing financial burdens.

It may be necessary to ask whether supporting small and medium-sized enterprises has something to do with increasing employment rates and reducing financial burdens.

This is a big deal.

Because large companies in Japan have a seniority-based system, both salary and benefits are extremely high.

If large enterprises are allowed to expand domestically, their personnel will also expand accordingly, and the corresponding salary expenses will naturally increase accordingly. This is obviously not in line with the business philosophy of the enterprise.

Therefore, after entering the 1970s, with the substantial increase in wages in Japan and the appreciation of the yen, major Japanese companies reduced the amount of domestic recruitment and instead expanded investment abroad, especially in developing countries.

The country’s investment intensity.

Southeast Asia is the focus of Japan's investment.

After entering the 1980s, with the slowdown in domestic GDP growth, the appreciation of the yen, and the continued rise in domestic wages, Japan began to focus its investment on Europe and the United States.

Yes, the appreciation of the yen did not just happen after the Plaza Accord. It had been appreciating before, but the appreciation was very small and within a controllable range.

But after the Plaza Accord, there was a sharp appreciation in a short period of time. In addition, financial controls were not allowed and foreign capital was allowed to enter and exit freely. This made Japan a leek for Western financial groups.

But relatively speaking, Japan's manufacturing industry, such as Toyota and other groups, operates relatively conservatively and is relatively resistant to foreign investment. Therefore, it is difficult for foreign investors to directly intervene in Japan's manufacturing industry and can only harvest Japanese stocks and real estate.

Originally, the Japanese government thought that as long as it maintained its manufacturing industry, nothing else mattered.

It's a pity that they underestimated the power of the economic crisis and human greed.

So in the end, we all know that when the economic bubble blows up, all the real estate speculators, including big companies, can't help but take action.

Then when the bubble burst, most of the market value evaporated, and the whole of Japan became depressed and almost completely lost confidence.

The essence of the economy is actually the human heart, or confidence and desire.

A nation without confidence and desire will not be able to revitalize the economy.

On the contrary, our country next door is in poverty, but its citizens are full of confidence and are focused on making money.

It is the desire to be well-off and make money that supports China's long-term GDP growth and long-term economic prosperity.

Perhaps it should be said that Japan and the Four Asian Tigers have also experienced an era of long-term double-digit GDP growth. Your country's rapid economic growth is not unusual, and it is even worse.

In fact, this is to change the concept secretly, or to deceive people.

The reason is that whether Japan or the Four Asian Tigers, these fast-growing economies are single small economies, which do not have so many population burdens and do not have so many big country responsibilities.

For example, South Korea's overall area is not as large as that of a province in our country, and its population is also not as large. If such a small economy is placed in an economic cooperation structure led by the United States, and it can be exposed to it at will, the economy will surge.

The same is true for Japan. It is a small country with a strong foundation, and within the economic framework of the United States, it is mainly an export-oriented economy, so it can naturally prosper in a short period of time.

But our country is different.

Before World War II, our country was a very poor agricultural country with a weak industrial foundation and not having everything we needed.

Under such circumstances, it is still the most populous country in the world. The first thing it needs to solve is the problem of food and clothing. It is still a big military and political country. It has not been included in the Western economic circle by the United States, so its economic development will naturally not be successful.

When Western countries allowed my country to join the WTO, it quickly began to take off thanks to its labor cost advantages, resource advantages, infrastructure advantages, and administrative advantages.

This is the take-off of an economy with over one billion people. Competition involves all aspects. Can this be compared with that of a small country?

Let’s not mention anything else, let’s just talk about basic scientific research. After our country reformed, we were actually busy making up lessons, while Japan had already completed those.

In other words, Japan's economic boom in the 1960s and 1970s was due to its rich heritage and the economic support of the United States.

When my country's economy was booming, its scientific foundation was not as good as Japan's in the 1970s and 1980s.

Until 2010, my country's overall scientific and technological level was basically the same as Japan's in the 1970s and 1980s, and by 2020, at least in terms of overall basic scientific research, it will basically catch up with Japan.

From this perspective, our country's progress is definitely not slow. After all, we have more difficulties.

To put it bluntly, in the 1980s, no one in the world considered our country a threat.

Without him, our country was too poor at that time and its technological level was too poor.

Although our country was already the most populous country during this period, in the industrial era, population was not the decisive factor in becoming a big country, but an important factor.

In other words, having a sufficient industrial population and urban population is the cornerstone of the rise of a great country.

This is also the reason why in 2023 in Cao Zhiqiang's previous life, the population of the Kingdom of Bharat had clearly exceeded that of our country, but the overall national power level was further and further increased by our country.

This is because although Bharat has a large population, most of it is non-industrial and non-urban. This population structure can only be a burden, not a help.

The essence of why our country is engaging in family planning now is to reduce the population burden.

So in this period, there is nothing wrong with family planning.

Only later, when my country's industrial population and urban population increased, and the population fertility rate naturally declined, did we begin to talk about a population crisis.

In fact, in essence, when a country becomes wealthy to a certain extent, and industrialization and urbanization reach a certain level, the population fertility rate will inevitably decline unless immigration is opened up.

From this point of view, no country in the world can be spared.

In other words, if you want to increase the fertility rate, it is useless to expect to increase welfare benefits. The higher the welfare benefits, the less likely people will have children.

Even in Northern Europe, which has excellent welfare benefits, although the fertility rate has subsequently increased, it is not because of improved welfare, but because of immigration.

For example, in Sweden, the subsequent fertility rate was basically provided by those refugees.
To be continued...