Japan's Shimonoseki City is located at the southwest tip of Honshu Island, across the sea from Kyushu, Japan and South Korea. It is an important port for Honshu Island and even Japan.
The residence of the director of the Xiaguan City Hall is a three-story villa located in the center of Xiaguan. At this moment, a group of uninvited guests came to the residence of the director of the city hall.
I saw a few ninjas in black helping two men in suits but with tired faces walk in, and Mitsui Hideki, the director of the Shimonoseki City Hall, quickly welcomed them into the living room.
The two men supported by the ninjas sat on the sofa, still panting heavily, as if they had just experienced a marathon of dozens of kilometers. The ninjas who escorted them in also paused a little.
He breathed a sigh of relief and saw that these ninjas had serious injuries on their bodies. The blood dripped down their clothes and onto the exquisite wool carpet, like little plum blossoms.
"Cousin, thank you very much this time." One of the men on the sofa said to Hideki Mitsui.
Mitsui Hideki handed them two cups of hot milk and smiled at the same time: "We are all a family, why are we talking about this?"
His wife and children were all driven up to the second floor by Mitsui Hideki, so they were the only ones in the hall. Mitsui Hideki took out another first aid kit and briefly bandaged the ninjas, and then sat opposite the two men.
Sighing: "Our Mitsui family is really going to end?"
When the two tired men opposite heard this, their expressions became even more sad. It turned out that these two men were Mitsui Ryuji and Mitsui Totarō, the direct heirs of the Mitsui family.
Mitsui Ryuuji clenched his fists and said, "I didn't expect that old man from the Tokugawa family to be so cruel. Not only did he take over the Mitsui family's property, he also wanted to eradicate it and kill all the members of the Mitsui family!"
Mitsui Torataro also said: "Now, except for our two brothers and you, the eldest cousin, the other family members of the Mitsui family have either been eliminated by the Tokugawa family or have betrayed the family and joined the Tokugawa family. Father, he, last week
He was also furious because his family property was taken away, and he died of illness."
"I didn't expect it either." Mitsui Hideki sighed: "In just half a year, from the time that old fellow Tokugawa Naomasa launched a war against our Mitsui family to now, it only takes half a year to completely destroy our Mitsui family.
Destroyed."
Many years ago, the Mitsui family was originally one of Japan's four major chaebols. Due to Japan's defeat in World War II, the Mitsui family, as the main supporter of Japanese imperialism, was also strongly suppressed, and its strength plummeted. And the Mitsui family was in the war.
Later, they also actively worked to revitalize the family business, but unfortunately, Tokugawa Naomasa, whom they originally wanted to use to help them, usurped the Mitsui family's industry in the end, taking away more than 60% of the Mitsui family's industry.
With only 30% of its assets remaining, the Mitsui family managed to fend off Naomasa Tokugawa's backlash with the help of other major chaebols, and managed to survive. As time went by, the industries that originally belonged to the Mitsui family were lost to Naomasa Tokugawa.
With more rapid development and expansion, the Tokugawa family soon became one of Japan's new four major chaebols, and the Tokugawa family also became one of Japan's most famous families.
Compared with the rapid rise of the Tokugawa family, the Mitsui family, which held more than 30% of its original assets, was much inferior. It was almost stagnant. In the long run, these assets of the Mitsui family will be swallowed up, not to mention the other few.
The reason why the chaebol helps the Mitsui family is just to prevent the development of the Tokugawa family. It is a purely interest relationship. If they find that something cannot be done, they will abandon the Mitsui family without hesitation.
Fortunately, fate was merciful, and the Mitsui family later gave birth to an extremely outstanding figure, namely Mitsui Hidezaki, the father of Mitsui Ryuji and Mitsui Torataro.
Under the leadership of Mitsui Hidezaki, the Mitsui family developed again. In the end, although it was not as good as the Tokugawa family at its peak, it was no longer the declining family that was always worried about being annexed by the Tokugawa family.
build up one's own defense power.
Tokugawa Naomasa is approaching a hundred years old, and his sons Tokugawa Gensei and Tokugawa Gadot are far less talented than Tokugawa Naomasa. Mitsui Hidezaki is only fifty-six years old this year.
In the long run, as long as the Mitsui family develops steadily, after the death of Tokugawa Naomasa, the Tokugawa family will sooner or later be overtaken by the Mitsui family.
I just didn't expect that half a year ago, the Tokugawa family suddenly launched an offensive against the Mitsui family's industry and launched an all-out war with them in the stock market, sales, publicity, etc. As a result, the two families, which had been fighting openly and secretly for a long time, took their struggle to the surface.
This has caused waves in the economic circles of Japan and even the world.
Mitsui Hidezaki originally guessed that Naomasa Tokugawa wanted to eliminate the biggest enemy of the Tokugawa family before his death, so as to remove obstacles to the development of the Tokugawa family. But later, Naomasa Tokugawa's offensive was both fierce and ruthless, and
He was very patient and showed no sign of impatience at all, which made Mitsui Hidezaki overturn his original speculation.
Tokugawa Naomasa was not eager to deal with the Mitsui family because he realized that he was approaching death, but more like he was gradually completing his early goal of completely annexing the Mitsui family.
Undoubtedly, Naomasa Tokugawa was very terrifying when he attacked the Mitsui family. Especially when he was in his prime physically and mentally at that time, he launched an offensive against the Mitsui family at his peak. The head of the Mitsui family at that time was also considered a talented and strategic person, but Naomasa Tokugawa was also in the prime of his life.
He was defeated step by step by various means.
In recent years, it was also because Naomasa Tokugawa was old both physically and mentally and could not do everything himself, so he handed over the power of the Tokugawa family to Gensei Tokugawa and Tokugawa Gedryu, which allowed the Mitsui family to breathe a sigh of relief.
And the experience of the past six months reminded Mitsui Hidezaki of Tokugawa Naomasa who was at his peak!
In the end, under Naomasa Tokugawa's offensive one after another, Mitsui Hidezaki finally could not resist it. All the companies under the Mitsui family collapsed and were annexed one by one by Naomasa Tokugawa. In this case, some
In order to protect themselves, members of the Mitsui family defected and joined Tokugawa Naomasa one after another, which accelerated the demise of the Mitsui family.
Because the results he had worked hard for a lifetime were completely swallowed up by Tokugawa Naomasa, and he also lost the chance to make a comeback, Mitsui Hidezaki could not withstand this blow, and finally died of a serious illness.
After swallowing up all the Mitsui family's property, Tokugawa Naomasa was still unwilling to let go of the Mitsui family. Except for those members of the Mitsui family who had taken refuge with him, he went on a massacre to kill everyone else. Dozens of Mitsui family members
Or die in a car accident or assassination.
Mitsui Ryuuji and Mitsui Torataro were also protected by the Iga ninjas who had been raised by the Mitsui family for more than ten years, and finally escaped from the encirclement of the killers.
Mitsui Hideki, the director of Shimonoseki City Hall, is actually a member of the Mitsui family, but his daily interactions with the Mitsui family are very secretive, so outsiders do not know his relationship with the Mitsui family.
Just Listening to the Song Mitsui Hideki said to Mitsui Ryuuji and Mitsui Torataro who were opposite him: "Then what are you going to do now? The power of the Tokugawa family is too huge. If you stubbornly resist, the remaining incense of our Mitsui family will be destroyed."
It went out."
"First cousin, you are right." Mitsui Torataro said: "As long as we are here, the Mitsui family will not be finished, and there will still be a chance to make a comeback. My eldest brother and I plan to cross the sea from Shimonoseki to South Korea.
Then he went to Russia via North Korea to avoid being pursued by Tokugawa Naomasa."
Mitsui Ryuuji also said: "As long as we can preserve our strength and develop it secretly, I don't believe we can't defeat the Tokugawa family!"
"By the way, why did that old guy Tokugawa Naomasa suddenly start a war with our Mitsui family? What stimulation did he receive?" Mitsui Hideki asked.
Mitsui Torataro shook his head: "Who knows what the old man is going crazy about."
"But our father has found something." Mitsui Ryuuji said in a deep voice: "Although Tokugawa Naomasa has faded out of people's sight more than ten years ago and no longer appears in any media, ordinary people simply don't
Knowing his condition, we even thought he had died a long time ago. However, our people investigated and found that Tokugawa Naomasa, who was originally paralyzed in both legs, somehow got better. Damn, that old man didn't die even at such an old age.
And he regained his health for no reason!”
Mitsui Hideki frowned and said: "It stands to reason that paralysis of both feet is difficult to cure, especially Tokugawa Naomasa's feet have been paralyzed for many years, and the muscles may have atrophied."
After a pause, he asked again: "By the way, when do you plan to leave? Are you staying here for the night?"
Mitsui Torataro shook his head: "No, the boat has been arranged. We plan to leave later to avoid a long night and many dreams."
"Okay, I'll have someone take you to the pier." Mitsui Hideki said.
"Then thank you, cousin." Mitsui Ryuuji and Mitsui Torataro thanked them at the same time.
So, after a brief rest at Mitsui Hideki's place, Mitsui Ryuuji and Mitsui Torataro left in a hurry and headed straight for the dock in Shimonoseki City.
They had arranged a fishing boat in advance and planned to smuggle them from Xiaguan to South Korea.
When they arrived at the pier, they saw the fishing boat moored on the sea, so they walked even faster.
After passing through the long pier, there was still more than ten meters to reach the fishing boat. Although they were physically and mentally exhausted from the past few days of escaping, Mitsui Ryuji and Mitsui Torataro still sped up.
But when they were still a few meters away from the fishing boat, a ninja suddenly stopped them: "Wait a minute, you two gentlemen, something is wrong!"