I'm reborn and I'm an international student again?

"Can't cooperate if there is no shortage of food? President, our agricultural cooperative rejected free agricultural products and chose to import them from China at a high price. You said before that it was to prevent American agricultural groups from taking the opportunity to transport products to the island country. This reason is reasonable. But now that we have a lower-priced source of goods, why do you still refuse? I think you just want your foreign son-in-law to make money." As soon as Saeki Kosuke finished his words, a thin bald man with glasses from Saeki's family next to him began to make sarcastic remarks about him.

"Yes, President. We have heard that you have imported a large amount of agricultural products from our country. No matter what the other party's price is, I can lower the price by 20% compared to theirs." The fat man said again.

"See? Their price is so much lower. Why don't you choose to cooperate?" The bald man and the fat man sang in unison.

Saeki Kosuke glanced at the two of them and said, "Humph, how do I know if there are any problems with their products? Besides, we have signed a contract with the supplier for several years. If we change the supplier now, we will have to pay a huge amount of compensation."

"I've checked the goods, there's nothing wrong with them. Don't use the issue of compensation to scare people, we are the relevant department. Your son-in-law's is a Chinese company, and these agricultural products are for the purpose of restoring the daily lives of the islanders. In special times and special contracts, the authorities will definitely stand on our side. Even if we breach the contract, they won't win!" The bald man sneered.

I have to say, what he said makes a lot of sense.

If there is really a breach of contract, the lawsuit will probably take several years, and Chen Xi will most likely lose in the end, after all, he is doing business on someone else's territory.

"Let's discuss this later." The upset Saeki Kosuke waved his hand, stood up and left alone.

The fat man who was rejected was not angry. Instead, he waited for Saeki Kosuke to walk out of the office and then looked at the bald man with a smile.

"I knew he wouldn't agree, so let's proceed according to the plan." The bald man touched his chin, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

tokyo skytree.

This is the new landmark that was just completed this year in the island country, the second tallest tower in the world. It is also the name that the island country uncle kept mentioning yesterday.

The 634-meter-high Skytree looks like a giant crystal scepter, with a pearly white halo under the sunlight. Outside the spiraling glass curtain wall, a holographic sled herd of reindeer is suspended. Mechanical reindeers with red bow ties carry snowflakes of light dots and circle up every ten minutes, turning into an electronic snowstorm that will not melt at the top of the tower.

Saori, wearing a beige beret, looked at her boyfriend curiously: "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm wondering if I can move the model of the casino in the Macau area to the pinball room here. For example, I can open a restaurant next to the pinball room. Guests can redeem meal coupons with points to consume in the store, and the restaurant can also provide octopus balls, pot stickers and other snacks to the high-end guests of the pinball room to keep them playing. The restaurant in the casino is not operated by the casino itself, but in cooperation with others. I also want to try this model, and the restaurant's coupons do not conflict with the meal coupons exchanged for prizes. The meal coupons for points are for players to consume in the store, while the meal coupons exchanged for prizes are for sale." Chen Xi spoke after thinking for a while.

"Why would the boss cooperate with you? The pinball room is controlled by the Yamaguchi-gumi." Saori blinked. She felt that Chen Xi was too naive.

Chen Xi opened his mouth but didn't explain.

He wanted to ask Kosuke Saeki to help him make some connections.

"By the way, you are so dedicated to developing the catering business in the island country, right? It is to help Zhao Lingshan's family company. Humph, I haven't mentioned it these two days, and you didn't mention it either." Saori snorted coldly with her lips pouted.

"Oh, the island country's ninjutsu is really powerful. The water jutsu you released yesterday almost washed me into the Pacific Ocean." Chen Xi smiled awkwardly and immediately changed the subject.

"No way! You interrupted me before I could even cast the spell yesterday. How could I cast the spell when I couldn't even speak?"

"Oh? Didn't you successfully perform the water jutsu yesterday? I just blocked your mouth, but I didn't expect you to use ninjutsu to turn yourself into a Blastoise. At that time, I thought I was swimming in a pool!"

Seeing his smirk, Saori immediately understood. Thinking about how she looked yesterday after performing the Water Style Technique using another method, her cheeks flushed. She really had turned into a Blastoise.

The elevator went up all the way and soon reached a high place.

Saori shrank her neck on the glass plank road of the 450-meter observation deck: "This is my first time here. It's really high up!"

“Not as high as Di Baita, but also second in the world.” Chen Xi shrugged.

"Would you like to take commemorative photos?" Today is Christmas, and the clerk in a reindeer doll costume asked while holding a camera.

Sazhi dragged Chen Xi down under the holographic mistletoe wreath in the center of the observation deck, and the camera automatically captured their clasped fingertips.

When the photo was generated, the shadow of the fishermen from Tsukudama in the Edo period looking up at the first lighthouse suddenly appeared behind the two people, and a line of small golden words appeared at the bottom: "Christmas 2012·Time and Space Superposition".

Looking at the image behind him, Chen Xi sighed inwardly: Japanese people really know how to have fun. They can even combine a simple photo with technology.

He had read a news story about a company that sells high-tech spoons and made a lot of money. It said that after using their company's spoons, there is no need to add salt to food. The principle is that the spoon will generate microcurrent to stimulate the tongue, thus simulating the effect of eating salt. This can greatly reduce the amount of salt consumed. At first glance, it seems to be a product for testing IQ, but it turned out to be a big seller overseas.

This camera plus a projector can make tourists willing to spend money to take photos, which is indeed a good idea.

The midday sun cuts Tokyo Bay into tiny pieces of gold foil, and the Sumida River flows like a belt of liquid mercury between the matchbox-sized buildings.

Chen Xi put his palm against the glass. As far as he could see, the red and blue neon signs of the pinball rooms looked like enemy and friendly signals on an electronic chessboard. "All I could see were tall buildings. Pinball rooms are everywhere. There is so little green space in such a big city. It's really suitable for my sky garden project..."

Saori, standing next to her, had her bow hairpin reflected on the glass, reflecting a rainbow of light as she tilted her head: "How do you always turn a date into a business trip?"

She reached out and turned his face, and stamped the corner of his mouth with strawberry lipstick, "Compensate for my girlish heart!"

At night, in a very private island cuisine restaurant.

Chen Xi sat cross-legged and clinked glasses with his future father-in-law.

It's only been a year since we last met, but Saeki Kousuke seems to have aged ten years. It's obvious that he's been under a lot of pressure lately. "Old man, how did you become like this? People who don't know you would think you're Saori's grandfather!"

"You little brat, how dare you talk to me like that. If Saori wasn't here, I would have beaten you up long ago." Kousuke Saeki blew his mustache and glared at the cynical young man in front of him.

"Oh, it was just a joke, no need to be so angry. What are you doing in Tokyo?"

"Hmph, a Chinese guy came to the agricultural cooperative to discuss business today. He said that we should change our supplier and his price is 20% lower than yours. That's what he said, but I think even if I ask him to lower it by 50%, he will nod and agree without hesitation." Kousuke Saeki's face suddenly became serious.

"Oh, did everyone in your Farmers' Association agree?" Chen Xi's face remained calm as he picked up the cup and took a sip.

"That's nonsense. The price they offered is so low."

"Then what do you think?"

"What else can I think? I'm not a fool. That Chinese businessman must have been sent by ABCD. He wanted to use this trick to transport products to the island country. He thought he could fool my eyes by changing the name of the country. Those guys in the association are really stupid." Kousuke Saeki shook his head helplessly.

"Yeah, I thought so too. My price is already very low, but there are people who are willing to offer it cheaper than me. No need to think about who is behind him." Chen Xi also nodded.

"Hey, I know exactly what they are thinking. I think this matter will become a big one."

"What you mean is that they think you bought the goods from me, your future son-in-law, at a high price. As the chairman of the Agricultural Association, doing so may enrich yourself. In other words, you are using the convenience of the chairmanship to benefit your son-in-law. If the news gets out and is made into a story by the media, then people all over the island will accuse you of colluding with foreigners and wanting to suck the blood of the people..." Chen Xi's words made Kosuke Saeki's face turn pale.

Saori's face also looked a little unhappy when she heard this. Her father was about to be blamed for helping her boyfriend. As a daughter, she felt very uncomfortable.

"The president of the Agricultural Cooperative has a very high status in the island country, and you should be very clear about this now. But many people, especially in the Agricultural Cooperative Association, have complained that I am the weakest president in history. Because after I took over the Agricultural Cooperative, the association began to go downhill. There are many reasons for this, and there are many people sitting in that position now who are eager to kick me out..." Kosuke Saeki thought about it and told his current situation truthfully.

He now considered Chen Xi as his own, since his daughter liked him and Chen Xi seemed to be quite capable, he also regarded this young man as his son-in-law.

"In order to protect the interests of farmers, the Agricultural Cooperative has greatly increased the prices of some grains, vegetables and fruits. The island country's economy has been declining for several years, and many people have downgraded their consumption. They want cheap food. Now people's consumption is low, and farmers' goods are difficult to sell, causing you, as the president, to offend both sides." Chen Xi pointed out the key.

"Well, if we increase the amount of food imported, ordinary people on the island will applaud, but the farmers will be unhappy. If we reduce imports, the farmers will be happy, but ordinary people will complain. Agricultural cooperatives have always had to balance both sides, and this seems to be becoming increasingly difficult at the moment."

"I went to Tokyo Skytree today, and the whole of Tokyo was filled with buildings. Think about it, apart from Tokyo, some crowded cities like Osaka are probably the same..."

"I'm so worried now, how can I have the mood to listen to your travelogue of Tokyo?" The veins on Kousuke Saeki's forehead were throbbing wildly.

"Don't be impatient, wait until I finish. I looked at the streets and alleys and there are pinball parlors everywhere. The number is even greater than that of Tab in Australia. Those who go to the pinball parlors are all poor people. As long as you fill their stomachs, they will be very happy. There are probably many people like this in the big cities of the entire island country... My idea is to let the farmers make some money and let the poor eat at a low price. If the interests of both are met, no one will complain... As for the group of brats in your association who want to make trouble, you don't have to be afraid."

"What do you want to say?"

"Now I'll introduce you to my Pinball Room restaurant, as well as the island fast food restaurant, the sky garden project, smart agriculture, and the high-end agricultural products service plan for the rich..." Chen Xi took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and began to introduce multiple projects.

After one hour.

Kosuke Saeki looked at the young man in front of him with a strange look: "Why do you want me to help you negotiate cooperation with the pachinko parlor? You know, many pachinko parlors are owned by the Yamaguchi-gumi."

"Why? I don't know anyone else here. I saw that you have a lot of power, so I asked." Chen Xi didn't understand why his future father-in-law looked at him like that.

Little do people know that the Agricultural Cooperatives and the Yamaguchi-gumi seem to be from different industries, one black and one white. In fact, the two have had many dealings with each other in private in the past and are considered old acquaintances.

From a political perspective, both organizations can influence the elections of the islanders. The only difference is that the Agricultural Cooperatives have direct voting rights, while the Yamaguchi-gumi relies on infiltration to enter the island's political arena.

There have been points of intersection of interests on both sides in history. Twenty or thirty years ago, when JA Construction, a subsidiary of the Agricultural Cooperatives, needed to purchase building materials, the cement plant controlled by the Yamaguchi-gumi bid 15% below the market price on the condition that part of the funds would be laundered through JA Bank.

Some branches of the Yamaguchi-gumi control the cold chain logistics at the ports and threaten the agricultural cooperatives to pay transportation protection fees in exchange for the right to transport fresh produce.

JA Bank (Nongkyo Financial System) once provided a funding pool for the Yamaguchi-gumi, that is, provided loans to the Yamaguchi-gumi.

Later, the Agricultural Cooperative Association paid more than 30 billion Sakura coins to the police every year for security cooperation fees to eliminate gang harassment. Yamaguchi-gumi members and their families were prohibited from joining the Agricultural Cooperative Association and from bidding for JA direct sales. The Yamaguchi-gumi acquired the land of agricultural cooperative members at super low prices through the agricultural production corporations it controlled, and sublet it to foreign capital to grow high-priced crops. In addition, inferior fertilizers with counterfeit JA trademarks were sold through Yamaguchi-gumi channels at % below the market price.

There are also cases such as the Yamaguchi-gumi controlling the JA rice transportation line and extortion case, agricultural cooperative staff assisting in money laundering (Yamaguchi-gumi casino), counterfeit JA seed smuggling case (Yamaguchi-gumi's Vietnam channel), etc.

The Agricultural Cooperatives and the Japanese mafia have always been dealing with each other, but sometimes they are enemies and sometimes they are partners. You can't figure out what the relationship between the two is.

One of the reasons for this phenomenon is generational differences. Older members of the Agricultural Cooperatives still compromise with the Yamaguchi-gumi's unspoken rules, which is called "village order" in Sakura language, but new members of the Agricultural Cooperatives generally reject contact with gangs.

Especially in agriculturally important areas such as Kyushu and Hokkaido, there are many frictions between agricultural cooperatives and gangs. In the Kanto region, there are generally fewer frictions due to strict supervision.

Kosuke Saeki explained it to Chen Xi, and the other party suddenly understood.

Wow, this is the Japanese version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms!
Just like Wu and Shu, they were always separated and united. (End of this chapter)