Chapter 971: Mitsui Family

Chapter 971: The Declining Mitsui Family
Shimonoseki City in Japan is located at the southwestern end of Honshu Island, across the sea from Kyushu, Japan and South Korea. It is an important port on Honshu Island and even Japan.
The residence of the director of Shimonoseki City Hall is a three-story villa located in the city center of Shimonoseki. At this moment, a group of uninvited guests came to the residence of the director of Shimonoseki City Hall.
I saw a few ninjas in black walking in with two men in suits and leather shoes but tired faces, while Hideki Mitsui, the director of Shimonoseki City Hall, hurriedly welcomed them into the living room.
After the two men supported by the ninja sat on the sofa, they were still gasping for breath, as if they had just experienced a marathon of tens of kilometers. The ninjas who escorted them in also breathed a sigh of relief. They could see that these ninjas had serious injuries on their bodies, and blood dripped down their clothes onto the delicate wool carpet, like a little plum blossom.
"Big cousin, thank you so much this time." One of the men on the sofa said to Hideki Mitsui.
Hideki Mitsui handed them two cups of hot milk, and smiled at the same time: "It's all a family, what are you talking about."
His wife and children were all driven to the second floor by Hideki Mitsui, so they were the only ones in the hall. Hideki Mitsui took out another first aid kit and gave the ninjas a simple dressing, and then sat opposite the two men, sighing, "Our Mitsui family is really going to be over?"
After hearing these words, the two men on the opposite side, who were already tired of a car, looked even more sad. It turned out that these two men were the direct heirs of the Mitsui family, Mitsui Ryuji and Mitsui Torataro.
Mitsui Ryuji clenched his fists and said, "I can't imagine that the old man of the Tokugawa family was so cruel and cruel. Not to mention the occupation of our Mitsui family's industry, but also to eliminate the roots, and even kill the people who brought our Mitsui family!"
Mitsui Torataro also said, "In addition to our two brothers and the eldest cousin you, the other family members of the Mitsui family are either eliminated by the Tokugawa family or betrayed the family to join the Tokugawa family. My father, he, last week Because of the seizure of his family business, he became anxious and passed away.
"I didn't expect it either." Hideki Mitsui sighed, "It's only half a year. From the time the old fellow Tokugawa Naomasa launched a war against our Mitsui family to the present, it has only been half a year before we completely destroyed our Mitsui family. It's broken."
Many years ago, the Mitsui family was originally one of Japan's four major chaebols. Because of Japan's defeat in World War II, the Mitsui family, the main supporter of Japanese imperialism, was also strongly suppressed and its strength plummeted. The Mitsui family also actively worked to revitalize the family business after the war, but unfortunately, the Tokugawa Naomasa that they originally wanted to help them usurped the Mitsui family’s industry and took over 60% of the Mitsui family’s industry. Taken away.
With only 30% of the assets left, the Mitsui family, with the help of several other big chaebols, barely blocked the backlash of Tokugawa Naojun, lingering triumphantly. With the development of time, the industries that originally belonged to the Mitsui family have been developed and expanded more rapidly in the hands of Naomasa Tokugawa, and soon became one of the four new chaebols in Japan, and the Tokugawa family has also become Japan’s most famous One of the big family.
Compared with the rapid rise of the Tokugawa family, the Mitsui family, which guarded the original more than 30% of the assets, was much inferior and almost stopped. In the long run, these assets of the Mitsui family will be swallowed up, not to mention the other few. The reason why this chaebol helped the Mitsui clan was only to prevent the development of the Tokugawa clan. It was a pure interest relationship. If they found that something was impossible, they would give up the Mitsui clan without hesitation.
Fortunately, I can see that the Mitsui family also gave birth to a very outstanding figure, that is, Mitsui Hidezaki, the father of Mitsui Ryuji and Mitsui Torataro.
Under the leadership of Mitsui Hidezaki, the Mitsui family was re-developed. In the end, although it was still not as good as the Tokugawa family, it was no longer the declining family that was always worried about being annexed by the Tokugawa family. Has lost its own defensive force.
Tokugawa Naomi is approaching a hundred years old, and his son Tokugawa Gensheng and Tokugawa Kodron are far from their talents compared with Tokugawa Naomi. And Hidezaki Mitsui is only 56 years old this year. As long as the Mitsui clan develops steadily, the Tokugawa clan will sooner or later be caught up by the Mitsui clan after the Tokugawa Naomi administration returns.
But I didn't expect that from half a year ago, the Tokugawa family suddenly launched an offensive against the Mitsui family's industry and went to full-scale war with it in the stock market, sales, and publicity. As a result, the two big families that had been fighting for a long time surfaced their struggles, and the economic circles of Japan and the world caused waves of waves.
Mitsui Hidezaki originally speculated that Tokugawa Naomasa wanted to eradicate the Tokugawa family's greatest enemy before he died, so as to remove obstacles to the development of his Tokugawa family. But later, Naomi Tokugawa's offensive was fierce and cruel, and he was very patient, and there was no sign of impatience at all, which made Mitsui Hidezaki overthrow his original speculation.
Tokugawa Naomasa was not eager to deal with the Mitsui family because he realized that he was near death, but more like gradually completing his early goal of completely annexing the Mitsui family.
Undoubtedly, the Tokugawa Naojun who backlashed the Mitsui family back then was very terrifying, especially when he was in his prime mentally and physically, and launched an offensive against the Mitsui family at his peak. The Patriarch of the Mitsui family back then was also considered a talented and roughly talented generation, but he was also in the Tokugawa Naoadministration. The means of the next failed.
In recent years, the Tokugawa family was too old to be physically and mentally old and could not do everything by himself, and the power of the Tokugawa family was handed over to Tokugawa Gensheng and Tokugawa Kodron, which made the Mitsui family relieved.
And the experience of the past six months reminds Mitsui Hidezaki of Naomasa Tokugawa, who was at his peak at the beginning!
In the end, under Tokugawa Naomasa’s offensive link after link, Hidezaki Mitsui was finally unable to withstand it. The companies under the Mitsui family collapsed across the board and were annexed by Tokugawa Naomasa. In this case, some In order to protect themselves, the members of the Mitsui family rebelled to seek refuge in the Tokugawa Naoadministration, which accelerated the defeat of the Mitsui family.
As the results obtained for a lifetime of hard work were completely swallowed by Tokugawa Naomasa, and he also lost the chance to make a comeback, Hidezaki Mitsui could not withstand the blow, and finally died in a hurry.
After devouring all of the Mitsui family's industry, Naomasa Tokugawa was still unwilling to let go of the Mitsui family, removing those members of the Mitsui family who had already taken refuge in him, and aggressively killing everyone else. Dozens of Mitsui family members died in car accidents or assassinations.
Mitsui Ryuji and Mitsui Torataro were also under the protection of Iga ninjas who had been raised by the Mitsui family for more than ten years, and finally escaped from the chase of those killers.
And Hideki Mitsui, the director of Shimonoseki City’s city hall, is actually a member of the Mitsui family, but his daily contacts with the Mitsui family are very secret, so outsiders do not know his relationship with the Mitsui family.
Just listen to the song Hideki Mitsui and said to the opposite Mitsui Ryuji and Mitsui Torataro: "Then what are you going to do now? The Tokugawa family is too powerful. If the Mitsui family resists stubbornly, our Mitsui family will only have this incense. It's gone."
"Big cousin, you are right." Mitsui Torataro said: "As long as we are here, Mitsui's family will not be counted as the end, and there will be a chance to make a comeback. My eldest brother and I plan to cross the sea from Shimonoseki to South Korea. Then go to Russia via North Korea to avoid the pursuit of Tokugawa Naomi."
Mitsui Ryuji also said: "As long as we can preserve our power and develop secretly, I don't believe we can't beat the Tokugawa family!"
"By the way, why did the old fellow Tokugawa Naomasa suddenly start a war against our Mitsui family? What excitement did he get?" Mitsui Hideki asked.
Torataro Mitsui shook his head: "Who knows what the old man is going crazy."
"But our father found something." Mitsui Ryuji said in a deep voice: "Although Tokugawa Naomasa has faded out of people's sight since more than ten years ago, and no longer appears before any media, ordinary people do not. Knowing his condition, I even thought he was dead long ago. But our people investigated that Tokugawa Naomasa, who was paralyzed with his feet, somehow got better, mother, that old man, he won’t die when he is so old. He has recovered his health for no reason!"
Hideki Mitsui frowned and said, "It stands to reason that it is difficult to treat paralysis of the feet, especially Tokugawa Naomasa's feet have been paralyzed for many years, and the muscles are probably atrophied."
After a pause, he asked again: "By the way, when are you going to leave? Are you here for the night?"
Mitsui Torataro shook his head: "No, the boat has been arranged. We plan to leave after a while, so as to avoid long nights and dreams."
"Well, I'll send you to the pier." Mitsui Hideki said.
"Then thank you, big cousin." Ryuji Mitsui and Torataro Mitsui thanked them at the same time.
So, after taking a break at Hideki Mitsui, Ryuuji Mitsui and Torataro Mitsui left in a hurry and rushed to the pier in Shimonoseki City.
They arranged a fishing boat in advance, intending to smuggle from Xiaguan to South Korea.
When they arrived at the pier, they saw the fishing boat moored on the sea, so they accelerated their pace.
Passing through the long pier, it was more than ten meters short of reaching the fishing boat. Despite being exhausted physically and mentally during the days of escape, Mitsui Ryuuji and Mitsui Torataro still speed up.
But when they were a few meters away from the fishing boat, a ninja suddenly stopped them: "Wait, two sons, something is wrong!"