Chapter 1286: God of Investment?! Why not call him the Investment Immortal?

While Naoki Nagayama was asleep, the stock market storm on the other side of the ocean was still raging.

Numerous companies faced bankruptcy, many investors chose to jump from buildings, and even the billionaires in the top 100 of the Forbes list were greatly affected, with dozens of them falling off the list entirely...

Even the famous Warren Buffett lost billions of dollars in a single day, though he remained very calm in interviews, saying that stock prices were just returning to their original value.

The Reagan administration, having already taken some measures, urgently recalled the Treasury Secretary who was visiting abroad and then contacted the G7 to urgently discuss how to respond. After all, this crisis was not limited to the United States but had spread to the entire world!

However, at this time, the few key personnel Naoki Nagayama had arranged in advance had already begun their systematic operations at their respective exchanges.

The index futures contracts that had been released earlier had now fallen to their lowest point, allowing them to buy them back and close their positions with very little capital~

Because they had foreseen the stock market crash in advance and even had expectations for the subsequent market rescue and recovery, and had already arranged a plan, these guys were looking at the trading screens with red eyes...

Of course, it wasn't because of the red text on the screens, but because of the ambition in their hearts; they had also put their own net worth into it!

"First, close the positions and collect the funds..."

Genta Nakai muttered to himself,

"Then take advantage of the low prices to buy stocks of IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle..."

Naoki Nagayama had placed over 1 billion in funds into the U. S. stock market, and the futures contracts he actually controlled now reached a scale of 10 billion. These needed to be bought back and closed in batches to lock in nearly 10 billion in profits... This required a lot of energy.

However, most of this money would not be remitted back to Japan. Instead, it would remain in the U. S. branch fully owned by Tree Friend Capital, which had been established earlier, to take this opportunity to crazily purchase blue-chip stocks that had plummeted and fiercely scoop up a batch of high-quality U. S. assets.

Anyway, after making money, it couldn't just be left sitting there, so it might as well be used to buy shares of famous companies of later generations! Nearly 10 billion U. S. dollars in funds was enough to make Naoki Nagayama a major shareholder in many large companies!

At the same time, in London, Michimichi Sakaguchi was also operating at the London Stock Exchange:

"Shell, HSBC Holdings..."

In Sydney, Yukio Nakayama: "David Jones, Coles Myer..."

In Toronto, Masaru Hayakawa: "Suncor Energy, BlackBerry..."

These guys were all waiting for the best timing, preparing to bottom-fish these famous large companies. Although their individual funds were not as much as those in the U. S., they could still allow the Tree Friend Group's branches to occupy a significant number of shares in these large companies.

Only Tomoaki Takeda in Hong Kong was a bit helpless; the Hong Kong stock market had been closed for a week, and he would have to wait a few more days before he could close the index futures contracts in his hands...

And Naoki Nagayama actually didn't want to buy shares of any company in Hong Kong, but instead... buy land?!

"Buy a plot of land in Victoria Harbour?"

Tomoaki Takeda was a bit confused looking at the target Naoki Nagayama had given. It was out of the blue; a Japanese company wanted to buy land in Hong Kong?

Did this mean they were going to enter Hong Kong in the future?!

The key personnel of Tree Friend Capital now all held a large sum of money in their hands; they could be said to be regional governors. If they had other thoughts in their hearts, they might really be able to just roll up the money and escape...

If it weren't for the fact that these guys' families were all in Tokyo, and each branch also had independent financial and audit personnel... and Genta Nakai was Naoki Nagayama's good friend and confidant, who also held shares in Tree Friend...

Naoki Nagayama might not have been at ease letting them handle so much money!

Once this stock market crash passed, people would discover that the Tree Friend Group had become an international investment group spanning several continents, and it held shares in famous companies in various countries, and was even a major shareholder in some of them!

And in Japan, Tree Friend Capital had won the favor of numerous investors because of its outstanding performance during the crash, and Naoki Nagayama himself had successfully entered the upper echelons of the financial world...

He was getting closer and closer to becoming a zaibatsu!

Shifting the perspective to the Shanying Yuan in Chiyoda, after a night of peaceful sleep, the sky in Tokyo had brightened!

In the morning, when little Xia Hua was eating breakfast, she would look at her father for a while, then look at her mother... She always felt something was wrong.

She clearly remembered that she was sleeping in her father's arms last night, but when she woke up in the morning, it had become her in the crib, and her mother was in her father's arms~

She was clearly the one who had been lulled to sleep, but when she woke up in the morning, she was all alone, while the two of them were sleeping together...

This was bullying a little baby!

So the little one turned her sadness into appetite, using a spoon to fiercely dig out a large scoop of rice and put it into her mouth~

"Hua-chan has a very good appetite today~"

Naoki Nagayama said with a smile,

"Looks like she slept very well last night."

Akina also smiled and added some food for the little one:

"Hua-chan is at the age where she is growing her body; children at this age grow the fastest!"

"Yeah... I still remember a few months ago she wasn't even at my waist..."

Naoki Nagayama touched the little one's head, causing her to turn her head away with an expression of "don't disturb me while I'm eating"...

So Naoki Nagayama started reading the newspaper while eating breakfast.

Sure enough, on today's newspaper, all the entertainment scoops and political news were pushed to the side; almost all the covers of the newspapers had the bolded text "Stock Market Crash."

They all explained the plummeting situation of this stock market trend, even covering the status of other foreign countries, as well as the tragic stock market events happening here in Ginza...

"Blood-stained Ginza...", "The Day Ginza Collapsed...", "The Sorrow of Investors...", "..."

Every adjective was exceptionally rich, fully describing the scene of the people under the great disaster!

However, of course, some newspapers noticed the counter-trend phenomenon of Tree Friend Capital, and among the many pieces of bad news, they especially highlighted Tree Friend Capital and Naoki Nagayama.

"Tree Friend Capital, however, went against the trend in this plummet... President Naoki Nagayama had foreseen it in advance before the crash, but his remarks were considered 'cowardly' and 'timid' actions two days ago..."

"And in the current plummet, Tree Friend Capital's originally extremely conservative investment strategy has been proven to be a wise move..."

"Naoki Nagayama is the true God of Investment!"

"..."

The overly laudatory words left even Naoki Nagayama speechless... Was this a draft arranged by the company?!

"If I didn't know the inside story, I would be blushing reading this!"

Naoki Nagayama shook his head. Sure enough, Japan was always calling people this god or that immortal; they just exaggerated as much as they could!

"Nani nani?"

Akina curiously leaned over, and sure enough, she saw this report that was like flattery,

"Hahaha, Naoki-san... God of Investment?! That's really amazing!"

"..."

Naoki Nagayama shook his head and flipped through quite a few newspapers, finding that more or less they all had some sycophantic words,

"Is this creating a god? Maybe it's to appease the hearts of the people, or to endorse subsequent policies?"

The more critical the time, the more one needs to appease the hearts of the people; there is nothing that can give people hope more than creating a god.

In this stock market crash, Naoki Nagayama was undoubtedly the best choice... He himself had great fame and was even called a genius... This response by Tree Friend was absolutely successful~

And he had put forward many suggestions at the discussion meeting yesterday; maybe they would really be used by the upper echelons as a positive example to boost market confidence.

Naoki Nagayama finished his breakfast in large bites, then took out the remote control to turn on the TV in the living room and started watching the morning news.

Sure enough, Prime Minister Nakasone, who was mired in a scandal and had already decided to resign, reappeared on the screen:

"Japan's economy is absolutely fine! We are in the best time in decades!"

"This stock market crash is just a temporary disaster and will recover soon!"

"The Minister of Finance has accepted the invitation of the United States to attend the G7 meeting to negotiate and communicate methods of cooperation among countries... The Ministry of Finance has also discussed with senior experts in the financial circle and is about to issue temporary measures..."

"Please everyone, do not give up..."

After the Prime Minister finished speaking, he saw Ryotaro Takayama, who presided over the meeting yesterday, walk to the center of the press conference and start announcing a series of temporary measures...

"Led by the Ministry of Finance, regulatory agencies such as the Securities Review Committee and the Securities Association, together with major bank financial experts, the top ten securities companies like Nomura Securities, Daiwa Securities... and Tree Friend Capital, which foresaw the stock market crash in advance, have jointly discussed and reached the following temporary measures..."

"Central bank capital injection... increase liquidity..."

"Major banks relax loan reviews, major brokerages buy stocks to stabilize stock prices..."

"Encourage major companies to buy back stocks, give policy support..."

"Encourage investors to save themselves, banks launch temporary loans, relax loan requirements, give interest rate concessions..."

"..."

Listening to the "Tree Friend Capital that foresaw the stock market crash in advance" in Ryotaro Takayama's mouth, Naoki Nagayama only felt that his prediction had come true.

Sure enough, he was being used as a shot of adrenaline to appease the public's emotions and boost market confidence!

"Tsk tsk tsk..."

Creating a god and killing with praise were only a thin line apart. Fortunately, Naoki Nagayama didn't get carried away yesterday and participate in more market rescue measures, otherwise he might have really become the scapegoat~

Akina saw that Naoki Nagayama's complexion was not good, and asked suspiciously:

"Naoki-san, what's wrong?"

"Nothing... just feeling a bit emotional."

The higher up you go, the more careful you need to be in every move!

"Akina... during this period, our family needs to be a bit low-key, let's not go out~"

"Naoki-san isn't going out either?!"

Hearing this, Akina was very happy. She didn't care about the storm outside; it was great for Naoki Nagayama to stay at home and accompany her during her pregnancy and Xia Hua!

"Yeah..."

Anyway, Tree Friend Capital and the foreign side were all arranged, so just waiting at home for news was fine~

However, Naoki Nagayama's leisurely days didn't last long. In the morning, the phone in the living room rang again.

"Moshi moshi, this is Shanying Yuan..."

"Naoki-san!!!"

In the receiver was the furious Shuichi Ito,

"Did you forget something?!"

"Huh?"

Hearing his good friend's voice, Naoki Nagayama was stunned. He immediately recalled it... That wasn't right; he was protecting Shuichi-san's money well, just waiting to bottom-fish and increase its value!

"What's wrong?!"

"Naoki-san! The closing of the Tokyo International Film Festival is about to begin!!!"

Shuichi Ito's voice was loud and helpless,

"Now that we've encountered such a situation as the stock market crash, everyone is worried about what to do with the closing ceremony!!! How can you not care about it!?"

Ah!

The Tokyo International Film Festival was still being held!!

At this time when the stock market was plummeting, the closing ceremony and awards ceremony of the 3rd Tokyo International Film Festival were about to be held!

Not to mention the current public opinion environment, even the major film companies, producers, and even the stars themselves had probably lost a large sum in the stock market crash...

At such a time, letting them come to participate in the international film festival? Was it appropriate?!

"The people on the executive committee are already in a mess!"

Shuichi Ito was panting,

"Some people want to postpone it, some people suggest not holding it at all and just giving out the awards..."

"Others support continuing, holding it grandly according to the original plan! Saying that the more it's like this, the more we need to give the public confidence..."

"Now everyone is arguing endlessly, Naoki-san, what do you think we should do!"

"Hmm..."

Naoki Nagayama, who had come back to his senses, touched his chin,

"This matter..."

"I think the closing ceremony of this Tokyo International Film Festival should be postponed..."

Naoki Nagayama recalled the progress of the stock market crash; this crash would be initially resolved by the end of the month. Naturally, it would take time for the future to recover, but that had nothing to do with Naoki Nagayama!

"This stock market crash won't affect us for too long... When the crash stops, the government and the public will need some more sunny and positive news to divert their attention... The film festival awards and the red carpet are good activities!"

"Shuichi-san, let Suo Fang-san communicate with the people in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. I think there should be a consensus on this."

Ikuo Suo Fang was the next president; naturally, he would go all out if these things were handed to him.

Shuichi Ito nodded:

"Naoki-san means, let the Ministry of Education increase investment?"

"It's to let the upper echelons increase support."

Naoki Nagayama said,

"Such a good thing to divert attention and boost public confidence, they will be very welcome!"

"And just right, let the role of the Tokyo Film Association be more prominent!"

Since its appearance, the entertainment industry had been one of the best means to whitewash peace. It used to be a loose union of major TV stations and agencies, but now the Film Association already had a trend of integrating the film circle.

"Then postpone it until when?"

"Mid-November... By then everything should have subsided!"

"Is that so... It subsided in more than half a month... Looks like this stock market crash isn't that scary!"

Hearing Naoki Nagayama's words, Shuichi Ito's tone was not so impatient,

"Then Naoki-san, will you come to the Tree Friend building during this time? If you are there, everyone will be more at ease..."

Naoki Nagayama looked down at little Xia Hua who was curiously watching him talk on the phone, and looked up to see Akina making fruit tea in the kitchen...

Sure enough, at this time, he should still be accompanying his family!

"Not during this time... My name is too prominent in the financial circle now; I need to keep a low profile at home during this time..."

Naoki Nagayama pretended to sigh,

"Otherwise, everyone else lost money, but Tree Friend Capital made money; maybe I'll be caught and retaliated against by some people when I go out!"

"... Sigh... That's true!"

Shuichi Ito sighed. People who go to extremes can do anything,

"Then it looks like I can only rely on myself and Otomo-san!"

Naoki Nagayama smiled and appeased him:

"Hahaha, originally in the Tree Friend building, you and Otomo are the pillars!"

Shuichi Ito, who was in the office of the Tree Friend building, couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth:

"... Naoki-san, if you know how to praise people, praise them more!"

Oh my, one careless move, and his communication skills as a boss had leveled up again... He had praised others until they were dizzy~ ===== CHAPTER 1287 =====