Chapter 982 Dilemma

Kazuki Yamamoto was roaring, and his anger was not without reason. Because for the Yamaguchi-gumi, now they really need a batch of fresh blood to expand the organization.

According to the latest internal survey of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the average age of their current members is as high as 50.8 years old. And this is not only a problem of the Yakuza, but also a problem of the entire Oriental underworld. The aging of the organization's population is almost irreversible.

Members in their fifties are now considered young and strong in the Yamaguchi-gumi.

There is no way around this. Dongyang has a very special experience, that is, in the 1970s and 1980s, Dongyang experienced a prosperous and bubble era that was extremely rare even in human history. In that era, as long as you were willing to work, you could basically make money, and you could get rich if you worked hard.

The taxis never use their meters, and ask for fares all over the sky. People stood by the side of the road waving 10,000 yuan bills to solicit taxis.

It was a prosperous era, and almost everyone was rich. And that era also nourished a very distinctive oriental gangster.

It was an era when gangsters could make a lot of money standing up. The Yamaguchi group controls almost all the businesses of claw machines, steel ball machines, and video game stores in the metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Osaka, and Kobe.

Putting aside the steel ball machines used for gambling, just arcade video game stores and claw machines can bring huge profits to Yamaguchi-gumi. These game consoles cost one hundred yen for one game.

In the late 1980s, the most popular arcade game was the famous "Street Fighter". Just putting such a machine in a video game store can earn nearly 20,000 yen a day.

What is even more frightening is the claw machine industry. Those claw machines can easily harvest 100,000 yen a day, which is just like child's play.

Ordinary employees working in a financial company in Ginza can get 4 million yen a year just for transportation subsidies, and the transportation subsidies for middle-level cadres are as high as 32 million yen a year. In Nomura Securities, there is even a matter of providing transportation subsidies of hundreds of millions of yen a year to middle and high-level cadres.

One night in 1988, in Shinjuku, a middle-level cadre of an enterprise spent one million yen to solicit a taxi and take him back to his residence in Roppongi. But now, from Shinjuku to Roppongi, it is difficult to exceed 10,000 yen by taxi meter anyway.

An ordinary fellowship that cannot be done in an ordinary small company, the sideshow is a lottery with numbers. A small real estate agency with only 20 employees can offer 2 million yen as the first prize of this sideshow.

Shinjuku's Kabukicho is full of office workers squandering piles of cash. Spending millions of yen a night is almost as common as going to the roadside to buy a bottle of Coke.

High-end restaurants are always overcrowded, and young men and women shopping in luxury jewelry stores are full of smiles.

It was a country and era where no one would believe it, or even find it absurd, like an Arabian Nights.

In that era, gangs such as the Yamaguchi group began to expand rapidly.

They control those underground industries, whether it is sex dance, or the folk industry in Shinjuku, or various video games, bars, KTV, etc.

The Orientals of that era were rich, so the Yamaguchi group was able to make money quickly through these industries. The number of members of the Yamaguchi group has also rapidly expanded to 23,000 at its peak.

You must know that the gang members at that time were almost out of production. They did not engage in production work, but only managed various stores within the so-called territory and collected protection fees. The main job left is to fight with rival gangsters.

Being able to support 23,000 gang members who are completely off-duty and have no production value, one can imagine how strong the Yamaguchi-gumi's financial resources were at the time.

It was an era of prosperity that made people dumbfounded. The Yamaguchi group also devoted themselves to the real estate industry in Toyo at that time, because it was an industry that everyone thought would only grow and not fall.

But the bubble always bursts, and the brighter the bubble, the more painful it is when it bursts.

In the early 1990s, Toyo had already shown signs of a bubble burst, but it was still struggling to maintain its basic market. But in the mid-1990s, this basic market could no longer be maintained. To make matters worse, the 1997 financial crisis swept across Dongyang.

Dongyang Real Estate has experienced a cliff-like plunge, and housing prices in Tokyo have nearly halved. The stock market even plummeted by 40,000 points.

A large number of enterprises closed down, and a large number of employees lost their jobs.

In this case, Toyo's entertainment industry has also suffered heavy losses.

The originally overcrowded video game store has lost business, and there are not so many high-end customers in Kabukicho.

The number of Yamaguchi-gumi members has shrunk from a peak of 23,000. Just like the layoffs of large companies, the underworld will also be laid off.

Over the past 20 years, the Yamaguchi-gumi has laid off more than 10,000 employees. A large number of branch branches were cut.

Many old gang members who have served the club for more than ten or even twenty years have been laid off.

In this regard, Kazuki Yamamoto even issued a sincere request for understanding to his subordinates.

[In today’s era when everyone has to wait for the discounted bento after 8:30 in the supermarket to eat bento, in this era when a bento only sells for 200 yen, in this era when saving money is the most important thing to do without marriage and infertility.

In today's era when you go to Kabukicho, you have to use coupons to buy group prices. In today's era where everyone would rather hide at home and play NS than go out and socialize with real people.

Sorry, everyone. Organizations are having a hard time. All our citizens are saving money, and our industry is declining step by step. Thank you for your hard work for the company over the years, and the company will never forget it.

There is no never-ending feast. Wang Jun is heading for a new future. 】

A letter like this will fire those old employees. Who said that the underworld will not lose their jobs?

Of course, there will also be dissatisfied old employees who are unwilling. These old triads united, found a lawyer, and then sued the Kobe Headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi to court. The lawsuit is asking the Yamaguchi-gumi to compensate them for liquidated damages for being fired without reason after working for so many years.

This incident made a big fuss, and in the end Kazuki Yamamoto had to come forward to quell the anger of these old gang members, and each of them paid a symbolic compensation of more than one million yen, which was regarded as settling expenses. This can be regarded as stabilizing the momentum.

But laying off the old gang is only a temporary solution. If the Yamaguchi-gumi wants to continue to develop, it needs fresh blood to join.

In modern society, just relying on fighting and killing is not enough. The organizational industry needs to be upgraded.

However, Kazuki Yamamoto also knew that it was difficult to recruit newcomers, so he suppressed his anger and instead asked, "How about Sato, who was sent to Nagoya to perform a mission last time?"

Sato, nicknamed Ghost Crying Sato, is one of the ace killers of the Yamaguchi group in Nagoya. Although he is not a power awakener, the most important thing for a job like an assassin is to be quick, accurate and ruthless, and he is already good at hiding himself. As long as these conditions can be met, it doesn't matter whether you kill with a gun or with a supernatural ability.

When the chief of staff heard Mimoto Kazuki's question, his cold sweat flowed down even more: "That...that..."

"Bastard! Why are you stammering!"

"Well, Sato's shooting mission was not completed well."

"How is it possible! Are you an idiot?! Sato is the best killer we have in Nagoya. He just killed a real estate owner, how could he miss?!"

"Boss... Sato is sixty-two years old..." The chief of staff carefully reminded Kazuki Mimoto: "And the real estate boss is surrounded by a bodyguard of a person who has awakened the ability. Sato was shot by a horseman during the shooting." The old man riding a motorcycle hit him, causing the muzzle to deflect and miss the target. Sato has been arrested by the police now..."

"Damn! Damn! That's the crying Sato! If he was thirty years younger, how could he be caught!" Kazuki Yamamoto hammered the ground angrily.

"Is it so difficult for us to recruit new people?!"

The chief of staff looked up at the boss, and he whispered in disbelief: "It's very difficult. Originally, the association stipulated that you have to shave your head and have tattoos when you enter the association. But now young people are generally afraid of pain, so we have abolished the rigid rule of tattooing." .And a lot of boys don't want to cut off their long hair that they've had for years, so we don't have to shave their heads now."

"The company even distributes suits to new recruits. But most of them come up and say that they will never participate in any gang fights, and they are absolutely unwilling to engage in any illegal and criminal activities. And the company is required to include these in the terms of the contract. They even asked for the N+1 compensation for resignation to be included. And they also asked the company not to interfere with their love for the two-dimensional cute things, and asked the company to allow them to paste the two-dimensional wife on the car, computer, and clothing. .”

"The last time people from our Tokyo branch went to negotiate with the Hexagonal Team. Because they couldn't find a car temporarily, they asked a new member to use his car to pull people. As a result, his car was covered with "Yiqidangqian" "The exposure of Guan Yu."

When Kazuki Yamamoto heard this, his head grew dizzy: "Do these people still have the bloodiness of a Yamato man?! Does this still have a little bit of the shadow of the Goku!"

"Leader, don't be angry. People from the Hexagonal Team arrived at the scene in a car with Asuka decals. We didn't lose in momentum." The chief of staff flattered.

"Get lost!" Kazuki Yamamoto's blood pressure went up.

The chief of staff was kicked far away by him, but the chief of staff has not yet rolled away.

"Didn't I tell you to go away?!"

"Well, the leader has one more thing."

"explain!"

"The godfather of gangsters from South America, the man named Jang Keun Suk has arrived in Kobe, and he is asking for an interview. When do you think you can arrange it?"

"How many troops did he bring?"

"Dozens."

"They're all young people?"

"Well, they all look like a strong man in his thirties."

Kazuki Yamamoto jumped face-to-face: "Damn it! It's really too hateful!"