These tens of thousands of people were the foundation of the Yakuza’s standing.
However, even a gang like the Yakuza was still nothing in front of the Mitsui family.
In the eyes of Mitsui Yoshitaka, the seventh generation of the Yakuza, or Nishida Yuhiro, as he called him, was just a small punk who couldn’t stand up to the stage, and he could shout at Nishida Yuhiro as if he was scolding his own chauffeur, while Nishida Yuhiro didn’t even dare to raise his head, not to mention talking back.
Therefore, when he heard that Nishida Yuhiro had actually asked the Yakuza to assassinate Tawana, he was immediately enraged, with the fury of having been insulted by an underhanded person.
Mitsui Yoshitaka’s younger brother immediately called Nishida Yuhiro on the phone, and after the call was connected, he immediately asked, “Is this Nishida?”
“It’s me.”A middle-aged man’s voice on the other end of the phone said with a slight hint of respect, “Mr Mitsui, what made you think of calling my number?”
Mitsui Ryotaka’s younger brother said in a cold voice, “It’s not me who wants to find you, it’s my elder brother Mitsui Ryotaka who wants to find you.”
On the side, Mitsui Ryo Takashi directly reached out and snatched the phone, and opened his mouth to sternly reprimand, “Nishida Yuuhiro, are you tired of living? How dare you send someone to assassinate my Mitsui Yoshitaka’s guests, who gave you the guts?!”
Nishida Yuhiro on the other end of the phone coughed awkwardly and asked him, “Mr Mitsui, the person we are trying to kill is Tawana, an American, this person doesn’t seem to have anything to do with you, right?”
Mitsui Ryotaka cursed, “Baka! Not only is Tawana my guest, she is also a signed artiste of Universal Music, and as a shareholder of Universal Music, do you think it has anything to do with me?”
After saying that, Mitsui Ryotaka threatened in a cold voice, “Nishida Yuhiro, I don’t have time to bullsh*t with you, right now I’m only giving you two paths, one is to immediately retract your order, all members of the Yakuza are not allowed to approach or touch Tawana, the other is to be an enemy of the Mitsui family from now on! I can responsibly tell you that if you choose the latter, I will definitely eradicate the Yakuza completely!”
As soon as Nishida Yuhiro heard this, he said in a tone with a bit of embarrassment, “Mr Mitsui, you should know that this is a dark flower worth a billion dollars, I don’t think I need to tell you how much purchasing power and how much can be done with a billion dollars, right? All the gangster organisations in the whole of Japan are now trying to earn this money, if you don’t let me earn it, in case it is earned by my competitors, then I will be finished, a billion dollars is enough for the Yakuza’s competitors to catch up with the Yakuza, and at that time, the Yakuza will be eradicated by their competitors without your intervention.”
Mitsui Ryotaka said, “I can tell you, no matter who wants to earn this money, as long as they take action, then they are my Mitsui family’s enemies and will be eradicated by my Mitsui family! If you know what it means to know what’s good for you, then if you stay out of it at this time, not only will you be able to protect yourself, but you will also be able to sit back and enjoy the benefits!”
Nishida Yuhiro smiled sarcastically, “Mr Mitsui, do you think that the Mitsui family has the ability to solve all the gangster organisations in Japan? Even the current Prime Minister wouldn’t dare to say something so arrogant, right?”
“Also, do you know how many yakuza elements there are in all of Japan? Those registered with the Police Department alone number nearly thirty thousand! There are at least 100,000 unregistered official yakuza members!”
“There are also a lot of grey property elements who make a living in bars, casinos, pachinko parlours, and flamboyant venues, and although they are not absolute yakuza members, they are all dependent on the yakuza for survival, and are the yakuza’s reserves! If you count them, the scale is at least three hundred thousand!”
“If the Mitsui family makes a move against these three hundred thousand people, then all of Japan’s prisons will be overflowing! At that time, the balance of the gangs will be completely disturbed by the Mitsui family, all gang members will see the Mitsui family as their number one enemy, and those new gang members will flock to the streets to fight for turf, and the whole of Japan’s law and order will be in disarray, Mr Mitsui wouldn’t want to see that, would he?”
Mitsui Ryo Takashi naturally knows that what Nishida Yuhiro said is not false, the gangs have long become a piece of stubborn disease in Japan, nowadays the government recognises their existence, acquiesces to their mode of operation, and most of the time they don’t go against the government, the two sides are sort of a kind of monstrous balance, and once this balance is broken, the whole society will be thrown into chaos.
Therefore, even the Japanese government couldn’t solve the gangsters, and Mitsui Ryotaka certainly didn’t have the ability to do so.
He originally just wanted to threaten Nishida Yuhiro first, at least let the Yamaguchi-gumi stay away from this matter first, and then he himself would go to deter the other gang leaders, but now he finally realised the problem, these people usually give themselves face, and even dare not to disobey them in any way, but now, with the billion dollars of dark flowers laying out there, for these gangster organisations, if they don’t take it themselves, it’s possible that theirrivals could possibly take it, and once it was taken by the rivals, one would surely die.
Subsequently, Mitsui Ryotaka threatened in a cold tone, “Nishida, I don’t care what kind of excuse you have, once you put it into action, I will never spare you!”
Nishida Yuhiro did not show any weakness either, and said in a tough tone, “Mr Mitsui, this action, is a joint action of the entire Japanese yakuza, if you target the Yakuza afterwards, then the tens of thousands of Yakuza’s ministry members are not vegetarians either! We will definitely fight with everything we have against the Mitsui family, if we can kill one is one, if we can kill a pair is a pair! Isn’t it just a case of a fish dying in a net? Mr Mitsui, people like us, our lives are very cheap, to be able to exchange them for the lives of a noble class like you, it’s something we’ve earned!”
