Chapter 8 Chapter 6 Adam Hotel No. 135

Kenzo Nabeya, Masaaki Kawamura's personal secretary, in the office of "writer" Doi at 135 Akasaka Adam Hotel.In this set of rooms, one is the living room and the other is the bedroom, with a door in the middle.The bed in the dormitory was removed, and Doi's writing desk was placed, and a smaller desk was placed side by side with it.A short-haired woman in her thirties was writing there.Because the door in the middle was open, Nabeya Kenzo, who was sitting in the living room, could see her silhouette.This woman is Masako Saeki, the stenographer Doi introduced to Kizawa and Arikawa in front of the hall.Nabeya looked down at the manuscript that Doi had handed him. There were twenty sheets of ten-line manuscript paper.The words on the manuscript are in Saeki Masako's handwriting, and there are traces of Doi's revisions on it.Nabeya sat on a chair with his chubby body, smoking a cigarette cautiously, flipping through the manuscript with his thick fingers.On the swollen ring finger was a silver ring inlaid with gemstones, and his body was as strong as a football player.Nabeya looked at the manuscript and occasionally nodded.He put the manuscript that he had read carefully on the table, with a satisfied expression on his oily face.

"Very good!" Nabeya said to Doi with a smile. "If there is something inappropriate, I can modify it..." Doi's attitude was very businessman-like. "No, no, there is nothing to say." Nabeya has prepared a large envelope for manuscripts."Kawamura Masaki Office" was printed on it in large type. "As expected, it was written by a person with theoretical cultivation. Most people can't write such a good article." Nabeya's words "as expected of a theoretical accomplishment" include Doi's experience of participating in "All Gongdou" when he was studying at the University of Tokyo.

"I'm ashamed, is it okay to write like this?" "The writing is very good, and the questions I thought of were accurately expressed in the article. It is very ideal!" He took out Doi's original manuscript and turned over a few pages, and selected a paragraph of it to read aloud. "It's easy to read!" His face was full of joy. "Is it too much reasoning for a speech at a banquet?" After listening to Nabeya's reading, Doi was a little uneasy. "No, no, in order to attract Kawamura's female supporters, a little reasoning is needed."

"Female supporters?" "There are many women among Kawamura's supporters. Mr. Doi, you haven't seen our Kawamura, have you?" "There is no such opportunity." "Where are the photos?" "I haven't seen it either." "He is quite a handsome man! Kawamura himself said that his shortcoming is that he is too attractive to women." Nabeya stopped Doi, who couldn't help but laugh, with gestures. "It's definitely not a joke, I mean it seriously! Really, Kawamura is handsome, you can say he is a handsome man."

"Ah, yes." "It's just that he's young, just thirty-nine years old. Kawamura himself is aware of this. He can speak enthusiastically to the female audience while speaking. He can do it." Two weeks later, at the "Phoenix Hall" of O Hotel in Tokyo, the "Kawamura Masaaki Support Meeting" was going to be held, and Kawamura was going to give a speech at the meeting.Nabeya Secretary asked Doi Nobuyuki to write his speech.Masaaki Kawamura is a member of what is known as the "renovation club" of new forces. "However, it's a pity that our Masaaki Kawamura is a 'out-of-the-brain' person."

"What is 'out of mind'?" Doi asked. "Haha! People in Tokyo don't say that much. 'Brainless' is what people from Kyushu say, and it means no brains." Nabeya pointed to his forehead. "Ha! Ha!" Doi laughed. "Kawamura is an ignorant person!" The secretary scolded his boss.Doi began to listen with a puzzled expression, and then said to Nabeya: "I read a newspaper about a senior bureaucrat's impressions after becoming a member of Congress. He said that being a member of Congress is much more comfortable than being an official."

"Senior bureaucrats are amazing. Most of these people graduated from the Law Department of the University of Tokyo and received higher education. They also worked hard after entering politics. They came from a highly competitive political field, so the structure of their minds is different from ordinary people. Not only the members of the ruling party, but also the members of the opposition party cannot do without the help of bureaucrats. Officials do not provide information, and members of parliament cannot even consult.” "Yes! Everyone says so." "But our Representative Kawamura has a different head. Anyway, he is a graduate of a famous private university in Tokyo. Of course, he got in through the back door. His father, Kohei, asked the principal to squeeze his son in."

"..." "No matter what, I have to take care of him. Because our family has always been favored by Mr. Kohei. I did this to repay Mr. Kohei." "Ah, so it is like this." "The gesture of Zhengming waving his arms during the speech is full of energy, young and promising. This is also directed by me." "Oh! Mr. Kawamura is lucky to have such a famous director and a famous director like Mr. Nabeya!" "I'm ashamed to be praised like this. I'm not a high-ranking member, but I'm afraid that something will happen to him. Because he's a 'no-brainer' person... To be honest, I am an old politician."

"He's a famous congressman." Doi said he knew him. "He has been a minister three times. After his physical strength declined in his later years, he specialized in party affairs. He is a powerful figure who can resolve conflicts among various factions in the party." "I heard he is very political." "You know him well too?" "I just heard it." "At that time, our county M was the Kingdom of Kawamura. After Kohei's death, his son Masaaki was elected with the highest number of votes. After two years as a councilor, he got the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and was elected four times in a row. It's all thanks to his father. .However, it fell to second place in the third election, and it was the worst in the fourth election, and was barely elected as the last one."

"Oh!" "In order to show that he does not rely on his father's shadow, Zhengming often behaves against his father's ways in dealing with others. Lao Tzu has an invisible force in the party, and his personality is steady and down-to-earth. Zhengming's style is tiring and pompous; The conference inspires the audience, Zhengming can speak eloquently, eloquently, and the speech has a provocative force; Lao Tzu speaks bluntly to people, never flattering, and my son can be courteous everywhere with a smile on his face like an actor." "I can understand." Doi expressed sympathy on the surface, but said to Nabeya with a sarcastic smile:

"This is all guided by Mr. Nabeya." Nabeya paused for a moment and said: "As the saying goes, a handsome man is often like an embroidered pillow with a full stomach and empty hands. Although Zhengming has better mobility than Lao Tzu, it is difficult to do things with empty hands!" "Oh!? How could he be short of money?" "His father, Xiaoping, spent all his property on political activities like a bet, so Zhengming didn't inherit any property from Lao Tzu. This is his difficulty." "Isn't Mr. Nabeya helping him get money?" "Hey! I'm not very good at making money!" Nabe House sighed. Although Masamune was elected for four consecutive terms as a member of parliament and also served as a foreign affairs minister, he was not the same as the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Transport, and the Ministry of Finance and Economics, and he could not get money. "That's why the 'Kawamura Masaaki Representative Support Meeting' is often held to let Kawamura give speeches in order to obtain funding and support. But Kawamura, who can speak well, can't speak brilliantly by himself, so please write a speech." "What I'm worried about is whether I can meet your requirements. If Mr. Kawamura is not satisfied with something, I will definitely modify it according to your intention. Please advise without hesitation." It is a businessman who represents the writer. "No, it's already very good. Kawamura is a bit embarrassed to say it. But how can you catch the hearts of women if you don't write like this! How can you bring out Kawamura's greatness! Women respect words they don't understand It's incredible that something you don't understand feels more sacred!" "It's not just women. Intellectuals are often in awe of articles they don't understand." "Mr. Doi, are you from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo?" "Yes, he was expelled and dropped out of school. To be precise, he was a victim of 'All Gongdou'." Doi smiled.You could tell he was laughing at his past. "I heard that you were originally the theorist of 'University of Tokyo's All-Together Fighting', is that so?" "Learned something with my friends..." "That's why I can write such a good theoretical article!" "All Gongdou" is a struggle organization of college students in 1968 and 1969, and the backbone institutions are Tokyo University and Nihon University.In June 1968, the students of the "University of Tokyo All-Together Fight" occupied the Yasuda Lecture Hall of the University of Tokyo, and organized it in September of the same year.Later, it was suppressed by the government, and the student struggle ended in failure, and the "All Gongdou" was also disbanded. Only radical groups such as the "Revolutionary Marxist Faction", the "China Nuclear Faction" and the "Liberation Faction" survived. "Mr. Doi, have you ever been arrested in sports?" Nabeya was interested. "Arrested three times." "Ever been in jail?" "After I was arrested, I didn't confess anything. If I confessed, I would definitely be sentenced to more than one year in prison." "How tenacious you are! How many years were those who confessed?" "The maximum is two years, and the minimum is one year or six months, but the execution is suspended." "What are those people doing now?" "Having such an experience, it will be difficult to get a job! If you want to hide your history and sneak into the government or company, but as long as someone investigates, it will be revealed." "Ah! The young people who were about twenty years old at that time are now thirty-three or four-year-olds. If there were no such things, those who graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo would have been excellent department heads or heads of departments in government offices and enterprises. Minister!" Nabeya feels sorry for them, and Doi in front of him is one of them.Because he was arrested and unable to get a job, he had to work as a reporter for the "Yuan Nei Bao". Although he does not do this job now, he is only a senior "ghost writer". "Now there is no 'All Gongdou' organization. The partners at that time really felt empty in their hearts, and the only way to stay was to go back to their hometown to engage in local civic or cultural movements. Among my partners were That kind of people." It should be said that Doi Nobuyuki himself felt the most emptiness.Because he is now working as a "ghostwriter" for "powerful Conservative MPs" to make ends meet.Nabeo was unaware of Doi's emotions.People who used to participate in "All Gongdou" are now engaged in local cultural movements and popular movements, which aroused Nabeya's interest. "What are the beliefs that drive these movements?" "No particular political beliefs, just a general progressive popular movement. They want to renovate municipalities and decontaminate local politics." "Did it work?" "This is nothing more than a mass movement of citizens. It is not easy to say that it is purifying the local political circles. Also, some members of Congress have taken a fancy to the power of this regional organization and instructed members of the city, town, and village councils to control these organizations in their own election sites. Therefore Well, the vote campaigns of MPs should not be underestimated. These words are a little bit in front of Mr. Nabeya..." "These things are done by the local secretaries. Those guys specialize in these things!" "I read in the newspaper that after the failure of the 'All-Communist Fighting' movement in 1969, a young man felt empty in his mind and returned to his hometown and was called to run an election campaign. Later he became a capable campaign staff." "It might be beneficial to find someone like that in the House of Representatives. Would you like to persuade Kawamura to invite one? No, a 'brainless' person like Kawamura will be hijacked by that kind of capable secretary." Nabeya shook his head. "This has nothing to do with 'all together'. I have a college alumnus who became the special secretary of the MP." "who is it?" "Sushi's secretary, Mr. Gaipu." "Mr. Waipu Zhuo Lang! Is that so?" "Mr. Uaipu is a senior student ten years earlier than me. He graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo. As I said just now, I dropped out in the third year. He Hisahiro, the president of Dongfang Development Co., Ltd., the chief minister, took a fancy to him and became his secretary. Later, he was transferred to Mr. Teranishi." "It is said that Mr. Waipu was invited by Sixi. His name is Special Secretary, and he actually acts as a channel with the financial world. Do you know Mr. Waipu?" "When I was a student, the elder brother of a friend of mine was Mr. Waipu's classmate at the same time. When Mr. Waipu was in the newspaper office, my friend took me to Mr. Waipu's place two or three times. At that time, I heard about Waipu in a cafe near the newspaper office. I haven't seen him since then. He won't remember me either." "At that time, what did he say?" Nabeya was very interested in him.Because Takuro Uura is the secretary of Masayoshi Teranishi, the candidate for the next president. "It's more casual. I remember Mr. Waipu said that he was learning shorthand. At that time, he saw that there was a stenographer in the Liaison Department of the newspaper, who accepted manuscripts sent by telephone from the local branch, and wanted to learn it. Now, the local The manuscripts of the newspaper office were all faxed, but at that time the liaison department of the newspaper office relied entirely on stenographers." "right." "Even the smart Mr. Waipu said that shorthand is not easy to learn. I heard that you have to study shorthand for three years in a professional shorthand school, and then you can use it freely after two years of practice!" "The training period for stenographers in Congress is also three years?" "This is the time to finish learning the basic skills. After a while, many people can't continue learning. Only four or five people out of 50 people have learned it, and the rest have dropped out halfway. It can be seen that shorthand needs a lot of endurance to learn well. Mr. Waipu said with a smile at the time that it would take such a long time to study professionally, so God knows when he will be able to learn by himself in the spare time of the newspaper office.” "At that time, Mr. Waipu was already a man of action." "Yes, he is a great man of action. I guess Mr. Uaipu must have learned shorthand skills. I think he will give full play to this skill now. Use shorthand to record Mr. Teranishi's instructions and the content of the phone call, how fast!" "Well, and those crooked marks like earthworms crawling, others can't understand, Mr. Waipu is still different from those stupid secretaries!" Nabeya looked at Doi. "Mr. Doi, do you also use shorthand technique?" It means that Doi uses shorthand technique for "substitute writing". Originally, the secretary should ghostwrite and write for Mr. Members, but the secretary often lacks the ability to write articles and is not competent.Therefore, I had to entrust it to a professional ghostwriter like Nobuyuki Doi.Because this is a profession, Doi has to write according to the needs of each client.Although they are members of the same Conservative Party, they have to write different propositions and styles according to each person's different personality.In this regard, Doi has demonstrated superhuman talent. As there were so many ghostwriters for Doi, it was too late to write one by one, so he hired Masako Saeki, a staff member of a shorthand service agency, and asked her to take his dictation and then rewrite it into a manuscript. "Excuse me, please accept this." Nabeya took out a thick envelope from his inner pocket and put it on the table. "thanks!" Doi went to the house inside to write the receipt.At this time, Nabeya took out two postcard-sized stickers from another pocket.It was printed in large type: "Solidarity Meeting of Member of the House of Representatives Masaaki Kawamura" and "20,000 Yuan Membership Fee for the Phoenix Hall of Hotel O Hotel".The initiator column states the names of more than a dozen members of the House of Representatives, Itakura Retirement and Shangshanzhuang Pingping, as well as the names of the party secretary and the current minister. Doi came out from the back room and said, "Thank you!".The receipt Doi took out said "300,000 yuan".Nabeya put it in your pocket. "This is an invitation card for the Kawamura meeting. If you have time, please come. Your 20,000 yuan membership fee will not be charged." He said and handed over the invitation card in his hand. "Thank you. It's Hotel O! It's very close to here. I'll definitely go and listen to Mr. Kawamura's speech." "I won't disturb you anymore!" Nabeya stood up. "excuse me!" Doi sent him outside the door.

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