Detective Conan: Becoming a Zaibatsu - Starting with Joining the Winery

Ten minutes later.

Lin Mo entered the underground space on his own, found his own office, turned on his computer, and logged onto the organization's intranet.

Yes!

Although there are quite a few computers throughout the manor, including in his public office, they are all just ordinary computers.

Only the dedicated computers in the basement office are authorized to log in to the organization's core intranet.

Director Ochiai stood respectfully to the side, ready to obey Lin Mo's orders and commands at any time.

Lin Mo had told him not to be too formal and to just sit on the sofa, but the butler still refused. In his words, since he had decided to be a butler, he had to fulfill his duties as a butler.

Unable to argue with the butler, Lin Mo let him do as he pleased.

At this moment, he opened the organization's intranet and immediately began to study the Takasugi Foundation in detail.

At the very least.

He needs to first get a comprehensive understanding of how many businesses the Takasugi family owns and how much influence they have.

Then.

He began reviewing information on the organization's intranet, printing out key documents, and even taking notes and highlighting important points himself...

Lin Mo even began to feel that he hadn't been this diligent in school in his previous life!

An hour later.

Lin Mo rubbed his shoulders as he compiled the notes and key information, gaining a general understanding of the Takasugi family.

The Takasugi family's businesses are about three times the size of the Seba family's.

The most profitable company is a fishing company, which simply sells seafood. But when combined with its two shipping companies, especially the shipping routes controlled by these two companies, it instantly becomes a behemoth.

This company's seafood products can supply most countries in the Americas, Australia, and Europe. Especially considering that these seafoods do not need to be farmed and can be caught directly from the ocean, this alone makes it an extremely profitable industry.

Moreover, the shipping routes controlled by the two shipping companies owned by the Takasugi family are the most valuable part of their business.

If you want to get involved in maritime trade, you basically have to pay for it all to the Takasugi family!

In a sense, this is what it means to make money while lying down.

It is precisely because of this core industry that the Takasugi family has acquired a massive amount of products and developed countless industries in other sectors, although those industries can only be considered as part of the family's assets.

In short...

This is the core asset of the Takasugi family!

The Takasugi family was qualified to intervene in the fishing industry and shipping routes because they controlled several key positions.

Under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Vice Minister of the Fisheries Agency, Yuji Takasugi, is the current head of the Takasugi family.

Secondly...

The positions of Minister of Fisheries Administration, Counselor of Resource Management Department, and Head of Planning Section of Fishing Port and Fishing Grounds Development Department are almost entirely controlled by the Takasugi family.

Among the older generation.

The marriage alliance between the Takasugi and Murata families secured them access to ocean shipping routes.

The Murata family and the Takasugi family are about the same size, but the head of their family, Kentaro Murata, is the vice minister of the Maritime Bureau under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

Therefore, it was only after the two families married that the Takasugi family began to get involved in ocean shipping routes.

Of course.

The Takasugi family had many brothers and sisters in the previous generation, so they also had marriage alliances with people from other public service departments. However, since these people were not from the main branch of the Takasugi family, the highest level of marriage alliance was only section chief, and most of them were ordinary public service personnel.

But this time...

The Takasugi family has made a new move; they've set their sights on the Metropolitan Police Department's authority!

After all, within an island nation, Tokyo is the most central city.

If they gain a certain level of influence within the Metropolitan Police Department, then the Takasugi family will have a sense of security.

therefore……

The current adopted son of the Takasugi family—Takasugi Toshihiko!

The person chosen for this marriage alliance is Sayuri Matsumoto.

Her father, Kiyonaga Matsumoto, is currently the superintendent of the First Investigation Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Department.

but.

However, the Takasugi family learned through secret channels that Matsumoto Kiyonaga had joined the Odagiri faction and had been internally designated as the next head of the First Investigation Division.

It's extremely difficult to be promoted from Inspector to Superintendent, let alone to a powerful position like the Criminal Investigation Department!

Oh, by the way.

Takasugi Toshihiko!

The character who appeared in the original work is not actually as accurately described in the work.

He is indeed the heir of the Takasugi family, but only one of them.

The group currently in power in the Takasugi family experienced a major crisis twenty years ago because of their involvement in airline routes.

At the time, several financial groups whose family businesses were affected joined forces, which ultimately led to the extinction of the main branch of the Takasugi family, even though the family survived the crisis.

Over the years, the current clan head, Takasugi Yuji, has raised a total of thirteen adopted sons.

Every adopted son is one of the heirs!

in fact……

This also explains why Matsumoto Kiyonaga in the original work always wanted his daughter to marry an ordinary person, even if it was just a handsome young man from the Metropolitan Police Department.

The fundamental reason why he disagreed with letting his daughter marry Takasugi Toshihiko.

Because he had long seen through the Takasugi family's modus operandi. Despite Takasugi Toshihiko being one of the heirs, under this kind of ruthless training, his daughter would inevitably be drawn into the Takasugi family's internal strife...

He, Matsumoto Kiyonaga, had no family support; he climbed to his current position step by step on his own, not to mention that he had now passed the exam to become Toshiro Odagiri's son, and he himself did not have a son...

and so.

Even if their daughter doesn't marry Toshihiko Takasugi, Sayuri Matsumoto could still have a smooth life if she married an ordinary man!

"As expected of a conglomerate, they're really impressive!"

"Our family has considerable influence within the Fisheries Agency, and we've formed a marriage alliance with the Murata family of the Maritime Bureau..."

"The Takasugi family has made a fortune in fishing and shipping, and now they want to get their hands on the Metropolitan Police Department, the violent agency in Tokyo."

"What a brilliant plan!"

Lin Mo sat in his office chair, his mind racing with thoughts.

He first drank the coffee on the table, which had already gone cold, and then lit a cigarette on his own.

The Takasugi family is now like an iron turtle.

The entire family is thriving, lacking neither wealth nor power...

Although there was a struggle for succession within the family, it was contained to a small extent by Yuji Takasugi and had no impact on the family's business structure.

I wanted to complete this task, but it seems quite difficult now!

So...

What should I do next?

He began to take stock of the cards he held. First, he could command five codenamed members, and he also had the authority to mobilize all the peripheral cannon fodder. In addition, there was the power he had accumulated over this period of time...

slowly.

A vague outline began to form in his mind!

"Fine..."

"Overthinking is pointless; even the most perfect plan is useless!"

As our ancestors said, the more complex the plan, the greater the probability of problems arising.

"A vague outline will suffice!"

"The simpler and more straightforward the plan, the better, and the fewer steps the better, so that the probability of problems arising during execution will be reduced."

"Each of the codenamed members has their own problems."

"Chianti is a lunatic, Cohen is so quiet you can't get a word out of him, Vodka can only execute specific plans, and Bourbon and Kiel are damn spies."

"Let's meet with everyone first and then proceed according to the general plan."

"As for the specifics, let's just go with the flow!"

"..."