When Gu Sheng got home, he first called Kusakari Kazuo of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
The main topic was the order: five thousand arcade machines in total, a third of them gambling machines-mahjong machines, Horse Racing Machines, and Fruit Slot Machines-for a total of eighty million.
The Yamaguchi-gumi would deliver them in two batches within fifteen days.
Kusakari Kazuo also thanked Gu Sheng for his help, even if all he had provided was information.
They had finally killed the assassin who had assassinated the Fourth Generation Leader, giving him something to show the organization and raising his prestige within it.
As a result, he knocked another thousand off the price of each machine for Gu Sheng, bringing it down from sixteen thousand to fifteen thousand.
That saved at least five million on five thousand machines.
"Fuck, they cost ten thousand at most to make, and he's pocketing five thousand per machine from me while crying poverty!" Gu Sheng cursed after hanging up.
Including the machines he would buy later that year, Gu Sheng estimated he could save around ten million.
Gu Sheng wondered whether he should get a foot into the bootleg arcade machine business. After all, some arcade machines were replaced with new models practically every year.
Even just replacing the equipment in Hongxing's own arcades would cost twenty to thirty million, never mind the possibility of selling arcade machines to the North in a few years.
Gu Sheng made a mental note of it, planning to find a way to kidnap a few people with the necessary expertise on his next trip to Japan.
After all, he knew absolutely nothing about this stuff.
Lee Chit, a former explosives expert, had lost his wife and child to an explosion during a kidnapping for ransom. Afterward, he had resigned to search