Anger is a stick with two ends. It’s not just that doing them is bad in itself. Sometimes the outcome is not what you expect.

At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries in Japan, a impoverished samurai decided to start cooking saké. The affairs were neither shuffle nor roll. One day he beat his servant for something. He hid his anger and decided to spoil the goods. At night he slept in a barrel of ashes. It must be said that at that time only muddled sachet could be made. The owner in the morning found that the liquid in the barrel, on the bottom of which the ashes lay, became transparent and acquired a special smell. Thus was discovered the technology of production of transparent sache.

The decoration of the servant brought the beginner trader prosperity. The money from the sale of the saké was invested in trade and transportation, then in financial operations. A hundred years later, the Konoike shop was the wealthiest in Japan. Soon the central government, and virtually all the princes, were its debtors.

In the 19th century, an entrepreneurial samurai “picked out” the Conoike family a large sum for the needs of their clan. Apparently, the money has been spent a lot. The trade company of the clan, dubbed Mitsubishi ("Three Chilies"), has grown into one of the largest financial and industrial groups in history. Among the products of the companies of this group - and beer Kirin, and Nikon cameras, and Pageiro SUVs. Interestingly, indirectly by their appearance, they seem to owe a wicked servant.