<h4>Chapter 171: <Richest of them all></h4>
Choi Gichul gritted his teeth and answered, “Yes, sir.”
Woosung ordered him around rudely, “This isn’t Daeyang. Remember that.”
Choi Gichul sighed deeply. His assistant from Daeyang texted quickly to Choi Taemin.
“Rtionship worsening. No signs of changes.”
The finalpromise from Choi Taemin was to have one assistant from Daeyang follow Choi Gichul around. The rest, including Choi Gichul’s cell phone and bodyguards, were all provided by KND.
Choi Gichul had no choice but to follow Woosung’s orders. If he didn’t, Choi Taemin would be angry.
“Yes, sir.”
Choi Gichul left quickly. Woosung grinned.
Jang Gwangchul, who was also in the room, asked, “Are you a sadist? Why are you so mean to him?”
“Haha, I have a good reason. By the way, is the Korean Business Agency going well?”
“Yeah. Many IT businesses have asked to get involved. Some mid-sizedpanies too. Ahyun Auto wants to think about it. Other bigger financial andmunicationspanies don’t seem interested though.”
“I expected that.”
“So why are you making this? We don’t need it.”
“To be more powerful and influential. I will need fairer businessws as I buy morepanies. Having this agency at my disposal will make it easier for us in the future.”
“Well, I trust your judgment.”
“This will benefit all the otherpanies too. I want the business world to be more transparent.”
“I see.”
“And now, it’s time for us to start shopping for businesses in Japan.”
“W, what?”
“We should invest in Japan with the money I made from the Japanese disaster.”
“What are you nning?”
“Dobashita, which has the patent for Nand sh memory. If we have thispany on top of ANIX, we will be number one in the semiconductor sector.”
“Hmm…”
“As you know, Dobashita invested heavily in nuclear development. After this recent disaster, its stock price has declined sharply. This is our chance.”
“They produce Dram, right?”
“That’s right. If we have ANIX and Dobashita, we will rule the IT industry.”
“I guess. I can’t stop you anyway.”
“So we should visit Japan.”
***
Choi Gichul returned home with a bunch of reports.
“Bastard! Does he think he owns me?” He threw the papers on the ground.
The assistant, who was following him close behind, hurriedly picked them up. “I will take care of the reports.”
“Dammit! He said he would quiz me on them.”
“Oh, then you can watch me do them.”
Choi Gichul red.
“What?”
“I apologize.”
“You think apologizing is enough?”
Bam!
The assistant closed his eyes. He knew what wasing.
Every punch was worth 5000 dors.
Punch!
Wham!
It was painful, but the assistant’s contract guaranteed payments for physical abuse, so it was endurable.
Finally, after a few more punches, Choi Gichul stopped hitting him.
“Get everything done and prepare a summary of everything for me.”
“Yes, sir.”
The assistant left quickly.
Choi Gichul went into his room and took out a cell phone.
It was a secret prepaid phone he hid from everyone.
He called Jung Jinsup. Jung Jinsup didn’t answer the first time, but the second time worked.
“Oh, w… what’s up?”
Jung Jinsup sounded nervous. Choi Gichul grinned.
“Hey, why do you sound so anxious?”
“I… I’m just really busy. What’s going on?”
“How’s working at Bitmain? What do you do there?”
“This is a cryptocurrency dealership. We maintain Coconut Mall too… Yes. Yes, sir.”
Jung Jinsup suddenly hung up.
Choi Gichul called out Jung Jinsup’s name a few times, but there was no answer.
“W… what the!”
After a few minutes, a text message arrived from Jung Jinsup.
“As you know, mypany is gone and I need the money. Thanks to Woosung, I got this job.”
Choi Gichul quickly replied.
“Why did you agree to it? If you asked me, I would have gotten you a position at Daeyang.”
“I need to learn how Kang Woosung became sessful. I need to know his data analysis technique.”
“Technique?”
“Y.”
That was the end of the conversation. Choi Gichul stared at the phone in frustration.
***
When Woosung arrived in Japan, he visited the KND branch and met with the manager Park Jinmyung.
“Did you find out what I asked?”
“Yes. As you predicted, they are trying to hide the fact that they have a huge loss by split ounting”
“I knew it.”
In Woosung’s previous life, Dobashita suffered from big losses. They came close to filing bankruptcy. In the end, they ended up selling the memory department to make up the loss.
“Can we steal their information? I want to use them if possible so we can take over thispany quickly.”
“You n to reveal their split ounting to further deteriorate their stock price? That will make it easier for us.”
“We have been buying their stocks for a while now in preparation. If we can make the stock price fall further, wouldn’t it make it easier for us to take over thepany?”
“True… In Japan, you are seen favorably.”
“But even then, the Japanese public will still protest against losing theirpany to a foreigner. We need to make sure to weaken thispany before we buy it.”
Park Jinmyung finally understood what Woosung was asking him to do.
“Do you want me to trail the high-ranking officials from Dobashita?”
“I expect that there are a lot of corruptions in thispany. If we can get the proofs and release them to the media…”
“Hmm… It won’t be easy.”
“I don’t care how much it costs. I will fund it with my personal money. Don’t use thepany fund.”
Park Jinmyung nodded. “Yes, sir.”
“Did you know that Dobashita is making money from the clean up of the recent nuclear explosion?”
Park Jinmyung’s eyes widened. “Pardon?”
“The Japanese nuclear damagepensationw states those that maintained and operated the nuclear nt getspensated, not the one that developed the nt. This is why Tokyo Electric Power Company may go bankrupt, but Dobashita is making money from it. Does that make sense to you?”
Park Jinmyung shook his head.
“Use this info too.”
***
Nomura Finance’s Sato Ichiro couldn’t understand.
“Someone made a lot of money on Nikkei future by mass short positioning right before the nuclear disaster.”
It didn’t make sense. He looked at many indexes including the US interest rate, crude oil future, and different countries exchange rates. None of them suggested that the Japanese economy would decline.
“Then did someone predicted the earthquake? How about the Fukushima nuclear nt explosion?”
There were so many strange things about this.
There was no way someone could have predicted nuclear nt involvement. Did this mean someone was involved in this disaster? Did someone purposely make it happen?
It was unthinkable. Ichiro swallowed nervously. He quickly became furious.
“Who would attack Japan like this?”
Someone was out to get his country.