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In fact, Wang Taika’s idea was not bad.

After he signed the documents, Samsung already knew the news.

Many people are actually paying attention to this part of the industry. Even Lee Jae-yong, who has been promoted to the new chairman, has not forgotten it.

However, as the new chairman, he still had to deal with bribery and was now embroiled in a lawsuit. So he specifically asked his cronies to take full charge of Samsung Electronics and the businesses left behind by Lee Jae-yeol.

In the detention room, Lee Jae-yong said to the man in a suit in front of him, "Wencheng, I leave this matter to you. I knew he would sign it when he saw it, but I don't have the heart to care about that clown now."

Shin Moon-sung nodded respectfully: "Don't worry, I will make him hand over those properties obediently. Not only those of Lee Jae-yeol, but also those of his own, which were also given to him by Samsung. Now it's time to collect the debt."

"This man is shameless and extreme. You have to boil the frog in warm water and don't force him. Skin him little by little. If he doesn't hand over his property, strangle him little by little," Lee Jae-yong warned.

"I will." Although Shen Wencheng said this, he actually didn't care too much.

Shin Moon-bong himself was born in a wealthy family, studied in the United States, graduated from a prestigious university, and was a schoolmate of Lee Jae-yong. At a young age, he already held a high position in Samsung and was a close confidant of the new chairman. It is not an exaggeration to say that he was a child of destiny, so he looked down on people like Wang Taika.

He is just a gangster from a neighboring country. In his opinion, these shameless foreigners who come to steal resources should be expelled from Korea as soon as possible.

Yes, this guy is also an extreme national expansionist. He has been to the Celestial Empire, traveled around, and visited Shanghai. His biggest feeling is: How could our ancestors have lost such a good place?

Who would have thought that this guy was also a map-dreamer, fantasizing about the former territory of Goguryeo and staring at the map every day when he was in school.

This seems a bit counterintuitive. How could a top student who graduated from a prestigious American university be so stupid that he can't even tell the truth of history?

But in fact, it is not that he cannot tell the difference, but that many people simply do not want to tell the difference. The mentality of a small country, especially the mentality of a vassal state from ancient times to the present, is something that the people of the Celestial Empire cannot understand. The humiliation of facing the fact that their ancestors were slaves is unacceptable to ordinary people, let alone the rich Koreans who think they are the chosen ones of heaven?
If you can relate, it's probably because when Chinese people study history, they skip over the century of humiliation and various treaties. It's not because they don't know, but because they know too much about it, so they don't want to read or learn.

A century of humiliation was like this. How could we accept that the vassal state, which was a vassal state for a thousand years, has no historical highlights at all?
So sometimes, the higher the intelligence, the more contrary to common sense.

In other words, Shen Wencheng's feelings towards Wang Taika were inevitably more complicated. Because he was not unfamiliar with Wang Taika, on the contrary, he really understood him. But the more he understood him, the more unbalanced he felt.

Because of his hard work in the first half of his life, he finally got to where he is today, but in fact, if Lee Jae-yong was not currently dealing with a case and took the initiative to delegate power, he would simply be a secretary.

What about Wang Taika? Wow, he is now a small chaebol. He was barely ranked in the top 100, but after acquiring Keystone Industries, he was able to directly enter the top 70 in the chaebol rankings, and even touch the top 50.

The top 50 chaebols are considered the upper middle class and have the right to talk to the president frequently. The top 30 chaebols are basically the leaders of an industry. If they are in the top 10, they are the foundation of South Korea. In the Qing Dynasty, they are considered the iron-hat kings.

Originally, Shen Wencheng thought that Wang Taika would be smarter and give up signing and make peace with Samsung. But the latest news is that Wang Taika has already signed and immediately started the takeover process, which made him very embarrassed.

After meeting the new chairman, Shen Wencheng rushed back to the Samsung headquarters. The first thing he did was to ask someone to calculate what Wang Taika's current net worth ranked.

Although Wang Taika is just an ordinary rich man on the surface, it is because he uses various shell companies to disperse his power and holds multiple shares. So on the surface, Wang Taika is not that rich. But the means of these shell companies cannot be hidden from these chaebols. They only need to find someone to investigate and they can dig out all the money in Korea.

After half a day of statistics, we have a rough estimate. After Wang Taika took over Keystone Industries and other related shares, he ranked 65th among the chaebols in South Korea.

In fact, this ranking is too high, because Wang Taika took over various industries, and there must be losses in the middle, and some tax deductions. In addition, the difference in assets between the 50th and 70th is not big. So if these losses are calculated, Wang Taika's real ranking is 71st. However, these are only Wang Taika's industries in South Korea. If some industries in China, Japan and the United States are included, they will definitely rank in the top 50.

However, Shen Wencheng was not clear about the industrial situation in other countries. So, let's take the Korean industry as an example, which is 65th.

There are more than 50 million Koreans, and Wang Taika's wealth ranks 65th. How can a foreigner do that?
This ranking of Korean chaebols includes Koreans, Americans, and even Japanese, but there has never been a Chinese!

Meanwhile, in Yongsan District, Seoul.

If you open the map of Seoul and find the location of Yongsan District, you will probably wonder why there is such a large piece of wasteland in the middle of a circle of urban construction areas, in the center of Seoul.

That's right, this is the U.S. military's Yongsan base. This is no longer a country built on the base, this is completely a Korean concession on the U.S. military base.

It is hard to imagine that the absolute geographical center of a country's capital, similar to the central location of the Forbidden City in the capital of the Celestial Empire, is actually a military base of another country.

It's really the kind that makes me want to laugh just looking at the map.

Next to it is Itaewon. Part of the original Yongsan base headquarters has been moved, but most areas are still under its jurisdiction.

Not long ago, a US soldier committed violence on the streets of Seoul and was unable to return to base in time. At that time, Wang Taika had an agreement with the US side, so he temporarily hid the soldier in XB Entertainment, and was later picked up by an armored vehicle. This incident laid the foundation for their evil friendship.

So Wang Taika, to some extent, became a temporary "safe house" for some soldiers. This kind of tacit cooperation alone would not make Wang Taika a suspected "spy", after all, it was all private matters. But it was still like walking on a tightrope.

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But Wang Taika has now waited until the time comes to ask for feedback. Of course, these guys will not do anything without profit, and the feedback Wang Taika mentioned is also a kind of transaction.

After several hours of negotiation, Wang Taika obtained an office building next to the Longshan base. He only needed to arrange it as an office location for Keystone Industry, and many things would be self-evident.

If you don't come to South Korea, you can't understand the extent of the US military's majesty here. Just tacitly agreeing to set up an office next to the base is enough to help Wang Taika block most of the troubles.

In return, Wang Taika will let Keystone Industry carry out expansion, maintenance, renovation and other work for multiple bases free of charge.

Of course, although Wang Taika did some things for free, the subsequent reporting of this part by the US military still consumed military funds. However, since Wang Taika did not charge money, it is unknown who the "construction expenses" in the military expenditure were spent on. However, on the surface, the money was still earned by Wang Taika.

It was not an injustice, it was a disguised form of protection, and it would also help the shares of Keystone Industries. In addition, Wang Taika also promised to provide shelter to the soldier as soon as he got into trouble.

It is shelter, not protection. After the soldiers commit crimes, the South Korean officials dare not punish them, but the indignant South Korean people may harm the soldiers.

No matter how arrogant the US military is, it cannot resolve this kind of public anger. So the soldiers who got into trouble were not worried about whether they would be punished later, but how they would get back to the base without being caught by the angry people on the way.

So Wang Taika's shelter was to let the offending soldiers hide in a nearby office. Then, after the people dispersed, he would have the base's car come to pick them up.

Although he is an accomplice to the evil, Wang Taika actually does not feel any burden. Damn it, the Korean government does not care, so why does he, a foreigner, have such a strong sense of justice?

Don’t forget that the money paid by the US military for prostitution was an important source of foreign exchange for South Korea in its early days. (End of this chapter)