Wall Street of the third generation chaebol

Chapter 143

＜ Modernization attribute tutoring. (2) >

“Are you a press company?”

Washington DC

Federal Reserve Office.

Lee Beom-jin, a newly dispatched to the United States from outside the Korean Empire, looked at the young man in front of him.

Since he was suddenly assigned to the United States from Europe, he had no proper information.

Basic information was reproduced.

The inauguration of President-elect Roosevelt on March 4th. Until then, the US federal government was a kind of chaos. And the young man in front of me…’

Lee Beom-jin knew only one truth.

The fact that this young man’s influence on the current wave of modernization that started in the Korean Empire or the establishment of the Post Office is significant.

“Yes, what if we could establish a modern press company in your country? I was curious and called to discuss it with you.”

“Haha, it sounds like you are going to drive a lot of foreign media into the Korean Empire like stakes.”

“Well, it’s not wrong. In my personal opinion about the Korean Empire, it’s a pity that I feel like I’m one step behind on overseas news.”

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One step?

Lee Beom-jin burst out laughing inwardly.

The fact that the Korean Empire was isolated from the Western powers because it was informationally ignored was a fact that even his son was well aware of.

To attract foreign media to such a Korean Empire?

If I could, I would welcome it with open hands, but unfortunately, there were a lot of expected side effects.

“Thank you for the kindness of Chairman Detroit. However, the Korean Empire is a tyrannical country. There is a risk that the fundamentals of the country will be shaken if we recklessly accept foreign media.”

“The origin of the country?”

“It’s a conversation between us, so let’s talk about it comfortably. I’m sure it’s not the kind of thing you think about preserving the state of the imperial family. Socially, the Korean Empire is a dynasty that has been solidified as a tyrannical monarchy for hundreds of years. It is hardened like concrete in the consciousness of the people.”

the foundation of the country.

There was fear that the people would be shaken. If the people who have served the royal family for hundreds of years are suddenly introduced to the idea of equality as modernization and industrialization, the rejection will only grow stronger.

“Of course, there are many people who are awake among the people of the Korean Empire, but I think this may be too radical.”

“okay.”

‘Hmm.’

I shrugged my chin while talking to Lee Beom-jin.

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Obviously I was right in a radical approach. The Korean Empire might react violently.

It is an act of destroying hundreds of years of tradition as wrong and rebuilding the foundation through modernization.

Rejection was inevitable.

‘There are surprisingly many people who hate freedom. I am fully aware of this fact.’

Equality entails freedom.

Freedom entails responsibility.

And people who have lived a life that rotates like a gear in a social framework they are used to for decades hate change.

The company’s statement is correct.

But if you can’t modernize it now, when are you going to do it?

‘I have another reason to transplant the press.’

fear and freedom.

I’d rather encourage this.

Anxiety about being left behind in the international situation.

A sense of alienation from being isolated from the international situation.

Fear that it could be reduced to a colony of powers at any time in the international situation.

The feeling of helplessness that the Korean Empire lacks the power to defend itself on its own.

A sense of crisis that the Korean Empire is ruining the country by conservatives who are fed up with Neo-Confucianism.

The Korean Empire resents how selfish and greedy its rulers are.

I will terrorize their longing for freedom. You guys will provoke me to be a quail egg in the Pacific, not a duck egg in the Nakdong River.

Nor is it a stimulus.

because it was real

‘How powerless you are now, and how backward you are, carpet bombing with a fact bomber.’

Here we put the illusion of the Anglo-American sphere.

reign but do not rule

Glorious Revolution.

war of independence.

Bill of Rights.

Liberalism.

pragmatism.

With these events and values, they fill the ideological void that has been cracked by fear.

It is necessary to break away from the inefficient Neo-Confucian tyranny.

But I did not tell the public what I was going through.

“Well, that makes sense.”

“Thanks for noticing.”

no.

don’t thank

because I didn’t know

“Then let’s discuss in the direction of launching three or four media companies.”

I’m thinking of starting a small press with hundreds of correspondents.

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Oh, it’s not small at all?

not.

The Wall Street Journal employs over 10,000 people, but hundreds of people are small.

Hundreds are small on the American scale.

Anyway, yes.

Aren’t three or four hundreds of people more than 1,000?

ah it’s small

‘If it were me, that’s it.’

Lee Beom-jin asked me to shake hands when I readily accepted (?).

“Thank you. I have no doubt that starting from the first step will greatly affect the relationship between your country and the Korean Empire.”

“Haha, I don’t know where to put myself because you’re floating. This is an honor.”

I smiled and shook hands.

“Let’s do well together.”

Really sorry.

“Father. How was today’s meeting?”

Washington DC

Korean Legation in the US.

When Lee Beom-jin returned to the Legation, his son, who he always carried with him, was there to meet him.

Lee Beom-jin said frankly.

“It was a monster.”

“A monster? Why a monster?”

“Wi Jong-ah, people are. No matter how hard you work as a diplomat who hides your expressions, your face contains a basic momentum. Or, there is nothing.”

“Yes.”

“But he… the Detroit Fed Chairman was a little different.”

empty eyes.

It’s not empty though. There is also momentum. But it’s not emotional.

“Father, what does that mean?”

“I can’t even express myself well, but if I had to say… yes.”

It seemed that an example could be found in Western mythology. Perhaps there is no better analogy than this.

“It was like Midas with golden hands.”

***

Korean Empire

Former Post Office Building.

Currently, it has become the headquarters of the Post Office of the Korean Empire, and expansion work is in progress. The location is right next to Jogyesa Temple.

It was located not far from Gwanghwamun Square.

“These f*cking watergull bastards.”

thick spit.

Instead of a body with a distorted expression, Lee Wan-yong did his job with a dark, dead complexion.

Always in the US, whenever the Detroit chairman tried to pass something from the Korean Empire through the Post Office, the Suguist Neo-Confucian idiots rushed in with foam in their mouths.

“Americans are the beastly sheep of Mubumu, who believes in the West? Are their eyes a knothole? To me, we’re more barbarian?”

Lee Wan-yong remembered.

The image of the developed city of New York City. that longing. Roads are paved, neoclassical buildings rise up and down, and gentlemen in suits move on horse-drawn carriages.

“What kind of future does the Korean Empire have in the Korean Empire, where there is no ‘letter’ of capital?

Money is also good for relaxation.

Investors in the New York Stock Exchange were contributing to national industrialization through their private property stockpiled.

Individuals increase their wealth through investment.

It cannot be denied that the companies that have grown through this are increasing the power of the United States, whether they like it or not.

“When you see a young man who wants to run a business, don’t you think he’s a bastard. Sanong Gongsang is a damn Sanong Gongsang. That’s why I’m so arrogant in Joseon!”

However, the Suguists left the peace of the Korean Empire behind and were just putting up a ponytail for the protection of Neo-Confucianism.

“….dizzy.”

“Instead of the body.”

The second-class member came and reported.

“This is a list of Christian denominations approved by the Imperial Family. Baptists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, etc. were approved, and even Catholicism is listed on the list.”

“Good job.”

widely.

Lee Wan-yong snatched the list.

And he read the list with an even worse complexion.

“after….”

Having to discuss this again with the gossips, I felt like my brain was going to be devoured by Neo-Confucianism as my brain couldn’t get rid of rats.

My head felt like it was going to explode right away.

“What do you do when you have a lot of money? I have to have a face-to-face discussion with those idiots. I mean, I’m exchanging money for my life right now!”

bang-!

In anger, Lee Wan-yong struck the desk.

But he soon swallowed up his anger.

“…As long as the Detroit Chairman is on a leash, there is nothing I can do about it. Even if I try to quarrel with the British government, there is no answer because American capital comes in hand in hand with the British government from the beginning.”

At the same time, his tongue was pushed out by the skill of the Detroit chairman, who had boiled the British Empire, the world’s most powerful hegemony, and at the same time, his limitations were clearly visible.

shit.

“One day I will definitely escape from this hell and I will be kind to you for the rest of my life.”

messed up her hair

Lee Wan-yong began to get his job done while secretly peeling pumpkin seeds in Detroit.

“Look, stencil.”

“Yes, instead of the body.”

“What happened to the bank that I set up in my relative’s name?”

Lee Wan-yong was a person who was randomly appointed as the post minister in the wild, so he didn’t know much about political affairs right away.

To assist in this, a narrow plate attached to Lee Wan-yong was assisting him.

“It passed smoothly. We passed it together when we allowed the establishment of modern banks before.”

“Good job.”

Lee Wan-yong nodded with satisfaction.

The Korean Empire would go through frantic industrialization and modernization under the halo of the United States, but in order to suck up honey, he had to run at least one modern bank.

You should also invest.

So, do you know much about banking? If I did, it wasn’t, but I thought it was a hundred times better than not doing it.

Do I have to lose all that added wealth?

“Your Majesty’s private money? It sounds like you didn’t intend to set up a separate bank.”

“It seems that it is a little difficult to confirm because it is under the jurisdiction of the Takji Department.”

“Ah… It’s bitter. Takjibu are annoying too.”

– The authority of the Postal Service has gone too far and is trying to interfere indiscriminately with the jurisdiction of other departments!

– It is believed that it is appropriate to distribute some of the authority of the Post Office to appropriate departments.

‘Don pigs.’

It is difficult in a different way from the water polo.

They, too, were twisting their bodies to say they wanted to eat like themselves, and they were crying out to the imperial family.

There were a lot of people who were interested in modernization as there were a lot of former pro-Japanese figures, but the greed was suppressing their strengths.

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Of course, it wasn’t a complaint Lee Wan-yong could spit out.

“The central bank office building, the Korea Railroad Corporation building, the Korea Settlement Bank building, the post office building… There are a lot of buildings to be installed.”

It was supposed to be built with neoclassical-style buildings to the extent that American modernization was smashed into the Korean Empire.

To make it easier to hire construction workers, it is better to establish and operate a construction company, but…

“I’ll have to ask the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce.”

Lee Wan-yong lived by eating with his eyes.

At this point in time when all the modern work of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce was torn down and transferred to the Ministry of Posts and Posts, a new construction company was established?

With the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, it is nothing but face confiscation and pretending.

“The study of agriculture and commerce is essential for modernization, so I can’t touch it…”

“Instead of Chae Shin, I think it’s wise not to touch the agricultural and commerce study right away. It shouldn’t be isolated.”

“Hey, you’re right.”

The immediate enemies are not the same modernization forces.

They were so-called Confucian scholars who ate the Korean Empire, called Wijeongcheoksapa.

‘If I have the same heart, I want to shoot them all with a gun.’

In his head, Lee Wan-yong imagined making minced meat by shooting the widows with a Western-style machine gun.

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Oh, I need a real machine gun.

“Instead of the Postal Service, the meeting time for Uijeongbu is approaching.”

“Ha… I know.”

Tub. covered the bookshelf.

Lee Wan-yong rubbed his fiery brow at the thought of arguing with the watergullians.

– Barbarians have room for indoctrination, but sheep are of a hydrangea (scapulae, such as a shellfish), which is inferior to that of a taboo animal, so it is a waste to treat them as flying animals, not even wild animals that have no room for indoctrination!

– It is correct that small countries like the Korean Empire receive support from the great Qing Dynasty. It is the duty of a small country to correct the whole population and preserve the legacy of China!

“f*ck.”

In the end, those big bosses don’t want to see a world where merchants run wild. They want to maintain the old-fashioned status system in which they are superior.

From above, the Detroit Fed Chairman pressed down, and below, the yangbans were holding on to their stomachs.

Shall I hit them all and retire?

‘That’s not going to happen. How did you catch it?’

Thinking about information to sell to Detroit, Lee Wan-yong goes to Uijeongbu today.

***

USA.

Federal Reserve Office.

“You want to take over the Plaza Hotel?”

James nodded his head.

I shrugged.

“I think I should have one hotel chain affiliate. Actually, I personally quarrel with the big names, and I can’t use the Federal Reserve system forever.”

To be honest, I feel a bit late.

Hotel facilities were essential for secret meetings or private meetings with big players, and if not, it was used as a place for social gatherings.

Besides, it had another use.

‘The age of espionage will soon begin.’

The importance of information was gradually emerging as a hot issue among the great powers. In particular, as I intervened, the British Empire and the German Empire would have felt deeply about the importance of information.

Imperial Russia should start with housekeeping.

Even if hedge funds have information organizations such as the Wall Street Journal and New York Press Forum, base camps where they will use their workforce must be built like wards.

First, I plan to set up an overseas branch of the Plaza Hotel on a pilot basis in the Korean Empire.

It is a test bed that operates an information organization. If foreign media that have consulted with the Korean government in the United States flow in, our media outlets along with the Wall Street Journal will also mix in.

It is a trial operation, so even if it gets caught, it can be buried.

“Bocchan, from my memory, the Plaza Hotel is the hotel in Manhattan, New York, right?”

“right.”

By the way, the Plaza Hotel in the Plaza Agreement is correct.

During the Reagan era of the Cold War, the hotel quickly became famous among the general public due to the meeting of finance ministers. With the ax of the Plaza Accord, the Japanese yen and the German mark were lost.

Now it is just one of the old hotel brands that have not yet been reconstructed.

“But why the Plaza Hotel? There is also a Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.”

“It’s too conspicuous.”

“ah.”

Anyone who sees it looks like I did it.

The reason I am not taking over Waldorf-Astoria is because I want to erase as much of my connection as possible.

“As much as possible, we solve it with a car name, and we buy the hotel headquarters through an offshore company and hide it in the City of London. As an intelligence agency, we erase our traces as much as possible.”

“I know what you want.”

crunchy crispy

James took the note with a serious face. I looked at James indifferently.

“By the way, if you want to expand the hotel chain, you will need a construction company.”

“Yes, even if you want to build buildings in the Korean Empire right now, you need a construction company.”

“That’s right. First of all, the Korean Empire receives orders from Japanese construction companies. General trading companies, there are some builders among them.”

“All right.”

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Oh, and by the way, there was a famous construction company that was founded during this period. A mega construction company that will become the world’s largest construction company in the future.

Construction companies are one of the industries in which the competence of managers is strongly required as they are run by manpower.

In that respect, it is right to acquire a construction company with a reliable representative.

“Bechtel. Can I inquire if there is a construction company called Bechtel in California? They’ll be subcontracting to a railroad company by now, so let’s consider an investment offer or acquisition.”

“It’s a construction company I can’t remember.”

It’s sharp.

“I heard it while in the railroad business. It’s still small, so it’ll be easy to take over.”

“Do you commission the Korean Empire chain of Plaza Hotel here?”

“No, I put it into the infrastructure first and finished the skill verification.”

I need to check if the Bechtel I know is correct.

It’s okay if there’s something you don’t know.

“Not only the Plaza Hotel, but also all of the key stations from Gyeongseong Station should receive construction orders. Bechtel is probably an infrastructure construction company.”

“ah!”

“At the same time, some of the small and medium-sized Japanese firms specialized in construction were acquired and raised by Bechtel.”

“Yes! I see. Then, are you going to ask Bechtel from the Kyungsung Stock Exchange?”

“Of course.”

If you’re going to grow it, raise it right.

furthermore…

‘We need construction companies to eat all the core real estate and infrastructure.’

Public institutions will be entrusted to the Ministry of Agricultural and Commerce of the Korean Empire, but in the private sector, I will directly intervene as a construction company.

In addition, the age of steel is coming.

Construction companies are one of the industries that benefit greatly from this era.

Skyscraper.

The time is not far off when skyscrapers will fill the big cities.

Follow me.

The ringtone broke the silence

“Shall I take it?”

“I get it.”

‘This phone is…’

It is direct from the British Embassy in the United States.

For security, this direct line has been opened to the embassy and a hotline. The fact that they came through this closed phone line is important information that requires security.

I pulled up my upper body and picked up the receiver.

“This is Detroit Morgan.”

“Ah, you were there. I have an urgent matter, so I called to tell you first.”

A murmur over the phone.

The breathing sound of the British ambassador in a hurry. A castle is raised inside the British embassy.

‘what?’

Something unusual was happening.

“what happened?”

“Please listen carefully. The Detroit Director must be aware of this, so I’m telling you before the US federal government.”

“Better than the U.S. federal government?”

“Yeah, I’ll be contacting you there soon.”

The British ambassador took a deep breath.