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Chapter 15. Loyalty Competition(1)

Chapter 15. Loyalty Competition (1)

– Comrade Seung-il Choi, the nuclear weapon dropped by the Republic of Korea on Tokyo…. So, how many Peony Investment Bank’s Nikkei put options are selling?

– All issued copies have already been sold. You can issue a second issuance if instructed…. Whether our safe will hold up…

– Issue it. Don’t worry about the safe. If necessary, I can use my personal property hidden in Delaware, USA and Japan. After all, this is an investment. Here’s Heo Young-Jun, my Japanese safekeeper’s number. If you give me my name, I’ll give you billions of dollars more.

– At first, I was worried that the new general secretary might be trying to bankrupt the republic, but… The last time the British contacted me, there seems to be something I don’t know. I will do my best.

– It’s not enough to do your best. Because the results should be good. But I think there’s something else I’d like to ask you. what?

– That’s… It’s a story if you dare allow me to guess the general secretary’s intentions, but… I think the general secretary didn’t just set up a bank in Hong Kong and needed that face, so he didn’t take me out of the kyohwaso. do.

– That’s right. keep telling me

– So… Now, Secretary General is gathering in one place the enormous personal wealth that you have hidden in the United States and Japan and all the assets of Room 39. The basis of slush hiding is decentralization. Besides, room 39’s business, so…

– You can just be honest, I know that the former general did anything to raise money.

– ……..Thank you. From the drug trade in Room 39 to the sale of arms and the making of counterfeit dollars, he’s focused on getting rid of the dark business. In other words, it seems that you are doing this to get rid of the Western Yankees or the United Nations getting caught in the sun. Considering all these evidences and the conversations within the republic about the general secretary’s policy after returning, the general secretary is now in what kind of organization. You are preparing to launch. Maybe it’s like Saudi Arabia…

– Your comrade is right. The Peony Investment Bank, now established in Hong Kong, is an early form of the organization. And the leader will be you.

– ……………!!! Are you really?

– There aren’t many people who majored in capitalist economics in our republic. Of course the nominal head will be the party, but basically you’ll have almost full control over the first few years. So I hope you will continue to work hard in the future.

– I’m just doing what the general secretary comrade has ordered…. According to what he said… Are you saying that the general secretary is going to introduce a capitalist economy into the republic?

– To put it bluntly, yes.

– Then, it was true that it was the 4th goal of the gods. When I first heard it, I doubted my ears. ……… That’s Choi Seung-il. He’s called by the party or the military because he touches the money he has entrusted to him, so maybe it doesn’t matter.

– I’ll make you accept it. We’ll see how to do it soon.

The meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held in the office of the Workers’ Party of Korea, living up to its name.

The Politburo meeting was attended by Party officials including Jang Seong-taek, Choi Yong-geon, and Hyun Young-sook, as well as military commanders led by Hong Gye-seong and Baek Seung-cheol.

The topic of today’s meeting was ‘the existence or non-existence of the agricultural cooperative farm of the Republic and the Juche farming method’, and Jang Seong-taek sneered at him cynically, wondering what the military officers who were shooting or shooting would know about the increase in agricultural production.

In fact, before the meeting, when he visited the general secretary and inquired about this appointment, general secretary Jeong-hwan sighed and lamented, as if frustrated.

– Comrade Jang will know, but what if Hong Cha-soo, a public figure of the last major event, will attend? I can’t get away from him after taking my oath of allegiance a while ago… Please understand, comrade. Still, Comrade Jang is not an expert in the economic field.

‘It seems that old man Hong Gye-seong was still a member of the Politburo and forced the general secretary to intervene. Heck, those infinite bastards don’t even know what the general secretary really wants. In the first place, people who didn’t even know the ‘lord’ of the economy were able to open their mouths at today’s meeting? There’s no choice but to sit like a borrowed barley sack. cancer.’

When you think about it, it made sense.

According to what Jang Seong-taek has seen so far, it was clear that the general secretary was trying to reform and open up soon and introduce a capitalist economy into the republic.

And, as he had already predicted to Hyun Young-sook, it was the party and government cabinet officials who would take the lead in the process, not the gunman officers like Hong Gye-seong.

‘The general secretary is essentially someone closer to us. The position of the second person in the Republic has not been officially decided yet, but it is obvious to anyone that the position will be Jang Seong-taek’s.’

The problem was that even as Jang Sung-taek, it was not yet clear to what extent the general secretary’s will for the introduction of the capitalist economic system and market opening was firm.

It was not because they did not know that the dead former leader Kim Jong-il and the dead former leader Kim Il-sung were unaware that economic openness is a good policy and an unavoidable reality.

They did not open the door because they feared that such a policy line and direction would ultimately destabilize their power and further collapse the system.

Jang Sung-taek, who has been observing the physiology of powerful people from a close distance, knew this dilemma and contradiction better than anyone else.

As an economic bureaucrat and a person who has seen the process of China’s reform and opening up through reform and opening up, he was frustrated with the actions of these leaders, but on the other hand, he was not incomprehensible.

What is reform and opening up, and whether or not you have to protect your own power to feed the people or not?

And he was convinced that the young general secretary, who had just come to power, was no exception to this contradiction.

So, the second-in-command (not yet, but Jang Seong-taek was sure it would happen in the future), all he had to do was to scratch the itchy back of this general secretary.

‘Level control is the key. No matter how young the general secretary is, if he overturns it too much at once, it will quickly fall out of his eyes… For now, at today’s Politburo meeting, we will only have to change the Juche farming method.’

The fact that the Juche farming method is completely nonsense and that if you reduce farm (farm) production is useless to increase it, it is a fact known to all party executives who already know.

Jeok-gi-jeok-jak (適期適作) and jeok-jeok-jeok (適地適作) are the core of Juche farming, and they emphasize that the ears will stick, but in the end, it is a story that is so natural that it makes you angry.

That’s a fact, even if the party doesn’t teach it, it’s a fact already known by the farmer’s comrades who have been farming in the land for decades.

It was only natural not to listen to it straight away when people advertised such a natural thing as ‘the genius idea of a leader who is proficient in agriculture and industry’.

The corn nutrition complex and attic, which were other elements of Juche farming, were even more pathetic.

In the case of a farming method that requires a lot of human hands, the efficiency is not that different, so the nutritional complex is not as good as it is, and the attic is just like that, and the mountain was completely plowed to make a bare mountain.

But the problem is that all of this is ‘garbage, so let’s put it away. Farming should be left to the peasants, so what will happen if the party interferes?’

I don’t know what the general secretary’s thoughts are, but once Jang Seong-taek himself is the son-in-law of Kim Il-sung, he cannot openly insist on eliminating the Juche idea and the Juche farming method that was created by the president.

Even after thinking only that far, Jang Seong-taek’s mind quickly came up with how to whisper a proverb in the general secretary’s ear.

– The Juche farming method is the teaching of the great President Kim Il-sung, but there was an error in implementing some details.

The surviving spirit of Kim Jong-il, who is several times more ambiguous and dozens of times more cruel than the young and inexperienced general secretary, is not going anywhere.

Thinking about that, Jang Seong-taek, who entered the company’s front door while being saluted by the guards, was brimming with ambition for the future.

‘The general secretary is still young and inexperienced. Of course, I have no choice but to rely on Jang Seong-taek. Although Hong Gye-seong took the lead, the general secretary knows that you shouldn’t trust too much military officers with guns… Besides, Director Hyun Young-sook is already on my side, so if I do that for a few years, I will become the real power of this republic. It’s not my dream to become Jang Seong-taek…’

However, contrary to the expectations of Jang Seong-taek, who smiled involuntarily because of his ambition in his heart, the Politburo meeting that day went the opposite way.

“That Hong Kye-sung boldly declares that the Juche farming method should be abolished immediately, Comrade General Secretary.”

“…………?!?!?!?”

As soon as the meeting started abruptly and received a brief report on the current situation, Jang Seong-taek was momentarily stunned at the words Hong Kye-sung confidently said.

But he was sure he hadn’t heard it wrong.

Was the leader of the People’s Army, who should faithfully uphold the teachings of the president and generals more faithfully than any other institution in the republic (of course, not in reality, but pretending to be) just said that one of Kim Il-sung’s achievements, the Juche farming method, should be abolished?

Looking around, Hyun Young-sook and other party officials sitting at the meeting could not hide their astonishment.

“…….exactly? Still, it’s a farming method that was created with the teachings of President Abajji, but it’s a bit hard to get rid of it at once… Besides, Comrade Hong Chasu, it’s surprising that you said such a thing. I thought you were a stranger to party practices such as agricultural production…”

“This is a story that is coming out of the warriors who have already been mobilized for the 100-day battle for rural support. It has been proven that corn is a nutrient complex and an attic, and it only reduces the production efficiency of the farm and is of no use at all. President’s true teaching is to improve the people’s living standards, and if the Juche farming method hinders the improvement, wouldn’t it make sense for the party to boldly abolish it?”

“…………”

Jang Sung-taek hardened his impression on Hong Kye-seong, who suddenly attacked first.

He still respected the authority of the president and came up with a compromise, but that guy came out with a bold radical plan, saying he would like the general secretary.

The head of the People’s Army, which has the President as the supreme commander, was just about to say a word about whether it is okay to undermine the President’s authority in something that is not his field of expertise.

At that moment, there was a hand stabbing Jang Sung-taek’s side.

‘Calm down, what really matters right now is the intention of the general secretary.’

‘……..!!! That’s right. I thought that Hong Gye-sung would like the general secretary if he said something unconditionally strong without knowing what that old leg was, but I was mistaken. The reason I can sit in this seat is because I begged the general secretary, so I’m struggling not to get pushed out.

At Hyun Young-sook’s signal to calm him down next to him, Jang Seong-taek calmed his mind and looked at Jeong-hwan’s mouth, sitting at the top of the table.

“…………”

‘Hong Gye-sung, a guy who doesn’t know anything, is going to get caught up in trying to stand out. Even so, the general secretary is also a human being. Maintaining one’s own power would be the top priority, but would you have made the system unstable by acknowledging the party’s errors?’

Considering that Jung-hwan’s disposition is far from that of the original officer, and considering the recent conflict with Prunze’s officers who have been under the surface, Jeong-hwan must have rejected or at least expressed disapproval of Hong Gye-seong’s offer.

Moreover, in North Korea so far, the Party and the leader are infallible.

Even if it is far from the truth, there must be no error, and if that is not possible, it must be made.

Abandoning the Juche farming method right away is acknowledging that the party and the leader made a mistake in the dark, which in turn destabilizes the system.

And Jang Seong-taek was convinced that regime instability was something that Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, or Kim Jung-hwan would definitely want to avoid.

He did not have any doubts that he was reading 10% of Junghwan’s thoughts.

And finally, Jeonghwan’s mouth opened.

“……I agree with Cha-Soo Hong. The Juche farming method is a clear mistake and should be discarded. What do you all think ?”