54- Mr. Miracle (5)
God-sent Investment Genius Chapter 54
Episode 54 – Mr. Miracle (5)
“Counselor, this way.”
Lee Beom-young’s face, which hadn’t even been a month since he left for China, looked quite bright.
The story of his wife’s affair, which Lee Beom-young told as if he were confessing before leaving for China, was enough to make Ji-hyeok worried.
Lee Beom-young, who exuded a desperate energy to the point of telling Woo Sang-jin to put his personal safety first, was definitely different.
It could be simply because he released the suppressed reverse magic, but judging from the bright light shining on his bow, which radiated dynamically like a wriggling dragon, it seemed that the master of Cheon-eul had properly met his master.
Facing Lee Bum-young, Ji-hyeok smiled and said.
“Your face has improved a lot.”
“hahahaha, is that so? Let’s go to the hotel first. I’ll take care of you.”
“Advisor, how are you?”
“Advisor, how are you?”
Chief Woo’s younger brothers, who were guarding Lee Beom-young, greeted Lee Beom-young from his side.
“But I can’t see Manager Woo Sang-jin.”
“Director Wu is currently in an important meeting. I’ll explain as I go.”
“So be it.”
Lee Beom-young, who was heading straight to the airport parking lot, stopped for a moment and rummaged through his pockets.
“Counselor, please wear this first.”
What Lee Beom-young put out was a disposable mask.
“The air is very muddy. A smog warning has been issued since yesterday, so schools are also closed.”
“Hmm… the air is very muddy. Dongsu, take this too.”
Dongsu, who had followed him like a shadow, was covering his mouth with his hand, as if he felt the air was thick.
“Hyung-nim… Ah, Advisor. The air seems to be thicker than Seoul. Huh? This is made by Seonghan Paper.”
Most of the world’s big cities have a bit of a dirty air, but Beijing was worse.
It’s not just fine dust, it’s a Beijing area that mainly uses coal heating, so it was mixed with the acrid smell of coal, and I wondered how people could live in a place like this.
As I got out of the quite crowded airport and entered the city, the crowds were surprisingly reduced.
Did Beijing’s population of over 20 million disappear?
“There are no people on the road.”
“Yes, advisor. When the Umai alert is issued, everyone tends to stay out of the house.”
Umai was the Chinese word for smog.
Lee Beom-young continued with a slightly worried expression.
“Is the situation in Korea okay? I heard that the Roel Group is boycotting our new product…”
“The showcase of the future department store was very successful. It’s such a good item that I can’t sell it anyway, so there’s nothing to worry about. In the end, it will be a step in my foot.”
“It’s what the advisor does, so I was worried for nothing, hahahaha.”
Jihyeok said.
“Let’s start with Director Woo Sang-jin. What kind of work did you entrust?”
“Director Wu is currently entertaining the deputy director of the Forestry and Grassland Bureau. Ah, the Forestry and Grassland Bureau is the same as the Forest Service in Korea. It is an organization under the Ministry of Natural Resources and supervises greenery projects in China.”
“You seem to have reached a high-ranking level. How did you find out?”
“Actually, there is a junior of mine who is the general manager of one of the Jinzhen Hotels in Beijing. I got some help from him.”
Jihyo nodded and said.
“But the group leader didn’t host the entertainment himself, so manager Wu stepped in?”
“That’s what Director Wu meant. As you know, China is a place where the speed of progress depends on how much bribery you spend. Director Wu, by any chance, if I were in charge of a Chinese subsidiary, there would be a problem with the bribery scandal. It was my intention to prevent it from happening.”
“Hmm… Manager Woo Sang-jin is quite thoughtful. But what can a person called the deputy director do?”
“It’s a bit long to talk about it, but at first, I mobilized an agent to find a mulberry exporter.”
In fact, Jihyeok also thought that he would mobilize an agent for this part.
In the first place, the size of the land mass is the largest in the world, and there are thousands of people selling the same item, and the price of the item is also very different.
It was also the most important reason to choose an agent when importing goods from China.
First of all, there are hundreds of thousands of agents that connect producers and importers of goods in China.
Instead, there is no guarantee that the agent is directly connected to the producer.
Agents make inquiries to other agents, and agents make inquiries to other agents, and so on.
Of course, in the meantime, the price will increase by the number of agents.
An e-commerce company called ‘Alibaba’ is a company that has made a lot of money by solving this problem by leaps and bounds.
Jack Ma monopolized the role of an agent while directly connecting producers and importers.
Now, the situation has changed a bit, and agents advertise to Alibaba pretending to be producers, but Alibaba has already absorbed most of the profits from these agents.
However, even in Alibaba, where all items in the world seem to exist, the only hard-to-find item was special raw materials such as mulberry trees.
Ji-hyeok thought that Lee Bum-young would find those few agents, but Lee Bum-young seemed to have tried a completely different approach from Ji-hyeok.
Beomyoung Lee continued.
“But most people don’t even know what mulberry trees are. So I changed my thinking a little. Isn’t China a controlled country in the first place? Resource exports are strictly under state control, so I dug into that.”
In the first place, it would have been impossible without a network, but Lee Beom-young continued the story as if it was no big deal.
“When I met the deputy director who used to come as a hotel guest and talked about mulberry trees, he immediately understood.
“hahahaha… It was a breeze.”
“Yes. In China, like Korea, the forests were damaged a lot after the war, and there were quite a few paper mulberry plantations as the consumption of Korean paper was high. “
Jihyeok also stuck out his tongue at the huge scale of China.
“It’s amazing. But, if you want to pay a bribe, you’ll have to prepare a separate fund…”
“Director Woo said he would take care of that part, saying he was an expert… but in fact, I’m not sure how exactly he would do it. As you know, this is my first time doing this myself…”
“Ah… if Director Wu said he would take care of it, then there’s no need to worry. Literally, Manager Wu is an expert in that area. Come to think of it, the two of them are quite compatible.”
“hahahaha, I felt the same way too. Manager Woo saw all of my embarrassing appearances, so we became very close… and it was reassuring to have someone like him protecting me wherever I went.”
In the first place, the owner of the Cheoneul Gwiin was like this.
If you invite people around you, they will help you wholeheartedly, and you will open your heart wide to that person, so a strong bond is formed.
No matter what one does, people are the most important thing, and since Lee Beom-young was born with the ability to easily win people’s hearts, it would be more difficult not to succeed.
*
By the time we arrived at the hotel, it was around dusk, when the stars were embroidering the dark night sky.
Ji-hyeok, who was guided to a nice room, perhaps thanks to Lee Beom-young’s connections, exchanged greetings with manager Woo Sang-jin, who was waiting for him.
It was just early evening, Woo Sang-jin, and his alcohol was suddenly rising.
It seems that he drank quite a lot of alcohol at the reception that continued from daytime.
“I heard that you have suffered a lot. Thank you for your hard work.”
“No, advisor. Group leader Beomyoung Lee did all the work, and I just did it a few times as the managing director.”
Lee Beom-young stood by Woo Sang-jin.
“Ugh, what do you mean by that? Isn’t China the most important country for guanxi made at a drinking party? Director Wu did a great job.”
Jihyuk smiled and said.
“You two look great. By the way, you said you need my help. What exactly is it? Director Wu says it’s a problem that can’t be solved without me…”
Beomyoung Lee said.
“As usual, Director Wu said that if it were an advisor, he would solve it at once, so I made a request, but I don’t know what and how the advisor can solve it.”
“Tell me in detail.”
“First of all, I’ll tell you why my junior really became the general manager of this hotel. Originally, I recommended that friend to a headhunting company as the general manager of this place, but as soon as he arrived, he married a local woman.”
Jihyo nodded and said.
“You must have been a woman from a pretty great family to put a Korean in the general manager’s seat.”
“Yes, I really married the daughter of the high-ranking daughter of the chairman of the hotel group Chang Yu-chun. Both of them hadn’t been able to get married for over 40 years, but as soon as we moved here, our eyes met.”
International marriage is not an easy task, and since he married a Chinese conglomerate, it was clear that he must have had a great fortune, but Lee Beom-young said that he was in a pretty awkward situation.
Beomyoung Lee continued.
“So I asked that friend to sign a contract to supply hotel amenities, and the friend said that if I asked for it, I would do it unconditionally, but I couldn’t decide on my own.”
“You mean the hotel where you are the general manager, not the other branch?”
“Yes. The friend said he was sorry several times while refusing, but I asked because there seemed to be some circumstances… and it seemed that the brother-in-law was holding that friend in check.”
“Your junior seems to have done a pretty good job.”
“That’s right. Within a year after becoming the general manager, this friend’s branch sales increased by 40%, drawing considerable attention within the group, but his brother-in-law seemed to think that his position could be threatened.”
“Hmm…”
“In addition, there is a fortune teller trusted by Chairman Chang Wi-chun, and this person saw my junior and said that he was born with the fortune of Yeo Bong-seon, who takes over the king’s position, so the situation became very embarrassing.”
As the beginning of Myeonglihak was in China, the Chinese people’s belief in Saju was incomparably stronger than that of Korea.
In such a situation, since he mentioned the owner of Lu Bu, who killed Dong Tak and took the governor’s position, he was saying that the position of general manager might be in danger right away.
Jihyeok said.
“Do you have the fortune of that junior by any chance?”
“Yes? Oh, I took it just in case you didn’t know. Here… I’m buying him and his wife.”
Ji-hyeok, who received the key to the key from Lee Bum-young, immediately tried to unlock the key from general manager Lee Soo-ho.
After a while, Ji-hyeok, who finished solving the four weeks, said with a slight frown.
“Sorry.”
“Ah…, it’s hard for even the advisor to solve this problem…”
“Ah, that’s not it. If I had enough time, I’d like to get to know them a little more slowly, but I think I should get to the point right away.”
“So, then… are you saying there’s a solution?”
“Talk to your juniors and find out if you can make a seat with Chairman Chang Wi-chun.
“Ah…, I understand. I’ll tell my juniors right away.”
*
The meeting with Chairman Chang Wi-choon was not difficult.
Lee Soo-ho’s wife, knowing that her husband’s position was at stake, ran straight to Chairman Jang Wi-chun and begged him to meet Ji-hyeok.
Actually, it was Lee Su-ho’s trust in Lee Beom-young that made Ji-hyeok stronger.
He arranged a place with his father-in-law only on the recommendation of Lee Bum-young without looking at Ji-hyeok’s personality, which showed how strong the relationship between the two was.
It was said that Lee Su-ho’s situation was urgent, but Ji-hyeok knew that there would be many people like Lee Su-ho around Lee Bum-yeong in the future.
Ji-hyeok, who met chairman Chang Wi-chun, drew attention to the middle-aged man sitting next to him.
Looking at the aura of the ghost gate on his face, I could be sure that he was the fortune teller Lee Beom-yeong spoke of.
Lee Beom-young, who volunteered as an interpreter, conveyed the words of Chairman Chang Wi-choon.
– Are you a fortuneteller from Korea? You are much younger than you think.
“There seems to be a misunderstanding, but today I came to see you as a businessman, not as a fortuneteller.”
Lee Beom-yeong stopped trying to translate and said to Ji-hyeok.
“Counselor, Chairman Yuchun Jang is here to listen to his son-in-law’s four weeks of business. Talk about business slowly…”
“I’ll take care of it, so tell me.”
When Lee Beom-young spoke, chairman Chang Wi-choon slammed the table and showed his anger.
– You were like a seungnyang who clung to me looking for something to eat.
Then the Chinese fortune teller next to him said with a sneer on his lips.
– Chairman, what did I say? Didn’t I say that there could be no proper fortune teller in that small Korean land?
– You are right. I took my wrong steps.
Not only Lee Bum-young, but also Lee Su-ho and his wife showed embarrassed expressions at the vicious words that were thrown in their faces.
Jihyeok, who heard the interpretation, said with a smile.
“Tell it as it is. Even though I’m a businessman, please tell me that I’ll be better at solving four stocks than hanging around there.”
“yes?”
“Come on, tell me.”
“Yes, advisor.”
– Bang! The young man has poison in his mouth. Do you dare to have a poisonous mind for a disciple of the King of Kings?
Jang Wi-chun’s fortuneteller revealed his hideous energy and pressed Ji-hyeok.
Jihyeok, who still had a calm expression, quietly glared at the fortuneteller’s eyes without changing his face color.
After about ten seconds of fighting each other, the fortune teller of Chairman Wichun Chang suddenly fell behind the chair and shivered all over.
– Sashimi, Chairman. That…that person…
– Hey, why? Who is that…
When Ji-hyeok regained his energy, the fortune teller, who regained his composure as if he had never done so, spoke to Chairman Jang Wi-chun in the most polite manner.
– Sashimi, Chairman·······. I’m sorry, but I’m going to go away.
– Uh huh, why are you doing this?
– He is a man with an aura that I dare not compare with. I’m sorry, Chairman.
Jihyeok, who heard about the conversation between Chairman Wichun Jang and the fortune teller, said.
“Don’t run away and tell him to go after hearing why his Saju solution went wrong.”
When Lee Beom-young translated, the fortune teller, who had been shaking his butt, reluctantly sat back down.
Chairman Wi-Chun Jang also listened to Ji-Hyeok’s words without any restraint, probably thinking that the situation was going well.
Jihyeok looked at the fortuneteller and said.
“Did you say Lee Soo-ho’s boss was Yeo Bong-seon’s boss?”
– Yeah, that’s right.
Jihyo nodded and said.
“I was born with the fortune of the white tiger and run without hesitation, and since I am destined to wither away my competitors, you can see it that way.”
– All… You saw something else?
“By the way, why did he have to be Yeo Bong-seon among the many generals? No, Lee Su-ho’s wife shouldn’t have been the First Seon in the first place, so how did he become Yeo Bong-seon?”
– That… that’s…
Jihyeok said to Chairman Wichun Jang, who was listening to the story with interest.
“Chairman, the son-in-law’s wife is obviously born with the king’s fortune. However, the daughter’s husband is neat enough not to harm the friendship between brother and sister, and the son-in-law’s wife is not fierce enough to ignore his wife. It’s close.”
Chairman Yuchun Chang shook his head and said.
– Hmm…, I agree with that. Since my children were little, their friendship was special. Even so, can’t there be two tigers in a mountain? If my son-in-law had such an obsession, he would never be satisfied with helping my son. I don’t want trouble in the house.
“Is there only one mountain in this vast land of China? You can recommend another mountain to your son-in-law.”
– It’s not like I didn’t think of that either. However, it is not easy to find a business suitable for this Jang Yu-chun’s son-in-law. Starting as a hole-in-the-wall store would hurt both me and my son-in-law. However, there was no suitable property to acquire the existing company.
It was a Chinese thought that values face.
Jihyuk smiled and said.
“Okay. Then, as a businessman, I’ll make a proposal.”
– Heh heh, let’s talk about it.
Jihyeok responded with a comfortable face to Jang Wichun’s attitude, which was completely different from the first time.
“I will hand you a good sale that will not hurt the face of the president and son-in-law.”
– You mean there is such a thing?
Jihyeok smiled again and said.
“Roel Group’s Chinese subsidiary with 100 hypermarkets and 20 department stores. I don’t think that would save the chairman’s face, but how… are you interested?”