Even with the same money, US dollars were much more useful to me than Korean currency.
You can buy a lot of gold with dollars by flying to a country that does not charge VAT on physical gold.
There is an inventory, so no matter how many dollars you have, you will have no problem crossing the border.
In addition, gold bought with dollars will be immediately absorbed locally, so there is no need to smuggle it into the country.
To me, the ‘dollar’ was the best way to safely buy gold bearer.
“You can take away dollars?”
President Park answered my repeated questions with a smile.
“Our president, you seem to really like dollars! In Ibiza, blondes don’t look like that even when they dash.”
“Stop talking nonsense.”
“Knowing that President Baek is missing, Cheon Young-jin is planning another route to buy gold.”
“By the way, are you preparing dollars?”
Park nodded and replied.
“Yes, they are planning to smuggle with their own hands.”
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Turn back time for a moment, today’s daytime.
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A dull sound leaked from the office of Director Cheon Young-jin.
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A man was being hit in the butt with a baseball bat by General Manager Cheon in a prone position.
It was Lim Jeong-chan, manager of the Strategic Planning Office of Angel Capital.
He had introduced Baek to General Manager Cheon.
Director Lim suddenly lost contact with President Baek and suffered alone, and reported the fact to Director Cheon a while ago.
Director Cheon, who was excited because the day he was supposed to receive the goods was just around the corner, was extremely upset by his sudden report.
“I can’t do things right! You sick bastard!”
“I will correct it!”
“Chijeong freezes to death… is this the army? You asshole!”
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“I can’t lift my ass straight!”
Director Lim swayed his legs and lifted his hips.
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The moment Director Cheon swung the bat, Director Lim trembled and lowered his butt.
Then the tip of the bat hit the office floor.
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A wooden baseball bat is broken.
Director Cheon threw the bat with only the handle remaining and shouted.
“Hey f*ck! I told you to keep your ass straight! Are you going to take responsibility if I hurt my wrist because of you?!”
“Sir, I will correct it!”
“Don’t say that correction!”
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Director Cheon kicked Lim in the abdomen with his shoe.
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Director Lim hugged his stomach and collapsed, moaning.
Director Cheon walked to his desk and pulled out a tissue to wipe away the sweat.
“Ooh, that’s f*cking hot.”
Then he picked up the phone and called the secretary.
-Yes, Chief.
“Bring me a new baseball bat! With a glass of ice water.”
-Yes, I will bring it right now.
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The office door opens,
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A female secretary in a two-piece suit entered the office.
In her hand was a baseball bat and ice water.
Secretary Yeo avoided Director Lim, who was lying on the floor, and came closer to Director Cheon.
And I handed him a glass of ice water.
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“Wow, cool!”
The secretary handed him a baseball bat this time.
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General Manager Chun swung several times in the air.
the secretary asked him.
“Do you need anything more?”
“No, good job. go out.”
“Yes, chief.”
When the female secretary went out of the office, Lim, who had been watching her, knelt down again and stretched out.
Director Chen approached him and said.
“One more hip down and you die.”
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The threshing began again.
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Lim, who had been beaten for a while, shouted at his throat.
“All right! All right!”
“what?”
“All 50 hit!”
“Two more f*cking hits!”
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After two more hits, General Manager Cheon put down the bat.
“wake up.”
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Director Lim stood up in a huff at Director Cheon’s order.
I trembled my legs.
His face was covered with sweat, saliva, tears and runny nose.
“How are you going to handle this? What am I going to be, trusting only you and having fun?”
At General Manager Cheon’s question, Manager Lim lowered his head and said nothing.
“f*ck, you look like you can’t even meet the date your father set, let alone make pocket money! Where are you going to get 2,000kg of gold within a month from now?! uh?! Tell me, you bastard!”
Director Cheon, who had been shouting at Lim, became emotional and raised a baseball bat again.
It was then.
“Stop fixing it.”
The man who had been sitting on the sofa watching until now opened his mouth.
He was managing director Kim Yeong-chan, and he was the person who was pushing Cheon in the war for the successor of Angel Capital, which started in earnest a few years ago.
“There is a way to get things cheap and fast.”
Even the head of Cheon, the world’s idiot, didn’t carelessly deal with him.
“Do you have any good ideas?”
“You can buy it from abroad. Even the person named Baek, after all, buys gold from outside and brings it inside, right? We can just buy it from outside.”
“You mean… we’re going to do the smuggling ourselves?”
“Is there any need to outsource such a money-making job? If we do it ourselves, it’s salty, so that’s good.”
“It’s not a big deal to go out and buy gold, but it wouldn’t be easy to bring it back to Korea. Is it really possible?”
Director Cheon’s question was answered by Kim with a smile.
“Couldn’t we be doing something even an ignorant smuggler can do?”
***
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I heard all the stories from President Park and laughed.
“So you’re saying they’re smuggling themselves?”
“Yes, that’s right. What can’t these guys who do usury with stupid words do? I have thugs under my command, so even if I stick with a foreign mafia, I won’t be pushed back.”
“So we just have to wait until they prepare dollars and go abroad, and then sneak out.”
“Yes. They attack the trading floor and take all the gold and dollars!”
“And with the stolen dollars, we buy gold right there.”
“Yes, it’s a good double blood.”
hahahaha!
Things worked out a lot better than expected.
With this incident as an opportunity, a certain formula settled in my head.
that’s right,
The worse the bad guys do, the more my profit increases.
‘Where there is sin, there is gold.’
Perhaps this formula will serve as a guide for my future actions.
If you want to get ‘more gold’, you just have to chase ‘greater evil’.
Whether it is an individual, a company or a country.
“When do you think they will move?”
“It takes at least three weeks to prepare the dollars.”
Whatever they plan, they can start only when they have a dollar.
That means you have to wait at least 3 weeks before you can take away your gold and dollars.
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Until then, I need to make a golem.
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I drove my car and came to Icheon, Gyeonggi-do.
As I ran out of Icheon City and ran to the outskirts, I came to the point where the paved road ended.
From there, we drove on a mountain road.
The SUV has finally played its part.
It was stable even on bumpy roads without overpowering on steep slopes.
It reminded me of the time in the past when I loaded a truck with money and ran down a mountain road.
The ride comfort was vastly different from then.
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After driving for about 30 minutes along the mountain road, we arrived at a small workshop in the forest.
It was a pottery workshop.
Two small buildings were built on an empty lot surrounded by thick trees.
I parked my car in a clearing and got out.
‘The air is good!’
I bought the studio building, the land, and all the nearby forest.
He had prepared a workshop for making golems.
Originally, I was going to make a golem at home, but it was not appropriate to install a large kiln at home, so I set up a separate workshop.
There was an item that came out on an urgent sale, so I bought it right away.
There were two buildings, one was a studio and the other was a living room.
The studio was empty.
Originally there was a pottery kiln here, but I told the previous owner to demolish it.
If the kiln was big, he could have bought it as well, but it was too small to make a golem.
The large LPG storage tank installed outside the workshop will be used as is.
It was already filled with gas, so the tank was full of LPG.
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I came out of the studio at the sound of klaxon.
A truck with a kiln and soil arrived.
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“Please sign here.”
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I signed the paperwork presented by the installer.
The kiln was installed in the workroom, and the test run was completed by connecting the gas storage tube and line.
“If you have any problems while using it, feel free to contact us.”
“Thank you for your effort.”
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the truck started.
Now, I am the only one left in the small workshop in the woods.
‘Shall we start right away?’
I peeled off the plastic packaging of the clay (pottery making soil).
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When I touched the soil, it was perfect for playing with the dough because it was moderately moist.
It reminded me of playing with clay when I was a kid.
I made a cylindrical mass the size of a man.
‘End of manual work.’
The manual work is now complete.
What have you done already?
You don’t need great dexterity to make a nice golem.
In the novel ＜The Little Prince＞ by Saint-Exupéry, there is a scene where the little prince begs the pilot to draw a sheep.
The aviator works hard to draw the sheep, but the little prince keeps rejecting it every time, saying, ‘You’re too sick’ or ‘You’re too old.’
In the end, the aviator uses his wits and draws a box instead of a sheep and tells the little prince.
‘The box contains the amount you want.’
Then the little prince said, ‘This is the sheep I want!’ I like it.
The reason why I suddenly brought up the story of ＜The Little Prince＞ is that the production of golems is similar to that.
Youngcha-
I put the lump of earth into the kiln.
Hwareuk-
Then the kiln was lit.
The temperature inside the kiln was displayed on the LCD.
The temperature gradually rose and finally exceeded 1,000℃.
‘okay!’
I reached out for a lump of clay being baked in the kiln.
and imagined
The shape of a person inside a lump of earth.
I imagined not only the body, but also the eyes, nose, lips, fingers and toes, and even the color of the eyes and lips.
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A white flash of light extended from my hand and enveloped the clod of earth.
Full-scale golem production began.
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He stayed still for 36 hours and focused only on making the golem.
‘done!’
Finally, the golem’s body was completed.
I turned off the light and opened the kiln door.
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As the cold air entered the kiln, the clods cooled and small cracks were formed on the surface.
After waiting for the clod to cool completely, it was taken out of the kiln.
Then he put his hand on it and cried out in his heart.
‘Wake up!’
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Clumps of soil cracked and shattered.
And the doll inside it appeared.
She was a naked woman with no strings on.
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She softly opened her eyes.