< Emergence of a Big Man (2) >

I was curious.

A great person whom I have only met in books or papers will arrive here soon.

It was just strange and surprising.

‘Why did the president call my father? Even at a private drinking party?’

Since he’s already a busy man, he probably doesn’t have much time left.

So I asked.

“Is it correct that I called my dad, not my grandfather? Are you sure?”

“Secretary Kim also asked Mayor Gu twice to confirm. The president said you weren’t invited.”

So I have no choice but to be puzzled.

‘My father is not in the right class to attend the president’s drinking party.’

If it was the president of this era, even my grandfather, the head of the Taesung Group, was an opponent who had to crawl on his knees with his head bowed.

My father, who is young and only the CEO of Taesung Construction?

Even the secretary of the Blue House Secretariat would not meet him.

‘It means that the matter is certain to point out a lower person who doesn’t fit the rank and invite them to a drinking party. What the hell is that?’

Yoo Jong-tae whispered softly.

“Since you have been summoned, we cannot make you wait. I was in the middle of setting up so that I could immediately drop off the emergency dispatch, move all the related data, and immediately colonize it if necessary.”

If my father and the bodyguards of the Taesung Group had prepared, it would have been construction data on subway line 2.

‘no. Reporting that to Mayor Gu would be enough. It sounds like there are more important things that you really want to check with your father.’

At that time, a black limousine appeared at the entrance to the Hyunmoo Hotel.

Immediately, the control of the Blue House bodyguards became more thorough.

The mayor of Seoul and ministers who were waiting in the lobby quickly ran out and started to line up in two columns.

‘Hey, guardian deity!’

[okay.]

I shared sight with the grim reaper.

* * *

The scene unfolded so vividly that I thought it was the same as seeing it right in front of me.

It meant that the grim reaper was also interested.

The owner of a limousine with the mayor of Seoul and ministers lined up in two columns.

Because I couldn’t help but find out who he was at once.

‘The president and his closest aides have arrived!’

The limousine stopped at the main entrance of the Hyunmoo Hotel.

Click.

The Blue House bodyguards rushed over to protect the surroundings.

A sharp-looking man opened the passenger seat door and got out.

i know who he is

‘You must be the head of the Central Intelligence Agency.’

When the Chief Central Officer tried to open the back door quickly, the opposite back door opened before him.

“Get out of the way. I will serve His Excellency.”

The head of the Blue House’s bodyguard, who looked brisk, said with a growl.

The Chief Justice took a step back.

Only then did the chief of security at the Blue House shake off his collar and go back and open the back door.

“Your Excellency, we have arrived.”

“okay.”

The finest shoes on the floor gleamed with brilliance without a speck of dust.

The creases at the hem of the trousers of the suit were held like knives.

Wearing a long black coat with shiny, top-notch mink hair.

The president got out of the car.

‘The country’s greatest tycoon!’

The president of this era was not a vagrant in power who only lasted for five years.

It was literally an era of absolute power, in which the reclaimed land was filled up with a word from the president, a tunnel was created by drilling a mountain, and a factory had to be built and colonized even with foreign loans.

‘Such tension, such excitement. It feels like I haven’t felt this in a really long time.’

I never thought I would feel the feelings I felt when I was a child.

‘Maybe it’s because I’m the only president I’ve never experienced.’

That made it more interesting, and that made it more eye-catching.

‘But he has nothing to do with me. The roads we go to are different.’

There will be no meeting with me or anything to do with me in this lifetime.

The president shook off the hem of his coat.

“Your Excellency, are you here!”

When the president appeared, the mayor and ministers of Seoul, who had gathered in two columns, bowed 90 degrees and greeted them loudly.

“I’ll take you inside!”

“hmm.”

The president nodded lightly.

I glanced around with sharp eyes.

As a result of the Blue House bodyguards’ control, the entire lobby from the front gate of the hotel was completely open without a single ant chick in the Hyunmu Hotel.

“egg plant.”

The president walked briskly, tidying up his clothes.

It was a step full of confidence.

Maintaining a long line in two columns, the country’s heavyweights started walking in line with the pace of the president, who stood in the lead.

‘You’ve captured the sh*t. Even if the division commander came, I wouldn’t be able to cut the knife to this extent.’

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No matter what.

Even if the army division commander and the chief of staff of the army came, they couldn’t even show their business cards to the president in those days.

Because he was the absolute power of this country and the military dictator.

Ding.

The elevator door opened.

The president strode in and boarded the elevator.

There was still plenty of room on board, but only three people could ride with the president.

They were the Chief of the Blue House Security Office, the Chief of the Blue House Secretariat, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Ding.

The elevator started going up quickly.

The head of the operation department of the Blue House Security Office said.

“The next elevator will be the Mayor of Seoul, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Construction, the Minister of Commerce and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.”

The Blue House security office even designated the order of boarding the elevator.

‘You can clearly see how this government is running. To set up a power line.’

Visible hierarchy of power.

I wanted this to be the code of conduct for absolute power.

If you are the head of the operation department of the Blue House Security Office, your rank is lower than that of the mayor of Seoul as well as ministers from various departments.

Even so, everyone was obediently following the orders of the chief of operations.

There is not even a hint of disapproval or even the slightest backlash.

‘You seem full of worries, let alone reaction. Why is everyone so nervous at a private drinking party?’

The old mayor was also very nervous.

He was fiddling with the paper bag he had been holding since earlier, wiping his dry lips with his tongue.

The Blue House bodyguards grinned.

“The rest of you, please stand by right here. Cold water also has up and down, but you have to go up in order. Isn’t it?”

Of course, among them, the ones assigned in the last order were my father and President Oh of Hyunmoo Construction.

‘Worse things will happen at a drinking party. If I prepared this roughly, I’d be kicked out without even making money.’

I realized why the bodyguards of the Taesung Group brought materials for the construction of subway line 2 to the drinking party.

I clenched my fists.

‘Even if I wasn’t just a seven-year-old kid. I wish I had built a deal myself. It’s a pity.’

For a moment, the rising sadness is also fleeting.

I remembered a more important task than that.

‘It’s a drinking party invited by the president. I have to stop my father from being disgraced.’

no You shouldn’t waste such a lucky opportunity like that.

‘At this point, let’s not only make sure to impress the high-ranking person, but also solidify the position of Taesung Engineering & Construction?’

Instead of honor, I will take care of practicality!

This was the belief I chose while living in the shadows.

‘good. Let’s make a picture that the president will be tempted by.’

A president who values national prestige and face.

A president who likes talent and economic development.

Coincidentally, we have information that would be noteworthy if we were the president, and things that could be solved easily only if the president stepped in!

Besides, this was a board that could satisfy my personal greed.

‘Do you think we can create a beautiful situation so that mother can proudly attend the first New Year’s family dinner?’

The family members must have heard the news that Taesung Chemicals might be blown away because of their mother.

I can’t hear the swearing of a woman who puts her child in front of me, or a woman who blocks men’s way.

‘The other siblings wouldn’t even be able to look down on their father if word came out that his father had a private meeting with the president.’

I don’t know if I hear the envious voice that my father has opened the way to a career.

He was born as a late-born child to his second wife, and he is a father who has no solid foundation because he moved around the provinces and the Middle East for a long time.

On the other hand, the other members of the family have properly filled Taesung’s important affiliates one by one.

But even those brothers would never have had a drink in private with the president!

good! Let’s try it!

“Chief Yu, can you call Secretary Kim for a second?”

Secretary Kim, my grandfather’s closest aide, would know the president much better than I do.

Of course, he would have prepared a proper countermeasure for it.

That’s why I wonder if the bodyguards of Taesung Group packed up the documents like that.

* * *

“I do not know.”

Secretary Kim’s answer left me speechless.

Yoo Jong-tae went out into the hallway and volunteered to be on guard duty, so only the two of us, Secretary Kim and I, were left in the room.

“I just wonder why His Excellency invited me to the drinking party.”

It was an embarrassing answer.

Secretary Kim, I believed you!

“Since the proposal for a drinking party came not through Chairman Cha, but through Mayor Koo, I am guessing that it is because of the construction of subway line 2.”

Secretary Kim’s face was thick with worry.

“So it’s a pretty tricky situation. There is no guesswork, so the preparation is also insufficient.”

Secretary Kim was more alert than usual.

“The situation outside is not very good in many ways. For that reason, I can’t be away for a long time now, so please excuse me…”

“Wait a minute.”

Where did you leave your coat? Eh, I don’t know!

I picked up the memo from the hotel room.

He picked up a poop ballpoint pen that had been placed next to the notepad and quickly scribbled it down.

Secretary Kim checked her watch and hardened her face.

“Brother, I don’t have time to be here right now.”

“There is no guesswork, so if you are insufficiently prepared, you are saying that there is no countermeasure. So wait a minute. Countermeasures, because I’m writing them down now.”

“Are you talking about countermeasures?”

I held out three finely folded pieces of paper, numbered 1 through 3 on the outside.

“I want you to pass this on to your father.”

“What is this?”

“That is not the answer I expected.”

Secretary Kim received a note.

“Why did you write the number on the outside?”

It’s because the memo paper is so small that all the letters don’t fit.

There is another reason.

“I marked each expected question to avoid confusion.”

“Can I check the contents?”

“Of course. Will I just live my faith or solve my curiosity? The choice is up to Secretary Kim.”

“Then I know you’ve allowed it.”

Secretary Kim opened the note without hesitation.

It was a completely different choice from Yoo Jong-tae’s choice of trust instead of curiosity.

“You betrayed my faith and chose curiosity. Won’t you regret it?”

“Regret is something I only do when I take wrong information from someone I serve and do things wrong.”

Secretary Kim greeted me politely.

“I’m sorry, Bocchan. Even if you resent it or be disappointed, I will gladly accept it.”

also. Do you like it.

It was satisfactory.

‘Secretary Kim shouldn’t make the same choice as Yoo Jong-tae. Secretary Kim is someone who can’t just be an errand boy.’

Secretary Kim frantically started reading the note.

The reading speed got faster and faster.

After reading through the third note, Secretary Kim looked up and looked at me.

It was a shocked expression.

“This is all done by the young master…!”

Secretary Kim washed her face dry.

“I can’t believe it. How can this be the insight of a preschooler… Hoo!”

It was an uncharacteristic reaction for Secretary Kim.

“I don’t think there’s anything better if it stays like this.”

Secretary Kim clenched both fists.

“If you are lucky, Taesung will likely be in charge of the sole bidding, and if you are even more fortunate, you will be in charge of the rest of the national projects.”

it should be should make it like that

This was a golden opportunity to catch a big fish.

How to seize the opportunity when it comes!

‘This is the first time I’ve ever seen a note I wrote glow in gold.’

< Rise of the Giants (2) > End

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