Korean TV series: King of Peninsula 1997

Chapter 378: The Impregnable Camp

"If you want to deal with the Daying Group, you must first deal with Zhu Rongyi," Chen Rongji said, "Can I tell you about Daying?"

Chen Dongji smiled and said, "Hey, big brother, everyone knows your relationship, just tell us quickly."

Chen Rongji had no expression on his face, as he had already gotten used to his younger brother's foul language.

"Let me start from the beginning. Daying Group is currently one of the largest conglomerates in South Korea," Chen Rongji said solemnly. "Zhu Rongyi first established a rare automobile repair shop in Seoul. This was also the earliest prototype of Daying Group."

"During the 1960s and 1970s, Zhu Rongyi founded companies such as Daying Automobile, Daying Civil Engineering, and Daying Construction."

He glanced at Li You and Ding Qing. After all, apart from Shunyang Group, the best real estate company at the moment was Kinmen Group, especially after Kinmen Group acquired Busan Zhao Group.

The two of them had no expression and just listened silently.

"He later established Daying Heavy Industry Company, trying to compete with Tianxia Group and Shunyang Group, thus making Daying Group a comprehensive enterprise group mainly engaged in construction, shipbuilding and automobile industries, and also engaged in steel, machinery, trade, transportation and other industries."

"Of course." Chen Rongji smiled, "He didn't succeed, especially under the sniping of my father and Chairman Jin."

Jin Jianying looked calm as usual. At that time, he and Chen Yangzhe jointly suppressed the rising camp.

After all, Zhu Rongyi is too ambitious. Not only does he take over the shipbuilding and automobile industries, he also insists on getting involved in the heavy industry of Tianxia Group and the logistics and trade of Shunyang.

But being suppressed does not mean that Zhu Rongyi was defeated.

With the help of his family and partners, Zhu Rongyi led Daying Group to create a series of breathtaking achievements in South Korea, which also made people admire Zhu Rongyi's vision for people.

Daying Motors is the largest automobile brand in South Korea. It manufactured the first domestically produced car in South Korea in the 1970s. Daying Marine has the world's largest shipyard...

"In the 1990s, the sales of the Daeyoung Group accounted for 16 percent of South Korea's total national income, reaching a staggering 53.2 billion US dollars, playing a vital role in South Korea's national economy."

Chen Rongji's expression did not change when he talked about this. After all,
At its peak, under the leadership of Chen Yangzhe, Shunyang Group's sales accounted for 30%.

At that time, the Tianxia Group and Daying Group together were almost the same size as Shunyang.

"You all should know that Zhu Rongyi has many sons," Chen Rongji said with some envy on his face, "including the illegitimate son who has been made public, there are a total of eight sons."

Not only him, but also Chen Dongji. These two brothers, one gave birth to a playboy, and the other did not give birth to a son at all.
"Daying Motors has been able to surpass all previous car manufacturers on the Korean Peninsula and become famous in the world automotive industry in just a few decades because of his philosophy and his ability to judge people."

Chen Rongji glanced at Li You inconspicuously. Li You suffered such a serious assassination threat some time ago, and everyone knew who did it.

Being able to make Zhu Rongyi feel such a threat, Li You’s future can be imagined.

Chen Rongji paused for a moment before adding, "In the Zhu family of Daying Group, Zhu Rongyi has fifteen younger brothers, eight sons, and one son-in-law. Apart from the heir, he requires all of them to be at the forefront of the business. He also often brings his heir, his second son Zhu Mengyong, to the front line in person."

"Actually, after saying so much," Chen Rongji sighed, "I just want to express that Zhu Rongyi has fully grasped the real-time situation of Daying Group."

"Isn't he tired?" Ding Qing's focus was very special.

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Chen Dongji also interrupted with a smile, "How could I not be tired? But look at Zhu Rongyi's body, how strong it is."

Seeing the two people who were out of tune, Chen Rongji almost turned his face away from them. After all, he had talked for a long time and now these two people were discussing whether they were tired or not.

"In all this time, the Daying Group has only experienced two crises," Chen Rongji ignored the two and continued, "One was the joint suppression of Shunyang and Tianxia mentioned earlier."

"Another incident occurred in 1987, when the subsidiaries, mainly Daying Machinery, began to have strike problems, which eventually affected the entire Daying Group."

"I know, it's actually a labor dispute," Jin Jianying said, almost wanting to laugh, "Those directors actually asked Zhu Rongyi to withdraw from the management team."

He laughed, "Although the salary decision-making power and management rights of Daying were temporarily handed over to the general managers of various companies, that is, his brothers, and the strike storm subsided, the six major companies within Daying Group went into suspension."

"Guess what?" Jin Jianying smiled and shook her head. "Later, those general managers took the initiative to fire all those trouble-making employees over the years and replaced them with new people little by little."

Zhu Rongyi is good at judging people, but he only judges important management. The directors who are responsible for investing money and the junior employees under them are not included.

"As for those directors who took the lead, they either left the camp honestly or disappeared without a trace," Jin Jianying sneered, "Zhu Rongyi was really merciful at that time."

Logically speaking, if Jin Jianying came, all these directors who were causing trouble would be sunk into the sea.

"He really runs the camp like an iron barrel," Chen Rongji narrowed his eyes, "but this iron barrel still has cracks."

"His brother and son are not of the same mind."

"The succession right must come from the son, but he has fifteen younger brothers, and now two of them have been excluded from the Daying Group."

"Zhu Rongyi is seventy years old this year, and his successor Zhu Mengyong is nearly forty years old, no longer young."

Chen Rongji smiled, "Although the camp has been silent during this period, I still know some things from my cooperation with Zhu Rongyi during this period."

"For example, seven years ago, Zhu Rongyi's younger brother, who was the first to leave Daying Group, was squeezed out by Zhu Mengyong."

"Because of the strike at that time, several directors involved were investors brought in by my younger brother," Chen Rongji lowered his eyes, "He wanted to use this incident to kick out a few more people."

"Unfortunately, Zhu Rongyi intervened and stopped the matter, saving the other brothers."

The looks of the people present were subtle. As expected, no matter how hard Zhu Rongyi tried to unite his family, cracks still appeared among them.

He has a really big family. Fifteen younger brothers, eight sons, and one daughter.

These younger brothers have children, and their children have their own children. Sometimes having a large family is not a good thing.

"Last year was the year when Daying Group and I got the closest," Chen Rongji said with a smile on his face. "I learned something very important."

“Just last year, Zhu Mengyong’s elder brother Zhu Mengyuan took advantage of Zhu Mengyong’s business trip with Zhu Rongyi to try to bribe officials in the group and sow discord between Zhu Rongyi and Zhu Mengyong.

Zhu Rongyi learned about this and was extremely dissatisfied with it. He even summoned Zhu Mengyuan to ask him to give up the idea of ​​competing for the chairmanship of Daying Group.

But he is his eldest son after all, so as compensation, he will be allowed to manage Daying’s automobile business.” “Zhu Rongyi specifically announced this within the group.”

"But it's a matter of reciprocity," Chen Rongji narrowed his eyes, "Of course Zhu Mengyong doesn't want to. It was obviously his elder brother Zhu Mengyuan who targeted him, but Zhu Rongyi compensated Zhu Mengyuan."

"After that, the Daying family was no longer united, and the brothers' quarrels were only settled on the surface."

"We need an opportunity to break the impasse," Jin Jianying looked at Li You with a subtle look.

Li You understood the look in the eyes of the chairman of Tianxia Group, but remained silent.

It is now obvious that the internal conflicts of Daying Group are being suppressed by Zhu Rongyi. The fifteen younger brothers know that they have no right of inheritance and will probably have to choose between the eldest and the second oldest.

He looks very similar to Shunyang, but in fact, the current Zhu Rongyi is not the dying Chen Yangzhe who has no power. As long as he can successfully hand over Daying Group to his successor Zhu Mengyong while he is alive, there will be no unrest in Daying.

As for what Jin Jianying said just now, the intention is also obvious.

The opportunity he was looking for was Zhu Rongyi's sudden death.

He wanted the healthy Zhu Rongyi to die suddenly. It goes without saying what he wanted Li You to do.

"It's not like we haven't thought of a solution," Chen Dongji also looked over with a smile and was the first to speak, "President Li, why don't we be honest?"

"You want Jinmen to take action?" Li You laughed sarcastically, "What can you pay us?"

"We don't do this kind of thing," Ding Qing agreed, "We are a formal enterprise."

Jin Jianying looked at Li You calmly, "What does President Li want?"

He threw the question back, but Li You didn't buy it and still insisted, "What can President Jin give us?"

During the stalemate, Jin Jianying laughed out loud, "In fact, Chairman Li's attitude is also within our expectations."

"President Li, don't worry," Chen Dongji added, "We are both guilty of incitement to murder."

Li You laughed instead, "You can't get something for nothing."

Seeing that Li You refused to give in, Chen Rongji stepped out to smooth things over.

"When we divide the camp, we should negotiate well," Chen Rongji said with a smile, "The Kinmen Group is still a little behind Shunyang and Tianxia, ​​and its ability to compete in business is also a little lacking."

"After Zhu Rongyi dies, we will suppress Daying's business and disintegrate Daying Group."

That being said, just like the Daying Group in the past two years, the Daying Group will not disappear. It will only start to become independent companies one after another with the support of the government.

Some subsidiaries will be unable to continue operating under the suppression, or their shares will be acquired, which will cause these subsidiaries to begin to die.

Chen Rongji suggested with a smile, "How about letting the Kinmen Group choose first?"

“After all, we have paid a lot.”

Essentially, there is nothing wrong with what he said.

Killing Zhu Rongyi would involve legal risks, while commercial suppression would waste a lot of financial and material resources.

In the conference room, the tense atmosphere solidified into reality.

Thick curtains blocked the outside world. Several people occupied a chair each, and their faces no longer had the harmony they had before.

"Since President Li refused, we'll talk about it later," Jin Jianying said slowly, with fatigue in his voice.

Chen Rongji frowned and tapped the table with his fingers. "We have already made the biggest concession."

His tone was calm, but it couldn't hide his anxiety.

The air was filled with smoke, and in the smoke, Chen Dongji had a half-smile on his face.

"Goodbye," Li You stood up and called Ding Qing who was eating melons nearby.

They shook hands, a cold, businesslike gesture, and seemed to have reached no consensus.

After Li You and Ding Qing left, the three people present laughed out loud.

“President Kim acted really well,” Chen Dongji joked with a smile, “It was as if he really didn’t want to continue the conversation.”

"Don't say that," Jin Jianying shook her head. "The best actor is still our Chairman Li. He clearly agreed, but he still came up with so many excuses."

This was a fake show, just to prevent this negotiation from becoming a handle for any of them.

In fact, the cooperation was decided at the beginning, and the only thing left later was to determine how to divide the spoils.

Although everyone had not communicated with each other beforehand, they all understood each other's meaning.

The dinner party outside hadn’t stopped yet, and Ding Qing complained, “You guys are so tired of talking.”

"What if I'm not tired?" Li You shrugged and picked up a glass of wine. "This is also to protect myself."

“No one knows if anyone recorded the video,” Li You said. “No one wants to leave any evidence.”

"Have you recorded it?" Ding Qing looked at Li You pretentiously.

"Why are you pretending to be so nice to me?" Li You rolled his eyes and took the recorder from Ding Qing's pocket. "I gave you this recorder."

"Good memory," Ding Qing chuckled. This was the money that Li You gave to him and Li Zicheng respectively to deal with the undercover Shi Wu.

(End of this chapter)