Korean TV series: King of Peninsula 1997

Chapter 46 Present and Future

In a plain pub in Seocho District, Choi Doo-il, wearing a black jacket and jeans, was waiting for his good brother whom he had not seen for many days.

It's just that he was in a bad mood these days and had to drink one glass of wine after another.

"Shit." He cursed and poured himself a glass of wine.

“Dori!” Cui Douri turned his head and almost jumped out of his chair. He knew the guy with sunglasses, one of the cadres of Jiangnan Industry. “Hey, what are you doing here!?”

When Xu Zhonglie heard the voice of Dou Ri, he had already taken out the folding knife from his body. He remembered that the second-in-command of Wild Dog was called Cui Dou Ri.

Li You noticed the tense situation between the two men and reached out to stop Xu Zhonglie.

Park Tae-soo also turned around and smiled apologetically, pushing Choi Doo-il back to his chair, "Mr. Lee, please introduce me, this is——"

"The leader of the group of wild dogs who came to Jiangnan is Cui Douri." Li You was not drunk at all. "Don't be so nervous. Since I'm here, I won't do anything to you."

Cui Dou Ri snorted, turned around, poured a glass of wine, and drank it in front of Li You, "Who are you? The president of Jiangnan Industrial? So young?"

"Dou Ri!" Park Tae-soo scolded, and turned to Li You with a smile, "Mr. Li, my friend has been in a bad mood these days."

"I'm in a bad mood because of Jiangnan Industry," Cui Dou Ri said dimly, "You Jiangnan Industry beat our two brothers so badly that they threw them back. How can I be happy?"

Li You pulled out a chair and sat down. "Since you have come to Seoul and Gangnam, you should understand that there should be no stray dogs in Gangnam. Besides, it is hard to say whether you are stray dogs or not."

"Shit." Cui Dou Ri grabbed his hair, "What do you want to do? Just tell me!"

He has always had a headache about studying. He and Park Tae-soo have been playing naked since childhood and have taken completely different paths until now. Park Tae-soo is not only good at studying but also good at seizing opportunities, while Choi Doo-il has been hanging around at the bottom of society since he graduated from high school and has tattoos almost all over his body in order to avoid military service.

“Your company is very popular in Mokpo,” Li You shook the drink the bartender brought to him, “but this is in Seoul, you have crossed the line.”

"This is not Mokpo. Do you think you can get ahead by fighting and killing?"

"You have neither a fixed industry nor a place suitable for your permanent residence, yet you rush into Seoul like this."

Li You recalled his recent instructions to retrench Gangnam Industrial. "Given the new president's determination to eradicate evil, do you think Park Tae-soo, a prosecutor, can protect you?"

Thinking of Han Jiangzhi's attitude, he pointed at the black puppy looking out the door, "Or do you really think of yourself as a stray dog ​​on the roadside? If someone wants to touch you, you throw them two bones, and if they think you are dirty, you kick them away?"

"But there's a Chinese saying that I think applies to you," he said, standing up and preparing to leave, "It's hard to persuade a damned ghost with kind words."

"Also, I have to remind you that Jiangnan belongs to Jiangnan Industry."

Looking at the empty seats, Cui Douri slapped the table unwillingly, "Why?"

Only he himself knows how much he has paid. Whether it was Park Tae-soo or Han Jiangzhi, their dirty deeds were all caused by him. He watched his good brothers climb up step by step, and he also benefited from it, and thus became the second-in-command of the Wild Dogs.

But he didn't get any respect. In Han Jiangzhi's eyes, he was really a wild dog, his name was forgotten and he was treated like a running dog.

"Tae-soo," he looked at his silent brother with red eyes, "Do we still have a chance?"

Choi Doo-il placed all his hopes on him. "Do you still have a chance to have the same power as Han Kang-sik? Or how long will it take?" Park Tae-soo sighed and spoke with difficulty, "There is still a big gap between him and me. Prosecutors need too much experience."

"But have you ever thought that you'll never be able to catch up with him this way?"

He looked at Cui Douri, who had an unpleasant expression on his face, and tried to speak, "How about joining Jiangnan Industry?"

As if he had found inspiration, Park Tae-soo opened up the conversation, "Although Gangnam Industrial is not large in scale, it is at least a local boss. They have legal industries throughout the Gangnam District."

"But isn't your wife's family also rich?" Cui Dou Ri didn't quite understand. "Why do you value a small Jiangnan Industry so much?"

Park Tae-joo shook his head, "It's different, Doo-il."

"Shangxi's family business has become like a castle in the air these days. It could collapse at any time." He squinted his eyes, as if he had grasped something deeper. "The current policy is that only real industry is the real kingly way."

"We are like dandelions floating in the sky, but they are saplings rooted in the ground," Park Tae-soo sat opposite Choi Doo-il, "Based on the current situation, I think the country will focus on the development of the Gangnam region in the future. It is very likely that Mr. Li of Gangnam Industrial is also waiting for this opportunity."

"Dou Ri!" Seeing that he didn't speak, Park Tae-soo said anxiously, "Once he seizes this opportunity, Jiangnan Industry will take off!"

The more he spoke, the more certain he became. "Han Jiangzhi must have guessed more about Gangnam's inside story, so he asked Chief Prosecutor Zhao to help him make connections. How could he have let Li You come to the table in the past?"

"Trust me, Douri!"

After a long silence, Choi Doo-il spoke, "I have always believed in you, but can Gangnam Industrial accept us? Even if they accept us, how will we be treated? Have you thought about this, Tae-soo?"

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"I will contact him again. I believe he will still give face to a prosecutor," Park Tae-soo repeatedly urged, "You must talk to him sincerely when the time comes."

Li You returned to his room, took a shower, came out shirtless, and leaned on the sofa watching TV.

This house was Zheng Qitie's criminal property. After being confiscated, it was auctioned according to the laws of the Republic of Korea. Li You only spent a small amount of money to buy it.

A financial program was being broadcast on TV, and three economics experts were seriously analyzing the current economic situation in South Korea.

"1997, a year that the older generation of the Korean government and people are terrified of and secretly saddened by."

"In 1997, a country that had been 'protected' militarily was 'protected' economically and financially."

"Welcome to the 1998 Economic Forum!"

"Professor Li, last time we talked about the booming economy of South Korea from the 1960s to the mid-1990s," the host said after the opening remarks. He walked to the camera with his thighs exposed and a sweet smile on his round face. "So what will we talk about this time?"

"Here I want to criticize the previous president's instructions," Professor Li is an old man with wrinkles on his face. "President Jin Shui-san not only allowed the country and enterprises to continue to raise foreign debts for inefficient investment, but also further promoted the state to back up all kinds of commercial banks, completely tying up the state's credit, bank loans and corporate debts together."

"Yes," the female professor on his right said, "and South Korea's foreign exchange reserves have always been "large inflows and outflows, always hungry", which means that once a financial crisis occurs, South Korea will be naked!"

"I'm sorry, my words may be a little vulgar." The female professor apologized to the audience, "But I still want to say that the economic policies implemented during President Kim Soo-sam's term were completely wrong! He completely handed over the economic lifeline of our Republic of Korea to the hands of European and American capitalists!"

(End of this chapter)