Korean TV series: King of Peninsula 1997

Chapter 502 'Justice'

Chen Rongji, the former prince of Shun Yang and now the acting chairman of Shun Yang, was arrested and interrogated by the Supreme Prosecutor's Office because of solid evidence of hiring a killer.

As soon as the news came out, people on the Korean Peninsula, especially the older ones who had experienced the heyday of Sunyang, of course knew what an incredible thing was happening now.

Some people even subconsciously glanced at the calendar, but then remembered that April Fool's Day had long passed.

It's not just these people, but more of the veterans and supporters of the Shunyang faction.

After Chen Rongji was taken away, they had already started looking for a way out.

To put it bluntly, they followed Chen Rongji, on the one hand, because of the late Chen Yangzhe's reputation, and on the other hand, Chen Rongji also gave them enough benefits.

But now the benefits cannot be guaranteed at all, and the little bit of affection has become a joke.

The two car accidents that Chen Yangzhe had suffered were already very strange, and the president's wife died in an unclear manner.
Everyone understands.

Many people secretly regretted in their hearts that they should have run away earlier. If they really didn’t want to run away, they would have joined Chen Dongji.

It is one thing for Chen Rongji to have a mental disorder and kill his father, but can he be more reliable in doing things?
Even the evidence was kept in someone's hands, and was kept for so many years, and was thrown out as a trump card at the most critical moment.

It's really embarrassing for Chen Yangzhe.

Cho Chang-sik, chief prosecutor of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in charge of the case, said at a press conference.

Initially, the Supreme Prosecutor's Office only received a report and conducted a routine summons and investigation on Acting Chairman Chen Rongji.

After being rejected, Yang Dongzhe, deputy director of the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors Office, accidentally discovered evidence that Chen Rongji had hired a killer to kill someone in the murderer's home while investigating a murder case.

"We will re-investigate Chairman Chen's assassination case," Zhao Changzhi said with a serious expression, lowering his head slightly as he pulled the microphone. "Although Chairman Chen Yangzhe was seriously ill in his last moments, judging from the hospital examinations before and after the car accident, we cannot rule out that the huge shock caused by the car accident exacerbated Chairman Chen Yangzhe's illness."

It sounds ridiculous, but Zhao Changzhi can do it.

Hiring someone to kill is already a serious crime, and he said all this so that he could add more charges when he sued Chen Rongji in court.

After all, this matter is the top priority for the Intelligence Agency right now, so the Procuratorate should of course cooperate.

As for Chen Rongji in the Supreme Prosecutor's Office, he just sat in the interrogation room with a numb face, lowering his head to avoid the glaring white light above.

There is a saying: Only those who have wronged him know how wronged he is.

In fact, this matter has only a little to do with him.

Chen Rongji did instigate his old mother to do this behind the scenes, but he was sure that he did not do it himself.

Contacting the killer and arranging the car accident assassination were all done by his old mother who came from the countryside.

But there was no way, he couldn't keep the evidence of his old mother's crime at that time.

Shun Yang’s current acting chairman has been arrested, and seeing as prosecutors and politicians are keeping silent about it, there’s a high probability that Chen Rongji will be sentenced.

The impact was all-encompassing. Chen Rongji's half of the Shun Yang Group began to collapse from top to bottom.

First, the stock prices of Shunyang's subsidiaries began to plummet on the stock market. Taking advantage of the plummeting stock prices, Li You began to acquire Shunyang's stocks in all aspects.

Those directors who held Shunyang Commodities shares also began to sell their shares.

But no one had any bad intentions towards Shunyang Commodities’ stocks, as everyone knew that these were Li You’s spoils of war.

Li You did not warn the speculators in advance, and they did not even dare to look.

The company's management also began to resign and change jobs on a large scale. They all had sufficient work experience and there was no need for them to go down with Shunyang. They could even get a large compensation package if they left according to Shunyang tradition.

The lower-level workers and white-collar workers were even more furious. Who would work hard for Shunyang for such a small salary a month? Anyone who wants to work hard for Shunyang is a fool.

Some of the subsidiary production lines of Shunyang Industry, which is managed by Chen Yangzhe, even stopped working completely on the Korean Peninsula within a few days, and employees launched a strike.

Workers gathered at the factory and then marched into the streets.

White-collar workers and service personnel also joined the crowd on the street, holding up signs demanding compensation and began to march.

This is actually what the presidents after Quan Kaka are more worried about, that is, taking action against any chaebol group may lead to a large-scale wave of unemployment and protests.

After all, the economy is built on these chaebols.

This is a characteristic of the chaebols on the Korean Peninsula. If anything goes wrong with any of the chaebols, it will have serious consequences that the government simply cannot afford.

That is to say, Shunyang was half-crippled after the palace fight, otherwise Li You would have no chance to take action.

Political struggles are political struggles, suppression is suppression, and no one dares to really cause trouble for the chaebols.

Li Lianchang was also anxious.

No matter why these tens of thousands of people are marching, he cannot allow this kind of thing to continue happening.

If this continues, it is likely that more people will be involved, and these tens of thousands of people are just the initial number.

Because too many people were afraid that Shunyang would collapse without anyone to take over, protesters emerged as soon as the incident was provoked.

If Shunyang falls and no one takes over.

The consequence is that countless Shunyang low-level employees will be laid off, and some office staff will be laid off and become unemployed. In the industrial chains connected to Shunyang Group's industries, countless smaller companies will face difficulties.

Not to mention the various chain reactions that it would trigger.

In other words, if Shunyang splits once, the number of people affected may be limited to a few hundred thousand or even hundreds of thousands, and this does not include the families of these employees. Otherwise, nearly four or five hundred thousand people may be affected by Shunyang.

Once the scale expands, he will be derelict in his duty as president.

Li Lianchang knew that this matter was related to Li You.

The parade can be as large as tens of thousands of people.
It would be strange if no one instigated this.

The first thing he said to Li You was a serious request, "President Li, this matter must be dealt with. When will you be done with it?"

"Tsk." Li You thought about it slowly, "Maybe another two to four weeks?"

"Two to four weeks is absolutely not possible!" Li Lianchang frowned, "The scale of the demonstration is still expanding. If it continues like this."

If this continues, the Gwangju incident will happen again, and he dare not use the army to suppress it.

"I know what Chairman Li is controlling," Li Lianchang sighed, "but public opinion is a fire that cannot be completely extinguished, and it will intensify as it spreads. Chairman Li is playing with fire now."

"We presidents," Li Lianchang said with a self-deprecating smile, "whether we lean east or west, it's all for the balance and stability of the entire peninsula."

“No one wants an armed conflict during his term, unless that person is a fool.”

"Your Excellency the President, you are worrying too much," Li You chuckled, "I have already made arrangements."

He took the acquisition plan handed to him by his secretary and glanced over it.

"The Shunyang employees who were instigated by those with ulterior motives were simply worried that Shunyang, a declining group, would not be able to guarantee them the treatment they deserved, and they were also worried about the high probability of large-scale layoffs."

Careful people.
Li Lianchang's face froze.

"Since Mr. President is worried," Li You still told him slowly and softly, "why not put pressure on the Supreme Prosecutor's Office to stop some people from resisting."

"I promise the President," Li You said, looking out the window calmly, "Chen Rongji's imprisonment is related to the acquisition of Shunyang. After the acquisition is successful, the plan we give to our employees will definitely suppress this matter."

Li Lianchang was silent for a while before he realized why Li You, who was clearly sure of victory, had to go to such great lengths to stir up such a huge public opinion storm.

Normally, acquiring half of Shunyang Group would not be something that would produce results in a short period of time.

Li You wanted to take advantage of the public opinion storm to cut the Gordian knot, and even threatened him.

They even threatened him. Li Lianchang said gloomily, "I know."

"I will report this to the Supreme Procuratorate," Li Lianchang said coldly, "but you need to suppress some disturbances in the demonstration and not let it expand further. Police officers have already been injured at the scene."

"Okay," Li You clapped his hands with a smile, "Perfect exchange."

After hanging up the phone, Li Lianchang's face was gloomy for a while. He clenched his fist and glanced at the future mobile phone in front of him. Li You's face flashed through his mind again.

Li Lianchang took a few deep breaths, resisted the urge to throw his phone to the ground, and called again.
A day later, after hearing from Chief Prosecutor Cho Chang-sik that Li Lianchang had taken action, Li You restrained himself a little and began to suppress the strike and demonstration.

Soon, word began to spread across the Korean Peninsula that the Kinmen Group was in the process of acquiring the Sunyang Group's assets and was likely to continue employing its former employees.

This made some people very skeptical, but they finally began to restrain themselves.

Especially when local police departments hired a group of Kinmen security guards who were distributed all over the place and began to maintain public order, many people were even a little happy.

They just don't want to have a pay cut, and they don't want to lose their jobs, so they start to raise the banner after being instigated by some people.

If the Kinmen Group can really take over the Shunyang Group, then
If before all three meals a day were eaten on the streets during the parades, now at least breakfast and dinner are eaten at home.

After seeing the good results, Li Lianchang in the President's Office could only sigh helplessly, and even made another phone call to put pressure on the current Chief Justice.

Li Lianchang has served as a Supreme Court Justice. The current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was not only appointed by him, but also a junior whom he is very optimistic about.

He just 'simply' reminded his juniors to 'enforce the law impartially' and make sure the criminals receive adequate punishment.

Since Li Lianchang said so, the Chief Justice also understood the situation.

When Chen Rongji was pushed into the Supreme Court, the sky in Seoul was gloomy and covered with dark clouds.

Zhao Changzhi walked in front of him, and the two of them also ignored the reporters swarming around them.

In the solemn courtroom of the Grand Court, after everyone took their seats, every eye was focused on the defendant's seat on the left.

Chen Rongji, who was sitting in the dock, didn't even look at the people in the jury box behind him, but just kept his head down.

Many people had different expressions on their faces. The once powerful Chairman Sunyang was now arrested for hiring a killer and would face severe sanctions under the laws of the Korean Peninsula.

There was another huge clamor from the reporters outside, which made Chen Rongji unable to help but look at the door.

At just this one glance, Chen Rongji saw Li You walking in with a smile on his face, escorted by security guards.

"Chairman Lee"

"You are here"

For a moment the entire courtroom was filled with the sound of greetings, but the Chief Justice just sat there, as if he saw nothing, and did not maintain order in the courtroom at all.

Li You pressed his hands together and sat down from the back seat.

After going through various procedures, the court became much more solemn.

Zhao Changzhi, with a stern face and wearing a neat black suit, stood in the center of the solemn courtroom, his eyes fixed on Chen Rongji sitting in the dock. There was a prosecutor's badge pinned on his clothes, shining golden under the light.

He formally sued Prince Shunyang, who was once extremely powerful but now has fallen from grace, in the Supreme Court.

Under the lights of the courtroom, Cho Chang-sik's already handsome face looked even more serious.

His voice was clear and firm, and he really was like the incarnation of justice as he listed all of Chen Rongji's crimes one by one. Regardless of whether Chen Rongji had committed these crimes or not, each one was accompanied by solid documents and eyewitness testimonies.

The words are sharp and every word is precious.

Zhao Changzhi's actions made Chen Rongji, who was mentally prepared, laugh speechlessly.

He looked up to the back of the jury box, at the man who had brought him here.

Chen Rongji ignored Zhao Changzhi's sharp words and just stared at Li You for a long time.

Li You just looked calm and gestured to him.
Thumbs up.

Sitting in the dock, Chen Rongji lowered his head in silence and didn't look at Li You.

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During the trial, Zhao Changzhi's powerful voice was still echoing in the courtroom. Each of the charges he listed against Chen Rongji was like a heavy hammer hitting the hearts of the ignorant spectators.

The four words "hiring a killer" are enough to explode like thunder, not to mention that he colluded with his mother to try to kill his father.

After being influenced by the inherited Confucianism, the hierarchy of seniority is almost ingrained in the Korean people's bones, and they have even independently developed strict relationships between seniors and juniors in the workplace.

Once Chen Rongji was charged with attempted patricide, he would be cursed by everyone on the streets of the Korean Peninsula.

Zhao Changzhi argued that the severity of this crime should be no different from direct murder and should be punished equally.

What followed was rounds of debate between the lawyers and Cho Chang-sik, with the lawyers denying and Cho Chang-sik affirming time and time again.

There were two short recesses in between.

Amid the hustle and bustle, Chen Rongji could no longer hear what was being said around him.

"The accused?"

"Defendant!"

Chen Rongji was called back from his daze by the Chief Justice. His eyes no longer had the arrogance and gloominess of the past, but were replaced by deep worry and uneasiness.

"Does the defendant have anything else to say?"

Chen Rongji shook his head with a haggard face. What was revealed in his eyes was not the remorse of a prisoner, but more of an indescribable complex emotion.

Now that it has come to this, it means that even his top lawyer is powerless.

The evidence Li You prepared was too sufficient, so he had to resort to unconventional tactics.

He turned his head and looked at the Chief Prosecutor Cho Chang-sik who was prosecuting him, and sighed in his heart.
The Chief Justice's chair is at the innermost side of the courtroom, and he is the person who sits high up on the podium in the entire courtroom.

After discussing with everyone, the Chief Justice's gaze pierced through the crowd and fell on Chen Rongji. After a moment's silence, he announced the verdict in a steady and powerful voice, declaring the sentence on Chen Rongji.

"ten years?"

Chen Rongji's lawyer sat up suddenly. He really couldn't sit still anymore. Ten years in prison was really too much.

This announcement also made Chen Rongji's face even paler.

"So cruel" Chen Rongji looked towards the back row again, but found that Li You was no longer there.

"Don't say that President Chen hired someone to kill someone," the lawyer stood up immediately. He was now defending his reputation as a lawyer. "Even if it was attempted murder, you can't make such a verdict!"

"Quiet!" The Chief Justice gave him a cold look and said, "The verdict has been handed down. If you have any objections, you can apply for a retrial in prison."

In the courtroom, many spectators either breathed a sigh of relief or looked surprised. Many wanted to turn back to look for Li You, but like Chen Rongji, they found nothing.

"The president asked me to tell you something," Zhao Changzhi stretched out his hand to stop Chen Rongji when he was led out from the dock.

Zhao Changzhi narrowed his eyes and approached him, "The chairman said, 'Vice Chairman Chen should just stay inside and watch Shunyang collapse, and don't do anything that will cause misunderstanding.'"

Chen Rongji looked at him silently, turned around and walked away with his head down, with no expression on his face.

Chen Rongji's lawyer frowned and kept muttering something to Chen Rongji.

(End of this chapter)