Korean TV series: King of Peninsula 1997

Chapter 630 Defeat
The conference room fell silent for a moment. Zhao Tae-seop looked around, but there was still no sound.

Some people were eager to try and had ideas in their hearts, but they didn't say anything.

The Grand Unified Democratic New Party is divided into several factions, and the leading members of the party are mostly silent, with one even dozing off with his eyes closed.

They didn't speak and seemed to be in the same mind as Cho Tae-seop. Even if the congressmen of lower status had some thoughts and opinions in their minds, it would be useless for them to say anything.

If the top figures of these factions don't speak up, the people below them will certainly not expose their thoughts all at once, so as to avoid becoming the target of Zhao Tae-seop's firepower.

They also knew what Zhao Taixie's purpose was in coming to today's meeting. It was nothing more than a display of skill to stabilize the Grand Unified Democratic New Party, a large party that had been integrated for a year, to prevent the building from collapsing.

They just want to undermine Cho Tae-seop's reputation and don't want him to turn this place into a one-man show, but they certainly have a consensus on allowing the Grand Unified Democratic New Party to continue to exist.

After all, this helps them gain many benefits that they would not otherwise get.

The congressman who spoke first was undoubtedly trying to pass the buck, wanting Cho Tae-seop to take the blame for the actions taken against the Grand National Party city councilors.

Trying to turn the war between the two major parties into a personal feud in order to avoid retaliation from Grand National Party lawmakers is also an attempt to sow discord between Cho Tae-seop and Grand National Party lawmakers in order to further intensify the conflict between the two sides.

According to common sense, Cho Tae-seop should have apologized for his actions during this period, and then expressed that he would take responsibility for this omission. In the past, whenever something big happened in a political party in the political arena, there would be a party leader who would come out to take responsibility and admit his mistakes to divert the fire.

Many of the congressmen below had a slight smile on their faces, waiting for Congressman Cho, who had been a powerful figure in the Korean Peninsula's political arena for the past nine months, to bow his head.

Who knew that Cho Tae-seop would say that the Grand National Party is our common enemy. This was not in line with the process and script, and it surprised them.

Unexpectedly, Cho Tae-seop did not even follow the political convention of the party leader taking the blame.

"Which other councillor has an objection to my becoming the party leader?" Li You repeated. Seeing that no one spoke up, he slowly said, "Since no one agrees with Councillor Liu, can I assume that Councillor Liu is the source of this rumor? Is Councillor Liu trying to attract attention, or does he want to take the position of party leader?"

Councilman Liu, who had just questioned Zhao Taixie, turned his head left and right in embarrassment, but saw that no one stood up for him.

Those who had encouraged him to take the lead before the meeting were staring calmly at the table in front of them.

"Haha..." Zhao Taixie, who was sitting in the first seat, laughed and gave him a way out. "It's just a joke, Councillor Liu, don't be nervous."

Zhao Taixie knew why Councillor Liu suddenly showed up and what the councillors in front of him were thinking.

The Grand Unified Democratic New Party initially united because they hated and resisted Lee Woo's deep ties with the Grand National Party. Now Lee Woo has long parted ways with the Grand National Party, and in their opinion, that is enough. As long as Lee Woo loses most of his political power, they will have money.

But this incident may make Lee Woo and the Grand National Party stand in the same camp again. There are many congressmen who do not have high vision and naturally have complaints about what Cho Tae-sub is doing now. Once instigated by others, they will follow Congressman Liu to be the first to speak out.

These people have complaints about Zhao Taixie's actions in the past two months, which is understandable to Zhao Taixie.

Let them make some rumors, as long as they don’t really affect him, he won’t care.

Zhao Taixie gave Councilman Liu a way out and also told those who were instigating others behind the scenes that he was just pretending to be ignorant, but in fact he knew everything and they should stop doing unnecessary things.

"What we need to think about now is not how to share the blame, but how to solve this problem."

The meeting room fell silent again, and finally Cho Tae-seop spoke again, "The Grand National Party is now showing that it wants to perish with us, and it is clear that it wants to weaken both of our voices in the National Assembly. Members, please tell me, what method should we choose?"

What else can we do?
Members of the National Assembly were murmuring, "The opposition party's greatest influence is in Congress. The Grand National Party has been weakened and still has the support of the president, but the Grand Unified Democratic Party has been weakened."

"No, no, no," the congressman who was closer to Cho Tae-seop shook his head, "We can't play this game with the Grand National Party."

"This brings us back to the original question," someone finally said. "Where can the Grand National Party attack? Isn't it still DH Financial Holdings and Peninsula Bank?"

"It's nothing to worry about," Cho Tae-seop shook his head. "DH Financial Holdings CEO Park committed suicide. The case has expired and the prosecutors have already started the investigation. That's why the protesters are targeting Peninsula Bank, which lent them money when they bought the house."

"Peninsula Bank already has a case, and I have arranged for a deputy prosecutor to take over the case, so that if new problems arise, they can be quickly merged into the case."

Looking at the congressmen whispering to each other, Zhao Taixie felt that the confidential events in their minds were all very dirty, and they all wanted to use them for their own benefit, but unfortunately such a method did not exist.

After a brief discussion, the leading lawmakers agreed with Cho Tae-seop's statement and made corresponding concessions in the political arena, releasing some city councilors from the Grand National Party again. However, they had to first hand over any possible cases involving Peninsula Bank to the hands of the Deputy Prosecutor General contacted by Cho Tae-seop to avoid being caught off guard like the DH Financial Holdings incident.

"Since everyone agrees, let's move on to the last topic," Cho Tae-seop's face became more serious. "Regarding the cooperation between our Grand Unified Democratic New Party and the World Group, Chairman Kim Gun-young contacted me this morning and felt that we should change the way we cooperate."

"President Jin Jianying?"

The lawmakers below looked at each other in bewilderment. How could the cooperation between politicians and chaebols be announced openly and brought up as an agenda item in the meeting?
But after a short while, they remembered that they were scanned by the instrument before joining the meeting, and their mobile phones were placed in a briefcase prepared before the meeting, eliminating the possible risk of leakage.

This kind of secret meeting cannot be considered as being announced to everyone, nor does it need to be presented in front of the media or the public.

"How does Chairman Kim Gun-young want to cooperate?" The congressman to Cho Tae-seop's left frowned. "Do you want to interfere in the affairs of the Grand Unified New Party of Democracy like Chairman Lee interfered in the affairs of the Grand National Party?"

Zhao Taixie looked over and shook his head after a brief pause, "Councilman Huang misunderstood. Chairman Jin did not have such an idea."

He didn't like Congressman Huang Canrong very much. As a representative of the moderate faction in the Grand Unified Democratic New Party, he and Zhao Taixie were just incompatible.

Although he is called a moderate, he is actually a conservative. He has dissuaded Cho Tae-seop from making many reforms within the Grand Unified Democratic Party.

As expected, even though Cho Tae-seop said so, Huang Canrong still did not give up persuading him. Instead, he frowned and stared at Cho Tae-seop, "I know that Councillor Cho and Chairman Kim have a close relationship, but Councillor Cho must not let what Lee Woo did in the Grand National Party happen in our Grand Unified Democratic New Party. Such a thing is an extremely serious dereliction of duty for the party leader. The chaebols must not extend their hands into politics!"

Even the wisest people will get tired of being warned, and this has always been the case.

Even though he was ambitious, Cho Tae-seop, who had entered politics with the goal of clearing up the political arena and reshaping the country, could not help but feel a little disgusted with Huang Canrong, a "conservative" guy.

Now they are still obsessed with removing the hands of the chaebols from the political arena.
Zhao Taixie felt that this guy was ignorant of the current situation. What they wanted to do was not to remove the chaebols from politics, but to remove Lee Woo's hands from politics. It was no longer a secret that the chaebols provided funds to politicians. Why was this guy pretending to be a good person in front of him?

You, Huang Canrong, didn’t spend a penny of the money that Jin Jianying gave you.

"Malfeasance?" Zhao Taixie's tone also turned cold. "Councilman Huang, I said that this did not happen. Aren't we supposed to discuss the future cooperation method with Chairman Jin Jianying and Tianxia Group?"

"Is it considered dereliction of duty to raise a matter for everyone to decide during a meeting of the Grand Unified Democratic Party?"

Huang Canrong adjusted his glasses and stopped talking.

Zhang Shuozhou, the top reformist councillor who was watching the fun from the side, saw that Huang might be really angry, and the smile on his face instantly disappeared. He came out to be a peacemaker with a serious face: "Councillor Huang has also worked diligently for our New Party for so many days. Everyone can see it. It is normal for him to have some doubts."

He coughed and said, "Since the party leader has already proposed it, I think he has also considered the preliminary form of cooperation. Why not tell everyone about it?"

Zhao Taixie nodded slightly, glanced at Huang Canrong who looked surprised, and spoke slowly.

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After a while, Huang Canrong left the table in anger.

"What do you think?" Zhao Taixie did not stop him. Instead, he smiled and looked at the other members of the parliament and said, "If you still think there is something inappropriate, you can raise it."

The reason why he didn't stop it was, of course, because.
It is true that Huang Canrong is a representative of the moderate faction, but other moderate legislators have not left, so you can leave if you want.

Zhao Taixie's words caused the whole room to burst into laughter: "What Councillor Zhao said is the most suitable way of cooperation!"

Zhao Taixie put away his smile and sighed, saying sincerely and self-reproachfully, "I did make some misjudgments and wrong decisions recently, which led to crises at DH Financial Holdings and Peninsula Bank. The party's available funds are no longer available. I have wasted everyone's time today, so I hope you will forgive me."

"No need to say more, Councillor Zhao. You have devoted your life to the Grand Unified Democratic New Party. We are all very grateful to you." Zhang Shuozhou and Zhao Taixie walked out of the door together, and then sent Zhao Taixie to the car. After watching Zhao Taixie leave, he waved his hand and asked his secretary to prepare the car, "Let's go to the hospital."

When Zhao Taixie got into the car to leave here, the first thing he did was to take off his glasses and rub his aching head.

"Congressman Nim, are you okay?" Assistant Officer Jin Zhenyu was a little worried.

"I'm fine," Zhao Tae-seop shook his head and rubbed his eyebrows.

Jin Zhenyu was a little angry, "That old guy Huang Canrong."

"Director Jin!"

After being scolded by Zhao Taixie, Jin Zhenyu quickly shut up.

"Although I don't like him and he doesn't like me either," Zhao Taixie calmed down, his tone revealing a bit of loneliness, "but he is indeed a good person. Although he also takes money and does things, he is more righteous than 90% of the politicians in this country."

"When I was a prosecutor, I also wanted to change the world with justice, but later..."

Zhao Taixie shook his head. "In this hypocritical world, morality is always just a bargaining chip for power. I want to hold that trump card. Without power as a trump card, what is the point of talking about morality?"

His car passed through Gangnam, and Zhao Taixie looked at the Kinmen logo from the car window, and it was as if he saw Li You.

He lost the first official "war" with Li You.

For this reason, Cho Tae-seop may not be able to keep DH Financial Holdings, which he had painstakingly accumulated, even Peninsula Bank, and he will have to be controlled by Kim Gun-young with money for a while again.

Li You was not in the office at this time, but took the pregnant Mou Xianmin to Mingyu Hospital for examination.

Li You did not drive himself, Quan Zaijun was still the driver, and Li You hugged Mou Xianmin in the back seat.

No matter how strong a woman she acted in the past, she still relied a lot on Li You at times like this.

Mou Xianmin laughed out loud at Li You's joke. After calming down, she sat up straight and whispered, "Recently, because I was resting, my father took over Xiancheng Group again. Did he take any other actions? Will there be any bad consequences?"

Li You sighed: "You think too much. He is my father-in-law and your father. Besides, he is only temporarily managing Xiancheng Group. What consequences can this have?"

"Of course not," Mou Xianmin frowned and said, "I am his only daughter and his only grandson."

Li You stretched out his hand and pinched her nose. "With such a large Jinmen Group, why are you still targeting your mother's family, Xiancheng Group?"

"That's different," Mou Xianmin shook his head. "Look at your body. How much have you aged over the years? Are you really going to be in your seventies or eighties?"

Li You was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and his expression became a little strange, "So you are not here for your father-in-law, but for me?"

"Yes..." Mou Xianmin snorted, "You are so young and strong, are you going to let me become an old lady by myself?"

She was over 30 years old and already had this kind of anxiety, especially when she saw that Li You was still young and strong, she became even more anxious.

Longevity
Mou Xianmin was originally a very pragmatic person and did not desire this thing, but her husband was a living example. What should she do in the future?
It can't be like those clichéd scripts where the father becomes the son and the son becomes the grandson and the identities are changed.

"Don't worry," Li You smiled and patted her on the back. There had been progress.

"What progress?" When Mr. Mou Xianmin heard this, he felt a little uneasy.

"Regarding the research on longevity," Li You said lightly, "Xu Fu Company is not simple."

(End of this chapter)