Korean TV series: King of Peninsula 1997

Chapter 650: Taboos in Personnel Arrangements

“How could you do this!?”

On the bus back, Cheng Yuanzhe, the former marketing director who was kicked out by Li You, was also there, and was furious.

"Why don't you speak?"

"Are you an idiot?" Someone in the back row said coldly, "President Li almost said it clearly. Whoever dares to deny it will be kicked out. All the power is in his hands, and the company is also his. Why should we continue to speak up? Will we be kicked out with you?"

"Yes," someone added, "When we went there, we thought Chairman Lee wouldn't blame everyone, but now it seems that Chairman Lee doesn't care what consequences our disappearance will bring to the company. Maybe it's really like what the representative said, he just needs a name."

A few days ago, they actually didn't believe what Representative Director Sun Junjiu said, but the current situation forced them to believe it.

"Assholes!" Cheng Yuanxun angrily slammed the window: "You guys betrayed me like this, and you think you can leave a good impression on him? Sooner or later, he will kick you out!"

"What did we say before we came here? Now all that has been said is nonsense. Just watch me. If you didn't support me just now, you will just leave a little later."

Everyone bowed their heads and kept silent, just like turtles.

Cheng Yuanxun was so furious, of course, not only because he was fired, but more because of the backstabbing and betrayal from these "allies".

"You two have been playing tricks in the company relying on your seniority. Don't you know how many kickbacks you have taken over the years?" Cheng Yuanxun asked coldly, "How did your son get taken care of in the army? Do you think the chairman of the Kinmen Group will continue to let you do this and ruin the reputation of his Kinmen Group?"

"What do you want to say?" Someone sighed, "Things have already come to this, and even if we spoke up at the beginning, it would just mean that a few more people would be expelled with you, which would not be of any help at all."

"I know," Cheng Yuanxun laughed sarcastically, "I'm just venting my emotions."

Faced with the tough trend, they really could not do anything and there was no movement in the car.

Li You had returned to the office at this time and was listening to Quan Zaijun's report to Li You. He was reporting on the quarrel that had just occurred on the bus.

After listening to Jeon Jae-jun's description, Li You sneered, "They are indeed a bunch of idiots..."

"Stupid people like them who have only been eyeing the little profits given by the military for so many years." Li You casually threw the pen he had just used to sign back into the pen holder. "Tell me, how should I deal with them?"

Quan Zaijun shook his head indifferently, "Whatever the president says, I will deal with them for him."

"That's not the case," Li You shook his head. "Just deal with Cheng Yuanxun. He was the one who started the trouble on the bus. Let's see what he wants to do."

"Yes," Jeon Jae-joon nodded.

"Also, there is the intelligence before JY's defense. What did you find out?" Li You remembered a task he had given to Jeon Jae-jun. "Also, there is Sun Jun-gu's personal intelligence. The more detailed the better."

After giving instructions to Li You, he went to do the work. Evening soon came to night, and Li You set out to meet Yin Jijun.

As Li You's most reliable person in the army, Yin Jijun's wife Li Liuhua is Li You's nominal elder in the Jeonju Li family, and she has known Li You for a long time.

The relationship between the two was originally close, and they were completely bound together through nearly ten years of exchanging financial interests.

Not long into the conversation, the two mentioned Yoo Shi-jin and Seo Dayong, who had once worked under Yoon Gil-jun.

These two guys who are still serving in the 707th Brigade should be doing a good job. Although Yin Jijun always curses when he mentions them, there is still satisfaction on his face.

As he was talking, Yoon Ji-jun started talking about his experience leading them in Afghanistan, and in the middle he began to thank for what happened a few years ago.

"When I was in Afghanistan those years ago, it was all thanks to you," Yin Jijun offered a glass of wine to Li You, "especially for the living conditions. Liu Hua and Mingzhu also asked me to thank you very much."

"Mingzhu?" Li You thought of the rebellious sixteen-year-old girl and smiled helplessly, "Mingzhu is still shouting that she wants to join the army?"

"I didn't expect she remembered it so clearly..." Yoon Ji-jun sighed, "As a lieutenant general on the Korean Peninsula, I naturally hope that there will be a successor, but Mingzhu is a girl. When she was young, I asked her to learn something, and it was all piano and the like."

He shook his head and said helplessly: "When she was little, I told her to join the army and inherit my legacy and become the first female lieutenant general. It was just a joke. Who knew she would take it seriously?"

"The college entrance examination is in two years," Yin Jijun put down his glass, feeling worried, "I keep wanting to apply to a military academy..."

"How is the military? As a lieutenant general, how could I not know?" Yoon Ji-jun leaned back. "It's no longer the time for preferential treatment and big red envelopes. If parents on the Korean Peninsula want to, no one really wants to send their children to the military to suffer."

Li You could understand what he said. Since the 1990s, the preferential treatment has disappeared with the disappearance of the military government. Those small gangs in the Korean Peninsula military dare not show their heads. They are all acting as glorious and upright generals on the surface, and no longer forming cliques for personal gain in private. Instead, they prioritize making money. In many cases, people can even forget their identity as generals and truly treat them as businessmen. Major General Liu Zhexiu, whom Li You met a few days ago, is like most generals of this era.

Li You also understood that the real reason for this situation was not that the military top brass wanted to do this, but that they had to do this.

The military on the Korean Peninsula is a daunting place to begin with, and this was even more so thirty or forty years ago.

There is no telling how many powerful connections and resources are hidden in the military. Once someone truly combines these connections and resources, the power and authority that can be unleashed will be unleashed.
It was so big that all the politicians and chaebols on the Korean Peninsula were panicking, after all, Park and Chun had already set a good example.

Therefore, chaebols and politicians must avoid any force in the military or any individual with too much background and power. Otherwise, once this person is able to control the key military forces, who controls the Korean Peninsula will be another matter, and the chaebols and politicians’ 20 years of efforts may once again be wasted.

They chose the easiest way.
Destroy morale.

If the generals are the captains and first mates of the big ships, then the politicians cannot let the army become a big ship that is out of control, so they simply let the sailors on the big ships not eat well, sleep well and be abused, so that no one is willing to work for the captain and the first mate.

Coupled with the frequent replacement of captains and first mates between different large ships, they were able to control the once uncontrollable large ships.

However, the Yoon Gil-jun in front of Lee Woo was indeed a little different, a serious professional soldier. In his bones, Yoon Gil-jun had the iron blood of 20 or 30 years ago, and he was also a person who was willing to support the younger generation, such as Lee Woo in the early years and Yoo Shi-jin in recent years. Therefore, these two characteristics of his made him repeatedly made contributions in Afghanistan and Iraq but still suppressed. After returning to China, Lee Woo tried to find connections for him but failed, and he finally got an idle position.

Of course, along with the idle position came Yoon Ji-jun's deep dissatisfaction.

After complaining to Li You for a while, Yin Jijun quickly calmed down, smiled bitterly and took a sip of wine, "You acquired a military enterprise like JY Defense, I think you want to further consolidate your position, but unfortunately I am still some distance away from being transferred, so I can't help you now."

"Uncle Yin's reputation in the army is the greatest help to me," Li You clinked his white porcelain wine glass with his.

"No matter what you think, I hope that our relationship can remain close," Yin Jijun said seriously, "If it is just a one-sided gift from you, I will only feel uneasy."

Li You smiled and said that only with people like Yin Jijun can he have a more normal communication.

"And my junior," Yoon Jijun suddenly mentioned another person, and Li You couldn't even remember who it was for a moment.

When Yoon Gil-jun mentioned the name 'Kim Young-wei', Li You remembered that this was the man who cooperated with the former chairman of the Great Camp, Zhu Rongyi, to assassinate him in Busan. He is still a major general in the Marine Corps. This position was also Yoon Gil-jun's position when Li You was in the army more than ten years ago.

Li You knew him, but ignored his academic connection with Yin Jijun.

"Major General Jin?" Li You held on to the fact that he used military personnel without permission, and he had never asked him to do anything. "What's wrong with him?"

"His term of office has recently expired. After being transferred from the Marine Corps, he wanted to go to a better place where he could make money, so he asked me, his senior, for help," Yoon Jijun put down his glass. "Although the close organization like the Isshin Society in the military is gone, it doesn't matter if the seniors and juniors in school take care of him."

"The main thing is," Yin Jijun looked at Li You, "if he is transferred from the Marine Corps, will it affect your recruitment of people from the Marine Corps?"

It is no secret that Kinmen Security has been poaching elite veterans from the military who are about to retire since a few years ago.

Some veterans will change careers and leave after working for a while, so Kinmen’s security naturally needs fresh blood. The Marine Corps, Air Transport Corps, and 707 Squadron have always been the main targets of Kinmen’s security, and the largest number of people have been poached from the Marine Corps.

"If it has an impact..." Yin Jijun paused, "I can use my connections to postpone his transfer order for another two years."

Li You shook his head and rejected his proposal.

Yin Jijun is obviously going to take risks in this matter. Today's politicians have not yet escaped from the shadow of the military government and are keeping a close eye on personnel transfers in the military.

It doesn't matter that Jin Yingwei asked Yin Jijun to help him find a good place to make money.

Because corrupt soldiers will not arouse the vigilance of politicians, but if Yoon Gil-jun suppresses the transfer of Kim Young-wei and places Kim Young-wei in a powerful position such as a rear admiral of the Marine Corps, politicians will make a fuss about it.

Maybe Kim Gun-young and Cho Tae-seop, who have been keeping an eye on Lee Woo, will do the same.

Yin Jijun's pause was obviously due to his consideration of the risks, and he was hesitant.

"It's too risky to do this," Li You refused the proposal, which was good for both parties: "But that being said."

He made a fantastic suggestion with a smile on his face, which he himself did not think could be accomplished. "How about giving him this lucrative job?"

Yin Jijun rolled his eyes, "The commander of the 4th Division?"

He took a breath and said, "You really know how to give me a hard time."

The Marine Corps belongs to the Navy, and the field army where the 4th Division is located belongs to the South Korean Army. The two forces belong to different services. There are extremely strict cross-service procedures for personnel transfers, and they require approval from the Minister of Defense. The institutional barriers between the two sides are too great.

After a brief thought, Yin Jijun also rejected Li You's proposal. It was not that he would not do it, but that it was simply impossible to do.

If a Marine Rear Admiral wants to be transferred to the 4th Division, he or she must first have experience in Army ground combat and relevant training, and must submit a "Necessity Report on Cross-Service Appointment" to the Ministry of National Defense, explaining the contribution of the transfer to the "improvement of joint combat capabilities." This can only be done with special approval from the Minister of Defense.

Yoon Ji-jun knows this clearly.
This is because Yin Jijun himself was transferred across military branches, but it also went through several steps, not a direct jump transfer as Li You said.

Yoon Ji-jun himself was transferred from the Marine Corps to the Operations Planning Bureau of the Joint Staff Headquarters. He also completed the joint services command course at the Army University. Finally, he was transferred there as an exception on the grounds that he had "irreplaceable expertise in joint operations theory, information-based command and other fields."

It was at that time that Li You met Yin Jijun again, who had just been transferred to the army, and their current relationship began.

Later on, the army was very resistant to "airborne" naval officers. Fortunately, no one was willing to go to Afghanistan to suffer. He was able to successfully integrate into the army because the army needed such a person to be sent to the desolate Afghanistan to perform missions.

After Yoon Gil-jun took the initiative to step forward and assume this responsibility, the Army's General Chief of Staff felt that he was a good talent and gave Yoon Gil-jun the opportunity to work alongside the Chief of Staff.

After explaining the reason to Li You, seeing that Li You didn't have any special reaction, Yin Jijun knew that he just said it casually.

After having a good meal and drinking, Li You made an appointment with Yin Jijun to meet next time and then left.

But Yin Jijun was still wondering whether this possibility existed.

After all, Li You said it was a lucrative job, so it must be a lucrative job. If this thing succeeds, it will also allow himself and Li You to control this guy Jin Yingwei.

Although the two of them didn't seem to care much about Kim Young-wei at the dinner table, there were actually only so many major generals on the Korean Peninsula, and each of them was a very important network resource. Yoon Ji-jun had many younger and older classmates, but only a few of them had reached this level, so he really needed to pay attention to each of them.

Yoon Ji-jun stood up after a while, thinking about asking Jin Yingwei's opinion first. After all, it involved Jin Yingwei's job transfer, and his cooperation was required.

(End of this chapter)