chapter 23
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A rumor quickly spread around several shadowy organizations.
‘Black Market and Cougar’s new owner has appeared. That person is Ha Yeon-woo, who erased the Incheon Daehopa overnight.’
The epicenter is, of course, the remnants of the surviving Great Hope faction.
Daeho was by no means a small organization.
It was a huge organization that managed the entire metropolitan area starting from Incheon and bordering the coast, and was a big hand in the Korean drug industry.
If you rank the criminal organizations across the country, they have the power to count within five fingers.
That’s why cougars, who make money through the sale and distribution of prohibited items or gate-related items, considered Daeho the most eye-opening.
In the end, in order to monopolize all distribution channels, smuggling through sea transportation in Daeho and some distribution routes in the metropolitan area had to be taken away.
While thinking of each other as if they were enemies. There were large and small conflicts of interest, but there are two reasons why an all-out war never broke out.
It was because of their size and the certainty that the government would intervene unconditionally in the event of an all-out war.
In the case of the Great Hoppa, there were no 6th-tier Awakeners, but the 5th-tier was close to ten, and only the Awakeners reached four hundred members.
Whenever a criminal organization crosses the line, the public authorities are bound to intervene, and because of this situation, the two organizations have only kept each other in check.
Because if you hit it right, you lose more than you gain.
And Ha Yeon-woo broke the parallel line like the law alone.
That is the reason why the incident at Incheon Port has been hovering under the surface for several days.
Because everything ended so quickly and quietly.
The voices of the shadows, which were dismissed as nonsense, had no choice but to subside within a few days.
The cougar and the black market seemed to be no different than usual, but it was because their gang members were walking around Incheon Port and the port warehouse complex used as a drug warehouse by the Daehopa.
* * *
[Regarding the tragedy that took place at a warehouse complex in Incheon Harbor not long ago, the authorities concluded that it was not terrorism, but a conflict between criminal organizations.]
As always, the incident at Incheon Port, which caused a stir in Korea, was gradually forgotten from people’s attention.
[According to a police official, an investigation was initially initiated in connection with drug smuggling, but the internal investigation was concluded as no charges against the warehouse complex owner and the logistics company, saying that no charges were found… .]
In a word, the impression of watching the whole situation is ‘satisfactory’. degree.
Immediately after giving the loyalty order, Lee Il-hwan made all members aware of the existence of the new owner.
After that, I started working on absorbing the Great Lakes right away.
Moving all the cash, disassembling the registered businesses one by one so they disappear neatly, and so on. Literally everything in Daeho was stripped.
Contact with China in the process. It absorbed the drug distribution business, which was nothing short of a lifeline, and, if there were inheritors, even the site of the business that was managed by threatening or coaxing was put under the name of the cougar.
It all took just over a week to complete.
It was also the time when the police had just started an investigation by setting up a dedicated team because the matter was so big.
He ordered his subordinates to clean up the corpses and traces, but as close to four hundred Awoken members of the large organization disappeared, it was a natural procedure.
At that exact moment, the Cougars in Great Lakes bribed customs officers and local police officers to force them to side with them.
Of the drugs flowing into Korea, 80% of them come from China.
40% of them were distributed through the warehouse complex in Daeho.
It is only natural that a high-ranking official at the level of the decision-maker should intervene in order to move this scale without any problems.
The cougar’s incredible speed at work. Neat destruction of evidence. The cooperation between the customs office and high-ranking police personnel combined, and the Incheon Port case was closed due to a quarrel between the organizations.
‘Definitely worth using.’
[Related experts say that this incident, in which hundreds of people were killed without a trace overnight, should realize how greatly the Awakened have an impact on the well-being of society… .]
I turned off the TV, where the obvious story was playing, and leaned against the backrest to organize my thoughts.
“First step.”
It was probably natural for Ha Yeon-woo to choose the shadowy cougar as a starting point.
It was the nobility that caused the loss of the first family on the Pan continent, but it was the neighborhood bullies who carried out the task.
Plate continents and Earth. It was the same everywhere in both worlds.
shadow of the king. The lord’s tail. assassin. Secretariat under the direct control of a large corporation. Private mercenary of the wealthy. murderer. And even the current awakening criminal.
Those who have a lot of Yang Ji-ui, at least, don’t move ‘directly’.
The limits of what can be done were clear.
There are some idiots who don’t do that sometimes, but that’s a very small minority.
The dirty things they want to do, the things they shouldn’t do, the things that are morally wrong. If you are in charge of all of that. They are negative beings.
If someone came to Ha Yeon-woo and asked who was more annoyed between the positive force that commands and the negative force that takes orders and acts, he would choose the latter without hesitation.
Killing one person is so easy and simple, but catching hundreds of cockroaches lurking here and there is a chore.
Absorb an organization to build a castle, rule the underworld to earn money and gain prestige?
It wasn’t something Ha Yeon-woo had to do or wanted to do.
Starting with the cougar, at least all the dark forces in this land fear and awe themselves.
That was enough.
The overwhelming difference in power and the fear or fear derived from it.
Because there is only one final goal in this whole process.
That’s why he didn’t bother to separate the cougar executives who were following him to Incheon Port. Sometimes, there were people who didn’t know the difference in class unless they saw and felt it.
It was a kind of warning. That anyone can make it the same as the people of the Great Lakes.
‘Fortunately, he understood it well.’
It was not for nothing that the current castle was built in a short time of about 5 years.
No notice, no work done. It was above the level Ha Yeon-woo wanted.
* * *
“So, what about the medicine?”
Somewhere in Shandong Province, China.
The head of the branch of the party asked, pressing his aching head at the troubling news he heard again less than a month later.
“All of them have been recovered.”
“Recovered?”
It was a drug that had already crossed over to Korea and was embraced by Dae-ho. They were in the state of being paid.
But how did you get it back?
“It was a gift. Since they ate everything from the original customer, they asked us to continue the business with them under a new contract.”
“Is this the Federal Gate Administration (FGD)?”
The amount was considerable for a gift. The wholesale price of the goods handed over this time is 80 billion Korean won. It was an amount that a respectable criminal organization couldn’t stop eating.
“It’s a cougar. He founded a black market five years ago and is now the largest organization in Korea… .”
black market. If it was the largest organization in Korea, the branch manager knew it. In the first place, the area in charge of the branch in Shandong Province was Korea.
As Suha said, it was definitely not something the government did.
If the cougar is the government’s ponytail, then it’s safe to say that any decent organization is a ponytail.
“Even if they were eaten, they were eaten by people without roots.”
To the branch manager, who was steeped in Chinese ideology to the bone, the Cougars were the ones who were eliminated from the name of the organization.
“For now, stabilization comes first. If the terms of the contract are suitable, pass it as it is. There doesn’t seem to be any problem with the transaction.”
“Yes, I understand.”
At first, I was suspicious of the US or South Korean authorities because more than 400 members of the organization were massacred and dismembered overnight, but it was hard to believe that they did it.
Because there was a cougar in the middle.
The government and they are beings standing at the extremes. Cooperation between the two forces made no more sense than cooperation between the United States and the Islamic Awakening terrorists.
Besides, he probably didn’t even notice.
Then the important thing is who the hell did the work that night.
“It’s a mountain beyond a mountain… . Face four hundred Awoken head-on within hours. It can also be handled without noise… .”
Suddenly, the branch manager cut off his words.
It’s because it reminded me of one of the people I’m most concerned about these days.
“no way… .”
What the Shandong branch has been doing is selling drugs sent by the party to Korea and using the money to erode the political and business world.
And whether they’re willing or not. It was to carry out the party’s orders without knowing it.
Because of this, I belonged to the relatively dull side of information from the shadows.
“It’s not about making a big profit anyway. It’s about raising funds to roll in Korea, so don’t let the flow stop. Also, spend some money and dig about Ha Yeon-woo, focusing on information about the underworld.”
“All right.”
If he fails to hand over the drugs sent by the party in time and causes a setback, it is the responsibility of the head of the branch in Shandong Province.
Filled with a desire to rise higher, the branch manager took the lead in giving priority to the party’s orders.
Immediately the conversation moved on to the next topic.
“The head of the house has been in touch. How is Ha Yeon-woo going?”
“sorry. So far, I haven’t been abroad at all… . There is no right way to approach it.”
The branch in Shandong province is at most once a month. It was also a place where all the orders of the party were handed down through the liaison, not the head of the family.
A tremendous amount of money comes and goes every month, and hundreds of awakened people are supporters, but from the parish’s point of view, it is a remote area among remote areas.
It was because his original job was to sell drugs to South Korea, dig up information, and raise small businesses, rather than work related to military force, which the party considers important.
At such a place, the head of the house personally contacted and asked about the progress.
It means that they are curious about Ha Yeon-woo’s future.
After all, the same goes for the former drug trade. I felt that everything was coming down to him.
“Find out everything. In-laws, cousins, past friends, lovers, and even the relationships we are making now. With guys who don’t care if you get caught. speed up.”
It’s the head of the family’s decision to kill him or save him, but until then, it’s his job to bring and present information.
As the branch manager waved his hand, the subordinate lowered his head and left the space.
* * *
Ha Yeon-woo and his son Ha Yeon-woo get out of the hotel.
In front of them, four luxury foreign cars were waiting for them.
After seeing the two, the gang members got out of the car and greeted them in perfect order.
“What is all this?”
“I paid for it and hired it.”
“A bodyguard? you?”
Ha Seong-cheol, who knows the past and the character of Ha Yeon-woo better than anyone else after returning, laughed.
“Say something that makes sense, man.”
“Think of it as a secretary. instead of the troublesome work. You mean do what you want to do? I have to spend money.”
“what… . It also makes sense when you say it like that.”
His head nodded as if he recalled that he had become a chaebol with 800 billion won in cash assets alone.
“Ha ha, yes. Let’s see the son. This, please take good care of me.”
At Ha Seong-cheol’s words, all members of the organization bowed their heads deeply in response.
All of these are 3rd to 4th Awakeners.
It was a composition of personnel that assumed the situation of being betrayed by chance.
Except for himself, no one had yet known that his father was a 5th-tier soldier.
I went to Samcheong-dong with my father, who was excited about the hospitality he had received for the first time in his life.
From Jongno 3-ga Station, where there is a black market, go up for about 20 minutes. It was a neighborhood just to the right of the Blue House.
The land in Seongnam is being bought smoothly, but now there is no need to go into the eroded land to live.
Because my father’s compulsory enlightenment ended successfully, and I unexpectedly landed on a high level.
So, I was able to figure out the position a little more.
Right to the left is the Blue House, so it was a neighborhood that boasted a fairly high level of security, and the black market was only 20 minutes away.
In addition, Seongbuk-dong was the place where Lee Il-hwan and members of the cougar gang lived together in a complex like a jipseongchon.
Dozens of buildings are raised and used as headquarters.
Samcheong-dong was in the middle of the triangle.
“Im here.”
Getting out of the car and welcoming the rich man was a huge three-story mansion.
In addition, the surrounding radius of 50 meters was neatly pushed away and turned into an empty lot without leaving a single commercial building.
An organization member in charge of the role approached and said.
“The president told me to prepare without a hitch to match the status of a boss. Do you like it?”
He said he was talking quietly, but his father had already reached the 5th rank in terms of mana-handling vessels.
I couldn’t hear the story.
His mouth opened as he alternately looked at the surroundings of the mansion and Ha Yeon-woo with a blank face.
“Yeonwoo. Aren’t you going somewhere to be a gangster?”
I couldn’t bear to say no.