208. Hardest level (2)
two days later.
Hoyoung headed to the outskirts of Austin with only the two of them, Smith and Miru.
The address that Governor Bush asked to meet was a place that could not be found even by GPS (navigation), so it was so secluded that Miru, who played the role of a knight, had to fumble and open a map to find it.
“Usually in a movie, big things happen in places like this… you know too much So I have to disappear. What···. It’s not like that, right?”
Miru said, shaking her shoulders.
“haha. That’s a fun idea.”
“I don’t know how much to trust Governor Bush.”
“It will be an opportunity to know for sure today.”
“Aren’t you worried, Chairman?”
Hoyoung laughed haha and said.
“You can worry, of course.”
“It doesn’t look like that at all.”
“I’m worried, but I believe it. My choices and the people I choose.”
He couldn’t even reply to Hoyoung’s confident words.
Then Smith said.
“uh. I think I can see a house over there, isn’t it over there?”
Where Smith’s fingertips pointed, there was a two-story villa made of red bricks.
“It seems right.”
As soon as they pulled over in front of the villa, a person jumped out.
He was a middle-aged man in a suit, gray hair, and combed hair.
“Mr. Yoon, Mr. Smith, Mr. Lee, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Come this way. The Bocchan is waiting for you.”
Hoyoung intuitively realized that the middle-aged man had just spoken about Bush.
“This place···. It must be the Bush family’s villa.”
“That’s right.”
“Then please guide me.”
“yes. As for the car, I’ll have someone park it in the parking lot.”
Hoyeong nodded and followed him into the villa.
.
The first thing Hoyeong felt when entering the villa was that it was old-fashioned.
The walls and furnishings of this villa are so old that it appears to have been built a hundred years ago.
But just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s dirty.
It was as if someone had carefully cleaned and maintained it every day.
“welcome. welcome.”
As Hoyeong and his party looked around the room, Bush appeared and started talking to them.
“thank you for the invitation. It must be one of the Bush family’s villas.”
“That’s right. It is one of my favorite places.”
“What a wonderful place. It is a place where you can feel the passage of time.”
“I know it was a place I got when I was my grandfather, so it must have been over 100 years. From then on, whenever there was an important event for our family, I used to use this place as a place for meetings or meetings.”
Bush’s family was one of the most prestigious families with a fairly long history even in the United States, which had a relatively short history.
Bush’s grandfather also served as a senator from the state of Connecticut in the northeastern United States, and the heyday of the Bush family began in earnest as he acquired great wealth as an investor.
“Come in this way. I have someone I can introduce you to.”
“Is anyone else here?”
“That’s right.”
“who···. Perhaps?”
Bush grinned.
“Looks like you noticed. That’s why I asked you to come this far away.”
“Is your father here?”
“That’s right.”
The two talked casually, but Smith, who was next to them, spoke in a surprised voice.
“Ah, if it’s your father, George. Are you referring to former President H. Bush?”
“That’s right.”
“Oh, my God···.”
Smith looked like he was going to go crazy.
“I’m doing it, but now I’m even meeting the former president.”
Smith glanced at Miru, but Miru’s expression was calm.
The joke he had just made with a terrified expression on Hoyoung in the car was a joke from the bottom of his heart.
Miru smiled at Smith and said, as if he had noticed Smith’s gaze.
“It’s the first time I’ve ever met a mogul like this, but I don’t think it’s surprising.”
“okay?”
“yes. Are you already surprised by how many more wonderful people you will meet in the future?”
Seeing Miru shrug his shoulders, Smith relaxed and smiled.
“Puhaha. That’s the difference between careers. It seems that my experience with the boss makes such a difference in mindset.”
After Miru smiled, she followed Hoyeong and Governor Bush into the room.
“The two of you should also sit over here.”
Miru and Smith sat where Bush guided them.
However, contrary to the slightly playful atmosphere, they couldn’t utter a single word.
The two men sitting at the top of the table.
It was because the atmosphere between Hoyoung and Howard Bush was quite serious.
“The talk is… I heard a lot.”
“I’ve heard of fame, albeit from afar.”
Hoyeong’s attitude was very polite, but not servile at all.
Seeing Ho-young like that, Howard Bush’s eyes shone.
“The explosive growth of Gaia Investments surprised both the political and business worlds in the United States. The fact that they made astronomical profits and never evaded a single penny in taxes was really impressive.”
“haha. Basic. Shouldn’t a business person be afraid of taxes?”
“Are you thinking of going into politics?”
Hoyeong laughed haha and waved her hands.
“Please. As you know, I am not even an American.”
“There is no guarantee that you will not be an American now and will not be an American in the future.”
“The United States is said to be a country with little prejudice against immigrants, but I have no intention of doing politics until I immigrated to the United States.”
“Is that so?”
Howard Bush got his job done.
A genius programmer and owner of the world’s largest profitable investment firm.
Besides, good looks and perfect English were both coveted in politics.
Most crucially, it was Ho-young who had all the elements to gain popularity among minorities in the United States, including the fact that he was a successful Asian.
That’s why he felt sorry for him.
“Thank you for taking good care of me.”
Hoyeong gave a brief thank you and looked at Howard Bush.
He opened his mouth a little more with a sad look.
“The position of president is a position that cannot be easily put into words.”
“Sure.”
“Me and my sons Walker and Jeb are both in politics. So when important decisions are made, the three of us often decide together.”
“Does that mean that you called me today to make an important decision?”
Howard nodded and opened his mouth.
“Before making that decision, I have two questions. And depending on the answer, the decision will be different.”
“good. On the contrary, if you believed me without any doubt, I would have been puzzled.”
Howard Bush nodded at Hoyoung’s confident appearance.
“The first is, how do you know the slogan we secretly decided on?”
“Are you talking about one United States?”
“That’s right.”
Hoyoung’s expression changed strangely.
From the peaceful expression from before, to a slightly displeased face.
“To be honest… It’s just a little bit distasteful.”
“yes?”
Miru and Smith, who were listening at the end of the desk, were surprised by Hoyeong’s words.
It was to the point where Ho-yeong, who clearly expressed her feelings in front of the former US president, felt unfamiliar.
“Now the question sounds like, ‘How can you, an Asian who is not American, have such thoughts?’…”
“Oops, I’m really sorry if you heard that. I never meant that.”
Howard Bush waved his hands with an embarrassed expression.
“We hate racism. As I said earlier, One America is our catchphrase. If we were racists, we wouldn’t even think of that. However, I asked that because the wording was exactly the same.”
Smith only now knew that Governor Bush could understand Ho-young’s words and understand it on the spot.
Ho-young spelled the catch prize the Bush family was preparing without making a mistake.
On the other hand, Howard Bush said to Ho-young, who was barely the age of his grandchild, he was embarrassed.
Then Hoyoung’s expression changed very slightly.
It is so subtle that only Miru, who has been together for a very long time, can barely notice.
‘I guess the president intended this situation.’
And he couldn’t help but admire.
Hoyoung was taking this situation to his advantage with a single word.
“That’s an amazing coincidence… No, I would appreciate it if you think of me as a destiny that can be of strength to you all. Do you remember the word I put after One America?”
“Is that the Great American Word?”
“That’s right. As I was trying to connect the two slogans naturally, I came up with it while looking for a sentence with a better tone.”
Howard Bush nodded.
Because America did not invent a word that does not exist.
The fact is that Ho-young knew that the catchphrase that Bush put forward when he became president in the future was an America, and that he was inspired by the catchphrase that President Trump put forward in his election campaign in the far future, ‘Make America Great Again’. There was no way to know the truth.
“All right. I’ll make this case so understandable. Then, the second question.”
“Tell me.”
“This is the most important question, but the popularity of the Democratic Party in the United States is skyrocketing. It’s embarrassing, but when I was president, I’m setting up a lot of policies to revive the US economy, which was in crisis while trying to control inflation, and the North American Free Trade Agreement was also signed. And the United States is now solidifying its position as the world’s most powerful country with the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
Hoyoung nodded silently and listened to Howard Bush’s words until the end.
“In this situation, what strategy can we, the Republicans, use to outperform the Democrats?”
Hoyoung smiled at the thought that he finally had a question to come up with.
Unlike South Korea, the United States is a country where the president can be re-elected.
For this reason, it was common for popular presidents to maintain their consecutive terms as long as there were no major changes.
Of course, Howard Bush, who is in front of Hoyoung, failed to win a second term.
“You can leave that to me. Because I have great information that could bring down President Bill Clinton.”
“What information is that?”
Hoyeong narrowed her eyes and thought for a moment before speaking again.
“I’m really sorry, but I guess I’ll have to keep this information to myself for a while. It’s absolutely not that I doubt your Excellency. However, this secret information is literally fatal to President Clinton. It is a deadly thing that is difficult to say easily not only to the Excellency or the Governor, but also to my party.”
“Hmm…”
Howard Bush let out a quiet voice and fell into deep trouble.
Now, Ho-young has not presented any evidence to him.
In the end, all I’m saying here is believe in yourself.
That’s why Howard is in trouble.
It would have been easier to refuse if I had tried to convince him even with nonsense.
He is a person who has seen more talkative people than anyone else in his long life.
He glanced at Hoyoung.
But he couldn’t feel anything other than Hoyeong’s dignified expression.
An attitude that seems to accept his offer or not.
‘If we reject this offer, will we be the one to lose in the end?’
Howard Bush finally opened his mouth after a long thought.
“under···. Okay. Anyway, even if it is as it is now, the chances of Walker winning the next presidential election are slim. Even if I trust you, I don’t think we’ll lose much. As long as it doesn’t damage our family’s reputation.”
Hoyoung nodded.
What Howard Bush said was reasonable enough.
A story that even if Ho-yeong fails, it should appear to have nothing to do with George Bush.
“Good idea. Of course, everyone here will find out later, but if the moment comes when I can tell you, then I’ll tell you right away.”
Howard nodded.
“But only one. May I know some keywords? It must be hard to wait for a time when you don’t know when it will come when you don’t know anything.”
“Hmm… Okay. However, this keyword must also be avoided.”
“sure.”
Hoyeong paused for a moment before opening her mouth.
“It’s a scandal.”
President Clinton is right away, years later, the worst sex scandal ever erupts.
The president is caught up in a big wave of impeachment due to this scandal, and although it is rejected in the Senate, the impeachment bill is passed in the House of Representatives, and Clinton loses his support base.
However, this scandal broke out right after President Clinton succeeded in re-election, so it did not have a big impact on the presidential election.
And Hoyoung was thinking of advancing that time.
Pick and choose the time when the blow to him will be the greatest, aiming for the moment when Clinton is confirmed as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.
