027 : Cash Cow
“One… one month… you mean?”
“Yeah, one month. The Korea-US summit is next week. Even if I lose a little bit of the amount of the loan, I should pay more attention to the memorandum, as the owner said. Before the Americans say anything else, make sure you start off with the American advance team.”
“You’re sending me to the advance team?”
It was increasingly taesan.
Doesn’t that mean that if I go with the advance team of the U.S. Army, I should go without the South Korean soldiers to protect me?
“Go and build a highway or a logistical port or whatever the U.S. forces tell you to do. He said he built a petrochemical plant by himself! Wouldn’t the owner build it quickly and quickly!”
No, if you’re going to investigate, you have to do it right.
What kind of factories do you build by yourself?
It’s like tearing down an abandoned factory and reassembling it.
I mean, there were hundreds of people who worked together.
The words I wanted to say rose to my throat, but I couldn’t bring myself to speak them out.
“A month is too short. I have to finish the work I’m doing now to some extent before I can leave the country…”
“done. As for domestic affairs, leave it to someone below you. Then go to the starting lineup and get in touch as soon as you get a seat. I’m going to send troops there. It’s a matter of life-and-death for our soldiers. You have to do well!”
“……”
I took out my notebook and wrote down the telex number.
The president’s direct number was clear.
“okay? I did not know?”
“All right.”
“Okay, go and work. To work hard.”
It was absurd.
No matter how much negotiations are at the end, they say they finished preparing the memorandum in a week, held a Korea-U.S. summit, and joined me in the advance team in a month?
It was embarrassing, but I couldn’t say no.
If the nobleman in front of you gets stuck in your hatred, you won’t be able to live on this land, let alone become a chaebol.
“I will do my best.”
I bowed at attention, bowed, and left the Blue House.
***
“Sambok, I’m here.”
“Chansu! You are back.”
When I returned home, Sambok groped for me.
I guess he wanted to make sure he returned safely.
“How is everyone?”
“No one was seriously injured. don’t worry.”
Fortunately, the staff and Mr. Hwang said it was okay.
People in the Presidential Secretariat are saying that they have trashed the local police station.
Seongsu-dong Police Chief, who will be newly appointed soon, seemed to be at a loss if it was the general unemployment.
“Chansu, are you really going to meet the President?”
“It’s not important that I met that man, it’s more important that I have to go to Vietnam in a month.”
Sambok’s eyes widened like a lantern when the word Vietnam came up while talking about the Blue House.
“What? Are you going to deploy troops to Vietnam? why are you Do you even know how to shoot?”
“mind! I’m not saying you’re going to be a soldier, you’re going to build. Go and build a highway or a logistical port as the US military tells you to do.”
“That… construction? Do you know how to build?”
“… Of course… No, try building it like the Ulsan factory built it.”
“The factory in Ulsan was repaired, and the logistics construction is a completely different story. What are you building?”
You’re right, but why are you in a bad mood?
I know how to build highways and ports?
If you have the equipment and the people, it’s really fast.
“Okay, you need to help me.”
“When did you not help?”
“Keep company while I’m gone. Preserve Southeast Asian customers well, and penetrate the US side as well.”
The fabric business is our cash cow.
It’s good to make a big deal in business, but you have to cherish the money that comes in regularly.
“What are you talking about? Are you going to Vietnam alone? I have to go too.”
Are you coming with me? on the battlefield?
Sambok really had the momentum to follow me wherever I went.
“mind! Without both, who will protect our company? Didn’t you see the prosecutors come in? There are not one or two people around us who are aiming for our business. We have to protect not only our factory, but also Comet.”
“Well… but what if you go alone? It’s construction work, but it’s war.”
‘Are you going to go to that battlefield because of me…’
Sambok was moved by the words, but contrary to his heart, he screamed out loud.
“Am I a kid? Stop talking nonsense and go to sleep. You shouldn’t have to go to Yongsan as soon as it’s light tomorrow.”
“Yong-San? why?”
“Why? U.S. military supplies should be brought in and analyzed. so make the delivery. Did you forget I said we were supplying military uniforms?”
“Oh right. There was a double structure fabric. I was running to Seoul with pellets to make them.”
Sambok is finally coming back to his senses. Like Sambok, so many things happened at once that I couldn’t keep my mind.
“Let’s risk our lives and earn a lot of money to go to Vietnam. Military uniforms, field jackets, ponchos, socks, backpacks, everything made of cloth. You have to make samples first, so bring whatever you can get.”
“You’re thinking of doing it right.”
Ugh, the guy gets the hang of it right away.
“Of course. In humid Southeast Asia, nylon and polyester double structure fabrics are the best. Let’s put it under the name Polytech.”
Polyester is lightweight, breathable, and dries quickly because it is basically water-resistant.
If you combine such polyester with nylon to double weave fabric, it becomes a fabric that was popular in an era called polytech.
The nylon absorbs the sweat, and the polyester around it disperses it and quickly dissipates it into the air.
The only downside of polytech fabric is that it is so breathable that it loses its warmth.
This is why you must wear a windbreaker to wear Polytech Outdoor in winter.
By the way, in Vietnam, there is no need for warmth.
It was only a matter of time before it was just a hit with a military uniform that vented moisture and sweat.
“Polytech? It’s a name that seems to exist somehow. Did you really choose so many polyesters in anticipation of the Vietnam War?”
“Somehow, things just fell right.”
Let’s rake in as much money as possible.
Originally, in history, only the military uniforms of the armed forces were domestically produced, and all US military uniforms were made in Japan.
There was nothing wrong with me taking over the US military uniform market.
There must be a butterfly effect, but I can’t contain it because I’m afraid of maggots. It doesn’t matter what Japanese companies do.
“It’s exciting to think about it, but isn’t construction what the government ordered you to do? Shouldn’t we start by recruiting subcontractors?”
“What subcontract? At this point, we need to create a construction company.”
The plans were all messed up, but if I were to do it, I should start a construction company.
That’s because I also tried to build a construction company before the construction boom in the Middle East.
“Again… is this the start? Our safe is empty right now, even if it’s just one major chemistry.”
“Don’t worry, it doesn’t cost much. The US military supplies materials for free and rents out construction equipment for free, so we just need to go.”
“What? What’s going on? You mean the US military does charity work, what is it?”
“What charity work? We’re going as subcontractors. How much money would you have to pay to bring American workers to Vietnam? If you were an American, would you want to work on the battlefield?”
“……”
It is considered an opportunity for us, but for American workers, it is not a very high salary because it is simple construction work, and they have to work in an underdeveloped country in Southeast Asia away from their families, and even their lives are at risk.
“Chansu, you are going to such a battlefield?”
Do you think I shouldn’t go?
“If you just save your life, it’s pretty great. You’re going to get a basic salary of $400 a month? I’ll be back in just one year, so take good care of the company.”
“Four hundred dollars a month? Really?”
That was more than seven times the average worker’s salary.
With various allowances added, it was like earning money approaching 10 years of annual salary even if you worked for only about a year, so tolerable technicians lined up to go to Vietnam.
“So, how big is the US military supply market when subcontracting is that much? Starting tomorrow, let’s work hard to collect US military commanders. For now, let’s go to sleep.”
“I can’t sleep because I’m shaking. Are you coming back alive?”
“Isn’t that what you should say when you leave the country in a month?”
“mind! Is this the time to joke?”
“Stop it and go to sleep.”
I pushed him with my heel and rolled him up with a blanket like a trooper.
Even the wriggling boy quickly fell asleep.
He said he couldn’t sleep because he was shaking, and he couldn’t sleep.
‘Damn it, originally, I was going to hit the jackpot with military uniforms and aim for a construction boom in the Middle East… but construction in Vietnam?’
Excuse me, I couldn’t fall asleep easily.
Like the bright starlight outside the window, my mind is buzzing. It must be because the tension he experienced at the Blue House is still not resolved.
I’m all the same when I’m anxious as if it’s a jackpot or not, but I’ll have to do it properly as long as things have come to this.
‘By the way, in history, wasn’t the construction of a logistic base a business that Hyunsan Construction made a fortune in? Maybe it was a dark harbor? Can I do it?’
Unlike the supply of US military uniforms, it seemed that the butterfly effect would be enormous if I started construction in earnest.
This is because Hyunsan Construction made up for the loss by hitting the jackpot with the construction of the port of Camran after kicking a small gourd in the Thai highway project led by the US military.
“Isn’t the dark port like that?”
If I snatch the dark port, Hyunsan Construction may collapse as it is.
I don’t have a wide-ranging personality and I don’t have to worry about others, but I thought there was no need to block the future of Hyeonsan Construction.
If Hyunsan construction is not in charge of the port construction, which is obscure due to the butterfly effect, I can do it.
‘First of all, except for Cam Ranh, Saigon, Da Nang… where was one? Oh, it was a good year!’
The memory of my previous life doing a plant project in Southeast Asia was a great help.
Quy Nhon Port in Vietnam was developed as a logistics port for the US military, but in the 21st century, it has grown into an international port that is so large that it is called one of the four major ports in Southeast Asia.
“Yes, Quyen would be nice.”
This is where Hanshin Trading was a hit in history.
In the 21st century, a shipping company that would go bankrupt due to the Lehman Incident, I thought it wouldn’t matter if it went bankrupt now.
Besides, the gunman’s family is famous for the abuse of power.
There was no reason to be concerned about the butterfly effect.
After organizing my thoughts, I fell asleep.
***
next day,
“As you said, we have swept all the US military supplies.”
Sambok spilled all sorts of things from the trunk of the car while sweating profusely.
He disappeared early in the morning and came back before lunch.
It was clear that this guy was also Korean.
Main backpack, auxiliary backpack, canopy, personal tent, blanket, sleeping bag, combat uniform, poncho jacket, bullet belt, combat boots, running pants, socks, combat helmet, spoon, toiletries, etc. It really seemed like he had brought everything except the gun and grenade.
“Uhh, you saved it well.”
“When I went to the Yongsan US military base, I don’t know if it was real or fake, but they sold a lot. I picked out as many authentic American products as possible and brought them by type.”
“I’ll have to focus on the military uniform, backpack, poncho, and socks.”
“Yeah, as you said, if it was made with polytech fabric, I thought it would be worth rubbing for some reason. By the way, if you make it like that, can you deliver it? Even if it is difficult to load Mije, Ilje will be better than us in terms of quality and price.”
“mind! It’s not something to rub against, it’ll overwhelm you. The basic quality is certain with the double fabric, and the price will be competitive because the sewing labor cost is cheap.”
At its peak, Japan sold 250,000 military uniforms in one year.
I will take all of that stock.
“Yes, yes. If you’re the boss, you should have that kind of confidence. But, dreams and reality are always different. If I say that the popular unemployed military uniforms overwhelm the Japanese quality, will the Americans snort?”
“… uh…”
It was not wrong.
Do I have to wear a van flint when I first enter the army? I want you to evaluate it properly.
No, if I always get on the rope whenever something happens, I can’t escape its influence.
In a word, it’s a nose job. what to do
“Why don’t we throw in some bait products?”
“bait?”
Sambok said something strange.
