Chapter 181

Chapter 181

Smuggling King (1)

Researchers returned to the research building lab by JH dedicated bus after finishing the Hanujeong company dinner.

Because researchers stubbornly insisted even saying disband early leave.

They went to the expensive highest class beef specialty store, but couldn’t eat and play comfortably like JH office family.

Because of self-loathing.

“JH people, competent······.”

“Startled seeing organizing 10 years research materials at tremendous speed······.”

“Even eating well and playing well······.”

“The bomb liquor manufacturing show the little Young Master taught. That really flashy······.”

“Stacking 10-story tower of liquor glasses and manufacturing plop plop with domino champagne fountain show······.”

Culture shock.

Didn’t know would feel defeat eating and playing.

“What did we live doing until now······.”

“Stuck in the lab throughout yet couldn’t catch one usable item······.”

“Somehow feeling became a food insect only wasting rice······.”

Until now believed themselves quite excellent elites without doubt.

For all overseas study faction PhD degree holders the fact of openly confirming own incompetence itself became a large shock.

“Don’t get frustrated. The more such times have to firmly gather spirit.”

“If don’t want to become food insect properly do rice price even now.”

“Let’s start, rummaging discarded research materials.”

“Yes, have to try even that. To match the deadline until the tank performance test two months later immediately.”

The reason voluntarily gathered in the lab after Hanujeong company dinner ended.

They had quite different positions from JH office people who finished assigned work and left shouting early leave.

“Euuu······.”

“Haaa······.”

The more rummaging materials.

Only sighs came out.

Rummaging such trash-like research materials, even the eaten beef seems stuck in the stomach.

“Won’t do.”

“Can’t use.”

“Big problem.”

“Crazy.”

Researchers tore heads.

All poor.

So research discarded long ago.

There was another problem.

“Rummaging this, why continuously only cup ramen thoughts coming?”

“Because stuck for half year.”

“But the cup ramen put out only dirty not tasty.”

“Even so trying tank research first, that side also already tightly blocked long ago.”

“Wow, absolutely no sense where how to start hands. Crazy.”

Then one senior researcher ran screaming.

“Stop, stop! All work prohibited!”

Researchers simultaneously turned heads.

“Director’s instruction! Caught cup ramen development direction!”

“Surely not telling to discard like this saying profit calculation not matching?”

“No! Heard planning to first show as military food, or combat rations!”

“······!”

Researchers’ expressions fully changed.

“Wow, this really idea conversion!”

“Certainly no shortage as combat rations?”

“Considering convenience and portability, necessary calories and storage period perfect!”

Researchers raised cheers.

“No, how could suddenly turn direction so innovatively?”

The fully excited senior researcher pushed the memo received during the call.

“Thanks to the little Young Master who went on business trip together pointing improvement directions!”

“Yes?”

Couldn’t believe.

“This precisely the five cup ramen improvement matters the Young Master informed!”

The senior researcher largely talked spitting saliva conveying the heard facts.

Researchers shouted like screams.

“Crazy!”

“Perfect theoretically!”

“This seems will work!”

“Somehow finished product seems drawn in front of eyes?”

“Hands itching wanting to make immediately!”

The more the senior researcher excitedly conveyed the call content with Director Choi.

Researchers opened eyes large and dropped mouths open.

“No, ate just one chopstick of cup ramen and vomited improvement directions in a row?”

“Can point improvement points simply on the spot?”

“Even pierced the core of the problem before the director even mentioned?”

Overwhelming the more turning the memo paper.

Certain and cleanly falling improvement matters no matter looking here and there!

Perfect goal setting and problem solving direction presentation!

Only admiration came out.

“How old Young Master this year said?”

“Mere eight years old.”

“Genius! Genius appeared!”

The senior researcher blew nasal breath and shouted.

“Don’t get surprised and listen. The little Young Master also pointed tank technology development directionality together.”

“Oh!”

“So don’t make a fuss rummaging useless discarded materials foolishly.”

“Keuheum!”

“Return home now and wipe feet and sleep fully. That the director’s instruction.”

“······Yes.”

The senior researcher grinned.

“Will have to devote to research all-nighter for two months going forward. So even just today sleep well and eat well and stock physical strength solidly.”

“Yes!”

“Heard planning to show cup ramen as combat rations at the domestic tank performance test site two months later. Know so.”

“Yes!”

“Of course tank development also have to finish by then. Many works.”

“Will prepare!”

Then one researcher raised a hand and asked.

“Have question!”

“What?”

“Cup ramen development aside, how planning to progress tank research?”

Everyone added one word each.

“Know tank research blocked long ago.”

“Limit with only papers publicly released in academia.”

“The sample we hold only one half-destroyed domestic military tank.”

“That also a miserably failed, crude trash tank.”

The senior researcher clicked fingers and smiled.

“Precisely because of that the little Young Master took the director and went on business trip to Busan!”

“Yes?”

“Heard will buy tanks.”

“Whaaat?”

Researchers screamed.

“Does that make sense? Saying buy tanks from where?”

“Not Ministry of National Defense artillery unit, not US military base, in Busan?”

“Think tanks children’s toys? Not something can buy wanting to buy.”

“Rather if receiving discarded tanks with government support maybe not know.”

“But our research institute not even a research institute under the Ministry of National Defense, not something can receive such support······.”

The senior researcher said cutting.

“So the upper head supporting itself. Heard tens of millions of won per unit.”

“······!”

The senior researcher shrugged shoulders.

“Decided to copy.”

“······.”

Silence with hollow laughter flowing.

“Heard planning to buy Soviet and German tanks?”

“······!”

“US and British ones saying considering.”

“······!”

“Heard the Young Master proposed buying all by model and the director startled.”

“······!”

“Will choose carefully calculating meticulously with hawk eyes so wait tightly in the lab.”

“······!”

This time different.

Silence flowed in a slightly different meaning from just before.

The scream bursting a bit later.

“No, now Soviet tanks······! Saying buy in Busan?”

“Now Cold War era!”

“No way can obtain Soviet armored vehicles that adopted socialism!”

The senior researcher shrugged shoulders this time too.

“Heard will smuggle.”

“······!”

“For tank technology development research.”

“······!”

“Heard the upper heads will bear the risk, so we only devote to research.”

“······!”

“If only this research succeeds performance bonus of a level far exceeding the special bonus JH office people received today scheduled to be paid so refer.”

“······!”

“Delivery end.”

Researchers opened mouths a long time later.

A solemn voice.

“I will bury bones in this company.”

“Copying? Until now couldn’t because hard obtaining samples, if only samples nothing can’t do.”

“Until now no such support.”

“Until now no such upper head either.”

Resolute resolve followed.

“Two months later, the domestic tank to show in front of the president, let’s make and show coolly with our hands!”

“Properly copy and extract coolly!”

“Sitting on the top lid of JH-made domestic tank and eating cup ramen seems kill?”

“Keu, that precisely JH spirit, and patriotism itself! Let’s go!”

“Let’s go!”

Enthusiasm burned.

The senior researcher clearly ordered forced disband.

But the fire in the research building lab didn’t know to go out even tonight.

* * *

Crack.

Stopped the car briefly in front of the hole-in-the-wall store, we stretched long.

“Aigu, body.”

“Dying.”

Elderly Director Choi made a suffering sound, and Yu Jong-tae who held the steering wheel had no leisure doing stretching.

The road that took 10 hours shortened to 5 and a half hours due to Gyeongbu Expressway construction.

In this era only round-trip 4 lanes due to budget shortage, but scheduled to expand to 6 lanes a few years later.

We ran and ran the site of history and came down to Busan.

“If knew would be so should have ridden the Busan local train?”

“Even running 6 hours seems dying, how endure 12 hours? I decline.”

“But if riding the local train don’t have to hold the steering wheel.”

“Our Young Master’s unauthorized overnight stay hung matter. I Yu Jong-tae can bear this level effort! Loyalty number two!”

I spread the map book and confirmed the route.

“Almost arrived.”

“Young Master, where the destination said? Silver cutlassfish? Black sea bream?”

That what requested to President Shim who went on trip to Jeju Island.

“Mackerel Fisheries.”

“Ah, right. Mackerel.”

Yu Jong-tae smiled faintly.

“Somehow a name that would be in Jagalchi Market not International Market?”

“Would be in Jagalchi Market too? Branch 2.”

“······Really not a place selling mackerel?”

“Really a place selling mackerel?”

“······.”

“Also the most famous mackerel fleet in Busan Port.”

“······.”

Yu Jong-tae asked back as if absurd.

“Wasn’t the way going to meet our smuggling king?”

“What think smuggling with?”

Ships.

Containers.

Tremendous scale warehouse facilities.

A place where miscellaneous workers going back and forth loading and unloading goods at the unloading yard can come and go without rest.

“Even those moving in the shade need legal signs to cover eyes and pretend.”

For that reason I operated an investment company in the past, the master operated a pawnshop.

Jongno gold tooth a gold and silver shop, Kkachisan real estate lady a real estate office, Namsan leech a room salon and club, Maljukgeori horse head······ erai, exclude the illegal gambling house.

Hmmhmm, anyway!

“Troublesome looking down on mackerel?”

Didn’t see statistics either?

The fish Republic of Korea people enjoy eating most 1st mackerel, 2nd cutlassfish, 3rd squid!

Earn huge money even just selling mackerel properly?

* * *

Entering Busan Port, strong fishy smell hit.

Domestic largest scale large-scale trade port by 21st century standard, and world 6th scale major transshipment port.

Busan Port a key point of trade from old times.

“Wow, large ships really many. Containers even more.”

Yu Jong-tae who held the steering wheel whistled.

I nodded and agreed.

“Not called the maritime gateway of the Republic of Korea for nothing.”

By 21st century standard process 57% of maritime import and export cargo, 75% of container cargo, 34% of national aquatic product distribution volume here at Busan Port.

Simultaneously possessed port facilities that can berth 201 ships, logistics warehouses that can store 130,000 tons, open storage yards that can store 1.29 million tons, and can store 520,000 TEU containers.

“Perfect for smuggling?”

Not for nothing the smuggling king settled here.

‘Smuggling king. Heard seized the flea market Japanese left after liberation, and grew as a national big shot diverting and selling 6.25 war materials in the middle?’

When Busan designated as temporary capital during 6.25 became the only safe place in the war.

Refugees crowded from all over the country, and US military relief supplies flowed in here.

Accordingly smuggled goods running rampant natural procedure!

‘The smuggling king grew as the peak of the smuggling world obtaining anything, selling anything selling the secretly diverted US military relief supplies at the International Market.’

The huge containers visible even here.

After the 6.25 war armistice the US military logistics system changed to CUA, that is container system.

Thanks to that diverting US military relief supplies not easy, and as US military aid began reducing, the smuggling king began moving the fleet himself and opening smuggling routes.

Not only Soviet Union and China but Japan and Taiwan, even Southeast Asia.

He a excellent shade big shot to the extent rumors circulating ‘obtain everything except drugs!’

‘Actually the smuggling king a generation active before I was active. That is, a previous era big shot who flourished in the same era as the master.’

I never saw once.

-Do smuggling but not drugs!

-Open black market but not open private loan market!

A man who was active hanging strange slogans.

For that reason no particular exchange with the master who was one of the 4 big shots of the private loan market.

Still grew hearing rumors regarding the smuggling king until ears hurt.

‘Heard a cold-blooded butcher without blood or tears.’

If rumors circulating even national gangs settled in Busan fold one hand words all done.

“Arrived. Mackerel Fisheries.”

Not far from the fishy dock.

Mackerel Fisheries Warehouse

Not a fish shop located in the International Market.

An aquatic product storage warehouse located near the Busan Port unloading yard.

Because the night of the black market more flashy than the day of the International Market.