Chapter 41

Chapter 41

The Great Matter of Human Relations (1)

Daniel did not quietly head to Liverpool.

Instead he got off at stations in between and met each of those who sent fan letters saying they admired him and spent very happy days.

And when the train arrived at the city next to Birmingham, Wolverhampton.

Daniel met a widow.

And surprisingly went to Liverpool with that person.

This is a true story? I have to believe this?

“Hyung. Sit here.”

“What. Why. I’m saying I’ll devote this one body and support you so what’s the problem?”

“No. Calm down. Now that I’ve grabbed a share the burden of supporting the family can be a bit less, right? No need to forcibly find a rich widow. So-”

“I’m absolutely not that kind of taste! Finally found the destined partner whether widow or nun what does that matter!”

No. Widow maybe not but if nun it seems a bit important is correct.

Here Doctor Arthur Lee will prescribe alcohol. At least not prescribing opium so at this level correct doctor by this era’s standard. I won’t accept rebuttal.

Making him eat expensive alcohol full the light in Daniel’s eyes gradually became blurry like pollack eyes.

And.

“She was the woman who would become my mother!”

Finally Daniel threw off that dirty pretense and revealed the true color of the treacherous hero of the turbulent era, no, not Cao Cao level so let’s say the treacherous old man of the turbulent era. Anyway revealed exactly that true color.

“Do you know how hard I was? To me who lost parents and was shouldering only heavy responsibility! Finally the woman of destiny who can embrace all my wounds and pain appeared!”

“...Daniel... older woman taste... looking for a lady who can replace mother...”

“Put that notebook away!”

Now looking the goal was not money but that... resolving the mother complex. Here I with higher mental age have to understand.

- You?

Then of course.

This life is the second round for me, and the terrible thing of parents’ death is not something experienced for the first time. Sad but bearable.

But in this wild land Britain attending boarding school and receiving the parents’ and my obituary, the family property all offset with debt and disappeared, there was even the sense of mission that one has to take responsibility for the older sister too.

Normally even if the chest all rots and decays it wouldn’t be strange but at most older woman taste is all. Isn’t it a healthy way of resolution in its own way?

- Humans really can’t understand... Is my understanding lacking, or are your family people strange?

Idiot. It’s fortunate that it didn’t go more astray.

I saw in some alternate history web novel before. The German king was a pervert who enjoys getting hit with whips and electric shocks in some strange secluded place, just not being that taste is somewhere. Here this Arthur Park In-ho Lee who is younger brother and older brother has to embrace the pitiful Daniel.

Britain is not a neighborhood where continuing the line and reviving the family is absolute like Joseon. Nobles have some of that but our house is not a noble house either.

So I just laughed and passed. Thinking if I do well everyone will eat well and live well so no need to greatly burden.

I was not alone.

Absurd but only now it was fully felt.

Because I lived alone for too long I was carelessly missing it.

If one cannot change the lives of the two closest people for the better how can one change history?

Right, this is correct.

I don’t know when the Lee couple died in the original history, whether the left behind Daniel and Violet lived well or not.

But it doesn’t matter.

Just helping them live much better than the original is enough.

Ah! At this moment I felt like being reborn in this dark hotel room.

Arthur Lee who originally had all appearance and character and ability finally raised the rank from A grade to S grade!

With an open heart like the sea, I requested a bit more information about the partner he wants to marry from Daniel.

“That... recently lost husband and eldest and was extremely hard, but saw my writing and regained laughter.”

Hmm. One more addition. Weakness to people who need him. Let’s note it.

“What is that partner’s name and age?”

“Eliza? Thirty... nine...?”

Hmm. Well, if he likes it what can one do. Is a beauty, right.

“So, how many remaining kids?”

“Five...”

“...How old?”

“The eldest who died not long ago... was eleven...?”

I will correct.

Perhaps childcare is just a hobby.

A person who if born in the 21st century would have lived an excellent life as a kindergarten teacher was born in this era of barbarism and ended up shooting guns at the East India Company.

It’s okay. Since I was reborn as the great Arthur who embraces everything even if five nephews are added it’s fine. Anyway that house has a lot of money. No need to hold out hands.

I threw Daniel who ate so much that one doesn’t know if a person drinks alcohol or alcohol drinks a person and became dead drunk onto the bed. Ah shit why so heavy.

“Ah right, hyung.”

“Why?”

“Older sister says she will live without marrying.”

That moment.

Laser beams poured from Daniel’s eyes and the alcohol energy completely disappeared.

“This fuck, what did you say?”

“Ah. No. Quickly sleep.”

“Would sleep come now! Quickly sit! Hey!!”

“Will you listen to my words. Ask the person herself later.”

“Where is she! I’ll immediately just the leg!”

Don’t ask me.

As expected my own safety is the top priority.

***

I am not a chicken-headed human afraid of water so there is no matter of making bride search a long-cherished wish.

Since people who got fun in matchmaking people are swarming that matter almost left my hands, and what I put heat on was precisely setting up business here in London.

Natural words, but saying I will insert the East India Company into the business to do in Joseon my stock price literally skyrocketed vertically among club and East India Company executives and employees.

“As expected Henry’s son!”

“Arthur! I recognized you long ago!”

“You are the hero of our club!”

Unlike some petty leaf neighborhood the East India village people didn’t even pay tuition and didn’t steal inheritance. In this era of barbarism the moving true story of Arthur Lee showing the beautiful tale of the magpie that repaid grace with his whole body was sufficient to make even East India Company people stained with gold supremacy and money worship redden their eyes.

“Land of opportunity Joseon! This time is the only opportunity!”

“Cheap cheap! Joseon-bound one-way express!”

“Mysterious forbidden country of the Far East! Change your life in Joseon!”

East India Company directly contributing shares and manpower. Former and current East India Company executives and employees also separately contributing.

Next I personally, and Lee & Gladstone Company also contributing <​Far East Company> raised its grand curtain.

Not the end here.

Far East Company, Joseon court, and Royal Treasury contribute once more and establish a new company.

Its name.

Dududududu.

<​Far East Colonization Joint Stock Company>.

- Crazy guy.

Why. What.

- Crazy guy!

Ahem. It’s a different company from the Oriental Development Company. This company will strive for Joseon’s prosperity and economic freedom. As evidence the Joseon authorities also contributed?

Far East Colonization Joint Stock Company, abbreviation <​Far Colon> secured a considerable number of monopoly rights on prime businesses that can make money in Joseon.

From now on all ginseng and red ginseng sold in Joseon must necessarily go through Far Colon. In one word the tip offered to Kim Jwageun must now be paid to Far Colon.

Instead we don’t just tear money like Kim Jwageun.

Before the establishment of Far Colon Joseon people had to take ginseng to Beijing and sell between 10 nyang~30 nyang, but now Lee & Gladstone Company can load ginseng at Nampo and sell to Hong Kong or Guangzhou etc. Expected selling price 100 nyang to 200 nyang. Isn’t it crazy profit?

- How is this possible? Were Joseon people all idiots?

No way.

Joseon people also all did smuggling secretly. But since no ship technology and sailors Chinese merchants came directly and bought so couldn’t sell at that price.

But Britain in real time beat China to death and guided to the path of free trade, and above all I don’t know the reason well but around open ports there are many opium addicts so demand for Korean ginseng is also extremely high.

- Don’t know? Don’t know?

I don’t know anything. Even did the Opium War but opium trade is still illegal in Qing? Good British merchants wouldn’t sell opium.

Similarly grain transport is also monopolized by Far Colon.

Replace all Joseon’s miserable ship technology with Western style, or Chinese style ships and solve and roughly solve the sailor problem. Now all Chinese or Indians but from now on Joseon sailors will gradually increase too.

And tariffs.

Invite international law experts and tariff experts from East India Company origin and insert as advisors to Joseon. If possible better if from the world’s best prestigious school Eton. If thinking people who received help in my ‘job arrangement’ will share part of the profit that is a misunderstanding. Just receiving some gifts.

The businesses we will do never stop here.

First lay railways in Joseon. Railways never betray. Just laying Gyeongbu Line, Gyeongui Line, Honam Line will definitely gather money with a rake.

- Thinking of ripping off Joseon again, Arthur!

Judging as a rational manager, it is correct for the Joseon government to hand over the railway construction right.

Do you know why Egypt fell to a colony? Even after digging the Suez Canal debt piled up like the Tower of Babel and got fucked because of that debt. If trying to lay railways across the eight provinces with Joseon’s poor capital one will go bankrupt? Rather laying railways with others’ money and flexing is much better.

And also sell factories and various advanced machinery etc. to Joseon.

What I first thought was of course things like looms or spinning machines, but Joseon people did not want such things.

‘An object that endlessly makes cotton cloth without people touching?’

‘That’s good too but is there something else?’

Joseon officials... wanted technology to make firearms, cannons, bullets, shells. Is DNA that loves explosion and ranged dealers really flowing in that bloodline?

Anyway with the precious lump sum extracted by taking all the property of Joseon shogun Kinchua-kun build Joseon’s first modern factory, precisely the munitions factory.

Thinking quietly cotton cloth even if stamped has to compete with Chinese dinghao cotton cloth, but Joseon-made firearms made with the spirit of we use what we made have no matter of competing with Chinese. Just shoot at the head. As expected Joseon also definitely wants to conquer Manchuria!

Next mine development right.

Joseon also early adopted the advanced system of selling mine development rights to those with money and taking some, but of course the powerful took back money under the pretext of that development right.

The Joseon court confiscated all this authority and also fucked all existing mine operators. Since offered money and iron to the traitor aren’t they a party with the traitor.

But when saying mine development there are items and people automatically associated.

“Gunpowder?”

“Not just gunpowder but explosives for blasting work.”

“Demand is high these days anyway. A few years ago a few factories that only make blasting explosives were built in the southwest too. If saying export to the Far East those guys will also like it.”

Would black powder based explosives satisfy this future person’s castle?

I rummaged through all sorts of books and confirmed the fact that the miracle item called <​dynamite> does not yet exist in this world.

<​Nitroglycerin> also did not exist but confirmed an article that some chemist synthesized a substance with very strong explosive power called <​pyroglycerin>... no doubt. This would be nitroglycerin.

If combining nitroglycerin with diatomaceous earth it becomes dynamite. What diatomaceous earth is is that... the stone-like thing placed at the bathroom entrance to wipe foot moisture. This is certain.

The problem is chemistry is not some horadric cube and just combining doesn’t immediately pop out the item. I can’t devote several years to chemistry study now, right?

I immediately scattered advertisements and job postings in the name of Lee & Gladstone Company.

[Looking for a chemist to challenge the work of safely improving nitroglycerin and making it an efficient and economical explosive.]

Then a reply immediately flew.

[That substance is extremely dangerous so must not be handled recklessly.]

Surprisingly a letter directly sent by the chemist himself who synthesized that pyro whatever.

Perhaps because he sings like a gatekeeper that it is dangerous, must not use it no one responded to my posting. From the beginning how many people would recklessly jump into a venture company with no connection to chemistry.

But there was.

[Researching nitroglycerin. Perhaps can receive support?]

I cheered seeing the name <​Alfred Bernhard Nobel> written at the end of the letter.

Right.

As expected a future person must suck a bit of honey with future knowledge.

(Reference)

Eliza Tinsley is a real person, in 1851 when her husband Thomas Tinsley died she inherited the nail manufacturing company he was doing.

20 years later the company greatly grew into a 4,000 person scale enterprise manufacturing not only nails but also rivets, anchors, chains etc. and establishing a branch in Australia. Eliza Tinsley Company is still prospering.

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