Chapter 45

Chapter 45

The Great Matter of Human Relations (5)

Let’s organize.

Using the same English why words don’t communicate so frustrating to death.

First, the fact that I set my mind to try seducing Elizabeth is fact. That house’s money is enormous? A millionaire of millions of dollars and no son? But pretty? Who would endure. Regardless of men and women if seeing a celebrity one likes one imagines once, right.

But that is only to the extent my heart was like that, never took action trying to seduce directly even once!

Why!

This Arthur Park In-ho Lee!

Because not a vicious guy trying to coax buyers with handsome man scheme and take wicked profit!

On my salesman road there is only honesty and trust!

“What sound. Shaking me with all heat and sincerity like that.”

This is really slander. Even the sound of knocking the window while sleeping must be an appropriate level what if knocking martyr Lee Bongchang.

“Me?”

“Yes.”

“When?”

“Saying let’s start a second life in that unknown land, land full of opportunities Joseon?”

Fabrication.

Complete slander.

100% purity muckraking! Jar ghost, quickly say something!

- Uh? Um? Uh uh...

“Said let’s go to Joseon?”

“Isn’t it too natural words that when investing don’t just see documents but must see with two eyes directly and judge?”

Not fact.

“Said let’s go together?”

“That if going alone can’t enter from the beginning. You are American. Haven’t concluded friendly trade treaty with America yet! Of course there must be accompaniment!”

This is also not fact.

“Second life?”

“So why fitting all that into one sentence.”

That... there seems to be a misunderstanding the second life whatever is a kind of template-like advertisement comment.

If investing in Joseon and hitting an enormous jackpot of course life reversal, if turning on the internet there were always advertisements. <​Hello I am Winston Gallipoli I accumulated 5 billion pounds of property through successful investment in the early stage and obtained economic freedom> like things. And at the end a suspicious link like enjoy economic freedom and wealth as reward together with the best partner Park In-ho!! attached.

- You did such things too?

Would I have done fuck.

The important thing is anyway misunderstanding. All splicing manipulation. She even if working at a newspaper company not Wall Street would definitely have become a big shot of yellow journalism.

But since important repeatedly say.

This woman.

Really doesn’t listen to others’ words.

“In the end met continuously while harboring the heart of wanting to seduce so seduced is correct?”

“I said no!!”

“Then a person with no black heart at all just enters a room where a woman is alone because told to come and stays up all night?”

Did stay up all night.

Had to receive endless pain doing presentations for days and days saying informing this greenhorn chart guy of Joseon’s reality and the field’s hardship. Should have put more sincerity into Nobel in that time.

“Treating a marriageable woman so roughly.”

Never even held hands once. What held is only the collar. Just once.

“Making such loud sounds.”

Shouted until the throat all split. Because even if speaking doesn’t listen.

Too confident so qi and blood seem to reverse. If I were a martial artist would have immediately achieved the reverse blood great method and reached the realm of extreme demon and become a demonic cultist with room to spare.

“Since when?”

“Huh?”

“Since when!”

“Hmm... not from the beginning, from the middle?”

Words without beginning or end but Elizabeth understood perfectly.

This scary woman understood all my words from about the middle and kept pretending not to know and scratching. Not ordinary. Knowing the method of making people angry so well.

“But really wasn’t it chasing because wanting to seduce me from the beginning?”

“I said no...”

“Really not that chattered investment and business stories day and night because wanting to get along well with me? That is more strange?”

Ah.

That.

There is a saying in old idioms ‘awl in a pocket’.

If putting a lighter in the pocket nothing happens but if putting an awl the awl pierces the pocket and sticks out meaning, a great person like me no matter how hidden ultimately has no choice but to stand out meaning. So-

- The introduction is long.

This barbaric 19th century.

An era where ‘women just look after kids at home’ is not an insult but circulated as natural words. If saying will do investment or business the exclusive property of men who would like it?

However Arthur Lee the best cultured person of this era from the 21st century did not denounce her hobbies and interests as eccentric behavior or strange things and treated with only sincerity without a speck of selfishness so how can one reject.

Still don’t know? ‘Ah, don’t know? This is equality primitives don’t know’ is precisely the demonic temptation that has come down from the days of rental fantasy novels!

Huhu.

As expected me.

Even without intending the qi of heaven and earth responds and achieves what is desired so this is precisely the realm of the profound scripture.

- This bastard. Escaping too far from reality. Hold your mind a bit!

Ah, no. Coming to senses.

This bad imoogi bastard. If coming to senses the title <​guy with no guts who accepted all eccentric behavior and stubbornness wanting to seduce American heiress> is waiting.

Don’t want to accept reality! Just let me remain as future warrior Trunks!

Now the remaining thing for me is only going straight.

If withdrawing feet after coming this far obtain the title <​dog trash of the world who played with trash woman>.

“Elizabeth. No, Lizzy. No matter what others say it doesn’t matter. What’s wrong with burning passion for the thing one wants to do? To me that appearance is more beautiful than any dress-”

“What. Why like this. Look at goosebumps rising a bit. Because British? Perhaps applied eel oil on the tongue today?”

Fuck.

Match the rhythm a bit.

“Then the honeymoon is Joseon? Going to a place others can’t even imagine.”

“Not a particularly good place to sightsee but-”

“Sightseeing. Going to see directly to invest.”

“Yes yes, shareholder. Will escort as you please.”

I held out my hand to her.

This time she did not play more either.

***

Speaking of America’s famous rich man Mr. Edward Robinson he is the owner of profound internal energy who achieved the yang suspicion art.

“Because mom was often sick and lying down couldn’t raise the children properly.”

“Honestly speaking every time seeing resembling me the feeling is good! Hahaha! Do you know how glad hearing the words that sent to find a groom candidate but ran to Wall Street and did investment?”

“Still worry. Worried several times whether can marry like that. But look. The kid resembles me and does her own things well. Even without particularly nagging will somehow all marry!”

Mr. Edward who wishes for the daughter’s happiness and subtly proud of that money ghost capitalist gene is showing great favor to me.

But the opposite side of the yang suspicion art, President Robinson was never favorable to me.

“In the end you also came seeing the daughter’s money!”

“Absolutely won’t hand over easily!”

“Is whale catching an ordinary thing? Pale scholars are out of the question! Yes, aaah yes!!”

“Guys sticking to rich heiresses are all the same there! Definitely approached to use as funds for your Joseon business! Before dirt enters my eyes won’t give even a penny! In the end will inherit but will lock so only my daughter uses and the son-in-law can’t use!!”

If this was another person don’t know, but one person keeps coming and going like two-face so I facing also gets dizzy.

At this point I decided to do traffic cleanup once.

“Not particularly interested in father-in-law’s property.”

“How believe that?”

“I will ask the opposite. If I run to Wall Street and shout since Joseon’s interests are in this hand please invest, do you think can’t pull funds?”

I don’t need Mr. Robinson’s money.

Rather the opposite.

If an entrepreneur who made that position experiencing all hardships, rather must be anxious unable to invest in me.

“In the City of London people wanting to invest in me are plentiful. I also don’t particularly feel the necessity of receiving American capital. But...”

“Will give the opportunity to invest through marriage ties? This impudent guy?”

“Won’t you?”

“Up to how much will you accept?”

First trial clear.

Cold businessman Mr. Robinson could not ignore the catchphrase <​the only opportunity to invest in the unknown country Joseon now>. Sorry but now father-in-law has to ask me to receive investment a bit?

The second trial was also nothing special.

“I have no thought of inheriting the whaling business.”

“Heung. Anyway scholars can’t inherit.”

“Why am I a scholar? Have you perhaps not read <​Arthur’s Drift Record>?”

“······.”

“Before even 10 years old met a storm and lost parents and lived in a pirate and barbarian country where words don’t communicate and returned, and even went to the battlefield am I a scholar?”

“Um. Not to the extent of scholar... not...”

My life is a bit variety. Even American country bumpkins who shoot guns if bored would find it hard to pride themselves on living a harder life than me.

“Honestly speaking openly. Whaling is now the end.”

“Yes?”

“Actually already preparing to slowly organize the business. Will have to find a new investment destination.”

“Why suddenly thought like that?”

“Catching whales is gradually becoming harder.”

Overfishing.

Since they say whales were once an endangered species, if now stirring the whole world with the power of the industrial revolution the whale number would definitely be plummeting vertically.

“Ambiguous to hand over to the son-in-law too. Liquidity is not good either. If I die thinking of composing a trust fund in advance so the daughters can live even without doing anything.”

Joseon investment was a kind of portfolio composition. Not a bad thing for me either.

Had meal seats with Mr. Robinson, Elizabeth several times after that too, but since all three interests are the same no matter when and how eating the conversation topic always flowed to promising items or economic outlook etc. At this point really a scary father and daughter.

And finally.

[I will marry]

[You too? Let’s do me first.]

Telegrams went back and forth from both Britain and America.

***

Might have forgotten, but our brothers had a time limit hanging. Have to return to Joseon to earn money, right.

First, Elizabeth and I hold the wedding in America.

As much as a wedding Mr. Robinson prepared grinding his teeth saying ‘those who said my daughters can’t marry and will live alone look with eyes wide open’ it was truly a grand wedding plastered with money.

America’s high officials and businessmen. Especially people with various connections to Far East trade all attended the wedding so truly the wedding of the century.

Next return to Britain.

The first thing to do going to Britain is precisely Daniel’s wedding. Since the woman is remarriage did not hold the ceremony that grandly.

Next I hold the wedding again in Britain.

- Is this a wedding?

If this is not a wedding what is it? A funeral?

- No matter how looking it’s a unity rally.

“Long live Far East trade!”

“Gospel to Asians!”

“May free trade save them!”

Right.

It’s a rally.

The words that Mr. Robinson got entangled as in-laws with me means, now saying ‘are we strangers’ a way for me to pull Wall Street’s funds also arose.

The balance of power slowly reaches equilibrium.

Not like other inventors or adventurous venture businessmen going around looking for money owners and bowing saying please invest, but wearing a cast on the neck and making a state where one can flex ‘I will only receive investment from the person I want?’.

Knowing this everyone comes to the wedding and makes a fuss saying we are close right? We East India Company fam forever right? Once Eton is eternal Eton right?

After the discipline catching ends organize the items to take to Joseon, charter ships, additionally procure funds, set up the joint company to do with Nobel.

“Wow. Management is much harder than investment.”

“Isn’t it natural?”

“But more fun.”

Elizabeth was very excited. Originally the early stage of founding is the hardest but also fun.

Ah, right. Forgot.

Anyway as much as I am going to Joseon, must confirm whether there are letters or luggage to send to Joseon people currently staying in Britain.

Although everyone attended at the wedding, you know? The marrying parties are half soul out and busy even responding to endlessly flocking guests. Don’t even remember what stories were said and shook hands so much the hands swelled.

So before departure, I met the Joseon royalty who became an ambiguous position of about ‘auditor students’ entering Eton - the Ganghwa brothers.

“Nice to meet, Lord Lee!”

“I am not ‘lord’. Not a noble. English became fluent?”

“The teachers are excellent so learned quickly. And not a noble? We wrote a letter so if His Majesty sees he will definitely confer a title.”

“Haha. Really thank you for caring.”

The Ganghwa brothers looked very good in expression.

A strange thing. If the Eton I know is correct these also should have long hardship and trials in the process of being injected with ‘Eton spirit’.

“Were there no ones harassing? Despising because Asian?”

“Even if whispering a bit behind, the name of royalty is not a ghost enough to be looked down on by commoner children.”

Ah.

It was still an era where status is much more important than skin color.

“The ones called seniors harassed a bit but no big problem. Things weaker than pine trees.”

“...Pine trees?”

“We lived cutting trees and farming, right. Pale scholars or so end with one throw.”

Come to think of it these brothers are people who lived bottom life as royalty enough to rival the big-eared brothers. Eton’s greenhorns or so can stamp with German suplex with room to spare.

“But Eton is really the cradle of learning. Learned very many things.”

“Is that so? Fortunate. Since devoted to learning His Majesty in Joseon will also be greatly pleased. Perhaps what realization did you obtain?”

“That is precisely that national power is in invasion.”

“······My ears are dark these days so can’t understand words well.”

“Learned that for Joseon to prosper like Britain must make Manchuria and Japan like Ireland. Just as barbarians are not all the same people just because they know how to speak, for the survival right of the Joseon people-”

No.

The progress is too fast.

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