After the Divorce, I Found a Thousand Bitcoins - Chapter 155
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I Got Divorced and Found a Thousand Bitcoins Episode 155
[KH Group officially enters Daeyang Shipping acquisition battle!]
[Head-to-head confrontation with Chinese money Jinhua Shipping. Sale price explosion predicted.]
Yeouido Industrial Bank Headquarters.
A suffocating tension filled the main conference room of Daeyang Shipping’s sale management company.
Across the wide table, delegations from KH Group and Chinese Jinhua Shipping sat facing each other.
“What exactly are you scheming?”
Wang Wei, Asia General Manager of Jinhua Shipping.
He arrogantly lifted his fat chin, openly displaying his displeasure.
“Carelessly sticking your spoon into someone else’s meal. KH Group may have money, but aren’t you complete novices with zero experience in the shipping industry?”
A rough provocation.
Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol’s brow furrowed menacingly.
But Kang Hyeon lifted his teacup and smiled faintly.
“Experience can be filled by buying top-tier talent with money.”
“Ha! Acting so leisurely?”
“Because we can fully handle the premium the creditors are demanding as well.”
Wang Wei snorted at Kang Hyeon’s calm response.
He pulled out a thick proposal from his briefcase with a fishy smile.
Thud!
The bundle of documents was thrown onto the table.
Wang Wei’s voice was filled with arrogant confidence, as dull as that sound.
“We’ve decided to raise our bid by a whopping 15% from the original amount.”
“…!”
“Even with this, do you dare to have a money fight with great Chinese capital to the end?”
Blatant violence of capital.
The mouths of creditor representatives in the main conference room all gaped open in unison.
Even Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol showed clear signs of panic at the unexpected bleeding competition.
But Kang Hyeon was different.
He looked at the documents thrown on the table and let out a very cold chuckle.
‘Completely hollow inside.’
Kang Hyeon quietly narrowed his eyes and opened his ability toward Wang Wei and the documents.
The light emanating from Jinhua Shipping in his vision was misery itself.
A dark blue light losing vitality and rotting away.
Ominous colors symbolizing destruction and downfall were spreading fiercely like a swamp.
At the end of that light, it was connected to Iran.
This meant only one thing.
‘The reason Iran can go for a prolonged war is China’s support.’
Of course, there was no way to prove it.
But what mattered to Kang Hyeon wasn’t proving it, but the fact itself.
‘China, which stood behind Iran. They’ll eventually face America’s deadly economic retaliation.’
The 15% increase they called out was bluffing.
Kang Hyeon, who had seen through the opponent’s complete destruction with his ability, slowly opened his mouth.
“A 15% increase. Truly befitting a great nation.”
“Of course.”
“Then we’ll withdraw from here. We have no intention of forcing ourselves to raise the bid.”
Kang Hyeon’s bombshell declaration.
Both Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol and the creditors froze in shock.
Meanwhile, Wang Wei, confident of perfect victory, burst into disgusting laughter and mocked.
“Hahaha! Tucking your tail between your legs?”
“Let’s call it yielding.”
“No matter how much money you have, you shouldn’t mess with national capital. I hope you learned that lesson painfully.”
Even at Wang Wei’s ridicule, Kang Hyeon’s expression didn’t change one bit.
Rather, he just stared at him with cool eyes that even felt sympathetic.
“That enormous acquisition fund, I hope you can deposit it without any problems within the deadline.”
Cold mockery.
Kang Hyeon stood up from his seat without regret and left the conference room.
Headquarters office.
Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol urgently followed Kang Hyeon and raised his voice.
“Chairman! Giving up the bid? Are you planning to let them steal the shipping company like this!”
“Calm down, Team Manager Lee.”
“Those Chinese bastards are spreading victory reports in the media and openly mocking us!”
Kang Hyeon leaned deep into the sofa and loosened his tie slightly.
His expression was as calm as a still lake.
“Let them mock. They’ll be crying and wailing in chaos in a few days anyway.”
“Excuse me? What do you mean….”
Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol stood there dumbfounded with a confused expression.
Kang Hyeon took a sip of cold iced americano and explained.
“The prolonged war between America and Iran. China, which was behind it, will suffer serious damage.”
“No way.”
“There’s information that America will sanction state-owned companies including Jinhua Shipping’s parent company. Those guys don’t have any cash at all to pay for Daeyang Shipping’s acquisition.”
Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol’s eyes swelled wide with shock.
“If that’s true, did they commit massive international fraud against the creditors?”
“They threw out an absurdly high bid to buy time. It’s probably a gamble they made hoping for bailout financing from the Chinese government.”
But such a miracle wouldn’t happen.
Because Kang Hyeon could see very clearly the blue light of Jinhua Shipping’s destruction in his eyes.
“When the acquisition payment deadline comes, those bastards will go spectacularly bankrupt.”
“…!”
“The creditors will be furious and Daeyang Shipping will fall into a helpless situation. That’s when we step in and pick up the mess they created at a bargain price.”
Kang Hyeon tapped his fingers on the desk and smiled cruelly.
“Did I look like such a sucker that I’d bite at a price full of bubbles?”
Kang Hyeon’s spine-chilling foresight.
Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol nodded blankly, at a loss for words.
Kang Hyeon’s prophecy came true with spine-chilling perfection.
A few days later, megaton-level news that shook the global financial markets broke.
[US Treasury Department freezes assets of Jinhua Shipping’s parent company and multiple state-owned enterprises!]
[Evidence of illegal funding support to Iran discovered. US activates powerful secondary boycott.]
[Jinhua Shipping faces bankruptcy crisis. Daeyang Shipping acquisition payment virtually impossible.]
The world was shocked at the sight of China’s massive capital collapsing overnight.
Wang Wei, who had been popping champagne confident of acquisition victory, was devastated.
Yeouido Industrial Bank Headquarters was filled with the angry shouts of creditors.
“You fraudulent bastards! Spit out the penalty fees right now and get lost from the negotiation table!”
“Do you need to face international disgrace to come to your senses? File charges immediately!”
Wang Wei had to flee like a rat with his face pale as a sheet, avoiding reporters.
His arrogant nose was buried in miserable mud and shattered to pieces.
Their downfall became the most perfect and splendid red carpet for KH Group.
“Chairman! Just as you said, Jinhua Shipping has been completely destroyed!”
Ha-ryul rushed into the office, unable to hide his deep excitement, and shouted.
Kang Hyeon looked down at the dazzling Seoul city center outside the window and leisurely lifted his teacup.
“Now the creditors have fire at their feet and are probably going completely crazy.”
“Should I contact the creditors right away?”
“Yes. Tell them we’ll enter acquisition negotiations again.”
Kang Hyeon’s voice was more dry and coldly subdued than ever before.
“However, we’ll cut the bid price to exactly half of what Jinhwa Shipping offered.”
“Half the price?”
“What if the creditors reject that amount?”
“They absolutely cannot refuse. We’re the only ones who can provide trillions of won in cash right now.”
They were already cornered at the edge of a cliff.
If they didn’t grab even the rotten rope that KH Capital threw them, there would be nothing but death.
Prey perfectly caught in a predator’s trap.
KH Group’s massive maritime logistics network was being constructed in a most brutal and perfect manner.
[Exclusive: KH Group’s Lightning Acquisition of Daeyang Shipping! Acquisition price at half the original estimate.]
[Creditors tearfully accept bargain sale. The winner is ultimately Chairman Choi Kang-hyeon.]
Yeouido Industrial Bank Conference Room.
The sale contract with a vivid red seal slid across the table.
The creditors’ representative’s face had lost all color over the past few days, looking half-dead.
“Chairman Choi. Please lead Daeyang Shipping well.”
“Don’t worry.”
Kang Hyeon ruthlessly gathered the documents and stood up from his seat.
“I’m planning to change everything, starting with the name.”
The creditors cornered at the cliff’s edge by Jinhwa Shipping’s terrible bankruptcy.
They had no choice but to reluctantly accept Kang Hyeon’s half-price lowball offer.
KH Group was the only entity in South Korea with trillions of won in cash to immediately relieve their suffocation.
Before the merciless predator of capital, they were thoroughly powerless.
A few days later, KH Group Headquarters Office.
Daeyang Shipping’s old signboard went into the trash forever.
In its place, a new and massive name called ‘KH Shipping’ was hung.
“The acquisition and corporate restructuring procedures have been completed perfectly.”
Ha-ryul presented a neatly organized merger report.
Kang Hyeon casually skimmed through the documents and gave very dry instructions.
“Fire all of Daeyang Shipping’s incompetent executives effective today.”
“Yes. I’ll proceed with immediate disciplinary dismissal without severance pay.”
“And we’ll completely overhaul their rotten structure from the foundation up.”
At Kang Hyeon’s cold voice, Future Strategy Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol approached with visible tension.
“We’ll need to completely redraw the existing routes and fleet operation plans from scratch.”
“Deploy all large container ships intensively on Taiwan routes.”
Kang Hyeon’s long, firm finger precisely pointed to Taiwan on the tablet map.
“The Taiwan neighborhood commerce bases that Logistics has established. We need to continuously pour goods there.”
“Understood. I’ll immediately synchronize schedules with Team Manager Seo Ji-hun’s Taiwan branch.”
Perfect arteries laid out on land.
Now it was time for the massive heart called KH Shipping to pump enormous blood there.
“And redirect all the large bulk carriers to Indian ports.”
“You mean the India routes?”
Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol asked back with a slightly puzzled expression.
“In India, KH Construction is currently leading a massive smart city construction project.”
“Ah…!”
“Building a new city worth tens of trillions of won requires astronomical amounts of construction materials.”
Kang Hyeon’s meticulous and massive big picture.
Only then did Team Manager Lee feel goosebumps as he let out an exclamation.
“Steel bars, cement, heavy equipment. KH Shipping will transport all materials that KH Construction needs.”
“If we handle that enormous cargo volume directly with our ships, the logistics cost savings alone will reach trillions of won.”
Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol’s voice was slightly trembling with overwhelming excitement.
“While others struggle to find ships, we’ll be racing ahead at an overwhelming speed.”
“That’s the real reason I absolutely had to devour Daeyang Shipping.”
Making, loading, building, and delivering goods.
The great arteries of a massive empire perfectly encompassing national infrastructure were connected as one.
‘With this, I’ve perfectly turned even the logistics crisis into an opportunity.’
A wartime situation where global maritime freight rates were skyrocketing.
KH Group, with its own shipping network in hand, would crush competitors while achieving enormous cost savings.
The world was still burning in terrible artillery fire.
The war forced a vicious and endless war of attrition on both the United States and Iran.
[US Department of Defense in emergency over massive war funding. President Goldwin’s political life on the brink.]
[Iran-backed Houthi rebels conduct additional drone terror attacks on Saudi oil fields.]
Kang Hyeon turned off the large display in his office and swallowed cold coffee.
The deeper the market’s fear grew, the more KH Capital’s short position profits increased exponentially.
Surreal days when asset units jumped from trillions to tens of trillions.
Buzz- Buzz-
Just then, the personal secure smartphone on his desk vibrated briefly and intensely.
The name on the screen was Aiden Davis.
“Congressman Davis. The air in Washington must be quite murky.”
-Haha. Mr. Choi’s prediction was perfectly right again. The old man is completely stuck in the swamp.
Aiden’s voice over the receiver carried undeniable deep elation.
The more Goldwin crumbled, the more solid and broad Aiden’s path to the presidency became.
-Mr. Choi. The old man is plotting something very interesting right now.
“What do you mean by something interesting.”
-Since Congress won’t approve additional regular troop deployment, he’s digging backdoor channels.
At Aiden’s secret information, Kang Hyeon’s eyes grew coldly subdued.
“Instead of regular troops, he plans to deploy massive private military companies. Mercenaries, in other words.”
-Exactly. He intends to pour massive dollars to forcibly suppress guerrilla warfare.
“It would be a perfect scapegoat to avoid Congressional oversight.”
Aiden let out a heavy sigh over the receiver.
-Among them, he’s trying to sign an astronomical contract with Iron Shield, which boasts the largest size.
“Iron Shield.”
The largest mercenary company in the US and a defense contractor with powerful lobbying influence.
-If that dirty contract goes through, Goldwin will buy more time to turn public opinion.
“So you need my help.”
-Yes. I need a way to completely cut off the old man’s black funding line.
Aiden’s request was very clear.
Kang Hyeon quietly maintained the call while bringing up Iron Shield’s corporate information on his monitor.
Then he slowly narrowed his eyes and quietly opened his ability.
‘Let’s see. The fate of vampires that suck the blood of war.’
Iron Shield’s complex financial statements and ownership structure were drawn into Kang Hyeon’s vision.
Simultaneously, strange shimmering light began rising fiercely over the black and white documents.
‘Hmm.’
A gap where black and red light were bizarrely intertwined.
In Kang Hyeon’s vision, Iron Shield’s hidden fatal debts and traces of ownership disputes were fluctuating in blue light.
On the surface a massive war mercenary company, but due to management’s reckless operations, the financial state was already hollow inside.
If he gathered the stocks released to the market and moved activist funds, a hostile M&A would be sufficiently possible.
Making armed mercenaries kneel with capital.
A deep and cruel predator’s sneer slowly spread across Kang Hyeon’s lips.
“Congressman.”
-Do you see any sharp solution?
“Why would we need to struggle to cut off their funding from the outside.”
Kang Hyeon crunched on the ice from his iced americano and whispered very leisurely.
“We can just devour that entire company and grab them by the throat to end this.”
-What? Are you saying you’ll buy out that massive military corporation?
A massive hunt that would instantly seize and shake the tide of war.
The predator of capital was finally opening its chilling maw toward the Heart of America.
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