Max-Level Son of a Chaebol Family - Chapter 34
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34. Shake Down (2)
Chairman Cha’s eyebrows shot up.
“Are you indirectly criticizing me for selling my son off for a high price?”
“Indirect criticism? I’m being sincere. If it’s Woo-gwang’s daughter and Taeseong Chemical, I’d even be willing to divorce my eldest son and his wife who don’t get along and remarry him!”
“Shut up.”
“I’m saying congratulations. You know that. Heh heh heh. This is a congratulatory drink from your younger brother.”
“Congratulatory drink… Then we have to drink it.”
The two brothers downed their drinks in one gulp without hesitation.
The older brother had deodeok wine, the younger brother had plain soju.
Glug.
Now there were two glasses left.
“Yoon-seong, we two brothers went through all kinds of hardships and grew that small company to where it is today.”
“Yes, we took over one cement factory that the Japanese left behind, and while we were at it, we even established a construction company and climbed up to here.”
“We really went through a lot. We worked hard day and night. We rebuilt Seoul that had all collapsed during the war. We paved roads, built bridges, erected schools, and built houses to sell. You carried bricks, and I carried cement.”
“We brothers really rolled around in construction site dust every single day, gritting our teeth. To become rich. To live more stylishly and impressively than anyone else.”
“There’s been so much talk and trouble all this time. Laundering political funds, backing up dirty bastards, gangsters and private loan sharks. Incidents and accidents never stopped.”
“Thanks to that, didn’t I end up going to prison twice? Heh heh heh.”
The taste was bitter.
So the alcohol went down smoothly.
Chairman Cha downed his drink in one go.
Thud. Glug.
“This is the last glass now, Yoon-seong.”
“Then I’ll make this glass my final one too.”
The younger brother emptied his drinking glass in one gulp.
Then he started rambling again about the words he hadn’t finished earlier.
“If we just land the subway construction project, Taeseong Construction will hit the jackpot that very day! It’s a subway that runs through Seoul City! It’ll become the transportation method that Seoul citizens use daily for commuting! Everyone will think of Subway Line 2 first when they hear Taeseong Construction, right? Then Taeseong Construction’s stock price will soar to the very top of the sky!”
Even though his older brother couldn’t bring himself to empty the drink he’d received.
“Yoon-seong, I clearly said it was the last glass, but you’re talking about other things until the very end.”
“The Wookwang Construction President came to the hotel. This time, Woo-gwang and Taeseong want to join hands as in-laws and do a joint bid together. What do you think?”
“Ha······!”
“There’s no reason for us to refuse. If a good opportunity comes, we should grab it. As you said, if Woo-gwang is determined to block us, we can’t get the subway construction contract. You know that, right?”
Chairman Cha downed the last glass.
It was because of that statement just now.
“Damn it!”
Chairman Cha threw the empty drinking glass.
The ceramic cup that flew past the Taeseong Construction President’s head hit the wall.
With a crash, fragments scattered in all directions.
The Taeseong Construction President was startled and shrank his neck like a turtle.
“Hy, Hyung, why are you suddenly acting like this?”
“This clueless brat. Yoon-seong, why did you do it?”
“What?”
“Why did you betray me?”
The Taeseong Construction President’s complexion changed.
He sensed something was seriously wrong.
“Hy, Hyung?”
“A good opportunity came and you couldn’t help but grab it? Did you covet Taeseong Construction that much?”
“······!”
“You stupid fool.”
Chairman Cha’s eyes flashed coldly.
“You kept talking uselessly about Taeseong’s future until the end, babbling about subway construction that isn’t even in your hands yet, and threw away every chance to reflect on the wrongs you committed.”
“That wr, what wrong do you mean······.”
“Secretary Kim, bring that thing!”
“Yes, Chairman.”
Secretary Kim immediately brought what he had prepared.
Chairman Cha threw documents one by one in front of the Taeseong Construction President.
“This is the double books you created, this is the promissory note that Taeseong Construction must cover, and this is the land deed for the Taeseong Construction apartment construction site that you were trying to sell off.”
“Those were all inside the safe in the Taeseong Construction President’s Office, weren’t they?”
The Taeseong Construction President felt like he was sobering up instantly.
But Chairman Cha didn’t stop.
“This is Taeseong Construction Stock secretly collected under borrowed names, this is Bearer Bond, this is Gold Bar, this is Overseas Real Estate, this is Bundle of Dollars.”
“You even broke into Our House’s secret Safe?”
Finally, the Taeseong Construction President let out a loud shriek.
The items Chairman Cha had thrown rolled across the table and fell to the floor with a thud.
“Th-this is theft! How could Hyung do this to me······!”
“Theft?”
Chairman Cha’s eyebrows rose.
“Yes, I broke into your Safe. If you feel wronged, report it to the Police.”
“No, Hyung!”
“You also broke into my company’s Safe, so I’ll hand you over to the Prosecutor’s Office.”
“Th-the Prosecutor’s Office?”
“Breach of trust and embezzlement. This is at least 15 years in Prison.”
“Hyung!”
“What? You think I can’t do it?”
“······!”
The Taeseong Construction President turned pale.
Chairman Cha’s nickname was the Flame Bulldozer.
His specialty was pushing so hard that he could make even impossible things happen.
“How unfortunate, Yoon-seong. You’ll have to celebrate your 60th and 70th birthday parties in Prison.”
“Hyung, that can’t happen! The Prosecutor’s Office!”
“If you don’t like the Prosecutor’s Office, should I send you to the KCIA instead?”
“······!”
If dragged to the KCIA, one couldn’t come out with their body intact.
This was a fact the Taeseong Construction President knew all too well.
“H-Hyung······!”
“The reason you could sit in the Taeseong Construction President position wasn’t because you were good at it. It was because you were my brother.”
Chairman Cha was cold.
“You should have been satisfied with skimming moderately. You crossed the line. How dare you try to completely steal my child’s Rice Bowl? Then do you think I can’t steal your Wife and Children’s Rice Bowl?”
Thud!
The Taeseong Construction President fell to his knees.
“I was wrong, Hyung! Please forgive me just this once!”
“The last chance I gave you, that precious opportunity—you blew it all away with excuses, complaints, and vain delusions.”
Chairman Cha turned his head away.
“I said when the Deodeok Wine was finished, our loyalty would end too. The bond between us brothers only went that far.”
“Hyung, I’ve committed a mortal sin! Really! If you could just forgive me this one time…!”
“Is this something that can be settled with a simple apology?”
They had come too far for this to be brushed off with mere words of regret.
It was that bastard who had run to the opposite side.
“What I gave you, what you embezzled, what My Son earned—you’ll have to cough up everything.”
“Th-that’s…!”
“Or should I make you spit up everything your Wife and Children have too? Want to hold hands as a family and go to Prison together?”
“Hyung! My Wife and Children are your Sister-in-law and Nephew/Niece. Please spare my Wife and Children!”
The Taeseong Construction President spoke haltingly.
“Th-there’s no need to be so cruel between family. Of our seven brothers, they all died in the war, scattered apart, and now only you and I remain.”
The Taeseong Construction President crawled on his knees and clung to his Hyung’s legs.
“Hyung, I’ve truly committed a mortal sin! Just take your anger out on me instead! I’ll shut up and take whatever beating you give me! So please…!”
“Let go of me!”
Chairman Cha, furious beyond measure, grabbed whatever was on the table.
It was a Soju Bottle.
The terrified Taeseong Construction President clung desperately to Chairman Cha’s legs, pleading.
“I’ve been to Prison twice! When the tax investigation came, when the Prosecutor’s Office investigation came, I went to Prison in your place, Hyung!”
The Taeseong Construction President sobbed.
“Hyung, my Youngest Daughter is getting married this spring. I need to hold my Daughter’s hand as she goes to her wedding. So Hyung, please, just this once…!”
Chairman Cha’s hand holding the Soju Bottle trembled violently.
He wanted to smash that Brat’s head right then and there.
“Huuuu…”
Chairman Cha let out a long sigh that felt like his lungs would collapse and his insides would tear apart.
Chairman Cha, who had been breathing heavily for a long time, squeezed his eyes shut.
“Get out of Taeseong.”
“Yes.”
“Spit out all the money you embezzled too. That’s what my son earned.”
“Of course.”
“The stocks you secretly bought, the stocks I gave you, if they’re Taeseong stocks, you’ll have to hand over every single share without leaving even one behind.”
“I understand.”
“Leave behind all these things that Secretary Kim brought too.”
“Yes.”
Chairman Cha gestured with his hand.
“Go back. You should spend the year-end holidays with your family.”
“Thank you, hyung.”
“Remember this. You owe a debt to Seong-jun.”
“Yes, I will definitely repay this debt someday. If Seong-jun ever has problems in the future, I will step forward and bear them in his place.”
The Taeseong Construction President bowed deeply at the waist.
With a long sigh, he staggered away with powerless steps.
Chairman Cha, who had been glaring fiercely at his retreating figure, turned his back.
“Secretary Kim, get a confession out of that bastard. Every detail from the circumstances of embezzling money in collusion with Woo-gwang to the mastermind behind it.”
“Yes.”
“Damn it.”
Chairman Cha felt like a thousand fires were boiling inside him.
He opened the soju he was holding and gulped it down straight from the bottle without even breathing.
He could clearly feel the path of the alcohol going down his esophagus.
Deep inside his chest burned as if scorched by fire.
This wasn’t simply because the alcohol was strong.
It was because he had hardened his heart.
“Chairman, you’ve had too much to drink. Please stop.”
Secretary Kim tried to dissuade him.
“Leave me alone. That bastard just didn’t go to prison, but I’ve scraped away everything he had.”
Secretary Kim silently held out a note.
It was written in crooked childish handwriting.
【Grandfather, please don’t drink too much because you’re upset. But I suppose today can’t be helped, right? If you must drink, please have medicinal liquor that’s easier on your stomach. -From Jeong-hyeok】
Chairman Cha let out a long sigh and gently set down the soju bottle.
-Don’t worry. Everything will be fine.
He seemed to hear his grandson’s voice.
“Secretary Kim. As promised, take all of this to Jeong-hyeok. Also thoroughly investigate the Taeseong Construction Executive Board and recover everything they’ve embezzled.”
All of this was because my precious brat brought me the Wookwang Construction Bribery Ledger.
Since he achieved merit, he deserves a fitting reward.
This is our Jeong-hyeok’s share.
‘My precious brat! The young one is already showing filial piety. He even cleaned away the flies buzzing around his father’s rice bowl.’
The more he thought about it, the more adorable he found him, and looking again, he was so proud he could die.
“While you’re taking presents to Jeong-hyeok, also tell that Seong-jun fellow. Tell him the Taeseong Construction President has changed.”
Chairman Cha crossed his arms.
“He brought not only Japan’s Advanced Civil Engineering Technology but also the Wookwang Construction Bribery Ledger, so this achievement should remain under my son’s name!”
Now that he’d gotten rid of the flies, he would put all his effort into winning the subway construction contract!
“Woo-gwang was the first to stab me in the back, so it’s no use resenting me for being heartless!”
Chairman Cha ground his teeth.
“If you were my real brother it might be different, but I can’t look after you bastards who don’t share a drop of blood with me!”
Because Woo-gwang interfered and caused trouble, even the relationship between the only remaining brothers had been ruined like this.
Even if he was incompetent, he was blood, and even if he was lacking, he was a younger brother.
“I can’t do business with people who have no business ethics! I can’t form marriage ties with a household that lacks even family morals!”
The conclusion had already been reached.
“Secretary Kim, tell Seong-jun to attend the Year-End Night event with his wife and children!”
The Year-End Night was an end-of-year charity event attended by important figures from political and business circles as well as all walks of life.
Chairman Cha intended to show everyone clearly in front of all those people.
Who the real owner of Taeseong Construction is!
“Does Taeseong crumble just because we lose one measly chemical company?”
The difference between Taeseong and Wooguang!
“You sent the threatening letters properly, right?”
“Of course.”
“To everyone without exception – not only those who took bribes from Wooguang, but also those who didn’t?”
“Yes. Though the contents are slightly different for each.”
“Good! Then preparations are complete. Let’s go there that day and cause a magnificent uproar!”
Chairman Cha shot up from his seat.
Then he left the Taeseong Hotel room without looking back.
He didn’t even glance at the soju bottle and drinking glass his brother had left behind, taking only the bottle that had contained the deodeok wine.
Of course, he took the note his grandson had written along with it.
This much he could neither ignore nor throw away.
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Ding dong! Ding dong ding dong!
The quick-witted security guard, self-proclaimed number two, Security Team Leader Yoo Jong-tae came running to report.
“Young Master, Secretary Kim has brought presents!”
Oh ho!
Not bribes, but presents!
Then I should run over with both hands raised!
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