Chapter 601 Inauguration
They decided Lu Wuxuan's destination in a joking manner and continued to talk about other topics.
The overall strategy for dealing with the financial crisis and Roh Moo-hyun's application were both given top priority.
"Although letting Roh Mu-hyun go can suppress the impact of Daying Group and Tianxia Group on Daying Ocean," Emperor Cui Chang pursed his lips and asked calmly, "but Daying Ocean's current predicament is difficult to recover."
"Once the Tianxia Group and the Daying Group are suppressed by Roh Moo-hyun's political power, I am afraid that by then, more people will wait and see and want to share the spoils."
"If Tianxia Group hadn't intervened, Daying Ocean wouldn't have been able to hold out this year," Li You nodded. "Tianxia Group intervened, but it got us into trouble. Most other people had the same idea, which was to wait and see. Of course, this was also my plan."
Li You smiled and said, "But I, the yellow bird, will definitely show up last."
Seeing a big tycoon say these things in front of them, both Presidents Choi Changdi and Li Lianchang sighed silently in their hearts.
Of course Li You also wanted Daying Ocean, but he wanted to severely damage Daying Group even more and make it unable to recover.
The reason why he wants to build a large-scale ocean camp is the same as that of Tianxia Group.
Tianxia Group and Jin Jianying clearly knew that the international shipping situation had begun to decline in the past two years, and then it encountered the current subprime mortgage crisis and the financial crisis that will affect the world next year.
To put it bluntly, getting involved in this quagmire is not a good idea, but they have no choice but to seize this opportunity.
Because Jin Jianying couldn't find any better alternative.
Jin Jianying and Tianxia Group are not those small businesses that come here to share the profits; he is here to expand Tianxia Group.
Because if you want to acquire an industry like Daying Ocean, you need to wait for the right opportunity.
This opportunity to acquire a vital industry may exist tomorrow, next year, or never.
"A lean camel is bigger than a horse," Li You said lazily, "Unless Tianxia Group makes a bold move and withdraws all of its current investment in Daying Ocean, Daying Ocean will have no problem holding out for two years."
Li You said this during the conversation, but after returning, Li You ordered the Kinmen Group to launch a series of secret operations against Daying Haiyang. He still felt that Daying Haiyang's lifespan was too long now.
After all, if it is estimated that Daying Haiyang can hold out for that long, Daying Group and Tianxia Group are likely to make drastic measures and one of them will withdraw. Li You doesn't want this to happen.
Weaken the ocean camp again to make both sides see that the opportunity is right in front of them. Whoever gives up will suffer a great loss.
Li You authorized the targeting of Daying Haiyang, which was mainly reflected on the Internet and public opinion, while the formal media were not mobilized.
There are many discordant voices on the Internet. In this era, it has become common to see people scolding others on the Internet, but it’s nothing.
At first, Daying Ocean’s public opinion department didn’t bother to pay attention, but because the release of Future Mobile was too early in this world, the promotion and development of the Internet industry far exceeded another 2007.
Any Internet user could see the attacks on Daying Ocean on the Internet. Only then did the management of Daying Ocean start to get anxious.
The perceptive people had already realized that they were being targeted, but there was nothing they could do.
Daying Ocean is an old company that has been in business for decades. All departments are a bit outdated, and due to the poor economic situation, it is impossible to carry out drastic internal reforms.
They do not have a department to handle online public opinion. When you enter the public opinion department, you will see spokespersons and employees with serious and upright looks everywhere. Not many young people are willing to work here.
Take the aspect of bank credit for example. Originally in the middle of the year, in order to cope with the upcoming subprime mortgage crisis, Li You, Jin Jianying, Zhu Mengyong and others went to the Blue House and held a small meeting with Li Lianchang. Jin Jianying secured a loan subsidy for Daying Haiyang. However, with the end of the year approaching, banks became less easy to deal with. The reason was very simple. They felt that the recent online public opinion was very bad, which caused another disturbance among the people. Daying Haiyang, whose credibility had already fallen to the bottom, was once again questioned about its credit.
Bank credit assessments can affect government subsidies on the Korean Peninsula.
If this bank stops lending to Daying Ocean, it will really crush Daying Ocean.
After all, even a healthy chaebol group cannot leave the bank. Otherwise, once the bank has problems, it will cause many adverse consequences.
For a normal chaebol group, this would have adverse consequences.
It can barely be considered a half-chaebol, and in the past two years it has fallen to the barely surviving Daying Haiyang. Once it loses bank loans and government subsidies, Daying Haiyang's capital chain will be broken immediately.
"It's still unclear who caused the public opinion?" Zhu Mengyuan from Daying Marine Public Opinion Department's face turned pale. No matter how scheming he was, he was now extremely annoyed. This was due to the public opinion attack caused by unknown forces, and also because of the useless people in Daying Marine Public Opinion Department. "Hurry up and find out. We can't not even know who the enemy is. If you can't find out, you can retire."
Although Daying Haiyang was about to collapse, the employees' wages were not in arrears much, only the bonuses were cut a lot.
During the crisis in recent years, employees do not want to go out and find jobs to beg for food. Even if Daying Ocean goes bankrupt and undergoes restructuring, most of them will be able to stay and join the new Daying Ocean.
As soon as Zhu Mengyuan said this, the people inside were frightened and started typing on the keyboard in a pretentious manner. They watched Zhu Mengyuan leave out of the corner of their eyes, then they breathed a sigh of relief and slowed down their hand movements.
"President Jin," Zhu Mengyuan called Jin Jianying anxiously as soon as he left the house, "You should have seen the public opinion these days?"
"It was done by the Golden Gate Group."
"Kinmen Group?" Zhu Mengyuan frowned and avoided other employees. "Why would Kinmen Group attack us at this time? Hasn't it been uninterested in Daying Ocean recently?"
"You also said that he hasn't had any plans during this period..." Jin Jianying said dimly, "He has more plans. He wants to drag all three of our families into the quagmire."
"It is estimated that there are other smaller groups fueling the situation."
There are certainly more groups on the Korean Peninsula than just Kinmen, Tianxia, and Daying, but the other groups cannot be compared with the big three.
"So how should we deal with them next?"
"You take charge of the overall situation in Busan and stabilize the situation," Jin Jianying comforted him, "and go meet the mayor of Busan. I will continue to communicate with the banks."
Although Zhu Mengyuan is not very smart in doing business and running a company, he can easily understand this kind of interpersonal relationship.
To be more precise, the mayor of Busan should be the acting mayor of Busan, Jiang Changyuan, although he is a member of the Kinmen Group and was pushed up by Li You.
But there is no doubt that for the sake of his own political achievements in Busan, Jiang Changyuan could not let Daying Haiyang fall in such a short time.
Jiang Changyuan rubbed his temples tiredly. He had been working hard to stabilize the situation in Busan recently, but the problem was that the Tianxia Group and the Daying Group had started an invisible and protracted war with Busan as the battlefield.
Invisibly, the pressure on him became greater and greater. Although once this incident was over, he might be able to completely consolidate his position and be re-elected as the mayor of Busan for another ten or eight years, it was too difficult to do that.
"Chairman nim," Jiang Changyuan answered the phone and listened to what Li You said to him, with a strange expression on his face.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Changyuan breathed a sigh of relief.
Not long after, he received a call from the secretary downstairs, saying that Zhu Mengyuan was looking for him.
The conversation between Zhu Mengyuan and Jiang Changyuan was not pleasant. Zhu Mengyuan, who had wanted to use the ocean conditions in Daying to control Jiang Changyuan, was unexpectedly rejected by Jiang Changyuan with various roundabout words.
Seeing that Zhu Mengyuan was still sitting here in distress after he refused to help, Jiang Changyuan was too lazy to explain, "I really can't help Representative Zhu with Daying Ocean's reputation. If you want to improve Daying Ocean's reputation from the outside, you need to talk to the bank about this matter, or you can go to the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries."
"As a mayor, I have little power and I cannot do what President Zhu asked me to do."
Zhu Mengyuan left with a bad look on his face. When he told Jin Jianying what had happened, he was only told to wait.
And this wait lasted nearly two months.
In a blink of an eye, it is already mid-February 2008, and the inauguration ceremony of the new president is about to begin.
The past two months have been a very comfortable life for Li You.
It is a common practice on the Korean Peninsula that a new president takes office in mid-February after being elected the previous year.
As the inauguration date draws closer, the atmosphere on the entire Korean Peninsula has become more depressing. It's not because of anything else, but because the economy is so bad.
People who cannot make money and are on the verge of unemployment have no time to pay attention to these national affairs. As long as they do not cause riots, they can be considered ordinary citizens.
No matter what kind of speeches or various gossips about the struggles among the rich, they can no longer attract the people on the streets. They only care about whether they can make money and avoid unemployment.
Of course, they also have such expectations for the new president and the new cabinet, hoping that they can ensure that people will not lose their jobs but can still make money and afford to buy things.
Now everything is settled the day after tomorrow.
The closer we get to the inauguration ceremony, the less likely there will be any major problems.
Even Daying Ocean, Tianxia Group and Daying Group have become much more honest.
At the presidential inauguration ceremony, the greatest gift is peace and stability. Anyone who does not give face should not blame the president for issuing some harmless but disgusting targeted policies after taking office.
In the past two days, Emperor Choi Chang has successively appointed new officials of the Blue House, including 17 cabinet ministers.
As various appointments were discussed in advance, it actually caused quite a stir in the political circles.
This turmoil, of course, came from Roh Moo-hyun's joining the cabinet, for which he even bore a lot of infamy.
Words like betrayal and giving up ideals.
Even his mentor Kim Min-jung came out and seemed to be accusing him, saying, "Even if you had your own reasons, you shouldn't have made such a choice."
However, Emperor Cui Chang didn't care. Unlike Li Lianchang, he had a closer relationship with Li You, and he dared to use Lu Wuxuan's good sword.
After all, Li You had worked with Cui Changdi since he first became mayor.
There are also things that are not allowed to be seen in public, so of course the relationship between the two sides is good.
But no matter what they did before and how they did it, the final result was that Emperor Cui Changdi took the position of president.
For Emperor Cui Chang, this was of course a great benefit, and he was always satisfied and grateful.
In the past, during the period of "Shunyang's Son-in-law", Emperor Cui Chang did things against his will. Although it had its own advantages, it was not what he wanted to do.
At the inauguration ceremony, people could only see the solemnity on Choi Changdi's face during the ceremony, and the pride of taking office as president under the solemnity.
At the Blue House inauguration dinner in the evening, Lee Woo did not take up too much of Choi Chang Emperor's time. After briefly chatting with Choi Chang Emperor, he gave up his seat and started dealing with other cabinet officials.
Soon, I saw the fun.
Roh Moo-hyun, with a serious face, was talking to Kim Gun-young, who was also invited to the Blue House, but their expressions were completely different.
Li You was standing not far away, chatting with people and listening in on the conversation.
Lu Wuxuan's meaning was very clear. Regarding the matter of Daying Haiyang, let it be as it is. He would not help, and Jin Jianying would not be able to settle it either.
For a moment, even the old fox Jin Jianying couldn't hold it anymore, and some anger emerged in his words.
However, at the presidential inauguration dinner, he was still rational enough not to show any displeasure. Instead, he smiled and responded, saying that he was sorry for disturbing Roh Moo-hyun.
Jin Jianying frowned and thought for a while, then walked to Li You's side and said, "President Li, congratulations."
"Congratulations to me?" Li You laughed. "Congratulations to me for what?"
Jin Jianying smiled and glanced at Emperor Cui Chang. Li You certainly understood what he meant, but he still pretended to be stupid.
This made Jin Jianying, who had been already worried and irritable recently, and was constantly bullied at the dinner tonight, finally look unhappy.
Not long after, Kim Geon-young left the Blue House angrily after expressing his congratulations to Emperor Choi Chang.
"President Li," Cui Changdi and Li You chatted during the dinner, "From what Jin Jianying said, did President Nim take action against Daying Haiyang?"
The issue of Daying Ocean is indeed related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Although Emperor Cui Chang rejected Jin Jianying's request, he could not really ignore it, so he came to Li You to find out more.
"Because Daying Haiyang is too stubborn now," Li You said softly, "I don't want him to keep wasting time with the help of Tianxia Group, the bank, and the government."
"This will dampen the enthusiasm of Tianxia Group and Daying Group. They might even choose to leave."
Emperor Cui Chang still trusted Li You's vision and judgment very much in this matter, but he also kept his eyes open.
After all, he is the president now, and he cannot be completely in cahoots with Li You, the number one chaebol.
(End of this chapter)
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