Chapter 683 Funeral, Think Tank Plan
When Zhao Taixie walked into the mourning hall and stood in front of the altar, Jin Xiya instinctively felt disgusted.
In the heart of Jin Yongjun, who was mentally prepared, there was no ripple, and his eyes did not focus on Zhao Taixie.
The past was the past, and the present is the present. In the past, he and Zhao Tae-seop could work together, and now it is Kim Sung-joon who is working with Zhao Tae-seop.
Kim Sung-jun is Zhao Tae-seop's current collaborator, and the two even teamed up to kill Kim Gun-young and Liu Caiyan. Now they have become completely tied allies.
In order to seize Tianxia Group as the second in command, Jin Shengjun has been a hyena for who knows how long. It is natural that he feels a little excited.
Zhao Taixie reached out to his secretary Han Zhixian behind him and asked for a flower basket with his name tag. He held the flower basket in both hands and came to a corridor full of flower baskets accompanied by Han Zhixian and Jin Zhenyu.
This fifty-meter-long corridor is a dedicated flower basket display area, where thousands of flower baskets from various companies and governments are displayed.
When he placed the flower basket and left the mourning hall, Kim Sung-jun did the same thing. The two met at the back door of the mourning hall, where there were not many people and it was much quieter.
"Representative Sung Joon," Cho Tae Seop only nodded slightly, "The will hasn't been officially announced yet?"
"No," Jin Shengjun was also anxious, because no matter what was written in the will, they needed to respond according to the contents of the will. Now it was equivalent to the dead Jin Jianying relying on a will to whet their appetite.
Zhao Taixie nodded thoughtfully, "It seems that the chairman's secretary Jin is also a loyal and excellent person."
"He will retire after announcing his will," Jin Shengjun sighed, "Now he won't say anything, so there's nothing I can do."
"When the enemy comes, we will stop him with our generals; when the water comes, we will block it with earth," Zhao Taixie said in a deep voice, "We can only take the succession matter one step at a time..."
"But shouldn't Representative Shengjun fulfill his promise to me as soon as possible?"
Jin Shengjun hesitated for a moment, "If it's as I expected, the recording files should be in one of the safes in the president's office, but I don't know which safe it is."
Destroying the evidence of past crimes is what Zhao Tae-seop needs to do at this juncture.
After getting in the car and leaving, Zhao Taixie instructed his assistant Jin Zhenyu to bring those things back.
A few days later, Jin Jianying's grand funeral and burial ceremony began.
The theft in the president's office did not attract anyone's attention at all. Even the president's office was not allowed to allow employees or security guards to enter, and no one noticed that several worthless small recorders in the safe had disappeared.
On the day of the funeral, custom-made extended hearses on the streets of Seoul were carrying the coffins of Kim Gun-young and his wife side by side, covered with the logo of the Cheoncheon Group. The eldest son Kim Young-jun, who should have been imprisoned, was granted temporary release from prison. He led the way holding two tablets, and a civilian helicopter dropped flower petals overhead.
The people of the peninsula watched the grand funeral ceremony of Kim Jae-young and his wife on TV and the Internet with both joy and sorrow.
The Tianxia Group does have quite a few fans, and there are quite a lot of people who feel sad about the passing of Kim Jae-young and his wife.
Even Liu Caiyan, who was embroiled in scandal some time ago and was angrily scolded by the people, is now loved and missed by the general public.
Seen this way, the peninsula is a peaceful and friendly place.
This situation has also brought stability to the financial world of the Korean Peninsula, and the Tianxia Group will smoothly enter the next period.
The premise is that there will be no more trouble in the dispute over succession. Most of the shareholders and executives of Tianxia Group are hoping that there will be no more trouble in Jin Jianying's will, and they also hope that Li You will not intervene at this time.
In fact, Li You has not appeared in public since he went to pay his respects to Jin Jianying, but has been busy attending various meetings.
The executives of Kinmen Aerospace need to be rotated, high-quality new companies need to be acquired, and potential stock projects in the peninsula need to be "learned"
It is no exaggeration to say that he is extremely busy, but even with this level of busyness, Li You has arranged people to keep an eye on Tianxia Group's every move.
In addition to attending meetings, Li You also has to receive guests from various fields.
He was sitting behind his desk, watching the grand funeral procession on TV. Li You shook his head and looked at Li Mingxue who was sitting opposite him. "Mayor Li came to see me at the right time this time."
Lee Myung-hak, who served two terms as mayor of Seoul with Lee You's funding, is about to finish his second term.
Li Mingxue obviously does not want to continue to be the mayor. The secretary of Chen Yangzhe ten years ago now has greater goals.
"President, you are joking." Li Mingxue lowered his head slightly and said frankly, "This time I came here for something we have discussed before."
"I know," Li You did not hesitate when faced with the topic pointed out by Li Mingxue.
When I supported Li Mingxue in the first place, it was to help him reach the top.
Li Mingxue has a long-term political career plan, not just to become the mayor of Seoul, and Li You does not want to "sponsor" a politician for a whole ten years, only to end up as the mayor of Seoul. That is not in his interest.
"But speaking of which," Li You raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Mingxue, "Does the mayor have any favorites among those who are going to run for mayor of Seoul?"
Li Mingxue shook his head in a neither humble nor arrogant manner. "The presidential election will not be held until two years later, and I will not announce my non-participation in the mayoral election until next year. Before then, no strong person will make an announcement in advance."
Li You applauded the confidence in his words.
"The president is here too." Li Mingxue actually knew a few of them, but he still said frankly: "There are a few people who have certain information and know the president's current strength. With the president behind me, they will inevitably back down."
Seoul is still carrying out various developments. It can be said that whoever has a good relationship with the person in the position of mayor of Seoul will be able to obtain various preferential treatment and support in Seoul in the future, and money will naturally come rolling in.
Even the Kinmen Group is no exception. The profits from Kinmen Real Estate's next few development projects in Seoul are simply incalculable.
No one could have imagined that Li Mingxue, the best mayor of Seoul in history and a collaborator of the Golden Gate Group, would be preparing to step down.
"But I have to remind you," Li You said in a deep voice, "There is a nearly two-year gap between the end of your term as mayor of Seoul and the official announcement of your presidential campaign. This may affect your political career. You have to think about your plans for these two years."
The political ecology of the Korean Peninsula is very special, and the propaganda models of politicians and celebrities are almost the same.
Especially among today's young voters, their recognition of the "dormant veterans" in the political arena is becoming lower and lower.
The essence of a politician's window period is the re-accumulation of power and popularity. Politicians who are not working on the front line need to use various methods that are almost like celebrity marketing to maintain their popularity and competitiveness.
There are hundreds of members of the National Assembly, but most of them are unknown in the hearts of the people. Only a small number of members who have mastered a variety of marketing methods can gain more support from the people. Cho Tae-seop and Park Geum-sun are of this type.
Zhao Taixip is now a member of parliament who is "clean" and "speaks for the poor" on the peninsula, and is also the most influential member of parliament among young people.
There is no way around it. The people of the Korean Peninsula are both dependent on and annoyed by the aristocrats of big companies and big groups. Zhao Tae-seop's ideas naturally attract them.
As the famous "Princess of the Peninsula", Park Jinshan can become the white moonlight in the hearts of the older generation of people on the Korean Peninsula with just a little marketing.
Li Mingxue nodded solemnly, obviously having made preparations before coming here. He said, "I plan to build a non-elected think tank."
Li You raised his eyebrows. Think tanks are think tanks and think tanks, and they exist in various fields.
However, think tanks in the Korean Peninsula are quite developed in political science. They formulate policy drafts and legislative proposals, set public agendas through media columns and research reports, and design conflict resolution and risk hedging mechanisms.
Moon Jae-yoon could once be considered a member of Roh Moo-hyun's think tank, but his status and authority were higher than those of the think tank members.
However, politically, unlike individual think tanks and factional think tanks in Western countries, think tanks in the Korean Peninsula's political arena are vassals of political parties and armed branches of political parties. No matter what research they conduct, they must be subject to factional competition.
Even a large portion of party funds is provided to think tanks.
Last year, the Grand National Party allocated 20% of its annual budget, about 44 billion won, to think tanks in the name of "policy consulting fees."
"You want to set up a non-elective think tank?" Li You was a little surprised, not because of Li Mingxue's idea, but because Li Mingxue actually did what Wen Zaiyin did eight years later. Both of them chose to establish a non-elective think tank.
"Why?" Li You explored Li Mingxue's thoughts with great interest.
"Because under our framework, this non-elected think tank will become the de facto power center," Li Mingxue said frankly. "This is a politically 'de-embodied' form of power that can circumvent the constraints of term limits and will also allow for the continuity of aristocratic politics."
"Chairman," Li Mingxue took out his phone and turned on the screen, showing the various software on the screen, "As of now, the various research reports released have a greater influence on national policy than the debates of members of Congress.
Even an internet celebrity on a video website is better at mobilizing voters than a city councilor. We are already on a path where there are no ballot boxes, only data models and cash flows.
With your leadership of Kinmen Electronics, your development of mobile phone applications, and your use of online public opinion in two presidential elections, I believe you have seen this clearly a long time ago.
But now think tanks in politics belong to each political party. They are the party’s 'policy reserve' and will only propose things that are beneficial to their own party. "
Li You nodded. "So you want to set up a non-electoral policy laboratory, or a non-electoral policy laboratory, to provide citizens with understandable policy solutions through empirical research, data modeling, scenario simulation, and the Internet, so as to gain more support."
"That's right," Li Mingxue said frankly, "Now the political parties and think tanks are treating the people as ignorant people. This is not to say that this is bad, but the disadvantage is that as the Internet becomes more and more developed, everyone is discovering this."
“Citizens today prefer leaders who can enlighten their minds.”
In fact, this is also a more advanced method of deception.
There is no need to think too much to support Li Mingxue's non-electoral think tank plan.
Kinmen Group is an enterprise-based think tank, and even many outstanding students from the Kinmen Talent Research Institute will be absorbed into it.
Supporting a non-electoral think tank is also interfering in politics at another level.
"Money and people are what a think tank needs most." If Li Mingxue were to rely on himself with nothing, it would be difficult to attract tens of billions of construction capital, but for Li You, it was just a drop in the bucket.
"Now, for your think tank plan, how to attract and recruit talents is actually the most difficult step in this plan."
"I understand, President," Li Mingxue said with a hint of excitement on his face. "We not only need talents in academic and policy research, but also people in finance, computer science, and media executives with media voice, so that we can more accurately judge public opinion. If possible, I would also like to train a group of professional actors to shoot videos explaining various policies."
"It's a huge project," Li You patted his shoulder, "I'm looking forward to you gathering such a group of people to accomplish your goal."
"But..." Li You reminded: "You'd better finish these before you leave office as mayor."
"At your departure ceremony, announce that you have established a think tank that will explain various policies to the public free of charge. Don't let it appear silently."
"I understand, President."
Li You shook hands with Li Mingxue who stood up, and glanced at the TV again. The grand funeral procession of Jin Jianying and his wife was almost over, and the burial was about to begin.
He invited Li Mingxue to lunch and said he wanted to talk about his views on his successor.
The position of mayor of Seoul is very critical. After the news that Lee Myung-hak will step down is leaked, Lee You will have to face dozens of people who have ideas about this position and will come to him for support. It would be a good idea to ask Lee Myung-hak for help and advice.
After the grand funeral ceremony of Kim Gun-young and his wife, a wave of power struggles has begun to erupt in places that are out of the sight of the people of the peninsula.
Kim Young-jun, Kim Sung-jun and Kim Hee-ya were fighting each other, and each of them had no room for the other two in their eyes.
Jin Yongjun has to go back to jail and his time outside is short. He must seize the time and try to take over Tianxia Group as soon as possible.
Kim Sung-jun and Cho Tae-seop have begun to become Kim Hee-ya's mortal enemies. She now suspects that they are involved in Liu Caiyan's death. She also has doubts about Kim Yong-jun, her unreliable elder brother, after all, it was Liu Caiyan who betrayed him.
Even before Secretary Jin announced the will, this three-way melee had already begun.
(End of this chapter)
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