## Chapter 177 – Absorption
“A word, CEO Jang!”
As CEO Jang Seon-yeong stepped out of her car and headed towards the Quick Quick Delivery headquarters, reporters swarmed around her like bees.
“Stand back!”
“Move back!”
The company’s security guards, who had been waiting, immediately blocked the reporters. In the midst of the flashing cameras and the press, Jang Seon-yeong ignored them and entered the building.
She then asked Team Leader Lee, who was beside her,
“How’s the logistics center situation?”
“The government sent people. It seems some branches will have a hard time avoiding penalties.”
“Don’t worry about them, just secure the remaining logistics centers. Take care of anything that could be a problem in advance, make sure there are no issues. This isn’t the time to worry about that.”
“Yes. What about the raided business locations and the diverted delivery items?”
“Didn’t you hear me? I don’t have time to worry about that right now.”
There were more than one or two problems to solve.
Time was running out.
So, she had to prioritize and act.
One wrong step and everything would collapse like a house of cards.
“How’s the prosecution situation?”
At that moment, the man couldn’t say anything.
Jang Seon-yeong’s face instantly stiffened.
“You at least tried to meet them, right?”
“…I’m sorry. They said they were too busy and wouldn’t make time, so I couldn’t meet….”
Slap!
Jang Seon-yeong slapped the man across the face.
Thwack, thwack, thwack!
After that, she repeatedly struck the man’s head with the bag she was holding.
“You… you were only this good? If you weren’t my nephew, you would have been fired a long time ago! I’m putting up with you because of my dead sister, so do a good job!”
“I’m sorry, Aunt.”
After huffing and puffing for a while, Jang Seon-yeong straightened her clothes.
“Go to the security room and delete the video right now.”
At her words, pointing to the CCTV in front of the elevator, Team Leader Lee stood up and bowed. Then, cautiously watching her, he asked,
“What should we do about the prosecution issue?”
“I’ll take care of it. I’ll have to visit the Elder.”
“You mean KJ? You might get caught by the Chairman.”
“What else can we do? If things continue like this, the company will evaporate and we’ll all die. We can’t solve this situation on our own.”
She didn’t know who had set the trap, but she had fallen for it.
Completely.
So, she had no choice but to go and ask him to stop it just once.
***
After making a few phone calls here and there, Lee Hyun-jeong reported to me with regret.
“It seems they’ll survive for now.”
“Well, they’re still a major corporation. They’re not going to collapse in one hit.”
“Yes. But it seems the prosecution’s investigation will also be covered up.”
Hmm? That’s unexpected.
“We’ve detected circumstances where they requested help from Chairman KJ.”
“KJ?”
“Yes. CEO Jang Seon-yeong’s maternal uncle is the Honorary Chairman of KJ.”
Come to think of it, it was a company that branched out from that lineage.
‘If it’s KJ, they can definitely cover up the investigation.’
This era is one where public authority has deteriorated, and the government has been reduced to a mere puppet, or rather, a dog of the chaebols.
And Kim Jae-joon is the top graduate of the International High School’s first class.
In other words, it means it’s an even greater company than Yuhwa Group, one of Korea’s top 5 corporations.
And Kim Man-gi, the Honorary Chairman and leader of that giant group, was the most powerful figure in Korea, with the most power, influence, and connections.
So, if that old tiger coughed, the government would have no choice but to be cautious.
“Still, try to hold them back as much as possible.”
“Understood. I’ll keep applying pressure by any means possible.”
Nod.
Anyway, this is an opportunity. This is the perfect chance for us to spread our wings while my enemy is being held back and torn apart by the government’s dogs.
Alright, now that we’ve taken our first step, we need to start running in earnest, right?
I called the two stewardesses, no, two secretaries, who were between my legs, sucking on my dick.
“Yeon-ju, So-yeong.”
“Yes, Master.”
“Contact our classmates right away. Tell them all to gather at the settlement.”
Director Lee Hyun-jeong of the National Intelligence Service paid attention to me.
“Does this mean it’s starting now?”
“Yeah, that’s right. From now on, we’re also participating in securing distribution networks.”
The conquest war had finally begun.
First, the start would be to receive all the work from 12 of Korea’s leading corporations.
If we could secure that from them alone, we could control at least 10% of the market volume.
“Okay, trust me!”
“I’ll bring you results right away!”
“Hey, just wait a bit. We’ll give you all of our company’s and our subcontractors’ volume, completely.”
And at my command, the 13 women, including the twins, confidently shouted and returned home.
However, the results were slow.
They had spoken so boldly, but even after two days, there was no reply.
Lee Hyun-jeong expressed her concern.
“It seems things aren’t going as planned.”
“…….”
“At this rate, the opportunity will pass us by.”
Lee Hyun-jeong was right.
It was too late.
“I’ll try to gather people I know by hitting the pavement.”
“No, wait a moment.”
I used [Omniscient Observer’s View] to look at our classmates.
“Dad.”
“Chae-yeon!”
“Was the Taebaek Distribution thing resolved?”
“Uh, uh?”
The man had just left work.
Yoon Chae-yeon’s father, who was happy that his daughter had come to greet him, hesitated, saying, “Uh, um….”
Then he started heading to his room.
“Dad! Why aren’t you saying anything!”
“…Chae-yeon. I’m sorry, but I told you that’s impossible.”
“Why?”
“Because the company’s losses would be enormous….”
“Just terminate the contract with Quick Quick Delivery and switch to Taebaek Distribution. You’ll make even more money that way.”
Yoon Chae-yeon’s father tried to say something, but then closed his mouth again.
For reference, Yoon Chae-yeon had only been swimming since she was young, and was far from studying. In other words, she lacked persuasiveness.
In the end, her father tried to explain, but summarized it like this.
“Dad is in a position where he can’t arbitrarily cause losses to the company.”
The conclusion was that he couldn’t do it because it would harm his company.
It was a thoroughly money-driven move, befitting a 21st-century modern person, a 21st-century chaebol.
And the situation with the other kids wasn’t much different.
“Papa! You really won’t grant your daughter’s wish?!”
Even though the daughters were acting cute and flattering, all the fathers were refusing.
‘Was it a mistake to leave it to the kids autonomously? Should I have acted directly?’
Still, there was one person who was doing relatively well.
Park Ji-min’s father, Chairman Park Seong-cheol, was anxious in front of his daughter.
“Dad. Just trust me. I’ll take responsibility for everything, okay?”
“Ji-min….”
“I always say, if you listen to your seventh daughter, what happens?”
“…Hoo. Money falls from the sky even while you’re sleeping.”
“It’s really true, I’m telling you? I can’t explain it well because I’m dumb, but I can say for sure. If you just follow my words this time, heehee, we’ll hit the jackpot.”
Chairman Park Seong-cheol, who was laughing while looking at his grinning daughter, cautiously spoke again.
“But Ji-min, this is a bit much, don’t you….”
Glare. Park Ji-min put her hands on her hips and glared. The man immediately raised both hands and showed an even brighter smile than before.
“Dad.”
“Ah, I understand. Then let me think about it a little more. I’m too sudden to make a decision right away….”
“Just do it! You’ve already thought about it enough!”
It was the moment when it was revealed that Chairman Park Seong-cheol was particularly weak to Park Ji-min.
He couldn’t even speak properly in front of Park Ji-min.
“You’ll do it, right?”
“Okay, okay. Then just 10% of the volume first.”
“Do 100% of it. Don’t you trust your daughter?”
“Then 40%.”
“100%! Go all in like a man!”
“…….”
In the end, Chairman Park Seong-cheol reluctantly nodded.
“Alright. But it’ll take about 3 days, is that okay? If you keep insisting, I’ll cancel it.”
“Yeah!”
Park Ji-min was quick-witted. She achieved her goal by playing her father, and after giving her father a kiss on the cheek, she zoomed back to her room.
‘Typical Park Ji-min.’
But the situation with the other kids wasn’t very good. They weren’t making much progress.
‘…I have no choice. I have to use my trump card.’
***
Oh Se-yeong was also struggling to persuade her parents like the other girls.
Unlike other families, she only had her divorced mother, so the difficulty of persuasion was relatively easy, but her mother was a person with clear boundaries.
She raised her head and looked at her mother.
Somewhat hollow eyes and dry lips. Pale complexion. And with it, a withered expression.
But sometimes, doesn’t a slightly withered rose look more enchanting and beautiful?
At least her mother was like that.
Because of her naturally youthful appearance, she still maintained the appearance of her twenties, and her beautiful face, without a single white hair, vaguely resembled a vampire from mythology.
But right now, none of that mattered.
Persuading her mother, who was even more terrifying with her withered thorns, was no easy task.
But she couldn’t stop trying to persuade her.
Oh Se-yeong spoke to Jang Hee-seon, the owner of a famous hotel chain, again.
“Mom. I guarantee it. That company will definitely be a hit. I’m sure of it.”
“…Your certainty, based on nothing but cooking skills?”
Jang Hee-seon continued, examining the documents on her desk in a dry voice.
“What should I believe in that certainty and bet my reputation and money on?”
“That’s….”
“You’re already an adult, so I can’t just listen to everything you say because you’re my child. Stop with the useless talk and think about learning management. You’re already 3 years late.”
“But all of our classmates have decided to give all their work to that company.”
Only then did Jang Hee-seon stop looking at the documents and raise her head to look straight at her daughter.
“From our family and 11 others?”
“Yes!”
“…….”
Jang Hee-seon, who was lost in thought for a moment, stared blankly into the air with cold and haggard eyes before looking directly at Oh Se-yeong.
“If what you say is true, it’s strange.”
“What is?”
“If it’s such a big deal, it should be noisy no matter what, but it’s too quiet.”
“…….”
At that moment, Oh Se-yeong had nothing to say.
‘Could it be that the other kids are also in a situation where they haven’t been able to persuade their parents like me?’
Being quiet meant that not a single person had been persuaded yet.
She was slightly relieved that she wasn’t the only one who hadn’t achieved any results, even though she had confidently shouted to Woo-jin not to worry….
On the other hand, she was worried. She had no face to return to Woo-jin with in this state.
So, as she was repeatedly wondering what to do, someone knocked on the door from outside.
Knock knock.
“Come in.”
“CEO, there’s something you need to see urgently.”
“?”
The secretary approached, placed a tablet on the desk, bowed, and left.
News was displayed on the tablet.
Jang Hee-seon, who was staring intently at the article, opened her smartphone and called someone.
“Hana’s mom. Yes. Did you see the news a little while ago? I have something to ask you. My daughter said that all of her classmates have decided to move. Is this it?”
Jang Hee-seon stared intently at her daughter Oh Se-yeong and listened to the story.
Oh Se-yeong didn’t know how things were going, but she prayed that things would work out.
Jang Hee-seon, who nodded several times, ended the call. And after a moment of silence, she opened her mouth.
“…What our daughter said is true. I’m sorry I couldn’t believe you right away.”
“No, it’s okay. It can happen.”
“As an apology, I’ll grant you one wish, so tell me anything.”
“Except for giving all the work?”
“Yeah. One wish besides that.”
Oh Se-yeong, who was quietly facing her emotionless mother’s face, recalled the promise she had made with Jung Woo-jin on the island and said.
“Then let’s go on vacation this winter. To a warm island. For about 14 nights and 15 days.”
“Hmm? Vacation?”
“Yes. I want to spend a fun time ‘with Mom’.”
Jang Hee-seon, who blinked a few times, nodded, slightly raising the corners of her mouth without being too obvious.
“Okay. Let’s do that.”
And next to her hand, similar content was being uploaded as news topics one after another.
『Yuhwa Group Cancels Contract with Quick Quick Delivery. The reason is unethical behavior. Can’t trust and follow for long….』
***
When Lim Ji-eun sent all the volume heading to Quick Quick Delivery to our Taebaek Distribution, KJ strongly criticized it at first.
In any case, Kim Jae-joon and Yoo Hana’s engagement had been concluded, and the two sides had once exchanged considerable funds with each other.
However, KJ’s decision to cut ties with Quick Quick Delivery, which they had agreed to protect, meant that they were severing their alliance and turning their backs on each other.
“Ji-eun. Isn’t this wrong?”
So, the chairman of Yuhwa Group initially opposed this path, but he had no choice but to give up in the face of the strong demands of his daughter-in-law, Lim Ji-eun.
Lim Ji-eun, who had had several opportunities to glimpse various outstanding skills while panting under me, had strongly threatened the chairman to his face.
“Father. If you don’t do this, Hana and I will run away from this company and family. Know that.”
The chairman, as well as the people around him, were all surprised by the daughter-in-law’s fierce stubbornness, which she was showing for the first time since she had married into the family.
In the end, the answer that he understood flowed from the chairman’s mouth.
Then the situation began to turn very interestingly.
As if waiting for it, the company of the large entertainment company Park Ji-min followed suit, and after that, huge families, including Oh Se-yeong’s hotel chain, followed that move one after another.
Even if one large company moved, it would go up and down in the media, but when as many as 12 companies did so, the distribution industry market immediately began to fluctuate.
-If you join our partnership now, you’ll get a 25% discount for 1 year!
-If you send 택배 4 times, we’ll pay back the cost once!
The market was suffering from the rapid transformation, and the entire nation began to feel it.
News was bursting out every day, and all the distribution companies were saying that now was the time to become the second Quick Quick Delivery. They began to massively advertise and engage in sales activities to take that throne.
“How’s the market situation now?”
Director Lee Hyun-jeong of the National Intelligence Service showed me the tablet.
“First of all, Master’s Taebaek Distribution image has definitely come to life. On the other hand, Quick Quick Delivery is a mess. And they’re in a situation where they’re tearing apart Quick Quick’s shares.”
As a result, the market share was as follows.
Taebaek Distribution 17% (+15%)
Quick Quick Delivery 52% (-19%)
Other 31% (+4%)
“We’re definitely growing.”
“Yes. It can be seen as a rapid rise as a backlash against the fact that Quick Quick Delivery was tyrannical. Right now, we’re almost completely taking over and absorbing Quick Quick Delivery’s work.”
Then Lee Hyun-jeong looked at me with awe-filled eyes.
“Having the infrastructure in place in advance was really a divine move. If we hadn’t, we would have been too busy digesting it, let alone absorbing it, and problems would have occurred.”
That’s right. The reason why our competitors other than us weren’t growing quickly was precisely that.
Because they weren’t prepared, they couldn’t handle the flood of volume.
It was a situation where the cup was already full and overflowing. As a result, customer satisfaction was rapidly declining.
-ㅅㅂ Is this even a 택배 company?
-I’m so pissed off, I’m never using this place again ㅅㄱ
On the other hand, our satisfaction was gradually increasing.
Of course, we also had parts where we were struggling with a lot of volume.
But people are animals that clap along with those who applaud, if everyone is saying it’s good.
-Compared to other places, this place is still better
-The delivery fee is cheap and it’s good, I’ll use it often from today
When good comments poured out, it put a filter on the customers’ eyes, making them close their eyes even if they found something bad.
It only accumulated positive evaluations.
“As a result, recently, companies other than Quick Quick Delivery have also been switching over.”
In the first place, the reason why we increased our size like this was to take all of Quick Quick Delivery’s work, but now we were even taking work from other competitors.
“You knew this would happen and told us to set up the infrastructure no matter what, right?”
Director Lee Hyun-jeong looked at me with selfish eyes.
I was about to say no, but Kim Yeon-ju, who was sucking on my dick, raised her head and cut me off.
“Of course! Our Master is secretly a brainiac! Right, So-yeong?”
Suck suck suck. Park So-yeong nodded while sucking on my balls, and I just gave up on explaining and lay sideways on the sofa.
Lee Hyun-jeong quickly sat on the sofa first and gave me a lap pillow, taking out her breasts and putting them in my mouth.
I felt the touch of Lee Hyun-jeong’s breasts and pregnant belly and turned my eyes to the tablet that Lee Hyun-jeong was showing me.
Taebaek Distribution 30% (+13%)
Quick Quick Delivery 38% (-14%)
Other 32% (+1%)
“Even if I look at it again, it’s an unbelievable figure.”
“Achieving a market share of 30% in less than two months is unprecedented.”
It wasn’t that there were no competitors, and in a red ocean that was saturated, a new company growing like this was something that no one could do.
But with the [Encyclopedia], the robot, and the activities of my slaves, we made the impossible possible.
“But this will still be weak, right?”
“Yes. We’ll soon reach a limit.”
And as Lee Hyun-jeong said, the growth stopped before long.
We had already absorbed the 12 families of my women and the group that moved around like migratory birds.
So, from now on, it was the core layer that didn’t move easily. Only loyal customers remained for each company.
‘The territorial war is really starting now.’
Taebaek Distribution 33%
Quick Quick Delivery 35%
Other 32%
The percentages were similar, and it looked like it would flow into a three-way battle.
‘But we’ve only just had our first growth.’
What we had prepared hard for 3 months wasn’t just to eat 33% of the market.
I nodded to Lee Hyun-jeong.
“Pull the trigger on the last shot.”
“Yes.”
As if she had been waiting, Lee Hyun-jeong smiled and called somewhere, and soon Quick Quick Delivery’s stock price began to twitch.
And before long, I received a mysterious call.
「Chairman KJ wants to see you.」
…Chairman?
***
An old man whom I had seen several times on TV was smiling and waiting for Jung Woo-jin.
An old man in his 70s who seemed to have long passed his prime.
But even though his body was old and drooping, his eyes were wide open, revealing a strong impression.
“I’m Lee Taebaek.”
“Oh. So you’re the little punk who screwed over my niece?”
“Niece? What do you mean?”
“Look at this guy. You understood everything, why are you making this old man tired? Seon-yeong, I’m talking about. Jang Seon-yeong. The distribution company called Quick Quick or Kick Kick or whatever.”
Jung Woo-jin smiled and said.
“I’m sorry. I don’t want to make a mistake by misunderstanding each other.”
“You slippery bastard. You weren’t trying to find out what kind of person this old man is, were you?”
I was speechless because he had hit the nail on the head.
He didn’t even have the [Encyclopedia] ability, but he was getting it all right.
As expected, age and talent are scary things.
Jung Woo-jin asked the oldest and strongest tiger in Korea with as much courtesy as possible.
“May I ask why you wanted to see me?”
The calm and deep eyes quietly stared at Jung Woo-jin, then waved his hand.
“I was just curious about what kind of person you are and wanted to see you in person. You can go back now.”
“…….”
“Ah, now that I think about it, it’s a bit much to just send you back after seeing your face. You’ve come a long way, so have a cup of tea and go.”
And after really drinking a cup of tea, he gave Woo-jin various gifts and sent him away.
I couldn’t understand.
He was clearly confident that he had screwed over Jang Seon-yeong, so he was sure that Woo-jin was the one who had caused this situation.
‘I thought he would threaten me or negotiate with me, or do something.’
[He just wanted to know what kind of person you really are.]
…Well, if the encyclopedia says so, then that’s what it is.
After Jung Woo-jin left, the executive secretary asked KJ Honorary Chairman Kim Man-gi.
“Why did you just send him back?”
“…….”
“Weren’t you going to stop the attack on Quick Quick Delivery?”
He had clearly talked about it in advance, and he thought that such a story would come up, but it wasn’t at all, so the executive secretary couldn’t understand this situation.
“He’s not a vessel we can handle.”
“Yes? What does that….”
“The basis of negotiation is that I have to have what the other person wants. But I don’t know what that guy wants.”
In other words, it means not knowing what the other party wants, so it’s unmanageable.
The executive secretary’s eyes widened. He had been following the old man for over 20 years, but this was the first time he had seen something like this.
“Then, what should we do about Quick Quick Delivery?”
The old man lay down on the bedding instead of answering.
As if understanding what that meant, the executive secretary bowed deeply and left the room.
