## Chapter 193 – 19. My Territory
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Before heading back, I let the kids take a short break.
They could rest back at the base, but there were things to sort out here, and I had separate orders to give.
I called Sua, Baekseol, and Levi aside.
As I pulled out a cigarette, Sua lit it for me.
“Hoo,”
“Remember the Burning Rose?”
“Yes.”
“There should be a ton of those mysterious items inside. Mostly underground, probably.”
“In the Namdong Industrial Complex…?”
“Yeah.”
From the quick look I took earlier, the area around where the integrated headquarters would be built was mostly cleared.
The process of clearing out the ruins, hauling away the debris, and leveling the ground again was necessary, and I figured a lot of items would turn up in that process.
Most of them would be junk used by beggars, but there had to be some useful stuff in there, right?
I couldn’t do anything about the ones the police found while poking around, but I had to secure as much of the rest as possible.
“Ah! Now that I think about it, there was a basement warehouse when we first met, Master. I thought it was something you owned.”
“I found it, so it’s mine.”
“Hehe. Right…?”
“Anyway, it’ll piss me off if that stuff falls into the hands of other people, so deploy Snow White under the guise of protecting the workers and secure it. Use Blue Team this time. They need to earn their keep.”
Blue Team was one of the teams belonging to Baekseol’s PMC, Snow White, and consisted of male mercenaries.
Most of them were teammates Sua had when she was a police officer, and since then, they hadn’t recruited many more, so they still consisted of around 30 people.
“Ah… But Master, they’re not exactly super trustworthy…”
“…How can a team leader not trust their team members? I kept them all around because of you.”
“Pay them a discovery bonus, Master. If you do that, they’ll bring you anything even slightly unusual they find.”
“Hmm. If it’s that…”
Securing the items was more important than the money.
“Then let’s process those bonus payments as receipts later. But don’t make them too high. There might be cases like this in the future, so keep that in mind and set a reasonable price.”
“Understood, Master.”
“And Levi, you train the kids with the goal of securing the Namdong District Prosecutor’s Office. As soon as they can be replaced, I’ll deploy them there.”
“Yes~.”
“Sua, you check the progress and report to me.”
“Yes.”
After spending some time smoking, I returned to the restoration office.
It was still a chaotic place.
“Ah. I should probably tell the police about this, just in case.”
“Ask them to give us anything unusual they find?”
“Yeah. I can’t just ask them for it, so maybe I can offer a lump-sum donation?”
I didn’t know how things worked with the public authorities.
Was it okay to use external funds?
“That kind of thing won’t work. You’d be better off giving them individual kickbacks.”
“Isn’t that blatant bribery?”
“It’s more like buying their personal finds, right?”
“But they’ll be working in teams anyway. If you tell them to turn in everything they find, wouldn’t it all come together anyway?”
“There aren’t many cops that naive. They’ll probably collude and pocket it.”
“Ah, right…”
That’s right.
The opponent was the police of Incheon, the Devil’s City.
I forgot for a moment.
‘Then…’
There was also the option of replacing all the personnel.
Have the current police headquarters troops withdrawn and put Do Yoon-jung, the Namdong District Police Chief who was loyal to me, in charge. That would make securing the items much easier.
‘But there’s probably politics involved on their end too, so that might be difficult.’
To change the deployment at my discretion, I’d have to offer some kind of political price.
Like just giving up the next National Police Agency Commissioner position.
The guy in charge of commanding the current headquarters troops probably came here with a purpose.
The most likely candidate was the next National Police Agency Commissioner.
But I wanted to put someone I liked in the position of National Police Agency Commissioner.
Preferably a pretty woman.
‘If possible, I’d like to promote Do Yoon-jung to National Police Agency Commissioner and put Kim Seon-ah, Sua’s superior, in charge of the Namdong District Police Station.’
Even though there was the Special Investigation Unit, it would take at least two years for it to function properly.
Was individual kickbacks the best option after all?
“Then Sua, you negotiate well.”
“Yes.”
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I returned to the artificial island.
“Master, the transfer of ownership of the artificial island will be completed soon.”
“Really?”
“Yes. All the necessary approval procedures have been completed. You can transfer it to your ownership and register it at any time.”
Finally, the time had come.
“Then create a corporation for managing Muyeol Land. All businesses that take place here will be under the Muyeol Land management corporation. The prison rehabilitation corporation can be put under it too.”
“Excuse me? Muyeol… Land?”
“Yeah.”
“…”
I had originally considered attaching the name to the Namdong Industrial Complex, but after coming to the artificial island, it seemed more fitting here.
Like an island. It’s an island, after all.
“Ah… Yes… Then the articles of incorporation…”
“What, it’s simple, right? Koryo Entertainment owns 100% of the shares, and put in about 10 billion won in capital. We can increase it later if necessary.”
“Understood.”
Sua answered with a slightly faltering voice.
It seemed like the name I came up with was bothering her.
Was it that serious?
I thought it was nice to have my name in it.
“Ah, Seunghee.”
“Yes.”
“Did you figure out how many AVs we need, like I asked you to?”
“Yes. Just a moment.”
Next to Sua, who was half out of it, Seunghee handed me a file.
I took it and examined it.
“First, Snow White needs at least seven. Two each for Red Team and Blue Team, one for military support, one for medical support. The remaining one is for emergency deployment.”
“Hmm.”
“In the case of Koryo Entertainment, the scale is large and some celebrities have requests, but five should be enough. In the case of-“
“What about Muyeol Land? That’s the main thing.”
“Ah.”
Koryo Entertainment was mainly active in Ganghwa, and even if they traveled around, it was still possible to cover it by car. If they really had to go far in an emergency, I could just put them on a plane. That would be much cheaper.
But what about Muyeol Land?
Since it was an island, it would be too inconvenient to move around without AVs.
“Um, I’ve only written about the secretariat for Muyeol… Land. The current secretariat has a total of about 300 people, 100 of whom are secretaries, and the execution team travels frequently, so-“
I closed the document I was reading and handed it to Seunghee.
“Rewrite it with the Muyeol Land management corporation in mind. All the businesses that will be run in Muyeol Land will come under this. Including the rehabilitation business.”
“Yes, Master.”
“And Snow White needs seven, Koryo Entertainment needs five?”
“Including other items, it is estimated that about 20 are needed.”
20 AVs…
The AV I rode around in was a 30 billion won model.
My white-haired sister gave it to me as a gift so I wouldn’t have to crawl around pathetically, but that was an incredibly expensive model, and if I bought cheaper ones, they would be about 6 billion won each.
The cheapest AV model was 6 billion won.
‘…’
That would be 120 billion won…
Wow, damn.
What.
‘The money spent on buying the Namdong Industrial Complex was 100 billion won…’
In the meantime, about 50 billion won was the incentive I gave to Sua.
The actual cost of buying the Namdong Industrial Complex was a little over 48 billion won.
But just the AVs alone would cost 120 billion won…
“The side that sells AVs…”
“It’s Vice Chairman Ko Min-young.”
“Ah.”
Fortunately, Ko Min-young, who was very close to me, was in charge of that business.
In the first place, AVs were modified military weapons used by the military.
‘I need to contact her directly.’
“Okay, I understand. I’ll talk to her.”
Actually, I could just rent the AVs.
That would probably be cheaper and more convenient.
However, considering security, maintenance, ease of modification, and long-term costs, it was more beneficial to own them outright.
“AVs… Let’s create a separate department to own and manage them. Each corporation can rent them from here as needed.”
It didn’t matter now because the scale was small, but later on, my companies would grow to an enormous size.
But if each corporation ordered AVs on their own, it would be difficult to manage.
AVs were incredibly expensive.
Even if the accounting was complicated and there was a lot of work to do, it was better to separate them from the beginning for the future.
In the case of Snow White, it was 100% owned by Baekseol, so the accounting was separate, right?
It would be easier to transfer funds from Snow White to this side through this AV management corporation.
“Understood, Master.”
After hearing the answer, I called Ko Min-young.
But unfortunately, the signal was immediately cut off, and I soon received a text message from her.
– I’m sorry. I’m too busy to answer right now.
– Can you text me?
– I’ll check it later.
Ah.
China was still causing trouble.
I sent a text message saying that I needed to buy a large number of AVs and wanted to buy them at a lower price.
Knowing Ko Min-young’s personality, she might give them away for free, but that felt like sucking her dry.
It would be nice if she gave me a 30% discount, like a family discount.
‘Achievement requires cost.’
Whether it was effort or money,
You need to put something in to feel a sense of accomplishment.
Just receiving something is only happy at the time and doesn’t leave much of an impression.
It only has meaning if I achieve it.
In that sense, today’s tour of the Namdong Industrial Complex was a little special.
It was really nice to see the land that I had planned and acquired being restored step by step as planned.
I received a lot of help from various people, but in any case, I had earned the Namdong Industrial Complex, right?
It was a little different from Muyeol Land, which I received for free from Ko Min-young.
‘My territory.’
The Namdong Industrial Complex, which would be the foundation of all my future businesses.
I thought about its future and lit a cigarette.
