Chapter 136 – Chapter 136 Taleia
Thaleia’s unreasonable salon expansion eventually created a backlash.
And Thaleia believed that if other rival organizations did something, they would only resort to force.
That idea is wrong.
Other organizations also had ideas.
The dark balls disappeared, but the upper and middle class powerhouses that supported the Wolf family remained.
Besides, as Thaleia said, she was still engaged to the crown prince.
And instead of attacking head-on, brothel gangs started doing their dirty work in other ways.
Jason was seeing and receiving it through Tria.
“I have no idea, so I do a franchise business. It seems that you know how to live while treating existing organizations. This is why the young lady.”
There were things you would never know unless you lived a life at the bottom.
Jason lived as a young boy in this world, but in Korea, he was a real gangster who experienced from the bottom up.
And when he was dealing with thugs, he wasn’t nice to them because he was afraid of them.
The thug was a good thing because he used all kinds of dirty tricks without hesitation.
“Yes. As you said, various things are happening in salons across the country.”
Tria’s report continued.
The fact that guests were put in was happening all over the empire.
The thing that made the job the most difficult in a brothel was the real customer.
This woman doesn’t like it.
That woman doesn’t like me.
If you keep asking for a change while talking loudly, the mood of the other customers waiting for you will change.
And there were cases of violence against the young lady or infection of sexually transmitted diseases.
In particular, sexually transmitted diseases were the worst.
There are always priests in the salon just in case, but they do not always examine the working ladies.
This is because the ransom of priests is high.
And by the time some of the young ladies got the venereal disease and checked the symptoms and went to the priest, dozens of other male guests had already been infected with the venereal disease.
Male customers who could use the salon had the financial power to treat it through a priest, but once they contracted a venereal disease, it was a problem in itself.
I couldn’t help but feel dirty.
“That’s why male customers stop coming, and they say that they are only getting out of the maintenance cost by creating a salon.”
Thaleia’s men were veterans of the brothel in their own way, but these attacks were futile.
This was a problem that the boss had to visit the hostile organization and negotiate.
But Thaleia was not the boss to do such a thing.
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Taleia said she asked Jason to meet her.
Jason said yes.
Taleia came to Jason’s villa almost as if it were about to invade.
And after all the other women were sent out, they started whining.
“Jason! Didn’t you say it’s good to strongly expand your business?! We have a lot of work done right now, but few salons are breaking even! How are you going to do this!!”
Jason said calmly, giving Talea a glass of her cold water.
“No. Sister. Although I said to expand the business. It didn’t have to go this far.”
Jason was just fanning by the side.
It was Tal Leia who made it easy for her.
She made her choice and it was the outcome she had to accept.
It wasn’t that someone was threatening him with a knife next to him.
And Taleia, knowing Jason wasn’t wrong, continued whining instead of getting angry.
“What have I done wrong? No. That’s what a brothel business is like. Isn’t it like that when a better store comes out, the one that can’t do it goes out of business? No. What are you going to do if you use sexually transmitted diseases?! You want to die together?!”
And Taleia, as she continued, suddenly became suspicious and exclaimed,
“Jason! Did you know that this happened? Then shouldn’t you have told me beforehand?!”
Jason passed the words like a snarky leaping over a wall.
“No. Can I predict that? Actually, my sister must know better than me about working in a brothel. I just deliver some goods and run a kissing room. Your sister has been running the brothel business for much longer than I have.”
When Jason said this, Taleia couldn’t blame Jason any more.
There was no point in her words.
She just wanted to put the blame for this failure on someone else.
So Jason gave her her words in a cool way.
“Sister. Now is not the time to be so emotionally swayed.”
“What?”
“It’s not a business that involves one or two gold coins, is it?”
Salons were the most expensive prostitution industry in the Palmo Empire.
Of course, everything had to be equipped with the highest quality, and a huge amount of gold was invested in purchasing such a building.
Thalia would know this too.
It was just that she was ignoring the fact because of too much spending.
Also, it was all about money.
Now she has turned to Jason for the easiest solution to this money problem.
In a way, whining and blaming in front of them was no different from a huge undercook.
Jason felt frustrated seeing Talaia like that.
She said that she was slowly going into the abyss of ruin, and although she was good to him, she was frustrated by his attitude of trying to live comfortably in the world.
“Sister, if you act according to your feelings now, the loss will not suddenly disappear, and there will be no pockets of gold coins popping out of nowhere. What to do soberly Aren’t we supposed to think about what we can do?”
Talleia was speechless at Jason’s cold words.
I just wanted to act according to my feelings.
But there were too many things left open for that.
She said that no matter how well-to-do the high-ranking cleric and the stalwart of her men were, she was of no use without money.
Everyone knew that her men were down for her money.
Even Tal Leia, who had been raised precious all her life, knew that much.
If she had no money, she would be abandoned by the crown prince and her men, and she would lose both her position as empress and the position of the Wolf family.
Taleia barely managed to come to her senses and said.
“Then what should I do? No, what can I do?”
Instead of giving her her answers, Jason made her find her own.
That would make her more sure of her and a surer trap for her.
“Sister. There are only two ways now. Or push the expansion of an existing business. Or admit a loss, stop and sell. Do you think this business expansion will be successful?”
Taleia thought as she chewed her lips.
And, as is often the case with people who have grown up, he did not admit his mistakes.
The current work was considered a difficult shower for a while.
If you persevere, it seems that good days will surely come.
And Thaleia’s thoughts were exactly as Jason expected.
Jason thought as he watched her expression change.
‘As expected, people who grew up without knowing hard times don’t know when to step down.’
Even if I made a small mistake, my father and the Wolf family always covered it, so it was only natural.
Knowing when to step back from failure was a rare skill.
“It’s okay as long as you hold out for a little while. I tell the priests to heal the ladies every day. Guests are also covered and received. Then my salon system could quickly become popular throughout the empire. Like your kissing room.”
Jason laughed and said.
“I think so too.”
Talleia’s face lit up when Jason, whom she thought was smart, took her side like this.
Her head started spinning.
She saw this as a path to success again.
“Good. Then you need money. With the money, you’ll be able to withstand that petty attack and hold out until business is back in business. Jason. Do you make a lot of money Lend me some money.”
“Ugh. Sister. I’m known to make a lot of money, but I’m not like that. Now, while trying to increase exports to the Southern Cities Union, the ship sank in the sea and suffered great losses.”
Jason figured he’d have to manipulate this information into his head.
The southern city union was a place where even the Wolf family’s information power did not work.
And the city association had a close relationship with Jason, and manipulation of this level of information was too easy.
“Oh. Were you having a hard time too?”
“Yes. And I’m still paying off my debt at the steel bank. If I don’t pay my interest on time, all my business goes to the Steel Bank. Ugh.”
Talleia now began to look at Jason with her sympathetic eyes.
“So what?”
“There are not many people in this empire who can lend you the money you want.”
Taleia was in tears.
