Franchise God - Chapter 36



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Franchise God Episode 036

Chapter 7 Won’t You Make a Contract with Me? (5)

“I don’t know. I’m just a gatekeeper.”

“If someone saw it, they’d think there was a gold nugget buried in the mountain.”

“Hey, what good would a landowner do to come all the way to this mountain to bury gold? These days, they keep those things in bank vaults. Or they keep them in the basements of their houses.”

“What is there in Seoraksan that makes them build such an iron-clad barbed wire fence like a military base? How can the neighborhood kids go up there to pick up chestnuts? This is not the sentiment of our town….”

“Were there any chestnut trees on Mt. Seorak? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one.”

“That’s what I’m saying. There are things like acorns, burdock, and wild strawberries, not just pine nuts. You could even go catch crayfish.”

Village head Park Chung-won kept clicking his tongue as if he was displeased.

“I guess I’ll have to talk to the mountain owner. Do you know the contact information for the old lady in Seoul?”

“I don’t know.”

“How can you be the manager and not know the owner’s contact information?”

“Hey, how rich is that guy? Have you ever seen a new employee have a direct line to the company president?”

Judging from his pouty expression, he seemed quite dissatisfied with the fence being built at the bottom of the mountain.

There isn’t even a single mountain like Mt. Seorak in this town, so I wonder if they don’t like the idea of ​​just drawing a boundary.

“Then, whether you go through your superiors or something, make sure to tell Grandma Seoul about this.”

“I will listen.”

“I know that mountain is that old lady’s mountain. But before that mountain was that old lady’s mountain, it was our village’s common mountain. And that mountain is not the only one? Even Mt. Ireuk that you see over there, and Mt. Paldang that you see here, they all have owners. But have you seen anyone setting up barbed wire?”

“I haven’t seen it.”

“That’s because it’s his own mountain, but it’s also the mountain of the entire village.”

“okay.”

When Ha Soo-young reacted innocently, Park Chung-won felt frustrated and hit his chest.

“Anyway, this isn’t the sentiment of this town, that’s what I’m saying.”

“Then what should I do?”

“Of course, since you broke the village rules, you should compensate for it.”

“Village rules? Are there such things?”

“You can see it anytime you come to the village hall. Do you want to go and check it out now?”

“Yes, can you check?”

“Then follow me.”

Park Chung-won guided Ha Su-yeong to the village hall.

The town hall safe contained a veritable booklet of town rules.

There was also a mention of a similar situation there.

“The barbed wire tax is 20 million won… Are you saying we should add this to the village development fund?”

“Yes, that’s right. That’s the law of this town.”

“Well, for someone like me who works for a meager salary of 800,000 won a month, that’s a jaw-dropping amount.”

“Who told you to pay? Of course, the mountain owner should pay.”

“So I can just pass this on to the mountain owner?”

“Yes. That’s what you’re supposed to do.”

“……Is there anything else you’d like to add? It would be better to get it all out at once while we’re at it.”

At those words, the village chief let out a deep sigh.

The expression on his face, as if the ground was about to collapse, seemed to indicate that he was carrying great worry.

“There are some bad guys in this town, and even I can’t control them.”

“Bad friends?”

“In fact, they are kind-hearted, but they can’t stand to see someone break the village rules. The kids are seething right now after seeing the barbed wire being put up on Mt. Seorak.”

“okay.”

“But if we hold out without even paying the development fund, who knows what the Gyas might do. They might secretly tear down the barbed wire in the middle of the night. Honestly, how are we going to catch whoever did it? Right?”

“That’s right. It’s said that ten police officers can’t catch one thief.”

“It’s not that the guys are bad-tempered, but that they do it because they have a strong sense of justice. I can’t do anything about the guys either. What can an old man like me do?”

Ha Soo-young laughed quietly to herself.

One time you said they were bad friends, but this time you said it wasn’t because they were bad people.

“Anyway, I understand what you mean.”

“You’d better tell the mountain owner quickly.”

“thank you.”

Ha Su-yeong left the village hall and headed towards the mountain mansion, but stopped for a moment and looked back.

He looked at the clean, modern-style town hall for a moment and smiled coolly.

“Still, the village chief is very kind. He even gave us warnings in advance.”

Ha Su-yeong returned to the mountain.

The construction was almost finished.

Since it was a simple task of just widening the fence, the construction period was not long in the first place.

Ha Soo-young entered the mansion, opened the safe, and took out the elixir and the golden silk umbrella mushroom.

Ha Su-yeong, who climbed the mountain, found a field.

Since one harvest had already been completed, 40,000 square meters of fields were left abandoned with the soil turned upside down.

“Ugh.”

Ha Su-yeong, who had entered the workbench set up next to the field, began to soak the golden silk umbrella mushrooms in the elixir and then chop them into small pieces.

“It’s done.”

After completing the pre-spore sowing work, Ha Su-yeong walked around the field and evenly scattered the finely torn golden umbrella mushrooms. Then, she sent a message to President Jeon Seong-ryeol.

[I think I can harvest mushrooms tomorrow morning.]

[Okay, I’ll send someone right away.]

The next morning.

The laborers sent by Jeon Seong-ryeol came to Mt. Seorak with several trucks. They were laborers from another region who had already been there once.

“There was no barbed wire when I came last time. When did it get there?”

“Of course they hit it because it’s a mountain where expensive mushrooms are grown. They say that the mushrooms we bought before are worth 30 billion won.”

“Huh, is that it?”

“Didn’t you know that golden silk umbrella mushrooms are expensive?”

“I knew it, but I didn’t know it was that much.”

“The market price is 100 million won per ton, so 300 tons would be 30 billion won.”

“I didn’t know, but that young boss is a very rich farmer.”

The workers chatted about this and that while digging up mushrooms, packing them, and loading them onto trucks.

The golden umbrella mushrooms grew densely on the ground, so all I had to do was scrape them up with my hands and put them in a basket.

“But do yellow oyster mushrooms originally grow so densely on bare ground?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know what to do. I’ll dig up mushrooms diligently. I have to finish the work quickly.”

“I thought it was a parasite that grew on pine or Japanese cedar trees, so it usually grows scattered here and there… But come to think of it, there isn’t a single tree in this field.”

“Let’s try growing it in a different way.”

“It’s amazing, it’s amazing.”

Ha Su-yeong supervised the mushroom picking operation while checking the building listings in Cheongdam-dong on a tablet.

The mining work was almost finished and ready to go.

“Oh, wait a minute. Leave those kids there.”

Ha Su-yeong shouted, pointing to the mushrooms growing in a corner area measuring about 3 meters by 3 meters.

“Just leave those kids there, we’ll need them later.”

“Okay, I’ll leave it.”

The foreman nodded, wiping away his sweat.

So the picking and packing work was roughly completed, and they started to diligently load the waiting trucks.

The mushrooms produced this time were 100 tons.

They intentionally produced only 100 tons to meet the order from Seohae Foods.

After completing their loading, the trucks left the mountain again and headed toward Seoul.

Jeon Seong-ryeol asked.

“But what are you going to do with the leftover mushrooms?”

“They have two uses. One is to use these mushrooms as seeds to grow the next mushroom, and the other is….”

“The other one?”

When Jeon Seong-ryeol leaned his face closer with curiosity, Ha Su-yeong snickered.

“It’s bait.”

“bait?”

“Yes, they are bad, but they are good-hearted, and they are bait to catch them.”

“Huh, what kind of saying is that? If you’re bad, then you’re bad. Where does it say that you have a kind heart?”

“There are many people like that here in Seorak-eup.”

Jeon Seong-ryeol roughly figured out what Ha Su-yeong was saying.

But I still have no idea how they plan to use it as bait.

“Oh, wait a minute. I got a call from an advertising company.”

“Turn on speaker mode. I can listen too.”

“Okay.”

Jeon Seong-ryeol received a call from an advertising company while on speaker mode.

“This is Jeon Seong-ryeol.”

– I’m contacting you because the draft plan has been completed. I’d like you to visit and give me some feedback. This kind of thing needs to be clearly stated when the draft is being made, so that costs can be reduced.

“Okay, I’ll visit you soon. How about tonight?”

-Any time is fine for us. Oh, and I contacted Jang Hyo-joo’s agency. It seems like it will be difficult to select Jang Hyo-joo. She didn’t seem too keen on it when I told her it was a ramen commercial.

Ha Su-young quickly intervened.

“Even if I said I would take the picture as pretty as possible, it wouldn’t work?”

– More than anything else, I have a lot of filming, cosmetics CF, and precious metal CF schedules lined up. It’s a bit much to take the time to film a ramen CF in the midst of all that…

“Let’s say I film just one episode and they give me 1 billion won for a year. Of course, it’s not exclusive to ramen commercials.”

-Yes? Then the unit price doesn’t match up at all. Even though Jang Hyo-joo is a top actress, 1 billion won for just one episode… … And it’s not even a full-time job.

If it wasn’t an exclusive contract, there would be nothing to say even if Jang Hyo-joo were to film a commercial for another ramen company later.

Jeon Seong-ryeol said in disbelief.

“You, were you that much of a Jang Hyo-joo fan?”

“You have to be at least as good as Jang Hyo-joo to have any impact. We’re a new company. We have to use every possible strategy we can.”

-That’s true. It’s expensive, but for an actress like Jang Hyo-joo, it’s worth it. But to be a non-exclusive for just one film…

“Anyway, there is a limit to the budget that can be spent on advertising in the beginning. It is impossible for us to go beyond that.”

It doesn’t end at 1 billion.

You also have to pay production costs to the advertising company, and you also have to pay advertising fees to air the commercials on TV, in newspapers, etc.

If you add it all up, it would easily exceed 2 billion.

“If you’re not going to do it at the level of Jang Hyo-joo, there’s no point in airing a TV commercial. And the best way to do a ramen commercial is to have a beautiful actress enjoy the sight and sound of her eating delicious food.”

“hmm…”

Jeon Seong-ryeol also began to worry.

Ha Soo-young pointed to the truck behind her with her thumb as if she was paying attention.

“That’s 100 tons right now, 100 tons.”

“Oh, right. 100 tons.”

-Yes? What do you mean by 100 tons?

Only then did Jeon Seong-ryeol come to his senses.

That’s right, if you supply those mushrooms to Seohae Foods, 10 billion won in cash will roll in right away.

We can easily afford the total advertising execution cost of 2 to 3 billion won.

‘The problem is that these big deals don’t happen every day.’

Makemiya’s one-year mushroom purchase contract.

Seohae Foods signs a contract for 100 tons of golden umbrella mushrooms.

Deals this big are actually hard to come by.

The consumption of golden silk umbrella mushrooms is relatively constant, and even if hundreds of tons are produced at once, it takes time to sell them.

“Let’s do that, then.”

“Did you hear that? Please push the agency again like I just said.”

-All right.

And then 30 minutes later, I got a call back from the advertising agency.

-Actress Jang Hyo-joo has decided to accept it.