Hyeonjilmusin - Chapter 57



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57. I am the top (3)

The faces of the people sitting in the room were all different. The Bangju and the Bangdos looked wary of me, Jo Chung-heon looked fearful of the fierce aura of the Black Bandits, and I couldn’t help but have a businesslike smile on my face.

“Business. There are exactly two types of people who talk about business.”

“Oh. I see. What kind of people are they?”

“There are businessmen and swindlers like you who have greased their tongues.”

“Am I a scammer?”

“The way you speak seems a bit like a fraud.”

Certainly, the Angel’s Ark Gong Du-ho was wary of me. That’s probably why he had these men with such fierce looks lined up next to him.

“It is not good to jump to conclusions without any basis.”

“There is some basis to it.”

“Is that so?”

“First of all, this is the first time I’ve heard the name Whiyoungsangdan.”

“Yes. It’s a relatively new platform and has never been used in any real life.”

“Don’t interrupt me and shut up… … Second, as the owner of the room, I know it’s a bit much, but the Angel Room isn’t an attractive place to do business together.”

I opened my eyes wide as if I was hearing this for the first time.

“What are you talking about? Where else can you find such an attractive place? I came here thinking that the Angel’s Room would be the most suitable place for me to become a blood ally.”

“Then it’s one of two things. Either you’re an ignorant worm who doesn’t know the bottom of the infinite, or you’re a conman trying to eat the liver of a flea. When you have the same feeling, you become certain, and you’ve already had it twice. The feeling that you’re a conman.”

“It’s a shame. I don’t have a name as a merchant, but I have a name called Hubei Shenyi. I’m also a disciple of the shamanist faction.”

“I heard that. But there’s no guarantee that the Hubei god’s disciples, whether they are shamans or laymen, aren’t frauds.”

“Oh, like that.”

“Honestly, I think Hubei Shen’s heroic medical practice is a bit of a fraud. Could it be that he’s colluding with the government?”

“What do I get out of it? What does the coffin get out of it?”

“You could have turned your attention to the epidemic and then killed your political enemies.”

“Wow, you have a great imagination. You must be tired of living. Isn’t it the palace’s conspiracy that it’s so dark outside? There’s a formation that surrounds the entire Central Plains.”

As I spoke in a mocking tone, the man next to me half-pulled his sword.

“Be careful what you say to the lord. If we were back in the old days, we wouldn’t have met merchants like you.”

“Isn’t that why I didn’t go to the Black Dragon Gate and came here?”

I spoke without holding back my laughter. My subordinate completely drew his sword and pointed it at my face.

“Didn’t I tell you? That’s why I think that the Angel’s Room has no choice but to become my blood ally. The rising upper class with no one to rely on, and the Black Road that lost its leadership. Aren’t they both groups that want a change in the bottom of the infinite market?”

The people in the Angel Room flinched at my words. That was probably a reasonable thought, even for them.

“Now that you say it, I understand. Don’t twist my words in front of me from now on. I’m a black man, so I’m not smart. I also have a bad habit of reaching out with my hands first.”

Gong Du-ho growled. But perhaps because he had already been caught off guard once, he was not as vicious as before.

“I will be more careful from now on.”

“okay.”

“And please be careful from now on, Master.”

“……what?”

“I did not come here to be a subordinate of the angel room, but to work together as a business partner.”

I couldn’t stop laughing as I said that. His subordinates looked slightly enraged, but Gong Du-ho raised his hand.

“You’re not wrong. It remains to be seen whether you’re a fraud, but I think it’s worth listening to your business talk.”

“Thank you for your kind words.”

“But I still wonder. Usually, when lay disciples establish a sect, they don’t try to do business with the Black Way out of concern for the main sect.”

“Usually, yes. I’m not a normal person.”

Gong Du-ho burst into laughter at my teasing. Gong Du-ho turned his head and looked at his subordinate who had just pulled out the knife.

“Bring me some alcohol. Business talk can’t be without alcohol.”

“yes.”

“And you all get out too.”

Gong Du-ho sent all of his men he had gathered back outside. As expected, since he had been playing around in one area for a while, he knew well when to act harshly and when not to.

Soon, the subordinate brought us alcohol and glasses, and only me, Gong Du-ho, and Jo Chung-heon were left in the main room.

“Okay. What kind of business do you want to do?”

“As I said before, our Whiyoung Group has no one to rely on. We don’t have much capital, and we don’t have a wide network of connections.”

“I bet you have some kind of connection with the government office in Hubei Province?”

“You can’t use the connections of the government office recklessly. The top brass could end up being eaten up by the government office.”

At my words, Gong Du-ho let out a short exclamation.

“For a top stock that hasn’t been around for very long, you have a lot of knowledge.”

I just laughed. Judging from my experience and knowledge in the upper world, there were only a handful of people in the central plains who could compare to me. It wasn’t for nothing that I led the Daebang-level upper class.

“Then you’re saying you’re going to be a peddler. Since you don’t have enough capital, you don’t have the money to open a store, and since you don’t have any connections, you can’t give me anything to buy.”

“oh.”

This time, I let out a gasp. They say that before the Black Dragon Gate, there was only one Angel’s Room, and that wasn’t a coincidence. Maybe because I was from the Black Dragon Gate, I knew a lot about the lower levels of the Sanggye.

“You communicate well.”

“Heh heh. Well, if you pretend, it’s pretend.”

When I gave him some space, Gong Du-ho laughed heartily. Before he knew it, his guard had largely disappeared.

As the guard disappeared, a few glasses of alcohol were exchanged. Gong Du-ho gave me and Jo Chung-heon alcohol, and I gave Gong Du-ho alcohol. The situation at Cheonsabang was not so good, so they gave me cheap money, but business with Heuk-do was always like this.

Anyway, since Gong Du-ho is easy to talk to, there is less to explain to him.

A peddler is someone who carries a stall and walks along the streets selling goods. People who just walk by may not know this, but even on the streets, there are districts and owners.

And usually, the area of ​​that street was taken care of by the Heukdo people. So, when peddling on the street, most of the time, they would pay rent to the Heukdo hawkers.

Originally, I didn’t want to get involved with the black market so I looked for a distributor who had a store, but since that path was blocked by Jegal Se-ga, there was only one place for me to go.

“So you came to ask about the rent?”

“Then you wouldn’t have come all the way to me. Isn’t that too trivial to be called a business conversation?”

“That’s true.”

“I came here to make a contract with the Angel Room.”

“What contract?”

“I will hire all the black people within the influence of the Angel’s Room as peddlers.”

“Cough.”

Gong Du-ho spat out his drink in response to my surprise attack. A smelly liquid mixed with alcohol and saliva splashed on my face, but I didn’t stop smiling. Jo Chung-heon immediately took out a handkerchief and wiped my face.

“Cough, ahem. I’m sorry. I suddenly brought up something unexpected.”

“it’s okay.”

A true merchant is someone who doesn’t lose his smile even when his bad breath makes him vomit. I’ve even been spit on openly, but I was able to laugh off mistakes like that.

“You’re going to use the black people as peddlers?”

“Yes. We will use the Angel Room as a labor center. We will give one nyang of silver per person.”

“… … Huh. I’ve worked with many merchants, but this is my first time working on a contract like this. Using black people as merchants? How can I trust those bastards with such a bad personality?”

“That’s why we’re signing a contract with Angel’s Room. Of course, if there’s a problem with manpower, Angel’s Room has to take responsibility. We just supply the goods, and the Black Market just sells them. Angel’s Room takes care of the manpower management in the middle.”

“I see.”

Gong Du-ho readily agreed. After all, he received a silver nyang as a commission for bringing in one person, so it was only natural that he should have done that much.

How to use the black people as peddlers. This was a method used by the Hwiyoungsangdan in the previous life. Of course, it was a method that appeared in the world twenty years earlier than the previous life.

Usually, when you do peddling, you have to pay two times. The money you pay to hire the peddlers, and the money you pay to the black peddlers for their seats. Combining these two things was the method of using black peddlers as peddlers.

At first, of course, there were many ups and downs. The black people would not listen to what I said, and they often embezzled things. However, I realized that if I left the middle management to the black people, most of the problems would be solved.

I also hoped that the Angel’s Fang would go further and act as a manpower agency. If a black bandit had established roots in a certain area, they would be connected to black bandits from Haomun or other areas. From the Angel’s Fang’s perspective, the more they could attract, the more money they would make, so they would attract more.

“He’s a great businessman. I wouldn’t call him a fraud.”

“I haven’t shown you my skills yet. Of course, you’ll be more surprised when you see it.”

I immediately had Jo Chung-heon write up the contract.

The contract between the Whiyoung Group and the Angel Room.

The Angel Room provides the Whiyoung Group with personnel and positions to use as peddlers.

The Whiyoung Group pays a fee to the Angel Room for the number of personnel they recruit.

Human resources management is left to the Angel Room.

Financial management is left to the Whiyoung Group.

The contract contained clauses roughly like this. Since the Black Dogs were mostly ignorant people who couldn’t even write a single word, the Whiyoung Group had to take care of all the accounting.

‘I guess I’ll have to hire some more servants and clerks.’

Right now, there are two servants, one secretary, and one attendant. However, depending on how the Angel Room handles things, more people may be needed.

Although the Angel Room will take care of human resource management, the Whiyoung Group will also need to send in enough personnel to check sales. After all, they will be working not only in Muhan but also in other places.

“The contract looks neat. Where did it sit for a long time?”

“It rolled around for a long time.”

“As expected. Those who start from the bottom have different fundamentals.”

Gong Du-ho said with satisfaction. Unlike the beginning that was so fierce, the ending was warm. Bang-ju was drunker than me and seemed ready to become my sworn brothers. Actually, I must have looked like a messenger of God for giving him the opportunity to make money after a long time.

The subordinates who didn’t know what was being said in the room looked confused when they saw me and the room.

“Ugh, wooweeeeek.”

As soon as I left the angel room, I patted Jo Chung-heon on the back. Jo Chung-heon, like a person from the upper class, drank a lot, but it was impossible for him to beat Heukdo Bangju and me. There is a saying among merchants that drinking capacity is the same as skill. Jo Chung-heon was not yet a complete merchant.

The Hwiyoungsangdan worked closely with the Angels’ Association and recruited peddlers to sell the Nokrim Sip-i-shik in the spring. I had already used up my remaining three hundred nyang of silver, and had even borrowed more money from the Donghosanghoe.

The angel room was running very hard, perhaps because it had tasted money after a long time. We decided to do peddling in four provinces: Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Anhui. It was a huge risk to take on the gamble of operating in four provinces at the same time when the top was starting out, but I was confident.

Two months passed like that and spring came.

It was the moment when the bandits who had been expelled from the Nokrimchae came down to the village as a group of bandits.