I Became Park Jeong-ui’s Nephew - Chapter 226



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He became Park Jeong-ui’s nephew. – (226)

“The President is entering.”

This is the White House in the United States,

The reporters’ eyes were focused on President Reagan’s mouth.

The Philippines, which is in turmoil due to the election fraud scandal, is a member of the UN and AOPR, so it has the right to receive help from the allies when the country is in crisis.

So is AOPR doing its best to quell the chaos in the Philippines?

The reality is quite the opposite, with Filipino peasants killing landowners and causing chaos everywhere, while AOPR stands by and does nothing.

Of course, the Marcos regime should be punished for not reporting the money they earned in the United States to the IRS and hiding it, but should they take revenge in this way?

Is this the rule of law and order that AOPR emphasizes?

Even within the United States, there was talk that this was going too far.

With Filipino landlords in a corner playing up the media that AOPR should crack down on the rioters, how will the United States respond?

As he neared retirement, Reagan expressed his determination to complete his final duties as president.

“The Philippine government has lost its ability to govern itself. If so, the only way for the people to complete reform is through revolution.”

Land reform in the Philippines is not a problem of a day or two ago.

The struggle that started in 1946,

Of course, at first, reforms were carried out with consideration for the farmers.

[The government purchases farmland at cost price from good tenant farmers or occupants. If the land is ownerless, anyone who has cultivated it for five years can own the land.]

[The land that a family can own is designated as 6 hectares.]

[If a landowner refuses to sell despite the government’s best efforts to purchase the land, the land ownership office can expropriate the land.]

If we look at the details one by one, it seems like the government expropriated the land from the landlords and distributed it to the farmers.

But the result was a riot, so wasn’t it ultimately a problem with the reform process?

That law was enacted in 1955, but nothing was done until 1963.

The biggest obstacle was the fierce opposition of the landlords, and the government gave in to this and recognized the tenancy system and fixed the rent that the landlords received from the farmers.

In the past, landlords set rent rates at will, but now they are not allowed to do so. However, do you think the landlords who won against the government would keep that rule?

Moreover, the Philippine Land Authority spent only 60% of its budget on land acquisition.

If the government had invested all of its budget and paid a fair price to the landowners, land reform might have gained momentum, but then who would have gotten the remaining 40%?

It’s obvious even without me saying anything.

“No, does this government have the will to carry out land reform? Is it perhaps in collusion with the landlords?”

“I have doubts now. They said they would make us independent farmers, but why is the tenant system still in place?”

This is why public opinion is negative toward the Philippine government.

Later, President Marcos, who came to power, increased the amount of land that individuals could own from 6 to 7 hectares, but this was also just a sham.

When President Marcos started land reform (1972), there were about 520,000 tenant farmers in the Philippines. What about now (1982)?

The number of tenant farmers actually increased to 600,000, and the land owned by landlords increased from 660,000 to 730,000 hectares.

During that period, the Philippine Land Authority acquired only 10,000 hectares of land.

The Philippines’ agricultural population has skyrocketed from 2.36 million to 4.02 million as the government has failed to properly foster industry.

As the number of people engaged in agriculture increases, the land available for farming will become smaller, and farmers’ income will decrease accordingly. So, who is ultimately responsible for the Philippines’ problems?

At least it’s not the farmers’ fault.

Since the landowners do not give up their land, the government cannot secure industrial land, and with no way to make money, the government sends workers overseas to exploit them. This is the history of the Philippines over the past 35 years.

So, should AOPR overthrow the Philippine government and reform it?

That is interference in internal affairs,

The AOPR mobilized the military to protect civilians from massacre, not to reform the Philippines.

The reform and direction of a country are something that the people and government of that country decide.

But President Reagan showed his determination not to leave the Philippines alone.

“The Philippine landowning class has been uncooperative with reforms for decades, and their refusal to give up their land has prevented the government from promoting industrial development. What path can the Filipino people take in this situation?

Should I still talk to the landlords?

That stage has already passed. The Filipino people have endured for 35 years and are no longer willing to accept social injustice. In that case, we at AOPR will only support the will of the people.”

This was a bit of an irresponsible statement.

If AOPR openly supports the peasant army, the landlords will not stay still, so they have to mediate somehow. If they do this, a civil war will only break out in the Philippines.

But President Reagan decided to support the revolutionary forces,

Even the Soviet Union, the greatest nation in the world, collapsed due to internal strife, so you’re saying that the Philippines failed to reform because of the resistance of landowners?

President Reagan, who witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union, expressed confidence that the revolutionary forces would be victorious this time too.

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“What is the situation in the Philippines?”

“It’s not that good. The fighting is getting fiercer as the landlords are putting up organized resistance.”

This is the Daedeok County official residence.

I was briefed on the situation in the Philippines through the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Soviet Union, which once rivaled the United States as a power, also collapsed due to peasant and worker uprisings, so why is the Philippines experiencing the exact opposite?

First of all, we need to look at the economic structures of both countries.

The Soviet Union was communist and denied the privatization of land. In such a country, the only thing that bureaucrats could embezzle was money.

What about the Philippines, on the other hand?

Unlike the Soviet Union, there are no resources to exploit, and industry is not developed, so the vested interests cannot help but cling even more to the land.

This was the decisive factor that decided the fate of the Soviet Union and the Philippines. As rebellions broke out all over the country, Soviet officials fled without hesitation.

Since I don’t live off the land, I can just take the money and run away.

But that’s not what Filipino landowners think.

Thinking that losing their land would mean the end of their lives, they do not run away, but rather hire mercenaries and wage war against the farmers.

What’s worse is that US President Reagan made a statement in support of farmers. Isn’t this a case of going all the way?

The Philippine problem is more complicated than the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union was a country that was formed by forcibly annexing neighboring countries and ethnic groups, so it was at risk of collapse at the slightest crack.

But isn’t that the case in the Philippines?

Of course, one might be mistaken in thinking that the Philippines, having been under foreign colonial rule for a long time, would not have its own identity.

But if there had been no identity, would it have been possible to become independent from the United States?

The Philippines, which had been operating as an independent nation since 1935 by creating a constitution, would be divided over ethnic minority issues like the Soviet Union?

The Philippines is more than 90% Malay, the remaining 10% are Chinese and mixed American-Spanish, and they even have a common culture of being against Islam.

The possibility of a country like this collapsing like the Soviet Union is virtually zero, and if we ignore this incident, the number of victims will only grow like a snowball.

The role of AOPR is only to prevent the massacre of civilians.

As the Commander-in-Chief of the AOPR, I would like to correct President Reagan’s remarks.

“There seems to have been a mistake. AOPR is not only on the side of the peasants. We came here to stop the indiscriminate massacres that are taking place in the Philippines. The peasants and the landlords must stop fighting immediately and come to the table for dialogue.”

The world was shocked.

The fact that the AOPR’s former chief of staff denied the US President’s remarks could be interpreted to mean that the AOPR’s authority is above the US government.

But does that matter?

What I was concerned about was preventing the situation in the Philippines from escalating into a civil war, so I entered into direct negotiations with the Filipino landowners.

“Isn’t the reason you don’t want to give up your land because there will be no way for you to make money?”

“Yes.”

“Then I will create a hole for you to make money. If you take over the land, I will convert it into stocks.”

If you think about it, stocks are the same as land.

I am the largest shareholder of Daehan Transportation and receive 135 billion won in dividends every year.

Literally, it’s like swimming in the ground. Just like the landlords make their stomachs full by exploiting the tenant farmers, I also sit back and earn money because the workers work hard for me.

The problem is that Filipino landlords do not understand this concept.

For them, only land was paramount.

Even if the money from selling the land was converted into stocks, it would only make us dependent on foreign capital, and furthermore, they maintained the position that we can only live well if farmers are poor.

“If the people become rich, the country will fall into chaos like this. We do not want any reforms. AOPR should withdraw from the Philippines immediately and reinstate President Marcos.”

“Is that really what you want? The farmers are saying that they will not back down this time. If the civil war drags on, you will not be able to farm, so where will you gain from it? Think carefully.”

I left the landlords open to negotiations until the very end.

There is a win-win situation for both farmers and landlords, so why do they cling to the land until the end?

I repeatedly convinced them that stocks, like land, were a source of stable income, but they were trapped in their own world and did not understand what I was saying.

So now there are only two things left,

Will you restore President Marcos and return the Philippines to its former glory? Or will you turn the Philippines upside down with the peasant army?

President Reagan had already declared war on the Philippine establishment.

First, I decided to go with that rhythm.

“I was wrong. Negotiations are supposed to start with the upper hand. The landlords are under the illusion that they have the upper hand.”

“Your Majesty, if that’s the case… .”

“Let’s just wipe out 50,000 people as an example, and then we can negotiate.”

I gave instructions to the AOPR to help the peasant army massacre the landlord class.

The Philippine landowning class, who have been relying solely on their own power and have been humiliating the government and public opinion for the past 35 years, need not be persuaded, but rather clubbed.

Since it didn’t fit, it must come out like this.

As the AOPR’s military operations began, the landowning class fell into disarray.

All they’ve ever faced is a corrupt police force and an incompetent government in collusion with vested interests, but AOPR is an organization on a whole other level.

Where AOPR goes, the road is right there.

There is no problem here, with the support of 4 million Filipino farmers.

Only then did the landlord class, who were shocked, demand negotiations, but I did not stop until I had reached the planned 50,000 people.

“When you hit, hit properly. If you hit half-heartedly, you’ll get in trouble again.”

How much opposition did Korea face when it implemented land reform?

I beat the vested interests to the brink of death to establish discipline, and thanks to that, I got to where I am today.

I have clearly given the landlords a chance and any further favor is unnecessary, I have instilled in the landlord class a deep fear of public power.

The landowners declared complete surrender,

A stumbling block to the Philippines’ economic development that had been blocking it for 35 years has disappeared.