NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 10



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Burning – 3

The next day.

As soon as the sun rose, Mr. Kim Sang-ok said he was moving to Hyoje-dong.

“You could just stay here.”

“My aunt’s house is small, so having this many family members gathered together is likely to make people suspicious.”

“That’s true too.”

Certainly, the teacher’s aunt’s house was quite small.

With a dozen or so people crammed into a few rooms, it was easy for people nearby to tell that guests had arrived.

“Do you know anyone in Hyojeong-dong?”

“I want to take refuge at the house of someone I know.”

“Wow… You know a lot of people, teacher.”

“I have so many people helping me, why can’t the police catch me?”

“It also means that if even one person around you is caught, the teacher and the people around you could be in danger.”

“Umm…”

It wasn’t time to relax yet.

Even now, the imperial police are searching for Kim Sang-ok and me with their eyes wide open.

“Even if my face became known, I could just run away to Shanghai… Why do you want to stay here?”

“Yes? Is there any problem…?”

“You must have met a lot of people as you wandered around Jongno-seo. Wouldn’t they remember your face? Then it would be impossible for you to wander around Gyeongseong.”

“Oh, my face?”

The teacher’s point was extremely common sense.

Since he had properly stirred up the hornet’s nest that was Jongno Police Station by revealing his face, he could not help but think that there would be many restrictions on his activities in Gyeongseong.

“Would you please pinch my cheek?”

“suddenly?”

“Try it once and you will understand.”

“Is this…your taste?”

“······That’s not it.”

The teacher pinched my cheek with a flustered face.

“Huh, huh?”

The teacher’s face turned red with shock as he saw my balls stretching endlessly as he pulled on them with his hands.

“What, what kind of harmony is this?!”

“It’s nothing special, just think of it as a common mask worn over your head.”

“A mask?! A thing in the world covered in human skin. Can you call it a mask?!”

“Oh, it’s not human leather, but silicone. If you go through a few processes, you can create a lifelike mask like this.”

“Huh···. What kind of harmony is this···.”

The teacher seemed to be very shocked.

Actually, I was really surprised when I first saw this from my senior.

“Hmm… So you’re saying that this isn’t your true appearance?”

“Yes.”

“Huh, then what about the voice?”

The corners of my mouth went up at the teacher’s words.

“A voice? Why a voice?”

The teacher was surprised and asked back when he heard the rough, worldly voice of a rickshaw puller, often heard in bars, coming out of my mouth.

“No?! Your voice?!”

This time he changed his voice again and answered in the gravelly voice of an old man.

“Is your voice… a little strange?”

“No… what is this…?”

“Judgement of a person by their voice and face alone is not an accurate way of understanding that person.”

“Heh heh… heh heh heh… heh heh heh…”

The teacher just laughed silently for a long time.

“It’s scary… The world is becoming scary.”

“The enemies will do the same.”

“If you put your mind to it, there is no place you cannot enter.”

“In places with tight security, advance preparation is necessary, and even if that’s not the case, separate investigation is necessary for people trying to disguise themselves…”

“You’re not saying you can’t do it.”

“ha ha ha.”

The teacher sighed and stood up from his seat.

“I thought I had a rough idea of ​​what kind of person you were, but it seems I was mistaken.”

“Wouldn’t it be the case that people who do this kind of work have to hide themselves well in order to survive for a long time?”

“That’s true… Phew… I don’t even know what to report to the captain.”

The person the teacher is talking about as the leader is probably Kim Won-bong.

Kim Won-bong, a weak mountain.

He was a legendary figure in the history of the independence movement and the person who led the Korean War after the division of North and South Korea.

He was someone who you could stay close to to a certain extent, but if he crossed a certain line, you had to deal with him in return.

“Please report everything you hear.”

As the old saying goes:

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

It is not known whether Kim Won-bong will remain a friend or an enemy of the Republic of Korea, but it seems better to keep him close for now.

‘It may be possible to establish a connection with the provisional government through Uiyoldan…’

I understand that the provisional government in Shanghai has been in existence for several years now, but it has not been doing much and is still divided into various factions and fighting within them.

The provisional government, divided into the armed independence faction, the diplomatic independence faction, and the faction that sought to cultivate capabilities, was in a state of constant confusion and hatred and anger among comrades.

‘It’s all about money.’

The provisional government in Shanghai was mostly comprised of people who jumped into the independence movement without any real source of income.

However, the independence movement, whether it was an armed independence movement, a diplomatic independence movement, or a movement to develop capabilities, required money.

It took money to buy a gun, and it also took money to meet and briefly chat with the various diplomats in Shanghai.

Skill development? What, if you pray to the school and the teacher, will they send you something pretty from heaven?

In the end, it’s all about money.

The independence movement required money, and independence activists were even using their personal assets to do this.

But that also has its limits.

No matter how much personal wealth one has, it will eventually come to an end.

The wealth of the key figures of the provisional government has long since hit rock bottom, and the finances of the provisional government are also likely to be similar.

Since he and his family were starving, it would have been difficult for him to avoid the Japanese, and so one by one, they became spies.

“Mr. Kim, I will go first.”

“Okay, when we meet in Shanghai later, I’ll treat you very well.”

“Yes, then be careful of the Japanese… I’ll see you separately in Shanghai.”

I went outside, escorted by Mr. Kim Sang-ok, and leaned against a corner alley on Gyeongseong-daero, smoking a cigarette.

And I made plans for the future.

‘The current independence movement forces are scattered all over the place and are not under one command.’

The provisional government and Uiyoldan in Shanghai, and the independence army in Manchuria.

Of these three, the most powerful was the Manchurian Independence Army, followed by the Uiyoldan, and lastly the Provisional Government.

However, the independence army was called an independence army, but it was difficult to organize and command it because they were scattered like warlords under their own generals, each serving their own soup.

‘The provisional government only has a name, the Uiyoldan is full of morale and the ability to execute, but lacks money and a name, and the independent warlords only have force…’

I had to combine these three.

Although the Manchurian independence army is now achieving brilliant feats against the Japanese despite its weight class, that was only for a short time.

If the Japanese Empire were to exert full force, it would be difficult for the Manchurian independence army to deal with it.

‘We must organically connect the two with the provisional government in Shanghai and preserve as much power as possible.’

In the end, it all comes down to money.

money.

Patriotism and independence required money.

That also required much more money than the rice cakes the Japanese were handing out as a favor.

‘Using Supernotes right away would be one way, but this has clear limitations.’

Although they did obtain the Supernote production equipment from the Secret Service and modify it slightly, the Supernote was made based on the latest dollar.

Naturally, the future and present dollars looked slightly different.

Because of this, even the supernote could not guarantee the original accuracy.

Even though this was enough, it was still possible that counterfeit money appraisers in the United States might find flaws.

‘There should be no such thing as a provisional government diplomat being caught using counterfeit dollars overseas.’

What kind of country is America?

After two world wars, it was a superpower that emerged from the stifling New World and showed off its power to the world.

Even after World War I, they were the guys who made a lot of noise in the international situation, and if you got involved with them, it was a headache.

‘If only my laptop was still intact…’

If only the laptop had been intact, I could have used some of the programs in it and this machine tool to further improve the perfection of the SuperNote.

But the laptop wouldn’t turn on, probably because it was broken the last time it fell into Gyeongseong.

“Phew…”

The road ahead was bleak.

Even with all the knowledge of the future I knew and the technology I had, it was difficult to bring down the huge mountain that was the Japanese Empire.

“You can’t save the world alone.”

What’s important right now is money.

I had supernotes and the infrastructure to print them, but if I just printed money without any infrastructure, the Japanese would notice.

So, in order to avoid the Japanese gaze, it was best to make it look like this was profit from a legitimate business rather than counterfeiting.

‘I have enough money to start a business right away.’

For the time being, I still had some dollars left over from some poorly forged currency, so starting a company was no problem.

However, since I had a lot of work to do and was traveling around to different sites, I couldn’t run the company myself, so I had to appoint someone to take my place.

‘If there is a person from Joseon who can be called a capitalist, and if there is a person who is friendly to independence activists and can actively devote himself to the independence movement…’

The only one that came to mind was this.

But he was across the ocean, in America, not in Korea or Japan.

There was no real connection to the US side, so there was no way to contact that person directly or indirectly.

‘Who else is there besides Yulihan?’

There was also Min Kang-do of Dongwha Pharmacy.

However, this person was under the close surveillance of the Japanese police because of what happened during the last independence movement.

If I had come into contact with this person, I might have been exposed instead.

“Tsk… Neither one is easy.”

In the end, no one was left behind.

Since Japan did not want Korean capital to grow, half of the Korean capitalists of the time were pro-Japanese, and the other half were active overseas or had small-scale capital.

It was hard to believe either way.

“Excuse me… Can I borrow just one cigarette?”

“?”

At that moment, a shabby beggar who looked like he had starved for ten days held out his hand and begged for cigarettes.

Looking at this guy reminds me of a guy I met a long time ago who lost all his money in the stock market while on a mission and even touched some gifts, which sent his life into ruin.

“Here it is.”

“Hehehe… Thank you! I will definitely repay this favor!”

“What is grace…”

I gave him a cigarette and was about to turn around to leave, but this beggar grabbed me.

“Well… I starved for ten days, so… if you could give me something to eat or even a penny…”

“Phew…”

I took out as much money as I could from my wallet and gave it to the beggar. The beggar fell to the ground and kowtowed to me as if he were a god.

“Oh my! Thank you! Thank you so much!”

I couldn’t help but feel sorry for him as I watched him being so happy like a child over just a few pennies.

As I looked closely at him, his speech was polite, and his clothes were neat for a beggar. He looked like a nobleman who grew up in a noble family, so I became curious about his story.

“Judging by the way you speak, you don’t seem like the type of person who would be begging in a place like this.”

“Ah, that’s…”

This beggar said that he had lost all his property after getting his hands on a loan shark and was unable to return home, so he wandered around Gyeongseong begging for food.

“No, I followed the repeater and believed in him… Who would have thought he would fall down like a ghost?”

“Repeat window? Who is that?”

“Oh my, in Gyeongseong, the only people who don’t know about the Miduwang Repeater are country bumpkins or people from abroad.”

“King Midu?”

The beggar’s words intrigued me.

“It seems like that guy named Ban-bok-chang was incredibly good at Midu?”

“Don’t be ridiculous. When things were going well, if you put in money, it would go up, but if he took it out, the price of rice would fluctuate.”

“Wow… You have great taste.”

“I told you so. In his prime, there was probably no one in Joseon with more money than him.”

“is it so…”

“That’s why I trusted that guy so much that I sold all my fields and lost all my wealth…”

As you can see, it was a mess.

The story of the beggar made me feel sorry for him, but at the same time, I became interested in the character of Bok-soo-chang.

“Then where can I meet someone named Repeat Chang?”

“Well… the last I heard was that he was taking his remaining gang and going around the rice paddy to eat up his fortune…”

“Soybean paste.”

The next destination has been decided.

I put a hundred dollar bill in the beggar’s hand and started walking away.

‘Repeat window… Miduwang repeat window.’

I still didn’t know what kind of person he was, but he seemed worth meeting.

“Get up! I’m betting on it getting up!”

“Oh my, you bastard! No matter how I look at it, how can I get on a boat in this cold winter? Of course I’ll get off!”

“Tsk tsk… How stupid! But in times like these, the demand for rice skyrockets and the price of rice goes up, right?!”

“······?”

Until I saw him crouching at a table in front of a soybean market, gambling a gamble that was not worth it.