Chapter 841: Chapter 841

Yoo-hyun moved to the VIP waiting room located below the audience screen.

There, he was introduced to Kang Minjun by Chairman Kang Bongseok.

Kang Minjun had been pestering him to meet?

Chairman Kang Bongseok was very proud of his grandson who had entered a prestigious foreign university with his own strength, but he was also worried that he had no interest in management. It was a great opportunity for him to have Yoo-hyun as a mentor.

“I hope you can teach him some management skills. It would be even better if you could meet and talk to him whenever you come to the US.”

“Grandpa, he’s busy.”

“Yonseok, grandpa is busy too. I’ve been helping Han’s work even though I’m busy. I signed the newspaper with the old men from the Federation of Korean Industries, and I even bought meals for those politicians.”

He was saying it loud enough for Yoo-hyun to hear.

Yoo-hyun had no reason to refuse, and it wasn’t a big deal anyway, so he readily agreed.

“It will be a great stimulus for him. Thank you. By the way, the self-driving project has become a bit difficult.”

“We have to lower the output to make it stable. But then we’ll be compared to Tesla. This is frustrating. I wanted to show them what we can do…”

Chairman Kang Bongseok looked gloomy, as if he sensed that things wouldn’t go as he wanted.

Then, Kang Minjun asked him bluntly.

“Grandpa, why don’t you use Tesla’s technology?”

“What are you talking about?”

“I heard from the field that it wouldn’t be a big problem if they did that. The employees are suffering too much because of the wrong decisions of the upper management.”

Kang Minjun said with an innocent look, and Chairman Kang Bongseok’s face turned red.

He soon composed himself and spoke from a businessman’s perspective.

“Minjun, you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s not easy to exchange technology between competitors. We have to stand on our own feet.”

“Grandpa, didn’t you see how he collaborated with the Japanese companies?”

“You. You said last year when you entered the country that there’s no company you can’t embrace for the sake of justice.”

Yoo-hyun felt awkward for a moment.

He didn’t mean it that way.

Chairman Kang Bongseok glanced at Yoo-hyun, who blinked his eyes, and spoke firmly to his beloved grandson.

It was admirable that he had opinions on management, but some things were impossible.

“Minjun, that Elon Musk guy doesn’t acknowledge our product. We can’t join forces with him.”

“Elon Musk hates Toyota the most, right? The Toyota chairman said that Tesla is a doomed company. We also hate Toyota and want to beat them, so why can’t we work together?”

“What does that have to do with anything?”

Yoo-hyun intervened next to the dumbfounded Chairman Kang Bongseok.

His expression looked urgent.

“Mr. Minjun, can you explain more?”

“Huh? Oh, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? If we unite under the slogan ‘Anything but Toyota’, it won’t be hard to get Tesla’s technical support.”

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend?”

“Something like the Three Kingdoms’ alliance of three states? Joining forces with Wu to defeat Wei.”

The analogy was weird, but what did that matter?

“Right. That would work.”

“Huh? Sir, is my strategy good?”

Good? He caught the rat by the tail.

Yoo-hyun smiled brightly at him.

The unexpected remark from Kang Minjun woke Yoo-hyun up.

The dam that blocked his thoughts broke, and ideas poured out.

What if Carl Icahn was a Republican?

Then the Democrats, who were their opponents, could be on Yoo-hyun’s side.

Carl Icahn owned many companies, but he sacrificed even more.

If the people and companies who were harmed by him supported Yoo-hyun?

It wouldn’t be impossible to create a much bigger force than Carl Icahn in a short time.

There would be plenty of experts from Wall Street among the victims.

Among them, the best candidate popped into Yoo-hyun’s mind.

He would never have thought of him before.

But now the situation had changed.

Yoo-hyun quickly picked up his phone and called Chairman Shin Kyung-wook.

He immediately spilled out what he had in mind.

“Chairman, there’s something I really want to check. It’s…”

A startled voice came from the other end of the phone.

Yoo-hyun got the information he wanted through Chairman Shin Kyung-wook.

After that, Yoo-hyun’s pace became faster.

He told Natalie Miller his plan, and then met Albert Whale of the CIA and revealed the huge conspiracy behind the River dispute.

It might have been a minus to tell them if it was just for the River lawsuit.

But when he thought of Russia, the CIA’s biggest enemy, from the opposite perspective, his view changed.

If they had the same goal, he could pull the entire CIA organization to his side.

It would be a great weapon for Yoo-hyun.

‘There’s no organization as secretive and reliable as the CIA.’

Yoo-hyun then called in Park Young-hoon, who was ready.

He was going to act as the representative of Mirinae Securities, who would compete with Icahn Goldenway on Wall Street.

Serena Lian, the representative of Y Combinator, and Willy Thompson, who had worked at a large consulting firm, helped him create the environment for Mirinae Securities to settle in Wall Street.

When they mobilized their resources and got to work, the progress was swift.

A message came in on his phone.

-Steve, I’ve finished the investigation on the person you requested. I’ll send you the results right away.

The sender was Scott Brown, who had guided him to the limousine at the UFC New York match of Lee Jang-woo.

He was also a colleague of Robert Evan, who had driven and acted as Yoo-hyun’s secretary in Texas.

He sent Yoo-hyun the results he was looking for by email.

Yoo-hyun checked the content and got up right away.

It was time to put the scattered puzzles together.

Yoo-hyun took a plane to New York.

As he stepped out of the airport, Scott Brown’s limousine was waiting for him.

After greeting him, he got in the car and Scott Brown briefly reported the summarized content to him.

“The investment company Seven Investment, which gained attention in Wall Street for a short time, went bankrupt in April 2014 due to the attack of Icahn Goldenway. The reason for the bankruptcy was as I told you…”

Seven Investment had a very close relationship with Icahn Goldenway until it went bankrupt.

Yoo-hyun, who was listening, asked.

“So the CEO is in New Jersey?”

“Yes. He spends most of his time quietly at home, but he comes out once a week to fish.”

“And today is that day?”

“That’s right. I’ve prepared a seat next to him for you.”

Scott Brown’s way of handling things was more than what Yoo-hyun had asked for, just like Robert Evans did in Texas.

Thanks to him, Yoo-hyun was able to meet the CEO of Seven Investment in a natural way.

Yoo-hyun got out of the car and thanked Scott Brown before adjusting his hat.

He walked along the path between the big trees, wearing a white jumper and comfortable clothes.

Soon, he saw a large reservoir.

He had to go up a little more to get to the place Scott Brown had told him.

Yoo-hyun moved his steps while recalling the article Scott Brown had sent him.

The CEO of Seven Investment, which was founded in 2013, was a well-respected M&A expert on Wall Street, and had a long history of working with Carl Icahn.

He succeeded in attracting a large amount of funds in a short period of time and co-invested in Hugen Life, Carl Icahn’s investment company.

It looked like a decent pharmaceutical company, but it was a fraud group that made a huge profit by raising the price of the drugs they acquired after acquiring small and medium-sized pharmaceutical companies that developed new drugs.

Through the work, Carl Icahn made the stock price soar and disposed of his stake in a moment, exposing the corruption and ruining the company.

He made a lot of money by short selling as a bonus.

All the damage was borne by Seven Investment, who trusted him and invested.

From the CEO’s point of view, he was hit hard by his colleague on Wall Street whom he trusted.

Wouldn’t he have a lot of resentment?

As he walked and thought about this and that, he saw a wooden plank that stretched out to the water.

There were chairs scattered on top of it, but most of them were empty, probably because it was early.

Yoo-hyun spotted a man sitting alone and sat next to him.

The man in the beanie hat didn’t even turn his head at the sound.

He was lost in deep thoughts, staring blankly at the calm lake.

There was a float bobbing on the waves.

The shaking of the float seemed to reflect the man’s troubled mind.

Could he catch even one fish like that?

As expected, the man saw the float twitch and belatedly swung his fishing rod up, but it was a false alarm.

The man calmed his mind and threw the float again, then sat back and glared at the reservoir.

His hand holding the fishing rod was clenched tightly.

As he watched him, Yoo-hyun suddenly remembered Kiyeon, whom he met at Yeontae Lake.

-Tsk tsk. Your mind is so complicated. How can you catch a fish like that?

Back then, Yoo-hyun learned how to empty his mind from a word of an old man he didn’t even know.

He shook off his past regrets and let go of his future worries.

He decided to be faithful to the reality and then he was able to find true peace.

He also became better at catching fish from that point on.

Could the man next to him do the same?

Yoo-hyun casually blurted out.

“Just let go of the fishing rod. The fish won’t come if you hold on to it.”

The man must have heard him, but he didn’t even look at him.

Yoo-hyun chuckled and picked up the fishing rod below, hooked the float and threw it to the water.

He didn’t try to catch the fish as hard as the man next to him.

He just felt the waves rippling in the wind and lightly lifted it up.

The fish he caught was quite big, and it felt very good in his hand.

He didn’t put the fish in the net, but let it go as it was, and the man who thought it was strange finally turned his head.

Under the beanie hat, he saw silver glasses and sharp eyes without double eyelids.

The moment their eyes met, the man’s pupils shook for a moment as he recognized Yoo-hyun.

“Wha, what are you doing here…”

“Thank you. You showed me your flustered face too.”

The man’s name was Shin Kyungsoo, who answered with silence.

He was the second son of the former chairman of Hansung, Shin Hyun-ho, and once a huge wall for Yoo-hyun.

His gaze, which would have been terrifying in the past, now felt pitiful.

He was no longer an obstacle for Yoo-hyun, who had already crossed the wall.

Yoo-hyun greeted him.

“How have you been, vice president? Oh, I’m used to this title. You don’t mind, do you?”

“Did you come to mock me?”

“Mock you? That’s too old for me to come for.”

Yoo-hyun shrugged his shoulders, and Shin Kyungsoo turned his head away.

“Sigh… I wanted to rest, but you ruined my mood.”

He muttered to himself without answering, and got up from his seat, tidying up his fishing rod.

He, who had to control everything to be satisfied, was avoiding the situation now.

It was a glimpse of his downfall.

‘I thought it would be satisfying…’

Was it because he had shaken off the remnants of the past?

He didn’t feel much emotion.