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Chapter 13. The War Against Corruption – The Golden Age of General Secretary (4)

Chapter 13. The War Against Corruption – The Golden Age of General Secretary (4)

“I’m sorry, Comrade Lieutenant General. Now, Comrade the Director has gone to report to the secretariat of our company.”

“……What is it?”

Baek Seung-cheol, who visited the Office of the Director of the Investigation Bureau with his subordinates and a lot of goals, was annoyed by the secretary’s answer, which was unexpected but expected to some extent in his heart.

“Since it’s the secretary’s office… When will Comrade Kim Young-il come back?”

“That’s good for me too…”

“done. I’ll go to the clerk’s office myself!”

Baek Seung-cheol, heading to the secretary’s office, leaving the troubled secretary behind, was realizing that what was to come was coming.

In the beginning, Kim Jung-hwan created an unheard-of institution called the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau and his purpose was obvious from the fact that the purpose of the institution was to investigate corruption.

I just didn’t know that the blade would come so quickly.

‘Somehow, he suddenly came out obediently. Last time the Chinese ambassador was a deception. In front of this Baek Seung-cheol, he pretended to hold out his hand, and behind him, he was sharpening a knife to slay our Frunze clan, right?’

Standing in front of the secretary’s office, who finally arrived in the car, Baek Seung-cheol clenched his lips as he thought so with the general’s face in front of a fierce battle.

Junghwan Kim.

It was Baek Seung-cheol, who stood out from the first time I saw him at a party at the Koryo Hotel 4 years ago, but never dreamed that he would become the number one leader in the party and republic.

The reason why he has been vigilant and has allowed Jeonghwan to attack up until now may be because the image of his sidekick Kim Jung-hwan, who once had no one to rely on, still remained in the corner of his heart.

But no more.

Jung-hwan’s resourcefulness and political ability during and after his big business was instilling fear even in Baek Seung-cheol, who had been looking down on him in his heart.

‘In the beginning, to prevent this republic from becoming the private property of the Kim Il-sung family, there was even a coup d’etat. I’ve already done it once, is there anything I can’t do twice? If left alone, Kim Jung-hwan, no, general secretary may become the second Kim Il-sung.’

squeaky.

“We have arrived, Comrade Lieutenant General Baek.”

“Wait here!”

As soon as the car arrived at the company, Baek Seung-cheol revealed the purpose of his visit to meet General Secretary Kim Jeong-hwan.

Then, the staff at the clerk’s office delivered the good news.

“Ah, now Comrade General Secretary Kim Young-il and a few guests are having refreshments.”

“Okay! Anyway, I have something to see with that same Comrade Kim. Let me know that this Baek Seung-cheol wants to eat some of the refreshments too!”

This time, build a fence.

The general secretary may reject his request to meet, but in that case, Baek Seung-cheol was willing to run into the secretary’s room even if he was guilty of treason.

(This is true of any faction or faction created by man.) The reason that the Frunze officers followed Baek Seung-cheol’s order rather than the official command system of the People’s Army was because they had benefits such as attracting and pulling each other because they were under Baek Seung-cheol. .

However, his direct junior, Ryu Moo-young, was arrested by Kim Young-il whether he was ordered by the general secretary, but he did not take any action.

And that means that Baek Seung-cheol himself loses all his influence within the faction and as a general.

A commander who is not respected by his subordinates is not even a scarecrow.

“Comrade General Secretary has allowed us to visit. Come in, Comrade Lieutenant General.”

“……?”

Unexpectedly, for a moment, he was puzzled that the visit was easily allowed, and when Baek Seung-cheol saw Kim Young-il sitting politely around the table in the center of the secretary’s office, Baek Seung-cheol’s expression was distorted.

He immediately turned his head and protested to Jeonghwan, who was drinking tea leisurely next to Kim Young-il.

In the past, he would have ignored him and grabbed Kim Young-il right away, but Baek Seung-cheol knew that acting like that would only make his position worse.

“Comrade General Secretary. Sorry for the hasty visit. But I’m here to report on Comrade Kim Young-il, who is sitting over there, and the mangdong that obscures the bureaucracy of his subordinate bureaucracy…”

“Oh, don’t do that, sit down for a while and have some tea, Lieutenant General Baek. Anyway, there is one more person coming to sit with you.”

“……!!! Thank you, Comrade General Secretary. However, Lieutenant Colonel Ryu Moo-young, who was arrested this time by Comrade Kim Young-il, is my longtime junior, a passionate and loyal soldier who has served in this People’s Army for a long time…”

“Comrade General Secretary. He has come.”

“Oh, you just came. Lieutenant General Baek. Greetings. Today, I and Comrade Kim Young-il are the ones who decided to pick up the car. Comrade Lieutenant General Baek is also someone who knows his face well.”

“…who the hell is that…!!!!”

Baek Seung-cheol, thinking that Jeong-hwan was trying to change the subject, turned his head with a smirk.

Then he opened the door and saw an old man walking with support and his face hardened.

The old man walking with the support of Kim Young-il, who suddenly rushed to him with a cane, was the living god of this republic, the leader and enemy, President Kim Il-sung.

“Abadi, are you okay?”

“……Gi, Gi-rae, Young-il-ah. How is this Abaddy doing… It’s good to see you after a long time.”

“……………………”

Kim Il-sung was so old and debilitated that he couldn’t even recognize it, perhaps because of the shocks he had suffered over the years.

Even the short distance from the secretary’s door to the table was staggering, and Kim Young-il, who was not able to see him, supported him, so he had to be carefully seated in a chair.

“President Abazi, how are you these days?”

“Collock, Colok……!! How are you, me? The doctors you sent me, Jeonghwan, are taking good care of me these days. I, Jeong-il, you are a thousand times better than that ungrateful bastard. Cole, cole…”

“thank you. Chairman, here is my brother, Director Kim Young-il. I recently placed my brother on the job of the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau, did you know?”

“……..Yes? Yes, yes… Yes, don’t you know… Ki-rae, Jung-hwan, you and your brother get along well, so I really like this Abaddy. I don’t know, brothers should get along well, but Jung-il said he was greedy and wanted to eat it all by himself.

“Abadi, this Comrade General is a wonderful person. Just by calling my sidekick, giving me a job, and taking good care of Abadi, did you not see that this republic is developing day by day under the leadership of the general secretary? What a wonderful successor Abaddy has chosen.”

“That’s right… Yeong-il must take good care of your younger brother… In order for our Kim family to live in this republic with the respect of the people in the future, we must come together well… …!!!”

“…………”

‘God damn it!’

Baek Seung-cheol, who suddenly became a barley sack he had borrowed for a family reunion, was unable to speak the words he was trying to say at first, and when he was sitting in an uncomfortable position, he vomited abusive language inside.

And only after seeing Jeonghwan’s strange smile on his face did Baek Seung-cheol understand why he appointed Jeong-hwan’s Norim-su, Kim Young-il, as the head of the department, and why he called Kim Il-sung to this meeting today.

The reason was a warning.

‘Don’t forget whose blood comrade Kim Young-il is, Lieutenant General Baek Seung-cheol.’

Seeing Seungcheol’s face blushing without saying anything, Jeonghwan slowly drank the tea again.

As Yoo Hye-rim wondered, there was a second reason besides the clear motive for appointing Kim Young-il as the head of the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau, leaving so many talented people behind.

It was because he had a background in which he would not rebel, although he was certain that he was of ‘baekdu bloodline’.

Who would dare restrain Kim Il-sung as his father?

“Abadi, here Comrade Lieutenant General Baek Seung-cheol says he has something to say to me today. Do you remember who Lieutenant General Baek Seung-cheol was?”

“Yes…..? Oh, Giraigirai… I can’t remember who it is, but please take care of my children, Girae. Youngil and Jeonghwan are both kids who only read texts in commercial school, so they had to cooperate well with party members to lead the party…

“…………”

“Comrade Lieutenant General Paik, are you not going to answer a question the President asks?”

“…………………………………………………… W, don’t worry, President… This Baek Seung-cheol must sacrifice his life to defend Comrade General Secretary…!!!”

But before Baek Seung-cheol could finish speaking, Kim Il-sung just shook his head and fell asleep with a snoring sound.

To Baek Seung-cheol, who was bewildered, Jeong-hwan clicked his tongue and muttered as if nothing was wrong.

“Damn, it looks like your comrades have prescribed too many sedatives. Let’s take the President. Comrade Kim, please follow Abbadi.”

“I got it. Comrade General Secretary.”

Eventually, as Kim Young-il disappeared with the staff of the secretary’s office carefully escorting Kim Il-sung, Jeong-hwan smiled and asked Baek Seung-cheol, who had hardened his face.

“Okay, do you have anything else to report on? Lieutenant General Baek Seung-cheol?”

“………………”

In the end, on that day, Seungcheol Baek had no choice but to leave the company without saying anything.

Clang—!!!

“Damn it! Do you think you will continue to tolerate this kind of treatment in the future, Comrade Hong Cha-su?”

“……”

Hong Kye-seong was still silent when he saw Baek Seung-cheol smashing a glass of crystal whiskey against the wall.

When Hong Kye-sung, who had thought he was going to stop him or even get angry, stayed still, Baek Seung-cheol seemed to get even more angry.

“Say something! Right now, Kim Jung-hwan is pulling out his knife to kill that little bastard, but there must be an alternative! Alternative!”

“Watch out! Comrade Lieutenant General Baek Seung-cheol! Comrade Kim Jeong-hwan is now the party’s general secretary!”

When Hong Gye-seong raised his voice and gave him more attention, Baek Seung-cheol even sarcastically sarcastically as if there was nothing to see anymore.

“Huh, have you decided to even pretend to be Kim Jung-hwan’s bastard now, Cha-soo Hong? Haha, you’ve been strangely submissive since the last event. Why did Jang Seong-taek lose his position as the head of the party’s organization, so it would be more profitable to change the rope now? if not….”

“Baek Seung-cheol, on the last day of the last party convention, Comrade Kim Jeong-hwan… No, did you ever hear the general secretary fire?”

“…………??”

Baek Seung-cheol, who had guessed in his heart that he might be angry at his rude provocation or that he might pull out a gun this time, was puzzled for a moment when Hong Gye-sung brought up a completely different story.

But he quickly snorted and waved his hand.

“Why the hell are you listening to such a waste of time? After all, no one knows that the party convention or anything else is just a fool’s game…”

“I thought you would grow up to be mine, so Baek Seung-cheol, you are useful as a military officer, but not in politics. At that time, the general secretary announced on the last day that it was the ‘four new goals’. Maybe you don’t remember a stone head like you Baek Seung-cheol, but this is a succession of the ‘four major military lines’ announced by President Kim Il-sung 25 years ago. Remember?”

As far as Hong Kye-seong spoke, I remembered that Baek Seung-cheol heard it too.

However, it was still difficult to guess why Hong Kye-sung suddenly brought up this story.

After all, isn’t that a long stretch of ‘Let’s unite with the Kim family, centering on the military, and reunify South Korea with red flags’?

“That… there are four major policies to lead the People’s Army and liberate south Korea: ‘arming all the people’, ‘fortification of the whole country’, ‘facilitation of the entire army’ and ‘modernization of battle equipment’. But what does that have to do with us?”

“At the last party congress, the four old lines of President Kim Il-sung just mentioned were never mentioned. Whether through the mouth of General Secretary Jeonghwan himself or through someone else. Do you get a sense of it now?”

“…………!”

“It’s not just that. President Kim Il-sung’s ‘Economic and national defense policy’, ’10 Principles of Establishing the Party’s One-Leading System’, and even, yes, even ‘Juche Idea’ were mentioned and ended once. Maybe it won’t even be mentioned once at the next party convention. However, the new four goals of the general secretary were mentioned 10 times during the competition. What do you think this means?”

“no way……”

Only then did Baek Seung-cheol start to slowly open his head.

And why Hong Kye-sung brought up this story.

“Hey, what is the God’s 4th goal?”

The 4 goals of Jung-hwan’s gods, which Hong Gye-sung told Baek Seung-cheol, who asked him in a hurry, were shocking.

The four goals seemed to be the goals that all government officials should naturally put forward, but Baek Seung-cheol was not so stupid that he did not know what it meant to be announced at the party congress.

– Unity of the entire party

– Development of the entire country

– Modernization of the entire production

– Wealth of all people

“This is… our military… never once…”

“Gee, it was never mentioned. Now can you see why I was so obsessed with the position of the Party Organizational Leadership Director? General Secretary Jeong Hwan is not just trying to liquidate our Frunze clan. Now, Giya is about to liquidate the entire People’s Army, at least half of them. In the future, this republic will not be led by the People’s Army. At least in this Kim Jung-hwan’s republic, it will be. That’s what I meant.”

As soon as he heard those words, Baek Seung-cheol jumped up from his seat.

If what Hong Gye-seong said now is true, wouldn’t it be a bigger problem?

“Then what the hell have you been doing? Let’s get our hands on it right now!”

“What do you mean by hand?”

“Then the general secretary is saying that we are going to liquidate the entire army and turn it into a daytime light (a North Korean idiom, referring to useless objects), so you’re saying we should just sit back? According to those four major goals or something, there must be sympathizers in other military groups too! If you move on…”

“It’s too late, we’ve already lost our chance.”

At Hong Gye-seong, who shook his head, Baek Seung-cheol inevitably sharpened his teeth and showed a violent gesture.

“What does that mean? He doesn’t even have friendly forces yet, so if we waste more time here…”

“Even if it’s not a friendly force, there is a force that can beat us. Where do you think the troops mobilized to take Lieutenant Colonel Ryu Moo-young came from? They’re all subordinate officers of the former National Guard Bureau and the General Guard Bureau, who were arrested and managed by the Ministry of Social Security! If it’s our Frunze clan, they inevitably go for it! Now that Kim Jong-il is gone, how long do you think it will take for Kim Jong-hwan to run them under the name of the president?”

“……Profit!!!!”

“Kim Jeong-hwan, we were the only ones who got blood on their hands because they didn’t show their faces throughout the rebellion. It was only at the time of the last massacre that many people, including his brother-in-law Jang Seong-taek, were fed up with Kim Jong-il, so even though there were several noises in the middle, he succeeded. If we kill Kim Jung-hwan, who was published as a general secretary, we will probably be next.”

“Then, you’re talking about Comrade Hong Cha-su sitting still and watching our limbs get cut off?”

“Who said that? I’m the one who wants to wait! Until the time comes! Have you never seen it before? Now the general secretary is waiting for us to make a mistake! Oops, if you make a mistake and show a hole or catch a pod, they’ll beat us right away! If there is a proper justification, he will send us all to the correctional center with an order stamped with the president’s seal. Are you talking about giving that justification now?”

“…………”

Finally, Seungcheol Baek sat down on the chair.

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Now he seemed exhausted from his anger, or as if he had given up, as if all his power had drained from his body.

“……Then what are we going to do?”

“As I said before, wait for the right time.”

“at the time? What time?”

“Girae, no matter how the general secretary, it is impossible to liquidate all of us who occupy 40% of the military at once. If we do, the military will collapse, and that’s not what the general secretary wants. What we’re going to do now is crawling in front of the general secretary. While we remain united, we must solidify our position in the new republic the General Secretary will create. Then one day we will have a chance.”

The biggest reason for Hong Kye-sung’s judgment was the eyes of the party members and delegates he saw at the party congress.

Especially in the context of ‘the wealth of all people’.

There was no fool there who could not understand the meaning of these words, so most of the delegates who seemed bored at the moment they said those words straightened their posture and began to listen intently to the new general secretary.

It was a very subtle change, but seeing it, Hong Kye-sung was convinced.

Even if the Frunze clan revolt against the general secretary, they will never take their side.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyone now had little doubts about communism and the tribal economy it brought.

But Baek Seung-cheol still seemed to have some regrets.

“……Is that an order as a superior, Chasu Hong?”

“It’s an order, of course.”

“……What if I say no to that order, Cha-soo Hong?

“……What is it?”

At Baek Seung-cheol’s sudden declaration, Hong Gye-seong growled and asked.

Are you saying that you can’t understand this idiot even though I’ve explained it this far?

But Baek Seung-cheol asked desperately as if he was squeezing out his last strength.

“There are still dozens of military officers in our faction who are not Chae Hong, but follow only me. If I say I’m crazy and they and I go into the clerk’s office and shoot and kill Kim Jeong-hwan, what do you mean by Hong Cha-soo?”

Baek Seung-cheol’s last-minute question, or Hong Gye-seong, who had never been so calm, distorted his old-fashioned face for the first time into a harsh life.

Then he lowered his head and made eye contact with Baek Seung-cheol, who was leaning on the chair, and he said, word by word.

“I swear to Omani, who died at the hands of my Japanese imperialists, as the leader of this Frunze faction, I will wait for you to shoot Baek Seung-cheol and kill your bastard first with my own hands.”

“…………”

“And I brought your heads to the general secretary, and Baek Seung -cheol’s baby was a stiff man. If you understand, do whatever you want. Instead, as soon as I leave this room, I and all the officers I come in touch with have nothing to do with you. Do you understand?”

“…………”

Baek Seung-cheol didn’t say anything.

However, Hong Kye-seong soon noticed something breaking in his eyes.

After confirming that, he instructed Baek Seung-cheol again in a cold voice.

“If you understand, listen to me from now on. If you listen carefully to what I have to say from now on and take action, there might be a way for not only you, but Ryu Moo-young, that stupid Ganna to survive.”

And the next morning, Junghwan, who went to work as usual, saw an unexpected sight.

It was a sight I had expected, but at the same time, it was a sight I did not expect in the corner of my heart .