European Financial Emperor - European Financial Emperor chapter 223

223 War Again (2)

Repeated Russian protests.

The content, as always, was why they did not allow him to enter into an engagement with Lee Hwan.

Lee Hwan’s answer to this was the same.

‘I’m not ready yet.’

There was something unclear about the Russian suppression of the rebellion, so Lee Hwan could not proceed with the marriage.

Wouldn’t it be a big deal if there was an incident that would turn the country upside down by making a mistake?

Lee Hwan wearing a black jacket, pants and beret visited the back alleys of St. Petersburg.

hum hum… … !

It was noisy everywhere, and men and women were also seen tangled up and having an affair.

There was even a scene where they had a gang fight in the back alley, and they were all so drunk that they didn’t care who was beaten.

Someone tapped Lee Hwan on the shoulder as he was walking alone on the street.

puck!

“… … Hey, San! If you hit someone, you should apologize!”

Seeing the drunken man looking for weapons on the floor, Lee Hwan secretly smiled.

“It’s a very nice look.”

The back alleys of the 19th century were completely different from what people of the future thought.

The police didn’t even go around unless they paid a few invoices, and they weren’t even aware of the security issue in the first place.

At least this is the capital of Russia, and if you go down to the small town in the back, it would be unreasonable to wander around at night unless you were a strong man.

It is unimaginable in today’s California, but here the current state of affairs was the daily life itself.

Lee Hwan smashed the head of the man who had picked up the glass bottle with a kick.

Quick!

“… … Kek!”

“I’m afraid I’m going to break the bone.”

“Cool, cool! Sah, save me!”

“Wake up your eyes at night. Then you can get away with it.”

The drunkard managed to get his feet together, which he couldn’t even stand, and ran to somewhere.

It felt like Lee Hwan had exploded the madness that had been suppressed for so long.

‘It seems that I also have trauma about war.’

The battlefield is a world tainted with violence, and power rules everything.

It’s incredibly rough and macho, and it’s a place where you don’t even have to pay attention to the slightest etiquette.

In a word, it was the only place where one could cast off the shackles of the world.

Perhaps Lee Hwan didn’t even know that he was missing the freedom that such a battlefield gave him.

After a while, Lee Hwan found a bar with the words ‘Green Fairy’ on it.

“Eat and die!”

“Wow!”

Truly, the bar was a mess, nothing more, nothing less.

The sour body odor of the men stung my nose, and alcohol and beverages were spread everywhere, so I wondered if this was the place where people live.

However, Lee Hwan felt nostalgic for the past here.

“Hey, Master! Here’s a bottle of absinthe.”

“A bit toxic.”

“know. Give me a bottle.”

In Russia, vodka is drunk, but absinthe from Switzerland was imported and sometimes drunk.

Since Lee Hwan drank alcohol frequently in the Netherlands, he used to drink Swiss absinthe almost like Korean soju.

After a while, a drink was placed on the table.

“absinthe. The frequency is high, so let’s get the calculation first.”

“Sell your worries.”

Lee Hwan took out a Guinea gold coin and gave it to the Master.

“Tips for the rest.”

“A little too much for a tip?”

“Then bring me some snacks or something to eat together.”

“Yeah, do that.”

There is no such thing as honda They don’t follow the rules of etiquette, and they do business the way the bar owner wants them to.

Lee Hwan, who had long missed this kind of drinking culture, enjoyed a sense of freedom after a long time.

Then two men approached him.

“Did you miss this so much?”

“… … You’re interrupting my alone time.”

“Sometimes it’s okay to spend time alone like this, but right now, there’s so much to talk about, don’t you?”

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Matan, who has recently emerged as a major player in the Russian mercenary market, and Bonnet, who is slowly making a name for itself as a colossus in the smuggling market with him.

It was the Malacca Coaster and the Deaveron Blackburn.

The two were now well known here by name, but no one knew their faces.

This was possible because of strict mysticism.

“Yes, did you find out the number of the mercenaries?”

The two put a glass on the table, and Yi Hwan poured them absinthe.

The two people who took it and drank it again took another drink and said.

“It is estimated that there are a total of 400,000 mercenaries in Europe. Half of them have already quit their mercenary career, and the rest seems to be slowly moving into Russia.”

“Forty thousand… … . Even if it’s half of them, that’s 200,000, isn’t it?”

“Yes, it is. In Russia, they plan to have 200,000 mercenaries in their army.”

“Hmm… … .”

“And that’s what we found out when we were collecting the numbers of mercenaries. It is said that a 3,000-strong mercenary group went missing after accepting a request to advance to St. Petersburg, Russia.”

Lee Hwan passed the absinthe for the second time and then stopped his hand.

It was because I heard the sound of a drink breaking.

“… … 3,000 people? Who hired them?”

“They say he is the president of a shipping company in the west of St. Petersburg, and he found out that the shipping company was a Russian company under the current Lublosky name.”

“So, are you saying that after all, those 3,000 are the Russian Prime Minister’s mercenaries?”

“Yes, it is. There are rumors that his disappearance was also taken to the dungeon in the royal palace, but in the back alleys, this is believed to be the truth.”

“You were taken to the dungeon?”

Lee Hwan quietly falls asleep.

Then he came up with a hypothesis.

“What if negotiations were held at the Royal Palace in St. Petersburg, and the mercenaries who participated in the war as the Prime Minister’s army were hiding underground?”

“… … Are you saying that you are not being sent to prison, but are realigning your ranks?”

“It’s like that.”

“Huh!”

“If I were the king of Russia, I think the 3,000 mercenaries would be absorbed into the regular army and will continue to recruit mercenaries in the future?”

“Are you planning on doing something big after that?”

“With the mercenaries at the fore, they call the army and incite the people to turn it into a conscription system… … . Isn’t that a picture?”

“… … !”

“No matter how poor Russia’s military power is, it can give the impression that it will be difficult to attack recklessly even when thinking from the outside.”

“Then how about it? If the provocation of war has already begun… … .”

“We have to step on it so that it doesn’t come back at all. It’s a civil war.”

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Magirski is said to be one of the rivals of the Ronald Company.

He was receiving reports about Ronald from his subordinates.

Oil and fat products produced in St. Petersburg began to spread throughout Europe.

The Ronald Company, which devoured the market so cleanly that it could be said to be an explosion, quickly took first place in the soap, dishwashing detergent and laundry detergent categories.

Ronald’s maintenance products were equipped with two powerful weapons, the first being quality.

“… … You say it smells like roses?”

“Soaps and shampoos are said to have a rose scent through chemical additives.”

Viktor Mazirsky, the president of the Mazirsky maintenance company receiving the report, did not look very good.

Right now, it’s great just to print a large amount of soap, but it was absolutely impossible to implement the technology that could create a rose scent in it.

Victor Mazirsky thought that there was only one way to defeat them.

“Let the rumors spread that the raw materials they use are garbage.”

“Are you talking about spreading rumors?”

“Of course. Otherwise, is there any way to defeat them?”

“Hmm, that’s right.”

“If we can’t win, we all die. Isn’t this world the way it used to be?”

The Mazirsky Company has recently been trembling as it has not been able to recover its investment.

These days, sales have increased by buying soap from all over Europe, and factories have been expanded to secure sales volume.

However, the Ronald Company suddenly appeared and swept away the soap and detergent market, and things went awry.

Now is the time to untangle that tangled thread.

“But it’s unclear if we can beat them anyway.”

“What?”

“Isn’t the price really ridiculously cheap for its performance?”

Ronald Company’s ‘Rose Bath’ is the number one product preferred by women, and it is sold tremendously not only to the aristocratic upper class, but also to the common people.

In the upper-class market, Ronald has already dominated the rose bath, and the common people have now come to the point of calling rose bath as a synonym for soap.

However, the problem was that the price itself was not that much different from general soap products.

“You mean cheap is the problem?”

“Rose bath products have two strengths, don’t they? Great performance, and the opposite low price. That’s why they say you can’t win no matter how much money you spend.”

“… … damn it If it is enough to scrape roses like that, I think the soap making itself will create a loss.”

Competitors, who had no way of knowing how advanced Ronald’s chemical technology had been, thought they were making soap from fresh flowers.

In fact, if you look at Ronald’s advertisement, it read ‘Real Rose’.

In the end, the Magyrsky Company decided to cut the price in half to catch the Ronald Company.

“Just cut the price of soap in half.”

“No, if we lower the price of soap that much, what will our profits be?”

“How many percentages will there be left?”

“It is, but… … .”

“Don’t pay the kids a salary. And the wages of the workers are also reduced.”

“Huh! And what if everyone retires?”

“Leave? Heck, do it. After all, the things that they want to work other than them are widely spread. What are you worried about going out of the factory for machines and other things you touch?”

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Mazirsky had no intention of catching workers because they were just consumables anyway.

The subordinates had no choice but to follow the boss’s instructions.

“All right. Then I will notify you of the wage cut immediately.”

“Move quickly. Aren’t you supposed to earn a little more?”

“all right!”

The employees of Mazirsky Co., Ltd. first went to a local bar to spread rumors.

There were a lot of people at the local bar who comforted me after a hard day, and most of them were men who said their wife was paying attention to their clothes these days due to their hectic life.

He thought that it would be very effective if there was a rumor that there was cyanide in the soap at such a bar.

hum hum… … !

“Come on, I’ll buy you a drink, so let’s all get together!”

“Oh oh! Free drinks, good!”

What a sweet temptation free alcohol is for those who live on a daily basis.

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Mazirsky’s lobbyists circulated free drinks and talked about cyanide.

“You guys, do you have any wives at home?”

“… … Is there anyone without a wife?”

“Aren’t those wives wasting money just because they use rose-scented soap these days?”

“Shit! That’s right, how much money is that?! No, if you collect a month’s worth of soap, you’ll probably get three bottles of alcohol!”

“Yeah, that soap! Do you guys know that rose-scented soap actually contains cyanide?”

“… … Cyanide?!”

“Other soaps are fine, but they say the scented soap contains human-killing cyanide!”

The men were confused.

I work in a factory to die because of responsibility, but my wife, who raises the children and takes care of the house, is dying because of the soap.

What man would listen to it and stand still?

“God damn it! I’ll take all of his soap!”

“okay! Throw it all away! And let’s make this known to a little more people!”