I Will Stage A Coup D’état - Chapter 4



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The food I ate at the officers’ mess surprisingly suited my taste.

You don’t think military food can be tasty?

That’s a misunderstanding.

If you don’t like the taste of your military food, consider whether it’s because your rank is lacking.

If you become a general, you may not be able to move a mountain, but you can change the quality of food.

“Ugh.”

It was a bit sad to see him eating that delicious food so painfully.

“Come on, there are plenty of seats over here, so sit down and eat.”

“Thank you, General.”

After a few days of having ‘conversations with division commanders’ under the guise of meals, the young officers’ faces became pale.

It seemed like these guys also had a hard time swallowing food when in front of someone of higher rank.

This is going to take some time.

I decided to take my time and approach it slowly.

Meanwhile, an important event occurred in Germany.

“We are a righteous people again! We are now a hard-working and energetic people again!”

An incident occurred in which German dictator Adolf Hitler showed his mettle by sending troops into the Rhineland and breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Locarno.

This was the so-called Rhineland rearmament incident.

The League of Nations turned a deaf ear to Hitler’s provocations.

Even though at most 3,000 troops crossed the Rhine, Britain, France, and Belgium could only watch helplessly.

No, you idiots. You have a million troops.

Are you going to put that away and buy some rice cakes to eat?

When I was watching world history in books or on YouTube, I would just think, ‘Oh, I see.’ But when I actually ‘experienced’ it, I thought, ‘What, there are such idiots?’

‘Well, the heads of the League of Nations are such idiots that it’s not like Hitler and Mussolini come out of a makeshift ship and start a world war.’

Well, it’s not my place to talk about others.

This is because Marshal Park Han-jin of the Korean Empire is the embodiment of wit that is not inferior to Hitler or Hideki Tojo.

As expected.

Park Han-jin, who was stimulated by Hitler’s bold steps, had an accident.

“The Korean Empire supports the German Empire’s legitimate exercise of sovereignty.”

What the fuck.

Is this crazy bastard determined to ruin the country before I take power?

The Korean Empire, which already had a high aggro level, was receiving a share of the Nazis’ aggro.

Of course, Park Han-jin didn’t do something like that because he was just a retard.

Berlin-Pyongyang Technology Exchange Agreement.

In return for supporting Germany’s efforts, Park Han-jin signed a technology exchange agreement with Berlin.

It was a lucrative deal for the militaristic Korea, exchanging Korea’s advanced shipbuilding technology for Germany’s advanced army technology.

But is it worth it to be completely stamped out by the UK and the US?

I don’t think so.

‘Even without that, a war between Korea and China is inevitable, so we need to manage aggro well.’

I felt the need to hurry up and write my novel.

Thus, on March 11, 1936, the first volume of Legend of the Galactic Heroes was published.

Although it lacks expressiveness and description compared to the original, it didn’t matter.

What does it matter if there is no original to compare it to?

I originally planned to publish the novel as a book, but I received this advice:

“It would be a lot more profitable to put that in the newspaper.”

It makes money.

In other words, people see more.

I have come to the conclusion that there is no need to publish the Legend of the Galactic Heroes as a book.

“President Cho?”

I submitted the novel directly to the Korea Daily.

At first, the Korea Daily was hesitant, but once the serialization started, it liked it.

“General, the newspaper office is getting a crazy influx of postcards.”

“okay?”

I expected it.

In the gloomy and dark era of military dictatorship, the narrative of the ‘Kaiser’ modernizing the country, bringing about a new wind, was bound to work.

The content itself was correct, even though it included a dangerous narrative that delegated everything to a superman on a white horse.

The great Kaiser in his twenties was beating up and destroying the corrupt and incompetent feudal nobility and the old social system.

And on top of that, he even brought a ‘powerful foreign country’ to its knees in war.

There was no separate treatment for stomach ailments for the imperial people.

The novel’s effects were also evident in restaurants.

“Your Majesty, may I ask you to sign the paper?”

The young officers who had been difficult for me until yesterday also felt the need to become closer to me through the novel, and they began to approach me more and more.

However, it wasn’t at a level where we could have a comfortable conversation.

While I was steadily working on the popularity of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, news arrived that the Second Ethiopian War had ended in victory for Italy.

Italy annexed Ethiopia and declared ‘victory in Africa’.

This flow was not much different from the original history.

Well, it wasn’t much different, except that the Japanese Empire was replaced by the ‘Korean Empire’.

Anyway, this would be a good title for this editorial.

‘Make the Korean Empire great again!’

Make Korea Great Again.

I pointed out that the social status of the Korean Empire was far behind that of the Western powers and presented a vision for what the empire should do to make up for it.

That first one is.

“It’s a war on crime.”

In South Korea, the so-called ‘war on crime’ was an operation to crack down on criminal organizations carried out by President Roh Tae-woo, who was facing a political crisis after his coup plan was exposed.

Regardless of the motive, Roh Tae-woo’s ‘crime organization crackdown operation’ dealt a fatal blow to organized crime in Korea.

The current Korean Empire also needed this ‘war on crime.’

If we leave alone the bastards who smuggle in drugs like heroin, which are banned nationwide, won’t we end up with toxic substances like methamphetamine spreading like they did in the Cold War in the United States?

A clean society without drugs.

It is a vision that the stupid military men who only think about war cannot come up with.

The second is.

“It’s the New Community Movement.”

Let’s send college students to rural areas that are relatively isolated from modernization to reform the consciousness of farmers and enable them to enjoy the benefits of civilization, such as water and sewage systems.

Because Korea cannot become a fully modern nation if it leaves half of its rural population in a pre-modern state.

Both the title and the content copied Park Chung-hee’s policies.

The third is.

“Make universal compulsory education up to elementary school!”

As we all know, the driving force behind Prussia becoming a powerful nation capable of causing a world war was education.

Of course, the high-ranking officials of this country, who have long advocated national education, have known the importance of education, but they have never entertained the delusion of making elementary education compulsory.

This is because Korea’s administrative power and budget did not support it.

But the circumstances of those gentlemen didn’t matter.

What does it matter if the military can’t do it?

It’s not my responsibility.

All I had to do was shout through a megaphone, ‘I am the one who presents this vision that those empty-headed bastards cannot present.’

My contribution immediately created a great stir in Korean society.

“General Lee Seong-jun’s insight is correct. This is the 10th article of the policy for Korean society (Note: Social reform plan submitted by Choi Chi-won of Silla to Queen Jinseong).”

“It’s ridiculous to see a general expressing his opinion so presumptuously about state affairs.”

Many people fought over my editorial, arguing whether it was right or wrong.

It was like spilling oil on a grill.

As the world’s reaction became more intense, there was a reaction around me as well.

“General, soldiers must maintain political neutrality. It is not good to be seen meddling in politics.”

High-ranking military officials subtly criticized my remarks.

Officers from poor rural or urban areas began to look at me with admiration, unlike before.

Well, it couldn’t be helped.

Until now, no one has advocated policies that directly affect the lives of the underprivileged and struggling lower class people in rural areas.

So it was no wonder they saw hope in me.

Now my dinner table is no longer a place where young officers are forced to attend.

As I gained ‘fans’, I started getting friends who would come and put their faces on my dinner table whenever they had a chance.

“General. I have read your last editorial carefully.”

“Was it so?”

“It was only after reading Your Majesty’s proposals for the country that I realized I had been looking at the world through the eyes of a worm.”

They sometimes showed their fandom in a burdensome way.

‘This is a complete idol lookalike.’

It’s so ridiculous that you have to become the military’s idol just to stage a coup.

Anyway, the results were good.

One third of the young officers in my division were my staunch supporters.

I don’t know because I haven’t been to other units, but judging by the atmosphere, it seemed like there would be quite a few supporters.

‘I feel like the foundation is starting to be laid.’

I felt full just watching the officers eating together.

These guys were the seed money for my coup.

‘If you build a support base and strengthen your organizational power, that’s what a similar Hanahoe is.’

But moving on to the next step was not good.

It wasn’t the time yet.

‘Because an important event is about to begin.’

The season of the Spanish Civil War, sometimes called a precursor to a world war or a mini-world war, is fast approaching.