Just Walking Makes You a Millionaire - Chapter 200



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◈ 200. Sino-Japanese War (3)

When all the surrounding countries entered a state of war, the Korean government and people were going crazy and jumping for joy.

I was gripped by anxiety, not knowing when missiles and shells might fly over the Korean Peninsula.

Of course, North Korea has been launching dozens of missiles and shells every year, but most South Korean men who have served in the military can see that this is a completely different matter.

“You crazy guys!”

“Ha! It hasn’t even been a few days since the mobilization order ended!”

It was South Korea that declared martial law and mobilization due to the sudden unification with North Korea.

Now that the country seemed to be stabilizing, everyone was paralyzed with fear that they might be drafted into the military again.

North Korea knows that it is only a threat even though it launches missiles and shells every time, but South Koreans know very well that China and Japan fight with real cannons based on past precedents.

For Koreans, who have always been caught between continental and maritime powers, it was inevitable that they would feel nervous.

Meanwhile, a rumor started to spread.

“Did you hear that?”

“What now?”

“No. They said that if you get married and have children, you might not be called up for mobilization.”

“What the heck… Really?”

“They say the marriage rate in North Korea has exploded.”

“really?”

“They say that more than 200,000 couples got married. They say that if you get married and have children, you won’t be dragged into battle.”

Although the chronology of the results was wrong, it was true that North Korea’s marriage rate had risen dramatically.

There was also the reason that a large number of North Korean soldiers who had been discharged returned home, and the reason that reservists from the South settled in North Korea and married North Korean women.

It wasn’t that they got married because they didn’t want to go to the military, but when the situation became like this, single men and women started to get impatient.

When all living things feel a direct threat to their lives, their desire to reproduce becomes stronger.

Although society did not collapse, South Korean society also changed completely in a few years.

Basic service industries and various high-tech service businesses have collapsed.

The gaming industry and various entertainment businesses are in decline, and the Internet is not easy to use.

Because I was in a situation where I had to do anything to survive, I didn’t have the energy to use social media or online communities.

Clearly, society was regressing.

Politically, it has also become somewhat dictatorial.

In the face of the problem of survival, freedom was close to a luxury, so not being able to endure the irrationality of society meant immediate elimination.

At first, there were concerns that young people would not be able to survive in such an oppressive society.

But humans are animals of adaptation.

The social atmosphere itself became so rigid that it could not even be compared to the past, and people wanted to move in unison.

Most of the young people who lost their jobs had to return to their parents’ homes to survive.

Seoul is no longer a city with abundant jobs.

“Get married.”

“Mom! How old am I?”

“Then you’ll be drafted into the army? If there’s a war, everyone, regardless of gender, will be drafted. Your age is the problem now!”

Not only men but also women felt the direct threat to their survival.

People who already have nursing licenses were called up even though they were not working at hospitals.

Of course, it was a temporary mobilization order to improve the poor health environment in North Korea, but even those with teaching licenses were deployed to teach at schools in North Korea, so a significant number of those with various national licenses moved to North Korea.

With the shortage of labor, women might have to work in large numbers in military factories, so in order to remain in the safe rear, they had to get married and have children.

“Can’t you go abroad?”

“You sound like you’re from abroad. Where in the world is that? Do you think you can go out like you used to if you want?”

“Then who should I marry?”

“We’ve found a few good people. Let’s meet them and get married.”

“Ah! This isn’t the Joseon Dynasty!”

“Hey! You bitch! Do you think my dad and I got married in the Joseon Dynasty? We all got married like that thirty or forty years ago!”

In fact, the history of love marriage is not that long.

It was only after we entered the modern society of abundance and affluent conditions that love marriages became widespread.

And such free love marriages have led to low marriage rates and high divorce rates, which has led to low birth rates in most Western countries.

Of course, this social atmosphere was not right.

Humans were beings with free will and life was for happiness.

But humans were also animals, and their instincts were stronger than we thought.

Those with strong wills tried to resist the oppression of society that tried to crush them, but the majority had no choice but to follow.

The social climate, along with the survival instinct, began to encourage mass marriage and childbirth.

Ironically, this baby boom occurred not only in Korea, but also in China, Japan, and the Northeast Asian region.

Of course, this baby boom in the midst of war was one of the results that created the terrible tragedy after the war, but South Korea had the productivity to feed these increasing children.

“Society is regressing.”

Jincheol believed that he could make the world a better place with his abilities.

But that was arrogance.

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“China is said to be a communist country despite having the most capitalist national character. Japan is said to be individualistic despite having the most collectivist national character. Korea is said to be the most communist despite living in a capitalist society.”

Jincheol now looked at Jaewoo, who had wrinkles around his eyes.

“I don’t know about China or Japan, but Korea is turning into a communist country these days.”

“That’s right. It’s about to change to a rationing system. Anyway, congratulations.”

The reason Jae-woo congratulated Jin-cheol was because it was part of the government’s food distribution plan.

In North Korea as well as in South Korea, a rationing system was planned to be implemented to address food shortages.

If the food situation stabilized, the rationing system would be discontinued, but it was not known when this would stabilize.

The wealthy didn’t mind, but the situation was so bad that even the poor and common people had to fight a war to secure food.

It was to the point where there was even talk that the number of women digging for mugwort and other wild greens in the fields was increasing.

As importing food from overseas became more difficult, Jincheol’s influence grew.

Of course, the government was still purchasing rice and some other crops, so there was no room for Jincheol to interfere, but flour, seafood, and various other crops had already been transferred from existing distribution companies to Jincheol’s Footsteps Food Distribution.

As the proportion of overseas imports distributed by Jincheol’s footsteps group increased, the government even decided to transfer its barely surviving food distribution network to the footsteps distribution group.

In normal circumstances, he would never have tried to monopolize the business, but he decided to hand it over to Jincheol because he judged the situation to be too bad.

Since Jincheol had taken control of the supply of seeds and seedlings, if they tried to disband the Balgeul Group, this year’s farming could be put at risk.

The government was not confident that it could handle the millions of people starving to death.

Fortunately, the domestic situation was more stable than overseas thanks to Jincheol contributing to price stability without maximizing profitability.

Nevertheless, the Footsteps Group, which would not have been ranked among the largest companies in the world when things were normal, is now one of the largest companies in South Korea in terms of size, sales, and net profit.

And its size continued to grow.

In fact, it could be said that it was feeding not only the people of South Korea but also all the people of neighboring countries.

“But the dollars I had were reduced to scraps of paper.”

“Well, there’s nothing we can do about it. The US has already declared a moratorium on payments on dollars.”

Although natural disasters have severely disrupted U.S. agricultural production, the United States remains the world’s largest producer of food.

At least there was enough food to feed all of North America.

The Chinese government wanted to buy food with the astronomical amount of foreign currency it had, but the U.S. government refused and declared a moratorium on payments on dollars.

And the remaining food was sent to Europe.

Although Asia was very important to the United States, it was not more important than Europe.

Europe was not spared from the economic crisis either.

Rather, the economic damage in Europe, which had placed great emphasis on the financial industry, was much greater, with many companies going bankrupt and citizens losing their jobs.

As the entire Europe became a gigantic refugee camp, the U.S. government also had to provide support for the reconstruction of Europe.

And, above all, the Haze virus epidemic was spreading quite widely in Europe.

Although the world was still trading and interacting, block formation was inevitably taking place as in the past.

“The most important thing now is war.”

“Yes. War, the most tragic disaster ever created by humans.”

“Can you stop it?”

“no.”

Jincheol sighed at the fact that it would be difficult to prevent the war in East Asia even with cash-up.

The crisis alarm has already sounded several times.

And Jincheol used the points he had.

But the alarm continued to ring, as if those who had a desire to gain something through war had no intention of giving up.

Thanks to the points Jincheol had spent, it seemed like the Republic of Korea where Jincheol was would not be engulfed in the flames of war for the time being.

Neither the Korean government nor the Korean people had any intention of being caught up in a war that had nothing to do with them.

“In China….”

“what?”

“I decided to sell food to China.”

“Is that so?”

“And we decided to sell supplies to Japan as well.”

“uh?”

“Whew! A war special is about to occur.”

The South Korean government declared neutrality in the war in East Asia and eagerly sold war supplies to both sides.

Even the failing conglomerates had no intention of missing this critical opportunity, so they began building large-scale factories in the North Korean region.

Just as Japan had become the world’s second largest economy thanks to the Korean War, Korea also seemed intent on enjoying the benefits of the Sino-Japanese War.

It was a pretty precarious tightrope walk, but if done well, it might be possible to establish a new order in East Asia.

China and Japan were secretly angry at Korea’s intentions, but if Korea sided with one side, the result would be undesirable for either country.

Although South Korea is said to be struggling with the North Korea issue, it is still called the world’s military factory.

I never wanted to think that the powerful weapons pouring out of those munitions factories would be directed against my own country.

Moreover, as the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the Korean government was secretly creating an atmosphere that its country had nuclear weapons.

Since it was impossible to be unilaterally attacked by nuclear weapons, the South Korean government’s possession of nuclear weapons was almost a fait accompli.

Of course, Japan could also produce nuclear weapons in a short period of time, so if a nuclear war broke out, East Asia could become a dead land for decades, or perhaps even hundreds of years.

So Korea was making money on top of a strange tension.

Of course, in East Asia, the won, not the dollar, which has become a scrap of paper, was traded as a quasi-reserve currency.

In addition, Jincheol’s wealth was also increasing, although it was not in the military industry.

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