Black Corporation: Joseon - Chapter 1
Black Enterprise Chosun – ⓒ A miscellaneous
fanatic who is crazy about all kinds of things such as Gukppong, military, steampunk, etc. has been reincarnated.
But your father is King Sejong?
A monarch who is good at virtue, a son who is crazy about virtue,
ministers who are divided, and countless people.
Even today, the night of Joseon is filled with the lights of overtime.
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[ Prologue. ]
Prologue.
“… So let this matter be decided as we just decided.”
“I understand, Your Majesty.”
“I’m getting hungry for this. “Let’s have a quick bite to eat and then gather again after this meeting.”
“… I understand. majesty.”
[The officer speaks.]
Ching! Sigh!
[His love for his people is the greatest of all time.]
Ching! Sigh!
[He takes care to ensure that even mere slaves do not overwork, so the virtue of his clothes is like the spring sunshine.]
Ching! Sigh!
[But the subjects do not receive that kind of spring sunlight, so how can they mourn…]
“Officer? “Are you cursing me now?”
“No! majesty!”
“But what are you playing for so long?”
“God’s hands are still slow…”
“Really? Should I send you back to the administrative training center?”
“I’ll do my best and play quickly!”
“We’ll see about you.”
“I am devastated….”
[ Prologue. ] End
ⓒ Gukbbong
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[Episode 1 He is Gwangdeok. ]
Episode 1 He is Gwangdeok.
It is often said.
The virtue of virtue is called good virtue.
However, there is one person higher than Yangdeok, and he is Gwangdeok.
* * *
On the outskirts of Gasan-ri, Yangsan-si, Gyeongsangnam-do.
Bang, pound, pound! Cheek!
Jinho put the metal he had beaten with a spring hammer into the water. Steam rose up along with a loud noise.
Jinho took out the cooled iron from the water, examined its condition, and nodded.
“It’s well made.”
After checking the condition, Jinho put the iron in his hand back into the oven.
* * *
“hey! Brother! What are you making again this time?”
“uh? older brother! “Are you here?”
Jinho, who was busy moving between the oven and the machine tool, was delighted when he saw the person who found him.
“What are you making?”
“I was making sashimi that was ordered.”
“sashimi?”
When his cousin made a strange expression, Jinho quickly added.
“Sashimi knife! This was ordered by someone who runs a Japanese restaurant in Seoul! “I told you not to show your professionalism at any time!”
My cousin Kim Byeong-ho’s occupation was a detective.
At Jinho’s explanation, Byeongho’s expression relaxed.
“okay? “I guess you make a lot of money by taking orders?”
In response to Byeongho’s question, he wiped his nose with his finger and smiled.
“I’m somehow making a living.”
“Is that so… let’s take a look somewhere.”
“Now we just have the shape.”
“Hmm….” Byeong-
ho, who was still examining the red-hot metal in the shape of a sashimi knife, raised his head and looked around.
“Just sort things out and live.”
“yeah.”
“I’m good at answering questions. The answer is….”
Byeong-ho, who was giving Jin-ho a treat and looking around, his eyes lit up when he saw the knife in a wooden box covered with a soft cloth.
“hey. “It looks like this half moon has its blade turned upside down.”
Byeong-ho, who saw the kukri for the first time, pointed out to Jin-ho that he had set the blade incorrectly. At Byeong-ho’s words, Jin-ho’s expression changed strangely.
“What? “What about that face?”
“… That’s a kukri, and that’s how it was originally made.”
“… Is that so? It was so strange that I ate it. “What country is this sword from?”
“Nepal.”
“I guess the people in that country have very unique personalities.”
Jinho, who thought for a moment about what Byeongho’s words meant, shook his head.
“Try saying that in front of Nepalese people. “You’re going to roll me off the top of Everest right now?”
“I’m doing it because there isn’t one. By the way, is it because of that Kukri or something knife that called me?”
“yes. “Please make me a permit to possess a sword.”
Byeong-ho, who was measuring the size of the kukri, nodded at Jin-ho’s words.
“Looking at the size, I guess I’ll need it. “But why do you need a knife?”
“I want to participate in a competition held in the United States.”
“Competition?”
In response to Byeong-ho’s short question, Jin-ho manipulated the tablet he had left aside and showed the video. After watching the video, Byeong-ho clicked his tongue.
“Tsk. If possible, it would have been good to make a Joseon Hwando or a traditional sword…”
“There were noblemen who brought out a katana and were eliminated because the sword was bent, and do you know that there are one or two who were eliminated because the sword broke? Although Chosun Hwando and Wado are sharp, they are not tough. “Heavy and tough knives are best for competitions like that.”
“Is that so? I get it. “I’ll prepare the documents and bring them.”
* * *
A few days later.
“Now here are the documents and cards.”
“Thank you.”
Byeong-ho, who was looking around while handing the documents and IC card to Jin-ho, fixed his eyes on one place.
“What is that again?”
“what?”
“That one. that!”
A flintlock rifle was standing where Byeongho pointed.
“ah! That one? I received an order asking if I could make it in a foreign country, so I made it. “Reinactor was ordered by people who cosplayed during the American Revolutionary War and staged mock battles.”
“Hmm…”
Byeong-ho listened to Jin-ho’s explanation with one ear and held the rifle in his hand, examining it carefully.
Byeong-ho, who was examining the percussion unit, looked back at Jin-ho.
“Is this the gun? “It used to be used in the American Revolutionary War with Mel Gibson?”
“yes. “It’s a Kentucky rifle.”
“Why do you make guns for American kids?”
“It looks like the number of craftsmen has decreased a lot there too. And the guns I have are almost like treasures…”
“So you made them?”
Jinho nodded to Byeongho’s question.
“At first, we only made one bag, but if the evaluation is good, we will be able to export 5 to 10 bags every year. “If you do well, you can earn around 2,000 to 3,000 won.”
“Hmm…”
Jin-ho added while observing Byeong-ho’s reaction.
“So, starting with this case, I need some documents…”
“Do I have to do it again?”
“Please do me a favor. If everything goes well, I’ll make a big deal later…”
“I’m good at speaking.”
In contrast to his grumpy voice, Byeong-ho looked at the Kentucky rifle with a serious face. Byeong-ho pulled the trigger, which did not have a flint, and pulled the trigger.
click!
“Hoo? Are you moving properly? Hmm… Is the muzzle originally this small?”
“no. “It prevents gunpowder from entering but bullets from entering.”
“Hmm…”
While listening to the explanation and examining the barrel of the gun, Byeong-ho discovered a small incontinence about 1cm away from the muzzle.
Byeong-ho, who was carefully examining the incontinence, held the gun barrel tightly and pulled the top of the incontinence.
Pong!
With a small sound, the muzzle separated from the barrel, and Byeong-ho looked inside the muzzle.
Six rows of steel wire were entangled in a fascinating coil.
After checking the steel wire, Byeong-ho grabbed Jin-ho by the collar.
“You fucking bastard! They say it’s a prop! “Why are you selling steel wire for props?”
“If you’re going to make something, you have to do it right to meet the customer’s needs….”
“I heard your customers film some kind of snuff film! You bastard! You came here to take advantage of me at a time like this! “Call me Kabachi!”
“I’m saying no….”
“You bastard!”
“It was in the requirements! So that it can be used in case of an unexpected situation….”
“What kind of bullshit are humans living in a country where even more vicious things abound as soon as they step over the threshold!”
After a long period of fighting, Byeong-ho and Jin-ho reached an agreement to firmly attach the stopper to the barrel of the already-made rifle by electric welding and to add the following phrase to the related product information posted on Amazon.
-According to the laws of the manufacturing country, it has been decided that live ammunition cannot be used in the muzzle area.
“Unfortunately…”
“Use!”
Jin-ho, who could not hide his regret, became a turtle when Byeong-ho rolled his eyes. Byeong-ho stuttered through the advertisement that Jin-ho posted on Amazon and asked a question.
“You said you were making it with a historical replica, but are you making it with the same ingredients?”
“No way. “If you make the barrel, which is the most important material, from scratch using the old method, the price has to have an extra 0 added to the end.”
“I guess so.”
While they were talking like that, an old woman came into Jinho’s blacksmith shop.
“Do you have a blacksmith bachelor?”
“welcome!”
“These are seed potatoes. Please store them in the warehouse.”
“yes. All right.”
Jinho, who received a box of seed potatoes from the old woman, put them in a separate storage room behind the blacksmith shop.
When the old woman returned, Byeong-ho looked at Jin-ho with a new expression.
“I guess you’re friendly with the local elders?”
“Well, we are helping each other with this and that.”
“But why are you using your warehouse?”
“Some children are sensitive to the chemicals used in the blacksmith shop, so I had to be careful when building the warehouse. Thanks to this, it is easy to store seeds and fertilizers, so many people use it.”
“okay? Let’s see where we go.”
“What are you trying to see again?”
“So…”
As Byeong-ho’s expression became sharper, Jin-ho, who had become a ruler, guided Byeong-ho to the separately built warehouses behind the blacksmith shop.
After seeing the piles of steel plates in the first warehouse, Byeong-ho looked back at Jin-ho.
“There’s quite a lot of scrap metal, right?”
“Spring steel is the best for making knives and other things. Thanks to that, I became a regular at the junkyard.”
“Is that so? “Try opening other warehouses as well.”
“… all right.”
At Byeong-ho’s urging, Jin-ho opened a second warehouse.
Byeong-ho entered the cool warehouse and looked at the items inside, glaring at Jin-ho.
“Why do you need chemicals like that in a blacksmith shop?”
“It is needed when additional work is done, such as etching decoration.”
“Did you purchase it normally?”
“Can you show me the receipt? “It’s true… I don’t think anyone would be a detective by profession.”
Despite Jin-ho’s protests, Byeong-ho’s eyes were fierce.
“If you have an accident, you will be in my hands.”
“Oh, no accidents!”
“The guy who makes homemade guns?”
“….”
After giving Jin-ho a warning, Byeong-ho turned around and sniffed and grumbled.
“Which house is it? “It smells like this because of how much fertilizer was applied…”
“My field.”
“huh? “Do you even work in the fields now?”
“Hahaha…”
Hearing Jinho’s strange laughter, Byeongho’s expression became sharp again and he looked at the field. Half of the field, which was approximately 500 pyeong in size, had solar panels installed, and the other half was covered with manure.
Byeong-ho, who was observing the composition, looked directly at Jin-ho’s face.
“The least useful thing about your personality is that you can’t lie. “It’s definitely not a field for farming, but what is the field used for?”
“That’s… Cho-jeon….”
“Cho-jeon?”
“I was thinking of making some potassium nitrate…”
“Why potassium nitrate?”
“I need some black powder to make sure the Kentucky rifle is made properly, but black powder is hard to come by…”
“You bastard! “This is outside the scope of Kava!”
Byeong-ho, whose face turned white at Jin-ho’s answer that went beyond his expected range, grabbed Jin-ho by the collar and screamed.
The reason Byeongho turned white was not simply because he made gunpowder.
* * *
Three days before Byeong-ho found Jin-ho, someone from the National Intelligence Service came to visit Byeong-ho and his colleagues.
The reason the NIS agent came was regarding the ‘domestic activities of an Islamic terrorist organization.’
“Since Osama was eliminated, Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organizations have been operating independently. Currently, in the case of our country, no organization has been discovered, but it can be considered to be at a very dangerous level. The reason is that a significant number of illegal workers from Pakistan and Southeast Asian Muslim countries are working illegally.”
According to the National Intelligence Service’s explanation, the situation was truly nasty.
Most workers who were employed illegally were frequently subjected to overtime work and even assaults on non-payment of wages.
As things went on like this, the number of illegal immigrants with hostility toward Koreans and Korea was increasing, and the possibility of a home-grown terrorist organization being created around them was increasing.
“…Thanks to you, these days, I can’t tell if I’m an investigator from the National Intelligence Service or the Employment and Labor Office. Every day is spent trying to collect and return the unpaid wages of illegally employed workers and collect medical expenses for those injured in industrial accidents. Even if we expel them, we must eliminate any ill feelings.”
After complaining for a moment, the NIS agent got to the point.
“The reason I met you all is because of the special nature of Yangsan.”
“There are almost no factories in Yangsan where illegal immigrants can work?”
When one of the detectives attending the meeting pointed this out, the National Intelligence Service agent nodded.
“you’re right. But there are many farms around. “These days, other sources of demand for illegally entered workers are these agricultural and livestock complexes.”
The detectives nodded in response to the National Intelligence Service agent’s answer. Farming was hard, but livestock farming was really hard work.
The NIS agent cleared his throat and displayed several slides on the screen.
“The photos you are seeing are the sites of several bombings, including the Oklahoma bombing. What is important here is the material for explosives, which are the main tools of terrorism. There have been examples of using actual military or civilian explosives, but there are also many cases of using materials available on the market. In this case, the most useful material is nitrogen fertilizer. “If you mix nitrogen fertilizer with things like diesel, kerosene, or lubricants in the right amount, it becomes an excellent explosive.”
“Hmm…”
The faces of the detectives sitting around turned serious as the NIS agent explained. Nitrogen fertilizer was in abundance in farms around Yangsan City.
“Of course, nitrogen fertilizer is not only available in Yangsan. However, to the east of Yangsan is Busan and to the west is Changwon. “If you obtain a detonator from the Russian mafia in Busan or make it yourself, then take a truck loaded with explosives to the Changwon defense complex and detonate it, a fatal situation will occur.”
The detectives nodded with serious faces at the NIS agent’s explanation.
Farmers and agricultural material stores on the outskirts of Yangsan were overflowing with fertilizers, and fuel tanks full of fuel for use in greenhouses and other agricultural facilities, as well as lubricants for use in agricultural machinery, were also commonly lying around. Not only that, 1-ton trucks were also common.
Lastly, they had also heard rumors that there were quite a few people who brought in Pakistanis and other Southeast Asians to farm or raise livestock, and that they were making them work quite hard.
Sensing that the detectives were aware of the seriousness, the NIS agent began to finish.
“The National Intelligence Service has asked for your cooperation not only to monitor illegally employed foreigners, but also to monitor gangsters in Yangsan City. According to an investigation by the National Intelligence Service, brokers who help undocumented immigrants find jobs are connected to organized crime groups, and organized crime groups are also involved in preventing and managing the escape of employed foreigners. We would like to ask you to focus on managing this area. “It is very important for national security.”
[Episode 1 He is Gwangdeok.] End
ⓒ Gukppong
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