Chapter 324 Toys

Chapter 324 Toys

Chapter 324 Toys
The middle-aged man looks to be in his early fifties, with a fair face and no beard. If you take off the pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, his appearance will directly remind people of the famous actor Liu Haizhen who played the criminal policeman Jiang Zhentai in the movie "Cooperation". Well, to describe him in one word, it's wretched.

However, despite the middle-aged man's wretched appearance, his identity is not simple. His name is Zheng Lujun, and his main position is the chairman of the Korean Committee of the United Nations Children's Fund. At the same time, he is also the executive vice president of the Korean Red Cross Committee. As for other positions, most of them are nominal, and the institutions they belong to are basically various charitable foundations.

Just looking at the various positions that Chung Yool-jun has held, we can tell that he is a big shot in the field of Korean charity and foreign aid. However, the problem now is that Chung Yool-jun has only risen rapidly in the past four or five years. In other words, he was promoted rapidly during the period when the progressives were in power. Therefore, we can see that there is more or less the shadow of the progressives behind him.

Now, the progressives have suffered a historic defeat, and Lee Min-bo, a conservative, is about to come to power. Considering that the new round of congressional elections will not begin until next year, and that conservatives have an absolute advantage in today's Congress, Lee Min-bo's next step is bound to be a major reshuffle of various government agencies.

Although the organization where Zheng Lujun works is not an important one, who can guarantee that he will not be "adjusted"? Of course, a new emperor appoints new ministers. Since the progressives have withdrawn from the core of national politics and the conservatives have begun to have the right to speak, it is reasonable for people like Zheng Lujun to stay down and stay low.

But the reality is that although the organization where Zheng Lujun works is not an important place, the interests in his hands are not small at all. Let’s not talk about other things, just take South Korea’s annual foreign aid, the so-called "ODA" grant funds, which last year amounted to 6.54 million US dollars.

Of this funding, nearly 7 percent went to the Korean Committee for UNICEF and the Red Cross. The key point is that this is only funding from the government level, and donations from the private sector are not included.

So much money flows through the hands of "Zheng Lujun" every year, can they bear not to intercept some of it? Haha, isn't that a view of human nature that is too great and glorious?
An Rushong was 100% sure that Zheng Lujun was definitely not clean. If a prosecutor intervened in the investigation, he would definitely find piles of problems with him.

If nothing unexpected happens, Zheng Lujun himself understands this, so he can't just leave office in such a disgrace, or at least he can't be driven out of office in such a disgrace. He must find a new backer, a backer who can guarantee him a worry-free retreat, so that even if he has to give up his position, he doesn't have to worry about someone following him to investigate him.

Under the current circumstances, who can be his most stable backer? Undoubtedly, he could not directly find Li Minbo, after all, his weight was not enough, so, in comparison, Bai Jinjun was the best target - he did have a good relationship with Bai Jinjun, this was a personal relationship between the two, and had nothing to do with each other's political stance.

As for the "business" that Zheng Lujun was going to give to An Rusong, it was actually very simple. As the chairman of the Korean Committee for UNICEF, Zheng Lujun gave An Rusong an order for children's toys.

The toys in this order are to be sent to Africa as part of an activity organized by UNICEF. The total amount of the order is as high as 37 billion won.

The exchange rate of the Korean won against the US dollar is still weak, but even so, if 37 billion won is converted into US dollars, it will be nearly 260 million US dollars. No matter how you look at it, this order is not small.

Most importantly, according to Zheng Lujun, the children's toys involved in this batch of orders have no specific style or specifications, and the order cycle is as long as 9 months. To put it bluntly, An Rusong can get whatever he wants, even if he sends a pile of junk, Zheng Lujun will accept it. When the order is delivered, the junk will be loaded onto the ship and shipped directly to Africa, or even thrown into the sea. Who will care where it goes?

As for Africa, in Baitto, that rotten place, it is easy to buy off a bunch of chiefs, dictators, etc. with a little money, and cooperate in the drama. The most important point is that no one will investigate such things. Some people involved are for fame, some for profit. As long as everyone gets what they want, who would bother to dig into the details? Is there really anyone who cares whether African children can play with toys?

An Rusong was not in the toy production business, nor did he own a toy factory, so this order was obviously not for him, but for his lover Sun Manzhu. It can be seen that Mr. Zheng Lujun had done a lot of homework. Of course, the person he really wanted to please was definitely not An Rusong, nor Sun Manzhu, but Bai Jinjun, who had not spoken much throughout the meal tonight.

An Rushong was very good at putting himself in the right position. He knew that the reason Zheng Lujun tried to please him was actually to express his attitude to Bai Jinjun. Therefore, even though the other party put the order in front of him, he did not express anything until Bai Jinjun spoke. It was not until Bai Jinjun asked him to take the order that he accepted the other party's "good intentions."

As for whether accepting such an order would bring trouble to himself, An Rusong was not worried at all. After all, he just accepted an order, and this order was not signed by him and the other party, and even Sun Manzhu did not need to sign with the other party. Even if someone really investigated this matter in the future, the trouble would not fall on him.

"Thank you, Uncle Jinjun," An Rusong smiled and thanked the two after receiving Bai Jinjun's clear statement, "Thank you, Uncle Lujun."

"Haha, you don't have to be so polite," Zheng Lujun laughed happily, as if the other party had given him some face by accepting the order.

"Then..." An Rusong looked at Bai Jinjun's face again, exchanged glances with him, and then stood up and said with a smile, "Uncle Lujun, you guys chat first, I'm going to the bathroom first."

His "peeing" was obviously a bit awkward, but it was to avoid the subsequent conversation between the two. It is foreseeable that in the subsequent conversation between Bai Jinjun and Zheng Lujun, there will definitely be a part where the latter needs to put down his self-esteem. As a junior, it is not appropriate for An Rusong to stay here and watch, and he also saw this meaning in the eye contact with Bai Jinjun just now. Sure enough, as he stood up, Zheng Lujun cast a grateful look at him, and Bai Jinjun said lightly: "Go."

After bowing to the two of them, An Rushong quickly left his seat and walked towards the northwest corner of the restaurant. However, the restaurant's bathroom was not there. On the contrary, the northwest corner was where the restaurant bar was.

At this time, there were not many customers in the restaurant, with only three or four tables occupied, so the waiters were not very busy.

An Rushong walked straight to the bar and paid the bill for the previous table. Then he turned his head to look at Bai Jinjun and the others. Seeing that the two were chatting about something, he put away the wallet in his hand and turned to walk towards the door of the restaurant.

Just as he was about to reach the restaurant door, Yu Yuanlong, Luo Minzhi and another young man stood up at a table not far from the restaurant door.

An Rusong walked over and pressed his palm towards Yu Yuanlong and the other young man, motioning them to sit down, and said, "Director Bai and Chairman Zheng may need to talk for a while. I'll wait in the car outside."

Yu Yuanlong understood what he meant and just nodded without saying anything more. As for Luo Minzhi, he stood up first and walked towards the restaurant entrance.

Following Luo Minzhi out of the main entrance of the restaurant, An Rushong did not go to the parking lot. He stood at the bottom of the steps in front of the restaurant, lit a cigarette for himself, and waited for Luo Minzhi to drive over.

Since yesterday, the temperature in Seoul has risen significantly. Today's maximum temperature is five degrees higher than yesterday's maximum temperature. Signs of a warm spring have already appeared.

I don’t know if I really have a cold-resistant gene, but the weather has just shown signs of warming up, and the real spring hasn’t come yet, but there are already young ladies wearing skirts and showing their thighs on the streets, and there are not just one or two of them.

But then again, it is thanks to the selfless dedication of these young ladies that the streets of Seoul in early spring feel more youthful.

An Rushong took two puffs of his cigarette and looked at a pair of girls who were talking and laughing as they passed by him with their bare white thighs. His mind couldn't help but recall the so-called "bare leg artifact" that girls in his previous life loved the most.

The so-called "bare leg artifact" is actually a kind of one-piece skin-colored stockings. An Rushong didn't know when this thing appeared, but it seemed to be very popular in the years before his rebirth. However, in Seoul today, he has never seen this thing.

Well, from a business perspective, it seems that producing this thing is very profitable, at least it is not a problem to make a profit in the short term.

When this thought flashed through his mind inexplicably, Luo Minzhi happened to drive over. As the car stopped in front of him, An Rusong collected his thoughts. He stretched out his hand to open the car door, shaking his head and laughing.

I don't know what has influenced him, but he has been thinking about making money from time to time recently. But in fact, he is not short of money.

Could it be that he was influenced by Han Mi-yeon?

Thinking of Han Meiyan, An Rushong couldn't help but think of the meeting between that woman and Li Fuzhen. He didn't know whether the meeting between the two could produce a good result.

(End of this chapter)