Chapter 355 Celebration Banquet

Cui Shizhong?
A man's name appeared in Bai Jinjun's mouth. According to him, this guy will be the first chairman of the "Broadcasting and Communications Commission" to be established.

This person's name rarely appears in news media reports, and even in Korean media reports, this person is almost invisible. However, don't think that this person rarely appears in the media, and he is an insignificant existence. In fact, among the people gathered around Li Minbo, Cui Shizhong's status is even higher than Bai Jinjun, because the former has established contact with Li Minbo since a long time ago. He can even be said to be Li Minbo's "political mentor". The reason why Li Minbo was able to enter politics and succeed in his first battle was definitely due to Cui Shizhong.

When Bai Jinjun said the name Cui Shizhong, An Rushong was really dazed for a while before he connected this name with a shriveled old man in his mind.

He was indeed an old man, 71 years old this year. To put it bluntly, he was a man with dirt all over his head. But even such a person was still pulled out by Lee Min-bo and appointed as the first chairman of the "Broadcasting and Communications Commission".

It can be predicted that the establishment of the "Communications Commission" will not be peaceful. In the following years, or even during Lee Min-bo's entire term as president, this agency will be the core of the public opinion storm. An old man who is already lying in a coffin can be placed in such an important position by Lee Min-bo under pressure, and the other party can accept such an appointment. From this point alone, we can judge how close the relationship between Lee Min-bo and Choi Shi-jung is.

After ending the call with Bai Jinjun, An Rushong looked at the screen of his mobile phone. It was already six o'clock in the afternoon, and there was less than an hour left before the celebratory dinner was to begin.

After turning off the computer he had just opened, An Rusong stood up, picked up his phone and called Han Meiyan while walking out of the computer room. He had to take a shower first, then change into decent clothes and rush to Bai Jinjun's mansion as soon as possible.

The call was connected quickly, and it felt like Han Meiyan, the woman, was waiting for his call.

"How is it, did you get the inside information?" Han Meiyan's impatient voice came from the other end of the line as soon as the call was connected. Come to think of it, the establishment of this "Broadcasting and Communications Commission" is really closely related to her personal interests. If this committee can support her, then at least she can easily get the copyrights of TV dramas and variety shows in the hands of several public TV stations, and even the price will be very favorable.

"Master Cui," An Rushong said concisely.

"Choi Shi-jung?" As expected, this name was unfamiliar to Han Meiyan. She asked in surprise, "The first chairman of the 'Japan Broadcasting and Communications Commission' was this man named Choi Shi-jung. What did he do?"

"A man for whom women have no effect," An Rushong said as he walked out of the machine room and to the door of the bathroom in the living room. He reached out and turned on the light in the bathroom, jokingly saying so.

"Oh, is he someone who likes money?" Han Meiyan asked.

"He's an old guy in his seventies," An Rusong said with a smile, "If I remember correctly, he was born in 37. People of this age may not be interested in money anymore."

"Do you know him?" Han Meiyan asked.

"We've met twice, but we haven't spoken," An Rusong replied. "Don't worry, I'll contact him later. Although we're not familiar with this old guy, he's much better than Li Yuanjun and his men in charge."

"That's true," Han Meiyan was silent for a few seconds and said in agreement.

After a brief chat, An Rushong hung up the phone, took a hot shower as quickly as possible, woke up the Yuanhe sisters who were still sleeping soundly, and then called Luo Minzhi who had been staying in the tea room in the side wing, and went straight to Bai Jinjun's villa.

At around seven o'clock, in the courtyard of Bai Jinjun's villa, a black Mercedes-Benz business car slowly parked in a specially reserved parking space in the parking lot according to the instructions of the parking attendant. When An Rusong got out of the car, he saw Bai Jinjun, who was wearing a white suit, chatting enthusiastically with three or five people at the main entrance of the villa.

In order to host this celebration dinner, Bai Jinjun obviously spent a lot of thought, just hired a lot of service staff, and renovated the huge courtyard villa, which looked brand new everywhere. In fact, for Bai Jinjun now, his life and career have indeed undergone a brand new change. The politicians he supported and followed have successfully taken control of the entire Korean political power. If his efforts in the past few years are regarded as an investment, then now is the time to collect the return, and the return rate of this investment will be surprisingly high.

Walking out of the parking lot with Luo Minzhi, An Rusong walked straight towards the main entrance of the villa. When he was about 20 meters away from Bai Jinjun and others, the latter had already seen him, so the five or six people who had originally gathered together turned their eyes to him.

An Rushong could call out almost all the names of the people gathered around him at the moment. For example, the youngest one among them was Li Donghyung, the nephew of Li Minbo and son of Li Xiangde; the middle-aged man with a big forehead, who still looked wretched despite wearing a pair of glasses, was Park Yuanci, the chairman of Taekwang Industrial; the thinnest and shortest one among them was Park Xitai, the current member of parliament; the guy standing next to Park Xitai, with a face like a dead tree and no expression, was also a current member of parliament, and his name was Xu Qingyuan.

To be honest, An Rushong felt it was a bit strange that these people gathered together, or that these people could appear at today's celebration dinner, because many of them held different positions from Li Minbo's.

Just like Park Won-chul, his Taekwang Industrial is a shoe-making company with a very large scale. Of course, this is not important. What is important is that this person has a very close relationship with the former President Roh. The reason why his Taekwang Industrial has grown so big today is closely related to the strong support of the previous two Presidents Kim and Roh.

In the Korean political circle, President Kim and President Roh can be seen as a political group that succeeded each other, representing the progressive position. Regardless of what kind of relationship they have with the old chaebols in Korea, in general, during the tenure of these two presidents, restricting chaebols was one of their political slogans. In order to show this, the various measures they took included supporting new enterprises.

Using new chaebols to restrict and squeeze old chaebols is the idea of the progressives. Judging from Park Won-chul's case, their move seems to have been successful.

But who would have thought that Park Won-chil would also be present at today's dinner held to celebrate Lee Min-bo's official coming to power.

There was also the expressionless congressman Xu Qingyuan, who looked as if everyone in the world owed him millions. Although this guy was also a member of the National Assembly of the Grand National Party and belonged to the same party as Lee Min-bo, the person he really supported was another big boss in the party, Miss Park, and he was also the core figure of Miss Park's faction.

Now, with Lee Min-bo officially winning the election as the new president, the Park and Lee factions seem to have reached a reconciliation, but in fact, the open and covert struggles between the two sides have never stopped, and the contradictions between them have never weakened. It is just that the Grand National Party has become the ruling party, which has temporarily covered up the contradictions. Therefore, it is surprising enough that Xu Qingyuan can be present at today's dinner.

As for the identity of Congressman Park Hee-tae, there is nothing unusual about it. He is a staunch supporter of Lee Min-bok. In the previous presidential election, he served as the chairman of the campaign strategy committee within the Grand National Party. Lee Min-bok's victory is closely related to his support.

However, this congressman Park Hee-tae has a serious "widow's disease", so he has a bad reputation. The most important thing is that this guy is not only not picky about sex, but also does not distinguish between occasions. The reason why the word "vulgar" is not used to describe him is because "vulgar" despises him for being too vulgar. Among the short movies collected by An Rusong, there are some plays starring this person.

The distance of more than twenty meters was quickly crossed. During this process, An Rushong had already gone through the identities of the people present and figured out how to greet them.

"Rusong, you're finally here." When he came closer, it was Bai Jinjun who spoke first. He took the lead in extending his hand to An Rusong and said with a smile, "I thought you were going to be late today."

An Rusong stretched out his hands and shook hands with the other party, then smiled and said, "I dressed up specially before coming here, which took some time."

After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Xu Qingyuan, bowed and said, "Councilor Xu, it's our second time meeting, and you still look so energetic."

This was indeed the second time An Rushong met Xu Qingyuan. The last time he saw the old guy, he was scolding someone. Well, he was scolding Park Xitai's work assistant, a guy named Kim Hyo-jae. Now, this guy named Kim Hyo-jae is the chief secretary of the Blue House Political Affairs Office just appointed by Lee Min-bo.

There was a clear teasing tone in An Rusong's words, but the person he was teasing was not Xu Qingyuan, but Jin Xiaozai. The reason why he teased this person who was not present was because Xu Qingyuan must have some opinions about him, and at the same time, Bai Jinjun's relationship with this person was also quite tense - both of them were chief secretaries of a certain office in the Blue House, and there must be a competitive relationship between them, so it was impossible for them to have a harmonious relationship with each other.

(End of this chapter)

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