Chapter 373 Currency War (9)
A cafe in a quiet and small town.
This place, run by one of the owners as a hobby, was so quiet that it was hard to find customers because everything from the interior decoration to the menu, music, and drinks had a rustic, old-fashioned feel.
However, since it was such a cafe, Jaeyoung loved it more than anyone else.
“A cup of hot chocolate and a cup of Americano, Grandpa.”
“Yes….? what?”
The grandfather who was dozed off and listened to Jaeyoung’s words and barely took the order. He managed to make a drink, then turned around and began to doze off, seemingly not interested.
“What is it that you came to see me in such a hurry? Why don’t you just call me into the company?”
Jae-young asks with a puzzled face while handing over hot chocolate. And in front of him was CEO Lee Mi-yeon, wearing glasses and drinking a drink with a very tired face.
“Do you know how strangely the employees around me look at me when I call student Jaeyoung to the president’s office separately? There are a lot of really ridiculous rumors going around.”
Lee Mi-yeon’s secret friend.
Because of this strange and impure rumor, Jae-young appears at the company, and all the employees look at her with interest and curiosity and gossip. He came to see Jaeyoung himself.
“Besides, it is better to keep this matter strictly confidential. If you get entangled and get caught up in a strange gossip, it will be quite painful for me and student Jaeyoung.”
President Lee Mi-yeon muttered with an annoyed face and took another sip of hot chocolate. Then she looked down at the glass in surprise and murmured.
“By the way, does this taste better than I thought? It’s nice that there are no people at all… The music is a little childish and the facilities are very old, but it’s perfect for a secret meeting.”
President Lee Mi-yeon, who was distracted by something strange (?). Seeing her talk to herself, Jaeyoung interrupted and asked to stop talking nonsense.
“So… what the hell was your urgent need to come all this way? What else is going on in Arcadia?”
Jae-Young, who has a history of killing the Pope along with the Holy Empire at her request to prevent the destruction of Arcadia. That’s why he made an anxious expression, asking what was going on again, but he couldn’t hide his embarrassment at the words of President Lee Mi-yeon.
“ah. That’s it….. Student Jaehyung, by any chance, how much money do you have?”
“yes….?”
Arcadia Co., Ltd. is a global company and earns hundreds of trillion won a month. Jae-young put on a bewildered expression for a moment because he didn’t even think that the general manager of such a huge company would ask with a face as if he was asking how much money he could lend.
“ah. sorry. I must have misunderstood the question a bit. It wasn’t real money, it was how much gold you had in Arcadia.”
“Gold…?”
“yes.”
“Hmm… honestly, I don’t know.”
After thinking about it for a while, Jaeyoung gave the answer that he didn’t know. That would be the case, and the goods he possessed in the game were so enormous that he could not even dare to estimate them.
“About 100 million gold or more if you look purely at gold. But other than that, there are a lot of miscellaneous things. There is also a 9th circle magic book, and gold bars, all kinds of jewels, magic materials, and things like mana stones…? Well, other than that, there are mountains of equipment of various grades, but I’m not sure how much it will be if you put all of them together.”
Jaeyoung, who killed the red dragon Kervenian in the past Beylan Incident.
As the highest dragon who has lived for more than 9,500 years, close to the dragon’s lifespan of 10,000 years, he has accumulated enormous wealth by robbing countless goods over the long years of his life. He is older than the current Dragon Lord, Goldrian. However, due to his greedy and greedy nature, he couldn’t even get the position of a road and became an old man in the back room.
Jae-young monopolizes the greedy old lizard’s rare as a reward. At his words, CEO Lee Mi-yeon asked quietly with her eyes sparkling.
“Are you thinking of exchanging some gold for cash?”
“yes….? Why all of a sudden…?”
Jae-young is taken aback by President Lee Mi-yeon’s sudden request to come to her and cash in the gold stored in the dragon rare. However, he was able to understand the reason while listening to President Lee Mi-yeon’s explanation of the fierce currency war taking place in complicated and profound international diplomacy and politics.
“So… you mean that the Chinese government is trying to artificially raise the market value of gold to show that gold is too unstable to function as a currency? That way, it maintains the influence of its currency, the yuan, and at the same time, fucks the company and the United States.”
“In addition, they will try to make a profit by selling gold at an increased price.”
President Lee Mi-yeon adds to Jae-young’s words with a serious expression. However, Jaeyoung pondered for a while and then spoke as if he was in trouble.
“But I don’t really need that much money, do I?”
Through the project called Glory of the Past with Jaekyun in the past, he ambitiously revived the league of legends in virtual reality and received royalties from Arcadia.
As a result, Jae-young had never thought of exchanging the gold in the game for cash, as he was receiving payments ranging from several million won to 10 million won every month. He has a simple and frugal personality who doesn’t want too much in the first place. However, CEO Lee Mi-yeon muttered softly with a subtle face at Jae-young’s words.
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
“that….?”
“Do Jaehyung students know this phrase?”
“Of course I know. Isn’t that the famous line of the spider man?”
With great power comes great responsibility. Citing a phrase from a cartoon that is loved by many people around the world, President Lee Mi-yeon persuaded Jae-young again.
“Of course, I know that Jaeyoung has no reason or obligation to do so. But if you can save countless lives and lives through it, would you still be so hesitant?”
“…is this going that far?”
Her story seems like too much to ask to cash in the gold in the game. However, Jaeyoung was able to realize the reason from the situation on the main bulletin board of Arpendia shown by President Lee Mi-yeon.
– All property is ruined! life is one room. Mo or do. Gaza!!!!!!
-Let’s eat only 10 times! Only 10 times! Rejoice everyone!
-Yeoong~ Tea! Yeo~ Tea!
– Investment is an opportunity. Don’t miss out on the best opportunity of your life!
– Guaranteed lowest interest rates. expedited loans. Even housewives with bad credit can get a loan immediately.
People who are mad at the rising price of gold. Without any critical thinking or rational judgment, he was shouting and praying for the gold to go up, like an ignorant parrot, and pouring all his fortune into the gold that had already risen three times.
“Already things are going according to their plans. Only the so-called ‘ants’ who know nothing will be the last victims of this mad market. By the many hyena-like hedge funds and financial capital that are contributing to the Chinese government’s grand picture and scheme, and together create this madness.”
“…..”
General investors who have always suffered the most losses and shed bloody tears in the history of hundreds of years. Jaeyoung silently looked at the writings filled with the desperate feelings of those who were praying with pocket money, saying that they would somehow turn their lives around in the harsh world.
“I am not defending them. Blinded by greed, these self-destructive speculators are cheap to perish. However, I couldn’t stand to see the speculators who rushed to eat even the marrow of these ordinary, poor people, or the Chinese government laughing and full of stomachs over this incident.”
I hate the ignorant speculators who run into the idea of doing it right, but the Chinese government and speculative capital are dozens and hundreds of times more disgusting than that. That’s why CEO Lee Mi-yeon said while looking at Jae-young with a hardened face.
“Not as the president of Arcadia Co., Ltd., but as a friend of student Jaeyoung.”
Lee Mi-yeon throws away all her status and authority and asks for a favor as a person. And she said clearly to Jae-young, who was making an expression that did not know what she was thinking.
“Fuck those damn bastards properly.”
“…..”
Jaeyoung, who was just staring at her without answering.
In the awkward silence for a long time, Jaeyoung decided to do something and drank coffee.
“I don’t care about the other things, but I like that one. Fuck Jjang X.”
Jae-young, who is the tears of ordinary ant investors and has no interest in the complicated international situation. However, he smiled as he felt a strange pounding in his heart at President Lee Mi-yeon’s last request.
“It will be fun. Kkaengpan, whose influence extends beyond virtual reality to reality. Would you like to reward probability for this as well?”
“yes….?”
CEO Lee Mi-yeon asks with a puzzled face after hearing his self-talk. However, Jaeyoung shook his head as if it was nothing.
“it’s nothing. Rather, listening to the story now, the important thing is to lower the price of gold back to the original price level and maintain it?”
“that’s right. The appropriate price for 1 gold, which we previously judged, was around 100,000 won.”
Gold, currently exceeding 350,000 won and running to 400,000 won. In order to return to the original price, a price collapse of as much as 75% was required.
“So far, the Chinese government is holding gold without selling it?”
“yes.”
Jaeyoung was lost in thought while tapping the table with his finger for a moment. And soon, as if something interesting came to mind, he smiled and said.
“Sir, can I ask you one favor?”
“What is your request?”
“Can we temporarily suspend the Arcadia auction house?”
“yes….?”
“It doesn’t have to be long. About 24 hours? Otherwise, I think it would be effective enough if I stopped for 12 hours…”
24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
A virtual reality integrated auction house that is in operation without a break even for one minute and one second.
President Lee Mi-yeon looked shocked at Jae-young’s request to close this place where huge amounts of money and items were traded for a while.
“What the hell are you trying to do…?”
At that, Jaeyoung lightly shook the remaining Americano in his glass and said it was nothing.
“I heard that in the first place, the Chinese government made huge purchases at the original price range? Doesn’t that mean that the crazy rising trend is not being driven by speculative powers like the Chinese government or hedge funds, but by countless ordinary people around the world who are tainted with greedy madness?”
People who are immersed in the joy of rising and unknowingly fall into tremendous optimism and fail to see the true reality. And Jaeyoung intended to clearly show the true face of this cruel and heartless world in their eyes.
“Please give me a week or so to prepare. If the plan I had in mind worked properly, China would probably get stuffed in its mouth with huge and bulky taffy.”
