Chapter 222: Growing Pains (3)
Translator: None Editor: Eastman
Youngho believed that if one had committed a cri, he must pay the right price.
Although it was unfortunate that the forr Serbian militian had to go through such horrible situations, it was wrong to tornt innocent civilians who were not involved in the civil war. The 27 militian said that they could not help but to follow orders but it had to be serious if Bosnians had been tracking them down for the past 20 years.
Being the leader of the Serbian immigrants, Youngho could not ignore this situation. There must be proper compensations for the victims and their families as well as showing genuine sympathy for them.
At first, Youngho was going to banish the forr militian from Arirang Farm, but he just heard about the independence struggles in Xinjiang, and the CIA was quietly supporting the Uyghur people.
He reckoned that since Serbian people looked similar to the Uyghur people, they would be well-disguised, and moreover, because they were trained as militian, they would be able to fit the role of rcenaries or drill instructors. There were in fact, a lot of European rcenaries active in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
It was two days later when Chief Niksic brought 27 forr militian who were now in their forties. He was haggard as if the recent issue of the Serbian immigrants had hit hard on him.
“Prince Consort. These fellows had given their lives to you. They agreed that if you keep their families safe, they would do anything for you. They don’t want to live in pain any longer.”
All of the 27 n looked determined, but Youngho had to say sharp words.
“I won’t make this long. Helping the Xinjiang region’s independence is how you can pay for your past faults since the Uyghur people will also suffer what the Bosnian people had suffered if we don’t help them.”
“...”
“I will do anything to compensate Bosnian people for what you’ve done to them. Of course, it won’t be compensated with money but that’ll be the only thing I can do. Your families will be taken cared of at the farm. So, if you want your family’s well-being, you should forget about here.”
People were stirred to hear that Youngho was going to compensate Bosnia for their wrongdoings since they knew that it was a hard decision for Youngho as a leader of countless people. Niksic kneeled down at Youngho’s words and the 27 n also followed after him. One of the n spoke on behalf of the whole group.
“Prince Consort. We don’t know what to say. We’re ashad of our past now but if we survive this, we’ll return as proud people of the Kingdom of Serbia.”
As the 27 n trained their bodies, Youngho received Russian passports from Sergey to disguise their identities. They now looked like official rcenaries hired by Yaniv’s rcenary company. It was to prepare for the worst case for they get arrested in Xinjiang.
Although the n were not in their best physical conditions since they had not been training for a long ti, they were training hard for their goals. While they were training, Youngho was contacting Uyghur independence group. There was an expert who could connect him to the group. It was Agent Smith who was working at the US embassy in Kazakhstan.
Agent Smith in Astana was excited to see Youngho and Jong-il in a long while.
He proudly reported that he had made acquaintance with local mafias in the anti. It seed that he had t Yaniv’s mafias in a pub that he frequently went with his girlfriend, and those mafias suddenly began to treat him nicely. He had no idea that it was because of Youngho’s connection to Yaniv.
“Mr. Park. You should teach so lethal movents this ti. I need to have at least one lethal move as an agent. Don’t you think?”
“Agent Smith, who are you trying to impress with that? It’s not even special.”
“When I go back to the headquarters, I should be able to prove that I’ve been in the field. Junior agents won’t be able to look down on if I show them so moves.”
Although Smith was saying that, it seed that he wanted to impress his girlfriend with martial arts. It was too bad that lethal moves could not be learned in a short period of ti.
“I’ve already talked with the Uyghur independence group. They’re expecting a lot since I told you you’d be bringing rcenary warriors and drill instructors. The CIA’s headquarters also agreed to support Xinjiang region, so there’s going to be a movent soon.”
“Smith, can you get us two Chinese identifications?”
“I don’t think anyone will ask you to show your identification cards. You look like Chinese.”
“No, we don’t. Koreans and Chinese totally look different!”
Although Youngho was upset about what Smith said, it was true that in Westerners’ eyes, Asians were hard to distinguish.
The boundaries between countries had beco aningless as the boundaries of the dia had beco wider. In particular, the developnt of broadcasting and communication had allowed the world to communicate in real ti, surpassing the limits of ti and space.
Despite the fact that the global community had beco one, minorities in Southeast Europe, the Caucasus region and Central Asia still insisted on their own fences and wanted independence. It was a natural request since they had been persecuted as minorities. It was an old dream for them to have their own country.
The independence movent of such minorities was no exception in China. Especially, the calls for independence in the Xinjiang region were rising as the days went by as many of Russia’s satellite states beca independent.
Currently, Uyghur people were carrying out a separate independence movent centering on the East Turkistan exiled governnt, the National United Front and the Islamic Party. When a massive uprising broke out in 1997, the Chinese governnt launched a tough crackdown, which led to the formation of independent groups. Although it was not reported in the news, there had been frequent bombing attacks by Uyghur independence group in different regions of China. Youngho was sending the forr Serbian militian to help the independence group.
Sending them could be considered a form of deportation but if they returned alive, he was going to accept them as proper residents of Arirang Farm. There was a saying, ‘hate the sin but don’t hate the person.’ Hoping that the growing pains of Arirang Farm would stop at this level, he had sent the militian for a dangerous mission.
Arirang Hotel in Batumi, Georgia was finally completed.
It was a 220-guest room, five-star hotel with two basent levels and eleven floors above the ground.
Youngho’s family from Baku, Yaniv, and Sergey from Russia, Yunsuh and Sangchun from Germany, and Szechenyi and Princess Isabella ca to the building dedication ceremony. Since the hotel was not open for guests yet, all the attendees of the ceremony planned to stay at the hotel for several days.
Among all guests, Princess Isabella was the most important guest. Youngho had prepared a special gift for her and he was curious about how she would react when she received the gift. Away from the loud ceremony room, Youngho sat down with the princess at the café on the hotel’s first floor.
“Princess. I’m honored that you’ve co to celebrate my hotel. I’ve prepared a special gift for you, would you like to see?”
“Oh, you’re welco. I haven’t been very busy lately. If you didn’t invite , I would’ve been sad.”
As she was saying, she could not take her eyes off the present which was wrapped beautifully. Although it was considered rude if soone did not open a present in front of the giver’s eyes here, the Princess seed to be hesitant because of her face.
Szechenyi, who was standing next to her, pressed her.
“Isabella. Why don’t you open it now?”
Isabella’s face changed as she carefully opened the present. Then she quickly lowered her voice looking around for people.
“Wow. This is gold bars. It has the Archduke’s emblem on it.”
“The descendants of the Kingdom of Serbian had kept so gold, so I made a ceremonial gift. Do you like it?”
Since Youngho could not say that there were gold mines, he said that there was a hidden fortune of the Archduke’s family. Also, he was implying that there was plenty more gold.
“Hahaha... There would be no won who don’t like gold or jewels, especially if it’s this heavy gold bars. ”
“I was worried since you must have had everything you wanted as a princess.”
The princess smiled as Youngho teased her.
“Oh, I won’t decline even if you give more. You can give this kind of gifts at any ti. Hahaha...”
Her tone of laughter beca even louder. She seed to like the family’s wealth.
She was already in love with Szechenyi, and if her future husband’s family was wealthy, it would act as an advantage for her if they got married.
Now that Youngho had shown her the gold, it was obvious that the whole family of the Kingdom of Denmark would find out soon about it. The princess would not keep it quiet since it was good news that the family she would be married into was well-off.
So, Youngho took a further step.
“Princess. You should visit my farm in Kazakhstan in the winter. The town had been getting big because more Serbian immigrants moved in. The descendants would love your presence.”
“Oh, that sounds lovely.”
“Also, a winter hunting in the continent is quite fun. I also bought several breeds of hunting dogs. You’d be able to chase wolves with them.”
As soon as she heard ‘hunting’, she was exuberated.
“I’ve gone to dog hunting several tis with my brother. It was much more thrilling than gun hunting!”
The more strictly grown, the greater the longing for wildness. When she heard that she could sleep in a yurt in the rough wilderness where wild wolves roam around, she seed eager to go at any mont.
“What did you tell Princess Isabella that she’s so excited now?”
Hearing Isabella’s excited voice from afar, Fatima asked to Youngho.
“I gave her gold bars that had the Archduke’s emblem on it and I also invited her for winter hunting at Arirang Farm.”
“Well, that’s enough to make her excited. Sotis, you can be really mischievous. Now that she received the gold bars, she’s going be extrely curious.”
“Well, I don’t know about that. It must be casual for her.”
“Hahaha...”
Fatima knew exactly what Youngho had in mind. The princess had already known that Youngho’s family was rich but seeing the gold bar, her curiosity must have reached its peak.
Princess Isabella was taken cared of now, and it was Yaniv’s turn.
Having had plenty of food and drink, Yaniv held on to Zeynep and made a big speech. Hearing that Zeynep was involved in a social welfare organization, he was saying that he must pay a contribution.
“Why are you refusing when I want to make a contribution?”
“Grandpa Yaniv, it’s because you’re going to be nosy after donating money. I don’t like it.”
“Of course, I’ll be curious where my money is going to be used. What if I don’t?”
“My brother said he’s going to pay for whatever we need, so grandpa, you can just stay still.”
Yaniv was trying to talk to Zeynep for longer since he had missed her dearly. As Youngho approached the two, Yaniv tried to wave him away.
“Mr. Yaniv, if you don’t listen to what I’m about to say, you might regret it.”
Yaniv did not seem to be intrigued.
“You’re talking about making money, aren’t you? Go to Sergey and talk to him! He’s better than with that sort of things.”
“I might be in charge of Azerbaijani private-sector’s managing underwriter for Moscow-Azerbaijan-Iran Railroad business. Are you still not interested?”
He reluctantly turned his body toward Youngho.
anwhile, Zeynep, who was finally able to get out of Yaniv’s attention, hurriedly left the table.
“Who’s going to make you a managing underwriter?”
“There’s no other person who’s going to take the role. That is if you’d be kind enough to tell President Aliyev.”
“I thought you weren’t interested in the railroad business.”
“I don’t want to let go of my interests but it’d be overwhelming to do it by myself. So, I’d like to give you half of its profits.”
It was an offer that did not need a long consideration.
“Did you say half? Alright, now you’ve got my attention!”
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