Detective Ori Hides the Status Window - Chapter 207



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207. Seven Years’ War: East Asia Expansion Pack (1)

Britain’s measures to protect the Philippines (more precisely, Manila and its vicinity) were, to put it simply, quite unreasonable.

No matter how much it falls in the middle, Britain is a defeated country. It was not easy to eat the Philippines, which had to be returned even when it was a victorious country.

But fortunately there was trading material in England.

It was Germany that lost the war because it failed to do so, not Britain. Britain had most of its victories over France in India and America.

France, which originally occupied almost all of North America, gave up most of ‘New France’ to Britain in the negotiations of 1763. This part didn’t seem to change much from history.

However, the reason France gave up Canada and the United States was because it judged that the territories had little economic value compared to the sugar islands in the Caribbean at the time.

Britain also agreed with France on that point.

So Britain weighed America and China as soon as the war ended.

It was the Pontiac War of 1763 that immediately tipped the scales.

Originally, the indigenous peoples of Canada and the northern United States got along quite well with the French. The French, who placed more emphasis on Europe, did not engage in large-scale migrations or invasions other than the fur trade.

However, the situation changed when the UK began to become infected.

Geoffrey Amherst, who was in charge of this side, devoted himself to the dream of extinction of the ‘Indians’. The ‘smallpox blanket’ that always comes up when discussing the devastation of Native Americans in North America is this person’s work.

‘These pests have no human rights. We will do everything possible to eradicate them.’

There is a reason why Hitler tried to conquer Britain. Britain was the ideological homeland of the Fuhrer.

Because their status was lower than that of Emperor Qianlong, who used similar methods, they were unable to completely exterminate them.

But it was enough to enrage the tribes of the Great Lakes. The British soldiers, who had received ‘gifts’ of skins and ‘gifts’ of gunpowder and bullets according to the custom of the natives, were beaten with their own weapons.

As forts and military garrisons were raided one after another, discussions among the British Parliament and Cabinet, tired of the long war, defeat, and financial difficulties, accelerated.

“Is it worth investing any more war effort into leather and such? Russia has opened up the Baltic Sea so wide that Siberian furs are flowing directly into Western Europe. “The price of American fur will also fall.”

“If we are to negotiate with the Indians, we must restore the supply of ammunition we gave them to the same level as before. “It’s not just about finances, but also military threats.”

“The East India Company keeps asking for support, so why not focus on China? How is the work going on to plant the tea trees brought from there in Ceylon? “I heard that a general from a country called Joseon guaranteed that Ceylon was the best location.”

“It’s not smooth sailing. There was a lot of opposition asking why they were messing with a coffee farm that was doing well. Besides, breeding exotic species is not that easy, and the scholars who are famous enough to ask for advice disappeared along with Endeavor.”

“Now that I think about it, we also have to rescue the British people in Endeavor who were detained in Joseon under the orders of the Chinese emperor.”

“According to the East India Company’s report, Joseon is a poor country and not of much value, so it would be better to just destroy China and achieve two effects at once. Even if it is not just cars or hostages, China, unlike America, has already established enormous wealth and markets. “Trade is an attractive option.”

“If it’s trade, then what?”

“exactly. that.”

“Then it is decided. They say France should just eat the area near Niagara. Instead, let’s put a demand on India not to mess around, but at the same time make sure to silence the Spaniards. “We are taking the Philippines.”

There was no way Jeanne Antoinette, Marquis de Pompadour, the de facto ruler of France, would refuse this.

The status of the Marquis, who won the Seven Years’ War and gained control of the Low Countries, was such that, as in history, there was no need to consider retirement from politics.

When she saw that the preservation of some of America’s territory was in sight, she immediately cooperated with Britain to put pressure on Spain. Spain had no choice but to protest pathetically.

‘So, honestly, the Philippines is Felipe’s land right from the name. Well, if you’re going to do that, I think you should at least give me Louisiana… … .’

‘What do you mean? ‘Second-rate powers?’

Austria also ignored Spain. This was because Britain, that is, the Elector of Hanover, decided to actively cooperate in the complete and irreversible deprivation of the Elector of Brandenburg’s rights.

Britain also planned to cooperate with the VOC, which had been sitting idly hugging its knees in Batavia. It was a blatant rejection of Spain, which had already been pushed out of the door, to drive it out of Asia.

In the twilight of the original ’empire on which the sun never set’, Britain and the East India Company decided three things.

The Manila area becomes a military base.

Rapid expansion of Bengal poppy plantations.

And it was the dispatch of a new large-scale expeditionary force.

* * *

Meanwhile, Russia was also filled with the spirit of victory.

Catherine’s specialty is manipulating history. However, while Kim Unhaeng manipulates the present, Catherine manipulates the past.

After installing a mistress on the newly acquired Polish throne, influential people who wanted to become Catherine’s concubines flocked like a cloud. Catherine, with their help, made some of her later majors of her predecessor Yelizabeta her own.

Russian notables who did not want to go on a ‘tour to Joseon’ decided to accept the explanation that she commanded the army during the Emperor’s illness.

There was also an implication that Peter’s death was a decision to save the country following wartime acts of betrayal. The political situation in St. Petersburg rapidly stabilized within a year of Catherine’s accession to the throne.

So Dzunghar leader Amursana’s urgent request was well timed.

Ekaterina snorted.

“Do these guys dare to threaten us?”

Count Grigori Orlov, a close associate of the rank of Vienna in Joseon, answered.

“However, the reason Kontaisha (Amursana) has endured so far is because it took a large number of Kalmyks and Kazakhs with its preemptive policy. If they are completely subjugated to the Qing as Kontaisha hinted, it would be like losing countless people to us with our eyes open. Moreover, judging from Britain’s movements, it seems likely that it will soon reach out to Asia, so it is not advisable to remain ignorant of anything.”

Orlov, who played a major role in taking control of state affairs after Peter’s assassination, was a valuable military advisor to Catherine. Ekaterina tilted her head.

“Then, would you like to lead the army again?”

Orlov realized that he had made a mistake.

Orlov had the same problem that many concubines of despots had.

His appearance and youth were fading with time, and the emperor would soon look for another young man. In these times, if you were far away from the emperor, it was obvious that someone else would take the place of gentleman in the bedroom [Kammerjunker].

So Orlov quickly recommended another concubine.

“Regiment Commander Grigory Alexandrovich (Potemkin) is a young and strong officer with a strong international sensibility. “There is no one more suitable than him to test the long-distance logistics capabilities our army gained through the lessons of the last war, and to monitor Khon Tai Shah politically.”

If this had been said up to this point, Catherine would have simply sent Orlov to guard against Chilgeojiak. Her concubines can’t do things like speculation.

But Orlov had a secret weapon.

He quickly took out the box and opened it.

Inside was a diamond that even the emperor had never seen. Originally, I was going to offer it after more careful preparation, but that wasn’t the case.

The dazzling diamond looked like an egg cut in half.

It’s not just the shape.

So was the size.

The pale blue luster bounced deep inside the thick polished surface and oozed out subtly. It was so divinely elegant that one could have thought it was the eyes of some noble god.

Even Catherine, who had tasted all the luxuries in the world, could not help but look at it for a while. Orlov wasted no time in offering a coaxing comment.

“This is a token of my loyalty to Your Majesty. “The most beautiful jewel in the world would be worthy of being in the scepter of Her Majesty, the most beautiful in the world.”

Catherine agreed.

She decided to entrust the task of monitoring and supporting Dzungar to her other lover, Potemkin, instead of Orlov.

Potemkin, who was recovering from an injury while in Sweden, howled like a Huns, but the secrets of the original romantic fantasy court were heartless.

* * *

At a similar time, a heartless romance was unfolding 7,000 kilometers away from St. Petersburg.

Oh Sam-rang was startled by the screams coming from the bedroom of Wang Ryun, his father, lover, and superior, and rushed in with his dual swords drawn. But she almost collapsed.

“What is this… … .”

Wang Lun’s body was in a miserable state. Blood was flowing from every pore, as if he had been killed by a powerful weapon.

How did he know all the holes were because Wang Ryun was taking off his clothes? The scream came from a believer who was receiving ‘healing’ from Wang Ryun.

Meng Chan slowly turned his head, not paying any attention to the believer running away. Oh Sam-rang pointed his sword at Meng Chan.

“What are you doing?”

Meng Chan did not speak for long.

“Look at this man.”

It was an order that surpassed logic. It was a pure transmission of will rather than reliance on authority or complex social relationships.

So, Oh Sam-rang did as Maeng-chan said and took a look.

Behind the White Lotus Bridge, which preaches equality between men and women and a universal republic, is the corpse of Wang Ryun, who took on concubines like an emperor and satisfied his lust.

While the believers were saving even a single grain of millet to obtain expensive – frankly, too expensive – guns and gunpowder from Joseon, the silk that Wang Ryun was wrapped around.

Maengchan showed off the original new model Chunsikgab that he received from Kim Unhaeng. He then testified of the miracles he personally witnessed in Joseon and denounced the deception of the false prophet Wang Ryun.

The tone was more like heated iron than like a flame. As his words continued, Oh Sam-rang’s expression became more and more distorted.

Meng Chan said quietly.

“I didn’t intend to kill you from the beginning either. By offering this, we said that we should reflect now and share our help and blessings equally with the world. But Jin… … “Wangryun only ordered me to keep quiet.”

For a moment, light returned to Meng Chan’s empty eyes.

“How can you trust and follow someone like that? On the other hand, Kim Chun-sik, a Taoist from Goryeo, did not make false promises but decided to do his best to help us. In the first place, just as yin and yang cannot stand as one, this Chun Sik-gap must have a precious herbal medicine as its partner, and he promised to bake it for me using the family’s traditional training method.”

Oh Sam-rang could not ask whether the medicine, that is, the product called Kim Ga-daehwandan in Joseon, was really more realistic than the ‘incarnation of Jami-seong’. I couldn’t even raise the question of whether that person named Kim Chun-sik was really a high-ranking official and not a medicine seller.

Even if Oh Samrang was not a White Lotus believer but a modern man, it was something he could not possibly say in the current atmosphere.

Meng Chan’s eyes shined brightly.

“Our Tao was also found in the East, which we had not even thought of, so we can see that the cause of the world was originally one. Therefore, I will not be ashamed or run away and hide.”

Meng Chan spread his arms left and right. This was a position he should never have taken in front of someone with a knife.

“If anyone else stands in the way of this cause, it will be a matter of life or death for me, but not you. “If you want to stab me to death, then so be it.”

“I beg your pardon?”

Meng Chan said solemnly.

“I don’t need a life that you wouldn’t approve of anyway.”

It was a very courageous line in many ways. Unlike a third party who might laugh at her, Oh Sam-rang held the sword herself, so she could see how much determination Meng Chan showed.

Oh Sam-rang’s eyes wavered.

After a while, there were not one but two people who walked out of the religious leader’s party.

Oh Samrang, who was a close associate of the religious leader and had a stronger say within the school, called someone. She said as one of her faithful followers knelt before her.

“Gather all the Eighteen Great Protective Laws. “The time has come.”

Yes. The time has come. The religious leader Wangryun gave his final teachings to the religious believers and was reconciled to Jami Castle and ascended to heaven.

Kyodo looked up at Oh Sam-rang and Meng Chan with a deeply moved face. Then he ran quickly.

Meanwhile, Wang Ryun’s body was removed. Of course, none of the eighteen great guardians who were immediately convened found the body of the religious leader. If you ask about the whereabouts of the body even though you said you were a good warrior, you are not qualified to be a martial artist.

Instead, they focused on Kim Ga-daehwandan. Yang Wu, a member of the Eighteen Great Protectors and a man in Shandong who said there was no one in Shandong who could compete with that sword, stroked his chin.

“Indeed, if the time of uprising is imminent, I guess we should hurry and get a lot of that medicinal herb. “I can’t afford to save money.”

Other guardians also agreed with the idea of ​​an ‘invincible soldier advancing through fire.’ Didn’t Maeng Chan see it clearly with his own two eyes?

“It is said that it is effective if you wear long clothes, but if you control your energy with our school’s health and breathing methods, it will go much faster.”

“Otherwise, the guns were too expensive and we didn’t have enough, but it worked out well. Even if the enemy fires fire arrows and artillery, if we can break through and defeat them with spear-bong fist techniques, more comrades will be able to join in the great cause.”

Of course, the Eighteen Great Protection Methods that have guided the White Lotus Church for a long time are not crucian carp or chicken.

This discussion just means that we will announce it and buy the medicine.

It is nothing more than a common speaking method of all religious groups that must not deny their own illogicality. Asking people to pay some money to build a new church is like saying that a temple should be built by the grace of God. That’s all understood.

The effect of the medicine doesn’t matter. As Kim Un-haeng also thought, 100 spring-style muskets (safe) are much better than 10 popular British guns. All that is required is for believers to believe that sign language is unsinkable.

The opponent is the master of mankind. In any case, it is not an enemy we can fight back with a ‘rational’ military buildup.

In order to move a large mountain, it may be more ‘rational’ to spend the time daydreaming rather than constantly shoveling. A flash of dynamite might come to mind.

It was absolutely necessary to take measures to prevent people from getting cold feet in this desperate rebellion.

In some ways, the Joseon medicine seller’s medicine sale was a perfect offer.

* * *

There were two main routes for smuggling in Pyeongan Province, which Kim Un-haeng controlled.

First, guns and ammunition were sold to Baekryeongyo.

And through Uiju Gwansahmun, he collected commissions for selling patents and at the same time smuggled out Hwaibyeonbae commercial paper and Yuryongok. In fact, violence and sexuality are industries that never fail.

Yang is not that great from a Chinese perspective. Because it’s smuggling.

But this trade has important implications.

Until now, trade between Joseon and Qing followed the typical pattern of trade between underdeveloped and developed countries.

Joseon exported natural resources such as tiger skin, ginseng, gold and silver, and imported products such as machinery, silk, books, and hats.

Although interpreters will benefit, the country of Joseon is bound to suffer losses.

Yeonam Park Ji-won’s quote, ‘Is it sane to waste silver mined from the mountains and last for a thousand years on a hat that will be thrown away after being used for only three winter months?’ explains this well.

But the products that Kim Unhaeng is selling now are the opposite. Kim Unhaeng imports gold, silver and grain and exports finished products.

So, compared to the small scale, the profits coming in were much larger. The fog that had been accumulating in Pyeongan Island like fog was becoming more dense day by day.

As Pyeongan-do, the original ‘piggy bank of Joseon’, becomes wealthy, there will inevitably be people who want to gut the pigs.

Of course, past peace auditors and soldiers refused as much as possible.

However, you can’t just block reception of media that whines for money almost all year long. Pyeongan Gamyeong also withdraws funds once or twice a year.

One of the legends in this field is, as one would expect, Park Moon-su of Yeongseong-gun, the state alchemist of Joseon. His skills were almost plundering.

However, Jeong Hong-sun (鄭弘淳), the current governor of the Hojo and head of the Gyun Station, is also a financial expert. If Park Mun-su was a hunter who wanted to shoot first and then skin him, Jeong Hong-sun was a meticulous and hard-working farmer.

Nevertheless, even Jeong Hong-sun could not find evidence that there was room in Pyeongan-do.

It has to be that way. Most of that wealth was from private sources and was not even registered with the government.

It was usually incorporated into Kim Un-haeng’s personal assets or drifted away in secret networks of lurkers. You couldn’t steal something you couldn’t see.

If it had been Park Moon-soo, he would have sensed that there was something wrong with Pyeongan-do through Kim Un-haeng’s very existence and would have personally pursued a search, but he is dead.

As a result, no one was able to extract money from Pyeongan Province to weaken its military. I don’t know where the money came from, but strangely enough, the military continued to gain weight.

It was the best result the king could hope for.

Author’s Note

1. All of the lines spoken by Geoffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, were actually said by him, and it is also true that Pontiac’s War broke out due to his tyranny. Even in the original history, Britain was not completely victorious and ended in negotiation.

Originally, there was a street named after him in Montreal, but it was stripped of its name as a reflection on germ warfare and massacres. However, it has been questioned (mainly by white scholars) whether Geoffrey Amherst’s Operation Smallpox Blanket actually affected Native Americans.

And this Geoffrey Amherst’s nephew was William Amherst, the 1st Earl of Amherst, who was a diplomat to the people and governor of India, and the Lord Amherst, the first British ship to visit Joseon during the prosperous era, was named after this family title.

2. Russia, which suffered a lot due to logistics during the Seven Years’ War, is renewing its logistics system based on its war lessons. This is considered to have greatly helped Russia successfully carry out long-distance operations in subsequent wars, especially the Napoleonic Wars.

3. Grigory Orlov was a key supporter of Catherine’s coup and was her initial favorite mistress. As the story goes, as he gradually loses his favor, he seeks out a 190-carat diamond and offers it to him. This is the ‘Orlov Diamond’, which is often mentioned when choosing famous diamonds. It was originally loot taken from India by Britain or France. Catherine showered her with many reciprocating gifts and offices, but her favor appears to have been withheld.

4. Kammerjuncker is the name of a formal office rather than a metaphor for government. However, there are many cases where the government has done it.

5. Yang O was also a martial arts expert who was said to be an official of the White Lotus Church and was famous for being good at using one sword in Shandong.

6. In the original history, Jeong Hong-sun was the governor of Hamgyeong at this time, and was not a governor of Hojo. However, it is true that he was a financial expert.