Hyeonjilmusin - Chapter 110



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110. King Shang (4)

Yeo Bul-jin’s expression didn’t change. In my opinion, it was a great surprise. I was surprised that Yeo Bul-jin’s expression didn’t change at such an unexpected and over-the-top remark.

Instead, the shaman’s executioners were looking at me with anxious expressions. Even the young executioners were like that.

They also had a rough idea of ​​the situation. If we were to be exact, it was like the merchants of Whizhou coming and talking about the leader of the non-partisan faction. It was incredibly rude, needless to say.

Nevertheless, Yeo Bul-jin quietly took a sip of tea and then slowly opened her mouth.

“How much is it?”

“What are you talking about?”

“How much would it cost to buy you now?”

Yeo Bul-jin’s words were out of the blue. Yes, just like I said. I was flustered, but I didn’t show it.

“People live with their hearts, not with money.”

“Do you really think so? You probably hired the staff at the top with money too.”

“You’re buying people’s labor, not the people themselves. Each of those people has their own life.”

“It seems a bit cowardly to bring up the orthodoxy here. The world doesn’t move according to the orthodoxy. If you had only moved according to the orthodoxy, you wouldn’t be sitting in front of me now.”

“That is not wrong.”

Yeo Bul-jin and I each drank our teas as if we had made a promise. There was not a single bit of disarray in our postures.

In a way, I am now in a situation where I am standing on my edge rather than fighting with a real sword. Because this is the battlefield where I was originally standing.

“But in the part just now, why did you ask if I could be saved?”

“There must be a reason why you are acting like this. I don’t know who paid you how much, but you will be paid at least twice as much. So tell me the whole story. The reason why you said that.”

Only then did I understand what Yeo Bul-jin had said. That was why he had said that he wanted to buy me. Well, I could only explain what I had said as someone’s order.

“That’s what you meant.”

“Okay. Then can you answer that?”

“How long have you been thinking about it?”

“I don’t think about money. The more I think about money, the further away it becomes.”

Yeo Bul-jin gestured to the escort. The escort took out an inkstone, a brush, and a piece of white paper from a drawer and placed them in front of me.

When I looked at Yeo Bul-jin, Yeo Bul-jin said with a faint smile.

“Spend as much as you want. It’s cleaner than double.”

“Can you pull out the roots of the pillars of the Cheonsu Sangdan?”

“I didn’t say I would give it to you unconditionally. I also need to make my own judgments about value. But I mean, I will respect your opinion as much as possible.”

They say Yeo Bul-jin was great when she was young. As expected, her power was no joke. That shabby old man also had such a wonderful past. Suddenly, I was lost in a feeling of memories that I couldn’t tell if they were from the future or the past.

“Aren’t you going to use it?”

“No. I will use it.”

I picked up the brush and wrote without hesitation. It was literally a single stroke. The number of words I wrote was a hundred thousand.

The escort’s expression was hard, and Yeo Bul-jin’s expression was still blank as if she was wondering what was going on.

“A hundred thousand nyang. You seem to be quite overconfident in your own opinion.”

A hundred thousand nyang. It was a huge sum. The shaman disciples who were watching my antics from the side were almost out of breath.

I swept and sold all the Nokrim Shipi-shik in the Central Plains and the remaining money was five thousand nyang. But that was twenty times more. Even for a person of the highest rank, it was a burden.

“One hundred thousand nyang.”

Yeo Bul-jin hummed. Honestly, it was understandable to be angry, but Yeo Bul-jin had a blank expression or a faint smile the whole time. It seemed like my tactics were completely ineffective.

“What are you worrying about? It’s not that much money.”

I laughed. Only then did Yeo Bul-jin’s eyebrows twitch.

“Isn’t a hundred thousand nyang a lot of money?”

“Yes. It’s not a lot of money for me, so how could it be a lot of money for the King?”

I paused for a moment and looked. Yeo Bul-jin’s eyes were narrowed. It seemed as if she was examining whether I was crazy or not. At this point, I had to prove that I was not crazy.

“About a hundred thousand nyang in coins is only equivalent to a hundred nyang in silver. Wouldn’t that be less than the cost of transportation from Hoein to here?”

“Ugh.”

Yeo Bul-jin laughed in vain and leaned back in her chair.

“I didn’t say I was a hermit.”

“It was my fault for overlooking that, so I didn’t say anything to you.”

Yeo Bul-jin burst into laughter for the first time and said:

“Otherwise, you wouldn’t have been able to leave this room safely.”

“You were lucky.”

“It’s been a while since I’ve been fooled by a joke like this. There used to be a lot of them, but now that no one tells me jokes like this, I’ve let my guard down a little. It feels like I’m back on active duty after a long time.”

“Aren’t you still active?”

“I’m halfway retired. I’ve earned enough, so I should enjoy my life.”

There was a lot of sincerity in those words. I smiled bitterly. Because I knew Yeo Bul-jin’s future. Far from enjoying himself, he had an incredibly twisted last year. Of course, I’m spilling the beans here.

“So you’re willing to sell the information for a hundred nyang?”

“yes.”

“It’s cheaper than I thought.”

“Yes.”

“Yeah, I can give you that right away. You’re embarrassing me.”

Yeo Bul-jin took out a bill from the drawer, wrote down 100 nyang in silver, and pushed it towards me.

“Well received.”

“Okay. Then I’ll ask without beating around the bush. Who is the one who ordered you? Hong Yang?”

“No, there isn’t.”

“… … ?”

My answer was the most shocking thing Yeo Bul-jin had ever heard. Yeo Bul-jin’s eyes filled with confusion.

“Are you not done with the puns yet? I’m not the kind of person who can accept it twice.”

“No. No one really ordered it. It was my sole judgment and design. Yeo Hong-yang probably doesn’t even know that I’m doing this here.”

“Heh heh heh… … .”

Yeo Bul-jin’s empty laughter continued.

“So you want to make Hongyang the head of the Cheonsu Sangdan?”

“That’s right.”

“There is a limit to arrogance!”

Yeo Bul-jin swept the table and threw the teacups onto the floor. The sound of the jade teacups breaking was eerie.

“You’re going to decide who will be the successor to the Cheonsu Sangdan that I created?”

Yeo Bul-jin suddenly stood up and glared at me. The giant’s anger was truly enormous. Even the disciples of the Wudang faction were unable to move.

“Calm down, sir. I respect that. The Yeo clan, which was the weakest among the 15 clans of the Huizhou clan, suddenly rose to the top with the Cheonsu Sangdan.”

“How can someone who knows that say something like that to me right now?”

“That is why I want the Cheonsu Sangdan to be properly transformed and to continue to exist. That is why I am telling you this.”

“You’re amazing! What do you know?”

I know a lot.

The fact that Cheonsu Sangdan collapsed less than three years after Yeo Hong-won inherited it. It was a scene where the old saying that even if a rich man goes bankrupt, he can still survive for three years was shattered right before my eyes. So, it left quite an impression on me.

To be honest, I have no intention of saving Cheonsu Sangdan. In fact, I thought about just not touching it. To be honest, I was busy growing my own Sangdan.

But I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to keep Cheonsu Sangdan alive and make him a business partner, so I took a gamble of my own.

“Sir, please calm down.”

As Yeo Bul-jin’s face turned pale, the escort standing next to her also stepped forward. The escort sat Yeo Bul-jin down and glared at me.

“Are you saying this because you think the shamans next to you will protect you? That is truly foolish thinking.”

An incredible amount of energy suddenly emanated from the escort’s body. As expected of someone guarding the King, I thought he would be extraordinary, but he was stronger than I expected.

At that moment, Myeongyeop jumped up and put his hand on the hilt of his sword.

“Don’t build up your momentum any further. It could be considered intimidation against the shaman.”

“Didn’t you hear what the guy next to you just said?”

The atmosphere became so tense and suffocating that I felt like I was going to die. When I looked at the young prisoners, their faces turned pale.

It seemed ripe enough to ripen to this extent.

“Yeohongwon manages the King’s treasury.”

“what?”

The once heated atmosphere cooled down as if cold water had been poured. Naturally, the young brothers did not understand, and the escort and Myeongyeop were no different, just blinking. The only one who reacted was Yeo Buljin.

“What does that mean?”

“It is as it is said. The treasury of the Xuan King, one of the vassal kings, is managed by Yeo Hong-won.”

“Do you know what that means?”

“I guess that means we need to be very strict about what people here say.”

Yeo Bul-jin shivered. Her once red face had now turned pale.

The treasury is the private property of the imperial family, that is, the emperor. In principle, only the current emperor can have the treasury. However, the vassal kings of the vassal states also secretly created treasuries.

Of course, it was a dangerous thing, and especially the king’s treasury was considered a sign of rebellion and was strictly controlled by the imperial family. For Yeo Hong-won to be managing such dangerous assets was a bolt from the blue for Yeo Bul-jin.

“You, only say things you can take responsibility for.”

“Send someone to Gansu, where the King is, and find out. You will find many suspicious circumstances.”

“So is it true that my son is really managing the King’s treasury?”

“Yes.”

“Even sleeping with a knife in your hand is a waste of time!”

Yeo Bul-jin burst into rage once again.

It had to be that way. How many upper class people had been ruined by taking the wrong path? It was common sense in the imperial kingdom that if you were accused of being a stooge of rebellion, your entire clan would be destroyed.

Of course, not all kings who have treasury funds rebel. However, the problem was that the current king in his previous life rebelled.

The rebellion was quickly suppressed, and Yeo Hong-won was beheaded for managing the treasury. Originally, it was a situation where even three generations of his family would have been destroyed, but Yeo Bul-jin barely managed to return all his assets to the state because he had good relations with the royal family and survived. That was why Yeo Bul-jin’s later years were so complicated, and I knew the whole story.

“How did you know this?”

Yeo Bul-jin spoke and waved her hand.

“No. That doesn’t matter. I’ll have to figure it out anyway.”

Yeo Bul-jin seemed confused. It was understandable. He couldn’t help but feel nervous when he was gambling with the fortune he had accumulated.

“I’ll go out for now. I feel sorry for the shamans. It’s urgent now, so let’s talk about it later.”

Meanwhile, Yeo Bul-jin showed superhuman patience by performing a ritual on the shaman’s executioners. It seemed that not everyone succeeds.

As soon as they were practically forced out of the upper chamber, the executioners let out a deep sigh.

“I thought I was going to suffocate to death.”

Myungyeop spoke on behalf of the death row inmates. When I saw the death row inmates turn pale, I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Are you laughing right now? After making such a mess?”

“It was something that had to be done.”

Myeongyeop closed his mouth. Perhaps the King would not have understood at all. They would be ignorant of the imperial system.

To begin with, it was an area that even the common people were ignorant of. The imperial family, including the king, was a sacred area that was truly inviolable.

“Sometimes I want to open your head and look inside.”

Myungyeop grumbled. I looked back. The door to the upper chamber was tightly shut. A storm was probably raging there.

The sound of the counter-plate shaking seemed to creak in my ears.