Hyeonjilmusin - Chapter 69



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69. I always have you (7)

As I entered the police station, people were glancing at me. Normally, they would recognize me as a Hubei god and act friendly, but this was the first time no one had approached me. In fact, the policeman who had acted friendly last time turned around hurriedly when he made eye contact with me and started walking unnaturally.

I went straight to the Ministry of Taxation. The Ministry of Taxation was a complete mess. It was only natural since the head of the Ministry of Taxation, the Minister of Taxation, was embroiled in a corruption scandal.

“Hey, hey! I told you not to touch that! I want to be tied up and taken to the temple together with you!”

“Well, the documents are crooked… … .”

“Shut up! From now on, if you touch any documents without the permission of the inspector, it will be considered an attempt to conceal evidence!”

Just like the Whiyoungsangdan, people came and flipped through the documents and searched thoroughly, and only then did I realize that my classmates were acting up. The search was originally this gruesome and terrifying.

I rolled my eyes and looked around. If I were to find someone in this situation, I would probably get a lot of hate for being tactless. After all, I was not a manager, I was a commoner. But I couldn’t keep spending time here.

“Is the Minister of Taxation here now?”

I grabbed a nearby clerk and asked him. I was fully prepared to get cursed at.

As I expected, the man frowned and looked back at me. But surprisingly, no curses came out.

“Oh, the god of Hubei?”

“yes.”

“Ah, that. Um. He is here now. His Majesty is also under inspection, so it will be difficult for him to respond.”

The official of the Ministry of Taxation stammered and looked at me. I was not a high-ranking official, so there was no need to look at me and speak politely like this.

“Anyway, you’re here, right? Then you can just wait.”

“Oh, no. You don’t have to wait. If there’s something urgent, I’ll deliver it to you personally.”

“Huh? It really doesn’t have to be that way.”

“No. I do it because I want to.”

The official suddenly bowed to me and went into the room of the Minister of Taxation. After coming out of the room, the official bowed to me again.

“They said he’ll be out soon.”

“Oh, yes… … thank you.”

I was puzzled as I watched the polite officials until the end. There are no people as proud and arrogant as the officials of the imperial state. Even when I was the head of the upper class of the Daebang-level in the old days, the officials would straighten their backs and necks and say that they were receiving money from the state.

Is that person a special case? Well, there are many people in the world.

As the manager said, the formality of the Ministry of Taxation was immediately apparent. The person in charge of the inspection office seen through the crack in the door had a bright face. It was the complete opposite of the atmosphere of the Ministry of Taxation, which was in disarray.

“Come in.”

As I entered, the temple official bowed to me.

“Should I call you Hobukshin-ui or Sangdanju? Anyway, it’s nice to meet you. I am the inspector in charge of this search.”

“You can speak comfortably as the manager.”

“Oh, then you’ll get in trouble with the Ubudo Inspector. The Ubudo Inspector said that when you turn over the treasure, you should treat only the Minister of Taxation and the Minister of Hubei with the utmost respect.”

“iced coffee.”

So that’s why people became polite. But then again, that wasn’t the case. Because the orders of the Ubudo Eosa only applied to the Eosas of the Dochalwon.

There is no need for the officers of the police station or the officials of the Ministry of Personnel to watch my every move.

“I see. Thank you.”

“Don’t worry. This is what we do.”

“It was creepy to see the inspector searching.”

“Well, actually, there’s no point in turning over the books right now. The Chief of the Ministry of Taxation has already sorted out and organized all the substantial evidence. That alone is enough, but we’re currently looking into whether there are any additional crimes.”

“Oh, is that so? Then what will happen to the Minister of Finance?”

“well.”

The inspector smiled awkwardly. No matter what, it seemed premature to say that.

At that moment, the door opened wide and a person came in. The person who came in was the Ubudo Eosa of the Dochalwon and a middle-aged man with a goatee. The Ubudo Eosa of the Dochalwon, Wang Song, did not come in first, but let the middle-aged man in first. I thought I knew who that person was just from that.

“I am pleased to meet you, Boarding Captain.”

The identity of the young man was clearly proven by his appearance. He was the head of the Seungseonpojeongsa. He was the head of the Hubei Pojeongsa.

As soon as the boarding officer arrived, he criticized the form.

“Tsk. You handled things a bit strangely.”

“sorry.”

The form lowered its head. I knew what it felt like.

He overturned the ship captain by directly contacting the inspector without first informing the boarding officer. From the boarding officer’s perspective, this was an action that made him feel like he was being ignored by Hyung-tae.

“But the Inspector General of the Office of the Inspector General, Ubu Do-o, took care of things in the middle. You must have thought that you were able to get your official position thanks to the Inspector General of the Office.”

“I apologize again.”

“No. I don’t know why you contacted the Inspector General directly. You must have been worried that if you told me, it would be leaked to the Minister of Taxation.”

The boarding officer spoke with a bitter tone. In other words, it seemed that Hyung-tae did not trust the boarding officer.

“Okay, okay. Mr. Seungseonpo, please don’t say anything too harshly. After all, isn’t he an official who acts for the people?”

“Ahem, if it weren’t for that, I would have been in big trouble.”

The boarding officer coughed in vain and then looked at me.

“You are the god of Hubei. Nice to meet you. I am Kang Se-min, the commander of the Hubei Pojeongsa.”

“It is an honor. I am Mukhwiyoung of the Whiyoungsangdan.”

I glanced at Kang Se-min’s face. He didn’t have a particularly distinctive face, but he was in charge of a castle. He was a high-ranking official, different from a branch manager in charge of one of the many departments in the castle. He had to be especially careful about his words and actions.

“How much do you know, Mr. Boarding?”

First, I asked cautiously. I had to know that to determine what level I could speak at the moment. The answer came from Wang Song, not Kang Se-min.

“I should have told the captain everything. Isn’t that what God wants? After all, we’re on the same ship.”

“That’s true.”

I cleared my throat. In fact, a boarding officer had the right to know all the plans. In any case, we were going to overthrow one of the boarding officers, and we would have told him the plan while trying to persuade the boarding officer, who was the leader.

Last time, we met secretly at the Ministry of Personnel and made the assumption that ‘if the Inspector General directly pressures the Minister of Personnel, the Minister of Personnel will move Admiral Dongchang.’ And if we get rid of Admiral Dongchang, everything will be resolved.

Our calculation was that the Dongchang Hubei branch, having lost its leader, would be torn apart, and that the Hojo Chamjeong, having lost its trusted support in an instant, would immediately collapse.

Anyway, it was easy to talk since the boarding pass officer knew everything.

“however…….”

Here, the highest ranking boarding officer trailed off. What on earth would a boarding officer have to be concerned about?

But surprisingly, the person the boarding officer was watching was none other than me.

“How did you deal with your admiral classmate?”

“yes?”

A slightly difficult question was asked. Wang Song added his comment.

“As you said, there have been rumors that Admiral Dongchang has gone missing. The common people believe that the Inspector General intervened and disappeared, but there are also strange theories floating around.”

“Is that a strange theory?”

“You are a god with incredible strength, so Admiral Dongchang has become a handful of bloodthirsty people.”

“… … Seriously?”

“There are many who believe seriously.”

This was something I hadn’t expected. I was the one who spread the rumor that my admiral friend had gone missing. That way, the wall of the Ministry of Finance would collapse.

In addition, he also spread rumors that he had disappeared because he was afraid of being paired with Jinmubyeok by the Dochalwon. Originally, the first person to spread rumors is the winner. This is because overlapping lies distort into truth, and in order to reveal those lies, numerous truths are needed. So, although the disappearance of Admiral Dongchang was established as an established theory, it was a rumor that the strong and powerful god could not have predicted at all.

“That’s all because you showed me the miracles of the Hubei Shen. In fact, how can an ordinary person cure an infectious disease that no one could cure so cleanly?”

I just did it because I had future knowledge. I overlooked the fact that it might seem like a miracle. But I didn’t expect that I would become a messenger of a god who could handle a supernatural being.

“What kind of nonsense is that? It will soon disappear.”

“That’s true. But that’s not the important thing.”

“Then what is it?”

“At least we know that the Inquisitor didn’t intervene and make it disappear.”

They were looking at my mouth with their eyes full of curiosity.

“Do I really need to explain the process?”

“You don’t have to say anything. It’s just that if there’s secrets in a relationship, trust can be lost.”

I laughed in vain. It seemed like he was quite curious to hear such regretful words.

Of course, killing an imperial official is a huge risk. That’s why Wang Song and Hyeong Seong doubted until the very end that I could handle Admiral Dong Chang.

I didn’t tell them specifically how I would deal with my admiral classmate. I just assured them that I could handle it.

From their perspective, they could imagine all sorts of things. They could have used slaughter, their connections, poison, or a womanizer. In any case, they wanted to see all of my tricks. What kind of tricks could kill a local big shot, like an admiral’s classmate, without any hesitation?

Seungseonpojeongsa Kang Se-min, Dochalwon Ubudo Eosa Wang Song, Hojo Cham Hyeong-tae Seong. I saw them one by one.

It goes without saying that Hyung-sung is the future prime minister, Seung-seon-po-jeong-sa is currently a second-rank official, and Do-chal-won U-bu-do-eo-sa is the real power in the palace. On the other hand, I am just a member of the upper class and a disciple of the shaman faction, with a shabby reputation. That is why sharing secrets with them was actually a welcome thing from my perspective.

I smiled brightly in front of them and shrugged my shoulders.

“I just killed him.”

“……just?”

The three voices joined together in an awkward manner. From their perspective, it seemed like the most ridiculous answer.

“You killed your admiral classmate?”

“Since you came to assassinate me, I should kill you.”

“No, you didn’t set up any traps or anything?”

“Is it really necessary to make this? I’m winning.”

“… … .”

Everyone was speechless at my confident answer. After a moment of silence, Kang Se-min muttered as if he had lost his mind.

“There are few people in the world who can compete with someone as good as Admiral Dongchang… … .”

“I’m not an infinite person. I’m a nonpartisan person.”

“As far as I know, it hasn’t even been a year since you became a lay disciple?”

Wang Song asked. It seems that my back was also completely robbed in the meantime. Of course, that doesn’t mean that anything will come out.

“That’s talent.”

“Ugh.”

When I said that, everyone was speechless. People’s eyes suddenly changed. They only knew of Mok Hwi-yeong as the head of the upper class and the god of Hubei, so it was understandable.

“You were a scary person.”

Kang Se-min said with a trembling voice. I never thought that there would come a day when the Seungseonpojeongsa would look at me. It was impossible even in my previous life. Of course, Kang Se-min seems a bit weak for a high-ranking official.

“Okay. Now that our curiosity is satisfied, let’s get to work.”

Wang Song livened up the atmosphere by clapping his hands.

When he went outside, he saw Jinmubyeok tied up and kneeling in the already messy Hobu. He had been caught by the Dochalwon inspectors. There was no sign of resistance left in Jinmubyeok’s eyes. With even his trusted Admiral Dongchang gone, he was ready to give up everything.

“haha.”

As soon as I saw it, I burst out laughing. The venom returned to Jinmubyeok’s eyes, which had been empty from the mocking laughter.

“This fucking punk.”

“What did I do? You should blame me for committing corruption.”

“Shut up! Everything has been ruined since I got involved with you. Everything!”

Jinmubyeok was angry. It seemed as if he couldn’t even see the Seungseonpojeongsa or Dochalwon Ubudo Eosa in front. It wasn’t a situation where he could care about such things anyway.

I crouched down and made eye contact with Jinmubyeok. Jinmubyeok’s hands and legs were tied, and he couldn’t move. I took the opportunity to give him a cool slap.

The sound was sharp as if someone had been hit with a sword. Jinmubyeok’s body trembled. He could not bear to be humiliated like this by a mere merchant in front of his subordinates.

“Look. You were going to kill me anyway. So I guess I have no choice but to soak you, right?”

I quickly tapped his swollen cheek with my palm. Jinmubyeok seemed to be out of his mind due to the insult.

I whispered quietly to Jinmubyeok.

“Ever since I joined Muhan Sanghoe, I’ve always wanted to bury you. And today, it happened.”

In that moment, Jinmubyeok’s face turned red as if it was going to burst, and he fell backwards with a “Ugh” sound. I laughed, “Hehe.” Perhaps my laughter would linger as I came to my senses.

I got up after knocking out Jinmubyeok. The people around me were looking at me in surprise.

“You really can kill a man with your tongue.”

Wang Song stuck out his tongue. The royal inspectors surrounded the fallen Jinmu Wall. It would be a problem if he died here. He would be taken to the palace and receive proper punishment.

Watching Jinmubyeok being dragged away, drooling, was so refreshing.