Invitation to the Chatroom of the Gods - Chapter 43



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Episode 43 – The Jang Gang Hyeopgaekdan (2)

The former general wondered if he had heard correctly just now.

Of course, since he said to use the money where necessary after consulting with other executives?

No, what do you mean ‘divide’ it appropriately?

“Are you saying that you will give us all the toll?”

“Yes.”

“Then Your Majesty···?”

“I don’t need any of it, so you guys just divide it among yourselves. It was your hard-earned money in the first place, so what does that have to do with me?”

The former general’s eyes opened wide.

Furthermore, the eyes of the executives and thousands of unmanned personnel opened wide.

“Don’t embezzle, though. I won’t let you off easy if you do.”

The frosty King’s momentum continued.

“And the old general.”

“Huh? Huh? Huh? Oh, no… Ha, please give your order.”

“How much wealth has Jo Gye-ak amassed?”

The wealth accumulated by Jo Gye-ak over the past year while controlling the Yangtze River.

All the interests of the Yangtze River were tightly held for a year, so it was by no means small.

“I don’t know the details, but I think it would be enough to cover the annual budget of three or four provinces.”

“You’ve collected a ton of shit.”

The king said with a laugh.

“Compensate those who have been harmed by you appropriately. There will still be some left over, so I will share it with you.”

“·········Huh?”

“You don’t like it?”

“No, that’s not what I meant···.”

Are you just going to give away that much money?

“I don’t mean that I’ll just hand it out to you. I’ll give you the basic salary first, but if you faithfully fulfill your duty, I’ll give you more in the form of a ‘reward.’”

······The shock subsided.

It wasn’t static, it was literally ‘shock’.

That is understandable. What is the reason why the Jang Gangsu River River Corridor engages in plundering and atrocities?

It’s because of the money.

I became a thief to eat and live day by day.

I know that it is wrong. As someone who has been through a lot, I know this.

But when there was a famine and we were starving, no one reached out to help us.

Even though people were dying of starvation on the streets, the government did not intervene.

I begged and pleaded for him to at least feed the child, but all I got in return was a cold kick.

And so, the helplessness of not being able to do anything in front of a child who starved to death.

However, the resentment that the governor felt grew heavier day by day.

All I had learned was fighting, so I picked up a knife, and while trying to figure out how to make a living, I ended up becoming a Jang Gang-su-ro-chae.

however······

“At least from now on, you won’t go hungry, so from now on, I won’t tolerate any excuses for plundering innocent people.”

Now you don’t have to worry about how to make a living from day to day.

You can use your skills in different ways without going hungry.

“How···.”

“iced coffee···..

“This, this is···.”

Only an unknown shock fell upon the entire Poyang Lake.

* * *

I was really worried.

What should we do with the Jang River waterway?

The Jang Gangsu River was clearly neither right nor wrong.

They were clearly ‘black’ and ‘sapphire’, so it is true that I was very worried about what to do with them.

If we leave it alone, it is like letting thieves loose, and if we turn a blind eye, it is no different from a time bomb that could explode at any moment.

That’s why I was leaning heavily towards disbanding them, but even that wasn’t possible because there were more people than expected.

There were a whopping 4,000 people.

It was impossible to disperse a force of unmanned personnel that was no different from an ‘army’ in scale without any countermeasures.

So I worried a lot, but if there was one thing I had hoped for, it was that fortunately, they were not ‘demons’.

Jo Gye-ak was only trying to use them.

It didn’t seem like he had any intention of recovering through the Demonic Cult.

It is said that when we are scattered, we are the people, but when we are united, we are thieves.

They probably weren’t thieves from the beginning.

Most of them ended up like that because they couldn’t stand the hunger and were looking for a way to survive.

Officials from other provinces who are not as upright and honest as those from Jiangxi Province.

They say that no one can avoid being robbed after starving for three days, so they decided to give them one more chance.

There is nothing we can do about the stains of the past that have already passed, but there is a chance to atone for those sins. It is not in the way of justice or righteousness, but in the way of chivalry.

They were a group of black people who could neither be righteous nor just, but they were not ‘demons’ and so they could be ‘chivalrous’.

Of course, even so, the fact that they are ultimately a group of black people and ‘thieves’ did not change.

Even now, they are only following me, having no choice but to submit to my power, so I did not think they would faithfully carry out their duty of chivalry.

So I released the goods.

Persistence is based on perseverance.

In other words, an ‘unchanging mind’ can only exist if it is supported by ‘unchanging wealth.’

No matter how great a master you are, you cannot control a hungry body.

So, isn’t it true that only after your back is warm and your stomach is full can you discuss justice, righteousness, and chivalry?

‘It’s not my money anyway.’

There was no need to act petty when you weren’t even giving me my money.

The treasure accumulated by Jo Gye-ak and the treasury of the Demonic Cult.

As the King of the Yangtze River, I could eat Holadang.

‘Do you know how much merit can be criticized?’

Isn’t that equivalent to the annual budget of three or four provinces?

I still didn’t know how much merit I had accumulated by defeating Jo Gye-ak, but it was an enormous fortune that could easily consume all that merit.

Jo Gye-ak was also very greedy, fearing that someone might think he was a member of the Demonic Cult.

Anyway, since I was doing a favor with someone else’s money, there was nothing to be afraid of.

But what the heck.

“All my life…! I will serve and follow the Great King all my life!”

Was the atmosphere unusual?

It wasn’t just unusual, it was completely different from what I expected······.

A front view with the mask adjusted.

“From now on, the King and I will consider ourselves as one!”

“Any criticism of the King will be considered as criticism of me, and any attack on the King will be considered as an attack on me!!”

“I, Galpyeongsam! I will follow and protect the Great King with my life!”

Aren’t these the unmanned soldiers of the Jang Gangsu River who are loyal to me?

No, but what kind of a group of thieves are these that have ‘loyalty’?

If you put a knife in my back, it’s just a knife.

“Oh my…! Mother, even though I was a loser and a troublemaker, our mother believed in me until the end….”

“I am not a proud father, so I have not been able to reveal to my daughter that I am her father…”

“Khuu …

How much more so, isn’t it that tears of joy flow down your face?

Not only the thirty-six executives, but also the 4,000 unmanned personnel were all moved to tears······.

My body was already in a state of utter exhaustion, and I was dying from trying to show off my energy.

“The Dragon of the Yangtze River!!”

“Our eternal king!!”

Waaaa …

······I was really starting to have a headache.

* * *

Jiangsu Province, located at the end of the continent.

Jiangsu Province is a region bordering the East China Sea and where the Yangtze River ends. All logistics along the Yangtze River eventually end in Jiangsu Province and begin again in Jiangsu Province, so Jiangsu Province has been called the ‘center of trade’ since ancient times.

There was no other reason why most of the world’s famous giants had their headquarters in Jiangsu Province.

The capital of this Jiangsu Province was ‘Nanjing City (南京市)’. This means that if the capital in the north where the imperial family, the ruler of the world, resided was ‘Beijing City (北京市),’ then the name ‘Nanjing’, meaning the capital in the south, was given.

Accordingly, Nanjing was also classified as a direct imperial municipality in terms of administrative districts, and like Beijing, it was once excluded from the administrative districts of Jiangsu Province as a ‘special city’.

However, if that happens, the royal family will exist in both the ‘North and the South’ at the same time, and two suns will exist under the sky.

In the end, Nanjing was downgraded from a special city to a ‘sub-provincial city’, maintaining its status as a special city but being incorporated into the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.

Jiangsu Province was not only an important region as a trade center, but also as a food production area.

The ‘Yangtze River Delta’ at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province feeds the Central Plains.

As such a saying goes, Jiangsu Province was the core and center of not only trade but also food production.

If Beijing is the center of ‘politics’, Nanjing can be said to be the center of ‘economy’.

Therefore, the position of the provincial governor of Jiangsu Province was by far the highest compared to other provinces.

Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province.

Among the many high-ranking officials gathered in a splendid and luxurious palace.

“I think you all have heard the news that the King of the Yangtze River has changed.”

The provincial governor of Jiangsu Province, Cheon San-ja, opened his mouth as if reciting a poem.

“We also heard that the King of the Yangtze River has changed···..”

“It was so sudden···.”

“Things happened so quickly that I didn’t even have time to do anything···.”

High-ranking officials from other provinces watched Cheon San-ja’s expression and spoke up.

Cheon San-ja calmly raised his head and looked at each of the people sitting in the high-class tower. High-ranking officials from the provinces along the Yangtze River were gathered together, but among them, the officials from ‘Jiangxi Province’ were nowhere to be seen.

Twenty years ago, the lord of Jiangxi Province was assassinated and another lord took over temporarily, and Jiangxi Province emerged from the shadow of Tian Shanzi.

He was persuaded through all kinds of pressure, but when the imperial bloodline of ‘Ju Gwan-cheon’ took hold next to the lord of Gangseo Province, Cheon San-ja could no longer do anything.

Even though he was the lord of Jiangsu Province, Cheonsanja, he could not touch the imperial family, so Jiangxi Province was completely out of Cheonsanja’s grasp.

Rather, it was the subject of the main character who found fault with everything, which was already a headache, but suddenly even the Yangtze River was causing trouble.

“I heard that the new king is called the Cloud Dragon of the Yangtze River···.”

“I guess I still don’t know anything.”

That would be the case, since the new King of the Yangtze had no contact with Cheonsanja.

It seemed like he had a lot of strength in his shoulders because he was the King of the Yangtze River, but he was only a ‘King’ among them.

“Even if the guard dog changes, the owner of the house doesn’t change···.”

To the high-ranking officials gathered here, the King of the Yangtze was nothing more than a ‘dog’ guarding the house.

Well water does not violate river water.

Well water. That is, the water of the martial arts world called a well.

Do not trespass on the river water. In other words, do not trespass on the water of the river called the royal family and the government.

No matter how much you control the flow of the Yangtze River, without the permission of the officials gathered here, and furthermore, without the permission of the people of Cheonsan, it is nothing.

“A dog that runs wild without knowing where to go needs to be leashed.”

Cheon San-ja hummed softly.

“But if the dog doesn’t recognize its owner and barks···.”

Cheon San-ja didn’t bother to say anything after that.

* * *

Waaaa …

A huge roar echoes throughout the entire lake.

The cheering that showed no signs of stopping was on the verge of making my head bang and bursting.

At that time, I was desperately trying to hold my head, which was about to explode.

“I···.”

I heard the old general calling me.