It Became a Symbol of the Bronze Age - Chapter 343



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Episode 343. Posuk-ah (1)

In the end, the surrounding feudal lords who could divide the Zheng and Song dynasties agreed to participate in the Battle of Asadal.

However, not all the countries of Central Plains were around Zheng and Song.

-But, will Jin stay still? If this continues, Jin will come into contact with Asadal.

-There will be no problem. If Asadal attacks my country, Asadal will mobilize the forces of the nomads in the north.

-Aha, that’s right! I see!

When the northern nomads were bored, they attacked the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

However, if Asadal gathers the northern nomads to fight against his country, a vacuum will be created in the north.

Meanwhile, the Eastern Jin will try to restore the domestic order that has been in disarray due to long-standing conflict and division. After all, Jin is currently the second most populous state in the Central Plains (the first is the state of Qi, which occupied half of Song, Zheng, and Lu).

For them, restoring domestic order was a more important priority than coveting North China.

Even if Asadal takes over Gyehyeon, there is a strong mountain called Taehangsan Mountain Range between Jin and Gyehyeon.

For them, they can just sit back and watch the fire across the river and reap the profits.

And in this situation, there are two people who are left out.

-What about Chu and Qin?

These two countries are too far away from my country’s front line.

Therefore, while the eyes of the Central Plains are focused on our country, we may strike at the rear of other vassal states…

-To the south of Qin is Ba Shu, where the martial arts alliance of Ying Chu, which is on bad terms with Western Jin, is sharpening its swords. They will not be able to vacate the land easily.

-What about the state of Cho?

-If you want to go to North China, you have to go through the mountains, but the martial artists are entrenched in each mountain and are holding out. They have never broken through the martial artists before.

Due to the existence of the Murim people, Jin and Cho were isolated.

Asadal, with the support of the entire Central Plains, could easily defeat my country.

That’s why.

The people of Zhongyuan now praised Asadal in return.

-Wow, even a distant people like Asadal respect the emperor, so who would have thought that our country, which received the favor of the Zhou Dynasty, would act like this? If Yeo Sang had seen Jiang So Baek, he would have strangled him.

-That’s right!

-I think it wouldn’t be a bad idea to give Asadal the position of vassal of my country once the work is over.

King Zhou Hee also heard this news.

He said.

-I think that’s something we’ll discuss later.

Of course, King Zhou Hee has no intention of appointing Asadal as a vassal. It is not that he is trying to wipe his mouth, but rather the opposite.

‘If that happens, Asadal won’t like it very much. It’ll be like going from being brothers to being subjects.’

King Juhee was full of thoughts of taking this opportunity to score points with Asadal.

Because they were the only ones who could restore the Zhou Dynasty to its former glory.

***

When Posuk heard all this, he despaired.

“When on earth did it get to this point…”

Judging from his reaction, it seemed that Posuk had no idea about this. It was worth coming down with the Gae-gae-do people as soon as the work in Zhou was over.

“However, all of this is when Asadal pressures us with ‘sufficient forces’. Does Asadal have the capacity to do that? You attacked Wol not long ago, and even the leader of Asadal is Gwan-o?”

“Rather, because of that, we will have to fight a war. If we don’t, Asadal will be in danger. We cannot avoid fighting. We have no intention of avoiding it.”

“No matter how much money Asadal has, it will be impossible!”

“It’s the coffin that’s taken care of. You’re his friend, so you know. Do you think he can’t do it?”

Park Mun-su, famous as a secret royal inspector, received orders from King Yeongjo and built a fleet without a single penny.

Moreover, Gwan-O creates an army with the strong support of the Pungbaek Sangdan.

“I don’t think so.”

“…Wow, I’m jealous.”

Posuk suddenly spoke out of the blue.

“It seems like Guan Yi is recognized there.”

“If you come to Asadal, you will be treated the same way.”

“…Let’s skip the nonsense. We haven’t gotten to the main point yet. Why did you come to see me? Of all people, risking being caught as a hostage?”

“For two things.”

I said.

“First is my daughter Yeoreum who lives in the villa.”

Summer is Dalbi’s younger sister, but she is also my adopted daughter.

Posuk asked.

“Are you the monarch’s wife?”

The wife of a monarch, not a queen.

As expected, Posuk seems to be quite dissatisfied with Kang So-baek’s claim to the throne. I nodded.

“That’s right. Before the battle, I want to rescue Summer. I heard she’s using a villa. If we have someone to help, wouldn’t it be possible to rescue her?”

“…Are you asking me for help?”

“There is a second reason left.”

“What is it?”

“You.”

I said.

“Guan Yi was very saddened when he heard of the recent humiliations you have suffered in my country. He asked me to come and save you.”

“…Will you take me to Asadal?”

“The martial artist who came with me now has 200 points. With this, you should be able to rescue Yeoreum and escape to Naeminbu with your family.”

At those words, Posuk made a face of hurt pride.

“I am a subject of my country. I will not capture you out of loyalty to you and your courage. Just go back.”

“Yes. You are the god of provision.”

I asked.

“But, are you the king’s subject?”

I roughly knew Posuk-ah’s situation.

He is currently a prime minister in name only, but in reality he is treated like a sack of barley borrowed from a sack of barley.

“You have been loyal to the king, but it seems the king does not accept your loyalty.”

“Even if the army abandons God, God will not abandon the army. Go back.”

“You want to remain loyal. However, there is a problem.”

“What if there’s a problem?”

I said.

“If you remain loyal, your descendants may remain traitors.”

When Posuk-ah heard that, she looked at me as if she was dumbfounded. She seemed to be offended.

“Why do you say such cruel things?”

I didn’t answer that question, and tried to keep a mysterious expression on my face. It was something that was impossible to explain in the first place.

Because this was future knowledge.

Unlike Po-suk, who was known as a symbol of loyalty, his descendants are helping to ruin our country.

It was worth it.

After his death, King Jehwan kept the three evil men by his side: Yeok-a, Sucho, and Gae-bok. These men were the greatest traitors of all time.

And this traitor kills Duke Huan. It is worse than killing him directly. He locks the old Duke Huan in a room and controls the state affairs, and then forgets about him. Duke Huan starves to death there.

It was 2,000 years before the Dwiju Incident in Joseon. This may be why China is called a great power.

If the state of affairs is run like that, the state of affairs will literally become a battleground for traitors. No one who is not a traitor can survive.

Guan Yi’s descendants were not traitors. They held lowly and low-ranking positions.

The descendants of Posuk-ah were different.

They chose the path of treachery. At that time, the only way to make a name for one’s country was to play the treacherous game.

They manipulate the Kang family and even frame and drive out Sima Yangju, a war hero who did everything he could to save his country. This is also 2,000 years before Won Gyun’s frame-up of Yi Sun-sin.

But, there’s no way to explain it?

Agol said, in times like these, it’s better to be content with just planting a seed of doubt and shamelessly go out there.

“Do you think what I am saying is a lie?”

“That is an insult to me.”

“So, what are you going to do?”

Posuk said.

“Leave immediately.”

“Are you sending it?”

“You are an envoy. However, if others see you, they will threaten you. My country cannot be treated as a country that does not treat its envoys.”

Posuk, who values ​​benevolence, let me go even though he knew that capturing me would be for his immediate gain.

I really like it.

I said.

“…I will settle down near Mt. Taishan. I will wait a week. If I don’t hear from you during that time, I will leave.”

***

As soon as Posuk heard this news, he went to the palace.

To inform you of information.

Of course, it is obvious that you will be asked where the information came from.

Posuk is just going to say it proudly. Poongbaek has come to see me. Some people will blame me for not catching him and call me a traitor… but that’s okay.

Criticism is momentary, but benevolence is eternal.

What good is it for me to cover myself in filth for the sake of my own integrity?

He shouted at the gate.

“Open the gates, you gatekeepers! I am here!”

“It’s too late now. Come back later!”

If Po-suk was a person from the future like Feng-baek, he might have recalled the story of Cao Cao.

When Cao Cao was a gatekeeper, he stopped the uncle of the powerful official Jian Shi, who was trying to pass by after curfew.

He even beat him with a stick. The ten eunuchs tried to grind Cao Cao to death, but in return, Cao Cao’s fame became known throughout the Central Plains.

So is this gatekeeper a spirited young man like Cao Cao?

That can’t be. Cao Cao’s fan was Jian Shi’s uncle. He didn’t really hold a high position. He was just a ruffian who guarded Ho Ga.

However, bureaucrats are different. The affairs of a country are always urgent, and bureaucrats are exempt from such curfews.

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If Cao Cao had killed Jian Shi, who was not Jian Shi’s uncle, he would not have been famous, but would have been called a brat and had his balls cut off. Jian Shi was one of the ten eunuchs at the time and an important official.

And the same goes for Posuk. He is the prime minister of his country, and things like curfews don’t apply to him.

However, the gatekeeper stopped the foreman. Then the foreman shouted.

“Don’t you know me? I am Posuk! I am the prime minister of my country!”

“Entry is not permitted.”

By this point it was certain.

The gatekeeper is now blatantly ignoring the foreman.

There was also a ‘rude’ man in Joseon who dared to film himself eating in front of Crown Prince Sado who was locked up in a rice chest. It was probably a performance to show to King Yeongjo. (Unfortunately, the next king after Yeongjo was King Jeongjo, and this man died first as soon as King Jeongjo became king.)

The situation is similar now.

The gatekeeper deliberately blocked Posuk. His purpose was probably to score points with the official who disliked Posuk.

The moment I thought about that.

“Haha, Prime Minister. What are you doing at this late hour?”

Next to him, a man approached, making a rumbling sound. He was followed by a crowd of people, and the smell of meat and fish rose.

“…What is it?”

“Haha, you even know the name of a lowly chef. I am truly so grateful.”

Yeok-ah, the palace cook.

This guy is one of the people that Posuk-ah hates the most. Recently, Yeok-ah boiled my three-year-old child and offered it to Kang So-baek.

The reason was absurd. Kang So-baek joked, “It seems like there is no food I haven’t eaten except for the human flesh that the Song people eat.”

Yeok-ah took this opportunity and offered up her own child. Kang So-baek did not eat it, but instead praised Yeok-ah greatly.

-To boil one’s child and offer it up for sacrifice at the king’s word? Isn’t this the epitome of a subject?

Posuk thought differently. This was madness, this was a madman. This was an act of sacrificing one’s own child to gain power.

That is why Posuk urged Kang So-baek to expel this traitor, but Kang So-baek did not listen to him.

-These days, my teacher only says things I don’t want to hear. No matter how much a teacher’s role is to correct his students’ mistakes, I am now the king of a country.

When the body grows distant, the heart also grows distant. That was the case with Posuk. Unlike in the past, the relationship between Posuk and Kang So-baek was now at a level that could not be described as good even in empty words.

And, after he stepped down, two people took the seat next to Kang So-baek.

Donggwak-ah and Yeok-ah.

Donggwak was better.

He is a straightforward and strong person, so he has a different direction from Posuk-ah, but he is a capable person. Posuk-ah may hate him, but she does not hate him.

But what about the reverse?

He is a cook who can’t read a single line, and he gained trust not through his own skills but through the extraordinary method of boiling his own child and offering it up. From the perspective of a father, anyone who breaks the benevolence of his son is someone who should be despised.

And the servant said to the doorkeeper at the door.

“Open the door.”

“All right!”

To a mere cook, the palace gatekeeper is polite. To the prime minister himself, he is so rude!

Yeok-ah smiled wryly.

“Aren’t you coming in?”

“…Uh, uh.”

“Come in. You guys, why did you block the prime minister’s path? Do you want to be severely punished?”

The janitor who said that playfully teased the gatekeepers, and the gatekeepers laughed and lowered their heads.

“I’m sorry. Please come in.”

The fire broke out inside Posuk. In the history of Yuan, he died from the disease caused by these.

***

Passing through the gate with the help of the servant angered Posuk even more than the gatekeepers had stopped him.

But what’s important now isn’t individual anger.

We need to make this known and take measures to address it.

In the distance, Kang So-baek’s bedroom was visible.

“Tell them I am here.”

“Your Majesty is tired now. There was a banquet this evening.”

“A banquet?”

Posuk frowned.

There was a banquet in the palace, how come I didn’t know about it? he cried.

“I am the prime minister!”

At that shout, the guards opened the door as if they had no choice. Unlike the gatekeeper, the guards had been with the innkeeper for a long time.

“Please wait a moment.”

After so much time had passed.

Po-suk entered the palace. Kang So-baek’s expression was that he openly did not like Po-suk.

“…What’s going on this late at night?”

“I have something urgent to tell you. However, this is a serious matter… Please excuse me.”

As she said that, Posuk-ah looked at the boy sitting on the bed, smiling broadly. His face was covered in powder, and his body smelled like musk. He was a eunuch.

However, Kang So-baek ignored Po-suk’s words.

“Su-cho is a eunuch whom I cherish. He is like my hands and feet, so how could I leave him out when discussing important matters?”

“Are you talking about that eunuch?”

Sucho. Originally, he was a boy who washed the feet and back of Kang So-baek, but he castrated himself and became a eunuch.

The reason is that he is too old to live as a boy any longer, so he wants to remain by the king’s side in this way.

If Yeok-a sacrificed her child, Sucho sacrificed her belongings to gain power.

As you can see this time, he often went into Kang So-baek’s bedroom with her, and it was obvious what was going on inside. Now, the smell of sweat mixed with the smell of incense was present in the palace.

They probably wouldn’t have trained together here, and it’s not often that two men would sweat together in the middle of the night.

People in the world say that Kang So-baek loves Joo-hee and keeps Asadal’s woman Yeoreum at a distance, but Po-suk-ah thinks that Yeoreum has distanced herself from him because of Sucho.

Since this guy had so much trust from Kang So-baek, it was obvious that he would soon grow into a traitor.

Of course, male generals are not uncommon in this central plains. Rather, it is recommended. At least it does not disrupt the succession structure. However.

“It’s too big a deal to hear with interest.”

“Then I won’t listen.”

Kang So-baek said so.

Posuk was surprised.

“What are you talking about! It’s important!”

“It’s important, so let’s listen together.”

“Would I have come here in the middle of the night for no reason?”

“Yes. You came in the middle of the night. Master, I’ve been so busy lately. I work so hard during the day that I don’t even have time to close my eyes. Why did you come in the middle of the night?”

Kang So-baek said.

“I am the king. Has it ever occurred to a subject to come and go from the king’s bedroom at night without permission?”

When Posuk heard those words, he felt all the strength drain from his body. The one who had once been his brilliant disciple no longer regarded him as his master.

Moreover, he is completely intoxicated by the empty title of ‘Son of Heaven’. Even the Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty does not treat his prime ministers so ill-manneredly.

He thinks of himself as the superior of the Emperor.

Kang So-baek, obsessed with vanity, disappointed in Po-suk, and infatuated with the sweet words of the traitors, no longer listened to Po-suk-ah.

“What do you think, are you going to say something?”

Posuk said, closing his eyes tightly.

“…No. I’ll go back now.”

“Good. Go ahead. I guess I’ll go to sleep now.”

As soon as the door closed like that.

A few seconds of voice echoed through the room.

Posuk looked up at the sky.

The moon was shining brightly.

‘I’ve been completely abandoned.’

The light was blinding his eyes.

***

Posuk walked out of the palace, stumbling.

“…ha.”

Kang So-baek is his disciple.

When he raised him, he felt joy.

When he defeated Gongsun Wuji and regained the throne, he was overjoyed.

When he took over Yan, he even shed tears.

but.

That disciple just pushed Posuk-ah away.

Despair, as if one had lost a child.

However.

His despair did not end there.

“…father?”

“you?”

On his way out of the palace, Po-suk found his son, Po-yu. He is currently working as a low-ranking official, so it is only natural that he is in the palace.

But the problem was the people I was with.

“Hehe, you! Where are you going!”

The place where the baby just came out is the kitchen.

“You should have one more drink!”

The man waving at Posuk’s son there was the traitor that Posuk hated so much.

“You, you, what did you do? Drinking alcohol privately in the palace?”

“That, that. The Lady of Reverse for a moment…”

“Your Majesty? Is he your superior? He’s just a cook!”

As I shouted that, the girl came out quietly.

The smell of alcohol wafted from his mouth. Yeok-ah put her arm around Foryou’s shoulder.

“Haha, the old sage once said that a close friend has nothing to do with social status. Besides, if there is such a filial son, I am also happy.”

“Filial son… you say?”

“Your Majesty the Duke said, ‘Please speak well to the Emperor and let him see Prince Posuk in a better light…’ I’m not really that kind of person, but I can’t help but shed tears.”

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