It Became a Symbol of the Bronze Age - Chapter 346



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Episode 346. Show Me The Money (2)

Thirty people died while transporting gold to Haedongseong.

To be exact, Guan O killed him.

“How dare you try to steal our money? Are you still human after doing that?”

Guan Yi shouted with his face turned pale.

I expected there would be thieves, of course.

There must be someone who would be greedy when they see all those gold and silver treasures.

However, there was something else that made Guan Yi feel ashamed.

“All of them… are my subordinates?”

All three groups caught stealing were people brought in by Guanwu. I thought I had selected people I thought were trustworthy, but that was the case.

In contrast, the Shinki Knights never touched the gold and silver they saw. In the first place, they were the ones who caught the three groups of thieves.

‘…It’s the end.’

There was a reason Dalby strongly recommended it as trustworthy. And it was worth it.

He held honorable positions such as former sheriff and dog groomer.

Afterwards, it was given the name ‘New Knights’ and took on a religious name and mission.

They were the ones who received excellent treatment from the Dalbi Sangdan. Their credit rating was outstanding, and the gold in front of them could not shake their momentum.

Besides, since Dalbi Sangdan had to move gold and silver a lot in the first place, there were many opportunities for theft.

Anyone who got involved in stealing would literally have their balls cut off or their hands cut off, so this was a group that had already begun its own midnight self-purification(?) process a long time ago.

So, with the help of the new knights, Guan Yi transported a huge amount of silver and gold. In addition, there were also cloves and nutmeg that had just arrived.

And in the middle of it, Gwan-oh stopped by Hae-dong-seong’s house and also robbed his warehouse.

Compared to what he had received from Dalbi, it was nothing, but he had accumulated quite a bit of wealth. He took all of it and went to Haedongseong’s barracks and shouted.

“This is all the wealth I have accumulated, and the wealth that Asadal’s benefactor, Lord Poongbaek, has given to Asadal. I want to use all of this wealth to wage war against my country!”

When Guan Yi declared, Barang said:

“What a wealth of gold and silver.”

“Yes.”

“Where are you going to use it?”

“I will use two of the seven victories to ask for reinforcements from my brothers in the plains, and use the rest for the soldiers of Asadal. I will go to the north myself.”

“That long way?”

“Yes, please allow me!”

“Guan-Oya, how can I believe that!”

Barang shouted like that on purpose.

“You are Jane, so you might take them and offer them up to your country!”

“Absolutely not!”

Guan Yi shouted.

“My country may have given birth to me, but it was Asadal who raised me. How could the favor of giving birth be greater than the favor of raising me?

Moreover, the one who gave birth to me persecutes my close friend and my benefactor’s family. How can I, as a human being, endure this?”

Guan Yi, who had said that, took off his hat and held a knife to his neck as if he was resentful.

“If you don’t believe me, I’d rather commit suicide here!”

As he said this, Guan Yu raised his dagger.

At that moment.

grasp!

Hanho, who ran like lightning, kicked Gwan-o’s wrist. The force broke his wrist and sent the sword handle flying away.

Hanho said.

“President Barang. This guy really tried to stab me.”

“…I see, I see.”

“How about trusting me just once?”

Poongbaek, seeing that sight, let out a loud noise.

‘What, you have to make sense.’

To be honest, this is all nonsense.

How could Guan Yi take Asadal’s gold and go to his country? It is simply impossible.

And then there’s the suicide commotion?

‘This is really East Asian, but…’

I was reminded of Cao Cao, who tried to kill himself after stepping on a wheat field, but ended up getting stabbed in the head with his own hair… I also thought of the students of Sungkyunkwan who, when they didn’t like the king, would put an axe next to their head and make a petition.

Still, whatever.

The fact that he did this a lot means that it was pretty effective. It still is.

“Great citizens of Asadal! I, Hanho, will ask you!”

Hanho raised his dagger and shouted.

“Is this person who stabs his neck with a dagger in front of you and sacrifices all his wealth to lead the battles of his country a person of the nation or a person of Asadal?”

People were taken aback by the question. It was not so much the content as the suddenness of the question.

At that moment, some people shouted.

“It’s Asadal!”

“If he is an Asadal person, we will be proud! However, if you disparage the author by calling him a Gena person, we should be ashamed! Even the Gena people who came to Asadal offered all their wealth, so what are those who cursed that Guanwu doing now?”

It is unlikely that he would have made up such a long story in such a short time. If he were someone who could do that, he should have been a member of the National Assembly long ago, not a citizen.

So, it’s the trumpet that Agol planted.

It must be a pre-written script.

But this is what a public speech is like.

Once the floodgates of shouting begin to open.

“He is Asadal!”

The effect is amazing.

“He is indeed Asadal!”

“The person who came is Asadal!”

“President Guan-O! President Guan-O!”

So, it’s the beginning of winter in the 10th year of Barang.

The breaths of the citizens came together to create a huge cumulonimbus cloud called the ‘Declaration of War.’

Yes, next spring.

The countless raindrops that fall from those cumulonimbus clouds will turn my country’s territory upside down.

***

It only took one winter season for the news of Guan Yi’s departure for the north after donating his wealth to spread throughout Asadal.

“Guan-o gave me all my wealth!”

“It’s chaos now, chaos!”

Some people felt patriotic about this.

To some, this news was truly shocking.

“Do we have to give everything we have for this?”

“Until now, I’ve been attacking Guan Yi as a person from my country, but if he does this…”

The lawmakers who had been attacking Guan Yi up until now realized that their position had become very ambiguous.

“That’s what I’m saying. Even Guan Yi, who we attacked as our own people, donated all his wealth, so if we, who cursed him, don’t donate… the citizens will kill us!”

For that reason.

The influential figures and lawmakers of Asadal who were attacking Guanwu ‘voluntarily’ offered up troops.

For Asadal, it was tantamount to slashing the power of threats and potential instigators from the rear.

That’s not all.

“The nobles will donate money on their own?”

“Even in the Central Plains, it is said that the nobles never voluntarily donated money when war broke out?”

“As expected, it’s Asadal! Long live Asadal! Asadal!”

“I can’t stand this!”

“Hey, where are you going!”

“The man’s blood is boiling! Don’t you see? Now is the time to get ahead!”

Citizens who did not know the full context of the situation simply became engrossed in their nationalism, saying, “This is what our lawmakers are like!” and began to excitedly submit their military service applications.

“You?”

“I’m a bit…”

“Look at this guy, weren’t you the one who cried out that Guanwu was a Qin and that we shouldn’t go to war, and that we should go to war immediately? Now you’re trying to back out!”

The man’s face crumpled at those words. The reason the man was spreading these rumors was because the chief who attacked Guanwu paid him to do so.

But I can’t tell you the truth.

If you do that, you’ll end up like some piece of trash who goes around shouting for war for my money.

And if you don’t do it here? You’ll be branded trash in the community right away.

“…You fucking bastard!”

Many trumpeters were dismayed. They were the limbs of those who opposed Guan Wu, so they had lost not only their soldiers but also their limbs.

like that.

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Asadal successfully resolved diplomatic issues with the Central Plains, internal political issues, and the military’s financial problems.

***

Asadal’s war department has been busy these days because of one person.

“Posuk Gong. This is Asadal fried chicken.”

“…I don’t think so.”

The reason is because of the preservatives.

He is the prime minister of my country and has a lot of information about my country’s army.

That’s why Han Jin, who had recently returned from his work in the South, tried quite hard to steal some of his country’s military secrets through this foreskin.

“…Are you really going to do this?”

“Just kill me. What good is it for someone like me to live?”

Posuk remained silent. No, it was more than that.

He didn’t even attempt suicide. If he died here, it would be a shame for Guanwu.

But that was it. He just stayed in his room all day and didn’t meet anyone.

His son, Poyu, came and advised him to come out of the room, but Posuk said, “You have made me a disloyal traitor,” and even kicked him out.

‘…It might have been better if there was a coffin.’

Hanjin thought so, but in reality, it seemed like even if Guanwu was there, not much would change.

‘It’s fortunate that we have those kids.’

Posuk’s children, including Poyu, also knew some information about their country. However, it would never have been Posuk-ah, who had been a prime minister.

‘With the best source of information right in front of us, we’re just picking on weeds… I’m going crazy.’

Hanjin literally wanted to open Lee Ja’s mouth ‘at any cost’, even torture.

But, as for the question of whether torture would be considered a crime against this type of person, there is nothing to say. In the first place, the moment you torture Posuk, you will lose all information that can be extracted from his cooperative children.

[Women, money, fame, power. Posuk remains silent about all of them.]

[He didn’t like Asadal’s clothes, so he had to wear Jungwon’s clothes. The process of dressing him in Jungwon’s clothes wasn’t easy. He chose to dress himself.]

[I don’t eat well. It’s not that I don’t eat at all, but there are more days when I eat very little and even then I skip it. I’m worried that I’ll become weak and die if I keep doing this.]

That’s why Hanjin wrote the report like that.

After reading the report, Varang, who has less than a month left in office, gave a simple prescription.

“Agol.”

“…Are you quitting again?”

“Open your mouth somehow. I only trust you.”

Agol, Asadal’s strongest diplomat who succeeded in persuading the Asadal council members and Shumu, was deployed.

And of course, Agol was Agol.

After spending a few days with this forester, Agol came up with a pretty good idea.

“Let us seat his sons in Asadal’s place. They will be good military posts for the coming war.”

“You want to put someone who betrayed my country in a military position? Is that right? What if he betrays me again?”

“The safest thing in the world is a traitor. If you betray twice, you die.”

To Agol’s words, Barang answered.

“According to the report… Posuk, no matter what, seemed to have a great love for his children. If those children were to enter the Asadal military and stand in the line of battle… Posuk would also open his mouth out of concern for his children’s death. Is that what he meant?”

“That’s not the case. But it’s a little different.”

“different?”

“Let’s put those kids in somewhat unsuitable seats and have a meeting in front of Posuk’s house every day.”

“…What the hell is that?”

Agol laughed.

“In the past, President Han Ho would always sigh at excessive things. However, if something was wrong, he would rush out and do the work first. That was a leading example, but was that all there was to it?”

“…Then what happened?”

“It’s frustrating. Why do they do it like that? Even President Han Ho-chul always said, ‘That’s not how it’s done…’ when it comes to military service.”

The barangay was cleaned up.

“Posuk is a man of strong character, but he is also obsessed with his work. But in this situation, what will happen if his child shows signs of ruining the job?”

“…You’re running out because you’re so frustrated?”

“I think so. There was something similar in the report.”

Agol pointed out a line in the report.

Everyone passed it over as nothing special, but the story was that when the soldiers, unfamiliar with the clothing of the Central Plains, tried to dress him in clothes but failed every time, Po-suk sighed deeply and dressed himself.

“Wealth, fame, power. They’re all good, but… they’re not suitable for use from the beginning. I’m going to try to move the foreskin with the feeling of ‘stuffiness.’”

Baran was a little skeptical, but at the moment, there was no one else he could trust besides Agol.

“Just give it a try. The outcome of the war is in your hands.”

***

Of course, Asadal wasn’t the only one who was busy.

At that time, my country was also busy.

“What on earth is going on!”

Emperor Jiang Xiaobai shouted.

He’s not stupid. Even knowing the current situation, he wouldn’t say something like, ‘Asadal won’t come to war.’

“Asadal kidnapped Posuk and Yeoreum! Isn’t this a blatant declaration of war?”

Actually, the expression ‘kidnapping’ is strange. Both Posuk and Yeoreum went on their own.

But you can’t say that the royal family and the queen betrayed you. That would be the same as saying that my country is a mess.

That’s why they officially claimed that Asadal had kidnapped them.

Of course it’s bullshit.

Not only Posuk, but his entire family disappeared. You can’t kidnap an entire family from Imchi overnight. Posuk and Yeoreum left on their own.

But in any case, it is better to say, “A country where two traitors emerge overnight” than “A country where a public servant is kidnapped after drinking and becoming lax.”

At least if it’s kidnapping, I can curse openly.

If war is going to happen anyway, it’s better to just make the other side a bastard.

So, my country knew that Asadal was participating in the war.

This made Kang So-baek’s head hurt.

“Didn’t you clearly say that Asadal has no war capabilities!”

At his shout, Donggwak-ah, who had become the prime minister in place of Posuk-ah, bowed his head.

“I guess… we misunderstood Asadal.”

“Us? Did you say us?”

Kang So-baek nitpicked over trivial remarks. Of course, it was Kang So-baek who said, “The leader of Asadal is Gwan-o, a man from my country, and since he has exerted his power in the south this time, it seems like he won’t be able to participate in the war.”

However, a monarch should originally wipe his mouth well, and when a monarch wipes his mouth, it is always the job of an official to turn over the spit.

Donggwak-ah, who knew this, quickly corrected himself.

“It was my mistake, Your Majesty.”

“Fuck…”

A curse came out through Kang So-baek’s teeth.

“Posuk-ah ran away, and he didn’t run away alone. His family and Yeoreum ran away together. Posuk is good at the military of our country, and Yeoreum is what we have…”

For a moment, Kang So-baek thought of the words, “The cards we have,” but swallowed them. Asadal was the originator of mahjong. He hated Asadal so much that he couldn’t even tolerate such trivial things.

“…What on earth should I do?”

“For now, we have to do it our way.”

“If it were up to us?”

“We must continue to attack Lu. If we attack Lu and take over all of Shandong, we will be able to put pressure on the people in any case.”

“Then what about Asadal?”

“First, send an envoy to the north.”

“If you say the North… you mean the grasslands?”

“Yes.”

At Donggwak-ah’s answer, Kang So-baek frowned.

“They are already no different from Asadal’s limbs, so why should we send an envoy to them?”

“Because we have to cut off their limbs.”

Donggwaka said.

“Asadal will probably ask for reinforcements from those in the north this time.”

“…I guess so.”

Kang So-baek also knew how to read the situation to that extent.

“First of all, they will need soldiers, so they will ask for reinforcements. But that won’t be all. They don’t want to leave the mainland empty while leaving the north alone. They will want to make sure.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Donggwaka said.

“In other words, if we don’t receive reinforcements from the north, it will be quite difficult for Asadal to move. Even though the current north is friendly with Asadal, they are not Asadal. How can we guarantee that the northern barbarians won’t attack Asadal while Asadal is targeting us?”

“Indeed. But how can we persuade those northern barbarians?”

Usually gold and silver.

Those are the things that Asadal also diligently spread. In order to break that long-standing trust, you would have to spread several times more than Asadal, but well… No matter how wealthy a commercial power my country is, it would be difficult to get to that level.

Donggwak-ah said:

“There is only one way. Please give me Gye-hyeon, the capital of the former Yan state.”

At those words, Kang So-baek’s expression crumpled without mercy.

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