It Became a Symbol of the Bronze Age - Chapter 353



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Episode 353. Shaking my country (3)

The men guarding a village south of Jesu discovered a group of beggars coming down from the north.

“…Are you a refugee?’

It was a really stupid question to ask during a war. Of course, when there is war, there are refugees.

But this war was a little different.

Because even after the war, there were strangely few refugees. Some said that Asadal had killed them all, while others said that Asadal had been defeated.

Although it was a minority, some said that Asadal had bestowed good governance comparable to that of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of old, and that they had voluntarily stayed. To be honest, it was hard to believe.

So the men asked,

“Who are you?”

“I am the father of Yeonseo!”

“If it’s the Yeonseo Daebu…!”

The people of my country were surprised when they heard those words.

The appearance of the saw and the godfather are slightly different in each country.

The Sawa and the great men of the country shave their heads, have tattoos, and wear gold necklaces.

The scholars and high officials of the state of Noh are most similar to the image of a ‘scholar’ that 21st century people have in mind, except for the pointed hat and topknot that are typical of Joseon.

They enjoy wearing clean clothes, keep their hair neat, and wear hats to cover their heads.

And the nobles of my country are the most splendid in all the regions of the present Central Plains.

They wear silk clothes embroidered with gold thread, their hats are tall and flat as if they were holding up the sky, and they carry large swords in thick belts.

That’s why the people of my country couldn’t believe that Lee Ja-ja was the great lord of Yeonseo. It was understandable.

His clothes were so shabby that you could tell they were made of silk only if you looked closely, his hat was nowhere to be found, and his sword seemed to have been lost, but he had put a bamboo cane in its place, as if he had some pride in his appearance.

Of course, it was worth it. Yeonseo Daebu had worked extremely hard to escape. He had broken through Asadal’s light cavalry (he had not realized that Asadal had let it go), and had been exhausted from camping for over 15 days, having circled upstream to avoid the lower reaches of Jesu that Asadal had occupied.

The long war naturally resulted in many refugees, thieves, and robbers. In fact, the three are synonymous.

However, since the godfather and his men were professional soldiers who had trained in martial arts, they were not at risk of being sacked by a few refugees, but the repeated fighting made it difficult to find a safe place.

But if it had ended here,

The people of my country may have accepted that the interest was a royal favor. However, there is another problem.

“As a great master, there should be someone to lead, so why did only the great master and his disciples come?”

What is a godfather and a son?

They are the ones who lead the people. If there had been a rebellion in the north and they had fled, they should have led the people. However, they came alone.

“You do not have the high hat, the large sword, or the silk clothes that are the symbols of a great man of my country. You do not have the chariot and horses that great men ride, and you do not even have the people accompanying you. How can we regard you as a great man of the Yan Dynasty and his family?”

“That is…”

Yeonseo Daeboo made an excuse.

“The looting and arson by the villains was so severe that I had no choice but to come down!”

“Then I understand that you don’t have a high crown or a big sword. But why didn’t the people come together?”

“The work is so urgent…”

“Is it because things are urgent that the great father has abandoned his people and come down? If so, why is the great father called the great father and the person called the person, and how can they reign and be respected by all?”

At that point, Yeonseo Daebu felt something strange.

‘This is a farmer?’

If he were an ordinary farmer, the moment he revealed his identity, he would have bowed down and come in just by his momentum and dignity.

It’s not that he has a flash or anything. It’s just a difference in vocabulary. In fact, one of the biggest criteria that divides superiors and inferiors is the language they use.

Commoners and bureaucrats speak differently, and ordinary people can easily tell that someone is out of the ordinary just by their speech.

It is called majesty, system, and example.

But what about these people today? They convey their will completely, without caring about their own words.

Yeonseo Daebu is not a total idiot.

By this time, he had also realized that something was wrong.

“Yes, who are you?”

“I am a commoner. And, I asked first. Who are you, who dares to pretend to be the Yeonseo Daeboo?”

“I, I am the father of Yeonseo!”

“Then why did you come here alone?”

Yeonseo Daeboo kept his mouth shut.

You shouldn’t speak bluntly.

It’s a bit strange to receive sugar from Asadal and sell grain, but if we do that, our country will be finished.

That is why the Yeonseo Daeboo shouted.

“The reason I came here is because of Asadal’s tyranny. The reason I came here alone is because the people were attacked by Asadal and all of them died!”

Normally, one would be fooled by his rhetoric and earnest words, but unfortunately, the person he was talking to right now was not an ordinary farmer.

“You’re keeping your mouth shut until the very end. Do you really think you’ll come to your senses after tasting a stick of gum?”

Interest, needless to say, is a martial artist.

Among them, it was Sobong, the ark of openness who was in charge of information and backroom operations in the martial arts world.

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“I heard about you. Weren’t you driven out by the people you were leading, rather than by Asadal?”

Sobong felt a thrill as she said these words.

There are so many groups that hate my country, but among them, the martial artists are only a handful.

The people of Murim still remember the past of being betrayed twice by their country. Although they parted ways with a smile in the end, no one knew that the smile was not a real ‘smile’ but a politically motivated evil.

That is why the martial arts alliance of Pachok sent many Gae-dos to this distant country to support Asadal.

Although their numbers were not large and their power was weak, the martial artists had the enormous advantage of being able to blend in with the common people, and by the time the country opened up, they were noblemen who could read and write, even if they lived like beggars.

Sobong dug them up one by one.

“Even if the people were attacked, it is nonsense that not a single person was brought here! Also, if Asadal is exploited, then many refugees should come, but why aren’t any refugees besides you coming?”

“Asadal’s attacks are persistent!”

“That persistent attack only focused on the common people, avoiding the nobles? Oh, I will test that power too! Huh!”

In front of him, Sobong took out a stick and hit Yeonseo Daebu on the head with a shout. Dangdubonggal (當頭棒喝).

Taak-!

“Huh!”

With a short sound, Yeonseo Daebu felt a terrible pain in his head.

Only then did the two men grab the pieces of wood and attack Sobong.

“I had hopes, but I don’t have any strength!”

In my condition, no matter how much of a martial artist I am, there is no way I could be pushed back by a master or a private who has received regular military training.

However, they were extremely hungry and had been walking for a long time. Their weapons broke in the middle, and the moment they saw their own land, they relaxed and thought, ‘We’re alive now!’

“These little bastards deserve a dog-beating bong!”

Sobong swung his baton and hit one of his heads, then turned his body around with the recoil and hit his thigh. Killing two dogs at once, Bongtassanggyeon.

“Inooooohh!”

Yeonseo Daebu grabbed the end of the staff that Sobong was swinging as if he still had a chance.

“Huh?”

Sobong immediately gouged out Yeonseo Daebu’s eyes with his middle finger and stomped on the bamboo stick to take it away. Ogutaljang.

So, he grabbed the eye and rolled around, and hit the buttocks of the great lord of Yeonseo with a loud noise. This was a half-severed blow. It was a blow intended to humiliate rather than strike.

In this way, they literally beat people to death with their herbivorous diet to beat up dogs. In particular, their herbivorous diet was surprising in terms of interrogation.

“Can’t you tell me the truth right away?”

“I… am… against Asadal’s… vices!”

Crack!

“Ugh!”

Yeonseo Daeboo was resolute until the end.

However, the people around him could not do so.

“Ma, I will tell you!”

Among those who were struggling between loyalty to their country and loyalty to their great-uncle, those who chose their great-uncle stepped forward. They knelt and said:

“You are right! We came here because of the people’s rebellion! Asadal, Asadal imposed too little tax. So please, spare my life…!”

If it was Asadal.

Since the information was obtained through torture, I would say it is not very effective.

This is the Central Plains, and the Sawa and Daifu are the ones who enjoy using torture to create information more than anyone else.

“Have you heard, my people? That’s what they say.”

At Sobong’s words, the people kept their mouths shut.

I shouted loudly again.

“And then you tell us to go to the battlefield!”

“Are you telling us to die for you?”

“pup!”

And surprisingly.

Sobong, who was watching this sight, was not cheering along, but was deep in martial arts.

특히 마지막 ‘개새끼’란 말이 그랬다.

‘Tagubongbeop is a martial art that beats dogs. But, what I’m beating right now is a person. But, people are calling him a dog.’

And soon you realize.

‘Tagubong method is not just about beating a dog. The reason why our openness is like a beggar is to observe the lives of the common people from the lowest level. Tagubong is clearly a martial art for beating a dog wearing human skin!’

A smile appeared on Sobong’s face without him knowing it, as he thought about it. If the Hindus from far away saw it, they would definitely call it Nirvana.

“Hey, I had another epiphany today.”

The more you practice martial arts, the more profound it becomes.

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like that.

The Yeonseo Daeboo was hung.

The martial artists took this opportunity to begin their activities once again. They did not miss the opportunity to take revenge on their country… and there was a reason for that, too.

-If this succeeds, dozens of small countries will emerge around my country.

Soyong remembered her conversation with Poongbaek.

Asadal didn’t have anything else in mind from the beginning, except for Gyehyeon and Imchi. If he ate more than that, he would get sick.

Poongbaek knew well the story of the art student with the two-ball moustache. After swallowing up the Sudetenland through the Munich Agreement, he became greedy and ended up ruining the country.

Asadal had to avoid this kind of thing.

The goal was to restore order in the small country by cooperating with the emperor. The plan was to eat up all the honey lands of Imchi and Gyehyeon and return the surrounding areas to the state they were in before the country took over.

So, the idea is to create a sort of small-state alliance.

And Asadal, here, has dealt a mouth-watering deal to the martial arts people.

-I will do my best to spread the spirit of martial arts to those small countries.

This is permission to spread the religion of Murim.

It would be so sweet to just take revenge on my country, but those who received permission to proselytize were truly beaming.

-People, rise up!

-Farmers of the world! Unite!

– Free yourself from the tyranny of your own country! How long are you going to live by giving half of what you make to your country?

-I’m talking about Asadal, you guys!

They began to openly proselytize and propagandize.

-Asadal’s taxes are only one-tenth?

-Oh my god, is this real?

-They even say the military is stronger than us!

-Aren’t they much better than the godfathers!

The people began to respond to this.

-Public sentiment is in turmoil!

-I can’t just sit still!

-Imchi, we have to go to Imchi!

It would have been only natural that the numerous lords and merchants living near the sister-in-law were startled and ran across the Yellow River to Imchi.

***

“…The martial artists have reported that the public sentiment south of Jesu is currently in turmoil.”

I nodded at Hanho’s words.

“That makes sense.”

My tactical Murimin throw seems effective.

If you were a 21st century person, you might think of something like the Red Wave or the French Revolution.

Of course that can’t be the case.

It is incomparable to the time when socialism and republicanism were raging in Europe.

At that time, universities were established here and there, the intellectual class was abundant, and political clubs in pubs guided the people, right?

However, the current central government is, to put it bluntly, intellectuals = vested interests.

In this situation, a systemic revolution is impossible.

If republicanism had seemed destined to dominate the entire Central Plains from the beginning, would the surrounding feudal lords like the Celestial Empire, Zhou, Wei, Jin, and Wu have accepted Asadal?

They’re not stupid either.

That’s because I’m confident it will never spread.

‘Besides, it was already a republic.’

200 years ago from now.

There was an incident where the Queen of Zhou fled due to a peasant uprising. At that time, the dukes and vassals gathered together to rule, led by Duke Zheng and Duke Xiaomu, to fill the vacuum left by the Emperor.

It was called a republic because it was ruled by many people… but the evaluation is quite ambiguous. After 14 years of republic, King Xian of Zhou, the son of Queen Zhou, ascended to the throne again.

This Zhou Dynasty King ruled quite well, and wiped out the Heomyun, Xirong, Buji, and Huaiyi tribes that had been troubling the Zhou Dynasty throughout the Republic.

To use a metaphor, it’s like when Napoleon, who became emperor, took over Russia and Britain and succeeded in unifying Europe.

Perhaps if it had come to this, even the French would have supported the emperor system, saying, “Republic? Why do something like that? Isn’t an iron man the best?”

The central plains are like that right now.

‘Aha, a makeshift system run by incompetent people when there is no emperor?’ If it’s something like that, then you know it well.

-Long live Asadal! Long live Asadal!

-It’s Asadal! We must become Asadal!

-Asadal is the most perfect country, and this can be proven by the mountain point!

Those people of my country who are excitedly shouting for Asadal over there… honestly don’t even know what a republic is. In the first place, the word ‘republic’ doesn’t even appear in their words.

-Taxes are three times cheaper! Taxes are three times cheaper!

Instead, they advertise that the tax is lower.

In the first place, 90% of the reason for the people’s rebellion is taxes.

Look at Hamgyeongdo during the Imjin War.

As soon as Kato entered with the enemy forces, the local leaders, Gyeong-Gyeong-In and Gook-Se-Pil, captured Imhae-Gun and offered him to Kato.

Imhaegun must have felt wronged.

All he did was hide out in Hamgyeong-do under the pretext of taking refuge and abusing married women, stealing cattle from the people to farm and eating beef every day… His actions were similar to those of Prince Yangnyeong in the past, but the crazy traitors of Hamgyeong-do took him and offered him up.

This is probably why our ancestors called Hamgyeong-do the birthplace of rebellion.

Anyway… Thanks to this, the Guksepil brothers from the border received official positions from Kato, and the people of Hamgyeong Province also began to think, ‘Wouldn’t Japan be better than Imhaegun?’

therefore.

-Oni General (meaning Kato), what is this?

-It’s taxes.

-159 do in 1 game? Didn’t you misspell 159 do?

-159 is correct.

-300 heads come out in 1 game, but 159 heads????

Until the ‘55% tax rate’ was hit.

It is not necessarily the case that high taxes were imposed only on Joseon.

Just during the Warring States period in Japan itself, taxes of that level were common. It was a country that had been in a civil war for 100 years.

But, this is a Japanese story.

It felt absurd to a Korean.

There is a record that during the chaos of the Three Jeongs, the court at the time was shocked when they saw a report that said, “There were even instances of taking 180 heads in one Gyeol,” and asked, “What, does this make sense?”

Of course, it didn’t make sense, and the Hong Gyeong-rae Rebellion and the Imjin Peasant Uprising all broke out.

The same goes for the Imjin War.

Before Whyga called out the tax records, Mincho was nothing more than a farmer.

When the government demanded a 55% tax, Mincho went into the mountains and became a volunteer soldier.

Confucius said.

Harsh taxes are more fearsome than a tiger.

…this is not something that is said only to the people.

It means that if you tax people harshly, you will get beaten up.

It was the same in Joseon during the Three Kingdoms Period.

It was the same in Japan during the Imjin War.

It was the same in my country now.

The reason my country is in such chaos now is not because of the difficulties of republicanism or anything like that, but simply because of the difference in taxes.

The problem isn’t simply that they paid too much.

They gave me a lot of money saying that they would increase the military and fight and protect me, but Asadal Army is coming in and the military is not showing up at all… It must feel like their taxes are slowly melting away.

So what’s the result?

“Are the peasants going to start a civil war?”

“no.”

To Hanho’s question, I shook my head.

“The Yeonseo Daeboo case was a bit unusual, so I don’t think it will spread throughout the country.”

“then?”

“For now… I’ll avoid conscription and not pay taxes.”

“That’s enough.”

Until now, Asadal’s greatest enemy has been time.

When fall comes, my country will recruit like crazy.

But now it’s different.

The will of heaven began to waver, and the people began to feel divided between their country and Asadal.

“In this situation, conscription is difficult. If we conscript by force, we could really end up in civil war. So we have… broken down the strongest force in our country, that is, the enormous conscription force.”

Asadal’s richness, including sugar and cloves.

My country’s crappy tax system.

It is a plan to shake the hearts of all people, even the martial arts people.

At this, Hanho smiles and looks up at the sky.

“My country.”

Before we knew it, it was summer.

The hot sun beat down.

But this only lasts for a moment.

“…Should I go and take it slowly?”

Sooner or later, a huge storm will come.

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