I Became the Crown Prince of a Ruined Country

50 – Turbulence

Recently, Heedan has been busy.

This wasn’t the first time. In the meantime, there were times when I was a little busy with work at the top. Even then, we always ate together. Even that was difficult after the condolences came from the country of Hana Yan.

As the time spent with Yeongjeong decreased, the time Heedan spent with Hankyung increased.

I know the spirit. Heedan has a lot of people to take responsibility for.

But I didn’t like it. That he prioritizes and cares about others other than himself.

Youngjeong’s emotions were thicker and more sticky than that, to dismiss it as a desire for monopoly peculiar to young children.

Youngjeong’s possessive desire was different in intensity from that of other children her age.

Now only about 10 years old. It is possible for other children to replace or neutralize the possessiveness with something that is similar but looks better, even if it is not necessary.

However, Youngjeong’s possessive desire was blind.

Perhaps that was the result of growing up without receiving proper affection from parents. Otherwise, it must have been the nature of Yeongjeong.

Maybe it’s both.

Because he grew up not knowing what affection is, he is more obsessed with the affection he barely found, and because he was born that way, he struggles not to let go of what he is holding in his hand.

But so far it’s been fine.

The people around Heidan had served him much earlier than he did, and they were just servants. I could understand that.

However, as time passed, the number of people gathering around Heidan gradually increased.

No Gucheon, who filled the vacant position of his brother, was like that, and Shinneung-gun, who replaced Pyeongwon-gun, was like that.

In particular, Xin Leung-gun, with a more outstanding appearance and a higher reputation than his brother’s family, quickly became close to Hui-dan.

Young-Jung knows that the two of them have a place for the common purpose of the guild. However, the sense of distance between Shinreunggun and Heidan, watched from the side, was more similar to that of Hankyung than Nogucheon.

The two, reminiscent of a teacher-teacher relationship somewhere rather than business partners, met more frequently as time passed.

Still, Yeongjeong held it in. That’s because Hee-dan devoted more time to Yeong-jeong. It can’t be helped, he consoled himself.

Listening to Hankyung’s classes together, making new foods together, playing with musical instruments together, and sometimes discussing Jungkook together.

Although Hui-dan worked with many other people, not just Young-jeong, he always spent the most time with Young-jeong.

Because of that, Yeongjeong was able to endure it. Even if Hee-dan could meet other people for a while, he believed that in the end he would find him again.

However, the story exchanged between Hankyung and Heidan, saying that it was proposed by the government, shakes the basic premise that is the basis of Yongjeong’s patience.

Eventually, you realize.

To Young-jeong herself, Hee-dan is the only person, but to Hee-dan, Young-jeong is just one of many people.

‘That’s… No.’

I want him to look only at himself, just as he looks at him.

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Faced with the true heart he had been ignoring, he remembered Young-jeong.

When Heidan was busy and couldn’t properly take care of her spirit, she secretly had someone contact her.

The one who introduced herself as Wall (壁) came from the Qin Dynasty, she said.

And she said that her father Yeongja-cho was going to bring Jo-hee and Yeong-jeong, who had been left behind in Jo Nara.

Hana Young-jeong ignored the wall’s words. To Yeong-jeong, Yeong-ja-cho was just an irresponsible father who abandoned him when he was less than three years old.

After Hee-dan brought her young-jung from Jo-hee, who was abusing her young-jung, she became estranged from her mother, the link she had at least.

So, the place where the portrait was located was not at Yeongjacho’s side, but at Heidan’s side.

Yeongjeong’s nest was right next to Hee-dan, not in Jo-hee’s arms.

However, if other people step on her and step into her nest, and her place becomes narrower…….

‘Can I really remain Dahn’s closest person to the end?’

§

The Prime Minister promised that he would do his best to finish the conversation well before the war escalated, but I had no intention of leaving all this work to him alone.

Judging by the fact that he gave me advice to secure safety while bringing up marriage talks, the political sense of the state affairs itself does not seem particularly bad.

Looking back on that day’s conversation, he also seemed to realize that a war would inevitably break out regardless of his actions.

However, the stakes this time are too great to just trust the government.

Both in a good way and in a bad way.

‘If we don’t stop the war, nine times out of ten, Yan will lose. As this is the first war the King of Yan ascends to the throne, he will do his best in Yan. If I’m defeated here, even if I ascend to Yeonwang in the future, everything can end while I’m only working on repairing this damage.’

I can’t let it go like that.

The most important thing in the Age of Warring States was military power. And military power is population, and population is national power.

The victory or defeat of a war is directly linked to the rise and fall of a nation.

Moreover, this war was a foolish war in which defeat was obvious. I couldn’t leave it to others while anticipating the outcome.

Then how can we end this war?

I saw that method from my father, King Yan.

King Yeon did not aim for war from the beginning. Even before Yulbok visited Jin Soyang’s condolences, he tried to make peace with Jo Nara.

The reason King Yeon thought about the war was Yulbok’s persuasion that ‘Current Zhao can easily win’.

Then you just have to prove that persuasion is wrong.

The easiest way would be to lose a direct battle, but to lead a defeat with my own hands was a complete turnaround.

‘It should be enough to change the King of Yan’s mind, but there should be no direct damage to the Yan Dynasty.’

It was a very difficult condition.

To be honest, I couldn’t figure out how to solve this right away.

But I’ve learned that I don’t have to sit all alone.

If I can’t do it, I can ask someone else for help.

So, the first person I found was Shin Lung-kun, who, in my opinion, possessed the most outstanding abilities overall.

At first, I thought about chuyeon and public morals, but since it is a matter that needs to consider not only politics and campaigning, but also the military aspect, I thought that Shinneung-gun was the best target.

The question was whether Shin Leung-gun would help me, but my worries were in vain.

“You came here well. You must have had a lot of trouble, but I’ll praise you in advance for coming to me.”

“Shin Leung-kun, you know why I’m here.”

“I don’t know. I just watched to see if Young master was willing to extend a helping hand to me, a foreigner.”

“Are you saying you’d like to help me?”

In the world of Danggeum where King Jin Soyang died, a woman more famous than anyone else drew her cool smile and nodded her head willingly.

“Young master is also my business partner. More than anything… I got it, right? His brother’s autograph.”

“…Did you know?”

I couldn’t hide my surprise this time and stuttered.

“Among his brother’s legacy, there was an official seal as Pyeongwongun, but there was no signature as a person named Joseung. I thought they were buried together, but I heard that they weren’t found at all.”

Pyeongwon-gun’s children hid the fact that Pyeongwon-gun gave his autograph to someone other than his children. It was proof of their incompetence, showing that they did not gain Pyeongwongun’s trust.

“If the older brother is the one to entrust his autograph, he comes to mind only as Young master.”

“That’s right. You left me with your seal.”

“Young master sought me to repay that trust, right?”

“It’s not Pyeongwongun’s faith.”

“Hmm?”

This time, Shin Leung-gun showed a moment of bewilderment at my answer.

“To keep our promise.”

In response to my answer, Shin Leung-kun put on a dumbfounded expression for a moment, then quickly returned with a confident smile on his face.

“Ha…that’s a much better answer.”

“If you like my answer, please share it with me.”

“It’s bold. Okay. This isn’t something to think hard about.”

The master who discusses the best thing in the world with Cho Na-ra’s Yeompa replied.

“I just need to make the king feel fear.”

I know that much. But I was worried about how to give that fear away without bloodshed.

I believed that it would not end here with Shinneung-kun, so I reserved my words. Sure enough, Shin Leung-gun immediately began to talk about the plan.

And even the person who will put the method into practice.

I wrote two letters that day.

Then, they were sent to Chuyeon and Changi, respectively.

§

A simple room that seems to show the owner’s frugality.

There, a man was reading a letter addressed to him.

After reading everything, the man put the letter down and looked at the person who handed it to him.

“Who said this was sent?”

As soon as the question was raised, the man shook his head and quickly corrected his words.

“No, that’s a stupid question. Please forget it. I’ll ask something else instead.”

Contrary to his gentle-looking appearance, Jang-i secretly swallowed his saliva at the sharp eyes like a well-forged blade.

I knew that he was a general with a reputation to some extent, but I had no idea that his spirit would be this great.

What kind of questions will you ask?

Zhang Yi focused all his attention on the man’s mouth.

And the man answered the question again.

“Who else did you tell this to?”

At the northern end of the country of Zhao, in the dynasties.

Lee Mok (李牧) greeted the wind from Jungwon, which began to blow earlier than he calculated.