I Became the Crown Prince of a Ruined Country

75 – From Liaodong

“So you’re going to Liaodong?”

Sama-san asked me with an absurd tone after declaring my move to Yodong.

“Yes.”

Something that has already been decided. I answered right away without hesitation, and another question flew in.

“Are you serious?”

There was a reason why Sama-san reacted so sensitively to my fluctuations.

Although the ship has been completed, the sea route leading to the rocking has not yet been properly established, and the safety of the ship has not yet been verified.

But once it’s finished, I’m going to go as a demonstration, so Sama-san has no choice but to come out here.

“I’m not saying I’m going without thinking.”

Since the sea route will follow the coastline anyway, there will be no problem, and safety is only that it did not go to the sea, but it did test run first.

If you build a fleet of several ships just in case, there will be no problem even if one capsizes.

“I’m not saying it’s wrong, but…”

There was also a secret method. It is said that the sea route follows the coastline, but a compass was prepared to determine the direction just in case.

Even in this era, magnets were being used. It was not specifically used as a compass for navigation, but was used for navigation on land, application to feng shui, and superstitious folk medicine that it would be helpful for patients to have it due to its unique characteristics.

But I planned to make a compass out of magnets and use it for navigation. Through memories of previous lives, I know to some extent what the shape of the Korean Peninsula and the West Sea looks like.

However, there is a problem with relying only on that, and what I know is the form of the distant future, well over 2,000 years from the present. In this era, natural land reclamation due to the Nisa of the Yellow River and artificial land reclamation by humans are different from the coastline of memory, so you should bring a compass.

“And the gangsters in Changseong wouldn’t expect me to move this fast.”

People watching over me had already entered Changseong.

Right now, even the site of Changsung is suspicious.

“I thought it was strange because he cut down on his frequent appearances.”

Realizing that it was too much to stop me, Sama-san stuck out his tongue.

“And now, I’m thinking of cleaning up the inside of the castle once and for all.”

“Sorting things out?”

“Yes. If I disappear, those guys will start moving somehow. If you want to find me, you have to show up from the other side.”

Tacho Incident (打草驚蛇).

Beat the grass to catch the snake. This is a famous tactic that appears in the 36th season of the Art of War.

Originally, it meant to reveal the other person’s identity or intentions, but in the future, the meaning was slightly altered. The meaning was completely reversed, and it used to be interpreted as saying that if you hit the grass, the snake will run away, so don’t commit such a mistake and do it secretly.

Anyway, Sergeant Tacho doesn’t pinpoint mistakes, but the right way to use it is to ring the rim like me and let the enemies jump out on their own.

My confinement and disappearance will make the tribals come out to the grassy field.

“Who catches it? In terms of military force, Hongseong is great, but he seems to be weak against such secret counterintelligence. The former commander-in-chief is also a civil servant, so he must be an outsider to this kind of thing.”

I quietly listened to Sama-san’s reasoning and stared at her face.

Sama-san slightly furrowed her eyebrows, as if feeling some pressure from my gaze, and she shook her head.

“No. Do you think I know how to do everything? I can’t do it either?”

“Really?”

“I’m not kidding this time. You’re also a dark person when it comes to plotting things like this. He’s a person who walks infinitely. If I were to sneak out alone, I’d do something, but I don’t know about that.”

“I know.”

“Huh?”

I told the truth with a small giggling at Sama-san’s bewildered appearance, which is very rare.

“I had no intention of making you do it from the beginning.”

“Then? Who’s going to do it? Should I call that person?”

“Ah, Jingjia isn’t bad either. He should have learned this kind of thing. But Jingga has a lot of work in the world, so it’s impossible to bring him here.”

And if there is someone who can do better than Hyung-ga, why should I call him?

I recalled a recent contact that secretly reached me. The person who found me and informed me of his arrival proposed to me a plan to wipe out all the Sejaks who were secretly attacking here in Changseong.

“Mosu-gong is in Changseong.”

“Parameters? The parameters I know?”

“That’s right. Nangjungjichu, Mosujacheon’s mother.”

The best diners in Pyeongwon-gun.

A genius of improvisation that even the old King Cho, who had gone through all the battles before birth, could not overcome.

In front of him, will he have the talent to deal with the trio who hid in Changseong?

“I inherited the seal of Pyeongwon-gun, and I also inherited the diners. The same goes for Mr. Chu the other day. I can’t believe it… Isn’t Poong Gaek-gyeong also planted in Jo Nara?”

“That’s not the case. Instead, Lord Poong sends occasional calls.”

I maintained a close relationship with Pung-gi to the extent that Nogu-cheon in Handan, Jonara, contacted me if something happened and told me to consult with Pung-gi first.

It’s not that I’m not going to tell you the secret circumstances of Jo Na-ra, but I’m grateful for sending me information that is hard to find easily.

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“Really, what on earth did Pyeongwon-gun think to give so much power to a foreigner… Well, good. If he’s a mother, he’s definitely someone you can trust. Throw in cleaning up as bait, and actually go to Yodong. It’s definitely not a bad strategy to meet Jingae secretly.”

Indeed, Sima Sang has a fast brain.

Meeting Jingae in Yodong. The task of having Mosu, who has just arrived, organize the trinket in Changseong.

It was a sima statue that immediately saw the relationship between the two.

“Then can you explain why you called me separately to tell me this? There must be a reason you called me without Yeo Hong-seong or former generals.”

With this in mind, there is nothing to worry about when talking to Sama-san.

I started talking about what I wanted to entrust to Sima-san.

It was the last thing before leaving for Yodong.

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The central city of Yodong and where Chiso is located.

There are two ways to go to Yangpyeong, which is also a military strategic point where the Great Wall of the Yan Dynasty ends.

A waterway that enters through Bohai, goes up along the waterway of Yosu, and then exits into the Taeja River, which is a tributary, to reach Yangpyeong.

And the overland route that crosses the Uimaryeo Mountains in the west or the Cheonsan Mountains in the south.

Among these, the path Heidan chose was the former, Suro. If you get confused with Daereungha and enter it wrongly, you will be in trouble again, but since Daereungha comes out first and then the river comes out, it would not have happened if you followed the coastline carefully.

On the other hand, it took a lot of effort to go to Yodong due to the topography surrounded by the Uuiryeo Mountain Range and the Cheonsan Mountain Range.

However, there were actually people who headed to Yangpyeong via the overland route. Not in the west, but in the south, passing through the Tianshan Mountains and entering the Liaodong precincts, their behavior seemed quite far from that of the central plains.

However, seeing that there is a subtle resemblance, it seemed that the characteristics of the Jungwon were added to the original style.

Did you say that clothes are the most visual means of showing one’s status and origin? As the saying goes, it was clear where they were coming from just by looking at their clothes.

Joseon.

In the past, when the national power was strong, it was so great that it attempted to preemptively attack the Yan Dynasty, which was called the Seven Kings of the Warring States.

Even if the Yan Dynasty was suffering from internal and external problems, and even when Joseon was first called a king rather than Hu, Joseon was definitely a country that could compete with Yan.

Such a power structure continued until the 3rd Joseon King, when there was a great war with Yan, but unfortunately, at that point, the person in the position of King Yeon was not anyone else, but King Yeon-yang, who instantly raised the nation on the brink of collapse to a hegemon. .

In the end, due to the sword Jingae held by King Soyeonyang in his left hand, Joseon was met with the terrible result of losing all of the west side of the Tianshan Mountains.

If we stopped there, we would dream of reclaiming Kwonto someday, but from the Joseon Dynasty’s point of view, it was a nightmare, but Jingae, the culprit who drove them to the east of the Cheonsan Mountains, was caught up in the shaking.

Joseon, who was trembling with anxiety that Jingae might invade again from Cheonsan, continued to keep an eye on Jingae’s movements, and at some point realized that Jingae was keeping his distance from Yan.

The main subject of the negotiations was changed to Jingae rather than the court of Yan.

So Joseon began to periodically send envoys to Yangpyeong, the center of Liaodong, under the pretext of trade.

This envoy was especially special.

Because.

“Is it still far?”

“We’ll be there soon. Since we’ve passed Cheonsan, it’s only a short distance from Yangpyeong.”

“It’s fortunate. But is Jingae such a fearful person?”

“…Yes, he is a scary person. Princess Hana will be able to face it.”

Because the representative of this delegation was the princess, the successor of the current King of Joseon.