I Became the Crown Prince of a Ruined Country

44 – Next steps

“I can’t stay in the dark about my country’s situation forever.”

Living as a hostage has now entered its third year. When she was 9 years old, she turned 12 years old. The time with Jung is slowly approaching two years.

To be strict, I fell in love around the middle of my 10th year, so it must have been about a year and a half.

‘This year is still early February, so rounding up makes it two years.’

Time went really fast. Well, there were a lot of incidents in the meantime.

He had a quarrel with Nogucheon, found Sinreung-gun and persuaded him to form a guild, and even assassinated an enemy general…….

If you think about it that way, it might have been a short time considering many things happened.

Anyway, as I had gradually adapted to living as a hostage and had managed to get my footing, I couldn’t help but think of the time to return to my home country.

“Do you plan to place the headquarters of the Zhao dynasty and the Jidan in Yan?”

“Yes.”

“Then, who are you going to assign to Zidane? Zhang Yi? If Young master manages the main group himself, he might send Nogucheon.”

“There’s something I’d like to talk to you about.”

“Before that, if any of my guests ask me to borrow talent, I will refuse.”

It doesn’t matter that Zhang’s identity was hidden, but those whose abilities were proven around Shin Lung-gun were known by name.

Lord Xinling did not want to reveal that he had direct influence over the guild.

Of course, I also had no intention of having Shin Leung-gun’s aides sit at the top.

Why should I bring Xinling’s henchman to the upper ranks where I can control everything, while my dominance is weakened?

The reason I visited Shinneung-gun was not to get a recommendation for a talented person, but to seek agreement on the person I chose.

“In fact, there is someone who thinks he is suitable to lead Zidane of Yan.”

“Hyung-ga?”

“Yes, brother…No, how did you know?”

Before I could even speak, I shouted in amazement at Shin Leung-kun, who could guess who it was.

Shin Leung-kun giggled and laughed a little, then said it was natural.

“If you think of the people around Young master, who are you except for the brother-in-law, me, and Lu Gu-cheon? I’m sure he won’t bring someone from Gunsin-gun. Then, Young master is the only person he’ll reach out to, except for Hyung-ga, an exiled eater. No.”

It was too simple an inference.

Considering my poor interpersonal relationship, it wasn’t too difficult to predict.

“Yes… it’s just as Xinlingjun said. Although he was exiled, he had some contact with the Jing family, but it seems that he has returned to Yan.”

“Well, it’s not bad. It’s good. But, as far as I know, Jingjia seems to be of the same type as Nogucheon. Wouldn’t he need someone like Zhang Yi to assist with administrative tasks?”

“Oh, don’t worry about that.”

Jing Jia had two close friends.

Moo-myeong, a butcher who abandoned his name, and Jeom-ri Go, a musician who plays the lute.

Jing Jia used to mention them often in his letters to me, but the butcher friend was one of the two people Jing Jia had mentioned before that he handled a sword better than he did, and Gao Jianli was a cuckold but versatile and good at calculations. Did.

“If that friend named Gao Jeom-ri takes care of the administration of the guild, and a friend named Mu-myeong acts as an escort, there will be no shortage.”

“Young master has a plan. He is trustworthy. Yan is Young master’s home country, so you can do whatever he wants without asking permission from me. However, when expanding to Wei in the future, I would like to use some of my own. .”

Is it a deal that she will take care of her own homeland, Weena, because she will hand over her entirety to me.

Looking at the population alone, the market in the country of Wei is larger, but it would be much more stable and easy to grow if it was directly operated by Xinling County. I have no reason to refuse.

“I will.”

“Let’s talk about work, and it’s time, so let’s have a meal together.”

Since the story could be long from the time it came out, I told everyone to eat first, and thanks to the quick and easy conversation, there was plenty of time left.

After I accepted Shin Leung-gun’s suggestion, the food was served. Unlike what I ate in the past, it was now quite a royalty-like composition.

“Oh, by the way, what’s that on your wrist?”

Shinreung-gun asked. It was hidden by his sleeve when he was talking, but when he moved his arm while eating chopsticks, the bracelet he was wearing on his wrist was revealed.

I said, slightly rolling up my sleeves and showing my wrists.

“You mean this bracelet?”

“Yes. I think I’m seeing it for the first time.”

Of course. Because this was only recently made.

“It was Jung’s birthday not too long ago. At that time, he made me a bracelet as a gift. Jung received it and asked me to teach him too. So I taught him how to make it, but he said it was the same and gave it as a gift.”

Didn’t you make it well? I rotated my wrist to show off my bracelet.

It was a knot craft bracelet made by tying silk threads together. I learned it when I was in middle school in my previous life, so I used to make it sometimes when my hands were bored. I forgot the method in my head, but my hands remember it, so after failing once or twice, I got the hang of it.

However, Shin Leung-gun’s reaction was not very good.

She focused more on who made the bracelet than on the shape or beauty of the bracelet.

“You said Yeongjeong made it?”

“Yes.”

How proud it was to weave knots with tiny hands.

When I took the color of Jung’s hair and eyes and used silver and gold silk thread, I made a bracelet with my own black and blue.

“You know we’re on good terms, but as Young master knows, portraits aren’t like abandoned collateral royalty anymore.”

King Jin, Jung’s great-grandfather, who would now be called King Jin So-yang, died, and Jeong’s grandfather, Anguk-gun, ascended the throne.

Jeong’s father, Yeong Yi-in, who was born to Anguk-gun’s concubine, became the son of a son (庶子) to a son (嫡子) as he became Yeong Ja-cho (庶子) after registering under Lady Hwayang’s mistress.

Jeong was no longer a collateral, but a direct descendant.

That is also the first child born to Yeongjacho, the eldest daughter.

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“Right now, King Soyang’s funeral hasn’t ended, so he hasn’t been formally installed, but after the funeral, Yeongjacho will become crown prince.”

“However, since when did Yeongjacho go into the red, and he hasn’t been able to find it yet, isn’t the Jo Nara period a thing of the past that even Yeongjacho doesn’t want to look into? I’ve seen other children besides Jeong…”

Despite the biggest reason I believed in, Shin Leung-gun’s complexion did not change at all. Rather, she took it for granted.

“Even though Yeongjacho became a deficit as a bastard, he did not have proper power because he was a hostage in the country of Jo. He gained justification as Lady Hwayang and gained power through marriage. In the process, he left behind Johee and Yeongjeong in the country of Jo. Is not helpful to Yeongjacho’s progress.”

“So, like I said…”

“But it’s different now.”

“Yes?”

“When Yeongjacho becomes the crown prince, the story will change. From then on, Gap-eul will be reversed.”

Until she is appointed crown prince, Yeongjacho has to pay attention to the forces that support her, but from the moment she becomes crown prince, her forces start to notice Yeongjacho.

Such was the claim of Shin Leung-gun.

“The only people Yeongjacho needs to care about are now his father, Angukgun, and his mother, Lady Hwayang. As long as he maintains the favor of the two, he will no longer be swayed by my forces and can act as he wants.”

“If so, then, Lord Xinling, do you think Yeongjacho will take Jeong and Caohui to the Qin Dynasty?”

“It’s hard to say for sure, but I think it’s more likely.”

As always, Shin Leung-gun spoke confidently and confidently.

And again, she had an argument to support her claim.

“Yeongjacho’s support is largely divided into two axes.”

“Two axes?”

“One is the wife of bigamy. The other is Yeobulwi, a giant in the Han Dynasty who has supported her since she was a pawn.”

The wife’s family complements Yeongjacho’s poor relationship with the aristocracy of Qin, and Yeobulwi provides the necessary budget for Yeongjacho’s activities.

“My wife’s side will reject Johee and Yeongjeong, and Yeobulwi will want to bring the two of them.”

From her point of view, Jeong was a competitor for succession. On the other hand, from the position of Yeobulwi, if she catches her heir from her in-laws, she will be pushed into the background, so she will try to attract Johee, whom she introduced to Yeongjacho.

“In the beginning, the wife’s side had the upper hand, but now the power of Yeobulwi is more powerful. With great wealth, he has risen to the Gaekgyeong of the Qin Dynasty.

Everyone had political calculations surrounding power.

And Shin Leung-gun’s intelligence and analytical power to find out and analyze all of them was great.

She said there was an anecdote like this when she was in Wei.

Her half-brother, King Wei and King Xin Leung, are playing Go, and news arrives that the Zhao army is being deployed to the border.

King Ahn Hee thought it was an invasion by the Zhao Dynasty and hurriedly tried to go back and deal with it, but Sinleung-gun said that he calmly played Go.

When King Wei asked why he was so calm, Xinling’s army replied, ‘It’s not an invasion, it’s just that King Zhao went hunting.’

Then King Wei asks how he knew that. King Sinreung replied, ‘Some of my subordinates tell me about King Jo,’ but King Wi, who was reluctant to share this information, gradually rejected Shinneung-gun from state affairs.

It seems that Shinneung-gun’s powerful information power is still the same. If you look at the internal power structure of the Qin Dynasty, you are counting as if you were looking at the palm of your hand.

As she thought that Jeong might return to the Qin Dynasty, her heart felt tight.

‘Is Jeong really Qin Shi Huang? ?’

Apart from my nervousness, Lord Xinling said quietly.

“It will be clear when Gunsin-gun comes back.”