[The Three Kingdoms] Golden Sun Exhibition

186 – My own little Shinya (6)

“This is a sign that Wonsul is truly falling apart.”

A famous person who was a vassal of Yuan Shu betrayed Yuan Shu and came to Xinya.

At least we didn’t spread the word that he had betrayed him and came to Shinya, but we tried to get information by detaining him in a prison where no one would look for him.

“Look, Yang Hong. Do you want to live?”

“Everything is obvious….”

I want to live.

I agree too.

If I had been in the civil service a long time ago and was under Yuan Shu instead of Jingzhu, I would certainly have behaved like Yang Hong.

But that is an assumption, and now I am in the position to interrogate and interrogate him.

“Then, give me the information about Wonsul-gun.”

“Um, information?”

“That’s right. The composition of Yunsul’s army, the state of the weapons, the composition of the troops, where the troops want to move, where military provisions are stored, even the generals who lead the soldiers, everything.”

“Well, that’s….”

“Why? Do you think it’s a betrayal?”

betrayal.

Yang Hong had already betrayed Yuan Shu by stepping on the tombstone of Suchunseong.

Ordinary citizens would not know this, but their pride would not be affected by the fact that a person who had held a high position in government secretly escaped at night.

Those who hold public office are like that.

If a person who went to work for his lord resigns at night without even speaking to the lord, it is natural that his reputation will fall to the bottom.

“This is not a betrayal. You have not yet officially betrayed Yuan Shu and run away.”

“…huh?”

“This is for intelligence purposes only. I personally infiltrated the city to obtain information about Shin Ya-seong. Would it be easier for ordinary people to obtain information about the enemy through intelligence, or would it be easier for someone with some reputation to obtain information about the enemy through intelligence?”

I offered him a deal.

“You’re smart enough, so you understand. We want to get information about Prince Wonsul in exchange for guaranteeing your honor.”

“Well, that’s….”

“Why hesitate any longer when you’ve already done it? There are only two ways left for you. One is to run away in the middle of the night and face national disgrace. The other is to save your life and honor, even though it may be a shame. Well… “There is one more thing.”

I showed him a wrapping cloth.

“There is also a way to go somewhere quiet, change your name, and start a new life. How about that?”

“……I don’t think there will be much meaning in handing over Prince Wonsul’s information.”

“It is up to us to decide whether it has meaning or not.”

“What if the information I have about Yuan Shukun is worthless? I revealed everything I know, but you say it is worthless and try to kill me?”

“I know you’re worried, but it’s not worth my time to argue with you like this.”

If you think about it, you will call me someday.

“Okay then.”

“Now, wait a minute…!”

Yang Hong hurriedly approached me.

Grabbing the iron bars with his bony hands, he pleaded with me with a desperate look on his face.

“I will live quietly. So please, please do not let anyone know that I ran away in the middle of the night and came to Hyeongju.”

“Then why don’t you give out that much information?”

“…There was a reason why I ran away at night.”

Are you making excuses?

What are you going to say?

“It looks like the Middle Kingdom is going to be ruined, so I proposed to go to Yuan Shao with the royal seal even now, and I got flogged…!”

“oh.”

This is some interesting information.

“A seal to Yuan Shao?”

“That’s right! I was truly loyal to the Duke of Yuan! But since when did you start to just talk about honey and not take care of state affairs and continue to indulge in extravagance! Even though the national treasury is running low, no matter how much I tell you that you need to spend money sparingly. “I couldn’t even hear it!”

The resentment in his voice was sincere.

I squatted in front of him and listened to him.

“Taehyung made you break your loyalty.”

“I, too, did my best. The Duke of Zhou, whom I trusted and followed, said he would become emperor, so how could I stop him? He threatened to make those who said he should step down from their jobs in this world!”

I need to filter this out a bit.

It could be that he is trying to make his situation better.

“Still, I did my best as a subject. But if the price of loyalty is humiliation and flogging, which subject would follow this?”

“Hmm. I understand. I understand your sincerity. So, please give me some information. More specific information.”

“…Wonsulgun.”

The size of Yunsul’s army.

The ability of generals to lead troops.

And many other information.

I heard quite a bit of information from Yang Hong.

As expected, as someone who held a fairly high official position in the Chinese government, he knew quite a lot of information even though he was not a general.

“So, besides you, there are others who keep running away?”

“Yes, that’s right. Noebak, who died here, and Jinran, who went missing, both originally planned to run away with 10,000 soldiers.”

“For that matter, you were active in targeting Shinya?”

“…He was probably trying to become a thief using Shinya as his base. I stopped him.”

“Right.”

It has slowly reached a point where there is no need to even listen to one’s own defense.

‘Honestly, this is enough.’

I obtained a great deal of information through Yang Hong.

In particular, the highlight is Yang Hong’s proposal.

-Head to Yuan Shao with the royal seal.

“…Do you think Yuan Shu will follow your suggestion?”

“Wow, Duke Won is an extremely self-centered person. At that time, he didn’t like it so he listened to me in vain, but if the situation gets worse and his life is put at risk, then he will definitely do so.”

“I wasn’t aware of it at the time. And when I feel the downfall… I will make a decision.”

For Wonsul, there is now only one way to live.

If you kneel before the government of a country, your head will be blown off, so you have no choice but to rely on Yuan Shao, a member of the same Won family.

“Wansul heads to Yuan Shao with the royal seal as collateral.”

“That’s right. And if I had been next to him, I would have said it. Why didn’t you say it more strongly then?”

“Ah, he seems like he knows.”

That aspect is similar to Yupyo.

Still, Yu-pyo follows suit even if he is late when someone scolds him behind his back, but Won-sul has reached the level of emperor, so he will think completely differently.

“Well, then now I…”

“Fine. I will save your life. However, not in this land of Jingju. Especially not in Shinya.”

“Uh, like that…?!”

“Think about it carefully. There are more than ten thousand refugees coming here right now. Are you sure that none of them will recognize you?”

“…….”

Yang Hong’s eyes began to shake.

“I’m going to go to Yangyang and rely on Yu-Pyo like this? I’m sorry, but Yu-Pyo hates people like you. There is no one around him that he can treat as his own, and he is reluctant to betray others. Maybe it’s because he is a Confucian scholar, but even if he dies, he will be with his master. “I think we should die together.”

“Then what if I go to Yangyang…?”

“It’s a dead life. So choose.”

I made him a very sweet offer.

“Either you can go to Pachok over there and hide, or you can go somewhere where you can live as a government official and serve your new master.”

“…….”

“I guess you understand enough, right?”

It doesn’t really suggest a solution.

I just told you to live your life on your own.

Wasn’t he someone who held a government position?

I handed him the baggage he brought with him.

“If you wish, I will exchange this treasure you brought with you into a gold nugget of appropriate value to make it easier to carry. How about that?”

“…Why are you treating me like this?”

For the first time, a question came up that broke my expectations.

“I don’t know who you are, but you must be a government official who holds a fairly high position here in Shinya Castle. How can someone like that treat me, who is no different from a traitor, like this?”

“…….”

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It’s not because I feel sorry for Yang Hong.

It’s not because the information provided in exchange for saving his life was too valuable.

“If I were in your place, I think I would do the same.”

I may be the younger, handsomer, luckier Yang Hong.

When I thought about that, I just wanted to live.

“It’s late at night.”

I opened the prison door.

Yang Hong packed his luggage and quietly followed me outside.

“Well, but this is….”

“I’ve already exchanged it for something in kind. I’ve put it away so you won’t be upset, so don’t worry. Then, go ahead and go.”

“…I will not forget this grace.”

Yang Hong left Xinya City.

I waved my hand and saw him off as he left.

“Look, Mr. Geum.”

“Ah, General Hwang.”

The old general, Hwang Chung, who had been watching me from the beginning, finally spoke quietly.

“Can I send it away like that?”

“Yes. When I looked into it, it didn’t seem like he had killed or exploited anyone. It seemed like he was just a man who had been through a lot of trouble after meeting the wrong owner. If he wants to live from now on, he will take care of it on his own.”

I pointed to him walking away on his own two feet.

“I killed that person just because he kicked him out of Xinya Castle. Don’t you know how easy a prey for thieves is for a person who travels around the world with only a baggage in these difficult times?”

“It’s neither good nor evil. But you can’t call me a hypocrite either.”

“I just made a choice to protect my family and this land.”

Yuan Shu still has eighty thousand, no, now seven to sixty thousand elite soldiers.

“Who knows whether Yuan Shu, who has turned his back on hearing the news that the traitorous Yang Hong is in Xinya, will launch an all-out attack here? A monarch is despondent when his people abandon him, but isn’t he angry when a subject he trusted and follows abandons him? “

“Of course.”

“People like that are the ones who will bring a plague to Shinya. Just by accepting them, you incur the anger of others and make them vulnerable to attack. What would happen if you were holding a bleeding rabbit in the mountains?”

“It would be perfect to be attacked by a wild beast.”

“Yes. But earthworms like me are different.”

I pointed to those who had set up tents outside the castle and were lying on boards, relying on embers.

“Wild beasts do not target earthworms. Although there are some that do, earthworms just lie down on the ground and live quietly.”

“But cultivating the land is also an earth dragon.”

Earth dragon.

It’s an earthworm.

…Even though it lives on land, a dragon is a dragon.

“I don’t know what to do since you are so kind to me.”

“What? Just because you were willing to give up the land for them is enough to deserve respect. …But as you know from Wonsul’s case, it takes a lot of money to feed that many people. Are you okay? As you know…”

“We will receive help from the Chae family. Master Zhou said that we should pursue survival of the fittest in lands other than Yangyang, so we have no choice but to find our own way to survive.”

I took out a bamboo stick.

“Does Yang Hong know? What he said is top-class information that could be worth two boxes of gold to someone.”

As a bonus, it saves my wife’s prayers.

“Sang Sang! Jungdal says that Wonsul is planning to head to Won Soo with the royal seal!!”

“…We have to stop it. Quickly gather the troops!!”

Heo too. Intelligence was received that Yuan Shu could go to Yuan Shao with the royal seal.