[The Three Kingdoms] Golden Sun Exhibition chapter 184

184 – My little Shinya (4)

At that time, Yeonam government office.

“Ugh, wow!!”

Yuan Shu screamed and fell backwards.

There was nothing around to pick up and throw, and all the items were worn out and showed signs of reinforcement.

“We lost?! Again?! We lost again?! This Emperor Zhong’s army!”

“Black…! Your Majesty, General Noebak has died…! General Jinran’s fate is unknown….”

“His life or death is unknown! He must have run away! He betrayed this Wonsul and ran away!”

Wonsul huffed and clenched his fists.

Normally he would have thrown the teacup or overturned the desk, but now he is slowly starting to realize it.

“…How many troops remain?”

“Si, 100,000 is enough….”

“Tell me the truth!!!”

“…It was 80,000 until three days ago.”

“Until three days ago?”

Wonsul had a hunch.

Something was starting to go wrong.

“Ji, now?”

“…Seventy thousand.”

“No, what nonsense is that!!”

In three days, 10,000 soldiers were reduced.

It wasn’t like there was a battle somewhere, or some kind of natural disaster occurred and the barracks where 10,000 people slept collapsed, leaving 10,000 corpses.

“Why on earth do ten thousand people disappear?!”

“Everyone fled in the middle of the night. We couldn’t stop the soldiers from leaving. They joined forces with the residents and escaped Suchun Fortress….”

“What were the guards doing? They weren’t stopping them!”

“The guards ran away together. Those who were pursuing them also pretended to chase and ran away together. General Giryeong and I managed to hold out by blocking the gate….”

“Keuuuk…!”

Wonsul bowed his head.

As if he was angry, dark red blood flowed from his mouth.

“your majesty!”

“…Ha, hahahaha. I…will fall? The first emperor of one of these countries will fall? This is ridiculous…”

Boom, boom!

Wonsul continued to hit the desk with his hand.

His hands were red and blood was splattering on his palms, but he didn’t care and continued to cut himself several times.

“Ugh, wow!!”

Even though he screamed, there was no one to comfort him.

Because the only thing that could comfort him was victory.

No general had ever brought victory to Yuan Shu.

Betrayed by Sun Ce, stabbed in the back by Lu Bu, and double beaten by Cao Cao and Liu Bei, he was now in trouble after being beaten by a mere Liu Biao – even Liu Biao’s subordinates.

“…Jang Hoon. How much is left in the national treasury?”

“…….”

“Go ahead and say it!”

“…It already ran out two months ago.”

Wonsul sat down on the floor.

The national treasury of China was the total wealth of the Daewon family.

Why is it showing the bottom?

“No, why on earth…?”

“The amount of money spent on running the government was too much. His Majesty’s assets were as plentiful as the Yangtze River, but they were drying up without our knowledge.”

“Well, then for two months?! What on earth happened for two months?”

“…Please kill me!!”

Jang Hoon put his head down on the floor.

“Sosin, I was afraid that His Majesty would blame himself, so I robbed Sosin’s property…!”

“W-what…!”

“I organized my family and raided my treasury to secure financial resources. I survived like that for a month and a half, but by giving equipment to Noebak and Jinran, I lost all of Sosin’s assets….”

“ha ha ha….”

How can I blame you?

A person who had devoted his entire life to himself used all of it for himself, not even leaving a single grain of rice to feed his family.

“I was the idiot who gave the order for Noe Bak and Jin Ran to go to war… I was not.”

“Huh…!!”

And the person who put an end to that bloody loyalty was none other than Wonsul himself.

Yuan Shu was dazed for a moment and only then did he begin to see the inside of the imperial palace.

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A beam full of traces of blades.

A ceiling covered with cobwebs due to poor maintenance.

Traces of damage were covered with paper painted like a wall.

And bony, skinny arms.

The only thing intact here was the clothes symbolizing the emperor.

Even that was now starting to look worn and worn, so it was replaced two weeks ago.

Considering that it costs money to wear the emperor’s clothes, in fact, the last treasury of the Chinese state ended up being used for the emperor’s clothes.

ruined.

The downfall of the country, which was trying to open a splendid new era in Suchun, was the collapse of the national treasury due to all kinds of extravagance and corruption.

Even those who said they could not live in one country because it was a beggar abandoned the middle country and left.

“Ahhh….”

Yuan Shu was ultimately frustrated.

The sweet golden fantasy that was drunk in the honey water was finally faced with reality two months after the honey water ran out.

If things continue like this, everyone will starve to death.

So there’s only one thing you can do now.

“…Jang Hoon, I’m sorry.”

“Your Majesty! You can’t apologize! Your Majesty is the emperor of this great country!!”

“I went crazy. I was too greedy. I… this me.”

Wonsul’s hands were shaking.

“I didn’t realize that Sun Ce had dark intentions. I didn’t realize that Lu Bu was a bastard who wasn’t as good as a human. And… I didn’t know that I was so weak that I couldn’t handle Cao Cao and Liu Bei on my own…!”

“Big, big…!”

“…But even if he is an incompetent emperor.”

Yuan Shu turned around and lifted the bottom of the throne.

There he lifted an object wrapped in a golden cloth.

“…First of all, shouldn’t we live and see?”

“your majesty…?”

“…Let’s go to Hebei.”

Yuan Shu tightly grasped the National Seal that Sun Ce had left in his care.

It was absurd for the emperor of China to regard the royal seal of a country as a treasure, but something like madness was still seeping out of Yuan Shu’s eyes.

“Let’s go to Won So. We are still from the same Won clan, but we still have an old bond that has been with us since we were young. …If we are with the Oksae, he will still accept us.”

“however….”

“Bring a brush.”

Wonsul bit his lower lip.

The bite was so hard that blood was flowing from the corner of the mouth.

“If you spare my life, from today onwards I will treat him as your older brother and the legitimate son of the Won family.”

Wonsul picked up his brush with tears of blood.

* * *

“Wow, I’m going crazy. I feel like I’m going to cry tears of blood. hahahaha.”

I felt like I was going to lose my mind at the many black things I saw under the castle wall.

“Is this what a giant looks down on from the sky? hahahaha, it’s very crowded like ants.”

“They all come because they want to live, Master.”

Pang Tong laughed and patted my back with his hand.

“Isn’t this all Master’s karma? You ruined the Middle Kingdom and created a rumor that Shinya is a good place to live, so they all come over here.”

“But it’s so bad. It’s hard to handle the population increasing by 2,000 people a day, so what is that?”

I remembered the soldiers who had gathered together when we fought against Noe Bak and Jin Lan some time ago.

“Now, at least five thousand.”

A whopping five thousand.

About 50,000 people were waiting to receive us under the walls, each carrying a baggage.

The person who seemed to be their representative spoke.

They said they came to live.

Until now, he had been trapped in the evil hands of the Chinese state, but he finally had a chance to escape.

“Are you going to kill me? I paid taxes to the traitor Yuan Shu?”

“They point a knife at you and tell you to pay taxes, but who wouldn’t pay?”

There may have been some who did not submit it.

They would all be dead.

“…They are all people who ran away because they wanted to live. Isn’t it the same for us as well? Even if the governor of Jingju suddenly becomes someone whose name is unknown in the Yugyo, a mere citizen will say, ‘I can’t live in this land because the governor has changed! ‘How many people will move to another province?’

“That’s right. It would be better if I told the Governor to leave here.”

“…That’s a bit like that. Sometimes, you make really radical and extreme suggestions.”

“It’s all about the black pearl in my left hand….”

“It’s noisy. Instead of making noise, think of a way to deal with them.”

How should we accommodate refugees?

How exactly do you ‘select’?

“Among them, there will certainly be those who were loyal to the Chinese government. So we must weed them out.”

“How? We can’t get into their hearts. And we can’t just ignore so many people and move on.”

“Yes. We should use the most efficient way to check.”

A quick and easy way to filter out a large number of refugees.

Even if some impurities are mixed in, even if gravel is mixed in, there is an easy way to filter out the stone particles mixed in with the rice grains.

“Pangtong. I approve the use of ‘it’.”

“Huh?! Su, Master! It’s too dangerous! Last time I used it, something really big happened!”

“But I use it. To filter out all those people, a normal screen isn’t enough. To filter out the traitors hiding among them, that’s all. No… we need to do more.”

If there are 100 spies out of 5,000, if we reduce them by even half, our plan will be successful.

“Bring the tombstone. And bring the silk.”

“Rain, silk? What on earth are you trying to do….”

“this.”

Whisper whisper.

My words made Bangtong think.

“Well, should I go that far?”

“Huh. What is certain about this is, who are the people who devoted themselves to China? They must all be able to read and write. Look, the old man over there!!”

“…everyone?”

At that moment, an old man was standing on the wall with the soldiers.

The old man was wearing simple clothes, but there were soldiers standing around him as if he were assisting him, so he was clearly leading the soldiers.

‘I don’t know who they are, but they are our soldiers.’

I think it was probably one of those who said they came as reinforcements.

He looked at the refugees with a confused expression and was startled when he saw me.

“What’s going on?”

“I would like to mobilize soldiers to move a tombstone. Could you help me out?”

“A tombstone…?”

“Yes. It is a monument that ten men must attach to it. It is currently in the warehouse, and we would like to place it in front of the castle gate over there.”

“What kind of tombstone is this?”

“It is a monument to a person and a country.”

At my words, the old soldier frowned when he saw the letters I had written on my palm.

“You, that is…!”

“Last time, while we were accepting refugees, there was an incident of theft. A thief from China came in posing as a refugee, stole a jar of honey, and ran away. Since then, I’ve been making this.”

“…Do we really have to do this?”

“yes.”

I was confident.

“You just have to take one step at a time to identify yourself as a citizen of a country. How effective is that?”

“So you take that action to show that you are not a citizen of the Middle Kingdom?”

“In the past, Baek-i and Suk-seok refused to eat food from the land of their new country, so they went up to the mountain, dug up ferns, and died. How outstanding was their loyalty to their old homeland?”

Is there anything else that works as well for the elderly as gosa?

After thinking for a while, the old man nodded heavily.

“…Can you do it?”

“You can do it a hundred or a thousand times. No, you can even demonstrate it in front of them.”

After all, isn’t it my country?

After a while.

In front of the gate leading to Xinya Castle, a monument with the words ‘Chinese Country’ written on it was placed on the ground.

“If you don’t step on it, you can’t come in.”

Baek, like homework, die in the land of China.

Or prove that you are a citizen of one country.

“If you do this, go back to China.”