Login Murim Chapter 879
When there are a lot of people, there are a lot of rumors going around.
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, which established itself as the center of the world and the new imperial capital of a great country, was no exception.
No, rather, it belonged to the most severe category.
No matter where you go in Hangzhou, there are people full of people spitting out rumors they heard from someone and reciting them as if they were true.
They talked about the beauty of the new mistress of the late Go Gwan-jak, who was said to make even flying birds fall, and were angry at the story that he had squandered the blood of the people to give his mistress expensive jewelry as a gift. Upon hearing the news that an investigation had begun, people repeatedly shouted toasts.
“As expected, in times like this, there is no one more reliable than the Geumwiwi. Even though he came to the throne by ruining his life, he still managed to get things done…”
“Shh. Shut up that stupid snout. But didn’t you say that one of the old man’s sons was Geumuiwi?”
“It did.”
“But are you going to catch it? Even though you have connections to the National Assembly?”
“Ah, that guy. Even if that’s not the case, it seems like he was fired some time ago.”
“okay? why?”
“I don’t know. “I heard he went on some kind of secret mission and hasn’t been seen since about a month, and he came back a few days ago with a swollen face.”
“Is it swollen?”
“okay. “It looks like he was severely punished for something he did wrong.”
The story that came out of someone’s mouth quickly passed by.
A poet and poet seeking inspiration from scenic spots and historical sites. Hanryang traveled a thousand miles for Hangzhou, which is called the city of pleasure.
From a poor scholar quietly drinking a glass of wine after ordering cheap wine and dumplings to a rich Jang Sachi patting his bulging belly.
There were numerous groups of people in Hangzhou, and they freely talked about what they had seen and heard.
“I’ve finally been to West Lake, so I don’t have any time left even if I die right now. “I feel like I want to stay in Hangzhou for one more year.”
“I still have more Dalpo left to go back, so what’s the worry? Let’s take a leisurely look around and visit the Jusan Islands before we leave.”
“If it’s the Jusan Islands, are you planning on going to see Mt. Bota?”
“That’s right. “I don’t believe in Buddha, but if there is such a famous mountain nearby, I should visit it at least once while I’m here.”
“But they say the nuns there are no better than strong people…
“If you are talking about the nuns of Botaam, there is no need to worry. “It is said that it has already been more than ten years since they disappeared after the imperial capital was relocated and the martial people in Hangzhou were weeded out.”
The conversation between poets and poets who visited Hangzhou to visit famous historical sites had a relatively good atmosphere. The merchants nearby were continuously pouring drinks with unpleasant expressions on their faces.
“The atmosphere on the Sacheon side is unusual these days. “The prices of goods fluctuate at unpredictable levels, causing huge losses.”
“Then is the rumor true? They say foreign enemies will soon come flooding in from Cheonghae. Because of that, the Kunlun wave, located in Qinghai Province, is also in danger of becoming a wind power.”
“What is the external enemy? At best, they are nothing more than Kangho’s robbers, and aren’t they also fanatics who are firmly possessed by the devil? They only changed the name to make it more plausible, but in the end, they will be destroyed by the Jungwon Wurim sect, just like the Demonic Cult of the past. “There will be no need for the Geumwi Army to come out this time either.”
“You, you’ve been living in Hangzhou for the past few years, so you don’t know much about what’s going on in the world.”
“huh? “Did you hear any information?”
“The Murim people I have been with for a long time are now members of the Murim Alliance… and the situation is much more serious than when the Demonic Cult invaded in the past.”
“what? “Do you mean that much?”
“Can’t you tell just by looking at the incident that happened in Sacheon a few months ago? After as many as seven days, a large army gathered together and engaged in a bloody battle. At this level, it is safe to say that it is not simply a conflict within the martial arts community, but a war between small countries.”
“That’s not all. “It hasn’t been exactly confirmed yet, but some kind of movement has also been detected in Yunnan.”
“Yunnan? Could it be those barbarians from Namman?”
“That’s right. It is said that the Nanman Beast Palace is mobilizing all its power to move north to the central plains. If the rumors are true, it may have entered Sichuan or Guangxi by now.”
“her. “The fanatics aren’t enough, so now even the barbarians are trying to invade the central plains?”
“No, it’s completely the opposite. He wants to join the Murim Alliance and fight against Amcheon. But it’s a bit strange.”
“If that’s true, then it’s fortunate, but what else is strange?”
“Well… I heard a rumor that those barbarians are no different from fanatics.” “what?”
“Well, what did you say? They say that fighting against the dark sky is a holy war, and that the Earth Mother is looking down on them, and they say strange things all day long.”
“What kind of idiot is that?”
“Well, I don’t know either. I only heard about it through a connection. Anyway, it’s clear that something bigger is happening than everyone thinks.”
The continent is vast. However, merchants, who had no choice but to have sharp ears due to the nature of their jobs, received all kinds of information through various channels.
Regardless of whether the rumor is true or not, if you remember it first, it may bring you great wealth someday.
And when the room was getting noisy with conversations and drinks being exchanged, someone blurted out a word in a very drunken voice.
“Oh, did you ever hear that? “I heard that His Majesty King Sangsan is staying at Hoenggung.”
“······!”
“······!”
A fleeting moment. The hot air cooled down.
Silence fell in an instant inside the guest room. Everyone’s eyes were already focused on one place.
“uh?”
The middle-aged man, who was startled by the countless gazes suddenly focused on him, even though he was heavily drunk, stuttered and opened his mouth.
“Why, why are you doing this?”
It was then. A few people opened their mouths in the crowd that suddenly became quiet.
“What did you say just now?”
“His Majesty King Sangsan is staying at the imperial palace? “Isn’t it Shanxi Province?”
“Are you sure about what you just said?”
All disasters come from alcohol and tongue.
The middle-aged man, who sensed something was wrong due to the rapid barrage of questions, felt sobered.
“Sir, I don’t know if it’s true or not. Because I just picked it up. “It’s probably a rumor.”
“Even if it’s just a rumor, tell me. Everything you know.”
“No, no. I guess I was drunk and made a mistake. I have to go out now, so please get out of the way…
The slightly flushed complexion has long since turned pale.
However, the middle-aged man, who managed to get up from his seat despite staggering, was unable to move even one step and had to stop in place.
Not because of the already heavy alcohol, but because of an object that fell from somewhere.
thud.
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It landed on the floor with a fairly loud sound and landed right in front of the middle-aged man’s feet. At the same time, the leather strap tightening the entrance was loosened, spilling out the contents inside.
Rumbling.
It sparkled in the dim light.
At first glance, it appears to be over 30 yang.
Amount.
A soft voice penetrated the ears of those who were wide-eyed at the enormous amount of money.
“It was quite an interesting story.”
Once again everyone’s heads turned. No, it went up.
This floor.
A young Confucian student occupying the entire table was staring blankly at a middle-aged man.
“Fifty cat. I think this is enough for the value of the story. “What do you think?”
The middle-aged man’s eyebrows fluttered.
It was a huge sum of 50 nyang of silver, and it was a shock to that young Confucian student who threw away such a large sum of money.
enough?
No way. It’s not enough, it’s too much.
It’s a whopping fifty silver nyang.
As someone who worked at the Hangzhou Canal, it was a huge amount of gold that he had never even touched. Just looking at it made my heart beat loudly.
However, the consequences of what he had casually said a moment ago weighed on the middle-aged man’s heart as heavily as the weight of that previous bag.
“Who are you? At first glance, you seem like a person from a well-to-do family, but maybe someone said something they shouldn’t say…
“No need to worry. “I’m just curious.”
Fifty silver bags just to satisfy your curiosity?
This is nonsense.
Even though I am the child of a rich family, does that make sense?
Hearing the young Confucian scholar’s answer, the middle-aged man was seized with even greater ominousness, but he could not miss the opportunity to change his life.
Even in this great imperial capital, which is called the center of the world, there are poor people, and for one of them, a middle-aged man, fifty nyang of silver meant a new life.
Rumbling.
After thinking about it, the middle-aged man hurriedly picked up the overflowing hermit and put it in his bag, thinking that someone would steal it while he was at it. Then he swallowed dry saliva and opened his mouth towards the young Confucian scholar.
“I heard the story while snooping around the battlefield around dawn. A few days ago, more than a hundred members of the Golden Guard entered through the North Gate. “No matter how ecliptic it may be, I would say that the boundaries and atmosphere along the main street were a bit unusual depending on the day.”
“Please continue.”
“Some of them, who were quick-witted, thought it was strange, so they raised their heads and raised their heads, and I saw those scary gold figures densely surrounding a carriage.”
“carriage?”
“yes. It’s a carriage that’s neither flashy nor small. Used when transporting goods
Something like the law.”
“And His Royal Highness King Sangsan was riding in that carriage?”
“I said I saw it clearly with my own two eyes. The face of a boy who looked unusual at first glance appeared at the window, and it was definitely His Highness King Sangsan, whom I had only heard about…
“I just think that’s not enough.”
“yes?”
The young Confucian student, who cut off the middle-aged man’s words with a single stroke, continued.
“It has been more than ten years since His Majesty King Sangsan left the imperial capital. He was very young at the time, so even after all these years, he is still studying Jihak (志學). He’s not even 15 years old. But how could someone who was snooping around until dawn recognize that precious person’s face?”
“Well, that. “You must have guessed it when you see hundreds of gold leaders making such a fuss.”
“Of course it could be so. However, there must have been another reason for making that assumption. “I have already paid a sufficient price, so you must tell me everything you saw and heard.”
The inside of the guesthouse, which was noisy with all kinds of noise just a moment ago, has long since become dead quiet.
To ordinary people, King Sangsan had that kind of meaning.
A noble yet pitiful person.
An ill-fated royal family who lost his entire family and was almost exiled to Shanxi, a remote hometown, by his older brother who went against the laws of heaven.
However, His Majesty King Sangsan returned to the imperial capital.
At this point, a whopping ten years have passed, and it was done in secret, surrounded by the National Guard.
Faced with countless questioning looks pouring in from all directions, the middle-aged man had no choice but to shrug his shoulders and open his mouth with difficulty.
“Actually, at first, I thought it was similar to Confucius. Does that make sense? How can you recognize His Majesty the King of Sangsan? Why would someone who has been in the outskirts for over ten years suddenly come to the imperial capital? Anyway, that’s how it was. But…
“But?”
“After listening to the story behind it, it seems quite plausible.”
The middle-aged man took a breath. And now, in such silence that not even the sound of breathing could be heard, he spoke slowly.
“The man jumped up and said that. The Emperor, or rather, His Majesty the Emperor, has seen the Hussa (詞), so is it not natural for His Royal Highness King Sangsan, his younger brother, to come? “I’m sure you’ve been invited to an upcoming celebration.”
Moment. An invisible wave swept through the interior of the guest house.
The silence was broken by the sound of people taking in and out of breath, and the dim lantern light illuminated the frozen figures of people.
The face of a young Confucian student was also indescribably hard.
“Hu…?”
“Yes. “I don’t know who the empress is or which concubine she is, but I’m sure she has had a good time.”
The young Confucian scholar’s eyes sank deeply.
The same was true for some of the more than 100 guests in the room.
They were poets, scholars, and Confucian scholars who even bit their lips to hide their shock. Or they were merchants, and unlike some ignorant people, including middle-aged people, they knew exactly what they meant by what they had just heard.
‘If all those words are true…
They felt afraid just thinking about it.
The new successor to the emperor who had not seen an heir for a long time. And the return of King Sangsan, the only direct descendant of the imperial family who survived the bloody storm that struck ten years ago.
What on earth does this mean?
‘Purge (肅滿······!’
A silent scream rings in my head. Recognizing her crisis, her back was already wet with cold sweat.
I should have left right away.
Regardless of whether the rumor is true or not, this was a story that should not have been heard from the beginning.
Right now at this moment. They were caught up in the illusion that they were standing in front of a cliff a thousand miles away, from which they could never climb back up even if they stumbled just a little.
Unlike the middle-aged people who gleefully counted the hermits one by one and some people who did not feel the seriousness of the situation at all.
“Wow, the Emperor has finally seen his heir. “It’s a blessing for the entire country.”
“What is Heungbok? He inherited the lineage that brought him to that position by breaking the laws of heaven…
“Please shut that mouth. Do you have about four lives? Do you want to see me die too? “If you get snitched on, it’s all over.”
“If you’re so afraid of the attention of those around you, just stay at home. In places where you can’t see, people swear at you. If the Geumwiwi is not some kind of ghost, what is the point of meeting him? “Oh really.”
“But what happens to His Majesty King Sangsan now?”
“You ask what an idiot like me knows? However, it would be better if you stay in the ecliptic in the future. I wonder if I feel terrible because I have suffered terrible things since I was young. “It’s time for you to relax a bit.”
Words are always inflated and exaggerated, and people always accept what they want to believe.
The unbelievable rumor that came out of the middle-aged man’s mouth had already become a fact with solid evidence, and some people who were already feeling afraid moved their wobbly legs and crossed the room, which was becoming noisy again.
To survive and escape the uncontrollable fire.
Or to verify the authenticity of this information and use it.
And the moment we finally reached the entrance. They realized that they had dipped their feet into a quagmire from which they could no longer escape.
“Where are you going in such a hurry?”
With a subdued voice, a dozen shadows blocking the front of the old door stepped forward at the same time.
Jerk.
That moment. It seemed as if the world had stopped. What was reflected in the eyes of those who were hurriedly trying to get out of the guest house were ten men wearing bamboo hats. And it was golden armor that sparkled between the blood-like clothes they wore.
“Geumuiwi (錦衣衛)······!”
At that time, the inside of the guesthouse was frozen cold by those three scream-like words that came out from between someone’s lips. The young Confucian student who had been silently lost in thought opened his mouth.
“It was a truly interesting story. So much so that it’s not a waste of 50 nyang.”
The middle-aged man, who was holding a purse full of hermits, opened his mouth at the command.
“Confucius. What on earth is this…
“I am not Confucius. However, my desire to hear your story in more detail remains the same.”
“Go, Confucius! You can’t do this! If you do this…!”
I no longer care about the middle-aged man shouting something.
The young Confucian scholar, or rather Baekho of Jinuiwi, spoke softly to his subordinates blocking the entrance to the guesthouse.
“What are you doing? “Without pursuing everyone.”
“Loyalty!”
With a powerful military salute, ten golden gods crossed in all directions.
Each and every one of them is a master of martial arts at the highest level.
Shouting and crying pleas came from all over the place, and the time it took for them to be covered with the screams of those trying to run away or rebel was literally a split second.
thud! Excessive!
Amid the roar that echoed everywhere, the white tiger of the Geumuiwi, who kicked off the railing on the second floor and landed lightly on the ground, patted the shoulder of a trembling middle-aged man.
“ruler. It’s noisy here, so let’s move on and talk again. What more do you know and who told you that bullshit. “Who else knows the story?”
He didn’t bother to tell me.
This time, instead of the hermit, he would pay for the story with something else.
And it was going to be something as shiny as the hermit and so sharp that it could not even be compared to the hermit.
After hearing the report, the emperor remained silent for a long time even after the messenger withdrew. And when there was only one person left around, he finally opened his mouth.
“What do you think?”
Between the dense tulle and the light silk fluttering everywhere, someone answered.
“It must have been spread intentionally by someone.”
“What about pleural effusion?”
“Isn’t it obvious? If it’s not your classmate, it’s Jin Tae-kyung. Or······both.” “We joined forces?”
“That’s all we have for now.” “I regret it a little. “I don’t know if it was a good thing for me to listen to your words and bring Jin Tae-gyeong into the palace.”
The emperor clicked his tongue slightly and muttered to himself.
“Did the person who sent you to Jim foresee this situation?”
Someone beyond the silk hem answered.
“He is greater and wiser than anyone I know. However, Jin Tae-kyung is an unpredictable person who cannot be easily judged.”
The emperor nodded without realizing it.
A boldness that makes it difficult to guess the end. Inaction and faith.
Regardless of their respective positions, the sight of Jin Tae-gyeong the day before was enough to make even the emperor burst into laughter.
“It would be better to stop him appropriately before he ruins the great cause. “Anyway, how is things going regarding the target?”
“It’s not easy. “For now.”
“Yes, if it were easy, it wouldn’t have remained a problem for over ten years. However, only when I disappear will the great nation be established properly. “We must do it.”
Sreuk.
Instead of answering, a light wind blew from somewhere and caressed the hem of the silk.
Realizing that someone who had been there just a moment ago had disappeared, the Emperor smiled bitterly and scolded.
“It’s already been rumored, so there’s nothing you can do if you hide it. “I have no choice but to make those rumors true.”
It was the moment that announced the beginning of a huge celebration commemorating the birth of a new successor to the great nation.