Chapter 207 – Chapter 42 (2)

Gangseo, Bukcheongung.

Bukcheongung is a huge sect with authenticity among Sapas, and in terms of its size, it can be said to be the largest among all sects.

The Bukcheongung, which suffered substantial defeat in the battle with Namgung Sega and the damage caused by excessive expansion over the past few years, was challenged by the alliance of Sapa giants, Heuksaren, before all internal damage was recovered.

“… So, everyone keep this part in mind.”
“Yes, I understand.”

In the meeting room, where only the highest ranking positions in the Northern Heavenly Palace can enter, Dan Mog-Yeol, who became the owner of the Northern Heavenly Palace, is leading the meeting as his siblings and parents were ‘accidentally’ poisoned.

Bukcheongungju is in his late thirties, has a sharp feeling overall, and has the atmosphere of a scholar who rolls his head rather than his body.

He cautioned that the fight against Heuksa-ryun was important, but not to forget his vigilance while carefully examining the trends of other forces.

Although there were several mistakes, he learned from those mistakes and learned from them, and gradually raised and internally strengthened the huge organization called the Northern Heavenly Palace, which suited him as a ruler of the Northern Heavenly Palace.

“The meeting will end now. Let each of us do our part.”
“Honorable name!”

When the meeting was over, each member, who could be said to be the highest-ranking official of the Northern Heavenly Palace, threw a fist at the Lord of the Northern Heavenly Palace and headed out of the meeting room to do their job.

“It’s a bit embarrassing to say things like this now, but it seems fortunate that Danmok-yeol has become the palace.”
“That’s right. To be honest, the former princess tried to solve the problem with too much power. It’s not that power is bad, but I felt like I wasn’t handling the power of the forces properly.”

The governors felt relieved to see Danmok-yeol properly manage the huge organization called Bukcheongung after he was inaugurated as the palace governor.

The previous Gungju, the father of Danmok-yeol, was the strongest warrior in the Northern Palace, but he could not properly utilize the power of the Northern Heavenly Palace.

And the eldest son and Danmok-yeol’s older brother also had the same personality, so the worries of the footnotes were like a mountain, realizing that what was needed to handle the Northern Heavenly Palace was not individual power, but a brain to use the group.

However, when Danmok-yeol became the palace owner, these worries completely disappeared.

“By the way, it’s very strange.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t know why the palace lord is holding a formal ceremony with his lord as one.”
“It’s kind of strange, but… Well, is there a special reason? It’s just that the two of you have some kind of problem.”

The footnotes broke up to play their respective roles.

After they all disappeared, Dan Mok-yeol and his wife Seol Ha-yoon headed from the meeting room to the palace exclusive office.

Seol Ha-yoon, in her mid-thirties, is the eldest daughter of a well-known upper class family in Gangseo. Thanks to her growing up differently from other women from a young age, she has smooth skin with no blemishes and a beauty that exudes arrogance and arrogance.

Her long hair beautifully twisted like an ornament and held in place with her two hairpins exuded a sense of nobility befitting the wife of a princess in Northern Heaven.

However, as soon as they arrived at the royal office, the atmosphere between the two changed completely.

“Sangkong. During the meeting, as soon as you heard the footnote’s question, you looked me in the eyes, right?”
“Ah… No… That’s…”
“Fortunately, no one seems to have noticed, but I told you not to look at me under any circumstances.”
“I’m sorry…”

Seol Ha-yoon, who exuded arrogance, arrogance, and nobility, became ferocious, and she began to shoot single-mok fever.

Surprisingly, Dan Mok-yeol, the owner of the northern palace, was embarrassed by his wife and did not say anything.

“Listen carefully, Sanggong. What keeps this Northern Heavenly Palace now is the cruelty of Sanggong, which even killed parents and siblings for the position of the powerful. If that cruelty disappears, this Northern Heavenly Palace will be torn to pieces by the pillars.”
“Uh… Uh… Uh…”
“Whew… I’ll take care of the paperwork, so go back to your room and rest.”
“Okay… I see… Honey…”

Seol Ha-yoon, unable to see Danmok-yeol sweating coldly at his questioning, let out a sigh of relief.

Danmok-yeol went back to his office and his own room, while Seol Ha-yoon remained in the office and started the duties he had to do as the lord of the palace in Bukcheon.

‘It would be nice if my husband was a little more cheerful… No, it would be impossible for me to control it, so this would be the best.’

Seol Ha-yoon used the exclusive dojo of the lord of the Northern Heavenly Palace, and dealt with various problems one by one from here and there in the Northern Heavenly Palace.

‘I can’t be satisfied with this much. Because I am a woman, I hate the life of helping men. Rather than living a long and thin life, I would rather live like a queen and go short and thick.’

She briefly recalled her own past.

*        *

She was born as the eldest daughter of the New Year’s Family in Gangseo, and she was a genius with her brains from a young age.

No, it wasn’t that her hair was outstanding.

She naturally had a desire for power and dominance, and she showed her true value when she volunteered to help her with the work of the upper house.

Uncharacteristically determined and driven, her appearance of pioneering the future by seeing several moves ahead made the existing top-ranking people who looked down on her because she was a woman into an abomination.

Fortunately, her father was not afraid of her ambition and talent.

Not everyone is like that, but Seol Ha-yoon’s father, who is in the position of a merchant who can hold her most open values, had no doubt that she would make her Seolga top tier the best in the midfield.

However, Seol Ha-yoon’s father fell into great trouble when her matchmaker came in from the Northern Heavenly Palace, who coveted the wealth of the growing Seol family.

The combination of a merchant family and a warrior family complements each other’s needs.

There is no reason to be threatened by anyone within the least Gangseo just because there is a person at the top in the Northern Heavenly Palace.

But what if the lineage of Seolga Sangdan goes into the lineage of Northern Heavenly Palace?

The effect will be beyond imagination.

However, Seol Ha-yoon also saw this as an opportunity.

As the hostess of Sapa’s largest force, she felt the desire to wield the Northern Heavenly Palace.

She just happened to be asking which position she would take in the Northern Heavenly Palace: her eldest son’s second wife or her second son’s wife.

As a result of gathering this and that information, the one she chose was her second son, Danmok-yeol, who had no right to succeed because her successor had already been decided.

At the time, her father was stunned by her choice.

‘No, single tree fever? That person… !’
‘I know, father. But because of that, I can control it however I want. The eldest son has a fierce personality and strong determination, so he’s not a man I can wield.’

The eldest son, who is worthy of the ruler of the northern palace in terms of talent, skill, and character, and the second son, who is weak and has no talent.

For this reason, Seol Ha-yun, who entered the Northern Heavenly Palace by choosing her second son, Danmok-Yeol, released the people who came with him to check the atmosphere inside the Northern Heavenly Palace.

If she wanted herself out of the blue, she decided she wanted something.

‘This… It’s more dangerous than I thought.’

However, when I entered Bukcheongung, I could see that the financial situation was not as good as I thought.

Danmok-yeol’s father and the current palace owner did not know how to effectively deal with the huge group called the Northern Palace.

It’s all about just barely maintaining the level I learned from my ancestors.

Money is counting here and there, but no one knows it.

Compared to the size of the Northern Heavenly Palace, the amount of money that comes in is extremely small, which means that someone in the middle is spoiling it, and the warehouse is gradually shrinking due to useless extravagance.

That’s why the northern cheongungju, in order to get the support of her merchant house as her last resort, she accepted herself as her daughter-in-law.

However, because of this situation, she could feel her lust for power.

I want to raise this huge pavilion that is crumbling down with my own power!

I want to deal with this Northern Heavenly Palace with my own brain and talent!

Rolling her head from that day on, she checked all possibilities that she could handle the Northern Heavenly Palace, and came to the conclusion that she must get rid of the Northern Heavenly Palace and her heir.

First of all, Danmok-yeol was shown false information and fabricated evidence that ‘your father and older brother are trying to deal with you in order to erase the seeds of discord after officially handing over the palace post.’

The weak Danmok Yeol was terrified at the thought that he would die, and Seol Ha-yun insisted that he do something because even if he ran away, he would only die on the street.

If it were him normally, he would say no, but at least thanks to his position as the second son of the Northern Heavenly Palace, he was aware that he could make a living even if he had no talent.

However, he decided that if he disappeared, he would have no choice but to die, so he planned to confront his older brother and parents as Seol Ha-yoon insisted.

‘The power difference is overwhelming. Then… !’

You can never win by force.

If the composition of strength vs. Strength is even slight, it is sure to be defeated.

She took the time to win over the servants and cooks her courtiers didn’t care about.

Meanwhile, she asked her father to get a poison that would kill even the master of the Hwagyeong.

Seol Ha-yoon’s father was surprised, but he seriously contemplated this once-in-a-lifetime gamble.

If her daughter makes the Danmok row the Northern Heavenly Palace as planned, she will command the Northern Heavenly Palace as the hostess.

Even with moderate support from the Northern Heavenly Palace, there are no people in Gangseo who look down on you, but with proper support, you can grow your family many times more.

Infected by his daughter’s lust for power, the father mobilized all of his wealth to buy poison from his daughter and secretly send it to his daughter.

‘Everything is ready.’

In the meantime, the servants and cooks turned to Seol Ha-yoon, who treated them as human beings, unlike the arrogant royal family.

‘But I can’t trust them and entrust them with poison.’

Seol Ha-yoon had no intention of entrusting her with the dangerous task of poisoning the royal family just with the friendship of the servants and cooks.

Instead, she went directly into her cooking room, playing her daughter-in-law who wants to be loved by her.

Her cooks, who already had a crush on her, did not react much to her actions, and she went into her kitchen without hesitation and sprinkled poison on the dishes for the royal family.

If poison was sprayed on the whole dish, the amount would have been insufficient, but she looked at the royal family’s eating habits for a long time to find out what their favorite foods were.

There was a professional servant to monitor whether there was poison or not, but the servant who was bribed by Seol Ha-yoon actually fell and pretended to be seriously injured.

It was her target for capturing the look of the palace family, who found it bothersome to check the poison.

And what follows is known to the world.

The royal family was poisoned, and Dan Mok-yeol, who had been educated by Seol Ha-yoon, calmed the confusion as the palace deputy as if he had waited.

It was a series of sudden situations for the people of the Northern Heavenly Palace, but I was most surprised by the way the single tree fever calmed the confusion like water flowing.

This is because the Danmok-yeol they knew was not such a quick and agile person.

Of course, Danmok-yeol only went outside, and Seol Ha-yoon took care of everything.

To her vehemence, she condemned the cook and the poison-checking servant she had tried to befriend as the culprits of her assassination and had them put to death.

And by leaving forged evidence in advance, it was shown that the assassin hired by someone was behind this case.

Seol Ha-yoon cleverly spread the fabricated evidence and said, ‘Someone assassinated the royal family!’ By covering the northern palace with the atmosphere that the royal family had died, they instigated that the person who wanted to become independent or become the palace was the culprit.

*        *

‘It was really hard.’

It seemed like a well-thought-out plan, but it was a series of dangerous tightrope walks that could lead to annihilation of not only you but also the entire company if you took even one step wrong.

‘But I won.’

At the end of her dangerous tightrope, the fruit of her sweet power awaited her.

She was initially weak and had no talent, and she was having a hard time with the work of the Northern Emperor, so she naturally wielded all power.

Thanks to the sense of conquest that he was able to control the huge organization called the Northern Heavenly Palace at will, he was able to spend each day happily and contentedly.

Being able to use her own talents to the fullest, she made several mistakes, but through those mistakes she learned how to make the Northern Heavenly Palace strong.

Flutter –

While stamping her documents, her hand stopped on one document.

‘It’s Jincheon…’

It was a report about a young soldier who had a bad relationship with Heuksa-ryun and roared about asking for an independent strike force.

We are currently half-assed that the man named Jin Chun is from Guangdong, and it is an interim report that we are looking into him.

‘I decided to hire him because he seemed talented… With the power of the Northern Sky Palace, even spies can be easily subdued.’

No matter how good you are, you can’t beat the power of numbers.

This is the conclusion she came to after seeing and experiencing various warriors in the northern palace.

‘Maybe he’s regretting his arrogance by now?’

No matter how talented you are, only time can solve the experience of martial artists who have learned martial arts for a long time and their profound internal skills.

After she became the de facto owner of the northern palace, she erased her thoughts about Jincheon, and then went through all the documents one by one.

‘But something… Something is missing…’

Due to her desire for power and conquest, she rose to the position of wielding a huge organization called the Northern Heavenly Palace.

However, as time passed, she felt a certain sense of emptiness at the same time as her sense of joy that her own brain and talent were connected to the world.

Without knowing the identity of her emptiness, she turned off her nerves and focused only on the papers in front of her eyes.

*        *

The warriors of Bukcheongung, who belonged to the independent strike force, who were unilaterally beaten by Jincheon’s party, were startled the next morning.

“Oh, that’s strange? Why doesn’t it hurt so much?”
“I must have cracked a bone?”

After being beaten and drugged, only a slight pain remained, and a mixture of wonder and amazement at the casually moving limbs.

This is because it is the first time in my life that a drug with such an outstanding effect has been used.

Seeing Jincheon and his party using these medicines without paying anything, the warriors of the Northern Palace began to think little by little that Jincheon and his party might be great people.

In addition, 100 of them rushed at it, but all six women were beaten and left without a scratch.

“Sheesh. Anyway, we’re second-class and third-class warriors. There are many talented people like that in our northern palace.”

However, there were still a lot of people who had ill feelings towards Jincheon and his party.

To that extent, the insult Jincheon said is deeply rooted.

‘Big… ! Damn… ! Of course, I got caught by these bastards… !’

Dongbi, who entered the unit as a surveillance role, was also mixed in.

“Everyone wake up! Assemble!”

At that time, outside the tent, Jincheon’s voice struck through the strong inner air.

Although they don’t like Jincheon, the warriors of the northern palace quickly went out of the tent, probably because of the experience of being beaten unilaterally by the party.

‘As expected, I can hit those who don’t listen.’

By gaining the trust of these warriors, ‘I will make the captain my lord!’ , ‘Good night! You must not die until I tell you to die!’ Jincheon, who has no intention of doing a bromance, expressed satisfaction in seeing them succumb to violence.

“Yesterday’s work had no choice but to show overwhelming strength because there was no mutual trust. To be honest, you guys don’t even know how good our skills are, but would you listen to an order?”

Jincheon made him aware that although yesterday’s incident was a bit harsh, he did it on purpose for the sake of the chain of command.

“I’m a person with clear rewards and punishments. Yesterday I made you suffer, so today I’ll let you eat before the fight.”

Then, when he opened the lid of the huge pot next to him, the fragrant, pleasant scent overflowed in all directions.

“Uh…Wow…”
“Gulp…!”

In addition to the food that is generally distributed in Jincheon, he presented a mixed porridge stewed with the meat of animals he hunted around, spices, and herbs.

“This is enough to feed 100 people. Let’s start eating.”
“My…I’ll eat first!”
“Don’t cut in line, kids!”

They had never eaten food with such a delicious scent before, so they hurriedly ate it, once surprised by the smell and twice by the taste.

‘He eats well.’

Seeing this, Jincheon smiled evilly inwardly.

In the first place, isn’t Jincheon the kind of person who cooks for men, especially for extra male characters?

-Sangkong, are you really okay?-
– It’s okay, it’s okay. At least you won’t die from eating it.
-But…-

Cheon Hye-woon sent an e-mail to Jin-cheon, perhaps feeling pity for the warriors eating deliciously without knowing what ingredients were inside.

-This is what it takes to carry out a rather risky plan in a situation where there is no mutual trust in the first place… No, it’s the best.-

As explained above, Jincheon is a ‘Captain!’ , ‘Don’t die!’ I have no intention of filming the same bromance.

In other words, for him, the warriors in front of him were nothing more than consumables that would only be used for a short time.

‘At least, if all the members of the unit were first-class samurai, I was thinking of filming a bromance.’

If it was first class, it would be useful in many ways, but for second- and third-class samurai, no matter how high their morale was, the area they could do was limited.

-That’s great, Jinrang. How did you come up with this method?-
-My body just knew.-
-That before you lost your memory?-
-Leeeungeeung.-

Unlike Cheon Hye-woon, who was worried, Lim Ha-yeon admired Jincheon’s use of consumables.

-If you play a big role in front of everyone, you’ll get a lot of reward money, so it’s good for them too. There will be damage, but where in the world is there a war without casualties?-

Cheon Hye-woon and Lim Ha-yeon’s reaction was because the chowder they were eating contained a kind of neurotoxin that made them feel overly excited over time.

A little hallucination is a bonus.

Perhaps after an hour or two, they will become fearless berserkers.

The soldiers Jincheon needed were soldiers who were not afraid of death, and to make such soldiers in a short time, it was most efficient to stimulate the nerves with medicine or poison to make them unaware of fear.

“Now, let’s make our names known with one shot of this battle. It’s called Operation Sibamkwang.”
“…”
“I… Jincheon-sama. Can’t we just change the name of the operation?”

Even Heuk Jin-ye, a loyal dog who likes everything Jin-chun does, felt repulsed by Jin-chun’s operation name.

I don’t know what it means, but for some reason, the level of the operation went down so much that it felt like I was falling through the ground.

Anyway, the official move of Jincheon and his party, which will be known throughout the central plains, has begun.