Chapter 626

Episode 626: Their Choice (6)

“No, it works!”

However, before Hyang could continue his words, a fierce cry of opposition came out.

Because it was such a harsh shout, all the attention of the Hyang and ministers was focused on the person who shouted.

Lee Sa-cheol was the one who strongly opposed it.

“New Minister of Education, Lee Ja-cheol. I risk my life to speak to Your Majesty! “We absolutely cannot accept their will!”

In response to Lee Sa-cheol’s earnest cry, Hyang became more interested and asked a question.

“No, it works? “Let’s hear the reason.”

In response to Hyang’s question, Lee Sa-cheol answered the reason in a solemn voice.

“your majesty. The Japanese have a nature like that of a golden animal. No, not even Geumsuman can do it. If the beast causes one harm to a person, the Japanese add their cunning to that and cause ten or even a hundred damages. If those people produce a Japanese style rifle, where will the muzzle of the gun go? At first, they will eat it among themselves, but it is certain that they will eventually make their way to our empire! So, we must never give them the license they are talking about!”

Hearing Lee Sa-cheol’s words, Hyang looked around. Quite a few people seemed to agree with Lee Sa-cheol’s words.

Seeing this, Hyang asked Hwang Hee.

“What do you think, Prime Minister?”

Hwang Hee was very nervous after receiving the question. This was because the tone of the scent had completely changed.

‘Considering what has happened to that rich man so far, both unconditional opposition and unconditional approval are traps!’

In the end, Hwang Hee had no choice but to give an ambiguous answer.

“Not everything the Minister of Education says is right, but I think it is worth considering. “It makes sense when you think about the damage the Japanese pirates have caused so far.”

“Hmm...”

Hyang nodded slightly at Hwang Hee’s words and turned her arrow at Lee Sa-cheol again.

“I will ask the Minister of Education. When studying the sutras, there are those who memorize what the teacher has told them, and there are those who search for answers on their own and realize the true truth through the teacher. “Of these two, who do you think will learn more deeply?”

“I’m here.”

“Then do you think those Japanese people won’t take a look at us if we hand over our rifles?”

“....”

“They are the ones who dragged away a large number of Ming craftsmen in the last war with the Ming. Didn’t you think that we would use those craftsmen to tear down the master-style long guns that we had handed over to us? And don’t you think that those who have the knowledge and skills they have worked so hard to acquire will be even more fearful?”

“....”

Lee Sa-cheol’s head lowered more and more as Hyang’s harsh questions continued.

“Of course, there is no one who does not know that the disposition of the Japanese is cunning, faithless, and violent. So are we trying to make enemies of those who have already made peace with us? Why are we trying to increase the benefit of reducing even one enemy? “Is that your loyalty?”

At Hyang’s last question, Lee Sa-cheol fell flat on the floor and shouted.

“No! It’s just that they have not yet learned the virtue of sage and only know the words....”

“Don’t you know that many of the Japanese who were sent from Daenae have already learned from us and returned? And don’t you know where this plan came from?”

“....”

Lee Sa-cheol’s mouth closed tightly again, and Hyang looked down at him with a pitiful expression.

After a while, Hyang turned his gaze towards the ministers and opened his mouth.

“As the Minister of Education said, everyone knows that the Japanese are fierce and cunning. But where are the cunning people? It is human nature to use all kinds of tricks to gain one’s own benefit. No matter how clever we were to hand over a long gun with its frame hidden, anyone with any sense would have ripped it open and examined its frame. Because I would have been like that too. The same goes for the request from this internal affairs committee. Was that request made for no reason? We made that request because we had already inspected the guns we had given us and knew the difficulty of manufacturing them. So the right answer is for us to use this. “If we refuse, as the Minister of Education said, it is only a foolish strategy that will increase our enemies.”

‘It’s finally out!’

‘Ah-oh! ‘I think I’m going to feed that person a bowl of Chongmyeongtang!’

‘But I don’t understand either.’

The scent that caught my tongue was explained in more detail.

“If you are at the social school level, you are in a hurry to know the words of the old sage, but if you are at the middle school level, isn’t it enough to think about what the sage’s words mean?”

“That’s right.”

“That’s why I’m telling you to raise your level. “If we do well, we will be able to relieve the poison in the Japanese country.”

The description of the scent was as follows.

– The current goal of the DaeNaega is centralization like an empire.

– Even if those who came from Japan to learn practical skills reach the mid-level executive level, they will be able to improve their level of completion even further than they are now.

– In this process, those who learned and returned from the empire will become the core of power, and many people will follow their example and learn and discuss the scriptures.

“In this process, the empire can aim for two things.”

– The first target will be to change the nature of the Japanese who value military force.

– The second goal is for the Japanese country to fall into chaos again due to the contradictions of the Japanese shogunate.

Hearing Hyang’s words, Hwang Hee immediately started asking questions.

“Did you say it was a contradiction?”

“exactly. “Both the Ming and ours call the generals of the shogunate the King of Japan, but they are not the real kings, are they?”

Heo Hu immediately responded to Hyang’s point.

“There is definitely an emperor in Japan.”

In response to Heo Hu’s answer, Hyang nodded and continued speaking.

“That’s right. Although they call him the King of Japan, if you really look at it, he is a shogunate general who serves the Emperor and receives his orders. According to the records left by envoys who traveled to Japan in the past, the nobles of the Gong family, who served the emperor, compared the generals of the shogunate to Emperor Wu of Wei or the great-grandfather of Tang.”

Hyang suddenly stopped talking and clicked his tongue again.

“Tsk! “I wonder how far the conversation would have gone if our envoy was not there!”

As soon as Hyang finished speaking, the ministers’ faces hardened.

If there is one thing in common between Emperor Cao Cao of Wei and Emperor Gao of Tang, Li Yan, they were all people who established a scarecrow emperor and controlled the government. And this was an issue that Taejo Lee Seong-gye could also be connected to.

Because of this, the faces of all the ministers in Daejeon stiffened.

“These damned bastards need to be punished right away...”

Hwang Hee, unable to control her anger, swore without even realizing it. Seeing Hwang Hee like that, Hyang smiled and

continued speaking.

“Heh! This is just a guess, so let’s not make predictions. In any case, because there is such a fundamental contradiction, the learning of the Japanese must be deepened. If that happens, the Japanese nation will fall into self-destruction. It’s a question of who your loyalty is for. From top to bottom, is it entrepreneurship or lottery? If we do it right, we will be able to divide the Japanese nation into four divisions without getting our hands dirty.”

The ministers who heard Hyang’s explanation seemed to have a vision of what was going to happen.

If Ouchi achieved a certain degree of clear centralization and gained public support, there was a very high possibility that those who advocated a ‘revolution’, led by Confucian school officials, would emerge. If that happened, it was certain that a conflict would arise with those who advocated the preservation of the emperor. In another case, after Neo-Confucianism was fully established, there were people who saw Ouchi’s rise to power as ‘the rise of a loser’ and argued for the reinstatement of the emperor. Even if this were to happen, it was obvious that Japan would fall into chaos.

Hwang Hee, who had been thinking that far, glanced back at Kim Jong Seo. Kim Jong-seo looked at Hwang Hee with sparkling eyes.

“If you do this well....”