Episode 161: Purge (1)
The private soldiers led by Yangnyeong and Seo-seon were annihilated in the concentrated attack carried out by the Naegeumwi and the Jinguns.
The final assault to open an escape route for Yangnyeong and Seoseon was a fatal misjudgment for the soldiers.
This was because as the private soldiers began to charge, the firing of Naegeumwi and Geumgun intensified.
With the addition of the Naegeumwi and the Geumguns that came from the East Palace and the Junggungjeon, the enemy was surrounded on all sides and was gradually reducing the intensity of the fire to prevent accidental friendly fire. This was the situation right before the private soldiers charged.
However, as the assault of the private soldiers began, the formation of the private soldiers stretched to the side, and Nae Geum-wi and Geum-gun did not miss this opportunity.
After the fierce shooting that followed, the front yard of Geunjeongjeon turned into a bloody mess.
“Clear the battlefield!”
At the command of the training leader, the Geumgun soldiers began to remove the bodies that filled the front yard of Geunjeongjeon.
The medical doctors and medical women who rushed in after receiving the order worked frantically to treat Geumgun and Naegeumwi, who were groaning from injuries.
Likewise, after receiving simple first aid, the wounded soldiers knelt to one side and were watched by the soldiers.
Meanwhile, King Sejong’s family was under strict security by the National Intelligence Service. Sejong, who was in the very center, was leading the situation with a calm expression.
“What about weightlifters?”
The training leader carefully answered King Sejong’s question. Although he was a weightlifter, he was the crown prince and the older brother of Danggeum Ju-sang.
In the end, the training leader chose an acceptable expression.
‘Omit the subject and answer as briefly and concisely as possible.’ It was.
“They were detained separately on one side.”
“Are you okay?”
“yes.”
In response to the training leader’s answer, Sejong got up from his seat.
“majesty?”
“I need to see the gang of weightlifters.”
“All right. Escort His Highness!”
“yes!”
Guarded by Naegeumwi, King Sejong moved to the place where Yangnyeong and Seoseon were captured.
* * *
“Captain. Why did you commit such a reckless act of foolishness?”
Arriving at the place where Seo-seon and Yangnyeong were tied up, King Sejong asked Seo-seon his first question.
In response to Sejong’s question, Seo-seon asked back with a fierce look.
“I will ask. “Why are you doing this to my son?”
“I just did it according to the law.”
“Was it such a serious crime that you should have been whipped like that?”
“Again, I just followed the law. It is the law that anyone who recklessly commits violence against a government official wearing official uniform will be punished by 100 lashes.”
At Sejong’s firm answer, Seo-seon screamed as if she was vomiting blood.
“He was my only son! It wasn’t something I could have looked at! “How many hours have I worked for this country!”
“If you take care of one thing, you will have to take care of a hundred or a thousand! Then why do we need laws? “Does the person who served as a sentencing judge not know the weight of the law?”
“Ugh!”
Seo-seon gritted her teeth at Sejong’s words. Seeing Seo-seon like that, King Sejong spoke.
“I can never forgive you for not only trying to harm me, but also for trying to harm the crown prince. “We will search all laws and make you pay for your sins.”
Seo-seon responded to Sejong’s words with a detached face.
“It’s a shame. “I wanted to make you experience the same sadness as me.”
Sejong’s expression became fierce when Seo-seon mentioned incense.
“Put him in jail!” Put a knife on him and gag him so he can never turn himself in!”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
At King Sejong’s order, the Naegeumwis tied a gag on Seo Seon’s mouth with a nearby cloth and dragged him to prison.
* * *
After finishing dealing with Seo Seon, King Sejong looked back at Yangnyeong.
“What were you thinking?”
“I was just trying to find my place. “My place was taken away by your clever trick.”
Sejong sighed at Yangnyeong’s words.
“Whoa~. “It was Abamama’s decision for you to step down from your position.”
Yangnyeong screamed at Sejong’s words.
“Wasn’t that all your trick! “Didn’t you blindside Abamama by blaming me for my little fault?”
“Even if it wasn’t me, Abamama’s subjects have already informed Abamama! And Chimsobongdae? “You don’t know who Abama is!”
King Sejong, who responded to Yangnyeong’s words, uttered the words he had kept in his heart.
“Honestly, who had the most sore fingers, Abama and Eomamama? It was my brother! Hyoryeong and I would have been hit by lightning, but when you did it, we just overlooked it! That’s why Abama pushed you out of your seat! A small fault? “Say something that makes sense!”
“I was to become the king of Joseon! I was able to overcome that level of fault! But because of you! Even if you hadn’t come forward! “I heard everything you said!”
Yangnyeong was referring to the time when King Sejong was Prince Chungnyeong. It was King Sejong who continued to criticize and stumble over the promiscuous and free life of Yangnyeong.
* * *
A representative example was what happened in September of the 16th year of King Taejong’s reign (September 1416).
September 19th. Yangnyeong, who was the crown prince at the time, and the princes went to Heungdeoksa Temple and burned incense to Queen Sinui Gisin (an honorific for the anniversary of her death). Queen Sinui was Taejo’s first wife and Yangnyeong’s paternal grandmother.
The problem was that as soon as the ancestral rites were over, Yangnyeong called three baduk players and played baduk at Heungdeoksa Temple.
It was natural that Prince Chungnyeong at the time saw this scene and said something.
“It is impossible for a crown prince to play games with a treacherous person below him, so how dare you do this to your grandmother Kishin?”
Yangnyeong got irritated and screamed at Chungnyeong’s criticism.
“You go to Gwaneumjeon and sleep!” (Note 1)
These clashes continued to occur, and as Yangnyeong’s escapades increasingly went too far, the situation became more and more unfavorable to Yangnyeong.
And Chungnyeong pushed out Yangnyeong and became crown prince.
* * *
Sejong also raised his voice in response to Yangnyeong’s words of shifting all responsibility to himself.
“What is this little fault? Was it a small mistake to try to sleep with your brother-in-law’s concubine? “Is it a small offense to secretly take a public servant’s concubine in and sleep with her after hearing that she was beautiful?”
“It is natural for a powerful man to have a woman follow him!”
“Don’t be ridiculous! There is a right to enjoying sex! You don’t know how worried Abama and Mama Mama were because of that! I got kicked out because I lived like that! What do you do if you only dream big? “Your usual behavior is a mess!”
“For a king to have such a fault….”
“Shut up!”
Sejong violently cut off Yangnyeong’s conversation.
“If the king acts like that, the country will fall! Training leader!”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
“Free the interest! This person is no longer royalty! According to the law, put a gag on your mouth and put a sword on your neck and send me to prison!”
“ancient! “Take the weightlifting monster and go!”
Following the command of the training leader, the Naegumwi placed a gag on Yangnyeong’s mouth and dragged her away.
After the fierce battle, the front yard of Geunjeongjeon gradually found peace. Thanks to the gold soldiers removing the bodies, only blood stains remained in the front yard of Geunjeongjeon.
“Whoa~.”
Sejong let out a long sigh and looked around. Ministers were rushing through the wide open Geunjeong Gate. On the stairs leading up to Geunjeongjeon, the exhausted Queen Soheon and Crown Princess Yangwon Yangje were being nursed by medical women.
And on one side, the crown prince carrying the unusual Jang Chong-tong on his shoulder was giving instructions to his subordinates.
“That guy…”
Jinpyeong’s image appeared in the eyes of Sejong, who was looking at the incense with a happy expression.
Just like a chick chasing its mother chicken, Jinpyeong was moving after Hyang.
* * *
When Jinpyeong arrived at Geunjeongjeon, leading the troops guarding Myeongryegung Palace, the victory had already passed to King Sejong.
Therefore, the Geumgun led by Jinpyeong was deployed to support the battle from behind.
As soon as the battle was over, Jinpyeong visited King Sejong.
“Abama! “Are you okay?”
“I am OK.”
Jinpyeong breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that King Sejong was safe.
“Whoa~.”
After heaving a sigh of relief, Jinpyeong briefly turned his attention to his most important concerns.
Jinpyeong grabbed Naegeumwi who was nearby and asked a question.
“locomotive! No, research… no, the East Palace is okay!”
Soldier Naegeumwi answered Jinpyeong’s question with a puzzled expression.
“yes? yes! “The crown prince has already subdued him.”
“Brother?”
Jinpyeong muttered softly and looked around in search of incense.
“ah! “There it is!”
Jinpyeong found Hyang and ran towards her.
“Lowering! Lowering!”
“huh? It’s Jinpyeong. “It’s dangerous. How did you come here?”
Jinpyeong answered Hyang’s question right away.
“How can you just stay there when Abama, you, and the railroad are in danger?”
“huh? Ahahaha!”
Hyang burst into laughter at Jinpyeong’s answer.
“yes! “That’s how you are!”
Smiling like that, Hyang patted Jinpyeong’s shoulder.
“Anyway, thank you for coming!”
“This is an overstatement of praise, sir. But…”
Jinpyeong, who was humbled by Hyang’s praise, frowned slightly at the smell that bothered his nose.
“It smells…”
“Huh? Sniff! Ah, it looks like the smell of gunpowder has caught on.”
Jinpyeong looked at the scent again as he put his sleeve to his nose and smelled it.
His face was covered in soot from gunpowder, and the smell of gunpowder emanating from his entire body gave off an inexplicable sense of intimidation.
Jinpyeong, who was seeing this, grabbed a Naegumwi soldier who was passing by and asked.
“Did you also participate in the battle?”
“You fought most valiantly.”
“is it? Okay. “Go and do some work.”
Jinpyeong, who had sent the Naegeumwi soldiers, looked at the scent with a new expression.
Jinpyeong’s usual impression of Hyang was that of a ‘typical, rambunctious writer.’
It was because of the way Jinpyeong taught academics when he was young and the way he usually saw him at the research institute.
However, the sight of Hyang chatting with the Naegumwi soldiers and lightly patting them on the shoulders was the image of the most ideal man that Jinpyeong had dreamed of.
Jinpyeong’s eyes turned hazy as he looked at Hyang’s appearance.
“Cool….”
* * *
“Abama!”
“majesty!”
Once the situation was resolved, the concubines and princes who had taken refuge returned to the palace. The first to run to King Sejong was Yong, Prince Anpyeong.
Yong, who was staying at the palace because she had not yet received a military title or title, took refuge with King Sejong’s concubines when an uproar broke out in Geunjeongjeon.
“Abama! “Are you okay?”
“Okay. “Thank you for your concern.”
Sejong, who had a happy expression on his face when he saw the dragon checking on his well-being, looked at the face of the eunuch who followed the dragon and asked a question.
“What’s wrong with your face?”
The eunuch with a messed up face looked at the dragon and hesitantly answered King Sejong’s question.
“Prince Agi….”
“Dragon?”
When King Sejong looked back with stern eyes, the dragon answered hesitantly.
“I wanted to come to Abama, but she forcibly stopped me…”
Sejong smiled slightly at the dragon’s answer.
“They say blood can’t be deceived…”
* * *
The battle inside Gyeongbokgung Palace has ended, but the battle outside Gyeongbokgung Palace is not yet over.
“omg! omg!”
A group of warriors were desperately running along the back alleys of Unjongga.
The warriors running with sweet smells coming from their mouths were private soldiers who escaped from Gyeongbokgung Palace.
Although they broke through Gwanghwamun, they did not occupy the gate tower of Gwanghwamun.
The private soldiers who were set aside to occupy the gate tower fought with the defenders on top of the gate tower.
However, it was not easy to overcome the resisting defenders using the narrow stairs leading up to the gate tower.
The private soldiers who had been engaged in such a fierce battle turned pale as the gold soldiers approached.
“It exploded! “Bounce!”
At the command of the leader leading the soldiers, the soldiers who were attacking the gate tower left the place and were now running through the back alleys of Unjongga.
“Where are you going in such a hurry?”
“huh?”
The private soldiers, who were desperately running away, stopped when they were blocked by men dressed in black.
Those who stopped the private soldiers were Geomgye. The sword world relay runners at the front spoke with murderous smiles.
“Isn’t there a lot to calculate between us?”
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Note 1) The Annals of King Sejong, read in one volume. Written by Park Young-gyu. Woongjin Knowledge House.
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