Episode 424. Consequences of excessive greed (1)
“Huh~ I tried to dissuade you so much…”
Bok-wan, brought to the Korean court, looked at Revenge, her daughter and empress, with a devastated face.
“The family is being destroyed because of the foolish daughter!”
The emperor seemed to have already lost his soul halfway, and the daughter was still glaring at the painter with ferocious eyes.
Even if she prayed for her life, it wouldn’t be enough…
She seemed already prepared for her own death.
If you want to die, you will die alone, but your family will get caught up in it, and more than a thousand family members will all die.
‘How can I overcome this difficulty?’
He had to somehow maintain the family lineage.
As Fu Wan was brought to the imperial palace, he thought only of this.
Even though the daughter became empress, the family had never enjoyed the power. On the contrary, since he was hit by the famous emperor and the princes, he always had to be in a hurry to notice, like a lantern in front of the wind.
In addition, it was very unfair that everyone in the family would die because of the stupidity of her now empress daughter.
‘You’re going crazy! No matter how much you worry, there is nothing you can do. How could I have given birth to such a daughter?’
All she can do is resent her daughter.
At that time, the painter gave an order and allowed the father and daughter to reunite for a while.
The empress approached Bok-Wan, who was tied to the frame, and bowed her head.
“I feel sorry for my father and the people in my family when things turned out this way.”
Crying.
Bok-wan, who was upset at the moment, spat out the words with a feeling of vomiting blood.
“what! sorry? what did i say to you! I tried to dissuade you from thinking nonsense, but did you mean to make the whole family die by doing this? And I’m sorry to say that!”
“If my father had helped me….. the robbery might have been successful.”
“Mi crazy bitch! You’re still out of your mind! Pray for Godfather to save you right now! You committed a crime that deserved death, but what did the two crown princes do? Are you going to let those little ones die without knowing why? And what’s wrong with family members?
“The father and mother fail, and the child dies. I can’t help it. And the daughter is not able to do it, and the father and family members die. It can’t be helped either.”
“Why are you talking so stuffy? Godfather Hwa is a benevolent person, so shouldn’t we beg him to save at least the little ones?”
If he could, he wanted to grab his daughter by the hair and bathe her.
But it can’t be, and there’s no way to preserve the family. Because of this, I suppressed my boiling anger and spoke as persuasively as possible.
“If it was someone who would save me, I would have prayed for it long ago. Godfather Hwa wouldn’t have saved His Majesty and me if I hadn’t contrived. Even historically, there has never been an emperor who left the embers of becoming generous.”
“You’re going to die anyway, so you’re saying you did it with a last-ditch heart?”
“yes. Dying this way, dying that way, dying is the same. Even though my father and family were brought here, they were destined to become like this even if they did not cause an uprising. Therefore, do not dwell on your life and show your determination until the very end as the empress’s family.”
“To be resolute? To be resolute in the face of being executed for failing to assassinate Hwa Dae-in, who is known as the righteous man of the world? How can you be so stupid? If you failed to assassinate a wicked man like Dong Zhuo or Cao Cao and were killed, it would be a record in history, but this is a failed attempt to assassinate a righteous man praised by the whole people, so your name will be remembered as a wicked woman from generation to generation! Who in the world sympathizes with our deaths! Foolishness is foolish indeed.”
“Father Bonsi’s history is a record of those in power. If the rebellion had been successful, future generations would have praised our Bokga as a heaven-sent family, and dismissed the Hwabu as a treacherous criminal of eternity. So, on your final journey, do not bend your pride.”
“No matter what I said, I can’t take it back now…. What should I do? As you said, I have no choice but to die resolutely.”
I closed my eyes in frustration as if my stomach would explode.
If I continued to look at my daughter, I felt that the twin lust I had been holding back would explode.
After a while, the empress was taken to the side of the emperor by the guards, and the painter went up to the podium and looked at the emperor and the bokwan in turn, then opened his mouth.
“As you know, His Majesty the Emperor, we have found the circumstances of the empress’ attempt to assassinate me, but there is no trace of Chief Bok’s involvement. So I had a lot of trouble discussing with various ministers all night.”
Even at the painter’s words, the emperor still had an expression of his soul running away.
But Bok-wan’s eyes flashed. If done well, it seemed that he would be able to carry on the legacy of the family.
“So what conclusion did you draw?”
“I cannot forgive the empress who directly tried to assassinate me, but I would like to arrange a way for the people of the Bok family to live as officials, excluding the empress’ direct line. Of course, those who don’t like it will be killed as they wish.”
“What a shame! Are you insulting our family right now? Rather than humiliate him, kill him.”
When the empress burst into anger, the painter looked at her with fearful eyes.
“For those who don’t want to suffer the shame of becoming a government official, don’t worry, I’ll kill all of them according to Mama’s will.”
“Hey hey…. The arrogant sky won’t let you go.”
“What a foolish woman you are. Talk more and ask what to do!”
“Your master.”
“Your Majesty and Mama will now be taken to the shelter and never let them come out again!”
“I take orders.”
The painter began to speak Korean when the emperor and empress disappeared. He opened his mouth to the devastated belly arm.
“As I said a moment ago, the empress’ immediate family will not be able to escape Jakdu’s sentence. But I don’t feel comfortable doing that to all of your family members who are not directly involved in this. Still, as I have done in your family, I need to set an example so that this will not happen again. So understand that you cannot be more generous than this.”
Bok-wan shed tears when the painter finished his words.
“Thank you, Mr. Hua. I thought it was inevitable that I and my family would die because of the sin of misplacing my daughter. Thank you very much for keeping the family alive.”
“Shouldn’t you have held back the empress a little longer! Had it been so, this tragedy would not have happened.”
“Actually… I thought a lot about whether or not to tell Godfather about my daughter’s affairs, but how could I ever inform my daughter? I am just sorry.”
The painter stared blankly at Bok-wan, who shed tears and smiled dejectedly.
Bokwan continued.
“I am stupid. So this is how you die!”
“Greed eventually makes people lose their reason and even covers their eyes. Hello!”
“Your master.”
“All relatives, including Bok-Wan, should be sentenced to death, and the family should be treated as officials and sent to the labor officer.”
“I take orders.”
“If there is anyone who refuses to become a government official, they should also be sentenced to death as they wish, and all property of Fujiazhuang should be confiscated as the national treasury.”
“I take orders.”
The painter looked at Bok-wan, who was closing his eyes with his teeth clenched, with a long sigh, and then left the national court.
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“Whoa!”
The painter, who came out after completing the Korean language examination, was unable to return to the house where his family was waiting, and walked around the palace grounds for a long time.
“My chest feels stuffy, like I’m pretending!”
I walked for a long time, but I didn’t think about going down, only my heart felt tighter.
‘As expected, giving orders to kill people is not right for me!’
In fact, the painter knew why his chest was so stuffy.
Even after he sentenced some of his immediate family members, including the family head of the Bok family, to Jakdu, the sad eyes they looked at him hadn’t left his mind.
Should they have been sentenced to death?
It made me regret it, and I felt stuffy as if I was wearing clothes that didn’t fit my place.
‘Well… if the empress did something wrong, the empress should die, and the fact that she kills everyone else by linking them together is a very… strange law.’
On the one hand, since they had amassed all sorts of wealth thanks to the empress, I also thought that it was necessary.
The property confiscated today was only gold and silver treasures that filled seven wagons, 50,000 seats of grain and 30 wagons of silk. It was too much.
‘I think it’d be better to die than to live like that and become a government official… Seeing that everyone wants to survive, is it better to die even if I roll in dog shit?’
“What are you thinking?”
The flower pot appeared and broke the painter’s thoughts.
The avant-garde and demonstrators who escorted the fireman did not take any precautions because the approaching person was a potted plant.
“I was thinking about what to do next. Brother, how is it that you haven’t left the palace yet?”
“I have to play the role of an emperor who suddenly does not fit in, but there are not just one or two things to study. It’s pretty heady.”
“ah! Were you still in class?”
“okay. I thought the position of emperor was a place where you just had to sit down and give orders, but what happened is that there are more things you need to know than when you were in the position of Seojusa.”
As the flowerpot shook its head, the painter smiled.
Somehow, looking at his older brother, his stuffy body seemed to go down a little.
“Isn’t that what you need to know to be able to issue orders?”
“How on earth did the emperors of the past cram so much data into their heads? Eh~”
“It’s a matter of using clever ministers, so don’t try to do everything by yourself.”
“I’m not trying to do everything alone, and like you said, you need to have basic knowledge to share opinions with a brilliant servant, but just learning that will make your head explode.”
The painter realized that the reason why his body suddenly went down was because he realized that the person who should be the emperor in the future was not himself, but his older brother.
In fact, emperors study royal studies before being installed as crown princes, and when they reach the age of majority, before becoming emperors, they preside over royal meetings in place of the emperor and are tested to see if they have properly learned royal studies. You have to go through all these processes to become an emperor who can lead a country.
However, the flower pot is studying royal studies without such a course, so it has no choice but to cry.
Although he has the experience of ruling Xuzhou well, the position of emperor is incomparably heavy and difficult.
“Your brother has ruled Xuzhou well for many years, so he will rule this country well too.”
“It’s not that I governed Xuzhou well, it was that Xuzhou had a good harvest for several years and was better than other states. What did I do? Whoa~ So speaking of that, can’t you just remain the emperor and I remain as the ruler of the West?”
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