I Became the Crown Prince of a Ruined Country

69 – In the Yan Dynasty

I am now standing in front of the palace. The scenery in my blurred memory of leaving this place five years ago overlapped.

The place where I was born and raised. Where you sent me and where i have to go

Receiving the gaze of the guards, I moved to the place.

“Stop!”

“I know where I am. If you don’t back down, I’ll strike you!”

The prestige of the soldiers is quite strict.

If you are the gatekeeper of the royal castle where the king lives, they must be the most elite of the soldiers. Their menacing words poured out on me, but I only heard them gladly.

If the Yan-Chaos war broke out and Yan was really hit hard, how many people like that would have died?

I said, facing them with a smile.

“Tell your father that Young master Dan has returned from the country of Zhao.”

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Jeobeok, Jeobeok.

Walk along the corridor.

The place was completely different, but for some reason, memories of walking with Pyeongwon-gun in the past came to mind. But now there was no one who could walk shoulder to shoulder with me.

Except for the eunuch guiding the way, everyone was two paces behind me and followed carefully.

King Yeon’s only legitimate son. During the 5 years I was in Cho Nara, my father said he tried hard to have another heir besides me, but there was no success.

But I couldn’t help but laugh.

King Yeon allowed me to go abroad even though I was the only child. In other words, King Yeon gave permission for the unique deficit when he said he would go to the capital of Qi, an enemy country.

‘It must be said that he has no intention of subduing the crown prince.’

If you truly regarded me as your successor, you would have secured my safety no matter what, and brought me to the world. Then, he would have the prince sit down and slam the seal to make sure he didn’t act recklessly.

I don’t know what King Yan’s heart was, but at least he seemed to think that he didn’t have to decide right now about the succession.

I remembered what Jeon-gwang told me the day before.

‘Currently, the group that insists on raising Young master to crown prince is united around Taebu.’

Among the high officials of the Yan Dynasty, I was the only one who met me face-to-face.

He had negotiated with Yeompa and considerably expanded his position within the court. On the contrary, with the overthrow of Yulbok, who had the greatest power, the court became a miniature version of the Warring States period, and various factions sprang up.

One, but that has now been sorted out to some extent, and has been largely established into three.

One is the pro-communist faction, the Taebu State Department, and the other is the neutral faction, led by Jang Ge, who has newly ascended to the top in accordance with the agreement to end the Yan-Jo war.

‘The last is the force led by So-Dae(蘇代) to push the son of Yeon-Hoo’s son.’

Sodae is the younger brother of Sojin, the famous Hapjongga, and received the rank of Gaekgyeong in the Yan Dynasty.

Not only because of his older brother Sojin’s fame, but Platoon was also an excellent speaker and talker. Like his older brother, he could not make a great achievement that would go down in the history of the union of the kingdoms, but the platoon also succeeded in making a speech that would last thousands of years.

When it comes to time, it was 30 years ago.

My great-great-grandfather, King Soyeonyang, is getting old and it is difficult for her to step out on her own, while a famine strikes in Yan. Jo Na-ra uses this opportunity to plan an attack on Yeon Na-ra.

At that time, King Jo Hye-moon, the king of Jo, was the next king after King Jo Moo-seong, who led the renaissance period.

Since the war with Qi has not yet been completely over, King Soyeonyang hurriedly dispatches a platoon to Cho.

And the platoon leaves an all-time great quote against King Jo Hye-moon.

“I was passing by Yeoksu(易水), and a clam was basking in the sun with its mouth open by the riverside. The stork watching it quickly pecked at the clam meat with its beak. But the clam didn’t obey and closed its mouth. The embarrassed stork told the clam that if it didn’t rain by tomorrow, you would wither and die, but the clam replied, “If I don’t let you go, you’ll die too.” They put all of them into a mess.”

Isn’t this a familiar story?

This is the origin of the famous fisherman Jiri.

Platoon’s fisherman’s geography simply meant that if Zhao and Yan, whose national powers were equal, fought each other, only the Qin Dynasty, which was forming a three-power system with the two countries at the time, would benefit.

Convinced by that argument, King Jo Hye-moon stopped the plan to invade Yan, and the platoon was recognized for its achievement and was said to have reached Seoul in the past.

No one expected that he would return to the court because of this war, after stepping down due to aging.

‘If I hadn’t intervened and the Yan Dynasty had been mercilessly destroyed by the Zhao Dynasty, the relationship between the Yan Dynasty and the Zhao Dynasty would have been completely ruined and the platoon would not have been able to return.’

Jang-Geo, Guk-Guk, Platoon, and all factions pursued the same thing.

Maintaining peace through peace with Cho Nara.

However, the means they put forward were all different. Zhang Ge chose mutual non-interference, and the state government sought to improve long-term relations with the country of Zhao by appointing me as the crown prince, as I had connections in the country of Zhao.

The platoon method itself was similar to that of the State Department. However, he only saw more potential in the lineage union of the two countries by supporting the current king’s aunt, Wangji of Yeonhu, the younger son, not me.

When I tried to review the situation of the court, the voice of the electric light once again became a reverberation and echoed in my ears.

‘Thus, if Young master wants to become crown prince, he must persuade the platoon. The long drag won’t move. He is only loyal to the king and wants to remain neutral. It is rather a handshake to bring in a long-distance man.’

Could this be why the monarchs worked so hard to have excellent tacticians?

Jeon Gwang has presented a blueprint for how I can become a crown prince without any obstruction.

Until now, I had to figure out all the solutions by myself. At least he had a sense of humor, but he had a lot of knowledge, but he was not good at concocting clever schemes.

‘This was a good thing.’

Jung had an eye that grasped the situation and penetrated the core of power.

By using his talent to the fullest, Jeong shunned his half-brother Yeongseong-gyo early on and sat in the seat of the Crown Princess. Jung was already a long way ahead.

‘I can’t stand still.’

Tak.

The place where my steps stopped. It was the main hall of grand scale.

Inside there, my father, King Yeon, and his servants must be gathered.

“Say goodbye.”

“Yes, Young master.”

The eunuch hurriedly disappeared inside.

Eventually, the door opened.

“Young master, Dan’s entrance exam is coming!”

With the cry of the eunuch announcing my return to the court, I entered the heart of my homeland.

The first thing that turned to me when the door opened and was revealed was the eyes looking down at me from the throne located on the podium in front of me.

Even though it’s the first father and son reunion in five years, the dry eyes that can’t feel even the slightest bit of longing and affection for their own children.

The owner of that gaze was Yeon Wang-hui, the father of this body.

Carefully bend your body and walk carefully in front of him.

Then, as I aligned my eyes with the steps on the podium, I held my hands together and lifted them up.

“Soja, Dan salutes his father. Have you been strong in the field of Gifu so far?”

“Yes. You came earlier than you said?”

King Yeong’s tone was quiet, but somehow strangely nervous.

Did the reality of not going the way he wanted to stimulate his self-esteem?

He started a war ambitiously, but without any significant results. He suffered the humiliation of being robbed of his territory by the Northern Xiongnu, whom he no longer regarded as a threat.

Isn’t the one and only child who was sent as a hostage stretched out to see the enemy country Qi’s direct hagung when he was ordered to return?

From his point of view, nothing must have happened to his heart.

“So, did you see the school directly under the school that you wanted to see so much?”

“No. Soja, on the way, I realized your dissatisfaction. I came back here with the thought that I can no longer cause concern to my father.”

King Yeon must have been a fairly simple person, so when I lowered myself and raised King Yeon, my tone softened a bit.

“hahahaha, I guess you’re finally growing up. Yes, that’s why many sages said you should look around the world. If you feel that way, then the journey isn’t necessarily a bad thing.”

“Isn’t this all thanks to the benevolence of the king?”

“Yes, yes. I was worried that there might be bad waters in the country of Cho, but it must have been Ki-woo. More than that, he had a very special relationship with the princess of Jin, right?”

My relationship with Jung was no longer limited to personal acquaintance.

Jin’s crown princess and Yan’s eldest son. Our identities were too grandiose to be grouped as individuals.

A bitter taste lingered on the tip of his tongue as he thought of the affection he had left me. The past, present, and future ties that I will have to face throughout my life.

King Yeon was interested in that.

“I don’t know if it’s special, but it’s true that we are close.”

“Really? That’s enough for now. How many people in the world are close to the Crown Princess of Jin?

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King Yeon, whose initial displeasure had disappeared, took a nap as he thought about where to make me live, then said as if he had come up with a suitable place.

“There is a ball who was a hostage to Joe, and he is the only royal family in the country who has a close relationship with the crown princess of Jin. It is ridiculous to have him as an ordinary prince. Isn’t everyone like that?”

King Yeon, who presumably decided on how to treat me before I came, but acts like a caterer as if he would listen to the advice of his subjects.

‘Then why don’t you just match the case and appoint the crown prince?’

Muttering my dissatisfaction in my heart, I listened to King Yeon’s subsequent disposition.

“Therefore, I will give my Young master Dan the title of Commander of Changsheng (昌城君), descending Changsheng to the fiefdom.

Unbeknownst to me, my eyebrows furrowed in an instant.

Sealed in the military, not the crown prince? It is an understandable treatment. It’s also what I was expecting.

However, the problem is the remarks at the back.

‘Are you saying that the water supply system will release it?’

King Yeon seems to be so annoyed that I obediently expand my power in the capital and look over the crown prince.

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