Surviving the Romance Fantasy

It was the most basic of basics in fighting within an organization.

“We have completed most of the tasks you instructed us to do, but the part about preparing a proper government office building seems a bit difficult.”

“why?”

“Architectural design is a process of compromise between conditions and reality. “I don’t know what materials and how much manpower can be mobilized, so even if you vaguely ask me to design a government office building, there is nothing I can do.”

“You can just hire people who haven’t served in the military, and we’ll get you as many building materials as you want, so design it appropriately.”

“Wow… As much as you want… You have to make a careful decision considering the internal circumstances of the active room…”

“I told you to sing as many times as you want.”

In this way, Ha Si-hwa generously ordered the largest amount of materials he could think of, but the next day, Seol Tae-pyeong brought all the building materials.

In the morning as dawn broke, Ha Shihwa asked as if he was dumbfounded as he looked at the magnificent amount of building materials piled up in the vacant lot of the active room.

“Uh, how can you… get this amount in one day…”

“When I went to the material store in Cheongryong City, they piled it up and sold it? “I showed you a rough blueprint of your design, and merchants held an auction to sell it to each other.”

“Private… Did you use your own money? How can you spend your own money on public affairs? “The amount must not have been small.”

“Is there a problem with building it with my own money since it is a building I will come and go to and work in anyway?”

Ha Si-hwa was completely speechless at those words.

Eventually, Seol Taepyeong raised his voice towards Ha Si-hwa, who was in a daze, as if to come to his senses.

“Administrator!!!!!”

“…Yes…!” “…Full your dreams…!!!!!!!!!!”

“…?”

After shouting something meaningless like that, he stormed into his house to practice martial arts like he always did.

Thanks to this, Hashihwa had to increase the size of the government office building two to three times more than planned, doubling the amount of work.

Because I was self-employed, I couldn’t lament to anyone.

Something similar happened several times while working in the activity room.

“There are no conditions to bring in a Jeongseon-approved technician to the active room. “I don’t have the ability to feed them and put them to sleep, so I have no choice but to get support from wherever I can.”

“Let’s go to my Jeongseon In-ga.”

“yes…? “Am I Jeongseon?”

“It’s money that goes into feeding and putting people to sleep in your house, so you wouldn’t be stingy. “The head of the family has a great personality, so he will open his hands to you.”

It was a small trick to drive out the engineers of the Jeongseon family, but Seol Tae-pyeong took the money in a head-on attack and shoved his entire pocket in front of Ha Si-hwa.

“Now, down payment.”

“Huh, how did you get money from those poisonous family members?”

There was a rumor that Queen In, who was determined to do anything to hinder the sealing, had tipped off her, but that was not particularly important to Seol Taepyeong.

“The important thing is that there is a down payment here. The amount itself will be sufficient, so proceed well with the project so that the Jeongseon certified technicians can settle down in the active room.”

“Oh, yeah…”

“Is there anything you need more money for?”

“Ah… first… let’s take a look at the situation.”

“okay!!! Manager!!!!”

“Ah… Yes!!!”

“If you have any problems while working, tell me!!!!!!!”

After shouting so loudly, the sight of him quickly heading to Cheongdo Palace to work as an internal examiner is so refreshing that you can feel the chill.

‘Maybe it’s because I have a big belly, but it makes everything happen that shouldn’t be possible…?’

Seal Haga and Jeongseon Inga are in the midst of a battle of wits to get their hands on the death warrant.

At the moment when the two most powerful people in Cheongdo Palace are bickering, the price of Hyeongwoljang is skyrocketing.

After that, Ha Si-hwa tried to pick up various issues and complain to Jongwoljang that things were not progressing several times, but Jongwoljang said that no matter what problem he encountered, he would go to the high official of Cheongdo Palace and take it by the collar. It is received.

That’s right… I had forgotten about Hashihwa.

There is no one scarier than a man who knows he is doing well…!

Is this why if you want to work, you have to work under someone in power…!

When I was studying and working as a prosecutor, I had to get a lot of permits for even the smallest official duties, and the officers in charge were all stingy and unloving, so it was a struggle every time.

However, once he comes under a famous military officer, everything goes smoothly.

It took less than 10 days to start construction work on the active room government office, and all the planning work, including building a fence around farmland and controlling the area where people flock, is progressing without a hitch.

I uploaded a document to recruit people to develop the mine, and engineers came from all over, saying they would do it themselves.

I looked for a place to buy anvils, bellows, and smelting tools, and merchants from the imperial capital came first and asked for money.

As I was demarcating a residential area suitable for the Jeongseon clan’s engineers and members of the Black Moon, all kinds of plans started popping up in my head. And he has the budget, materials, and manpower to implement everything he has planned.

Working hard produces results…!

Dirty government officials don’t know anything and don’t skimp on collaboration…!

I don’t have a superior who is hell-bent on stealing my credit…!

A night with the moon high in the sky.

Hashihwa, who had been planning all night long with all kinds of design drawings and study documents on the wooden table… suddenly swallowed dry saliva.

‘Dangerous…’

Yes. Although I have forgotten, Ha Si-hwa was also a technician before he was a bureaucrat.

Proper engineers are people who feel joy in unfolding their abilities, testing their skills, and constantly growing.

‘I didn’t eat anything all day today… I’m not hungry…’

fun…!

I wonder what kind of crazy sound this is…

Work… is fun…!

“I haven’t heard from Manager Ha for almost ten days. “I wonder what’s going on in the active room…”

“Yeah, really? “I was also worried because I had barely received any updates from Manager Ha.”

Ha Kang-seok, the head of the Seal Ha family, and Ha Deok-bi, the owner of the White Tiger Palace, were sitting in the garden and talking in serious voices.

No way… he wouldn’t have done any harm to the manager from Sealing Hagga. No matter how many times Seol Taepyeong is in trouble, they won’t do anything to a famous and powerful person.

Nevertheless, the two people had to feel a strange sense of anxiety as they lost contact with Ha Si-hwa.

*

“They say there is a scary rumor going around in the active room managed by Hyeongwoljang…”

It is time for deviation.

Queen Bae Po-ryeong would run out of Hyeonmu Palace once in a while and wander around the capital market streets like a commoner. If she, who had received the blessing of divine fidelity, decided to run away, there was no way to catch her, no matter how many of the maids at Hyeonmu Palace.

Of course, since she is dressed in the separately prepared commoner’s clothes… no one on the market floor realizes that she is the owner of the noble and noble Xuanmu Palace.

This was possible because Po Hyeonbi was originally a commoner.

No matter how much she dressed up as a commoner, other crown princesses who have lived in the palace all their lives and cultivated nobility could not even dream of such stealth. This is because it is not easy to hide the elegance that comes out in just one action or facial expression.

Today too, I was sitting in front of a teahouse in Jujak City, quietly eating refreshments, wondering if I should go in after an hour or so in the fresh air.

“Active room? “What rumor?”

“huh. “The person who gets dragged in there will suddenly be unable to contact you and will not know if they are alive or not…”

“Well, really…?”

“huh. My dad supplies the Cheongdo Palace security guard. “I heard a rumor while I was working.”

Even today, Po Hyeon-bi, who was enjoying the scenery full of life in Jujak City, heard the noise of young shopkeepers on the floor of the market.

Rumors floating around in the market usually contain a lot of rumors and exaggerated details.

Still, there is no smoke coming out of an open chimney, so there were many cases where some part of it contained the truth.

Meanwhile, when news came from my dear friend, Hyeongwoljang Seoltaepyeong, Queen Po listened intently while munching on her red bean cake.

“So… it is said to be an object of fear among the officials of Cheongdo Palace… That place called the active room is a kind of hell… famous officials go missing every time they enter it. “Black Moon Captain Cheong Jin-myeong, the swordsman of the study… even the apprentice warrior of the Red Palace who was sent as his adjutant, all contact has been lost.”

“Hi… what… what… really…?”

“On such a topic, the internal situation is not revealed well… Among the officials of Cheongdo Palace, it is called hell… I don’t know what terrible things they are doing, but they say that if you get sucked into it, life in the main palace is over.. .”

“……”

‘Taepyeong… what on earth are you doing…’

Po Hyeon-bi was so dumbfounded that she couldn’t even swallow the red bean rice cake she was eating.

It seemed like the rumor would spread further for a while.

hell (4)

It didn’t take long for rumors about the active room to spread among the officials at Cheongdo Palace.

The active room, where contact is cut off no matter who enters, has suddenly begun to be regarded as a tomb for bureaucrats.

On the day when Hyeongwoljang Seol Tae-pyeong entered Cheongdo Palace to work as an internal examiner, everyone tried to avoid making eye contact with him.

If you happen to catch his eye, you will have to be taken to the active room.

Bad rumors spread especially quickly.

The technicians of the Jeongseon family also reached a point where they lamented their situation as they had to be dispatched to the active room… In Seon-rok, the head of the Jeongseon family, also had no choice but to gather his thoughts a little.

‘I’m inclined to trust him because he was recommended by Hayeon, but it’s definitely strange that he doesn’t even show his nose to the main palace as he is being dragged to the active room.’

While working at the Sangseogwan, he would occasionally check on Hyeongwoljang’s current situation, but it doesn’t seem like Hyeongwoljang Seol Tae-pyeong was planning anything big.

The news is that he is simply taking good care of the active room as instructed by the main palace and spending his time training himself in martial arts.

‘Anyway… I will soon be inspecting the active room on behalf of the Emperor, so a conclusion will be reached soon. It would be nice if he wasn’t someone who plots useless things.’

“Not only Hashihwa, but all the civil servants of Seal Haga who went in together can’t be contacted?”

“yes. Considering the recent rumors circulating within Cheongdo Palace, it certainly seems like something is going on there.”

When Ha Deok-bi answered like that, Ha Kang-seok, the head of the sealing Ha family, could not help but narrow his eyebrows.

The people brought in by Hyeongwoljang Seol Tae-pyeong this time are quite capable within the Seal Haga.

Of course, only at that level can you solidify your position under Hyeongwoljang and try to control him. However, if all five of them lose contact at once, the loss will be severe.

People are also assets.

If you lose an asset, you must find and determine the cause.

“Hasn’t someone from the Jeongseon clan used some trick?”

From the beginning, it was unusual for Seol Tae-pyeong, who knew everything, to readily accept the people of Haga.

What if, in fact, Seol Taepyeong and Jeongseon Inga are one in the same family, and they used a trick to keep the powerful people of the Seonbongha family in check?

…Considering that Queen Dowager and Seol Taepyeong are acquaintances, it is not impossible at all, but it is also strange to do something like this just to keep five or six officials of the 5th rank or lower in check.

“As you know very well, the Jeongseon family are not the type of people who use tricks like that. If it moves a little more underwater, it will move, but not so openly. “They are acting quite aggressively just because they dispatched technicians to the active room to keep us in check.”

“…So, are you saying that Hyeongwoljang himself is planning something?”

“…Anyway, I have to see Hashihwa’s face even if I’m forced to do so.”

Ha Deok-bi also knew something about the woman named Ha Si-hwa.

The woman, who was gifted with great talent in architecture and design, was also ambitious as a person of Inbong Ha, so it would not be surprising if she threatened Ha Deokbi’s position someday.

Like Ha Chae-rim once did, will Ha Deok-bi also have to kick down the ladder to prevent someone below him from climbing up?

It would be a lie to say that there was no such pressure, and Ha Deok-bi was ready to kick that ladder at any time. For her, life was like a struggle.

“I personally… No, the head of the house should send the letter personally. “No matter what, the head of the Sealing House contacted me directly, so I can’t help but reply.”

I’m doing well.

There is nothing worth reporting about Hyeongwoljang Seoltaepyeong yet.

I will work harder and do my duty.

Posted by Hashwa.

“…”

The letter that came back the next day was so short that I wondered if this was okay.

When he first entered the active room, he was reporting every move of Hungwoljang Seol Taepyeong in order to attract the attention of the owners of the sealing house.

Since so many detailed reports were posted every day, it was difficult to check them all.

Even though the head of the Sealing House personally wrote a letter to her, she barely gave me such a short answer.

Even if something is wrong, it is definitely going wrong.

Ha Deok-bi felt like he had to force himself to look into what was going on in the active room.

*

A government office building with only the bare bones erected.

In a room so small it was embarrassing to call it a conference room, there were four people sitting around a large, shabby wooden table.

The owner of this active room was Hyeongwoljang Seol Tae-pyeong and three of his closest associates.

Adjutant Bicheon. Black Moon Captain Cheong Jin-myeong. Even Manager Ha Si-hwa… Everyone would have their own place in the main palace of Cheongdo Palace, but they were sitting around chatting at a construction site filled with acrid dust.

“The cleaning up of the lower class on the outside of the active room is almost complete. “Once everything is sorted out within a week, as long as we dispose of the ghost’s blood properly, we will be able to build a new building.”

“Captain Cheong. I think a week is too long. Can you sort it out within three days? “The materials are coming in tomorrow, but I don’t think it would be a good idea to leave it outside for a long time.”

“I know that Manager Ha has a strong desire for work, but suppressing demons is a matter of life. “No matter how tight my schedule is, I can’t handle it in a hurry.”

“No, you know that in civil engineering work, there is a huge loss every time the daily schedule is delayed. It would be difficult if it was like this every time. “If you start wasting money just because you have a large budget, loopholes will be revealed in other areas.”

“You two need to calm down and we’re sitting down to find a compromise regarding schedule coordination.”

In the middle, Bicheon stopped the argument between Ha Si-hwa and Cheong Jin-myeong, as if he was embarrassed.

Hyeongwoljang Seol Taepyeong sat on the wooden table, folded his arms, and listened, then roughly mediated between the two.

After arguing for a while, we came to the conclusion that the work would likely be completed within five days.

“Did you hear that the Chief Secretary is coming in person next month? There will be a lot to prepare so that there are no mistakes at that time, so let’s work hard until then. “Is there nothing more to report to the manager?”

“There is a lot to report. “We need to reinforce the supports in the eastern mineral region, so we will need more wood… We are also planning to build a market block within the active area, but we will likely need more people to build the road.”

“The lumber will be arriving soon, and it looks like the people are already being used to their limit… If anything, bring in the maids and handymen from my house and use them.”

“Yes.. Yes…?”

“It wouldn’t be very pleasant to be suddenly taken to a construction site, but I agreed and saved everyone so that they would suffer for the time being. All you have to do is specify what you need to do. “Be careful not to get heatstroke, and have women focus on delicate tasks rather than strenuous tasks.”

“Well… that’s not it… If we drag all the people there, who will take care of Hyeongwoljang?”

When Ha Si-hwa asked that question, Hyeongwoljang Seol Tae-pyeong answered with a puzzled look on his face.

“Hey dude, how old am I? Are you worried that I won’t be able to cook a few meals, wash my clothes, and go to bed on my own? There is a degree to which you can regard your master as nothing. are you kidding.”

“Well, that is…”

This is the first time I have heard of a nobleman who has lived to the rank of servant 3rd class and prepares his own meals, does his own laundry, and sleeps with his own blanket. No matter what, there is a dignity appropriate to one’s position.

They told him to hire as many people as he wanted, but he never thought they would scrape up all of that manpower and give it to him.

Not only Ha Si-hwa, but also Bi-cheon and Cheong Jin-myeong could not help but look dumbfounded.

“You look like you saw something you shouldn’t have seen. “S-No way… Did you really think I couldn’t do that on my own?”

“Well, it’s not like that…”

“Guys… I’m not that bad…”

Hashihwa quickly lowered his head, hiding his embarrassment.

Hasihwa is a bureaucrat whose abilities are well recognized.

However, a capable bureaucrat is bound to have many enemies even if he does not want to. And I never felt resentful about it. This is because we have lived in an environment where we have no choice but to take it for granted.

Haga, the seal where Hashihwa put her body, is such a place.

The most powerful reign, but everyone who is slightly less powerful must struggle to avoid being purged.

It is better to hide your abilities until you take flight, and even if you reveal your abilities, you must kill yourself to avoid becoming a threat.

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Rather than pushing the capable, there are people who have no choice but to be cautious first.

It is most important for those who have ascended to high places to distinguish who is their enemy and who is their friend. The person’s abilities are the next thing to consider.

That’s why she felt a sense of discomfort at the sight of Hyeongwoljang pushing her with all his liver and gallbladder… Ha Sihwa was taken aback for a moment.

“Oh, right… You said you would cut a main street and demarcate the market district with the government office as the center, right?”

“yes. “It will be easier to decide on things like place names later.”

“Administrator, decide for yourself. Because you designed it.”

“M-you mean me?”

“okay. Choose your name or your family’s name. “I hope it’s clear and has good meaning.”

Hashihwa quietly looked down at the numerous blueprints and zoning maps spread out on the wooden table.

It has been something I have been completely absorbed in for the past time, completely eliminating food and drinks, and most of it has been put into practice.

Among them, the name of the section that will become the central street of the future active room.

Usually, the room was given a name that would emphasize its loyalty to the official in charge of the room, or to the emperor.

However, Seol Taepyeong tapped the blueprints on the wooden table and spoke softly.

“It’s your work.”

Hearing those words, Hashihwa opened her eyes wide.

“Anyway, the work itself seems to be going well, so let’s go back to work after eating. If you have anything else to report, please contact me.”