Black Corporation: Joseon - Chapter 346
Episode 346: Invisible War. (5)
Near Hyogyeong Bridge in Cheonggyecheon (currently near Seun Shopping Center).
There were large and small thatched houses gathered around the bridge, which was also called Blind Bridge because many blind people lived nearby. It was one of the few remaining lower-rise residential complexes that survived the previous great fire and avoided reconstruction.
But now many soldiers have flocked here. They were Najang (羅將) and Najol (邏卒) of Uigeumbu and Hanseong Pocheong.
“The outskirts must be completely sealed off.”
The Najang members of the Pocheong bowed their heads and responded to the command of the Taoist monk from Uigeumbu.
“yes.”
“You must not forget that His Majesty the Prime Minister and the ministers are all paying attention. “If you miss even one, you will have to endure His Majesty the Lord’s wrath.”
To the Taoist monk’s warning, the Najang of Pocheong responded with sweat.
“I will prevent even a single rat from escaping!”
After thoroughly surrounding the outskirts of the neighborhood, Uigeumbu’s leaders raided the houses and began searching.
The najangs, who were holding hammers and iron poles in their hands, formed groups of four or five and began searching the thatched huts.
Rattling!
Wow!
“It’s mom!”
“Egg money!”
The sounds of doors breaking and women screaming began to come from all directions, and soon the shouting of men began to come from all over the place.
“Hey, jump!”
“Catch it!”
“Stand up!”
“at there! Stand!”
“Would you stand if it were you?”
“Shit! Just catch that bastard! “Catch me at all costs!”
Soon after the chaos broke out, the men who had been beaten by the Nazis and the Nazis were dragged out one after another with disfigured faces.
The men, who were tied to ropes like pigtails, trudged along under the strict watch of the Nazis and the Nazis.
One of the men who was walking like that looked around and tilted his head.
“This… isn’t in the direction of Pocheong? Hey, Nari. “Where are you going now?”
“It’s Uigeumbu.”
“Huge!”
All the men who were dragged away by Najang’s indifferent answer became meditative.
“Hey, come on! It’s forbidden to say that I barely played Ssangyuk (gambling with dice during the Joseon Dynasty) and lost a few goals! “Isn’t this too much?”
“that’s right! that’s right!”
As the voices of those being dragged away grew louder, the najang began to scream.
“Those guys who ran a gambling operation that was banned by the country are talking a lot! “Shut up and walk!”
* * *
Those who were taken away were all imprisoned in Uigeumbu prison.
The moment they entered Uigeumbu’s prison, most of them were very intimidated and only rolled their eyes from side to side, but there were a few who looked bold.
I don’t know if they were really bold or just bravado to hide their fear, but some of them made a half-hearted comment to the prison guard.
“Even if it is a golden prison that imprisons high-ranking people, there is nothing special about it?”
After hearing those words, Okjol smiled and answered.
“Then, did you think there would be silk needles instead of straw, and gisaengs would serve you instead of furry prison servants?”
“It’s the same jade, so why is it so creepy?”
“There are more people who come into this place and leave as idiots than those who leave ok, and it is said that heaven has helped those who become such idiots and leave. Isn’t it obvious? This is a place where dozens and hundreds of people come in and leave dead when some kind of prison or other serious crime such as traitorousness or murder occurs. Do you think it will be okay? “There are more than once times when I feel a chill down my spine when I stand up at night.”
Those imprisoned by the prisoner’s words looked at their surroundings without realizing it with very frightened faces.
The stains here and there on the floor and walls of the house also looked somewhat suspicious.
While the imprisoned people were scared, Geumbudosa came into the prison.
Geumbudosa, who was looking at the trapped men through the bars, opened his mouth quietly.
“Who is the tenant?”
Those who were imprisoned in response to Geumbudosa’s question looked at each other and expressed their doubts.
“Number of rentals? “Who is that?”
“I don’t know either? Who is it?”
While most of the people who heard the name ‘Rental Su’ were tilting their heads, a commotion broke out on one side.
“You bastard! “For some reason, I’ve been having trouble using it!”
“This bastard threw Dongti away!”
“100 million! evil!”
At the place where the commotion broke out, a group of men were beating a man.
Master Geumbu, who saw this, gave an order to the prisoners.
“Bring them out!”
“Yes, Nari!”
* * *
In this way, Daesu and those who were beating them were dragged out of the prison and moved to the front yard of Uigeumbu.
“You fucking idiot!”
“I said it was annoying to do this, but you ended up getting angry!”
“Damn you bastard!”
Even in the process of moving, the men hurled abusive language at Dae-su. Not only did he curse, but he also kicked Daesoo whenever he got the chance.
“100 million! evil!”
“I wonder if I won’t be able to walk properly!”
What greeted those who arrived at the front yard of Uigeumbu, squeezing around like that, were all kinds of torture tools.
“Hmm… where should we start?”
Seeing Dae-su Lee’s extremely frightened expression, Master Geumbu shouted loudly with exaggerated gestures and intonation.
“Should I play Juri first? Or should I start with the abs? Or should we start with a simple punishment that is supported by a soldering iron?”
“Hiccup! Hiccup!”
Every time Geumbudosa talked about the types of Gosin (拷訊), Lim Da-su got lost in thought and began to hiccup.
“As expected, it would be better to start with Apseul. “Look, tie the prisoner to the scaffold!”
“Yes, Nari!”
As the Nazis grabbed Im Da-su from the left and right, along with Bok-myeong, Lim Da-su screamed while urinating.
“I will tell you! I’ll tell you anything!”
* * *
Dae-su Lee, who was very frightened, blurted out everything he knew. The Dosa, who recorded all of Dae-su’s confessions, reported them to Panuigeumbusa.
“I have learned the identity of the person who instigated the tenant.”
“Who is it?”
“It is said that I am Jo Han-tae, the leader of the upper West Sea.”
“Where is the West Sea upper end?”
“They say there is a warehouse in Jemulpo and a head office in Maponaru.”
“Send people to Maponaru and Jemulpo immediately! Tell them to bring all the documents and everyone who works, including Jo Han-tae! If it’s Maponaru, word may have already spread! “First and second is best!”
“yes! “Thank you!”
“And throw those authors back in jail!”
“Yes Captain!”
Soon, a large group of cavalry departed from Uigeumbu. Their destinations were Maponaru and Jemulpo.
* * *
After arriving at Maponaru, the Taoists and Najang of Uigeumbu rode in all directions to find the upper West Sea.
“Master Taoist! “That place is the upper part of the West Sea!”
At the call of the Najang who had found the main branch on the upper West Sea a little distance away from the ferry dock, the Taoist monk grabbed the reins.
“Push right in!”
“yes!”
Hee hee hee!
With the loud sound of horses neighing, the Taoist monks and Najangs crossed the main gate of the main branch at the top of the West Sea with their horses.
Wow! Jangrang!
“Ugh!”
“What a mess this is!”
Suddenly, Taoist Oh Ji-ho, who had been leading the Najangs while avoiding the horsemen coming across the threshold of the gate and causing a commotion all around, shouted.
“Arrest the traitors!”
“yes!”
“If you rebel, it’s okay to tolerate!”
“yes!”
At Oh Ji-ho’s order, the leaders pulled out heavy iron guns and swords and drove the people working at the main branch to one place.
The people of the upper West Sea, who had received the seeds of horses brought in from the West, and were pressured by the swarms of men riding on large horses as big as mountains, and their spirit was broken by the word ‘traitor’, moved around as if they were being chased and were herded into one place.
Meanwhile, Jo Han-tae, who heard the commotion in the main house, let out a long sigh.
“Huh~. “This is how it ends.”
“Haengsu.”
Hearing Jo Han-tae’s words, the clerk next to him called out to Jo Han-tae with a gloomy face. He was someone who knew about this incident along with Jo Han-tae.
Jo Han-tae looked at the secretary who called him and his expression became sad.
“I’m sorry. “You should have listened to the clerk.”
“that’s my fault. “No matter how much it was done to grow the top, it was too dangerous.”
* * *
Jo Han-tae and Seohae Sangdan were one of the newly emerged merchants that benefited from Gyeongjang.
Jo Han-tae, who learned work at a river merchant, thought that now was the right time to grow his own merchant, and after leaving the river merchant, he used all his assets to open his own merchant.
Since it was not a bad breakup with Kang Sang, the West Sea merchant group grew slowly but steadily with Kang Sang’s help.
“This is not enough! “I can’t grow bigger quickly in my current state!”
Jo Han-tae, who judged that rapid growth was impossible with the profits earned by transporting and selling goods by boat between Gyeonggi-do and Chungcheong-do, sold his existing transport ship and mobilized all his spare funds to purchase a large cargo ship that could travel to and from the West Sea to start trade with Ming. jumped into
However, trade between Jemulpo and Shandong basically required a lot of funds.
It was a little over two years after its founding, and with only one large cargo ship, it was too much for the West Sea.
In the end, Dongchang (東廠) approached Jo Han-tae and Seohae Sangdan, who were in crisis due to a funding crunch.
“If you can find craftsmen related to iron horses, I will give you permission to supply them to the imperial family.”
“How many people and what is the deadline? And how long can you deliver?”
“The more people and the faster the time, the better. The delivery period is 3 years per craftsman.”
The classmate’s proposal was risky but sweet.
The secretary of the Seohae Sangdan strongly opposed it, but Jo Han-tae accepted his classmate’s proposal.
“All or nothing! If things continue like this anyway, it’s only a matter of time before it goes bankrupt due to financial issues! Just one person is enough! If you can supply 30,000 people to the imperial family for 3 years, you can rise to the top! 3 years is enough! Let’s do it!”
However, the result was not Mo, but Tao.
* * *
As the noise outside the door got closer, Jo Han-tae took out a small dagger from his pocket.
Jo Han-tae, who looked at the dagger in his hand for a moment, pulled it out of the scabbard and held it to his neck.
At that moment, the door was violently torn apart and Oh Ji-ho and the najangs rushed in.
Oh Ji-ho hit Jo Han-tae’s hand with the back of the sword he was holding and struck the dagger away, then kicked Jo Han-tae and knocked him down.
Oh Ji-ho, who placed his foot on the fallen chest of Jo Han-tae, aimed his sword and shouted.
“All the way there!”
* * *
On the night that Lim Dae-su and Jo Han-tae were arrested by Uigeumbu, a group of people were hurriedly walking on the night road to Jemulpo.
Because they were walking by moonlight, their steps were very careful.
In the middle of the group, Jang Seok-il was sweating and talking to an old man in Chinese.
“I’m sorry.”
“It was said that it was the Great Heavenly Name of the True Insa. “It was almost like gambling, so I had to take it.”
Jang Seok-il looked a little relieved at the old man’s words.
‘thank god. ‘How did you get here!’
However, Jang Seok-il’s face hardened at the old man’s next words.
“Of course, you must be prepared to hear unpleasant comments from the Grand Master. “The cost involved is also significant.”
“I will create another opportunity.”
“I guess so.”
While Jang Seok-il and the old man were having this conversation, the man who was at the front, looking at the road, suddenly raised his hand and stopped the movement.
“What’s going on?”
“Some man is blocking the road. Great person.”
“huh?”
After hearing the answer, the old man raised his head and looked ahead.
A man wearing a hat was standing blocking the road, holding a long cane in his arms.
“Who are you?”
When asked about his identity in poor Korean, the man blocking the road muttered softly and took out a whistle from his pocket.
“You found the right one.”
Beep!
As a loud noise echoed through the night sky, the men guarding the old man and Jang Seok-il all looked around and took out their weapons.
Cheap! Slam!
The guards prepared for battle were alert to their surroundings as a soft sword was pulled out from their waist and a spear blade protruded from the end of the staff.
After a while, dozens of men appeared nearby. Men dressed in all black, from hats to boots, surrounded Jang Seok-il and his group.
“Who are you?”
When asked again about his identity, the man standing blocking the road gave a short answer.
“Reaper.”
“what?”
“If you ask who sent you in the underworld, you will say that Milwi sent you.”
“what?”
Car window!
At that moment, Milwi’s personnel with their swords drawn began to attack the guards.
* * *
The battle between Dongchang’s guards and the Milwi was fierce, but soon the Milwi began to gain the upper hand.
This was because Milwi was superior in numbers and in terms of combat ability. It was a moment when the training I had received from Captain Naegeum shined.
“Oops!”
The battle ended with the last warrior falling to the ground after being pierced through the heart.
The only people left from Jang Seok-il’s group were Jang Seok-il himself and the old man.
When the situation became like this, the old man stepped forward and opened his mouth in broken Korean.
“I am a classmate…”
Before he could even reveal his affiliation, Milwi’s sword pierced the old man’s heart. Next, Milwi’s sword headed towards Jang Seok-il.
“Save my life…”
The Militia agents who killed the old man and Jang Seok-il soon brought wagons and loaded the corpses of the wounded and their colleagues. And the Milwi agents who loaded the corpses of Jang Seok-il and his group into another wagon soon quietly disappeared. .