Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 331

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Civil servants must have had a variable that allowed them to be promoted.

But why did we have to get on board at this moment?

It wasn’t just a ride, it felt like a special promotion.

A person who had been a low-ranking eunuch for over ten years suddenly received a special promotion.

Just when I thought things were going terribly wrong, my sister-in-law’s uncle, Elder Akbulgun, asked me a series of questions.

“Originally, he was someone who accompanied the emperor during his processions under the Dojigam, but it was a sudden promotion. By the way, is it really true that Heo Taegam is a person from the Odokmun?”

It felt like it was unbelievable that I was being asked the same question over and over again, but Ji-ryong nodded and gave a detailed explanation.

“Yes, sir. This is information I found out directly by interrogating the leader of the Blood Cult Information Corps who was captured in Beijing. Oh, and the Blood Cult has currently been absorbed into the Odukmun.”

“The fact that the allies were absorbed is not important. What’s important now is that there are such dangerous guys near the Emperor. I guess we have to move quickly!”

We thought things might be a little difficult, but Mr. Akbulgun was very enthusiastic and said he would hurry up and do it.

Ji-ryong asked with a slightly worried expression at the sight.

“If he becomes the Emperor’s closest confidant, wouldn’t things be difficult?”

I couldn’t help but nod my head, thinking that perhaps other variables could apply if they were the Emperor’s confidants.

Why is it that in historical dramas, if a person is close to the emperor and commits a crime, isn’t the emperor forgiving them?

Because the emperor reigns over the judicial system of this era.

Then, the old man of Akbulgun answered with a worried expression.

“If the evidence is clear, there is no need to worry too much. The Emperor is a wise and virtuous man. No matter how close he is to you, he will not hesitate to condemn such a wicked man.”

‘Oh my… Is the Emperor a good king?’

All I know about the Emperor is that he is the biggest fool for his daughter in the Central Plains.

All I know is that he is a doting father who listens to anything the princess says, but from what I heard from the old man, Akbulgun, he seems to be quite a capable ruler.

From what I heard from my older brother, the Akga family is a very loyal family.

When I see the old man Akbulgun showing such trust, I think he seems like a wise and virtuous ruler.

However, since the other party was the other party, he couldn’t just say, “That kid is a bad kid,” so the old man asked for a witness.

“But is there any evidence? No matter how evil he is, I can’t just believe your words and proceed with the work.

“The Emperor will also demand solid evidence as he is cutting off his close associates.”

I smiled at the words of the old man who asked about the deposit.

Of course, this little dragon had thought about that much.

Of course, you’re going to attack the blood sect’s stronghold in the capital city, so wouldn’t you have made preparations for that?

I asked Ji-ryong to prepare something for me.

“I knew this would happen, so I prepared a little bit. Ji-ryong, that.”

“Oh really?”

“Oh, I understand. Can you bring that Dragon over?”

“Okay.”

A letter was placed on the table, and then Brother Gyu-seong brought in a woman with one arm.

It was the great leader of the Blood Cult Information Group, Blood Sound Corps, Nanhwa.

“What is this?”

An old man tilts his head at the sight of a woman in a poor condition and a letter.

He said, unfolding the letter.

“This is a confirmation letter from the commander of the Dongbanggak in Beijing. And that woman is the leader of the Blood Sound Corps, an information group of the Blood Cult.”

The reason we have that woman in our hands is because I didn’t hand her over to the commander.

He passed on all the others, but since he knew the external circumstances of the Blood Cult well, he set aside the woman because she seemed useful in many ways.

I’ve already extracted all the information the woman had, but I might need something like a certificate, so I have the actual thing.

The woman was skilled in the martial arts of the Blood Sect, so she had undeniable evidence that she was a Blood Sect member, and was good to use as evidence.

“The author is one of the Blood Cult leaders!?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Then what about the confirmation letter? What kind of confirmation letter is that?”

“This is a confirmation letter from Dongfangge, one of the commanders in Beijing, that he wiped out the Blood Cult base in Beijing using the information obtained from that woman’s confession.”

And the certificate is from the commander who came with me to eliminate the Blood Cult in Beijing.

It says that this woman is the leader of the Blood Cult, and that I have eliminated all the remnants of the Blood Cult in Beijing with the confession of the woman I captured and provided.

He was supposed to be executed in Beijing, but since the largest stronghold of the Blood Cult is in the capital city of Yeongcheon-bu, he was sent to Yeongcheon-bu by me, a martial artist.

The content was that since the government and the martial arts world are now cooperating to root out the blood cult, they will send it to me instead of sending it as a convoy.

This should be enough for a certificate.

Because I have the actual item of the Blood Cult’s Great Leader and even a confirmation letter from the commander of the Beijing Imperial Army.

“Oh. Really?”

Judging from the fact that the old man was pleased with my explanation, it seems that he thinks this level of evidence is sufficient.

Soon, the old man of Akbulgun stood up from his seat and spoke in a resolute voice.

“If I submit a petition or something, information may leak out, so I will take these immediately and run to the emperor and ask someone I know to secretly submit a remonstrance to him!”

The old man, Akbulgun, was a lieutenant in the imperial guard.

He said that it was a kind of martial arts instructor position for the imperial guard, and that since he was weak in his own abilities, he would mobilize his connections.

Also, if I openly submit a petition, they might go into hiding or come up with a countermeasure, so I will secretly convey the facts to the emperor through a higher-up I know.

“Of course, you don’t have to worry, since they are trustworthy people.”

He is your sister-in-law’s uncle, so I’m sure he will take good care of you.

Ji-ryong and I looked at each other and then lowered our heads almost simultaneously.

“Okay, sir.”

“Then please do so.”

There were some concerns at the beginning, but things seemed to be going well.

***

While the old man of Akbulgun was working, we also decided to get busy.

It was because of Ji-ryong’s opinion that things might go wrong even if the evil elders proceeded with the work secretly, so they should prepare for it.

“Even though we asked you, Elder, we can’t just sit still. The original plan was to assume the worst. We have to take action ourselves.”

“What if we move among ourselves?”

“I’m not saying let’s hit it directly, but let’s gather information about the high-class restaurant of Odokmun and the high-class restaurant of Hyulgyo called Seolwolru (歲月樓) that was created by combining them. Let’s monitor that place.

The information provided by the Great Lord Nanhwa of the Blood Sound Alliance does not include information about Seolru, so we do not know much.

So, even if things go wrong, let’s gather information and check on the people coming and going so that we can prepare for the next time.”

“surely···.”

The first thing we did was gather information and conduct surveillance.

The high-class giraffe Seowolru (歲月樓) of Odokmun.

I decided to gather information and monitor the place where you can have fun without even realizing the passage of time.

We couldn’t do this on our own, so we decided to get help, and that’s why we went to Gaebong.

Come to think of it, Gaebong wasn’t lacking in power, and it was good for moving secretly, and I was also close with Geulhwang.

I had no idea that he was a beggar, but Ji-ryong said that he could use the open world.

“Oh, so this person was a So So Hyup?”

“Honey, nice to meet you.”

Under the largest bridge in Yeongcheon-bu.

As the sun sets and I go to find the shack and start digging, a foul smell comes rushing in.

Since I had already told him that I would come, the other person laughed, revealing a tooth that fell out from under the lantern.

“Haha. Why are you greeting a beggar so politely?”

“But there are etiquettes in the martial arts world···.”

The other party’s identity is that of a branch manager of the Yeongcheon branch of Gaebong.

He continued with a kind expression.

“As expected, it is as the Emperor said. So when you said you would come earlier, you said that your purpose was to come and tell us. What is your purpose in coming to Gaepoong? Oh, the Emperor said that if Sohyeop comes to Gaepoong, you should treat him well, so don’t worry about money and just tell me.”

Who would have thought that the tribute I had been giving to Elder Geulhwang would shine at a moment like this.

I explained to him what had happened.

“Actually, I recently captured the leader of the Blood Sound Corps, the information unit of the Blood Cult that attacked me.”

“Tongue, Blood Sound Band! You caught the leader of the Blood Sound Band!?”

The eyes of Buntaju widen at the news that he has caught the leader of the Blood Sound Alliance.

His smiling expression instantly changed to one of disbelief.

And at the same time, as he flinched in surprise, the stench became even more overwhelming.

“Ugh. Yes, sir.”

“No way? I heard that a commander in Beijing recently caught a woman who was the deputy leader of the Blood Sound Corps. So is that related?”

“Oh, that’s something I gave you too. That woman is also a deputy chief.”

“Oh my! That’s true! We thought it was just some corrupt commander using a crazy woman to rip off a good guy, but it wasn’t like that?”

Is this what you mean by openness?

Buntaju knew that I had captured and handed over the commander of the Eastern Quarter and the Blood Cultists not long ago.

The captain seemed to think that the commander had taken advantage of the crazy woman to rob Kiru since the captain had gone crazy, and he didn’t seem to know that he had caught the captain after that.

“Yes, sir.”

“Amazing. The leader of the Blood Sound Sect never moves within the Blood Sect. We couldn’t catch him even twenty years ago! If you caught him, did you get any information about him!? His information would be really valuable information…. Oh, did he commit suicide because he was handling information? What a pity….”

It seemed that Buntaju thought that Nanhwa might have committed suicide, but since she was not someone who ran around the scene, Nanhwa was not as cruel as he thought to the point of taking her own life.

No, should we say that interrogation and torture are absurd?

That woman confessed everything, shedding tears and snot like a child, when a weasel crawled up her nostril.

I was suspicious that he was speaking too fluently, so I poisoned him with chlorine poison and cross-checked him, but he answered very honestly. He was so absurd.

“No, I didn’t commit suicide. I also obtained information.”

The eyes of the fool who opened wide again at my words.

He now took my hand and exclaimed in admiration.

“Oh! When the Emperor said that I was a child who would accomplish great things, I was hesitant… You are amazing!”

The stench was getting stronger, perhaps because his body temperature was rising from excitement.

Even the smell of blood was coming from my dark hands, so I took my hands away and explained the main point I had come to.

“······That’s why I came here. I heard that the biggest strongholds of the Blood Cult and the Odokmun are here in Yeongcheon-bu, so I thought I could get some help monitoring them.”

“The greatest stronghold of the Blood Cult in the Central Plains! Help? Of course I should help. Isn’t this for the sake of the martial arts world? Where is that?”

“It’s called Seolwolru.”

“Sewolru was the base of the Odokmun!”

I didn’t release all the information at once.

For now, I’ve only solved the problems related to Yeongcheon-bu.

Because the more the Odogmun and Blood Cult are spread out and known about, the less likely it is that they will be able to carry out covert operations.

“Then I will investigate and prepare the people who came and went from Seol-ru and what kind of people they were. Is there anything else?”

“Let’s talk about it after this is over.”

“Okay, I understand.”

The way back to attract openness like that.

The harbor entrance was noisy, but as we got closer, we realized that the cause of the commotion was our ship.

The front of the ship was full of soldiers.

They were not the ordinary soldiers we usually see, but soldiers wearing gold clothes and armor.

‘What’s so fancy?’

“What’s going on?”

“Go ahead. Little Dragon.”

Since it was a trip with just Hwa-eun, Nan-hwa was dragged out as soon as they arrived at the front of the boat.

“What on earth is going on?”

When I asked why the soldiers were rushing in and taking away the fire, my sister-in-law, who was on the boat, spoke urgently with tears in her eyes.

“Little Miss Sosukja, they say your uncle has been imprisoned!”

“yes!?”

‘No, he said he was a great general…’

My sister-in-law’s uncle said that the emperor was a civilized and wise king, but judging from the fact that my uncle was imprisoned, it seems clear that he was not a wise king.

When Hwa-eun and I were startled by my sister-in-law’s words, the commander of the soldiers wearing golden clothes approached and said.

“I am Maeng Cheong-un, the commander of the Royal Guard. Are you the owner of this ship and the one who captured this woman, the Blood Cultist?”

‘Golden Guard!?’

The word ‘Geumuiwi’ made my hair stand on end.

When I was learning about the common sense of the Central Plains, I heard from Hwa-eun that the Golden Guard was like a secret police force directly under the Emperor.

I heard that they are people who do difficult work under the emperor’s orders.

“Yes? Well, that’s true, but···.”

“Follow me for a moment. I have something to tell you.”

“Huh? Oh, no···.”

As the warriors grabbed my arms and tried to drag me away, the children’s angry voices filled my mind.

『-Tsuru! (Dad! Who are these people!? Why are they holding on to Dad?)

-Tsurut! (Are you a bad person?? Ask!? Should I ask? Unnie?)

-Krrr. (Should I just destroy everything!?)

-Beep (Bahap!?)

-Kyuu! (What’s wrong, Father?)

-Shia! (Should I call the snake!?)

‘Okay, calm down guys!’

‘Guys, calm down. It’s not like that.’

The place where Cheongwol was below deck was shaking, and the door to the cabin was starting to rattle, perhaps because of the children trying to get out.

Perhaps he was looking outside through the crack in the door and saw me being taken away.

If the kids come out, the Golden Guard will be the Golden Guard and I will be confirmed as a traitor.

Hwa-eun shouted towards Oryongsambong.

“Everyone, close the doors!”

“Oh, I understand!”

“Ugh. Stop it! Guys, calm down.”

When Hwa-eun ran and pressed down on the door where Cheong-wol was, and Hyung-nim and Oryong-sambong blocked the creaking door, I heard the voice of a man named Jinmusa Maeng Cheong-un in front of me.

[I won’t treat you badly, so just follow me for now.]

‘huh?’

It was a very friendly voice.