"Master Seo? I have found the man who supplies the drinks to your brothel as well as a few others here in the kingdom. He is passing around this counterfeit money all over the place and..." "I know that my brother sent you to me as a servant from the village to help me out, so here is what I want you to do; document every step of this counterfeit journey for my brother and cousins to do what they deem fit for it. I shall need at least 4 copies of everything that you write down. But for now; I want you to slowly spread the word that these counterfeits are already in the state provincial officers coffers and cause as mush trouble as possible with it. The value of silver has already dropped threefold, so these corrupt merchants will soon be out on the streets and unable to pay back the usurers." "Master; it will only be a matter of time until almost all of the merchant stores will go out of business and everyone shall enter a state or paranoia. Are you using this method to weasel out whoever else is involved?" 'Cause panic to get specific results, just like my father and uncle taught me." "Everyone will try to see off the silver at half of the price and Hwan has already bought up half of the commercial rights in this kingdom through his connections at the brothel. Every time the value of silver rises, I will need to buy as much as I can and raise the value from 2 pieces of silver for one into three; yes, that will be our safe bet for now." "Will you distribute this to our village merchants so that we can now be able to sustain our businesses beyond the embroidery house like your father planned?" "Yes, and everyone else here in the kingdom will have to take the fall for once." "They may never recover if the value raises up threefold to what it is worth now. This happened once before and it was the kingdom who raised the value of silver, which resulted in great losses for everyone else outside of it. So I will track down the rest of the counterfeit buyers right now and buy up the mai product that funds everyone's coffers for political funds, which is ginseng and iron which our village has been starved of." "Are you really prepared to make the merchants here starve for it? Some of them do not even own silver." "If they want to take part in corrupt games, then they must be able to handle the risks that come along with it. And as for my cousin Hyuk, he must at least temporarily restore His Lordship's power enough to stand up to his adopted father. And we need to find this Eagle House where the original fakes are being produced in the meantime. The Royal Family cannot find it before we do and fund their corrupt schemes and drain the nation's economy as well."
"Are you looking to make connections with The Provincial Governors and bring them to your side?" "I cannot do that until my village has flourished, but my brother and cousins will need all the support that they can get to stop the trafficking of foreign and Josean women and the senseless killings that accompany that atrocious sin." "Yous cousin has already dealt with the drinks supplier and plans to send the bodies at a specific date in correlation to The Attendant Nam in the palace." "And then after His Lordships steps up to his father, we will plans for both of their abdications with the funds from the so-called Eagle House. We will free the concubines hostages and deal with them later somehow; we will either destroy them or have them all at our command and have Kim Yeong rule at least The Imperial Harem for us if not the entire palace." "I hear that some maid who impersonated your candidate of choice in the harem is making everyone's life miserable." "Is that so? Our girl has hardly made any progress yet despite all that we have done for her, so maybe we need to give her a helping hand to show off our own might. We have crafted a clever plan that can never fail, for the sake of my deceased family. Come, let us go meet with my little cousin and fill him in on everything that he needs to know."
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"Husband? There is a letter for you from your brother..." "Bring it into my study and sit down for goodness sake wife, you have been on your feet all day! Where are the twins?" "They are playing in the courtyard that my mother always dreamed of having for them with the women from the village. They have been too cooped up in their new rooms and have yet to explore the house yet." "You should really start to accompany them yourself and bond with them wife; put your childish grudges aside because myself and my brother promised to raise them." "I will husband but you do not understand; they are used to being coddled by my mother..." "As we all are, wife." "But we grew out of that and they haven't. They need a small taste of solitude to set them up for the rest of their lives, especially if they are to spend them apart as twins." "We will still keep them together as much as we possibly can." "3 more months until I bare your child husband, and then I will focus on my sisters with the help of these village women." "So what is my brother saying then? Where the hell is he and what is he up to and...why are you looking me like that wife?" "As far as I can remember, Geom hardly let you out of his sight and now the roles have reversed?" "You cannot blame em entirely wife, you know that Geom and Hwan act like babies around us, and I guess he has always seen me as some sort of parental figure after my father...." "It is the same thing for Hyuk and Hwan; if only we could all live together in peace away from the nonsense of the kingdom." 'I think that it is better that Geom relocate the village in case it has been compromised." "My love, no matter who we try to help and shelter in our grandfather's village, people's hearts and mind will always change. We will alway see at the risk of exposure and betrayal if the people are sick of living in poverty." "What do you suggest then?" "We ado everything that we can to help develop the village until the last person standing, then we relocate somewhere else and we focus on our own future generations." "Our children will all be raised alongside your twin sisters. So what does my brother say? Did you tell him about that Kang person?" "Apparently, Hwan has been informed but they are both working on the counterfeit case in the brothel. Hwan personally took out one of the Eagle House and Geom has sent someone from the village to replace him and sent the dead bodies to the group after they stole a bunch of counterfeit silver. And apparently Mistress Jeong is connected to this." "Really? How?" "She tried to buy a team of servants from the brothel with this counterfeit silver to being into the palace and make a private servants quarter for them." "She brought brothel servants into the palace? No wonder why she isn't titled yet, she caused The Third Prince himself to loose face in front of his already unstable supporters." "She had to return everything and use her harm gifts to make up for the damage that she made. She might be getting The Chief State Councillor Yoo involved in this counterfeit scheme. Apparently His lordship has been ignoring her ever since that fatal mistake that she made and will not even give her the chance to explain anything about it. He even pulled out every single flower in her courtyard for it" "That will put her on a murderous rampage in the harem, but she will focus on the brothel first. She wants to had it over to The Third Prince to make up for it and hopefully get a title in return, so she has helped set up the counterfeit scheme there? Hwan will not not stand for that and we still have no idea where this so-called Eagle house is." "She is accepting bribes and meddling in state affairs, that alone will get her removed from the palace, but we have no proof yet do we?"
"It is in our best interest that Kim Yeong help His Lordship break though his father's boundaries and help him become more educated than he has been allowed to become. In order to become as close as a Prince as possible, he needs to be able to read public appeals whilst we distract The Third Prince with all of these wars outside of the kingdom. Spies will be everywhere and his practise sheets must be burnt even if we do get him to that point; and our brothers need to start taking over the commercial market as soon as possible so we can control the kingdom outside of the palace first. We need to cut of The Third Prince's funds that way and that will protect our brothers from being The Eagle House's targets, thank god they are using fake names in the kingdom." "Hang on a second husband, they have sent us something else." "What is this? Some sort of code?" "Eonni? Can we come in?" "Come in sister, where is Eun-Ji?" "She fell asleep in the courtyard...eonni..." "Are you hungry? Is that why you have come here?" "I am sorry..." "Enough! Eun-Jeong, this is your home now and if you are hungry or you need anything else, all you have to do is to tell any of the servants here. You do not need to be scared of anything, do you hear me?" "Yes cousin..." "Ok, you have your lunch and go back to the courtyard. And tonight I shall make time for you and your sister to explore this kingdom as much as possible so you can settle in faster here. But never forget the golden rule..." "The kingdom doesn't accept twins, so myself and my sister have to hide as much as possible." "Once your sister has her baby, she will start spending time with you as much as possible and start educating you ok? And you do not need to be scared of her anymore..." "But she hates us! She always has and..."
"Listen to me girl; I have never hated you, ok? I wasn't thrilled with sharing my father with more girls after Bo-Geom, but we are all that we have now, do you understand me? I will be responsible for you and our sister's welfare as I am already taking a huge risk by hiding twins in my home along with my future child." "Hana!" "Stop coddling them husband, they need to know the truth in order to survive in the future without us." "Sister? What does that mean? Are you going to leave us as well? You, see, this is why I...." "Eun-Jeong! I did not mean that! Please calm down! Here, come into my lap and calm down..." "Sister? What is that on that paper? Isn't that the same numbering system of The Roman Empire that father used to havre on his desk?" "Cousin? What are you talking about?" "You copy out 1000 characters there and make 100 rows of 10 characters. Each combination of 2 numbers indicates a letter at a point where the horizontal and vertical lines meet. That is the same code that farther started cracking last year on my birthday..." "Your father has the exact same code on his desk? Eun-Jeong?" "My hyung knows all about it, but he packed it up and took it with him." "My mother did say that Eun-Jeong was an academic genius, whilst Eun-Ji was the social butterfly..." "Hanyang Province....Goreyo...." "Eun-Jeong? Can you already decipher what is on this paper? That quickly?" "Cousin, these are al names of provinces who works fir...Eagle House? What's is that?" "Ever you mind little sister; go take your nap with your sister then we will have the biggest dinner together, all of us with your favourite dishes."
"Husband?" "This document explains how everyone came to owe The Third Prince heavy debts even during his exile..." "So what do you plan to do about it? How can I help you?" "We must push The Mistress Jeong to the brink of having children, which will then push The Third Prince to push his useless adopted son aside. He will surely have someone else rule in his stead, not the mother due to her low social background, maybe someone from his small group of allies..." "His strongest ally is Master Jang, from the Inspector General's office; he has a daughter the same age as The Mistress Jeong..." "Speaking about Mistress Jeong and this Lady Jang, I could have sworn that they have a relative or 2 in common?" "Is that so? Well well"