The Joseon Prince Went To America And Didn’t Return – 111



< Tiger Hunt (2) >

“Your Majesty! Are you alright?”

As soon as I heard Korean all the tension in my body was released.

Because I felt a sense of relief.

“Your Majesty you go check if the assassin is dead. I will check on His Majesty’s physical condition first.”

“yes.”

One of them approached me as I lay on the platform while the other turned to the enemy lying next to me.

Tang tang-

To confirm the kill.

Because if the enemy isn’t completely dead it could become dangerous again.

Taking preemptive action.

“majesty!”

“Ugh….”

It was difficult to control my body properly perhaps due to the symptoms of a mild concussion.

But as time passed my physical condition slowly began to improve.

I sat up with the help of my bodyguard.

“omg.”

right.

I’m sure he was shot in the chest.

I quickly checked to see if there were any injuries to the chest.

“majesty.”

The bodyguards looked shocked and their eyes widened.

Because the Bible he took out from his bosom was soaked in blood.

The authors seem to mistake the red stains for my blood.

“Everyone don’t worry. Fortunately I’m safe. Here take a look at my chest.”

“ah….”

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I tore off my shirt to show that there was no bullet lodged in my body.

Only then did the bodyguards’ stiff expressions disappear.

‘It’s so colorful.’

There is a large bruise around his chest possibly due to the shock from the attack.

The bullets didn’t penetrate my body but they still landed two powerful punches.

‘That was dangerous.’

I turned my head again and looked at the red-tinted Bible.

I looked inside and as expected there were two bullets fired by the Japanese assassin still intact inside the book.

‘I was lucky.’

They say that books and pocket watches were the best protective clothing at a time when bulletproof vests had not yet been developed.

That was true.

“Your Majesty. There is a lot of blood on your face. Please wipe it off with this.”

“Thank you.”

I slowly got up from my seat wiping the splattered blood of the Japanese assassin with the handkerchief the bodyguards handed me.

“ah….”

Suddenly a person’s face came to mind.

I quickly turned my head to the right and looked at Kim Young-ho who was lying on the ground less than ten steps away.

“What about Youngho?”

Only then did the bodyguards confirm the deputy team leader’s situation.

“Unfortunately the vice-chairman….”

The bodyguards trailed off.

Oh my god.

Unfortunately Youngho was shot in the head and appears to have died instantly.

“What about the damage on our side?”

“There were two no three dead… and three injured. Except for the two of us everyone else was injured in one or two places.”

In this fight our side suffered greater casualties than expected.

Because we were raided at an unexpected time.

“I thought the assassin would show up at the wedding but I didn’t know it would show up this soon.”

“That’s right. I knew it was time for me to come out of the church.”

I did prepare in advance though.

The security team had never experienced a situation like this before.

That’s why he looked confused in this situation.

‘The response was delayed by about one to two seconds.’

Due to a short period of time three people were knocked out of the battle early on resulting in significant damage.

‘These are barbaric times where even presidents and emperors are being assassinated.’

I clicked my tongue wondering how the enemy of a country could be defeated so easily.

Now that I’ve actually experienced it I think I understand.

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Because if you get raided you get flustered.

“What about the enemies?”

“Nine were killed and seven were captured.”

“What about the rest?”

“It seems like they ran away for now. But the police are chasing them so I think they will all be arrested soon.”

Police in the area are said to be very angry.

but.

Some American civilians were also injured during the shootout.

They will probably search with all their might.

“Federal Justice Department officials are also expected to be dispatched here?”

“Yes that’s right.”

Wouldn’t it be possible for the FBI to be created earlier than its original history because of me?

I thought for a moment about the history that would change because of this incident then looked back at the guards.

“By the way how many assassins did the Japanese mobilize for this incident?”

“I’m over thirty.”

It looks like a large number of people have come on an expedition.

It looks like you were holding on very tightly.

‘If you think about it….’

Japan suffered a great humiliation at the International Peace Conference.

I must have been a thorn in the side of the hardliners.

Analyzing the current situation it seems that the enemies have been preparing and preparing for this day.

‘I did some preparation so it ended like this.’

He doubled the number of bodyguards he usually carried and trained them often.

He also mentioned suspicious Japanese activities around him and induced Morgan and Rockefeller to bring personal bodyguards.

‘If I had just let it go it could have really ended in my death.’

It’s because I prepared that I was able to survive.

‘Let’s reflect. We were too caught up in wedding preparations…’

You can’t just get angry here.

We must use this mistake as a stepping stone to reflect and move forward.

‘Those damn Japanese.’

I remembered what Franklin Roosevelt and Ethel had asked me.

What is the prince’s dream?

You asked me I guess.

After I possessed Lee Kang’s body I didn’t have any dreams for a while.

The initial goal was simply to survive.

Then after I decided to marry Ethel I finally found a direction to protect my family.

‘The Empire of Japan and I truly cannot coexist. The fight will continue until one of us perishes.’

How can we use this opportunity to influence them?

What can I gain from this incident?

“Your Majesty! Your Majesty!”

“huh?”

Additional security personnel came towards me and surrounded me.

Some even recovered Kim Young-ho’s body.

“Just in case how about going to the hospital first?”

“Okay.”

First of all hospitals might be dangerous too.

We need to send an advance party and find out the situation there.

I hurried to the car I came in with my bodyguards.

* * *

I was taken to St. Peter’s Hospital in downtown San Francisco supported by security guards.

‘There are patients everywhere.’

Perhaps because a large-scale gunfight had broken out patients with gunshot wounds were seen here and there in the hospital.

These are scenes that are not easily seen in modern Korea but are familiar in the United States.

‘I joined the gun control lobby so I wouldn’t have to see that.’

Living as a modern-day Park Byung-jun I have done several unpaid work one of which was lobbying for gun control.

Of course my volunteer work ended in failure.

Because in America there’s no association as powerful as the Jewish lobby group: the National Rifle Association.

“The VIP room is accessible through this door.”

“okay.”

We arrived at a ward with few people under the protection of security guards.

Just in case I sent some of my bodyguards.

I checked to see if there were any Japanese people inside the building.

“Stop for a moment.”

at that time.

A man’s voice was heard from afar.

“Are you by any chance a… Chinese?”

“No I’m not. I’m a Korean who just immigrated two years ago.”

“FXXX. Why do they look so similar? I thought it was Jace.”

The strange man acted like he had a Japanophobia.

As I slowly approached him I was able to confirm his identity.

‘Morgan?’

The identity of the strange man behind the wall was none other than Morgan Jr.

He had a bandage wrapped around his left hand seemingly indicating a cut.

But no other areas seemed to be seriously injured.

I approached Morgan Jr. with a happy heart.

“Vice President Morgan.”

“This prince!”

“How is your body?”

“Oh yes. It’s okay.”

“What about the others?”

I looked around to find the other people I was with.

“William (Rockefeller) left the hospital 30 minutes ago to see Ethel and Walter (Rothschild) went to the post office to tell the Baron something.”

“okay?”

Morgan sighed in relief and looked around my body.

I checked to see if there were any injuries.

“There is no major trauma. By the way I heard that many of the prince’s people were injured.”

“….”

“I pray for the repose of your soul.”

“Thank you for comforting me.”

“Ha… No matter how much I think about it I feel like I’m dreaming. Isn’t that right? Who would do something like that without being crazy?”

I saw it earlier.

It seems like Morgan is starting to develop a phobia toward Japan.

This seems like a very good opportunity to make things worse.

I criticized Japan by giving several examples.

“Well if you look at their past records… they were still such jerks.”

“Huh? You’ve done this several times?”

“then.”

Even the current Russian Emperor Nicholas I was a victim of terrorism in Japan.

Is that all?

Li Hongzhang the highest authority in the Qing Dynasty was also shot by local Japanese while going to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

There was also an incident where Japanese ronin invaded Gyeongbokgung Palace and murdered Queen Min.

He mentioned numerous previous assassination attempts in Japan.

yesterday.

I disclosed to Morgan Jr. the information I had gathered while fighting the public opinion war with Saionji.

“Wow you crazy little shits.”

Even without that Japanophobia is growing here and there.

After hearing my story it seems that Morgan Jr.’s Japanophobia has gone from mild to severe.

“This prince.”

“Tell me.”

“Those who tried to assassinate the prince.”

“okay.”

“You will pay a very high price.”

“Why do you say that?”

“I can guarantee you that the news has reached Wall Street and even the White House.”

Theodore Roosevelt is a representative pro-Japanese figure in the United States.

The story of how Theodore was delighted when Joseon’s diplomatic rights were transferred to Japan was so famous that it was told not only in Washington but also in New York business circles.

‘But this time we won’t be able to cover up Japan.’

The situation has become too big to be dismissed as a simple case of Japanese yakuza running wild in the United States.

Moreover now is a very good opportunity to put pressure on Japan.

No matter how pro-Japanese a person may be Americans consider their country’s interests to be the most important.

So it seems like Theodore will move too.

“If Roosevelt hesitates I will step in and make him pay. I don’t know what my father will decide but if I can get the word out as best as I can I can put pressure on them.”

‘Okay.’

The Morgan Empire is currently run by control freak John Pierpont Morgan who controls everything.

Working under his control-mad father Morgan Jr. has little influence.

But John Pierpont Morgan is eighty years old this year.

In just five years or so the Morgan empire will completely fall into Morgan Jr.’s hands.

I could clearly see the difficulties Japan would face if Morgan Jr. who suffers from Japanophobia became its representative.

“I feel a little better when you say it like that.”

I smiled brightly and chatted with Morgan Jr. for a while.

Morgan looked as if he had just remembered something as he was telling me the information he had acquired.

“Ah! Prince. Have you heard that rumor?”

“What rumor?”

“I heard that the prince was compared to a tiger and this operation was called ‘tiger hunting.’”

Hehe.

okay?

‘If you fail to hunt a fox it’s over but if you fail to hunt a tiger it’s not like that.’

If you’re not careful you might get hit in the cheek by the tiger’s foreleg.

Your neck will be twisted will you be safe?

‘Aren’t there tigers in the archipelago?’

So that’s what it was.

You acted so rashly because you didn’t know the danger of tigers.

‘For now I hold the key.’

How can I end this case in my favor?

It started with this concern.

‘Katsura is a helpful person to me. The more hardliners run wild the more Japan’s position in the international community will inevitably narrow. In the end it will lead to a confrontation with the United States.’

In order to make Japan run wild even more wild we must get rid of Ito who acts as a control device as soon as possible.

‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth would be better…’

For now it would be best to leave it to someone else to handle without getting my hands dirty.

He called one of the nearby bodyguards.

“you.”

“yes.”

“Go and get some paper and a pen.”

Morgan Jr. looked curious.

“Your Majesty why are you looking for paper and pen?”

“what.”

I shrugged and answered.

“I was thinking of writing a thank you note or something.”

“A thank you note? To whom?”

“Yes.”

First let’s start with Takahira the former Japanese ambassador.

Because what you warned me was true.

I need to send a thank you letter to the Japanese embassy right away.

‘Now that I think about it…’

Takahira has already returned to the mainland.

In that case I should send this letter to the Japanese embassy even more.

Those who remain in the embassy now are probably Katsura Taro’s followers.

What will happen when they receive this letter?

I continued writing the rest of the letter while imagining happy thoughts.

* * *

“Your Excellency the Prime Minister.”

“What’s going on?”

“A telegram has arrived from America.”

“okay?”

Katsura Taro quickly received a telegram from the chief secretary.

I slowly read what was written inside and opened my eyes wide.

“failure?”

Since it was a telegram that exchanged information in short words the content was not recorded in detail.

Even in a short report the writer’s emotions seemed to be revealed.

Because it was evident in the writing that he was truly sorry for failing by a single point.

“It’s a failure it’s a failure…”

How much resources did you pour into killing Lee Kang?

Since the International Peace Conference Katsura Taro’s hardliners have been planning this.

He collected information on Lee Kang from time to time analyzed his movements and even spent a lot of money to buy weapons.

But it is said that it failed.

“Eight!”

Katsura Taro overturned everything on his desk.

Because I was angry.

Wajangchang-

The sound of breaking glass echoed throughout the Prime Minister’s residence.

“Your Excellency the Prime Minister!”

“Fuck! F*cking Lee Kang….”

“dismissal!”

His secretaries try to dissuade him.

But Katsura was so angry that he kept throwing things.

“dismissal!”

“….”

“You need to find a solution as soon as possible. Things seem to have gotten bigger than we thought.”

Katsura actually didn’t think this would become such a big deal when he was planning this.

I thought Americans would just chalk it up to a bunch of immigrant thugs running wild in their own country.

But Lee Kang survived.

The situation grew bigger as the successors to America’s big names became involved.

‘Should we just move on like the Sakai incident?’

Late 19th century.

Japan experienced many conflicts with Western powers as it pursued enlightenment.

There were instances where some local warlords rebelled against central government policies and attacked Westerners.

The representative incident that occurred at this time was the Sakai Incident.

An incident in which French soldiers were seriously injured by local warlords.

The Japanese government arrested all those involved and ordered them to commit seppuku in front of the people involved.

Western officers were astonished at the brutal Japanese execution methods used against those involved but they somehow let it go.

Katsura tried to get away with it by using this method again this time.

“dismissal!”

“What’s going on?”

A secretary came into the Prime Minister’s residence.

Secretary Omoro looked at the secretary who had just come in and ordered something with his eyes.

A signal not to provoke Katsura who is very angry unless it is urgent.

But the secretary was so desperate that she pretended not to notice Omoro’s eye signals.

“This is a call from Governor-General Ito.”

Japan and the Korean Empire became an area where international phone calls could be made to each other with the completion of a submarine cable in 1907.

It seems that Ito was making a fuss and trying to talk to Katsura because the news of the failed assassination was relayed not only to the mainland but also to the Residency-General of Korea.

“Okay. Just say you’re busy.”

“He said he expected me to say that and that I needed to talk to him right now.”

“Use it.”

Omoro stopped the secretary from opening his mouth any further by making a rattlesnake-like sound as if he was shaking his tail.

The young secretary soon shuts her mouth in response to the anger of her two superiors.

“dismissal!”

Another secretary who had been outside entered the Prime Minister’s residence.

He also looked very anxious when I looked at his expression.

“Why again?”

“The American ambassador just sent someone to the residence.”

“The American ambassador?”

“Yes. Please convey this to Your Majesty.”

The secretary was holding a letter in her hand.

What on earth did the American ambassador write?

Katsura took it with slightly trembling hands.

“dismissal!”

Before I could read the letter from the American Ambassador another person came.

He was not a secretary but one of the staff who usually worked at the entrance to the Prime Minister’s residence.

“The British Ambassador has arrived at the Prime Minister’s residence. He says he has some urgent business to discuss and wants to see you before everyone else. I think it’s because of what happened today.”

Katsura’s future is now one.

All I do is check the overdue bills flying in from here and there.

“Ugh….”

Katsura was wondering which of the three to do first and chose to meet the British ambassador first.

Because no matter what anyone says Japan’s top priority partner was Britain.

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