Wokou Can Be Put to Good Use (6)

In fact, Joseon knows nothing about Tsushima.

That's why even Shin Jang-do, who serves as the Assistant Minister of Justice, Senior Third Rank, mistakes that bastard for a force to be reckoned with in Japan when the lord of Tsushima gives him fifty nyang in silver.

In Joseon, even if I'm a poor nobody with not a scrap of land, once I pass the civil service exam and rise to the rank of prime minister... even local magnates with ten thousand seok or a hundred thousand seok are beneath me.

Seeing that the lord of Tsushima has money to burn and handles diplomacy with Joseon as well, you'd think he's a pretty powerful player within the shogunate.

Even so, that bastard is nothing more than a senior retainer of a daimyo under the shogun.

“...... What are you talking about? Our Tsushima has never deceived Joseon.”

“Then I can send a personal letter to the shogun and ask who Tsushimanokami (Tsushima governor)—no, who the Tsushima shugo and shugodai are. If the lord of Tsushima is truly a senior retainer under the shogun, he should at least hold the office called Tsushimanokami.”

With the rise of the samurai regime, the Japanese post called Tsushimanokami lost almost all of its meaning.

In the old days, Tsushimanokami really did act as the governor of Tsushima...

But with the Minamoto shogunate and the Muromachi shogunate, the post was treated as nothing more than an honorary title...