Wokou Can Be Put to Good Use (8)

Our envoy group dispatched to Tsushima returned to Hanyang and received tremendous hospitality.

That was because we had succeeded in getting the Tsushima lord's declaration of submission, while also pocketing 1,100 nyang in silver.

Because we had achieved such a feat without spilling a drop of blood, the local magistrates along the route from the south all the way to Hanyang came out to greet us and show us hospitality.

Sejong, seated on the throne, looked at us and smiled brightly.

“The chief envoy and the vice envoy must have had a very hard time, going all the way to the far-off Wae country.”

“We are unworthy of such grace, Your Majesty.”

If we had taken a ship from Incheon to Tsushima, we actually would not have suffered that much, and it would have taken far less time.

But the Wae pirates—no, the Wae bastards—were still in the middle of evolving from pirates into the Joseon navy through voluntary enlistment, so open-sea travel was impossible.

Taking a ship would have been faster and more comfortable, but the odds of dying were so high that there was nothing we could do.

So we went by horse... but my butt and thighs hurt so badly that, recalling that horrible memory, I never want to go to Wae country again...