Planting Chaos in the Ming Dynasty (7)

Assistant Envoy Hwang, it must have been rough on you, coming all this way on a long mission and doing hard labor you'd never done in your life.

"Not at all. My father said that hardship in youth is something you even buy to go through. Naturally, this was something I, who am only eighteen this year, had to endure."

This bastard's father is none other than Prime Minister Hwang Hee.

And this fellow's name is Hwang Su-shin, the man who will one day become the only Prime Minister in Joseon history never to have passed the civil service exam.

If you trace his career, he's basically a Hwang Hee in the shadows.

Once Danjong looked like he was about to be pushed aside by Sejo, he stabbed King Sejong in the back—the very man who had raised him to court rank despite never once passing the exam—and backed Sejo instead...

He was sent out to help rebuild disaster-stricken areas, only to falsify the land registers and embezzle fields and paddies; when the fraud was uncovered, he shamelessly denied it and claimed it had all been for the country.

'In other words, a madman obsessed with money and power.'

But for a man like that, just hearing him talk makes him sound no less loyal than any proper retainer.

That's how this sort of man rises to success later on and becomes a treacherous minister who wrecks the country...