Chapter 118. The Price of A Human (2/2)
‘He took data from a certain group and analyzed it.’
In the modern day, this was known as ‘analytics’. However, during the time, such a term did not exist.
Because of this, even though Cho Ryu Hyang understood what Jeon Bak was speaking of, he could not exactly pinpoint what it was.
He could only be amazed by the things that mathematics could achieve.
‘Setting a standard by finding an average between countless information……’
After that, one would use that standard to judge people.
“In any case, using all the things that I have done in the past, I can say this one thing.”
Jeon Bak began fiddling with his abacus again as he opened his mouth.
“We can earn three million gold coins using the people we have captured?”
“T-three million?”
Expressions of surprise floated up on everyone in the room.
Three million gold was much, much more than the amount a relatively large clan could make in a year.
Jeon Bak disregarded all of them as he continued to talk.
“This is the least amount of cash we can get from them, by the way.”
“…..!”
Everyone’s faces turned into that of absolute shock.
This was hard to believe.
At this time, the Pope nodded lightly at Jeon Bak.
Gongson Chun Gi already knew of what Jeon Bak was about to say.
“Personally, I would like to just bow down to the heir for what he had done, but… if you feel that killing them is the right thing to do, I shall comply.”
Jeon Bak calculated something some more and opened his mouth.
“But if we kill our hostages now, we’d be suffering a net loss of ten thousand gold coins.”
“……”
Everyone’s faces stiffened.
They didn’t have much of a choice, did they?
When the guardians’ faces turned grim, Gongson Chun Gi stepped forward.
Clap-
After clapping his hands loudly, Gongson Chun Gi opened his mouth.
“Right, let’s just look at the results here.”
Just look at the results?
Things would be extremely simple, then.
The people of the martial world were already praising Cho Ryu Hyang and also referred to him by the name, Transcendent Evil Prince (超魔公子).
Cho Ryu Hyang, without his knowledge, had become quite famous already.
Adding to this, he not only suffered minimal losses on his side but also captured a huge number of hostages.
He created a way for the church to receive a huge sum of cash.
“He beat the enemy under ridiculous terms. That alone is something commendable. This isn’t something you should be criticizing. You should be praising him instead.”
“…….”
Everyone nodded.
In the first place, what they had complained about was something very insignificant.
The boy had done something unprecedented.
That was the only reason they used to start this meeting.
‘We did lack reason, that is true.’
Tian Zhongpae smiled bitterly.
In reality, this meeting was held only because of the four families.
They were worried about Cho Ryu Hyang taking too much power for himself.
Gongson Chun Gi knew of this but decided to let it go for now.
After all, these people were those who Cho Ryu Hyang had to take under his wing.
“It’s usually the case that when you decide to complain about something bad within someone’s good achievements, you will never stop. Let’s all take this event as an exception. Any complaints, Guardian Tian?”
“…None, your holiness.”
“You, Guardian Jin?”
“Of course I don’t, your holiness.”
The other guardians couldn’t dare to say something.
Plus, this matter wasn’t even supposed to get any complaints from anyone.
The heir’s achievement was just that big.
It would only become strange if the meeting was dragged out longer than this.
“Thank you for your opinions. We’ll adjourn the meeting here. Go rest, now.”
“Understood.”
Everyone bowed towards Gongson Chun Gi and exited the room.
Now, only Sunwu Jo Duk, Jeon Bak, Wu Gyu Ho, and Ju Sang San were left.
Gongson Chun Gi looked over these people and smirked.
“Looks like the other side was quite anxious.”
“Looks like it. To think they’d hold a meeting over something so trivial… how troublesome.”
When Ju Sang San said this, Wu Gyu Ho chipped in with his own complaints.
“Why do you leave these people be, your holiness? Can’t we just sweep them away? Now should be a good chance to flush out the bad parts of the church.”
Wu Gyu Ho seemed ready to fight at any moment.
Gongson Chun Gi looked at him with a smile.
“Don’t be so angry. Fighting would be a bad move right now.”
Wu Gyu Ho twitched when he realized that Cho Ryu Hyang was staring at him, then opened his mouth apologetically.
“Please don’t look at all of us like those who were in the meeting. There aren’t many in the church who are willing to be that dirty.”
Cho Ryu Hyang smiled.
He, too, could differentiate between friend and foe in this meeting.
‘There were a few that I couldn’t judge, though.’
Those people shouldn’t be quite relevant, however.
In this aspect, his teacher was an amazing man.
The fact that he had someone who was willing to be angry and worried for him was enough to make him respect Gongson Chun Gi as a teacher.
“In any case, you all did well in staying quiet. These are the people who still work with us, after all. We just need to persuade them a bit in the future.”
“Even so…..”
“Silence!”
Wu Gyu Ho immediately scrunched up his large physique when Gongson Chun Gi looked at him threateningly.
Gongson Chun Gi looked at the man’s polite(?) posture and opened his mouth.
“Don’t try to butt in into this any further than this. Let the child handle it. The other side shouldn’t try to make a move after this point unless they’re complete idiots. After all, they expended quite a bit of energy in trying to pull this off.”
Gongson Chun Gi turned around to look at Cho Ryu Hyang.
“How was your first meeting?”
Cho Ryu Hyang touched his glasses for a bit, then put down his hands and spoke.
“I’ve seen some good things. As I thought, this place is just as chaotic as the outside world. It was fun.”
Gongson Chun Gi grinned.
“Correct. This place isn’t that different from the outside. It’s good that you saw through this. It’s nice that you had fun.”
“Where else would you get the chance to sit peacefully with your killers?”
Gongson Chun Gi nodded.
“You’ll have to keep doing that for quite a while from now on.”
The man was right.
Like Gongson Chun Gi said, Cho Ryu Hyang had to work with his killers quite a bit in the future.