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Gorgeous
were
the
two
years
that
followed
.
My
seven
provinces
I
governed
mainly
though
needy
yang-bans
selected
for
me
by
Yunsan
.
An
occasional
inspection
,
done
in
state
and
accompanied
by
the
Lady
Om
,
was
all
that
was
required
of
me
.
She
possessed
a
summer
palace
on
the
south
coast
,
which
we
frequented
much
.
Then
there
were
man
's
diversions
.
I
became
patron
of
the
sport
of
wrestling
,
and
revived
archery
among
the
yang-bans
.
Also
,
there
was
tiger-hunting
in
the
northern
mountains
.
A
remarkable
thing
was
the
tides
of
Cho-Sen
.
On
our
north-east
coast
there
was
scarce
a
rise
and
fall
of
a
foot
.
On
our
west
coast
the
neap
tides
ran
as
high
as
sixty
feet
.
Cho-Sen
had
no
commerce
,
no
foreign
traders
.
There
was
no
voyaging
beyond
her
coasts
,
and
no
voyaging
of
other
peoples
to
her
coasts
.
This
was
due
to
her
immemorial
policy
of
isolation
.
Once
in
a
decade
or
a
score
of
years
Chinese
ambassadors
arrived
,
but
they
came
overland
,
around
the
Yellow
Sea
,
across
the
country
of
the
Hong-du
,
and
down
the
Mandarin
Road
to
Keijo
.
The
round
trip
was
a
year-long
journey
.
Their
mission
was
to
exact
from
our
Emperor
the
empty
ceremonial
of
acknowledgment
of
China
's
ancient
suzerainty
.
But
Hamel
,
from
long
brooding
,
was
ripening
for
action
.
His
plans
grew
apace
.
Cho-Sen
was
Indies
enough
for
him
could
he
but
work
it
right
.
Little
he
confided
,
but
when
he
began
to
play
to
have
me
made
admiral
of
the
Cho-Sen
navy
of
junks
,
and
to
inquire
more
than
casually
of
the
details
of
the
store-places
of
the
imperial
treasury
,
I
could
put
two
and
two
together
.
Now
I
did
not
care
to
depart
from
Cho-Sen
except
with
the
Lady
Om
.
When
I
broached
the
possibility
of
it
she
told
me
,
warm
in
my
arms
,
that
I
was
her
king
and
that
wherever
I
led
she
would
follow
.
As
you
shall
see
it
was
truth
,
full
truth
,
that
she
uttered
.
It
was
Yunsan
's
fault
for
letting
Chong
Mong-ju
live
.
And
yet
it
was
not
Yunsan
's
fault
.
He
had
not
dared
otherwise
.
Disgraced
at
Court
,
nevertheless
Chong
Mong-ju
had
been
too
popular
with
the
provincial
priesthood
.
Yunsan
had
been
compelled
to
hold
his
hand
,
and
Chong
Mong-ju
,
apparently
sulking
on
the
north-east
coast
,
had
been
anything
but
idle
.
His
emissaries
,
chiefly
Buddhist
priests
,
were
everywhere
,
went
everywhere
,
gathering
in
even
the
least
of
the
provincial
magistrates
to
allegiance
to
him
.
It
takes
the
cold
patience
of
the
Asiatic
to
conceive
and
execute
huge
and
complicated
conspiracies
.
The
strength
of
Chong
Mong-ju
's
palace
clique
grew
beyond
Yunsan
's
wildest
dreaming
.
Chong
Mong-ju
corrupted
the
very
palace
guards
,
the
Tiger
Hunters
of
Pyeng-Yang
whom
Kim
commanded
.
And
while
Yunsan
nodded
,
while
I
devoted
myself
to
sport
and
to
the
Lady
Om
,
while
Hendrik
Hamel
perfected
plans
for
the
looting
of
the
Imperial
treasury
,
and
while
Johannes
Maartens
schemed
his
own
scheme
among
the
tombs
of
Tabong
Mountain
,
the
volcano
of
Chong
Mong-ju
's
devising
gave
no
warning
beneath
us
.
Lord
,
Lord
,
when
the
storm
broke
!
It
was
stand
out
from
under
,
all
hands
,
and
save
your
necks
.
And
there
were
necks
that
were
not
saved
.
The
springing
of
the
conspiracy
was
premature
.
Johannes
Maartens
really
precipitated
the
catastrophe
,
and
what
he
did
was
too
favourable
for
Chong
Mong-ju
not
to
advantage
by
.
For
,
see
.
The
people
of
Cho-Sen
are
fanatical
ancestor-worshippers
,
and
that
old
pirate
of
a
booty-lusting
Dutchman
,
with
his
four
cunies
,
in
far
Kyong-ju
,
did
no
less
a
thing
than
raid
the
tombs
of
the
gold-coffined
,
long-buried
kings
of
ancient
Silla
.
The
work
was
done
in
the
night
,
and
for
the
rest
of
the
night
they
travelled
for
the
sea-coast
.
But
the
following
day
a
dense
fog
lay
over
the
land
and
they
lost
their
way
to
the
waiting
junk
which
Johannes
Maartens
had
privily
outfitted
.
He
and
the
cunies
were
rounded
in
by
Yi
Sun-sin
,
the
local
magistrate
,
one
of
Chong
Mong-ju
's
adherents
.
Only
Herman
Tromp
escaped
in
the
fog
,
and
was
able
,
long
after
,
to
tell
me
of
the
adventure
.
