The confusion of the leader, who had just returned from inspecting the market, intensified with the captains' reports.
"I couldn't see the inside of the Joseon naval base, but I observed the departing warships. The ships that escorted us, as well as some slightly smaller ones, were all equipped with cannons."
"All of them?" The leader's question was filled with disbelief, and the captains answered briefly.
"All of them."
"Ah..."
The leader let out a long sigh at the captains' response.
Seeing this, the most experienced captain, Sulayman, who commanded the ship of the Odaibi family, added, "Of course, the ships equipped with nearly twenty cannons are of the same class as those that escorted us. The smaller ships carried about two to four cannons. The even smaller ones didn’t carry any cannons at all."
Shaking his head, the leader said, "I just can't understand the identity of this country. The market I saw during the day was as backward as a village market far from Aden, yet the tables in the alley restaurants were adorned with expensive porcelain and glassware, and the navy's warships were loaded with those expensive cannons... What kind of country is this Joseon?"
In response to the leader's words, Sulayman simply replied, "I don't know either."