King's Dream
I received an order from the heavens to save the people of the Three Kingdoms.
I raised an army to punish Uija for being a tyrant.
Today's victory will become a foundation for the peace and
unification of the Three Kingdoms.
Bring Uija.
I surrender the royal seal to the king of Silla.
Please accept my surrender.
You caused battles in the Three Kingdoms and made the people suffer.
Do you admit to persecuting the people with tyranny?
I listened to the advice of treacherous subjects.
I was blinded by pleasure and led our country of 700 years to its downfall.
How could I ever make up for that?
It is because I was tyrannical and lacking and I didn't fulfill my duties as a king.
I will gladly accept punishment.
Please show generosity to our people and achieve a peaceful reign.
I accept the surrender of king Uija of Baekje.
The royal family of Baekje ends here.
Your descendants will live as descendants of Silla.
The Baekje court will be abolished and a new government office will open.
Money will be spent to comfort the people for losing their king and court.
Thank you.
If it wasn't for your loyalty and spirit,
we couldn't have taken Baekje or received the Baekje king's surrender.
Today's glory goes to all the loyal soldiers who died for our cause.
I will remember their loyalty.
I will render what service I can for you to achieve your dream to
unify the Three Kingdoms.
Thank you.
Father, the king of Baekje surrendered.
Su Dingfang will try to make Baekje a colony of Tang.
We have to come up with a measure.
Yes.
We have to put up our guard against the Tang emperor.
I am going to maintain the alliance until we conquer Goguryeo and
unify the Three Kingdoms.
I think you are right.
But if we don't take power over the Tang army, they might attack Seorabeol.
We have to fight the Tang army.
If we are to fight the Tang army, it won't be with swords.
We have to suppress their ambition by strengthening our cause.
I will not allow any collision against the Tang army until
the king of Goguryeo surrenders.
I am sure you will abide by my wishes.
Sabiseong has been taken.
The king of Baekje and the prisoners have to be taken to Changan.
Will the king of Silla and Kim Yusin just hand them over?
The emperor ordered us to bring the king of Baekje.
Anyone who defies the emperor's order will be killed.
I will show them who conquered Baekje.
Kim Yusin will oppose forcefully.
It isn't just the king of Baekje, the princes and the court officials.
We have to bring back over 10,000 prisoners including the palace servants.
If we have to fight Silla during the transportation,
there could be problems.
The emperor will be in rage if they take the king of Baekje to Seorabeol.
That is a bigger problem.
Relay the imperial order to the king of Silla.
If he refuses to obey, we should kill Kim Yusin and the crown prince
before we fight the Silla army.
We should follow general Liu's plan.
I will not forget that this victory was the result of the Silla-Tang alliance.
The blood that was shed by the soldiers will end battles and
wash away all the sufferings of the people of the Three Kingdoms.
To the unification of the Three Kingdoms.
To unification!
The emperor said the victory would be greater if you had
the king of Baekje pour a drink after taking Sabiseong.
Bring him.
Uija will pour a drink to repent for what you did.
Do you dare defy an imperial order?
Pour a drink to the king of Silla to congratulate his victory.
Congratulations, Your Majesty.
Pour a drink to the crown prince and commander, too.
How dare you?
- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!
If we sought peace for the Three Kingdoms together,
the soldiers of Silla and Baekje wouldn't have fought and shed blood.
You wouldn't have been humiliated like this.
I regret the past.
There is etiquette even when killing a general who lost in battle.
How can you treat someone who was a king like this?
Don't you know etiquette?
You dirty traitors.
You were paid by Baekje.
How can you just sit there and watch His Majesty be insulted?
What?
How dare you?
Take him away and kill him?
Your Majesty. Your Majesty...
I wish I could have died with Gyebaek at Hwangsanbeol.
I will take my life here and show you the spirit of a loyal servant of Baekje.
Your Majesty, the loyal soldiers and people of Baekje will
fight for the prosperity of Baekje.
Live long and recover your throne!
You must not persecute the people just because the king surrendered.
Anyone who plunders and kills in Sabiseong will be
punished and executed regardless of their position.
Order your soldiers to abide by military law and discipline.
I am going to return to Changan to report our victory.
General Liu will remain here in command of the Tang army.
Please tell the emperor I am grateful he kept his promise.
I would like to take Uija, so he can confess his sins to the emperor.
Will you allow that?
That's out of the question!
The agreement of the alliance was that the Three Kingdoms would be
allowed to carry out their own politics.
Why do you want to take the king of Baekje?
You can't do that.
I am only trying to fulfill my duties.
If you don't allow this, the emperor could break off the alliance and be hostile to Silla.
What?
Are you using the emperor as an excuse to threaten His Majesty?
Calm down.
I will discuss it with the court. Wait for my answer.
I am sure you will make a wise decision.
You can't let him take Uija.
The emperor will say he received Baekje's surrender.
You must now allow this.
If the Tang emperor receives Uija's surrender in Changan,
it will be a declaration that Baekje is a colony of Tang.
Uncle, the court has to oppose the transportation of Uija.
His Majesty knows what their intentions are.
We can make a request after he makes a decision.
Uncle!
The supreme commander invited both of you to a banquet.
A banquet?
Why would he invite us to a banquet?
He wanted to reconcile with you before he left for Changan.
He has a grudge because he lost command of the allied forces to you.
This is very suspicious.
I don't think you should go.
It's for the best if they try to harm me or the crown prince.
I will teach them a lesson for trying to own the Three Kingdoms.
You have to avoid colliding with the supreme leader.
Father wouldn't want the alliance to be destroyed over a personal grudge.
Why are you taking their side?
Have you become pro-Tang after spending all that time with them?
Beopmin!
I am saying this out of loyalty to maintain the cause of the alliance.
Why are you trying to cause problems by turning this into a faction issue?
How are you going to unify the Three Kingdoms with such a narrow mind?
What?
You dare to insult the crown prince?
Both of you, calm down.
If Su Dingfang is holding a banquet to sincerely reconcile,
I will accept his reconciliation.
But if he tries to kill me or the crown prince,
I will kill him myself.
Your Majesty, the loyal soldiers and people of Baekje will
fight for the prosperity of Baekje.
Live long and recover your throne!
I'd like to talk with him. Leave us.
I have a favor to ask.
I knelt to you and gave you everything.
I have nothing more to give.
Sabiseong was taken and you surrendered.
But the soldiers and people in the border area are still resisting.
I don't want any more innocent people to be sacrificed.
Convince them to surrender.
They are true loyal servants of Baekje.
I surrendered to extend my life. How could I convince them to surrender?
I might have surrendered as a tyrant,
but I can't tell the loyal people of Baekje to surrender.
If they resist for a long time,
the Tang army will use that as an excuse and try to make Baekje a colony of Tang.
Do you want the people of Baekje to become the Tang emperor's slaves?
Baekje fell.
It doesn't matter if they become slaves of Tang or Silla.
You know I conquered Baekje to unify the Three Kingdoms.
How can you say such a thing?
Just because a country falls, it doesn't mean the people fall, too.
Use your influence so the people of Baekje can be citizens of the Three Kingdoms.
Heaven abandoned me and Baekje.
I will not be a puppet for the king of Silla.
It wasn't Heaven that abandoned you.
Baekje failed because you went against Heaven's will.
You had great ambitions to save the people of the Three Kingdoms.
How did you become such a mediocre person?
You don't qualify to be a ruler.
I will forget about working with you to save the people of Baekje.
I am going to do everything I can to unify the Three Kingdoms.
I won't be the king of Silla.
I will be the ruler of the Three Kingdoms who is respected by the people of
Baekje and Goguryeo and achieve a peaceful reign.
Yusin, accept a drink.
I am holding this banquet to commend you on your merits.
You can drink all you want.
Crown prince, forget all the unpleasant happenings with this drink and relax.
Let's drink.
I wrote something about the victory. Do you want to take a look?
Great Tang conquered Baekje.
The former emperor raised a monument after conquering Liaodong.
I would like to raise a monument for conquering Baekje.
Do you like it?
It's full of praise for the Tang emperor and you for conquering Baekje.
What about the merits of the king of Silla and the soldiers of Silla?
This is an insult to the Silla soldiers who died at Hwangsanbeol and Soburibeol.
If the Tang emperor didn't send an army to save the people of the Three Kingdoms,
you couldn't have conquered Baekje.
What's wrong with praising the emperor for his grace?
Since when was Baekje a colony of Tang?
Baekje became a colony of Tang when the king of Baekje surrendered.
Didn't you know that?
This is a bit excessive for a joke.
As the supreme commander who received an imperial order,
I declared Baekje a colony and praised the emperor.
How is an imperial order a joke?
Unless you kill me and all the soldiers of Silla,
not even an inch of the land of the Three Kingdoms will be a colony of Tang.
If you refuse to accept,
I will kill you as punishment for defying an imperial order.
You will kneel and apologize for resisting an imperial order.
Then I will just cut off your arms and legs and spare your life.
I will cut off that deceptive tongue of yours and send it to the emperor.
Kill Kim Yusin and the crown prince!
Protect the commander and the crown prince!
I will cut off your tongue and your head as an offering for conquering Baekje.
Stop!
Why did you defy my order? Why are you trying to destroy the alliance?
Lower your sword right now!
If we don't kill him now,
Baekje and the Three Kingdoms will become colonies of Tang.
I don't care if you execute me, I cannot follow your order right now.
Please forgive my disloyalty.
If you kill Su Dingfang, Silla will have to fight a Tang army of 1 million
for the existence of our country.
the people will suffer from battle again and innocent people will die.
Is that what you want?
Your Majesty.
Why did you attack the crown prince and commander and try to destroy the alliance?
I was only following an imperial order.
Do you want to die by my sword or will you return to Tang alive?
If you maintain the cause of our alliance, I will let you take the king of Baekje.
I will send a letter to the emperor praising your merits, so you may save face.
What will you do?
Will you die as a traitor who betrayed the cause of our alliance?
Or will you return to Tang alive and change the emperor's mind in trying to
make the Three Kingdoms colonies of Tang?
You decide whether you'll live or not.
I will maintain the cause of the alliance.
Return to Changan and tell the emperor.
Kim Chunchu has a strong will to unify the Three Kingdoms and
as long as Kim Yusin has loyal soldiers,
the Tang army of 1 million cannot defeat the Three Kingdoms.
As the leader of the court and the commander of the army,
I disobeyed an order and killed Tang soldiers.
There is no excuse for my disloyalty.
Strip me of my position and execute me.
You must make an example out of me.
But I still strongly believe that Su Dingfang should be killed
and we should fight the Tang army.
I also defied a royal order.
I deserve to be stripped of the crown prince position.
Get up.
You, too.
How can I beat the Tang emperor and unify the Three Kingdoms without you?
Your Majesty...
I know what your concern is.
But we can't conquer Goguryeo without the Tang army.
We won't even be able to fight the Baekje soldiers
who are gathering forces to rise again.
We can't unify the Three Kingdoms with a strong will alone.
If I can save the people of the Three Kingdoms,
I don't mind being called the Tang emperor's hunting dog
and I can endure any humiliation.
No matter how much my name is disgraced,
if I could save even one person, I will endure it all.
Unification has to be achieved with the wishes of the people of the Three Kingdoms.
When the time comes, I will fight the Tang army.
But this isn't the time.
Please trust me and abide by my wishes.
Your Majesty...
In September, 660, king Uija, the royal family of Baekje,
ninety some court officials and 12,807 people of Baekje
were taken to Tang as prisoners.
The 12,000 people who were taken
were skilled artisans, scholars or servants of the palace.
After they were taken to Tang,
the prosperous culture of Baekje couldn't blossom again.
It faded from the Three Kingdoms.
Why did you defy the Heaven's will and cause battle?
I should punish you.
But since it looks like you are repenting, I will be generous.
Emperor Gaozong reprimanded Uija
and pardoned him to celebrate the conquering of Baekje.
However, king Uija fell ill from the shock of Baekje's fall and
died not long after he was taken to Tang.
Emperor Gaozong posthumously gave him a posthumous conferment.
A monument was raised after the funeral.
As the oldest son of King Mu, he was intelligent and knowledgeable.
His reputation was high in the Three Kingdoms, the Central Plain and even Wae.
During the 20 years of his reign,
he competed with Kim Chunchu and Yeongae Somun
over the rule of the Three Kingdoms.
But he lived in pleasure and extravagance and ignored loyal servants like Seongchung.
He exhausted the state coffers to build fancy structures like Manghaeru.
He lost the capital to the Silla-Tang army and
was recorded as the last king of Baekje after 678 years of Baekje history.
He didn't receive a posthumous name and died in a foreign country.
It is said that his body is buried at a graveyard in Luoyang.
I should be happy with the victory, but I'm worried.
His Majesty will unify the Three Kingdoms and achieve a peaceful reign.
It won't be long before the women stop crying and the children laugh.
Don't worry.
I see how sad it is to lose a country.
Now I know why His Majesty spent his life to unify the Three Kingdoms.
The women must also strengthen our loyalty to protect our country.
I told you to attack Seorabeol and receive Silla's surrender, too.
Why didn't you obey my order?
Do you expect to live?
How could I dare to disobey you?
Then why didn't you advance to Seorabeol?
Kim Chunchu ate with the soldiers and slept in the cold.
He showed great care for his people.
The people of Silla don't hesitate to give their lives for their country.
If I advanced to Silla, we would have had to fight Kim Yusin and
a victory wouldn't have been guaranteed.
Please consider that.
Are you saying Kim Chunchu has the qualities to rule the Three Kingdoms?
Your Majesty, I think you should consider attacking Silla after you conquer Goguryeo.
I will take your opinion into consideration.
I will appoint a governor to rule Baekje.
After I make Baekje a colony of Tang, I will order an attack on Goguryeo.
There is a rumor the Silla-Tang army will advance to Pyeongyang.
The people are wavering.
If they attack Liaodong and south of Pyeongyang at once,
how are we to stop them?
Uija didn't listen to royal servants. This is why Baekje fell.
Me and the loyal servants will protect you, so don't worry.
I believe in your loyalty and insight.
But who knew Baekje would fall so easily?
I am sad to hear the king of Baekje was taken to Luoyang and died there.
Sabi was taken, but the soldiers of the border area did not surrender.
They have great resentment because of the plundering and killing by the Tang soldiers.
They will resist to the end.
I sent people to help with the rise of Baekje.
Baekje soldiers will start fighting all over Baekje.
The mangniji of Goguryeo wants to help Baekje rise again?
The military officers here will help you.
Fine.
I will kill the traitors who sold Baekje first.
This market was so full of people. It's so quiet now.
I know.
It will be full of energy once the king of Silla opens a new government office.
Let's not worry too much.
Let's go now.
Sangyeong.
You're...
Kill the traitors!
Rebels killed officials of Silla in broad daylight.
How can such a thing happen?
What are the Tang soldiers doing?
I'm sorry to tell you this,
but Liu Renyuan is busy trying to find hidden assets
that belonged to the Baekje royalty and officials.
What?
I think the rebels went after the officials who surrendered at Hwangsanbeol.
We have to protect the people who welcome the Silla-Tang army.
Order our soldiers to defend Sabiseong.
We have to calm down the people.
If rebels start retaliating against people who accept friendly relations with Silla,
the people will waver and we might have to use force.
It doesn't matter how generous His Majesty is.
The people watched the atrocities with their own eyes.
They will not incline toward His Majesty.
He believes that the people will open up their hearts if
we continue to promote our cause for unification with patience.
We should have fought the Tang soldiers who plundered the people.
That would have won the trust of the people.
The people of Baekje see the Silla soldiers as enemies like the Tang soldiers.
They might have stronger resentment if they think we sold out their king
to the Tang emperor.
What can we do to win them over?
It's so frustrating.
It's not too late.
If His Majesty drives the Tang army out of Baekje, he will win them over.
He would be revered as a ruler who eliminated a tyrant.
Father will not give the order to attack the Tang army.
There is no other way.
He will have to let Baekje become a colony of Tang
or fight the Tang army and drive them away.
He will have to make a decision.
Father.
The Tang emperor sent a governor to rule over Baekje.
What?
Your Majesty, the fact that the Tang emperor appointed an Ungjin governor
is total disregard for you and it reveals his ambition to take this land.
We should kill the Ungjin governor, Wang Mundo,
and burn the Tang emperor's order.
Your Majesty, the Tang emperor declared Baekje a colony of Tang.
That goes against the agreement to let the Three Kingdoms carry out their own politics.
This is a chance to attack the Tang army and gain public sentiments.
Give the order to attack.
I will annihilate them and get revenge for the people of Baekje.
Your Majesty, give the order.
Give the order.
Your Majesty, you can make a decision
after you investigate the Tang emperor's intentions.
You saw what Su Dingfang did. Don't you know what his intentions are?
The Tang army is roaming about freely
because pro-Tang factions like you have military power.
Commander! That is a bit excessive.
Baekje rebels are gathering forces to advance to Sabi.
Do you want the Silla and Tang armies to fight and self-destruct?
What?
Stop it!
The defense minister is right.
I will make a decision after I read the Tang emperor's message.
The commander the crown prince will unite the court and
plan a measure to suppress the rebels.
Your Majesty, wait a moment.
Are you going to fight the Tang army to save the people of the Three Kingdoms?
Or are you going to hand over the Three Kingdoms to the Tang emperor?
I already told you I would maintain the cause of the Silla-Tang alliance.
Why are you being so anxious?
If you want to be a puppet for the Tang emperor,
me and the court will stand up to you and fight the Tang emperor.
What?
What did you just say?