Deep Rooted Tree
[Episode 15]
Hey, over there.
What's the matter?
I knew this would happen.
Who are you, scum?
Aren't you doing bullshit... bullshit!
Put what down?
Boys.
Leave everything in the wagon.
And you guys go where you want to go play, okay?
Before you croak for nothing.
Milbon: the secret organization established by Jeong Do-Jeon as containment of King's power.
We found the materials.
The Prince Gwangpyung and maiden So-Yi were in the paper mill.
We captured them.
What should I do?
If it is the Prince Gwangpyung, it is different from the case of scholars.
Bonwon, isn't the problem getting bigger?
The job has become more entertaining.
For now, confine them in Mountain Goo-Dahl.
I will go personally.
How dare this scum! Do you know who we are?
Don't talk like your teeth are falling out of your ass. None of that matters.
Orabeoni...
What matters is who I am.
I am...
from Hanjit village...
Ddol Bok. Got it?
Ya!!
Thank You.
Thank you, Orabeoni.
What's wrong? Where are we going?
What in the world are you doing?
Prince, it is none of your business.
So you are that...
Ddol Bok.
What do you have to say?
You asked me to come to the paper mill.
Okay.
What do you have to say?
The truth is... I don't have anything to say.
It was just so I could see you.
To get a hold of you.
I don't know how to get a hold of you but...
I would like to get a hold of you.
I have to.
You can't live without me either.
You came after all.
No.
I can part from you.
I lived fine without you,
and I can live fine without you from now on.
Even if I don't see you my entire life,
it won't matter to me.
Then why did you come?
Why did you come?
What are you going to do?
The problem can get bigger.
The evidence of what Lee Do has been doing and the Prince Gwangpyung who has been doing the work together is in our hands.
Then?
Put the posters everywhere in town!
The evidence and the witness both.
We have all of them. We already have the game in our hands!
No.
Just put up the posters.
Yes.
Bonwon.
Yes, Bonwon.
Why did you come back?
Quit this work.
You don't have to come with me.
But to see you about to die too...
I can't bear to see that again.
Why would I die?
You were about to die right now!
When I first met you at the printing office,
when you went to Jingwansa Temple to meet Scholar Jang Jeong Soo too.
You were all about to die.
Why are you always the only one walking around with your life on the line?
The king sits in the court safely and give orders only.
Why do you roam around here and there wagering your life?
You have memorized everything to give it to him.
You're being used.
The king is using your talent, your heart, and everything!
You are impertinent!
You're eventually going to
be used and thrown away.
Your life will...
be thrown away, you fool.
Father...
is also laying his life on it!
That's right.
Much more than us...
He put his head on the block.
Is that so?
Already three scholars have died.
Has the King ever been shaken by it?
People who are working for the great causes
tend not to care about small trivial things.
When a person like my father dies,
"Think of it as an honor." Isn't that what they say?
Because it's not their lives.
Because it's not their
family's lives.
What do you know about Father.
How dare you talk about him like that?
Since His Majesty
considers a person's life
as more valuable than his own.
For this project,
he laid his own life upon it!
I say.
Among the stories that I have ever heard,
it is the funniest thing, Your Highness.
You bastard!!
Prince, just now,
you were about to be kidnapped by the Milbon.
What does that mean?
Using you as a hostage,
Milbon is trying to push His Majesty.
Will His Majesty still, for the great cause,
let Your Highness die?
No, he wouldn't.
People like my father or Dahm...
can die for the great cause but
Your Highness will not die like that ever!
Because...
you are the King's son.
You are the prince of this country and a very precious life.
Isn't that so?
You bastard,
you really don't know the King.
Yes.
Since I saved you this time, you can say so.
Since you were not dragged to Milbon.
Regardless how low you and your thoughts are,
why do you still not know the King's truth?
Because your father's death
and the deaths of the scholars made him spit up blood...
Letters...
He has been trying to make letters.
However,
will he be shaken by his son's life?
That's nonsense! He will never stop!
That is... !
That which a low one like you could never understand...
the King's position.
Then...
should we see.
What would happen?
His Majesty,
will he choose the letters
or will he choose the Prince?
What are you doing?
What are you talking about?
I am...
going to use His Highness as a hostage.
If he doesn't give up making letters,
I will kill him.
If I say so, what is he going to do?
Are you crazy?
What are you talking about?
Try it.
Prince.
If I win,
what are you going to wager?
His Majesty
said that he surely needs this low thing.
Then, I will follow him without hesitation. However, if I win,
His Majesty will experience the same pain as this low thing suffered.
The pain of losing a family member.
Isn't it fair, that way?
Orabeoni.
What are you doing right now?
Stop right now!
What do you think?
Your Highness can decide.
If you give it up now,
then...
I will just bring Dahm with me and leave.
Your Highness,
can just go back to the court.
No.
I will do it.
Let's do it.
I will write a letter to Moo Hyool,
saying that if he does not give up the letters,
I will die.
The posters that we put up must have caused some tremendous upheaval in the court now.
What happened? Why are you like that?
No one came back.
What are you saying?
After ordering them to capture the Prince Gwangpyung and the Miss, I went to Banchon but...
So, none of them came back?
Yes! Therefore, I ordered them to find those two.
Hurry up and find them! Hurry!
Yes!
Do you think something happened?
If there was a battle with the Royal Guard?
I don't want to even think about it!
What a humiliation it is,
after putting up all the posters, to have Gwangpyung snatched back by them.
Shouldn't we get rid of all the posters first?
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"Joseon's noble-clan scholars justifiably requested that
His Majesty must reveal his secret project.
However, His Majesty's response was
to let Prince Gwangpyung move the evidence secretly.
Therefore, in the name of Joseon aristocracy,
we ask His Majesty again.
By the Kyeongyeon on the second day of the month, make public the letters that were made secretively.
And command a doctrine to renunciate the letters.
If, by the action of not doing so, the entire consequences that will follow suit...
Your Majesty has to take responsibility for it."
It seems that something bad has happened to the Prince Gwangpyung.
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty, those scums raided the paper mill.
What?
Those scums stole the evidence and captured the Prince Gwangpyung and court maiden So-Yi...
What?
What about you?
What did you do?
They came disguised as Jojiso slave workers.
They attacked so suddenly...
What are all these?
The King is said to be making letters, but it looks like there's an armored division.
There is evidence and witness too?
Isn't it too much still?
Sure!
People already gathered...
We could not take them off.
Do I have any humilating fate?
What is this?!
After putting up the posters,
Prince Gwangpyung must have returned to the palace.
How can there be such mistake?
I am sorry.
Due to that punk Maksoo's disposal of the matter...
We'll figure out who to blame later.
Assistant deputy, you should get back to the palace.
Catch hold of the situation!
Yes.
How can there be such recklessness?!
No matter how much they are against the letters,
they took away the materials and
they captured Prince Gwangpyung!
This cannot happen!
How come?
However, after he said that he will open Gyungsungjeon to the public,
he sent away the materials in it.
Isn't that a fact?
Well...
Are you taking side of those scum?
What do you mean by taking their side?
Nothing bad happened yet.
No matter what, let's solve it in a good way! That's what I mean.
Was there no order from His Majesty?
There was nothing.
What kind of order can he give at this moment?
Other than finding Prince Gwangpyung.
What are you talking about?
Haven't you even seen the posters?
Yes?
Then has Prince Gwangpyung really... ?
All of the royal military forces including the Royal Guards...
have been given the order to search for him.
What happened?
The Royal Bodyguards are already searching throughout the capital city right now.
Security inside the palace will be taken over by Gyumsabok Palace Guards.
While the entire force of Woorimwui is to search the mountains in the outskirts of the capital.
Yes!
Is that true?
Yes! I came to the palace quickly to look at what's going in here.
Then where is Prince Gwangpyung?
Have you heard?
Those Milbon scum captured Prince Gwangpyung.
What is that?
Chae Yoon that rascal.
After only leaving a note,
he just left!
What?
What is this?
What did he write to you?
He left pork meat in Garion's care.
What a bastard!
What did he write to you?
"I am leaving here after giving up everything."
"I gave up on the revenge or whatever."
"I wasted my life."
He was somewhat weird these days.
I should have noticed it earlier.
What is this?
What? Chae Yoon came to take revenge?
Whose revenge?
Which scum? I will break his neck!
His Father's enemy.
He said that he is in Hanyang.
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The Prince Gwangpyung hasn't come back to the palace.
What are you talking about?
Shim Jong Soo said so.
There was a court order to search for Prince Gwangpyung everywhere.
It has become chaotic!
Then?
Wasn't Jung Mo troops attacked by the Royal Guard?
Yes, a suspicious fellow appeared and took them away.
However, according to the punk that survived,
the suspicious fellow called himself
Ddolbok of Hanjitgol!
What?
It is Kang Chae Yoon.
However, if Kang Chae Yoon saved them, they should have returned to the palace.
Does Kang Chae Yoon have his own ideas?
According to Ggeoksoe,
Kang Chae Yoon's father was delivering a secret letter to Shim Ohn.
All the slaves of Shim Ohn were murdered because of that.
Yes.
But that night,
the person who left him to me was Moo Hyul, and
he told me to kill him if things didn't fare.
And that child became a disciple of Lee Bang Ji.
And came back to the Palace.
His Father's enemy.
I heard that he is in Hanyang.
There is no such thing as a lowly life!
Kang Chae Yoon...
came here to assassinate.
Assassinate? Who?
You don't mean...
Yes. That is correct.
He came here to kill the King.
He came to assassinate the King?
The Ddol Bok I saw as a child would do so and then some.
So he didn't bring the Prince back for revenge?
Luck seems to be on my side, huh?
Find Kang Chae Yoon.
We must save His Highness the Prince first.
We must first save the Prince, then we can worry about the other things.
We will do our best to find them, but...
If things don't go well smoothly.
We'll have to do as they requested.
Yes, Your Majesty.
What could be the 'aftermath' that was referenced on the poster?
They have already killed three scholars.
What did you do with the material for the letters?
I've kept them safe.
This will do.
I'll deliver this to Sir Moo Hyul.
Then, I will come back.
What does this mean?
I don't understand the content well.
The rumor has been spread everywhere; causing an upheaval.
What is it?
The Prince Gwangpyung
has been captured by the traitors.
What on earth...
is happening now?
C-Chae Yoon!
What's going on? Didn't you leave?
When was the poster plastered at the market?
According to the investigation bureau, it was put on between 5 to 7 am.
But... what happened to you?
When I went to the paper mill was 5 am.
If the poster was posted between 5-7 am,
Milbon thought that they had captured the Prince and...
they put up the posters first.
I am Hanjitgol's Ddolbok.
They must know that I am with the Prince.
Chae Yoon! Chae Yoon!
Haven't you found the whereabouts of Kang Chae Yoon?
Since Jungmo troops started searching,
we will hear from them soon.
Anyhow, we should continue as it is.
The poster is up already. Regardless of who did it, the disappearance of the prince is a fait accompli.
Before that, we must find Kang Chae Yoon.
But...
What if the King doesn't give up on making the writings?
Lee Do won't give up.
Then...
have you thought of something else?
What is the big deal about promulgating the letters?
Although they do it, which people will learn and use them?
It is all useless.
Don't you know what happened with Phags-pa script?
Then...
We have to get the most important thing for us.
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Prince.
I'm fine.
Your Highness, you have a high fever.
This won't do.
I will escape here to bring someone over.
Wait.
The fight isn't over it.
Your Highness, but...
I don't know about the details...
for my father to make letters.
Didn't he say that Kang Chae Yoon was someone indispensable?
I will make sure to bring him to my father...
It isn't because of the letters that Kang Chae Yoon is needed.
Both His Majesty and Kang Chae Yoon,
are people who've fallen ill.
For His Majesty, only Kang Chae Yoon can,
For Kang Chae-Yoon, only His Majesty can.
Treat that illness.
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What is this?
Things are going interestingly.
Milbon put this poster without knowing that I captured Your Highness.
Therefore, His Majesty probably believes Milbon has you, Your Highness.
Perhaps, he will think it more dangerous than I have you.
Since they killed three scholars.
What will the King do?
Will he give up making writings or give up the Prince?
His Majesty's choice won't change.
His Majesty will on no account, give up on the letters!
How are you so certain of it?
The world calls him a sage king.
However, do you know?
In my father's body,
King Taejong's blood is running.
Therefore, His Majesty will choose letters over Your Highness?
Well, that could happen.
How come you are telling it so joyfully?
Isn't it your life?
King Taejong's blood is
running here too..
So for the great cause, life is not important?
Wow, the high folks are so great!
Your battles are quite interesting.
But do you know this?
Those commoners. The people, without the nobles reading it to them, they
cannot even understand the content of this poster.
Do you know what they're interested in?
His Majesty creating letters?
Or about the threats to give up on letters?
No.
No they are not.
Only the fact that you were captured.
Everyone cares only about you. They don't care about the letters.
No single person talks about the letters!
The higher ups are only concerned with making the letters or not,
fighting with your life on the line.
We, the commoners don't care about the likes of the letters or whatever.
That's what I mean.
His Majesty!
Is trying to fix it!
Just how our fight, the fight among the high folks affect their lives.
That our fight is not unrelated to the common folks!
He is trying to let them know. Ha!
So! If folks know these letters, we get to know those things?
Before that, if the letters are released, do you think that the people will get to know the letters?
Since the noble man's job is studying, they can memorize 50,000 Chinese characters.
Yes! I know at least 1000 characters.
But do you know how hard it was to learn them?
Since I am not smart?
No.
Because I didn't have any time.
That is the life of the nation!
If they want to feed themselves, they have to get up before the dawn and work until light without straightening their back all day long.
When can they learn the letters?
You haven't even tried!
You can do it!
It took me so long to learn 1000 characters among 50,000 characters.
Then..
Learn them?
How many characters are there in His Majesty's writing?
Five Thousand Characters?
Or Three Thousand Characters?
Or is it a Thousand Characters?
Twenty- Eight characters.
One Thousand and Twenty- Eight Characters?
No.
Just...
Twenty...
Eight Characters.
Does that make sense?
There are more than 28 objects in this shed.
Shouldn't the letters contain everything in the world?
Can you make 10 through 20,000 words in just 28 characters?
It's not 10 or 20,000.
100,000... 1,000,000!
can be made.
This is it.
All you need to do is to memorize this.
With just these twenty- eight characters you can,
write our names that can't be written with Chinese Characters, curse words you like to speak...
Regional dialects...
Our hearts...
The sound of the wind, the birds,
we can make all the sounds using these characters.
I heard that you are quite smart although you are of low birth.
If it is you, you can learn it within a day.
What do you think of it?
I have a different opinion.
Orabeoni
will not take more than half of the afternoon to learn it.
Do you want to try to learn it?
Moo Hyool, are you out there?
Your Majesty, must you really go?
Where is the base of Milbon?
Answer it!
Just...
kill me.
You bastard!
If you touch even one hair of the Prince or So Yi,
every member of my military,
I will call to arms
and will sweep all of you!
Around the village market,
in front of the people,
we will display all of your dead bodies.
Those dead bodies...
will be ripped to pieces and will be sent all over the country.
Afte re-establishing the fundamentals of the nation,
I will perish the three generations of those three generations.
I WILL PUNISH YOU MISERABLY!
No...
I did wrong.
Please
save Gwangpyung.
I...
will give up everything...everything!
Did you expect that I would do this?
Listen to me clearly!
I am not interested in whoever you are.
I don't care what you want from me.
The important thing is that...
whatever you want,
you punks
will get none of it.
I will make sure to do it!
I will not negotiate with scum like you.
And...
I will not pay back with blood either.
But...
I will show you...
how you people are going to fail.
Look closely.
Is this really
possible?
Can the world where everyone
will be able to write letters...
come?
Father.
Ddol Bok
Geol Sang.
Dahm
Did you
just read what I wrote?
I met Dahm.
I want to see Father.
Is this correct?
Is this really correct?
Yes.
Orabeoni, you just learned it right away within a half of the afternoon.
The language that we use...
truly the words that we use with our mouth,
can we really write whatever we say?
Really, everything?
You already wrote it.
Prince!
Move aside.
When did you get hurt?
Before at the paper mill.
How can you only say that right now?
This is nothing.
Weren't they good letters?
Don't you agree?
If it were you,
those letters...
could you give them up?
I'm fine.
Don't be pretentious.
Does the royal family have iron armour wrapped around their body?
You should keep your life for now.
The bet is not over yet!
Where are you going?
All the hospitals must be closed.
Stop the bleeding by pressing it down firmly.
Still?
Yes, but the Prince Gwangpyung got injured.
They couldn't have gotten far away.
Get it done as fast as possible.
It is all because Pyung is not here.
What do we do about Pyung?
He should get out since he finished his duty.
Isn't Lee Shin Jeok a guide member of Royal Investigation Bureau?
Go and tell him.
Yes.
Where have you been?
Kang Chae Yoon
Mr. Palace Guard?
What brings you here?
I need medicine.
It is a gash, the status is pretty severe.
Yes?
You are the only one who can help me out.
Sure, tell me whatever you want.
Pack them now!
Yes!
Kang Chae Yoon came to me on his own.
What brings you here, the investigation bureau?
The Right State Minister asked me to bring a book.
Is His Excellency still here?
Yes, he is in his office.
The prisoner has escaped!
Catch him!
If you folllow this white marker, we can find their whereabouts.
Let's go!
Yes!
You handled it already!
What are you talking about?
I mean Yoon Pyung!
He just escaped the jail and ran away.
Really?
I didn't do it.
Then?
It is a trap!
Moo Hyul has been chasing him.
Considering the safety of His Highness,
he said that he will manage with the minimum number of soldiers.
He will handle it well!
It's tomorrow.
Tomorrow is Kyeongyeon (forum).
There isn't much time left.
Orabeoni!
Why are you here?!
Gwangpyung!
Who is he?
I told you not to ask me about him.
Treat him first, quickly!
Yes!
Madam Chief!
You've escaped safely!
The Right State Minister must have put a hand in it.
His Highness must be inside.
The priority is His Highness's safety!
Do you understand?
Yes.
Lay an ambush with each of your positions.
Wait for the signal!
Who is it?
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How is it going?
We've found the whereabouts of the Prince Gwangpyung.
What's that? What are they talking about?
Then... Prince Gwangpyung is not here?!
It seems he's hiding in the mountain.
Where is Prince Gwangpyung?
It is Mt. Sogang.
Invade there right away!
Sun rises up soon and hurry up!
Yes!
What's going on here?
Go to the palace right away
and report the current situation.
Yes!
I will chase them!
Let's go!
Hasn't Moo Hyool come back yet?
No.
He hasn't reported anything to us yet.
Your Majesty! What shall we do?
I agree.
Sun will rise up soon!
For now, the danger is over.
However, I packed too quickly,
and couldn't bring the medicine to alleviate fever.
There are herbs named honeysuckles in the mountain.
If he takes them, his fever will subside.
Okay, you did a good job.
Thank you!
Then, I am leaving.
Don't tell
anyone! Do you know?
Sir, I owe you my life.
Don't worry about it!
What shall we do?
Kang Chae Yoon cannot be handled by you.
What about the number one Jung-Mo troop?
Since we sent the message, they will arrive here soon.
Since the Prince Gwangpyung is injured, he cannot move his body easily.
I played for time.
Watch over them closely and attack them together!
Yes!
I am going to find honeysuckles. You can wait here.
Shall I thank you?
While thanking me,
what if you lose a bet?
Won't you feel wronged, when you die?
By winning a bet,
I will pay back your favour, for sure!
Aww... I was surprised!
Look at me! Look at me! Please look at me!
Can you take a walk?
What about Bonwon?
He has just left!
There is a girl, an injured guy
and a master of martial arts.
Don't be incautious!
Do you understand?
Yes!
Those scum are moving.
The most important thing is..
safety of his Highness the Prince!
Keep it in mind!
Yes!
Move!
This side
there is no one!
Nothing!
They were just here.
What happened?
Did they run away as they knew it already?
Either way,
for now, pick up things inside.
What happened?
They are not inside?
Which way is it?
Was it Milbon or Royal troops?
I can't figure it out yet.
When we don't know, we should run away.
Please come on up!
Since there is an injured person,
they couldn't leave the mountain yet. Find them out!
Who are you? Come out!
Moo Hyool!
I'll manage here.
You go report at once and chase after Chae Yoon.
Attack!
Get on my back please!
Bring So-Yi with you,
leave this mountain..
Stop the joke, get on my back quickly!
Don't you get it?
This is Milbon land.
They must be hiding everywhere in this mountain.
How are you going to descent the mountain while carrying me on your back in my injured state?
So?
Leave me here.
And leave with So Yi only.
Now!
No, we can't!
Of course, we can't!
Although your dignity is grand as a prince of this country,
you are just a mere hostage of mine.
I will take responsiblity of you.
Where is the Prince?
Haven't you captured him?
Are...
Are you okay?
Take your hands off.
That guy,
who is he?
He...
is very strong.
Your Majesty!
It is time to go to Kyeongyeon hall.
How about doing this for now?
As for the letters,
tell them that you don't know anything about them.
In addition, the questions thrown by the rebels,
you don't have to answer them since you are the King.
Say that the high officials of government should not be disturbed by their questions.
Since Moo Hyool hasn't come back yet,
we don't know what the situation is.
Do not give them any clear answers.
Please buy time.
Your Majesty!
For a moment,
I want to be alone.
You can go out.
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Gwangpyung!
The safety of His Highness is at stake.
Should the Joseon court and imperial family bend their knees to the threat of the traitors?
What if his majesty has really created the letters of Joseon,
he must reveal them to us, the high officials,
and ask our opinions.
Though...
This is separate from the safety of His Highness.
Yes, that's right.
If the letters were created, revealing the fact and giving it to us,
is also how he can save His Highness.
Do you mean that we should accept the Milbon's demands?
Though different in format, it is also the request of Joseon's noble clans.
What Joseon letters? Isn't it the way we become barbarians?
How dare you! Watch your words! Babarians?
His Majesty the King is entering!
It seems you were talking about something fun.
Have you been talking about this weird poster?
I also
have a fun story to share with you.
Do you want to hear it?
The key point of the poster is... yadi yada lots of things were written on it.
To make it short,
if I have created the letters,
then I should give up on them. If I don't give them up today,
they will do blah-blah to Gwangpyung...
That is the story, huh?
Since they asked me to answer by today,
I should do it.
This is my answer for the questions.
My answer for those...
it's a load of bullshit!
That's it!
Those scum thought that if they captured the Prince and threatened me,
I would be like "Yes, yes. I am scared of you. I will do whatever you say."
They might have thought that I would do that...
Did they think lightly of our Joseon's
government and Royal Family?
Your Majesty! It is about the safety of Prince Gwangpyung!
That's what I mean...
Gwangpyung won't want me to stop the great project because of him.
He is my proudest son!
And what else?
Letters!
I have created letters secretly.
Of course I have been creating them!
Now,
it is almost complete!
I made the letters that come from our words and sounds.
Our Joseon's letters,
I created them!
Your Majesty!
Creating Joseon's letters is utter injustice!
Regarding the issue,
we can argue over it till we die at the forum starting tomorrow.
Get ready for it!
Oh wait!
And Milbon,
probably there are none,
but if there is a member of Milbon here,
please send this message to him.
Only violence?
Only...
violence?
Gwangpyung!
I did it this way.
From now, whatever happens to you...
without shedding even a drop of tears,
I will endure it.
Father.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty!
Father!
Gwangpyung!
Your Majesty.
So Yi.
What happened?
We lost them.
Did you guys
bet on the heart of the King?!
So what did you bet on?
If I win,
without a word, he comes back to you.
Really?
Without a word,
I will follow your orders.
But, there is one condition.
Uh huh! We agreed that there is no condition!
Seok Sam
Seok Sam...
Palace Guard Kang Chae Yoon has learned our letters.
Really?
What is your condition?
And... this...
What is Seok Sam?
Seok Sam is
my father's name.
I dare wish...
Your Majesty,
do not forget his name...
All right.
I understand.
I definitely won't.
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