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Episode 30
Princess.
Your Majesty.
The palace in my hands. I have succeeded in securing the throne!
My Lord, we have succeeded.
Yes, we have opened up a new world!
What about the King? Where is Gwang Hae?
So you are Kim Gae Shi.
Where is Gwang Hae?
You laugh?
This wench...how dare you in front of me?!
What? Did you say you lost the Princess?
Yes.
The soldiers came in suddenly so we had no choice.
Gwang Hae...as expected...
Like you said, he was playing us.
If that's the case, then that won't be all.
Something else...I'm certain there will be something else.
Cut off the escape route!
You must capture the dethroned King!
They realized that the King has disappeared.
If you don't take action quickly, it could be dangerous for you too.
-Wait. - Lord!
Shouldn't I at least wait until the end for that...for them...
Why...did you do that?
Why did you give up your throne by your own will?
In the end...it was meant to turn out like this.
There were too many weaknesses in me as a King.
But, you could have endured.
If only you hadn't saved me...
Your Majesty...if you had been with the Hwagidogam workers until the end...
But if I did that, then they would all be gone with me.
Like that, Joseon would have lost it's last hope.
But still, how...
how can you give yourself up for us?
Why are you taking our chance to protect you away from us?
Why...are you telling us to step on your back and survive?
Because you have to. Because...
then there is another world.
Your Majesty.
So Jeong Myeong, remember.
Even if you kneel down to the traitors today,
you should not yield to despair.
This is not the end. Do you understand?
Even if I go...as long as you and your people are here,
as long as you don't give up this fight...
then it's not the end.
It's there. There!
I clearly saw him go in there with my own two eyes.
Attack! Capture the dethroned King now!
Yes!
I wanted to give you something better as your older brother.
Forgive me for only leaving you with heavy burdens.
Older brother...
I'm sorry.
And...
I'm thankful.
So please...this nation, Joseon...
these citizens...protect them.
It's the soldiers!
Everyone will be in danger if we delay any longer.
No...you can't, Your Majesty.
Counselor Hong... I entrust this child to you. And you...
Your Majesty. Your Majesty!
I've captured the dethroned King. Take him.
Yes.
Your Majesty. Your Majesty!
I can't, Lord.
I can't let the King go like this.
Your Highness.
I didn't get to say I forgive him.
I didn't get to say I'm thankful.
Older brother...
Please issue a royal command now to acknowledge the new king!
Gwang Hae, who is taking flight, deposed his mother,
a sinner forever for slaughtering his brothers, threw away the Ming grace,
committed the atrocity of holding hands with the barbarians...
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty!
How can a person like that protect the nation, rule the people,
and venerate the land and the Jongmyo shrine altar?
Should the blame for the horrific acts be only his?
He has filled the court with evil people.
In the end, you have also lost to me as well.
But the same day will come to you one day.
The miserable rule of tyranny which is ending...
Let me go!
Your Majesty! This is unfair!
Your Majesty. This is vexatious!
Criminal Lee Yi Cheom, receive your punishment!
No...
I can't end it like this here!
I, Lee I Cheom, will not like this!
It is the time to end the legacy now!
Now Gwang Hae is deposed and a new king will be crowned.
He will raise the land's fallen shrines and open a new era.
Your Majesty...
The dethroned king Gwang Hae, kneel!
What are you doing, Gwang Hae?
The heinous criminal who ruined this nation,
kneel on your knees and bow now.
Did you see? Now the owner of this palace...is me.
This nation's King is not you!
But me.
This Neung Yang who you said was nothing...
has beat you.
I see you are claiming this is a victory.
Yes.
I was beat by you,
since I couldn't fulfill my plans.
My biggest fault...
is giving an incompetent person like you the throne.
What? What did you say?
But...
you have not succeeded yet, Neung Yang.
Someday you will suffer
the most painful defeat and
you will drive this nation into it's darkest times.
That day, you and everyone else here...
will recieve much more pain
and humiliation than right now.
You bastard!
Won't you shut that mouth?
Do you still think you are the King?
So only one thing...
remember this one thing, Neung Yang.
Even though I will kneel in front of you today and give you the throne...
For you, in the end, will you not go through the same bitter experience being the monarch?
Do you understand?
Remember me today
and don't kneel in front of anyone else...
so that the citizens of this nation can do the same...
stay alert, Neung Yang.
Take care of every citizen in this nation!
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Father.
Hurry.
Yes.
I knew it would end up like that.
How dare that bastard think that he can do something to me?
First, drink this tonic, Lord.
You have to recover your health first.
Herbal tonic, Wife? Do you think I'm in the mood to do that?
My Lord.
Even though Gwang Hae has fallen,
Neung Yang and Kim Ja Jeom have wrested the lead away from him.
The power of our clan that has never been given to anyone.
But Father, our clan isn't finished yet.
We also made a contribution in this uprising.
Also there are the clan's sacrifices which are still being made.
In Woo.
Yes...now you are opening your eyes.
No matter how much the world changes, that power doesn't change.
Never.
Soon now the opposition will be brewing a storm.
So you and I can dig into that chance again.
Your Majesty, Kim Ja Jeom is entering.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty?
It's very good to hear.
Do you like the throne?
What do you think?
How can I dare to make assumptions about that?
Only the capable owners of the throne will know.
Capable owner?
You have said the most appropriate word.
But...didn't you say you had someone to show me?
Ah, would you like to see now?
Let her in.
Say your greetings.
I'm called Yeo Jeong, Your Majeesty.
She made accomplished many deeds in this uprising, Your Majesty.
Well...
Even if she hadn't accomplished anything,
she is a child that I would have liked.
Now you should start the work of the nation's leader.
This is not the end.
Shouldn't we be cutting off future trouble from whatever Gwang Hae has left behind?
Of course, we must.
But...that Princess is the problem.
That wench.
Princess, it's time to head into the palace.
Queen Dowager.
Your Highness, it has been nine years.
Now both of Your Highness's can return to your positions in the palace.
Yes...
but, what will be ahead...
In Neung Yang's rule,
I'm afraid of what kind of things will happen.
The Princess is approaching.
Princess.
Let's go, Mother.
We need to go and greet the new King.
Do as it says.
You will need to capture everybody on here without missing a single one.
Yes!
-Follow! -Yes!
Welcome.
Queen Dowager.
Of course, the Princess too.
I'm very honored to have both of you back in the palace.
We dethroined the tyrant king, Gwang Hae,
therefore this all became possible.
Everything...is by your grace.
I would be thankful if you knew that.
But does the Princess have anything to say?
It'd be more appropriate and normal.
Well . . .
If you are waiting for the same answer,
then I'm afraid I can't tell you what you want, Your Majesty.
The palace isn't really a place where I wanted to return to.
The Hwagidogam was more comfortable and better for me.
Really?
Princess.
However, what shall we do then?
If you love that place that much, I'd like to send you over there but
the Hwagidogam will permanently disappear.
The people in there as well.
Of course...
you are next in line.
What do those words mean?
The Hwagidogam will disappear?
Answer me.
What does that mean?
This is not the end.
Do you understand?
Even if I go, as long as you and your people are here...
as long as you don't give up this fight,
then it's not the end.
Yes.
I...will never give up, Your Majesty.
Lord! Lord!
There's a big trouble, Lord!
They are the dethroned King Gwang Hae's followers!
There is a royal order to close the Hwagidogam, and arrest all the workers.
Look here, I really didn't do anything!
The only thing I did was water my garden!
Let me go!
What did we do that you are like this?!
Let go!
Elder!
What did we do wrong?!
What on earth are you doing? Why are you trespassing and attacking the Hwagidogam and Royal Police Precinct?
That is the new King's royal command.
It's the new king's will to destroy and clean up
the Hwagidogam which was involved in a traitorous act with the barbarian enemy.
What?
What are you doing? Counselor Hong and Head of the Judicial Investigation Bureau, Hong Yeong too...
-Drag all of them out! -Yes!
My lord! My lord!
Drag them out!
Let me go!
Joo Won.
You should just admit it now.
How they were also only following orders from you to associate with the barbarian enemies.
Then the painful torture can at least be avoided.
Did you say your name was Kim Ja Jeum?
It would have been hard with Neung Yang's power...
you were behind him.
Yes...since your gaze seems unusually sharp,
I'm sure you'll understand my words. You and Neung Yang
will not be able to touch the Hwagidogam. They
are at no fault.
I already know.
What sly schemes you pulled to protect them,
even till the end.
In the final hours, you sent out the Chief Eunuch and __________,
so you blocked the Hwagidogam from attacking the palace.
Although it was a hard decision,
but in the end, it will still be useless.
Former King.
The torture given to them will be intense...
even enough to make them confess to crimes they didn't do.
Step aside!
I will see the Hwagidogam workers that were captured and brought here.
I'm sorry but you can't.
They are already in the interrogation grounds.
What? Did you say interrogation?
Tie the criminals Hong Joo Won and Hong Yeong to the chair.
Don't stop the torture until they admit to their crimes!
Yes!
Please endure it.
Because you all need to live...
Please...
Tell me. Then the agony will stop.
Confess to the fact how Hwagidogam was involved with the enemy.
Nonsense.
What we did was all for Joseon.
Whatever you say, the truth won't change.
Is the agony not enough?
What are you doing? Raise the level of the agony!
Yes!
-Your Highness! Highness! -Princess.
Princess...what are you planning to do?
Mother...
I am also a worker at the Hwagidogam.
If they are tainted with a crime I suppose I should also be.
Please...you can't Princess. Stop.
As it is, shouldn't you be reconciling with the new king?
No.
It is not that I will reconcile with him but that I will fight with him, Royal Mother.
-What? -Yes.
This is my decision.
Those people that the King protected with his life,
I will also protect them as well with my own life.
What?
The Princess is doing what?!
She is sitting on a straw mat, Your Majesty.
The princess is now sitting on a straw mat outside the palace...
But...the citizens are the problem.
The citizens are all gathering in that spot!
That thing...!
She dares to do that...
The princess is on a straw mat!
Is that the Princess?
What does she mean by sitting on the straw mat?
Goodness...what is this?!
The Hwagidogam Counselor, the director of production, and also the artisans are innocent.
They risked their lives in the war for Joseon.
But if you are still going to punish them,
then please punish me, the Princess of this nation, as well.
Since I was also there with them,
if you cannot trust my words, then please kill me with them!
Those are serious words!
Look here, look here! Can you not hear me?!
Please answer me!
How is the situation outside the palace?!
Look here...
How is it going?!
Your Majesty...Your Highness...
So you're saying the citizens are continuously gathering?
I am afraid because public opinion can easily be twisted.
Instead of asking that she leave for her crimes the king should be harsh toward the Princess.
This wench targeted that and stepped out of the palace.
She's using her own position and public sentiment.
Goodness...what do we do?
The new King is holding the innocent Princess and the Hwagidogam workers.
He shouldn't do that.
No matter what, he shouldn't do this to our pitiful Princess.
Goodness...what do we do about this?
Yes...now what will you do, Neung Yang?
Will he drag me out and destroy me together with the Dogam?
Your Majesty! Please reconsider!
Arrest her!
You can just arrest the Princess!
But Your Majesty, the citizens are watching.
You have just ascended to the throne,
This will be a big burden on your reign.
That's right, Your Majesty!
The opponent is the Princess whom the citizens favor.
So? So are you telling me to just cover this up?!
If I don't drag the Princess out, I have to let Gwang Hae's followers go.
What is the Princess?
Exactly what is the Princess?!
Your Majesty, please reconsider!
Please reconsider, Your Majesty!
So? Are you saying Her Highness is still protesting?
Yes.
I heard the soldiers gossiping.
They say it's already been two days!
Her Highness is also risking her life for us.
Lord ..Her Highness too!
Your Highness...
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Yes, Your Highness.
I will do it.
Now, I will protect your people.
Princess...
Withdrawing seems to be the right choice.
What?!
Like the officials said, the opponent is the Princess.
If this spreads farther from here, it will lessen the support for your enthronement.
Don't you know a way to win the subjects' hearts?
Since you knew that, you also used the same tactic in your Lord days.
That deviant wench! . . .
I knew she would be an obstacle one day.
So that's why you should have killed that wench!
What about the Princess? Is she still there?
I'm afraid she'll get sick like this.
Tell the King, Court Lady Jeong.
Ask him if he would also like to see me go outside as well.
Ask him would he just let the citizens see that!
-Your Highness! -I have to save her.
As a mother...I have to save my own child!
Let...them go...
His Highness' people...
Let...those people...
Your Highness! Your Highness!
Please stop! You'll lose your life like this!
Get away. Ja Gyeong.
When we are not together,
I...will not...back down...
Your Highness. Your Highness!
Your Majesty! Please,
please save the Princess, Your Majesty.
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Please save her, Your Majesty.
The Princess is innocent, Your Majesty!
Spare her life!
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Please reconsider!
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Please release the Hwagidogam's workers!
Please reconsider!
Look everyone. Can you hear the sounds?
Lord
Minister!
Please reconsider! Release them!
Princess?
My subjects are calling out the Princess's name and not mine?
Your Majesty, don't you think you should look at the far future for now?
Give me a chance.
Then...just as I opened the palace's door for you,
I will someday give that Hwagidogam's door to you as well.
The Princess is innocent!
Your Majesty! Save her!
Your Highness. Can you hear their voices, Your Highness?
Your Highness...
Release...the Hwagidogam workers.
Yes.
Thank you, Princess. Now, I can
trust you and put everything down.
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So in the end, are you telling me to let Gwang Hae live?
Why can't I cut off his neck?!
You said everything else was fine!
I'm not telling you to spare him, I'm telling you to look at the timing.
He was still our former king, although he is deposed now.
In the past, other former kings' lives were spared as well.
For now, exile him to a place and keep your eyes open for the future.
Your Highness, you can't.
You still have not recovered your health!
Move aside, Court Lady Jeong.
Your Highness.
Can you not hear my words?
Court Lady Kim!
What am I...that you came all this way?
What about the sins I have committed against you?
Court Lady Kim.
Thank you, Your Highness.
I will go peacefully so don't worry.
Only thing is . . . please forgive me, but don't forget His Majesty's aspirations.
Please...fulfill his dreams.
If you do that, His Highness...
His Highness will be satisfied with that.
No.
I can't die like this!
NO WAY!!
Calm down.
This is our last chapter, so why are you being so grossly pathetic?
What kind of bullsh*t are you saying this time?!
You either gain everything or lose everything.
Did you start without knowing that?
That is what you call an 'authoritative power.'
Yes, I know.
That is what an 'authoritative power' is.
So I...will gain everything.
I will never give up like this!
In the end, do I lose everything?
Like this?
Pitifully, like this?
That wench is the vicious Kim Gae Shi.
That girl? Bad wench!
It's the wench who put the former king up to our country being destroyed!
It's her, her!
Die!
That damn bitch! We must kill her!
That bitch! Kill her!
Your Highness, I will go first.
Gae Shi...
But Your Majesty, please stay here longer and longer
and then come to meet me.
Because I will wait...
Even if it takes a very long time.
I will await your arrival there.
Is everything going to end now?
The King is going into exile...
Our Hwagidogam too...
Don't say things like that? End? What ends?
Do you think the King saved us just so you could say things like that?
He's right. We shouldn't be like this.
The King made this Hwagidogam to protect this nation.
We have to endure somehow and accomplish that task.
Still...what should we do about our pitiful King?
The Princess must be in so much pain...
Goodness...my heart feels like it's going to burst.
I feel so angry and unjust.
My heart feels like it's going to collapse.
Your Highness.
His Majesty is going, Lord.
I have to see him out.
Yes...because we still have not been able to give our goodbyes to him.
Get rid of this map cleanly!
Now this country will be diffrent under my watch from what it was under Gwang Hae!
I pray you will protect the royal family and be a sovereign who governs well.
King.
Your Majesty!
Ming has done it that way for a long time.
Using Joseon as a shield whenever they need
they feared Joseon would become strong and so they did not reveal the formula for gunpowder.
They made this nation into their plaything. But!
My Joseon...will be different.
Although I was looking forward to practicing it seems we still lack firepower.
I will pay more attention to the mixture and increase the heat. I will do my best, Your Majesty.
The first priorty must to be to obtain high quality sulfur.
But I...could not reach
the end...that end.
Your Majesty.
Yes, Crown Prince.
Ah, you child. I told you it's "older brother".
But Mother...
So when it's only the two of us, you can
call me older brother freely.
Can I really do that?
Older brother.
Jeong Myeong.
I won't forget...Your Majesty.
Your dream...
This is that book.
Our long lost text on the manufacture of gunpowder.
Without Ming's help, how can Joseon endure...
did you ask that?
The answer...is power.
This map...do you know why it's different from other maps?
Joseon is in the center just like Ming.
Although small, it no longer looks like Ming's toy.
Yes...that was my dream.
No...my real bigger dream
is for Joseon to be in the center.
But that dream will not disappear.
As long as there are people left here on this land,
as long as they do not lose hope.
So please...so that this beautiful Joseon can be protected,
for the relief of my people and the mountains and streams...
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Althouhg sometimes amid harsh trials even if I crumble
that this land...can rise up again .
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