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Episode 42 Yes. That's right, Your Highness.
In a short time from now they will be in Hansikgyeong-do and will arrive here imminently.
Already over Gaeseong and now at Paju?
How can that be . . .?
So you have to quickly get to Ganghwa, immediately, Your Highness.
But there is no boat to cross over.
My boat is at Yanghwa dock.
We can go there right now.
Grand Prince.
So let's quickly go, Your Highness.
We don't have time to delay here any longer.
The entire army must be on full alert.
Close all of the gates in Namhansanseong
and get ready for war!
Yes.
What did you say? They have invaded all the way to where?
Your Majesty.
Chief Minister, does that make sense?
The report was just received today but they are already in Paju?
How could this happen?
Your Majesty! Crown Prince!
It seems we'll have to abandon Namhansanseong, Your Majesty.
We also have to quickly escape to Ganghwa.
What are you saying? Abandon Namhansanseong?
Your Highness.
Is it true that the Qing are heading straight for the capitol, Master?
That they are currently simultaneously heading straight toward Ganghwa and the capitol?
Yes, Your Highness.
They already knew that we would be relying on reinforcing
the defense of Ganghwa as Joseon's last bastion.
They would have known?
Already?
So, is the Qing arriving unscathed?
Yes, My Lord.
We must protect the royal carriage.
With the main part of the troops in front, no matter what happens, the royal carriage must be protected.
Yes, Your Highness.
You can't. You can't step outside of the palace now.
You can't go out.
Their army is already at Namhansanseong.
They are arriving right now, Your Majesty.
What?
They are arriving?
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Qing General's Unit
Advance!
To prevent Joseon's King from reaching Ganghwa
immediately close all escape routes.
Charge!
Ganghwa?
They are marching simultaneously, Your Majesty.
We're here, Your Highness.
Now it's the Ganghwa palace.
Your Highness!
Your Highness.
Then in the end,
are you saying that we can't even go to Ganghwa?
Your Highness.
-Your Majesty! -Father!
What are you doing? Quickly escort His Majesty inside. Hurry!
Are you saying they are now cut off?
Are you saying that His Majesty's party which remained in Namhansanseong cannot escape?
Yes. Already Namhansanseong has been occupied and...
the Tancheon river is also being patrolled by the Qing army.
No . . . Your Majesty . . . Crown Prince!
Even when it's like this, will you still trust Lord Kang Joo Seon, Grand Prince?
If the Qing already knew everything about Joseon,
if that's why they're heading straight for Ganghwa and the capitol . . .
Yes, Grand Prince. How could they have known that?!
Your Highness.
We'll take out all of the weapons and gunpowder in the Hwagidogam.
Everyone, protect Namhansanseong with your lives!
Yes, My Lord!
In Woo!
I'm entrusting this place to you, Joo Won.
You stay in the capital and I will gather the royal troops.
No. Their army has already reached the Tancheon so is there any way to escape?
But if all of us just stay trapped here, even our hope will disappear.
If I don't go and gather soldiers, this castle can't endure.
Please stop. If you go out right now, you could die!
Even if it's that, I have to do everything I can to atone for my father's sins.
I should have that kind of opportunity.
In Woo.
I will definitely get out alive
and come back together with the soldiers.
So please, until then...
just endure until then. Please.
Full speed ahead!
-Hurry! -Quickly!
Hurry to the portals for Namhansanseong and enter!
Defend yourselves to the last man, hurry!
What are you doing now! Use the large cannon. Fire!
Here in Ganghwaseong everyone load your rifles and shoot!
Mother, what do we do now?
Mother, I'm scared.
I'm scared, Mother.
Yes, it's fine.
Man Yong, Man Yeong, nothing will happen so don't be afraid.
But, what about Father?
Mother, will Father be able to return safely?
It's fine.
Your Highness.
Crown Prince!
Crown Prince, you have to escape. You can't be here!
But . . . how?
How . . . can it be like this, Master?
What was I, the royal family, the court, and the officials doing
when our nation became in this state again?
Exactly what were we doing?
Your Highness.
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Grand Prince.
I . . . was foolish, Your Highness.
Yes, I . . . I was.
Grand Prince.
Now what will happen to this nation, Your Highness?
What about the King and the Crown Prince trapped in Namhansanseong?
What about the people of this nation who were trampled by the Qing?
Mother!
Aigo, return to your senses...
Mother.
Didn't the Qing army establish an office in Gwangju?
Yes, My Lord.
Let's go.
Shouldn't we end this useless war?
Child . . .child.
Look here, look here.
Hurry.
Look here! Look here . . .
Elder...
He said he wanted to stay alive until the end.
I wanted my son who died in the year of the hare
to live forever like this lad.
Look here, Bong Soo.
Mother.
What sin does that young one have?
What the hell?
Are you saying the battle last night
ended in total defeat?
Yes, Your Majesty.
There are already 3000 soldiers who died and we cannot save those who are wounded.
The soldiers who were headed towards Namhansanseong also faced annihilation.
In the vicinity of the capital... what is the total casualties for the the citizens?
According to the reconnaissance report, Hyanggyo-dong and the Gwantong Bridge
were so destroyed by fire you can't find a trace of them.
The amount of citizens who died or were dragged away
is an amount that's unimaginable.
Your Highness.
Your Highness!
Your Highness.
Volunteers, are you okay?
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm fine~.
Just pour the alcohol, the alcohol!
But i-is it okay for us to be doing this?
Ah, I told you not to worry!
This Ganghwa Island is a fort, a fort!
I'm telling you those barbarians can never cross over, you rascal.
Now, pour the alcohol! Alcohol . . .
Prosecutor!
Who is it?
P-p-princess.
Your Highness.
Alcohol . . . alcohol?
Ah, t-t-that's . . . we just were trying to ease our nervousness.
The Qing army is on Ganghwa Island.
Cruel and vicious battles are being fought at Namhansanseong where His Majesty is.
But, what is the prosecutor doing?
There are military officers and noblemen doing nothing!
Grand Prince.
But, why didn't District General of Hwanghaedo, Kim Ja Jeom
alert us of the Qing army crossing the border?
District General.
While the Qing army was arriving, why did you
and the troops you command for the northwest region do nothing?
Qing Army Office in Gwangju
Welcome Lord Kang Joo Seon.
And . . . Kang Joo Seon.
I will never forgive them.
Because the ones who caused this war today are the Qing,
and the ones who tried to give up this nation for their own safety
are the unfaithful subjects and them.
Yes . . . I swear
that I will not forgive them!
Your Highness, it's me.
Enter. Quickly.
Yes. Do you think the circumstances will be reversed?
Exactly when is this tiring war going to end?
Even today the senior statesmen are gathering in order to negotiate the terms of peace
but one side is doing it's best to fight until the end.
At the north gate the battle is still being waged.
If I had known it would turn out like this, I would have also just left to Ganghwa island.
Why did I choose to follow the King? What loyalty?
We have to try for a treaty now, Your Majesty.
Now even provisions have run out and we can no longer go on.
Looking at the situation now, we are worse off than we were in the First Invasion
When Hong Taiji was sent to Joseon,
he wouldn't leave until he received our surrender, Your Majesty.
So, you're saying we should just kneel like this?
If as you say it is worse than the First Invasion,
then their demands will be more humiliating for us than then.
But what can we do? We have to accept it.
First we should save the king and the citizens. Even if they endure through unspeakable hardships there is nothing we can do.
You can't, Your Majesty.
In any case, Hong Taiji has now come, so his anger will not be appeased.
We are all prepared to die!
Please make a decision to fight!
You can't, Your Majesty!
There is no point of fighting back anymore.
What's the use of the war ending
after all the soldiers and the people are dead?
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty. Your Majesty!
Your Majesty, please come out quickly.
Right now outside Lord Kang Joo Seon has arrived
as the messenger for Qing.
What?
Who's here?
My Lord.
I came to meet His Majesty, Crown Prince.
I came to relay the message of
His Majesty, the Qing Emperor.
His Majesty's
message?
You bastard, Kang Joo Seon.
Did you think I wouldn't know what you did?
Did you think you would survive in this land even after giving up your nation?
Your Highness, please calm down.
You have to endure this as well for now.
I am also very regretful about this and my heart aches
that I couldn't stop this war
and that now, there is no way
to turn back the Qing Emperor's anger.
The Qing Emperor's
anger?
Kang Joo Seon, you dare in front of me?!
But Your Majesty,
you still have a way to preserve this nation.
From now on,
you will have to listen well to the words I tell you.
WHAT?!
You bastard . . .
you bastard, Kang Joo Seon!
Hostage?
They dare to ask for the Crown Prince as hostage during the negotiation?
We can't. That can't happen.
We can't send the Crown Prince to their camps.
But if that's the only way,
then we have to accept it.
My Lord.
Do you understand?
If that's the only way they will agree to have a negotiation,
then the Crown Prince has to go.
But, what will you do if things go wrong?
If this is another ruse or scheme of Kang Joo Seon,
and even if there is a modication, the crown prince is harmed?
No.
I won't do that.
We don't know what other schemes there are that may harm you.
I cannot send you, the hope for the nation, to such a place.
I will go, Father.
Crown Prince.
In Namhansanseong,
we don't have any soldiers or food rations left to be able to endure.
This must also be the same for Ganghwa.
If either one of the two castles get taken over,
Joseon will suffer irreversible humiliation and must surrender.
Even so, how
can you tell me to offer you up?
I became a bad King
and now you're telling me to become a bad father as well?
But, if we lose this chance as well,
the opportunity to negotiate with them will disappear.
So, no matter what is waiting,
I still have to go to that position.
So please...
allow this to happen, Father.
I don't know how Namhansanseong will be like if Ganghwa is like this.
That place should be out of food rations by now.
Your Highness. Princess!
Your Highness, have you heard the news?
What should we do about this?
Why are you like that, Crown Princess?
Exactly what's it about?
So, are you saying the Crown Prince in Namhansanseong
will go to the Qing's camps for negotiation?
Ah, yes. T-that's true, Your Highness.
According to the message that just arrived, it says he will do that.
Because of that here and in Ganghwa Fort there is a brief cease fire.
But, the one who came as the envoy was Kang Joo Seon?
Your Highness, you can't.
We can't send the Crown Prince into that place.
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Will they accept your proposal?
They will.
Because there are no other ways left.
Given the Crown Prince's nature, even if the only thing he could do is die
he would do even more.
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after this war is over.
You bastard, Kang Joo Seon!
Did you think I wouldn't know what you did?
Did you think you would still survive in this land even after giving up your nation?
You're right, Your Highness.
I won't be able to live after giving up my nation.
So, that's why I have to find a way
for me to survive even after doing that.
Yes, and that way
is to kick you out, Crown Prince.
If Kang Joo Seon got involved,
once again there is some hidden scheme.
Your Highness. It's a message
from your husband in Namhansanseong.
What? From my husband?
Your Highness.
Please...
step aside, Master.
No. I can't do that.
I can't hand you over to them fully knowing what this road is
and not knowing what will be waiting for you.
Master.
So please, Your Highness.
Listen to my words.
Please allow me to protect you,
the hope left for our nation.
Your Highness.
The royal forces are said to be coming, Crown Prince.
They are the last hope of overcoming this crisisl
So we will use the opportunity of negotiation with them
to take advantage of the break in hostilities and get ready to attack.
That is the message from Namhansanseong.
But what about the Crown Prince, Your Highness?
What will happen to the Crown Prince who's the hostage in this negotiation?
Is that so?
Joseon's Crown Prince came with the senior statesmen to negotiate?
Yes, General.
So, your words are something like this.
Propose negotiation and demand the Crown Prince?
But Joseon will never accept being a vassal to Qing.
Indeed, His majesty said he is afraid the Crown Prince would be killed.
General, the Qing Emperor wants to end this war quickly
and obtain Joseon in his hands.
In order to do so,
we have to set a scary example to the royal family and the court who are still resisting.
What Qing's will is,
what kind of power the Emperor has.
If that happens, they will lose the will to fight in war.
In the end, they will have no choice but to retreat.
Welcome, Crown Prince of Joseon. Let's start the talk now.
-Your Highness. -Your Highness.
You're here. What about the weapons and the gunpowder?
We made the most of a break when their guard was occupied with something else and safely brought them.
And they have been distributed in Ganghwa Fortress, Your Highness.
What?! Prepare what?
Did you just say an all out offensive, Grand Prince?
Yes.
Taking advantage of the relaxing of the Qing guard for the negotiations, we will attack first.
W-what does that mean?
G-grand Prince, I didn't receive such a royal command-
No!
This is a royal command.
What?
Do you understand? So, if you want to live after the war is over,
Though it is too late, do your best to carry out the duties of the prosecutor!
Your Majesty! Why did you allow this?
You can't. Please turn this back now.
If the Qing find out about this truth,
they will not just sit by and watch.
Your Majesty, so please-
Stop!
Shut it. You should shut your mouth as well.
Y-your Majesty.
Yes. I also know that this is a huge risk.
But still, if this can be the last way,
if this turns out to be the road to avoid a humiliating retreat,
then I have to do this.
This is also my duty, the duty of the King!
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Thank you.
My Lord, how is it going?
The preparations of the fortress are finished.
Now the only thing to do is to look forward to the royal forces.
If they can come on time, then there is a chance of success.
Crown Prince.
If so, you still will not give your word to be a vassal to Qing.
Is that what you came here to say?
But the only thing we request is that your reconsider.
We will accept everything else as a condition of the peace treaty.
You dare now!
Are you making fun of our emperor's proposal to you, Crown Prince?
Do you still think you will be able to return safely even after doing this?!
This is too much!
Without any reason, why should I wait?
Yes, Emperor.
Immediately drag out the Crown Prince and the rest of them
and behead them!
In obedience to the emperor's command
show them what it is like to be a vassal of Qing!
Yes!
What are you doing, General?
This is the Crown Prince of Joseon. Joseon will not-
What is happening, General Ma?
Joseon's Crown Prince in the end deceived us.
Kill them!
Wait. Wait a moment, General Ma.
You . . . who are you?
You are not the Crown Prince of Joseon. I clearly know his face!
Crown Prince, let us start our total attack on them.
Hurry and mobilize the entire army!
Advance right now to Lamhansanseong and Ganghwa.
Yes!
General, there is trouble.
I heard Joseon's royal forces are marching toward the capital.
A battle has already started in Ganghwa island.
They have deceived us using the negotiation as an excuse.
Don't retreat! We have to protect Ganghwa!
We can never let Ganghwa fall into the hands of the enemy!
Yes!
Is the gate being defended, Grand Prince?
The royal forces from Ganghwa are guarding the north and south gates and
We have stationed troops armed with rifles and cannon at the east and west gate.
They are all determined to defend the gates with their lives, Your Highness.
How many are left?
2 are left.
Okay.
The enemy is approaching! Quickly, hurry!
My Lord.
They
deceived me this time. Me.
My Lord, what will happen if the Joseon soldiers succeed?
My Lord, then we'll-
No.
That will never,
ever happen.
My Lord.
-Your Highness. -Your Highness.
I have heard that the royal forces heading toward Ganghwa are fighting with the Qing army.
How is the battle going?
The front is almost breached.
I think we will be able to advance to Ganghwa.
My Lord, there is trouble.
In southeast again the Qing are gathering.
What?
My Lord.
What has become of the royal forces stationed at Miwon?
Why haven't they arrived yet?
Well, there are only 20,000 troops stationed at Miwon.
My Lord, shouldn't we send them to Ganghwa this instant?
You're foolish.
What will change just because you do that?
My Lord.
Did you see the sky outside?
It looks like it'll rain soon.
The result of this war was already decided from the beginning.
In the end, if we can't change that,
then we have to stand on the winning side.
Your Highness, brace yourself.
You have to endure this no matter what.
Princess.
Your Highness!
T-t-there's big trouble.
T-that . . . outside . . .
Escape the rain! Quickly!
-Quickly! -Hurry!
This is . . .
It's raining, Your Highness.
If that is, the troops armed with rifles
and with cannon cannot fight.
Quickly move.
Look here, look here!
Hurry!
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
How . . .
How can this be, Crown Prince?
Father.
Was it my fault?
Because of my sins, the sins of the King,
have the heavens also abandoned this nation as well?
Father!
While the royal forces were rushing toward Ganghwa,
they were defeated because they didn't get reinforcements.
So now, it seems that there
are no more ways to protect the Ganghwa castle.
Your Highness.
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Your Majesty!
Crown Prince!
Your Majesty!
Crown Prince . . .
We will never surrender unconditionally.
In front of those barbarians,
we can never retreat humiliated, Minister!
Then what will you do?
Will you kill the captured Crown Princess
and the royal son?
And after that,
will you only be able to end it after losing the Crown Prince and His Majesty,
and killing all of the people in this nation?
Minister!
Yes.
You have ripped this
but I will put this back together
again and take it to them.
This nation has also been
ripped to shreds and trampled like this
but one day,
we will be able to rise again.
-Your Majesty. -Your Majesty.
Please
kill us!
Please kill us, Your Majesty!
Your Majesty.
Let's go.
To Samjeon-do.
As a King,
this is the last thing
I can do.
Your Majesty.
In the end, you
have not succeeded yet, Neung Yang.
One day, you will bring
the most painful blood storm to this nation
and you will drive this nation
into its darkest times.
On that day, you and everyone else here
will face more pain and humiliation
than this moment.
Great China and Joseon herby
form a relationship of sovereign state and vassal.
Joseon's King
will kneel in front of the mighty Qing Emperor
and perform the ritual three kowtows and nine bows.
Father . . .
The first kowtow.
Your Majesty.
The second kowtow.
Raise your head, Bong Rim.
Your Highness.
And
do not forget
today,
do not forget this moment.
Third kowtow.
Your Majesty.
Come in, My Lord. He's waiting for you.
Welcome, Lord Kim Ja Jeom.
Yes, how hard it must have been for you at the border.
What hardships?
Thanks to you, didn't I avoid the big storm?
You're clever and able to swim with the tide.
As for me, I knew somehow we would see each other again like this.
Crown Prince.
In the end, although we couldn't get rid of the Crown Prince,
he was taken with the Grand Price by a large force to Shenyang.
Don't you feel a sense of relief?
So if you have returned from a brief exile
you can regain your old position.
Yes, I'm sure.
After you come back from exile.
Isn't that what the world is like?
We forget about everything rapidly
and again Joseon will become weak.
My Lord.
I will go and return safely.
Until then, I entrust you with His Majesty and this nation.
Don't worry, Your Highness.
No one will forget this moment today.
Grand Prince.
Yes. I will also not forget.
Every moment, I will remember
today, remember my resolution.
Let's go, Grand Prince.
In order to come back.
Yes. I'm sure, Yeo Jeong.
Our last fight starts now.
Yes, Your Highness. I will do so.
Bong Rim and I will definitely return.
We'll make them pay for their sins
and change this nation.
Yes.
In order to come back, I'll go forward on this road.
And . . . if that day comes, Your Highness.
If that day comes one day . . .
8 years later.
Your Highness.
My Lady.
Is the Princess inside?
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Your Majesty, are you okay?
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty, why are you like this? Your Majesty!
Breath . . . I can't breathe.
Your Majesty . . .
Eunuch! Is the Eunuch there?!
Bring the royal physician in! Quickly!
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty, breathe.
Your Majesty!
The King is suddenly in critical condition? How can something like this happen?
His condition wasn't good each year.
It was something that was bound to happen one day.
Look here, this isn't the time to be saying something so nonchalant.
Do you not know day today is?
It's today.
Yes, did you say they were coming back?
The Crown Prince and Grand Prince Bong Rim?
Finally . . . back to this land.
Your Highness.
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