[Episode 21]
Baek Dae Gil
what on earth is your intention?
You cast away Yi In Jwa and cast me away.
After all that, you try to put that bastard up as King?
That's an absolutely unreasonable remark.
If not, since you are the royal bloodline of the Three Jongs,
do you think I'd spare the lives of you two brothers?
Did you think I didn't know?
Today, I'll cut off these tiresome and disgusting ties.
Move aside!
The late King expressed his dying wish to me.
"Norons won't acknowledge the Crown Prince as a King."
"It'll be certain that as Sorons get the power, the bloody change of the ministries will follow."
"At that time, you have to save Prince Yeoning's life. I said to save your younger brother's life."
So, I answered, "Yeah, Your Majesty."
"Your humble subject will protect Prince Yeoning's life."
"For being his older brother, I'll sacrifice my life in protecting his life." That's how I answered.
Did Royal Father
leave a will to save that traitor?
Eunuchs!
Is all what he is saying true?
Yes. Your Majesty.
Royal Father saves your life.
However, this is only the time to forgive you.
Also, I will definitely not forgive all the Noron Ministers
who don't acknowledge me as a King, so I'll punish all of them by beheading.
Your Majesty.
With that, You, Crown Prince cherish your life
and don't be involved in governmental affairs any more. Do you understand?
What are you doing?
What should I do?
For Norons' lives.
How can I save them?
Your humble subject will find the way to save them so don't act unwisely.
Can you understand?
You, bastards! - You still don't know what's going on?
Kim Chang Jib
Here. Yi In Jwa
Choi Yi Seok
Kim Il Kyeong
The evidence?
That's the blood oath between the traitor Jeong and Yi In Jwa.
Your Majesty, the person who plotted treason, the person who incited the Norons to the installation of the Crown Prince,
the person who showed his contempt for Your Majesty by sending the assassin to your bedroom and poisoning your food,
the person who looked down on Your Majesty and tempted the royal court,
the one who is doing all of those is Yi In Jwa. Therefore, pardon the Noron ministers' offenses,
and punish the traitor Yi In Jwa by beheading.
If Yi In Jwa is a traitor, I can punish him by beheading as well.
But that can not overcome the fact the Noron ministers held the traitorous minds.
Your Majesty. From the beginning, the installation of the Crown Prince and the regency...
Do you want to insist that it is Yi In Jwa's scheme?
Noron ministers are not Yi In Jwa's puppets.
Also, it is not important whether the treason existed or not.
The important thing is there was a traitorous intent in their minds.
That they have never acknowledged me as a King,
is the reason they have to be killed.
However, Your Majesty.
I won't repeat myself twice.
Noron ministers and Yi In Jwa,
I'll punish them on my own.
What happens to them?
I couldn't prevent the Noron Ministers from being executed.
Jo Tae Chae, Yi Geon Myeong, Yi Yi Myeong, Kim Chang Jib
Your Majesty! Punish me and instead, save the Noron ministers.
Take your younger brother's life and spare the ministers' lives, Your Majesty.
Did you do that?
I asked you whether you committed the crimes of controlling the Noron ministers
from behind in order to dethrone me, pushed me into being a puppet king,
looked down on me, and humiliated me.
Your Majesty, that is the Noron ministers' misdirected loyalty.
Then, what is the reason you take sides with the traitors who deserve to die?
Your Majesty, please.
I don't have the slightest intention to pardon the traitors who held the traitorous minds.
Even if that is my younger brother.
Your Majesty... Your Majesty.
Kim Chang Jib
Move aside!
Your Highness!
Move aside!
Acting for the sake of the royal family and the whole nation,
how do they say it's disloyalty and a treason?
This Kim Chang Jib will keep the promise with Her Highness by all means.
My Excellency.
Your Highness, please trust this Kim Chang Jib.
My Excellency.
Your Highness! Conserve yourself to the end,
restore the foundation of this wavering nation straight!
Stop.
Halt! Halt! Halt!
Halt! I told you to halt!
Move!
Move, move! I said move!
If you move forward more from here, you'll get hurt.
They can't die.
What kind of crimes in the world did they commit?
What kind of crimes?!
What kind of crimes for them?!
I'm sorry.
I must...
I'll definitely get revenge for your resentments.
Trust me.
Please wait.
I'm sorry.
In 1722, Shin Yim Massacre of Scholars
Let me alone.
I told you to let me alone. Please.
Please let me alone.
Royal Mother.
Right now, I...
What should I do?
Royal Father.
I don't want to lose...
My people. I don't want to lose them any more.
Dae Gil.
Are you okay?
How about His Highness?
You should stay next to him together.
Why did you come home? He must've been shocked a lot.
There is nothing I can do for him.
Blood oath.
Were you looking for me, Your Majesty?
Tell me.
What can I do with the Crown Prince?
If you don't root out the seed of the treason, the seed will revive again at any time.
Please take away his life.
More than 100 Noron ministers were killed.
With your one word.
You must have persuaded the Noron ministers.
You incited them so you drove them to the place of death.
No, it's not, Your Majesty. What kind of power do I have so I made the Noron ministers act?
Then, regarding me, what kind of power do you have so you made me act?
Am I lighter than the ministers... for you?
The evidence!
This is it?
Are you going to say that you didn't do this blood oath?
Your Majesty.
- Your Highness.- Go back.
Right now... I don't want to meet anybody.
I'm telling you I don't want to hear any words.
His Majesty made a courageous decision.
His Majesty will abandon Yi In Jwa.
Your Majesty, I have never plotted treason.
Are you going to evade it in front of this blood oath?
Your Majesty, it's right I wrote this blood oath.
However, everything
is my planned measure for making you accede to the throne.
Your Majesty. Have you already forgotten?
During your Crown Prince's period, how did the late King and Noron ministers treat you?
How did Prince Yeoning act toward you as well?
They treated you coldly, left you out,
and threatened you, didn't they?
The pledge that I gave to you in the past,
this humble subject has kept it my in my heart.
Your Highness should sit on the throne.
For me, I'll accept only your mind.
All these things are for your sake and your power.
Don't you really know all these things came from my loyalty to you?
Your loyalty.
It's not like I don't know it.
I can't forget it either.
However, as you said, it's natural that the root of treason can revive at anytime.
In return for my sparing your life,
you shouldn't take even a step in the palace ever again,
and you should lay down everything you have.
Your Majesty, it would be better if you cut my throat.
I beg you not to meddle with the national affairs any more.
Your Majesty!
Traitor Jeong will be beheaded tomorrow.
Though it is a hard-earned card that was earned through patience with time,
must it be so easily thrown away... so pointlessly?
A dull knife must be thrown away.
The Noron ministers have been completely eliminated without trace.(Choi Yi Seok (Associate Left Minister))
Now that even the King's favor has been taken away.
As for a knife which no longer any use. There is no need to carry it. ( Jo Il Su (Associate Right Minister))
Are your excellencies also planning on turning your back on me?
You have allied yourself with Traitor Jeong.
I heard that you wrote a blood oath.
Go back. For there is no need to see you anymore.
You will throw me away...
Are you so confident you'll be unwavering in your decision?
Are you trying to forcibly intimidate us?
You're the King's teacher, so that's why we shared a friendship with you all this time.
How can we keep the relationship with you, who allied with the traitor?
Get out of here.
From this point, he will lose everything.
His Majesty the King told him that everything Yi In Jwa owns...
So,
will anything change?
After so long a time, even if Yi In Jwa
is thrown away,
will those who have been sacrificed due to his schemes, come back to life or something?
Jeong Hee Ryang
It's been a while Young Master Jeong.
Have you... changed your mind now?
Indeed, it's said the man who died after eating looks better than the man who starved to death.
They say you'll be beheaded tomorrow.
No matter how I think about it, you need to die in order for me to live.
Even the flesh decays and turns to a handful of dirt, but the soul is immortal.
Hey! Look! What happened to you?
What happened!
You must rise up from this.
For the sake of those who lost their lives for you. You must get up!
Your Highness, Traitor Jeong and his subordinates have taken poison and committed suicide.
I heard that all the criminals have died.
Doesn't that mean that your plan to catch who was behind Traitor Jeong by keeping him alive, has gone awry?
Not yet.
Now is the time for the true battle. So as for your majesty,
Using the Royal Investigative Bureau, Office of the Inspector General, Police Bureau, and the Capital Bureau, tie up Yi In Jwa's neck.
Sa Eun. Sa Mo.
The Current Crown has turned aside from you, My Liege?
I mean... how? What is the reason?
In his hands the Current Crown has the blood oath between me and Young Master Jeong.
Hwang Jin Gi
The blood oath most definitely...
The one burned by Hong Seol Ju... was probably fake.
The real one was probably turned over to Baek Dae Gil.
But it doesn't matter.
It's just that the time has gotten ahead of itself a bit. The Crown Prince was a card that was to be disposed of anyhow
- Confiscate everything! - Yes.
What's matter?
I would like to excuse myself. It's the King's command.
King's command?
You will have to give up everything.
Left Police Bureau Deputy Inspector... you are making a huge mistake...
I came from the Capital Bureau to conduct an investigation
I guess we're late to the party. I'm from the Office of the Inspector General, Scholar sire Yi In Jwa.
What?
Tomorrow, you should willingly come to the Royal Investigation Bureau, before the arrest warrant is issued.
Sire, what shall we do now?
It seems the Current Crown has resolved to kill me.
Anyhow he will die... so I wanted to use him a little more...
If that's how he chooses to move, then there's no option but for me to cut him down.
What are you thinking of doing?
In case of the off chance, I already had something done.
Park Pil Hyeon
Are you... the other half of Yi In Jwa, Park Pil Hyeon?
I'm Jeong Hee Ryang of Yeongnam. I have written a blood oath with your sworn brother Yi In Jwa.
If we miss the proper timing, we will both miss opportunities. So decide.
Brother has in the end drawn his sword.
Tell your comrades:
Tomorrow at noon, that I, Park Pil Hyeon will make a charge against the enemy at the capital.
Yes.
Anyhow, the capital will be in an uproar tomorrow.
Are you sure Yi In Jwa would move?
He'll move.
Otherwise, he'll be put to death as sitting still.
Your Highness, you should have some...
Your Highness.
I'll slash the King's neck and open a new world.
King,
the favors I have done to you during my past time,
I'll take all back today.
Who are you?
I'm called Yi In Jwa.
If you're called Yi In Jwa...
By the way, what brings you here?
It has really been a very long time.
At this time, what is this sound of a bell being struck?
I'll check and come back.
How come I hear the sound of the bell being struck at this hour?
First the sound of the bell being struck five times. Second it sounded 9 times.
The 5th letter of Heavens is... 'Mu.'
The 9th letter of Earth's Branches is... 'Shin.'
Mu Shin. (Military coup)
Mu Shin
Mu Shin.
Right now,
how many times was the bell struck?
Pardon?
Everybody! Get up!
The nation for the people and by the people has arrived in front of us.
People whose clans were ruined by three times by changes in government in the past.
People who struggled in pain from a disaster that wiped out a whole family.
People who shed the tears of blood because of being left out in the cold treatment from the rotten royal court.
All of you, get up and open a new world together!
It's a royal order. Right now, arrest all of the officials of the Six Ministries and Three Offices.
Is this it?
I mean, are they all of the traitors that you've planted in the palace?
How did you find out?
I expected there are the traitors in the palace but I wasn't sure completely.
How did you move all of them at the same time?
But,
I was convinced after hearing the sound of bell you struck.
Then... all of them...
What are you doing? Arrest him!
Now, it's over! Yi In Jwa.
I really wished... you'd become a king.
I heard you could read the force of the Heavens and Earths and foresee the future.
You couldn't see my face well.
Where on earth did you see my face and tell me my countenance is to become a king?
Really, do you want to die by my hands?
Can you do that?
Halt!
I saw very well... your traitorous mind in your heart.
Your Majesty. You misunderstood deeply.
What did I do, are you speaking without evidence?
Evidence!
Why? Do you want to give more justification?
King, it's not over, yet.
There will be no interrogation.
Show this traitor's face to all the people and behead him at sunset.
And hang his neck at the place where every person can see it.
Make a seed of treason never take root in the ground again.
Traitor? Is he a traitor?
Aigoo! That-that bastard.
Is this bastard a traitor bastard?
Aigoo! You look very normal but you didn't have anything to do so that's why you did rebellion?
You deserve getting hit to death, bastard!
Just take out his asshole!
Anyhow, his life is on the way to the afterworld.
Even if we destroy him now, that's not enough.
- Is it right? - That's right!
Th-that bastard,
he is the bastard who suck all of the pitiful people's money.
Yi In Jwa.
Baek Dae Gil, it would have been better if you slashed my neck. How do you humiliate me like this?
How do you dare... to this Yi In Jwa?
It must be really humiliating.
However, why do you think His Majesty makes you stand here?
In order to let the rest of traitors confirm
your downfall.
That's how they won't have a traitorous mind again any more.
What and how much in the world do you know?
Clansman Park from Honam Region.
How did you know...
What do you think my father has done until now, leaving his son alone?
What in the world has Baek Man Geum done?
I have known, from the beginning, that Jeong Il Ryang didn't die.
You must have used the drug that temporarily makes the pulse faint.
We left him alone purposely so the cornered rat could go to the rat hole.
He will never be able to set foot in the capital.
Well, let's see after sunset.
I give you all the credit for this.
In the palace, the bloodshed has never ceased.
There isn't much time left to this life.
Since the improvement of sickness is insignificant,
I put in rehmannia glutinosa herb and wolfiporia extensa to strengthen your heart. ( Two medicinal herbs.)
How much time do I have?
Your Majesty. How could you say that?
I have not been sick only for one or two days. I already knew it.
Tell me,
how much time is left.
T...th...
Since his Majesty has originally a weak character,
in the end, he'll hold Crown Prince Yeoning in his arms again.
In truth, he doesn't even have an heir.
He probably doesn't have any alternative...
So he can't cast away Crown Prince Yeoning all the way.
Huh? In this way, is it possible our necks will get cut off as well?
We have to do something before that happens.
Even though the foundation of the royal family and the nation are wavering,
I will never sit still and watch the low-born blood from the water maid ascends to the throne.
Aihee! Let's go.
What happened to Park and Jeong?
Luckily, they diverted themselves.
Will the Great Cause be doomed to failure like this?
Find a hoarse and bring it.
- Your Highness. - Don't worry.
I won't let myself lay low the way they want.
Your Highness! Your Highness!
It's not a poison. However, if in a weak stomach,
you eat the raw Daylily's leaves in the wrong way,
you may lose your life in a serious case.
- I can't die like this. - Your Majesty,
you should lie down more.
I have to see His Majesty.
What happened to those bastards?
Both Park Pil Hyeon and Jeong Hae Ryang might've sensed it, so they had already run way when we got there.
The soldiers will chase us with their eyes wide open.
All of the four major gates are blocked so I'll slip out of here through Mountain Nag.
In fact, it's said the light is weakest at the base of the candle...
Then, be safe.
The execution of Yi In Jwa must be carried out, definitely.
Save me, Your Majesty.
Soron ministers band together and are trying to kill me.
I believe so.
Noron ministers who followed you tried to kill even me, who is the King.
You are only a mere crown prince.
It's enough for them to throw you away.
Please stop them, Your Majesty.
You are only one who can stop the Sorons.
I too
don't have a way which prevents the Sorons from doing that.
Then,
do you mean I am just supposed to be taken in?
I can't die like this.
The wind is cold. Let's get inside the quarters.
How is it?
It's beautiful.
Is it so? For me, it seems sad.
If the sun sets down under the horizon,
it disappears without any trace.
It'll be vain and despondent. (Queen Seonui - King Gyeongjong's second queen)
I am worried about you who will be left alone without an heir.
Your Majesty.
How can you stop the sun from setting down?
You must remain firm in your resolve.
As long as I remain seated on the throne,
I'm the people's.
Making a long-range plan for the royal family and the nation
is also my destiny.
So
Towards you, I'm very...
Sorry.
What are you planning on doing after Yi In Jwa dies?
First, I must see his death and then make a decision.
Search! Search!
Search!
Catch him!
Please go first. I'll block them from behind.
Then, see you again.
You came?
You go ahead.
- Catch him! - Catch him!
My liege!
Over there! It's over there! That way!
Over there! He is running away!
Lend me an arrow.
Yi In Jwa, at the very least, I can't leave you alive.
No matter how much you struggle, at the end, is hell.
Then...
I'll see you in hell, Kim Che Geon.
Halt!
Go to hell at last, Yi In Jwa!
My Lord.
Check the dead body!
Yes!
What happened?
As for Hwang Jin Gi, at the end of the cliff, he chose suicide.
Your Majesty.
For two days...
I heard that you were not able to eat.
Bring it in.
Have you made up your mind?
I will summon the Tasting Court Lady.
No.
Take your leave.
Geum,
I'm sorry.
Forgiveness...
I, your little brother will ask for it.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty!
♪ Longing for you even if the tears well up ♪
♪ I will withstand you. Even if my heart fills up more ♪
♪ Because the words which have not yet been said remain ♪
♪ Because I cannot live a time without you ♪
Like a rat, live forever hidden.
I won't be looked down again because I'm a low-born blood from the water maid.
I don't want to see your face anymore, so I will order a beheading.
- You want us to all leave together?- You'll find out when you get there, Elder.
Are you ready?
Leader Bong took the Cheongju Fortress!
We'll support Prince Milpung, Yi Tan to the throne.
Raising an army as many as 200 thousand...
How can we block so many — .
It's possible. Our goal is we'll hold back Yi In Jwa within 3 days.
Traitor Yi In Jwa and his gangs...
Massacre all of them without leaving even one.