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- KING GEUNCHOGO -
- Previously on KING GEUNCHOGO -
Goguryeo's crown prince is Yuri.
I shall fulfill your wish and leave this entire Goguryeo to you.
18 BC.
Soseono parts ways with Jumong,
and begins her southward advance with sons Biryu and Onjo,
founding Baekje along the Ungni River's banks.
Let us build our country here.
We will call our nation Balkji.
360 years later, on 341,
Baekje is under King Biryu's reign,
preparing a covenant meeting to negotiate...
possession of the old Daifang territory with Goguryeo.
Your Majesty.
Who does the Daifang territory belong to?
To Your Majesty!
Indeed!
It belongs to me, Biryu!
King Gogukwon of Goguryeo, with no intention of sharing the Daifang territory,
plots to kill King Biryu instead.
Slaying Biryu.
Internal strife over succession rights had been engulfing Baekje politics.
King Goyi's descendant Buyeo Jun was only hoping Goguryeo...
would rid him of Biryu, descendant of King Chogo.
Summon Yeogu instead.
Yeogu must be eliminated at all cost.
Believing that the only way to maintain stability was for...
his eldest son to inherit the throne,
King Biryu banishes his third son Yeogu,
despite the fact he was much more suitable than his older brother, Crown Prince Yeochan.
You are hereby banished from Hanseong and Baekje territory.
I, Yeogu!
Am your son!
Father...
The covenant meeting between Baekje and Goguryeo finally begins,
and upon discovering Goguryeo's complot to kill his father,
Yeogu runs to his rescue.
Sire!
You knave!
How dare you defy my orders?
Escort His Majesty and go!
Now!
Sire!
Father!
Sire!!
- Episode 3 -
He must be slain.
Biryu...
must die.
Here... Go.
Do it, now!
I cannot leave you here to die.
Leave with Gu, I shall remain here.
Yeohwi will escort me.
Here.
Payoon.
I leave him to your care.
Trail them!
Biryu shan't get out of here alive!
Go!
Salt trader, you knave. How dare you do it again?
Salt trader, you will pay. Let's go!
I have wanted to slay you from the very first moment we met!
What was Lord Wirye thinking?
Why did he order all those Wirye Palace troops to take up arms?
Didn't Prince Yeogu say His Majesty was in peril?
We must be prepared for anything.
Give us your orders.
Prepare to stage an insurrection.
The crown prince is watching our every move.
If Biryu escapes with his life, we shall not act.
However,
should this meeting prove fatal to him,
then we shall slaughter the crown prince, deploy troops...
and immediately gain control of Hanseong.
Your wish is our command.
Your wish is our command!
Didn't I tell you His Majesty is in peril?
You woeful poltroons!
Fine.
Troops of Saori Fortress, follow me!
- Protect His Highness! - Yes.
Cavalry, follow me!
That damned salt trader squandered our time.
Trail them!
Biryu shan't be allowed to escape alive!
Let's go... Go!
Let's go!
Trail them!
You must survive, Gu!
You must come back at all cost!
You must, Gu!
Guards, follow me!!
Leave at once!
This is my fight.
Whatever anyone might say,
providence will one day bestow Baekje's crown upon you.
Uncle!
Think of your mother.
How much more suffering will Her Highness have to go through because of you?
I have been blessed by providence for far too long to worry about myself!
Go!
Fine...
If I have to witness Your Highness' demise,
I shall rather take my own life!
I, Yeogu...
shall forever owe you my life.
You malevolent scalawags!
Where are you trying to go?
I see you still have great talent for hyperbole.
I never imagined we would both perish on the same day at the same time.
Same goes for me.
Providence and her lamentable caprices...
Don't be so heedless.
His Excellency the Councilor is in peril.
His Highness' great endeavor comes first.
If we could only fulfill his grandiose vision, I shall gleefully pledge my life.
That is the fate bestowed upon every subject of Wirye Palace.
Yours, mine,
and even my father's.
Sire!
Father.
Jinseung is here.
And Biryu?
He escaped towards Horo River.
Are you telling me Biryu is still alive?
Is providence truly forsaking me?
Or does it refuse to give me a chance?
But before he could escape, he was pierced by an arrow.
Should that wound be serious enough,
providence might still bless you.
Let us await Biryu's next move.
Go to Yeohwa.
Yes, Father.
- Gomori Fortress, Goguryeo -
So you only managed to capture two paltry councilors?
As His Majesty said, the heavens bestow protection upon the throne.
If providence came to Biryu's rescue,
why blame it on us mortals?
May you punish your humble servant!
Before that, behead those varlets,
and send their pates back to Baekje.
Your Excellency.
They are not as paltry as you think.
One leads the Hae clan, backing Wirye Palace,
and is not the other the head of the Jin clan so close to King Biryu?
Escorting them to Pyeongyang Fortress would be advisable.
Sire!
May you behead this miserable varlet!
I might gibbet your pate at will,
but is not war what should concern us at the moment?
Sire!
Here...
Your Highness.
Your Highness!
Payoon.
Your Highness.
His Majesty?
He safely left via the Horo River.
What did you come back for?
What else?
Varlets should always perish next to their keeper.
Ahh.... Take them off. Help him out as well.
Do I have to prance around half-naked waiting for Goguryeo varmints to come kill us?
It's the Mohe.
How did you find out?
That gaze of his...
You could see the raging fire in his eyes from miles away.
Mohe chieftain Fu Gantai...
A man amongst men, a warrior amongst warriors.
Your repute reached as far and wide as Liaoxi,
so why are you groveling at Sayu's feet?
For the only way a powerless tribe like ours can survive...
is by committing such ignoble and heinous acts.
Can't you allow us passage through your territory?
As Your Highness suggested, I "grovel at Goguryeo's feet."
Should I not bring you to the Goguryeo ruler and help the Mohe survive?
Geom!
Send the order.
Bringing you to safety comes first, Father.
So you plan to bring benefit to Sayu by squandering all this time?
Send the order at once!
Your wish is my command, Sire.
[*Ilwol Sword: symbol granting military authority]
It is Chogo the Great's sword*.
Bring it to the crown prince,
and order him to lead this war firsthand.
Yes, Sire.
- Willow Bay, Daifang -
Behold!
This is His Majesty's sword!
Let us go!
Let us subjugate Gomori Fortress, march for South Pyeongyang,
rescue our councilors taken prisoner,
behead Sayu's spurious pate for daring to inveigle Baekje,
and bestow it upon His Majesty!
- Hanseong Royal Palace -
It must be finely ground.
I cannot allow this.
How can you subject such a young boy to exile in Liaoxi?
- Buyeo Gu -
I want to live with Mother.
Your Highness.
Defying His Majesty's orders would bring no benefit to Yeogu.
Father...
Do not forsake me.
I shall become a good son to you.
I do not want to live as a salt trader.
Board that ship.
Father!
Father, do not abandon me! Father!!
Father... Father! Father!!
Are the throes so hard to bear?
Gu...
Yeogu...
So Father did not truly resent Yeogu, after all.
Have you forgotten whom we're dealing with?
He still is the nephew of your father's closest confidant, Jinjeong.
And son of his consort, another prominent member of the Jin clan.
Could he possibly foment ill-will against him?
So we averted a terrible quandary....
Yeogu managed to rescue Father without deploying any troops,
so Yeochan almost risked being deprived of his heir status.
Not to mention the fact you would have never become Queen Dowager.
You little...
Yeogu already met his demise, anyway.
Indeed, indeed he did.
Perishing at the hands of Goguryeo instead of being killed by the crown prince...
will only bring him great honor.
- Swedulle, Mohe Territory -
Uncle sacrificed himself in vain.
- Wirye Palace -
You!
Before your keeper eats them? I ought to tear out that wretched tongue!
I would need a dozen tongues by now.
Then, shall I cut your spurious little hands instead?
Give it a rest.
You'll sputter all over his food.
Mother.
What brings you here?
Were you sent here for the supplies?
What are you hesitating for?
Lord Heukgang took the arrow out by himself.
It means His Majesty's conditions are serious enough...
not to risk letting physicians learn of it.
I am asking you why you didn't seek audience with Her Majesty.
Prince Yeogu has suffered enough distress.
As if being subjected to life as a salt trader because of political intrigue were not enough,
now we don't even know whether he's dead or alive,
must we really do this?
It's what our father wishes.
I still want no part of it.
You...
You're not telling me it's because you have feelings for Yeogu?!
Knowing how much your father cherishes you,
how could you have feelings for Biryu's son?
I merely said I feel pity for him.
I will not bring harm to Yeogu.
If there is anyone you should feel pity for, that is our father!
Do you even know what he told us?
That after Biryu took away the throne from him,
he wanted to pry his heart out in repentance and end his life!
It is fresh as the morning dew.
I was told eggplants can soothe an ailing stomach.
I thought it could bring some solace to His Majesty.
Thank you.
Your Majesty.
Will you just abandon the councilor to his fate in Pyeongyang?
Kindred as we may be, we are at war.
When the stakes are this high,
does a councilor's life matter more than a soldier on the battlefield?
You really think this misfortune was solely caused by Goguryeo?
Did Lord Wirye have another explanation in mind?
Princess.
It is likely the Jin clan conspired with Goguryeo, in his humble estimation.
- South Pyeongyang Fortress Prisons, Goguryeo -
My... What frivolous conjecture!
My father would never engage in frivolous parlance.
Or else, shrewd and nimble as you are,
should I blame those gracious lips of yours for all this?
Prince Yeogu...
appeared just at the right time.
The Jin have always been His Majesty's closest confidants.
Whatever one might say about them,
Her Highness is still Councilor Jinjeong's sister,
and Yeogu is his nephew.
Did you believe the clouds of senescence already engulfed these quarters,
to squander my time reciting genealogy I am perfectly aware of?
What support can His Highness the Crown Prince benefit from?
Regrettably for him, His Highness' clan happens to be the same...
Hae who His Majesty despises, and whom the Jin cannot live under the same sky with.
Stop it.
For the very day His Highness ascends to the throne,
Councilor Jin will certainly have to fear for his clan's future.
I am sure he must have wished for Prince Yeogu to inherit the throne in his stead.
Yeogu...
is dead.
Is that so?
How could he survive that?
Has Your Majesty witnessed his demise firsthand?
Have you verified that he truly perished?
Your concern for His Majesty's wellbeing is most appreciated,
so you may take your leave now.
You must return.
You should not so easily utter such words to a man.
It will only confuse him into thinking you might actually be infatuated with him.
It might not have been the most dignified way to do it,
but I was glad to meet you again.
[*aka Orabeoni, archaic form of Oppa (older brother/friend)]
Where are you, Orabani*?
I committed sins against you that even time shall never wash away.
So you must survive at all cost.
However,
do not return to me.
For if you do, demise shall await you.
For you will be ensnared in the trap I myself created,
and meet your demise.
Mother.
Were you looking for me?
Take this path and seek audience with the crown prince.
Convey my words to His Highness,
and ascertain whether Yeogu is alive or dead.
- Moro Fortress, Daifang (Goguryeo) -
- Gomori Fortress, Daifang (Goguryeo) -
We only have a thousand men, while the Baekje minions have an army of ten thousand.
They must have reinforcements in Saori Fortress as well,
so the numbers are against us.
Are you already conceding defeat?
Is that what a Goguryeo chief marshal should utter at this juncture?
Ever tried to make cakes without flour?
What would Zhuge Liang do with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei alone...
You cannot fight a war without soldiers.
Another defeat?
We lost three fortresses to those Baekje vermin?
That noise!
Will amusing yourself with walnuts help us reclaim the lost Daifang territory?
And should I stop amusing myself,
would it perchance help you regain those lands?
From time immemorial, no land has ever had keepers.
One possesses it, the other takes it away from him.
But the last banner to grace that soil shan't belong to Biryu,
it will belong to Goguryeo's ruler.
To me, Sayu.
Summon General Gonoja from Modigol.
And how about the Yan?
If you summon him away from Modigol,
will Murong Huang let this opportunity slip through his fingers?
I told you to summon Gonoja.
- Hanseong Royal Palace, Baekje -
Along with Yeohwi and Chief Marshal Jingodo,
the crown prince subjugated Moro Fortress, so only Gomori Fortress is left now.
Yes...
Isn't the crown prince remarkable?
Such grandiose achievements on his first battle.
Once Gomori Fortress falls, may you send someone to Swedulle.
Are you suggesting we should make the Mohe pay for inveigling His Majesty?
Or is it just a tentative by Your Highness to interfere with war matters?
How could I ever foment any ulterior motive?
It is just that...
If I could only learn whether my son Yeogu is still alive...
Or if he is dead, I would like to at least grant him a dignified burial.
Leave Her Highness and me alone.
Let painful throes swelter one's soul, and the wounds will pierce even deeper.
May you forgive me.
Do you resent me?
Whom I resent is not you, it is me.
Why did this Jinsaha allow a man named Gutae to capture her heart?
Why did she become a royal consort?
Why was she born as a member of the Jin clan...
Why did my companion's pate have to be bedecked by that crown?
And why did he have to live up to its exacting legacy like the great ruler that he is?
Why did the loving care of a father...
pale in comparison with the mandate of heaven he was so fatefully bestowed,
and engulf my beloved son's existence in clouds of misfortune?
Why...
did I give birth to Yeogu?
Why...
could I not protect my poor child?
Saha...
- Swedulle, Fu Gantai's Quarters -
Goguryeo promised us Saori Fortress,
in exchange for helping them slay Biryu.
It is to be expected from someone like Sayu.
How manly of him.
If I escort you back to Hanseong, what will Your Highness give the Mohe?
No matter what dire straits the Mohe might be facing,
could you be so incognizant when it comes to intelligence?
Are you trying to belittle me?
I am no prince,
for I spend my days as a salt trader.
I was forsaken by my father,
so the only thing awaiting me in Hanseong would be a gibbet for my treacherous pate.
That is...
That is quite possible indeed.
Don't you know that better than anyone?
The vile stench envenoming those kingly walls and the world of politics.
So what could I possibly give you in return?
Half of Daifang territory fell into Baekje's hands.
You have taken the wrong path.
A crimson tide awaits the Mohe.
What is our best option?
Back when Sayu tried to coerce you,
either perishing right there, or escaping immediately.
It serves no purpose to deride my past mistakes!
A strategy to avert that crimson tide is what I am asking you.
Meritorious service on the battlefield.
Washing away the affront of piercing His Majesty's heart with an arrow shan't be easy,
but it surely can be the only way the Mohe will gain survival.
What on earth is that?
Why always carry that silken lace with you?
Might just be a lucky charm.
- Gomori Fortress (Daifang, Goguryeo) -
How could you summon troops away from Modigol?
It is out of the question.
It is unfeasible, Sire!
Is it?
- Go Noja (Mangniji) -
We did have a fierce confrontation with the Yan in Gye Fortress,
but should we remove troops from Modigol,
Murong Huang would not hesitate to press forward.
We shall mobilize those troops.
Sire!
You always considered the northern border with the Yan to be paramount, Sire!
So suddenly changing your policy is not advisable.
Before I deal with Murong Huang,
taming Biryu's contumelious disdain is more pressing!
Before the Yan are subjugated,
we shall make Baekje pay for their supercilious swagger!
May you retract your orders, Sire!
Are you varmints so foolishly brave as to defy your king?
The year 337.
The Xianbei tribes embroiled in a territorial conflict with Goguryeo find prominence,
and eventually found the Yan dynasty,
[*akin to declaring their independence from any vassalage status vis-a-vis Goguryeo]
with their ruler Murong Huang proclaiming himself as emperor*.
The war between Yan and Goguryeo over the Liaodong territory keeps raging,
until the year 342,
when the tomb of King Gogukwon's father and former ruler Micheon is seized by the Yan,
while Queen Mother Lady Ju is taken prisoner.
With Baekje launching a campaign against Goguryeo to...
reclaim the old Daifang territory,
Goguryeo experiences the greatest crisis since its foundation.
Stop there!
So now Baekje spies have infiltrated us all the way to Pyeongyang Fortress?!
I cannot believe it...
Convey it to Councilor Hae's son.
- Your Excellency. - Most propitious tidings.
Councilor Jinjeong wishes for Yeogu to inherit the throne.
If the Jin fight with the current crown prince over succession rights,
would it not be propitious for Goguryeo?
Father.
I answered your summoning.
Come on in.
Lord Heukgang personally removed the arrow?
That old cur is not even a physician...
Demise is looming around Biryu's quarters.
According to a court lady, the left side of his chest was pierced,
so it might have injured his lungs.
Be it lungs, heart or whatever it might be,
it is clear that his conditions are serious.
It's Haegeon.
It was sent by my father.
Councilor Hae?
Let us head to Gomori.
I must seek audience with Yeochan.
This is the perfect opportunity to rid ourselves of the Jin!
Even if that arrow does not spell demise for Biryu,
hearing about this certainly will.
The great endeavors of a lifetime...
shall all crumble at the hands of his crown prince.
So providence has indeed decided to bless us!
- Moro Fortress (Daifang, Goguryeo) -
Is a frontal siege the only way to gain control of Gomori Fortress?
That is indeed the case.
And in siege warfare, you always need ten times the numbers...
of those protecting the fortress.
Then it means deploying our entire army...
Gochisu is not to be underestimated.
San.
What brings you here?
Have His Majesty's conditions worsened?
I just thought I would enjoy a saunter and join such jovial parley.
I cannot believe it.
Believe it or not, that is solely up to you.
Of all people, how could the Jin conspire with Goguryeo to assassinate Father?
Mother is certainly mistaken.
Do you despise her that much?
It is something I had wanted to ask you for a long time.
If you only came here to utter such preposterous palaver,
I suggest you take your leave and tend to our father instead.
So I guess it is not Mother that you dislike,
but our entire Hae clan?
Afraid Father might not acknowledge you because of them,
you take every opportunity to slight them, every single one!
But I would not so blindly trust him, If I were you.
He was frantically calling for Yeogu's name on his royal berth.
Like her or not, you spent ten months inside her womb.
His Majesty was not the one who gave birth to you.
Yeogu!!
Yeogu is dead.
Ohh... Well, if that is indeed the case,
it would certainly bring solace and comfort to you and Mother,
but let us suppose he did survive.
You would have to slay him.
Would you be capable of that?
Who's there?
It is me, Geom. Bokgu Geom.
Yeogu.
Gu!
It's you!
Hyungnim.
Let me have a look.
Any injuries?
I should have not left you behind like that.
How could I dare exchange my life with that of a commander?
Because of the territory they live in,
the Mohe often use kites.
Should I spot Fu Gantai, I will slay him firsthand.
How could a weak tribe forsake Goguryeo and fulfill the mandate of heaven?
Let them atone for what they did to His Majesty with this Gomori Fortress battle.
Let us meet with Yeochan.
Think of how elated he will be to learn you're alive.
I merely took a brief digression away from my exile to Liaoxi.
Could anything have possibly changed?
I shall only await until the gates of Gomori Fortress are open.
I owe my life to Fu Gantai,
so I must remain behind and take this to the end.
You saved Father's life,
so he shall forgive you once and for all.
It is not what I want.
My being alive itself can only bring Baekje misfortune.
Did you not hear Chief Marshal Jingodo's orders?
Why did you leave Saori Fortress unattended and came all the way here?
Our country's future may depend upon this,
how could I not come?
What is that supposed to mean?
Particularly as we are fulfilling His Majesty's grandiose vision.
My father risked his life in Pyeongyang Fortress to convey you this.
See?
It is right as Mother said!
Apprehend Jingodo at once!
Yes!
What are you doing?
Apprehending a Chief Marshal during wartime?
And think we would, unless something truly forced us to?
Following His Highness the Crown Prince's orders,
Jingodo is hereby deprived of his chief marshal rank.
- Apprehend him. - Yes.
Let go!
I shall follow you on my own,
so allow me audience with the crown prince.
Who, someone who devised a treacherous complot?
How brave of you.
- I said apprehend him! - Yes!
There has been a grave misunderstanding.
Something is wrong here.
Have you forgotten who His Highness is?
He can only cater to the Hae clan's needs.
With His Majesty bedridden by malady,
they will take this opportunity to rid themselves of all the Jin clan.
You knave, shut that gob at once!
I shall meet Yeochan.
I will.
It would be wise not to go there now.
What did I tell you?
That my very survival can only bring Baekje harm.
I will meet him firsthand.
Yeogu, how dare you...
So you survived.
What did you just do?
Is haughty disdain what you survived for?
Did you conspire with those Jin knaves to murder the king and oust me,
to ultimately usurp the throne and become our next ruler?
Hyungnim!!
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Summon Yeogu.
If he comes, I shall give him a chance to survive.
If he doesn't, Jinseung shall die.
I wanted to become a good father,
have plenty of children, and grant them a world with no discrimination.
You will have to join the Goguryeo ruler in conjugal ties.
I shall send Yeohwa to Sayu.
We briefly shared the same dream, but our paths are different.
Allow me to see His Majesty!
Shut that vile gob of yours!
Bring me my armor.
- Biryu is coming! - My armor!
Biryu is alive, and heading this way.
There is no safe path.
Should the first unit be defeated,
deploy the second and third.
The first unit is made of Baekje soldiers as well.
The next king of Baekje must be Prince Yeogu.
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