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Hurray!

Hurray!

Episode 72.

General!

Well done.

Our wish finally came true.

We did it!

Well done, everyone.

We couldn't have done it without your courage and sacrifice.

You're the ones who regained the old joseon's land!

Hurray!

Hurray!

We will have a feast to celebrate your victory!

The chiefs of jol-bon will prepare enough wine and meat for everyone!

We have enough wine and meat for everyone.

Help yourselves.

Thank you!

Look how thin you are!

Now that you're with general ju-mong, you'll gain some weight.

Help yourself.

Help yourselves.

- You should have a drink, too. - Sure thing!

This is so sweet!

This is the best wine I've ever tasted!

You should have some too, chief.

Sure, pour me a cup.

Like you said, this is the sweetest wine I've ever tasted.

I hadn't been drunk for a long time

because I've been under too much pressure.

- I want to get drunk tonight. - Yes.

Sure thing!

Drink all you want!

Move!

The chief is here!

You should dance with us!

Father.

Were you crying?

No, no.

Thank you for making me feel so deeply moved.

Father...

The moon is so bright tonight.

I know how much hardship you've endured until now.

If you didn't bring general ju-mong and the da-mul army to jol-bon,

or didn't convince song-Yang and the other chiefs,

or didn't risk your life to go south and trade, we wouldn't be rejoicing today.

Well done.

Although it seems like everything is complete now,

the real war may be just beginning.

You will eventually need to decide who you will embrace and who you will fight.

Unity is more important than war when building goguryeo.

There won't be any serious problems as long as I'm not selfish.

Thank you for giving a former pirate such a great honor.

I will serve you for my entire life.

I will be here for you, as well.

Here! Drink!

Hurray!

We knew that they were going to try using the refugees as shields.

Yes, we did.

Who would have thought that we would be sitting here in hyeon-to drinking?

All we have to do is get ready for a new start for the goguryeo nation.

According to yeon ta-bal, they have already completed new buildings and are ready for the refugees to move in.

We've worked hard to bring about this united land.

From the time I became a buyeo prince to leading you here today, it is all because of your support and the blessings from the heavens.

Without you as comrades, I wouldn't even dream of being here now.

It is an honor for us, as well, general, to have met you and to drink with you now.

Let me pour you a drink!

Throw away all your worries and drink!

Yes, general!

Now that I've drank a glass of wine, I can see mu-deuk's face in front of me.

Mu-deuk...

Who is mu-deuk?

She's my girl!

Wait... it is kind of boring drinking here with just us guys.

Brother, are you thinking of sa-yong?

Hey, isn't sa-yong a boy?

To the rest of us, sa-yong is a guy, but to hyeop-Bo, he is a girl.

How could you laugh like that?

General.

What did you find?

I searched all over hyeon-to, but couldn't find her highness ye soya and Yuri.

I thought prince young-po may have told the truth, but I guess it was a lie.

This is my fault for not bringing lady yoo-hwa and her highness ye soya when I left buyeo.

I should've done everything I could to bring them here.

I want to accept their deaths,

but it's hard for me to let go of Yuri when I've never even met him.

Bu beo-no.

Yes?

What does Yuri look like?

He had clear eyes.

I never met you when you were young, but I'm sure he looked just like you did.

What happened?

Ju-mong killed governor Yang-jeong and took over hyeon-to.

The han army lost?

Yes.

What happened to general heuk-chi and the buyeo army?

General heuk-chi is probably on his way back to buyeo with the remaining troops.

Oh, no...

The hyeon-to army lost?

Yes, governor Yang-jeong is dead.

We don't know if her highness sul-LAN in hyeon-to is alive or not.

Is dae-so okay?

Yes, but most of the buyeo soldiers who went with prince dae-so are dead.

We gained nothing from this war.

Only prince dae-so's prestige was lost.

Now that ju-mong has driven out the hyeon-to army,

no one can stop him from building a new nation.

Ju-mong will now be a king!

Your royal highness! Calm down.

Calm down, your royal highness!

Your highness, stop!

Stand back!

Your highness...

If you don't, I will kill you first.

Burn lady yoo-hwa's tablet!

Burn it!

What are you doing?!

I asked what are you doing?

Everyone go outside.

If you came back alive after abandoning your troops, you should be in remorse.

What are you doing?

She is the mother of ju-mong, who is driving buyeo to destruction.

How can we place her memorial tablet in our divination palace?

I already said I'm going to honor lady yoo-hwa as a queen.

I'll just let you go this time because you did it out of anger for your loss.

If you care about your son, please give me the authority to mobilize the troops.

I will take an army to kill ju-mong while he's celebrating his victory!

I can't.

Your majesty!

Ju-mong even drove the hyeon-to army out!

How are you going to defeat him?

Ju-mong is destined to build a new nation.

Are you saying that you accept the revelation that buyeo will perish?

I can't accept that.

I won't accept that ju-mong will build a new nation.

If the heavens want buyeo to perish, I will fight the heavens.

Don't you know that fighting ju-mong right now will only incur loss?

You know that ju-mong is armed with the iron army!

I'm more afraid of your distrust towards me, than ju-mong's iron army.

Father, why are you so doubtful towards me?

How come you don't believe that I can protect buyeo?

I've done everything I can to receive your approval and to protect buyeo.

But father do not trust my decisions and my abilities.

You're still holding onto ju-mong.

Do you know how miserable that makes me feel?

Don't you know that you're the one who's driving buyeo to destruction

because you're possessed by hae mo-su and lady yoo-hwa's ghosts?

Since father is still still possessed, I will do it.

I will kill ju-mong and save buyeo!

I will not let you challenge my authority any further.

Father!

If you mobilize the troops, I will regard you as a traitor.

You're the one who's hindering buyeo and my future.

I will kill ju-mong and restore the buyeo that you've ruined. That's for sure!

Your majesty!

Your majesty!

Your majesty!

Your majesty!

Your majesty!

This is the place.

The prince is waiting for you. Let's go inside.

Prince!

How did it go?

We've blocked all the passages to jol-bon, but we couldn't find them.

She must've gone to jol-bon if she ran away.

Why can't we find her?

A lot of the han people died during the war.

Maybe she died along with them.

Even our spies said that she's not in jol-bon right now.

What should I do now?

If I can't find ye soya, I can't come up with an excuse for visiting ju-mong.

I'll be framed as a traitor!

Master hwang!

I must go and see master hwang.

I'm sure he can help me.

Master hwang was arrested by the jol-bon army while escaping hyeon-to.

What?

Ju-mong has taken over hyeon-to.

You have nothing to gain from staying here.

Let's go back to buyeo.

Do you think dae-so will let me live?

The only person you can depend on is the queen.

I doubt she'll let prince dae-so kill you.

This is prince young-po.

Get away!

We've been ordered to escort prince young-po.

Who told you to do that?

- Escort him! - Yes.

Let me go!

Your majesty, prince young-po is on his way.

Mother.

Did you find an excuse to convince everyone that you're not a traitor?

Why did you come back without a plan?

Dae-so has his soldiers looking for you!

Mother, please save me.

Mother, you're the only one who can help me!

Leave buyeo.

Mother...

That's the only way you can live.

Where do you expect me to go?

I don't know.

Just go anywhere to escape dae-so's wrath.

You fool...

Why did you bring this disaster upon yourself by coveting what you can't have?

Dae-so should take on the throne.

Why did you covet the throne?

What are you going to do now that dae-so is angry?

Mother...

Get out.

The only person you cared about is dae-so.

Mother never cared for me!

Fine, I'll leave.

I have no one to depend on in buyeo.

I don't have a reason to stay here.

Young-po...

Prince...

Let's go.

Where?

I don't know.

But we have to get out of buyeo.

What?

Did you find anything out?

Yes.

Her highness sul-LAN is locked up in a chamber in hyeon-to.

She's locked up, but she's being treated with respect as the buyeo crown Princess.

Your royal highness, why don't you send an envoy and ask for her highness back?

Shut up!

Are you telling me to beg ju-mong?

I can't do that.

Isn't there a way to find out what happened to the war?

I feel like I'm going crazy being locked up here.

They're not doing anything to us after locking us up.

I think it's because the han is winning this war.

I'm sure you'll soon hear good news.

Come outside!

Name!

Yu so-mun.

What's your title?

I don't hold an office.

I'm only here in hyeon-to for business.

Next.

Hwang ja-kyung!

Minister, this is hwang ja-kyung, and he's related to the han prime minister.

Hyeon-to, as well as the vast young-chun land now belongs to jol-bon.

Young-chun is where my father, hae mo-su, formed the da-mul army

and fought against the han.

This land is filled with the blood of the da-mul army.

The problem is that most of the people in hyeon-to are the han people from yo-dong.

Most of them managed to escape to liaodong, but many are still in hyeon-to.

You must decide what to do with them.

Do you think they'll accept you as their leader?

You must kill them so they won't cause trouble later.

They are good citizens.

If they want to stay in hyeon-to, I must let them.

Find out how many good citizens are still in hyeon-to.

Yes.

General, we have a problem.

What's the matter?

The refugees took a han aristocrat named hwang ja-kyung to kill him.

When the refugees learned that he's related to the han prime minister,

they became furious.

His uncle, hwang dae-chun, the prime minster, is the man

who massacred the refugees who were forced to go to Chang'an.

Calm down, everyone!

If you don't calm down, we'll have to force you to calm down!

Don't mind us! Step away!

Tie him!

We won't kill you right away.

It'll be a long and painful death, like what you did to us refugees.

Step away!

We couldn't stop the angry refugees.

Forgive us.

I know how angry you are towards the han, but please calm down.

We would all be dead by now if it wasn't for you, but we can't obey you this time.

We don't need riches or prizes.

We just want his head!

My wife was raped by the han before she was killed.

I want to kill him to take revenge for my wife!

His name is hwang ja-kyung.

His uncle is the prime minister of the han.

He even visited buyeo as the han emperor's envoy.

Kill me... Kill me now.

I could kill you right now, but I won't.

General!

You must kill him!

Kill him!

The joseon refugees are still imprisoned and are laboring everywhere in han.

If we kill our prisoners, the refugees cannot make it back alive.

I'm going to demand the joseon refugees back

in exchange for these prisoners.

But if you don't want that, I won't force it upon you.

It is up to you to decide whether you'll take revenge on the han

by killing these prisoners or save the refugees.

We were wrong.

We will do as you say.

Take her outside.

What happened to the war?

Must you ask?

Governor Yang-jeong is dead and the han army lost.

It's now your turn to die.

- Take her away! - Yes.

Governor Yang-jeong's corpse was handled in respect as our enemy's leader.

I don't have any intentions on bartering your life with buyeo.

Take his corpse and go back to buyeo.

Do you think you'll be safe after standing against the han?

Our emperor in Chang'an and his royal highness will avenge my father's death.

Shut up!

I would kill you right here if I could.

General! Why don't we just keep her as hostage?

He married her only because he wanted the han's help.

Now that the hyeon-to governor's dead, she's not worth anything to buyeo.

You wretch!

Calm down.

Buyeo isn't doing anything to get you back.

You've been abandoned.

That's reality.

We must settle this prisoner exchange matter fast

if we want to speed up building goguryeo.

Have you decided who you want to send as an envoy?

The envoy would have to put his life on the line.

I haven't decided yet.

I'll go.

I will go to Chang'an as jol-bon's envoy.

I can't let you go.

Give me a chance to do something important for goguryeo.

My experience and wisdom will be of use when dealing with the cunning the han.

Father.

Don't worry.

I will settle the matters of the past.

You can settle the matters in hyeon-to and work on building goguryeo.

Very well.

The ministers of the left and the right will assist you.

We are going to need a new plan for jol-bon.

Oh-yi and mu-gol, I need you two to be on the look-out for the hyeon-to army to return.

Yes.

I don't think all of us should stay in hyeon-to.

The han army or the buyeo army could return at anytime.

So seo-no is right.

We need to train the people to become soliders and to be able to fight.

Yes.

Mo pal-mo.

Yes, general.

We are expecting 2,000 soliders to join us from hyeon-to.

2,000?

How long would it take to outfit 2,000 hyeon-to soliders with iron uniforms?

Even if we worked day and night, it would take at least a year.

Please work as fast as possible.

I understand.

Right now yeon ta-bal is risking his life by going to the han on behalf of the da-mul army.

In order to not waste his effort, we need to work hard to do our part here.

Yes.

Your majesty!

Your majesty!

How can you let him get sick like this?!

Forgive me.

Does anyone else know that his majesty is in critical condition?

Just priestess ma oo-ryeong, the royal physician and me.

Prince dae-so will bring up the abdication issue again.

Make sure priestess ma oo-ryeong and the royal physician don't say anything about this.

I think his majesty is in critical condition.

The prime minster and the royal physician are always at his chamber.

Maybe they're hiding him because he really is in critical condition?

That shows how much father doesn't trust me.

He's hiding his sickness from me.

He should give the crown to you.

Do you think he'll abdicate from the throne?

I have to be the king if I want to defeat ju-mong.

That won't be easy as long as the prime minister is behind his majesty.

If the prime minster stands in my way, I must kill him.

We're not in a hurry.

You will eventually be the next king of buyeo.

Be more prudent.

Ju-mong is getting stronger day by day!

How long must I wait?

Your royal highness...

What's the matter?

Her highness sul-LAN is back!

My lady.

Your royal highness...

I'm glad you're back alive.

I was so worried about you because I didn't know if you were alive or not.

Your majesty...

Ju-mong brought unbearable humiliation upon me.

Your royal highness must avenge my father's death.

His majesty has accepted the fact that ju-mong will build a new nation.

You must convince his majesty to raise an army!

His majesty won't change his mind.

Although the prime minister and the royal physician is hiding it from me,

I know that his majesty is very sick.

He's always been sick!

I want revenge.

I can't wait until his majesty dies.

I'm willing to do anything if you can take the throne.

Hao-chen.

Yes, your highness.

Find a trustworthy doctor from the palace for me.

Are you sick?

No, I'm going to do what his royal highness can't.

Jeon-bul.

Yes, commander.

Find out who the doctor hao-chen is with right now.

Yes.

My name is du mari-Yang.

I heard that you're very talented,

but you can't be the royal physician because you're from a low birth.

I will entrust you with an important assignment.

If you do as I say,

you will do a great service to help his royal highness dae-so take the throne.

Then you can be the royal physician.

Will you do it?

I'll do it.

You'll have to risk your life.

Will you still do it?

Yes.

This is the feathered poison I brought from Chang'an.

I heard that you can't tell if a medicine is poisoned or not with this in it.

If a person takes that medicine, his body will slowly be paralyzed until death.

Put this in his majesty's medicine.

But...

If you decline, I have no choice but to kill you.

Do you want to die?

General.

What's wrong?

Yes, mari has returned from Chang'an.

How was it?

What happened with my father?

Yes, yeon ta-bal was victorious.

The han has agreed to exchange prisioners of war.

Yeon ta-bal is in the fortress with the refugees.

If we send them their people, then they will release the refugees.

Congratulations. General, once again, you are victorious against the han.

Until yeon ta-bal returns, we can't let our guard down.

Oh-yi and mu-gol, get the han prisioners and send them back.

Yes.

Be careful.

These are the people that will get our people back, so be careful.

I will remember you.

I am hwang ja-kyung.

Tell the han prince that this land belonged to joseon long before the han ever existed.

Until the last day of my life, I will fight to defeat and restore this nation.

Take them away!

Yes.

Chan-soo.

Yes, mother.

Please listen carefully to what I'm going to say.

Our jol-bon army went to hyeon-to, so we are gaining power for goguryeo.

Who will be the leader of goguryeo?

Who?

Uh... wouldn't it be general ju-mong?

The new leader of goguryeo shouldn't be general ju-mong or from the da-mul army. The ruler should come from gyehru.

I realize that we haven't done anything to get to this point,

but it is time to restore our authority.

We have to keep doing our part in this process. Without us, general ju-mong won't be successful either.

Ok... so what do we do?

I will meet with song-Yang and the other leaders and talk to them.

The next queen of goguryeo, should be so seo-no.

Of course, so seo-no has to be the next queen so that her children can be in line for the throne. Good idea.

General!

The negotiation was a success.

The refugees are coming to hyeon-to right now.

Well done.

Your determination to save the refugees has made this possible.

You have saved the refugees.

This is general ju-mong!

Get up, everyone.

Get up.

Get up.

No! You're our hero!

I owe my life to you!

You are now the masters of hyeon-to.

Hyeon-to will now be called by its old name deok-cheon.

I will help you settle in deok-cheon.

Thank you!

Chief.

Chan-soo is here.

Come in.

Welcome.

How are things in gyehru?

Yes, the people are excited because we defeated the hyeon-to army.

I thought so, too.

I have a question.

What is it?

Now that we've settled the prisoner exchange issue,

it's time to announce the founding of goguryeo.

Who's the king of goguryeo?

That's what I wanted to ask you, too.

I already promised general ju-mong that I'll serve him as the king of goguryeo.

No.

You need to be the queen of the new nation.

General.

What's the matter?

This old man is a refugee who used to be forced to labor in Chang'an.

I brought him because he wanted to talk to you.

Have a seat.

What did you want to talk to me about?

I know where the bronze mirror, a symbol of the old joseon king, is hidden.

I was a historiographer who studied the joseon writing system.

The han people tried to steal the bronze mirror,

but we historiographers hid it to defend it with our lives.

The bronze mirror is a sacred treasure of the old joseon.

Where is it?

It's inside an underground library in hyeon-to.

The entire history of the old joseon is recorded here.

Where is the sacred bronze mirror?

This is the old joseon's alphabet.

This is the cheonbugyeong honored by the joseon kings.

The universe has began without a beginning.

Even if it's divided into heaven, earth, and man, the essence is the same.

Although heaven, earth, and man are different in form,

they have the same nature.

Although heaven is full of spirit,

because there is no box to contain it, heaven becomes man.

When the three absolutes move in Harmony, energy is created, covering all the materials and the spirit for the man.

Although the use of all creation may change,

the basic mind is originally the bright light.

Shine on man with respect for it is the best of the universe.

Dear gods of heaven and earth, I'm here to tell you

that I have collected all the sacred treasures of joseon.

The refugees of jol-bon and joseon have defeated the han army.

We present these treasures to you.

Dear kings of joseon, please look after the people of jol-bon.

You will see your father very soon

without keru's financial support...

And the help of chief soseono

how can we ever unite cholbon...

And repel the hyeon to army'?

Sayong

tian court minister

we have to prevent a break-up...

And unite both forces...

To promote a new king

ls there a way?

Once captain has announced the founding of goguryeo.

I will organise a merchant band...

For a long haul business trip

mother

will you marry me?