Post by ajk on Jul 1, 2008 15:08:12 GMT -5
"Bring the royal prince back?" Shim On doesn't understand, and neither do we. Auri says, "I want to give him the gift of the throne." And she flashes that confident, manipulative look again. Not a clue what this all means.
Yi Chun presents his military uniform to Choongnyeong, at prime minister Yu's instruction. He's to serve the military as a commoner from now on. Then Yu asks the prince for some advice. Yi, he says, was punished for following an order. So "What are we to do with the man who gave him the order?"
Minister Hwang is before the crown prince: "You can't cover up something this obvious. Go to the king at once and confess the truth. Tell him everything and seek his forgiveness." But Yangnyeong doesn't even acknowledge that his Liaodong plan is the truth.
Choongnyeong tells PM Yu, "Do not punish him. No one can punish the crown prince." This irritates Yu, who tells him that "A man who can't think beyond his desire to protect his own brother is not kingly material." Very well, Yu continues, "How should I cover this up?" Should I lie and blame it all on Yi alone? No, the prince says, that's not what I meant. "The only person who can punish the crown prince is the crown prince himself. Give him a chance to reflect and admit his mistakes. Only then will he pay heed to the council of his royal retainers like you when he rises to the throne."
Yuh Hwe, who was there for Choongnyeong's discussion with PM Yu, tells the prince that there's no way Yangnyeong will admit his mistake. He's willing to bet one of his fancy writing brushes on it.
Yangnyeong, replying to Hwang, tells him, Let's assume it's all true; do you really think the king would forgive such a thing? Hwang tells him that what's important is "whether you admit your errors and atone for them." But Yangnyeong lies to the minister point-blank: "The information you have is false." Hwang wants to believe him, but his doubts are obvious. So Yangnyeong tells him with audacity, "If you don't believe me, you have only one option. Go to the king. I dare you to tell him what you know and get me thrown out of the palace." Hwang leaves, walking slowly and once again weighted down by an enormous decision to make. Back inside, Yangnyeong wonders, "Who is it. Which bastard opened his big mouth?"
Auri is explaining her situation to Shim On. "I am the crown prince's woman. And I’m the former deputy security councilor Gwok Sun's concubine as well. Yangnyeong wants me to leave the noble lord and become his one and only lover." Then she gets down to business: "I thought perhaps I could make a deal with you. I want you to expose the crown prince's illicit affair." Shim doesn't even know how to react to this. She continues, "Our future king is having an affair with a high lord's concubine...How can we put this inferior reprobate on the throne?" This makes Shim angry and he cautions her. Then he asks her, What do you expect to gain from this? She answers, "The crown prince's deposal." Baffled, Shim points out to her that "You'll go down with him" if he falls. She tells him, That's why I want to make a deal. Choongnyeong will succeed Yangnyeong if he falls and this will "make me his (Choongnyeong's) number one merit subject." (This is a strange statement.) Then she tells him what she wants: Just my life to be protected, she says, and it would also be nice if I could get "a small house" so that I can make a home for the crown prince. What was that last part? "I want the crown prince for myself. I'm tired of having only half of him." (There it is--now we know that she really has fallen for him.)
The king surprises Hwang with a visit at his office. "Why are you still in the palace at this late hour?" "Well, I...." Hwang isn't about to tell him what he's wrestling with, at least not yet. Taejong asks him, "Are you afraid as well? Are you as afraid as I am about the investigator coming back?" He continues, "I didn't send the investigator because of Choongnyeong. Choongnyeong is incapable of treason against me. Even if he's been grinding his teeth with vexation the past few years. To seize the crown for himself, he would not resort to violence. Besides, Gang Sangin conspiring against me...." He tails off and starts to smile, the very idea being beyond absurd to him. "No, I sent the investigator because of the crown prince. The fact that he was the one who deployed the artillery army, that's what made me suspicious. I needed to make sure the crown prince has nothing to do with what is happening in Hamgildo (northern province). The crown prince has nothing to do with this. Right?" Incredibly, Hwang steels himself and lies to the king's face: "I am certain, your majesty."
Yangnyeong confronts his supporters: "Is it you, father-in-law? Or is it you, minister of military?" They don't understand. He angrily tells them, "I told you not to tell minister Hwang anything! Are you sure none of you said anything to him?" "We don't have nine lives," says Yi Sookbun, with no sarcasm whatsoever. "How could we?" Then, privately, Gim Hanlo advises the prince, "Try not to be so anxious." They haven't received the expected signal from the north yet, but it's a long way away so maybe there's just been a delay. "Have faith in your men and relax."
"I'll wait to hear good news from you," Auri tells Shim. She bows as he steps onto his palanquin and is carried off. She turns, and just then the crown princess walks up to her. Inside, they sit. The princess sizes Auri up. "You're pretty. You have nice features. I can understand why the minister of personnel (Shim On) wanted to have you as his mistress. What did he offer you in return? Did he offer to make you his concubine if you brought the crown prince down and put Choongnyeong on the throne?" (This would be a huge, desirable step up in status for a concubine.) Auri denies knowing the minister of personnel. Incredulous, the princess points out that "You just left him." Oh, Auri says, is he the minister of personnel? "I didn't even know who he was." "Do you expect me to believe that?", says the princess. Fine, Auri says, go ask him. "You'd be exposing the crown prince's infidelity to the world yourself." Realizing the dilemma, the frustrated princess gets up and walks to the door. But then she stops, turns and asks Auri, "Do you love him?" "What if I do?", Auri answers. The princess tells her, "Then it's your duty to leave him." Auri is unfazed and cuttingly tells the princess, "He says he doesn't have an ounce of feelings for you." This infuriates the princess and she tries to slap Auri, but Auri grabs her wrist and holds it with surprising strength. She glares at the princess and tells her, "You should have been a bit more warm and compassionate. Then he wouldn't have had reason to come to me." (She sure has guts, give her that.) The princess leaves...
...and outside encounters her husband. She asks him, "Would you come back with me?" He looks away uncomfortably. "Please come back with me to the palace, your highness." Again he looks away. Gim Hanlo, her father, who's with the prince, tells her, "Go ahead without him. His highness needs to rest; he is exhausted from attending to state affairs." The princess cynically says, "Do they call keeping a hidden woman 'state affairs' these days?" But her father tells her that her jealousy is unacceptable. She protests: "She's a dangerous woman, father." But Gim only accuses her of stalking Auri. And he orders her attendants to escort her home. She's shaking with anger; even her own father won't back her up.
Yangnyeong is alone in his quarters. He calls out to Noh Boon or anyone else, but no one is left inside. So he walks outside to investigate and finds Auri there. Auri says she asked Noh Boon to leave them alone. But now she's decided she doesn't want to see him, so she starts to leave. What is it you want, the prince asks with exasperation, and then utters a classic: "I'm emotionally maxed out, darn it!" (One for the male viewers.) You're always giving me orders, she says, and I'm tired of it. "Leave me alone. I'm a lowborn tramp but do I have to take orders from you every day?" Then suddenly she stops, covers her mouth with her hands, runs away and vomits. Hmmm.... Yangnyeong catches on as quickly as we do. "That was quite an introduction we made, my unborn child and I." Auri apologizes for the outburst (the verbal one, not the digestive one.)
We see Yi Gae, the son of the crown prince and princess. His mother is putting him to bed, but her eyes tear up as she does so and the boy keeps opening his eyes to look at her. Then she calls her escort Choi and tells her, "Get me some arsenic. " Choi is horrified, but the princess only gets angry at her. "That's an order. Fetch some arsenic now!" The boy cries.
Choi goes straight to the queen and tells her of the request. The ailing queen, who's drinking a healing potion, sees the news almost as irony: "The royal house is a hideous place. Mother-in-law takes bitter medicine struggling to stay alive, and the daughter-in-law wants arsenic to end her life." She gets up and walks weakly to see the princess.
In the princess' quarters, the queen asks her, "What is the reason? How could a mother conceive of such a horrible idea?" "It's because I am too ashamed to see my son, mother."
Yangnyeong and his supporters are discussing what they now perceive to be the likely failure of their plot. The prince says that they must find another way to move the central army, and get a war started in the north before the investigator returns. "Otherwise it's all over for us." Just then the queen and crown princess walk in. The queen glares at her son and says, "Clear the room." I'm busy, he tells her dismissively, but she doesn't even waver and says patiently, ominously, "I asked you to clear the room." The ministers scurry away. (What a great character!)
Outside, the ministers wonder why the queen is so upset. "When the queen gets that way," says Yi Sookbun, "it's usually about another woman." This makes Gim Hanlo angry.
"I beg your pardon?", says the queen. Her son tells her, "I said I'm bringing her into the palace." His wife protests; he tells her to stay out of it, and then reminds his mother, "I could renounce the crown princess and put her in that place." Wongyeong is utterly appalled at her son's attitude, but he fires back, What are you going to do, "Send an assassin to kill her and the child?" And then tells his wife that she's becoming more like his mother every day. And then to the queen, "Tell her to stop trying to act like my woman and just enjoy the power." He gets up to leave and takes another stab at his mother: "I can assure you of one thing. I'm a forbearing man unlike the king, so I will not hurt my brother-in-law." He leaves the women sitting there, stunned and silent. Eventually the queen gets up to leave, but then staggers and collapses. (This was quite a scene. As reprehensible as the women found Yangnyeong's behavior, it should be pointed out that he's only doing what his father did with Hyobin.)
The king, who's with Hyobin (ta-daa), notices physicians hurrying to the queen's quarters.
Yi Sun reports to princess Shim about the queen's condition. She also says, "I'm surprised the shock didn't kill her." What shock, the princess asks. Sun alludes to the crown prince, but when the princess presses her she clams up: "It's nothing. I don't know anything."
The queen awakens and finds her husband at her bedside. All of the princes and princesses are gathered. You don't all need to be here, she says. And then, "There's nothing keeping me in this disgusting world any more. My wish now is to die here in this bed." And then to the crown princess she says, "You must serve your husband and your son well, my dear. You know what I mean by that." (We don't, not yet.)
Gim Hanlo tells Yangnyeong not to worry; the queen will recover. Yangnyeong says, "I don't know what to say to you either, father-in-law." Gim (who's being a real weasel for caring much more about Yangnyeong's feelings than his daughter's welfare) tells him, "there's no need to feel bad...I feel bad that my childish daughter is behaving the way she is."
Shim On, Yi Su, Gim Jongsu, Choi Manli and Jeong Inji are gathered. Shim tells them about the affair with Auri. They discuss what to do about it. Ultimately they decide to hold off and not expose the affair for now, both because of the queen's delicate condition at the moment and for fear of how it all might impact Choongnyeong.
In the north: Choongnyeong and his eunuchs are entertaining the orphans. After they finish, Yun tells him, "You’re going to miss them when you leave" and "You're coming back with me to the capital city." The prince will have none of it: "Bring me some more books when you come back next time." Yun protests: "You're really not coming?" "Where would I go," the prince answers, "when this is my home?" Yun then tells him about the mess caused by the crown prince: it's much worse in the capital than in the north, and "it's only a matter of time before the whole country is in shambles."
Yangnyeong is with his supporters. Gu Jongji ventures a bold opinion: "This may not be the most appropriate thing to say right now, but the queen being ill right now may not be entirely bad for us."
One of the royal physicians tells the queen that a trip to the hot springs would help relieve her years of accumulated stress.
Outside, the physician is walking from the building when he sees Gim Hanlo and scurries over to him. Gim hands him a cloth bag, which the physician is very happy to receive, and tells him, "good work." Obviously a bribe for him to prescribe the trip.
Princes Hyoryeong and Seongnyeong are with their brother Yangnyeong; they're upset because the queen doesn't want to go to the hot springs. "How about talking to father about his?", Yangnyeong says.
Prince Seongnyeong is before the king. "Fifteen days--won't you give me fifteen days of your time?"
Yangnyeong and his supporters decide they'll go to the north themselves with the central army as soon as the king leaves for the hot springs. But they wonder, will the king want to go when he's so anxiously waiting for the investigator's report?
Seongnyeong is with his father at his mother's bedside. He tells his father, "I was a fragile and sickly child from the day I was born. Mother spent countless nights taking care of me, father. But I have given her nothing in return. Please buy time for me, father." Then he takes his mothers hand and tells her, And he tells his mother, "I want you to be healthy and strong for a very, very long time, mother. So I'll have the chance to pay you back for your love." Then Taejong encourages her, "Let us go on that trip, my queen."
That evening: Yangnyeong declares to his supporters, "The central army will leave the capital tomorrow and march to Gyeongsung." Then the Yis suggest that they stay behind, only to avoid having too many military ministers together with the army. (A strange request, isn’t it?) Very well, Yangnyeong says, stay behind and keep order in the city. Later, the prince asks Gim Hanlo in private to stay behind and keep watch on the Yis because he doesn't trust them.
The next morning: The king and queen prepare to depart. He tells his ministers to assist the crown prince well. Then he turns and stares at Yangnyeong...but says nothing. He turns back and commands, "Let's go."
That evening: The army is prepared for its march north. "May the gods be with you," Gim tells the crown prince. The army leaves, with Yangnyeong on horseback leading the way.
Yi Chun presents his military uniform to Choongnyeong, at prime minister Yu's instruction. He's to serve the military as a commoner from now on. Then Yu asks the prince for some advice. Yi, he says, was punished for following an order. So "What are we to do with the man who gave him the order?"
Minister Hwang is before the crown prince: "You can't cover up something this obvious. Go to the king at once and confess the truth. Tell him everything and seek his forgiveness." But Yangnyeong doesn't even acknowledge that his Liaodong plan is the truth.
Choongnyeong tells PM Yu, "Do not punish him. No one can punish the crown prince." This irritates Yu, who tells him that "A man who can't think beyond his desire to protect his own brother is not kingly material." Very well, Yu continues, "How should I cover this up?" Should I lie and blame it all on Yi alone? No, the prince says, that's not what I meant. "The only person who can punish the crown prince is the crown prince himself. Give him a chance to reflect and admit his mistakes. Only then will he pay heed to the council of his royal retainers like you when he rises to the throne."
Yuh Hwe, who was there for Choongnyeong's discussion with PM Yu, tells the prince that there's no way Yangnyeong will admit his mistake. He's willing to bet one of his fancy writing brushes on it.
Yangnyeong, replying to Hwang, tells him, Let's assume it's all true; do you really think the king would forgive such a thing? Hwang tells him that what's important is "whether you admit your errors and atone for them." But Yangnyeong lies to the minister point-blank: "The information you have is false." Hwang wants to believe him, but his doubts are obvious. So Yangnyeong tells him with audacity, "If you don't believe me, you have only one option. Go to the king. I dare you to tell him what you know and get me thrown out of the palace." Hwang leaves, walking slowly and once again weighted down by an enormous decision to make. Back inside, Yangnyeong wonders, "Who is it. Which bastard opened his big mouth?"
Auri is explaining her situation to Shim On. "I am the crown prince's woman. And I’m the former deputy security councilor Gwok Sun's concubine as well. Yangnyeong wants me to leave the noble lord and become his one and only lover." Then she gets down to business: "I thought perhaps I could make a deal with you. I want you to expose the crown prince's illicit affair." Shim doesn't even know how to react to this. She continues, "Our future king is having an affair with a high lord's concubine...How can we put this inferior reprobate on the throne?" This makes Shim angry and he cautions her. Then he asks her, What do you expect to gain from this? She answers, "The crown prince's deposal." Baffled, Shim points out to her that "You'll go down with him" if he falls. She tells him, That's why I want to make a deal. Choongnyeong will succeed Yangnyeong if he falls and this will "make me his (Choongnyeong's) number one merit subject." (This is a strange statement.) Then she tells him what she wants: Just my life to be protected, she says, and it would also be nice if I could get "a small house" so that I can make a home for the crown prince. What was that last part? "I want the crown prince for myself. I'm tired of having only half of him." (There it is--now we know that she really has fallen for him.)
The king surprises Hwang with a visit at his office. "Why are you still in the palace at this late hour?" "Well, I...." Hwang isn't about to tell him what he's wrestling with, at least not yet. Taejong asks him, "Are you afraid as well? Are you as afraid as I am about the investigator coming back?" He continues, "I didn't send the investigator because of Choongnyeong. Choongnyeong is incapable of treason against me. Even if he's been grinding his teeth with vexation the past few years. To seize the crown for himself, he would not resort to violence. Besides, Gang Sangin conspiring against me...." He tails off and starts to smile, the very idea being beyond absurd to him. "No, I sent the investigator because of the crown prince. The fact that he was the one who deployed the artillery army, that's what made me suspicious. I needed to make sure the crown prince has nothing to do with what is happening in Hamgildo (northern province). The crown prince has nothing to do with this. Right?" Incredibly, Hwang steels himself and lies to the king's face: "I am certain, your majesty."
Yangnyeong confronts his supporters: "Is it you, father-in-law? Or is it you, minister of military?" They don't understand. He angrily tells them, "I told you not to tell minister Hwang anything! Are you sure none of you said anything to him?" "We don't have nine lives," says Yi Sookbun, with no sarcasm whatsoever. "How could we?" Then, privately, Gim Hanlo advises the prince, "Try not to be so anxious." They haven't received the expected signal from the north yet, but it's a long way away so maybe there's just been a delay. "Have faith in your men and relax."
"I'll wait to hear good news from you," Auri tells Shim. She bows as he steps onto his palanquin and is carried off. She turns, and just then the crown princess walks up to her. Inside, they sit. The princess sizes Auri up. "You're pretty. You have nice features. I can understand why the minister of personnel (Shim On) wanted to have you as his mistress. What did he offer you in return? Did he offer to make you his concubine if you brought the crown prince down and put Choongnyeong on the throne?" (This would be a huge, desirable step up in status for a concubine.) Auri denies knowing the minister of personnel. Incredulous, the princess points out that "You just left him." Oh, Auri says, is he the minister of personnel? "I didn't even know who he was." "Do you expect me to believe that?", says the princess. Fine, Auri says, go ask him. "You'd be exposing the crown prince's infidelity to the world yourself." Realizing the dilemma, the frustrated princess gets up and walks to the door. But then she stops, turns and asks Auri, "Do you love him?" "What if I do?", Auri answers. The princess tells her, "Then it's your duty to leave him." Auri is unfazed and cuttingly tells the princess, "He says he doesn't have an ounce of feelings for you." This infuriates the princess and she tries to slap Auri, but Auri grabs her wrist and holds it with surprising strength. She glares at the princess and tells her, "You should have been a bit more warm and compassionate. Then he wouldn't have had reason to come to me." (She sure has guts, give her that.) The princess leaves...
...and outside encounters her husband. She asks him, "Would you come back with me?" He looks away uncomfortably. "Please come back with me to the palace, your highness." Again he looks away. Gim Hanlo, her father, who's with the prince, tells her, "Go ahead without him. His highness needs to rest; he is exhausted from attending to state affairs." The princess cynically says, "Do they call keeping a hidden woman 'state affairs' these days?" But her father tells her that her jealousy is unacceptable. She protests: "She's a dangerous woman, father." But Gim only accuses her of stalking Auri. And he orders her attendants to escort her home. She's shaking with anger; even her own father won't back her up.
Yangnyeong is alone in his quarters. He calls out to Noh Boon or anyone else, but no one is left inside. So he walks outside to investigate and finds Auri there. Auri says she asked Noh Boon to leave them alone. But now she's decided she doesn't want to see him, so she starts to leave. What is it you want, the prince asks with exasperation, and then utters a classic: "I'm emotionally maxed out, darn it!" (One for the male viewers.) You're always giving me orders, she says, and I'm tired of it. "Leave me alone. I'm a lowborn tramp but do I have to take orders from you every day?" Then suddenly she stops, covers her mouth with her hands, runs away and vomits. Hmmm.... Yangnyeong catches on as quickly as we do. "That was quite an introduction we made, my unborn child and I." Auri apologizes for the outburst (the verbal one, not the digestive one.)
We see Yi Gae, the son of the crown prince and princess. His mother is putting him to bed, but her eyes tear up as she does so and the boy keeps opening his eyes to look at her. Then she calls her escort Choi and tells her, "Get me some arsenic. " Choi is horrified, but the princess only gets angry at her. "That's an order. Fetch some arsenic now!" The boy cries.
Choi goes straight to the queen and tells her of the request. The ailing queen, who's drinking a healing potion, sees the news almost as irony: "The royal house is a hideous place. Mother-in-law takes bitter medicine struggling to stay alive, and the daughter-in-law wants arsenic to end her life." She gets up and walks weakly to see the princess.
In the princess' quarters, the queen asks her, "What is the reason? How could a mother conceive of such a horrible idea?" "It's because I am too ashamed to see my son, mother."
Yangnyeong and his supporters are discussing what they now perceive to be the likely failure of their plot. The prince says that they must find another way to move the central army, and get a war started in the north before the investigator returns. "Otherwise it's all over for us." Just then the queen and crown princess walk in. The queen glares at her son and says, "Clear the room." I'm busy, he tells her dismissively, but she doesn't even waver and says patiently, ominously, "I asked you to clear the room." The ministers scurry away. (What a great character!)
Outside, the ministers wonder why the queen is so upset. "When the queen gets that way," says Yi Sookbun, "it's usually about another woman." This makes Gim Hanlo angry.
"I beg your pardon?", says the queen. Her son tells her, "I said I'm bringing her into the palace." His wife protests; he tells her to stay out of it, and then reminds his mother, "I could renounce the crown princess and put her in that place." Wongyeong is utterly appalled at her son's attitude, but he fires back, What are you going to do, "Send an assassin to kill her and the child?" And then tells his wife that she's becoming more like his mother every day. And then to the queen, "Tell her to stop trying to act like my woman and just enjoy the power." He gets up to leave and takes another stab at his mother: "I can assure you of one thing. I'm a forbearing man unlike the king, so I will not hurt my brother-in-law." He leaves the women sitting there, stunned and silent. Eventually the queen gets up to leave, but then staggers and collapses. (This was quite a scene. As reprehensible as the women found Yangnyeong's behavior, it should be pointed out that he's only doing what his father did with Hyobin.)
The king, who's with Hyobin (ta-daa), notices physicians hurrying to the queen's quarters.
Yi Sun reports to princess Shim about the queen's condition. She also says, "I'm surprised the shock didn't kill her." What shock, the princess asks. Sun alludes to the crown prince, but when the princess presses her she clams up: "It's nothing. I don't know anything."
The queen awakens and finds her husband at her bedside. All of the princes and princesses are gathered. You don't all need to be here, she says. And then, "There's nothing keeping me in this disgusting world any more. My wish now is to die here in this bed." And then to the crown princess she says, "You must serve your husband and your son well, my dear. You know what I mean by that." (We don't, not yet.)
Gim Hanlo tells Yangnyeong not to worry; the queen will recover. Yangnyeong says, "I don't know what to say to you either, father-in-law." Gim (who's being a real weasel for caring much more about Yangnyeong's feelings than his daughter's welfare) tells him, "there's no need to feel bad...I feel bad that my childish daughter is behaving the way she is."
Shim On, Yi Su, Gim Jongsu, Choi Manli and Jeong Inji are gathered. Shim tells them about the affair with Auri. They discuss what to do about it. Ultimately they decide to hold off and not expose the affair for now, both because of the queen's delicate condition at the moment and for fear of how it all might impact Choongnyeong.
In the north: Choongnyeong and his eunuchs are entertaining the orphans. After they finish, Yun tells him, "You’re going to miss them when you leave" and "You're coming back with me to the capital city." The prince will have none of it: "Bring me some more books when you come back next time." Yun protests: "You're really not coming?" "Where would I go," the prince answers, "when this is my home?" Yun then tells him about the mess caused by the crown prince: it's much worse in the capital than in the north, and "it's only a matter of time before the whole country is in shambles."
Yangnyeong is with his supporters. Gu Jongji ventures a bold opinion: "This may not be the most appropriate thing to say right now, but the queen being ill right now may not be entirely bad for us."
One of the royal physicians tells the queen that a trip to the hot springs would help relieve her years of accumulated stress.
Outside, the physician is walking from the building when he sees Gim Hanlo and scurries over to him. Gim hands him a cloth bag, which the physician is very happy to receive, and tells him, "good work." Obviously a bribe for him to prescribe the trip.
Princes Hyoryeong and Seongnyeong are with their brother Yangnyeong; they're upset because the queen doesn't want to go to the hot springs. "How about talking to father about his?", Yangnyeong says.
Prince Seongnyeong is before the king. "Fifteen days--won't you give me fifteen days of your time?"
Yangnyeong and his supporters decide they'll go to the north themselves with the central army as soon as the king leaves for the hot springs. But they wonder, will the king want to go when he's so anxiously waiting for the investigator's report?
Seongnyeong is with his father at his mother's bedside. He tells his father, "I was a fragile and sickly child from the day I was born. Mother spent countless nights taking care of me, father. But I have given her nothing in return. Please buy time for me, father." Then he takes his mothers hand and tells her, And he tells his mother, "I want you to be healthy and strong for a very, very long time, mother. So I'll have the chance to pay you back for your love." Then Taejong encourages her, "Let us go on that trip, my queen."
That evening: Yangnyeong declares to his supporters, "The central army will leave the capital tomorrow and march to Gyeongsung." Then the Yis suggest that they stay behind, only to avoid having too many military ministers together with the army. (A strange request, isn’t it?) Very well, Yangnyeong says, stay behind and keep order in the city. Later, the prince asks Gim Hanlo in private to stay behind and keep watch on the Yis because he doesn't trust them.
The next morning: The king and queen prepare to depart. He tells his ministers to assist the crown prince well. Then he turns and stares at Yangnyeong...but says nothing. He turns back and commands, "Let's go."
That evening: The army is prepared for its march north. "May the gods be with you," Gim tells the crown prince. The army leaves, with Yangnyeong on horseback leading the way.