Post by TheBo on Sept 18, 2011 17:11:10 GMT -5
Ep.34:
The men learn who San is, and San learns that two such accomplished men are languishing in the countryside because they are “half-descendants” (bastards) of noblemen. San asks them to help enforce Yeong-jo’s earlier reform, but they refuse to risk their lives for a hopeless cause. However, Dae-su plus two ask (later) if they can go back and train with those guys, who have fresh new ideas about fighting.
The queen secretly learns that the king may have dementia. Since the physician cannot examine the king, he suggests the “arrowroot test,” which will temporarily worsen the symptoms. She arranges for Y-J to receive arrowroot noodles (quite openly) for his dinner. This confirms her suspicions. She orders complete silence on this from all the servants and the physician, and bullies Y-J’s eunuch in to letting her handle it. In the meantime, Yeong-jo thinks one of his servants is pulling a fast one on him and orders his eunuch to investigate. (Poor man.)
Instead of attending San’s meeting, Sir Choi orders them to stay away and privately asks San for a promise of suspension of the year-end bombing investigation, cease on investigations of the Norons and a blind eye to merchant bribes. San, amused, asks what he gets out of it.
Uncle, Mr. Tak and Mr. Lee’s scheme to sell smuggled ginseng ends in disaster. They lost money on the deal, which will ruin them all. When Uncle returns to Mak Soon (the tavern owner) and gives her the bad news, she demands that he fulfill his promise of marriage and drags him off by the ear.
Song learns she will not be (a) admitted to Qing painting academy nor (b) allowed to return home. She gets some help appealing this decision from Jeong, who helps arrange a contest. She can paint anything she wants, and wins with four seasonal paintings of the same scene. She thanks Jeong, who was impressed with her, says goodbye to her friends and starts her course of study—after making herself look like a Chinese lady. LOL.
San returns to report to Yeong-jo on his reform of the Noron; "They’ll handle it themselves." Y-J calls a meeting of the ministers, and the Queen demands to see Sir Choi in secret first. He refuses, saying she needs to get right with the king or he won’t see her. At the meeting, Sir Choi shocks the king and the Norons by suggesting that the king (a) call back an exiled “criminal” faction to serve, (b) open up the court to many factions and (c) re-legalize peddling so the merchant clans are reined into the court’s control. He tells his blithering Noron cohorts they’d better wake up and smell the coffee. Jeong is shocked to learn of this development from Princess, and later witnesses San and Choi doing a friendly walk-and-chat. He walks up to them, and San happily beams.
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I guess San and Jeong passed some age barrier, they are sporting new early crop Joseun beardlets.
The men learn who San is, and San learns that two such accomplished men are languishing in the countryside because they are “half-descendants” (bastards) of noblemen. San asks them to help enforce Yeong-jo’s earlier reform, but they refuse to risk their lives for a hopeless cause. However, Dae-su plus two ask (later) if they can go back and train with those guys, who have fresh new ideas about fighting.
The queen secretly learns that the king may have dementia. Since the physician cannot examine the king, he suggests the “arrowroot test,” which will temporarily worsen the symptoms. She arranges for Y-J to receive arrowroot noodles (quite openly) for his dinner. This confirms her suspicions. She orders complete silence on this from all the servants and the physician, and bullies Y-J’s eunuch in to letting her handle it. In the meantime, Yeong-jo thinks one of his servants is pulling a fast one on him and orders his eunuch to investigate. (Poor man.)
Instead of attending San’s meeting, Sir Choi orders them to stay away and privately asks San for a promise of suspension of the year-end bombing investigation, cease on investigations of the Norons and a blind eye to merchant bribes. San, amused, asks what he gets out of it.
Uncle, Mr. Tak and Mr. Lee’s scheme to sell smuggled ginseng ends in disaster. They lost money on the deal, which will ruin them all. When Uncle returns to Mak Soon (the tavern owner) and gives her the bad news, she demands that he fulfill his promise of marriage and drags him off by the ear.
Song learns she will not be (a) admitted to Qing painting academy nor (b) allowed to return home. She gets some help appealing this decision from Jeong, who helps arrange a contest. She can paint anything she wants, and wins with four seasonal paintings of the same scene. She thanks Jeong, who was impressed with her, says goodbye to her friends and starts her course of study—after making herself look like a Chinese lady. LOL.
San returns to report to Yeong-jo on his reform of the Noron; "They’ll handle it themselves." Y-J calls a meeting of the ministers, and the Queen demands to see Sir Choi in secret first. He refuses, saying she needs to get right with the king or he won’t see her. At the meeting, Sir Choi shocks the king and the Norons by suggesting that the king (a) call back an exiled “criminal” faction to serve, (b) open up the court to many factions and (c) re-legalize peddling so the merchant clans are reined into the court’s control. He tells his blithering Noron cohorts they’d better wake up and smell the coffee. Jeong is shocked to learn of this development from Princess, and later witnesses San and Choi doing a friendly walk-and-chat. He walks up to them, and San happily beams.
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I guess San and Jeong passed some age barrier, they are sporting new early crop Joseun beardlets.