Post by TheBo on Nov 22, 2011 15:37:27 GMT -5
Ep.48:
San continues to play around with people’s lives—specifically, Insp Hong and DS+2. Finally, San announces a special guard unit (suggested by Hong) under San’s personal supervision, with DS+2 all raised to level 5 supervisory positions, and a surprised Insp Hong raised to Chief Secretary and to leader of this guard unit (“Imperial Guard”). The Norons are upset at the loss of their power to appoint all officers. When D-S later tells Song, she is overjoyed, but he finds himself unable to ask her to marry him.
Uncle will marry Mak-soon. Song paints him a marriage screen and remembers how he raised her (these scenes don’t actually fit in with their history) and cared for her. Uncle thinks D-S and Song should get married, too.
Artists Tak and Lee are promoted. They wanted to promote Song, but she’s a woman. When Lee asks about “when she becomes a concubine” she teases them by pretending she will. [Har.]
Lady Hye is also thinking about a concubine, but out of respect to Hyeoui, she’s letting her bring it up first. In the meantime, she thinks Insp Hong’s sister is a great candidate.
Hyeoui forces a protesting Lady Kim to help her “bring in” Song. When Hyeoui broaches this subject with San’s mother, she meets with the expected resistance on bringing in a commoner. But Hyeoui assures Lady Kim that she will prevail—eventually. In the meantime, Yeong-jo’s old queen thinks she sees an opportunity in the concubine search to get out of her “prison.”
San finds out Namin and Soron party members, appointed to all departments, are being left out of high-level meetings. Even in the face of petitions against it, he decides to keep sending non-Norons in to the departments to do these jobs. Sir Choi assures the Norons that San will soon learn he cannot do without the literati/scholars (Norons), who really rule the nation. [Huh. Wonder why old Yunsangum went all ballistic on those guys.]
San has some more fun hiding his identity from the old Fortune Teller and then bringing the man in to head the new Royal Library, with “half-noble” sons, who are Confucian scholars, as his staff. Everyone embarrassed, San gets a laugh. But the old man wonders to San how long it’ll take before they are kicked out by the Norons. San tells them he can’t make any guarantees, but as long as they are willing to fight, he will fight every day to correct the injustice they live under.
The Norons protest, saying San is ruling unilaterally. Nuh uhh, he says, YOU are, and if you don’t like my policies you can resign, there are plenty more where you didn’t come from. Then San posts a call for government exams, saying 2,000 men will be chosen from the results--an open notice to the Norons that government will change completely.
Two bulls meet in the square. I mean, Sir Choi and the Norons run into San and his followers in the court grounds.
*****
You know, whatever the reason is they’re leaving out DS+2 from all their plans, it’s cruel and unnecessary, and it’s annoying they wrote it this way. Are they trying to suggest that San is just as capricious as Yeong-jo?
San continues to play around with people’s lives—specifically, Insp Hong and DS+2. Finally, San announces a special guard unit (suggested by Hong) under San’s personal supervision, with DS+2 all raised to level 5 supervisory positions, and a surprised Insp Hong raised to Chief Secretary and to leader of this guard unit (“Imperial Guard”). The Norons are upset at the loss of their power to appoint all officers. When D-S later tells Song, she is overjoyed, but he finds himself unable to ask her to marry him.
Uncle will marry Mak-soon. Song paints him a marriage screen and remembers how he raised her (these scenes don’t actually fit in with their history) and cared for her. Uncle thinks D-S and Song should get married, too.
Artists Tak and Lee are promoted. They wanted to promote Song, but she’s a woman. When Lee asks about “when she becomes a concubine” she teases them by pretending she will. [Har.]
Lady Hye is also thinking about a concubine, but out of respect to Hyeoui, she’s letting her bring it up first. In the meantime, she thinks Insp Hong’s sister is a great candidate.
Hyeoui forces a protesting Lady Kim to help her “bring in” Song. When Hyeoui broaches this subject with San’s mother, she meets with the expected resistance on bringing in a commoner. But Hyeoui assures Lady Kim that she will prevail—eventually. In the meantime, Yeong-jo’s old queen thinks she sees an opportunity in the concubine search to get out of her “prison.”
San finds out Namin and Soron party members, appointed to all departments, are being left out of high-level meetings. Even in the face of petitions against it, he decides to keep sending non-Norons in to the departments to do these jobs. Sir Choi assures the Norons that San will soon learn he cannot do without the literati/scholars (Norons), who really rule the nation. [Huh. Wonder why old Yunsangum went all ballistic on those guys.]
San has some more fun hiding his identity from the old Fortune Teller and then bringing the man in to head the new Royal Library, with “half-noble” sons, who are Confucian scholars, as his staff. Everyone embarrassed, San gets a laugh. But the old man wonders to San how long it’ll take before they are kicked out by the Norons. San tells them he can’t make any guarantees, but as long as they are willing to fight, he will fight every day to correct the injustice they live under.
The Norons protest, saying San is ruling unilaterally. Nuh uhh, he says, YOU are, and if you don’t like my policies you can resign, there are plenty more where you didn’t come from. Then San posts a call for government exams, saying 2,000 men will be chosen from the results--an open notice to the Norons that government will change completely.
Two bulls meet in the square. I mean, Sir Choi and the Norons run into San and his followers in the court grounds.
*****
You know, whatever the reason is they’re leaving out DS+2 from all their plans, it’s cruel and unnecessary, and it’s annoying they wrote it this way. Are they trying to suggest that San is just as capricious as Yeong-jo?