Haechi (해치)

Return, Your Majesty!

I also know

that I can't do it.

This position is not mine.

Why are you living like that?

Why can't you amount to more than this?

I'm dying soon, Prince Yeoning.

No.

Older Brother, do you even remember?

Older Brother, it's you. This nation's...

Why didn't you at least dream of becoming the king?

Why didn't I at least dream about it?

If you became the king, even if just a little bit of it,

you might have gotten something called power.

Even if just a little bit of it, you might have gotten something called power.

Something called power...

You also have nowhere to go.

Of all people, only you and I remain.

In this tumultuous palace

our father and Hwon have left

and of all people, just we two...

Do away with your tears.

I am the sinner but why are you being punished?

This may be the case.

Perhaps Your Highness Crown Prince and I are not the survivors.

But they may just have let us live.

Such as we, punishing the real sinners,

What do you think about that?

Of all people, Your Highness Crown Prince and I, such as we are,

What if we can turn this world upside down?

You really achieved it. You did.

Yes, Your Majesty.

As I promised you, Your Majesty.

Now the Norons will be shaken and will begin to split.

A cracked pottery...

For the reason it will break even more easily.

Is it now my turn?

Sirrah! Won't you move aside this minute?

The ones who should move aside are

the high officials trying to put pressure on Saheonbu.

Hear all! Jeong Jae Yong, Secretary of the Interior,

Choi Hyeong Jeon, Deputy Chief Scholar of the Office of Special Advisors,

Jang Tae Seong, Minister of Taxation,

Lim Seung Yong, Second Deputy Director of the Bureau of Royal Decrees,

Arrest these men right this moment and drag them off to the interrogation rooms!

Yes!

Unhand me! These rascals!

Your Excellency Minister of the Interior! - Lord Inspector General!

Let me go! - Your Excellency!

Is this a real declaration of war?

Don't you know who I am?

What on earth are you doing right in your post?

I will try to rein in Saheonbu somehow. - Shut up!

The last time you were flustered. Today you're fuming. I happen to catch these sides of you often nowadays.

How amusing.

Your Highness Prince Yeoning!

After all, civil exam wrongdoings involving high Noron officials and scions of their families. How scandalous!

What a big blow this will be to Noron.

Can you possibly be the one behind all this...

Once you said to me,

that you must plant fear in your opponent's heart to win.

How do you feel? Are you a little... fearful now?

A conscience without power is just weak.

Just as you advised me,

I intend to gain that power now...

Episode 7 Incitement Technique

Since you disrespected the king's procession through a clamorous protest

you will be dealt a sentence of paddling according to the law.

Do you have any objection?

No.

Execute the sentence of 30 strokes. Give him stern beatings!

Yes!

One stroke.

Two stroke.

Three stroke.

Lord! Lord Moon Soo! - Lord!

I told you to get lost this minute! Where do you think you're raising a ruckus?!

We are saying we'll take some of the beatings on his behalf! Please!

Yes, beat me instead. 30 strokes will kill a man. - These rascals, you still...

What is this wench? Won't you let go?

Don't "wench" me. I, too, am this country's subject who knows the law.

Even the great kings Myeongjong and Hyeonjong said the clamorous beseechers should not be punished too severely.

Isn't that because the monarchs also know that it is not a serious crime?

Right, well said. That's why without the royal command,

we'll never let him go unpunished.

So, are you saying all you need is a royal command?

Release Student Park Moon Soo right this moment!

I am asking for his person.

Walk slowly.

He's coming over there.

Hyung-nim.

Are you alright, Moon Soo?

This time, you came.

If you were going to come anyway, you should've come sooner.

In that time, I already took 10 beatings.

My pretty ass is all torn up.

I will say...

That was the only tolerable part of your body.

I wronged you a big time.

That stings!

He saved you when you were almost beaten to death. Instead of thanking him, how dare you speak like that to him?!

What are you doing?

I apologize in his place, Your Highness.

Lord Moon Soo is childishly singing about his butt in the middle of this hardship.

But, Yeo Ji, that's not it. I was pulling his leg...

Hey, Cheon Yeo Ji, that's not it.

The bottom line of what I was saying was not my bums, but... - But your bottom line was the bums.

The bottom line was not the bums. - It was.

I'm going crazy here. No, it wasn't!

Arguing over bums...

Yes, it's you guys.

Like this, I am again

able to stand before you guys.

So you found the evidence of civil exam corruption, Your Highness?

Doesn't the civil exam give you, at one glance, the whole picture of what a sad shape this country is in right now?

When you were merely thinking of your own ass,

His Highness dug through the matter by himself.

Hey! I told you the bottom line was not my butt.

It started because of you, Moon Soo.

I was trying to find a way to help you in your preparation for the civil service exam.

What do you mean you can't even dream of passing the exam with passable skills?

Because all sorts of illegalities are rampant.

Get out of my way!

Substitute exam taking and seat grabbing do not even count as wrongful acts nowadays.

Sneaking in books, exchanging answer sheets,

and hiding cheat sheets up in one's nostrils are all carried out by poor noblemen.

Do you know what this is? A tunnel has been dug up to connect with inside the walls.

So the answer can be attached here and piped all the way to the exam grounds.

How innovative! Truly groundbreaking! - But even this is an inferior move.

Because if you know the exam question ahead of the time, you are all set.

Are you, by any chance, saying someone is leaking the exam question before the exam date?

What can't the powerful not do?

Do you think question leaking is all? There are even talks of the exam graders

switching the contestant names on the well-written answer sheets and fudging with the results.

The talks were mostly true, no, more than that.

The second counsellor of the Office of Special Advisors leaked the exam questions to the scions of Noron families.

He didn't hesitate to take bribes and switch the names on answer sheets.

Moreover, civil service exams afforded Noron opportunities to take kickbacks.

They were even making a big profit by stealing the paper used for answer sheets.

As you instructed, I have found the paper used for civil exam answer sheets.

I also secured the evidence. I will send it to Saheonbu by 9 a.m.

So, that's why I kept failing the exams! When I should've passed a long time ago!

They deserve to be skinned alive and fried to death!

How can they be this rotten?

This country's civil service exam has been clearly showing, all along, how rotten this country is.

How the power hogging Noron has been wrecking the civil service exam that ought to have remained the most fair system.

Those things...

started while you were trying to help me.

Ah, not knowing how it was...

I've been mean to you for a long time, Hyung-nim.

Nonsense.

The one who made you that way

was me.

Anyhow, because of this we got together again

and we even caught the rotten corruption of Noron. We should get a drink on a day like this.

No, I still have business to take care and I must be on my way.

What business?

Business that you don't need to concern yourselves in.

No,

perhaps business that you ought not to know about.

Hyung-nim, how can you say such a heartbreaking thing?

I must go now.

As for catching up, let's do it later

when even a better time comes.

What was he saying? Business we ought not to know?

What is going on in Saheonbu right now? What is Min Jin Heon up to?

I am looking into it. But are you really going to finish this business all alone?

Please ask for help.

Min Jin Heon will never let you be in peace.

That is why I must do it alone.

I cannot put Moon Soo

and Yeo Ji in danger again for my sake.

I got it.

Good job.

Summon all the related parties and make sure all the preparations for the interrogations are complete.

Yes.

Inspector Yoon,

immediately transfer this matter to Daejang room (head and chief inspectors' office) .

You must know that's impossible.

Are you saying you will disobey?

I am saying I will handle it according to the Saheonbu rules.

As a matter of principle, matters related to civil exam corruption are investigated by inspectors, aren't they?

As I'm busy, I'll take leave of you, then.

In the past, too, there was an inspector just like you.

A foolish one who forgot his basic duties and rushed into fire...

Do you know what his end was like?

How miserable that end was.

I haven't asked nor am I curious. Do I have to keep listening?

As I'm busy.

I thought it reeked of inexperience.

And it turns out Prince Yeoning was behind it after all.

It's not definite.

Concluding so just from the way he looked into the civil exam corruption...

No, it must be him.

He must have planned entering the Royal Clan Management Office to blow away Prince Angye and

taking an aim at Noron through the civil service exam corruptions.

The lowly prince that he is, he's aiming for the throne.

The throne? Are you saying Prince Yeoning is aiming to be the next king?

Leave now and wait for my instructions. Your service is not needed right now.

Yes, Your Excellency.