Dae Wang Sejong (2008): Season 1, Episode 65 - Episode #1.65 - full transcript
Who are you?
Dami.
The little girl who lost her
parents to the barbarians,
and followed you around
everywhere you went...
Mommy!
Mister, please save my mommy!
Please, mister!
I'm sorry.
This is my fault.
This is all my fault.
Then the books-the storybooks...
Then who will read us the storybooks?
That will be your job from now on, Dami.
You're a smart girl, so you'll
learn to read quickly.
We never got past where
you left off in that book.
Because we had no time for
storybooks or even to learn to read.
We got up at dawn and worked until dusk,
but we couldn't even pay the taxes
let alone have enough to eat.
Why did you forget us?
You were just like one of
us when you lived among us,
and we were so happy when
we heard you became the King.
How could you completely forget about us?
Instead of taking care of us, you called
in the barbarians and became their King!
You saw exactly how my
mother and father died.
How could you make those
bastards Joseonese?
Couldn't you find a way to let me
know what was happening to you?
How?
Are you talking about sending a letter
to the King like the learned folks do?
How when we don't know how to write?
Is that why you came to the capital,
wreaked havoc on our streets,
and committed arson?
No!
We had nothing to do with those fires!
We chose a different way.
What do you mean Dami is gone?
I can't find the drawings either.
What?
Do you think she's gone to the palace?
A punitive force?
The sooner we act the better.
How did it go?
Mokmyeok Mountain, sir.
A large group of northerners are
camped out there.
Rally the Left Army and assemble
a punitive force tonight.
Yes, sir.
What is the meaning of this?
I can't allow punitive action.
Must I remind you that command and
obedience is the life of the military?
Let me remind you that punitive measures
are taken only against enemy forces.
Those who create disorder
are enemies of the state!
Minister Jo!
How much longer must I ignore
this breach of public order?
Remember. The military's job is
protecting the country.
War clouds are looming over the orders.
We must quickly restore order in the
capital and focus on national security!
Punitive action?
Jo Malseng is making a dramatic move.
Perhaps information has leaked
about the investigation being
focused on the military.
If he's meticulous enough to plant
a spy in the Hall of Worthies,
he is sure to have a spy in the
Bureau of Weaponry as well.
If Jo Malseng is the one who provided
the potassium nitrate to the arsonists...
Don't let your imagination run wild.
It's not entirely impossible.
And if that is the case,
Jo Malseng is making a smart move
that will serve two purposes for him.
Accuse and punish the northerners thereby
covering up his own crime.
And suppress the rebels
and become a public hero
which will put him in an
even stronger position
to intimidate the King.
Then why are we just sitting around?
We have to find a way to stop him.
We're talking about locking up
the country's chief of military.
It's not possible without
irrefutable evidence.
Let us focus our effort
on the investigation.
The outcome could very well give
us what we need to breakthrough
this political impasse.
Did my men scare you?
You should've done a better
job covering up your tracks.
Investigation is closing in on us
because of the potassium nitrate.
Are you aware of that?
I'm sorry, sir.
Keep your men under tight control.
You won't be alive to talk to me
if you make another mistake.
Prince Kyoungnyeong, what brings
you here at this time of the night?
Potassium nitrate was used in the fires.
Potassium nitrate is an
ingredient for gunpowder.
It would have to be someone quite
powerful to acquire enough
of the substance to set
fire throughout the city.
Someone like yourself.
What are you trying to say?
I want the truth.
You were behind those fires, weren't you?
Does it matter?
I want to know if you set the city
on fire to protect the fortune you
amassed by selling government posts
and accepting bribes and kickbacks.
It's true I accepted kickbacks.
But those are patriotic contributions from
those who do not want slaves running
this state and lowly barbarian blood
corrupting our pure Joseonese blood.
Are you trying to you have
no selfish interests?
I think I told you once before.
Balance is what I am after a balance
of public interest and self interest.
Minister Jo!
Sometimes money can even
buy the high ministers support.
You don't think those who we bought
support from are all scoundrel with no
love for the country whatsoever, do you?
I want to fight the King fair and square
At least more fair and square than now.
You underestimate the King.
You can never defeat the
King fair and square.
What are you saying?
I did not choose you because
the current King is incompetent.
Don't act so naive and don't
try to fight me on what I do.
The so-called "dirty fortune" I amassed
is preciously the instrument that
will make you the next King.
Are you going to squeal to the King?
Go ahead. But you will have to
confess your treacherous intent first.
Remember.
You and I are on the same boat.
You heard them.
They had nothing to do with the fires.
Out of my way!
Sir!
She broke into the palace!
But it's Dami. Don't do this!
It's little Dami that we loved like
our sister back in Gyeongsung!
I understand your situation,
but there are laws in the palace.
You could be executed for
breaking into the palace.
Why didn't you come to me first?
Cut the gibberish and go to the King.
If he's the same man I know, he's
probably not feeling too well right now.
What did you give him?
The stories of men that lost their legs.
Lost their arms and bled to death...
Dami went to the palace
alone to tell them our story.
No! No! Please!
Mom!
Help me.
Help...
My baby...
My poor child...
Be born into a rich family
in your next life, my baby...
We can't get your fingers back,
but we can stop another
child from starving to death.
That's why she risked her
life and went to the palace.
Like my sister said, were not
thieves and we're not bandits!
We may not have much and
we may be treated like dirt,
but we are Joseonese!
Why should we be hiding here afraid?
I'm going to the palace.
I'm not going to let
my sister do this alone.
What can you possibly do by yourself?
We're coming with you.
What do you waiting for?
Do I have to whack you to wake you up?
- Let's go!
- Yeah!
We will suppress the rebels
completely before daybreak!
You may use deadly force
to fight resistance!
A punitive army?
Yes.
They're going to kill us?
Then what happened to Dami?
She couldn't be dead, could she?
Get the King out here!
Let's see the man who is out
to wipe us out face to face!
Did you kill my sister Dami?
Get out here, King!
We'll die together!
Come out here!
Let's have a look at your face!
Come out or we're going in!
Come out, King!
Get the King out here!
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty!
What's going on?
A disturbance?
What did I tell you?
Peasants need to be put back
in their places!
Suppress them at once!
They should be torn from limb
to limb for setting fire to the city,
and now they're at the
palace running riot?
I said suppress them!
Yes, sir.
Suppress the rebels!
Stop!
Quickly kneel before the King!
He is not our King!
How could he be our King when he takes
care of the barbarians and ignores us?
How dare you!
Release the innocent northerners!
Turn over my sister!
Didn't you hear my order?
The rebels must be suppressed,
Your Majesty.
General Yi is right, Your Majesty.
Let the soldiers suppress the
rebels and go back inside...
Clear the guards.
Your Majesty!
I will meet my people face to face.
They're extremely wound up
right now, Your Majesty.
He is not a King.
He who is afraid to face
is people is not a King.
Your Majesty...
It's an order.
Call off the guards.
Your Majesty...!
It is my great failure.
Curse the man who bombastically said
he would serve the people as his god,
then turned a blind eye to their hunger.
Show no mercy to the man who
failed to protect you and your family
from enemy's aggression and neglected
to show sympathy for your pain.
Punish this unworthy
King with your hands.
I guess he is the prince that
we used to trust and follow.
Your drawings have improved.
You remember me?
Every time I'd draw something
on the ground, you'd say...
"You're going to be a
great artiest someday."
Yes, it's me.
It's Poongae!
Omakji, do you still get into fights
and give your sister trouble?
You remember me, too?
Where is our sister?
Get down on your knees, all of you!
You're before His Majesty the King!
Would you protect us?
Would you give me another chance?
- Your Majesty!
- Your Majesty!
Protect us, Your Majesty!
It was wrong to apologize to the rebels.
Give us your order and
they will be suppressed.
No.
We must restore social order and abolish
the immigration policy on the Jurchens.
The open immigration policy
will remain in effect.
I must protest, Your Majesty.
This is my 8th year on this throne,
and I agree that an evaluation is due.
But I believe love for the people must
be at the heart of that evaluation.
Having said that, rejecting talent
based on social status is wrong, and
so is rejecting those who risked their
lives to come to Joseon and make a home.
Release the prisoners?
Or he will ask for my resignation.
How far will the King go?
When will he stop taking these risks?
Innocent until proven guilty.
How can you call releasing
the prisoners taking risks?
But Your Majesty...
If you cannot abide by
such fundamental right,
I will have to give you
up albeit regrettable.
This will send the people
of the capital flying into a rage.
I suppose you have a plan
to deal with that as well.
His Majesty asks that
you take care of them.
He must be quite distraught.
We're quite distraught as well.
I must ask you men to leave.
We can't.
It doesn't look like the King is intent
on killing the bastards that destroyed
our homes and killed our family, so
we will have to kill them ourselves.
How dare you!
Do it! Kill them!
Stop!
Do not use your weapons!
Your goal is to quickly separate them!
Yes, sir!
What are you doing?
We'll talk later.
Let's get you to safety.
I guess General Yi got
there a moment too late.
We knew there would be protests,
but the whole city is up in arms.
Work harder on finding the real arsonists.
Public will be appeased
when they learn the truth.
Please go back to the
Royal Secretariat and wrap up the official
warrant I will be announcing tomorrow.
I understand your intent, but we
could be adding fuel to the flame.
I see no other way to provide
livelihood to the northerners.
Do you?
This is a familiar sight.
How does it feel to be on
the other side of the fence?
The barbarians were our enemy.
If there are arsonists among you,
you are their enemy just the same.
It's not fair, is it?
It's not fair being regarded as enemy just
because one or two of you might
have had a hand in the fires. Is it?
Try to make a distinction
between the enemy and the
enemy's people from now on.
Those men...!
What do you think will happen if
they can't catch the real arsonists?
I suppose those people
will keep hounding us.
Abolish the military farms?
We will distribute all of the cultivated
farmlands in the northern three states
to the landless and the poor.
It's the quickest way to stabilize
the livelihood of northerners.
We oppose, Your Majesty!
The northerners are faced with the double
burden of taxes and conscribed labor.
Military farms are important
source of military funds.
We empathize with the
situation in the north,
but sometimes sacrifices are unavoidable.
As the chief of military, I can only
interpret your intent to abolish
military farms as abandonment
of national security.
Military funds will be
supplemented from elsewhere.
Our current tax laws will
undergo a bold reform.
Secretary Yun.
We plan to assess the farmlands and
grade them by yield and fertility, and
determine the tax rate correspondingly.
To prevent malfeasance, tax assessment
will be carried out by special crop assessors
dispatched from the central government,
and all private lands owners must register
their property with the assessors office.
You mean the government is going to tax
the landowners on rental income as well?
It is to prevent exploitation
in rent collection.
A portion of that will be
allocated as national tax.
This official warrant will be announced
throughout the country starting with the
capital city at noon today.
Do you think the landed
gentry will agree to this?
It's your job to convince
those who oppose.
Remember. This country belongs to the
nobles and the landed gentry as well.
The King is making enemies of
the nobles and the landed gentry.
I'll have you know that.
Sir.
If it's for the right cause,
sometimes you just have to take
the bull by the born and go for it.
Let us just work on getting rid of
any loopholes that can be exploited.
- This is an outrage!
- How can they do this?
They're trying to run us dry!
What is it?
They are the landed gentry
opposing the tax reform.
Are these petitions?
Historical tax collection reports...
It's good to study them if we're going
to push this tax reform through.
A vanguard of the tax reform...
Are you doing this for the King?
I'm doing this for Joseon.
Are you sure it's not so you can feed
a handful of Jurchen barbarians?
You must be distressed.
It's not wise to make enemy of
the landed gentry, Your Majesty.
The King must pay heed to the people.
The King must be above
selfishness as well.
Why did you wish to see us?
I plan to do a bit of thieving
from the Royal House.
I'd like to collect fifty plots of land from
each members of the Royal House.
Is the country in financial
trouble to the degree
that it requires contributions
from the Royals?
Our budget is never enough.
But the greater purpose of this
decision is for the Royal House
to set a good example for the landed
gentry to appease their selfishness.
The King is ruining this country.
Turning the people against
him to feed the Jurchens,
tainting the Joseonese blood that has
remained pure for the past 5.000 years,
this is not in the interest of Joseon.
You're a smart fellow.
So think hard about what is good
for this country and what is not.
You're a lucky man, Your Highness.
The King has turned the public against
him and you didn't have to lift a finger.
All you have to do now is to take
that public trust and make it yours
and clear your path to the throne.
Jo Malseng...
He's forgetting that I'm a businessman.
Send word to the northern three states
and southern three states.
The time is ripe for all to rise up
and start a new era with a new King!
Dami.
The little girl who lost her
parents to the barbarians,
and followed you around
everywhere you went...
Mommy!
Mister, please save my mommy!
Please, mister!
I'm sorry.
This is my fault.
This is all my fault.
Then the books-the storybooks...
Then who will read us the storybooks?
That will be your job from now on, Dami.
You're a smart girl, so you'll
learn to read quickly.
We never got past where
you left off in that book.
Because we had no time for
storybooks or even to learn to read.
We got up at dawn and worked until dusk,
but we couldn't even pay the taxes
let alone have enough to eat.
Why did you forget us?
You were just like one of
us when you lived among us,
and we were so happy when
we heard you became the King.
How could you completely forget about us?
Instead of taking care of us, you called
in the barbarians and became their King!
You saw exactly how my
mother and father died.
How could you make those
bastards Joseonese?
Couldn't you find a way to let me
know what was happening to you?
How?
Are you talking about sending a letter
to the King like the learned folks do?
How when we don't know how to write?
Is that why you came to the capital,
wreaked havoc on our streets,
and committed arson?
No!
We had nothing to do with those fires!
We chose a different way.
What do you mean Dami is gone?
I can't find the drawings either.
What?
Do you think she's gone to the palace?
A punitive force?
The sooner we act the better.
How did it go?
Mokmyeok Mountain, sir.
A large group of northerners are
camped out there.
Rally the Left Army and assemble
a punitive force tonight.
Yes, sir.
What is the meaning of this?
I can't allow punitive action.
Must I remind you that command and
obedience is the life of the military?
Let me remind you that punitive measures
are taken only against enemy forces.
Those who create disorder
are enemies of the state!
Minister Jo!
How much longer must I ignore
this breach of public order?
Remember. The military's job is
protecting the country.
War clouds are looming over the orders.
We must quickly restore order in the
capital and focus on national security!
Punitive action?
Jo Malseng is making a dramatic move.
Perhaps information has leaked
about the investigation being
focused on the military.
If he's meticulous enough to plant
a spy in the Hall of Worthies,
he is sure to have a spy in the
Bureau of Weaponry as well.
If Jo Malseng is the one who provided
the potassium nitrate to the arsonists...
Don't let your imagination run wild.
It's not entirely impossible.
And if that is the case,
Jo Malseng is making a smart move
that will serve two purposes for him.
Accuse and punish the northerners thereby
covering up his own crime.
And suppress the rebels
and become a public hero
which will put him in an
even stronger position
to intimidate the King.
Then why are we just sitting around?
We have to find a way to stop him.
We're talking about locking up
the country's chief of military.
It's not possible without
irrefutable evidence.
Let us focus our effort
on the investigation.
The outcome could very well give
us what we need to breakthrough
this political impasse.
Did my men scare you?
You should've done a better
job covering up your tracks.
Investigation is closing in on us
because of the potassium nitrate.
Are you aware of that?
I'm sorry, sir.
Keep your men under tight control.
You won't be alive to talk to me
if you make another mistake.
Prince Kyoungnyeong, what brings
you here at this time of the night?
Potassium nitrate was used in the fires.
Potassium nitrate is an
ingredient for gunpowder.
It would have to be someone quite
powerful to acquire enough
of the substance to set
fire throughout the city.
Someone like yourself.
What are you trying to say?
I want the truth.
You were behind those fires, weren't you?
Does it matter?
I want to know if you set the city
on fire to protect the fortune you
amassed by selling government posts
and accepting bribes and kickbacks.
It's true I accepted kickbacks.
But those are patriotic contributions from
those who do not want slaves running
this state and lowly barbarian blood
corrupting our pure Joseonese blood.
Are you trying to you have
no selfish interests?
I think I told you once before.
Balance is what I am after a balance
of public interest and self interest.
Minister Jo!
Sometimes money can even
buy the high ministers support.
You don't think those who we bought
support from are all scoundrel with no
love for the country whatsoever, do you?
I want to fight the King fair and square
At least more fair and square than now.
You underestimate the King.
You can never defeat the
King fair and square.
What are you saying?
I did not choose you because
the current King is incompetent.
Don't act so naive and don't
try to fight me on what I do.
The so-called "dirty fortune" I amassed
is preciously the instrument that
will make you the next King.
Are you going to squeal to the King?
Go ahead. But you will have to
confess your treacherous intent first.
Remember.
You and I are on the same boat.
You heard them.
They had nothing to do with the fires.
Out of my way!
Sir!
She broke into the palace!
But it's Dami. Don't do this!
It's little Dami that we loved like
our sister back in Gyeongsung!
I understand your situation,
but there are laws in the palace.
You could be executed for
breaking into the palace.
Why didn't you come to me first?
Cut the gibberish and go to the King.
If he's the same man I know, he's
probably not feeling too well right now.
What did you give him?
The stories of men that lost their legs.
Lost their arms and bled to death...
Dami went to the palace
alone to tell them our story.
No! No! Please!
Mom!
Help me.
Help...
My baby...
My poor child...
Be born into a rich family
in your next life, my baby...
We can't get your fingers back,
but we can stop another
child from starving to death.
That's why she risked her
life and went to the palace.
Like my sister said, were not
thieves and we're not bandits!
We may not have much and
we may be treated like dirt,
but we are Joseonese!
Why should we be hiding here afraid?
I'm going to the palace.
I'm not going to let
my sister do this alone.
What can you possibly do by yourself?
We're coming with you.
What do you waiting for?
Do I have to whack you to wake you up?
- Let's go!
- Yeah!
We will suppress the rebels
completely before daybreak!
You may use deadly force
to fight resistance!
A punitive army?
Yes.
They're going to kill us?
Then what happened to Dami?
She couldn't be dead, could she?
Get the King out here!
Let's see the man who is out
to wipe us out face to face!
Did you kill my sister Dami?
Get out here, King!
We'll die together!
Come out here!
Let's have a look at your face!
Come out or we're going in!
Come out, King!
Get the King out here!
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty!
What's going on?
A disturbance?
What did I tell you?
Peasants need to be put back
in their places!
Suppress them at once!
They should be torn from limb
to limb for setting fire to the city,
and now they're at the
palace running riot?
I said suppress them!
Yes, sir.
Suppress the rebels!
Stop!
Quickly kneel before the King!
He is not our King!
How could he be our King when he takes
care of the barbarians and ignores us?
How dare you!
Release the innocent northerners!
Turn over my sister!
Didn't you hear my order?
The rebels must be suppressed,
Your Majesty.
General Yi is right, Your Majesty.
Let the soldiers suppress the
rebels and go back inside...
Clear the guards.
Your Majesty!
I will meet my people face to face.
They're extremely wound up
right now, Your Majesty.
He is not a King.
He who is afraid to face
is people is not a King.
Your Majesty...
It's an order.
Call off the guards.
Your Majesty...!
It is my great failure.
Curse the man who bombastically said
he would serve the people as his god,
then turned a blind eye to their hunger.
Show no mercy to the man who
failed to protect you and your family
from enemy's aggression and neglected
to show sympathy for your pain.
Punish this unworthy
King with your hands.
I guess he is the prince that
we used to trust and follow.
Your drawings have improved.
You remember me?
Every time I'd draw something
on the ground, you'd say...
"You're going to be a
great artiest someday."
Yes, it's me.
It's Poongae!
Omakji, do you still get into fights
and give your sister trouble?
You remember me, too?
Where is our sister?
Get down on your knees, all of you!
You're before His Majesty the King!
Would you protect us?
Would you give me another chance?
- Your Majesty!
- Your Majesty!
Protect us, Your Majesty!
It was wrong to apologize to the rebels.
Give us your order and
they will be suppressed.
No.
We must restore social order and abolish
the immigration policy on the Jurchens.
The open immigration policy
will remain in effect.
I must protest, Your Majesty.
This is my 8th year on this throne,
and I agree that an evaluation is due.
But I believe love for the people must
be at the heart of that evaluation.
Having said that, rejecting talent
based on social status is wrong, and
so is rejecting those who risked their
lives to come to Joseon and make a home.
Release the prisoners?
Or he will ask for my resignation.
How far will the King go?
When will he stop taking these risks?
Innocent until proven guilty.
How can you call releasing
the prisoners taking risks?
But Your Majesty...
If you cannot abide by
such fundamental right,
I will have to give you
up albeit regrettable.
This will send the people
of the capital flying into a rage.
I suppose you have a plan
to deal with that as well.
His Majesty asks that
you take care of them.
He must be quite distraught.
We're quite distraught as well.
I must ask you men to leave.
We can't.
It doesn't look like the King is intent
on killing the bastards that destroyed
our homes and killed our family, so
we will have to kill them ourselves.
How dare you!
Do it! Kill them!
Stop!
Do not use your weapons!
Your goal is to quickly separate them!
Yes, sir!
What are you doing?
We'll talk later.
Let's get you to safety.
I guess General Yi got
there a moment too late.
We knew there would be protests,
but the whole city is up in arms.
Work harder on finding the real arsonists.
Public will be appeased
when they learn the truth.
Please go back to the
Royal Secretariat and wrap up the official
warrant I will be announcing tomorrow.
I understand your intent, but we
could be adding fuel to the flame.
I see no other way to provide
livelihood to the northerners.
Do you?
This is a familiar sight.
How does it feel to be on
the other side of the fence?
The barbarians were our enemy.
If there are arsonists among you,
you are their enemy just the same.
It's not fair, is it?
It's not fair being regarded as enemy just
because one or two of you might
have had a hand in the fires. Is it?
Try to make a distinction
between the enemy and the
enemy's people from now on.
Those men...!
What do you think will happen if
they can't catch the real arsonists?
I suppose those people
will keep hounding us.
Abolish the military farms?
We will distribute all of the cultivated
farmlands in the northern three states
to the landless and the poor.
It's the quickest way to stabilize
the livelihood of northerners.
We oppose, Your Majesty!
The northerners are faced with the double
burden of taxes and conscribed labor.
Military farms are important
source of military funds.
We empathize with the
situation in the north,
but sometimes sacrifices are unavoidable.
As the chief of military, I can only
interpret your intent to abolish
military farms as abandonment
of national security.
Military funds will be
supplemented from elsewhere.
Our current tax laws will
undergo a bold reform.
Secretary Yun.
We plan to assess the farmlands and
grade them by yield and fertility, and
determine the tax rate correspondingly.
To prevent malfeasance, tax assessment
will be carried out by special crop assessors
dispatched from the central government,
and all private lands owners must register
their property with the assessors office.
You mean the government is going to tax
the landowners on rental income as well?
It is to prevent exploitation
in rent collection.
A portion of that will be
allocated as national tax.
This official warrant will be announced
throughout the country starting with the
capital city at noon today.
Do you think the landed
gentry will agree to this?
It's your job to convince
those who oppose.
Remember. This country belongs to the
nobles and the landed gentry as well.
The King is making enemies of
the nobles and the landed gentry.
I'll have you know that.
Sir.
If it's for the right cause,
sometimes you just have to take
the bull by the born and go for it.
Let us just work on getting rid of
any loopholes that can be exploited.
- This is an outrage!
- How can they do this?
They're trying to run us dry!
What is it?
They are the landed gentry
opposing the tax reform.
Are these petitions?
Historical tax collection reports...
It's good to study them if we're going
to push this tax reform through.
A vanguard of the tax reform...
Are you doing this for the King?
I'm doing this for Joseon.
Are you sure it's not so you can feed
a handful of Jurchen barbarians?
You must be distressed.
It's not wise to make enemy of
the landed gentry, Your Majesty.
The King must pay heed to the people.
The King must be above
selfishness as well.
Why did you wish to see us?
I plan to do a bit of thieving
from the Royal House.
I'd like to collect fifty plots of land from
each members of the Royal House.
Is the country in financial
trouble to the degree
that it requires contributions
from the Royals?
Our budget is never enough.
But the greater purpose of this
decision is for the Royal House
to set a good example for the landed
gentry to appease their selfishness.
The King is ruining this country.
Turning the people against
him to feed the Jurchens,
tainting the Joseonese blood that has
remained pure for the past 5.000 years,
this is not in the interest of Joseon.
You're a smart fellow.
So think hard about what is good
for this country and what is not.
You're a lucky man, Your Highness.
The King has turned the public against
him and you didn't have to lift a finger.
All you have to do now is to take
that public trust and make it yours
and clear your path to the throne.
Jo Malseng...
He's forgetting that I'm a businessman.
Send word to the northern three states
and southern three states.
The time is ripe for all to rise up
and start a new era with a new King!