47. Geumbi, you lie down too

It is no exaggeration to say that King Sukjong was the greatest cat lover throughout the 500-year-old Joseon Dynasty. There are many records that show his love for cats. In particular, if you look at Kim Si-min’s book called Geummyoga, there are detailed records about Sukjong’s companion cat.

[Sukjong named it ‘Geumdeok’, and the cat’s descendants were called ‘Geumson’. It was literally a cat with golden fur. It is said that these Geumdeok and Geumson were very loyal to King Sukjong, unlike other cats.]

Geumson was the only person in the palace who could eat right next to King Sukjong. It was said that Geumson slept next to King Sukjong’s bed when it was cold, which showed how much King Sukjong loved cats.

When Geum-deok, the mother of Geum-son, passed away, King Sukjong ordered a funeral and even wrote an article mourning the death. It may be just a beast, but King Sukjong’s respect for the cat, who truly loved its owner, was by no means excessive. Perhaps the only resting place in the barren palace was playing time with Geumson.

In fact, it would have felt quite strange to see Sukjong, the iron-blooded monarch who caused bloodshed to the point of making the ministers tremble, handing out his food to Geumson lying on his stomach under the table.

Anyway, this Geumson said that when Sukjong passed away, he stopped eating and drinking and cried bitterly for three days. Queen Inwon, consort of King Sukjong, took pity on her and brought her back to the palace, but the cat that had lost its owner still refused to eat and roamed around Binjeon crying pitifully. Recognized for his loyalty, Geumson was wrapped in silk clothes and buried next to the road to Myeongneung, the tomb of King Sukjong.

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Animal Wrangler Park Woo-sung kept biting his nails as if he was nervous while driving. It was good that he received a request from assistant director Woo Jae-mok, whom he knew, and started the work, but training the cat was never easy.

“Haa, did you take care of the cat for nothing?”

Basically, cats didn’t crave human love that much. I was mainly interested in sleeping and grooming, but because of this, it was very difficult to draw acting.

In the first place, cats are divided into those who can act and those who can not, depending on their personality, but only sociable cats that have been socialized since they were kittens were able to act.

However, since cats are naturally territorial animals, they do not like to go out of the house, and training them to act out of embarrassment was close to the highest level of difficulty among many animals.

Also, because the personality is so clear, you can’t have a cat perform multiple acts. For this reason, it was necessary to train several cats that looked similar to each other with different performances so that it would appear as if one cat was performing multiple acts on camera.

Cats, like dogs, train clickers, but unlike dogs, cats think they are training humans.

Because of this situation, the fees for these cats were much higher than those of most minor actors.

“The training hasn’t finished yet, will it be okay? It’s a big deal, really. This floor is narrow, so if anything goes wrong, rumors will spread quickly. no it will be fine! But if you do it 10 times, you succeeded about 3 times.”

Park Woo-sung worked hard to turn the positive circuit and arrived at the filming site, carrying two animal cages.

“hello. I am Park Woo-sung, an animal wrangler.”

“Five! Mr. Woosung, are you here? I was still waiting impatiently. From today’s shoot, our Geumdeok has to be put in. Training is over, right?”

“of course. From the beginning, he was named Geumdeok from the time he was a baby, and he was thoroughly trained. You don’t have to worry too much.”

“good. Then trust me and I’ll see you when we shoot.”

Assistant director Woo Jae-mok went behind the camera again, and Park Woo-sung only looked at the cage impatiently.

“Please, Geumdeok-ah, save me just once. please.”

“Now, actors, let’s stand by. Please prepare!”

***

[Gapsul Hwanguk]

King Sukjong’s 20 years old King Sukjong was 34 years old.

King Sukjong was easier to deal with than Seoin, but he was dissatisfied with the incompetent men. However, Namin was so afraid of King Sukjong that he hesitated, so there was no reason to throw him out.

It was only a warning about Namin’s incompetence through Bimanggi.

Due to King Sukjong’s personality, he was so thorough, diligent, and competent in state affairs that he could not bear to look at incompetent people.

However, the incompetent Namin did not understand King Sukjong’s warning, and eventually a problem arose.

One day, Uijeong Min-am complains to Sukjong that Ham-wan, a person from the Seoin side, is plotting treason. Behind him was a gobyeon with the intention of completely eradicating the remaining Seoin remnants.

King Sukjong looked at Minam carefully and readily gave the order.

“good night. Establish the National Office and conduct a thorough investigation without leaving even a single question.”

In accordance with King Sukjong’s order, the people involved were arrested one by one and subjected to rigorous interrogation.

At this point, a reversal occurred.

Three people, including Kim In, Park Gwi-geun, and Park Eui-gil, from Seoin in Migwanmaljik, found a pyeonjeon and posted a written report. Their contents were mentioned in detail about the conspiracy, and the contents were quite shocking.

It was said that Jang Hee-jae, Jang Hee-bin’s older brother, ordered Dong to poison Choi Suk-bin’s aunt.

In addition, he added that the Namin side figures, Uijeong Min-am, Byeongjo Judge Mok Chang-myeong, Hojo Judge Oh Si-bok, Shincheong County Governor Yoon-hee, and Hoguk Villa Seong Ho-bin were involved.

It was a reverse gobyeon that directly confronted Minam’s gobyeon using Hamwan.

King Sukjong’s face turned red with anger after reading the book of treason.

“How can there be so many lies and so insidious?”

In order to find out which one was the truth, King Sukjong arrested the people involved one after another and ordered stronger interrogations, and watched the whole process with his own eyes.

However, as the scale of the Korean text gradually increased and the names of the three princesses appeared in the names of those involved, King Sukjong became very angry.

“How on earth does Min-am handle his work! Why is the name of the princess mentioned here!”

Sukjong, furious with Min-am’s handling of the work, once again lowers the steamer that night.

The gist of the content was that he believed that the men had ridiculed the king and despised the royal family, and instead of leading the Korean language, all of the lower classes were exiled and exiled.

The central figure was Minam.

When Sukjong’s bimanggi was issued, the ministers of great and small ranks who led the Namin regime, from Yeonguijeong to Jwauijeong, disappeared in an instant, and Minam and all key figures left for exile.

At the same time, he naturally called back the Seoin, and revealed his position on three major issues to the Seoin.

First, those who agitate the national capital are not tolerated. It is said that you should never try to shake the crown prince just because the world has become a Seoin world.

Second, we do not tolerate those who try to defend Hong Chi-sang and Lee Sang-myung, including the deposed Min. Just because Seoin came to power again, you shouldn’t think about arguing about the decision to abolish Kisohwanguk or the abolition.

“If this is violated, we will deal with it strictly according to the law.”

“The castle is ruined. majesty.”

King Sukjong notified the ministers in a firm and stern voice, and the ministers, who had already keenly felt what kind of person King Sukjong was through three return trips, could do nothing but bow their heads.

In this way, the third return to the country, Gapsulhwanguk, was carried out, and as a result, about 10 Namin were executed, and about 100 people were exiled or removed from office.

During the total of three return trips, only 50 people were killed by King Sukjong.

Throughout the entire 500 years of the Joseon Dynasty, it was a passage that could be seen as the closest monarch to an absolute monarch.

***

“Okay cut! I’m going to rest for a while.”

“It is really scary when I give the order to execute Hua. How many people have you killed?”

“I can’t believe in dramas from now on. There, he just came out like a hogu lover.”

As usual, the staff chatted while sharing brief reviews about this shoot.

“However, few people approach King Sukjong.”

The eyes of Cha Eun-hyuk of the props team turned to Kyu-ha.

“I asked the directing team, but after watching this drama for four months, actors can’t approach me easily because I feel like a real king now.”

“However, even so?”

“Hey, don’t talk. Song Kyu-ha and the actors who act with emotions are so nervous every time we act together that my legs loosen up after filming.”

In fact, since the filming of senior actor Park Chang-soo ended, no actors approached Kyu-ha easily. It wasn’t a bullying concept, but it was something I couldn’t easily talk about because it felt really difficult to rule. At least a middle-aged actor was at the level of attaching words.

On the other hand, Kyu-ha went around the field helping the staff and taking care of minor actors, etc., but the people involved were very happy and did not know what to do.

Anyway, it was proof that he was well immersed in the role, so director Kim Jeong-nam didn’t care.

“Park Woo-sung! Get the cats ready.”

Finally, the order of shooting the scene where King Sukjong and the cat meet for the first time has come. It was also a scene that director Kim Jeong-nam cared about a lot. Since the film was so heavy and depicts the political strife between the king and his ministers, the brief scene in which the ruthless monarch Sukjong falls for a cat served as a welcome rain to the heavy film atmosphere.

The scene itself was simple.

King Sukjong found a golden cat lying on the ground from starvation while taking a walk in the garden of Changgyeonggung Palace. Afterwards, King Sukjong gave the cat the name ‘Geumdeok’ after showing absolute loyalty towards King Sukjong who saved him, and he was always with ‘Geumdeok’ while eating or going to bed.

The point was to show Sukjong’s human side through the scene where Sukjong confided only to Geumdeok when he had a problem.

“Okay then! I’ll start filming.”

At the director’s standby sign, Park Woo-sung took the cat out of the cage and set it down on the floor. The cat had fur that was more yellow than yellow, but it seemed that the unfamiliar filming location was frightening.

“Geumdeok, Geumdeok? are you okay. Let’s just do what we trained for.”

Park Woo-sung squeezed out the churro from his pocket and fed it to Geum-deok, then looked around carefully to see if he had calmed down a bit.

“Woosung, is the cat ready?”

“Yes, it is. If you give me a cue sign, I will signal you.”

“Yes. That will be fine. Standby queue.”

click.

As they trained, when the clicker sound was heard, the cat stopped moving and stood still.

Later, while taking a walk around the garden, Sukjong finds a cat standing still.

“Uhh… that’s really unfortunate, hey, take that cat and raise it.”

“Wait, cut cut! No, why is the cat like that!? How is that thing starving!? You just lie still!”

Director Kim Jeong-nam’s Noh Ho-seong made Woo Jae-mok contemplate and looked at Park Woo-sung.

“How did this happen? I heard everyone was trained!?”

“No.. I’m good at that.. but maybe it’s because I’m nervous.”

“No, where are you talking about that now? Aren’t the entire staff unable to do anything because of the cat right now!”

Park Woo-sung said with cold sweat on his face.

“Give me a little time. I will try to persuade you somehow.”

At Park Woo-sung’s words, director Kim Jong-nam sighed and picked up the microphone hanging around his neck.

“I’m going to rest for a while.”

When the director’s break sign went off, Park Woo-sung grabbed the cat, fed him snacks, and pressed the clicker, but the situation showed no signs of improving.

Gyu-ha also sat on the veranda where he often rested, staring blankly at the flowing clouds.

“Meow”

Then, as if he had waited, there was someone who came to Kyu-ha’s side and rubbed his head.

“Geumbi. Were you waiting for me?”

As if waiting, Geum-bi rubbed her face, flipped her stomach open, and showed off all sorts of charms.

Gyu-ha stroked Geum-bi’s hair and then lay down on the veranda.

“Geumbi, you lie down too.”

Geumbi, who watched the scene with sparkling eyes, lay down on her side as if she were following him.