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[Episode 62]
I bet on the fat man to win.
Start!
This Muru Army soldier...
He was trying to cross the sea to deliver a letter
to the royal court in East Continent.
It says in the letter...
that the Muru Cavalry has already found Helan Tie Yuan's main camp.
Muru Shuo has already set out to the camp with his men.
The final battle is within sight.
I'm Prince Jing's strategist!
I've studied all kinds of books since I was a child!
I told you to fight!
Not talk!
Let me live!
If I win... do I get to live?
You do.
Come!
Fight!
- Kill him! - Kill him!
Kill!
- Kill! - Kill that fat man!
Kill!
We'll barge out together.
We'll take down as many as we can.
It's worth it.
Yes.
Why didn't you hurt me?
- Get up! - Get up!
We've tried so many times and it's always the same.
They end up killing each other.
It's boring.
Clever Suoda Meng!
I've just brought in a good batch of slaves.
There's one woman who is pretty good.
If you like her, we can negotiate on the price.
What is it?
Do women fight these days as well?
Give us some food.
What are you looking at?
Water!
You must be thirsty.
Water! We get to drink water!
- Water! - Water!
I want water!
I want to drink water!
Please give us some water!
Water!
Do you want some?
There's only this bit of water.
You can have it if you can grab it.
If you can't, you die of thirst.
Go and beg God Pandar to make you more capable in your next life!
You can have it if you can grab it.
- Water! - Water!
That young lady is pretty.
What a pity.
She's in here.
You were referring to her?
Yes, it's her.
Suoda Meng.
You've grown fat.
My most honorable guest.
Haerqin... Do you know how many years Shang Yang Pass has existed?
We're about to set out to Han Prefecture.
Your Highness, you're still in the mood to admire the scenery?
Up until this year, it's existed for 1,800 years.
At 4,500 star years, Emperor Rose of Yin Dynasty, Bai Yin
led 100,000 soldiers here to take down the pass.
He had the ancient pass trampled down flat.
Then he used the advantage of the mountain
to construct Shang Yang Pass.
It's the important pass that leads into Zhong Prefecture from Wan and Yue.
It survived three dynasties and numerous battles.
Shang Yang Pass is still standing strong right here.
May the Great Duan Empire...
May we be like this mighty pass.
Whatever the challenges...
may we stay strong for thousands of years.
May we stay in power and grandeur.
Haerqin...
For the safety of our nation
this journey is as good as seeking my own doom.
I don't think it's that bad now.
It's just hard on you.
None of my other attendants dare to join me
but you do.
I...
I'm grateful.
Prince He Ge!
I've been at your side since I was a child.
I know of Your Highness's ambition.
Others just don't understand!
It's my honor to accompany Your Highness to Han Prefecture.
Get going, then!
We have a long journey ahead.
Your Highness.
What is it?
Your Highness... Why didn't you bid the empress farewell before you left?
The servants said that the empress has been waiting for you.
My mother...
If I visit her, who knows what trouble she'd stir up again?
It's best to keep it this way.
Let her stay angry at me.
If any mishap really befalls upon me in Han Prefecture
perhaps...
she won't be too upset.
Your Highness!
The best would have to be the pecans of Ning Prefecture that are in season.
Soak them in oil for a day.
Mash them and mix them into the flour.
Bake pecan pastries.
He Ge love them the most.
Since he was a child, he never got sick of it.
These are also easy to carry.
We'll make more of them to get ready.
When He Ge comes to bid me farewell
be sure to have him take the pastries with him.
He can take the pastries with him to eat on his way to Han Prefecture.
Actually...
I don't wish for him to visit me.
If he doesn't come to visit me, it means he's still in Tian Qi City.
He's still safe.
Your Highness!
Reporting to the empress!
Prince He Ge has already left Shang Yang Pass.
He's set out to Han Prefecture!
Who told him to leave?
Who consented to it?
He hasn't even visited me.
He didn't bid me farewell yet.
How could he have already left?
Young Mistress, where are you going?
Quickly.
Your Highness!
Young Mistress!
Your Highness!
Nanku Ming Yi seeks audience with His Majesty!
Please allow both Nanku Ming Yi and Muyun He Ge
to travel to Han Prefecture together!
In terms of the committed crime
Nanku Ming Yi shares the same sin as Muyun He Ge!
I committed felony by withholding information of Muyun He Ge's intention!
Your Highness!
Young Mistress!
Your Highness!
Young Mistress!
Your Highness!
Step aside!
Today, at the risk of my life, I must seek audience!
Without His Majesty's decree, no one is to enter!
- Step aside! - Your Highness!
- Young Mistress! - It's a felony to trespass!
Nanku Ming Yi seeks audience with Your Majesty at the risk of my life!
My older brother, Nanku Qi, tried to assassinate Your Majesty.
All nine branches of our family were killed for his crime.
I took the identity of another and impersonated Consort Yin Rong.
I should also be punished for it.
I drugged Consort Yin Rong to prolong her life
and then set her quarters on fire to kill her.
Your Majesty, please banish me from the palace.
Send me to Han Prefecture with Muyun He Ge.
You want to escape from this cage of a palace?
Sure.
I... shall grant you your wish.
[Wanted]
On both sides!
Turn!
Access is allowed today!
"Fine jade under a red robe"
"wandering the world indifferent to others."
"Holding its weapon high and staring with eyes of a tiger."
"Going about on a rampage." ("Rampage" also means "going sideways.")
You really are here.
Su Yu Ning wasn't referring to a crab.
She was complimenting you.
Why are you looking at me?
Your Highness.
In the past, I think that you studied too much.
Your brains get in the way.
You now seem more likable.
It's been a few years.
Yet you... still seem like your old, heartless self.
I'm thick-skinned.
Where are you going?
Han Prefecture.
Han Prefecture?
What are you going to do there?
What else can I do there?
I once served in the army.
Now that our nation is at war, I should be there to fight.
You're just there to be a soldier?
How much can you contribute?
As much as I possibly can.
It's a pity.
But you won't be able to go there anyway.
State ships of all sizes at Quan Ming Harbor are all gone.
A few days ago, Muyun He Ge was sent as an envoy to Han Prefecture.
When he passed by my jurisdiction
I wanted to get him a state ship, but I couldn't.
A noble prince, a descendant of an emperor.
Wouldn't those officials kiss up to you
when you ask them for a ship to cross the sea?
They are too smart for that.
Calamity will soon be upon us.
They have yet to know who will win this battle.
They won't try to kiss up to anyone so easily.
Calamity?
The soldiers of Yue Prefecture's Prince Jing
have been probing into Shang Yang Pass's armaments.
Arch princes aren't allowed to keep an army.
He can't, but he does.
That's what makes it frightening.
I haven't been able to sleep well lately.
Shang Yang Pass is the crucial checkpoint
in entering Zhong Prefecture from Wan and Yue.
Yet I can only watch as Prince Jing deploys his soldiers from Yue Prefecture.
As for Wan Prefecture...
Since Arch Prince Ye returned to Wan Prefecture
none of the prefecture's inhabitants are allowed to enter or leave freely.
We can't get any news at all.
It's as if the rainstorm is approaching
and yet I don't even have an umbrella.
The Muru Cavalry troops stationed at Shang Yang Pass
were all assigned there and managed by Great General Muru.
However, Great General is now away in Han Prefecture.
I could only take a few hundred soldiers of the Muyun Silver Army with me.
But they aren't of much use.
When will the general return?
I don't know.
Are those people from North Continent so hard to defeat?
The general isn't trying to stall time.
It's because the supply of rations was cut off.
I had planned to send rations across the sea to them secretly.
However, the ships here at Quan Ming Harbor no longer operate.
The Sea Transport Bureau gave the excuse of a storm at sea.
All ships that can transport cargo have been transferred to Chulao Sea.
Even the private ships can't operate anymore.
So I realized...
the crowns on the heads of the so-called royal family or nobility
are sometimes nothing more than just a pretty front.
If those government officials refuse to do something
they could come up with thousands of excuses to hoax you.
Whoever refuses to do what they should
just chop off their heads.
Why bother wasting your breath?
Chop off their heads?
Who will work for you after all the officials' heads are chopped off?
Besides, how can you guarantee that
new officials won't have the same bad habits as the previous ones?
However, since I'm here now
I won't make any compromises.
If the arch princes intend to raise a mutiny
and wish to go through Shang Yang Pass
they will have to trample over my body.
The world...
It isn't that I don't wish to vie for it.
Su Yu Ning...
It isn't that I don't wish to vie for her.
Whenever the sun set, as I stood at the top of Shang Yang Pass
I finally figured out one matter.
If I wish for the one I love to be safe
our nation has to be safe first.
As long as the fires of war don't spread to Tian Qi City
Su Yu Ning can then be safe.
Han Jiang.
If you like to fight
there's another place which is more in need of your help.
It seems that Su Yu Ning is more useful than I am.
She can even inspire others.
Su Yu Ning...
Is she all right?
She didn't come to see you?
Was she coming to see me?
Your Highness, Suoda Meng killed many of our people from East Continent.
When we cross the sea into his camp
I'll go and take a look first.
Whatever happens, I guarantee to keep Your Highness safe.
You can't guarantee that.
Your Highness can leave now.
Novoland is huge.
If you run away now, you can survive.
I might be able to survive, but I won't be able to keep the surname of Muyun.
I'd never do so.
Someone once said...
since the cliff is already right behind me
I might as well keep climbing up.
I'll climb to the peak where only one man can stand.
Then my life...
It will no longer be at the mercy of anyone else.
We'll soon arrive at Quan Ming Harbor.
Your Highness, why is it so quiet in here?
We mustn't linger.
Go to the front and ask
if we can still get a private ship that dares to cross the sea.
Yes.
Sir! Where can we find a merchant ship that will cross the sea?
It's your honor to be able to speak to me!
Speak!
You didn't make it.
If you were here two days earlier, you might've found one.
What about now?
Now?
You don't need any ship now.
They have returned.
They have returned!
Anyone who came here can no longer go anywhere!
How dare you?
Your Highness, be careful!
This place is weird.
We're all flies on this spider web!
The spider will come looking for you.
The spider will come looking for you!
Who chopped off your legs?
You...
Are you looking for them?
I only want to look for a ship.
They are the only ones with a ship at Quan Ming Harbor now.
The fastest ship in the world.
Your Highness, must you go?
Someone has taken over the Great Duan Empire's harbor.
Yet the royal court isn't even aware of it.
Don't you find it strange?
I only know that it will be dangerous.
We are envoys of the royal court.
No one would dare lay a finger on us when we're still on East Continent.
Are you here to meet our Young Master Tang?
Yes.
After you.
Step aside!
Don't kill me...
My brother asked you who you are.
The third prince of the Great Duan Empire.
Muyun He Ge.
The legitimate son of the Duan Empire's empress.
My brother said that you're useless.
But those bones on your legs seem pretty useful.
Stop struggling.
Oceanide silk might seem thin
but it has no trouble binding a bison to death.
Let me go.
As long as you let me go, I can promise you anything you want!
As long as you let me go!
My brother says that it's always best when clients lower their own prices.
What do you want?
- Can you afford it? - I can.
As long as I can return to the royal court
from Han Prefecture safely
the future of the Duan Empire... lies in my hands.
The heir apparent of the Duan Empire is Muyun Sheng.
Do you really think that my father would pass his throne
to a monster with Charmer blood?
My father is not some lunatic.
He isn't!
If a Charmer gets to be an emperor
then the Wise, the Giants
and the Soarers will think that they can be as well.
As for the Oceanides...
We dislike the Humans' dirty lands.
Therefore, we're not greedy.
We just want the sea.
The sea?
All access to the sea in Novoland must be approved by the Oceanides.
What did you say?
The five major seas of Novoland...
Even sea transport on all three continents...
Even all the Humans who wish to travel by sea...
It must all be approved by you?
For so many years...
We had to put up with the Humans'
greasy ship bottoms grazing past our homes.
We had to take in all the food waste, feces, urine, and corpses
that the Humans dumped into the sea.
It's as if you think it's fine to ruin the sea.
The sea is our home.
We built our cities and villages painstakingly
with corals and seaweed, little by little.
Clean seawater is air to us.
That gives us life.
Now... do you want to keep your life or the sea in your nation?
Once Duke Heng reaches the harbor, we'll send you across the sea.
If you can make it back from Han Prefecture alive
you mustn't forget what you just promised us.
If you do forget about it
we'll be able to remind you wherever you might be.
Fine.
Helan Tie Duo!
This lamb is waiting for you to enjoy it.
If you don't eat it, I won't feel at ease.
I'm afraid that you'd bear a grudge against me.
Should I bear a grudge?
That hunter of the Longge Clan really doesn't recognize you.
He stuffed you into the cage.
I'll apologize to you on his behalf.
Isn't there something else?
Yes, indeed.
I didn't answer to your brother's calling to fight alongside the Iron Wielder.
You knew about it as well.
Our clan only specializes in commerce.
We can't fight battles.
We're no more than a burden to you.
As for me...
I'm afraid to cause you more troubles.
There's more.
When we were fighting against those men from East Continent
you held on to the armed forces of the Longge and Kusu Clans
to blackmail the royal court of East Continent.
We place our lives on the line.
You get the goldlings.
Is that appropriate?
I do find this appropriate.
Tie Duo.
There isn't just one way to fight a war.
I think...
It's inappropriate.
If we were not fighting this war
you wouldn't have gained any profit.
What is it that you want?
I want some benefits.
Tie Duo, it's easier if you're just asking for benefits.
Ask away.
What would you like?
A ship.
Tie Duo...
On the prairie, we know sheep the best.
This is the tenderloin, the best part of a lamb.
It's always tender.
Since you're already here, stay a few more days.
If you want to eat or drink anything, I have everything here.
Do what you like.
You eat so much that your fat has covered your ears.
Didn't you hear what I said?
I said, I want a ship.
If I don't give it to you... what can you do about it?
Make your brother retreat?
The Iron Wielder is already reluctant
but even if he wants to do so now, he won't have the chance.
What do you mean by that?
You didn't know?
Muru Shuo has deployed his troops.
He might be out there killing your people now.
I'm tired. I need to get some rest.
I'll just stay here.
You can all leave now.
Sure!
Keep a good eye on the Iron Wielder's younger sister!
She mustn't get lost in here!
Understood.
Did you all hear that?
Take good care of our guest!
Master Gusong.
The joint appeal of Arch Prince Jing and Arch Prince Qing
to abolish the heir apparent
has been handed over to His Majesty.
If Muyun He Ge returns safely
all of the officials will submit a joint appeal
to offer our opinions.
You should get ready for it soon.
The empress is still in the Celestial Prison.
Muyun He Ge...
Is he still the suitable candidate?
No one can be more suitable than him.
As the emperor's subjects, we all hope for a good emperor.
The fewer people the emperor can rely on, we...
We'll find it easier to handle matters.
Let him through!
Suoda Meng is happy enough to see me today.
You should hurry up.
My lord's good mood lasts for less and less time.
I have to keep walking again? How annoying.
Let me in!
I do lead such a laborious life!
This task is simply too annoying.
I don't even want to do it.
You don't want to do it?
You can choose not to do it.
That won't do.
In such perilous times when our nation is at stake
I have the responsibility of making some good money.
Did you know?
My lord knows that you're picky, Old Master Agebu.
This is all salt.
My lord has all the salt he needs.
Smart man.
What is troubling you?
My dear friend...
Sit down if you'd like some wine.
If you want to buy slaves, you can leave now.
What can possibly make the clever Suoda Meng
lose the mood for negotiating a business deal?
Only a bigger business deal can do so.
A man of East Continent has told me to bring you a message.
I've met many men from East Continent.
I've also heard a lot.
This man from East Continent has the surname of Muyun.
Leave now.
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