Father, uncle. I heard a secretary said
Deng Ai suggested the Inspector to open up new waste lands in both south and north of Huai River
Minister Chen also thinks it's a good idea
But the fortress of both places are Shou Chun and Qiao Xian
These two places... Qiao Xian
One is our hometown and another is a fortress for both land and river
Those lands are accumulated because of us
How can we give them those lands to grow farms?
I think this new policy is aim for us
What's wrong with the emperor?
Why did he protect them like this?
Uncle Zi Lian, please calm down
By the way
I heard Mrs Guo is put into the cold palace because she didn't obey the edict
That woman is a disaster too
She is the sister in law of Si Ma Yi. It's perfect for her to put into the cold palace
It's good indeed
An emperor should have some concubines that are trust worthy beside him
Who is that? - Shan Yang agrees with this?
Why wouldn't he agree?
We save their lives
They have to give out these two daughters of his
Raise up your head
Sister
Meets the madam
Stand up quickly
You don't need to do this to me
Why do you come here today?
The food here is not very good
It's bad for your health in such weather
I made some hot soup for you. Please have some
Thank you sis
Take a seat
You don't need to worry
Although the emperor is cold sometimes
he however knows who is good to him or not
For the people that were good to him he will be grateful for them for his whole life
You have been through a lot with him
He will accept your return once he is not that angry
Why don't you...
hate me?
Why would I hate you?
These few days
I couldn't sleep well here
I was lonely like the cold wind at night
The cold is blown into the bones
It hurts like the knife cuttings
All these years being with him
you are just like me being here
lonely
Sister
You are supposed to hate me
I don't hate you
It's fortunate to have you being with him
He is a more calm person when he loves someone
If there is anyone to blame
it would be my own destiny
If back then
I have the courage to refuse this marriage
Nor the forth prince
Then you and me
Emperor and his brother
We all
will be happier than we are now
Sister
Inside your heart
You missed more about the forth prince right?
What is love?
I have been in this palace for more than a decade
I saw brothers fighting against each other
father and son being suspicious to each other
Killing men like nothing
There are schemes about killing people everywhere in this palace
Full of loneliness that can suffocate you
I don't know how to love anymore
Fortunately
I still have my children Dong Xiang and Ruier
My only wish
is to protect them from these sufferings
Being safe the rest of their lives
Meets the emperor
Your majesty
These two are the daughters of Shan Yang Gong
Two princesses from the Han Dynasty
They are willing to serve you
Zi Dan
What will Liu Xie thinks of this?
His wife is my sister
Two children of his
are nieces to me - Right
It didn't match the traditions
Your majesty
Being close and respectful to the people that are supposed to are traditions
What's more
They are not given birth by the big princess. It doesn't matter
Shan Yang Gong gave his position to you
is just like Yao giving positions to Shun
Shun married two princesses of Yao: E Huang and Nv Ying
In this way you should accept
two daughters of Shan Yang Gong
This is right to the traditions and manners
Zi Dan
When do you learn this?
I...
Since you two are princesses
then you should be noble concubines
Shi Chun take them to the palace
Take good care of these two princesses
Yes - Thank you
Will you play with us?
We know nobody here. It's so boring
OK
The palace here is much bigger than yours
Don't cry if you get lost
Is that true sister?
Is that true?
Don't be rude
Please ladies
Do you like them your majesty?
It must have been a lot of works for you to come up with these girls
It's hard for Liu Xie too
He is easy
Just give him some golds and clothes
He will be satisfied
But you as a courtier
What should I give you then?
Your majesty
When do you become like this to me?
I can be whatever I like with others but not you
Just tell me what you need
I will talk about what I need since you say so
No big deal
You mentioned about giving good policies to our hometown County Qiao
The governor of that county is not doing his jobs
Therefore I have been thinking the new candidates
The sixth son of Xia Hou: Xia Hou Xuan
Now is a big boy
He is really a good boy and now there are no wars
I'm thinking about transferring him to the local county
Let him gain some experience. What do you think your majesty?
The selection of the courtiers
are the jobs of the selection department
Why don't you let him to join our examination?
This can't be decided by the selection department
County Qiao is our hometown
All our tombs and temples are there
This is a family issue
Xuaner likes readings
He is also a stable man
I though I can have good use of him
I think a small county governor is enough for him?
Let him gain some experiences first
OK let him gain some experiences first
Thank you your majesty
Shi Zhai
Please
The documents for selecting courtiers
You didn't get to be listed on that list. Do you think you are wronged?
You are willing to re-examine me
I'm already grateful for this decision
You don't get listed on the documents
It's not because you are not suitable for jobs
It's just the current positions
are too small for your talents
For the farming policy you study
I set up a position especially for the farming policy
You will not be influenced by the local courtiers. You just focus on the farming business
What do you think of this?
Thank you so much
Tell what are the difficulties within your new farming policy
The real difficulty
is that the good lands are all owned by the noble class
and the crops are all harvested by military generals
The state doesn't have any lands to farm
even the state has lands the crops harvested don't belong to the state either
Although you are stammer
you think more clearly than most of the people
When I was a small officer at bottom
I saw and heard a lot
Tell me which lands are difficulty to execute the new policies
Qiao Pei - You are right
This place is the hometown of Cao and Xia Hou
If you are a courtier at that place
this place is the ladder to the core of the court
But if you want to farm lands there
This place is a war zone. Dare you
start your policy at this place?
I dare to
My opinion is that the first place should be Qiao Pei
Then it's Shou Chun
If we can execute the policies at these two places
my policy could really work then
You need to take responsibility for the local places
I will be your support in the court
You are more dangerous than me
I finish the hard part
Let me tell you some good news
Why you can speak fluently when that girl is around you?
She is just like you
She doesn't laugh at me
It's better you bring her if you begin to work
That girl should get a proper title beside you
I don't know if you are willing to marry this girl?
Me and my wife are willing to talk for you
I want to marry her
Thank you
Shi Zhai
If you are okay you can just call me teacher
Teacher
Supervisor Shi
Why is there a such quiet place in the palace?
There isn't anyone here. - This is the cold palace
That must be concubine Guo
You know a lot about the palace
Even the emperor calls us princesses how dare you call us concubine?
noble concubine
I have served the emperor for my whole life
I was never a courtier of Han. I only recognize the princess of Wei
I don't recognize the princess of Han
Please forgive me
Sister she is imperial concubine
we are noble concubine. She outranked us
Should we pay a visit to her?
Have you ever seen an imperial concubine lived in cold palace?
Let's go
Your majesty
Do you settle those two girls?
Yes
Anything else?
Your majesty
Should we let the Concubine Guo back at palace?
Did she beg you?
Mr Zhen told me
Concubine Guo is pregnant！
Why didn't she say anything?
I don't know
but I think
The food there is not good and if that hurts your son
It will be unfortunate for us
Guo Zhao and Zhen Fu didn't say anything
They have pretty high self-esteems
A Weng
Go to the cold palace
Take good care of A Zhao
Come back
If she said she is wrong
Let her come over and say it herself
Here comes the bridgegroom
Call him brother Ai or?
Only I can call him that you guys can't
You guys haven't got into the bridal chamber
You already begin to protect him?
Cover your face quickly
The girl is getting married. Coming back with the bridegroom happily
Hou Ji slow down
It's bumping
OK master
It's you are bumping or the wagon is bumping
If you can't drink don't drink that much
I'm happy
I saw you are not willing to attend those royal feasts
Why do you care so much about a small officer's wedding?
It's not like you
You might not know
This is an extraordinary guy
He has a great ambition
but he is still a pure simple person as well
It's hard to find a person like this now
Right
All the people change their wives an friends when they get rich
He becomes a high rank courtier all of a sudden
He could have married more wives
but he still loves his old lovers
He is better than you
I drink too much today
If you want to get there every sentence
I will be drunk all the time
I'm not angry yet and you are not happy?
You haven't answered me
Why do you pay so much attention to a small officer?
This sentence
The thing that the emperor concerns the most now
is the power of generals and royal families
The only way to weaken this power
is to bring up another power to fight against it
This is the power of courtiers
You can always use the power
of big families like Cui Xun
They don't have the last name of Si Ma
You and I only have two sons
What I want are students
These elites from the bottom
are the pillars of the court in the future
Cao Pi let you do this?
The emperor didn't say anything
but he knows it well
He wants me to
fight against the royal families
Why does he send that woman to our house then?
This is a black and white game
If we remove the black the white will become powerful
The emperor
wants a balance of these powers
Any of them become bigger
is not he wants to see
I have to kill them then
Don't be kidding
You can't
Bai Ling Yun is not Tian Liu
The emperor is not his father
You didn't have any consequences when you killed Tian Liu
It's because Cao Meng De had his enemy Yuan Shao harassing him outside
but right now the emperor is looking closely at us
He pays all his attentions on me
Master we are home
You need to help me get up
You are drunk like this
You still want to visit that wife you got for free?
I'm supposed to walk a bit in the western room
Of course all depend on your decision
It seems that we don't need to go to the west wing
Your second wife come forward to the front yard
Master
Madam
You two talk
What? - I have something important to report to you
Please come into my room to talk
We can talk here
There isn't anyone from outside
I'm an outsider already?
Please talk to me in private
I really have something important to tell you
It's waste for you to use your mind
to get my man
My lady is trying to do good for your husband but you just throw it away
Our lady doesn't have to fight for anyone
Since you don't want to know anything about concubine Guo put into cold palace because you
Xiao Yuan don't say anything - What did you say? Finish it
What happened to A Zhao?
If Concubine Guo
wants to remain good relationship with you
Our master can never be a loyal courtier in front of the emperor
What does she mean by this?
Continue
The reason I don't want to talk about it in front of you
It's because if I said then it will prove that you and concubine Guo are intervening with the politics
Then this will hurt concubine Guo
I get it
Go ahead
You can return first
Don't plan anymore. What should we do with A Zhao?
I don't know. - She said she is put into the cold palace
Go and ask her now. - OK
Lady Bai
What happened?
The emperor wants to test the loyalties of concubine Guo
He ordered her to give you the edict that you will divorce your wife
She refused because of her relationships with her sister
Didn't he give two edicts a day already?
Didn't I let you come into our house?
Is this really just for me?
The emperor saw her relationships with her sister
He also saw your relationships with your wife
Two strong relationships
could make concubine Guo listen to your plans and orders
She will become your tool intervening the harem of the emperor
Don't forget
You suggest the harem shouldn't be intervening with the politics
You became half related to the royal families too
You are right
Cao today
gave two princesses to the emperor as gifts
They became noble concubine immediately
I think the future days of concubine Guo
will be more difficult
I never try to use my wife
or Concubine Guo to intervene with the politics
I hope you can
talk to the emperor about this and calm him down
You have the convenience to listen to the emperor
I hope you can talk around for me
so that concubine Guo can get rid of her situation
I'm nobody
How dare I intervene with the family issue of the royal family?
This is not just a royal family issue
This is a family issue between you and me
You used to say
We are families since I enter this house
Ling Yun
We are all families
Where do you stay tonight then?
Master
Help him to get into his room
Come on then
I'm joking with you
Although I stay at the side room
I will not use this way to seduce you
Please rest early if you are tired
The concubine Guo's issue
I will do my best
I will leave now
Let's go
Stop acting
Be nice to us when you need us and act stupid when you don't need us
Let's leave
Is he really what you say?
Yes
Can I still trust you?
Of course you can
Because once you find out
I am protecting the inspector
and not loyal to you
You can just let me leave him
It's the biggest punishment to me right now
Is he really that good?
He is able to
make you die for him?
You know him better than me
about what is he capable of right?
I of course know what he is capable of
However
I hope I can trust him
always trust him
Alright I know
Escort Mrs Bai back
and call concubine Guo back to palace
Yes. Lady please
Please
Farming officer?
Your majesty
The governor of the County Qiao is settled now
What is this farming officer position?
This is a new position I set up
This position is in charge of farming, food and irrigation
This position is not in conflict with the position of the governor
It reports to the minister department directly
The local courtiers need to follow the order of farming officer too
Xuaner
I will appoint the first farming officer in County Qiao
Please do something good with Deng Ai for our family
I will obey the order
We will leave if there is nothing else
The emperor is trying hard to rule the country
He definitely will push this farming policy
I can handle that small farming officer Deng Ai
The key is Si Ma Yi and Chen Qun
Father, uncle
You two must be careful on the court now
Bullshit
Will your uncle be afraid of him?
Listen to me carefully boy
Deng Ai is just a poor lad from the countryside
Just give him some money and woman after you go there
Feed him full so that we can kill him
Master
How is it going?
Take me to your wife
Honey
Miss Bai came here to talk about A Zhao
How about her?
Meets the madam
The emperor has ordered supervisor Shi to take her back to palace when I left the palace
Perfect
I just knew that. I want to hear this with you
Thank you so much
Don't thank me now
Please promise me something. It's for your own good
OK
The true love is think for the other person
not to satisfy oneself
Don't meet with concubine Guo anymore
Don't communicate with her
It's better for you to forget her
She is facing difficulties in the palace
The relationship between you two will only hurt her and is not a cure
I understand
I will not enter the palace again
You are a wise woman
I will not bother you two now
It's a good thing
You can ease up a bit now
This time it's really...
We need to thank her for this
What do you mean?
You mean she is better than me right? She can save you and A Zhao
I can't do that
I mean
We should thank her we should be grateful to her
I didn't say I'm not grateful
I'm very grateful. Tell Hou Ji to prepare some hot water for you to take a bath with her
Use your body to show your gratitude
When we are having dinner later
I let Hou Ji poison the food and kill her ok?
This is good
Do you have the gut?
Tell Hou Ji to give her some dried bamboo shoots I made
Dried bamboo?
That dried bamboo
It's not a fancy gift
She is a royal messenger
Those earrings you bought early spring. You don't like them and didn't wear them either
I'm just a rough man
I'm not as considerate as you
Sending dried bamboo
is a really good choice
It's good for her health
And it feels more like a family gift
Really good
Always making you angry
Go ahead
I will talk to Hou Ji
I will be back immediately
Dried bamboo
Governor these are the archived documents of this county
Please take a look
Is the farming officer here?
He arrived here three days ago
So fast?
I left on the same day with him
He only brought a wife with him when he got here
They rode two mules with the royal documentation
He came right here and began his job directly
He only had two small bags. They rode pretty fast with them
I have been a courter for ten years. I first saw this
Where is the office of the farming officer?
I prepare the officer for him to work
but he said since he is in charge of the farming he shouldn't be far away from the farm
He rented three citizen rooms at the frontiers
He lived in one room
Two for the secretaries and subordinates
Then it's a small office now
He was not at the office these two days either. He ran around to visit the citizens
His wife is really amazing
She went around with his husband
I heard that only when his wife is present he can speak fluently
This is really... - Enough
Don't say anything. Let's take a look
You should leave. - Let us stay madam
Please let us stay
We are here to serve you madam
Get out - Let us stay
Get lost
Madam
We never hire you
Me and my brother Ai don't need any servants either
We are under the order of our master
to farming officer and his wife
We can afford to feed ourselves. We don't need your master's money
Take these money
You can call a wagon on your way
What should we do?
This Deng Shi Zai is really impressive
Within ten days
He calculate out all the private and public lands of the County Qiao
It's easy to calculate
It's hard to execute the policy. That county
doesn't have any lands to farm
Getting lands from those royal families
is just like pulling teeth from tigers
Then we open up the mouth of the tiger for him