【Luo Yang】 Your majesty
and I
have known each other for 23 years
I have followed you for 18 years
I indeed want to make some great achievements
but I never have the intention to betray you
I will not betray you in this lifetime
Even for the following lifetimes
Si Ma Yi
will not betray you either
You have wasted your lifetime already
Not to mention the following lifetimes
I never wasted my lifetime
In this lifetime
You replace Han became the Emperor
and settled down the rebellion within the country
Limit the power of the royal family and enrich the people within the country
The western countries and Sun Qun both bowed under your knees
The old King never achieved those goals
But you did
I'm fortunate to follow you
and see our country thriving and prosperous
I have no pity dying now
Since you don't have any pities
then you will die
Guards - Yes
Imprison Si Ma Yi
Wait for the official trial
Roger
If it's me who set up Zi Jian
What would you do with me?
I haven't died yet
You two brothers want to kill each other already?
That Si Ma Yi
I leave him to you
Remember
From today on
He is no longer a friend
but your courtier and subordinate
Don't be emotional on him
Emperor is alone all the time
A Weng
Your majesty, Shi Chun is still in prison
Release him now
I don't have many people around me
Roger
Do you hear anything?
Madam
I didn't get to see the emperor but...
Master is in prison - What for?
Mrs Zhen
In prison again
Alright
He is in prison and I'm in kitchen
That's a dead ceil in Da Li temple. I will collect the body for him then
You have such courage
Master is fortunate
I just want him to know
I'm beside him
If he misses me
He will try to survive in there
The thing has gone this far
I will talk directly
I know you have strategies. Speak out
What else can we do?
I have stayed with the emperor for a long time
I know something about the court
I want to meet Zhong Hui and Deng Ai alone
What do you think?
I agree
You really want to help Si Ma family like this?
If the emperor knows about this
If you think I might drag you down on this
You can tell the emperor now
I didn't mean by that
You have your own mission and I have my own choice
Now it's a critical time. I will not force you
I already know what you want my lady
Don't worry. I will follow you till the end
Xiao Yuan
Thank you
Madam Ling Yun
Meets lady Bai
It's an emergency
Master wants to save Madam Zhen and the eldest prince
He intervened with the emperor's family issue
He was in prison. - He will be sentenced to death!
I will notify all the courtiers and let them speak for him - Wait
The emperor already felt offended
We can't let the courtiers to push this and make it worse
The reason why I ask you two to come
is because you two are his students and helpful friends
Only you two can save him
But we need to achieve two things in order to save him
Speak quickly
First is to beg the emperor
Chen Qun and your father will be enough
Your father must remind the emperor
Without our master
No one can stop the royal families
Understood
The basic line is to ensure teacher's life
What about the second thing?
Second is to tolerate and make concessions to the royal families
Otherwise they will only make it worse
It's our duty to protect the teacher
You must hurry back then
The emperor will let you draft the edict of setting up the empress
Teacher is fortunate to have you in the family
We will leave now
How is he?
We interrogated him already but he didn't confess
Your majesty
I'm innocent your majesty
I know I'm not in right manner after being drunk
I should die for sure
But I dare not to conspire behind you
If you never taste this
How would you know about the meaning of living or dying?
I will give you another chance
From your bed to this gate
There should be 7 to 8 steps
Come over
and state what you have to say to prove your innocence
When boiling beans in the pot
We want to keep the juice of the bean and filter the residue
Beanstalks are burning under the pot
Th bean is crying under the axe
They are born from the same root
Why are they hurting each other now?
Open the gate
I just knew
All these years
The poems you wrote to her
She wrote them down
She hided it under the jade pillow she used everyday
All these time
It's these poems
giving her comforts
I didn't expect
You two can know and treasure each other without meeting each other
How is she?
She killed herself
No no
It's not possible
Just leave
Leave now
Leave the capital
No... no
Leave the capital...
Zi Jian
From today on
We two brothers
will not see each other again
No need
Everyone bottom up
Zi Dan this strategy you used
is really awesome
You let Si Ma Yi and Zhen Fu fall into it
I thought
Si Ma Yi will use some tricks
Stay behind the curtain
I didn't expect him being a courtier for 20 years
He still thought he is something
The elder prince and he, one is in prison
The other is the son of a sinner
We can decide the person for crown prince now?
What are you thinking about? Do you still worry for your son in law?
Why would I care about him?
Even the Si Ma family really fall down
I still can afford to feed the couple
What are you thinking about then?
I just feel a bit dizzy
Let think about it
The emperor
really wants to execute Si Ma Yi?
Your majesty
Although Si Ma Yi broke into the harem
Can we consider the achievements he made for this country
and the new policy still rely on him
Punish him lightly
Without him being in the minister department
What is the affect towards the new policy?
It will be a loss to the country. I can't support this alone
The royal families hate Si Ma Yi
He will be the public enemy if he stays in the minister department
I can comfort these royal families if I sentence him
The new policy is maturing now
I don't think it still needs him
The royal families will give me some benefits only if I suppress the minister department
From the ancient time
It always has been a deal
You have thought hard for this
But if we really kill Si Ma Yi
I'm afraid the royal families will become bolder without this impediment
It will be hard for you to suppress them later
Even he didn't care about his life
Why do you still speak for him?
The reputation of Si Ma Yi is good
But I don't believe
The court
can't work properly without him
Chen Qun
Let the minister department prepare the edict for the empress
Roger
Kneel
Concubine Guo is decent and polite
loyal and kind
She is humble towards others
She has the quality of the empress Han Ming De
She will become the empress
Cao Rui is the eldest son of mine
He is keen into the study and lost his mother in early age
He will be raised by the empress
Title him the King of central plain
I'm Zhan Qian
I have a memorial to present
Speak
The ruling of the country not only requires the talented courtier and officers
but also a smart, kind wife
Xia Jie became weak because of the Mo Xi
Shang Zhou was gone because of Da Ji
These concubines destroy an entire country
Therefore we should be careful on setting up the empress
The empress needs to come from the ancient royal family
Only in this way this empress can lead the harem
Therefore the book of Changes says only when the family is on the right path then the country will be settled
Chun Qiu says no concubines can become a formal wife
Concubine Guo is from a low born and she can give birth
She is just a concubine if it's just because you like her
And make this bitch become a high born
I'm afraid the manner and traditions are gone
The chaos begins from the emperor
How unbridled you are
The empress is the mother of a country
You dare to insult the mother of the country?
What crime have you commited?
Man Chong
Insulting the mother as a son it's the crime of unfilial
He should get punished heavily according to the laws
Drag him out - Your majesty I'm loyal to you
Your majesty
I have been through everything with the empress for more than a decade
We are under the vow of being together till the end
I set her as the empress
Who has an opinion on this?
You come Shi Ji
Teacher
Stand up quickly
When I was in prison years ago
Your father sent me the cloth and offer food
Now it's your turn
I had a strange connection within the prison and your family
I might disappoint you this time
I didn't come here to send food
You know my father has collected a lot of calligraphic tablet from Ta Lu right?
Yes I do
He let me send you the tablets in case you are bored here
He wants you to practice the calligraphy here
Your father treats this tablet like your Heirloom.
He never lend this to anyone else
I got lucky because of this unfortunate event
Confusion said if listening to beautiful music
We can even ignore the taste of the meat for three months
I can live without meats for a year just for this tablet
Da Li Temple is not that poor to starve you
I actually bring an edict on me today
It's not an official edict. Stand up quickly
It's important to have manner as a courtier in front of the emperor
The emperor let me tell you two things
First he made concubine Guo the empress
Empress will raise the eldest prince herself
The country will not have any concerns now
Second, the agent reported
Liu Bei led 700 thousand troops towards Wu
Wants to revenge for Guan Yu
That's it? - That's it
Liu Bei lost Jing Zhou and had to guard the western Si Chuan
under the name of revenge
He wants to bet this time
Wu and Shu will become enemy to each other this time
It's good for us
But many courtiers on the court said
we should use this chance to attack Wu
We should never do that
Wu Guo will face enemies in two sides. We can destroy them for good
Isn't that good for us?
If we help Liu Bei destroy Sun Quan
Liu Bei has Kong Ming beside him
He will become a big enemy if he conquered Dong Wu
This will raise a tiger and kill just a wolf
I have talked this with you before
The key is about how much money and armies a country has
When they are fighting each other
it's a good time to implement the new policy
If we get involved into this war
Our country will be dominated by the army again. When that time comes
Those generals will become the biggest power influencing the direction of this country
The new policy will be destroyed in no time
I understand
I understand why the emperor wanted me to ask you this alone
I will let him know about this
The emperor knows about it very well
The country affair is important. I will leave now
Just go
You had to be in ceil for a few more days
Deng Ai and I will definitely save you out of this
I'm better off here
than walking around in front of the emperor
Even the emperor didn't accuse me anything
I might not be able to defense the attacks from the court
Shi Zhai and you should go and visit my wife more often and serve the emperor properly
Don't worry we will
Shi Ji
Tell the emperor
Sorrow can hurt himself as well as hurting others
A good king should be able to take care of his own body and health
I remember this
What gesture are we?
Deer
Deng Ai is no one!
He is just a small stammer courtier
A low born like that can be a courtier?
He even went above me
Investigating stolen money?
I will throw him into my army and show him what I'm capable of
I will make him remember what is my last name?
See if he dares to investigate me then?
Uncle Zi Lian don't be angry
Don't mention about the army all the time
The emperor doesn't want to start the war again now
What's the point of having 100 thousand troops?
Uncle
In my opinion
You should hand in the soldiers and the crops
In case you bring yourself the emperor's attention and make this event bigger
I want the emperor to know
What have they done to our royal families?
Even 12 thousand kilos of the crops are stolen money?
He even wanted to kill my accountant. No way
My sacrifice to this country doesn't worth 12 thousand kilo crops?
Who says no?
The peace is brought by a general
Now they don't want you to see peace
Generals don't worth a dime with less wars
For example like you
How many blood you have split to save the old king?
Everyone knows it
I think the emperor now
has forgotten those already
He let go the chance of Sun and Liu's war
And makes us to farm lands?
He raised a bunch of outsiders
I will tell him that in this way his country will be destroyed
Uncle Zi Lian
I will follow you if you really want to tell the emperor about this
Alright let's do this
The farming policy of yours
makes me to come
I'm here now
Have you sent the account that stole the money from the army
and the 120 thousand kilo crops?
No I didn't. - Three days ago
I sent you the documents
that required you to hand in the prisoner and the crops
Did you receive it?
I don't have the crops or the prisoner
You are going against the law then
Bullshit law
I fought the country you have now
Family Cao wrote the law
It's not your turn to lecture me about the law
You contempt this country's law
How should the emperor handle this then?
The emperor has been blinded by courtiers like you
When I fought for this country with the old king
thirty percent of the wealth in the city will be given to the generals and soldiers
Now you require me to hand in only 120 thousand kilo crops?
If I didn't fought for this country
You wouldn't be here to show off in front of me
So you are not satisfied with the farming policy of the emperor?
I'm not satisfied with many things
Let go the chance of Sun and Liu's war
and try to farm the lands?
You blind him. He doesn't dare to start a war
and only knows to undermine his brothers
You have lost the face of the old king
Have you recorded these?
We recorded it
You try to set me up?
I dare not
I'm not good at speech
In case I misspoke something
therefore every time I speak with the courtier
I order them to record them down
Write down this sentence too
Yes
I'm his uncle even I face the emperor
Securities
How dare you attack me? You all want to die?
You want to company your teacher in the prison?
Take him to the prison
Schemer!
I will not forgive you
I will not let you live!
He said I humiliate the old king?
I don't want to make mistakes therefore I have two recorders at presence
What should we do with him for what he did in your office?
If the general Cao didn't come in person
It's just the crime of covering up
Now he admitted he did stole the money from the army
and he refused to return
He even try to attack the officers and guards
I don't have the rights to assess all these crimes
I think the Da Li temple should make the sentence after the interrogation
Isn't insulting me also a crime?
Corruption should be sentenced to death
He even wanted to mention the military achievements he made?
Let's handle him with the military laws then
Chop his head off!
Zi Dan
You come
You still got time to play?
I need to keep my health to see the glorious future of our country
You don't know do you?
Uncle Zi Lian is sentenced to death by the emperor
I know. You see
Uncle Zi Lian killed the wife of that stammer courtier
Wouldn't that courtier convince the emperor to kill him?
Since you know why are you still playing?
Let's go and plead for uncle Zi Lian
Put down the swords and let's go
What pleading? How to?
Zi Lian said it himself
He said the emperor is a shame to the old king
He dare to speak like that? This is what emperor didn't like the most?
Uncle Zi Lian this time
is dead for sure
We should come up with something even we can't save him
They are after our families
We of course should come up with something
We will revenge for uncle Zi Lian
Bo Ren
I tell you everything you need
No one can save uncle Zi Lian this time
Therefore
What should we think about now
is how to revenge for him
Do you understand?
I have thought it through
Uncle Zi Lian
is the most valuable
because he saved the life of the old king and his reputation within the army
Think about it
If someone persuade the emperor to kill
the savior of his father
What is the result?
The army will become unstable
Do you remember how the old king stable the army?
Heads
If we can find a scapegoat for this
the anger of the army will be put upon this man
Everything will be fine then
It was Yang Xiu in the past