This country will belong to you sooner or later.
You can eat it...
whenever you want.
You can start with...
whatever you want.
If he eats it,
it means that he's going to take His Majesty's country.
Treason.
If he doesn't eat,
it means he's defying His Majesty order, disrespect.
He'll be punished either way whether he eats it or not.
If it's you, what are you going to do?
If we are at my country...
and our emperor forces our hands like that,
we can only rebel.
Tang's emperor wants to depose the crown prince.
Why did he have to do it during this feast?
What is he trying to show us?
What is he...
Father.
I don't feel well.
I'll have to take my leave.
Move aside!
It's extremely inappropriate for crown prince...
to leave at this time.
No need to chase a tottering foe.
The crown prince has forgotten about his etiquette.
If other officials make him an example in the future,
I'll have no idea how to deal with that.
General Guo.
Bring the crown prince back.
If he is set on leaving,
-then... -this country belongs to me too!
You are protecting your master so loyally.
Such laudable affection.
Having grandchildren and successors...
is the greatest gift from God.
A son can make sure the continuation of you lineage.
But you humiliate the crown prince every day like this.
What good will it do to our Great Tang?
Since he was ten,
he stayed in the Royal Academy with other princes.
Until now, he still doesn't has a house that he can call his own.
You strictly forbade him from being associated with any of the officials.
And you completely barred the princes from taking part in the court.
Or else, they might become the another Li Ying, the previous crown prince.
Old Man He.
You just focus on guarding against...
crown prince from taking over your power.
But you never thought that...
if it wasn't for crown prince who defends the imperial power for you,
then, the decline of Chang'an,
the separatist regime by Fanzhen and the monopolization of power...
will be over you in a flash.
I was wrong.
Just now, I should have...
given you...
the first taste of this 'Country'.
-During the Old Calendar time... -That time has long past!
Now, it's my Tian Bao.
Your Majesty.
In the early years,
you were so frugal.
You forbade the officials ranking three and below and...
everyone below the title empress and consort in the palace...
from wearing gold accessories and jade ware.
And you dismissed the maidservants in order to cut down expenses.
You even had a strict rule that forbade...
the country from mining pearls, gems and from weaving silk brocade...
to curb the extravagant life in the harem during Wu Zhou dynasty.
Back then,
you even passed down a nation-wide order...
to check the number of fugitives and unregistered lands.
You found more than 800,000 of them...
and managed to increase the income of our tax, the number of soldiers...
and our manpower exponentially.
Great Tang at that time...
was financially well-off,
our food supplies abundant,
the commodity price is low...
and the people are living in peace and happiness.
Tian Bao...
will definitely do better than the dynasty during the old calendar!
That's right.
That's right!
As long as you are not here!
" The Longest Day in Chang'an "
Episode 41
I went back to the Defence Beacon after that.
The bodies of our brothers were left in the wild.
I'm the one who brought them back.
Only bits and pieces of their bones were left.
I bought a small land...
in Lingwu.
It rests at the foot of a mountain with water nearby.
There's a small village beside it.
There lives a lot of people...
who ran away from Chang'an.
I made a grave for our brothers.
And I erected a gravestone for each of them.
Every year, during new year,
I'll go and keep them company.
I'll drink with them.
More than 200 gravestones.
Every year, I'll accompany them from...
the first day of new year until the Lantern Festival.
Why didn't you bring me along?
You and Old Man Wen...
are doing quite well in Chang'an.
Why would I bother you?
-Where is the grave? -Where is Old Man Wen?
I only understand this after...
you and Old Man Wen got into troubles.
The sleuth-hound captain...
in this Chang'an...
is just a nobody.
Every injustice has its perpetrator.
Someone...
has to bear the responsibility for it, right?
I came here today...
to talk it over with him.
Join me.
You haven't forgotten, right?
You are the soldier of The Eight Squad too.
I haven't forgotten about it.
15 minutes to two.
It's lighting up.
Look. I didn't lie to you, right?
It's going to start soon.
-Great! -Great!
Pray for the Holy Trinity and the Eleven Luminaries.
Play with your Eight Trigrams and natal chart. Go and travel the world.
Come and meet me at the lowest depths of hell.
But we can't let The Eight Squad become the scapegoat.
Our brothers died protecting Great Tang.
We can't let their descendants feel ashamed to visit their grave.
You have to tell me. Who is the one that spurs you on to do this?
The people need to know your reason for doing this.
No need to worry about that.
Our stories,
the mission that we have to do today and the stories of The Eight Squad...
will be passed down to the people through Wen Ran.
Wen Ran.
I didn't get to protect her.
Where is she?
She went down to look for you just now.
Where is she?
I saw her.
She is beyond saving.
Sir Long is going to make a move now.
Stay calm, brothers.
The sluice is just half-opened right now.
When Sir Long gives the signal,
we will close this completely!
And the water from Dragon Spillway...
will come pouring in from here and go back out from that sluice!
When the rapid water flow powers up the wheel,
all twelve light rooms will be completely extended.
When it's two o'clock...
and the light room is extended until where His Majesty stands,
We will reincarnate together with His Majesty.
We'll have a talk with him about our dissatisfaction!
-Alright! -Alright!
I didn't hear wrongly, right?
Why did Sir Long ask us to stop the wheel?
We just have to follow his order.
That's right. Let's go.
Father, is it broken?
I think it's some sort of a show.
Is it broken?
-Quick. -Who is it?
-What are you doing here? -We have to be quick.
How did you get in? Speak!
Insolent!
Where are you going, crown prince?
Are you going to bully me as well?
This is my man.
Chief of Peacekeeper Corps is under order to investigate a case today!
You have to report to His Majesty now.
It's not the best time to meet him now.
We have to be quick.
This is serious.
Let's talk in a secure place.
You are going to stop just like that?
You are going to waste half a year of efforts just like that?
What are you trying to do?
Guard this place for me.
Give me 15 minutes.
After 15 minutes,
reignite the Jahannum-dhool.
By that time,
I would be done talking with the emperor.
We'll leave together after that.
Will we be able to do that?
Yes.
We can walk together...
on the path to hell.
They have tight security. You won't be able to get in.
Tight security?
In my eyes,
that side is so loose in security that anybody can get in.
Tight security.
-I'll stay. -What are you plotting?
The mechanism at the bottom...
is broken when I blew up Mao Shun just now.
We need someone to stay here.
You just want to send us away.
Will I be able to trust you?
I didn't get to protect Wen Ran.
I have to meet Lao Wen face-to-face...
in order to apologise to him.
How do I operate it?
Will I be able to trust you?
Are you well, Right Counsellor?
I have to thank you for...
bestowing this light-weight body Armour upon me before this.
I never thought that it'll be of use today.
Old Man He...
is utterly loyal to the crown prince.
He did everything he can to get rid of dissidents against crown prince.
What if the people really look up to them and follow their example?
Old Man He, did you hear that?
Now, what am I...
going to do with the crown prince?
You can just kill us.
Our future generations will remember that...
you are the one who started the decline of the glorious Great Tang.
You should carry the name of this sin that you've committed all by yourself.
Don't leave a legacy of trouble to your son anymore.
I am the emperor of Great Tang.
I made Chang'an flourish.
I increased the population of Tang to around 8 million families...
with more than 40 million people.
Law, economy, astronomy, mathematics, poetry and craftsmanship.
All of them had impressed the world with their brilliance.
I gave a woven flag to a foreign country.
And the whole nation had celebrated for it...
and hung it at the top of their temple.
Which of them show the declining of this nation?
That was before!
Back then,
you personally travelled around your country...
and personally supervised the governing of the country.
Back then, you didn't have Lin Jiu Lang beside you!
You don't allow the crown prince to be associated with the officials.
But do you know that hundreds of officials...
gather in Lin Jiu Lang's manor to discuss among themselves every day?
The counsellor's manor has become a small court!
Everyone beside you...
is Lin Jiu Lang's informer!
Ever since you have Lin Jiu Lang,
you haven't ventured out from Chang'an for 10 years.
You see only the things that they want to show you.
But are they showing you the truth?
Lin Jiu Lang has stifled all criticisms sent to you.
He's a hazard to the country and its people.
Kill him.
You have to kill him!
Right Counsellor is the person I trusted the most.
Are you trying to kill him...
or are you trying to kill me?
Are you really that blind?
Now,
every Fanzhen's informant...
is trying to gather military secrets about Chang'an defence system.
You didn't play your role as the emperor.
Instead, you just focus on guarding yourself against your own son!
What happened to you?
You Majesty.
Have you gotten that old?
We want the emperor that you once were at 25 years old!
You are the emperor.
You have to train yourself to stay in the age of 25.
You have to keep going forward.
You can't be contented.
You can't seek a life of pleasure.
You can't grow tired of the government affairs.
You can't make excuses that...
because you had done everything you should when you were young,
you can slack off now!
This is your duty!
You are not someone else.
You are the emperor who had achieved great contributions.
You are the emperor that I look up for my whole life!
I've gotten old.
Our youth will end eventually.
No medicine or cultivation in this world can keep us young.
What do you want me to do?
Goal.
You have to set a goal for yourself.
Do your duty well as the emperor every day.
Or else, you don't deserve to sit on the throne!
You still want to share your country?
The country can only be governed by the emperor!
But you are neglecting your duties!
Are all of you having the same thought?
Do you know that my father wanted to kill me today on purpose?
Somebody is trying to murder the emperor with the lantern tower.
-Aren't you going to inform him? -I don't want to go back.
I don't want to be humiliated in public by him again.
Tell me.
This father of mine...
had once brought prosperity to Chang'an.
But now, Great Tang is on the brink of collapse.
Will the future generations say that he's a good emperor...
or a bad emperor?
We don't have much time.
You just need to decide whether to save the emperor...
or flee for your life.
I'll get you a physician first to treat your wounds.
-Zhang Xiao Jing is in the tower. -It doesn't matter of he dies.
Chang Yuan, are you going to betray me?
Three, eleven, eight, four, five, eighteen.
It means never retreat. Even a death row convict doesn't retreat.
-What about you? -Of course I want to save His Majesty!
Let go of me first. His Majesty is my father!
Heed my order, Chief Li Bi from Peacekeeper Corps.
Li Bi from Peacekeeper Corps.
Inform General Chen Xuan Li from Dragon Army at once...
to save His Majesty.
You should go by yourself. If you succeed,
His Majesty will clear his mind of doubt against you.
You had risked your life to investigate on this case.
I don't care for the merits.
Besides, everybody in the court knows that...
we are very close together.
Your action is my action.
General Chen.
Li Jing Zhong.
You are acting so sneakily every day.
You will be of bad influence for the crown prince.
Someone wants to hurt you. So, I came here to warn you.
Are you going to listen to me?
Li Bi from Peacekeeper Corps had gone against crown prince just now.
He wanted to talk you into ransacking the lantern tower with your army.
I don't know what his intention is.
Please be cautious.
Let's go.
We'll go to the Grand Auditorium...
to meet His Majesty.
-Alright! -Alright!
I need one of you...
to stay behind...
to reopen the sluice, make the wheel turns...
and summon Jahannum-dhool.
Water will rush in rapidly then and this brother...
will have no chance to leave this lantern tower ever again.
-Sir Long. Let me do it. -Let me do it.
I'll do it!
This brother...
will have no chance to leave this lantern tower ever again.
You need someone to watch over Zhang Xiao Jing.
It's already enough that we can die together.
See you in the next life.
In my next life,
I will wear a red string...
with one qian tied to it...
to come and find you.
None of you understand me.
You thought that I make things difficult for the crown prince...
because I don't like his character.
But that's not it.
The sky and earth linger forever...
because they don't...
live for themselves.
Have you really understood...
this phrase stated by Laozi?
Are the descendants of an emperor...
will necessarily be a great man or a great sage?
They...
live a life of luxury since young.
And they stay in the Royal Academy.
They people they met are either other princes or other bigwigs.
They never lived a day amongst the people.
They don't know the common world at all.
They never even left Chang'an before.
How dangerous it is...
to hand over the country to them?
Why did I share this course with you?
Because the state power I have lies in all of you.
You...
are my soldier.
So are you.
So are all of you.
Your Majesty.
With you standing in front of me,
I can be rest assured.
-Your Majesty! -Your Majesty!
How to make sure that Great Tang...
can last through all ages?
Do all you can to make the country prosperous.
The continuation of a country...
is not something that can be carried by an emperor alone.
And it's not something that can be carried by a single surname.
But it is something that all of you can carry together!
We can only live forever...
if we don't live only for ourselves.
And by being selfless...
can you be blessed by others.
Old Man He.
I thought that...
you understand.
General Guo.
Take off this nuisance of a cloth...
from me.
-Your Majesty! -Your Majesty.
What is it?
Am I not the emperor anymore...
after I take off this yellow robe?
Take it off.
I feel so much lighter.
All of you, get up.
What is the son of Heaven?
Son of Heaven is the dragon.
A deity.
The duty of a deity...
is to restore faith in the people again.
I don't want to know too much details...
about the dispute in this country.
From tonight onwards, I...
will take care of the government affairs no longer.
After you ate the 'Country' that I prepared for you today,
you have to the carry the duties of the country...
for the people to make sure that it goes through all ages!
-Long live the emperor! -Long live the emperor!
Who is it?
You want to betray your brother?
You lied to Xiao Gui.
Stop this right now.
I can save all of us.
I can make sure that he lives.
Stay alive and live by his side.
Trust me.