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[Novoland: Eagle Flag] [Based on a fiction by Jiang Nan]
[Episode 1] Ripped & Resynch by ErXi on Subscene
[Spend the rest of life listening to a bell ringing by the water]
Longge Zhenhuang, your act of protesting the Kulige Conference is an unforgivable sin.
According to the rules of our grasslands,
your entire tribe should be eliminated,
but Emperor of Qingyang is generous and benevolent.
If you surrender, your life can be spared.
You want me to be your slave?
This is your last chance.
We, the true warriors of the Zhenyan Tribe, never kneel down,
let alone be a slave!
- Charge! - Charge!
Keep up with me and don't get lost.
Suma!
Suma, did you bring your knife with you?
Suma!
If you see a man of Qingyang, end your life yourself.
We, the daughters of the Zhenyan Tribe, must not be defiled by the cruel and evil enemies.
Later, we'll go different ways.
You head to the north alone.
If you see people of Qingyang, give them this and ask to see Prince Jiu.
They can get a reward by escorting you to see Prince Jiu.
Don't be afraid. Prince Jiu will treat you well.
How can the cruel Qingyang king be nice to a boy from Zhenyan like me?
Don't ask why. You will know when you get there.
I... I won't leave. I want to be with you two.
I want to protect you.
Mom! Mom!
Do you see it, asule?
Stay alive because too many people have died for you.
Go. Go!
Go!
Dad...
Dad!
Dad! Dad!
Dad!
- Dad! - Dad!
Go. Go. Hurry!
Let go!
Devil.
[Heaven and Earth weren't developed at that time.] [The heroes were sleeping in the iron cradle]
- S-Stop! - Crown Prince. Crown Prince.
Don't be scared, Crown Prince. Crown Prince.
Crown Prince, we are already on the way back to the North Capital.
Your Highness?
I presume that Khan Zhenyan never told you your true identity, right?
I... I am an orphan he found on the grasslands, the adopted son of Khan Zhenyan.
What he told you is out of good will because the truth is too cruel for a little child.
Listen to me.
You are the son of Lu Song, the Emperor of Qingyang.
Your mother is the daughter of Khan Louyan Mengleihuoe of the Shuobei Tribe.
She is the honorable Princess of Qingyang.
Something astonishing happened when you were born.
The moon has come up!
The princess's baby is the catastrophe of the world!
If this catastrophe isn't removed, the blizzard will not stop!
Emperor, please sacrifice this catastrophe to the heavens to soothe the heavens' anger!
Sacrifice this catastrophe to the heavens to soothe the heavens' anger! Sacrifice this catastrophe to the heavens to soothe the heavens' anger!
- Get inside. - Princess, push a little harder.
Push harder! Push harder!
Princess, push harder!
Princess, push a little harder!
A bit harder! More, Princess.
Cousin, let me take the troops out of the city and negotiate with them.
Longge Zhenhuang,
your machete is the sharpest on the grasslands,
but not everything is like a knot that can be cut into two pieces.
Do you also listen to those ignorant people's words and believe that your own kid is the devil?
I don't believe anyone's words.
Listen to me and do me a favor.
Emperor.
How is it?
The child was born without a heartbeat.
Lemo...
God did not bless us with this child.
God wants to take him away.
No.
You are going to kill him.
Every one of you wants to kill him.
Lemo...
Lemo, are you crazy?
He is my child, not the devil.
As long as I am still alive, no one can take him away from my arms.
Lemo!
When you gave birth to him,
he was already dead.
I want to breastfeed my child.
I hope you won't be born in the Emperor's family if you have a second life.
I will see you in Heaven.
- Lemo! - Princess!
- Lemo!
Lemo.
The emperor then sent you to the Zhenyan tribe for them to raise you,
but no one could change where you came from.
According to the rules of the grasslands, the youngest son will inherit the crown.
You are the crown prince of Qingyang.
You are the one who will rule the entire grasslands in the future.
Impossible.
The Qingyang Tribe is the wolf of the grasslands.
They were the ones who sent an army to destroy our tribe.
Where are Older Sister Qin and Suma?
Crown Prince,
you are different from them.
Longge Qin is dead.
Suma is a slave now.
Crown Prince!
- Crown Prince! - Stop! - Crown Prince!
- Suma.
- Crown Prince! - Crown Prince!
They are no more than a herd of slaves whose tribe was eliminated.
Take the Crown Prince back to the carriage.
Yes, Sir.
Prince, they are the childhood friends who grew up and played with Crown Prince.
Crown Prince, you need to remember that the Zhenyan Tribe has been extinguished.
Qingyang is your home.
Suma.
Do not worry
I will protect you.
[North Capital, Qingyang]
Greetings, Emperor.
With your blessings and trust, I come back with the victory.
This is the renegade Longge Zhenhuang's machete.
You are the hero who comes back from triumph.
You are the spotlight of today.
Where is Asule?
Crown Prince, please.
Emperor, he might be traumatized from the battlefield and has not recovered yet.
A boy who can be traumatized by the battlefield is a coward.
Do you know me?
I am your father, the emperor of Qingyang.
You are not my father.
I am Asule from Zhenyan.
I'm the son of Longge Zhenhuang.
- You are truly traumatized. - Emperor!
Emperor.
Today is the good day that Prince Jiu came back triumphantly,
and we have so many slaves.
Every family has contributed to destroying Zhenyan as well as suffering their lost.
Do you think we should distribute these slaves to each family now?
Let us all celebrate with the joy of this triumph.
You can divvy the slaves up.
Thank you, Emperor.
You are ours.
How dare you to take our slave?
Suma is not a slave.
People with a branded mark on their faces are either slaves or domestic animals.
Suma is not a slave.
None of them is.
Take him away.
You are trying to assassinate the Emperor of Qingyang.
I can take your life.
Were you trying hard to save those slaves?
You are my son, the Crown Prince of Qingyang.
As long as you beg me, I can give all these slaves to you.
You... don't take me as your father.
Am I right?
I'm... Asule of the Zhenyan tribe.
I'm the son of Longge Zhenhuang.
If you want these slaves, I'll give them all to you,
but you have to live like a slave.
This is the price you need to pay for your stubbornness at being Longge Zhenghuang's son instead of mine.
Men can do nothing without a machete.
Not to mention you want to protect others.
This is the machete of Longge Zhenhuang.
Take it and be the king of your slaves.
Good boy.
Only you and I dare to talk to the Emperor like this in this North Capital.
- For Prince Jiu. - Here. For Prince Jiu.
- For Prince Jiu. - For Prince Jiu.
Here. Prince Jiu.
- Here. Here. Eat. Eat. - Eat meat.
Emperor.
Today, Prince Jiu completed the great cause and returned back with victory.
The traitor of the Culig Conference, the Zhenyan tribe, has been extinguished.
It's really such a good day for our Qingyang Tribe.
I think it is time for us to select a crown prince, right?
Crown Prince?
The rule that the youngest son should inherit the crown has not been changed.
Hasn't Asule already come back?
He is the Crown Prince.
But you just demoted him to be the leader of the slaves, Emperor.
He is still young.
Do not misunderstand the rules.
Give him some lessons.
In the future, he will know what his destiny is.
He is my youngest son, my small and rightful leopard in the Qingyang Tribe.
I have another thing, Emperor.
When Asule was born, there was a sign of a catastrophe.
The rumor about him being the reincarnation of the Moon is still circulating on the grasslands,
and the Crown Prince is weak and sick.
All the doctors said he would die at an early age.
I am afraid...
I'm afraid that he won't live to the day that he can inherit the Qingyang Tribe.
It looks like you are serious about this.
You come here well prepared today.
I know who you are fighting for.
You all hope the prince you support will be chosen as the crown prince.
In the future, he will rule the Qingyang Tribe.
Five sons.
If I choose this son, the power of that son will rise in revolt.
If the leopards really fight against each other,
they will become the food of vultures eventually.
Hear me one more time.
The rules from the ancestors say the youngest son will inherit the crown.
Whether Asule can live long enough to rule the Qingyang Tribe,
is all up to God Panda's leading.
He is my youngest son.
He is the crown prince then.
As long as he is alive,
none of you stand a chance.
If you want to fight for it,
you can all do that after he is dead.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Crown Prince, you should get changed into new clothes.
Your clothes are all torn.
Here. I will take this.
Asule, put it on first. Okay?
This... This is what Older Sister Qin made for me.
Is he our crown prince?
He looks weaker than a lamb.
How can he be the crown prince?
He will bring us disaster.
- As soon as he was born, people around him were cursed to death. - That's right.
What nonsense are you talking about? Leave quickly.
Let me tell you. When he was born, his mom died because of him
That''s right. He is not our crown prince but a disaster.
I think we should stay away from him.
- Right, he who dares to approach him will have a disaster. - Exactly.
Also, let me tell you. This—
How dare you... to beat me, you stinky woman!
- You dare to beat me. - Don't touch her.
Are you enough?
Do you want me to ask the Emperor to come here?
- Let's go. - Let's go.
The totem of the Qingyang Tribe is a leopard with saber teeth.
Only two men are royal enough to wear this tail of a leopard in this North Capital.
I...
and the Crown Prince.
My Qingyang Tribe's rule since ancient times is the youngest son will inherit the crown.
You are my youngest son,
so you will be the Emperor of the grasslands in the future.
Did Longge Zhenhuang tell you
why I named you "Asule?"
In our ancient language of Qingyang, Asule means longevity.
I hope you can live a long life.
In the future, you can rule these grasslands and achieve long-term stability.
If you still have this ideal,
do not refuse the authority.
As the Emperor, you should not come to the funeral of a renegade.
He is a renegade
but he is still my cousin.
He calls me "older brother."
I am here to say goodbye to him and no one dares to judge me.
Why did Longge Zhenhuang rebel?
He robbed the pastures of nearby tribes and broke the rules left by the ancestors.
But he was so loyal and raised your son for you.
I am the emperor
I am the one who has to follow the rules the most in these grasslands.
If I break the rules, the grasslands will be in chaos
Then, can't you give him a chance?
I did.
I asked Elu to take him a message.
As long as he surrendered, I'd let him live.
You know him.
A man like him, he'd rather die than surrender.
Shahan,
Do you know why there are so many killings on the grasslands?
We're too poor.
We don't have enough food.
If everyone can have enough to eat,
Maybe there would be fewer killings on these grasslands.
But we're just so poor on this grassland,
either you or others can have enough to eat.
In winter, cattle and sheep starve to death.
I know a place where the soil is fertile.
Piles of wheat are higher than hills,
and there's no snow all year round.
How can there be such a place on the grasslands?
- Eastland - But Eastland is across the sea.
What's to be afraid of about across the sea?
We can travel across the sea.
Shahan,
you tell me. If I can get food from Eastland and slow down the famine temporarily,
will there be less war on the grasslands then?
I need someone to go to Eastland for me.
Shahan,
you are the friend I trust most and the smartest man on the grasslands.
Also, the smartest man on the grasslands,
I believe only you can convince those foxy Eastlanders.
Are you willing to be my envoy to go to Eastland?
I still have one person I can't let go of in North Capital.
You are an alcoholic, whose corpse no one will collect even if you die in the snow.
How can you still have someone you cannot let go?
I am worried about Asule.
He was clearly born without the health to be the emperor,
but has to bear the title of the crown prince.
Your good sons have begun to covet your throne.
I gave him the title of the crown prince.
As for the rest, I will leave it to his fate.
His older brothers are all wolves.
Emperor, you threw the lamb into a group of wolves,
and say that you will let his destiny decide.
The sheep must become a wolf if he wants to survive.
Here is the grassland.
But he needs to learn the skills to defeat the wolves on the grasslands.
You pick two brave kids to keep him company then.
And find him a resounding warrior as his teacher.
This is my condition.
Some people say that the world is vast.
But where men can be sheltered is no more than the place behind the three feet of the machete's blade.
A machete's technique means the technique to kill.
Learning how to use a machete is learning how to kill.
I'd like to ask Crown Prince why you are here to learn.
When the whole tribe of Zhenyan was destroyed,
if I had the strength to hold the machete,
then Older Sister Qin could still be alive.
You're learning the machete to save people?
Yes.
Tianyan and Tieye, you are the companions of the Crown Prince from today on.
You should use your blood to repay the kindness of your master.
- Tieyan. - Tieye.
Serve the master for one day.
Serve the master for a whole lifetime.
We will protect the master's life as if protecting ours.
If we live together, we die together.
Get up! Stand up!
You haven't been here for a long time.
The crown prince is back.
Is it the one who came back from the Zhenyan Tribe?
Yes, Your Highness.
Bring him to see me.
Your Highness, I'm sorry I can't do that.
If the emperor knows, it is a capital crime.
You don't have to worry.
I just want to meet him.
I won't do anything harmful to him.
Badai?
Badai, come back! Come back!
Badai.
Badai?
Badai
Is this your little thing?
Badai.
Thank you, Grandpa. He is called "Badai."
He's my little flying squirrel.
You call me "grandpa?"
Why are you here, Grandpa?
I never heard there was such a place in North Capital.
Here is the dungeon.
There are many such places in North Capital.
Many people who made mistakes will be imprisoned here.
What mistake did you make, Grandpa?
I have offended the emperor many times.
Well, you are here to see me.
You can never tell him.
Okay.
- Boy, what is your name? - My name is Asule.
Asule means longevity.
This is a good name.
Since you are here, sit for a while.
Chat with me more, okay?
Okay.
A child as thin and weak as you should not be born into the emperor's family.
In this violent place, it's very hard for you to live.
All of them told me this.
Then, are you not afraid?
I heard people say that I was born without a heartbeat.
Maybe I am destined to be a dead man.
So there is nothing to be afraid of.
A dead man without a heartbeat.
Interesting.
But I have heard that General Muli is teaching you machete techniques.
Why do you learn the machete?
I am now the head of the Zhenyan tribe.
I am learning the machete to protect them.
But a machete is used to kill people,
not for saving people.
General Muli also told me the same thing.
You're really a weird child.
Since you have such an ideal,
then I have a gift for you.
It's called the Machete of Death Sentence.
[Two Years Later]
I, Tuoba Shanyue,
the general of the three armed forces of Lower Tang State, a feudal state to the Great Yin Dynasty,
greet the Emperor of Qingyang on behalf of His Highness of Lower Tang State, Lord Baili.
May the two countries be peaceful and harmonious, like brothers.
General, please rise.
Thank you, Emperor.
General, you have worked hard. Please.
Please.
- Lamb leg pilaf is here. - Pilaf is coming.
- Here. Here. - Delicious. Delicious.
They can talk about their state affairs as much as they like.
We eat Mrs. Ying's lamb pilaf.
Have more.
We have been gone for so long and we haven't eaten a good lamb.
How about it? Delicious, right?
So delicious.
I heard that Lower Tang State is transporting a huge amount of food by ship.
It's enough to supply all of us in North Capital for the winter.
That ship of food is not a gift from Lower Tang State.
- I bought it myself. - What?
I spent all the gold that I brought out.
With this boat of rice,
Asule and his slaves can have a good winter.
Chief Shaman also said that in the future, Lower Tang State will ship 100,000 dan of food every year.
- So much. - Yes.
- Then, we won't worry about being starved. - That's what they said?
It's not easy for us to take Eastlander's food.
We have to sign the Treaty of Alliance before the food can be shipped.
100,000 Dan of food is not a small amount for any country.
Lower Tang State is so generous to my Qingyang Tribe.
I don't know what our Qingyang Tribe can offer to return this generosity.
Emperor, you're wise.
My country also has a request to you, Emperor.
We need two priceless treasures from Qingyang.
My Qingyang is just a tribe on the grasslands.
What peerless treasures do we have?
Emperor,
the first treasure that our country demands is
the Tiger-Leopard Cavalry from Qingyang.
As the saying goes,
northerners ride horses, southerners take the boat.
Eastland has always lacked good horses and fine cavalry.
Lower Tang State has been eager for a cavalry for a long time.
My Lord wishes Qingyang Tribe to dispatch five thousand soldiers from the Tiger-Leopard Cavalry to occupy South Huai City
in order to help the military in Lower Tang State.
What is the second one?
I want to ask for a prince.
My son?
To enforce our alliance,
Lower Tang State is willing to marry a princess to a prince of Qingyang.
And the prince can live in our country
where we will teach him a thorough knowledge of military and political tactics in Eastland.
Cultivate him into the best help of the Emperor.
Does Lower Tang State intend that one of our brothers will be a hostage?
Not a hostage.
He is our distinguished guest.
Our Emperor will marry his only daughter to the prince.
That is to say, he will be the emperor's only son-in-law in Lower Tang State.
After the education, Lower Tang State is willing to give you a thousand gold,
100,000 kg of fish scale steel,
fifty big ships as dowry,
and escort the royal couple back to the North Capital.
Our lord believes, as long as this prince stays,
our relationship of alliance can last for a hundred years for sure.
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