General Guo.
What time is it?
One o'clock.
I'm hungry.
Understood.
Light up the lantern!
It is now one o'clock!
-Old Man He. -How are you going to deal with it?
Please give us your verdict.
Right Counsellor.
Are you so eager to get rid of crown prince?
I'm not impatient.
I just want to uphold the law.
Very reasonable.
We'll do as you say then.
In your opinion,
should we start the feast first...
or should we discuss the government affairs first?
We'll begin with the feast first.
General Guo.
Do as the Right Counsellor said.
Let the feast begin!
Master Mao Shun.
You understand me better and better now.
" The Longest Day in Chang'an "
Episode 37
As the state builder,
how could you gang up with these criminals to destroy Chang'an?
I'm greedy.
You have fame and wealth. What else do you want?
I love to be famous.
I can't be just an old man among...
the millions of people...
in Chang'an.
You made this lantern tower...
to murder the one person who has given you fame and wealth.
I don't have a choice.
Some people's words are like seeds.
When they sow it in your heart,
it will bloom.
Who had sown the seeds in your heart?
The construction of this lantern tower...
costed the Great Tang four million qian.
At first, I was very happy when His Majesty...
chose my design.
There is a manor that calls out to me in Paradise Height.
I would be able to buy it after I'm done with this lantern.
But while I was constructing it,
flood had descended upon Ying...
and there were tens of thousands of victims.
The government has no money to send relief to that disaster-stricken area.
Somebody said that...
His Majesty might stop the lantern tower project.
That four million qian...
will be able to save the lives of these victims.
But we did not receive any order to stop the project.
One day,
I heard someone talking about this...
at the construction site of the lantern tower.
He said that you can...
buy two flat breads with one qian.
It can help a person to survive for one more day.
If that person is a child,
he can survive for two days.
Who told you about this?
From that day on,
that statement...
has lingered in my mind.
The higher the lantern tower gets,
the more afraid I am.
I know that I've lived my life wrongly.
Who is the one that told you about this?
A nameless foot soldier.
I didn't even see his face clearly.
But...
what he said is true.
I want my name to go down in history.
Even if it's a bad one.
My father told me that...
a craftsman...
seeks for fame that last for eternity.
Not fame that will last for one lifetime only.
I made this lantern tower that symbolises fake peace into a weapon.
I want to make this emperor before us burn into ashes...
during his happiest moment...
so that from now on,
my evil reputation will be passed down...
to generations after generations.
All craftsmen in the future will learn their lessons from me.
They will know that before creating something,
they have to be upright first.
They will know that...
they should create something that is truly worthwhile.
They will understand that...
for the people,
food is more beautiful...
than a lantern.
And nobody will ever waste the country's resources...
to put up a false front like this.
Are you alright?
Who are you working for?
I am just a commoner...
who wants to kill the emperor, that old geezer!
Nobody can tell me what to do!
Conceited person is always the easiest one to be used.
Who had put the idea of targeting His Majesty into your mind?
Think about it.
I think...
-there's really someone like that! -Who is it?
Zhang Xiao Jing.
You are a bad liar.
In order to track you, Zhang Xiao Jing...
had sacrificed so many of his brothers' lives today.
When he finds you, he will rip you into pieces.
How long have you known him?
One day.
Unfortunately,
I know him better than you do.
You know each other?
You should have asked me about it since the start.
Why didn't you ask me about it?
Is it because you are afraid to know the truth?
When he finishes his journey today,
he will realise that...
I am right.
Do you...
understand it now?
Are you going to save the emperor...
or are you going to save the people?
If you want to save the people,
you will blow me up first.
Everybody...
has to take responsibility on the choice that they made.
I think that...
it's worth it.
Father, how much longer until it lights up? I'm sleepy.
Soon. It'll take them at most one hour...
to light up the Great Holy Lantern.
What happened?
His hands are no longer clean.
He can't get out now.
Do you want to know where Wen Ran is?
Let's see if we can eat the meat you cut...
before the lantern is fully lit up by midnight.
You've worked hard, Right Counsellor.
Please enjoy it first.
I'll bet you one silver ingot that...
Right Counsellor won't accept the plate of meat.
You want to take a bet?
Right Counsellor is his subject.
How would he dare to humiliate crown prince in public?
During the lantern festival on the 27th in the old calendar,
your country still wasn't paying tribute to Tang.
So, you didn't know because none of you are here in Chang'an.
That time, he was newly designated as crown prince.
And Right Counsellor had humiliated him on the feast that very night.
He said that he is not capable to rule a country.
You tricked me for being ignorant of that fact.
A silver ingot to teach you how to survive this royal feast.
It's not a loss for you.
All the humiliation,
favouritism, superiority and inferiority you see here...
are purposely shown to you by the emperor of Tang.
You need to be tactful.
Know who to get close with and know who to avoid.
Right Counsellor.
Thank you for this honour.
In order to accept crown prince's kindness,
can you allow me...
to use...
the lavatory first?
I don't speak the language of Tang very well. What is a lavatory?
It means the toilet.
Your Majesty, I would like to impeach on Lin Jiu Lang...
for saying something so indecent in the royal feast.
He has brought us shame.
It's my fault for coming late to this feast.
I permit you to use the lavatory.
We still have one more hour before the lantern is lit up at two o'clock.
If any of you need to use the lavatory before that,
please do so now and do it quickly.
This is a taboo.
-What do you mean? -Going to the lavatory together.
It means that they are having another smaller meeting.
You still haven't finish your speech yet.
Don't go anywhere for the moment.
Crown prince won't get away with having a faction in private this time.
Let me ask you a question.
How long will His Majesty think before he decides to depose the crown prince?
The last crown prince is Li Ying.
He was arrested at night and was demoted to a commoner the next day.
He was bestowed a white silk in the afternoon to hang himself.
This is indeed the first-class country of the Celestial Empire.
There are so many things to learn...
from a meal and using the toilet. It's is quite scary.
This is all you got?
I am a tough guy.
After lying for half a year in that death cell,
you've gotten soft.
You know it too.
Where is Wen Ran?
You barely made it through the half-day battle today.
You have quite the spirit.
But you are hunted down by the government...
even though you are working yourself to the bone for them.
I think you've already lost your spirits, right?
Where is Wen Ran?
If you are really that confident,
why would you blow Mao Shun up?
You knew that you have no more energy to stop it.
So, you chose to kill Mao Shun off...
to make sure that at least this tower lantern...
hurts only the emperor and not the people,
right?
I don't want him to die in vain.
Don't simply say it out...
for the things that you can't do.
The red pill of Wolven Squad. Eat it to replenish you energy.
I raise dog.
I don't eat things that are given by others.
You still have more than 120 feet of tower to climb.
What do you want to do?
I want to make him happy.
He is waiting for you at the top.
He wants you to fight together with us...
and leave Chang'an together in one piece.
We are different.
If you have...
any evidences of Lin Jiu Lang's corruption,
take it out now.
We have to topple him today.
The crown prince has the evidence.
Why didn't he show it to His Majesty just now?
He is trying to save His Majesty's face.
But His Majesty is not giving him any at all.
His Majesty has gotten old.
He's only willing to listen to Lin Jiu Lang's sweet words.
He doesn't care for others' opinions anymore.
-That's right. -We can only depend on crown prince...
if we want to implement the new policy.
Thank you, Prince Yong.
The crown prince is still waiting for us.
He's still trying to fight back. What a fool.
I want every envoy from every country to take a good look.
Can such a disgraced person...
become the next emperor of Great Tang in the future?
At first,
His Majesty has already decided to depose the crown prince tonight.
But just now,
I'm afraid that I had rushed him too much...
until I had stirred up His Majesty's parental love.
Suddenly,
he can't bear to do it.
We will wait. We will wait for the crown prince...
to fail on himself.
His Majesty has really decided to depose the crown prince tonight?
I will let my father know that I'm the best man to take over this heavy duty.
Fool.
Why did you start to eat by yourself?
Father.
Butter on warm flat bread is a delicacy among the people.
And it's the fruit of the people's effort.
I hate to let it go to waste.
Is that so?
You have such glib tongue.
It's because you saw that I'm glaring at you, right?
This is the part I dislike the most about you.
You like to pay double game.
You purposely made your manor in the Royal Academy...
to look like a hot mess.
Your furniture are broken...
and your windows are leaking.
You don't even have a maidservant.
You are obviously doing it for show and I'm the audience.
I heard that the summer palace you have in Lingwu...
is even better than my Grand Auditorium!
No matter how you think of me,
I...
have always thought of you as my father!
You are wrong then!
I am the emperor of Great Tang.
If that's the case,
please give a seat to my teacher.
I am very disappointed in you...
and your teacher.
In my heart,
my teacher is more of a father to me...
than you ever will be.
Do as the crown prince said.
Give a seat to Old Man He.
If according to Mao Shun,
the energy comes from the water in Dragon Spillway.
The moving water will rotate the gears in the Hydropower Palace...
and they will power up this area...
to move the gears in this tower.
-And they will... -Qilin Column,
They can make these...
bended Qilin Column...
to extend...
and deliver this new year gift that I've prepared...
for His Majesty straight to him.
When it's time to light up the lantern,
this whole lantern tower...
will become the Jahannum-dhool.
Why do you want to wait until they light up the lantern?
I want to wait for the emperor...
to be at his happiest moment.
At two o'clock sharp,
he will stand across us at the top of that tower.
He will stand above all and look down upon his people.
During that time, all the people in Xingqing Palace's square...
will cheer for him to have a long life.
How happy will he be, right?
And then,
he will take that one and only golden arrow...
that is made specifically for him...
from the most beautiful woman chosen by Great Tang...
and shoot it towards...
the Ox-Head Guardian standing at two o'clock...
to pray for an early spring.
What do you think he will feel at that time?
Will he think that he's not just an emperor...
or the Great Sage but...
a God Himself?
And then,
that blazing golden arrow...
will land on this lantern tower.
And then...
And then, there will be no 'and then'.
Let's go.
Let me show you something fun.
Chief Li!
Are you so fascinated by the view up there?
Great Tang is prospering!
The people is living in peace.
But it's tainted by an evil man like you.
Great Tang is prospering and...
the people is living in peace.
Am I considered...
as one of the Great Tang's people?
If this world is really as pretty as what this lantern tower shows,
why will I be standing here today?
Who's the one waiting for me on top?
You should have already know who he is.
He is just like you.
He is a good man.
Kindness for kindness and debt for debt.
Those who destroy the master of this city...
will be decapitated and be displayed as deterrent.
We don't know each other at first.
But he can't take it to see many against one.
After that, I found that...
he was a simple businessman in the Mercenary Garrison.
But by saving me,
he had offended the privates.
And he was forced to shut down his business and leave his homeland.
After that, I looked for him for many years.
I want to repay him for his kindness.
But he had stayed away from my sight.
Until half a year ago,
during September in the second reignal year of Tian Bao,
I received a monetary mission from Chang'an.
And he's the employer.
I'm going to do a great cause. You'll be useful to me.
This is too much money.
Take it.
-You might lose your life. -This is too much money.
You have to kill a lot of people too.
As long as they are your targets, they will be my targets as well.
Take it. Give it to people who are important to you.
The only important person I have is here.
This is a major project.
Business dealing is more reliable than gratitude.
Either you take it...
or leave it.
-I'll take it. -From now on,
stay here.
You just need to follow my order.
Do you know how to cook?
Yes.
I'll bring back some mutton.
We need to replenish ourselves.
After that, I stayed with him in Chang'an for a few months.
And the more I realised that he is a good man.
Where did you go so early in the morning?
I'm fine.
Let me take a nap.
Thank you, Ahuramazda.
Thank you.
What happened? Why are you so happy?
Ahuramazda in heaven has heard my prayers.
This morning, my family received a bag of gold coins.
Ahuramazda has heard my prayers.
For the few months that we stayed in Huaiyuan Street,
the poor people in the street will receive a bag of gold coins every day.
They thought that the coins were given by God.
This is good.
You are getting better at it.
Ahuramazda.
Ahuramazda is in heaven.
He's sitting beside me.
A woman who sit beside...
the people they kill to wait until her victims bled dry...
should not say something like that.
Do you know how he turn from a businessman in running...
into the leader of The Ant?
He never forces anyone to go into...
this killing business with him.
When he was doing business in the past,
whenever he saw veterans in distress,
he will offer his help with everything he has.
And he never ask for any return.
As time passes by,
people start to follow him willingly.
Everybody is willing to help him.
They think that whenever they work with him,
they will be able to help someone.
Life is especially meaningful with him.
How did he become a criminal then?
You are the sleuth-hound captain of Chang'an too.
You are the death row convict of Great Tang.
Are you a criminal as well?
-Yes. -What had made a good man like you...
to turn into a criminal?
It's because of me.
It's all because of me.
I think you know the answer by heart.
Go up and meet him.
He wants to keep you alive.
Not only he wants you to be alive,
he wants you to live with hope.
Great Tang will only be great...
if there are more people like you.
All of you are tricked by him.
In the past, I will arrest a few of those like him every year.
The more cunning and evil a person is,
the more he looks like a saint.
Then, have you ever thought that...
His Majesty looks like a saint too?
If you are set on stopping us,
I won't bully the weak.
Take this red pill.
We'll fight again after you eat it.
How is it? Have you made up your mind?
I will guard Chang'an until my last breath.
Then, you are really...
seeking for death.
Brat.
" October, 23rd reignal year of old calendar "
" Defence Beacon "
Get down! Your parents are waiting for you!
-Get down! -I can't die in January!
I can't die here.
Get down!
-Get down! -Get down!
Our enemies are running out of arrows. We can go home now.
I'll bring you along to watch the lantern in Chang'an later.
You told me the same thing 20 days ago.
You said the same thing when they die!
Get down!
-Get down! -Zong Qi!
-Get down, Zong Qi!
Zong Qi!
Here, give me a hand!
Zong Qi. You are alright.
Get a hold on yourself.
Three edge arrow.
This arrow is heavy. They are getting closer.
23rd year of the old calendar,
Defence Beacon.
It's the year when you just took over the Ministry of War.
Back then, the captain of Anxi Governor's Manor is Gai Jia Yun.
When Defence Beacon was attacked, he didn't send any relief troops.
That had resulted in the survival of only 9 people from...
the 211 soldiers of The Eight Squad...
in the 33rd Local Militia.
A war shouldn't have...
happened in that place.
At that time, His Majesty was proud of Anxi Governor's Manor...
for being able to keep it's surroundings in check.
Gai Jia Yun kept on reporting that...
everything is in check in that area.
But in truth, they were constantly attacked by the bandits.
If they send out an army so suddenly,
his lie would have fallen through.