[🔎👁‍🗨The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty👁‍🗨🔍] [Episode 39]
My name is Li Zilong.
I am a descendant of the royal family of the Tang Dynasty.
You're just a remnant of the previous dynasty's royal clan.
Who do you think you're?
You're not afraid I will catch you to see His Majesty
in exchange for Wang Xian?
Don't scare me, Your Highness.
I am easy to get scared.
Your Highness.
Of course, you can use me to get your husband back.
But do you really think
this is enough for you?
Just spit it out.
Your Highness.
I believe
if you want to fish,
aim for the biggest fish in the world.
How dare you?
Do you think you can persuade me into rebellion with you?
You can take your time to think about it.
I am not in a hurry.
In order to prove to you that I, Li Zilong,
am a person who is worthy of cooperation, I decide
to help you this time.
I can help bring your husband back to you intact.
But... What do you want in return?
I want Bolang.
I want 50% of all the Bolang bombs you have.
What will happen if I don't trade with you?
Soon your husband will be executed.
Other than working with me, I don't see any other opinion you have.
The half Bolangs you want
are all here.
I want the one in your hand, too.
The one in my hand
and the one my husband carried with him
are the only two finished bombs now.
Before these were finished,
they
got my husband.
When I make big deals,
I want to make a big scene.
I
Only want finished Bolangs.
If you want to complete them,
you must get Wang Xian out
according to my plan.
Of course!
What else can I do?
I still need Wang Xian to help me fix these babies.
I will help you save Wang Xian.
After we get him out,
I want half of the Bolangs you have.
And every one of them needs to be detonatable.
You never asked me what I need these babies for.
It has nothing to do with me, not anymore.
Why are you in a shift, too?
Commander's order to strengthen vigilance.
Isn't that Wang Xian going to be transferred to the Royal Clan Court?
We can rest for a few days, finally.
You wish.
Why?
Zhang Gongzhu?
Don't let him get away!
Wang Zhi.
I'm here to turn myself in.
Please help me forward my request.
I want to see His Majesty.
Now it's useless no matter how you plead him.
I'm not asking to see him to plead him.
Then what are you going to do?
I just want to ask him in person,
since he gave his word to send Wang Xian to the Royal Clan Court,
why did he go back on his word
and order to execute him?
Killing him is not His Majesty's idea.
It was Tang Fan's strategy.
Strategy?
He has long seen through your real identity.
How did he know that?
The motive for Zhang Gongzhu to try to protect Wang Xian is obvious.
There is only one person who would do that for him:
Princess Gu'an.
Fine.
I am now a prisoner of you Western Depot.
You've got what you wanted.
Now release Wang Xian.
This matter involves the national safety of the Ming.
It has become something far beyond my authority.
That being the case,
don't blame me for being ruthless.
Your Highness, what do you mean?
Tang Fan is certainly smart enough
to find out who I am.
But do you guys think I am that stupid
to put my neck into the noose?
I know you still have something up your sleeve.
Bring it out.
I have nothing up my sleeve.
All I have is time,
which is useless to me,
but fatal enough for you guys.
What time?
If Tang Fan was really so smart,
he should have seen it through by now
that something was out of place with the files I handed over.
Of course.
He found out that you are Zhang Gongzhu
from something out of place in the files.
It's not difficult to find out something out of place.
Finding out one thing odd from everything else looking normal
is where the challenge lies.
There's little time left for you.
Believe it or not,
you only have one option.
Go to Sui Zhou's house and bring Dong over now!
Tang, look at this.
I know you hold a grudge against them.
All the happiness and privilege we had in our childhood
were taken away and long gone when we grew up.
There is a saying that
the world remains the same, but we are not.
What you and I have been through
are even worse than that.
You are just the son of a rebel.
Don't sound like you can relate to me.
I know.
In your eyes
common folks don't deserve to feel hatred,
not to mention a lowlife like me.
What I lost is different from you.
Your fathers reaped the fruits of their rebellions.
Do you know
where my title "Gu'an" came from?
I am all ears.
From today
Father will call you Princess Gu'an.
Gu'an?
Why?
Because you were
born in the second lunar month of the Jingtai reign... No!
I was born at 9 a.m. on the 27th day of the first lunar month!
Gu'an means
my wish for a stable royal court
and peace of the whole country.
Father!
In the same year, Emperor Yingzong launched a palace coup
trying to retake the throne.
My father at that time still had control over a large number of troops.
But he didn't want to kill his brother.
He didn't want to have another kinslayer war
in the Ming royal family.
So my father didn't order troops to suppress the coup.
But none of us expected
after my uncle ascended to the throne,
he imprisoned
my father in Xiyuan Palace
where he forced him to death
within just one month.
That was not all.
This ungrateful bastard even chose to hold his enthronement
at the day my father died to celebrate his return to the throne.
Good for him.
Yes.
My father's day of death
had become a joyful event for the whole country to celebrate.
This hatred,
this grudge.
Can you really relate to me?
What your father did was not for his self-interests,
but for the country and people.
Country and people?
I am still alive
but how many people still remember I was once the respected Grand Princess?
And my father died a long time ago.
They say all emperors are blessed and honored.
What a big joke.
Sir.
We have completed the arrangements in the city.
Yes.
Sir, everyone is in place.
Yes.
Father.
Is it time to get to work?
The scenes today
remind me of New Year.
What did you find?
The financial situation shown in this file
is not in accordance with the actual purchase records.
What's the point of it?
Although these things seem to be unrelated, the materials used
such as pig iron, saltpeter, sulfur
are all materials used to make Bolang.
How much is there?
The amount of materials purchased is similar to
that of the big explosion three years ago.
You mean Princess Gu'an is mass-producing Bolang?
Although I am not sure yet,
she must have a large number of finished Bolang bombs in hand.
How many Bolangs do you really have?
Gentlemen, do you know
when it will look the most beautiful to launch fireworks in a day?
I beg you to put the interests of the whole above personal grudge.
Where are those Bolangs now?
When we're losing daylight,
the gorgeousness of fireworks is definitely better against the dark sky.
Where could she place so many Bolangs in the city?
It's been three years.
Do you still think today's Bolang
is still the same old thing?
How many hours have I been here?
More than eight hours.
It's almost 5 in the evening then.
You care so much about time.
What is your plan?
Time is up.
I'll inform the Northern Administrative Court.
So fresh!
Come over here.
Help me out.
Over here, hurry!
Help lift him up.
OK, come on.
You two go over there.
OK.
Come give me a hand.
I'm stuck beneath it!
Sir, there is an explosion in the city.
What do you want?
Let the emperor come to see me.
That's not gonna happen.
Then let's wait to hear the booms one by one.
Mr. Sui!
Mr. Sui, Mr. Sui!
Mr. Sui.
Honey!
Sui Zhou, don't make things more complicated.
Let go of him!
Where are the rest Bolangs?
You let go of him first.
Where are they?
I told you to let him go!
She has told me everything.
I know where they are.
Follow me.
Honey!
Don't be afraid.
Everything will be fine.
Don't be afraid.
Mr. Sui.
Honey!
Let go of me!
Get him out of here.
His Majesty cannot come here to see you.
Are there any other terms
we might be able to negotiate?
I want His Majesty's decree to absolve Wang Xian,
or we will all go down together.
Your Highness.
If your father was still alive today,
I don't know what he would think seeing what you did.
What is it that made you come here late at night?
Zhang Gongzhu is indeed Princess Gu'an.
The Western Depot has apprehended her.
After investigation, we found out
Her Highness once concealed her identity
to purchase a lot of raw materials for making Bolang.
We are certain she's possessing a lot of Bolang.
Then what are you still doing here?
Go destroy them now!
She refused to reveal the whereabouts of the bombs.
Unless... Just say it.
She begged Your Majesty to give a decree to absolve Wang Xian.
She's really a good princess of my Ming.
Give my decree.
Execute Wang Xian immediately.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Wait.
What else can I do for Your Majesty?
Execution of Wang Xian
will make Gu'an detonate the Bolangs and destroy the entire capital.
Are you not afraid?
I am not afraid.
With Your Majesty's wisdom, there must be a plan for that.
Then what do you think
how I have been treating Gu'an?
Your Majesty has been taking care of her despite her background.
You gave her the highest standards for her wedding...
And what did you do?
I deserve to be punished severely.
Her Highness is innocent and kind in nature.
It was all because of Tang Fan and I
made a bad decision without Your Majesty's permission,
which drove Her Highness to make a desperate move
trying to save her husband.
Your Majesty, please punish me.
Get up.
This time I will let it go
for the sake of you assisting me for many years.
Grind some ink for me.
His Majesty's Decree!
It's Heaven's will and His Majesty's edict that
the maleficent minister Wang Xian made and possessed weapons secretly
which caused danger to the capital and he was supposed to be beheaded,
but for the sake of his past achievements
and that he is the husband of Princess Gu'an,
the term of his sentence is reduced
to being exiled to one thousand and five hundred li away
and he shall never return to the capital.
Respect that!
Thank you for the mercy, Your Majesty.
Now you can say it.
There are a large number of Bolangs.
The three of us will take a team respectively
to defuse the bombs in three units.
They must be defused as soon as possible, and no accident is allowed.
Immediately redraw a copy of this and send it to the Northern Administrative Court.
Mobilize all manpower to defuse all the Bolangs.
Yes, sir!
I'll go back to get people.
You two go defuse the Bolangs.
I'll stay in the Western Depot
and continue to interrogate Her Highness.
This one.
And this one.
Are they almost here?
What?
The people coming to rescue you and Mr. Wang.
Mr. Tang,
how did you know it
this time?
Remember,
don't linger.
Be sure to get Wang Xian and Gu'an out safely.
Rest assured.
Bring them back to the Northern Administrative Court.
Be careful.
Yes, sir!
Sir.
All the bombs of these places have been found.
Something's not right.
What is it?
Is there a problem?
The problem is there was no problem at all.
Yes.
It felt like someone put them there waiting for us to find them.
By the way, there's one more thing.
All the Bolangs we found were not activated.
And they seem to be semi-finished.
Semi-finished?
Damn it.
What's going on?
They're just a distraction.
Distraction?
You continue to count and confiscate the remaining Bolangs
and then meet me at the Western Depot.
Western Depot? What's going on there?
Tang Fan is in danger.
If you stop now, I can guarantee with my life
that both of you will not be killed.
Your Highness.
Thank you, Mr. Tang.
Send them out.
Come on. Let's go.
Mr. Tang.
How are you?
So you are the one who incited Her Highness to do that.
Mr. Tang.
That's not fair to say that.
I am a businessman.
Doing business is about free trade.
Free will!
If you were really a businessman,
the world would have been a peaceful place.
Usually being a businessman means
being calm and making friends.
But Mr. Tang, you have sabotaged my deals
and caused me to lose money a lot of times.
For businessmen, causing a loss in wealth is equivalent to killing their parents.
Mr. Tang, can I get angry and vent my anger for just once?
Not to mention this is such a God-given opportunity today
that I have trapped you here.
Can I kill you so that you won't get in my way again?
Who is it?
Go get him!
Sui Zhou, you locked me up again!
Don't move.
Sir.
Both the Western Depot and the Imperial Guards have arrived.
Our people can't resist anymore.
Fine.
Good for you. Sui Zhou.
It seems that you two are meant to die another day.
See you when I see you.
Zhou.
Are you OK? Zhou?
Are you hurt badly?
Zhou.
Zhou, don't scare me.
What should I do if you die?
I don't know... I don't know how to cook.
Who is going to cook for me?
Zhou.
Can you be quiet?
I won't die.
What happened?
Hear me out.
Guys.
I value integrity more than anything else.
I have delivered what I promised.
Now it all
depends on whether you can keep your promise.
Your Majesty.
There is still no news of Her Highness and her husband.
There is no clue at all.
Someone must provide them resources to hide
so there is no trace to track at all.
All the remaining Bolangs have been confiscated and kept in safety.
But
all of them are not finished.
Your Majesty,
if we apprehend Her Highness and Wang Xian,
what should we do with them?
Give them to the Royal Clan Court.
Yes, Your Majesty.
All right.
Starting today, change the pad twice a day.
Remember, you need to rest in bed for your injuries to heal.
Things will get dangerous if the wounds do not heal for a long time.
Tang Yu.
Come with me to cook decoctions.
Okay.
Sui, are you in great pain?
It's okay.
Let Wang Zhi and Xue Ling do the manhunting.
You just rest to recover soon.
Fortunately, you came back to save me.
Otherwise, I would have been skinned alive by Li Zilong.