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♫ Raising the wine cup, I toast to the boundless sky ♫
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♫ In talks and laughters are vast mountains and rivers. ♫
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♫ Love and hate, debt and feuds, have all dissolved. ♫
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♫ Where's my soul's hometown and my kindred spirits? ♫
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♫ Seasons rolling by, we dream for harvest. ♫
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♫ Warriors and warhorses howl across the sky. ♫
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♫ If only I could turn into the wind, ♫
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♫ to blow away all the pain in mortal coil. ♫
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♫ I toast to the blue sky, to courage in solitude, ♫
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♫ to migrating gooses, to boats heading home. ♫
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♫ With even three thousand days and nights, ♫
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♫ Will it be enough to drain this cup I toast to peace? ♫
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[Swords into Plowshares]
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[Episode 41]
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The key to controlling the military governors lies in
grasping military, financial,
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personnel, and administrative authority.
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Among all these powers, military authority is paramount.
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Once military authority is reclaimed,
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financial, personnel, and administrative authority
can all be gradually reclaimed.
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This plan to weaken the military governors is a grand strategy
that His Majesty and I
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have deliberated on for a long time.
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Step one: The meritorious ministers and generals
of the previous dynasty
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will be publicly impeached by the Censorate,
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making their crimes known to all.
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Some will be executed, others dismissed.
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Then, we'll deal with their subordinate
officers and departments.
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The strong soldiers from their troops
will be incorporated into the imperial guards.
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The old and weak will be discharged.
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Step two: Old comrades and subordinates
who contributed to the enthronement
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will be handled by you, sir as the Privy Council
Assistant Minister, and gradually weakened.
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Those who are compliant will be retained,
rebellious ones executed.
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Step three: Centralize the financial power of
all military governors under the Three Departments,
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personnel under the Ministry of Personnel and the two central offices,
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administrative under the various prefectures and counties.
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Is this the plan to weaken the military governors
that Your Majesty and Prince have devised?
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Exactly.
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Is there any problem?
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State affairs are not child's play!
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Your Majesty seeks the great path,
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yet employs underhanded tactics,
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and even boasts of emulating Emperor Taizong of Tang.
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Do you still know the meaning of "shame"?
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Since you intend to weaken the military governors,
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why differentiate between previous ministers
and the meritorious old comrades from Chenqiao?
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With such a major state policy,
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if you cannot act with impartiality,
not to mention the military governors across the land,
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how could even the peddlers and porters
around possibly be convinced?
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Sima Pu,
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do not be ungrateful.
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Principles and expediency matter.
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Words are easy to say, but when it comes to implementation,
there must inevitably be an order:
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some tasks are easy, some difficult.
So tackle the easy ones first. This is a universal principle.
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Ridiculous!
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Extraordinary tasks require extraordinary people!
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This is what you, Prince, yourself just said!
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Now you speak again of worldly common sense.
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If everything followed common sense,
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at Chenqiao Post,
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how could His Majesty have become the Emperor?
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Sima Pu!
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You...
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You are so presumptuous!
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This is precisely what I wish to say to you.
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You intend to accomplish what has not been done
in a hundred years, to create an era of peace and stability.
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Then, in handling affairs and governance,
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you should not follow the evil precedents of chaotic times!
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Wei Zheng said,
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"Using bronze as a mirror, one can adjust his attire.
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Using history as a mirror, one can understand rise and fall.
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Using others as a mirror,
one can discern his rights and wrongs."
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To correct others,
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you need to first correct yourself.
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To weaken the military governors, first is to rectify the court.
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To govern the previous ministers,
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first is to govern your old friends and subordinates.
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If those close cannot be managed,
how can you manage those distant?
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If we first deal with the old subordinates,
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and if the veteran generals of the former dynasty rebel,
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who will we rely on to suppress them?
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Could it be relying on you scholars,
who only chatter empty words?
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If you act with fairness,
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why would they rebel?
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Over the Five Dynasties, every generation had rebels.
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According to your words,
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were they all caused by the ruler's unfair actions?
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Is that not so?
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Why did Li Keyong and his son rebel against Zhu Quanzhong?
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Shi Jingtang was Emperor Mingzong's son-in-law.
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Why did he rebel against Li Congke?
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The previous dynasty's Emperor Shizong,
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if not for the Liu unjustly executing
his entire family of one hundred sixty-eight members,
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why would he have raised troops in rebellion?
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I have not,
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seen peace under heaven,
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in the plan to weaken the military governors
drafted by Your Majesty and Prince.
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What fills the pages
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are the four words: 'finding fault with others'.
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In a peaceful era,
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punishments and governance should be lenient.
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Two centuries of chaos.
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Two centuries of wanton slaughter.
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If Your Majesty ends this era, seeks to abolish the regional warlords,
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desires to unify the land, and aims to bring peace to the realm,
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it cannot be achieved if you rely on killing.
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Minister Sima, you are more well-read in the history than I am.
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But have you ever seen,
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in any dynasty or era,
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peace achieved without killing?
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Previous rulers may have had shortcomings,
but Your Majesty can begin anew.
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On what basis?
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On the basis that you were born into an era of chaos
where one could not survive without killing.
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If you cannot set a precedent for this world
by not resorting to killing,
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then you are not fit to be the ruler of a peaceful age.
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I am the Secretariat for a ruler of peace,
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not Assistant Minister for a bandit of chaos.
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He...
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he only has soybean matters in his eyes.
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I, the guilty minister Wang Quanbin pay respects to Your Majesty.
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Minister Zhao.
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Your Majesty.
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Has his sentence been determined?
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After deliberation by the two Offices,
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Wang Quanbin, Military Governor
of the Zhongwu Army, Commander of the Xichuan Campaign,
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violated orders, indiscriminately killed
surrendered soldiers, misappropriated public funds,
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caused bandits to proliferate, requiring another
mobilization of troops before peace was restored.
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Upon being ordered to return,
complaints of injustice daily crowded the palace gates,
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accusing him of embezzling gold, silver, rhinoceros horn, jade,
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coins, and silk totaling over one hundred and sixty thousand
and seven hundred strings.
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He also opened the Fengde Treasury arbitrarily,
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causing a loss of over two hundred and eighty two thousand strings of coins.
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Wang Quanbin,
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do you understand?
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I have failed Your Majesty's grace.
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My life is forfeit.
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Can taking your life atone for your crime?
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Have the two councils deliberated the punishment?
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Wang
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deserves death.
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He should be executed by dismemberment, with his clan exterminated.
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His wife and daughters shall be sold to the music bureau.
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Your Majesty...
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Your Majesty...
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Your Majesty...
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My crimes are beyond pardon.
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My death is just and clear, Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty...
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I only wish for Your Majesty's heavenly grace
to spare my family and clansmen.
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Spare?
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You still have the face to mention the word "spare" to me?
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The lands of Western Shu, over a dozen prefectures
and commanderies, were forced by you to rebel again.
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How many families were torn apart?
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How many died by the roadside?
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How many lost all their wealth?
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And how many perished in the calamity of war
that you single-handedly created?
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If I spare you today,
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then who will spare those wronged souls
you forced to ruin and death?
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For your crimes,
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if today even one person
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dares to tell me there is reason to spare you,
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I will spare you.
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Your Majesty...
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I have something to say.
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Sima Pu.
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I do not wish to hear you speak now.
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Judged by the harm done to the people,
Wang's crimes are unforgivable.
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But what I want to say is,
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the crimes discussed by Minister Zhao
and all the other ministers
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are not the crimes of Wang alone.
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If we speak of guilt, today under this tent, everyone is guilty.
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Not only that.
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For two hundred years,
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every generation of rulers,
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nobles,
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ministers,
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military governors,
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officers...
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Everyone is guilty.
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Have you lost your mind,
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or eaten something poisonous?
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Two centuries of chaos,
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two centuries of wanton slaughter,
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two centuries of soldiers running amok,
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two centuries of preying on the people,
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two centuries are filled with those deeds.
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Therefore, Wang, is also like this today.
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If Your Majesty can eradicate the two centuries
of scattered and chaotic hearts,
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and today kill Wang's entire clan, I will have nothing to say.
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But if you cannot,
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even if my life is also taken,
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I must clearly state before you, my sovereign,
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that today, those who are guilty are not just me, Wang, alone.
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By your reasoning,
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then I, the Emperor, am also guilty.
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You inherited the chaos of a troubled era,
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rising from a soldier to become the Emperor.
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How can it be said you are without fault?
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Your Majesty, these are mad words slandering
the sovereign, showing great disrespect.
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He should be judged by the authorities for his crimes.
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Your Majesty, he points at you with no subject's propriety.
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We, your subjects, request his execution to warn the world.
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We, your subjects, request his execution to warn the world.
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Since I began leading troops, I have questioned
my own actions, which may not be always best,
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but I have never committed acts
of cruelty against the people.
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Rising from a soldier to become the Emperor
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was also not my original wish.
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Accusing me of this crime, how can your conscience be at ease?
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On the imperial decree of Wang's appointment as Commander of the Xichuan Campaign
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and the title of Military Governor of the Zhongwu Army,
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is there not your seal?
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Your Majesty now
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is no longer just a soldier.
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The Tao Te Ching says:
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'He who bears the disgrace of the state
becomes the master of the land.
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He who bears the misfortunes of the state
becomes the king of the realm.'
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If everyone has faults,
the fault lies with me, the Emperor, alone?
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Then everyone in this tent is guilty.
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You yourself also stand within this tent.
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Are you also guilty?
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Since I was born in a chaotic era
and now stand again in the court,
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how can I say I am without fault?
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I have heard it said of Your Majesty
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that what you wish to govern is not the crime of one person,
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but rather these two centuries of chaos,
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of indiscriminate killing, and of the cycle of merit and crime.
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To emulate a peaceful age,
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one must establish laws of peace.
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Good.
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You tell me.
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What is the law of peace?
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With Wang's crimes, even if it were Emperor Gaozu of Han,
with his three-article covenant upon entering the pass,
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he should have been executed for ten thousand times.
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Since ancient times, killing is easy,
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but punishing the heart is difficult.
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I do not seek to conceal Wang's crimes.
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He harms the people, and Your Majesty executes him.
This is called upholding the law.
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In a time of peace, this would certainly benefit
public morals and the people's support.
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But you were, after all, born in a time of chaos,
and live in a time of chaos.
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In chaotic times, killing is easy.
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To not kill,
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is difficult.
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In the days to come, you
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must still pacify the broad lands,
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and subdue the military governors.
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You will likely have to kill many more people.
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When you become accustomed to killing,
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when all the civil and military officials at court
and all the commoners of the land,
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become accustomed to seeing you kill,
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then killing
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becomes the law of the land.
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But, then, the peaceful and prosperous age that you desire,
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where will it be?
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Since Your Majesty has promised me this peaceful and prosperous age,
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I
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shall consider that I have seen it today.
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This age of peace.
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I was born in a time of chaos,
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once served as an advisor to a military governor,
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and now stand in the imperial court.
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I
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am a guilty man.
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I now take my leave and bade you farewell.
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Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty.
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Take care, Your Majesty.
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Behave yourself!
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Move.
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Tell His Majesty.
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I will wait to see the age of peace he creates.
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Hurry up! Report it!
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Report to His Majesty!
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Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty.
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Something has happened!
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Lord Zhao.
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I am here.
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Wang's capital crime,
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I will bear it for him.
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Your Majesty.
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I,
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who bear the myriad death crimes of the people of the world,
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must repay the people of the nine provinces
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with an age of life and prosperity.
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Wang Quanbin's command banner, I have taken back.
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He is demoted and appointed to...
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Military Governor of Chongyi,
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Regent Observer.
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Long live Your Majesty! Long live!
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Long live Your Majesty! Long live!
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Long live Your Majesty! Long live!
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Long time no see.
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Come on, have some more.
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Have some.
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It is the dead of winter.
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Your Majesty has summoned all of us
to the capital with the military insignia.
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Could it be you intend to launch a major campaign?
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Comrades, do you remember what day it is today?
Do you recall the significance of this date?
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Fifteen years ago today,
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the Khitan ruler Yelu Deguang
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led a force of two hundred thousand men
southward to graze their horses.
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Du Zhongwei surrendered all of Hebei.
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Zhang Yanze pressed his troops against the capital region.
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The Shi family emperor was terrified out of his wits.
He set a great fire in the imperial palace.
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Throughout the court and the country,
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everyone was filled with fear and anxiety.
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Even with the virtue of Lord Feng
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and the wisdom of Minister Sang,
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they had no choice but to endure humiliation,
bending their knees in submission.
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The soldiers and civilians of the entire city
were all terrified,
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scared out of their wits.
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Only you, my comrades,
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followed me, enduring the wind and snow,
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camping beneath the city walls.
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We fought fiercely against that traitor
Zhang Yanze for more than ten full days.
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Back then,
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each and every one of us harbored the determination
to fight the enemy to the death.
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Who could have imagined we would have a day like today?
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Your Majesty is the true heaven-granted emperor,
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protected by the six deities, invulnerable to all evils.
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Back then, following you,
even amidst tens of thousands of troops,
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we could charge through them for times.
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Zhang Yanze, that traitor who harmed
the people, leading a ragtag mob,
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what could he possibly do to us?
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Exactly! Well said!
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Come on!
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Bring it over.
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Here, drink!
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Come on, come on!
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Back then at Chenqiao,
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it was you, my comrades, who draped this upon my shoulders.
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Only then did I achieve what I have today.
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Over these years,
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I have pondered more than once:
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Was it my own good fortune that allowed me to wear this?
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Or was it by relying on the strength of all my comrades
that I became the Emperor?
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Your Majesty is blessed,
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and we comrades have also contributed greatly.
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Yes, that's right!
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What nonsense are you all talking?
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Your Majesty responds to destiny,
the Mandate of Heaven rests upon you.
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How dare we claim credit for Heaven's work?
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This is Lord Liu's banner.
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I personally tore it down
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and then presented it to Lord Guo.
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Lord Guo then draped it over
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Lord Liu's shoulders.
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During the Qianyou Incident,
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it was draped over Lord Guo's own body.
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At Chenqiao,
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you comrades draped it over my body.
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Over these years, comrades,
you have been promoted and gained wealth.
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Noble titles and official ranks,
you have all that you deserve.
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We are indebted to your heavenly grace.
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That's nonsense!
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I am the Emperor,
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the ruler of all the people.
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Compared to me,
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the benefits you comrades have received are nothing.
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You have become a chancellor.
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These few have also become Marshals.
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Yet there are comrades who have not even become Marshals.
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My comrades have given me so much.
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I
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am truly ashamed before you all.
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Your Majesty speaks too gravely.
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We dare not accept.
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Your Majesty speaks too gravely. We dare not accept.
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Today,
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I have nothing with which to repay my comrades.
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This great banner, let us take turns
draping it over everyone's shoulders.
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Let it be as if we share wealth and honor.
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Come.
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Your Majesty must not.
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Absolutely not!
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Come on, come on!
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I, I dare not.
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I, I would sacrifice my life.
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Our lives are forfeit.
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It's just a tattered banner.
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What is it worth?
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What's all this talk of your lives?
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We dare not.
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We dare not.
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Today, I wish to bestow this upon you,
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yet you all say you dare not.
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Then what about tomorrow?
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When the officers under your command wish to bestow it upon you,
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even you dare not or are unwilling,
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I fear you will have no choice but to accept it.
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Just as Lord Liu did in Taiyuan,
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as Lord Guo did in Chanzhou,
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and as I
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did at Chenqiao Post.
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We would rather die ten thousand times,
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than commit such an act of treason!
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We would rather die ten thousand times.
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Enough.
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I have been through this myself.
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What is there I do not know?
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To don the robe or not,
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is it truly up to oneself?
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Back then at Chenqiao,
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had I stubbornly refused to don it,
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even if you all had not pressed the matter,
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would the tens of thousands of soldiers
outside the tent have let it go so easily?
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00:28:32,733 --> 00:28:36,066
How many have pinned their hopes
of wealth and honor upon you?
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Can a simple refusal from you
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00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,066
truly prevent it?
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In these chaotic times, a soldier's life is cheap.
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If I die, so be it.
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00:28:53,533 --> 00:28:57,000
But what about my wife and children at home,
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my parents and clan?
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00:28:59,933 --> 00:29:01,766
What wrong have they done?
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00:29:06,066 --> 00:29:09,133
What Your Majesty speaks of is truly
not something a subject should hear.
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00:29:10,266 --> 00:29:14,500
We are but a group of common men, favored by
Your Majesty's grace and entrusted with military commands.
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If the unspeakable event you mention were to truly occur,
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we would die if we comply, and die if we do not.
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Your Majesty is wise, discerning and insightful.
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We beg you to grant us
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a path to survival.
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We beg Your Majesty to grant us a path to survival.
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Your Majesty,
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the generals
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harbor no rebellious intentions.
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If mistakes occur in the future,
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it is merely because they hold military power,
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with authority over life, death, and wealth.
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Thus they might be coerced by petty men,
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none of it stemming from their true hearts.
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I request to resign from my post
as Military Governor of Tianping Army and Grand Councilor,
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all titles and duties.
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I ask to retire
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and return home to live out my days.
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00:30:12,466 --> 00:30:15,366
I request to resign
as Military Governor of Baojing Army.
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I ask to retire
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and return home to live out my days.
436
00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:23,200
We, your subjects, request to resign.
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00:30:23,733 --> 00:30:25,000
We ask to retire
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and return home to live out our days.
439
00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:40,900
What are you all doing?
440
00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:45,233
I was merely speaking my heartfelt words to you.
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Why must each of you
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go to such extremes?
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00:30:52,133 --> 00:30:54,466
We have received Your Majesty's grace.
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We willingly request to resign.
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We beg you to grant it.
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00:30:59,866 --> 00:31:01,966
We have received profound grace.
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00:31:02,466 --> 00:31:03,733
We willingly request to resign.
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00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:06,233
We beg you to grant it.
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00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:09,433
Do you know
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why the Emperor is also called 'Governor of Families‘?
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Minister Zhao told me
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that during the Three Kingdoms period, Wei's Jiang Ji,
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in his On Wan Ji,
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he said:
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"The Three Sovereigns governed the world as officials;
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the Five Emperors treated the world as their family."
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00:31:34,733 --> 00:31:41,266
The Emperor combines the virtues of both Three and Five,
hence he is the 'Governor of Families'.
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The Emperor is the realm.
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When I was Marshal,
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you and I were all comrades.
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Now that I have become the Emperor,
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then all people under heaven are my comrades.
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I cannot fail you,
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nor can I fail the people of the world.
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In today's world,
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how many Military Governor titles are there?
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00:32:13,066 --> 00:32:15,200
Today, there are four hundred military garrisons.
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Those with the title of Military Governor number seventy-five.
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I shall list these Military Governor titles by order of precedence.
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I have served as Military Governor of Guide Army, ranked first.
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00:32:28,533 --> 00:32:33,466
Military Governor of Datong Army in Yunzhou is
a remote commandery military district, ranked last.
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00:32:34,633 --> 00:32:35,966
According to our dynasty's system,
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a Chancellor's annual salary is
three thousand six hundred strings of cash.
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00:32:41,466 --> 00:32:43,566
The title of Military Governor is noble.
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00:32:44,233 --> 00:32:48,666
Its annual salary, compared to a Chancellor's,
is increased by one thousand two hundred strings.
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00:32:48,833 --> 00:32:51,433
That would be four thousand eight hundred strings.
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That is to say, the Military Governor of Datong Army
in Yunzhou, the one at the lowest rank,
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receives an annual salary of
four thousand eight hundred strings.
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Starting from there, for each rank higher,
the annual salary increases by two hundred strings.
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Then,
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what is the salary of the Military Governor of the Guide Army?
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Nineteen thousand six hundred strings.
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Can this be considered wealth?
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This wealth is already extreme.
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We
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kowtow and thank Your Majesty.
487
00:33:26,766 --> 00:33:29,000
We kowtow and thank Your Majesty.
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00:33:29,033 --> 00:33:33,466
The Military Governor of Guide Army was the position
Your Majesty held before ascending the throne.
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We
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dare not presume to use that title.
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00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,133
If the position of Guide Army is vacant,
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the next in rank is the Military Governor
of Taining Army in Yanzhou,
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with an annual salary of
nineteen thousand four hundred strings.
494
00:33:48,133 --> 00:33:50,033
This wealth is already extreme.
495
00:33:50,066 --> 00:33:56,733
We kowtow and thank Your Majesty for your great grace.
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Good.
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From today onward,
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the authority of the military governors—
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to establish offices, appoint officials,
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collect taxes, and execute punishments—
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I will use this very wealth
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to redeem it from the hands
of my comrades in the various commands
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for the court,
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and for the common people of the realm.
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I have redeemed it back.
506
00:34:30,066 --> 00:34:33,400
Your Majesty is benevolent and virtuous,
ushering in a new era unseen for a century.
507
00:34:33,433 --> 00:34:35,533
You are truly a Emperor of Peace.
508
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You are truly a Emperor of Peace.
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[Sima Pu's memorial tablet]
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June:
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Edict to exempt rent land taxes in the counties of Zezhou and Luzhou.
512
00:36:08,066 --> 00:36:10,000
Edict to exempt the poll tax for three years.
513
00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:13,833
Edict to dispatch Deputy Minister of Works Ai Ying
514
00:36:13,866 --> 00:36:17,600
to offer sacrifices at Emperor Taizu Mausoleum and
Emperor Shizong Mausoleum of Later Zhou.
515
00:36:18,866 --> 00:36:21,533
In August: Edict ordering the Chancellor to pray for rain.
516
00:36:21,533 --> 00:36:22,166
And also...
517
00:36:22,433 --> 00:36:24,833
How many edicts and decrees in total have been issued?
518
00:36:24,833 --> 00:36:27,733
From the first month of the first year of Jianlong
519
00:36:28,066 --> 00:36:30,366
to the ninth month of the fourth year of Qiande,
520
00:36:30,633 --> 00:36:32,766
a period of six years and eight months,
521
00:36:33,433 --> 00:36:37,300
there were thirty-six imperial decrees
and two hundred and sixteen edicts.
522
00:36:37,633 --> 00:36:40,566
They account for seventy percent of all imperial edicts.
523
00:36:40,933 --> 00:36:42,166
Weizhi, what's your opinion?
524
00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:47,933
In the Marshal's Office, I assisted Mr. Shen in organizing
the imperial edicts of past dynasties.
525
00:36:47,933 --> 00:36:50,733
From the first year of Qianfu under Emperor Xizong of Tang
526
00:36:50,733 --> 00:36:53,300
to the third year of Guangshun under Emperor Taizu of Zhou,
527
00:36:53,333 --> 00:36:57,933
spanning six dynasties and fourteen emperors,
eighty-eight years, the total number of edicts issued
528
00:36:57,933 --> 00:37:02,266
concerning matters as mentioned above
amounts to only eighty-five.
529
00:37:03,066 --> 00:37:07,600
This is less than one-third of those issued by
the current Emperor in his six years on the throne.
530
00:37:10,133 --> 00:37:11,866
And compared to Emperor Shizong?
531
00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:14,833
During the six-year reign of the previous Emperor Shizong,
532
00:37:14,866 --> 00:37:19,200
the edicts concerning matters of people's livelihood
numbered only one hundred and sixteen.
533
00:37:20,266 --> 00:37:24,566
This is less than half of those issued by
the current Emperor over the past six years.
534
00:37:24,566 --> 00:37:29,100
How many edicts concern military governance,
appointment of generals, and campaigns?
535
00:37:30,133 --> 00:37:32,533
The current Emperor comes from a military background.
536
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,466
However, the edicts concerning military governance and campaigns
537
00:37:37,066 --> 00:37:39,366
over the past six years total only twenty-eight.
538
00:37:41,533 --> 00:37:42,966
That is less than one-tenth of the total.
539
00:37:45,466 --> 00:37:46,200
What is your view?
540
00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:50,300
Father befriended the current Emperor in humble times.
541
00:37:51,233 --> 00:37:54,133
Your understanding of his character
and disposition far exceeds my own.
542
00:37:55,733 --> 00:37:56,866
I dare not speak recklessly.
543
00:37:57,666 --> 00:37:59,333
Speak your mind as you think.
544
00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:03,466
Mother.
545
00:38:10,133 --> 00:38:14,033
Whether the current Emperor
governs the country well remains to be seen.
546
00:38:15,666 --> 00:38:19,200
However, judging from these edicts alone,
at the very least, the Emperor
547
00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:25,033
is making great efforts.
548
00:38:29,033 --> 00:38:30,733
When speaking with your father,
549
00:38:31,133 --> 00:38:32,433
why must you be so cautious?
550
00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:35,133
Mother,
551
00:38:37,133 --> 00:38:37,966
I think
552
00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:42,733
what Weizhi means is whether he is a good person is unknown,
553
00:38:43,866 --> 00:38:45,266
but he is a good emperor.
554
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,300
What Weizhi does not know,
555
00:38:49,433 --> 00:38:50,500
you do.
556
00:38:53,066 --> 00:38:54,466
I have never known that
557
00:38:57,433 --> 00:38:59,266
such a carefree person as he was,
558
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:00,700
now that he is emperor,
559
00:39:02,033 --> 00:39:04,066
he has become so... fussy.
560
00:39:06,066 --> 00:39:07,266
Shouldn't an emperor
561
00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:09,200
be like this?
562
00:39:11,266 --> 00:39:12,000
Laozi said,
563
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:13,900
"Governing a large state
564
00:39:15,633 --> 00:39:16,700
is like cooking a small fish."
565
00:39:27,933 --> 00:39:29,033
Weizhi is right.
566
00:39:32,166 --> 00:39:33,066
I do not know
567
00:39:34,133 --> 00:39:35,833
what he is truly thinking.
568
00:39:36,633 --> 00:39:37,633
But at least
569
00:39:39,666 --> 00:39:40,566
he is very diligent.
570
00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:45,600
[Jiangning Prefecture]
571
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:49,833
This Emperor of Bianjing
572
00:39:51,466 --> 00:39:53,566
is truly unpredictable in his grace and authority.
573
00:39:53,566 --> 00:39:54,700
What is unpredictable?
574
00:39:55,733 --> 00:39:57,500
Hasn't he already made it very clear?
575
00:39:58,400 --> 00:39:59,733
[Li Yu (originally named Congjia)]
What clarity?
576
00:39:59,733 --> 00:40:01,433
[Li Yu (originally named Congjia)]
He merely said
577
00:40:01,466 --> 00:40:02,533
[Zhou Nüying, Li Yu's wife, known as Young Empress Zhou]
that the people of Southern Tang
578
00:40:02,933 --> 00:40:04,666
[Zhou Nüying, Li Yu's wife, known as Young Empress Zhou]
are all the beloved children of Emperor Zhao.
579
00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:06,300
What are you saying?!
580
00:40:15,066 --> 00:40:18,566
In the past, Emperor Taizong of Tang
discussed Go with Li Mi and
581
00:40:18,566 --> 00:40:22,766
spoke of "golden corners, silver sides, and the grass belly".
[a term in Go about the strategy to conquer the border first]
582
00:40:23,866 --> 00:40:26,366
Emperor Zhao is truly a great ruler.
583
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,233
He secured Guanzhong and conquered Bashu,
584
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,066
holding two golden corners in hand.
585
00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:34,466
If we discuss it in terms of Go,
586
00:40:35,133 --> 00:40:37,766
he should lead his troops north
587
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,000
to sweep away the remnants of Jinyang
588
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,500
and recover the mighty capital of Youyan,
589
00:40:44,166 --> 00:40:44,900
to conquer,
590
00:40:46,066 --> 00:40:47,700
the silver sides of the realm.
591
00:40:49,566 --> 00:40:50,600
Yet, I wonder
592
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,066
if the current Emperor of the Great Song
593
00:40:56,633 --> 00:40:58,333
should be Emperor Taizong of Tang
594
00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:02,300
or Emperor Yang of Sui.
595
00:41:12,566 --> 00:41:15,200
The corners and sides of the realm are already incomplete.
596
00:41:16,466 --> 00:41:21,000
Li Maozhen's rebellion caused one corner of Guanzhong to collapse.
597
00:41:23,633 --> 00:41:25,166
The Sixteen Prefectures changed hands,
598
00:41:26,166 --> 00:41:29,433
and Minister Sang sold away one side.
599
00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:36,033
The realm has been broken for nearly a hundred years.
600
00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:38,166
Back then,
601
00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:41,166
Emperor Taizong and Li Mi,
602
00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:43,700
were not discussing a Go game,
603
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,233
but the three-hundred-year Great Tang.
604
00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:50,600
In today's realm,
605
00:41:52,133 --> 00:41:53,666
where is the Great Tang?
606
00:41:55,166 --> 00:41:56,900
Lord Xu, do you still not understand?
607
00:41:58,333 --> 00:42:03,400
That magnificent and glorious three-hundred-year Go game,
608
00:42:05,100 --> 00:42:06,166
has long been gone.
609
00:42:11,566 --> 00:42:13,400
Is it about the Longxiang Army?
610
00:42:14,433 --> 00:42:15,900
Xue never mentioned it.
611
00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:17,766
What is the true intention
612
00:42:19,666 --> 00:42:21,000
of the Song envoy's visit?
613
00:42:21,733 --> 00:42:22,400
Your Majesty,
614
00:42:24,866 --> 00:42:25,900
Emperor Zhao...
615
00:42:28,166 --> 00:42:29,700
wishes to summon you to Bianjing.
616
00:42:36,566 --> 00:42:37,166
Your Majesty!
617
00:42:55,700 --> 00:42:55,966
Your...
618
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:56,800
Master Xu.
619
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:58,733
Save me!
620
00:43:24,433 --> 00:43:27,400
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles
stretch towering mountains. ♫
621
00:43:27,900 --> 00:43:30,866
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles
run surging rivers. ♫
622
00:43:31,433 --> 00:43:34,400
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles
cry warhorses. ♫
623
00:43:34,900 --> 00:43:39,000
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles
there are emotions unspoken. ♫
624
00:43:39,933 --> 00:43:42,900
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles,
flowers are blooming along the road. ♫
625
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,366
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles,
gooses are returning to the north. ♫
626
00:43:46,933 --> 00:43:49,900
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles,
we stand through storms. ♫
627
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,500
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles,
we hope for a safe return. ♫
628
00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:01,366
♫ Tens of thousands of miles is not enough, ♫
629
00:44:01,966 --> 00:44:04,866
♫ for a lifetime's sorrows and joys. ♫
630
00:44:05,500 --> 00:44:08,166
♫ Tens of thousands of miles is not enough, ♫
631
00:44:08,766 --> 00:44:11,666
♫ for the endless seas and rivers. ♫
632
00:44:12,466 --> 00:44:15,133
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles, ♫
633
00:44:15,733 --> 00:44:18,633
♫ love will overcome all barriers. ♫
634
00:44:19,333 --> 00:44:20,633
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles, ♫
635
00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:25,033
♫ we are together in life and death. ♫
636
00:44:25,966 --> 00:44:29,000
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles. ♫
637
00:44:32,700 --> 00:44:35,733
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles. ♫
638
00:44:39,633 --> 00:44:40,966
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles, ♫
639
00:44:41,333 --> 00:44:42,766
♫ the moon shines in the boundless world. ♫
640
00:44:43,100 --> 00:44:46,333
♫ My heart has its hometown to return. ♫
641
00:44:46,533 --> 00:44:47,866
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles, ♫
642
00:44:48,233 --> 00:44:49,666
♫ who is the one crossing the waves with me, ♫
643
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,233
♫ with our hearts unrepentant,
through countless lifetimes. ♫
644
00:44:53,433 --> 00:44:54,866
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles, ♫
645
00:44:55,133 --> 00:44:56,666
♫ oceans and lands witness that♫
646
00:44:56,900 --> 00:44:59,666
♫ the world will be safe and sound. ♫
647
00:45:00,066 --> 00:45:03,100
♫ Across tens of thousands of miles, ♫
648
00:45:11,266 --> 00:45:15,433
♫ my heart is unchanging. ♫
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