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Your Majesty,
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Beicang values blood ties and family bonds.
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If we send the princess for a marriage alliance,
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it will not only help us avoid disaster and war,
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but also allow Beicang to help our Dajing
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eliminate threats from other northern tribes.
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I ask for Your Majesty's approval.
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Dajing truly cannot afford more conflict.
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As for the marriage alliance,
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you must make thorough preparations.
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It must not be handled hastily.
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My loyal subject, draft the marriage alliance documents for me first.
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Then send an envoy to visit Beicang.
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Discuss the details of the alliance together.
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I obey Your Majesty's command.
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Without the princess,
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let's see how you join forces with Xiao Ning.
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Mother, please tell Father
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I don't want to marry into Beicang.
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I don't want to get married.
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My daughter,
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the marriage alliance concerns the safety of Dajing.
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It concerns the people.
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This is the duty of a Dajing princess.
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You must not act willfully.
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I will not marry.
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Yun'er, you have already come of age.
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How can marriage be delayed again and again?
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Besides, the prince of Beicang
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is a man of both talent and virtue.
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Compared to Xiao Ning, who only knows business,
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he is hundreds of times better.
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He will surely cherish you more than Xiao Ning.
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Mother, how do you know Xiao Ning wouldn't cherish me?
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How do you know he wouldn't treat me better?
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If he knew about this,
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he would surely do anything to keep me here.
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Your Majesty,
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Do you really insist on Yun'er marrying for alliance?
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Could it be that
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Beicang truly intends to invade our borders from the south?
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Beicang moving south—
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Not to mention, Beicang just fought a war with Xize at the start of the year.
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Both sides are greatly weakened.
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Even at its peak,
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our great nation would never fear such a mere barbarian state.
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Do you think I
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am an emperor who relies on marrying off his daughter
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to seek peace like a coward?
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Then your insistence on Yun'er marrying for alliance is because—
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That Xiao Ning is smooth-talking
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and has tricked Yun'er into falling for him.
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I just want to test
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whether he is worthy of
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Yun'er's feelings for him.
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Jiang Yun.
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Xiao Ning, I have—
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Oh, right.
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Do you still have the Minghua Bookstore's distribution channels?
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The bookstore?
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Yes, I do.
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Why do you ask?
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Give me the bookstore's distribution channels.
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I need to send something out.
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That's not difficult.
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Xiao Ning
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If
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If I leave in the future
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what will you do?
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Where are you going?
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When will you come back?
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Maybe I won't come back.
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That won't do.
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If you're not here
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what about the tea, the wine, and the bookshop?
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You don't want me to leave because of that?
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That's right.
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It's such a hassle to find another helper.
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Right now I need to teach the Han family
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a lesson.
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You have to help me.
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So, Xiao Ning
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you just need a good helper.
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Or rather
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you just need these businesses.
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It's not that it has to be me.
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Does it make a difference?
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If that's the case
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let's just maintain
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a business partnership.
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Whether it's the bookshop's connections
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or Yuxian House
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or the Tea Pavilion
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I'll hand them all over to you.
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No, that's not what I meant.
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I...
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I'm leaving in a few days.
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For business matters in the future
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just contact Qing Feng.
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Jiang... Jiang Yun
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Jiang Yun
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Jiang Yun
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What's going on?
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Yun'er, don't cry yourself sick.
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I knew long ago that Xiao Ning couldn't be trusted.
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It's better to see his true colors sooner.
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Guards!
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Here!
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Take Xiao Ning to the dungeon.
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Father!
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No!
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Then...
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Then Yun'er, what do you want...
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Father...
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I'm fine.
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That's fine too.
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I agree to the marriage alliance.
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I'll go prepare right away.
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Xiao Ning, oh Xiao Ning...
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How dare you humiliate Yun'er like this.
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Guards!
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Here!
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Bring Xiao Ning to see me.
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Yes!
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What's going on?
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I'm just a merchant.
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No...
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I'm not qualified to enter the palace.
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Are you sure you haven't made a mistake?
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Why does the emperor want to see me?
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I don't even know him.
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Miss Qingfeng
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Miss Qingfeng, why are you here?
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Could it be
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that Jiang Yun has also entered the palace?
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The Emperor is looking for her too?
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Oh, right.
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Yesterday, I think I
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said something wrong and offended her.
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Where is she now?
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I need to explain things to her.
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No need.
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She doesn't want to see you.
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Here is the bookstore contract you wanted.
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And all the profit-sharing agreements.
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She treated you with genuine sincerity.
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But all you do is make her sad.
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Fortunately, she saw your true colors early on.
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What do you mean?
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No, that's not it.
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Your Majesty, Xiao Ning has been brought in.
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Yes.
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I am Xiao Ning. Greetings, Your Majesty.
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Manager Bi
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How dare you!
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No way.
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You—you're the emperor?
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Manager Bi is the emperor?
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Do I not look like one?
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Not at all.
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So last time you were traveling incognito?
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No wonder the atmosphere was so strange that day.
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Did I...
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even ask you to pour me tea?
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Yes, you did.
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You almost
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became the very first person
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to have the emperor personally pour them tea.
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How could I let my father-in-law
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pour tea for me?
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Who’s your father-in-law?
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You’re the emperor.
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Then...
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Doesn’t that mean Jiang Yun is...
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You dare mention Jiang Yun?
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I’ve never seen Yun’er
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cry so sadly before.
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You broke her heart.
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I...
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I wish I could take your head off.
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Why are you and your daughter so alike?
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Your Majesty.
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Last time, I got my conversation with Jiang Yun all mixed up.
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Call her out here.
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I want to explain things to her.
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You don’t deserve to see her.
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That's fine too.
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Since you have no feelings for Yun'er,
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this will help her give up hope.
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Going to Beicang for the marriage alliance
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is also a clear path forward.
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Jiang Yun is going to marry for alliance.
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What about Xiao Ning?
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Your Highness, please don't worry.
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His Majesty is currently speaking with Young Master Xiao.
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Princess,
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His Majesty won't do anything to Young Master Xiao.
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In this old servant's opinion,
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it's better if Your Highness doesn't go in.
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Please stay here
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and listen to what Young Master Xiao has to say.
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Who says I don't care?
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You spoiled brat.
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As a father,
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how could you send your daughter away for a political marriage,
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ruining her entire life's happiness?
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I really have nothing to say to you.
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No wonder the noble families of Dajing
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are so arrogant nowadays.
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How dare you!
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Enough.
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Besides shouting "How dare you, how dare you,"
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is there anything else you can say?
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You—
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Right now, the Han family leads the noble clans.
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They rely on their size and think they're untouchable.
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Not only do they dare to take lives at will,
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they even control the court.
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They influence Your Majesty's decisions.
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If these parasites aren't removed,
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I fear Dajing itself will soon collapse.
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Do you think you're the only capable person in Dajing?
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Do you think I've grown blind with age,
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and raised a court full of useless fools?
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Since I dare to say this,
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I naturally have my own solution.
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Your Majesty, there's no need to test me.
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What do you mean by that?
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I know Your Majesty is well aware,
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that the current court
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is already controlled by the noble families.
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Your Majesty must be tired of it as well.
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If I had a way
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to wipe out all the noble families at once,
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would Your Majesty be willing to act?
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Xiao Ning
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I know you have some business sense.
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But your methods
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when placed in the court
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are nothing more than petty tricks.
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The noble families have lasted for centuries.
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Trade and taxes
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and government officials
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are mostly under their control.
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You could say
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the foundation of Dajing
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is indeed built upon the noble families.
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Even after decades of my efforts, I have not succeeded.
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What can you, a commoner, possibly do?
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Your Majesty, you are mistaken.
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The true foundation of Dajing is not
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those domineering noble families.
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It is the honest merchants
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and the common people.
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Only by truly removing
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the influence of the noble families from the court
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can Dajing
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truly be revived.
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That's easier said than done.
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On the court, eight or nine out of ten
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have ties to noble families.
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How can we remove them?
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By appointing talented people from humble backgrounds
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to replace the useless scions of noble families.
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That way, the crisis in the court can be resolved.
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Of course I know that.
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Promoting the talented from humble origins is the right path.
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But the Imperial Academy
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and the civil service exams, the two paths to office,
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are both controlled by the noble families.
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Where is there another way?
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Newspapers.
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Newspapers are the new path.
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