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Do you know what the affair of tea and horse is?

Yes.

As I know, the horses from the central plain are tame, not doughty.

So all these years we have been exchanging the horses with the official tea.

In case we will have wars.

The affair of tea and horse is about national power.

Royal Minister Lu. I remember you.

You have some achievements in dealing with the affair of tea and horse.

Did you prepare the warhorses for the war of Changzhou, right?

Yes.

Changzhou is not far away from Sichuan.

So I sent the horses to the frontier from Sichun directly.

I arranged all this, so I need to plead guilty.

And impeach An Pingbo.

Zhao Yong.

Yes.

An Pingbo is the senior official in Fuchun.

He ransacks people's teas.

All the people live in the extreme life.

The complaints are heard everywhere.

He sells the ransacked tea at sky-high price

in the name of royal family.

But the tea he sent to Sichun is old fannings.

He even deducted it.

The complaints are everywhere.

So the affair of tea and horse are obstructed.

Why don't I know this?

I have sent many memorials to the throne but

but they all went unanswered.

Li Baizhou suppressed it?

I made all the copies after they went unanswered.

I have arrived here for 3 days.

In case of any obstacles,

I didn't go home or see my old friends.

I just sorted them out in the guesthouse for your reference.

It's about the state and war.

I am afraid the memorial to the throne won't go through chancery.

So I told crown prince to take it here.

I come to see you so late, delayed military intelligence.

So I am here to plead guilty.

Your Royal Highness.

I am here because I have something to tell you.

I need to ask you a favor.

I know it's against the conventional rule.

I plead guilty for seeing the courtier in secret and taking him here.

I will talk about this another time.

Crown prince, you should leave.

Yes.

In the frontier, the little wars are triggered.

How many horses do we lack?

Before I leave, Wu Dehou still needs 10% horses.

Your Majesty.

Before we bring the criminal into justice,

we should grant the money to exchange horses with tea.

The war matters.

I know.

Royal minister Lu, thank you.

I beg your leave.

This is the tea Li Baizhou sent Lu.

Summon him.

And the ministry of revenue.

Come with the memorials to the throne.

I am mortified.

As the official of justice, I broke the national law.

Even worse, I got you implicated.

You are overthinking.

This is the state affair.

I am the crown prince.

Even if Wu Dehou is not in the frontier, I will do the same.

You have nothing to do with this.

Let alone your daughter.

Your Royal Highness.

My daughter...

This is your reply for me?

I have thought about your words.

You are right.

We should clear the obstacles on the road for our sons.

They can't be surrounded by obstacles when they are old like us.

You think after you decline prince Qi,

your daughter will marry the crown prince?

Whatever the state affair will be,

my daughter will not be the chip.

Let alone she becomes a chip because of me.

This is my reply.

I see.

You are still unchanged.

It's military intelligence. It's your dereliction of duties.

Your Majesty.

I am the chancellor.

How can I dare to neglect my duty?

Recently I am busy with the two exams in spring.

Royal Minister, Lu's memorial, comes before I could solve the paper leakage.

Tell Zhang Luzheng to fix the paper leaking case.

Yes.

I have been urging them, but I don't have the time.

Many memorials of the state affair are suppressed.

Including Lu's.

As for screening An Pingbo's faults,

Your Majesty.

A Pingbo is pleading guilty with the bare upper body outside

Your Graces.

An Pingbo...

What's going on?

We still don't know if the royal minister Lu's telling the truth.

If An Pingbo is really guilty,

I will regret like your Majesty do.

For the sake of kinship, your Majesty can't

trust royal minister Lu so easily.

We can punish him severely after we find out the truth.

But...

The priority is that we should grant the money to buy more horses.

Minister Huang, say something.

I am guilty.

I should be beheaded.

Last year, the south was rainy, but the north was dry.

All the harvests were less than 70% than previously.

You know this.

Except for the rice supply and fund,

our ministry needs to give the army in the frontier salary.

And a month ago, the crown prince had the capping ceremony.

We are in financial deficit.

No more excuses.

How much do we have in the national treasury?

Your Majesty.

This is the account book.

This is all I have.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

I am guilty.

I should be beheaded.

Sorry for what you have suffered.

I really have no more left even without your new information.

What I said just now was true.

The emperor knows all.

The emperor knows about the national treasury than us.

We know you told the truth.

It's a colossal sum of money.

How can we raise so much money so soon?

You are always so busy.

Please have a talk in my place one day.

Ok.

Ok.

I am guilty.

Please calm down.

You should be careful about your health.

What's your guilt?

I am guilty of the people and my ancestors.

My health.

If I ruin the country in my hands, I won't go to the ancestral temple.

What's the use even if I become a god?

Your Majesty.

Where are you going, your Majesty?

We are going to have a war. I need to raise the money.

I will clean up the mess.

Your Majesty.

The emperor is here.

I am guilty, please punish me.

My mom, she...

Stand up.

What are you doing?

Your Majesty.

An Pingbo is guilty.

I should take some responsibility.

I want to plead guilty on my dad's behalf.

An Pingbo is the courtier.

You are my family.

Even is he is guilty, how can you be involved?

I know you are considerate to me.

But I feel sorry for you.

Your Majesty.

An Pingbo knows he is guilty.

He wants to donate all his money to the country.

All his money?

Donate.

You embezzled the national funds.

I need to beg you for the petty money.

Great.

It's a slip of the tongue.

I am sorry.

All the territory is yours.

Zhang Yong is all yours.

Let alone his money.

He should amend his error even if he breaks the bank.

Li Baizhou denies.

Still talk like a bureaucrat.

Now you confessed all for Zhao Yong.

My dad's reputation is not very good.

You won't trust his incorruptibility.

I have served you for 23 years.

Why do I bother the lip service?

Zhao Yong is born from the ordinary people.

I have today because of you.

Let alone money,

I won't say anything even if you want to kill me.

But today I beg you won't punish An Pingbo in public.

You are my concubine.

What qualifies you to ask for mercy for family Zhao?

I know my identity, I can't cover for Zhao Yong.

I am your concubine, but I plead, the prince still

needs to keep dignified outside

As long as prince Qi isn't implicated,

I can take Zhao Yong's responsibility.

Your Majesty.

Mom.

Your Majesty.

Mom.

Your Majesty.

Let me die.

Mom.

Mom...

Let go of me...

All my fault.

I can take all the responsibility.

Let go of me.

My son.

My son.

Enough.

Go on playing.

What are you playing at?

And you...

Did I tell you to stand up?

You misbehaved in front me.

Your salary of half-year will be deducted.

You can't come to the imperial harem without my consent.

Yes.

Go to tell Zhao Yong. He needs to wait for punishment at home.

You don't need the dignity.

But I need.

Thank you, your Majesty.

In the end, his Majesty...

I and my mom are fine.

In the end, how much?

Mom says all the money.

Actually not all.

All?

Put on your clothes.

So mortifying.

I won't mind.

It's my life if I lose the money.

It's my life.

My people don't know, as the emperor,

I still need to worry about the money.

A half jin of Hejiaochen.

One Fen of clove.

A halfFen of tulip.

One Qian of Lachamo.

One Zi of musk.

One Mili of Dingfen.

One Zhan of whitish honey.

Lu Ying is a scholar like his son.

He offended many people by this.

I am afraid, in the end, it becomes the imperial decree

to take An Pingbo's money.

I need the porphyrization.

Agilawood and clove.

They are safe.

But you will be charged with meeting someone in secret.

This is agilawood.

You should have told me earlier.

I have prepared it for you.

Fengen.

You are a scholar too.

Why are you so bureaucratic?

I am not the one who needs reflection.

Lu Ying is not bureaucratic.

He is old and innocent.

Now you are innocent like him.

If the frontier really needs the horses,

my dad will tell the emperor directly ok?

I need some tea.

Yes.

Uncle has his difficulties.

His Majesty also has his difficulties.

You should be so considerate in front of the emperor.

You should learn this from prince Qi to coax the emperor.

Li Baizhou is an official ruffian.

Lu Ying offended him right after he came back.

God knows what will happen in the future.

Till then, if your princess is implicated,

Why mention her?

You make the fragrance for her right?

Nonsense.

It's true.

Your Royal Highness.

Tell me, why do you love her?

Who loves her?

I am your cousin, and grow up with you.

Stop denying.

You can't add the musk this way.

You want to murder your princess?

Leave it to me. Go.

Fetch the water.

You don't know the basics.

Still want to send gifts for them?

Go.

I help you.

Still talk the nonsense.

Enough.

I think...

You should thank me.

Only me can help you.

Others won't know how to make the fragrance of plum blossom.

How long will this take?

The longer the better.

Just wait.

Fragrance of plum blossom is sweet in bitter cold.

Take it.

You can check it out.

I can make you more.

Now all my efforts come to nothing.

How can her Majesty give all out?

I told her to do that.

His Majesty has been thinking about your money for more than one day.

Now he has the handle.

Let me tell you,

Losing money is better than losing head.

You think my head is so expensive?

Yours is not.

But the emperor is worth it right?

So the emperor makes the decision, we will suffer the loss.

I think you know the minister of justice, right?

Zhang Luzheng?

He is Lu Shiyu's student.

But he is incompatible with Lu Ying.

The coral is uselss for me.

I think we should give it to him

He?

He doesn't deserve it.

You think?

I am afraid he will refuse.

Don't worry.

I am good at bribery and being bribed.

I can persuade them all.

Let alone Zhang Luzheng?

Lu Ying.

It's not difficult to take my gift.

And returning it back is so easy.

When people know this, how can I convince all the courtiers?

His daughter is not optional not so necessary.

But now...

Wenpu.

All set?

Almost.

Where is Xi'er?

A'xi.

She closed the door, and she didn't answer me.

Never mind.

Dad.

You don't allow her to marry prince Qi.

Why do you stop...

None of your business.

Send her out of the capital in the early morning.

She should take this.

Yes.

I have something.

Can you give me the same painting?

I need two cranes.

A'xi.

You can't be lovers.

As I know, It's the first time

that the emperor is so mad at the imperial concubine.

The imperial minister is so awesome.

This is the way the imperial minister is.

The frontier needs the war horses.

Wu Dehou told this to the emperor, right?

After the spring exam, the emperor was expecting Lu Ying's coming back.

They should make the troubles, so An Pingbo can take his money out.

An Pingbo is corruptive.

But his corruption of two years can't buy the horsetail.

If Zhao Yong's money is confiscated, it's more than one brigade

You didn't sleep last night?

Sleep on the road.

I send you out of the capital.

The honorific stands for our sincerity.

Others are ok.

Congratulations, royal minister Lu.

Why are you here today?

Come.

Why the congratulations?

I just came back from the ministry of rites.

Minister Zhang told me...

Congratulations, royal minister Lu.

You solve the state affair

and your daughter's marriage at the same time.

So awesome.

Chancellor.

Thi is your decision?

His Majesty's decision.

Our country lacks money.

We have the turmoil as well.

But the emperor still solves your problem first.

Big rat.

Whatever.

All people are god's puppets.

You have said,

Kids are not the chips.

But you are very lucky.

Your daughter is so distinguished now.

Don't worry.

I will tell my daughter to get along with your daughter.

From now on, we should get along with each other as well.

We should live in harmony.

After all, this is what the emperor wants.

Am I right?

Great.

I beg your leave.

This is royal minister's daughter?

Yes

You are...

Stop them.

Who are you?

You dare to stop the official's family in the capital?

I am right.

It's princess.

Princess?

Princess can't go anywhere.

You should go back.

How dare you!

My dad is royal minister.

How can you order my family?

Tell me all.

I don't dare.

It's the imperial decree. The royal minister's daughter

will be prince Qi's concubine.

The decree goes to the minister of rites.

Princess, you need to go back to take the decree.

Brother.

Princess.

You are on the street.

You can't come out.

Don't be afraid, I am here.

Take care of her.

Yes.

I will find a way out.

I will go now.