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Where is him?

Old monk.

You know where he is, but you just don't tell me.

You are going to drive me crazy.

What can you do if I tell you?

Kill him?

You think you are not sinful enough?

You will invite him back?

Will you give him the throne?

Leave him be.

It's so great, right?

No.

No...

I will invite him back.

We can have an uncle-nephew talk.

I can give him anything.

Of course, except the throne.

We are of a family, after all.

I'm afraid my mother will suffer in the underground.

My dad doesn't spoil her.

I've caused her so much trouble.

You are so filial.

It's time to solve it.

I heard he lives by Great water.

And Great water means sea.

Sea?

East sea or west sea?

Seaside?

On the island?

Mother.

Ruowei.

Ruowei.

Go back.

Go.

Lord Huang.

Brat.

Open it, I need some air.

You are still awake.

Grandfather.

Tomorrow we should go back.

We can't be here for ever.

Today, cabinet ministers and my father told me to persuade you back.

These days I kept dreaming of your great-grandmother.

I have a bad omen.

I still have so much work to do.

I can't die now.

Grandfather.

Think this way.

We need to move the capital back to the north, right?

Finish the Yongle Canon, right?

We need to seize Alutai right?

It will be at least 50 years of peace.

We need to secure the throne.

We can't have more jokes.

Tell me all your worries, I can solve all of them for you.

I told them to build me a seagoing vessel.

We will establish diplomatic relations with southeast Asia.

I need to find Jianwen.

We should invite him back.

Then I won't have nightmares.

Presumably your great-grandmother will have

less torture in the underground.

If you see Jianwen after I die, you should

take a good care of him for forgiveness.

Grandfather.

You defend against the formidable enemy in the north.

And compile the Yongle Canon.

You are a great emperor, either in political or military achievements.

I believe the generations to come will give you a fair judgment.

Whatever the only God knows, whether it's fair or not.

Go.

Go.

Don't move.

It will be late if the needle is stuck in the flesh.

This is the punishment of imperial guards.

Yes.

The armies camp during march.

And the army will be soaked in water if it's heavy rain.

Fever and ague are common to see.

I learn this from the military doctors.

How about it?

Feel much better right?

Yes, much better.

You can put me in prison again.

I release you and cure you.

So I don't suspect you anymore.

Why do you talk to me like this?

Your Grace.

Please keep away from me.

Make room for me.

I'll give you a big kowtow.

To express my gratitude.

I won't forget you if this happens again.

If you were the imperial guard, you wouldn't be suspicious

after someone keeps asking you to go to the imperial prison?

People will believe that you can pick up the key

to imperial prison on the street so easily?

Whatever.

I don't care.

That gate was locked in 1421.

Even people locked in the prison for

half of their lives don't know the key's existence.

Tell me.

How did you get the key?

Forget it.

I won't ask you too much today.

Go on asking.

Otherwise, you will put me in prison again.

You might as well kill me.

Speaking of killing you, I had a weird dream last night.

In the dream, I was walking around the imperial prison's underground.

Some places are stones and muds.

Some places are secret chambers.

I found out that I was empty.

I can't stop anything.

So I pierced through the wall.

Faintly I saw someone's back.

I pulled out the knife and pointed at her.

So funny, she took the straws to defend against me.

So I put my knife around her neck.

After I looked closely, it's you.

I know

You want to save Nie Xing in the campaign of Jingnan.

I don't care whether you are childhood sweethearts

or you are going to get married.

I'll do this for you.

Really?

I promise you.

That's all I can tell you.

Save someone, right?

My troubles are tougher than you.

Brother Nie.

We can see each other because of lord Huang's help.

We know each other for so many years.

I didn't expect that you would be a rebel.

Lord Huang wants me to tell you.

If you want to live, you need to tell the truth.

You should stay away from me.

I don't want to be a good citizen in my life.

I don't want to hear your nonsense.

I need to talk to him alone.

Go.

Go.

Such a robust figure.

You choose to be a rebel rather than an imperial guard.

What a pity!

The girl outside told me she would sleep with me if I release you.

Nonsense.

You really think your love is over gold?

If you die, how can she be a widow so early?

And, she begged me.

So I have the final say.

It's all about the destiny.

I can change your destiny.

I know.

Your families were killed in the campaign of Jingnan accidentally.

Then you ran to Fujian and hid in the mountain.

Ans seeked refuge from Jianwen.

So you planned to assassinate the emperor.

Tell me.

Where is Jianwen?

What are you laughing at?

I thought you were a figure.

I didn't expect you would be a turkey while you were talking.

You didn't kill us till now.

That is because we said nothing.

You thought you brought her here so I would tell you everything?

What a daydream!

The world is peaceful.

Just a few of you won't stir any storm.

Tell you the truth.

The emperor wants to have a good talk with Jianwen.

Talk about the family.

Why do you die for him?

Maybe the emperor will be happy to give you impunity.

It's been ten years.

Let bygones be bygones.

My father is Nie Yuanzhong in the ministry of justice.

He is free from corruption in his life.

I will remember the carnage forever.

All the brothers are just like me.

We are alone in this world.

I have nothing but my life, you can take it if you want.

Don't talk nonsense here.

I have heard a lot about your father.

I need to find a way to release you.

No need.

We need to have a deal.

I don't care your relationship with miss Sun.

You can't contact her after you go out.

She is a good citizen, you are the rebel.

We see the rebel's family members as the rebel.

I don't want to see her being killed on the street.

You, such a hypocrite.

Open the door.

Changling mausoleum leaking incident.

They request to speed ​​up stone transportation.

Have you seen them?

Yes.

I am old now.

I am sleeping.

Die.

No one remembers me.

I stretch my neck and wait for my grandson.

Enough, grandfather.

Well.

I'm tired.

Come, lie down.

We should take a break, ok?

Come, have a rest.

Relax.

People slouch when they are old.

I feel I am old after I come back this time.

I can remember very far back.

But I can't remember what happened yesterday.

They urged me to go to Changling mausoleum.

I say, nothing to see there.

I will sleep there for a thousand years.

I know how many bricks there.

All heroes will grow old.

If you become the emperor, you can begin to think about your mausoleum.

It won't be necessary.

I will share the mausoleum with you.

Nonsense.

We have our own mausolea.

Why share with me?

I need to race against time.

I will move the capital.

And compile the Yongle Canon.

Zheng He will be back at the end of the year.

He gives me a memorial.

The kings and princes around Sumatra will come to pay tribute.

We need to entertain them right?

What's your father's opinion of me?

Tell me the truth.

If you lie to me, I will kick you out.

He wants to say, you want us to do all the work for the generations to come.

Drive us crazy.

I...

I often dream of your great-grandmother.

Back then you were little.

You didn't see her.

I dreamed she was suffering.

Your great-grandpa tortured her.

She gave birth to an unfaithful and filial usurper.

Grandfather.

You can't say this.

If Jianwen were the emperor now, God knows

how chaotic the world would be.

Yes.

We killed a lot of people in Nanjing.

But you run the country very well.

He is no better than you in political and military achievements.

In my eyes, you are the emperor of the emperors.

We are family.

Your father, you, me, your uncles, and Jianwen.

We have the ties of consanguinity.

There will be no emperor in the underground.

More than a hundred emperors are in the underground.

It will be a total chaos.

All of them will ignore me.

Just like now.

I am so scared.

Grandfather.

Lie down.

I am doing as your instructions.

I will hold the orphans of a campaign of Jingnan tightly,

till I find Jianwen, and I will take him to see you.

It's time for my second uncle to go to his fief.

But he didn't move.

Do you need me to see what he is doing?

Your Royal Highness, please.

Uncle, are you feeling better?

Uncle, lie down.

Don't get up.

Who did the silly thing?

Why do you light the stove in this season?

Uncle.

I will tell them to take it out.

You need some fresh air.

Fresh air.

I'm almost out of breath.

Grandfather knows you are ill.

He told me to see you.

The doctor is at your service.

Brother.

Uncle. -What's wrong with you?

You are so severely sick.

Well, the crown prince tells you to see if he dies?

Uncle. -Brother.

Don't talk nonsense about the crown prince.

You will make troubles for me.

No nonsense.

He is the crown prince.

We flatter him.

If we brothers can't get along well with each other,

we won't see each other again.

It's no big deal.

What does he want?

Talk nonsense with the emperor surreptitiously.

Send him to the faraway Yunnan,

Brother.

How much you hate him?

It's the emperor's instruction.

You will make me such big trouble.

Are you here for your father or the emperor?

Grandfather told me to see him.

Because he prepared the doctor.

They can...

Don't tell me this.

We have enough fights.

Go back and tell the emperor.

After he recovers, he will leave for Yunnan at once.

At least, you should let him recover

before he hands over the military power.

Right?

Are you going to drive him crazy?

Tell him as I told you.

No.

But I understand what you mean.

Uncle, you should take care of yourself.

Good bye.

Be careful.

He can't stand any wind.

Prescription.

Grandfather told me to take back the prescription for the imperial doctor.

I almost forgot it.

We need to change the defense of the capital.

I will bring the troops from Tangshan.

By the way, I take a bath in a hot spring with your uncle.

We will return early in the morning.

Ok.

Son.

Right on time.

Tell me about the swordsmanship.

Look.

Look.

The doctor taught me Taiji sword-play.

He tells me that I can't be fatter than this.

Otherwise, my heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney can't stand it.

Last night I was on diet.

Did I lose some weight?

Yes...

Bullshit.

What's wrong with you?

So absent-minded.

I went to see your second brother.

Upon my grandfather's instruction, I ask him about the time he goes to the fief.

As soon as I entered the room, I was so suffocated by the stoves.

It's so hot.

He doesn't sweat at all.

Don't make a fuss.

Pretending to be sick is not a big deal.

Later your third brother came.

His words are so harsh.

And they have underlying meanings.

No wonder your grandfather speaks highly of him.

He is so glib.

They go out of the capital.

They are going to Tangshan.

They will take troops back to change defense.

So, they two head to hot springs.

Change the defense.

Why am I so worried?

We still have the emperor's protection.

Anyway, I am not worried.

Tell me.

You...

Look at me, I can't stand still.

On which day?

Prince Han's memorial.

When will we change the defense?

The emperor recalled the memorials back.

You can't find anything here.

Recalled?

Your Grace.

The emperor needs to handle this?

Each matter in the ministry of defense is important.

Since you ask me, it's getting easier.

You need to run errands for the ministry of defense.

None of my business.

I am busy here.

I'm busy, too.

Who else will go except you?

Prince Han.

I need to see Hu Tian.

Yes

Your Royal Highness.

How many soldiers do we have?

Two barracks on Zijin mountain.

More than 1,000 cavalrymen and bowmen in each barrack.

300 provision forces, and 300 navymen

Another 1,500 porters.

I don't need porters, logistics, and navymen.

I need 1000 cavalrymen and 1000 bowmen.

I need them to change the capital's defense.

Hurry.

Go

Yes.

Brother.

I am a little worried.

Brother.

You are scared.

Are we too anxious?

Zhu Zhanji comes to see if I am sick according to the emperor's decree.

Tomorrow the officials of defense ministry will come.

So should I hand over the commander's seal?

The emperor suspects me now.

I can't hesitate.

Young master.

You are so lonely.

Come...

Drink...

Drink, brother.

He is vegetarian.

Well.

Don't like here?

Give you a boat trip, ok?

We should go to the palace now.

According to our plan, at midnight we should explode

the powder magazine near the palace to create chaos.

So I will take the army to the palace.

You should keep a close eye on Zhu Zhanji.

He is a little tiger.

He will be fierce.

He is not so scary.

My men are following him.

Now he is drinking with the foreigners by the Qinhuai River.

My men will keep a close eye on him.

Great.

Midnight.

I'll go back now.

Brother.

We can't hesitate when we do something big.

Remember what I told you.

As long as I am the emperor, the world will belong to us.

Are you all right?

After your friend Nie is released,

we won't see each other again.

Why?

Why did you stop them from killing me at the tavern?

Why?

It's easy to kill people.

But it's difficult to save people.

All these years, I walk on the tightrope.

Ok.

We should take our separate ways.

Imperial guards, we need inspection.

Prince, why are you here?

We need some inspection.

Open the gate.

Open the gate, change the defense.

Come in.

Wake up...

Hurry.

Lord Huang.

Lord Huang.

If you drink too much, just throw up.

You will feel better.

Stop it.

He is such a high official at a young age.

So what?

He is from the imperial family.

Stop talking.

None of your concern.

Are you feeling better, my lord?

Don't come here.

Go.

I can...

Stop.

I can...

I can...

Stop.

Go.

Go.