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[ Ming Dynasty ] EP25

(Poem)

When I was young,

I followed general Xu Da on the north expedition.

Hainan, Huaibei cities and Hongze Lake are the land of fish and rice

They are sparsely populated.

The grass grows over half of a man.

And grows from the yard to a heatable brick bed.

Enemies take it as racecourse.

They kill people for the fertilizer in the underground.

So the grass grows well.

I still remember...

It's July.

But it's icy-cold there.

Jack-o'-lantern all over, and the wind sobs.

Ten thousand of soldiers all wept.

General Xu Da said.

If we fought for another ten years,

our descendants would know nothing about the poems.

our descendants would know nothing about the poems.

Rise.

Thank you, your Majesty.

I understand what the crown prince means.

We need to give the people peace and be wise emperors.

He thinks I am useless.

Always take you to fight on the battlefield.

And can't govern the country.

Some of you have followed me for most of my life.

Some of you only for the recent ten years.

My brothers and uncles die or become old.

All are outdated.

General Chang Yuchun.

He was wounded by six arrows.

And he was attacked late night right after the bandage.

Then he fought till the dawn.

His armor was soaked by his own blood.

He told me.

Boy.

It sucks to die in the bed.

As long as the enemy is alive, we need to die on horseback.

The crown prince gave me the memorial.

He tells me that the ministry of defense has no money.

We have fiscal deficit for the wars.

The deficit is as high as mountain Tai.

I can't refute.

But I can't see the enemy invade in and do nothing.

Even if you don't go, I will fight alone.

I won't allow them to step on the Great Wall.

I go solo.

Grandfather.

I want to fight hard with you.

Fight hard with you.

We won't return until we eliminate them.

Won't return until we eliminate them.

Pour the wine.

Tell the crown prince.

We have morale, and this is what the soldiers want.

It's irreversible.

It's irreversible.

Tell Imperial Household Department, I need a new scenario.

Hurry.

After lunch, we will go to Shenji Camp.

Change the tables, we need to have lunch.

Who?

He is...

He is the horseman, my teacher.

From Oirat, Hasizhuzi.

Dare to break into the emperor's camp.

Take them out.

Skin them.

You want to assassinate the emperor.

Yu Qian?

Yu Qian.

Why do you dress up like this?

Your Majesty.

You order me to raise horses.

What are you doing here?

Steal wine.

Go.

Lord Yang.

Why does my father choose today?

Now grandfather is angry.

The imperial household department really has no money?

They just try to make ends meet every year.

This year, we have to move the capital,

hold the wedding ceremony and go on expedition.

The crown prince did not sleep for three days.

Now he can't focus the energy on the calculation.

We can delay the time of moving the capital.

We can postpone Yongle Canon.

You are too young to say these.

I will go to submit the memorial tomorrow.

For me, now is the critical time.

You can't irritate the emperor.

Protecting you is protecting the crown prince.

Keep this in mind.

There is no turning back.

It's impossible to strike his colours.

All the military officials have discussed.

We are so worried about the expedition.

Have you ever thought, who is our enemy?

Tartar or Oirat?

Or Uriyangqa?

If we don't know this, it will be so dangerous for the army.

The emperor just wants to eliminate them once for all.

Dangerous.

Dangerous.

Put them down.

Yes.

Yes.

Your Majesty.

Enough...

Help your father.

Your Majesty.

Yang Shiqi told me, in this military exercise, you blamed me.

I discussed it with the department of defense and households.

Here is the memorial.

Here are 14 reasons that we can't fight the war.

You can behead us or exile us.

Hope you can check it out.

I just approved of the wedding.

It's 2,757,000 ounces of silver.

Too frugal.

I am sorry for my grandson.

I think, we need another...

Two million...

We need to move the capital right?

After moving the capital, we need to decorate my grandson's palace well.

After the battle, you should ascend the throne.

In the conferring ceremony, you should get attached

with the princes and ministers.

Ok?

Ok, thank me.

Your Majesty.

Marriage is family business.

It's useless even if you give me 20,000,000.

Country is country, family is family.

I hope you can understand.

Son.

You need to help me.

You know.

I have no much time.

Father.

All the elites are in your hands,

If something goes wrong, the country will be in turmoil.

It's up to you.

You should see the danger in it.

Only half a year.

Ok?

No.

Three months.

Father.

You lead the troops for only three months.

Are you kidding me?

You might as well tell a general to bully the weak outside the Great Wall.

Father.

You are old.

It's so cold beyond the Great Wall.

You can't go.

You...

You take the lead to strike up a discordant tune among all the ministers.

You think I will lose.

I have the morale and popular support.

If you insist on fighting, I can't stop you.

I hope you can adopt my advice.

We can't do everything for the descendants.

You have done a lot.

The world needs some rest.

Lad.

Come.

Come.

Tell me.

Fight or not?

Think it over.

Think twice.

The future of the country lies in you.

I have high hopes for you.

Don't be like your father.

A conformist.

You can't fail me.

You can't fail...

What...

Do you understand?

I beg you, let down all the prejudices.

You need to discuss with the ministers of defense and households.

War is a state affair.

It can't be decided by your personal interests.

You can't ruin your reputation for this.

It's not good for yourself and the country.

So you forgot what you told me?

I mean it.

No matter when you go on an expedition, I am willing to fight with you.

Please consider.

Get out.

Both of you.

Go.

What happened?

The war is so annoying.

Grandfather told me to take you to Beijing.

To see the new palace.

He says, after moving the capital, we will have the wedding ceremony there.

Yes.

You don't want to know why?

You always ask why for each imperial decree?

I used to think I knew all the reasons.

But they are all my guesses.

I will invite the old monk to go to Beijing with us.

Grandfather told him to choose a temple in Beijing.

I saw you were having a nice talk with Shan Xiang.

I am very glad.

Imperial grandson.

Rise.

We barely have a talk after you become my wife.

Soon I will go to Beijing.

So I won't have the time to see you.

Take care of yourself.

My mother speaks highly of you.

You can talk to my mother if necessary.

You need to take care of yourself.

I grow up in the palace. So I know the rules here.

Rest assured.

I will go to see the crown princess every day.

Great.

I rode a horse that day.

I met an acolyte with the cleanly shaved head from Tianshui alley.

He said.

I send you a white hat.

I was not an acolyte.

But you were an obtuse prince.

I was so scared when I heard this.

You are crazy?

You are.

Hundreds of thousands of lives are in your hands.

The country is in your hands.

Why do you shake the bloody woods?

Why didn't you shake when you rebelled?

If there is a God watching us,

there wil be no famines.

Mr. Liu Bowen is prophetic.

But does he know he will be kicked out after his services are no longer needed?

All lies.

The imperial decree. We need to go to the north.

What decree?

Finally, the old emperor makes up his mind.

Even the grandson...

He doesn't flatter you in public or pleases you.

Tell you the truth.

You should be happy.

You really need a kiss-ass?

I know.

You are afraid of dying on the battlefield.

You are afraid of being laughed at by the generations to come.

Right?

The militarist can't run the country well.

It's perfectly understandable.

The descendants need to respect me if they don't support me.

My death is not as important as the state affair.

Now our country is in the prime.

It has a promising future.

And it can't be frustrated by me.

Then the turbulence could be wiped out.

Even if you die on the battlefield, your descendants will avenge you.

Grandfather, the wagon is ready.

Don't let the local officials know along the road.

We need to see the people's lives.

When arriving in Beijing, you should check if the palace is ok.

Build a good temple for state preceptor around Changping and Fangshan.

Our treasury department will earmark the money.

And I have inscribed the plaque of the temple.

And he can do whatever he wants.

You just need to do what he says.

Yes.

Your Majesty.

I will go now.

Take care.

Old monk.

Will you go to see gods or to hell?

Of course to the hell.

If I don't go to hell, who will go to save you?

Great.

Great, I am relieved.

We will meet again soon.

Want to ride a horse?

You two are mute.

Old monk, it's a long journey.

Can you tell us something interesting?

Ok.

What do you want to hear?

One question for each.

Why do you walk on the tightrope every day?

Don't ask this.

It wil be a long and tedious speech.

I don't believe it anyway.

It's your business.

Miss, do you want to know?

Ok, take your time.

I'll go explore the way.

After I become a monk,

I learn Hinduism.

It's the foreign religion.

They curb the inner chaos by extreme means.

Our founder isolated himself from the outside in Fashang.

He walked on the tightrope to the hole of a precipice with the sutra.

And nirvana.

It happened in Tang Dynasty.

That year Wu Zetian was just overthrown.

Sixty years later, the second generation died.

Till the ninth generation, they lost the unique skill of tightrope.

Now I am the 17th generation.

I have practiced it for my whole life.

I hope I can go to the cave to see the sutra.

It's my lifelong wish.

We have to choose the tightrope?

The ancients are practical and realistic.

I can't achieve the Buddhahood if I can't focus my attention.

He doesn't believe it.

I don't believe it either.

This is our secret.

Alcohol can relieve fatigue.

No red tape here.

Ok.

I need some.

Ok.

Hurry, catch the assassin.

Stop.

I am sorry for my lateness.

Imperial grandson, I will go after him now.

No need.

Just my old friend comes to say hello.

You can go now.

Watch out for vigilance.

Yes.

Yes...

Go.

So your old friend still can't let you go.

He comes to kill you.

Attack the enemy's key points which invites reinforcement.

I know nothing about swordsmanship.

But I know Nie Xing's mind.

Tell him.

Don't hide in the dark.

I'll wait for him here.

Recently he is busy with the court.

And he's upset.

He often comes to drink with me.

He doesn't go to sleep until he finishes one jar of wine.

Tomorrow we will settle in Gaoyang county, Hebei.

If you want to kill, just kill me.

When you drink up, just kill me like today.

And go as far as you can.

You love him so much.

You even blocked the sword for him before your marriage.

Why? Can't I kill him?

Yes.

You can't kill him.

Some orphans of a campaign of Jingnan come back.

If I die, they will thank me for blocking the sword for the imperial grandson.

And the old emperor won't break his promise.

If you kill him, you know how many innocent people will be killed.

Nie Xing

I have let the hatred go.

Do you understand?

Nie Xing

Let bygones be bygones.

They are thieves.

They stole the country.

They killed so many people.

They don't want to have a bad reputation.

They don't kill us because they hope we will thank and support them.

They don't kill us because they hope we will thank and support them.

What about those who died?

You will forget them?

I am the victim.

I have the final say.

Nie Xing

You little pencil neck.

You will be wanted early in the morning.

All over the country.

You have nowhere to go.

Do you think I'm afraid of death?

I need to fight for the victims of the campaign of Jingnan. Fight for respect.

No one is above the law.

You should go back.

I will show you how they died.

Ruowei.

Nie Xing

I want to leave a message.

I'm not afraid of being wanted.

Family Zhu's nightmare has just begun.

Nie Xing

Finish the wine when we go back later.

Imperial grandson.

You have worked hard.

Rise.

Thank you.

Imperial grandson, please.

Artisans are working now.

A little dirty.

Such a big rock.

How did you get it in?

Well.

In 1407, they dug the rock.

And they built a special road for it.

In the winter, they will pour water on the road.

338 artisans spent fourteen years pushing it here.

How many people build up the palace?

According to the sample sent by the ministry of labor,

more than one million people, artisan of all kinds.

The emperor sent me here and express thanks.

And we bring the money here to reward you.

Now you can go to get the money.

Thank you.

Imperial grandson.

I want to take you to see No.6 west palace for your marriage.

Ok.

Please.

I will go to Fang Shang with the state preceptor in the afternoon.

We need to choose a temple for him.

Why I don't know?

I go with you after this.

He says you don't need to go.

You can go to ask him.

So mysterious.

Ok, I won't go.

Imperial grandson, please.

I was a teenager when I walked from here.

Full of memories.

After you have a temple, will you walk on a tightrope every day?

No.

I have told them to prepare the rope.

I will go in there today.

Today? What if you can't?

My bones will be smashed. That's not a big deal.

Back then, I saw my tutor fall off.

Are you sure?

Why didn't you tell the imperial grandson to come here?

Why should I?

I always know what I am doing.

You are more natural and unrestrained than him.

Life is all about one breath.

There are so many wars these years.

So many people died.

Their biggest regret is, there are so many things they didn't do.

I don't want to have this regret.

What about the emperor?

Does the emperor know you will leave?

Of course he knows.

This expedition is very dangerous.

Great.

All of you wait at the foot of the mountain.

Please do me a favor.

What?

If I succeed, please cut off the rope.

If I fall off the cliff, cut it off too.

Then you can go down the mountain.

And never mention this.

There will be no Yao Guangxiao in this world.

Old monk.

You are not afraid I'll cut it off when you are on halfway?

You trust the wrong person.

I can't break away with the campaign of Jingnan.

And I need you to end this.

When I am in midair, and you cut the rope off, my sin is over.

I will thank you.

If you don't cut it off, it means you forgive me.

God bless.

So sly.

Old monk.

You said, when you walk the tightrope, you can realize philosophic theory.

What did you realize?

Sometimes I think I can understand the world so well.

But sometimes I think I know nothing.

Hurry...

Old monk.

Old monk, have you arrived there?