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[🔎👁‍🗨The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty👁‍🗨🔍]

[Episode 48]

Zhou?

Why are you here?

Sir.

Your plan has been leaked.

Although I have asked someone to inform them,

I'm afraid it's too late.

What about the Fayuan Temple?

What should we do?

Things have come to the point that

we have to bring out the final desperate move.

But I can't do it on my own.

So I came to get you out.

You and I have to work together to solve this crisis.

Okay.

What should we do?

Are… are you His Majesty?

Tang Fan asked me to tell you something.

He said Li Zilong is coming for you soon.

Li Zilong?

He said you don't have to escape in a hurry.

Because even if you want to run, you can't run away from him.

I thought he told me not to worry about my life.

Yes.

He said if everything goes well with his plan,

Your Majesty is sure to be safe.

How dare you?

I, Wan An, pay respect to Your Majesty.

Get out of her way.

This is the personal sword of the late emperor.

He had left a decree that this sword is a token as his presence.

I am authorized to kill with this sword.

Anyone disobeying my order is regarded as

disobeying His Majesty.

I said, get out of her way.

Bring my son back to me.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Father.

Why don't we act now?

Calm down.

Let's wait for Tang Fan.

Sir, have mercy and give us some food.

Have mercy.

Give us some food.

[Fayuan Temple]

Sir, have mercy.

Give us some food.

Give us some food.

With one decree of His Majesty, all the officials were demoted.

- The formerly joyful assistant minister had a laugh...- Sir.

There are a bunch of little beggars outside the Fayuan Temple

who act very suspiciously.

Go Give them some money to disperse them.

This place is very important.

Don't let them fool around here.

Yes, sir.

Wait.

Father.

Don't spook the people in the temple.

Let me go.

Okay.

With one decree of His Majesty…

[Marquis Wu'an's Mansion]

The formerly joyful assistant minister had a laugh

when he was exiled to the remote Sichuan.

Let's get out of here!

Come on.

Do you know what happened out there?

The Ming is now in grave danger.

And his Majesty is like standing by the abyss.

The success and failure depend on you.

Just the few steps you walked here from the gate,

as long as I gave an order, I could have killed you twenty times

with every step you took.

But do you know why you're still alive now?

Because you knew what I just said.

I, Zheng Ying, have dedicated my life

in battlefields protecting the country and its people.

But why would my two sons end like that?

One was killed by his brother,

and the other killed himself when the murder was exposed.

There are many things in life

that are beyond our control.

These are the so-called principles of Heaven.

But there is one thing that we can control.

That is our own principles.

I'll ask you only one question.

If you knew one day you would come to ask me for help,

would you still keep investigating which forced my son to kill himself back then?

I would.

Then you are not afraid that I will not save His Majesty now?

I am afraid.

But even if I am afraid, I would still keep investigating.

Why?

Because no one violating the law should go unpunished.

Commander, you have suffered in the cell.

How do you know I'm here?

Chizi told us.

Why didn't you leave

since you knew we have found out about your plan?

Is it necessary to come to your death?

How did you know about that poem?

I have been curious.

If it weren't for you, I would have died several times.

You spared my life many times, but I really didn't understand why.

So I went to Wang Zhi to ask about your background.

Where did you find that Qingge?

Ms. Cui bought her with a high price

from the Suzhou Department of Official Prostitutes.

Department of Official Prostitutes?

So she was from an aristocratic family?

I heard Ms. Cui say that it was not exactly an aristocratic family.

But she was the daughter of a general.

Her father Liu Qing was a scholar during the reign of the late emperor.

After the Tumu Crisis, he was transferred from the Hanlin Academy to the Ministry of War.

He assisted Yu Qian during the Siege of the Capital.

Later, he followed Mao Fushou to suppress the Miao people's rebellion.

At that time he was honored as being adept with both the pen and the sword.

After Liu Qing returned to the capital, he was promoted to be the Assistant Minister of Punishments.

His career was supposed to be bright and promising.

But unfortunately,

this person was too upright and honest for his own good.

It did 't take long for him to offend Wan An.

After that, he was demoted to Sichuan

where he died in depress.

He was only 45 years old when he died.

With one decree of His Majesty,

all the officials were demoted.

The formerly joyful assistant minister had a laugh

when he was exiled to the remote Sichuan.

Your father wrote this poem on the way he was exiled to Sichuan.

My father was treated unjustly.

I must kill that evil emperor to seek revenge!

You get it wrong.

What did I get wrong?

First of all, You got the enemy wrong.

His Majesty didn't made your father suffer.

It was Wan An.

And Li Zilong is colluding with him.

For everything you are doing now,

while you think you are avenging your father, actually

you are helping your enemy.

The biggest mistake you made

was you misunderstood the emotions in his poem.

There was no

resentment or hatred in his poem.

It was just like when I was demoted to Tongzhou.

Although we were both forced to

leave from the corridors of power,

it actually made us more relaxed and relieved

and let go of many useless thoughts.

That being the case,

why did you return to this corridors of power?

If it were your father, he would have come back

as long as the Ming still needs him.

I saved you because I didn't want you to die in vain

and be wrongfully killed like my father.

I have never felt grievance.

Because even if I die,

I die a worthy death.

Wait a moment.

Take your time.

If I were you, I wouldn't have spared his life.

You are too kind for your own good.

Just kill me.

Cut the nonsense.

We'll see if I'll kill you later.

But right now, I still need you to do something for me.

What's the matter that you called me here in such a hurry?

Grandpa Shang.

Sui Zhou.

This time you tried to steal in my room and were caught red handed.

I will not go easy on you like I did before.

Actually as early as the first day you joined us three years ago,

I have been hating you.

Why else would someone from an aristocratic family

want to join the Imperial Guards?

Of course it was because you are a spy

the sinister Empress Dowager planted in my department.

Let me be honest with you.

I have been trying to frame you.

The banned books in your home were planted there by some of my people.

And those two fake Imperial Guards who robbed the bank.

You think that I didn't know they pretended to be you

to commit fraud?

But why did I allow them to continue?

Because I wanted to use them

to get rid of you.

Why is it you?

Commander Wan.

But…

Where is Sui Zhou?

Wuyun and several other excellent marksmen

are all locked up in the Eastern Depot's prison.

Go rescue them and bring them to the place we agreed.

At such a critical moment, more helpers will always come in handy.

Tang Fan hasn't appeared?

No. Sir.

He never showed up.

Where is Qingge?

She went after that bunch of little beggars and never returned.

We are not waiting anymore.

Break into the temple.

Let's go!

So, you are Li Zilong.

Exactly.

I also have been waiting a long time

for this day to come.

Go after them!

Go after them!

My people didn't find the emperor or Qingge.

What should we do?

Where can the emperor go?

He can only go back to the palace.

Wan An has the whole capital under his control.

We just need to wait for them on their way back to the palace.

It's me.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, don't worry.

I'm fine.

Why are you alone?

Where are the people of the Western Depot?

It's tough already that I am still alive and have managed to come here.

Don't count on the Western Depot's men.

Where is Sui Zhou?

Why did you just bring so few people of the Imperial Guards?

I did steal Wan Tong's token.

But no one wanted to follow me.

These are the most loyal subordinates of me and Mr. Sui.

They are the only ones who are willing to come with us to fight.

What should we do?

I checked the street when I came.

It looks peaceful outside.

But during the short distance from here to the Donghua Gate,

there must be dangers with each step we take.

It is difficult to break through with just a dozen people we have now.

Then we can only hope for some good news from Sui Zhou.

Sui Zhou!

Why is there a team of female soldiers coming out of the palace?

I only know one woman who is so brave.

Wan Zhen'er.

Good.

Our opportunity has finally come.

Zhen'er.

- Zhen'er! - Protect His Majesty!

Let's go!

Yes!

Zhen'er.

Zhen'er.

Zhen'er.

Zhen'er.

Zhen'er.

Zhen'er.

Gao Yi.

You traitor.

How dare you appear in front of me again?

Why are you guys here?

For Oirat.

No.

You came here just for the prince's selfish desires.

Did you forget

what Khan Esen Taishi said?

Only when Oirat builds a good relationship with the Ming,

can we have frontier trade.

Only with the frontier trade can the Oirat people survive.

What you are doing today

will burn your bridges in the future!

So today

I will wake you up with a fight!

Protect His Majesty!

Zhen'er.

Zhen'er.

Zhen'er.

Zhen'er.

Father.

Why?

Why do you betray me?

For one person.

My real father.

Qingge…

How could you betray…

Stop it, father.

Stop it.

Father,

Father.

[Royal Study]

Your Majesty.

Gao Yi has taken Amasanji back to Oirat.

Before they left, he conveyed Borona Halle,

the leader of Oirat's information

in which he apologized deeply for the incident

and the hope to continue the peaceful coexistence with the Ming.

The three treacherous officials should be killed for what they did.

But… I understand.

If Wan Tong is seriously punished, Her Highness will be sad.

But if he goes unpunished,

You Majesty might be afraid this result cannot convince others.

If so I do have some proposals

that can give them the punishment they deserve.

[Xuanwu Gate]

What are your proposals?

Wan An will be retired and go back to his hometown.

And is not allowed to set foot in the capital ever again.

Shang Ming will be deprived of his title of the Eastern Depot commander

and go back to the palace as a servant.

As for Wan Tong, just let Her Highness decide.

Her Highness will punish him accordingly.

Sis... Shut up!

If you weren't my brother,

your limbs and head would have been torn apart by five horses now!

Sis… I know I did something wrong.

Go back to Changping to raise horses.

I don't want to see you again for the rest of my life.

Ok. Let's do so.

But other than these people,

there is one more sinner.

Tang Fan.

What's wrong with Tang Fan?

Tang Fan has two charges.

Firstly, before the Beginning of Spring ceremony,

Tang Fan was deceived b Li Zilong without realizing it

into exposing the Bolangs' location.

Li Zilong was able to take away the Bolangs because of Tang Fan.

You can't blame him for that.

He was also the victim of Li's scheme.

A covert scheme is harder to avoid than an open attack.

Even if you try to put up a guard,

there will be times when you land in the trap.

Secondly, after the incident, Tang Fan almost made a wrong choice.

What choice?

Li Zilong threatened Tang Fan with Bolangs to make a choice

between you and millions of people in the capital.

My life is valuable.

But aren't the people of my Ming valuable, too?

If all the officials can

regard the people just as important as me like Tang Fan

so that all the people know the royal court represents their interests.

The people would love the country and the royal court and

the Ming will enjoy prosperity and peace.

I think he didn't do anything wrong in the choice he made.

Speaking of which, since you are worried that he might be punished,

why did you mention it to me?

I would never hide anything I know from Your Majesty.

Wang Zhi.

You did a great job this time.

Tell me what you want as reward.

Protecting Your Majesty is my job.

I know you always wanted to lead troops to fight and

build military merit.

Today

I will make your dream come true.

It's just that you're a chamberlain of the palace.

According to the ancestor's law,

military power cannot be given to chamberlain of the palace.

But I can appoint

you as provincial military governor.

Go to Hetao border pass.

Thank you,

Your Majesty.

This time His Majesty didn't punish me.

I guess it was because of you again.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

I help you, and you help me.

This time after you go to Hetao, I don't know when we'll meet again.

I wish you success and triumph.

Don't be so sentimental.

Maybe I'll see you soon.

Don't.

Why not?

Just stay at the borders.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse

if His Majesty calls you back to the capital next time.

Li Zilong has been eradicated.

Those three powerful officials have also been resolved.

The most destabilizing factor His Majesty worries about is you.

So don't come back if everything is fine.

Better still, don't let His Majesty think about you.

If one day His Majesty really can't remember you, that's the best.

But what if I miss you two?

I don't want that even more.

It's nothing good being missed by you.

I always had to clean up the mess.

Is it safe you just take him there with you?

What can I do even if it's not safe?

I can't bring myself to killing him.

I know his ability better than anyone else.

But I don't feel safe leaving him in the capital's prison.

So I can only take it with me.

Besides, he has been with me all these years.

I'm really not used to it without him.

You've changed.

You became softhearted.

Mr. Wang!

Mr. Wang!

Her Highness gave you this as a present.

Her Highness personally asked me to convey this message.

Don't lose it this time.

Gentlemen.

This is where I say goodbye.

We will meet again one day.

Do you remember that Yang Fu from Ji'an's case?

Yes.

I had been thinking since then that why this person disappeared

after the case.

It turns out he had been imprisoned by Wang Zhi.

Wang Zhi kept him alive so that he could die for Wang Zhi someday.

In this way, Wang Zhi showed his loyalty to His Majesty.

I see.

No wonder this time His Majesty

would finally agree to let him get involved in the military affairs.

Sometimes it's just hard to think

he Is still a teenager who's not yet twenty years old.

Are you a bodhisattva?

Sister Bodhisattva,

you are so beautiful.

Just as beautiful as my mom.

From today on, you will work for me.

Wang Zhi,

you have to remember, in this palace,

you have to smile.

Only by smiling can you survive.

Let's dig in!

Come on.

Tang Fan, here you go.

Sui Zhou!

Pei?

Why did you come back from your hometown?

Because my hometown got into a big trouble.

In the northwest of the country,

a plague happened in a village where the patients would look like zombies.

The symptoms of the bodies are quite like

the Black Death that has swept the Western Regions in recent years.

But I suspect this matter is not so simple as it seems.

I suspect someone was

murdering people in the cover of the disease.

Where are you going?

Go pack up!

Let's get ready to hit the road!

Can't we finish eating first?