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Oh My General

Tell me. Ballrooms, wine houses and red light districts

in Xiushui Province.

Are they open now?

My lord, we came here to do disaster relief.

Yet you're still thinking about girls?

But I didn't expect that his majesty also turned to me.

Told me to find out the quisling who opened the gate secretly

when city Yongguan was taken.

Lord Qi.

My lord.

All the supplies are ready.

The grains stored over the past ten years

are three billion kilograms in total.

My lord, please check it.

What about the silvers donated by officials in the court?

One hundred thousand tael of silver are all here.

He stole official silvers.

With solid evidence!

Go back to yamen with me!

Okay.

Zhao.

Episode 30

General.

A rich salter moved to another place.

He rent his house to me.

Let me pay fifty to sixty tael of silver every year.

A provincial governor stays in office only for four years.

Why should I have to buy such a big house?

As for the cups...

Cups...

My son Nanhua bought them from a stall on the street.

Just costed fifty sycee silver.

Yes, general.

General.

You're an elegant person from the capital.

I... I'm master of none in the countryside.

I bought it back then just because I found them nice and cheap.

I didn't know Ru Chinaware or Song Chinaware.

If they're,

Just because I picked up a real bargain by luck!

I don't have any taste.

Nor do I know how much money those cups are worth.

Trying a case is so complicated.

I don't have the patience wasting time on you.

Chen Tiangou, tell me.

What's going on with the official silvers?

It's Zhang Nanhua.

Lord Zhang released me from the prison at midnight.

He gave me three hundred tael of silver.

Told me to hide it away in general's room.

After that,

my crime would be exempted.

I would also get ten tael of silver as a reward.

If I failed...

If I failed, he would sell my mother and sister into a brothel!

I was scared. So I obeyed him.

I sneaked into general's room late at night.

Luckily, general had sharp eyes.

And stopped me from making a bigger mistake.

In the future, I'll turn a new leaf and change myself!

I didn't know general and duke's identities.

You and I were like friends when we met.

I insisted to invite you guys to my home as my guests.

How would I try to hurt you?

Chen Tiangou, you incorrigible criminal.

You got in and out of the prison as swift as your own home.

You're prone to lie.

My dad fogged you and cuffed you before.

So you harbored a grudge.

When the flood disaster came, you became even more rampant!

You stole the official silvers.

And hid it away in the outsiders' room.

If they didn't find it,

you would melt the silvers for your use.

If they found you, you would fame them and me!

-General. -General.

My lord says you're working too earnestly.

You better be less serious.

And go back home to have lunch earlier.

Didn't tell you to say that to her ear?

Why yelled it out?

It's too complicated. I'm tired already.

Go back and have lunch with my husband.

General, you're leaving already?

The devil incarnate only sounds terrifying.

Luckily I'm clever.

Now it's finally over.

Bravo!

Search! Go!

My lord, we found about four thousand tael of silver.

Only four thousand?

It's far from what I thought.

Such a position,

only got that little?

Yes.

I've searched everywhere.

Don't you know I need money now?

Without money, how to relieve disaster?

My lord is right.

That magistrate Zhang is so wicked.

Where did he hide his money?

I'll search it again.

Wait.

Minister Hai.

If I want to start my work here.

What is the most proficient way? You've got the most experience about that.

To start the work in a local place.

The most important thing

is to find the local villain who knows this place.

Good idea.

According to what I heard.

Magistrate Zhang Wude only focused on corruption.

He didn't care about other things. But his private adviser Pu

knows everything in Xiushui.

I can tell that he has the talent and wit.

Good, then let's start from him.

My lord.

If you decided to use him,

then you have to spare his life.

And let general criticize him badly.

After that,

he will hand out the illicit money and cooperate with us.

As for the amount.

That depends on how he thinks after he saw what happened to the Zhangs.

That's smart.

Minister Hai.

I let our country down.

I'm ashamed to face our people.

These years,

I've taken some illicit money that I shouldn't take.

Now the flood came.

The whole country are all united

to relieve the disaster.

I can't just sit and watch.

So here I donated all the money I've got.

Minister Hai, please give me a chance to start with a clean slate.

I'll redeem my sin.

Do you remember what general taught you?

I remember what general taught me.

Every word.

That's good.

General Ye hates evil as her enemy.

If you'd like to turn a new leaf.

To think for our country and people.

To bring peace to this place.

General Ye will forgive you.

If you refuses to come to your senses.

General Ye will also know that.

Yes.

Minister Hai, give me a chance.

I'll make a fresh start in life.

Minister Hai, general Ye

and lord Yujin, supervise me, please.

Adviser Pu, arise.

I hope in the future,

you can do as what you said.

Don't forget our court's forgiveness.

Yes, thank you, minister Hai.

Thank you.

Leave me.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Thank you. Thanks.

Here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Order from the imperial disaster relief commissioner, duke Nanping.

The Xiushui magistrate Zhang Youde

embezzled public property,

had no regard for human life. He is beyond forgiveness.

Has been cut at the waist.

His son was an accessory to his crimes.

Bullied this county, and disrespected the officials.

Executed by death.

All the wealth will be confiscated. Their family will be exiled.

Your family has abandoned you.

The procuress said after the flood,

she can't afford any other new girls.

The normal family won't want delicate girls who can't work.

I had no other solutions.

Had to exile you.

Have mercy, my lord.

We have no idea about what our lord did.

My lord, have mercy!

Adviser Pu said,

Zhang Wudu embezzled fifteen thousand silver

through the dam construction.

The businessmen gave him four thousand silver per year.

And all other kinds of illicit money.

Over these years,

adds that up,

should be at least four or five hundred thousand tael of silver.

But he hid it away.

If anyone of you can tell me its whereabouts.

Then I can across over that name off the exile list.

And reward that person one hundred tael of silver.

Leave a yard and five mu place to her.

Let her live a good life in Xiushui.

I know!

I know everything he did!

He hid ten thousand tael of silver in the wall of the parlor.

The wall behind the blue-and-while porcelain vase.

Chisel it, it's there.

He called his son Zhang Nanhua back home this time.

Was gonna ask him to transfer that money back to his hometown. Because he knew,

after the flood, his majesty will send official here. He thought it's not safe to keep it in Xiushui.

And... and..

He sent forty-five thousand tael of silver to

officials to lubricate relationships.

He said,

the job transfer order should be handed down after the end of this year.

He could be promoted?

Mrs. Bai.

Who did he buy?

Thirty thousand tael of silver to prime minister Lv.

The rest was sent to some other officials.

Just to lubricate the relationship.

He sent them money,

so they won't get in his way even they won't help him.

Have you heard of that?

After I was promoted to the Department of State Affairs,

I was sent to relive the disaster with my lord immediately.

I have never seen that money.

But,

lately, scholar Bi just got some money.

He is quite a spender.

Xia.

My lord, general.

Do you know why did I call you here?

The silver I took was sent by Grand Preceptor Liu.

He didn't say what that was for.

So I couldn't refuse it.

I have a big family. They spend more than I earn.

So I've become a little greedy.

But I'm quite timid,

so I only took one thousand tael.

As for the rest and who took it...

I really have no idea.

My lord.

Now his majesty is reforming.

Minister Fan commands me to investigate corruption strictly.

Lately, I got tipped.

Said prime minister Lv, Grand Preceptor Liu are in the list.

It's an important lead.

I think you and general should keep an eye on that.

Yujin, after you go back.

You must tell his majesty about this.

Fine.

Mrs. Bai disclosed magistrate Zhang's crime.

Minister Hai.

Across over her name from the exile list.

Draw five mu place and a yard from the confiscated property to her.

Let her continue her life in Xiushui.

Yes, my lord.

Thank you, my lord.

My lord.

I want to beg you for another thing.

I know I'm sinned for having helped him in evil things.

Karma exists. I should be punished.

So I want to give that reward to someone else.

Please grant me that.

I don't know a person can be so selfless.

You want to give this chance to someone else?

Who is that?

My daughter is only six years old.

She won't survive outside.

I'm worried, she might die on the way.

I can bear the hardship.

I beg my lord to let her stay in Xiushui.

Find a nice family, and let them adopt her.

Mom! Mom!

Children will be pardoned.

Except for Mrs. Bai's daughter,

All the kids under ten,

if they couldn't be adopted.

Then Mrs. Bai will raise them.

Stay in Xiushui.

Don't need to be exiled.

Thank you, my lord! Thank you!

Thank you!

Mrs. Bai.

Where did you get that hairpin?

Hair...hairpin?

My husband gave this to me.

He found it on the street.

On the street?

It's my cousin Xiyin's hairpin.

Why it's here?

Tell me, what happened?!

God.

Miss Liu is her cousin?

Devil incarnate kills people but not blinks.

If she finds out the truth,

I'll be cut at the waist on the spot.

Tell me!

My lord.

Magistrate Zhang knew that

there'll be official sent out after the flood.

So he put on an act

to inspect the disaster in Miaolian nunnery.

He found this under a tree.

Magistrate Zhang is dead anyway.

There's no proof left.

I must let her think I don't know Liu Xiyin.

My lord, you might not know,

that Miaolian nunnery is a famous temple.

Ladies from big families will go there

if they have some annoyance about their family,

they will join the nuns in Miaolian nunnery.

Or to burn incenses and pray.

Why would she go to Miaolian nunnery?

Ye Zhao.

Your cousin is well literate.

She must come here to see the spot.

Might lose it here.

Don't worry about it.

Fine.

My cousin has an open mind.

She wouldn't join the nuns.

Nor be drowned.

Yujin.

She must have gone back to city Yongguan.

But she might still be angry at me.

Qiu Hua

Watch the door for me. Tell me immediately if Yujin comes back.

General.

My lord is digging gold right now.

He won't be back.

Right.

Qiu Shui.

That book about poems...

General. I got it.

Should be this one.

Look.

It looks like the character "poem".

Right, right.

That girl who collects mugwort.

Haven't seen her for one day.

That feels like three years.

What does that mean?

I have a friend, didn't see her.

Like the autumn, so sad.

What about this mugwort?

Why collect it?

Why does she like this kind of words?

My head hurts.

What's that attitude?

What for?

How could I count on you two for anything?

I wish fox is here right now.

I'll do it myself.

My cousin.

You go out to collect mugwort...

General's calligraphy is so good.

Look!

Haven't seen you for one day.

That feels like three years.

So ugly.

But I'm very sincere, right?

That's it.

Send this letter and hairpin to my cousin.

I mean really?

After she left.

You have written her forty-three letters to apologize.

But she didn't reply once.

It's lord Yujin's decision.

He is jealous, wouldn't let her in.

It's not your fault.

She might still be angry now.

Anyway.

After she calms down,

I'll go see her.

General, those letters, will that really help?

Mrs. Hai taught me that.

Although I'm not good at writing her sweet words.

But I'm honest, and persevering.

I swear,

I'll make cousin happy again.

Then what?

Then? Then...

After Yujin lets go.

And Xiyin also lets go.

I'll find her a nice husband in the capital.

So I can often visit her.

Pamper her under my nose.

If...

her husband dares...

then I'll...

Kill him!

Right.

Take these away.

Don't let Yujin see this.

Just a letter to your cousin,

Feels like you're cheating.

Genera, general!

General!

My lord is wounded.

He calls you there to check it.

He is wounded?

What happened?

Who dares to hurt him?

Gold did that!

My lord saw that golden wall,

so he reached out for it.

Then gold fell down and hurt his foot!

Now he..

Cut it out, go!

General!

You fool! What were you talking about?

What cheating?

Not cheating? Then what?

I see.

Should say red plum blossom outside.

Red plum blossom outside?

Yes.

Let's go.

My lord.

Bear with it a little.

I'll correct the bone position right away.

I can never be in a room with that kind without suffering.

Like my uncle, like gold.

That'll be harmful to me.

That could kill me.

My lord, it's corrected.

Yujin! Yujin!

Yujin. How is that?

Just minor bruises,

It's fine. Not serious.

I fight with people since childhood.

That's nothing.

That gold is so vicious.

How dare that fell on my husband's foot! The gold really has no eyes. It dares to bang on your ankle!

The food price in other provinces

is rising sharply.

And we don't know

who is controlling

and scooping up.

Now in Xiushui,

the left food is not enough for the masses

to eat half a month.

Yeap.

I wanna buy some grains from Xiushui merchants.

But these hateful profiteers,

no matter how hard I asked

they just said no!

If a high price will be given, they would deliver some from other places.

I was trembling with such great anger

and accidentally injured.

Kill them!

See that whether they will give us grains!

I'm kind-hearted

and emphasize on virtue and facts.

I also can't let you solve the problem with slaughter,

Royal uncle will be unhappy.

You know, they may think I am a kept man.

Now,

We have to come up with a good method

to let them willingly donate food.

You are so wise.

Fortunately, what the gold hurt is your feet

not your wisdom.

I am injured in line of duty.

I know.

What's more!

You just hurry to inform the local businessmen and influential families.

Say that I'm worried about food shortage

and haven't had food for three days

together with my weakness and accidental hurt.

Thus, they may pay a visit

and take generous gifts.

So that we can discuss the disaster relief plans.

OK!

Wait.

Do remember to emphasize on generous gifts.

They can't neglect imperial commissioner.

I see.

Come here. Let me see.

Here.

Be careful!

Be careful! Zhao.

Does it hurt?

Smelly.

Being a loafer, living an extravagant life.

Racketeering and murdering innocents.

My consort.

Just see the memorials.

All the officials scold and complain.

Such an official

I also show my 'admiration'.

Please don't be angry.

Although these memorials are written by some officials,

they are not in the disaster area.

It is Yujin who do the disaster relief work.

All the cases should follow his instruction.

In case of Yujin cannot deal with them,

I've implied him before to show a tough attitude.

And let Ye Zhao protect him,

suppress bandits and bully officials.

Meanwhile, she can prevent Yujin's foolishness.

But I don't expect our Great Imperial General

would misbehave with Yujin.

They extorted rich families and killed corrupt official.

I don't mind.

They even took their servants to brothel,

went sightseeing with singing girls?

What they are doing!

They have no moral integrity!

Doesn't he have baseline as an imperial commissioner?

Anyhow he is a noble.

He gotta have some dignity!

Just see.

I will punish him

when he comes back.

Maybe Yujin has foreseen your punishment.

Yes!

There is no punishment he fears.

Now that you are so worried,

why not give a decree ?

You can urge him to come back soon

and arrange another official to continue the job?

How can I change the decree casually?

What I'm worried now is that

he may make more mistakes.

As it is,

you don't need to worry.

Yujin also has Hai Weining and scholar Bi with him.

They two will supervise him

and not allow his absurd behaviors.

I hope so.

Let's have a talk.

How do you think about Duke Nanping?

Sir.

If he is not a good official,

but he knows how to disguise himself

to do the disaster relief job in Xiushui.

He also travels incognito

and asks his men to investigate.

Investigation?

who have seen it among us?

Besides,

Travel incognito

really means he is a good official?

I don't think so. Right?

If he is a good official,

why he incites his men to go to brothel

and has fun every day?

Why he collects local specialties all around?

He only wants to be at ease.

Why not do a serious job?

He has erratic temperament.

If we say he has bad temper,

how could he chat with rogues and beggars?

He even gives silvers

if he likes.

I once heard he is meek.

How could he neglect General Ye's ignoring the law

to kill Zhang Wude and his son

and banish all their harem?

If he is a good official,

how could he let Private adviser Pu go?

Pu has helped Zhang Wude do so many rascalities.

And Pu was given higher responsibilities.

If we say he is kind,

he punished all the servants of Zhang Wude

using cruel tricks.

According to my investigation,

money means nothing to him.

But he demands bribes on public.

He is lecherous.

And he once molested young women.

But we have never seen he molested any lady he likes.

In my eyes,

Duke Nanping is a contradictory weird.

It's tough to deal with him.

Yeap.

There are so many drought and floods every year.

And we have dealt with so many imperial commissioners.

Every time we can come up with solutions.

However, there is no logic in Duke Nanping's behavior.

All the methods have no use.

So what?

Remember that he cannot ignore us.

Sure!

Sir, you are right.

Now that he is in Xiushui

he should follow our custom.

We just work together

and wait for his action.

When he takes action,

we still have time to deal with him.

- You are right - Yes!

My lord!

My lord.

Private adviser Pu informs that

Duke Naping hurt in the disaster relief work

and all the families should bring gifts to visit.

Now, he really takes actions.

Long before there was a commissioner called Wei.

He also gave a banquet

and invited all salt merchants.

During the banquet,

he made them drink emetic.

Then, he judged whether these merchants still had grains

by their vomit.

You still remember, right?

Sir.

Just be relieved.

We all have no food and money left .

Since the commissioner's arrival

I have already prepared to suffer hunger.

Last night, I only had a bowl of porridge.

I only eat half of the steamed corn bread this morning

My harem

lose their weight due to hunger

and wanna divorce me.

And my son asks me for meat.

I have no idea.

Yes. We now face national crisis.

We can't be so mean.

We all should be thrifty.

And help the duke gather hundreds pounds of grain. So that he can deal with the emergency, Okay?

Sure.

We just poor-mouth to him

when visit the duke.

Anyway,

We have prepared well.

I think he cannot find any grain no matter how hard he works.

Readiness is all.

But Duke Nanping is on behalf of the imperial court,

so we should finish our paper job well.

Sure. You must cultivate emotion of suffering hunger

and worrying about the nation.

At the critical moment,

We need to shed tears of sorrow.

Sir, you are right. Totally right.

So, we just prepare some gifts

and ascertain the circumstances.

Please.

Nice! My lord.

You are here.

My lord.

I hurt my feet.

So I can't stand to welcome you all.

Please have a seat.

Thanks.

Mei, serve tea.

This is the bestowed JIUKENG tea

with the local spring water.

It tastes better

compared with that in capital.

Just have a try.

Okay.

I have never had such nice tea before.

Yes.

I've heard that

all of you are influential in Xiushui.

Really shrewd and jesuitry.

Here I have some trifles to consult.

On the road to Xiushui,

I've seen the victims.

Their family have broken up

Now, they lack grains.

Many victims have died of hunger

And I don't have skeleton staffs

- I have no choice to call you - Now that he doesn't mention grains.

He may act before us.

We just follow him.

My lord.

You can ask help from the Board of Revenue.

When meet obstacles,

You can purchase grains from nearby provinces.

And can post a notice

to comfort the mass.

You can say the grain will arrive soon,

No more than half a month.

On the one hand,

The victims will be full of expectation.

On the other hand, We can save more days to prepare.

Improve the purchasing price.

Maybe some retailers

have grains left in their hand.

Well, you all give good advice.

Hai.

Just record all these advice carefully.

Okay.

Sir.

I learn more from your words.

No.No.

Mr.Hu.

You are really wise.

I admire you.

Can you stay to discuss with me tonight?

Xia.

My lord.

Go and tell Mr.hu's family

that Mr.hu will discuss disaster relief tonight.

Where do you live, Mr.hu?

Which street?

- So stupid!/N- My lord. Just inquire about it!

Mr.hu is influential in Xiushui.

So everyone may know his residence.

On my way.

It is...

My lord. It's not appropriate.

Why?

Eh...

Have some tea.

My lord.

I not only inform Mr.hu's family

also the other three sir's family.

They will all stay here tonight.

My lord, it's time to have dinner.

Shall we ?

You are so stupid!

There is no food in Xiushui.

People are suffering hunger now.

We are so worried.

Have no appetite at all!

I decide to suffer hunger with them.

So no dinner tonight!

My lord.

But I've prepared

Steamed paws and deer's tail, roasted duck and goose, simmered pork and duck,

sauced chicken, preserved meat, tripes, deep-fried dried meat and sausage. How to deal with them?

Put away.

Okay.

My lord, you can't do that.

You can't suffer hunger.

Yes.

No. I've make up my mind.