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The fertilizer is so expensive.

-Yes.
-Indeed.

What's this?

I don't know many words,

but I know these.

"The world's most expensive fertilizer
is in Taiwan."

I can read those.

Yes.

Do you remember Wu mien?

He waited for half a year

but didn't get a single bag of fertilizer.

Why the hell is that?

I heard it from Mr. Liu.

The budget of the small food bureau

is ten times higher than the government.

Why is that?

Because of the exchange
of fertilizer for rice.

-Yes.
-Yes.

Mr. Fu-ji, you need to get justice for us.

You have to help us.

You have to help us.

Listen to me, everyone.

The food bureau
is directly under the presidential office.

They won't be happy

about the proposal.

Right?

Yes.

They won't say yes

if we lower the ratio too much.

Yes, indeed.

But Mr. Fu-ji,

whose side are you on?

You had the guts to be a fertilizer king,

but now you're a fussy coward?

I'm saying that

if both sides concede,

maybe we'll get to talk about it.

The government decides
the ratio of fertilizer and rice.

It can be raised but not lowered

because the government thinks that
fertilizer is more important than farmers.

Right?

I don't care. I want one-to-one.

One-to-one.

-One-to-one.
-One-to-one.

-One-to-one.
-One-to-one.

INSPIRED BY REAL PEOPLE AND HISTORY

Come on, Manager Fan.

Let's relax.

In Taiwan, we mainly export green tea.

For three years in a row,

it's number one among our exports.

That's a great achievement.

But some of them in the industry claim

that it's prosperity achieved by monopoly.

What do you think, Manager Fan?

FAN WEN-GUI, MANAGER

Our tea is exported to 42 countries.

One-half of it goes to North Africa.

Because of the quantity,

China and Japan got out of North Africa.

And Taiwan gets in.

The trend has changed

our management and structure.

We need to control its quality.

The restrictions are very strict.

If it doesn't qualify,
you can't export it.

We set the minimum price as the assurance.

Our competitors can work accordingly.

In tea-growing areas,
everyone is busy making tea.

People are making money.

What matters is that we can go global.

We can see it from the numbers

of our foreign currency.

It's the golden era of tea from Taiwan.

Last season,

we had a large amount of exports.

We exported to Morocco 12,000…

And 600.

And 600.

12,600 tonnes of tea.

We worked together

to achieve such a quantity.

If we didn't,

we couldn't take the order.

Of course,

it's all thanks to the government as well.

Their clear regulations
for the tea industry

and their guidance

allowed us to export

as much tea as we can have.

As for the monopoly

that you mentioned just now,

it's nothing but a rumor.

The manufacturers are allowed to choose.

Do you really think that

other manufacturers are allowed to choose?

I have a question for Ms. Yi-xin.

I heard that Nikko wants

to make the first tea brand in Taiwan?

The idea didn't come from me.

I think my father's generation

had the idea.

Tea from Taiwan has its potential.

We can't be restricted
to just agricultural processing.

We should let the world
see the potential of our tea.

So…

Nikko wants to be

the world number one?

We don't want to be the world number one.

But we actually want to be

the only one in the world.

Nikko Company…

I think that Nikko

is idealistic.

Globally, tea from Taiwan

accounts for less than 1%.

We can't rock the world.

-Branding is very difficult.
-But we don't have a formula for branding.

Maybe we can get inspiration

from different brands around the world.

From what I know,

the problem with tea is that

it's not…

Unlike wine,

it doesn't have a criterion.

Each cup of tea differs because of

the brewing duration, quantity,
and habits of drinkers.

When we can't provide our clients

with products of the same quality…

That's the biggest challenge.

But it's worth trying.

We have to try it.

Yes, but you're still trying, aren't you?

I can tell the difference.

Miss?

Come here, everyone.

The new president will announce
the brand of Nikko tea.

The brand of Nikko tea?

It's a big deal.

Why didn't you discuss it with me?

It's easy to design a logo, Papa.

Here.

That's the flag of the Japanese emperor.

But the Japanese are gone.

It should be the blue sky and white sun.

It's the logo

that the president designed
for Emperor Tea.

Now, we're using it

as the logo of Nikko's Hoppo tea.

Thank you very much, ma'am.

-Good.
-That's great.

-Good.
-Awesome.

Say something, sir.

The logo is the same,

but I don't know
if the tea tastes the same.

We'll make Nikko's best tea ever.

Let's collect them carefully.

The batch of tea

is for the competition in England.

Okay?

-Yes.
-Okay.

Have you eaten?

-Yes.
-Yes.

Take a rest if you're tired.

-Okay.
-Okay.

When buds are bitten
by tea green leafhoppers,

we call it "bug-affected."

Afterward,

tea buds will shrink.

We can only make Pomfong tea with them.

Why don't we breed
more tea green leafhoppers?

You think those bugs are like you

and not afraid of anything?

Tea green leafhoppers
don't like seasonal winds.

And fertilizer and pesticide too.

They're afraid of everything.

Farmers are afraid of getting

bug-affected leaves all over the hill.

Originally, they might be able
to collect 200 kg of tea leaves,

but it can be reduced
to no more than 10 kg.

Leaves wither up before they're collected.

What if we collect them earlier?

If so, the tea won't taste good.

Pomfong tea needs a balance
of quality and quantity.

It's difficult

to produce the unique Pomfong tea.

Clouds go eastward.

It'll be rainy or windy.

With the rain and wind,

we'll have nothing left.

Come on, everyone!

Hurry up!

-Okay.
-Okay.

It's getting windy! Come on!

-Okay.
-Okay.

Hurry up!

I heard thunder!

Let's hurry!

-Yes!
-Yes!

"Not the world number one.

Nikko tea will be
the only one in the world."

What's the difference between number one
and the only one?

I don't know.

But the president has failed in branding.

Can Miss do it?

It's a good chance.

The tea made by Master Tu

won an award in Japan, right?

Using Emperor Tea as a stepping-stone?

Our signature tea

has to be our best tea.

But I'm afraid no one can reproduce

what Master Tu made.

But that's what David wants.

So our reputation is going to be ruined.

We'll see when they make the batch of tea.

I don't know when the rain will stop.

Dry them up! Come on!

I'm glad we've collected them.

The rain will ruin
the bug-affected leaves.

This could be the only batch

of Pomfong tea this year.

But the strange thing is that
even with the rain,

we haven't got
as many bug-affected leaves.

We'll have to make it with the batch.

It's dinnertime, Dad.

Okay.

It smells good.

Let me eat some.

Wash your hands.

Okay.

Let's eat.

What a feast!

It's too much for the three of us.

It's only five dishes and a soup.

-It's your favorite, Yue-ting.
-Let me…

It's yanduxian.

What's wrong?

It isn't the weather to make Pomfong tea.

Do we have a choice?

We've collected the leaves,

so we'll have to make the tea.

I think we're spending the night here.

My dad used to spend the night

in the factory with Master Tu.

When Master Tu was here,

my dad went to the factory

and didn't come home.

She's out running around again.

When she was in Taipei, you were worried.

Now she's in the factory,
you're worried too.

What do you want Yi-xin to do, sir?

Tu-sheng,

I'll create a brand of our own

with your Emperor Tea

and sell the Nikko tea
to Japan and Europe.

We'll defeat Lipton

and be the world number one.

What are you drawing? It's ugly.

The world number one ugly.

To criticize is easy.

Why don't you do it?

A fool will be the world number one.

Everyone wants to be number one,

but I'll make your Nikko tea

the only one in the world.

The only one?

Yes.

Can I take a look at your hand?

It's full of tea stains.

I think it's beautiful.

Will you make tea
for the rest of your life?

I don't know what else to do.

All I can do is make tea.

Will you stay
with the tea factory forever?

My dad has his plan.

You've seen it.

Wen-gui has been here often.

Do you love him?

Do you love my cousin?

Dr. Zhang is nice to me,

but it's impossible between us.

He's a doctor at a big hospital.

With someone you love,

drink tea for the rest of your life.

It seems easy,

but it's not.

Don't give up when you meet him.

The food bureau finally agrees

to give more fertilizer to farmers.

When news becomes a fact,

we have hope.

We've changed the society.

Our idea has initiated their action.

I thought nobody
would read the editorials.

But now it's the tenth print.

Yes, the tenth print.

Let's drink to the day.

-Here. Cheers.
-Come on.

-Let's celebrate.
-Let's celebrate.

-The tenth print.
-Dad, you're noisy!

I haven't seen Ms. Xia lately.

She's busy with a new opera.

Yes, after a long while,

we'll get to see her new opera.

Let's see it in a couple of days.

Yes.

What's the title?

It's called

Snow in June.

The criminal, Dou E. You…

Wait, sirs!

Well…

Ms. Xia has just finished.

She needs to change.

Sirs?

What are you doing?

Ms. Xia, please come with us.

Would you wait for me?

I need to change.

Don't worry. I'll be right back.

Have a seat, sirs.

Please.

If you permit,

I'll die without a complaint.

Tell me if you have something to say.

Would you give me a clean mat?

I'll stand on it.

And a long strip of white cloth

to hang on the flagpole.

If I'm really wronged,

when you execute me

and I'm beheaded,

I don't want my blood

to stain the ground

but splash around

on the white cloth.

CONVICT ON DEATH SENTENCE

It's nothing difficult.

What else do you have to say?

Sir,

it's a hot summer day.

If I'm really wronged,

when I'm dead,

it will snow heavily,

it will snow heavily,

to cover my dead body,

to cover my dead body.

Nonsense!

The injustice kills

someone innocent.

I'm wronged indeed.

From now on,

Shanyang County will have

a drought

for three years.

It's time.

Behead her.

Yes, sir.

But I'm wronged!

But I'm wronged!

General Jin!

Two military police officers
came to take Ms. Xia away.

What should we do?

-Let's go to the garrison command.
-Yes, sir.

I'll deal with it now.

Please. Thank you.

Mr. Xu,

I know it's hard for you to deal with

the case of General Sun.

That's a big deal.

But on the contrary,

Xia Mu-xue is no big deal.

I have a seat in the front row

of Yongle Theater.

If you take the opera singer away,

I'll have nothing to see.

General Jin,

the front-row seat is yours,

but the singer on the stage,

is she yours?

In this game,

you and I are both pawns.

Let's not do anything against the players.

Yue-ting?

It's dangerous here.

Come with Dad, okay?

No. I'm waiting for Mom.

Let's eat some midnight snacks.

Then Mom will be back.

That's what you said yesterday.

Ms. Xia…

She's as good as dead.

There's been a mole in wait.

I know.

I always…

That's some crazy idea.

Some tougher ants.

It's all I can do for you now.

I've arranged all your documents.

You'll fly to New York.
It leaves on the 30th.

Goodbye.

-Congratulations.
-Thank you.

-Come, here.
-Thank you.

Come. Let's take a picture.

Hi, Ms. Yi-xin.

Talk to you later.

Hi, President Fan.

Thank you. Thanks a lot.

Yes. Congratulations.

Thank you.

After the interview,

you were promoted.

Yes.

Being seen is important.

President Fan, congratulations.

-Thank you, Mr. Liang.
-You're a promising young man.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

So you'll do me the favor. Thank you.

-I'll get going.
-Thank you.

You're the president now

and the owner of

Zhong Hua Green Tea Company.

To give manufacturers more choice.

Get rid of the monopoly accusation.

If it goes on like this,

there will be price competition.

President Fan,

what's tea to you?

Tea?

Tea is a foreign currency.

Tea will become dog shit.

Still thinking about your branding?

Tea from Taiwan needs its uniqueness

to actually go global.

Its uniqueness?

Oolong tea.

Across the world,

80% is black tea.

You don't want it.

15% is green tea.

You don't want it either.

What you want is

the oolong tea market of less than 2%.

You sell tea.

I sell currency.

If we try to change the structure,

we won't have to get an order
at a low price.

Tea from Taiwan is everywhere in Morocco.

But they describe our tea

as dog shit.

They throw away the first brew.

You're more and more like your dad.

I have to gather all our tea leaves

to sell a large quantity at a low price

to earn more foreign currency.

I'll never make our unique tea.

Hi, President Fan.

Our opinions on things

are very different.

Yes.

But you have to admit

that I'm right.

Hi, Wen-gui.

You're the president now.

Thank you.

You'll have to help us
when we work together.

You'll work together, the two of you.

It's all right. Don't worry.

Whenever you two meet,

you get angry.

He said that I'm more and more like you.

Isn't that a good thing?

That's not what I meant.

Wen-gui has been nice to you.

He knew you were angry

but was willing to drive you back.

Papa,

you said my marriage is up to me.

Yes.

But years have passed.

You haven't got one.

Don't worry about me.

Times have changed.

When I had a meeting at the Association,

I was at my wits' end.

The policies,

status quo, and reality…

It's past my time.

I have to accept the fact that I'm old.

If I'm dead

and nobody takes care of you,

I won't get to rest in peace.

Hello, sir.

Hello, sir.

-Hello, sir.
-Hello, sir.

Please try it, sir.

What's wrong?

Shan-mei,

is this your best tea?

Do you know what the problem is?

Not bug-affected enough.

Wetted by the rain.

Not dried by the sun.

You've done a good job, Shan-mei.

But it's not the Emperor Tea.

It can't go to England for the exhibition.

Are you sure?

Is it really that tasteless?

Nobody can reproduce the Emperor Tea

made by Master Tu.

Not even Master Tu himself.

It's up to the weather.

You need everything just right

to make that tea.

When the Emperor Tea was made,

the tea garden was red on that day,

like catching fire.

I've never seen it again ever since.

If you knew the Emperor Tea
can't be copied,

why did you break open the sample bottle?

Because you want a business

different from others.

It's just a bottle of tea leaves.

As your father,

I'll do anything to help.

If Master Tu were here,

he would've said

that tea is for you to drink,

not to be looked at.

We don't know what tea

our next generation will drink.

We've failed to make the exhibition tea.

But I don't want to give up.

We've failed,

but we'll try again.

If we fail again,

we'll try again.

One day,

we'll make the tea that's still good

after ten brews.

And that will be our signature tea.

New president,

I'll make Pomfong tea next time.

Line up. Me first.

Let's work together.

Okay.

Okay.

We're in trouble, sir.

Why did it happen?

Can't we get money at a private bank
with the certificate?

We can't get money anywhere with it.

Time's running out.

Let's get the cash to the bank now.

Or the checks will bounce.

Bounce?

Drive faster, Rong.

We'll get there before the bank closes.

Yes, sir.

Come on! We're late!

President Zhang,

it's Nikko's balance.

Have a look.

Your ID card, Ms. Zhang.

So little?

How did you do that?

According to the rules.

From today on, the official rate

is 1 US dollar to 7.5 New Taiwan dollars.

7.5?

Isn't it 15?

We, exporters, bought the currency

at the price of 15.

But with one order,

you bought it at the price of 7.5.

We've lost one-fourth
with the exchange rate alone.

What if we do it as we used to do?

20% at the official price

and 80% with the certificate?

Yes, Manager Qiu.

The US dollars are needed everywhere.

Can we get some NTDs at a private bank
with the certificate

and pay you back the loan

like we used to do?

Just to prevent our checks from bouncing?

President Zhang,

you could do that

before yesterday.

But from today on,

the government changed the regulations.

Nobody dares

to try private banks.

You won't get a cent with the certificate.

It's the same trick again.

It was 40,000 to 1,

and now they're stealing from us.

Do they want us, exporters, to die?

President Zhang, don't get mad.

At least you've brought the money

to maintain your reputation.

You'll get to do business tomorrow.

But I'm not sure about your future.

It's Nikko's loan agreement

for the next eight months.

Please have a look.

"The letter of credit
for 13 million US dollars.

The loan of
130 million New Taiwan dollars"?

To put it simply,
with Nikko's letters of credit,

you owe our bank
over 30 million New Taiwan dollars.

Over 30 million?

How much tea do we need to sell to get it?

What the hell is your bank doing?

Do we have another choice

to get some more time?

It's no good giving me a hard time.

I didn't make the policy here.

Here's my advice.

Go home to get the money now

because next week,

you have checks to cash.

The government is robbing us.

Ms. Zhang,

disturbing the finance
means death penalty.

But if you talk nonsense,

you'll get punished too.

The exchange rate is 7.5 now?

That's one-half less.

You can say that again.

We've got the checks for today,

but what about the other ones?

Even if we just let one check bounce,
we'll never do business again.

Only these sheets of paper left?

What about the company's cash?

We have no cash. It's all here.

No cash?

Why can't the government
mind its own business?

They only make trouble

for all of us.

I've been manufacturing tea
for over 20 years.

Credit is what matters to me.

But I've never thought

that I would collapse
because of a letter of credit.

Even God can't help you

out of the trouble you're in.

We don't have stability.

It's the trend that the government

controls the foreign currency.

They can't just sacrifice the exporters.

Fertilizer, tea, and other crops.

When the country needs foreign currency,

everything

can be sacrificed overnight.

I'm sorry.

But I can't help you.

I know Guo Hua isn't a bank,

but you're both an importer and exporter.

Money passes from your left hand
to your right one.

Can you

help Nikko get through this?

Even if what you've said is right,

it's not as easy as you think.

With an official document,

disturbing the finance

means the death penalty.

About the tea leaves,

I've asked for you.

The Chin-Shin-Dapan bug-affected tea
in the area

is few and far between this year.

You still remember that?

Things about Nikko,

I'll remember them.

If…

If you can help us

solve the crisis,

I'll…

marry you.

Mu-xue…

She always wanted a peaceful life.

But from Shanghai

to Taiwan,

she…

Dews on the flowers

Intoxicate me

When to meet again?

Sir,

the property that's usable now

is only worth ten million.

Are you sure?

Calculate it again.

I've done it three times, sir.

What?

It's not enough to pay them
with all my property?

I've included all of your property,

personal property, and real estate,

all of them.

But by adding them together,

you're still 43 million in debt.

I don't know what to do.

According to the exchange rate,

the company will lose

the equivalence
to our headquarters every week.

It's fine for three or five times,

but if for the next 32 weeks,

we'll lose our headquarters every week,

I don't think we can afford it.

Sir,

I'm afraid Nikko will go bankrupt.

Not yet.

I'll get some money out.

Sir,

are you transferring your assets?

Rong?

What happened in Taipei?

There's something wrong
with the president.

What's wrong in Taipei?

It's complicated.

Manager Lin, transfer the land in secret.

And get a loan

from the Land Bank with the building.

You have to get the money soon.

Sir.

But it's transferring your assets.

No.

Why not?

I'm going bankrupt.

I can do anything now.

Going bankrupt is my own business.

I don't need to bring
all of Beipu down together.

We need to pay them first.

To some people, 30 or 50 thousand

is a great amount of money.

I've already owed a lot

without the 30 or 50 thousand.

It's the last thing

I can do for the people

in Beipu.

We can't tell anyone.

If someone knows it,

we can't mortgage it.

Which is the first check to mature?

The one for Great Uncle's Mt. Daping.

If one check bounces,

they'll seize our property.

And we'll…

From tomorrow on,

we'll be the talk of the town

in Beipu.