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[Secret of the Three Kingdoms]
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[Episode 50]
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If I'd known, I'd have
had you put this on sooner.
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You would've looked gorgeous.
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Zhong Da.
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Zhong Da!
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You've won.
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Zi Jian barged into the palace
and rode on the imperial pathway.
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It is a severe crime.
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Although Father didn't have
the heart to depose him
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he's already announced
his crime to the nation.
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Now, he's no longer qualified
to vie against me.
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No.
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You're the one who has won.
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Has Duke Cao left you in charge of
investigating Fu Wan's revolt?
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My father said that Yang Xiu
deserves credit for reporting the case.
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He is to join me in the investigation.
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That's good.
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Young Master, you should assist him
in investigating it well.
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Investigate carefully and thoroughly.
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But we were a step behind him.
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He took the credit for such a huge merit.
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Will he assist Zi Jian
to get back in the game?
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No, he'll only find out
when he is going to die.
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Make me a promise.
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Don't allow them to desecrate
my father's body.
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I'm still the emperor.
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I'll surely protect your family.
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I'll protect you.
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As the empress, the last thing
I can do to uphold my dignity
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is not be a burden to you.
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Cao Cao won't spare me from such a crime.
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Your Majesty...
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You mustn't betray
the imperial family because of me.
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If you do, I'll never rest in peace.
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You mustn't say so.
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There must be some other way.
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There must be.
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Your Majesty...
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This time...
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I have let you down.
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Empress!
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Empress...
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Don't cry.
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Stop crying.
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Stop crying...
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Master.
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Fu Wan is dead.
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This should come to an end.
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If you keep investigating
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it will only put you
at a great disadvantage!
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You've finally come to such
peaceful terms with the imperial family.
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Once you convict the empress...
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it'll be hard for you as a subject
to deny mistreating the monarch!
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Master, you and the imperial family
will truly be irreconcilable.
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Master, do you really wish to see
the capital turn into a battlefield?
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All of the efforts that you and
His Majesty made will be in vain!
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Prefect Xun, you're only
standing up for the emperor!
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But did you see what they have done?
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On the one hand, they tricked me
into a peace negotiation.
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On the other hand, they are plotting
to assassinate me in the capital.
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Assassination!
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Rebellion!
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They are after my life!
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The veteran officials plotted all that!
It had nothing to do with His Majesty!
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Master, you are well aware of the truth.
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However, you'd let all of your efforts
go to waste for one or two people.
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Master, I truly feel bad for you!
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The veteran officials?
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Why have I forgotten?
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Prefect Xun,
you're also a veteran official.
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If Fu Wan had succeeded in killing me
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what would you have done?
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Would you have chanted three cheers
for the emperor outside Hanzhang Hall
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to celebrate the revival of
the imperial family's glory?
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I've exhausted my thoughts
and efforts for your ambition.
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Since you're now doubtful of me
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I have nothing more to say.
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I'll take my leave.
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Greetings, Master.
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Master of Writing Cui, are you
also here because of the empress?
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I'm here to report to you
about the scholars' meeting
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that I'm hosting with
Minister Steward Kong.
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We were hosting it in two days.
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I wonder if we should
still host it as scheduled.
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Master of Writing Cui
is a lot more open-minded.
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The world is at peace now,
so we should host such a good event.
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Yes, Chancellor.
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Kong Rong is very enthusiastic
about gathering the scholars.
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Yes.
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This is the first scholars' meeting
since we relocated the capital.
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Although this is an academic event
among the commoners
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it's a distinguished event
to promote Confucianism.
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As Confucius's descendant and
the leader of the academic circle
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Minister Steward Kong is bound to
work his heart out on this event.
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That's good.
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You'll work with Minister Steward Kong
to host this event well.
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Agree to any requests he has.
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He's a sage, after all.
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He should be noble and
virtuous as a sage would.
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He shouldn't be distracted by
the other worldly affairs.
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If Kong Rong won't make a scene
about the empress's conviction
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you should take credit for it!
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Master.
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I'd like to ask another question.
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I wonder how you intend
to deal with the empress?
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How should rebels be dealt with?
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I... understand.
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Your Majesty had the advantage
the previous time.
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This time, I'm sorry,
but I'll have to offend Your Majesty.
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There's solid evidence to prove
Fu Wan guilty of treason.
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In terms of his crime, three generations
of his clan are to be executed.
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I beseech Your Majesty
to part with your beloved.
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Order the empress
to take her own life.
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Treason?
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How strange.
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How is an empress supposed
to rebel against her subject?
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Many empresses and consorts
were killed by the imperial family.
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What if I refuse to do so?
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What do you intend to do?
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March your army in here to force me?
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I was first a chancellor
and then a feudal lord.
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I have the duty to correct
Your Majesty's wrongdoings.
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Should Your Majesty remain so obstinate
and bend the law to suit your interests
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an official can also clear
the emperor of corrupt influences.
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So much for clearing the emperor
of corrupt influences.
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There are also many treacherous subjects
who ruined their reputations
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rebelling in the name of clearing
the emperor of corrupt influences.
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Your Majesty, are you going to
meet me on the battlefield?
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Duke Cao, you forced me into it.
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For the future that
Your Majesty promised me
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I've been putting up with you
for a long time.
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Your Majesty's birthright
is questionable!
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I've put up with that.
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Tang Ying attempted to assassinate me!
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I've also put up with that.
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I've made compromises, one after another.
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In return, all I had was
Fu Wan and the others at my heels.
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This time, I refuse to put up with it.
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Duke Cao, have you wondered
how this all started?
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If it weren't that for years
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you overshadowed your monarch
with your military power
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why would you have ended up with
such enmity from the imperial family?
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Do you still consider yourself
a subject of the Han Empire?
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I finally understand
how this all started.
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It was the empress!
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Perhaps, Your Majesty is truly
sincere about collaborating with me.
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You have aspirations
for a peaceful world.
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However, those treacherous subjects
who look up to the empress don't!
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In the beginning, they wanted to
cover up the late emperor's death
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so they brought you here
to take his place!
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Isn't this so that they can tackle me?
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If you want me to leave the capital,
you have to get rid of this cause!
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How atrocious!
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You are the subject.
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The empress is your monarch.
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I can announce to the nation to suppress
the subject who offends his monarch!
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Sure.
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Your Majesty can make another belt edict.
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Who will you summon
to your aid this time?
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Liu Bei?
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Sun Quan?
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Whose puppet would you like to be?
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If you would make
blood drench the lands...
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of the Central Plain for a woman
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I will take you on until the end!
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Long live the emperor!
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It seems that Duke Cao isn't
worried about Your Majesty at all now.
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He's allowed you to leave
the palace at will.
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Is Your Majesty here to rid
yourself of treacherous subjects?
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I'm here to see who the
Zhong Da I once knew really is.
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Young Master, it's time for your meal.
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Put the food down.
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However serious, I'll discuss it
after I've had my meal.
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Yes.
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Our cook from back home
made the pastries.
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Aren't you having any?
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Have some snacks.
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Try this first. It's very good.
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Is it good?
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Zhong Da...
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I know why you've come to see me.
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I still don't believe it.
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What's not to believe?
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We're just after
different things in life.
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I came here to tell you...
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I don't even have anyone to talk to.
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If I choose to abdicate my throne now
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will Cao Cao spare my empress?
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Abdicate?
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Go home?
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Is this how you decide to settle this?
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I can't wage war upon Cao Cao.
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But I can't allow him to hurt my empress.
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Can you feel the pain in
losing one's wife now?
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If you hate me, you can kill me.
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But it has nothing to do
with the empress.
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Kill you?
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If I kill you, I'll be convicted
of murdering the emperor.
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Wouldn't that be getting myself killed?
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You wish to pursue your life
and take your own path.
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That's fine.
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It's fine as well
if we meet on the battlefield.
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But why must you hurt the empress?
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I'm not interested in betraying
Fu Wan just to see you tormented.
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It just so happens that
Fu Wan lent me a hand.
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I have always been like this.
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I have my own ways.
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I have people I love.
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I have my family.
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I've tried to change myself.
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Just so that you could
fulfill your ambition.
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But I realized that I was wrong!
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Therefore, I'm now going
to use my own methods
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to manipulate these turbulent times.
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Zhong Da...
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I don't want you to become a demon.
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Yi He...
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You wish to save the empress?
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There's a way to do so.
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You just have to abandon
your benevolence.
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And your compassion.
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Then you'll be able to save her.
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Come with me for a walk.
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We should digest this meal.
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Do you know what place this is?
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Abyss Dragon Temple.
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Do you know who built it?
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Master of Writing Cui and
Minister Steward Kong had this built
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for the upcoming scholars' meeting.
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It was named "Abyss Dragon" to be
named jointly with White Tiger Temple.
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Kong Rong wanted this meeting to be
like the seminar in White Tiger Temple
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and leave its mark in history.
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Exactly.
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But he didn't name it the "Azure Dragon."
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He chose the "Abyss Dragon."
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As said in the "Classic of Changes,"
nine in the first place
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the dragon in the abyss is not of use.
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Kong Rong used to to hint at
my vulnerability and Cao Cao's tyranny.
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What do you think Cui Yan and
Kong Rong are going to do here?
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It's for the scholars' meeting tomorrow.
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Push this.
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Why is it so?
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Didn't Minister Steward Kong and
Master Cui supervise the construction?
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They did.
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It's the result of great craftsmanship.
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The pillar was added later.
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It's smeared with inflammable varnish
and oil of the phoenix tree.
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So with just a...
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Once the flames flare up
and the temple falls
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all the scholars will die in here.
253
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Then, everyone will question
who caused such a disaster.
254
00:24:02,092 --> 00:24:06,229
Those scholars had just
voiced their objection of Cao Cao.
255
00:24:06,229 --> 00:24:08,653
What will their families think?
256
00:24:08,653 --> 00:24:10,589
What will the people think?
257
00:24:11,856 --> 00:24:17,182
They are going to sacrifice hundreds
of scholars to frame Cao Cao?
258
00:24:19,592 --> 00:24:20,607
Exactly.
259
00:24:20,607 --> 00:24:24,390
Everyone is using the most effective way
possible to help you.
260
00:24:24,390 --> 00:24:26,386
Burn down the Abyss Dragon Temple.
261
00:24:26,386 --> 00:24:29,455
The fury of the nation will frighten
Cao Cao into taking a step back.
262
00:24:29,455 --> 00:24:33,674
As for you... you'll get to save
your beloved empress.
263
00:24:33,674 --> 00:24:37,044
I won't allow this to happen.
264
00:24:40,622 --> 00:24:43,334
Don't be so sure of yourself.
265
00:24:45,722 --> 00:24:49,300
Didn't you pledge a lifetime of love
to your dearest Fu Shou?
266
00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:50,479
What is it?
267
00:24:50,479 --> 00:24:52,686
Don't you want to save your beloved?
268
00:24:57,693 --> 00:25:01,426
This is your only opportunity.
269
00:25:01,426 --> 00:25:05,212
Whether you take it or not,
it's up to Your Majesty.
270
00:25:15,006 --> 00:25:16,894
Your Majesty
Duke of Wei has given orders!
271
00:25:16,894 --> 00:25:18,258
Your Majesty, please halt.
272
00:25:18,258 --> 00:25:23,343
Tell Duke of Wei to abolish me first
before commanding my guards.
273
00:25:23,343 --> 00:25:24,565
Your Majesty!
274
00:26:18,096 --> 00:26:19,446
I was wrong.
275
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,305
Your father died because of me.
276
00:26:23,305 --> 00:26:24,857
I also got you into this predicament.
277
00:26:24,857 --> 00:26:29,650
Didn't we already agree not
to say those three words again?
278
00:26:41,269 --> 00:26:43,288
It isn't that we made the wrong choice.
279
00:26:43,288 --> 00:26:46,271
We just couldn't betray
our own conscience.
280
00:27:08,415 --> 00:27:12,768
I chose you, so I've also
chosen to take your path.
281
00:27:12,768 --> 00:27:17,280
Both ideals and love are too wonderful.
282
00:27:19,070 --> 00:27:22,819
Once you've met and
gotten involved with them
283
00:27:22,819 --> 00:27:25,894
you can never live without them.
284
00:27:27,714 --> 00:27:30,881
Ever since I fell in love with you
285
00:27:30,881 --> 00:27:33,865
I couldn't deceive myself anymore.
286
00:27:34,791 --> 00:27:36,626
I couldn't deny myself of my feelings.
287
00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:42,615
Taking innocent lives
won't bring us the ideals.
288
00:27:44,574 --> 00:27:48,355
It can only drag out our lives
like the living dead.
289
00:27:50,794 --> 00:27:55,977
I hope that you'll always be in love
with the woman I am now.
290
00:28:02,249 --> 00:28:03,993
Having you here...
291
00:28:04,751 --> 00:28:06,644
I'm already very happy.
292
00:28:08,473 --> 00:28:09,887
Tonight...
293
00:28:09,887 --> 00:28:12,997
let me forget the past.
294
00:28:12,997 --> 00:28:15,198
Forget the future.
295
00:28:15,198 --> 00:28:18,429
I'll just spend it with you.
296
00:28:18,429 --> 00:28:20,489
Please?
297
00:30:39,424 --> 00:30:40,810
Brother Lu, it's been a while.
298
00:30:40,810 --> 00:30:41,906
Brother Liu.
299
00:30:41,906 --> 00:30:43,015
This way, please.
300
00:30:43,015 --> 00:30:44,015
Let's go.
301
00:30:51,926 --> 00:30:53,449
Cui Ji Gui!
302
00:30:55,251 --> 00:30:58,010
I told you to visit Cao Cao
in order to save the empress.
303
00:30:58,010 --> 00:30:59,267
Where are you going now?
304
00:30:59,267 --> 00:31:00,855
Minister Steward, have you forgotten?
305
00:31:00,855 --> 00:31:03,402
It's the scholars' meeting.
306
00:31:03,402 --> 00:31:07,557
If you aren't attending, I will.
307
00:31:09,191 --> 00:31:11,571
The empress is now imprisoned by Cao Cao.
308
00:31:11,571 --> 00:31:13,587
When the whole world
is about to come crumbling down
309
00:31:13,587 --> 00:31:15,851
why are you still attending
some scholars' meeting?
310
00:31:15,851 --> 00:31:20,422
Have you been scared out of your wits
by Cao Cao just like Xun Yu?
311
00:31:20,422 --> 00:31:25,390
This meeting will have an impact
on the survival of our nation.
312
00:31:25,390 --> 00:31:28,576
Minister Steward, judging by
the current situation
313
00:31:28,576 --> 00:31:30,715
what do you think we should do?
314
00:31:30,715 --> 00:31:31,981
When facing Duke Cao
315
00:31:31,981 --> 00:31:35,227
should we persuade,
beg, or argue with him?
316
00:31:35,227 --> 00:31:38,193
Do you think any of that
would be of any use on Duke Cao?
317
00:31:38,193 --> 00:31:41,381
If we can't persuade him,
we can use our deaths to remonstrate!
318
00:31:41,381 --> 00:31:44,807
If our deaths can't dissuade him,
we can use the public opinion!
319
00:31:44,807 --> 00:31:47,028
Until every last scholar's blood runs dry
320
00:31:47,028 --> 00:31:49,663
we won't allow a treacherous subject
to deceive the emperor!
321
00:31:49,663 --> 00:31:53,444
Duke Cao is now in a fury.
322
00:31:53,444 --> 00:31:56,720
He also has a great reason for it.
323
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:02,576
Duke Cao made those compromises
previously due to the circumstances
324
00:32:02,576 --> 00:32:03,838
as well as His Majesty.
325
00:32:03,838 --> 00:32:06,021
Minister Steward.
326
00:32:06,021 --> 00:32:10,884
Your methods... won't work this time.
327
00:32:11,741 --> 00:32:13,758
Those of my kind study
the classics of the sages.
328
00:32:13,758 --> 00:32:16,095
We only care about
what's righteous and what's not.
329
00:32:16,095 --> 00:32:17,500
We don't care if it works or not!
330
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:18,784
Minister Steward.
331
00:32:18,784 --> 00:32:23,227
What I'm doing this time will be of use.
332
00:32:23,227 --> 00:32:28,396
I wish to ask you to use your brush
to help me realize this plan.
333
00:32:28,396 --> 00:32:30,003
What is it about?
334
00:32:32,623 --> 00:32:35,938
Should any accident occur
at the Abyss Dragon Temple today
335
00:32:35,938 --> 00:32:38,570
that kills me and the scholars in there
336
00:32:38,570 --> 00:32:40,925
it must have been done by Cao Cao.
337
00:32:42,813 --> 00:32:46,563
I'd like Minister Steward
to use your brush
338
00:32:47,928 --> 00:32:51,337
to make this known in history
and to all of the people.
339
00:32:51,337 --> 00:32:57,295
The scholars were slaughtered
because we opposed Cao Cao.
340
00:32:57,295 --> 00:32:59,009
In the future...
341
00:33:00,128 --> 00:33:04,455
I'll leave you to save the empress.
342
00:33:05,935 --> 00:33:08,575
Cao Cao is going to kill
those attending the meeting?
343
00:33:08,575 --> 00:33:09,728
Hold on!
344
00:33:12,256 --> 00:33:14,183
You will all die in there.
345
00:33:14,183 --> 00:33:16,691
The Abyss Dragon Hall was
constructed under your supervision.
346
00:33:16,691 --> 00:33:19,160
No! Cui Yan, are you out of your mind?
347
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,732
I'm totally sane.
348
00:33:21,732 --> 00:33:25,547
I'm doing so because
not even the righteousness
349
00:33:25,547 --> 00:33:29,359
written in the classics of the sages
can rescue the empress.
350
00:33:29,359 --> 00:33:30,714
Therefore...
351
00:33:30,714 --> 00:33:36,151
Therefore, I can only resolve it
with the ways of the turbulent times!
352
00:33:36,151 --> 00:33:39,280
Even so, you can't sacrifice
so many students for it!
353
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,780
"If the acquisition of the realm
required a single unjust act"
354
00:33:41,780 --> 00:33:44,145
or the murder of one innocent man,
they would not do it."
355
00:33:44,145 --> 00:33:46,074
Am I out to acquire the nation?
356
00:33:46,074 --> 00:33:48,798
I'm trying to save it!
357
00:33:48,798 --> 00:33:55,310
If we could sacrifice a few hundred lives
to save the entire nation
358
00:33:57,083 --> 00:33:58,406
it would be worth it.
359
00:33:59,281 --> 00:34:00,990
For matters of the nation...
360
00:34:02,912 --> 00:34:04,828
we should all make an effort!
361
00:34:05,679 --> 00:34:06,865
Stop right there!
362
00:34:06,865 --> 00:34:07,925
Let go of me!
363
00:34:07,925 --> 00:34:09,958
Cui Yan!
364
00:34:09,958 --> 00:34:11,992
You can't do this!
365
00:34:11,992 --> 00:34:16,905
If you do so, you'll be the sinner
of the academic circle!
366
00:34:16,905 --> 00:34:18,242
Cui Yan!
367
00:34:18,242 --> 00:34:20,664
Cui Yan! Let me out!
368
00:34:20,664 --> 00:34:23,688
You mustn't do so! You mustn't!
369
00:34:23,688 --> 00:34:25,702
Let me out!
370
00:34:27,846 --> 00:34:29,614
I have already instructed them.
371
00:34:29,614 --> 00:34:35,172
Someone will come to let you out
once the deed is done.
372
00:34:35,172 --> 00:34:37,032
Cui Yan, get back here!
373
00:34:37,032 --> 00:34:41,099
Brushes and ink are in the room.
374
00:34:43,130 --> 00:34:48,065
I'd like to know what
Minister Steward would write about me.
375
00:34:48,065 --> 00:34:49,617
Cui Yan!
376
00:34:49,617 --> 00:34:50,722
What a pity.
377
00:34:50,722 --> 00:34:52,550
I won't be able to read it.
378
00:34:52,550 --> 00:34:53,838
Open the door now!
379
00:35:01,625 --> 00:35:04,137
"When will this sun expire?"
380
00:35:04,137 --> 00:35:08,420
"Then you and I will all perish!"
381
00:35:09,603 --> 00:35:10,773
Cui Yan!
382
00:35:10,773 --> 00:35:12,603
Cui Yan, get back here!
383
00:35:15,253 --> 00:35:17,132
Master of Writing Cui, it's been a while.
384
00:35:18,398 --> 00:35:19,485
It's been a while.
385
00:35:19,485 --> 00:35:20,851
After you.
386
00:35:23,826 --> 00:35:25,434
Please enter.
387
00:35:30,048 --> 00:35:31,570
Master of Writing Cui.
388
00:35:34,032 --> 00:35:35,427
Lord Man?
389
00:35:35,427 --> 00:35:38,244
What brings you here today?
390
00:35:38,244 --> 00:35:42,179
I never knew that you were also
a scholar of the academic circle.
391
00:35:42,179 --> 00:35:44,876
Master of Writing Cui's
gathering of the scholars
392
00:35:44,876 --> 00:35:46,597
is one of the major events
in the capital.
393
00:35:46,597 --> 00:35:49,400
As the county commandant
of the capital, I should attend.
394
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,106
Should you or the scholars need anything
395
00:35:53,106 --> 00:35:55,708
the commandant's office
will be in time to provide it.
396
00:35:59,148 --> 00:36:00,711
Since it is so...
397
00:36:00,711 --> 00:36:02,184
please head inside.
398
00:36:02,184 --> 00:36:03,431
After you.
399
00:37:00,356 --> 00:37:04,708
Today, Confucian scholars from
across the nation are gathered here.
400
00:37:04,708 --> 00:37:09,684
This is a grand event for
the academic circle of Confucianism.
401
00:37:09,684 --> 00:37:11,108
At the same time
402
00:37:11,108 --> 00:37:15,440
this is so that our future
generations can know
403
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,418
about the era we lived in.
404
00:37:19,634 --> 00:37:24,481
Apart from war and chaos,
there's still decency and sophistication
405
00:37:24,481 --> 00:37:26,181
passed down from generation
to generation.
406
00:37:26,181 --> 00:37:27,539
However...
407
00:37:29,289 --> 00:37:31,532
Before we begin our discussion
408
00:37:33,597 --> 00:37:37,338
I'd like to pay my respects
and offerings to two people.
409
00:37:37,338 --> 00:37:39,014
He's paying respects to two people?
410
00:37:39,014 --> 00:37:41,773
Which two Confucian scholars
have passed away?
411
00:37:45,882 --> 00:37:48,079
Zhao Yan and Fu Wan?
412
00:37:48,079 --> 00:37:49,539
Aren't they both sinners?
413
00:37:49,539 --> 00:37:51,472
They were both killed by Duke Cao.
414
00:37:51,472 --> 00:37:53,592
Zhao Yan was
Minister Steward Kong's disciple.
415
00:37:53,592 --> 00:37:56,750
Fu Wan was the descendant of the Qin and
Han dynasties' Confucian sage, Fu Sheng.
416
00:37:56,750 --> 00:37:58,820
They are both role models
of our academic circle.
417
00:37:58,820 --> 00:38:01,018
Apart from us, no one dares
to make offerings to them
418
00:38:01,018 --> 00:38:02,168
as they rightfully deserved.
419
00:38:08,134 --> 00:38:10,295
The survival of the Han Empire's
imperial family!
420
00:38:11,347 --> 00:38:13,190
It all lies in this single feat!
421
00:38:20,248 --> 00:38:22,581
No! The hall is about to crumble!
422
00:38:22,581 --> 00:38:24,465
Quickly! Run!
423
00:38:24,465 --> 00:38:26,278
Run!
424
00:38:26,278 --> 00:38:27,570
Run!
425
00:38:29,634 --> 00:38:31,474
Who locked the door?
426
00:38:31,474 --> 00:38:33,898
Let us out of here!
427
00:38:33,898 --> 00:38:36,025
Help!
428
00:38:36,025 --> 00:38:37,510
Help!
429
00:38:45,335 --> 00:38:46,664
Open the door!
430
00:38:46,664 --> 00:38:48,021
Open the door quickly!
431
00:38:50,063 --> 00:38:51,601
Open the door!
432
00:38:51,601 --> 00:38:53,726
Help! Help!
433
00:38:53,726 --> 00:38:56,092
Anyone there? Anyone?
434
00:39:08,197 --> 00:39:09,759
Set out to the Abyss Dragon Temple.
435
00:39:59,012 --> 00:40:00,375
Get out of here!
436
00:40:00,375 --> 00:40:01,503
It's not safe in here!
437
00:40:01,503 --> 00:40:03,012
We're in the middle of a ritual!
438
00:40:03,012 --> 00:40:04,418
Who dares to make a commotion?
439
00:40:04,418 --> 00:40:05,789
Cui Yan.
440
00:40:05,789 --> 00:40:08,514
Do you want to bury
these scholars here with you?
441
00:40:10,045 --> 00:40:11,264
Man Chong...
442
00:40:13,275 --> 00:40:18,891
As Cao Cao's minion
443
00:40:18,891 --> 00:40:21,534
you killed both
of these deceased scholars.
444
00:40:21,534 --> 00:40:23,688
Now, you're interrupting the ritual.
445
00:40:23,688 --> 00:40:24,905
What is your intention?
446
00:40:24,905 --> 00:40:29,938
Why has Cao Cao sent you here today?
447
00:40:32,635 --> 00:40:33,635
[Abyss Dragon Temple]
448
00:40:43,199 --> 00:40:45,824
His Majesty arrives!
449
00:40:55,403 --> 00:40:56,559
Master of Writing Cui.
450
00:40:56,559 --> 00:40:58,007
Your Majesty...
451
00:40:58,007 --> 00:40:59,342
You...
452
00:41:01,675 --> 00:41:04,099
Greetings, Your Majesty.
453
00:41:05,690 --> 00:41:07,387
My dear subjects, please do rise.
454
00:41:07,387 --> 00:41:09,255
Thank you, Your Majesty!
455
00:41:11,253 --> 00:41:14,476
Since Minister Steward Kong
has arranged to pay respects
456
00:41:14,476 --> 00:41:16,092
to Court Adviser Zhao
457
00:41:16,092 --> 00:41:18,302
and Elder Statesman Fu
during the scholars' meeting
458
00:41:18,302 --> 00:41:20,954
It's only right that I attend.
459
00:41:49,818 --> 00:41:53,413
Master of Writing Cui has gathered all of
you here to discuss principles of life.
460
00:41:55,523 --> 00:41:59,503
Principles of life...
461
00:41:59,503 --> 00:42:03,469
It is the beginning of the myriad things,
the standard of right and wrong.
462
00:42:03,469 --> 00:42:06,543
A man upholds principles
throughout his life.
463
00:42:06,543 --> 00:42:09,969
A nation's survival also
lies in the principles it upholds.
464
00:42:11,211 --> 00:42:12,326
Principles of life...
465
00:42:12,326 --> 00:42:15,280
It's not only used to regulate
the subjects and the people.
466
00:42:16,507 --> 00:42:20,402
It should all the more be used to
regulate a monarch, a ruler.
467
00:42:20,402 --> 00:42:27,110
My principle is that for every
sacrifice made in such turbulent times
468
00:42:27,110 --> 00:42:33,644
I should always feel ashamed and guilty.
469
00:42:33,644 --> 00:42:37,925
Now that the imperial family has declined
and the world is in great chaos
470
00:42:37,925 --> 00:42:44,559
I hope that all of you will
uphold the principles of a noble man
471
00:42:44,559 --> 00:42:48,954
to extend civilization
and protect our people.
472
00:42:48,954 --> 00:42:52,206
It's because every one of you
is the hope that we have
473
00:42:52,206 --> 00:42:55,458
of taking us out of the turbulent times.
474
00:42:56,929 --> 00:43:00,228
We shall remember
Your Majesty's teaching!
475
00:43:00,228 --> 00:43:01,563
Your Majesty...
476
00:43:03,594 --> 00:43:05,268
Your Majesty...
477
00:43:06,157 --> 00:43:07,382
Lord Man.
478
00:43:07,382 --> 00:43:10,298
Please lead the scholars
out of here in an orderly manner.
479
00:43:10,298 --> 00:43:12,786
Yes, Your Majesty.
480
00:43:14,179 --> 00:43:15,623
Gentlemen, this way, please.
481
00:43:35,947 --> 00:43:40,947
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