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♫ The far and long roads, the man I miss is at a distant place ♫
♫ Seeking the truth in heaven and on earth, opening up the words deep in my heart, not looking back ♫
♫ Thinking of a beautiful woman, if one's heart could be fragrant ♫
♫ Thinking of a beautiful woman, desolate like the moon ♫
♫ I worry, when can I appreciate the grasses and flowers with a beautiful woman ♫
♫ The ancient people didn't have time to leave some Yimoxiang (a type of plant) ♫
♫ Thinking of a beautiful lady, heart becoming fragrant on its own ♫
♫ Thinking of a beautiful lady, fragrant dreams ♫
♫ The whole world is drunk, one's whole life just follows the blue water ♫
♫ I'll drive and go away for an adventure, flying as I want to in the nine skies ♫
Song of Phoenix
Episode 65
The road to truth is long and slow but I shall persevere and spare no effort to pursue - Encountering Sorrow by Qu Yuan
Queen Mother.
Shameless.
Indecent.
As the Great Shaman of Chu, you don't watch yourself!
Spreading contamination with the court ministers.
And now this upheaval you've created.
-Now you've come to seduce the King! -Queen Dowager!
Provoking piece of filth!
Son. Stay away from this woman!
If you don't listen, don't blame me for being heartless!
Leave with me!
Big Sister, are you okay?
You can all leave.
Yes.
Son.
I am old.
I can pretend not to see some things.
But once some rumors reach my ears,
can I ignore them?
Now, this world is yours.
That Vice Chancellor Qu wanted to do political reform and modify our constitution.
Punish corruption and change salt rights.
They all sound like good things.
But how is it that I keep getting such an unsettled feeling?
Queen Mother, Beloved Subject Qu-
He just wants to vet out the greedy rats within the royal court.
Pull off the skin and shave down the bone, to give the people justice.
Pull off the skin?
Shave the bone?
That's a fresh way of putting it.
Once he pulls off all those high ministers' skins, what's next?
Whose skin will he want to pull next?
Does he wish to pull the entire royal court?
Queen Mother, you worry too much.
I will remind him to have his limits and keep the big picture in mind.
In this world, there are thousands of people.
Thus you need to be a thousand times more watchful.
You will need to grow even more watchful.
Also, the rumors in this palace,
I don't want to hear about them.
This Qu Yuan and Mo Chou,
just what is going on between them?
Your Majesty, please get justice for me.
Speak.
My wife died in evil hands, and died in vain.
Please give the order to investigate this!
I am also very heartbroken that your wife died terribly.
Because of the political reform, many ministers would like to corner me to death.
It's just, why must they drag down my family?
You mean, Madam Qu's horrible death has to do with a court official?
In response to Your Majesty, I did not.
You will say anything.
Jing Mo Ao , the truth has yet to be found. (High Minister Jing)
Please do not make rash conclusions.
You are right, Great Shaman of Chu.
But that's all useless.
Vice Chancellor Qu, your political reform is setting up a mountain on fire.
Causing the entire royal court in upheaval.
Now you blame the death of your wife into this too. For what?
I think you are not doing any political reform. You're trying to ruin a good nation.
God can vouch for my intention for political reform.
Your Majesty, please allow me to list Qu Yuan's three biggest crimes.
First. His atrocious words and actions that have confused the world.
Causing the people to panic and suffering from adversity.
Second. He built up his party in private and shored up his own trusted allies.
Third. His political reform failed and only caused discord.
Shaking the foundation of the dynasty.
Jing Mo Ao , you are completely misrepresenting the facts.
Great Shaman of Chu, you protect him so much.
Are you his partner?
Your Majesty, this political reform must not be continued.
Minister Jing, the political reform was crafted by His Majesty.
How can it be stopped just because you say so?
Chancellor Zhao, you originally supported the change too.
What do you think?
Replying to Your Majesty,
I am not talented. It's becoming harder for me to see the benefits of the changes.
These reforms. Forgive me for being frank . . .
If the changes keep going,
I fear that our nation is no longer our nation with indefinite troubles to come.
Chancellor Zhao! No matter what, Vice Chancellor Qu is your son-in-law!
What kind of a father-in-law are you!
In the royal court, there are only state affairs.
There are no personal emotions!
Grand Adviser Shang, High Minister Jing has given his opinion.
So has Lord Chancellor Zhao.
It's your turn.
This-!
Qu Yuan! What do your words mean?
Our loyalties can be vouched by the sun and moon.
Did we join together to plot against you?
Great. Great loyalty vouched by moon and sun!
My Chu Nation . . . precisely because of you sage ministers
the mighty Qin won't need to worry about exterminating Chu.
Great Chu won't need to worry about not getting destroyed.
Vice Chancellor Qu, stop your nonsense.
Your Majesty, in this great State of Chu,
there are also drunkards! In this court, there are also foolish people!
Only if Your Majesty is awake,
can this state be saved, can our people have hope for the future!
Your Majesty, you must never listen to Qu Yuan's nonsense.
The changes cannot keep going!
May Your Majesty be vigilant.
Your Majesty, if the changes keep going,
our Great Chu's foundation will be shaken.
What mighty Chu shall be left? What chance of restoring old glory shall there be?
Your Majesty, with this He Shi Bi as promise,
I hope Your Majesty will investigate this and continue making changes!
This world isn't mine alone.
These changes are not yours alone either.
Vice Chancellor Qu, I admire your intellect.
You want to do away with patrimonial selection to favor equal opportunity based on merit and I approve.
You want to distance the nobles and I approve as well.
You say to modify the constitution and rectify the old system.
I hesitated but in the end I also approved of it.
However, what about you? You continue to say to me that you want to repay me.
That you want to repay Chu a great political system.
But now? There is only lament and discord everywhere.
Is this the beautiful political landscape you wanted for me?
Your Majesty, in the implementation of reforms in the past, which of them weren't met by extreme opposition?
The changes are my own matter,
and also the matter of the ministers of this court.
then I will leave the matter of change to the court officials.
For Chu to stay progressive for hundreds of years, we must not change our foundation.
Your Majesty, you cannot change. You cannot change!
Your Majesty! You cannot change!
Your Majesty, forget the reforms. The country is already not looking like a country.
Your Majesty!
Spring is but brief, when cuckoos start to sing,
and flowers will fade that once did spread and spring.
This gaudy age so fickle proved its will,
that to what purpose did I linger still?
Qu Yuan, it's not that I do not support change.
It's that all the court officials don't support it.
From today on, you don't need to worry about court matters anymore.
Just be at ease and be the Minister of the Three Great Families.
I, Qu Yuan, obey Your Majesty.
What a joke. What a joke!
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Queen Mother, why have you come?
Son,
you finally got rid of the pain in my heart.
I heard you demoted Qu Yuan to be the Minister of the Three Great Families.
I feel bad about demoting Qu Yuan.
Regardless, the reforms that Qu Yuan wanted
were for the benefit of Chu.
But these changes depend on timing.
You must act with the circumstances.
What's right now may be wrong in the future,
while what's wrong in the past might be right now.
Queen Mother, what do you mean?
Qu Yuan's plan for change
incited the anger of the entire court.
And his Vertical Alliance strategy to fight Qin wasn't also successful.
Presently, the alliance of the six countries has obviously failed.
If you keep being this alliance head,
then Qin will surely blame the attack by the six countries
on our Chu.
So what? At the worst, I'll fight to the death with Qin!
You can give up your life for the State of Chu.
Is the entire state supposed to give up their lives for it?
Then Queen Mother, what should be done?
Right now,
we can only repair our relationship with the State of Qin
and reestablish partnership.
But now, the alliance of the six countries still exists.
As their ally, how can we just abandon and betray them?
Son, there are no eternal friends.
Perhaps the other states became allies with Qin long ago.
Only we have been kept in the dark,
always fighting with the State of Qin.
Vice Chancellor Qu, I admire your intellect.
You said that you want to remove inherited titles and salaries,
to choose the skillful and talented ones to serve, I allowed it.
You said that we must distance from nobility, I also allowed it.
You said that the constitution must be reformed, the old laws must be changed, I hesitated.
But in the end, I still allowed it.
But how about you. You resolutely told me
that you will give me back, give Chu back good governance.
But what now? So many grievances, the government is not in harmony.
Is this the good governance that you want to give me!
Grand Adviser Shang's Manor
Lord Jing, Lord Zhao. Come come come.
Drink wine! Everyone! Come!
Lord Zhao, we are impressed that you turned your back on your family!
We are impressed!
Chancellor Zhao, I drink to you.
Before, I was unreasonable.
Starting now, we should help each other more.
I do not dare. We are all officials of Chu, so naturally we are family.
Ah!
That's right!
That Qu Yuan has already been demoted to being a Minister of the Three Great Families.
The Qu family now
can't even straighten their waist.
That's right. The State of Chu from now on,
belongs to our three families!
The ones celebrating today are not only our three families.
That Qu Yuan acted against the Heaven's will. He was the one who brought trouble to himself.
Isn't everyone in the country now clapping their hands in merriment?
That's right!
-Come come come! Drink wine! -Drink wine!
Don't know how many times I have read the reformed constitution that Qu Yuan made.
Thinking every time I've read it.
I even can already recite every word in it.
My heart is touched every time I read a sentence.
In court, everyone says that change
brings disaster to the country and its citizens, that the citizens are against it.
Is that really true?
The more I think about it, the more I don't understand now.
I really don't know if stopping change was good or bad.
Tell me. Was I right or wrong?
Your Majesty, I think the old sages
not only must have an ambition to serve their country,
they also must know how to strategize governance.
Qu Yuan indeed doesn't have any evil intentions for his reforms.
But he lacked strategy and offended a lot of people.
Also, he often talks nonsense.
Talks nonsense? What did he say?
I'm afraid you'll be angry if I say it.
Tell me.
Didn't he say so in his poems?
"What rebellious act has the loyal Bi Gan done, that you have to belittle and strike him down?" (T/N upright minister who rebuked corrupt Shang Di Xin ("King Zhou"), executed by extraction of his heart.)
What?
Orchid Dais Palace
Minister Qu, stop waiting already.
If you kneel like this, what am I supposed to do?
Alright, I'll send a message one last time.
You really are so stubborn.
How ridiculous! Completely ridiculous!
Your Majesty, I said the wrong things.
Bi Gan? Bi Gan?
He actually compared himself to Bi Gan?
Then what does he say I am?
Is he comparing me to King Zhou ? (T/N pejorative name, Shang Di Xin, one of the most corrupt rulers in history)
And here I was thinking if changes were right or wrong!
I was blind!
Your Majesty, Adviser Qu wants to see you.
He's been waiting many days outside Orchid Dais Palace already.
I won't see him! Tell him! I'll never see him again!
Yes.
[ Orchid Dais Palace ]
Now with the political reform over and everything's back to normal in terms of internal affairs.
However, I am quite worried about our foreign affairs.
Your Majesty, we had Vice Chancellor Qu before.
To lead us in the alliance defense against Qin, however our many attempts were returned with defeat.
The six nation alliance seems to be an act of only success in name with no actual benefit.
All this and our grudge with Qin has only gone deeper.
I believe Qin nation has grown to be formidable.
We should not deem them an enemy.
We should continue our diplomacy with the various nations,
while trying to restore our ties with Qin to renew our partnership.
Thus, we can have both ways.
I share your thought.
Your Majesty!
I understand your sentiment, Great Shaman, so you needn't speak.
Beloved ministers, is there anything else you'd like to speak of?
In that case . . .
-I am here. -I will name you ambassador.
Go to Qin and request they send an envoy to talk about an alliance.
Your minister hears and obeys.
You must be careful.
You cannot shame the State of Chu, or harm the peace with Qin.
I will not disappoint Your Majesty!
Your Highness, what did you need me for?
Ting Tong, this is awful!
What is it?
Chu plans to secretly make an alliance with Qin and put our Qi in harm's way.
But didn't the State of Chu just ally with our State of Qi?
This Chu King was the one who led the six countries to resist the Qin.
Things change!
This alliance was Vice Chancellor Qu's idea.
Now Vice Chancellor Qu has been demoted. This alliance is in danger!
Never thought that this Chu country is such a traitor. Really so hateful.
If you didn't find out so early,
our King would still be in the dark!
Then our State of Qi would be in danger!
Now, we must hurry and send the news out.
That's right!
Wait!
Your Lady Highness, I think because that Zi Shang wasn't able to find anything to use against us he still won't give up.
These past few days, he kept sending men outside our palace to monitor us.
What should we do now?
There's only one way now.
You must personally leave the palace to send out the news.
Li Yuan will be at the previous place waiting for orders. Give the letter to him.
Have him hurry and bring it to the State of Qi.
I understand.
Be careful.
Don't worry, Lady Consort.
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Stop. What palace are you from?
I am from Consort Tian's palace.
It's like this. Consort Tian is out of fragrance powder.
She told me to go buy some.
Consort Tian?
This.
Go on.
Fragrance powder? Consort Tian doesn't use fragrance powder.
Perhaps now she likes using it?
But I just gave her some recently.
Did she use it all so soon?
Qing'er, let's go take a look.
Okay.
Li Yuan!
Someone is watching us in the palace.
Consort Tian told me to give this to you.
It's an emergency, you must give it to the King immediately, without a moment to spare!
Okay, I'll go right away!
Big Sister, they're coming out.
Ting Tong, what are you doing here?
I...
Hurry and go!
Stop!
-Let go! -Stop!
Really? A spy?
It is completely true.
Now the King, the Queen Dowager, and the Queen are interrogating her.
I just knew that Tian Ji was nothing good.
So she was a spy?
Let's see how she can still be arrogant in front of me.
Let's go. Come watch a good show with me.
Yes.
Orchid Dais Palace
Speak! Just what have you done?
Who ordered you to do this?
Queen Dowager, I am innocent!
Innocent?
The Great Shaman personally saw you give a letter to a stranger.
You're still going to lie?
Speak. You and your master,
what have you two done?
Talk. Was it Tian Bijiang who sent you to monitor my actions?
Your Majesty, please investigate!
I do not dare to hide anything from Your Majesty! I am from the State of Qi,
but since I arrived here, I never tried to personally contact Qi.
Your Majesty, please investigate! Please investigate!
Is that so? Then how do you explain
why you pretended to buy things to leave the palace,
and secretly met with a stranger?
Your Majesty, please investigate! That is my lover!
What I gave him was my love letter!
Please investigate, Your Majesty!
What nonsense!
Alright, since you say that you were meeting your lover,
then why did you tell the guards
that you were going to buy fragrance powder for Tian Ji?
Tian Ji! Just what is going on?
Lady Consort! Lady Consort!
Ting Tong, you don't need to talk.
Ting Tong and I are indeed
spies sent from the King of Qi.
Lady Consort, what are you saying?
What are you saying?
Lady Consort! Lady Consort! What are you saying?
No, it's not like that!
Your Majesty, it's not like that! It's not like that!
-Men! -Your Majesty! No!
-Drag this evil maid out! -No, Your Majesty!
No! Lady Consort! Lady Consort!
Lady Consort! Lady Consort!
Lady Consort! Lady Consort! Lady Consort!
Lady Consort!
What can a maid do?
If her master isn't giving orders from behind,
she wouldn't dare to do that.
Your Majesty, the most terrible one is the master.
She also should be taught a lesson so she will know our might.
Shut up!
All of you can go.
Queen Mother, you should leave first too.
Son!
Queen Mother! Please leave first.
I want to interrogate her alone.
I shall have to see.
Just how this cheap slave will die this time.
She shouldn't have mistreated me back then!
Now she will see!
Let's go. Return to my palace.
Let's go.
I have been lavish with you, loved you and trusted you.
Why did you treat me like this?
Your Majesty. Please grant me death.
Tell me. Why did you do this?
Why must you treat me this way?
Your Majesty. Do you still remember? I have said this to you.
My family was destroyed by the King of Qi.
That my mother was taken hostage by Qi court.
But you want to devote your life to the King of Qi?
I had no choice.
My mother was in their hands. King of Qi and Su Qin forced me.
If I didn't, they would force me with my mother's life as leverage.
I never had a choice.
So many times,
so many times I wanted to tell you the truth.
So many times I wished myself dead instead.
But the King of Qi sent Ting Tong to be near me.
Every move I make is under their surveillance.
Anything amiss and they would kill my mother.
Ting Tong?
I resent it. I resent it!
I resent myself for being so useless.
I hate betraying Your Majesty over and over.
My heart's cut in half by a dagger.
I owe you and I owe my heart.
Your Majesty's grace,
I can only repay it in my next life.
What are you doing!
Death is my only release.
My only way to prevent harming Your Majesty.
If I didn't tell you to die you must stay alive for me.
Your Majesty.
I know your strife.
Mu Yi!
Your Majesty.
Send my command. Send Ting Tong to death immediately.
Yes.
Your Majesty.
Don't worry. Ting Tong won't force you anymore.
[ Lotus Flower Palace ]
Ting Tong. Don't you blame me.
If you want to blame, blame yourself for being an obstacle to me.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, I hear you've put Ting Tong to death.
If I don't have her killed, was I supposed to keep her alive?
Your Majesty, she's an eloquent actress,
and a witty pretender.
You mustn't believe her words.
This matter is linked to the safety of Chu nation.
What you're saying is not without sense.
But I investigated and she is indeed being blackmailed by King of Qi.
In order to save her mother, she committed these acts.
But now she's confessed her own offense, so am I supposed to make it difficult on her?
But these are just her words.
You can't just be partial to her.
Ting Tong's been killed already and her palace servants have been exiled.
Even if she's acting, what can she do alone? - But . . .
What? You've got more opinion on the matter?
Your Highness, bad news.
What's the ruckus?
Consort Tian is totally fine. His Majesty didn't punish her at all.
He only commanded the death of Ting Tong.
What did you say?
If Consort Tian decides to hold a grudge over what happened earlier, that will be big trouble.
Cheap whore. You talk too much.
Go and fetch my premium Lingzi mushrooms. (T/N Capital City of Qi)
Huh?
Hurry and go.
Congratulations, Sister.
I was just interrogated like some criminal.
What's there to congratulate?
What a joy it is that you are acquitted from the wrongful claim.
I just knew that this matter was not linked to you whatsoever.
It's all done by Ting Tong alone.
Really?
I thought earlier you deemed it differently.
Have a look.
I brought you the "thousand-year mushroom".
To pacify your startled nerves.
You're so thoughtful.
You should've told me sooner how Ting Tong bullied you.
I would've put her to death much sooner and this commotion would've been spared.
You mean, in this palace,
you can put whoever you want
to death?
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♫ Day and night, summer and winter, nonstop changes ♫
♫ Herbs and trees, prosperity and decline, would still depend on a beautiful woman ♫
♫ Rumors brought by wind from all over; inciting ministers with different dreams ♫
♫ Asking Heaven if it can bear witness to one's loyalty ♫
♫ Muddy and clear, beautiful and ugly, overturning all living creatures ♫
♫ Angelica and magnolia, orchids and quan, have a hard time emitting their fragrance ♫
♫ Why must you proceed against the current? Why must a lonely flower admire herself? ♫
♫ No one knew that one's birthplace has become someone else's territory ♫
♫ Outstanding in a chaotic world, who can understand one's desire? ♫
♫ Going far to travel, yet one's heart is tied with one's home ♫
♫ Drinking one 'Li Sao', the pain of separation ♫
♫ Getting drunk for a lifetime of dedicating oneself for one's country ♫
♫ Coping with the long, long road; hard to beg the heaven and the earth ♫
♫ I lamented the numerous sorrows in the life of the citizens ♫
♫ Singing one 'Li Sao', pain of separation ♫
♫ Sighing how hard it is to keep a bosom friend ♫
♫ For the ideal that I hold dear to my heart, I'd not regret a thousand times to die. In the end, turning into ashes.
♫ If this dream is difficult, let's just leave it to the next generations to ponder ♫
♫ Outstanding in a chaotic world, who can understand one's desire? ♫
♫ Going far to travel, yet one's heart is tied with one's home ♫
♫ Drinking one 'Li Sao', the pain of separation ♫
♫ Sighing how hard it is to keep a bosom friend ♫
♫ For the ideal that I hold dear to my heart, I'd not regret a thousand times to die. In the end, turning into ashes.
♫ If this dream is difficult, let's just leave it to the next generations to ponder ♫
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