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THE RISING TUMULT
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What's that carriage doing here?
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M-Minister of the Left, sir! What
brings you to a place like this?
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Unofficial business. This remains between us.
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Send the guard down below outside, too.
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The two of us are going
to have a little chat.
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Oh, Cai Ze... Cai Ze...
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This could be a state funeral, it's so grand.
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I suppose it's only fitting,
given his accomplishments...
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All six nations have sent their condolences.
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Cai Ze sensed his impending death,
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and managed to bring His Highness
and the king of Qi together
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before he breathed his last.
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What's more...
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Laws.
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Laws will be given the highest power,
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and laws will rule over the people!
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Tell me, Si Shi...
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This perception of you as Qin's
leading law authority--is it correct?
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It is.
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Rather, I wish it were.
But it's very much mistaken.
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So it is him after all.
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Yes.
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They don't call him "guardian
of the law" for nothing.
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Li Si...
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He truly is a beast when it comes to the law.
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What do you want?
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This foul-smelling underground
cell is no place for a minister.
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Cai Ze has passed away.
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So I heard.
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If you're done here, leave.
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I have less time to spare than you think.
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What are you doing, Li Si?
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My position as one of Lü's
Four Pillars has vanished.
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Now I'm just a pure legalist.
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Legalists read legal texts and
think up drafts of new laws.
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And you think you'll see the day
when those new laws are enacted?
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I don't need to.
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You or I may die, but the law will live on.
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Live on, and mature. That's its nature.
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Cai Ze left me with a difficult
assignment at the end.
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I wager he knew all along
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that that meeting would
turn to that kind of talk!
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That's why he kept me there...
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What kind of talk?
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About law!
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Once Qin conquers the other
six nations, laws will rule,
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and we'll create a nation of laws
to govern the entire Middle Kingdom!
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Is that what Cai Ze said?
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No: His Highness.
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What?!
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I know that what His Highness speaks of
must be a monumental solution.
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And yet...
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Ponder as I might, I cannot
catch the slightest glimpse
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of what shape these governing laws may take!
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Well, no.
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That touches on the very essence of legalism.
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It's nothing someone like
you would comprehend.
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Are you saying you can see it, then--
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what kind of laws would
govern this Middle Kingdom?
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Yes, I can... though only faintly.
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Tell me, then! Whatever
shape will these laws take?
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Have I any obligation to tell you?
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None! But tell me anyway!
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You just said you're a pure
legalist, did you not?
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Supposing the Middle
Kingdom has been unified,
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making laws based simply on your
awareness that the population has grown
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will end in great failure.
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Do you know why that is?
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W-Well...
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Because the new citizens are from
enemy nations that had been at odds.
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Wrong. It's because their cultures differ.
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Each of the six nations has different
systems of writing, of measurement.
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Their currency and their
ideologies differ as well.
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Ideologies...
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Confucian thought is especially dangerous.
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In Wei, Zhao, and Han,
it comes before the law.
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But that's not the only obstacle.
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A law that would govern
the Middle Kingdom
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QIN
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ZHAO
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YAN
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QI
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CHU
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HAN
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WEI
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must take these people from six nations
of disparate cultures and make them one.
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Now let me ask you one thing:
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What is "law"?
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Answer me that, Lord Changwen.
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Law... uses punishment...
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to control people and govern them.
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Ridiculous! Punishment is a tool,
not the true character of law!
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Th-Then...
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what is "law," Li Si?!
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"Law" is an aspiration!
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It is the ideal of human behavior
which a nation seeks from its citizens,
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given form in words.
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You must consider how you want the
people of this unified nation to be,
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how you want them to live,
where you want them to be headed!
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If you can do that, the laws will
come into shape on their own.
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This is Li Si, guardian of the law!
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That's where it gets difficult,
of course. But start there.
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So it's true.
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Be bold. Foolish laws sow
misfortune among the people.
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This is why Cai Ze had me
join them at that meeting.
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The whole point
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was to make me realize:
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this man is essential for
a post-unification world!
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Li Si!
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Please! Lend us your might!
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Li Si, formerly of Lü's
Four Pillars, has arrived.
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What is the meaning of this,
Minister of the Left?!
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Lord Changwen!
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Calm yourselves!
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Although I acted of my own accord,
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I do have His Highness's approval.
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B-But this man did the most
to support Lü's faction--
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and pulled the most strings
behind the scenes!
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How many casualties have
we suffered thanks to him?
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He's one man we must never forgive!
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I agree.
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Then get back in your cell!
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That won't work.
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I heard about this unification business.
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And about the system of laws
to be established in its wake.
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It is far too much for any
of you here to handle.
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The only ones in the Middle
Kingdom capable of the task
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are me and Master Han Fei.
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I know well how you all must feel.
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But our post-unification laws will
show everyone in the Middle Kingdom
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the very reason for the unification itself!
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What does our history with each other matter
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in the face of drafting such momentous laws?
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We all had our grudges in the
past political infighting!
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But know that those days are behind us!
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If Qin cannot face this issue as one,
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the long-held dream of unification
will surely crumble away into nothing!
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Your Highness!
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A wise decision.
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Jie Yi, sir!
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Minister of the Right!
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Li Si's aptitude for government
is also extraordinary.
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We'll no doubt have need
of his skills soon enough.
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Enough about me.
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One seldom sees that expression
on the high commander's face.
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He seems to be dealing
with a difficult issue.
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Your Highness.
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May I ask the others to leave the hall?
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I wish to seek your advice in private.
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This is unusual.
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No--
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this is a first.
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What is it, Lord Changping?
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What problem is not meant for others' ears?
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We're deploying a large
army to Zhao next year.
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HEIYONG
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I know: A conquest of western
Zhao, with Heiyong as our base.
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Yes. However...
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As it stands, I simply
cannot see how to begin.
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What do you mean, Lord Changping?
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Wasn't Heiyong to be the
linchpin of your strategy?
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HEIYONG
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Heiyong will fulfill that role, yes.
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But Li Mu has suddenly begun
building multiple castles
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over a large swath of western Zhao.
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Castles?
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He's putting defensive bases
where there had been nothing,
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building a complex defense network
to guard against a Qin invasion.
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I assume the individual forts in this
hastily built defensive line aren't robust,
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HEIYONG
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but the Qin army will still have to
destroy every new fort that pops up.
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The western campaign will be a drawn-out war.
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Drawn-out...
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How many years?
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At the very least...
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ten.
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But that's far too--
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I know.
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It well exceeds the timeline of
destroying six nations in 15 years.
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Li Mu must have realized Qin only has
enough stamina for a short period
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and is intentionally trying to
prolong the fight in the west.
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Unfortunately, with fair tactics, even 15
years may not be enough to destroy Zhao...
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Meaning our dream of conquering
six nations goes up in smoke.
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That can't be...
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"With fair tactics"?
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Then... are there unfair tactics?
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Lord Changping.
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Yes.
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Just one: the mother of all cunning
schemes, leading to great casualties.
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And what is this cunning scheme,
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Lord Changping?
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Of course.
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I'll be concise, so please listen carefully.
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Handan, the royal capital of Zhao.
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HANDAN
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Handan?
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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To the west are the Taihang Mountains,
to the south the Yellow River.
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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TAIHANG MOUNTAINS
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and guarding its banks is Zhao's
second largest city, Yè--
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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YELLOW RIVER
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from behind impregnable walls.
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I'm very familiar, of course.
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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Right now, Li Mu is focusing his efforts on
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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HEIYONG
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fortifying western Zhao's
defenses along these mountains.
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JIN'AN
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Another way of looking at
is that he's distracted.
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So what we'll do
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is use the western campaign as a decoy,
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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pass quickly through the south,
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and go straight for Handan's throat
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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YÈ
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by storming Yè!
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Yè?!
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You'd attack Yè?
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A sudden strike at the very heart of Zhao
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is something out of a child's daydream.
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But such an outlandish
strategy is the only way
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we'll ever manage to outmaneuver Li Mu.
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Still, the very idea...
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If we manage to take Yè, Your Highness,
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we can conquer the royal capital
Handan in three years--
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and Zhao along with it.
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In three years...!
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Of course, as you have gathered,
even if we make it to Yè,
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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we'll inevitably be besieged by the
powerful security forces around Handan.
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We're likely to suffer an
unparalleled number of casualties,
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and if we are defeated,
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we must be prepared for total annihilation.
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Still, as your military leader,
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I believe we must embark on this battle
if we're to conquer all six nations.
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Please, Your Highness...
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With full knowledge of the risks,
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command me to make
preparations to attack Yè!
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After a succession of quiet winter days,
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the incandescent 11th year of the
future Shi Huangdi's reign began.
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Dammit--it's no good!
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Every simulation ends in
the Handan security forces
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burying us before we get past Yè's walls!
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Lord Changwen! Are you all right?
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I-I'm fine.
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We've called in Meng Yi, who's matured
much over these past few years,
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and to prevent leaks, we four are
hashing out our Yè tactics alone...
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But we can't find a single way in.
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If no strategy has presented itself
after all this time spent,
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YÈ
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does that mean storming Yè
is simply too reckless?
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Lord Changping.
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I know you're confronting an arduous battle.
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But until your strategy is fully in place,
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I cannot issue any orders to attack Yè.
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I am aware.
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Meng Yi, what do you think is
our greatest issue right now?
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Our supply lines--provisions for our troops.
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Building a line to Yè
will take a lot of time.
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Which means the Zhao army will
catch on to our plans far in advance.
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Then let's start without
the supply lines in place.
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That's too dangerous!
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I'm saying we should find out
just how dangerous it is.
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Teacher!
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We're looking for a path no one can see.
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There has to be a way in somewhere--to
a path that leads to an answer.
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YÈ
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FEI XIN FORCE TRAINING GROUNDS
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Take that!
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Didn't I tell you to leave no gaps?
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Aim carefully at the target,
pull back smoothly, and fire!
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See?
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"See," he says.
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Man, I don't get it at all.
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Still no word from Lord Changping?
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No--despite telling us at year's end
to get our recruits trained quickly.
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What could my teacher be thinking?
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Captain!
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Message from the high commander!
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"Come to Xianyang tomorrow"!
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Hiya!
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Wang Ben! Meng Tian! You
guys got summoned here, too?
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Tch.
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Looks that way.
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H-He went to the trouble of calling
you two back from the front? What--
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You're all here.
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We need to talk. Come with me.
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Huh?
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We--
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we're storming Yè?!
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Y-Yè?
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Where is that?
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I thought you'd say that.
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Yè is...
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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right here.
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And Handan up there, isn't that...
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The royal capital of Zhao.
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Pretty close, ain't it?
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Maybe two days for an army on foot?
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Storming Yè...
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Say what?!
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Right?
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What's going on here, Meng Yi?!
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No one in their right mind would
consider going straight for Yè!
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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What do you think, brother?
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Mmm.
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It's utter insanity, but it could be fun.
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Huh? What's that supposed to--
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Look, the offensive routes into western
Zhao are pretty much blocked off.
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Wh-What the hell, Meng Tian!
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Didn't we work our asses off to
take Heiyong just last year?!
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Yeah! And isn't Heiyong all set up to be
our big base for attacking western Zhao?
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Li Mu's been building up
defenses faster--and stronger.
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We saw with our own eyes
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what lay beyond Heiyong.
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But our teacher's already worked
out a solution to that problem.
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Setting aside the Yè attack's advisability,
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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his strategy of using a
western invasion as a decoy
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HANDAN
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to topple Yè in one fell swoop and
put the Zhao king in check in Handan
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is likely the one killer move
that'll fool even Li Mu.
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Still...
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Don't be "setting aside" anything.
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The advisability of storming Yè
is of the utmost importance here.
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What's this? Wang Ben, a pessimist?
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Of course I am.
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HANDAN
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YÈ
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Not only is Yè itself a big city,
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it's in a capital zone that's packed
with powerful military cities.
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No matter how you look at it,
storming Yè would be suicide.
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He's right.
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We would never send you on a suicide mission.
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You have to trust us--the ones
who worked out this strategy!
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Oh?
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Say we got the Zhao army focused
on the west and made it to Yè.
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I take it your strategy addresses
the worst-case scenario
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of being trapped between
huge capital armies and Yè
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with our provisions and escape route cut off?
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W-Well...
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Go easy on my little brother, eh, Wang Ben?
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I get the feeling you called
Meng Tian and me here
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because you lack confidence in your strategy.
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They called me, too.
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I summoned you three because your squads
will be crucial to our strategy.
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We've obviously run mock battles to
see how the security forces could move
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and planned accordingly.
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But we're up against Li Mu.
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It's reasonable to assume he has more
fighting potential than meets the eye.
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In short, we must expect the unexpected.
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And that
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is what makes precise, moment-by-moment
decisions in the field so vital.
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Decisions in the field...
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What's more,
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in order to foster and hone their abilities,
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your three squads have
been specially designated
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as independent reserves
ever since they were tiny platoons.
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But you can only make your own decisions
if you understand the entire strategy--
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otherwise you'll make fatal errors instead.
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That's why you're having us learn
this strategy ahead of time.
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You three may only command
50 thousand troops each,
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but honestly, we have higher hopes
for you than for our other generals.
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It's not a hope--it's
an absolute requirement.
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Without your squads in action,
storming Yè will end in failure.
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Before you get into the
nitty-gritty of our strategy,
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I'd like to add one thing.
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Hey, it's Zheng!
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No need to kneel. Stand, so you
can look at me as I speak.
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The siege of Yè is of
unprecedented importance,
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YÈ
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and the battle will be a demanding one.
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Still, it is but one hurdle on the
road to a unified Middle Kingdom!
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The three of you--your might--is
needed for what's to come.
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Hear this:
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Accomplish great things in this war
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and you three shall take the rank of general!
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Stay alive. No screw-ups.
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With gratitude, sire.
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Don't you fret, Zheng!
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The three of us'll give 'em
one hell of a thrashing!
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Indeed. I'm counting on you, Xin.
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Get your hands off me!
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Ow! Damn!
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Wang Ben, you're seriously--
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I can see how these three squads are
more important than the bigger units.
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But most important is the commanding
general, with their full authority!
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This is a challenging battle.
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Who on earth will you put
in charge of it, Teacher?
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The commanding general will be...
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THE QIN ARMY LINEUP
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Next on Kingdom: "The Qin Army Lineup."