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Episode 7
Announcing Gao Hanwen, the new prefecture magistrate of Hangzhou
I dared not tarry after receiving my orders
But I fear I've still made you wait
You spent 15 days on a journey that should take a month
We can all imagine your drudgery
Please sit, lord Gao
Lord governor
You've not offered seating to the county magistrates
There is no precedence for involving them in provincial councils
Their job is to do what they are told
You are dismissed
Did you not hear what I said?
Get out
Chun'an was entirely flooded, and so was half of Jiande
Yet we still must convert the farms. We should make them understand how to do what we want
I move that we allow them to attend this council
Bring them their seats
Serve their tea
Let us begin
Lord Gao has heard what's going on here from the capital
Your proposal to the court was to combine flood relief with farm conversion
We have received such instructions from the Grand Secretariat
All of us here in Zhejiang are great admirers of yours
After many days of deliberation, we have finally produced an action plan according to your proposal
Have a look. With your assent, we can begin implementing this plan on the morrow
Show it to the counties, too
My lords...
Magistrate Hai
Sit down first
You have no point of contention, lord Gao?
I do
This plan does not adhere to my proposal
In what way?
It represents only the action, not the intent
This isn't the imperial academy
Can't you just be direct?
Very well
I shall be direct
I was asked not long ago
Did I not consider that, with my proposal, we can indeed convert the farms
And the people would seem to be saved
But come next year
All the people in Chun'an and Jiande have cheaply sold their land
Will they still live?
At first I was also dismissive
In 1000 years, a piece of land goes through 800 owners
There is no unchanging land, nor landlord
Letting the rich merchants buy up the farms to plant mulberry
is to both fulfill the national policy and help the flooded people
Only by doing both can we accomplish either
That is the original intent of my proposal
But after reading this
I now understand
According to this plan
The peasants will starve in the coming year
Because this plan focuses only on giving the land to the merchants as soon as possible
And to quickly replant
There is not a word about whether they would deflate the price
or whether the people would be able to survive
I ask you, my lords
If truly the merchants should offer prices of 8 or 10 stones per Mu, should the peasants sell or not?
Should the government intervene? And if not
Then my proposal to solve both problems
Will only have fixed the first, while exacerbating the second
There will be chaos down the road
That is against my intent
Therefore
I must beseech you all to reconsider this plan
Buying and selling is the business of buyer and seller
Lord Gao would intervene in this?
If the price was fair, the government can certainly stay out
What's fair?
50 stones per Mu in good harvest
40 stones per Mu in poor harvest
This year, the crop was flooded
But the price still cannot be under 30
At that price, we could not obtain the 500,000 Mu required for farm conversion
Who's going to make those extra 300,000 bolts of silk?
I don't understand why that entire burden must be placed on the two flooded counties
There's plenty of other farms to convert
They would ask 50 per Mu, who would buy it?
The profit of a silk farm is already higher than rice
Why should they refuse to pay 50?
Do as you will! But we have only 5 days of relief grain left to distribute
Who will take the blame if people starve to death after 5 days, because you delayed the plan?
That will be the court's judgement
How dare you
Lord governor
A magistrate dares intervene this heavily in provincial affairs
We have rules and laws. Will you abide by this?
You can remove my post if you wish
And mine
Lord Governor
I, too, cannot act on this plan
Please dismiss me as well
It is merely a plan
We can adjust it of course
Lord Gao, and the county magistrates
They will be the ones to implement, certainly they should have a plan they can accept
But you are all new here. There are many things you don't know
For example
How much farmland must be converted to meet the requirements of the weaving bureau?
How much rice can be delivered here in this amount of time?
How much money can the merchants spend to buy rice?
These are all difficult problems
How about this
All of you take some time tomorrow to understand the details
We shall reconvene the morning after
Everyone out
Go tell your master
If this doesn't work out
Then he'd better be ready to pay 30 per Mu
My lord He
I could go look
But my master did not say where he would be
I would not want you all to be here waiting-
That's exactly what we will do
My lords
What is the problem with Minister Yan and the rest of them?
They sent someone like this to screw everything up
And Chamberlain Yang
Still in the capital after all this time
I reckon at this rate
Farm conversion?
Might as well be a joke
The 300,000 new bolts of silk?
Go make it themselves
That's enough out of you
A joke?
Make it themselves?
Why don't you write that in a letter to Minister Yan right now
Or you can wait to tell it to Chamberlain Yang's face
What are you doing?
Lord Zheng and Lord He are here waiting in the guestroom
Let them wait
They seem really angry. Something about the farm sale. They want to see the master right away
Very well. Go stall them. I'll find some way to tell him
Do hurry
Go
Maocai
In all of Zhejiang
You are my only confidant
Why must you be so short tempered
I am governor, you are in charge of the law
Here in Zhejiang we still count for something
But if things go bad and it goes to imperial court
Our ends would be no different from Magistrate Ma
Does he want his land or not?
Where is he?
That river overseer Li
At his execution he said
You made his death worth it
How did you make his death worth it?
To bring such pleasures
To a eunuch
You must be worth the 200,000 taels of silver
that I paid
Where are you going?
The weaving bureau
Back to the eunuchs
Do you know that Yang only has a year left in his term?
Of course I do
Since I was 17
When you gifted me to him
I've been counting
I served him 1500 days for you
After he leaves in a year
If you'll still let me live
I will join a nunnery
Will you be bringing your mother and family with you?
Forget this note
From this day forth
I shall not touch you again
But you must show me exactly
what you did for Li
You really want that?
Do it
Do not question me
I can't do it
Was it that obscene?
Yes
But you did it for him anyway
Therefore
Obscenely
Repeat it
It takes two
I can't do it alone
If you truly wish to know
Then you can be Li
Master? Master?
What is it?
Lord Zheng and Lord He are waiting for you in the guestroom, something about the land sale
Go tell them
If they want to be rich
To go buy it themselves
Get out
What were you saying?
You said
I should pretend to be Li?
You are incapable of that
I've always wanted to
How do I do it?
Li
He treated me like a goddess
You
Treat me as a whore
Come
Come
Don't touch me
You have promised
From this day forth
You will not touch me again
You did pay for me
My life is still yours
But my body
Is yours no longer
You have more than enough money
And in Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou
There are more than enough whores
Very well
I do have more than enough money
The palace
The government
And all those whores in Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou are waiting for me to spend it
I'm going now to spend it on them
Chamberlain Yang will be gone a few days yet
Since your life was bought by me
You will be staying right here
And by the way
Since the day I bought you
You were to be no goddess, nor even a common woman
You are only
a whore
Please forgive me
for making my lords wait
Some shipments coming from Jiangxi were held up at customs
They wanted to charge 50 taels per vessel
My clueless men refused to pay without asking me
Did you not show them your affidavit for flood relief?
Across provinces, money speaks louder than affidavits
Send word to the governor of Jiangxi
What the fu-
Nevermind
A mere 10,000 taels is not worth the conflict between provinces
Then to the matter at hand
Our action plan has been blocked by the new prefecture magistrate
That Gao Hanwen recommended by Minister Yan?
Yes
What did he say?
He said no sale can be allowed under 30 stones per Mu
I did the math with the governor
To buy 500,000 Mu at his price
We will be paying an additional 10 million stones of rice
Or 7 million taels of silver
I can not produce that at such short notice
That's just the surface
If we really do buy at 30
They won't need to sell 500,000 Mu in those counties
If we buy elsewhere, it'll cost us 50
Water
Yes, master
Lord Zheng
Please continue
By this account
Without an additional 10 million taels
Our plans to convert the farms are doomed
What's going on
You're embarassing me
Bring out fresh tea
Why would Gao Hanwen do this?
Because he wants to be both a whore and a virgin
I bet this would all be solved with a cheque for 100,000 taels (1)
Fine, I'll get one for him straight away
We are discussing business, no need to be angry
The man is a renowned Neo-confucianist
Yet in his heart he craves advancement
That's why Minister Yan sent him here
It also shuts up those righteous mouths in court (2)
To blatantly offer a bribe to someone like him
Is to invite rejection
Can my lords not subdue him with your authority?
Of course we can subdue a mere magistrate
But he comes recommended by Minister Yan
The proposal to combine flood relief with farm conversion was also his
If he doesn't play ball
Then back in court, no one, not even the Yans, may side with us
Then make him play ball
Or just make him shut up
What else do you know about Gao Hanwen?
I received a letter from Lord Luo
It said Gao is accomplished at both poetry and prose
He comes from an established house
He is also an aficionado of music
Can you delay the discussion by another day?
The lord governor has already made sure of that
We will convene the day after tomorrow
That is enough
What's your plan?
No one is without weakness
As long as I have your leave
I can have him change his mind in 2 days
Certainly we'd have no problem with that
What is your plan
Speak it
If you want to use a trick like that
I think, on someone like him
it won't work
My lord governor is indeed wise
What if instead of a trick
I made it real?
He comes from Minister Yan
For us to do something like that
I fear we would be unable to answer to the minister
Of course my lords need not be involved
What if it came from the weaving bureau
From someone from the palace?
Fine, I leave this to you
But my lord, you at least need to tell him to come see me
Under what pretext?
Have him see me tomorrow to discuss the situation of the weaving bureau
Leave the rest to me
That I can do
Those 2 new county magistrates are problems too
I'll take care of them after
My lords, please sit, I will inform Lord Gao
Brother Hai, sit
Brother Hai?
You should buy a few silk robes
Why?
Otherwise when we go out, you look like my servant
Then I shall be your servant
No no, I couldn't
By age, you are my elder
If you permit it, I'll gift you some
No. I wear only cloth
I am being rude
It's not like that
It's too warm in Hainan to wear silk
It's merely my habit
As for being at service, age is no matter there
Take Lord Gao, for example
As long as he is true to the country and the people
We can all be glad to be his servants
Brother Hai
My thoughts exactly
Then why the talk about wardrobe?
Work must be done, but we must also eat, and have things to wear
Just cloth, for me
I apologize for the wait
Shall we?
Please
My lord, the governor sent a litter for you to inspect the silk (3)
Everything is ready for you over there, my lord
Please inform the governor I am going with the county magistrates to inspect the rice market
There's no hurry to see the silk
I dare not say that, the weaving bureau is already ready and waiting for you
Since it's the weaving bureau
I should go
Please head to the rice market without me
Half the silk used by the palace comes from here
Prior to the 32nd year of Jiajing, there was no ban on naval trade
Half of our exported silk also came from here
Now look here
Lord Gao, it's too loud here
Why don't I show you some designs
This way
What is this place?
We'll see the designs here?
Traditionally, western merchants always came here
So you have someone playing Guang Ling San (4)
While the westerners look at designs?
Both the sound of the zither and the color of silk are features of the empire
In our dealings with the west
We seek not only to sell silk
It is also our duty to uphold the glory of the empire
My lord Gao is so proficient at music
That makes it easier for me to explain
Please look
This type of silk is very popular in the west
The name is uncouth
It's called "four seasons bloom"
But they like it
Now look here, my lord
My lord?
This one is called...
"untold wealth"
What a shame
What is a shame, my lord?
That was a common mistake to make in Guang Ling San
The composer Ji Kang was always a rebel who mocked authority
Yet he served the court of Wei
Because there was located
Mt Mang, the nexus of the world and the refuge of his soul
Mt Mang belongs to the wood scale in the Five Scales (5)
That would of course be the scale he played before his execution
Here it's using the metal scale of remembrance
It's a grave mistake
After hearing your excellent critique
I have a humble request
Would my lord grant me the favor?
Speak it
May my lord give instructions to our musician
Lucky you
A maestro has come to instruct you
Learn with humility
I'll start over
Please critique me, my lord
Gao Hanwen comes from a great house in Sunan
Since his youth he was given the two pillars of his family teaching
Confucianism and artistry
With his talent, he had many opportunities to be an artist
Yet his path made him choose differently
Forced by his involvement in politics
He focused only on the classics of Confucian scripture
Master Shen had a good grasp of the fashions at the time
Hence bringing him here
An elegant man can refuse corruption
But elegance cannot deny art and beauty
My lord had said that this part should be in wood scale
I understand that now
But no manuscript records this
Please instruct me
Master Shen
Master Shen?
My lord?
When Ji Kang played Guang Ling San before his execution
Not one of the 3000 students there understood it
That is why he famously said
"Guang Ling San is now lost to history"
A few years ago
I had mentioned to my friends
Guang Ling San can only be played by one
and heard by one
Any addition will merely add noise
In our own trials, that was manifest
Since the master is here today
And have thus instructed my player
I still have many questions to ask
Could I be granted the honor?
If I may ask something first
Please do
What do you do at the weaving bureau?
I sometimes work on new designs with the weavers
But mostly deal in trade with merchants
That is a shame
My apologies for being unclear
She is called Madam Yun, she is my niece
My siblings passed away early
So I was forced to care for her
and teach her music
It's made her pompous
And unwilling to wed
Nor do I wish to impose her
Time flies, and now she's 20
and has become my greatest worry
A rarity
People starve, now is not the time for such talk
Let us speak more about the bureau's silk
Take Lord Gao's words to heart
Brother Hai has been here before?
I have not
"This southeastern beauty, capital of the region, forever prosperous" (6)
Liu Yong composed this after failing the exams
Yet perhaps he was lucky to have visited this great city
I'd rather stay in my farms
If the empire was without these cities
There would be no outlet for the goods of the farms
You are right, of course
I fear only that the rich get richer, and the poor poorer
There is no true solution to inequality
We can only provide what's needed for the wanting
No wonder you were offering me silk
To tell the truth, my family owns many acres of farmland
I pray you don't come to administrate my county
Fret not, my oppresion would not fall on small landlords like you
That's great to know
After this stint in Chun'an, I can beseech those above
And have you moved to my county, how about it?
You overestimate me
Who knows if I'll survive Chun'an
When does the market open?
Normally around 9 am
Fire (7)
Go, save the rice
Get this off the boat, now
All of you, kneel
You hear me? Kneel
If you don't kneel I'll have you all killed. Kneel
Don't do it, get up
We've broken no laws, get up
I'll speak to him
My lord commander
We are all citizens of Chun'an
We've suffered a horrible flood
Someone starves to death every day
We gathered all we had to buy this rice in Hangzhou
In order to save lives
Arrest them
Save the rice
You want to die?
This is abhorrent, it is beyond the pale
Where do you report? Speak
The Department of Law, on orders to arrest thieves
They've said they are citizens who bought the rice
Yet you still injure and arrest
Don't you fear someone will report you?
Where are you from? What's it to you?
I am the new magistrate of Jiande
We are citizens
These men are from Chun'an
I report to the province, you should mind the business of Jiande
Then this business is mine
We are citizens of Chun'an
You called them thieves
Thieves of what?
And you are?
Don't ask. Answer me
By decree of the governor
Private sale of grain is currently prohibited
Smugglers of rice must be arrested
We are not thieves
I just came from the governor's office
Why don't I know this decree?
How should I know, I only act according to provincial orders
Very well
This falls under my domain
Have your men step back
Step back
I'm afraid not
Orders must come from the Department of Law
Later on, I'll go with you to the department
Did you hear that? We'll go with you, now retreat your men
You really are citizens of Chun'an?
Yes
I am a silk farmer called Qi Dazhu
Good, I think your days as an official are numbered
You really bought this rice to save lives?
Retreat
They've already deflated the farm price in Chun'an to 8 stones
We bought this to make it possible to survive the coming year
Citizens should not oppose the government. Go back, I'll take care of things
Escort him aboard
My lord
Allow me to ask
Who are you?
I am Hai Rui, your new magistrate
Get up, this is not the place. Up
I'll be in Chun'an in a few days
Now go back, immediately
Thank you
Go
Get the rice onboard
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