General and I (A Lonesome Fragrance Waiting to Be Appreciated / 孤芳不自赏)

It's the auspicious hour!

Call roll and appoint positions!

Infantry battalion, Rong Si!

Present!

General.

Crossbow team, Chen Dong!

Present!

General.

Cavalry battalion, Huang Rui!

General.

Good.

Infantry battalion, Liu Jian!

Crossbow team, Gao Wei!

Cavalry battalion, Wei Peng!

Infantry battalion, Cao Fei!

Present!

The roll call is coming to an end.

The Gui family has yet to be appointed.

Will He Xia use this chance to remove us?

Gui Chang Ning and Gui Yan, receive the command!

- Present! - Present!

Both generals are appointed as left and right wing vanguards!

You're to lead Weibei Troop and Cloud Army.

Receive your new positions on the platform!

Congratulations to both generals.

May both generals return in victory.

May you render great merit.

Who does he think he is?

General Gui.

What did you say?

I shall remain loyal until death.

But not to you.

My loyalty is to the princess.

And to the people of Bai Lan!

Well said!

Bring forth the tally!

You...

Soldiers and commanders!

This war is of great significance to Bai Lan State.

For the princess and the people of Bai Lan State

we swear to wipe out those villains of Jin State!

At death do we stop!

At death do we stop! Wipe them all out!

At death do we stop! Wipe them all out!

At death do we stop! Wipe them all out!

Damn it!

Uncle, what are you doing?

He Xia is too much of a bully!

He's even pushed me down.

I'll teach that jerk a lesson today!

Uncle, calm down!

It's not time yet.

Father has given us orders to put an end to He Xia's life

when the battle commences.

Young Master.

How is it?

It's all been arranged.

Good.

Hand over the rations.

- Get up. - Go over there.

Get inside.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

My child!

You can't take it!

- Stop yelling! - Everyone, listen up!

Listen up!

The imperial court is deploying soldiers to war.

They can't fight a war without rations.

Therefore, they have to collect rations from you

in order to save you from being killed in the war!

Every household should hand over your food obediently!

- Hand it over! - Don't make us take it!

Sir, it's been raining for a month.

How could there be a harvest or any food stocked?

Sir, this is the last bit of rations left.

If you take it, what are we to eat?

Heartless beasts!

You'd even snatch this bit of food from us?

How are we to survive?

Sir, I'm begging you!

You can't take everything from us!

Move faster!

Let's go!

Sir!

Quickly!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty.

Prince Consort of Bai Lan He Xia's army has already

trespassed some 300 miles into Great Jin

and taken down 10 cities.

If no one can lead our army against him

the century-old Great Jin will be vanquished by that man!

Reporting to Your Majesty.

The army of Bai Lan is not what it used to be.

He Xia claims to have 300,000 men.

He has well-trained soldiers and plenty of commanders in great discipline.

However, Great Jin has suffered from natural disasters these two years

and our army rations are insufficient.

Even if we go to war, I'm afraid that we won't last a few days.

General Yu.

Are you willing to lead the army to fend off our enemies?

Your Majesty, I...

I...

Fine.

Chancellor Du.

Your Majesty.

Are you willing to act as commander-in-chief again?

Your Majesty...

I...

Your Majesty, I...

Your Majesty.

Please allow me to urge the collection of rations first.

Once our people have handed over the rations

we can then set out to war with sufficient food.

Useless bums!

Your Majesty! Please appease your anger!

You're paid wages from the imperial court

and yet not one of you is willing to step forward

to assist Great Jin in such times of crisis!

Now that He Xia's army is coming at us with great speed

and the people of Great Jin will soon be plunged into misery

would I still have to beg you to lead our army to war

if Prince of Zhenbei were here?

Your Majesty.

Report!

What is it?

The army of Bai Lan travels so fast?

Your Majesty.

A mysterious businessperson is willing to provide us with 100 piculs of rations

to go against Bai Lan State.

There are still people with good conscience.

The gods are in favor of Jin!

Congratulations, Your Majesty!

Quickly, bring it out!

Move faster!

You! Hurry up!

Move faster!

Faster!

Move them over there!

Quickly!

Put it over there.

Put it down properly!

My food...

Darn you!

Let go!

I dare you to steal it!

Damn it!

How dare you steal it!

- Don't take it away! - You can't take it!

Don't take it away!

You can't take it!

Atrocious peasant! How dare you attack an official?

- Spare me, heroine! - Get lost!

Leave now!

Go!

Quickly!

- Thank you, Lady Buddha! - Thank you, heroine!

Thank you, warriors!

Father!

Don't be scared, old gentleman.

Thank you so much! Thank you!

Thank you!

Hand out the rations!

Here.

Take it.

Take it.

Thank you!

Get up.

Here.

- Take it. - Thank you.

- Folks. - Thank you.

- Hold it. - Thank you.

Thank you for saving us!

Young Master.

A businessperson appeared and distributed rations in Jin State.

A businessperson?

What sort of a businessperson?

This man is very mysterious.

No one knows who he really is.

He actually had so many rations stockpiled

that he could supply to the people.

After this news was made known to all

the dispirited soldiers of Great Jin who chucked away their armor

now have their morale boosted.

Have Fei Zhao Xing investigate his identity.

Yes!

Young Master, the collection of rations has roused public wrath in Jin State.

Their people complained unceasingly.

There is already civil unrest and people are going against local authorities.

That's very good.

It means that our strategy of buying huge quantities of animal feed

and rations from Jin State is effective.

Then... Does Young Master have the next plan in mind?

To disrupt one's nation, first perturb one's mind.

Since someone has moved up our plan, we might as go along with it.

Convey my orders.

Release all of our stocked rations.

Yes!

One by one!