The Wind Blows From Longxi (Feng Qi Long Xi / 风起陇西 )

Commandants!

Here!

Ready to attack

and catch the suspect alive.

Aye!

Chief Xun.

No offense, Chief Xun,

but I've captured the suspect alive in the room.

I interrogated him just now

and I must report it to Prime Minister immediately.

I'll take my leave.

Xun Xu,

I've been waiting for you.

Why?

I'm asking you.

Take him away!

General Li Yan, how have you been?

General Ma Dai,

do you need so many soldiers to catch me?

I still call you General Li.

If you feel ashamed,

go back with me

and await your punishment.

Since I followed

the late emperor,

I've been loyal.

The late emperor entrusted His Majesty to me in Baidi City.

I've been loyal to our state.

And I fully intend

to destroy the Wei and Wu States.

I'm not as persuasive as Zhuge Liang.

However,

I have never

changed my loyalty!

General, there's no use in arguing.

You'd better surrender!

Fine, then.

Take me to Zhuge Liang!

Take me to Zhuge Liang!

[Due to Li Yan's rebellion, Zhuge Liang withdrew his army of 200,000 soldiers quietly to the Hanzhong Region and Chengdu]

You say there's irrefutable evidence of Li Yan's rebellion.

What is the evidence? Tell me about it.

Prime Minister,

Li Yan colluded with Wei spies

and divulged our military intelligence.

What's worse,

he had soldiers in Jiangzhou disguised as the Wu Army and invade our state.

He also transported the army provisions to Jiangzhou without permission,

trying to cut off the route of your retreat.

They had a three-step plan.

We have Hu Zhong's testimony.

Who are the Wei spies?

One of them is Chen Gong,

General Li Yan's favorite pupil

and Chief Clerk of Siwencao Intelligence.

Chen Gong?

Right.

Chen Gong instigated Li Yan

to transfer the Three Battalions to besiege Nanzheng County

and fight against General Ma Dai.

He also colluded with Huang Yu and his remnants of Wuxian Sect

to build a dam in the upper reaches of the Mian River

and try to stop General Wei Yan from transporting the army provisions.

What's more,

he framed Feng Ying up

and assassinated Chief Xun Xu of the Internal Affairs Department.

He also asked the Wei spy Liu Ying

to set a honey-trap for Li Yan.

Liu Ying appeared

to be a singing girl of Ziyan House,

but turned out to be a spy instructed by Guo Huai.

Prime Minister,

all I have said is proved true.

Nothing is false.

I remember you told me

that Chen Gong was very loyal

and capable.

What about General Li Yan?

How did you deal with him?

When I got such evidence,

the situation was already urgent.

Immediately, General Ma Dai and I

had the gate of Nanzheng County closed

and Li Yan's camp besieged.

To our surprise,

Li Yan climbed down the city wall alone

and escaped.

He was heading for Jiangzhou on back roads

when Ma Dai caught him halfway.

Look, Prime Minister.

What's this?

It's a love poem Li Yan wrote to Liu Ying.

Very romantic.

Siwencao Intelligence is a national weapon.

It's supposed to be used against our enemies.

But you use spies

in politics.

Do you think this is appropriate?

Prime Minister,

Li Yan is always arrogant about his contributions

and only cares about his selfish interests.

He proposed many times to connect five counties

and establish Bazhou

so that he can be the Regional Inspector of Bazhou.

After you rejected his proposal,

he roped in clans in Xichuan and Linchuan and his former subordinates in Jingzhou

to start the argument on the Southern and Northern Expeditions.

He was exactly fighting you for power!

He even advised that you should be a lord.

Actually, he wanted to be a lord!

His ambition was abundantly clear!

Prime Minister,

Li Yan is very treacherous.

Unless we get rid of him,

there will be great trouble in the court!

I wondered why Li Yan

dared to detain my army provisions as if he were out of his mind.

Now I understand.

But we should have the bottom line in power struggles!

And we should take a principled stand!

Think about it.

Think about it.

Think about

what on earth you have done.

Prime Minister.

Prime Minister!

I've done everything

to restore the Han Dynasty!

Within this month,

you're not allowed

to get involved in this case.

Chief Xun,

even if you keep waiting here,

you won't change anything.

Besides,

you haven't fully recovered yet.

Zhuge Liang, at last.

You thought I wouldn't come?

I did.

Zhuge Liang,

you're too ashamed to see me.

What makes you think so?

You asked Yang Yi to trap me

by using Siwencao Intelligence.

Such a treacherous trap

must be unmentionable.

I didn't know

that Yang Yi used Siwencao Intelligence.

That was

indeed inappropriate.

Inappropriate?

You think you can use this word

to explain to our people?

The trap was inappropriate,

but the result is correct.

What does this mean?

Do I deserve

to be framed up by your trap?

It was Yang Yi

who set the trap.

But if you didn't mean to rebel,

you wouldn't have colluded with the Wei Army,

cut off the army provisions for the Northern Expedition,

or faked the invasion of the Wu Army.

You ganged up secretly

and advocated the Southern Expedition,

trying to break our alliance with the Wu State.

You were hurting the foundation of our state.

Only by arresting you

can we avoid the ruin of our state.

This is about the survival of the state,

instead of personal grudges between us.

The Southern and Northern Expeditions are just different national policies.

When you insist on the Northern Expedition,

how can you guarantee that you can destroy the Wei State and make ours prosper?

In national policies,

there's no such thing as perfection.

But the alliance with Wu against the Wei State

will ensure the peace for at least 30 years.

If we break the alliance with the Wu State

and march east into Jingxiang Region,

the Wei Army will conquer the Hanzhong region.

With enemies from two directions,

in less than three years,

our state will perish.

By then,

Li Yan,

do you have the cheek to see the late emperor in heaven?

You worry about the explanation to our people.

But it's only about reputation.

You and I are supposed

to exhaust our energy for our state until we die.

Personal reputations

shouldn't be our concern.

Chief Xun.

Greetings, Chief Yang.

Don't bother to salute, Chief Xun.

I've been waiting here for more than a month.

But Feng Ying asked me to evade the case.

Xun Xu,