Hao men ye yan Page #3

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let it be a tiger then

Better still, carve a flying dragon

Long live Your Majesty the Empress

Your servant Pei Hong

bows before the Empress Dowager

Governor Pei greeted the Empress

as Empress Dowager

Did you all hear that?

Yes

What does this signify?

Nobody dares speak?

Then let me explain

The late Emperor has ascended

to the heavens

if the Crown Prince succeeds the throne

the Empress will become

the Empress Dowager

Thus, I am the usurper

Have we understood you correctly,

Governor Pei?

No wonder you are a respected scholar

With three words

you have rearranged the hierarchy of the court

According to our ancestral customs

the Emperor kneels to the Empress Dowager

as a son to his mother

But the Empress kneels to the Emperor

as a wife to her husband

Are you the Empress Dowager?

Or the Empress?

Should I kneel?

Or should you?

Please advise us

Which is the correct procedure?

Your humble consort kneels

before Your Majesty

Your Majesty

Late Emperor

did your spirit in heaven

witness this vile exchange?

General Yin

Your Majesty

The province of You is now yours to govern

I am your servant, Your Majesty

Imperial Guards

Your Majesty

Pei Hong is condemned to be beaten to death

and his entire clan executed

At once, Your Majesty

What was it that you said we should carve?

A flying dragon

Let it be a dragon and a phoenix

This is too brutal

They say that Pei Hong himself invented this

form of punishment

for the late Emperor's use

Pei Hong is dying because of me

If you have any regrets

I can pardon him at once

No pardon

I am grateful to you

You don't have to be

Did you help the late Emperor

in this same way?

No

Then why are you being so generous with me?

You give me what the late Emperor

could never give

Lord Chamberlain

Present

I hereby proclaim

the Empress coronation will take place

on the fifteenth day of this month

Your Majesty

the traitor Pei Hong is dead

He has returned

He is not a threat to you

But you said that the people anticipate

his succession

Yin Sun

What do you think you're doing?

This gift from the Emperor

is an insult to father

It may be an insult

but more than that, it is a test

If your father had not been able to withstand

a little humiliation from time to time

he would never have reached his present rank

or been trusted by three successive emperors

What worries me is your little sister

She is far too innocent

I cannot get the eyes of the phoenix right

Imagine the eyes of Empress Wan

The Empress' eyes are

sometimes soft and charming

and sometimes frightening

A phoenix with a steady gaze

is what would please the Empress most

The coronation is only two days away

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