Closed Captions were added by Q1Q2 team
Chief Producer: Wei Li
Scriptwriters: Jin Leshi, He Yanjiang
Leading Starring: Zhao Lixin
Starring: Wang Han, Sun Hongtao, Gong Jie
Starring: Han Xue, Yan Kun, Zhang Yujie, Zhao Xuelian
Guest Appearance: Lei Kesheng, Leo Ku, Yue Hong, Li Lingyu, Lin Miaoke
Guest Appearance: Li Ying, Jia Zhaoji, Li Wenbo, Zhu Yanping
Directed By: Hu Cheng
Chief Director: Hu Mei
Cao Cao
41 Episodes All
Due to the large number of characters in this series
some characters call them by their common names
Episode 1
Eastern Han Dynasty, 168 A.D., Luoyang
Go
Cao Cao (Yougth), courtesy name Mengde, infant name A'Man
Where are we going?
Eunuch Cao Jie, Cao Cao's great-grandfather
Grand General Dou Wu, courtesy name Youping
Grand Tutor Chen Fan, courtesy name Zhongju
Your Majesty has arrived
Long lives, long lives, long lives, Your Majesty
Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Hong (Youth)
Rise all of you
Thank you, Your Majesty
The emperor of Han Dynasty decrees
A'Man, this is the palace
This isn't your house. Do not be so rude.
The emperor of Han Dynasty decrees
appoint Zhu Yu the Commander Who Guards Capital and Surrounding Areas
Liu You Mayor of Henan
Yu Qi Luoyang Chief Executive
remove Wei Biao from Chief Executive of Eunuch
replaced by eunuch Shan Bing
The Grand Tutor Chen Fan is the former senior advisor
His loyalty is commendable
Assists country with great contribution
He is an able courtier of our dynasty
Have they all arrived in the palace
Yes, they are
Chen Fan reported
I observed stars recently. The comet appeared in the northwest
Eclipse just appeared again
And the locusts appear from all around
All were caused by eunuches disrupting the government
Man-made disaster will come after natural disaster
People's livelihoods are in dire straits at present
The people plug into misery, the fate of country is uncertain
Just because of the Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions
Therefore, please the scholars share hatred against the enemy
stick together, root out eunuchs and menaces
From their peril revitalize the Han Dynasty
Resurgent glorious and civilians will make a good living
Quickly!
His Majesty asks all of you
Anyone else wishes to propose?
Propose if you have anything to say and retreat if you don't
Long lives, long lives, long lives, Your Majesty
Kneel down quickly! Kneel down quickly! Kneel down quickly!
Get up all of you
Who let you get up
Kneel down all! Kneel down all!
It's strange that I don't know anyone
Rest assured, Your Majesty
These people are sons of the ministers in the court
Your Majesty
Shut up! Shut up
What are you gonna say?
Nothing, there's nothing to say
What's your name?
Cao Cao
I meant to ask you how old you are
You look the youngest here
But you are the boldest
No one dares to ask me such a question
Aren't you afraid that I will say you are great disrespectful
Your Majesty, you won't
You do have guts
Who is he
He is the great-grandson of Cao Jie. His name is Cao Cao
and his infant name is A'Man
Cao Jie an old eunuch
How can he have future generations, what a joke
Come on
Distribute them all
Everyone does it like me
getting on a horse
raising your swords, killing
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Be careful! Be careful!
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Dou Wu, Chen Fan, these old bastards
tried every way possible to eliminate us
Yesterday morning in the court
Chen Fan even made a memorial to the throne
he attempted to root us out
Look!
I stole it from the harem
Dou wu's secret memorial to the throne
Grand General Dou Wu, Grand Preceptor Chen Fan
They made suggestions repeatedly to empress dowager
reported that we concoct a plot and must root us out
Eunuch Zhu Yu
They are nothing more than thinking
we are close to His Majesty for more than 20 years
They want to eliminate us
Then replace us with their scholars
This is the omen that they will strike us
Your Excellency, you mean
Instead of awaiting our doom, it is better
You go to meet empress dowager right away and ask for approval
Let us strike firstly
Yes, The Honorable Cao, I do it right now
Wang Fu, You go to prison at present and take Zheng Sha out
after that go to arrest Dou Wu
Yes, The Honorable
Cao Teng
Yes, The Honorable
You lock up Shan Bing firstly
close all the palace gate
and don't let anyone leak out the secret
Let us smear the blood as a sign of the oath
Yes, The Honorable
The Honorable Cao, what if
What if?
In case anyone dares to stop you, kill him
Eunuch Wang Fu
Yes, The Honorable
I go to His Majesty's side. You go to dispose that
Yes, The Honorable
Cao Song, the Commander Who Guards Capital and Surrounding Areas
Cao Cao's father, courtesy name Jugao
Your Majesty
Your Majesty, empress dowager asks you to go to her side right away
I don't want to go there! I still want to play
NO, I don't want to go there
Go quickly! Go quickly! Go quickly
I still want to play
Quickly!
No! I still want to play
A'Man
How about you
That's OK
Eunuch Zhang Liang
The Honorable Cao
what happened?
Chen Fan arrived
Chen Fan
How many cavalries have them bought
No cavalries. Only a dozen people
I think they are his aides, staff and his sons
I ask nothing better, let him come in
Yes, The Honorable
Great-grandfather
A'Man, in a little while
I will let you gain experience
Greetings, dear grandparent
What's the matter? What happened?
Greetings, dear father
Today, General Dou Wu is going to let His Majesty edict
root out our whole family
What?
Get out of here
Get out of here, get out of here
Carry the man out
What's going on?
Greetings, Grand Tutor
You bring so many people to intrude imperial palace
Do you want to defy your superiors and start a rebellion
I have nothing to say to you
Shan Bing, where is Shan Bing?
Exactly, hand him over, hand him over
Where is he, hand him over, hand him over
Who is he
Something may be wrong
This
Shan Bing? isn't he Shan Bing
How dare you arrest Chief Executive of Eunuch without edict
It is a rebellion
It is a rebellion, rebellion
Show me the decree
There's nothing on it
It's empty. It's a fake
How dare you say that
I see it is obviously written Chief Executive of Eunuch Shan Bing
conspires against the state and gets in touch with rebel
Let Cao Teng execute him under imperial decree
It is fake imperial decree
Shameless bastard eunuch, don't you really know how to die
No, there's also a sentence followed
Chen Fan conspires to rebel in coordination
Also execute him
Can't you see it
It is fake a imperial decree
I go to face His Majesty right now
You wait for rooting out
Stop
His Majesty is only fourteen
It's our business to declare an edict in ordinary days
Is the Imperial Palace
a place you guys go in and out casually
Can you find His Majesty
Chen Fan old traitor, don't you still know your crime
Kill
What are you doing? This is a rebellion
Except for the guards in the palace
nobody is allowed to enter the palace with a sword
Look! how well we keep the rules
Any scholar's sons must be killed
You! Come here
No, no
Go
Over here
Hit! Hit
Don't get out of the carriage
Greetings, Grand General Dou
Still a Grand General?
Then you are a rebellion
Look! I've brought you your whole family
You fought with General Zhang for half a day
You both have injuries and deaths. I don't think it's necessary
Think about it
These soldiers are civilians' sons
There is no need for them in the struggle
to be implicated
What do you think of it?
I didn't expect anything acctually
But can you promise me
As long as I take the blame alone
you'll let the soldiers go
I can promise you
As long as they turn in their weapons
I'll let them go home
Grand General, you can leave the world at ease
General, General, General...
Great-grandfather, are you really going to release them
What's on your mind
The Honorable
Should we kill them all
Kill them all
The Honorable, you can rest assured
I'll handle the rest
Didn't you lie to them like this
Yes, I just lied to them
Let's go
Lord Li, you also come
Lord Meng , you are also here
We finally bring about an upswing this time
Yes, the day we have been looking forward to has come finally
Great. Cheers
Cheers, I miss you so much
Dou Wu
he had wanted to attack in advance, when we arrested him
He didn't know I was just looking forward him to attack firstly
As soon as he taked the weapon
the charge of the rebel was be confirmed
His Majesty is requested to read the imperial edict
His Majesty asked me after reading it
Why did you arrest so many people
I told to His Majesty
They all concocted a plot
His Majesty asked me again
What is concocting a plot
I just answered they were going to rebel
His Majesty just said in short, should arrest
Exactly, should arrest them
Great
Well... cheer up...please...
Don't you think what they have done
is too vicious and cruel
But do you know
if they don't eliminate the relatives of imperial concubine
they will eliminate us
I really didn't expect to bring you here this time
which would let you to see such things
But since you have seen it
I can only tell you something frankly
Don't you keep asking us
why is our surname Xiahou originally
But we adopted to Cao
In fact, this is also the result of the last struggle
between eunuchs and relatives of imperial concubine
Your grandfather's original name is Xiahou Rui
He is a magistrate of Nan Yang County and also a scholar
But in a Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions a decade ago
in order to protect ourselves
I was sent to Cao Teng for adoption specially
In this way, our two families have kinships
Our family also have a dependence in the court
It's really not easy for your great-grandfather's generation
It's all for self preservation. It's all for survival
That's why we walked on the eunuch's
A road of no return
In the first year of Jianning, the Eastern Han Dynasty
The second conflict between parties broke out
Which was initiated by the eunuchs in Capital suddenly
Hundreds of scholars were killed, exiled or imprisoned
Reporting, My Lord
Lord Jian Shuo has buried the insurgents
and invite you to check it out there
Alright. You go back firstly
Your great- grandparents will entertain guests tonight
to celebrate their good news of being marquises
I leave in advance
Yes
Let's go
Go away from here! Go away...
Go! Quickly, go!
Go, Quickly! Go quickly...
You go quickly! Quickly...
She is pregnant. Be careful
Get up, get up...
Let her go, don't bully her
Bastard, you dare to bite me
I'll fight it out with you
I split you
Halt
Let her off
Who are you
This is the beloved son of Cao
This is eunuch Cao Teng's grandson
Greetings, Childe Cao
What is her relationship with you
No relatives
She's Du Mi's family. None of your business!
What's your name
My name is Chen gong. You're not qualified to ask me
Shut up. You are not entitled to talk to Childe Cao like this
Tie them up tight and take them away
Childe, he's the criminal's family
Hurry up. I'll take these two away
as my family slave. Give them money
Military officers, pardon us for this and do me a favor
Let them off
Let them off like this way
be smarter, go with them to take a look
Yes, Sir
Follow me, hurry up...
What? You'll set us free?
Leave here immediately, quickly
Thank you
Leave here
Thank you Childe, thank you
Even if you have a great ability
What are you going to do? As long as you're killed
what is the use of it?
But you are so young
why do they arrest you
Our family has contacts with them
We are all be arrested
Alright, leave here
Wait a minute
Thanks
Leave here immediately, quickly
What's wrong with this child
How good clothes are. Why are you doing this
Exactly. Your great-grandfather is looking for you
A clean and good clothing
turns to be mud monkey. Look
Isn't he our young Master
young master, young master
Look, what you've done
Quickly get out of here, Get out of here... Stop looking at this...
Quickly get out of here...
Go. Let us go in quickly
I've been looking for you for a long time
Lord Cao
It's said that Wanhualou has a new starring actress
beautiful
Little Ancestor
A'Man, where are you running to? Slow down. Stop chasing!
Little Ancestor
How did you get like this
Little Ancestor...
where did you act wildly again
I fell at land
Greetings to everyone
Dear Father, dear grandfather
dear honor guest
Great, great...
Hurry to go to wash yourself
There's going to be the celebration right away
All right
The Honorable Cao, The Honorable Cao
Dear Father, please
A'Man, come here, come here
Sit down, sit down
I'm too old, to live for a few days
What I have done
is all for the descendants of Cao
Do you know that
The Honorable Cao
What is wrong
I guard the city gate
I found a traitor's family wanted to leave the city
This matter is so important that I dare not make a decision
I come especially to ask for your advice
Now it's my family celebration
Such a trifle, just deal with it by the law
Why do you ask me the advice
Over here
Quickly
Kneel down
Who is the person set free the rebellion's family privately
Is he here or not
Say it out
It's him, it's him...
You say
The Honorable Cao
She is the rebellion's family
I met young Master Cao on the way to escort
He ask me for the criminal
And want to buy her to become his family slave. I didn't promise
My benefactor. Childe Cao
They force me to say it out
I really have no choice but to do it like this
Rest assured, Sir Cao
As for this matter, I won't mention it again
But there is such a kid in your family
who has compassionate feeling for all mank
I really don't know, what shall be done
Here is my token of my gratitude
Hope you are magnanimous enough to excuse my fault
Thank you for your hospitality
Thank you
Just consider it as inviting buddies to have a drink
Let's go
My Lord
Let me help you
Dad, it's OK. Let me do it
I can finish it
Don't help him
It's so late. Go back to sleep
Today's matter is not your fault
Go away from here, Go away from here
A'Man, take a rest
What wrong did you do about today's matter?
I punish you with grinding
Just for you to understand a truth
You saved the woman
but the woman shifted the blame to you
Why
You think about it seriously
For such a trifle
you saved such a ignoble woman
Is it worthy for you to lose your life?
Men never hurts others to benefit themselves
but would rather hurt themselves to benefit others
this is saint's morals
Stupid
A'Man, to be a person
you should learn to protect yourselves
absolutely not show off your heroism
We work in the emperor's sight
As long as you can delight the master
it's your whole things. Understand?
Well, well...
About these grains
I just give you another day, you also can't finish to grind it
Let's go...
Let the family slaves do it. Let's go and leave here
Did you see that?
It's the result of losers
Your father did it all for your own good
He brought you to Luoyang
Let you enter the palace to play game with His Majesty
Just for you to have a brilliant future
But I saw obviously that
nothing was written on the imperial edict
Saw it? Well
That is called power
Power
You're too young to understand it
But so many innocent people
died in the suppression of the rebellion
Those who have been killed deserved to be killed
You set free the rebellion's family
This has committed a great crime
Because you are my great-grandson
no one dares to embarrass you. Otherwise...
What your father said is right, let you return your hometown firstly
come back after laying a solid foundation
A'Man, when you grow up
you can't walk the path of me
I was already a disabled person
It's not a path for person
It's for pig, for dog
Animals also cast aside it
Grandfather, you...
A'Man, after you left
I will meditate for you in the court
Through filial piety and clean record
help you get a proper official position
As long as you have a official position, you will have a brilliant future
have your whole things
A'Man, remember what I said
you will enjoy the benefit all your life
A'Man, you should remember my words
A'Man, say you have remembered
then your great-grandfather can rest assured. Behaved obedient
Say it out
No
This child!
Come here, A'Man, get on the carriage
Why not get on the carriage. Quickly
Where are you going?
A'Man
I make my own path
Stop, stop, get on the carriage, A'Man
I make my own path
A'Man
I make my own path
A'Man
I make my own path
Ten years later
Big Brother
Cao Cao, courtesy name Mengde, infant name A Man
Xiahou Yuan, courtesy name Miaocai
Big Brother, what a fat chicken
I asked you to go with me, but you rejected. Catch it
Give it to me, give it to me
Xiahou Dun, courtesy name Yuanrang
Cao Cao's cousin, Cao Ren, courtesy name Zixiao
Big Brother, tonight we have a dish that goes with liquor
It is there. Don't let it run away
Chase! Be Quick! Chase
Quickly! Quickly! You go over there
You go over there. Quickly
Encircle it, Encircle it
Great, quickly, quickly
Look
Zhangmiao, Governor of Chenliu, courtesy name Mengzhuo
Yuan Shao, courtesy name Benchu
Let's go
Wonderful shoot
About these two...
He is Yuan Shao from a "Four Generations, Three Dukes" family
According to your requirements
I asked them to come hunting
I will refer you to them later
Ben Chu, me again, I shot it
This arrow has the same character yuan
I'm afraid it's hard to say, that you shot it
Although they have the same Yuan character
Yuan Shu, courtesy name Gonglu
but this Yuan character
is not all Yuan characters of one family
Alright, even if it's yours
Carry away
But I have to tell you again
If I didn't adopt to uncle
I'm afraid you can't be the eldest lineal son
What do you mean
Means nothing
I'm just afraid that someone can't remember
Your mother is just a maid servant
My father was too ignorant at the time to make the mistake
He also regrets it himself very much
So he adopted you to uncle
My father is kind-hearted
He won't say it obviously
But it's just to get rid of you
Yuan Shu, I always treat you as my younger brother
always accommodate myself to you
How dare you insult my mother
Drew your sword
You're usually hypocritical
In fact, I am always regarded as
a stumbling block for you to inherit father's official position, isn't it
You are self-assured for having practiced martial for several years
want to eliminate me, don't you?
Stop
Enough talk! Get off
You get out of the way
You get off, Get off, do you hear me?
They are pretty awesome
Let's go and have a look
Take a look
Don't you force me to beat you
Childes, don't fight.