这批官盐再也没有重新发出
“this official salt was never dispatched again.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这批官盐 再也没有重新发出
“this official salt was never dispatched again.”
我问你
“Let me ask you.”
“Someone deliberately intercepted or pocketed this shipment, and we both know it.”
Salt was a tightly controlled imperial monopoly in dynastic China; irregularities in salt transport almost always pointed to grave high-level corruption or smuggling conspiracies.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
official state-monopolized salt
Historical term referring to salt strictly controlled and taxed by the imperial government.
never again
Used to emphasize a complete, permanent cessation of an action or event.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“of the Ministry of War requisitioning salt.”
“Hengshun Salt Bureau is now in complete chaos.”
“is connected to Hengshun Salt Bureau.”
“and he also holds the lucrative position of tea-and-salt commissioner.”
“must have lost the official seal,”
“has supplied salt to the army for years.”