这些人在结党营私
“you'll be telling His Majesty that these people are ganging up.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你若是真破了案 就是在告诉圣上
“And if you actually solve the case, you'll be telling His Majesty that these people are ganging up.”
这些人在 结党营私
“you'll be telling His Majesty that these people are ganging up.”
- 看什么？ - 父亲
“- What? - Father.”
“Do not pursue this investigation; you are walking straight into a deadly political minefield.”
In traditional imperial Chinese statecraft, forming unauthorized factions was treated as a capital offense against imperial sovereignty, making any associated case extremely hazardous.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
forming cliques for private gain
A formal four-character idiom (chengyu) denoting corrupt political factionalism, especially prominent in historical or bureaucratic settings.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“As for collusion and corruption,”
“Some unscrupulous factions”
“to get benefits”
“All of them had been bought off.”
“They're all despicable at heart,”
“who are all opportunistic”