有几个地方官见你不心虚啊
“Almost all local officials will be shaking in their boots at the sight of you. [Li Muyun, Minister of the Supreme Court]”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
听说你查到了盐运贪腐
“I heard you're looking into the corruption in salt transport.”
有几个地方官见你不 心虚 啊
“Almost all local officials will be shaking in their boots at the sight of you. [Li Muyun, Minister of the Supreme Court]”
李牧云 他可是新任大理寺卿啊 自晋王
“Li Muyun? He is the new Minister of the Supreme Court. Ever since Prince Jin...”
“Every official out there is dirty and terrified of your investigations.”
In dynastic China, salt monopolies were lucrative state enterprises prone to systemic graft. Imperial inspectors or judicial heads held immense power, striking fear into local magistrates.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how many... are not... (rhetorical pattern meaning 'almost everyone is...')
Use this rhetorical structure to emphasize that an exception is extremely rare.
local official / provincial magistrate
Used primarily in historical contexts or discussions of administrative governance outside the capital.
to have a guilty conscience / to feel insecure because one is in the wrong
Very common in modern daily speech to describe someone acting nervous because they are hiding something.
Softens the rhetorical question and adds a conversational, slightly teasing tone of obviousness.
